WHY DO I DO IT...?
To commence this week of poker at the end of which I will have the proud pleasure of captaining one of the England teams in the Home Internationals tournament, I decided to get some additional live poker in by returning to where it all began for me, Aspers Northampton*..... and I was regretting it within minutes!
Some players from this scene have really pushed on with their games and a couple are well known for deep runs at DTD and one has Final Tabled a WSOPE event and cashed in an EPT... and some of those players were on the cash table as they are most nights.
But for others, it"s like poker doesn"t exist outside of that room and therefore doesn"t evolve; multi-limped pots, 8x Pre to open, limp-calling the aforementioned 8x etc. etc.
I will play Aspers Northampton again, but I WILL NOT** play any more chep midweek tourneys. I must make the effort to get to DTD or Luton or further afield.
Highlights of tonight were:
The (playing) dealer who pauses dealing the turn card to look at a photo on his mate"s phone***
The other (playing) dealer who, as me and the seat next to me return from the loo & a smoke respectively as our cards are being dealt, long before the last card is dealt, allows us both too look at our hands, him to raise, me to count out chips to call... then to be told we can"t play the hand as we weren"t back in time****
The guy who never thinks it"s his responsibility to put his blind or ante in
... and the piesta resistance, when I have 8BB on the button and peek at
that"s enough for me to shove. He takes an age to call (he"s not savvy enough to be trying to get the BB to call). "What to you have then?" "I"ve only seen that one" and flip
, he look disgusted and shows a Q, I flip the blind card
(cosmic!!) and he eventually flips.... another Q.
If I ever wanted to suck out on a player it was now, but it was not to be.
*Well it actually began in Gala, but that has closed and all of the players are in Aspers, as well as the TD.
**OK, maybe around Christmas when I fancy a beer as well
***It"s churlish to criticise the player dealers as they volunteer to do it, it can just be a bit frustrating when you"re getting short and are in a double up or go home type of mood
****Incredily, Would be raiser would have flopped a set of Queens, I would have flopped the nuts holding KJ, He would have rivered the boat and we both would have gone broke to the SBs bigger boat.
