Thursday, 03/01/07

Morning –

I sat down for a session on FTP at the 10NL table and played two. I ran into the most interesting player I have seen to date. The guy was a nut! What a maniac. He played every hand, his raises were 7X, and he would C-bet the flop every time, and each one was an over bet. The guy was off the hook. He was winning though, and winning a lot. I sat by and watch all in shoves get run down time and time again. The betting would go like this:

Blinds are .5/.10 and the maniac would open with a raise of .70, a late position (LP) re-raise to 2.25, maniac would call.

Flop: Q82 rainbow, Maniac would bet $6.00, late position would shove, Maniac would call and the showdown would be: Maniac shows Q5, LP shows KK, turn is blank but the river is a 5! Maniac wins! This must have happened 3 times. The maniac would suck out very weak holdings. He grew is stack quickly and with power. I had never seen anything like it. At the end of 90 hands of play, his PT stats were: 100/55/13!

I sat there waiting and waiting to pounce, but it was the worst run of cards ever. Here I sit at a table where a guy is begging me to stack him, and I couldn’t find a face card, or pair to save my life. I wanted to be patient and attack him with a playable hand but nothing came my way. The frustration was incredible. So my hat is off to you happygouleh! Wait till next time! POKER!


Evening –

This is my Monday. Every Thursday is my Monday! Nothing special, just another day in the penitentiary. As I have said in previous posts, we prison guards love to put in the extra work. Overtime is a big part of many lives here. However, we like to put in the time on our schedule, and not the states. All of the hiring for overtime is done from a placed we call the Watch Office. The Watch Office is responsible for all the hiring of all the position within the walls. You see when someone calls in sick, or is in training, or on vacation, and so on, someone has to work their position. We all have jobs, but in reality, we are only position numbers, position numbers that require 24 hour staffing. This is how overtime is created. Someone is not filling a position number; therefore someone will be paid time and one-half to do so. It is very simple. There is involuntary and voluntary overtime. Voluntary overtime is just as it sounds, “I will be happy to work that position”. And involuntary overtime, well let’s just say it sucks. It goes like this; hey, this is the watch, you staying and working here. No ifs ands or buts, about it, you’re staying. Well it is my turn in the barrel. I went to sleep at 1:30am, got up at 7:30am, and I won’t be home until the following day at 7:00am. That is a full 23 ½ hours of being awake, of which I will be at work for 16 hours of it, just to sleep from 7:00am to 11:00am and risk the same horror again tomorrow evening. PRISON!