Spiritual Enlightenment In the Sporting Emporium Part2

ianmc38

Last night I graced the Fitz with my presence after 6 months or so of abstinence, for the €50 double chance. After 5 hours of play, I eventually went out in a cruel 11th, one off the bubble.

Feeling pretty tilty, I headed off to the Sporting Emporium to donk off some money at the cash table. As I took my seat, I look across the table to see none other than the infamous Buddha. After missing with a big slick and getting rivered when I made a good call with 66, the tiltometer was going through the roof.

Buddha as always remained in a trance like state, saying very little other than po’. Action on Buddha - po’. Raise to Buddha – repo’, completely at one with everything.

I’d literally raised every pot at the table preflop, with very little belief from the other players.
UTG, I picked up seven without even looking at my cards and threw them over the line. No value in playing limped pots. Quick glance down and I take a peek at two sweet black aces. Only 2 callers and the action is on the old sage. He stares me down and says po’. Ho ho ho my friend, you are going down Chinatown.

So I dwell and dwell. Then I dwell a little more. I tell Buddha he’s only raising because he’s on the button and that I’m gonna try to dog him. So I flat call. There’s one other non believer too.

The flop is 4c6c8s. I can see Buddha hates it, but that won’t stop him from uttering po’ if he thinks everyone else has missed. Check-check-po’.

I push for an extra 120 or so. The other limper folds and I can see Buddha is in the horrors. He picks up his cards and shuffles them through his hands. He always does this when he’s about to fold. Disaster. Don’t fold. Quick, I have to do something.

Then, I too feel the enlightenment reached by many others who’ve played with this man. I announce to the table that I have nothing, nada, zilch, but that Buddha was raising with AK or AQ and has absolutely none of the flop. Everyone nods in agreement and there are lots of smiles around the table. I look him in the eye and say I know you’ve missed so throw your cards in the muck.

I can see he’s quickly losing his equilibrium. There’s fire in his eyes and there’s a real person with real emotions trying to burst through. Bang. “OK” he says, and then slams his chips on the table.

Turn and river brings two rags. Buddha looks at me as if to say what you got. I turn over the ace of clubs. His eyes light up. There’s a small smile forming. He reaches for his cards and as he does so, I flick over the other ace. He glances over and the smile quickly turns to a frown. A big frown. He mucks.

I then engage in another Zen practice taught by the great man himself, by punching the air in delight, rubbing salt in the wounds of the wise one. He immediately stands up and storms out of the building absolutely disgusted.

Having been slowrolled by him on numerous occasions, I’d been dreaming of that moment for a long time. I mentioned my plan in a thread last week, thnking it would be a long time before I had such an opportunity. Less than a week later and I’ve fulfilled one of my biggest poker ambitions. Lol.

Life is good.

fuzzbox

I recommend a course in anger management

El Stuntman

Ian, you have no idea how happy you have just made me

califano

What did it feel like to hit that son of a bitch!?

careca

ok stupid question. Is buddha same guy as chief brody.
If no, who is buddha (religious answers not allowed).

second stupid question. who is chief brody (jaws answers not allowed).

5starpool

careca wrote:

ok stupid question. Is buddha same guy as chief brody.
If no, who is buddha (religious answers not allowed).

second stupid question. who is chief brody (jaws answers not allowed).

Buddah is a chinese type guy, chief brody is an irish guy. I believe chief brodys real name is anthony something or other or so I read in some blog entry or post somewhere.

careca

ok, think i know buddha now. chief brody, still lost.

5starpool

well if you have ever seen the pics you will know if you know him or not.

califano

This is the guy pretty much!.

http://cinedestin.privatedns.com/acteurs/scheider.jpg

careca

I knew the actor, but for the life of me I can't place the fitz regular that matches his description. doh.

califano

careca wrote:

I knew the actor, but for the life of me I can't place the fitz regular that matches his description. doh.

Yeah i think he doesnt play cash games and i'd say you'd be more familiar with cash game players in the S.E?
BTW he's not a fitz regular hes a S.E regular. I dont think he plays at all in the fitz. He's a tournament 'specialist'.

Washout

was at the same table with the chief monday night in the SE .... does he only have one jumper?

its a salmon coloured one... and boys you guys are so right about him....he sure loves his drawing hands and hits too!

careca

rounders123 wrote:

Yeah i think he doesnt play cash games and i'd say you'd be more familiar with cash game players in the S.E?
BTW he's not a fitz regular hes a S.E regular. I dont think he plays at all in the fitz. He's a tournament 'specialist'.

Fair enough, prob don't know him so. Must point him out to me next time I'm in SE.

ionapaul

Well, he only has one lucky poker jumper in any case! Maybe he uses his considerable tournament profits to buy one for every night of the week? I believe he wears it so the rest of us can easily identify the Outdraw God's earthly messiah...if water was involved in poker somehow you'd be sure the Chief would walk across it, with a smug grin on this face.

