Went to Las Vegas over the holiday weekend. Went to the 2+2 (a poker forum I don't read) meetup at the Aria. It was pretty fun, because the environment was very relaxed. There were a lot of cash games going with varieties of poker that you would never find at the poker room of the casino on a normal day. Anyway, a funny thing happened while I was playing in a 1/2 no limit cash game on Sunday.
So, there were two guys who had a side bet that Shawn would cause Jon to lose all of his chips in one orbit of the button or less. Jon accepted the bet, based on that if he folded every hand, he would win an easy $100. At one point, everybody gets their cards and after some pre-flop betting, it ends up with only Shawn and Jon in the hand. The flop comes 10-5-5. A little more back and forth and they both end up all in. Jon shows his pocket tens. People at the table go "Ooo!". Shawn flips over a 5. Then the other 5. People go, "Oooohhhhh!". It looks like Shawn's four of a kind will beat the full house. The turn comes. Nothing for either player. The dealer burns the next card so that he can show the river. He gets rid of the burn card and there's the other 10! Face up in the deck. It's a boxed card, it's supposed to be ignored. Jon's chance has flown out the window. The table goes nuts.
Shortly afterwords, we find out that the deck was stacked by one of the organizers. Shawn, the dealer and the organizer were in on the joke. It's was pretty funny (no, Shawn did not collect on his bet or his pot). After things calmed down a little, the other people at the table started chatting and we found out that everybody had 7-2 or 8-3 in order to make sure nobody else played the hand. Though I think one person placed a bet pre-flop, even with the terrible hand he was dealt.
3 comments:
Did you have fun in Vegas? What else other than the meetup did you do? Are there pictures, or is what happens, stays?
I think 100% of that was over my head. I can't understand poker for the life of me.
Miss you, though, and glad you had fun!
There are no pictures and yes, I had a good time.
I also learned that I need to learn how to play video poker. Supposedly, you can get a lot of comps with it because you can get the return percentage up to 99.5 percent. So, with a relatively small bankroll, you can put a lot of money through the machine, and get free rooms and such.
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