Real Kato Blog: Meh

I'm just not into it today. I feel all logy.

I'm still stewing about a poker game from Saturday, and it's not just that I lost. It's a particular incident that happened in the middle of the evening.

I'd been eliminated from the first tournament, and several of us set up a small cash game while waiting for the second round. I handled the bankroll, giving each person $500 in chips for a $20 buy-in.

A couple of folks who came into the cash game a little later complained about the structure. "Four cents a point? We don't have pennies... how are you going to pay that out?" So they proceeded to waste the next twenty minutes restructuring the chips, changing denominations and quantities so that we had $2000 in chips. Instead of chips being worth $5, $25, $50, and $100 (as we usually have in our tournament games), they decided we'd use $10, $25, $50, and $200 chips.

But here's the thing: in my system, the smallest chip denomination ($5) was worth $0.20. In their system, the smallest chip denomination ($10) was worth $0.10. So PLEASE explain to me how that makes it easier to pay out (other than the fact that you don't have to multiply by four, an argument I would accept if we were all first-graders).

So we blew a bunch of time redistributing chips, and there was much confusion because the chip denominations had changed. I was only given $1950 in chips to start, and it took a minute of counting and recounting to prove that I was short. (Three other guys were similarly short-changed.) And throughout the game, people made betting mistakes because they were used to the old denominations.

And in the end, no one was paid out using any coins because (as I expected) we rounded the all the payouts to the nearest dollar.

In retrospect, this seems like a pretty silly thing to get upset about... but I guess my pride was wounded when people came in and re-jiggered my cash game structure, when the structure was totally fine as it was. I don't like being told condescendingly that I'm wrong when, in fact, I'm right.

When you combine that with my general irritation about the blind structure in the tournaments, and the fact that I haven't won in I-don't-know-how-long, I'm thinking: maybe I should just not play. It's too often that I end the evening crabby and frustrated, and this time that feeling has carried over into today. Why should I participate in something that makes me feel that way?

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Posted by Ken in: life

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Comment #1 from Glenny (Guest)
2008 Jan 7 - 4:07 pm : #

Ken,

We all have bigger fish to fry. We need to count our blessings. I am glad that this is the most major problem everything else must be GREAT.

Oh And did you really go all in with Kings and take your better half out.
hee hee.

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