ATLARGE Saturday (BATR)

Continuing on in the Saga:

I get woken by a call from my friend Jeremy who is driving up to AC to
play in the NLHE tourney with us today. It is early and one of my eyes
won't open. My other eye soon gets jealous and closes too and I'm
sound asleep again. Jeremy gets there about 9:30 and finally forces me
out of the room about 10:30. We run him through all the crap you have
to do to get in to the tourney: see Thursday report for details, then
jump in a 1-2 NL cash game as I know the tourney won't actually start
till 12:00.

I'm at the same table with my friend Jeremy and a guy from my first
table of the Hose tourney, but that's all that I recognize. The guy
on my right orders a jack and coke, and asks if I'm going to order
anything. I cave to peer pressure and get a crown and coke, when I
realize he just wanted to use me to order another jack and coke so he
could have 2 at a time! Our table is pretty boring, not much action at
all. At one point I raised 4 straight hands taking the blinds, and I
didn't look at my cards for the 3rd and 4th hands.

We're at the 10-25 blinds level I think. I cut my chips in front of
my cards for a raise, which is apparently a big NO NO, and somehow the
dealer determines my raise to be to 75 when I moved a stack of 1k out
there to cut the chips and had cut a raise of 125. I have no idea how
that was decided but am ok with it as I actually get 2 callers for a
change. I have AhKh and the flop is Ax 9x 2x, I don't' remember
the suites because its already Thursday and I'm just writing this.
Its checked to me and I bet 200. One folds and the other raises me to
500. He only has 200 chips left so I re-raise expecting to have him
dominated. Well he turns over As2s for 2 pair, but a 9 on the turn and
blank on the river send him home.

I'm the chipleader at our table by far with over 3k from the starting
1k, but since our table has little action I'm probably pretty far
down the totem pole overall. I don't remember any big hands of note
after that until my bust out hand. I still had over 3k, but it was at
the 50-100 blind level when Badman Dan raises to 400 UTG. I have QQ
and raise to 1400. He asks me to count down and when I tell him what I
have he reraises enough to put me in(I think he had like 5k) and
declares that he is on a draw? I assume that means AK and call. He
has AcQc, and hits not only an ace, but makes the flush too.
Out in 58th or 59th, just good enough for the last longer bet I
didn't get to make!

I hook up with Goodfellas crew, as they are staying at the Borgata
tonight, and I wanted to check out there room. I call ahead because I
heard the lists could be ridiculous(and they are!) and am told they
have lists for 1-2, 2-5, and 5-10 NL. I get 3k from our room safe
which I'm sure housekeeping probably has a master code too, I mean
what do they do if someone forgets their code? We head over and I take
off to the poker room while they are checking in.

The poker room, also has a race betting place and a lounge that need to
be immediately removed and replaced with poker tables as I am still
number 40+ on all 3 lists. I go back and check out their room, its
nicer then mine and they are paying $225 less! I kill time, by tipping
over old people at the slots, then go check on my list progress. Still
waaaaaay down the list, but I notice on the automatic board that there
is open seating for 25-50 NL??!! WTF they told me there was only 1-2,
2-5, and 5-10 on the phone. I ask one of the podium people and they
confirm that there is open seating, so I go get a rack of green and sit
down in time to post the blind. Well for some reason the 50BB minimum
buyin that they use for EVERY other table is different for this game.
I'm told I have to buy in for 5k minimum. Well I don't HAVE 5k on
me, because I thought 5-10 would be as high as I would get to play. I
look like a complete jackass, and have to pick up my chips and endure
the list.

Fortunately not long after that they start up a new 10-25 NL game that
had a 20+ deep list. Only 3 people showed up so I got to get in
immediately. The 3 that were there bought in pretty deep all having at
least 5k, but they hardly ever played a hand even though we were 4
handed. I was up 500 without having gone past the flop when a 5th
player sat down. He was a younger guy with a really hot girlfriend.
He didn't want to endure the list either so had decided to play a bit
higher. He bought in for 1k and was given *** by the other players,
but I was friendly and he seemed cool. He gets his stack in the very
first hand against the guy that was giving him ***, and wins lol. I
never make a pair that I didn't start with or better, but am up 1200
when they call my name for 5-10.

I loved the game I was in, but the young guy said he was soon leaving
for dinner, and on of the originals had already left. We had been
playing over an hour with nobody else joining so I feared the game
might break and didn't want to have to go to the bottom of a list to
play again. So I took the 5-10 seat, which was at a great game. There
were multiple stacks over 3k and TONS of action. The table quickly
informs me that only 1500 of my chips can go in to play. Everyone is
so concerned with what I buy in for here! One lady is moved to our
table with 1500ish in chips and calls a 600 all in bet on the river,
where the board is A K J T 5 with 8d 9d. And no I don't have the
board or her hand wrong. AQ takes down a 2k pot. And she happily
rebuys, well at least I'm happy about it. She pays off a few of my
big hands, although not quite to the same extent.

There is one Swedish guy that has around 3k in chips that lost a big
hand where his q 4 filled up on the river against aa on a a q 4 j 4
board who goes on major tilt. He raises every hand for the next few
rounds, and every time someone makes a stand he hits a monster lol. He
snaps off AK with K8 for about 1k ect ect.. The guy on my right is
obsessed with the floor lady Anne(sp?) who I must admit is model
quality. But he is making some pretty derogatory comments and it
pisses off the ATM lady and she leaves.
Right about this time is when Heather comes and gets me for dinner. I
hate to leave now, as I've worked my stack up to over 2500 and I just
KNOW the Swedish guy is going to eventually give me his chips.

We eat at the Metropolitan café or somesuch place. I had the garlic
mussel steamer and it was pretty good. She had some salad creation and
said it was good too. Dinner takes about an hour and when I get back
there is virtually none of the same players. What a bad beat. I lose
a few hands, including the one I posted the other day to RGP, and cash
out 1700 which was quite a disappointment all things considered. I'm
a little bummed at my bad play towards the end of the night, so we had
back to the TAJ around 1am. As well pull in to the parking garage the
lady asks for our room #, and we find out that we didn't have to pay
for parking after all if you are staying there. The other lady must
have pocketed my cash to support her family/crack addiction. For some
reason Heather orders a movie of which we don't pay any attention to
anyway(obviously part of her overall scheme to keep our expenses above
my poker profit). And that's it for Saturday.

Doug

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