Thursday, January 26, 2012

[x] Hubris

I was going to write a long post entailing what just happened to me, but I need to curl up in the fetal position and sleep it off so I'll just hit the high points. For the second time this week I got picked up from the 40 literally minutes before my shift was to end (earlier this week the floorman got me by less than 5 seconds; my blind was out and if I took it I was safe), so I headed to LA's friendliest. I arrived at 4:15, waited until 4:45, got a 40 seat, didn't post, got a 60 seat in a must move game from 20th on the list, lost almost a rack in 30 minutes, got buttoned, and the game broke. So I got a 40 seat in a must move game, in which I played for about 45 minutes, lost a rack and a half (including KK < QQ on JT4-9-8 and red AA < KTdd on 943ddd to the same player in the same orbit), managed not to get buttoned, and the game broke. So it's 6:45pm, I've been in the room 2.5 hours, have lost about $3000 and have broken game status in both the 60 AND the 40. That's got to be a difficult feat to achieve, really it does. Eventually I got my 40 seat, played a lap, then got a seat in the main 60 which was amazing and lost another rack and a half in 2 hours, bringing the total damage up near the $6000 mark. All this after basically quitting my shift not sure if I was up or down.

4 comments:

that_pope said...

So whats the deal, they can pick you up while you are still on shift to give your seat to a player, but if your shift is over, you can stay? Seems kinda shady of them to do that IMO.

avoidthe9to5 said...

yup that's how it works... and standard... they play favorites -_-

jesse8888 said...

Pope, that's exactly how it works. If you're off you're supposed to be a customer and if you're on you're an open seat. People are pretty used to it. Avoid, that's no longer happening since the schism.

This week the two pickups were just brutal. In the first I literally had slung my blind into the pot, the dealer was picking up the deck and the floorman told me he needed a seat. I was 2 minutes from the end of my shift, so it was my turn to get up; staying would have been cheating another prop out of game time. In the second a 20/40 game broke and my seat was promised to a regular customer without my knowledge, even though I was off shift. I could have told him I was off, but that would have just been incredibly rude.

jesse8888 said...

In my comment "so it was my turn to get up" should have read "it just happened to me my turn to get up".