A.S. Strikes Again

For my buddies Rick Nebiolo and 3-bet Brett and anyone else who knows Archie:


They start a new 40-80 game. I move over from the 30-60 and Archie comes over from the 30-60 stud game. He has about 3 $10 chips and a $1,000 chip. He refuses to change the $1,000 chip. I had done well in the 30-60 and had 3 racks worth of $10 chips.


First hand I raise and Archie cold-calls with his $1,000 chip. I bet the flop and Archie and everyone else folds, so I win the pot. Archie says he'll get change. I tell him I'll change the big chip. He says, no, he'll change it. Before they can deal the next hand, I'm called for the must-move. I tell the dealer, remember, Archie owe me 8 chips; I also tell Kevin, Archie owes me 8 chips.


About 10 minutes goes by and I stand up to look over at my ex-table to see if Archie has his change yet, He does. I tell Kevin again, Archie owes me 8 chips. Kevin goes over to Archie, gets chips from him, and brings me over. . . 16 yellow chips! I ask Kevin where did he get yellow chips? Kevin says he's sorry, this is what Archie gave him, he took them out of his pocket.


I use the yellow chips for collections and start to accumulate blue $1 chips as well. By and by, Archie is called for the must move. By and by, we get involved in a hand where I'm in the big blind and Archie raises. I get perhaps the biggest laugh ever at the table when I call the raise with. . .twenty blue chips and 4 yellow chips. At this point I have 4 racks worth of the correct chips. Archie starts with his "what you doing?" as I'm counting out the blue chips. I honestly had crap, I shouldn't have called his raise, but I couldn't resist.


As his final act of discourtesy (after his numerous "new set-up"s, "extra shuffle"s, "change the deck"s, and "sc-ramble, big sc-ramble"s) he asks for a brand new set-up just the hand before he is to have the blind, and then leaves the game to go home on his blind.


I'm really a very nice guy, a please-and-thank you man, easy-going and affable. But this guy is the stupidest, most selfish, orneriest, loud-mouthed, impolite chancre sore of an excuse for a human being I've ever had the misfortune to meet in my entire life.


It's after midnight now, I had a big, big, big night and what am I thinking about? Archie!