Ladies' Day
Posted by Al Pastor
3/13/05 Oaks Club $2-4 Hold’em
2:15-6:15 PM
In $60 Out $36 -$24
Hours Played 2005 61.5 YTD -$469
Got over late and waited almost 45 minutes for a seat. Boomer at the desk has shaved his snowy white hair so his big head is now shiny brown. I saw the long board ahead of me so I settled into one of the banquettes with INFINITE JEST.
There were four women at the table when I sat down. The only one I recognized was Barbara. Most games are all men, but it is not uncommon, especially at the lower limits, to see one or two women sitting in. Four, 40% of the players, are the most I can ever remember playing with in a public room (I played in a home game that two guys and four ladies). About half of the dealers are women.
Barbara is in her fifties, probably. She wears sunglasses with really big frames and black hair with a skunky shock of silver front and center. She’s real talky and east coasty. We have played together a few times before and once even discussed Jim McManus and POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET, which is almost certainly the best nontechnical poker book ever. She was sitting to my immediate right and chatting a lot. When I sat down, the table was piling grief on the tall white guy in reflective wraparounds in the seat to my left for his aggressive raising.
Once, out of the big blind, which means I was already in the pot for a full bet, which anyone else who wanted to play would then have to call, I found myself with a 4,2 offsuit, one of the worst starting hands in the game. Since I already had the big blind in, though when nobody raised the bet I got to see the flop for free. 4-4-4 giving me a wired four of a kind. This was almost a problem. If I bet out, everybody would almost certainly bail, unless they had a pocket pair of some kind to make a full house. So I checked. I don’t remember now what card came next, but Barbara, to my right, who got to bet before me bets, indicating she had made a pair. I raised, everybody folded around to Barbara, who called and then checked the river. The river was no help to either of us and mumbling around the table put me on some kind of medium pocket pair when I bet. Barbara called because my play on the flop made it look like there was a possibility I was trying to steal the pot with a bluff.
I made a few other good plays over the course of the afternoon, including a semi-bluff play with pocket 5s that I am pretty sure made two better hands fold and won me a pretty good pot. I never was up significantly, like $40+ dollars, but was a little ahead for most of the day.
Lost a couple of hands near the end which accounts for the actual cash loss, but am pleased with my play overall.
Saw Thai Mullet in the Hof Brau as I was getting a StyrofoamTM box for the back half of my BLT and leftover fries, wolfing down corned beef and cabbage and red potatoes. He flashed me a peace sign with his mouth full as I passed.
3/13/05 Oaks Club $2-4 Hold’em
2:15-6:15 PM
In $60 Out $36 -$24
Hours Played 2005 61.5 YTD -$469
Got over late and waited almost 45 minutes for a seat. Boomer at the desk has shaved his snowy white hair so his big head is now shiny brown. I saw the long board ahead of me so I settled into one of the banquettes with INFINITE JEST.
There were four women at the table when I sat down. The only one I recognized was Barbara. Most games are all men, but it is not uncommon, especially at the lower limits, to see one or two women sitting in. Four, 40% of the players, are the most I can ever remember playing with in a public room (I played in a home game that two guys and four ladies). About half of the dealers are women.
Barbara is in her fifties, probably. She wears sunglasses with really big frames and black hair with a skunky shock of silver front and center. She’s real talky and east coasty. We have played together a few times before and once even discussed Jim McManus and POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET, which is almost certainly the best nontechnical poker book ever. She was sitting to my immediate right and chatting a lot. When I sat down, the table was piling grief on the tall white guy in reflective wraparounds in the seat to my left for his aggressive raising.
Once, out of the big blind, which means I was already in the pot for a full bet, which anyone else who wanted to play would then have to call, I found myself with a 4,2 offsuit, one of the worst starting hands in the game. Since I already had the big blind in, though when nobody raised the bet I got to see the flop for free. 4-4-4 giving me a wired four of a kind. This was almost a problem. If I bet out, everybody would almost certainly bail, unless they had a pocket pair of some kind to make a full house. So I checked. I don’t remember now what card came next, but Barbara, to my right, who got to bet before me bets, indicating she had made a pair. I raised, everybody folded around to Barbara, who called and then checked the river. The river was no help to either of us and mumbling around the table put me on some kind of medium pocket pair when I bet. Barbara called because my play on the flop made it look like there was a possibility I was trying to steal the pot with a bluff.
I made a few other good plays over the course of the afternoon, including a semi-bluff play with pocket 5s that I am pretty sure made two better hands fold and won me a pretty good pot. I never was up significantly, like $40+ dollars, but was a little ahead for most of the day.
Lost a couple of hands near the end which accounts for the actual cash loss, but am pleased with my play overall.
Saw Thai Mullet in the Hof Brau as I was getting a StyrofoamTM box for the back half of my BLT and leftover fries, wolfing down corned beef and cabbage and red potatoes. He flashed me a peace sign with his mouth full as I passed.
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