Re: TRIP REPORT (one week late)

Stephen Blackstock (bozo_-_AT_-_world.std.com)
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:58:08 -0400

At 2:31 AM 4/11/96, Jazbo Burns wrote:
>Tim wrote:
>>I think about rebuying, but just then another seat opens and Jesse (a local
>>semipro) sits down. His wife Karen is also at the table. No thank you.
>>I'll just say this about them: I have been involved in filing former
>>complaints with both the Taj poker room and the casino control commission
>
>Sippy wrote:
>>When someone told me that there was a married couple, both skilled locals,
>>playing the pot-limit game, it was enough to keep me out of it. Seemed
>>like a lose-lose situation. Did anyone see anything fishy going on
>>with them? In the little bit that I watched, I never saw them both
>>play in the same hand, so couldn't see anything.
>
>I've played with Karen and Jesse many times at the Taj and was at the
>table with them for many hours in the pot limit game. I respect what
>Tim has to say, but I've never seen a fishy move by them -- rest
>assured I'm alert for such. Of course, if they were using subtle
>signals I could miss them, but during the later part of the pot limit
>game Jesse was sleeping between hands and even between rounds -- I
>doubt he was sending any info to her end of the table.
>
>--jazbo

Jazbo -
Remember the hand that Jessie made a bundle from? He was in the one seat
against a fairly aggressive player in the 7 seat. Jessie had AA, player7
had KK. The board came JT9, and a raising war ensued, during which I was
*completely convinced* that both players had KQ. I was absolutely floored
when they turned over their hands.

During the game, Karen spent some time in the 3 or 4 seat and some time in
the 8 seat. If she was in the 8 seat at this time, she might have seen KK
in player7's hand and signaled Jessie. I'm not saying this is likely, just
possible.

It certainly was a strange hand. Jessie probably made six or seven hundred
off the hand, and to do it he had to reraise player7 all-in after a pot
raise by player7 and a very scary flop.

Actually, if I remember correctly, the reraise cause someone in the middle
(the 3 seat, maybe?) to lay down QQ rather than call something like $400
cold. Perhaps Jessie and player7 were colluding?

-Bozo

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