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The Villains
Some names/nationalities/character description have been changed because of privacy
Clicki finished 5th in the tourney for 180k$, he was familiar with winning these amounts and was gutted after being coolered brutally. An absolutely amazing score and run for a 888$ dollar buy-in tournament nonetheless. In the meantime Gary received his hospital bill, I think it was around 2300$. His insurance magically covered all the expenses and his parents never found out. He tells me he’s going to take it easy for this summer, as he did take several loans to finance his trip to Vegas. He even applied for a loan at the local bank beforehand, you can imagine that did not come through. However Gary wouldn’t be Gary if he wasn’t talking about other opportunities that would come in the (near) future. ‘’I think I first should play an EPT main event in order to gain some experience for the WSOP main event. I’m not gonna bother with small tourneys anymore’’. I always love it when Gary talks about high buy in tournaments while his tank is at 0, call it ambition.
I figured that by renting out my place I could travel a bit through Europe.
As a result of that I found myself with my friend Rien in Bratislava later that summer.
After a good start on the first day I’m off the next one, I’m sitting down in a cash game and there seems to be a seat reserved. At the reserved place there is already 2k euro in chips, this is always a good sign. Usually well known local players seem to do this and they aren't the best players, often semi shady types that wanna show the table they have money and the authority to reserve a seat while everyone is already playing.
Around one hour later the exact type that I expected shows up, it’s the type you’d see walking on the street and you would know; he probably doesn’t work for the government so to say.
His name didn’t really surprised me either: Boris
Because of his overly aggressive play I know to win a 500 euro pot of him and he immediately doesn’t like me that much. He’s talking a bit of shit to me in Slovakian but I think it wasn’t too bad. I just won a nice pot of him so I wasn't too bothered with it anyways.
It’s just one of those many characters you come across in poker.
This brings me back to the story of another classic Villain story out of Dublin. I never got his name but he turned out to be some kind of Polish drug dealer.
After playing a small tournament in Dublin, an acquaintance of mine is playing in a 4 card poker game. I’m having a look at his table and one guy immediately stands out.
He’s wearing a nice suit, a typical Louis Vuitton handbag across his shoulder, sunglasses of a designer brand, you get the picture. He’s leaning back in his chair and on his left is a table full of cocktails, probably around 6 different drinks. He has a massive stack in front of him of around 4000 euro (blinds are 1/2).On his right is a woman who’s with him, whenever it’s his turn he just says POT, instructing the dealer next to him to count the pot and that would be exactly what he would bet without even taking a glimpse at his cards. After this ritual, that occurred every single hand, the woman next to him would show him his cards.
Although 4 card poker isn’t really my game, a game with a guy who isn’t even watching his cards before making full pot bets should be beatable.
I decide to sit down and every pot is big because he’s in every pot. At one moment I’m observing him and expertly he moves a chip with an unknown substance to his nose, while sitting on the table with nine other people. Jesus, this guy must be more crazy than I could imagine, sniffing cocaine (?) in public.
The dealer, an older woman, also noticed what happened and was looking in shock yet did not make a fuss about it.
One player in particular, got really unlucky in multiple pots against him.
After a while the player, with either Indian or Turkish roots, starts complaining a bit.
The Polish cocaine sniffer promptly replies with: ‘Shut up Durum Kebab’
I thought this comment was out of order yet incredibly funny and really had to make an effort not to burst out laughing.
The floosupervisor was called to check what’s going on and of course he was the first one to describe the situation. ‘Durum Kebab is complaining about a 2k pot he lost, you know how much I lost last month? 60k!’
The attendance of a supervisor didn’t hold him back from telling the other player that he should shut up or he would sleep for a long time.
I would come across this same exact person roughly 28 hours later. It’s around 3:30 am as I’ve been listening to an arguing drunk guy in the room next to me long enough to start complaining about it at the reception.
Once I arrive at the reception there’s a couple in front of me. Probably the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen and the Polish guy. He’s wearing a Rolex and I can clearly see a Cross tattooed in his hand palm.
This was definitely another woman than he was with the night before, I wasn’t surprised about that. The first thing I hear him saying is: ‘I want the presidential suite’
That’s not available sir. ‘Not available!? When is it available? I need the best room you have’
Followed by: ‘I wanna top up my credit’
My best guess was he was putting on a little bit of a show to impress the beautiful woman who was with him.
After receiving the best room available he made clear that the employee shouldn’t mention his stay to anyone because he knew what would happen if he talked. Basically I heard this guy make two death threads within 28 hours and get away with it. I was curious to know the story behind this guy and when I asked Greg, the security I had known for years. His answer was distinctly: He is well known for being deep in ‘the business’.
Fun fact about Dublin: There are no drinks ordered after 12 (?) on Sundays. I was surprised and pointed out that the hotel that hosted the event missed out on a lot of revenue. The owner looked into a room with 60 people, ''You see those people? If we keep serving them, 70% won't show up at work tomorrow. It's government instructions.'' You've got to love the Irish.

Me and my mates like to play home tournaments every now and then and the poker set i have is a really cheap basic one with 5 different denominations (5,10,25,50,100) and everyone usually starts with 10 of each chip but we have started to use a 4:3:2:1 format with 1 100 chip also (so if 4 people are playing its 20 5chips 15 10chips 10 50s and so on) . Basically what im getting at is whats the best way to set up peoples starting stacks, should i use the 4:3:2:1 or something different. Also im looking at buying a EPT poker set which has 7 different denominations (links below) and how should i go about setting a poker set like that up?, should i use all 7 denominations? only 4?. Cheers for any help
EPT Poker Set

Hey guys, I have been messing around with buying a new poker set. I have had one with composite chips and I didn't like them very much. They were all I needed but didn't look so nice. So I decided to go for ceramic chips. They are basically for homebrewed poker tourneys/cash games. The design I liked the most was EPT chips. I looked for them and the only place where I could get them was from China. There were some ebay/amazon offers but for misleadingly high prices (over 1$/piece) which is too much. Do any of you have experience with buying from aliexpress/alibaba regarding poker chips? Especially the EPT poker chip. I don't mind counterfeit as long as the quality fits a certain standart. All responses are greatly appreciated! Thanks!