Since it is OK when you play live poker to hit your win goal and leave, that's exactly what I did tonight.
I played the $100 buy-in no limit game. About a year ago Hollywood changed this from a yellow chip game ($5 chips) to a blue chip game ($1 chips) thinking that the betting of blue chips would encourage more action. They were right. The tables at the $100 games are very loose.
I sat down at a new table that just opened up so everyone had $100, and there were no big stacks. I won the first hand I played with Q9 hitting only my 9. That's how loose the table was and won $40. I now have about $140. I won the next pot with KQ suited (made a flush) but it was a small pot of less than $12.
Then I lost a few hands dropping back to $58, so I bought for another $40 to get myself back to $98.
That's when I hit my rush. Playing A2 spades in the big blind (a raise to $8 pre flop) and I flop the nut flush. Two other players in the hand, both agressive and when the hand was over I had about $300. At the peak of my play I had almost $400.
when I dropped back to $301 I left, which was a little more than doubling my buying. That's like earning about $750 over a five day work week and it took less than two hours.
But that is not the point of the post.
The point is when the buyin is limited to $100 (at the Bike, you can buy in for as much as $300 at the $100 table) players play loose because they must figure they can keep rebuying $100 at a time.
One sad note at the table. A player who did a partial rebuy from the dealer and from the chip runner claimed the dealer short changed him by $10 and demanded that a floorman come to the table.
The dealer said he didn't want to spend time sorting it out, so he paid the player $10 out of his own tray (tip money). He probably also didnt want the floorman to hear a complaint about him. I know this dealer, a good young kid. I was sitting in seat one, and after he paid the complaining player the ten blue chips, I slid ten chips over to him and said, "for you." I just felt it was the right thing to do.
I had never seen that other player before, but he was making several rebuys and was having a bad time. I dont know if that player was shortchanged or not, or if he was if the dealer did it or if the chip runner did it.
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