Never buy a Ford built in KC

Being the degenerate that I am, I've made it out to the casinos the past three nights for some live NL $2/5 action. On Sunday night I decided to give Harrah's North Kansas City another try. This is the casino that I played in back in October which prompted me to create a negative blog entry about it, calling it a casino I can't recommend.

Not too much has changed. It's still a really poorly-run card room, but apparently it's the only place in KC where you can get any action these days. I had two donkeys at my table Sunday night, one of which donked off his $300 buy-in to me during my BB special (Q4s on a 44J flop). I ended the night up $308 after 3 hours of play.

I had nothing to do tonight, so guess who went back to Harrah's after getting a taste of blood the night before? Tonight's action was pretty strange. The table began tight/aggressive, then switched to weak/tight, then loose/aggressive and then finally some more weak/tight to end the night. I was down slightly for the first few hours before getting my AA paid off by the big stack at the table. I ended the night up $340.

Side note: Towards the end of the night, a black man named Teddy gets a seat at my table. Teddy is wearing a Ford labor-suit and makes it no secret that he is simply taking a break from work to get a few hands in. He works the graveyard shift at Ford and is responsible for quality control of each automobile produced at the factory. During the good hour and a half he was at the table, he also consumed 4 (four) martinis. He plays super loose and pretty aggressive, which led him to lose $900 to the table pretty quickly. He claims he is still up $3k from the weekend.

The other players all know Teddy as a regular who seriously does just take random (on the clock, lol) breaks from his shift to come play poker at Harrah's. He is known to always have booze in his car but apparently Ford doesn't seem to mind his constant drunkenness on the job.

Someone once told never to buy a car built on a Monday or a Friday. The theory is that the workers are still hungover and unconcentrated on Mondays and so excited for the weekend on Fridays. I'm not sure about that, but I can warn you from purchasing any Ford car built on Teddy's graveyard shift.