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10/27/99 wednesday

dinner at "chappy's"

last night, rgp'er keith fichtemayer (sorry, keith - i can't remember how to spell "keith"...) picked us up and we went to dinner at "chappy's", a restaurant in gulfport, west of the casinos. it specializes in fish, and i had a seafood combo of tuna, snapper and swordfish. the sauces were shrimp, crawfish and lobster, and i don't remember which was on which! but they were all delicious!! keith is a tall skinny guy with a crewcut and a deep voice, and you'd better listen carefully to everything that he says - or you'll miss one of his hysterical deadpan lines. and if you happen to meet keith, just demand that he give you one dollar, and then let him tell you the bad beat story of the susie isaacs/lee jones bad beat story... };)

Gulfport Grand Casino

the poker room of the gulfport grand casino has been moved to the 3rd level. they've got about 16-18 tables for stud and flop games. they've got bad beat jackpots. they've got "hand of the day" jackpots (yesterday the hand of the day was 10h 10c kc 8s 4c). the tables have the oval line drawn in the center to demarcate when your forward motion is a bet. seats next to the dealers are not no-smoking. there are two or three games in progress when we arrive.

floorperson trish tells us that she's about to crank up a new hold 'em game, and tells us to sit down at table #11. there are already three or four people at the table; nolan takes #10, keith takes #3, and i take #2. pretty soon, a dealer comes over, and they unlock the rack to begin selling chips. nolan is away from the table for a moment, and a regular comes to the table, takes nolan's spinner (which nolan had used to lock up the seat), gives it to the dealer, and sits down in #10. hmmmmmm... it seems that there is only room for one of the three of us at the table, and shift manager russell's only input is: "well, we called the list." well, i guess i won't play at the gulfport grand this trip.

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