Checking in to the Wyndham Suites Hotel this afternoon, I found myself caught in traffic on the highway. Just my luck that the Wild Horse Pass Casino was one exit down. Hmmm, that looks like a great place to sit out for a while. There is a 4/8 Omaha game with an open seat, so I buy in for $100. One hand too late it turns out, as they have a $50 "splash pot" at the beginning of each quarter of the basketball game. Dang. The game is pretty lame with a huge rake (particularly bad in a split pot game), tight players (read smaller pots and not much action), and frankly too much table talk among the regulars, who appear to be everyone but me.
I play for a half hour or so with little variance then the guy in seat 8 asks the table if we can play a mix game with 7 stud/eight or better hi/low. He claims to have not played it for a long time but I am calling bullshit on him. You just don't come up with that stuff if you are not pro level. At 4/8 levels, this plays huge with all of the betting levels, and of course the hi low is a killer as you can easily get caught in the crossfire between nut hands. So, the entire table votes yes except for me. He says, "We will just bust this guy and change". I thank him for transferring good poker karma to me and think, "we will see who busts who". About then, my wife calls wondering where I have gone to, and I tell her I will be home soon. I play a few more hands, gather my chips (up $14 thank you), and head for the cage, just as they announce another splash pot next hand. Oh well.
Playing their 7:30 tournament tomorrow with my buddy Don. It is a $50 buy in, with $1000 added but have no idea of the rake or how many players normally show up (there are 24 poker tables). We'll see. Hoping that it is a good one as it is convenient to our hotel and reasonable costs. Think I will skip the Omaha for a while.
Wild Horse Pass
POKER PROMOTIONS
No-Limit Hold-em Tournaments
Monday & Thursday at Noon
$150 Per Table Added. $30 buy-in
Tuesday & Wednesday at 7:30pm
$1000 added to prize pool. $50 buy-in
Sunday No Limit Texas Hold'em
$30 buy-in
1 optional $20 add-on before first break
Starts at 3:30pm
I play for a half hour or so with little variance then the guy in seat 8 asks the table if we can play a mix game with 7 stud/eight or better hi/low. He claims to have not played it for a long time but I am calling bullshit on him. You just don't come up with that stuff if you are not pro level. At 4/8 levels, this plays huge with all of the betting levels, and of course the hi low is a killer as you can easily get caught in the crossfire between nut hands. So, the entire table votes yes except for me. He says, "We will just bust this guy and change". I thank him for transferring good poker karma to me and think, "we will see who busts who". About then, my wife calls wondering where I have gone to, and I tell her I will be home soon. I play a few more hands, gather my chips (up $14 thank you), and head for the cage, just as they announce another splash pot next hand. Oh well.
Playing their 7:30 tournament tomorrow with my buddy Don. It is a $50 buy in, with $1000 added but have no idea of the rake or how many players normally show up (there are 24 poker tables). We'll see. Hoping that it is a good one as it is convenient to our hotel and reasonable costs. Think I will skip the Omaha for a while.
Wild Horse Pass
POKER PROMOTIONS
No-Limit Hold-em Tournaments
Monday & Thursday at Noon
$150 Per Table Added. $30 buy-in
Tuesday & Wednesday at 7:30pm
$1000 added to prize pool. $50 buy-in
Sunday No Limit Texas Hold'em
$30 buy-in
1 optional $20 add-on before first break
Starts at 3:30pm
3 comments:
It sounds like these bozos just wanted to get rid of the non-local. Very rude. Hope you and Don do well in the tournament today.
I don't think they were trying to get rid of me, they had no idea I would not go along with it. Really it was just a bad game and annoying on top of it.
Well, it's always best to leave a bad game early and avoid getting even more annoyed. Good job. How did you guys do in the tournament?
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