Aug 26 2008
Blind pre-flop all in!
Blind pre-flop all in!
We went to Las Vegas with two colleagues for this weekend, not to return back to Turkey without seeing Las Vegas, the city of gambling.
The whether is hot, but they’ve created a new world in the middle of desert. Definitely unbelievable, congratulations to the US investors for creating Las Vegas, might be considered for the south-east of turkey. ( I know, we’re too far from this intellectuality while the only betting is done by government and the rest is prohibited by laws.)
Anyway, the club we went Friday night was very qualitative (hotel wynn). Good cover, long line but beautiful girls! But for the day time, las vegas does not have enough attractions… They have Eiffel tower from france, statue of liberty from New york and blah blah, form all around the world. So there is nothing special, no meaning to see Eiffel tower ‘copy’ in vegas. So I decided to play poker for Sunday day time, which I was not planning after Reno experience.
We went to Excalibur, one of the most famous hotels in vegas and guess what, they had electronic tables :s. So no meaning to play, just hanged around in the strip. Then we tried Monte Carlo, and there was a poker room as we wanted, 1-2 blinds, just 4 fun players. I sat in a table with 100 bucks buy in. It was kinda aggressive combined with guarantees, and I did not have any fun, by losing slowly. And my colleague had to leave the table by guessing some guaranteer is bluffing…
I was just sitting on the table to loose my last 30 bucks to leave this fcking las vegas trip… But then things started to go well, first I made it more then 100 with my first good hand. Then the
”central bank” guaranteer left the table. After it, the baseball team that the guys supported won its match, we had free shots of some drink followed by a two pair aces, I could pursue someone to all in in pre-flop(who had 10 pairs), making my budged +250. The table was funny, winning was not making me happy I was just having fun with chatting intellectual rich drunk guys. (ok, to be honest, I was also waiting to take over these drunk guys while drinking my black coffee). Then another guy, who solved my tactics, changed his seat to sit close to me and he got my 100+ buck within 2-3 hands. I was again close to start budget, but still having fun. Later, the guy, who ordered the drinks, wanted to leave table but did not want to visit cashier to get his money. So he got 100 bucks then left the rest 40 something with blind pre-flop all in. He wanted to loose it, or just give as a gift. I had a bad hand, so did not call, an indian guy called him. He had a king and a queen suited and the blind pre-flopper had a 5 and 8. In flop, there was a king, so the Indian guy was winning the bonus 40 $.But then, the next cards after flop was 4 and 7, which was a straight for the blind pre-flopper. Unbelievable, but yes . He just put his 80+ bucks as a blind pre-flop all in for the next round. He was trying to get rid of that money, since his team won, he was rich, and he had a beautiful gf. Next round, again I had a bad hand, did not call 80+. Two guys called him, and one more time, although a guy had two pairs, the blind pre-flopper has reached a straight!!! But this time one more guy had straight with the same height, so shared the money. The blind pre-flop all inner (what a nick name ), just got his new 100 bucks as cash and put 45 $ as the pre-flop all in for the next time. And this time I had Ace and King suited. This time I called him, with 3 guys. All cards opened, no big cards, guys show their hands both having an ace followed with a small number. I thought I won! But noooooo, the pre-flop blind god-luck man had a flush!!!.I could not believe, nobody could but he had!!! I lost almost 200 bucks but never had this much fun! Then he decided to leave the table, what he was trying to do in the last 3 rounds and won 300 $ without wanting, all buy luck. It was unbelievable; everybody was in tears, celebrating him. I had to run through the poker room before calming down, but it was fun!
Yes, unbelievably, a blind-pre flop guy won 3 hands in straight. I was glad that las vegas, in the end, showed how unbelievable it is! It was one of the most enjoying times of me in this USA trip. I just cashed my 140 bucks, ordered beer for my colleagues in the Harley Davidson café.
Now we’re back in the hotel room, watching world poker tournaments. It was fun las vegas, thank you! And poker is good!
Btw, the title is chosen by one of the players from the table….
