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06-29-2017 07:39:55 PM

After a month of hiatus from pub poker, having turned to more legitimate tournaments elsewhere, I was in the neighborhood and wanted some catered Chinese food for dinner. And so I stopped by for a quick game.

And quick it was, lol. Late reg and the blinds were already at 600/1200 when I sat down. The TD had just set up for a new table for the waiting list folks and we all stared at one another with 20k starting stacks. That is less than 20 BBs!?!

I sat down at the middle of the table and helped speed up the action: pulling in pots, chopping pots, etc. Got a lot of friendly winks from around the table as we got through more hands in a level than they have seen all week.

Blinds were at 800/1600 by dinner break. I was sitting on a measly 15k stack and needed to double up quick. And I did, right after my table got super boozed up. KQ > TT to a lady who cluelessly flatted all of my barrels to a Q high board and AA > A9 after the case A came on the flop and I check raised and induced a jam.

Then I was moved to a new table and reminded of everything that's wrong with pub poker. With no antes in the structure, you have to steal every blind you can in late position. An elderly at the table tank FOLDED for a solid minute EVERY time her big blind was raised pre-flop. She would follow it up with a 5-minute speech about how she got bluffed. The regulars were used to it. I felt disgusted.


Then we had a donkey with headphones who shoved 50 BBs pre-flop every time he caught a pocket pair, no matter how small. Bad play being one thing, but unwarranted and excessive celebration after winning a pocket 3 to my AJ suited coin flip is beyond revolting.

I support the small businesses that sponsor these games. I also support the hard working TDs who tirelessly run them day after day. The players...well...haven't changed.