Last night a couple of buddies and I went to the Bradley/Campbell fight at Agua Caliente casino a couple of hours from San Diego. We felt like high rollers since my friend Justin splurged and got floor tickets for the three of us, which turned out to be an excellent decision. The fights themselves actually turned out to suck pretty hard, since both of the losers in the main two fights (Bradley/Campbell and Witter/Alexander) just quit on their stools between rounds without even getting into that much action. Witter claimed some sort of elbow injury. Campbell quit basically hoping that the cut on his eye would be ruled to be caused by a headbutt (it still might be), resulting in a no contest rather than the certain, yet probably entertaining, loss he was headed towards.
But all was not lost, as we did some serious hob-nobbing before and during the fights, starting with Johnny Bench. That's right, Johnny Fawking Bench. I shook his hand, took a picture with him (see above, for some reason Blogger forces me to put all pics at the beginning of the post), even joked with him for a little bit. The first thing that I noticed was his hands. I have pretty big hands myself, but this dude just has absolute meathooks. He's a couple inches shorter than me, but if felt like shaking hands with Andre The Giant. He also seemed like a really nice guy, taking pictures with anyone who asked.
We also got to sit next to frequent California referee Jack Reese (see above for photo of me and Jack). This guy knows a LOT about boxing. He also was genuinely surprised and honored that we recognized him and knew his name and whatnot. Anyway, he sat next to us throughout the entire TV card and pointed out a lot of stuff to us that we wouldn't have otherwised noticed.
Cris Arreola was there as well. That guy is massive. He's got a date with Klitschko in Staples Center on Sept. 26, there's definitely a good chance I'll be at that one.
We were hoping that Shane Mosley might be there as well, since he shows up at a lot of cards in Southern California, but he wasn't. We saw one guy that we were pretty sure was his dad, but Shane himself did not make an appearance.
Of course after the fights ended early we hit the tables for a little gambling. I sat at a very juicy 3/6 limit table but was pretty card dead and lost $75 in 3-4 hours of playing. Those tables can be frustrating, because the rake is big, and winning a pot without showdown is VERY rare (probably 80% of hands go to showdown, maybe more), so you just have to keep patient and keep paying blinds and rake while you wait. And of course your top pair or whatever will get rivered plenty of the time since it's usually 4-way or something ridiculous the whole way down. But whatever, it was a fun time. We capped it off of course with a trip to Denny's (a boxing tradition for us) on the way home.
All in all, a good night at the fights, even with limited action in the ring. Can't wait until our next boxing trip, which should be Mayweather/Marquez in Vegas.
-BRUECHIPS
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5 comments:
Hey Brue-
R U Chasidic? With the hat & jacket, you look like a black-hatter.
-Poker Meister
http://lowstakeshands.blogspot.com
Ha, nope, I'm not Hasidic (sp?). We just decided to get a little classed up since we had good seats and the hat was part of the get-up. It's actually kind of a navy color, just the colors in the photo aren't great.
Johnny Bench, huh? I am not sure I would have recognized him. I used to love watching him, Pete Rose, and the Big Red Machine.
Johnny Bench? Awesome, dude!
for some reason Blogger forces me to put all pics at the beginning of the post
It does that, but then you cut and paste them to put them where you like. Each shot starts with (a less than sign)a onblur etc. If you add two photos at once, the second one you add will be on top, for some reason...go figure.
And of course your top pair or whatever will get rivered plenty of the time
I'm sure you know this, but in a limit game, it's profitable to play hands like 10-9 off, A-X suited or even K-x suited. These play well in multi-way pots and you'll have implied odds to continue on after the flop if it hits you. TPTK will get run down more often than not.
Yea, I think you can play those profitably in games where there's just no raising pre-flop. I think there was one other player at the table that ever raised once before the flop, and she showed down KK. In that kind of situation, I think you can limp behind T9o if there are a few callers ahead of you.
Unfortunately I didn't even get dealt a monster like T-high. I had basically 5-6 playable hands...had AQ in a kill pot, raised, got called down on a K96J5 board and had to check/fold the river. I had JJ, raised a couple of limpers, flop came AQx, bet and a call in front of me, easy pitch there. I had KTo one other time, raised when it miraculously folded to me on the CO, called by the bb, KQQ frop, lost a couple of bets to Q6o. Another time I raised fairly early with AJo, called by the blind, frop J85 all hearts, bb check/calls my c-bet, turn offsuit K, he leads out, I call, river check/check and he shows Kc3c. Well played, sir. I won a small pot with QT and another small one with 88, but I think that was about it. The rest of the time I was folding 94o, etc.
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