EdmondDantes says

The "Cover your chips!" is classic. I love the HG!

10/17/07

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I had a few hours to kill today so I went down to HG to try some $100 NL.

Sat down after waiting about 10 min. At the table one guy had about $700 or so, one had $300 and the rest were around or under 100.

Few hands in and i'm to 80 or so in chips and get QQ.
Someone makes it 10. I raise to 20. three callers (including both of the big stacks).
flop is something like 442. Big stack bets 25. One player folds. I push. Other player calls, big stack calls.
turn is 5, the other two players bet 20. river is K big stack bets 50 or so and other player folds. My queens win it.

continue to play but not getting many good cards.
Another hand it's me and a short stack heads up. He makes it 20 preflop. I call with JQ. Flop is 10KA. He bets his last 40$ and I call. He had pocket 5's but it does him no good.

Also flop top pair (aces) with a good kicker but get beat by the guy to my left with a straight. Only cost me 10-15$ a bet though, so not too bad.

Last notable hand is A3. Flop is 533. Checks all around. Next card is K Player to my right bets 10. I call. Two or three other callers. Last card is a 7 or other non-threatening card. He bets 10 again. I make it 30. One call one fold, original better fold. trip 3's takes it.

Then comes an interesting hand (that i'm not in). One player has $26 left and puts it all in preflop. 3 callers. Flop is 10JQ. Big stack bets 30 or something. Next player to act makes it $95. Next player to act goes all in for about $200. Big stack goes all in. It's to the $95 raiser to act. But dealer burns and turns the turn. which happens to be another 10. Players get very mad and the floorman gets called over. Their rules for this situation is that a new turn card is dealt, the 10 is shuffled back into the deck and the river is dealt. the original $26 all in player is FURIOUS cussing out the dealer/floorman/casino saying that is complete BS and they should reimburse him. Other players are very mad at the dealer for messing up the hand and ruining any possible jackpot (straight/royal flush was a possibility I think). This goes on for about 5 minutes and people start to come over to see what's happening. But floorman says sorry this is the rules, no reimbursements. The 95$ raiser folds. the original all in player is still fuming mad. Big stack says "it's okay it could come up on the river!" Obviously he doesn't want that card. Finally the dealer finishes the hand and two other non interesting cards are delt. Turns out original all in player had J10 (would have had boat but just had 2 pair). Big stack had K9 for the straight. Other all in player mucked. The dealer was replaced after the hand and the big stack gave the $26 all in pot to the player who should have won it.

I've seen the misdeal thing happen once or twice in the 20/40 room but no one seemed to care as it wasn't a big deal for that hand.

Played a bit more but nothing interesting. Then all of a sudden darkness. few people start to yell "cover your chips". 5 or 10 seconds later the generators kick in and lights come back on. Apparently it happens from time to time here. The tv's and the table computers (used for the players card tracking) are still off though. Someone said the cameras don't lose power when it happens, but I don't see how that matters unless they're night vision as it's completely dark.

Played a few more hands but got nothing. Cashed out at $287 for a $187 win. Peak chip count was $320 or so.

So in conclusion, the $100 game is pretty loose. I was very surprised how many family pots there were. You can see alot of flops for 3$ and if you hit a monster hand get alot of callers.