My new nick name ‘OneAWayValdez’

As promised the story of how I got my new nick name "OneAWayValdez".

First of all I got a little distracted and apologize for the wait. I know a lot of you have been waiting anxiously for this =/

While in Laughlin I had a couple of bad tournament showings there, and when this happens to me I like to take a break and do something else. Just like if I'm having a bad couple of tournament runs online I will just not play for a couple of weeks. Helps me clear my head and forget about the bad beats. Like I always say "every tournament I get knocked out of ends in a bad beat"

I been wanting to spend some quality time with my lovely girlfriend and since she decided to go "watch" me play(for about 20 min) I figured I owed it to her and would do something she likes to do.

Let me start by saying her game is intense. There are more bad beats in one session then I have ever experienced in a week in poker. They have more one-outers and runner-runners then you can imagine. The crowd will get on you like you've never seen when you make a mistake, so the pressure is on for you to make the right call. The excitement of winning is enormous, and the loosing just as devastating.

Craps? naaah lady luck rules there. Blackjack? Bunch of drunks and you can always change tables. Try BINGO!! Whoot whoot! Yes my friends I took the BINGO challenge. Off I went armed with my daubers in hand, $10 Bingo Packet, and pride in my back pocket. After all this was for my wonderful girl friend, to spend quality time, get away from poker, etc etc etc.

We sit down, and all the blue hairs and snow leopards are in effect. Sometimes armed with a basket full of daubers. I have a lot of card protectors that I have purchased through a various casinos, but have never even came close to the daubers collection some of these Bingo players have accumulated. As I am sitting down I watch them closely as they start to pre-mark all the Bingo games from the odd/even, pointed arrow, inside box, outside box, straight bingo, bingo the hard way, easy bingo that turns into a two-way then a three-way bingo, etc At this point my head already hurts and not even hung over. Wait! What’s that? I see relief! yes! A BAR with BEER! ahhhh that helps some.

The announcer calls of for a balls check (I sure the hell hope he wasn't talking to me) and let the games begin.

First game starts off with a bang. I quickly get 4 out of the 5 first balls called to make a bingo! Whoot! All I need is the dreaded O74...non-suited of course I think. I double check my number, then triple check. I do NOT want to yell BINGO in this crowd and have it be wrong. These old timers have a look like they are out for blood and are not going to take any Bingo newbie screwing up their morning! Another ball gets called and I miss, G64, N45, I32, O73, O75 *augghhh*, I28, I29,... This whole time I am on pins and needles and with every miss I my anxiety is through the roof. B1, B5,... then I hear the dreaded "BINGO"!!!! Followed by the enormous sigh from the whole crown and the fake "good game" shout. The whole time I made some friends across from us and they wanted me to win more than themselves. They wanted the newbie to win! Nice old couple.

Second game 5 around the corner is called out and starts. The numbers begin to get called out and just like the first game I start to dab all over!! YES! YES! I got that! Whoot whoot got that one as well. Then again I’m ONE number from my bingo. Again, a bunch of numbers get called out. I zero out the board and whalla "BINGO" gets yelled out and I again miss my one outer!!! That’s when I heard it the first time from my new found friends "You were ONE A WAY again"

The third game down pretty much the same way but this game was a double bingo and I need 1 number to get both my bingo's done. I missed a two outer this time and again ONE A WAY!!! Now my girlfriend says GO GO ONE-A-WAY-VALDEZ!!! And it stuck!!!

I had a total of 6 games of a 10 game set where I was ONE A WAY! by the end I was exhausted, my nerves were shot, and I walked away feeling like I should have played Russian Roulette for much more relaxing time.

In the poker world I'm still known as GiJoeValdez, but don't be shocked if some old timer calls me out by my new name and alter ego "OneAWayValdez". Yes, I'm a Bingo player and I like it!! 

Angel 'OneAWay' Valdez