First time in Vegas: Interesting Hand |
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Posted Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:53 pm GMT by Thomadeus
So, this last weekend I went to Vegas for the first time (for a wedding. Not mine, thank goodness). Anyway, I went to the Luxor poker room to play some poker. The first time I had played in ANY poker room.
I’m seated directly to the right of the dealer on a 2/4 table. The table is full of drunk/loose players; mostly college students, but a couple older folk. The only people playing tight are me and the fellow to my right.
Anyway, there’s this guy, third to the left of the dealer, splashing the pot and crowing his wins, irritating and amusing the rest of us. The hand is dealt and I have AA. on the button. OOOooo, shaky hands! He raises and most others call. I raise. The blinds fold. Most everyone else calls.
The flop comes up 2-5-8 or some such. Anyway, it’s checked to him and he bets. Everyone folds, except me, but he can’t see me well, so the guy laughs and turns over his QQ. I speak up and say that I haven’t bet yet. Ah, geez! Now I hear it! “C’mon! You can’t take advantage of me! This is a friendly game!” and so forth. Well dammit! I woulda raised normally, but now I feel like a jerk!
By this time the dealer has had about enough of this guy and says under his breath: “raise him”. I raise, he folds, I get the pot. He’s pissed. I’m stared at and glared at by this guy for the next couple hours.
He cools down by the end of the night, back into happy-drunk stage, and is busy telling everyone at the table what a rock I am. I wish I had had the cards or the nads to take advantage of this table image, but I stuck to my tight play.
Did I do the right thing?
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Posted Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:31 pm GMT by TomJQKA
In a word: yes.
In a few more words: Not at all your fault that he was too drunk to see how many players there were at the table.
Posted Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:49 pm GMT by nicthestick
too bad for dude. I would have reraised him at every chance from then on, for the rest of the session.
Posted Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:37 pm GMT by humbleman
I've played in the Luxor several times and I'm surprised that they allowed him to keep playing, maybe I've been lucky, but the Luxor has always been pretty good at ejecting drunks from the Poker room when I've been there. Oh well. Anyway, you were in the right and I would have re-raised his ass all night as well :D :D
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