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Lately I've played quite a bit at the Gold Strike and I see some of the same people. Well actually a lot of the same people.

I was hoping we could get a good thread going talking about some of the regulars to look for.

I'll start with a guy named Ahmad (I'll call him A). He has dark skin like maybe some kind of Arabic decent. He talks like he was born and raised here though. He's maybe 5'9" - 5"10". Maybe early 30's and he said he's from Nashville but I've seen him almost everytime I've been there. I've also noticed he almost always wears a Corona cap.

As far as his play goes A is very tricky. He plays a lot of pots and doesn't like to give anything up. He makes a lot of moves at pots. He will really test your own willingness to go broke. He likes to keep an above average stack so he can do that to most people.

There was a hand I posted about a few weeks ago that A was in. It went something like this.

UTg raises to 7. I'm in MP with QQ I reraise to 27. Next guy raises to 50. BB calls the 50. I don't remember what the flop was except all three cards were lower than a 9. It went check check and the person who raised to 50 bets 100. BB thinks for a bit and the guy who bet 100 clls the clock on him. A finally called and I fold my QQ.

The turn was a 9 and A checked and the other guy went all in for nearly 350 (A had him covered). A thought for quite a while and folded. The other guy showed AA and A showed 10-10.

That hand doesn't illustrate how great he is but the fact that he appeared to come close to calling a big bet with a marginal hand.

I should have also said that I believe A was really wanting to set up the guy with AA for hours before that hand. Earlier A called the clock on the other guy just to tilt him some. That guy wasn't a very good player but had a lot of gamble to him. I think A saw that and was trying to get a bigger edge on him.

Hopefully in the future I'll learn to assess players better and make those assessments easier to read and understand.

Ok someone else turn (MicrBob, Brad1970, Chipr777?)

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I think I know who you are talking about. I've played with a guy that meets that description a couple of times but this guy plays tighter from what I remember. I've also seen him wear hats sometimes & other times not. Does he have any other distinguishing charateristics? Beard/goatee, glasses, long/short hair, etc??

I have a feeling that he's a member here but not sure.

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He's pretty cool, sometimes talkative but not in an immature way. His hair is short but not military type short. Until I messed with him forever his stadard raise was $11. Never anything different unless there was more than 1 caller in front of him.

Now your turn Brad. Just don't do "the real good looking fairly heavy guy with a beard". Unless it's all compliments.

For the life of me I can't remember if he has some facial hair on the chin or not. I know he doesn't have a mustache or a full beard.

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Probably the same person. Seemed like pretty nice guy.

Do you know Swifty?

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Probably the same person. Seemed like pretty nice guy.

Do you know Swifty?

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I know Swify. He gave me some great advice on movers once.

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My descriptions won't get us very far.
But I definitely see the same people there every time I go which is like once a month at most.

Haven't been bumping into quite so many of the same people from a few mths ago though.


Roland is an older guy I think with a grey mustache who keeps a big stack at the table and will like to test you for your stack too. I've played 2/5 with him at both GS and HS.
I think he likes to portray an image of being kind of a crazy-ish player when he shows up to the table and then slows down some and plays slightly more conservatively.
He can be pretty tricky though and I don't exactly look forward to having him at the table as I think he's prettgy difficult to figure out sometimes.

There's also some guy perhaps in his late 20's or so with a shaved head and glasses who plays a fairly typical tight/solid/possibly unimaginative game.
Never seen him bluff. I see him there almost every single day I'm around.
I think he lives in a room at the Gold Strike. Possibly a New Orleans Katrina evacuee but not positive on that.

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Will Mac - An older guy who is tighter than the image of older guys. He's late 60's early 70's super nice guy. He kind of looks the part of the grumpy old guy though. He's not nitty at all. He's willing to gamble it up. I've seen him bluff one hand. Who knows he may bluff all the time I only saw him get caught once though.

I consider him so tight that I was not only scared but very scared in this hand :

We both had about $300 behind. I was ep and limped with Ak knowing someone would raise and I could go from there. Well the one hand noone raises in like 20.... Five see a flop including Will Mac. Flop was K-4-x rainbow. I bet 20 folded to Will in last position and he called. Right there I knew I was in trouble because he had to have 2 pair with me not raising. The turn brought my lovely A with no FD's. I bet 50 and will miniraised me. I folded and he showed me a set of 4's.

