So I finally played live tonight for the first time in 44 eons. Nothing major, just some mates wanted to mess about at Genting Southend so I thought I'd go n stalk the cash table just before first break of the £30 odd tourney in order to catch the addicted gamblers rushing over to get 15 mins of lose-as-much-as-possible at £1-£2. But on arrival the main man in the card room informs me there's a new cash table sat right in the thick of the main room where all the gambool tables are, just a 50p/£1 max buy-in £100 jobby. A dealer is sat on it all night waiting for it to get started, no one sits but when it finally does get going it is soon surrounded by tons of poker curious nubs and their fit birds. So you can sit at a whale infested table with a good view for bird watching as it's not stuck in the poker only room...WIN WIN. Bird watching helps prevent boredom, and there's some insane arses wandering around rather drunk.
I sit down with the max and there's only one other with as much while the rest keep buying in for the min £20. So 85% of my hands have the 2 of spades in, No joke. Another 13% is 34o no joke. The other 2% is A8cc, JJ, TT, AQ, and virtually nothing in between all those. Quite incredible, but totally expected. I also received the same holding, including suits and order in which I'm dealt them two hands in a row...TWICE. Other insane happenings are that a local reg whom I've spoken to before, very friendly guy, seems very honest, often commentates his way through hands, virtually tells you what he has half the time, is chatting away with the next blond lady dealer who's about to take over from previous brunette polish dealer. It's obv he knows everyone who works there. Sits down and she insta flops him the nuts verus guy with the biggest stack and the second nuts. Within another ten minutes she's given him runner runner nuts vs two other guys all in by the river, just fucking insane the coincidential energies that go down.
So to my action hands. First I have JJ in the BB and seemingly the most savvy guy at the table makes it £3 from UTG. Hmm. I'll flat behind 3 other callers I guess. Dryest flop possible, 237r or something, he leads £9, rest fold, I eye his £40 odd remainder and fuck-it-jam. He has QQ. Meh, £40 left.
Later I have to call a £4 raise with Jh9h cuz the entire table is in and get a QhTx8H flop and win a few. Same happens with 97ss and it checks all round on T8X and along comes a J turn. Huge minnow opposite me leads and still 4-way I just jam, folded round to him he calls and of course no one turns their cards over on cash tables do they! Whatever the runout he just flashes me an Ace and mucks lol. The AQ hand, it's gone limpy all round and I pop it to £10, everyone insta folds as I've been a total nit, except chatty man who speeches me for a week before folding 88 face up lol. I revealed nada and he's convinced cuz of this I had bigger pair.
Another winning yet massively furstrating hand where I kicked off with the dealer. A8cc UTG make it £3. Each man and his mum calls, think some of the waitresses and chefs did too. K high flop two crubs. Thought I'd just check call the fd rather than face problems if betting... NO ONE BETS :-OOOOO Turn gives me nut flush and I bet £9, only dealer says "£5 bet." "What?!" I say. String bet she said. WHAT?
No love, I had all the chips in my hand crossed the line all together in one action and plonked them on the felt, then shoved them forward to make it easier for her to count, YA KNOW LIKE EVERY ONE DOES??? Nope, apparently placing the chips onto the felt despite them all being across the line at same time, and THEN shoving them forward to fall down IS A STRING BET!!
See I'm so fucking unlucky then when I hit the nuts I still get royally screwed over by bullshit
Anyways one total station calls so I obv DON'T want a fourth club to lose action as it's unlikey he's got the Q and anything less won't call a shove...probably. Sure enough fourth club comes, I put him in and he tank folds saying he has weak flush.
I'm back to near £100 by the time my driver mate comes along and says "come on it's 2am need to shift" so I say ok just one more hand. I instantly psychically imagine getting a massive hand, get dealt a Ten and automatically know another Ten is coming, it arrives. Someone's straddled £2 and guy to my right makes it £9 to go ffs! Call I guess. Everyone bails and he checks OOP on Q7Xr, so I stab a random £7. He calls, obv check calling Ax that much is 100%. Brick turn he checks so I ponder and he insta folds to my £15, which put me on £30ish profit for the night but from a £90-ish comeback.
This ain't no Vegas $25k HR blog but poker is poker at any level, from playmoney to HS anyone can rape anyone and I need lots of general live practice before I buy-in to anything reasonable. Felt very comfortable so I can feel more confident and less agoraphobic for next time lol. A min GPS is actually coming up next month so I may try to satty in, altho there's nothing online for Genting anymore, guy said there's one super sat going to be on a...... Monday?? K den
btw I was the only guy at table not to show cards in non showdowns to remain as The mysterious one". I'm totally Phil Ivey now
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