A short New Year's and Epiphany vacation from expatriation back to Athens, means, at least, a game with my (by now, beloved) local sharks.
It's a .50/1E game, with buy-ins limited to 100BBs max, or half the big stack. This is to contain the amount of money on the table, since they usually play 1/2E among them, or even 2/5E which is the minimum table stakes in Athens' only casino
, clearly not addressed to any kind of "normal" Greek public, and clearly the reason of its assured eventual demise.
Two orbits of NLHE, one orbit dealer's choice between Pineapple and Cuckoo [three hole cards, one discarded upon seeing the flop, but the remaining two cards being mandatory to use], the latter being a personal invention of mine to avoid the dreadful [among socially related people] PLO.
In for 260E, out for 265E.
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The ultimate tool of our happiness, very fast, cheap (80E cost, years ago) reliable and, interestingly, unanimously accepted by the sharks (ie instead of themselves shuffling).
In play, the venerable Athenian Owls V1
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Edit: I forgot to mention that the originally "controversial" Non-Denominated Top Value chips, were vindicated as 50E chips.
First of all, they see a lot more felt time than if used as 100s.
Second and most important, they 're very handy at those stakes and with this crew, where everybody buys-in and re=buys using 50E bills. Orange-colored bills.
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