That doesn't mean anything except I knew how tight he was.

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Roland is an older guy I think with a grey mustache who keeps a big stack at the table and will like to test you for your stack too. I've played 2/5 with him at both GS and HS.
I think he likes to portray an image of being kind of a crazy-ish player when he shows up to the table and then slows down some and plays slightly more conservatively.
He can be pretty tricky though and I don't exactly look forward to having him at the table as I think he's prettgy difficult to figure out sometimes.

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I know who he is. I don't think I've ever played with him though but he comes in there with his wife. I have played with her before. They usually split their time between the 2 casinos. He doesn't say much at the table. From what I've heard, he's all business when he's in a pot.

...and he does bring a big stack to the table from what I've seen.

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Will Mac - An older guy who is tighter than the image of older guys. He's late 60's early 70's super nice guy. He kind of looks the part of the grumpy old guy though. He's not nitty at all. He's willing to gamble it up. I've seen him bluff one hand. Who knows he may bluff all the time I only saw him get caught once though.

I consider him so tight that I was not only scared but very scared in this hand :

We both had about $300 behind. I was ep and limped with Ak knowing someone would raise and I could go from there. Well the one hand noone raises in like 20.... Five see a flop including Will Mac. Flop was K-4-x rainbow. I bet 20 folded to Will in last position and he called. Right there I knew I was in trouble because he had to have 2 pair with me not raising. The turn brought my lovely A with no FD's. I bet 50 and will miniraised me. I folded and he showed me a set of 4's.

That doesn't mean anything except I knew how tight he was.

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What ever you do don't post the results of that hand over in the strat forum...you'll get flamed for sure...even if you were right!!!

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Probably the same person. Seemed like pretty nice guy.

Do you know Swifty?

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I know Swify. He gave me some great advice on movers once.

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Movers?? Like furniture movers or something else??

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First time I played him he was practically holding court at the table. Extremely extremely chatty.

I think he may have gotten a bit tighter and/or quieter in future sessions. Perhaps learning his lesson from taking too many ill-advised gambles. Not really sure.

I've played with him once or twice when he wasn't speaking a whole lot. But my first impression of his chatterbox day is the one that sticks with me.

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Probably the same person. Seemed like pretty nice guy.

Do you know Swifty?

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I know Swify. He gave me some great advice on movers once.

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Movers?? Like furniture movers or something else??

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Yea, what other kind of movers are there? I used them twice for local moves when I was in Miss.

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Probably the same person. Seemed like pretty nice guy.

Do you know Swifty?

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I know Swify. He gave me some great advice on movers once.

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Movers?? Like furniture movers or something else??

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Yea, what other kind of movers are there? I used them twice for local moves when I was in Miss.

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Well, that's what I thought but you never know sometimes. Since we have players from all over, it could be slang for something else.

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Roland is an older guy I think with a grey mustache who keeps a big stack at the table and will like to test you for your stack too. I've played 2/5 with him at both GS and HS.


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Roland is an older guy I think with a grey mustache who keeps a big stack at the table and will like to test you for your stack too. I've played 2/5 with him at both GS and HS.


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Is he the guy who wears a ballcap and glasses?

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I know Roland pretty good and respect his game a ton. He is a real estate millionaire. He owns a bunch of rentals over in Oxford. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and played the local games with Hellmuth back in college. Roland preys on weakness more than any other person I have played with in Tunica. I have picked up a fairly significant tell on him and I have used it to my benefit 3 times so far. *HINT* Pay attention to what he says when he fires out a rather large bet on the river.

If you know Roland at all ask him about the story where he and Hellmuth went to the World Series in '89 (the year Hellmuth won). VERY good story.


Andy Alina - Phillipino guy mid 30's, dates Jean who deals at the GS. VERY good tourney player, he has problems with tilt control but when he is on his game watch out. Omaha is Andy's crack cocaine. He loves the action, but plays in the 25 25 50 PLO game, when he has the money. More than half the guys at the table [censored] money. Whenever he plays in the game they just wait for the variance of Omaha to kick in. They have the bigger bankrolls so eventually they will just bet bet bet and when the variance falls on their side, he is bust again.


Donald - Red shaved head, late 20's early 30's. He came from the Knoxville area 3-4 years ago and has been a local ever since. He is a good grinder. Havent played with him in several months but he is a solid TAG from what I remember.


