A trip report from nadaville

[Zeno]

Playing low-limit Omaha 8 hi/lo is fast becoming my favorite game. So I spent about an hour this weekend rotting my corpus away at some nearby casino, playing $5-10. The game was passive, the rake revolting, the players the same, ditto for the dealers, in short, a typical day at this low-cal diet casino. I took my Wilson Quarterly Magazine to read at the table.

So in the short space of one hour, I won $55 and got up to speed on the rise of the new anti-Semitism in Europe, the interesting snippet that in early colonial American many free blacks were descendents of blacks married to white servant women and that interracial marriage bans and other restrictive laws were not in existence in some quarters until a series of draconian acts where passed in the late 1600's and early 1700's. I also learned that the dollar's day of reckoning is at hand; the democrats are 'shelled-shock'; that Tocqueville had 'second thoughts' about America, and, most important of all perhaps, that the term "'Liberal' has become "soiled, outdated, torn at the edges" and a serious threat to democracy itself'" in addition to - "Modern liberals have only themselves to blame for this state of affairs". Indeed. News that fits always redeems the soul.

I only won three hands, none a scooper, and I had fun check-calling on the river, when playing from the big blind, in a hand that I lost. My queens full of threes lost to queens full of fours, for half the pot. It was that type of game.

-Zeno