I was invited to east Texas (Groves) by a fraternity brother of mine, Chavo, for a poker tournamnet. I helped him set it up as far as blinds and chips. I also told him I would deal and play so that we could use a full size table and keep everything moving along. The structure [...]
Paying Attention Costs Nothing
I have been reading a lot of posts on 2+2′s forums especially the Brick and Motor (Live casino play) section. I noticed many players have questions about rulings because a player bet the wrong amount or flipped their cards up at the wrong time or some little error that cost them money and/or caused a [...]
Good Luck All In!?!
Good Luck All In!….I was dealing tonight at Sonny’s Game and I must have heard this 100 times (average 3 people per all in). Why do people say this?…they don’t mean it at all and actually wish the opposite. They want the person to go out, that is the whole point of a poker tournament. [...]
Squeeze Play?
I was dealing a Tourney on Friday night. I had arrived early and as usual a few guys were playing online poker on a laptop. I was looking over the players shoulder as he played a .50/$1 cash game. The player was one of the stronger tourney players in that game and had a good [...]
Serious Cigars
Saturday night I dealt at the Cigar Shop and I had forgotten what a bad game that was to deal. Since it is a cigar shop it is filed with 30 players smoking the whole time. Not only is the smoke filled enviorment bad but the structure is very strange, 25 min blinds starting at 50/100 [...]
Houston Holdem Club
I dealt / Tourney Directed the Houston Holdem Club tonight. The Club is a group of 50-100 guys, mostly oil industry guys, who play a monthly game for seats to the WSOP every year. What they do is put up $250 and 50% goes to the prize pool for that night the other 50% goes [...]
The Dealers Playing?
I was preparing to deal on Friday when I decided to call Phillip and see what time the game started. He told me 7pm but that he only needed 1 dealer since he only had 10 players. I said I would come and play and if they needed me to deal I would. Well I [...]
Omaha Hi-Lo
I spent Friday night dealing a small tourney and an 11 handed $3-$6-$12 Omaha Hi/Lo cash game. thats right an 11 handed games and you can do the math 4 cards to each player 3 burns and 5 board cards. By the river all I had was the burn card in my hand and usually [...]
Going legit…
“The truth is, I can always find games to deal , though. Easy games, tough games, straight games, crooked games, home games. But I’ve made promises. “ After the Recent busts in the Houston area and the charges being raised from misdemeanor to felony…I have decided to walk away from the game for now. I [...]
Expensive Lesson
I get to big dogs to be the Tourney Director for the Wed tourney. I hate being the TD because I only get paid $75 for 4 hours of work and miss time dealing cash so this is a neg EV day for me. I get the tourney started and the cash game from Tuesday [...]
