May Challenge, Day 4

Total Profits
Re-Bet, $894
Highwaytime, +$337
Carolina John, +$181

Biggest Stack
Highwaytime, $1,480

Opponent Knockouts
Highwaytime, 17
Carolina John, 16
Re-Bet, 15



Thirty-two hours of poker. Started out way in the hole but cashed out almost fifteen hundred. What a sick session.

It's funny how people view you as a wild and aggressive player when you accumulate a big chip stack. Don't get me wrong. When I'm sitting behind a thousand dollars or more in a $200-cap game I won't be playing timidly, but I'm not going to be trying to outplay the entire table every hand like some guys want to think I am. Last night I moved to a new table with a $1,400 stack. I hadn't been there for a whole button round when a hand came up where a lot players were limping into my straddle pot, and the player next to me said, "Wow, look at all these limpers. Everybody wants to play for four dollars. Of course knowing you, when it's your turn it'll suddenly be a hundred!" I had never seen this guy before and had played only one hand at his table, in which I was not out of line. But he was dead serious.

I won a lot of my chips in no limit crazy pineapple against the player known as Big Marietta or Crazy Town. He is a cheerful chemist who constantly looks like he just stepped out of a shower. Throughout the session he would lose hundreds at poker and leave the room and return a few hours later with blackjack winnings. Apparently he cannot possibly lose at blackjack. For a while it was three-handed crazy pineapple with Re-Bet and Big Marietta, and it was a bloodbath.

The crazy pineapple came to an end when the shift manager was called for a decision and realized for the first time that there was a no limit crazy pineapple game being played in his house. He said, "There is no such thing as no limit crazy pineapple," and told us that this would be the last hand. He gave an explanation why, basically that it is a game where players control too much of the action and a lot of disputes will arise, too many for a no limit game where whole stacks are at stake. I didn't agree but I didn't see any point in arguing. Other shift managers knew about it and allowed it and I will just play it again on someone else's shift.

So if we look at the scoreboard now, what do we find? The results are quite interesting, yes?