Re: Home Game Post
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So I arrive and first thing I notice is that the home is an effing mansion. I'm talking about 26 rooms with 2 pools type of mansion and I am feeling a bit intimidated as I walk through the portal (not door mind you but portal).
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You referenced this below, as well. I'm missing what was so noteworthy about "mansion" to this story, other than your expectations. Rich people can't play for low stakes?
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I can already feel the lifeblood drain out of me as I realize that I am going to be in for hours of nits on parade.
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I tell them that I only play NL and PLO and that I'd stay for an hour but that I was leaving after that. And I stayed for exactly one hour"
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I know limit isn't appealing when you're looking for big-bet games, but couldn't you just have chalked up the evening to a simple game of cards for fun and NOT come across as an arrogant SOB?
You could have donked it up for a few hours, then gracefully extracted yourself and turned down future invitations.
I understand that you felt mislead by your slave, and you could have chewed him out later, but I think your reaction was a bit over the top, Rott. Unless you are 100% against meeting new people and playing to play....
Hell, you could have treated it as training for not tilting. :P
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Gawd Larry. You're no fun. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Honestly though, limit is not my game. I find it to be boring and maybe that's just me but it is what it is. I had expected NL and that's what I was primed for. When I saw the mansion I immediately felt that this would be a great action game - playing with people who had money. Maybe that was a bad assumption but it's not every day that I am invited to a home game at a freakin mansion on the Hills. And just to be clear, this wasn't just some large home, it was huge and so was the estate it was on.
As for my "slave". LOL. He is a colleague and I am senior to him but he doesn't work directly for me and he definably doesn't need to impress me. OTOH, he knows that it's not a good idea to piss us off either. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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