Well I bought my first wireless mouse and keyboard this week. The box says its a new revolutionary "laser mouse and keyboard". So far it seems to be going alright except I need a slicker mouse pad. I knew there was a catch somewhere. They always have to stick it to you somewhere so be warned!! Get a different mouse pad. I mean it isn't horrible I just want one a little slicker to make my life that much easier.
Well on the job front things pretty much suck. I mean I am excited to have a job and be in a place where I know I can help out.. but man.. I have never been surrounded by such incompetence in my entire life. Nobody has common sense and its really getting frustrating. I was hired as a roaming manager which means I wouldn't have my own store.. well after a week they decide that I need my own store.. which was the plan from the beginning but it was suppose to be after my initial 30 days. Well so far I have had to pretty much yell at everyone there just to do the most basic tasks that should be common sense. One example was a guy trying to pour mop water down the prep sink!!! Good thing I got to him before he did that. The list could go on for days and days.. but I will spare you all of that nonsense. I have been running specials that people seem to enjoy. Basically people order what you tell them to order anyway so I try to get the biggest ticket price out of them that I can. You could put a sign up that says one for twelve or 2 for twenty five and probably 3 out of 5 people would go for the 2 for 25 without thinking about it. Im sorry but my confidence in the American public in general is deteriorating at an alarming rate. People just cant think for themselves anymore. So far since I have been the GM I have had to either work all day long or come in every morning because of some problem that just couldn't be solved if I wasn't there (sarcasm off). I mean I have been there a whole 3 weeks so I must have all the answers (okay the sarcasm button was broken). OH MY GOSH THE SARCASM BUTTON IS BROKEN!!!! What are we going to do.. everything is getting big and surrounding me.. Does the world always look like marshmallows when the slightest thing goes wrong!!!! I cant handle any of this!!! Where is Chris he can magically fix everything! Get the picture? Moving on.
I couldn't go to the poker game last week and hell or high water Im going tomorrow night, I don't care if the store burns down. Damn that sarcasm button! Pretty much all the incompetence makes me look like an idiot too because its hard to control 5 other morons mistakes and talk to complaining customers long enough to actually manage anyone. The problem is that nobody has received any training what-so-ever and they normally have these kids start out on the busiest nights of the week. No one, not even the management can handle pressure and its just ridiculous. I don't know about all my fans, but I actually work better under pressure. I almost enjoy feeling the heat of making 100 orders and only having 3 people to do it all. Well we will never get there until people have had some real training, which is what I am to work on first. This store has the potential to be well over a million dollar a year location. I can make it happen, however, the employees at their current state couldn't handle a $2,000 day much less a $20,000 week. I am the master of big orders and most of the pizzas we sell are around 17 bucks a piece, that adds up quick. Just an example, one of the managers had an eleven pizza order and I just happened to be at the store and she couldn't handle it. ELEVEN PIZZAS!! I could cough out eleven pizza orders in my sleep. I have made 40 pizzas an hour before by myself, that's everything from taking the order to cutting the pizza and every step in between. I just work with a bunch of cry babies. Its amazing to see someone need two people on the ovens for eleven pizzas when I worked at Papa Johns and have seen so many pizzas coming out of the oven you didn't have a choice but have 2, and some cases even 3 people running the ovens and cut table. LOL.. these people don't know what busy is. We are getting a ton of business just because of where we are but we are far from busy. We haven't even advertised yet because the staff cant handle what is going on right now much less any more. Again I could go on for days.. .
My plan tomorrow night at the game is to just do the same thing I do every week. Bring the total domination and make them wish they never started playing Hold 'em to begin with. Actually I like to make it look like I get so lucky, but the sad truth is.. I do get incredibly lucky.. but the real sad truth is that they are the ones giving me the chips so is it really luck after all. You do have to get lucky in hold 'em but not like people think. Most of the luck you will need is catching a bigger hand when someone else has caught a hand they wont let go of but a hand that you have beat. Like catching a set when someone has two pair or when they have top pair top kicker and you have a big over pair. Being on the losing side of those hands and being able to fold and wait for a better situation is where all the patience comes in. They call me lucky but they don't realize how many times I have folded KK or AA to them after the flop or turn when I know they made their hand. Or how many times with regularity I am able to throw away top pair top kicker if I smell trouble. Or exactly how I know when my ace high is good against their busted draws. They call them horrible plays but they just don't realize that I know right where they are at most of the time. The difference is they wont be able to fold in the same spots I can and that is where I take advantage of their bad play. That is why I can get away with playing more hands than they can. I can throw them away when I don't catch the flop I need.
My big thing lately is 7 Stud high/low, also known as 7 Stud 8 or better.. (stud 8OB). That game is so misplayed by nearly everyone because of the split pot potential when they don't realize that they are losing money in the long run. Like when you are heads up with someone and you have a low draw and he obviously has a high and you are on 5th street when the bets double and its the first bet in the pot besides the antes. People call there when they should fold nearly all the time. If you are playing .50/$1 lets say and the antes are 10 cents a piece.. at most you are going to have 80 cents in the middle. Calling $1 to win 40 cents or less just doesn't seem profitable to me especially if you have no way to scoop the whole pot. Not to forget the potential for another call on 6th and 7th streets, so you actually have $3 in the pot to try and win 40 cents... then after the rake you generally end up losing money on a pot that you "won" half of. Whats sad is the game isn't really that complicated.. its actually easier for me than Hold 'em is. I split a $60 pot at .5/$1 limit a few days ago. Thats 60 big bets.. and if you have ever seen a pot that big in limit hold 'em.. that was probably the loosest table on earth.. well those aren't that uncommon at Stud 8OB but 60 big bets for any limit is still a huge pot. You see you only really win 25% of the split pot not 50% like people think, and its because you have to contribute money to the pot also.. So its normally somewhere around the 25% range.. On that $60 pot I contributed $16 of my own money and my share of the pot was 50% or $29.58 according to my history log.. so that only leaves $13.58 to profit after the rake and all that. So you see the game is deceptive in that respect and pots can get huge fast because of that, and the extra betting round compared to hold 'em adds to that. It is actually my favorite game overall, and I think if more people understood the game they would make it theirs too. It is just so much more interesting that hold 'em, even NL hold 'em could ever be. NL tournaments are right behind Stud H/L in my book and I really would love to play in some Stud H/L tournaments. One of my dreams is to play the Stud H/L tournament in the WSOP. The buy-ins are much cheaper and who knows, if I could win I might take on the big one next. See you in Vegas.
That reminds me that I will be going to Jackpot, NV in a few weeks! I will let you know how that goes for me. I have a feeling Im going to be playing mostly 3/6 or 4/8 while Im there. I haven't built my bankroll up again to play any higher than that yet.
