Pass The Dip Profile: The Crantini Kid

THE CRANTINI KID

1                    What is your nickname? Crantini Kid.  It is also my real name.  Mom calls me Cran.

2                    How long have you been playing poker? I started playing 5-card draw at about 10 years of age, with a video game called Strip Poker for my Commodore 64.  I was pretty good at getting those virtual ladies naked.  Of course, all you really had to do was bet/raise the max, then draw only 1 or 2 cards, and eventually she'd fold.  That's the origin of my mad bluffing skills.  As I got older, my tastes turned to real opponents, and I finally found this crazy group of degenerate gamblers around 2003.  Since then, I've donated a pile of cash to try to help them improve their skills so that one day they might be able to really challenge me.

3                    Do you prefer cash games or tournaments (and what type?) I'm mainly a cash game player.  It's much easier to lose large sums of money in smaller periods of time, which is where I excel.  Plus it's better action.  Of course there's reckless moments, but most of the time there is real poker being played.  Just not by me.  Tournaments can be fun too, but the action gets downright stupid at times.

4                    What is your favourite hand? A-10 off-suit.  It never loses.  Ever.  It simply can't be beaten.  Except when I'm holding it.

5                    What is your favorite personal poker moment? Tough question.  It's the crappy moments that always stick out in my mind.  Llike losing a $130 tournament at the Plaza in Vegas when some donkey pushes all in pre-flop under the gun with 7-3 off-suit, and I look down to see pocket aces.  He had me just barely covered, and the board handed him two 3's and a 7.  After that, I got my revenge by getting really, really, really drunk and playing the most aggressive, craziest, stupid cash game poker I've ever played in my life, causing me to lose my entire bankroll for the trip.  Oh, and that was only the first night there.  Which leads me to  my personal favourite poker moment, which is the next day, when I sat at that same cash table and played a solid 8 hours of the most focused, most intelligent poker of my life, and managed to recover every penny I had lost the night before.  Then Clayton got offended because an old geezer at the table wouldn't "cheers" him, so we all cashed out in protest.  Classic Vegas.

6                    At our game, who would you most like to

a.       Felt? Nat X.  His money tastes so good.

b.      Slow roll? I don't roll like that...... But if I did, I'd totally slow roll Gepeddo.

c.       Lose a pot to (if you had to)? Clayton.  I never mind handing him my chips, because the man just plain outplays me.  I hand him a lot of chips.  A lot.

7                    Tell a memorable / funny moment you witnessed at the home game. I fell asleep at the table once.  I guess I didn't actually witness that, so it doesn't count.  It's been so long since I've been to the home game, the memories are all fuzzy.  I guess I'll have to come out sometime and make new ones.

My poker room tribute to The Crantini Kid