A friendly game

Sat down at MGM to pretty much play tight two card Omaha. I would limp and set mine with any pair, highest was TT. Limp with Ax suited looking purely for the flush or trips top kicker. I would also see flops with alphabet cards. All only for limps.

Good table though. Limping was the norm. Very social. Pretty much everyone was very friendly. Seat 1 would seem to collect a rotating supply of curmudgeons including some punk kid with bling and the "street player" look. He raised it up with what turns out to be Aces and got action from Seat 10, a dealer from another casino, one of the "regulars" in the group. Flop came out eight high. She check calls. Then the Turn puts out a second spade. She bets, he calls. River is a Ks and she bets again. He calls. She turns over 6s8s for runner runner flush. Normally I would think she is a donk and the play was indeed odd but by virute of her being one of the "good guys" and the guy being an arrogant jerk, I am OK with the play.

I am in Seat 6. Seat 7 next to me is a guy from Richmond who "lives" at the River Rock. His signature move is the min raise and he later ordered a dozen Krispy Kremes for the table. He also started the trend of showing one card after the hand, the "unimportant" card, and others followed suite later. Seats 2 and 3 on the end are a couple who look familiar. She can't help but bet her flush draws. 4 and 5 would rotate. Mostly dudes who quickly towed the line to limping with the rest of the table. 8 was grandpa who played pretty tight not surprisingly. Seat 9 was a guy who was pretty good. He would do his share of stealing pots but was friendly about it.

Every one was pretty much there just shooting the breeze and making jokes. Dealers were getting into the same mode as well and would shoot the breeze with everyone.

I dragged a couple of pots when my KQ hit top pair and it checked around to me in LP. And I also successfully mined a set of Treys and that was good for about 40 bucks. The rest of the session was pretty much posting blinds and limping with nut makers while BS'ing.

After about three hours of chit chat I cashed out for a massive three bucks of sugar or a run rate of a buck an hour or about half of the benchmark of a BB/hour. It was a fun time and I am glad to have come out in the black.