Al - Black guy late 30's to early 40's. The definition of a short stacker in the cash NL games. And takes foooooorrrrrreeeeeevvvvvvveeeeerrrrrr to act on his hands. He has some very good tournament results.


Jimmy Angotti - Tall italian guy. Is a real estate agent in Memphis. He likes to play games other than Hold 'em and fairly good at them too.

There are several others who play there quite often but names are slipping me right now.



PVN - Roland does not wear glasses and never wears a ball cap. He is early 40's, mustache and going a little thin on top. When he plays he usually has a knot of $$$ folded in half and rubberbanded together. He always keeps his knot rubberbanded even when he is using on the table.

He ALWAYS a a cup of coffee that looks like peanut butter after he adds the 1/2 gallon of cream to it, lol. He told me he drinks 3-4 pots of coffee a day, and if you pay attention to how many cups he drinks at the table this is very believable.

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Not sure if Roland is really in his early 40's but he looks older than that imo. Looks more like late 40's or possibly even early 50's to me.
Grey mustache and definintely a little thin on top (not as thin as I am at only 36 though).

I've played him at both HS and GS.

Definitely respect his game. He can pull all kinds of different tricks on you.

First time I played him my first impression was that he was kind of a rich semi-maniac. He played all sorts of crazy 64o from EP or some stuff like that and seemed to be pulling some kind of 'act' that he had just come from roulette or craps or something and likes to gamble big.
Might be partly true too of course. But I now suspect he was talking this talk for image purposes.

Since then I've decided he really does seem to know what he's doing and isn't nearly the maniac he playing himself off as the first time I met him.

He definitely likes to bully with his big-stack when he senses weakness.

I let him do this one time to me when I thought he would sense me as weak. Since I play the game short-stacked and come off as kind of weak and sweating the money to begin with I thought he would take the bait.
He even told some guy after my river check, "That sure looked like weakness didn't it?"
At first I thought I had made the bluff-inducement TOO obvious.
But he casually flipped his wad of bills out in front even though I only had $100 left in my stack.
I called and showed my monster hand and took it down.
And I'm almost positive that he'll remember me somewhat even though it happened several weeks ago and that I will have to mix things up and probably can't get away with such a move again.


I've played with Al before too.
That guy freaking lives there.
doesn't he sleep at the table between hands sometimes and the dealer has to wake him up? I might be thinking of someone else.

It's amazing how many of the same 'regulars' I can recognize at HS or GS every time I head to Tunica.
I show up once every month or two at most and it's like the same group of people never left from my previous visit.

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"Al - Black guy late 30's to early 40's. The definition of a short stacker in the cash NL games. And takes foooooorrrrrreeeeeevvvvvvveeeeerrrrrr to act on his hands. He has some very good tournament results."

I've played a many of tourneys with Al. He can be wild (usually in the beginning of the rebuy periods) and he can toss away a hand he's likely ahead. You're right he can take some time to make a decision.

One hand I played against Al in the later portion of the rebuy period went something like call, call, Al raises, I reraise, folds around to Al. He should call with any decent hand. Or I guess I should say he at least shouldn't fold. He thinks for DAYS and folds JJ. I showed him 77.

After that it seemed every pot he was in so was I. I expected him to be a bit tilty and play back at me but he didn't. He kept his cool.

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I know Roland pretty good and respect his game a ton. He is a real estate millionaire. He owns a bunch of rentals over in Oxford. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and played the local games with Hellmuth back in college. Roland preys on weakness more than any other person I have played with in Tunica. I have picked up a fairly significant tell on him and I have used it to my benefit 3 times so far. *HINT* Pay attention to what he says when he fires out a rather large bet on the river.

If you know Roland at all ask him about the story where he and Hellmuth went to the World Series in '89 (the year Hellmuth won). VERY good story.


Andy Alina - Phillipino guy mid 30's, dates Jean who deals at the GS. VERY good tourney player, he has problems with tilt control but when he is on his game watch out. Omaha is Andy's crack cocaine. He loves the action, but plays in the 25 25 50 PLO game, when he has the money. More than half the guys at the table [censored] money. Whenever he plays in the game they just wait for the variance of Omaha to kick in. They have the bigger bankrolls so eventually they will just bet bet bet and when the variance falls on their side, he is bust again.


