05.12.07
Argosy and Omaha H/L 4/8 - 5/11/07
So I played some 3/6 at Argosy on Friday. I ended up giving up about $20 and it was pretty uneventful, until . . .
I got seated at the Omaha H/L 4/8 table. Now when I sat down, I was very aware of the fact that there were some huge stacks of chips around me. Each person had at least $200 in reds and more in white. So, when I sat down with $80, this old guy said to me, “There’s a $100 minimum to sit down at this table.”
I didn’t know anything about him so I responded with, “You mean I can’t just lose my eighty dollars and then leave.”
It got him to smile, but he said, “Nope $100 minimum.”
So I decided to hit him with logic, sense humor did not work. I said, “Well you can have an empty seat for fifteen to twenty minutes while I waddle to the ATM, or you can have a player in this seat now, as I’m the last one on the wait list.”
That worked. Well I folded the first two hands, as I had crap, and then the old codger says, “Oh you’re going to play tight, ere ya?” I said, “Apparently,” with a grin and got the two people across the table to laugh.
Then I do play a hand. I have AA38 (suited with spaids). Flop comes 882, so I bet and get check raised. Now that confuses me so I just call. Turn is a 4, River is a T, no flushes out there and this guy is betting with authourity, so I’m planning on getting quartered and the clown has A238 or some such thing. Nope, he turns over his A3TJ (not suited) and proudly says, nut low. I say me too, plus the 8. So I quartered him.
Now he had a huge stack and either he sat down with a lot or he was underestimating the new player or some other people really suck at O8. I think it’s the last two really. So, I’m thinking I need to head back up there as they spread the game every Friday and Saturday now.