In one of my playing sessions at the Rio, I landed on a very interesting table, full of action and no end to the chatter. I met a young man from Vermont named Paul. Paul has apparently only played online poker and had no idea how to handle poker chips. Compound that with the fact that he was so drunk that he could hardly see straight. I actually caught him closing one eye to focus on the flop… LOL. Well, Paul from Vermont was having a rough evening. At the $2/$5 No Limit Hold’em table he had re-bought $300 - $400 4 times that I witnessed. And had somehow managed to maintain consciousness (questionable) and was getting pretty low on his last re-buy when he made a play at the pot with a busted flush draw, was called, showed his bluff and re-bought. About 10 minutes later, through the slurred speech, bobbing head, glassy eyes and inability to do anything with the chips, he made another move by betting about $200 at a $175 pot on the river with absolutely nothing…. His opponent folded and Paul from Vermont turned over his J8 to a scary board. And it was on like donkey-kong.
About 10 minutes later, he gets hooked up with an oriental gentleman from LV, we’ll call him Gene from LV, in a hand that was just crazy. There’s a pre-flop Mississippi straddle (yep, I did it)… when it gets back to Paul from Vermont he raises the bet to $50 and Gene from LV is the only caller.
The flop was a spicy:
Gene leads out with a $50 bet and Paul from Vermont raises it to $200. Gene from LV begins counting out and stacking his chips to the side and he was up to about $600-$700 when he was able to make out through the slurred speech of our friend, Paul from Vermont…. “go ahead and raise, I’m all in anyway!” and Paul from Vermont makes a forward motion with his poker chips and actually knocked over the $100 or $200 stacks which he had managed to stack up. Well, Gene from LV goes berserk! He prodded the dealer with “that’s binding!” over and over and the dealer actually agreed but called the floor manager over since there was so much money involved. He explained to the floor manager perfectly how the hand had progressed and the floor manager ruled that 1) since it was heads up; 2) he verbally announced “all in”; 3) he physically touched his chips with a forward motion; that it was binding and all of Paul from Vermont’s $2500 or so was now in the pot. By the way, Paul from Vermont is saying the entire time that it was not a problem and he was fine with it but that Gene from LV was not going to like what he saw if he called. So after much deliberation which I’ve only seen paralleled… hmmm… everytime it’s Bill’s turn, he finally.
Bill's hand:
Paul from Vermont's hand:
Absolutely the worst case scenario for Gene from LV as if he hits his Ace, Paul from Vermont makes a straight. So with only 3 outs they quickly turn over the turn and the river and Gene from LV never improved and Paul from Vermont won another monster pot. As interesting as that is, it was more interesting watching Paul from Vermont for the next 45 minutes, basically not even play his cards as he was trying to stack the chips. He had nearly $3500 or so, primarily in $5 chips with some $1 chips too try to organize them. He had the entire corner covered in chips! The players to his right and left would try to help him, but everytime he would get one or two stacks of 20 stacked up, as he was trying to make another stack he would knock them down. It was unbelievable. Over and over again. Finally, the dealer through much table prodding called the floor manager over and insisted that we color up Paul from Vermont’s stack. He stayed about 30-40 minutes and gave back some, but cashed out with a tidy profit for the night.
I will be blogging some more of the fun from my trip as my battery gets re-charged, but it was an excellent week of poker in Vegas for me.
Let the suck outs begin!
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