--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mike" <melbedewy1226@...> wrote:
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> I never knew you had traveled that far east Mickey.
> Ever make it to Atlantic City.
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No, I've never made it to the East Coast. My guess is I probably never will as I'm not so crazy about the long distance travel anymore. I made some forays into the midwest from the early nineties to the early 2000's.
The first was about 1994 when I was playing the low-limit stud hi-lo games. I first hit Mesquaki at Tama, Iowa. The game there was so-so, but an Omaha player told me about a very loose Stud 8 game at Soaring Eagle.
I got there and sure enough it was a very loose $3-$6 game. But the dealing was abysmal-maybe 18 hands an hour. I had gotten spoiled at the Phoenix House in Cripple Creek, Colorado where their dealers were requried to average 28 hands per hour and the best could do 35. But I got into a hand one day in that $3-$6 Soaring Eagle game where I snagged a $500+ pot. I've never seen it before or since. I think I'm gonna try to reconstruct the hand and put it in a Delia and Johnny story. All the stars had lined up right. Everyone was deep stacked enough, two players were rolled with trips on third street and jammed the pot on every street, but all eight players went to the River. I snagged the pot with a flush and a wheel. I think I'm gonna call the story The Community Card.
But I eventually got tired of the slow dealing and headed back to the Mountain States. I made a couple more forays to the Midwes which I'll put in a later post.
