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Sleep deprivation sucks. Having stayed out until nearly 4am celebrating with Sirwatts and Korean BBQ (they didn’t even finish playing until about 2am) our noon check out time from the house feels much too early. I’d called one of the owners a couple days ago about pushing it back to the afternoon but he said noon was the absolute latest. Celina and I haven’t even packed yet, meaning when the owner arrives I tell him “We just need to spend a few minutes to finish packing” then proceed to take over half an hour.
We catch a cab to the airport and kill some time in the terminal before our flight to Fresno. The flight is on one of those small planes that you can’t even stand up straight in and has exposed propellers, the type that sway in the wind so much you wonder how it even stays airborne.
At the airport my friend Kyle from www.tworags.com comes to pick us up with his hostess Su and they take us over to his casino/card room in downtown Fresno, ‘Club One’. He checks us into the hotel next door then we head out for Korean food. There truly is no such thing as too much Korean food.
Downtown Fresno is quiet and mostly devoid of people on a Friday night. Kyle explains that he’s on the downtown committee and is attempting to move more business into the area and rejuvenate the city. His club is a roughly 50 table card room that also has a restaurant, bar, and function room. The largest games regularly going are 15/30 limit and 2/5 no limit, with the limit surprisingly being more of an action game.
Kyle has been somewhat of a business manager, agent, and advisor to me − a consultierie if you will (there is no chance I spelled that correctly.) He and I share the same problem, being a workaholic. Despite having his home in LA, Kyle spends at least five days of the week three hours away in Fresno and, when there, spends the vast majority of time at the card room. It seems strange to describe any poker player as a workaholic, but seeing as I never took one day off during the entire series when there was a Hold ’em event at the WSOP or Bellagio and when at home never optionally take a day off from online poker, I think it applies. It’s ironic though, I became a poker player not only because I enjoy the game but because I truly hate working, but now I never stop unless forced to.
It’s clear to me that Kyle likes the time he spends at the card room though. Everyone on the work force I talked to about him said they really appreciate the changes he’s made as well as the fact that he makes himself available. The fun part for me though, is the stories of weirdness Kyle has from his work experience at the casino, stories like:
- People send him completely insane job applications. He showed me one where the guy writes that he has “classified military intelligence” to give him about cheating going on, then the applicant starts rambling and becomes increasingly racist, writing that cheating Native Americans are in the casino posing as Asians, culminating with him writing in huge letters “GOD DAMN IDIOTS” in a sentence that curves off to the side.
- When Kyle found out the casino had not been recycling previous to his acquisition of it he began doing so. As a result he received letters from homeless people expressing their outrage at “taking food off my table” from the income they lost as a result of not being able to rummage through the trash to get bottles anymore. One man was so pissed off he attempted to set the dumpsters and building on fire, twice.
- Best of all was his story about the guy who came into the casino and attempted to bet weed on the table. It’s best because it has a Youtube link with the full story.
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