It was a lazy Saturday morning when Srikanth(my cousin) and I were thinking of going out of NY and at the spur of the moment decided on Atlantic City. My dream was to play poker at a casino and enjoy the experience.
The Caesar's was selected as the casino where we were going to lose money. My uncle and cousin started off with the slots as a warm up. Srikanth and I were roaming around the card tables and trying to figure out the stakes and what types of games are going on. It took us sometime to figure out that poker against players was in a separate section.
I bought the chips and entered a 2/4 Texas holdem limit table. This means that you had a small bind of 1$, a big blind of 2$, bets of 2$ and after the turn card, bets of 4$. There were 8 people in the table already and with me joining, the table was full. I did not quite get a hang of it in the first two rounds in terms of the blinds and then I warmed from the third round onwards. I was not nervous at all and i started playing as if i was playing online. I did not look much at the other players, but they all looked very experienced (i was proved wrong later on). There was a lone woman in the table. I got a feel of things in the first five to six rounds playing it very safe. I made some strong moves from say round 10 to 25 where i got some good cards and was very aggressive in the betting and winning about 5-6 hands. That i realized later was the best period for me in terms of collecting chips. I almost doubled my chip count at this stage and i was feeling quite high. But, i was expecting some backlash from the guys around as they were staring me down. The best hand i won was about 50$ when i won with a two pair of (A,10) against (A,6). That was just amazing!!!!!!!!
The next half hour was bad for me. I did not get good cards and at the same time others in the table were just raising against me whenever i bet. I could feel the undercurrent and i lost a bit of confidence here and backed out of a few hands, which otherwise i might have won. It was like a bell curve where i went on a high and then came sailing low. Then the graph became linear and it was almost a straight line and i won two or three more small hands. At the end of it, I realized i did have a pretty decent start to my poker career and i could hold my own against all these guys. I was break even at the end of two and a half hours.
Few interesting things i noticed was the dealers change every half hour, cards are changed every hour, dealers are normally paid a dollar or two tip for every hand won, smoking was not allowed within the poker area.
Overall a fantastic four hours spent at Caesar's and getting initiated into poker, thanks to everyone.
The Caesar's was selected as the casino where we were going to lose money. My uncle and cousin started off with the slots as a warm up. Srikanth and I were roaming around the card tables and trying to figure out the stakes and what types of games are going on. It took us sometime to figure out that poker against players was in a separate section.
I bought the chips and entered a 2/4 Texas holdem limit table. This means that you had a small bind of 1$, a big blind of 2$, bets of 2$ and after the turn card, bets of 4$. There were 8 people in the table already and with me joining, the table was full. I did not quite get a hang of it in the first two rounds in terms of the blinds and then I warmed from the third round onwards. I was not nervous at all and i started playing as if i was playing online. I did not look much at the other players, but they all looked very experienced (i was proved wrong later on). There was a lone woman in the table. I got a feel of things in the first five to six rounds playing it very safe. I made some strong moves from say round 10 to 25 where i got some good cards and was very aggressive in the betting and winning about 5-6 hands. That i realized later was the best period for me in terms of collecting chips. I almost doubled my chip count at this stage and i was feeling quite high. But, i was expecting some backlash from the guys around as they were staring me down. The best hand i won was about 50$ when i won with a two pair of (A,10) against (A,6). That was just amazing!!!!!!!!
The next half hour was bad for me. I did not get good cards and at the same time others in the table were just raising against me whenever i bet. I could feel the undercurrent and i lost a bit of confidence here and backed out of a few hands, which otherwise i might have won. It was like a bell curve where i went on a high and then came sailing low. Then the graph became linear and it was almost a straight line and i won two or three more small hands. At the end of it, I realized i did have a pretty decent start to my poker career and i could hold my own against all these guys. I was break even at the end of two and a half hours.
Few interesting things i noticed was the dealers change every half hour, cards are changed every hour, dealers are normally paid a dollar or two tip for every hand won, smoking was not allowed within the poker area.
Overall a fantastic four hours spent at Caesar's and getting initiated into poker, thanks to everyone.
1 comment:
Good to have you back on the 'blog, Sesh!
Dan.
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