Friday the 13th at Bay 101 (Trip Report - long)

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Anyways, so I get home from work around 5:45 and our scheduled meet time is 7:30pm. Sweet. I've been stupidly tired for the last couple days, and so I decide that before I head out I'm going to take a nap. Too bad when I actually get back to my house, I'm wired as hell, so I decide to sit in front of my computer and browse useless [censored] as always. Blah blah blah, talking to people, ends up being 7:00pm and I start getting really super tired, but damnit, need to leave soon.

I decide to set my alarm for 7:45pm and sleep anyway, and show up fashionably late cuz I'm super classy. I leave my house around 8:00pm and head down to the place. As I pull into the parking lot around 8:20 I get a call from Bravos saying that he's going to be late, so is Shillx, and that Buzz just walked him. Bastards. So I end up being there earlier than half.

Anyways, Bravos tells me Buzz is wearing a Tshirt and some sandals and so I figure I can probably identify someone who doesn't look like a degenerate and stroll in. I get carded as always, and the security guy gives me [censored] because he somehow can't make out the fact that I'm 21 when it clearly states 21 IN 2007 in a big ass red marquee across my license. After teaching him some math, I finally get to the board and sign up for LOLDONKRINGGAMEAMENTS 3/6. [censored] -- list is like 50 people. I see a white guy wearing a green T and some sandals and I walk up and ask "are you buzz?". Sure enough I found the right guy. Awesome, 1 for 1. Just as we start talking, the board is calling a new 3/6 game. He calls off the first 10 on the list, and only like 2 people start moving to the table. He starts calling the next 4-5 guys. No answers. Then I guess he's like "[censored] it" and just says ANYONE WANT TO PLAY 3/6 and just starts crossing off everyone on the list. I tell buzz we should head over and we end up taking the last 1 spot at the table -- I'm in seat 2 and he's in seat 9.

Wait...what? Yeah, 1 seat only. Apparently buzz's seat was locked for someone else as there was a post-it sticky with someone's name on it. Buzz asks the dealer and dealer seems to just ignore him so I guess he was just like "whatever". I buy-in $120 chips and he gets $140 and we draw for dealer button. Two aces show up. Arbitrarily (or possibly by suit since one was A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] other was A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]) the A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] wins and Buzz is the SB. Right as the dealer starts to hand out cards, some lady comes back and starts complaining about her seat that buzz took. Buzz being a nice gentleman agrees to move for her, but is pointing to an empty seat where there are actually $40 chips in front but no player -- seeming to ignore the fact that the seat is obviously taken already. Lady complains but does not force buzz to move, and so he happily continues to play.

About 5 minutes after we start, Buzz tells me that Shiller has arrived, and I ask what he looks like -- "he's white".

....oooooook.

I look around and I see some skinhead mid 20s white guy wearing a black polo and ask "is that him?" Buzz has no clue obviously since all white people look alike. I think about going over to ask but figure "nah whatever I don't feel like getting up". Sure enough, laziness pays off as about 2 minutes later Bravos taps me on the shoulder and I see Bravos + real Shill. Awesome -- glad I didn't make myself look stupid.

So some time passes, we're small chatting and Bravos and Shill put their names down for 6/12 games -- I decide I want to donk around at 3/6 tonight so do not put my name down. Bravos gets called first and is sitting at the table right behind me and Buzz, and his seat and buzz's are back to back basically, so they decide to gossip about my goot play, while Shill orders a Bud Light and complains about how expensive beer is, yet still orders [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Anyways, I'm playing a little more loose but I don't think that poorly, but my stack is taking massive swings up and down for the whole period. The game is really good and I find myself to the right of two super loose guys. Seat 5 moves or leaves or busts (I forget what happened) and I take the spot for lolposition. Coolbeans. I end up getting kinda card dead or missing flops horrendously and so I'm raising a good amount preflop but folding postflop a lot. One fish decides to go smoke, and suddenly table is retardedly tight. And of course 1 jackass has to limp on the button and play for a [censored] $4 pot postflop so no blinds can chop. I decide it is time to LAG fest and straddle my first UTG.

