Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:03:21 -0400 From: Sander, Warren Subject: [BARGE] Barge Trip report or "Thank god for bingo!" Get on plane, get off plane (Sunday) meet grizz to give ride to binions. Stupid dumb new rental car center. where the hell am I? How about a couple of signs? Get rooling video of last years barge speaker, thanks grizz. Monday visit with my aunt. Tuesday sux at 8-or-better. Never made a hand. But Andy Bloch who is still part of the xnpg poker group rools and wins. Wednesday. Egg & I. What can you say. Dad (that's Mr Ice to you) is the greatest yet again. I sux at blackjack. And I really sux at video poker. Non-Smoker - Goldie always gets us set-up and it was great. Met Gavin's girl cindykay and wow. Gavin done good. Lobah. Zimmers isn't dead but just a pussy. I prove again I am pretty good at dead poker games (2nd in lazy pineapple last year and 8th in lobah last year) If I could just play Binglaha. I'm steady most of the way. I have some rushes and get chips am I'm able to wait out being card dead when we get to 2 tables. Move to final table. Fich Gavin Bree Nolan PigmyHippo (michael maurer) I sux and can not remember the 3rd lady. Patti Warren I go on huge card rush and end up with 1/2 the chips on the table when we get 3 handed. (diverge to Dan's report: Adjunct report to the above: there were 5 men and 3 women remaining at the final table when Dan and Gavin made a prop bet with Dan taking slightly the worst of it at 3:2 odds. Fortunately, Patti had massive chips at that point and won. ) Dan comes by, sees my stack about when nolan busts and I ask what is he offering me to throw it to patti. (that wouldn't happen for many reasons but I thought I'd see what I could get). Anyway he says $200. Now we were only playing for a $260 difference in money. First was like $1285 or so. and I said OK cause I figured if I won that's great and if I lost I'd get $200 of the $260 I wouldn't win. Again I had no intention of throwing anything and patti played great and I kept getting the 2nd best hand quite often. Also sometime in the final table the ADB'ers showed up en-mass to cheer their guys on. After all there were 3 of them at the start of the final table (and how Gavin can't be an ADBer by now is weird but I guess the ADBer's need something to strive for as he is the ADDDDDDDBer. But I point out to them that while there are about 300 ADB'ers at Barge there are only 2.5 of the xnpg folks (JP was in the game but moved about the time I started so I think I only played with him a couple of times). So xnpg had 1 first and as it turns out 1 second in the first two tournies. The rest of the xnpg'ers are pussies and missed out. As I said patti played good and she really wanted to win the title. Our heads up match lasted over an hour until I made a worse 8 than she did and lost a good part of my stack. Once she got over a 60/40 chip advantage it was chip-chip-chip away at my stack and I couldn't get any cards to defend or even bluff. Great showing patti. Thursday - 'luck factor zero' had 'luck factor zero' as we only won a few hands and were dead in the 3rd round. First out. we sux. Great binglaha game, Gavin is nice and doubles up Ploink, Nolan and me. (Dan and Sharon are cleaning house for smoker and can't play. Ploink calls dan and wants ploink to send images of cards so he can play by phone). Gavin stuck about 3 dimes. I over play nut low and get 1/4 of pot when ploinks pair of 8's or something win high. Note - Don't bet lows in binglaha. Stud. Some guy broke his virginity by not coming in 3rd. Some maniac who lives in texas. What is that guy's name. I heard he had a straight flush once Can't go to goldmans because of stud shoot-out. Stupid stud. Next year. Friday. That maniac is at my table and in omaha he goes 6 bets with me pre-flop with A448 (3 clubs). I had AA2K double suited. maniac wins and gets to taunt me for an hour until I bust out. What is his name? Symposium. Arrive and no food left. Bad beat. Standing with Bwana and Greg Pappas. Talking, etc. Bwana hungry and goes to Nugget gift shop and gets chips and salsa. As we are munching I bid some (I like to bid, but don't like to win, I hadn't bought anyone in the last 3 years or so). But I like to bid. I'm eating a chip and move my hand and Fold'em says 'sold' to warren. And I say 'Who did I buy?' I get team #57 for $90 which is Eugene "Butch" Morton and John "da pickle" Pickels. WHO are these guys? Butch buys back his 1/4 and I've seen him before but I have no idea who 'da pickle' is. I'm out $22.50 on him and want my money. But nobody seems to know where he's at. So I fold the card put it into my pocket and go about my business (that's loosing