Danger, tilt rising, better stop posting

5starpool

I hate to break it to you but he does have more than one jumper. He was wearing a different coulored one last Friday in the Gresham when I played beside him in a satellite. And to add to the info above, I have never seen him in the Fitz.

ianmc38

rounders123 wrote:

What did it feel like to hit that son of a bitch!?

Without a doubt one of the most satisfying moments ever in my entire time playing poker. It was beautiful.

I've also seen the chief wearing a different jumper before. Only once and he went out early. salmon is his lucky colour. plays s/e cash and tourneys. never seen him anywhere else.

5starpool

what table you on in the fitz dc last night Ian?

ianmc38

Table 2. I was at the same table as Big Dragon i think, but I didn't really say much at the table. I think there were one or two other boardsies there as well.

spectre

Was it Vernon who knocked you out Ian? He had about half of the chips in play going to the final table.

I was in seat 6 on the first table on the right hand side, and seat 1 of the final table. I'm sure I've played with lots of ye before but would like to be able to put a few names to faces. Which table were you at 5starpool?

5starpool

I was on table 3, probably the same one as you spectre by the sounds of it. Beside the toliet door upstairs? I was in seat 9 unsuccessfully bluffing and getting no cards at all.

You are not who I was thinking you might be Ian.

ianmc38

No Vernon was a ridiculous caper though. Isolating with Kc3c. made me bubble by doubling up the uber-shortstack by pushing with J3o. I was card dead for the last 3 levels, with raises before me on every hand, so got blinded down to 12k with blinds at 800/1500 and got it all in with KQo vs AKo. Hohum. No Q and it's good night from me.

Vernon had a monster stack when i left to go to the S/E.

ianmc38

5star do you have red hair?

5starpool

If I had much hair then it would still not be red.

spectre

Same table as yourself then 5star. At what stage were you knocked out? There was a couple of people in seat 9 throughout the night. I was in seat 6 all night until the FT.

El Stuntman

who cares about all this crap?

rejoice in the destruction of Buddha!!

5starpool

I thought I had replied already but obviously forgot to press the button

I was in seat 9 from the start until near the end of the 200-400 level at about 11.20 I believe. I was chatting to Nick the dealer a lot after the break.

El Stuntman

Ian - you need to change your name to 'Taliban'

"The Man who Destroyed the Giant Buddha"

ianmc38

Unfortunately Buddhas stack got reincarnated when he came back a few hours later. not by me luckily.

Board - Q569 and an absolute rock who'd shown AA, KK, AK, AQ only raised preflop, 75 on the flop and 200 on the turn putting Buddha all-in.

The rock had KK. Buddha had Q8. River - 8. he must have gone off and meditated for a few hours to reallign his chi.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

Unfortunately Buddhas stack got reincarnated when he came back a few hours later. not by me luckily.

Board - Q569 and an absolute rock who'd shown AA, KK, AK, AQ only raised preflop, 75 on the flop and 200 on the turn putting Buddha all-in.

The rock had KK. Buddha had Q8. River - 8. he must have gone off and meditated for a few hours to settle his chi.

chi is a Taoist concept Ian, not Buddhist....

after all your exposure to bizarre semi-religious experiences in the SE recently I'm surprised you didn't know that

how did Buddha react to his suckout - more fistpumping, non-dealer tipping etc?

dammit, now I just have to go in there and bust him tonight....

ianmc38

I think in the pot of 600+ he gave the dealer 1 euro. Very generous of him. And yes lots of fist pumping as if he'd made a great call and knew the 8 was coming. I shall be in there tonight, cash game only though as i need a power nap after work.

RoundTower

Wow, what a dick.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

I think in the pot of 600+ he gave the dealer 1 euro. Very generous of him. And yes lots of fist pumping as if he'd made a great call and knew the 8 was coming. I shall be in there tonight, cash game only though as i need a power nap after work.

hoping to get in around 11 - will be drinking first though so there may be fireworks....and bad karma in spades

introduce yourself if you're around - we share a common bond!! I'll be the guy stinking of guinness mercilessly re-potting with rags

ianmc38

El Stuntman wrote:

hoping to get in around 11 - will be drinking first though so there may be fireworks....and bad karma in spades

introduce yourself if you're around - we share a common bond!! I'll be the guy stinking of guinness mercilessly re-potting with rags

what you look like. i'm sure we've played together before especially if you know HalfBaked who's a friend.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

what you look like. i'm sure we've played together before especially if you know HalfBaked who's a friend.

30-ish (on a good day), short brown hair, white-ish shirt with dodgy stripes today partnering equally dodgy brown trousers

look for the telltale guinness stains for real proof of identity