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08-24-2005, 03:25 PM
We got so many submissions for last week's Write to Win topic, On Tilt, that we've decided to extend the topic until this week and post the other finalist's entries.
So, all you have to do is vote for your favorite submission and the winner will receive a HP tournament ticket! What's more, a randomly selected voter will snag HP gear!
Entry 1
On Tilt
By Darren aka “tadaco.com” on HollywoodPoker.com
It was a deathly hot and smazey day,
so I logged on Hollywood Poker to play
some short-handed Hold ‘em, 20 bucks a pop.
And after a few wins I just couldn’t stop.
I was on a roll and up quite a few.
I had no choice of what to do
next, so I upped the ante and logged right in
to a 50 buck table, aspiring to win.
I was on my game, and took two players out.
Then it happened, shadowed with doubt,
I couldn’t believe my luck as I drew
pocket Aces, and how great cause I knew
that the guy to my right had a big hand too!
He checked, and then raised, without a clue.
I jumped out of my chair when the flop hit
(no need for a poker face when at home you sit).
An Ace with two twos, a rainbow at that.
I knew my stack was gonna get fat!
I smooth called when he bet, then the turn
showed a Jack, for sure I would earn
The rest of his chips, when he went all in
and the cards flipped up, I was sure I would win.
The river brought the last Jack in the Deck,
and with it the end of my winning trek.
The very next hand I went all in -- pocket fives,
figuring I had only lost one of nine lives.
The same guy called with Jack deuce.
I thought this guy must be obtuse.
But, of course, on the River he hit.
To hell with this “Live & Die by the River” s#@t!
So I quickly entered another short game;
No way could my play turn so bad and so lame.
The very first hand I hit my Ace King
with two pair on the flop what a beautiful thing!
But the guy raised me, so I raised back
Then he went all in with his equal stack.
Fearing only trips, I had the right stuff.
So, of course, I called his measly bluff.
Then the turn and the river made him a straight.
No way could this losing streak be my fate.
So I went in again, this losing must stop!
I still was up chips, I was still on top
of my game, so I said to myself,
Just one more win before I shelf
this game for the day. Little did I know
that combined with the heat, my head was in snow
filled with rage over the loss of the chip stack I’d built.
Then I realized that I must be On-Tilt!
I took a deep breath, stepped back from my game.
It was me, not Hollywood Poker, to blame
I shook off the tilt, got out of my haze
Came in second, logged off, and went out in the smaze.
Entry 2
Tilt
tilt, tilt, horrible tilt
the more we stew
the more we wilt
the more we wilt
the more they thrive
so get off tilt to stay alive
(MinnesotaRon)
Entry 3
TILT
(a true story)
I was at the Silver Star casino, in Philadelphia Mississippi. My friend Ronnie and I went over for a day of poker. When we got to the poker room we found that all the Hold’em tables were full and there was a long waiting list. The poker room manager said that there were openings now for 1/5 Seven Card Stud. Ronnie and I put our names on the waiting list for Hold’em and I took one of the empty seats on the 1/5 Seven Card Stud tables. Ronnie chose to wait on a Hold’em seat to come open.
Not long after I sit down at the table another player came and sat in the other vacant seat. He declared, “Hi all, I’m a shill/prop and by the rules of the casino I have to tell everyone at the table”. “Fine, good. I don’t care if you are the Queen of Sheba as long as you got money”, I said.
A ‘shill/prop’ is a casino employee who plays with his own money but can only play at tables where there is a vacancy or start a game up. He/she cannot play in a game that he/she runs or deals. A blackjack dealer can play any game except blackjack. A poker dealer can play in any game except poker and so on and so forth.
A ‘shill’ is a casino employee that is paid to start up tables and fill empty seats and uses the casino’s money. He/she doesn’t get to keep the money which he wins but if he loses, it’s the casino’s money.
A ‘prop’ is a casino employee that uses his/her own money and does the same things as a shill does but he gets paid for each hour he plays by the casino and he gets to keep what he wins. If he loses, he loses his own money.
I’m going to call this guy a shill.