Donald - Red shaved head, late 20's early 30's. He came from the Knoxville area 3-4 years ago and has been a local ever since. He is a good grinder. Havent played with him in several months but he is a solid TAG from what I remember.


Al - Black guy late 30's to early 40's. The definition of a short stacker in the cash NL games. And takes foooooorrrrrreeeeeevvvvvvveeeeerrrrrr to act on his hands. He has some very good tournament results.


Jimmy Angotti - Tall italian guy. Is a real estate agent in Memphis. He likes to play games other than Hold 'em and fairly good at them too.

There are several others who play there quite often but names are slipping me right now.



PVN - Roland does not wear glasses and never wears a ball cap. He is early 40's, mustache and going a little thin on top. When he plays he usually has a knot of ~10k folded in half and rubberbanded together. He always keeps his knot rubberbanded even when he is using on the table.

He ALWAYS a a cup of coffee that looks like peanut butter after he adds the 1/2 gallon of cream to it, lol. He told me he drinks 3-4 pots of coffee a day, and if you pay attention to how many cups he drinks at the table this is very believable.

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Yeah I know Andy too. Nice guy. He used to deal at the Goldstrike a couple of years ago.

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Roland is an older guy I think with a grey mustache who keeps a big stack at the table and will like to test you for your stack too. I've played 2/5 with him at both GS and HS.


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Is he the guy who wears a ballcap and glasses?

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PVN, is this guy you're thinking of with the cap & sunglasses, does he have a beard too & about late 40's early 50's? Doesn't socialize much at the table? If memory serves me, he has a tatoo on his forearm...

If so, I play with him all the time. Don't know his name though. He's tighter than Dick's hat band. He'll play 1 hand an hour. When he raises, fold unless you have the stone cold nutz. Seems like a decent fellow & solid player, just doesn't say much.


There's also another guy that plays the 1/2 & 2/5 NL games around there who is from Europe somewhere. His name is Neils or Niles or something like that. I would guess he's mid to late 40's. Heavy accent. One of the dealers told me he was from France...not sure. He's a sneaky, trappy type player who likes suited connectors, one gappers, etc. I've played with him a few times. Haven't seen him around in a while.

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Jimmy Angotti - Tall italian guy. Is a real estate agent in Memphis. He likes to play games other than Hold 'em and fairly good at them too.


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I've played with Al before too.
That guy freaking lives there.
doesn't he sleep at the table between hands sometimes and the dealer has to wake him up?

[/ QUOTE ] Not this dealer. I've given him missed blind buttons when he nods off and dealt around him. I dealt him out for 30 minutes once and he never knew. On a side note he is a very good short stack NL player.

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Jimmy Angotti - Tall italian guy. Is a real estate agent in Memphis. He likes to play games other than Hold 'em and fairly good at them too.


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Is he the one that left the Shoe and went to GS for a while?

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I've played with Al before too.
That guy freaking lives there.
doesn't he sleep at the table between hands sometimes and the dealer has to wake him up?

[/ QUOTE ] Not this dealer. I've given him missed blind buttons when he nods off and dealt around him. I dealt him out for 30 minutes once and he never knew. On a side note he is a very good short stack NL player.

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Yes, I've seen him dealt-out too.
Usually the dealer will keep giving him a few hands while he is nodding off in-between and then after a couple tries will realize that he's taking too long with has cards and THEN he will be dealt out.
Sometimes even waving off the dealer a little bit so he can sit there and sleep and practically drool at the table.
That's what I've seen happen with him a couple times I think.


I'm not sure I would consider him a good short-stack player though. I think I've seen him make plays that I considered pretty questionable.

The tale of him folding the JJ in the rebuy period is pretty strange.

Do others on here who have played with him think he is a decent player?

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There's another hand that I played against Ahmad that might describe him better than anything else I said.

Pretty much everyone limped for the $2 and a guy in MP raises to 12. ahmad calls then it's folded to me and I call with 4s7s. The flop was 5d6d8x. first guy bets 30, Ahmad calls and I raise it to 80. First better folds and Ahmad calls. Turn brings a non-suited brick and Ahmad checks I go all in for maybe 150 more and he calls. The river brings a 3rd diamond and we both show 4-7.

