Moving to St. Louis....Ameristar Casino and TRIP REPORT ...

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Just got back from st. louis last night (this morning) after 2 days of apartment hunting and getting to know the area around Washington University...

mommy accompanied me and we hit the Ameristar casino on monday night.

now i'm not a big middle america junkie but i've got to hand it to the missourians...they know how to turn an eyesore into a spectacle. from what i'm told, this massive construct (the Ameristar Casino) is really 2 barges put together (must be gorrilla glue) and filled with crazy people who love to try to lose more than the state-sanctioned $500/2hour loss limit.

we get there after wrong directions at 10pm and the place shuts down at 12am for a computer update...so not too much time to gamble it up...oh well, lets see how the 10/20 goes...

i meet and greet the 9 table pokerroom staff and am eventually escorted to a 10 game in the corner of the room. now i've seen some crazy stuff folks, but i think this game may have rivaled that described by the babe in the mid/highstakes forum at the mirage 10am monday. people were so bad it made me sick, with joy [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ... real real crazies...and they TALKED like they all wanted to teach everybody else what to do while i just sat there...and sat there...and sat there until i got some cards.

people were shouting, 'HOW COULD YOU CALL THAT WITH [insert rediculous hand here] AFTER I CAPPED ON THE FLOP WITH [insert other rediculous hand here]' the dealer was smiling and i was trying not to snort my cola through my nostrils. one lady was in the 8 seat and STILL couldn't see the freaking board so at every river (which she frequented with all sorts of stuff) she'd stand up and move her entire body over the cards so she was looking at them from a bird's eye view. one time she thought she had a flush on a 3suited board and raised and reraised. then called the floor (who dealt with the situation admirably) saying she was cheated!! that held the game up but nobody got out of their mood, thankfully. a few hands later she got up to view the cards, which didn't seem to be helping much as she probably needed them in brialle, put her arm on the table and MISSED, fell flat on her back (not too hurt, but caused a rucus) quickly got up and said "i think i'll fold" BUT THEN PROCEEDED TO PUT A RAISE IN THE POT!! rediculous stuff from her in the brief time i was there

in any case if you get a chance to go to the ameristar in St. Louis i'd highly recommend you do so and play a bit tight at frist to protect your buy in until you can be sure you'll have a chance to rebuy (2 hrs). its not a big strategy change since a2s doesn't do well UTG with assuredly 3 bets back to you and 1 lady doing it LITERALLY blind lol...ONE TIME she even thought a club and a spade in her hand was a flush draw on a black red red board!!! really really rediculous.

get out there and have some fun!

-Barron