[The Gift Of Gab]

I come to the Wynn because my friend says there's a 25-50 NL game going, and when I get to the poker room he points me to a table in the back corner. It's 3-handed at this point and everyone has piles of green, black and cash. I walk over and buy in.

The Wynn sells smoothies by volume in metric and the floorman takes forever to bring my chips, so I'm a little confused and distracted. I'm not paying much attention the the action, but I do notice that the blinds are 75-150 instead of 25-50. I fold some trash in my blinds while trying to decide if I can drink a half liter of smoothie. On my first button I pick up TT and open for 450.

The dealer says, "sir, that's too much." I notice everyone is staring at me. I pull back 150 and pretend nothing happened.