POKER SIT & GO's If you want to play poker in order to see a regular return on your bankroll Sit and Go’s are definitely your best bet. The games tend to be a flurry of furious activity with the chip-leader changing almost every hand. For newcomers a Sit and Go is basically a one table tournament, guaranteeing everything is over and done with in short order. It’s not unusual for a player to bust out of a tourney like this within two minutes but by the same token you can be a substantial winner in less than an hour.
THEY’RE EASY TO JOIN When you arrive on your favourite site, go to the one-table-tournament section. Railbird a while and pick up the feel and pace of the game from the safety of an observer’s point of view. Then get involved. You’ll love it. If you have limited funds and you need to turn them over regularly to see a decent return Sit and Go is your kind of poker. It’s for sprinters. No stamina required.
VIVA LAS VEGAS! Apparently Elvis hasn’t left the building. Picture the scene in downtown Las Vegas. Ten Elvis impersonators sit down to a game of poker, Texas Hold’em style, for a local reality TV show. The flavour of the hour-long proceedings with accompanying outburts goes something like this: Elvis 1 folds and hurls his cards into the muck, “Return t’ Sender, Baby!” Elvis 2, having raised heavily pre-flop, fails to make his hand when the community cards come down, “I Got Stung!” Elvis 3, hoping the turn card will complete his flush, makes a super-size-me bet and exclaims, “It’s Now or Never!” That’s right, Mama. You’ve guessed it. The winner eventually walks off, hounded like a dog and is gonna be “Lonesome Tonight!” Despite the state of the foregoing scripted ad-libs the game was at times extremely funny. My favourite moment came when one of the caped rhinestone losers remarked, “Ah, thought that Ace o’ Doughnuts ah picked up would ’ah killed him, but no, sir!”
ALL SHOOK UP The distractions available around Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker 2006 are numerous and amusingly tasteless. None more so than a Mexican Elvis impersonator with a burger belly clad in white leather (Number 9, I believe) who insisted on saying the deck was “All Shook Up!” every time he shuffled it. Can’t wait for the Seigfrieds versus Roy look-a-likes Gay Hold’em annual event, locally known as the Bum Fight at OK Corral.