at binglaha). (and at chinese poker though I did ok at $25/point but couldn't win at $10/point) Saturday. For some reason luck-bot 'the quiet lion' decides to take his AKs against my QQ and spikes a K. Then a few hands later I take my A10s against AQ. Flop is 89J w/2 spades. So when I got to the poker room I tried to get a binglaha game going. Went to the nugget and played 100x$0.01 dueces wild vp with Dad. We sux but keep winning just enough to not go broke. Decide to go eat lunch at the carson street grill. Have 'moco loco' which is rice, with a hamburger patty on top, with grilled onions and then brown gravy and topped with 2 sunny side up eggs. Actually pretty disgustingly good. Back to the binglaha game and doing no good. Ask if anyone knows how my horses are doing but nobody says anything. Time for banquet. I've asked a couple of people including nolan about my horses but nobody seems to know. Great banquet, good speaker in Gavin. Roast of Dan Goldman good but he should have been sitting up on the stage looking at us as it happens. Jester is best of the roasters by far. Sticks in knife, turns it, takes it out, looks at it and sticks it in again. (but I really thought dilbert was about HP). Go back to binglaha game after banquet. Suddenly Nolan shows up and says final table is over (1/2 hour to go from 8 to 1). That's nice but I have a hand to bet with the nuts on the flop and trying to see how I can get none of it. Mickdog comes up and gives my little evelope with first place symposium money cause my horse John 'da pickle' Pickels has won the barge main event. I still don't know if I've ever seen him but thanks a lot John and at least next year I'll get a chip with your picture on it so I will always remember. (get a silver sharpy so John can sign it). And now why is my report labeled 'thank god for bingo!' it's not cause he invented that game of torture NO it's because bingo who made is 2nd final table in 2 barges came in 2nd and let me win the lion's share of the symposium pool. Thank god for bingo!. Sunday - Go see movie (bourne) at palms, eat late lunch at mexican resturant at palms and win a bit a 'big split poker' video poker but it sux because the payouts are smaller than they were last year so only played for about 30 minutes. Rule at pai-gow. Go to belligo to see if omaha game going. No but seat in 30-60 holdem game. First time playing higher than small barge games (if 1-2-5-10-15-20-25 binglaha can be considered small (those are straddles not bets btw)). No bad beat story. First hand post behind button and flop straight with 10-8 off. have AQ raise and win, On my big blind hand K9 off fold for 2 bets coming to me, 3 players cap pre-flop. KJ8 they go 3 bets, 9 on turn, (guy utg flashes me 10-10 and calls bet hoping form Q for straight), river 9. Bet fold and other guy shows KK so lucky I don't play K9. Next hand, (small blind) folds around to me and I ask guy if he chops. He is steaming (why when he was never ahead to begin with but... ) he says no and I call and he raises as I knew he would. I look down at A2s and call. Flop is 82Q and I bet out hoping he has nothing and will fold. He raises so I just call. Turn is A and I check and he bets and I call. River is small blank and I check call and he shows KK and I rool. Some of the guys are going to sushi buffet at planet hollywood and I decide since I have doubled up in about 10 hands and haven't had to pay time yet I should go with them and lock up the win. I don't usually do hit and run (I like to play for hours and loose all my chips nice and slowly) but it's last night in vegas and last time to sit with friends. Walk 500 miles to planet hollywood and then another 500 miles in shops to sushi buffet. I don't eat as I'm stuffed so not bad beat when mgr lets be sit and watch others eat. walk back to belligo north valet. Get bad beat when Barry "mr raise"'s car comes out before mine when I gave my ticket and tip 5 minutes before he did. Finally get car and attempt to find rental car return. Have to get gas and then drive around airport for 10 minutes looking for a sign. NO signs. new rental center sux. Bus to airport. Wait 15 minutes to check in and since flight is full decide to check bag another 10 minutes for that and then 45 minutes in security (this is at 10PM). back and forth, back and forth. get on redeye flight (good win as even though mostly full the 2 seats next to me are empty. get off plane, go to baggage claim. wait, wait, wait, bus to framingham outside getting ready to leave (next one in 30 minutes). my bag is first off and I make bus. Get home, change and go to work and start writing trip report. Now 6PM and report is done. Thank god for bingo! -warren