Bury 3/19

[Edge34]

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I'm coming home from Madison at noon. This game seems so tempting, but I can just picture myself getting drunk and blowing off 4 racks. But thats the point right?

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Yes. Yes it is.

Of course, I'm still 20, so I'll be sitting waiting for all of you to be blitzed, and then I'll be more than happy to assist you in blowing off your 4 racks.

Get your ass out there Goodson!

[MEbenhoe]

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I'm coming home from Madison at noon. This game seems so tempting, but I can just picture myself getting drunk and blowing off 4 racks. But thats the point right?

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Indeed, get out there. I need to meet the legendary Goodson that Schneids has told about. In fact if you're the person I'm thinking of I think I've played with your dad at Canterbury.

[Vaughn]

I'll be there!! See ya later tonight.

DUI

[annieadlin]

The game is on and nobody is drunk yet!
Any2 is the chip leader and looks to be the favorite.
Edge runs bad ......and that's a quote.
Bandit and Ben still looking to make their move.
Doug is in the 30/60 and having a good time of it.

[Edge34]

Okay, I figure someone oughta post a report about the ridiculous antics of Canterbury's best game in months...

The game is 3/6 Texas Hold 'Em, and we're at table 5. Any2Cards has been at the Park since 9 or 10 in the morning and tried to get us a game on table 10, but management decided to put a 4/8 over there. This is, however, only a minor flaw in our plan. The action begins with many 2+2ers playing their own games and waiting for a change to 3/6. I arrive at about 2PM and sit down to a fantastic 6/12. About 10 hands in I hit a 1-out straight flush on the river. This is as good as my session will be for the next 6 hours...

Any2Cards has decided he wants to take out some pent-up frustration or something on the helpless 3/6 crowd. By about 3:30 he's run up a $100 buy-in to a very impressive $650 - he runs good. Brian #2 sees me at my 3/6 at about this time and tells me he's in the best 6/12 of his life. I tell him that it'll have to wait, he'd better get on the 3/6 list. He complies. This is a good sign.

My 3/6 game is the worst run of cards in my life. I'd complain about it, but it wouldn't do any good, so I'll give some highlights. I get a free play in the BB with A3, and flop 2 pair. The turn is a beautiful Ace, and the action gets heavy. The river Queen brings about 4 more bets from me, and I'm beat by AQ for the better Aces full. About 3 hands later, my QJ gets check-raised by 48d on the flop, and the runner flush gets there. Boo. Annie wasn't lying. I do run bad. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Dougiefish and MEbenhoe call me from the road at 3:30 and tell me they'll be at the Park in half an hour. 4:45 rolls around and in they come. Nice timing guys. Dougie is dressed for the occasion, including top hat, 3/4-length wool coat, and ridiculous Elton John sunglasses. He claims they're Elvis, but nobody buys it. It doesn't matter, they serve his purpose - attention whore. He earned it though.

Doug plays 30/60 for a while and takes in a lot of bets and even more beers. This is only going to get better.

I end up going on a ricockulous downswing and, as ashamed as I am to say, receive a stake from Brian 2 to avoid paying the fees on the ATM. Being the good man that he is, we agree that I'll just give him his money back at the end of the night even if I do have to use the machine. Not the highlight of my career, but he accepts when I assure him that "Other players' money is always better than mine!"

I figure by about 6 or 7, Table 5 is getting a warm-up session when we've got Any2 in seat 3, myself in seat 7, and Brian #2 in seat 9. MEbenhoe gets shafted on his table change, and we begin taking offers for someone to sell his seat. Seat 8 wants 50 bucks. Matt will pay 20. Looks like he'll have to wait. Around 8 or so (maybe I'm wrong, time doesn't mean much when we get this thing going) Matt finally gets seated in seat 6. I have position! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Matt brings what looks like about 2, maybe 2 and a half racks with him. This will be his low point for most of the evening.

12 beers into the night, Doug gets into gear and buys a seat from the 4-seat for $40. Annie approves, mainly because he's next on the seat-change list anyways. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is where the real fun begins. Doug brings 3 racks or so over with him, and upon seeing that Matt has more, we have a small-scale version of the arms race. Doug goes to the cage, and in true Magoo fashion, uses a rolling tray to bring over about 13 more racks. The crowd gathers. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

I'll let others elaborate on some of the highlights, but here's a condensed version...

