Tampa -- My God

I almost feel sorry for these damn fish here in Tampa. They're some of the shittiest poker players I've ever seen.

Daniel, Sham and I arrived at the Hard Rock Seminole Casino at about 3 a.m. early Saturday morning. I immediately sat at a $2/$2 limit table, and I won two of my first three hands. After two hours, I was up $207 -- 50 big bets an hour.

These players are so bad. They shouldn't be allowed near a poker table. They shouldn't be allowed to play cards. They make me lose a little more faith in humanity. They're dumb gamblers who don't even know how to play the game, drink too much and are destined to lose their money to anyone who has half a clue.

There was an asshole to my left who played every hand, and a dumb woman to his left who played and raised every single pot. Then to my right, there were three guys who had never played poker before. Hello!

The funniest part was when the drunk asshole told about half the table he'd buy drinks for them, but then he promptly busted out before the cocktail waitress returned. And keep in mind, this ain't Vegas. In Tampa, you have to pay full price for your drinks. So I had to shell out $4.50 for my Bud Light, and the dumn woman had to pay $14 for her double Hennesy. I find that funny because the only reason she ordered it was to screw over the asshole.

Don't get me wrong -- it was a good time. It's true no fold em hold em. Really, I had an average of eight or nine people to see the flop. It's profitable, but these people are just terrible. Like Daniel wrote, the state law that limits bets to $2 only seems to encourage people to play more. I wouldn't be surprised to see much more gambling in Florida in the coming years.

Just don't try to bluff the fish! They sure won't fold for anything -- not when they're capping with hands like Q7o and 93o preflop.