As David mentioned in an earlier post, David, Hagar and I made a little trek to a newer? cardroom in Auburn. I'm inclined to not say anything about this place, because I really don't want any of our good players to know where all the super-fishes are.
We drove on up to get there on Friday for a 6:30 opening and the tournament that starts the night. Roll on in at 6:15 and it's a $40 buy-in with a $40 add-on/re-buy any time before the fourth round. 21 players start at about 6:45 and I sit on table 1 with 10 players I've never seen before and Hagar and The Kid are on table 2. The whole time our table heard nothing but laughter and loud voices coming from their table so I'm going to have to let them fill you in on what happened over there.
I got nothing but shit cards the whole tourney as I watch all the players at my table just throw chips around like crazy. I managed a couple of wins and hung around for 12th place. No love for Dodger, oh well.
After they broke down to one table the ring game started. I was having a smoke and walked in just as they were getting ready to deal the first hand. I bought in for $100 bucks in the $50-$100 buy-in NL game. I sat down where the small blind would be and they asked me if I wanted them to real-deal the button or if I wanted the small blind. (Thanks for the options) I told them to play there first hand and I'll start on #2.
Dealer deals the first hand and the action starts right away. I was sitting in between two geezers that seem to have a grudge for one-another. They threw chips around at each other the whole tourney and it started all over again in the cash game. First hand position 3 raises to $15, #4 calls, #5 calls, folds to John on my right who makes it $50. Dave(geezer) on my left calls, as well as the two others. Flop comes 7, 9, Q rainbow. Dave bets $20, fold, fold, John goes all-in, Dave calls. Open up........Dave 7, J for bottom pair, meager kicker,.......John 6, 9 for middle pair no kicker. Blank, blank....John doubles up.
I just sit amazed wondering what the hell I got myself into.
So my first hand, second of the game.
I look down at Q,Q...I sit and wonder what the hell to do.
Raised from early position to $15, John makes it $30
I call, Dave calls, as does the raiser---4 players to the flop
Flop Q,6,6
Dave bets $15, raiser folds, John makes it $40, I go all-in.
Dave folds, John calls.
John flips up A-7, no draws, only outs A-A runners
Turn brings the ace, river a blank
First hand, up about $150-real tough game.
I got crappy cards the rest of the night but if you had decent cards they were more than willing to pay you off-real easy money.
I cashed out $328 at 1:15 and was amazed at the play. The play got better as the night wore down, and the fish lost there money. Dave had exhausted his cash and had to write a check for $800 to cover his house loans. John had exhausted his cash as well, I'm not sure how much money he owed the house, but all night you just kept hearing "give me another $100" At one point John went all-in 5 straight hands and lost every one of them. He had to be into the game for at least $1500. I think Hagar was around $350 when I left, and I'm not sure about David. I think he was up when he left rather abruptly around 10:00. (jerk, you didn't even say goodbye.)
All-in-all the place is pretty nice. They're planning on expanding real soon to 7 tables. Everyone was super friendly and were almost eager to give you there money. The dealer's were just OK but were pretty beautiful to look at. They start every day with some sort of tourney, either $40 with the add-on or a $60 freeze-out style. They primarily play NL in their ring games depended on the players tastes.
I just don't want to see any BYOC players there
We drove on up to get there on Friday for a 6:30 opening and the tournament that starts the night. Roll on in at 6:15 and it's a $40 buy-in with a $40 add-on/re-buy any time before the fourth round. 21 players start at about 6:45 and I sit on table 1 with 10 players I've never seen before and Hagar and The Kid are on table 2. The whole time our table heard nothing but laughter and loud voices coming from their table so I'm going to have to let them fill you in on what happened over there.
I got nothing but shit cards the whole tourney as I watch all the players at my table just throw chips around like crazy. I managed a couple of wins and hung around for 12th place. No love for Dodger, oh well.
After they broke down to one table the ring game started. I was having a smoke and walked in just as they were getting ready to deal the first hand. I bought in for $100 bucks in the $50-$100 buy-in NL game. I sat down where the small blind would be and they asked me if I wanted them to real-deal the button or if I wanted the small blind. (Thanks for the options) I told them to play there first hand and I'll start on #2.
Dealer deals the first hand and the action starts right away. I was sitting in between two geezers that seem to have a grudge for one-another. They threw chips around at each other the whole tourney and it started all over again in the cash game. First hand position 3 raises to $15, #4 calls, #5 calls, folds to John on my right who makes it $50. Dave(geezer) on my left calls, as well as the two others. Flop comes 7, 9, Q rainbow. Dave bets $20, fold, fold, John goes all-in, Dave calls. Open up........Dave 7, J for bottom pair, meager kicker,.......John 6, 9 for middle pair no kicker. Blank, blank....John doubles up.
I just sit amazed wondering what the hell I got myself into.
So my first hand, second of the game.
I look down at Q,Q...I sit and wonder what the hell to do.
Raised from early position to $15, John makes it $30
I call, Dave calls, as does the raiser---4 players to the flop
Flop Q,6,6
Dave bets $15, raiser folds, John makes it $40, I go all-in.
Dave folds, John calls.
John flips up A-7, no draws, only outs A-A runners
Turn brings the ace, river a blank
First hand, up about $150-real tough game.
I got crappy cards the rest of the night but if you had decent cards they were more than willing to pay you off-real easy money.
I cashed out $328 at 1:15 and was amazed at the play. The play got better as the night wore down, and the fish lost there money. Dave had exhausted his cash and had to write a check for $800 to cover his house loans. John had exhausted his cash as well, I'm not sure how much money he owed the house, but all night you just kept hearing "give me another $100" At one point John went all-in 5 straight hands and lost every one of them. He had to be into the game for at least $1500. I think Hagar was around $350 when I left, and I'm not sure about David. I think he was up when he left rather abruptly around 10:00. (jerk, you didn't even say goodbye.)
All-in-all the place is pretty nice. They're planning on expanding real soon to 7 tables. Everyone was super friendly and were almost eager to give you there money. The dealer's were just OK but were pretty beautiful to look at. They start every day with some sort of tourney, either $40 with the add-on or a $60 freeze-out style. They primarily play NL in their ring games depended on the players tastes.
I just don't want to see any BYOC players there