"Straight cash, homie!"
-Randy Moss may have been traded from the Vikings, but his sound bytes live on. This line is repeated so many times in the night, I lost count. Somehow, it was always worth a laugh. Of course, that was largely thanks to....

"D-Money"
-Now, we all know someone, that one guy who just tries WAAAAY too hard to fit into a group in which he doesn't know anybody. Tonight, that is our good friend Daniel, who Matt quickly dubs "D-Money". This guy was a real jokester, he was. To give you an idea, one of the best was when he dropped the gem of "This place was so full earlier. I guess that means it was a 'full house'!" Matt buys D-money a beer. I don't think he's ever had one in his life, but that's not our problem. This guy was great for our game, but he regularly stiffed the dealers, at least by our game's standards. Dragging what is at LEAST a $140 pot, he tokes...$1. Bandit and myself do not let this go unchallenged, but we can't do anything about it. At least D-Money was good for our game.

I dub Any2 "Shine" when we start coming up with nicknames (following the "D-money" call). I don't know if he appreciates it, but if not, he was good about it. I've played with him like 10 times and never knew who he was. He also plays the "best" poker of any of us, even 10+ beers in. Rare was the time he was in a hand and didn't have at LEAST top pair. If there was, I missed it. He thinks I put a bad beat on him when I outflopped him, he turned his 2 pair, I made a loose call and hit my 5-outer on the river. He owes me one, he says, and he gets it. And then some.

THE MANTIS. The floor staff wasn't QUITE as appreciative of the pure artistry that is the Mantis, but they didn't try too hard to stop it. They could charge admission to watch one of our Magoo games, we decide. The crowd openly questions the poker skill of at least one of us (me) when I cap with 78o 6-ways preflop and flop trips that hold up. I'm quite proud of this. Another observer wonders how many drinks Doug's had, and I respond "not enough yet." Following this, Doug immediately orders another Corona.

Ridiculous toking.
-Myself, Doug, and Matt compete to see who can give the biggest dealer toke following a hand. My biggest goes somewhere around $15, so Matt follows with this gem: "Half the pot if I win this hand!" Needless to say, he sucks out on me and, lo and behold, dealer makes $30. They're our best friends all night. One even comes up to us after we've cashed out and thanks us for the fun, regardless of the money. I bet filling his toke box didn't hurt too much. Matt also wins biggest waitress tip, paying for 2 beers with a 20 and just giving her the $11 in change. I gain a lot of respect for the man at this point. Only problem was he didn't get her number.

Eventually, we get a line-up of:

Seat 1: Chris - decent, non 2+2er, who decides he's going to be fun and gamble with us. Good call.

Seat 2: D-Money. I don't know if he ended up winning, but the guy was just ridiculous. "Straight cash, homie!"

Seat 3: Any2Cards/Shine

Seat 4: Dougiefish

Seat 5: Older random guy, constantly shortstacked, but that'll happen playing loose-passive in our game.

Seat 6: MEbenhoe

Seat 7: Myself (the whipping boy. MEbenhoe, during some exchange I'm having with Doug and the rest, asks "Do any girls even like you, Edge?" The girl behind me with her boyfriend laughs. Ouch - my pride. She does, however, stay to watch most of the night. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img])

Seat 8: BurnsvilleCardClub - he's got the fewest posts of anybody, but he is a true Magoo.

Seat 9: Brian #2 (banditbdl)

Notable by their absences were Dangergoodson and Bicyclekick. This is unacceptable. The action is insane once we all converge on table 5, and despite warnings from Annie (who was understandably doing her job) to not talk about our hands during play, we still get pretty freakin' loud. We're everbody's best friends that night, and a good time was had by all. Any2, MEbenhoe, and Brian #2 were the only ones to book a profit, I think. I came back in a big way on Brian's money, although according to Doug, I'm the worst player in the history of poker. That may be true, but the game was the most fun I've had in a long time. The perfect cure for the absolutely shitty week I had. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

This is getting long, and I'm sure I've left out some of the many highlights, but I'm sure Dougie will be more than happy to add to this when he gets back home.

