Nothing surprised me...until Vegas

As a poker player, you meet all types, all kinds, shapes, sizes, opinions, smells, looks, weirdos, eccentrics, movie stars, nobodies, doctors, contractors, etc, etc. At some point, you become immune to the weirdness, the outrageousness, and you just shrug your shoulders at anything...well almost anything. While in Vegas last month, there were a few occasions where I was like, what the f%$k is going on. It was pretty hilarious.

THE BIRDLADY: At the Venetian one day, specifically the day of the Charity Auction for the ASPCA, I played a long 2-5 ssession (7 hours, my longest in years). I got up from the table to have a quick dinner with Jon during his break in the tournament. When I got back, I walked up to my table, and there, on my seat was an empty birdcage. I looked to the right of where I was sitting, and there was a white, middle aged, normal looking guy. To my left was seated a long, long, long black haired, slutty dressed, 50 somethin year old asian chic, and I thought- she must have the explanation for this birdcage on my chair. I said loudly, what is this? Asian chic turns around, with the longest longest, thickes, fakest, fake eyelashes I ever saw, and said, ohhh i am so sorry hoooney. And there, nestled in her low buttoned blouse, right between her breasts, was a real live little bird! I was like, oh jesus christ, out loud and i grabbed my heart. What the fk?!!! For the record, I hate birds. I think they are dirty disgusting, little diseased creatures and I have no interest sitting next to one at my poker table. She starts kissing the gd bird (it looked like she was kissing her breasts), and mumbling mommy loves you and making smoochie noises. I turned to the guy next to me, and I was like is she kidding me? Seriously. It took over two hours for the floor person to enforce the "no pets allowed" rule. This woman objected venomously- there were cats and dogs here earlier. The floor person politely explained that was for a charity event and those animals were here for a purpose and in cages. The asian chic started screaming double standards, animal discrimination, it was quite hilarious.

QUADS V. QUADS: The following hand occurred that literally made my head spin. It was absolutely, the craziest fkin hand I have witnessed in a long time. So this weird tight old guy, who hates folding and overvalues top pair like every other two five no limit player, limps utg. New guy at the table, in middle pos, makes it 25$ to go. You could tell he was a regular and liked to push the action, and was definitely not a level 1 thinking player. So, anyway,, only the old man calls. Heads up and the flop comes out 8 2 2. Old man bets $40. Original raiser calls. I had a feeling that guy was floating the flop and/or calling to make a move later on in the hand. Turn is 2, making the board 8 2 2 2. Old man checks (to slow play, lmao) and aggro guy bets 45, old man proceeds to check raise to 100. Im like, this is getting good, in my head. Aggro of course calls. River is 2. Which is actually a great river for the aggro guy, because now old man cannot have teh best hand. Old man checks, and aggro guy shoves for $300. Pot is about $360 something like that. Old man goes, I call. Aggro guy goes, I was bluffing, I play the board and turns over pkt 55s. Old man goes me too, and turns over 8 6 os. LMAO. It was timeless I tell you. People don't believe me when I tell them the story, but for everyone's knowledge, I am not that creative to make that up. Hee hee. So they chopped. Aggro guy went off for like 15 minutes, it was pretty incredible.

On a different note, I have not written in a few months because I have been extremely stressed with a personal, family matter. It is still going on, but at least somewhat under control. During that time, my poker results have been lacking, majorly. I am now focused, in terms of online, on building up money on Bodog, playing step tournies for the world series, and multi tables on ultimatebet. I finally had a final table today, after almost three weeks without one, on Bodog. A small cash, but a final table nonetheless.

Jon and I will be playing some WSOP events this summer, I will let you know what we decide on. We will also be playing the Venetian Deepstacks and Cesar Deep Stacks- will keep you updated on those.

Lastly, would like to say congrats to Arjun777, my friend online who won a wsop package thru the steps- very proud of him!

Ok all, I will write more often I promise, thanks for reading!

Good money and peace,

Lucky C.