Some older hispanic guy 3bets right after -- my read on him is that he's loose and been betting/calling a decent amount. Anyways, its folded all the way back to me, I look at 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] . ROFL, perfect.

I call like a fish and we see a flop that is 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

I check, he bets and I check-raise. He calls.

Turn is 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
I bet in tempo, he calls.

River is T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
I check, he checks.

He slowrolls AA and I look at my cards pretending I had a pair and muck.

Anyways, I'm playing sorta LAGgro but still decent I think and I end up straddling 5 hands during the night, and winning 2 /flex. I get AJs twice and KJs once, and lose 1 AJs. Overall the whole time, I would whiff horribly on the flop and be forced to fold to random donk crap from this lady that would bet with [censored] every time, or flop a monster where no one else would catch anything, or flop on scary boards that nobody would call.

I get KK once and open in MP and I win the blinds. Sweet. My up and down streak continues, although moreso down and I slowly dwindle away. I have about 6 BBs left and I get a free big blind look. I have 64o and the board ends up being like 96448 and I get double or triple up. Back in the game, bitches.

I force buzz to straddle one and I forget what happens but I think he folds like a nit. Sometime later he activates pattern mapper in the big blind and raises 44 8ways and flops a set, and manages not to lose on a 3diamond 3 broadway river. Pro anti-suckout skillz.

At this point buzz and I are sort of sitting across from each other, and so we small talk about some things. We somehow get into a relatively long winded conversation about chinese dialects and Mandarin and some other weird twists. I think it might have started when he asks why I have 13 in my alias. I explain that 13 is my favorite number, as he references a possibility that there are 13 cards A-K. I further explain that AK has actually nothing to do with cards, but rather it stands for my first and middle initial. I tell him my middle name is Kerwey (although my parents suck at english and the proper phoentical way to spell and pronounce is Kewei). Anyways, he also knows my last initial is Y which I presume is because my AIM name is super hard to justify.

I also neglected to mention I came up with the name since AK is the state code of Alaska, where I was born. My high school friends gave me tons of [censored] about being an eskimo and whatnot since I kinda do fit that profile I suppose, and so the name AK kinda has a double meaning/connotation. Now you all know.

Anyways, eventually I dwindle away again and just decide to throw in my last 2 bets with K8s and lose to ATs wheel. He had same suits and so basically I was only drawing to pairs. Bleh.

Anyways, I go BUSTO and stand up. Shill is back from his 6/12 game ordering another expensive Bud Light talking to Bravos. I find out he got ROFLSTOMPED by nutflush vs. straight flush, lol. I would ask details but I'm scared that he would strangle kittens thinking about it again.

I'm sweating Bravos and the only hand I see him actually play is limp 33 and miss his set, and also win a pot with KK on a pretty coordinated board. At the exact same time, Buzz is playing QQ in a capped 4 or 5way pot, and an Ace flops with 2 diamonds -- Buzz checks for diamonds, no diamond, owned in the face.

At this point it is 1:20am ish and everyone decide to call it quits. Bravos is up about $300 I presume, Buzz is breakeven, and well the other 2 of us are busto. We chat for a bit regarding Bruiser's stripper/massage parlor incident, and about psycho bitch losing $30k online and slashing wrists and writing weird [censored] on the walls in the bathroom in vegas, and about Krantz supersuckout $50k NL while completely high (link is posted in NC and also in BBV by Dean).

We shake hands and get ready to depart, and up to this point I have felt too stupid to ask Buzz his name, even though he knew mine previously. I pretend like I know and just refer to him as "buzz". Shillx has balls of steel and decides to ask buzz what his real name is, and he says "buzz". Then he clarifies that it is a nickname, and that his official name is Chris. Shillx goes balls of steel once again and guesses that his last name is Peterson -- this so called "Buzz" denies but says it is close. Bravos chimes in a much more polite tone "where the [censored] did you come up with that" and then has an epiphany that buzz-cp would probably refer to his initials. Anyways, that was the last of our conversation and we decide to part our ways. Shook hands once again, and left the Dolphin Bay 101 in different directions.

Good times. Look forward to it again.