A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Poker Room...
Well, I was only in Niagara Falls for roughly 24 hours...but it was a swell time indeed. My grandma had a free night at Fallsview Casino so we said screw it and went. I was disappointed when I first got into the casino at Fallsview because the lowest limit they were spreading in the poker room was 2/5 NL....meaning to sit with 50 blinds thats $250, which is most certainly out of my bankroll. Luckily, I traveled over to Casino Niagara, which, as a whole, respected my bankroll much more. The first thing I did was sign up for one of their hourly SNG's, which was only a $35 buy in. I knew the blinds were going to come around quick, but this was just laughable. They start you with 1000 in chips, blinds 25/50, and they double every 10 minutes, with antes kicking in on the third level. Hahaha...I limped into one pot with 98c, and then folded on the flop, and by the time the deal had gone around the table once...I had 3 blinds left. Hilariously bad. Luckily it was only $35.
I then put myself on the list for 1/2 NL, and in the meantime went upstairs to play some roulette and put the strategy to good use. It's a slow grind, but if things go steady enough, I was making around 30 bucks an hour....granted I only played for like two hours throughout the course of the entire trip, because when youre alone it gets rather boring, but still.
It was about 45 minutes into my first session at the 1/2 table that I fell in love. Haha. This girl sat down, and she was hands down the best female card player I've ever seen (live, of course). This is in no way meant to be read as degrading to women, but it's just a rare thing to see a female at the table, and even rarer to see one that's really good, and even rarer to see one my age. Anyways, I'm not going to lie, seeing a girl play poker this well was incredibly sexy. Haha. But yeah, we made small talk for a couple hours, and she kept getting screwed by this drunk ass Asian guy down in Seat 1. I've never seen someone luck into KK that many times in an hour before...it was weird. And he was clearly terrible, and every time the action got to him we had to stop and wait because he didn't pay attention/didn't speak very good english. This sucked of course because he played every hand. More on that guy later though. Eventually this girl whose name I didn't even catch because I suck at life was in for $250 and got up and left, pissed because the Asian guy screwed her over again. And there I was, cursing myself because I didn't say anything. Dammit. Haha, I eventually went busto spaghetti-o's about 40 minutes later when this huge American Indian guy (codename: Tonto) couldn't lay down second pair against three bullets. Sigh.
Went back to Fallsview, ate at the buffet (which was TOTALLY not worth the money), and then napped for an hour. When I woke up I felt like a million bucks so I decided to walk back to Casino Niagara and not suck at poker this time around. It was the perfect night, and walking past the Falls was incredible...I wanna go back sometime soon. I told Joey that I want to take like 2k in the form of a bankroll, and go for a week and see what happens. That would be an awesome week. Anyways, when I got there and was going down the escalator, you'll never guess who I saw sitting in seat 4 at the same table as before. Yep. Mystery girl! So I promptly go sign up for a seat at 1/2, but there's like 5 people ahead of me, so I go put 5 bucks into a slot machine, hit the bonus thing, which wasn't big, but I turned 5 bucks into 22. Then I played a bit of roulette. This whole time I'm thinking "If there is a god, he will put me at the same table as this girl!" Well apparently god has a sense of humor, because when my pager went off, and I made my way back to the Poker room, it was revealed that I did draw the same table as her...and on top of that I drew seat 5, right next to her. Hahaha. Score. I opened with the line "Fancy seeing you here!" then decided suicide would probably be the best option because I'm incredibly lame. So after some small talk I learned her name was Maria, and it was cool because we had something to joke about, because the Asian Guy was still there in seat 1, like 3.5 hours later, and he was sitting with about 700 bucks in front of him (Somehow?! Idk how!! Mind you it's a $100 max). He was about 10 Heinekins deep (no lie) and nobody could understand a word he said. It would go check check, check check, then he would shove one huge stack of like $250 into the pot and laugh and say words that no one could understand. That's all beside the point of the story really, I'm just writing it down so I can look back on this and laugh at the memory of this dude. So let's get back to the part where god has a sense of humor. I got the seat right next to her, but oh wait, she's fucking wearing a rock on her finger! Table talk brings up the fact that she's engaged....fuck my life! As they would say....bad beat. I ended up doubling up when I had the nuts one hand (I felt like Phil Hellmuth) and I left the table with $157 ( I sat with $82...don't ask why the strange number, I don't know). Overall it was probably one of the most fun nights I had playing poker...especially the Arab guy in seat 3 who would proclaim every four minutes "I'm fucking drunk! Who wants to smoke a joint in the parking lot with me?!"
