Reno: Sunday Session No. 93 (3/16)

TP = +$120 TT: 6 Hrs

So yeah like I was saying, me and Todd roll into El Dorado and get a seat in a 1/2 NL game. Max buy is $300, but I start off with $200 and try to see how things will go. I run a bit slow to start off, and to be honest, I was trying to get a sort of gameplan ready with how I was going to play. I'm oh I dunno...99.8% LHE player, so I was mentally going through a checklist and trying to remember how to play NL (something I probably should have been talking to Todd about on the way up).

I don't remember how or in what order things really happened, but I think I ended up dropping to ~$150 in chips (bled a little set-mining, raising pf and whiffing, etc) and re-buying. After that, I got involved in my first real big hand.

Pre-flop is limped in a few spots and I look down at AK of diamonds. I bump it up $15 more and get called by two players. The flop is absolutely beautiful as it comes K-High with two diamonds. I C-bet $30 and get called by one guy who has been donking his chips off around the table for the hour or so I've been there. The turn is a blank and I shove (the guy only had $60 left behind), he calls and tables T8 suited in diamonds and is drawing dead. Nice.

After this hand entered the drunk Texan named Joe Johnson. Joe made a rather loud entrance as he walked up to the table and sat in the no. 10 seat exclaming in his first 30 seconds at the table: "whoooo boy I'm nervous, but I'm ready to play some cards...wow this sure ain't like tv..." Grrrreat, either this guy is pretending to be a complete noob, or he actually is a complete noob. I should state that at this point he's not drunk, but he has the douchebag meter turned up to 120%. Picture the lead singer from Blues Traveler (pre-gastric bypass) minus maybe 50 lbs, a white visor, a terrible looking shirt, and a pair of glasses. Basically this guy is a 27 year old virgin who likely just finished up playing WOW in his hotel room/jerking it to anime porn.

Anyway, very first hand this guy open-limps from EP, Todd raises from a couple spots behind him, they get it all-in on the turn, and it turns out they both have Kings. Todd said this was basically his biggest beat of the whole trip (having to chop a hand with this moron lol). I already suspected something might be up with this guy (i.e. he was "pretending" to be new), but no, he really was a moron. Luckily for him he had a password cheat saved for live play and went on a sick heater to get up to about $700 in chips seemingly without effort. Suckout here, suckout there, cooler here...you know, that kinda thing.

During this time I was basically biding my time, looking for a few good spots to take some chips off this guy. I didn't have to wait long, as I got paid off on two big pots with him and found myself up $200 ($500 in chips). One hand was TPTK vs his mid-pair and the other hand I think I got a big call from him on a turn when I had two-pair then he folded the river when he missed w/e draw he had. A nitty guy sitting in seat three (I was in seat four) commented after a smoke break: "Hey where'd all his chips go?" Then proceeded to look at my stack and say "oh..."

So yeah, a few hours pass, Joe Johnson has consumed at the minimum 12 rum and cokes throughout this time, alot of players are really annoyed by his antics, and me and Todd are laughing about the whole situation. He's been repeatedly telling people "I'm going to take all your dough" and going on and on about how "Joe Johnson plays great poker." He didn't talk shit to me once, maybe it's because I was one of the few players running good against him, or maybe it's because I was across the table from him and he couldn't really focus that far. Either way, the only time he would talk in my direction is when he said he wanted to double through the "big stacks over there." I had maybe $500 and seat 3 had about $700. Eventually his goofy ass says something retarded to a floorman and he gets himself kicked out, let back in, then probably realized gambling with a $700 stack when he was completely trashed wasn't the best idea, and left soon after. To his credit, he won money...

Realizing the table had dried up, me and Todd broke out to check-in to our room, grab a bite to eat at Mel's Diner, and then call it a night.