Ahmad who in a friendly was was telling me I shouldn't have raised the flop. We talked a lil more and I told him I wanted more money but didn't want a FD to get there cheap. He basically said you have to gamble to win big pots.

In all honesty I think I need to be looser and he needs to be tighter. But who am I to give him advice [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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There's another hand that I played against Ahmad that might describe him better than anything else I said.

Pretty much everyone limped for the $2 and a guy in MP raises to 12. ahmad calls then it's folded to me and I call with 4s7s. The flop was 5d6d8x. first guy bets 30, Ahmad calls and I raise it to 80. First better folds and Ahmad calls. Turn brings a non-suited brick and Ahmad checks I go all in for maybe 150 more and he calls. The river brings a 3rd diamond and we both show 4-7.

Ahmad who in a friendly was was telling me I shouldn't have raised the flop. We talked a lil more and I told him I wanted more money but didn't want a FD to get there cheap. He basically said you have to gamble to win big pots.

In all honesty I think I need to be looses and he needs to be tighter. But who am I to give him advice [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Is he the one that left the Shoe and went to GS for a while?

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I'll be playing at the G.S. tonite and maybe tomorrow as well.
Any 2+2ers that see me, pleas say Hello.
I'll be at the 1-2 NL in jeans and a burnt orange Tshirt that says "Go Long".
Tomorrow, probably a navy T shirt.
No hat. Thin, short brown hair. 41 yrs. old.

I'm looking forward to seeing if I can spot some of the folks mentioned in this thread!

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I just got back from there...... I might try and go again Saturday.

I did get a pic of Roland. I see him there ALL the time.... Maybe there's 2 Rolands.

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Very interesting to read this, I have gone to Tunica the last few of years and will be going back this fall. I recognize the majority of the players each time. I remember thinking about Roland, how does this guy drink that much coffee and smoke that much (3-4 cups/hour and 8-10 cigarretes per hour, but he is a player. Look foward to going back this year and playing with the same guys again. I guess a lot less 'tourists' in tunica, games always seemed to have 6-7 players who know each other, a higher perecentage than other places I have played.
AcesKracked

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Does anyone know a guy named Earl Bailey? He probably plays more limit than NL. How is his game?

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I'm making trip up to Tunica next weekend w/ another 2+2 friend. Is there anyone else we should be looking out for in the $1/2 & $1/3 games at the Strike or Shoe?

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**Bump**

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Well I played for about 12 hours yesterday at the Grand. Before I get to that I heard the Sheraton is getting rid of their Carribean Stud. So they aren't taking the $1 and they're giving away $500 hi hand every hour.

Ok so I won't do a big trip report or anything I just wanted to comment on a few guys.

The first is a guy name was :

Big Baby - Looked to be about 6'5" (6'9" with the fro, yay Fletch reference, but true) and 325 African American with a decent sized fro and about 30 y/o. The guy was cool as ice. Was always friendly and happy to chat it up.

He's a pretty tricky player and can use his words to help him win pots. One of which I was on the receiving end. It was a 10 high board that had a draw or two but wasn't all over the place. The turn didn't bring anything up realy scary nor did the river(at this point I had only played with him for about an hour) so I bet $40. Well he goes into his him hawing about what I could have and not have. He then says "All I can do is hope you have A-10" and pushes $140 out there.

I was thinking WTF that's EXACTLY what I have and I guees he has a 3 (for trips) or a str8. So I muck and he shows me J-10(for top pair LOWER kicker).

He made some awesome bluffs with decent bets. I played with him for 10+ hours and he was steadily drinking alcohol and I could see it changing his game for the worse.

Overall I didn't mind seeing him at the table and I'm not scared of him but I know I need to have something and NOT be scared to bet it with him.

Scotty B - This is the wildest and craziest guy I've played against. His best quality is he seemed top notch in being able to tell a player what he wants the other player to do. If he gets in a few pots with a guy that fights back Scotty will talk to him like they're going to war.

After Scotty beats the player out of a pot he'll sometimes stand up and scream to the poker room that HE'S the police around here and NOONE steals from him!

I can't say much about his game but I don't want him at my table. Not that I think he's THAT much better than me although he does have more gears which porbably equals somewhat better than me. The way to play him is to beat him out of a pot or two so he can pick on others. My problem with that is I don't have 10 buyins sitting around.

