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 A Huge Night for Tanya!, FeliciaLee, 2. Dec 2003 10:43 | ||
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| Friday, November 14, 2003 Another Omaha 8 tourney tonight. The room was packed. The seniors love Omaha and can't wait to buy into the tourney. I cashed out about 15 minutes early and went to the tourney table to talk to Ward. Ward is a dealer who runs the tourneys on Friday nights. I've spoken quite a bit about Ward in earlier posts. Ward told me that after Glenn and I left the poker room on Tuesday night, he came in to play a little 2-5 hold'em, just to relax. The 4/8 game had broke up after Glenn and I left, and I guess there was no list, so he had to play 2-5. There is a senior who plays almost every day at the Belle. We call him "Cabbie" because he drives a cab (I would assume part-time, since he is older, and plays so much poker, besides). Cabbie is one of those guys who just never talks. I don't know if that is his nature, or if he doesn't like talking at the poker table. He is a real rock, only playing Group I and II hands, nothing else. He raises with Group I, limps with Group II. This is consistent pretty much no matter what position he is in or how many players are in the pot. I guess he and Ward were sitting relatively close to each other. Anyway, Ward went on a bit of a rush, and was making all of his hands. He won several kill pots in a row ($4-10 spread limit). Finally, I guess he got involved with Cabbie. Cabbie raised the kill with pocket kings. Ward defended the kill button with a suited hand (it had to be pretty good, because I just don't see Ward defending with virtually nothing). I think Ward said he turned a flush. Cabbie went all-in, and Ward showed his flush, defeating Cabbie's kings. Cabbie stood up to leave the poker room, in a huff, and elbowed the back of Ward's neck while leaving, saying, "You son of a b****!" He tried to leave the casino, but security caught up with him. Statements were taking from all parties, I'm sure. The next day, James, the poker room manager, reviewed the surveillance tapes, took all statements into consideration, and had Cabbie banned from the Colorado Belle. James came into the poker room on Friday evening, and told me what had happened, after hearing Ward's account. He fully backed Ward. He said that Cabbie had lost his temper before. I think that, combined with him calling Ward a name, as he was attempting to leave the room and escape, cemented the conclusion that the "elbowing" was not an accident, as many have claimed. Just too much smoke not to be a fire. It is sad that things like this have to happen. Cabbie seemed like an innocent, quiet old man, just looking to have some fun during his golden years. Poker doesn't have a "temper." Poker shouldn't be an emotional game. A more sad conclusion to this story is that now the dealers are not allowed to play at the Belle anymore. At all other Mandalay Bay properties, dealers are encouraged to play, to help the games. Now this sole property has banned dealer's playing. Before Glenn and I moved to Arizona, dealers had been banned from the tournaments. Supposedly, this happened because a cash game player requested it (!!!). She doesn't even play in the tourneys! I have never, ever seen her enter one, but she had the audacity to complain about dealers entering the tourneys, and how wrong it was. So boom, no more dealers in tourneys. It's true, I don't need the competition *wink*, but most dealers suck as players (rammer-jammers), so there is some dead money if lots of bad playing dealers enter tourneys. Onto the Omaha tourney... I had a very passive, calling station table. It was good and bad. Good because there were barely any raises before the flop (why players do this is beyond me anyway, there aren't really any BTF raising hands in Omaha 8, early level, limit tourney play). It was bad because scooping the pot was not possible unless one had the nut-nut. I doubled up a couple of times in the no-limit portion of the tourney, and even managed one bounty. I never scooped a pot, but I did get 3/4. Unfortunately, our table broke and I went to a more aggressive table, sitting right next to Glenn! After a few folds, the blinds doubled and I was suddenly in jeopardy. I waited, in vain, for an all-in hand, but finally got something decent in the big blind. The cut-off went all-in. I called. He had one more chip than me. He went all-in with AAA8 (???). I had TJQK, two spades. I flopped a queen, but got no other help, and IGHN. He actually apologized for playing such a sucky hand, lol. I guess in the cut-off it wasn't bad, especially with only the blinds to act, as no other player had come into the pot. I was 13th out of 50. Glenn managed to hang on to the final table, and took 9th. Tanya is a woman I've spoken about in other posts. I met her on pokerclan.com. Anyway, she and I had already "met" and didn't know it. We got reacquainted and laughed over the situation. Tanya seems to be very serious about her game, and truly wants to be the best. She only has limited time to play, so she makes the most of the time she afforded, and I would assume, studies her butt off when she isn't playing. Tanya is very, very aggressive in tourneys, which is usually a good thing, especially when playing with such passive players like the Belle attracts. Even bad players realize that in tourneys you don't want to get involved in a big pot. If an aggressor puts you to a decision that you are not sure about, you fold. People as aggressive as Tanya either bust out right after the rebuy period has ended, or make it to the final table. This was her night. She started building a pile of chips early in the tourney. She was not at my table, but I could see she was in an advantageous position any time I went around to scout out the chip count. By the time she reached the final table, she was the chip lead. Her aggressive play caused her to lose the chip lead and be crippled. She fought her way back, with just a few chips. Pretty soon she was working on being the lead again. Ironically enough, no one at the final table ever suggested a deal. Glenn was too short stacked to say anything. There were a few medium stacks who never brought it up, and then the two big stacks; Tanya and a German who had little to no tournament experience and said he hadn't played Omaha in years. The tournament went on so long that the software stopped increasing the blinds! They hadn't programmed it for more than 15 levels. No one had ever played this long. Ward kept increasing the blinds verbally, and eventually Tanya won the whole thing. Since no deal was made, she got the entire $1100. Once it was down to three, Tanya asked to talk to me. She asked me if she should try to make some kind of deal, giving a bit of money off the top for the other two players. Since she had 90% of the chips on the table, I said NO WAY. She took my advice, and played it out. GO Tanya! | ||
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| Re: A Huge Night for Tanya!, timmer, 2. Dec 2003 10:56 | ||
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| Felicia Lee wrote> A more sad conclusion to this story is that now the dealers are not allowed to play at the Belle anymore. At all other Mandalay Bay properties, dealers are encouraged to play, to help the games. Now this sole property has banned dealer's playing. Before Glenn and I moved to Arizona, dealers had been banned from the tournaments. Supposedly, this happened because a cash game player requested it (!!!). She doesn't even play in the tourneys! I have never, ever seen her enter one, but she had the audacity to complain about dealers entering the tourneys, and how wrong it was. So boom, no more dealers in tourneys. It's true, I don't need the competition *wink*, but most dealers suck as players (rammer-jammers), so there is some dead money if lots of bad playing dealers enter tourneys. Felicia, I can think of at least three good reasons Not to let Dealers for a praticular poker room play in the same particular poker rooms tourneys. Im sure that with some thought you will come to a similar conclusion . timmer | ||
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