On my last trip to AC (and by last I mean probably three trips ago) I was determined to get some poker in at the Borgata. After three hours at the craps table at Caesar’s, they raised the limit to $25 signalling that it was time for me to leave. I cabbed it over to the borgata and immediately got seated at a $6/$12 limit table. I had originally signed up for the $1/$2 NL list, but once I sat down, I wasn’t interested in moving. There was simply too much dead money on the table. I was card dead most of the night, so I didn’t win any money, but I did have one interesting hand.

With five callers in front of me, I called on the button with J7s. The flop came out QJJ and I was instantly excited. Someone bet out of early position and everyone in front of me called, so I called behind. Turn brought an offsuit 7 giving me the boat. First position bets out again, two callers, I raise, first position re-raises and one other person calls. River is an offsuit 9. First position bets out again. I just call here, but I think I should have raised. Original bettor shows J4o and as I flip my hand over I say I have the jackson family.

That isn’t the interesting part. I always make up stupid names for my hands The interesting part was the conversation I had with one of the other players. Calling my hand the Jackson Family was a mistake, because there were seven kids, right (jackson 5 plus Latoya and Janet)? Two parents would have made the J9 the “Jackson family”. The other player told me that he thought there actually nine kids and two of them weren’t involved in music because they had some kind of deformity or were deaf or something like that. I wiki search cleared it all up – there really are 9 jackson kids and all of them had music careers. I really just can’t get over the idea of there being non-musically inclined Jackson kids. And the idea of a deaf Jackson kid is just hilarious. I bet he would get picked on all the time. I mean really, seven brothers and sisters all in the music business and you don’t make it?