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• Seat Change, Please

  Aout 28, 2007

  Ever play with someone that refuses to evaluate their own game honestly. Instead, they want to blame EVERYTHING on other factors. It's got to be something other than their game. The dealer must suck. The site must be rigged. Everybody else is getting SO LUCKY. It can't be them. It just can't be. They've played like this before and won so it has to be something else.

  Recently I ran across this with a little different twist. I sat down at Seat 4 at an established ring game. I usually play a little loose and weak when I join a table just so I can tighten up, get action, and win some cash. Remember that 1st impressions are lasting ones. I also observe the other players very carefully so I can evaluate the competition.

  I noticed that the woman in Seat 1 played the 1st 4 hands after I sat down. She won the 1st then lost each of the next 3, calling 2 all the way to the river. On the 4th hand, the fellow in Seat 3 busted so that seat came available. The woman in Seat 1 immediately asked for a seat change. The blinds had already past so here she comes.

  This woman amazed me with her play for most of the evening. She called EVERY preflop raise. If she caught ANY piece of the flop (bottom pair, gutshot straight draw, weak flush draw, whatever), she would call all the way to the river. I watched her lose her stack with because the flop came . Bottom pair and ace kicker must be worth calling to the river. Amazingly, when I was out of the hand (which was most hands) and she was in the hand (which was every hand), this woman actually showed me her down cards. So I knew exactly what she'd call with.

  Of course, she won some hands. Statistically speaking, if you play every hand, you will win a few every now and then no matter what you're playing.

  Finally, I was on the Big Blind and drew . Everybody folded to Seat 2 who raised to 3x the BB. Of course Seat 3 called. I thought for a moment and actually counted Seat 3's chips in my head. Rather than risking having 2 other players in the hand and being outdrawn, I raised what I had counted to take Seat 3 down to the felt. Seat 2 thought a moment and folded. Seat 3 instacalled. Oops, I miscounted. She had $1 left. I looked at her in disbelief. She KNEW that $1 is going in on the flop. Flop came . She actually checked to me. So of course, I bet $1 (actually more but that's all she had). Turned . Rivered . I turned over my aces. She didn't even show.

  A few hands later, I busted out Seat 7 when I flopped a set and rivered a boat. Seat 3 immediately asked for a seat change. Apparently Seat 3 hadn't been lucky for her either.

  Within 10 hands I watched her lose her stack twice. Finally, she'd had enough. Seat 7 hadn't helped.

  Lady, it wasn't the Seat.

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