My name's Anita. What's yours?They call me Bruce.Bruce? Like Bruce Lee?Of course.Then you must know kung fu.Yes, I stepped in some yesterday. --They Call Me Bruce? (1982) TUNICA, Miss. -- "Are you a professional player?" the guy in the nine seat turns and asks me. Huh? "You look really familiar," he says. Nice. Here it goes again. The John Juanda thing over again, like at the Ameristar in Kansas City. I explain to him I'm not, that I wouldn't be playing NL $1/2 at the Gold Strike. "But Scott Fischman plays $11 + $1 tournaments!" he protests. Oh, ok. Whatever. "Well, I hope you don't play like him," he says. I'm back in Tunica and it's great. I'm up about $76, mainly from NL play and blackjack and a couple of lucky $5/10 limit pots. No thanks to a $4/8 cold deck at the Horseshoe in which I didn't have a playable hand for two hours. The weather is great here and the Labor Day crowd can't be beat. Especially when they're all playing random cards! Yuk, yuk. I really haven't seen the throng of Hurricane Katrina refugees like some had said. In fact, I've only seen a single license plate from Louisiana so far. There are a lot of non-casino refugees from Shelby County in Tennessee (where Memphis is). A few points before I go to bed: Gold Strike still seems to have decor problems -- the walls surrounding the poker room are still bare, ever since they took out the slot machines that lined the walls. At least with the slots, it added light to the room. Their cards seem to stick together. New cards, please! Like at Sam's Town. Had to deal with a couple of unpleasant dealer errors at the 'Strike today. At one $3/6 table, I was dealt KK in mid-position and I raised. It was a welcome sight after being cold decked for two hours at the 'Shoe. Guy next to me says, "I have three cards." The dealer dealt him three cards, likely two sticky cards and another card. A misdeal. Wonderful. So I fled to the $5/10 table when it was open. In the middle of that, this guy comes in between the button and the blinds and wants to buy the button. Fine. But the dealer never told us blinds that he did that, and never had us take back our money. I had to get the floor, which refunded our money. But all, in all, it's been great. I've been eyeing the 'Shoe's $10/20 game. I'll keep you posted!

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