Baton Rouge report

[dconley7]

They were supposed to add another table in January, but said they are waiting on approval from the state. It is the only game in town for now, Pinnacle Ent. is opening a casino in B.R. sometime this year. I live 10 mins. from the Bell, but I usually end up just driving to Harrahs because the wait for NL on the weekend is often 5+ hours! I won't go back until they add another table.

[theJoblessWobbly]

I played 4/8 at the Belle and lost my stack, but came away pleased because the game was extremely beatable. I lost the money in about 6-8 huge pots where I took awful beats, being ahead until the river, for example.

You know it's a bad night when even the dealer sucks out on you. After a long run of dead cards and suckouts, I caught K9s in the BB. It was raised, lots of people called, and so did I. I flopped a flush, more money went into the pot, etc. To make a boring hand history short, it was the last guy's turn to call a raise and he was debating it when the dealer dealt a card thinking he had called. The floor came over and made him redeal the flop. No more flush for me, but I flopped a gutshot SFD. I chased it til the river, but it missed and I ended up losing money instead of winning a huge pot (K-high flush would've been good).

The table seemed pretty loose and donkish to me, but a guy who plays there a lot told me it's actually way looser and that I got in on a tight/passive night. I'll be back as soon I get some more money, because I'm entirely confident that I can beat this game in the long run.

I saw things like a nut flush check on the river, then the 2nd nut flush check behind him for heads-up showdown. A guy w/a nut straight didn't raise my set on the river, etc. There was also an 80-year old granny who had the dealer read the board to her every hand because she couldn't see what the cards where.

Now I just need to save up another $200.