[NicksDad1970]

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.