Trip Report
by Tilt City
Thursday:
Get in, can't find anyone, go to poker room, talk to Tom Hummel, meet
Chuck, get to the Smoker. Sit down near Tom and Actionbob, get a bunch
of appetizers (shrimp cocktail, fried calmari, oysters, clams)
People smoking cigars, drinking wine. Got a filet mignon stuffed with
crab meat. Awesome.
Play "guess the check" game with everyone at the table. Shelly Louie
has a pretty close guess -- I think he ended up winning but I'm not
100% sure. We put in $5 each.
Get back to Taj, play some 20-40. Lose.
Friday: HOE tournament
Sometime after the start, Ivy gets some Krispy Kreme for the entire
table. I got a glazed donut -- my favorite kind at Krispy Kreme.
Thanks, Ivy!
I don't remember much about the initial table... except I'm picking up
some chips in stud/8 even though I've only played the game about three
times in my life. All of my starting cards look so tasty!
Later someone said: "You're zeejustin, you have ace-ten on the button
and 76 suited in the small blind. What do you do?"
(So I was thinking: with regards to alliances in multiway pots, it
would be interesting if zeejustin, in addition to his
multi-accounting, also had multiple personalities who were at war with
each other. So the guy on the small blind would ally with the big
blind and try to cut down the button's equity.)
Friday night: Banquet, Tom McEvoy said he won 70% of his cash game
sessions. As soon as I hear this, I look over at Matt Matros right as
he's looking over at actionbob. I guess if you have "stop-win
ceilings" you can win more sessions. A second talk was given by Bill
and Jerrod about maths stuffs.
Played pink chip game with Kevin Conlon, Matt M., Joan. Joan scooped a
huge pot and chopped it in half with the side of her hand, and gave
that to the dealer. He went to drop it in his toke box, but we
reminded him to keep the pink chips in the game, so he counted it out
first, and put it in his tray, and dropped a hundred in his toke box.
Joan had managed to hit $100 dollars exactly -- well done!
There was one hand where I had A8h which turned the nuts, only I
didn't know it because I was playing my hand blind. Another hand I was
playing blind: 88 with T52 flop, spiked an 8 on the turn to outrun
presto.
Saturday -- early bustout
Sweated some of the tables, played some 10-20, signed up for pink
game...Grabbed a philly cheese steak with Jerrod; Bill joined us.
Went to Trop with Ivy and Matt. Walked around for a bit, Matt pointed
out this was all new. (The only other time I was in AC was 2001, when
it was more horrible there)
Met up with Kevin, Action Bob, and Buckshot at P.F. Chang's. More
wine. I got a duck spinach salad because I wasn't too hungry but it
was good. Kevin's a golfer so he and Action Bob are talking about
who's really cool behind the scenes. And sometimes an athlete who the
public assumes is a "nice guy" is really kind of a jerk. Action Bob
was making fun of Rory Sabbatini through some anecdote about an
incident that took place on a tour event, heh.
Later, went to Red Square for lots of appletinis. Joined there by Dave
F, Leslie, and Jodi.
Talked baseball with Dave F (Yankees fan) and Matt (Mets fan). "A Red
Sox fan, a Yankees fan, and a Mets fan are sitting together talking
baseball. What happens?!"
Matt thought Bobby Valentine was the best manager the Mets had over
the past 20 years because of what he was able to get out of mediocre
teams. I like Bobby V. too and I was kind of hoping, a few years back,
that the Sox would hire him.
One time I kept sending Bobby V. -related links to my friend who's a
Mets fan, including a link that said "Bobby V claimed to have invented
the wrap sandwich." Apparently, that was the final straw, and my
friend asked, "What are you trying to do, kill me?!"
Dave had a theory about multiple universes, and that in his universe,
2004 didn't really happen. I still can't really believe the 2004
season happened either.