I have a pic of Scotty B but it isn't the best. If someone wants it ask me via PM.

Last guy is Matt (at least that's what I think I remember it being) the other dealers said he either works for or did work for the Grizzlies.

He looked to be in his mid to late 30's, formerly from Huntsville Al and is a Florida Gators fan. He's MAYBE 5'8" and a pretty cool guy. As soon as he loses a pot he says NH and pats his hand on the table. Then if Matt raised PF he'd say something like NC with 78 for $25.

Now he had received some bad beats so I can't say he shouldn't have been pissed but the last hand (for him) went something like this :

1-3NL BTW Matt UTG calls and 2 more +SB call.

Flop 7-J-8

SB bets like 35 and BB folds. Then Matt says "How could you bet so much into that pot?" Then he says "I'm all in" for 140ish. The next guy calls and SB completes

Turn X river K.

Matt J-7
Mr. Insignificant to this story had AA
Lady has KJ for the 3 outer and Matt actually exploded! Well no not really but he went balistic about how bad she was etc.

Seemed all the dealers knew all three of these guys and I've played with Scotty B at the Gold Strike before.


Oh BTW Roland was in the 1 seat and his wife was there too [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

OH OH another BTW - During the month of Sept the Grands BBJ is aces full of kings or better beaten for 250k. But I still like the GS better.

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and his wife is a rock. When she gets in and bets the flop it isn't a continuation bet.

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I know of Roland. He has been accurately described.

Does anybody know Yang? I always seem to see him at the same table with Roland and he also carries a big wad. My view of him is that he's a bit too crazy and at the wrong times but probably a winner.

There's also this older black guy who wears aviator glasses. I often see him at the same tables as the above two. He's fairly aggressive and preys on the weaker players. One time I saw him put so much milk and syrup in either coffee or hot chocolate I wanted to puke. Seriously. He put like a half gallon of syrup in.

I will say that none of the regulars seem all that impressive but I haven't played a ton of hands with any of them.

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I know of Roland. He has been accurately described.

Does anybody know Yang? I always seem to see him at the same table with Roland and he also carries a big wad. My view of him is that he's a bit too crazy and at the wrong times but probably a winner.

There's also this older black guy who wears aviator glasses. I often see him at the same tables as the above two. He's fairly aggressive and preys on the weaker players. One time I saw him put so much milk and syrup in either coffee or hot chocolate I wanted to puke. Seriously. He put like a half gallon of syrup in.

I will say that none of the regulars seem all that impressive but I haven't played a ton of hands with any of them.

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Is Yang probably 40-45 yrs old & wears glasses?

Yeah, I see that black gentleman around alot too. I don't think I have ever seen him take off those glasses.... [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] Him & Roland will drink a gallon of coffee between them in a session. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Re: Tunica NLHE regulars
 

Cliff notes at bottom.

The black guy who I believe you're describing is Al. I believe someone (maybe even me) gave a rundown on him earlier.

Last weekend I was at ST and I played with the most miserable person ever. I think his name was Don. Honestly he comes across as a rock....just as tight as they come. But he gambled it up quite a bit. So I guess he was doing his job.

A quick hand that I witnessed with Don. It went the usual raise to 18 with a few callers. The flop came J-2-3 with 2 diamonds. First guy checks and Don bets 50. Folds to button who calls. The turn is a brick. Don bets 100 and button hesitates and calls. Don is visibly upset.

River is a D.

Don is furious and checks. The button checks back and shows the nuts. Ok I'm confused but I swear it happened and they were not together. This guy Don is a regular who doesn't seem to have many friends.

Anyway so after the hand a guy to my left named Woody nudges me and says :watch this". He stands up and yells at his friend Robert. While he yells at him woody does this dance that we've all seen before like someone holding a bar and doing a square around it.

so robert runs over and asks what happens. woody tells him Don had the nuts until a guy called all his chips off in a bad way and totally sucks out on Don. So Robert starts screaming and doing that weird dance. I know it sounds jerkish for those two but that guy Don was such a jerk it was justified.

Cliff notes - Don gambles it up but is a jerk.

P.S. - This Satruday at 11am at ST there's a 5k added 125 entry freezeout.

P.P.S. - My name is Robert but not that Robert that dances. Although that Robert is cool and very funny. Tall, salt n pepper colored hair, and maybe early - mid 40's.