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You don't know what free money is until you've either played with Alex, or sat at a $1/$2 NL game with a tilted $5/$10 NL player. JesseY was playing the $5/$10 NL at Chairman's in Bethesda and dropped several thousand dollars after a few short hours. He didn't want to head straight home, so he stopped by our game to blow off some steam.

He got $200 in chips and told the table "I'm not folding pre-flop for the first orbit." There was some raiseing pre-flop, and after the flop came out like nine-high, all clubs, and a seemingly innocuous card came on the turn, Jefferson got it all in with two red Queens. JesseY called and said "You don't have a flush do you? 'Cause I've got 63o" (no club, for a gut-shot straight.)

Now this is not the part where he gives away the money.

He randomly would make it a $1/$2/$20 game and after everyone would fold behind him he'd turn over a raggedy one-pair like AA, KK, or QQ. No bull shit, kid was getting cards, but no action.

He somehow got brutalized down to $137, and banged it all-in in the dark. Keenan woke up to QQ and also went all-in and double through JesseY.

JesseY rebought another $200, didn't take him more than 40 minutes to lose that. So he went over to the computer, opened up Party Poker, and decided to four-table some NLHE online.

Now this just wasn't your run-of the mill $0.10/$0.25 blinds, $100 at stake between four tables. No, the kid has got over $30,000 on Party Poker. He doesn't always play as bad as he did this past Wednesday. We look over and see him four-tabling, ask him what he's playing, he says "$10/$20 NL."

Just whip out a $2K buy-in PER TABLE and have some fun, right? What's that, got it all-in for $1600 on the turn drawing dead, re-load another $2K.

At one point J said he had more in-play than he had behind it in the acct. He managed to play well and get lucky, and finished the night off up only $2,500.

So next time you're looking to liven up a $1/$2NL game, be sure to invite the folx that are upset to pull a little under three thou in one session.