The Colorado Kid and the sour grapes...

It was Harrah's Casino in East Chicago, IN and the Colorado Kid had come to fight in the Hold'em Wars. He was a young stud with his baseball cap on backwards for luck and his sun glasses resting on top of his black hat. He looked like a professional something but what profession escapes at the moment. He might have been a wine maker because there seemed to be a great many sour grapes around the table. He'd raise from any position with any two cards that caught his fancy. His chips rose and fell like a yo-yo. He created unwanted action for those calling stations, who just never seemed to have enough to teach him the lesson they so badly thought he deserved. It was a day with the sour grapes gang. They just couldn't understand how important the Colorado Kid was to the game. The biggest sour grapes in the game never raised with his pocket aces, big slick, or anything else. But, boy could he cry. Mr. Sour Grapes flopped the top pair in one hand, after the Colorado Kid had raised from late position with a troubled hand. Mr. Grapes thought this was going to be his moment of glory, so he smooth called the kid all the way to the river. The river gave the kid the new top pair and Mr Sour Grapes was so upset, I thought he was going to explode. One raise would have sent the kid packing. But, Mr. Sour Grapes just thought the kid was just one lucky SOB, and wasn't to proud to let the table know how lucky the kid was. How dumb can one guy be?


The cry babies got so bad, I thought the kid would leave. So the SPM, "the defender of the right of any player to play any two cards from any position," had to step up and take some heat off of the kid. I offered to adopted the kid and told him he had the table just where he wanted them. This gave the kid some courage and of course lined the SPM's pockets with four stacks of beautiful chips. When will these knuckle heads learn to say nice hand sir. Instead of trying to make themselves look like their being persecuted by some tyrant. Film at eleven...


SPM,...play long and prosper...