That last part was way too big. I should have broken that up. Sorry! Anyways, I ended up down like $21 on the trip, which isn't bad at all considering I probably spent about 11 hours in the casino.(Which did I mention is non-smoking?! It was like a godsend! Fresh air, yay!)I wanna go back...only for an extended period of time. I'm sick of hitting and running these card rooms, there's no time to grow...once you finally get used to play in the region and how things work, it's time to leave. Oh well...here's to going back again sometime soon!
I then put myself on the list for 1/2 NL, and in the meantime went upstairs to play some roulette and put the strategy to good use. It's a slow grind, but if things go steady enough, I was making around 30 bucks an hour....granted I only played for like two hours throughout the course of the entire trip, because when youre alone it gets rather boring, but still.
It was about 45 minutes into my first session at the 1/2 table that I fell in love. Haha. This girl sat down, and she was hands down the best female card player I've ever seen (live, of course). This is in no way meant to be read as degrading to women, but it's just a rare thing to see a female at the table, and even rarer to see one that's really good, and even rarer to see one my age. Anyways, I'm not going to lie, seeing a girl play poker this well was incredibly sexy. Haha. But yeah, we made small talk for a couple hours, and she kept getting screwed by this drunk ass Asian guy down in Seat 1. I've never seen someone luck into KK that many times in an hour before...it was weird. And he was clearly terrible, and every time the action got to him we had to stop and wait because he didn't pay attention/didn't speak very good english. This sucked of course because he played every hand. More on that guy later though. Eventually this girl whose name I didn't even catch because I suck at life was in for $250 and got up and left, pissed because the Asian guy screwed her over again. And there I was, cursing myself because I didn't say anything. Dammit. Haha, I eventually went busto spaghetti-o's about 40 minutes later when this huge American Indian guy (codename: Tonto) couldn't lay down second pair against three bullets. Sigh.
Went back to Fallsview, ate at the buffet (which was TOTALLY not worth the money), and then napped for an hour. When I woke up I felt like a million bucks so I decided to walk back to Casino Niagara and not suck at poker this time around. It was the perfect night, and walking past the Falls was incredible...I wanna go back sometime soon. I told Joey that I want to take like 2k in the form of a bankroll, and go for a week and see what happens. That would be an awesome week. Anyways, when I got there and was going down the escalator, you'll never guess who I saw sitting in seat 4 at the same table as before. Yep. Mystery girl! So I promptly go sign up for a seat at 1/2, but there's like 5 people ahead of me, so I go put 5 bucks into a slot machine, hit the bonus thing, which wasn't big, but I turned 5 bucks into 22. Then I played a bit of roulette. This whole time I'm thinking "If there is a god, he will put me at the same table as this girl!" Well apparently god has a sense of humor, because when my pager went off, and I made my way back to the Poker room, it was revealed that I did draw the same table as her...and on top of that I drew seat 5, right next to her. Hahaha. Score. I opened with the line "Fancy seeing you here!" then decided suicide would probably be the best option because I'm incredibly lame. So after some small talk I learned her name was Maria, and it was cool because we had something to joke about, because the Asian Guy was still there in seat 1, like 3.5 hours later, and he was sitting with about 700 bucks in front of him (Somehow?! Idk how!! Mind you it's a $100 max). He was about 10 Heinekins deep (no lie) and nobody could understand a word he said. It would go check check, check check, then he would shove one huge stack of like $250 into the pot and laugh and say words that no one could understand. That's all beside the point of the story really, I'm just writing it down so I can look back on this and laugh at the memory of this dude. So let's get back to the part where god has a sense of humor. I got the seat right next to her, but oh wait, she's fucking wearing a rock on her finger! Table talk brings up the fact that she's engaged....fuck my life! As they would say....bad beat. I ended up doubling up when I had the nuts one hand (I felt like Phil Hellmuth) and I left the table with $157 ( I sat with $82...don't ask why the strange number, I don't know). Overall it was probably one of the most fun nights I had playing poker...especially the Arab guy in seat 3 who would proclaim every four minutes "I'm fucking drunk! Who wants to smoke a joint in the parking lot with me?!"
That last part was way too big. I should have broken that up. Sorry! Anyways, I ended up down like $21 on the trip, which isn't bad at all considering I probably spent about 11 hours in the casino.(Which did I mention is non-smoking?! It was like a godsend! Fresh air, yay!)I wanna go back...only for an extended period of time. I'm sick of hitting and running these card rooms, there's no time to grow...once you finally get used to play in the region and how things work, it's time to leave. Oh well...here's to going back again sometime soon!