Trip Report
by Marshall "Snake" Lake
Thanks to Goldie for organizing a great time at ATLARGE. I thoroughly
enjoyed the weekend in spite of it being a financial loss for me.
I enjoyed meeting a bunch of ATLARGErs. Everyone was very nice.
The sweatshirt was a great surprise. The buffet on Friday night was very
good.
I enjoyed Saturday afternoon (or was it Friday afternoon?) playing in the
pink game with ActionBob, Goldie, and a few other ATLARGE attendees along
with three locals. It was fun seeing the locals get very perturbed at
ActionBob and Goldie as they were cap blind-raising through the river. It
was a little disconcerting when the local sitting to my right made some
loud belligerent type remarks at one point. When I asked him what he was
talking about he said to me through the side of his mouth "I'm kidding"
without looking at me, but I didn't believe he was.
At one point during the game ActionBob asked me to blind raise (when I was
sitting to his right) so then he would blind raise but being a newbie to
this stuff I just couldn't bring myself to do it. On Sunday afternoon
while waiting for my brother to bust out of the Stud tournament I killed a
couple of hours by sitting in a $3-6 game with all locals (of course) and
tested ActionBob's blind-raising method of play. And it just so happened
that the player sitting to my immediate right played every hand and raised
most hands. Many times the rest of the table had to put in $9 or $18 to
see the next card and most everyone was getting pretty pissed with one
player in particular making belligerent type remarks towards me (but he
was smaller than me so I didn't much care :) . I must say my play did
soften up the table even more than it already was when I first sat down.
By the time I left everyone (with few exceptions) were seeing every flop
when it was one or two-bet. Now if I could only learn to be as lucky as
ActionBob I'd be all set. :)
I'm looking forward to future ARG events.
Marshall (Snake)
