Leaving Alberquerque

I'm sitting in the airport today, waiting for my flight to board to California, where we'll be spending our remaining 7 days on tour. A week from now, I'll be in (hopefully) sunny Bellport in rehearsals for Oliver. Alberquerque was a fun town this weekend. We did the customary 5 show weekend, but found 2 casinos nearby and decided to give them a shot.

The Isleta was a closer casino, but a little bit smaller than most. The poker room had about 8 tables I suppose and they actually played Stud 8/B in the afternoon when the old guys were there. I would've loved to play but unfortunatly had shows both afternoons. I sat down in a 1/2 blinds, $2-$10 Spread Limit HE game. It wasn't the right fit for me as there was a hyper aggro guy 3 to my right who was clearly controlling the tone of the game. I was able to flop a set with 55 and get paid off nicely, and left the game up $43. I saw the really passive 2/4 game that my 2 frieneds were sitting in and decided to sit down. Over the course of an hour with KK being the only big hand, I left up $136. We then returned and had a glorious middle of the night meal at Waffle House.

Saturday night after 2 shows we took the drive to the Sandia Casino, probably about 20 miles away. It's funny when you hear the inflection in people's voices about how far away this was. *Front desk guy* "Well, that one's kinda out there, past I-4, prolly a good 15-20 miles." I guess when you routinely drive 300 miles or more on a daily basis, 20 miles is a walk in the park. Also, the company provided us rental cars and we weren't responsible for the gas, so c'mon, this is a no brainer.

The game they had there was a $4-8 game with a 1/2 kill to $6-12. Damn the game was good! The kill pots were so easy to win as no one wanted to invest a preflop raise. I raised 85% of the kill pots with random hands, bet on the flop and took down 5/6 of them. Nothing of note to talk about, just ran well, as I've been doing usual and took a $196 profit in 2.5 hours. My friends were playing in the 2/4 game so I sat down to kill time. I got slowrolled not once, not twice, but 3 times in 15 minutes by the same guy and I quit, down $50 and disgusted by what had happened. He would intentionally miscall his hand on the river, I'd show and then he'd table them, and the dealer would figure out he was kidding. The fact that he thought he was so clever too was icing on the cake. He wasn't wearing sunglasses (a favorite of mine at low limit hold em tables) but he was a donkey still the same, just a different costume.

So, Sunday night comes around, and we go back to Sandia, I sit in the 4/8 game, and who's there? Slowrolling donkey! He ends up going broke with 75o on a J7396 board. I never really got anything going, flopped Tens full with AT on a ATT board. Got called by AJ. At my peak I was up $60 and then the poker gods decided my hands were not meant to run well. Just one of those sessions, everyone's been there. AK AQ all the flops come 842 rainbow and it's 2 bets to you by the time you get it. You miss every draw and the cards just don't go your way. Down $195 I called it quits, leaving me up $87 for the weekend. This was the first day in 2 weeks that poker wasn't fun. Let's hope it becomes fun again soon.

Home in a week! Monteith out!