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• Keep It Even Shoot!

  Juli 08, 2009

  With Donnie having the day off as well, we obviously sleep in way too long (standard on the days we get off now) and chill at the condo watching TV and surfing the net for a while. We finally pick the nightly $150 Harrah’s tourney as our choice and hail a cab to the strip.

  Once there we scoop out the Caesars Palace Forum Shops and then the Mirage before heading over to register for the tourney before grabbing a bite to eat at the food court just outside the hotel.

  We take our seats with mine being opposite a guy I played the Venetian Deep Stack with yesterday. I try and spark a conversation with him, but like most middle-class middle-aged and white Americans – he is a complete arse and waves me off like I fly to a dog that doesn’t give a shit!

  Starting with a 10,000-chip starting bank and a decent structure for this buy-in I fold my first hand, but then proceed to raise five of the next six and play both my rags out of the blinds:

  - raise to 150, re-raise to 450, call, check-fold fluffed flop

  - raise pre, bluff turn and get called by bottom pair

  - raise 150, four callers, check flop, call 500 on turn and then 2,000 on river on Jack-high and flush heavy board . . . of course its good when I get showed bottom pair

  - raise 150, six callers until big blind bumps it to 500, everyone calls, Ace-high board checked down, Kings are good

  - raise to 150, re-raise to 450, check-fold flop and he shows Queens

  I then chip up to 14,000 with tens again until I finally get knocked out. With blinds at 75-150 I open from late position to 400 and the big blind calls. He check-calls 525 on the flop and we both checked the on the turn before the landed. He led out for 1,200, I made it 3,500 and he shipped it for 6,000, I called and his was good . . . puzzled looks followed from me.

  I ended up shipping it with from the button, and the big blinds Queen-high was too good.

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  There was an open seat on the $4-8 HORSE cash game and along I went to donk off while Donnie continued to grind it out.

  Rich Ryan – the pocket fives intern – and some random German midget (not being rude; he actually was) called Toto started playing props on my up-cards and the Holdem and Omaha boards. Rich took red for $5 and any King for $20, while Toto took black and any Deuce for $20. Rich started off bad, blowing out to $80 before pulling it back to the $20 mark while I ran my $300 buy-in up to $380.

  Rich and Toto both got seats in the game and my profit slowly was worked away as Rich’s prop bets extended back out to the $120 mark then the $200 mark, back to $125 then out to $355 before he cut his losses at $300.

  Donnie ran terribly in the tourney finishing 14th and then took that run-bad and put it into place in the cash game when he lost his buy-in, after winning a handy $80 off Rich in What Lodden Thinks?.

  I cashed out up $2 and we decided to head to Craps to see if Toto could continue his hot run and make us a fortune!

  

   

  I call it . . . The Bridge

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  I played Craps properly for the first time the other night and really enjoyed it – regardless on how well I knew the rules!

  I bought in for $200 and saw it work its way down to $70 then $30 before the other guys went busto. I decided to see if I could run it up, and after a few good rolls and calling out, “keep it even shoot,” I was back to more then even – a tidy $14 profit.

  Being the complete degen gambler I am . . . there was no way I was pocketing that $14; instead it was Rich’s job to find one last bet for me.

  “Bet Boxcars”
  “What the hell is that?”
  “It’s when the shooter rolls two sixes”
  “Yeah, why not”

  I threw the last $14 on the boxcars and its one in thirty-six chance for a thirty-to-one payday and the shooter picked up the dice. He shuffled them in his hand before flinging them up towards our end of the table. They bobbled round, avoiding chips and bets that littered the board heavy . . . six . . . six.

  In an instant Rich went running off to the other end of the room and back in a complete state of shock that I had won on my first Boxcars bet, and like a dumbfounded noob I had no idea if I had won or what I had won!

  The dealer casually cut down a stack of green $25-denomination chips and handed most of them over to me to amount $420. I quickly cashed out $600 after placing one last bet (true degen style) and tipping the dealer to see me profit $400 for the night on craps and $250 overall.

  With Rich and Donnie having a cry about how good I run I bought them some 8am breakfast at Maccas before a nice long sleep in could occur with each of us not having to start until 5pm!

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