there are several characters here in Cleveland that im sure that @joesalOG (a troll on twitter whose lived and played here before moving to florida) knows well. in fact a couple seemed to know who i meant when i asked if they knew him and described him as best as i could. a guy into golfing professional wrestling who played higher stakes PLO. one guy said he definitely knew him. i wonder what players he would remember and what he could tell me about them?
anyway, Anthony is a young player in the game whose here a lot and ill bet he knows him. and Anthony is a bit of a dick and hes friends with a very rich high stakes machine player named Jesse. or it might be his middle name, i forgot. But to be honest there are MANY things a person can do which make him a dick at the poker table. such as refusing to run it twice, ignoring u when u say something to him, buying in for all green or black instead of bringing red chips to the game so the dealer doesnt run out of red and need a fill, or tipping in 5 whites instead of tipping a red chip.
anyway after id played with him earlier for some time at another table, and possibly on a previous day (i dont know) he perceived me to be a nit. and why i dont know, because i lost my first 3 buyins in about 20 minutes and eventually was in the game for 2000 instead of the 200 dollars i was in for when i first sat down.
I was dealt TTJQ with 3 diamonds and i think called but possibly made a small raise preflop but i think i called. i dont remember how many of us called. the flop comes up QT8 rainbow. he checks i bet and he called. maybe someone else did too, i dont remember. the turn comes a 6 and he either bets or check raises, i cant remember which. on the river an A hits and i only have about 500-600 left. i shoved (because i know if he bets ill have to call anyway so what do i gain by checking.)
he said i had the nut straight and folded and i only showed 3 cards TTJ and he said i had the ace hi straight. i said i would bet him 1000 i didnt and the camera could check it and he said lets bet 20k
the player next to him later once the game broke and we were both in the 1-3 nl game swore he saw his hand and he really did fold the smaller straight. i really dont see how he can fold here though i did bet the river knowing the A was probably a scare card for a wrap or set of As. But just how bad was his fold? i think hes overall a winning player. of course i could be wrong on that too.
so i wasnt exactly bluffing though he did lay down the winner.
another key hand, in the NL table this time instead of the PLO, i had ak of clubs. i limped UTG because i wanted someone else to raise so i could shove, since i had only $109 in chips. and i didnt raise because i didnt want to be first to act on a bad flop. well 6 of us limped in.
the flop comes A56 with 2 hearts and no clubs. i bet $20 and one guy calls. an old regular who ive seen every night makes it $40 on a checkraise and i know im behind. so i fold, and im glad to see the other guy call.
turn card comes Kh for 3 to a flush and it would give me 2 pair. theres a big bet and a call or raise and they get allin. river comes A and im sick. wouldve sucked out runner runner, one guy had the flush and lost to a guy who flopped 555. my read on the flop was right, and it was the right fold, but i sure wish all of the money wouldve gotten in preflop.
also the guy in seat 1 next to me quit the NL game and forgot his phone. i didnt realize it was his, and i thought he might be at the cage since he took all his chips but not a rack which id offered but stuck them in his jacket pocket. at first i thought and a new player thought it might have been put there to lock up a seat. and he was going to sit there. But the new player said it wasnt him and the other new player said he didnt put it there either. well i told the floor he was at the cage and explained if that were me id want to know immediately id left my phone and not found out when i got 100 miles down the road. but it seemed they werent going to make any effort to find him.
it was bugging me for the next 20 minutes, wondering if God wanted me to get out of my seat and go look for him, but i thought id waited too long. finally a dealer mentioned later he found him at a craps table. so i guess someone did look instead of the floorman or the other dealer id originally spoke to and who didnt even bother to pick up the phone for about 10 minutes.
the reason it bugged me so much is all i could think of is what would i want people to do if it was ME that lost the phone?
---------this was written over 3 weeks ago and i never finished it and published it because i didnt feel it was long enough. well im going to publish it now, because i need to write a new blog discussing all the work going on regarding my proof of citizenship. so first ive got to hit submit and finish this blog. i shouldnt waited so long.