Plans for the next Magoo game: Quarterly. Sometime in June, we'll be back. Or maybe before. We can't overdo this game, or else we lose some of our mystique - then we just become retarded gamblers. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]



STRAIGHT CASH, HOMIE!!!

[MEbenhoe]

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I dub Any2 "Shine" when we start coming up with nicknames (following the "D-money" call).

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To me he'll always be Whitey Tighty Will [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Ridiculous toking.
-Myself, Doug, and Matt compete to see who can give the biggest dealer toke following a hand. My biggest goes somewhere around $15, so Matt follows with this gem: "Half the pot if I win this hand!" Needless to say, he sucks out on me and, lo and behold, dealer makes $30. They're our best friends all night. One even comes up to us after we've cashed out and thanks us for the fun, regardless of the money. I bet filling his toke box didn't hurt too much. Matt also wins biggest waitress tip, paying for 2 beers with a 20 and just giving her the $11 in change. I gain a lot of respect for the man at this point. Only problem was he didn't get her number.

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I was clearly the tip master. My estimates say I tipped 4 racks last night, but hey I ended up a rack so....

key tips, the half-pot and waitress tip (I may not have got her number but I got the best service I've ever gotten at canterbury the rest of the night) Pretty sure Daniel the dealer made his mortgage payment for the month last night.

However, Dougiefish wins best tipping moment of the night last night. Whenever the floor guy, Larry, came over Doug would slip him some chips and all was right in the world. New floor guy Chris comes over to ask Dougiefish to calm down.

"hey Larry"
"I'm not Larry"
"Here ya go Larry"
"You don't have to tip me"
"I'm a humanitarian"

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Seat 7: Myself (the whipping boy. MEbenhoe, during some exchange I'm having with Doug and the rest, asks "Do any girls even like you, Edge?" The girl behind me with her boyfriend laughs. Ouch - my pride. She does, however, stay to watch most of the night. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img])

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Your memory is off on this one, I was trying to help ya out. You were looking all bummed because you were down 5 racks, this was near one of the heights of our crowds. So I turn and say "cmon won't one of you guys give this young man a massage to raise his spirits"
no response
"Cmon do any girls in this place find him attractive"
no response

Plus the only reason that girl stayed most of the night was because she wanted me. Anyone who couldn't tell she would've been all over me had her bf not been standing right next to her was blind.

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Annie (who was understandably doing her job) to not talk about our hands during play, we still get pretty freakin' loud.

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Yes, but she was the one who cut Dougiefish's alcohol supply off for the night. Doing your job or not 2+2ers don't cut other 2+2ers off [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

I think the only things you missed that need be mentioned (all the rest being just typical lag maniac stories) was that at the end of the night when a seat opened up we had a guy who was a dead ringer for Clark from Tilt sit down at the table.

And Edge is the biggest fish ever for what he did in our hotel room last night. Doug and myself out of our pure generous hearts allow Edge to sleep on the chair/floor in the hotel room so he doesn't have to make the 2 hour drive back that late at night.

ME: "Dude do you want one of my blankets"
Edge: "no I'll be fine"
ME: "Are you sure , it'll probably get cold"
Edge: "If it does I'll just come grab one from you"

So instead he gets cold in the middle of the night and blasts the heater so that myself and dougiefish wake up in a sweat box. BASTARD!!!

Good times, thanks to gonores for organizing this thing. The road trip was probably one of the most entertaining ones I've been on. And I got to talk to gonores' personal assistant for a good 10-15 minutes. Let me tell you, I can tell just from that phone conversation I would do her. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Luv2DriveTT]

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I was clearly the tip master. My estimates say I tipped 4 racks last night, but hey I ended up a rack so....

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The tip master would have toked with the last rack as he left the casino. Reguardless.... you rule!!!!! Nice one!

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

[rogue]

I tried to get in your guys' game late in the night, around 2:30am. I moved to a 3/6 table and had my 3.5 racks of $10 chips turned into 2 blue racks and the rest black [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] When I set my racks down I was asked, are you sure you want to play 3/6?

[DangerGoodson]

sorry guys, girls problems, you feel bad for me son? I'll for sure make the next one and I'll make sure that fish schneids comes with 8 racks to donate.

[any2cards]

Alrighty then ...

