Still Alive

From a $60 buyin 

Yep, I'm still here, y'all. Haven't forgotten about this blog, I have just been super busy the last few weeks! Between work & family events, my free time has been so short. I haven't even been able to squeeze in any poker time! It will be at least Tuesday before I can make my way to Tunica again...but for now, I do have a poker story involving my husband to share. 

He's a truck driver and his most frequent run is a delivery in Reno, Nevada. There are mini casinos in the stores & gas stations everywhere out there, including the truck stop where he stays. They have a small poker room that's usually spreading just one table of 3/6 limit holdem. They will switch to NL if requested, but everyone at the table has to agree, so that's rare. 

The above picture is one he sent me a few days ago. He was seated to the right of a guy who was getting wasted on shots of Jager and beer chasers. Drinking one shot after another, playing crazy with any two cards, tipping dealers when he wasn't even in the hand and even throwing chips to the nearby blackjack dealer...LOL. Tipping everybody, losing pots he'd capped all the way. Literally throwing his money away. Good times!

Eventually, the Jagermeister got to him (not sure, but isn't that German for instant asshole?) and turned the nice guy into an aggressive jerk. He was trying to get Russell to do shots with him, but he kept declining. Then the waitress came by and the guy ordered his shot plus one for my husband. Russell was about to say no to her when the drunk guy suddenly grabbed his head! He had one hand behind Russell's head and the other covering his mouth in an attempt to keep him from saying no...Well that didn't go over too well with Russell. He didn't want some stranger's dirty hands on his face, I don't blame him! So, he grabbed the guys hand, twisted it hard and told him, sternly, he needed to relax. I guess he realized he'd went too far and he did calm down for a little while, but then he started being rude to the dealers and was eventually told to leave for the night. But not before Russell got a nice chip stack from the guy. And a story to tell, ha!