Well, Florida, how did the first day of NL/$5limit games treat you?

[cmitch]

I made it over to the Hard Rock Tampa yesterday and there was some horrible play. They had 1/2nl (ton of tables), 2/5nl (6-8 tbls), and 10/25nl (2 tbls) running. I wanted to play 5/10 but it wasn't offered. I didn't bring enough (only 3k) to comfortably sit down at the 10/25, so I settled on the 2/5.

Chips - Their biggest chips are $5 right now and they are in short supply. The new chips are supposed to be in in about 10 days. Quite a few people were sitting with a ton of $5 chips at the 10/25 table. The runners kept coming by our table and buying $500 worth of chips from the larger stacks.

Horrible Play - Worst call ever.

Seat 6 - $1,600 +/- (in the BB)
Seat 8 - $2,100 +/- (UTG +1)
Seat 9 - $700 +/-

Limp Parade - 6 to the flop
Flop is 10, 8, 6 rainbow

Seat 6 bets $20, Seat 8 raises to $60, Seat 9 calls
Seat 6 re-raises to $100, Seat 8 re-raises another $100, Seat 9 folds
Seat 6 shoves for around $1,400

I think Seat 6's hand was pretty obvious to everyone at the table. Seat 8 thought and thought and asked the guy if he would show. Seat 6 said, "Maybe" and then finally said, "I'll show." When he said, "I'll show" Seat 8 said, "OK, I call."

Hands
Seat 6 had 9,7 for the nuts (obviously)
Seat 8 had (drum roll) 10,6 (top and bottom pair) I really don't know WTF he was thinking. I mean best case scenario was that Seat 6 was shoving with a set; worst case and most likely was the straight. I guess the guy had been catching so many cards that he thought he couldn't miss.

No improvement for Seat 8 and Seat 6 took down the pot of the night ($3,500 +/-).

I stayed for about 6 hours and finished up around $700 on the night. There is definitely money to be made in these games.

If you are interested I posted a trip report on my blog
http://opoker.blogspot.com/2007/07/r...report-of.html