First, some clarifications to your excellent report. When I arrived at Canterbury on Saturday morning at 10:00 am, I decided to place my name on the $8-$16 and $15-$30 list. In the meantime, I sit down in a new $3-$6 game at table 5.

1 hour later, I find myself winning $250. And the game only seems to be getting better. Guess there is not much point in moving to the higher stakes games ... let's just see how we do. By the time we get at least 3 2+2ers in the game, I am up $600 in $3-$6. Sweet ... I have my buy in for the MAGOO fest !!!

After Edge and MeBenHoe come up with "D-Money" for Daniel, I state that I have never had a nickname (at least none that we can state in mixed company). Edge instantly calls me "Shine". Obviously, this has to do with my sparkingly personality, and not the fact that my military-style crew cut is reflecting 800 candle watts of light into his eyes.

It must have been this blinding glare that caused him to so poorly play a pot against me, that he sucked out big time. And this was BEFORE we began playing MAGOO style.

Here's the rest of the story ...

I haven't played a hand since the Taft administration, and I decide to make a very strong play by raising the 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] under the gun. We get a 2-bet cold call from the old guy in the 4 seat, and then Edge calls for one more bet out of the blind. Obviously, he has no clue what he is doing, nor is he paying any attention. After all, I friggin raised !!!

The flop comes down with a K32r. Edge bets out, mistakenly believing that he can blow me off my supposive AQ (or whatever he put me on ... it can't be AK like everyone else does, since that would have given me top pair). I smooth call the flop bet, knowing that I will be able to raise anything that comes on the turn and outplay him.

Well, the turn comes a BEEEAUUUTIFUL 6. No I don't even have to outplay him. He bets out like a true MAGOO, I raise (now losing the 4 seat). I have placed a chip on my cards and have begun to push them to the dealer for I ***KNOW*** that I have not only outplayed Edge, but I now actually have a better hand than him, even in the off chance he actually did have something (extremely rare as he was in the process of blowing off 5 racks).

To my utter glee, Edge calls the raise. Sweet. That extra $6 is going to look sweet at the top of my 2.5 foot pyramid of chips.

The river brings a total blank - an Ace. Edge checks, I bet, and Edge meekly calls like the passive calling station that he is. I roll over the nuts ... 2 pair ... Sixes and Dueces ... SHIP IT BABY.

Then Edge shows his A3 ... his two bigger pair ... and sputters about how he couldn't raise, despite hitting his dream card ... because ... well ...

Obviously, he couldn't come up with anything. Nothing logical anyways. I was waiting for him to say that he thought I had a set of Kings (standard Canterbury logic ... put someone of the near mortal nuts, but then call a raise on the turn anyways).

Oh well, I was pretty damn sure I was going to get that money back.

And I did. Whooooo, did I. I put a SWEET 1 out bad beat on the boy later in the evening. In my defense, we were already into MAGOO poker at that time, so my actions were fully justified.

To Edge's credit, after getting on his knees and begging for a loan from Banditbdl, he did make a spectacular come back, winning far more than his share of hands.

Good for him !!!

And Edge, I think you were very generous when it comes to D-Money. Saying that he was trying WAAAAYYYY to hard to fit in was the understatement of the evening.

Also, everytime you guys said "Straight Cash, Homie", I couldn't help but laugh to myself, and think of the movie Bringing Down the House, and the line ...

Straight Tripping Boo

Dougie and I definitely drank our share, your share, and everyone else's share of beer last night.

A funny thing happened when I was out of a hand (rare in the end). Annie came up to me, while you were all involved in a big pot, and while The MANTIS was praying and betting, and said the following:

Annie ... "Security called down and asked if we were having a problem with the 4 seat on table 5. I told them not really, and that seat 4 was just having a good time, albeit quite demonstratively. Then they asked if the big guy in seat 3 (Any2cards) was okay with this."

Security was afraid I was going to stand up and pop him one for all of his antics [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I can't remember the last time I had so much fun, and made money doing it.

I finally got home around 3:30 am, and ended up back at Canterbury 6 hours later (Sunday morning) playing $15-$30. Twas a good day. A very, very good day.

All in all, a good weekend.

I propose that we should make this game a regular, once a month thing, on a specific Saturday night. Like the first Saturday of the month, or whatever.