Session reports.
The home game last night at last was ready to introduce Big O, or five card Omaha high low split. It quickly replaced plo and hold’em, as the players complained about the lack of action in PLO. Always a problem! Unfortunately for me, all my experience in PLO8 came to naught when I was too…
The smallest game in the room, the entry point for poker, is often the most deadly, dull, and uninviting. It has the highest proportional rake, the least challenging play, the smallest amount of available money, and most lethally, the most boring people. Tuesday is a slow night in many casinos. I got stuck at three…
Late night short handed. I open KQ, and another short stack calls out of the blinds, which he really shouldn’t be doing. However, he looks like a newb, thin and nervous, like a recent college grad who has his first real paycheck to burn. Flop is Q76 rainbow. He checks to me, and this guy…
At the end of another long night of 73o and missed flops at two different limits and three tables, I’m exhausted, worn. A favorite dealer has asked me what is wrong, Nothing that can be cured, of course. I’ve earned a small win painfully after felting a possibly tilting nit, and am ready to leave. With…
Eighty degrees, deuce. Serve, return, misplaced approach; Hando dribbles J4 over the high part of the net. It’s likely he intended this defense to go elsewhere, or, perhaps, he had no idea where he wanted it to go. Not sure how such a limp-wristed stab is really supposed to send a tennis ball anywhere in…