This shill was a blackjack dealer. The poker dealer on our table seemed to know him really well. I was getting good cards but this guy was whipping my butt every time. If I had trips, he would turn over a straight. If I had a straight, he would turn over a flush. If I had a full house he would have one too, but bigger. I was getting suspicious. I started watching the dealer really close and in doing so, I found myself calling with bad hands trying to beat this guy. I was on tilt. I was waiting on a card to come off the bottom of the deck so I could jump up and shout “CHEAT! You are cheating! Run back the tapes!” But I never could see how they were cheating. Then I got a pair of sixes in the hole and one up. Ah ha, I thought, maybe this would be the hand where I could catch them cheating. When it came to me I bet and when it got to the shill, he raised. He had a queen showing. We had one other caller. Forth Street was an ace for me and a deuce for the shill. I don’t know what the other player had, but he folded after I bet and the shill raised. I watched the dealer really close. I called and Fifth Street was dealt. I got another ace to make me full. Sixes full of aces. The shill got another queen to give him a pair showing. I bet and the shill raised. I re-raised and the shill re-raised me. I called.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? I’m thinking I must have missed the card off the bottom and I’m pretty sure he has a bigger full house than mine already. Sixth Street was dealt. I got a four and I watched the dealer to see if a two came off the bottom to fill the shill up. But no, it was a three. I didn’t care anymore. If he had a full house better than mine, so be it. I bet and the shill raised. I re-raised. He re-raised. I thought, dang it, if he wins this one I’m quitting. He then propositioned me. “I will not look at the seventh street card if you don’t” he said. “Sure, okay” I said, knowing that I had already made my hand. The dealer dealt Seventh Street face down and I began betting and he would re-raise and I would re-raise him. I was on all out tilt. He said, “Are you going to stop raising?” I said “No. Not until my money runs out”. He said, “I’m not either. Why don’t we save time and you put all the rest of your money in and since I got more than you, I’ll match it”. There was a four bet/raise limit at this casino but if there are only two players heads up, there was no limit of bets. The dealer called the poker room manager over to make sure it was alright and he said yes. I shoved the rest of my chips in and the shill matched it. There was close to three hundred dollars in the pot in a 1/5 Seven Card Stud game. The shill was so excited that he didn’t wait for me to show my cards. He flipped over his cards and he had four ugly ladies. ‘Four queens’, which he had from Fifth Street. I turned over my full boat. Er, er, er, wait a minute. The card I got on Seventh Street was the case six. I had four sixes. I was mad as a wet hen. Four sixes beat by four queens. Everyone else at the table started shouting and hollering. Damn, I thought, they really like to rub it in.
Then I heard a magic word: JACKPOT. We had hit the bad beat jackpot. And I was the one that got beat. I got the lion’s share of the fifteen thousand dollar jackpot and the shill got one quarter of the jackpot and the other quarter was divided among the rest of the players at the table.
I still don’t know if they were cheating or not but I know one thing. That was the best ‘tilt’ that I have ever been on.
THE END
Entry 4
WHAT IS TILT?
Tilt is an expression used to describe a player that has lost control of his betting. Tilt usually happens after a player has lost a big pot that he/she thought he/she was going to win. The player starts to bet and raise with less than good hands hoping to get back the money he/she had just lost, fast. The player usually loses more money, which puts him on ‘full tilt’. The player loses all control and he/she bets and raises on anything hoping for a miracle until he/she loses all his/her money.
Stanley ‘Chip’
So, all you have to do is vote for your favorite submission and the winner will receive a HP tournament ticket! What's more, a randomly selected voter will snag HP gear!
Entry 1
On Tilt
By Darren aka “tadaco.com” on HollywoodPoker.com
It was a deathly hot and smazey day,
so I logged on Hollywood Poker to play
some short-handed Hold ‘em, 20 bucks a pop.
And after a few wins I just couldn’t stop.
I was on a roll and up quite a few.
I had no choice of what to do
next, so I upped the ante and logged right in
to a 50 buck table, aspiring to win.
I was on my game, and took two players out.
Then it happened, shadowed with doubt,
I couldn’t believe my luck as I drew
pocket Aces, and how great cause I knew
that the guy to my right had a big hand too!
He checked, and then raised, without a clue.
I jumped out of my chair when the flop hit
(no need for a poker face when at home you sit).
An Ace with two twos, a rainbow at that.
I knew my stack was gonna get fat!
I smooth called when he bet, then the turn
showed a Jack, for sure I would earn
The rest of his chips, when he went all in
and the cards flipped up, I was sure I would win.
The river brought the last Jack in the Deck,
and with it the end of my winning trek.
The very next hand I went all in -- pocket fives,
figuring I had only lost one of nine lives.
The same guy called with Jack deuce.
I thought this guy must be obtuse.
But, of course, on the River he hit.
To hell with this “Live & Die by the River” s#@t!
So I quickly entered another short game;
No way could my play turn so bad and so lame.
The very first hand I hit my Ace King
with two pair on the flop what a beautiful thing!
But the guy raised me, so I raised back
Then he went all in with his equal stack.
Fearing only trips, I had the right stuff.
So, of course, I called his measly bluff.
Then the turn and the river made him a straight.
No way could this losing streak be my fate.
So I went in again, this losing must stop!
I still was up chips, I was still on top
of my game, so I said to myself,
Just one more win before I shelf
this game for the day. Little did I know
that combined with the heat, my head was in snow
filled with rage over the loss of the chip stack I’d built.
Then I realized that I must be On-Tilt!
I took a deep breath, stepped back from my game.
It was me, not Hollywood Poker, to blame
I shook off the tilt, got out of my haze
Came in second, logged off, and went out in the smaze.
