There we were settling down to a nice €1/€2 no limit holdem cash game. Or so I thought. How wrong can someone be..... I'm getting ahead of myself. Lets go back to the beginning. Let me paint you the picture.
Its sunday night, fairly quiet, no tournament so relying on a cash game to wyle away the hours. The weather outside has absolutely no relevance to this blog so it shall remain unknown. If you really wanna know, think back.....did you get wet? A few early stragglers come in, one goes for dinner and claims he'll be back in an hour. There's still no sign of him so needless to say we were sick with worry for the rest of the night. The Ornithologist comes in along with the self proclaimed Mr Nasty (who shall be referred to as the Andrex Puppy or TAP from this point forward). The young Ewok from Endor comes in and upon seeing no one wanting to give away their money, wants to flee to another small moon. Talk about your loyalty!!!!!! Anyhoo we send out communications to other members and Pinocchio walks in. We got us a cash game!!!! Yoda bravely steps up to "fill the numbers" with an evil glint in his eye!
We get underway with the new "world series quality cards". Which are promptly discarded after half an hour as not one of them resembles a flat, rectangular piece of plastic anymore! Ah good ole Copags. The evil twin comes in to fill the numbers as does mini Pinocchio whom we shall call Jimmny Cricket. Please note barring Don Santos and The evil twin there is no other person at this table over 5 feet tall. Barring me!!!!!! Pinocchio lives up to his name by claiming that he has been with most of the hot celebrities that appear on tv (god bless Minx) 2 years ago. By my count that means that he was with a very fit celebrity (and George Michael) every day of that year. Hmmmm.......
The action is good throughout the game and the usual suck outs and curses help carry us through the night. Along with the usual jokes and unusual stories, most of which are about other people in foreign locations. Then things take a turn for the strange. With four brave warriors left the normal €1/€2 blinds are, what you might call, shredded. The young Ewok gets a rush of blood to his head and straddles for €15. So now we have blinds that are €1/€2/€15. Sounds interesting until you realise that the €15 is raised 95% of the time. Then Don Santos and The young Ewok try and destroy Yoda's grasp on the force by out straddling each other. It went pretty much like this, if there were three players in the pot there would be around €15, this usually happened on Yoda's measely straddle which went to an all time high of €8. Yet a 2 way pot usually saw a flop for €80. Much scratching of head!!!!!
Not only were the straddles and blind a little...odd, so too were the plays and calls. A board which read A,K,X,6,K was betted by 8 2 off on the flop and called by 6 5 off!!!!! on the F-L-O-P!!!!!! All the chips were pretty much doing a tour of the table until only the Ewok and Yoda were left. Three hands of PLO were played and to fit in with the theme of craziness for the night the first hand was 13 card omaha. It only took about 15 minutes as both players couldnt even make out their hands. So we calmed down to 9 card omaha for the next hand. B-o-r-i-n-g. The last hand of the night was 21 card omaha, ditch 5 off the flop, 5 off the turn and 3 off the river!!!! Taken down by Yoda and a massive set of Aces!!!!!
Ahhhhhhh what a strange night. Now I have to go to Tescoes and walk around in a bewildered state at what I had just seen. Sunday nights....not a night to miss up here. God knows whats going to happen with the Omaha Tourney starting next sunday. I weep for the future.
your friendly
Caboose
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