From: "Steve Nissman" To: "Barge" Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:05:31 -0700 Subject: [BARGE] Some BARGE musings [posted to BARGE list and RGP] No, not a trip report, I don't do trip reports, so no travel news, no hand histories, and NO bad beat stories :) * Binion's and the Amazing, Disappearing Collection * Playing chinese poker Wednesday night during the CHORSE match. After a couple of hours, one particular dealer looks down, mentioning that she felt something hit her foot. She discovers a number of $5 chips on the floor. Apparently, when Binion's started the game, they forgot to put a drop box at the table. All the collections had been going through the slot and hitting the floor... DOH! (postscript: I learned on the trip back that Marc Gilutin, who had been playing my stack while I was playing my CHORSE rounds had found a $5 chip on the floor by my seat... seat 9... and assuming I dropped it, placed it back on my stack... I guess I owe Becky $5). * Ode to Gavin * There's really nothing quite like playing poker with Gavin Smith. Even the dealers got into the spirit when, during a chinese poker session, the current dealer, after hearing Gavin say "I need a drink" called out "Cocktail Waitress.... tray of drinks... seat 6!" * Bill Chen and the Incredible Humming Lowball Player * This incident didn't happen during BARGE, but since that's where I heard the story, I'll relate it here. Some people may find Bill amusing, but I have to admit I've never considered him to be a world-class comedic storyteller (until now). Somehow, during the CP tourney in the hospitality suite, the subject of either music or lowball comes up. Bill relates the time he was playing a hand of lowball, and after his opponent opened the pot, Bill was about to call and draw 1 card to an 8 low. Suddenly, he hears his opponent humming the song "Wheel in the Sky," and Bill immediately mucks his hand. Yup, the guy had it. * Oh, we ARGers can be so cruel * Playing a PLO/PLHE game. 8 BARGErs at the table, only seat two is temporarily occupied by a series of one local after another. Every time another local busts out, Nolan Dalla yells "NEXT!" * Binion's and the Phantom Flop * Tournament holdem hand: Dealer puts out a flop of Q88. Thinking fast, I push my stack in saying "I have an 8" Nobody calls. You see, the dealer had forgotten to deal anyone any cards. (I'm just teasing Binion's here a couple of times, they did a splendid job). * My Place in History * I am pleased and proud to have participated in the first ever Binglaha game, I'm sure there will be a plaque on a wall somewhere, someday, with my name on it. However, I want to know which online poker site Bingo got the "juiced" die from. Every time I had low cards in my hand, the die roll was a 4-5-6, meaning we were playing the hand high only. * The Rubber Band Man * Unexpected highlight: When the NL championship is down to the two finalists, the cardroom manager trots out (followed by a serious looking security guard armed with a shotgun) bearing a large cardboard box loaded with rubber-banded bundles of bills, and dumps them on the final table. Oh, the loot consisted of 6,000 $1 bills. Hilarious. Steve Nissman ________ Thanks to PokerStars, Paradise Poker, and Quiotix Technologies for their generous sponsorship of BARGE 2003.