Entry 2
Tilt
tilt, tilt, horrible tilt
the more we stew
the more we wilt
the more we wilt
the more they thrive
so get off tilt to stay alive
(MinnesotaRon)
Entry 3
TILT
(a true story)
I was at the Silver Star casino, in Philadelphia Mississippi. My friend Ronnie and I went over for a day of poker. When we got to the poker room we found that all the Hold’em tables were full and there was a long waiting list. The poker room manager said that there were openings now for 1/5 Seven Card Stud. Ronnie and I put our names on the waiting list for Hold’em and I took one of the empty seats on the 1/5 Seven Card Stud tables. Ronnie chose to wait on a Hold’em seat to come open.
Not long after I sit down at the table another player came and sat in the other vacant seat. He declared, “Hi all, I’m a shill/prop and by the rules of the casino I have to tell everyone at the table”. “Fine, good. I don’t care if you are the Queen of Sheba as long as you got money”, I said.
A ‘shill/prop’ is a casino employee who plays with his own money but can only play at tables where there is a vacancy or start a game up. He/she cannot play in a game that he/she runs or deals. A blackjack dealer can play any game except blackjack. A poker dealer can play in any game except poker and so on and so forth.
A ‘shill’ is a casino employee that is paid to start up tables and fill empty seats and uses the casino’s money. He/she doesn’t get to keep the money which he wins but if he loses, it’s the casino’s money.
A ‘prop’ is a casino employee that uses his/her own money and does the same things as a shill does but he gets paid for each hour he plays by the casino and he gets to keep what he wins. If he loses, he loses his own money.
I’m going to call this guy a shill.
This shill was a blackjack dealer. The poker dealer on our table seemed to know him really well. I was getting good cards but this guy was whipping my butt every time. If I had trips, he would turn over a straight. If I had a straight, he would turn over a flush. If I had a full house he would have one too, but bigger. I was getting suspicious. I started watching the dealer really close and in doing so, I found myself calling with bad hands trying to beat this guy. I was on tilt. I was waiting on a card to come off the bottom of the deck so I could jump up and shout “CHEAT! You are cheating! Run back the tapes!” But I never could see how they were cheating. Then I got a pair of sixes in the hole and one up. Ah ha, I thought, maybe this would be the hand where I could catch them cheating. When it came to me I bet and when it got to the shill, he raised. He had a queen showing. We had one other caller. Forth Street was an ace for me and a deuce for the shill. I don’t know what the other player had, but he folded after I bet and the shill raised. I watched the dealer really close. I called and Fifth Street was dealt. I got another ace to make me full. Sixes full of aces. The shill got another queen to give him a pair showing. I bet and the shill raised. I re-raised and the shill re-raised me. I called.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? I’m thinking I must have missed the card off the bottom and I’m pretty sure he has a bigger full house than mine already. Sixth Street was dealt. I got a four and I watched the dealer to see if a two came off the bottom to fill the shill up. But no, it was a three. I didn’t care anymore. If he had a full house better than mine, so be it. I bet and the shill raised. I re-raised. He re-raised. I thought, dang it, if he wins this one I’m quitting. He then propositioned me. “I will not look at the seventh street card if you don’t” he said. “Sure, okay” I said, knowing that I had already made my hand. The dealer dealt Seventh Street face down and I began betting and he would re-raise and I would re-raise him. I was on all out tilt. He said, “Are you going to stop raising?” I said “No. Not until my money runs out”. He said, “I’m not either. Why don’t we save time and you put all the rest of your money in and since I got more than you, I’ll match it”. There was a four bet/raise limit at this casino but if there are only two players heads up, there was no limit of bets. The dealer called the poker room manager over to make sure it was alright and he said yes. I shoved the rest of my chips in and the shill matched it. There was close to three hundred dollars in the pot in a 1/5 Seven Card Stud game. The shill was so excited that he didn’t wait for me to show my cards. He flipped over his cards and he had four ugly ladies. ‘Four queens’, which he had from Fifth Street. I turned over my full boat. Er, er, er, wait a minute. The card I got on Seventh Street was the case six. I had four sixes. I was mad as a wet hen. Four sixes beat by four queens. Everyone else at the table started shouting and hollering. Damn, I thought, they really like to rub it in.
Then I heard a magic word: JACKPOT. We had hit the bad beat jackpot. And I was the one that got beat. I got the lion’s share of the fifteen thousand dollar jackpot and the shill got one quarter of the jackpot and the other quarter was divided among the rest of the players at the table.
I still don’t know if they were cheating or not but I know one thing. That was the best ‘tilt’ that I have ever been on.
THE END
Entry 4
WHAT IS TILT?
Tilt is an expression used to describe a player that has lost control of his betting. Tilt usually happens after a player has lost a big pot that he/she thought he/she was going to win. The player starts to bet and raise with less than good hands hoping to get back the money he/she had just lost, fast. The player usually loses more money, which puts him on ‘full tilt’. The player loses all control and he/she bets and raises on anything hoping for a miracle until he/she loses all his/her money.
Stanley ‘Chip’