Table Tango

The room was a screamer. I drew Table 30 in the line-up. Thank you GOD! Almost every game was either $2-5NLH or $5-10NLH to Table 40. SWEET! One $4-8H game in the mix and towards the end of the line I ran into a heads-up $200-400 half pot limit Omaha game - yes, they could only bet half the pot. Then another player came in and they decided to go to $100-200 PLO, but most of my down was spent dealing heads-up. Thor Hansen stopped by to visit with one of the players and he visited with me a bit also. I’ve known Thor since the early days at the Mirage. Great guy! My last two games in that line-up were $30-60H and $100-200H. Then I was on a break and dealt two tournament downs in Fontana, there were three tables left of the $1,000 daily tournament. What a great shift. No noise, no headaches, no card zingers, just deal and I had such nice interaction with the players. (more…)

I felt the need to add this after having received more comments from ReDRulvl. He ripped me in the first one, but has come around to a more rational level of thinking about the Overview. Nice! I think I like this kid. Hopefully we will meet and iron out all of the kinks. *ok, it’s a three liner*

I had an incredibly wonderful, relaxing three day weekend. As much as I accomplished, it would not appear that it was relaxing, but it was. I managed to tie up a bunch of things that had been digging a bedding ground for ‘non-accomplishment rot’ for a long time. (more…)

I can’t help it. I can’t help it if people read and take everything out of context and apply it to themselves and where they are. I can’t help it if people profess to be all knowing and understanding andreally know nothing and do not care to explore the over view. What I can do is keep doing what I do, and I will. In the meantime here’s one of the latest comments, approved - and at the bottom of the post it was meant for-but pasted here because it’s just too precious to have this little pearl lost at the bottom of a post.

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The $100 bills laid in a broken pattern. Their centers were twisted and mangled into a ball. The bills resembled bow ties as they filled the pot and came flying in to crash into the green felt from the 8s in a $100-200LH game. It didn’t start out this way, but everything has to start at some point or it wouldn’t be an incident or situation. (more…)

PSHAW! I don’t know why I didn’t get into this on the last post, but it’s positively a must. (more…)

I’ve received a lot of fantastic, supportive comments from a lot of you. NICE! I want to follow through on a few without having to go back and leave a comment in a long thread of comments -and those are the ones that pertain to ‘what is the right amount to tip’ and on ‘tournament tipping’. Somewhere in the myriad of posts here on Tango, I have one that specifically outlines what happens with tournament tips and how they are disbursed - but even using the search capability here, I’ve not been able to find it. Maybe I will, in the event that I do, I will link it up. And I’m a little in ultrashock that there are so many comments. (more…)