Borgata Trip Report 1/20

[Poshua]

Took a daytrip down to AC yesterday for a few hours of 1-2 at the Borgata. Some highlights:

1. Both tables I played at were ideal soft 1-2 games, with three or four callers to many preflop raises of 5x the big blind and players far too willing to call with marginal hands.

2. The poker room was absolutely swamped and seemed to be understaffed in terms of cage personnel, brushes, etc. All ~80 tables were running, but they only had one person working the check-in desk, resulting in a line often about 25 deep. On the other hand, the Borg continues to have excellent drink service and the only non-depressing environment in AC.

3. My first table featured a VERY bad calling station. He rebought for $200 at least twice in 90 minutes. His downfall was his willingness to, for example, call all-in preflop with a significant stack while holding AJo. It was possible to see the tail end of a tattoo sticking out under his shirtsleeve. Then he shifted and it became apparent that it was a POKER TATTOO. Sigh...

4. My second table featured a winner at the game of life in the 10 seat, party to this exchange:

7 seat: Am I big [blind]?
Dealer: I don't know. Are you big?
7 seat: My wife says I'm the biggest she's ever seen.
10 seat (who doesn't know 7 seat): That's just because she's never been with me.

Also, in a poker-table first for me, 10 seat complained that True Religion jeans run big, and therefore his size 31 does not fit him properly.