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Poker/gambling in Vegas

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Pilot, Aug 21, 2009.

  1. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Yeah - that's the marshmellow salesmen in from Toledo for the weekend and wants to play some cards. He does not want to sit there folding all night long.
     
  2. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Look around the table. If you can't figure out who the producers are, you're one of them.
     
  3. maberger

    maberger Member

    fair enough.
    are you sure you're bet-sizing correctly?
    on the other hand, i love 1-2 vegas games with 3 limpers, a raise to 6 or 8 bucks, suited connectors in my hand and stacks of 300 behind.

    the latest poker player newspaper lists a M-F $40 trn at 10 a.m., but none on the weekend.
     
  4. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    If you just want to spend a lot of time at a table, play pai-gow. That's a money-managment game.
    Don't risk much, get free drinks, probably don't win much.
     
  5. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Kinda like the NIAFL
     
  6. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    Whoa. I'll be there! Imagine the odds.

    I just finished up ordering the proper attire from Amazon. I'll the guy with the hoodie, sunglasses and an Ipod.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Don't forget the Ed Hardy or TapOut tee shirt.
     
  8. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    As much as I enjoy being in the NIAFL, poker's more fun.
    And I never have to deal with Chris the bastard.
     
  9. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    Marshmallow salesman. Now there's a job I could get behind. Had I not just learned today that there are real, live professional mule train packers, marshmallow salesman would be atop my most wants jobs list.



    Thanks for the advice, folks. What kind of stack would I want to have to sit down at a 1-2 NL game?
     
  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    1/2 NL ... I buy-in with $100.
     
  11. Colin Dunlap

    Colin Dunlap Member

    Read a fascinating piece in a magazine about Pai-Gow on the flight to Vegas last week.
    While walking past those tables, I always assumed it was and old, traditional Asian game imported from the Far East generations ago...not so.
    Some white guy in a casino outside LA devised the game in the 1980s and it spread very quickly. But the guy never got a patent on the game, thus failed to capitalize on what could have been an enormous fortune.
     
  12. maberger

    maberger Member

    i buy in for the max, or at least as much as players have. i want to have chips when i get a hand
     
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