Pissed off Whale leaves pit games to drop a money bomb in low-stakes poker room!
In Philadelphia, MS, the Golden Moon casino offers some of the best service, dealers, and mixed games in the area. What they do not offer is a high stakes, deep, No-limit cash game. Aside from the rare $5/$10 No-limit Hold'em game, the highest stakes Golden Moon offers is $2/$5 No-limit Hold'em, with a maximum buy-in of $500 or half of the largest stack at the table. The buy-in rule results in a culture where most players buy in short, and those few that want to play deep expect to almost never see enough money on the table to allow or justify having an ineffective stack.
Last month, that all changed. Poker players received the kind of gift they could expect if Santa played poker and rewarded boys and girls for being sick degenerates.
Sometime in the late afternoon a pit boss observed one of their most frequent whales losing large sums of money at the pit games. The pit boss made an off-hand comment that threw the whale into a tantrum, and he promptly picked up his money and left the floor. On his way back to his room, he caught sight of the inconspicuous Poker Room and wandered in. A player waiting for his seat reports he heard the whale murmur, "Gosh, didn't realize they played games in here, too."
The whale sat at the biggest game possible, the $2/$5 No-Limit Hold'em table, bought in for the maximum $500, and announced to the table, "Just want to let all of you know: you want to sit in this game, I'm making it $100 a hand." The players, perhaps unfamiliar with his status, laughed at what they thought was a joke, then watched in fascination, soon in glee, as every hand the whale raised the pot to $100. He didn't care about position. He didn't care what his cards were. He was here to gamble, and for a table of poker players, some who made their living at this table, they were here to let him.
Then the deck hit the whale in the face. A short-stack moved in with Q-Q over the whale's mandatory $100 pre-flop raise, and the whale called with 9-4 suited. On the river, the whale hit a flush, felting the short-stack. Soon the whale felted several others, amassing a stack over $1,500, one of the largest stacks this table had ever seen. Either on tilt, greed, or appreciation for their good fortune, players that never bought in for more than $200 now bought in for the maximum, a sum that started at $800, and by the end of the night would for some include their entire bankrolls for tens of thousands of dollars. At one point, some players had stacks dozens of times bigger than their normal buy-in, making the earlier $1,500 seem like a puddle next to a lake.
The Poker Room offered to set-up a $5/$10 game many of them had waited over a week to sit in, but when they saw the whale not even consider leaving the current table, they declined the invitation.
After more than 30 hours at the table, the deck cooled off and the whale dropped a money bomb into the players' laps totaling over $100,000. Some had lost their entire bankrolls, while others were looking forward to finally contributing to their children's college funds.
The whale stood up from the game with a grin, wished the players a good day, and left them with the comment, "This game's just too much luck for me. Think I'll go back to my regular games."
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