Life and Times of a Poker Addict

I set the wheels in motion a couple weeks ago to get my friends up to the Borgata for my birthday and a lot of poker. Before I get to the poker please let me throw my whole hearted recommendation behind the Bobby Flay Steakhouse as I truly think it was the best steak I've ever had. Even better because some donkey paid for it.

Started out playing the no limit tables and absolutely could not get anything going. Got paid off when I hit a set and had the right read on a guy in a massive pot, but the river card put to many possibilities on board and I folded, and he showed me that I was right and was still ahead. Thing basically went downhill from there on day one and I was down two buy-ins. No big deal, but certainly not how I wanted to start out.

Wasn't feeling great on day two, so I spent a good part of the day in the room, enjoying one of the most comfortable hotel beds in the world. PokerDon came upstairs to go to sleep and I was heading down and he told me to check out the 10-20 limit game going on. Thank you, Don, for the best game selection advice I've received, maybe ever.

Flat out, hands down, the 10-20 game was filled with awful players. Like action capped eight ways preflop and six ways on the flop awful. So, starting at 12:30 on my birthday and spanning two sessions during that day, not only was I playing with burros but my cards were hot. That's the equation for a lovely day of poker. I killed the game, and but for my big hands not holding up on day three, it could have been a blockbuster trip. But still a very profitable one and I'm looking forward to trying the 20-40 game next time up there in a few weeks, most likely.