900 bucks is no big deal

This was a shortened trip because my girlfriend wanted me to come over Saturday to her sisters party. I didn’t really want to go, but I do love spending time with the GF. Party sucked though. Had one beer and watched Home Alone. I never really realized how terrible those parents were. Embarrassing. I also didn’t mind too much because there were no giveaways on the weekend and I was able to grab the slot play before I took the bus back. More on that later.

The trip was good. Between the bus coupon and all the free slot play I won 395. In poker I won 792 over the course of 13.5 hours. I’ll take. This trip wasn’t really about the poker though. Just ridiculous dumb shit. For instance at the 2-5 PLO8 a guy sits down, I’ve played with him a couple times at plo high but he’s an idiot at 8. Another guy sits(a good player, which is a surprise since  he deals) and says HEY MOTHER FUCKER YOU OWE ME 900 FROM BORGATA. The guy denies it big time. There’s a lot of back and forth. Eventually the accused guy says ok if you can call me I’ll take that as I owe you the money and will pay you back right now. The guy says ok...but not right now since he still wants to play. Shady. He has the phone that would have his number in the car and he didn’t want to go. So we eventually convince him to go. He comes back and says he doesn’t have the charger for that phone, even though Foxwoods provides chargers. So the story doesn’t check out.

Dumb story 2 was my food coupon situation. Noodles and Fuddruckers are the only places open late night and I decided to get a burger at Fudds. I wait in line(a pretty long one), the girl takes my order and says my coupon was already used. I go to rewards and they say she already redeemed it for 56 cents. He gives me another coupon. I cut the line(obviously) and explain my situation. Fat piece of shit manager says I need to wait in line again. I say fuck off and leave. I eventually go to Noodles and get house wanton soup. The really funny thing was that i was supposed to get 80 in slot the next morning, but I got 130 instead. A bonus for my trouble? Anyway I’m heading back now. Next week will be an extended trip since I’m gonna see the Penguins play the Rangers at MSG and I’ll take the late bus afterwards.

POT, board changes completely, POT?!??

This was a pretty epic trip for me. I’ve been trying hard to finally have both a Good Friday and Saturday and it came together. Of course that always involves some luck but I felt I played well. So let’s get to it.

I got a lot of nice giveaways this trip. 220 in slot, 40 points, a crock pot, and a mystery giveaway. This is like the reason(besides the steady plo8 game) that I come here. Two free nights as well. Sadly I lost my match play coupon again and I only turn the slot into around 145 bucks. It’s fine. Black guy was on the bus. It’s very clear by now he put me on block. I texted him again today asking if I should bring the bag and he doesn’t reply so no bag. I’m sick of it. But I want my money.

After the gym we got the plo8 started. Pretty standard game until this absolute idiot jumped in. Imagine a plo8 game where a guy pots the flop, the turn brings like the WHEEL and a flush and he pots it again! It’s utter madness!  He ended up losing a legit 5k in the game and I ended winning 1807 on the session. He actually won the last hand he played because there were 5 people in there for 20 and I’m OOP with A397 and the flop comes 6810 two diamonds. I pot it. He calls. Some shorties were in there with like nut flush draw and whatever and so was this guy. He had 10-9-xx and hit running 10-9. He left shortly after and the game broke. I’m praying that hand is all he remembers and he comes back. Larry won 2300 in the game and he and I both started stuck pretty big. He gave me back 200 of the 400 owed.

Hold em Saturday was pretty good. You gotta be a ninja and jump around to good tables in hold em nowadays. I do that. Even if I’m enjoying the conversation at the game I get out if the table is too strong. One VERY notable thing is this one player legit made it 30 96% of the time(he once folded his big preflop in an unraised pot for uhhh balance lol). I was in the 8 seat and he was in the 2. Complicated seat for sure. It’s certainly not standard poker anymore. I got a nice bit off him before he went broke. He went to 1-2 later and I followed him. I thought he might make it 12 every hand but no luck. He lost 300 and ran. So I ended up winning 3k in poker this trip.

Player break, dealer 21, player break

I’m just this huge cooler that I have to assume people will come to hate. Tony hates people who do this, but one of my favorite things to do in casinos is watch people bet big. 500 a hand at least. So when poker is looking bad I like going into the high limit room to see what’s up. I watched a shoe where a guy was betting 800 a hand and I think him lose every time. He said he was superstitious and asked me to go. I said yes. I always feel like that’ll happen when I watch. I mean these people aren’t counting, just flat betting huge so obviously they’re trying to get lucky. I’m unlucky. Later a lesbian couple comes in and gets absolutely destroyed. Had to go in pocket twice and then got a marker. After that they inquired about a private table. Apparently in Foxwoods a private table means you can’t even watch a person play, because earlier I was shooed away by a pit boss. The final hilarious moment was when I saw this Spanish PLO reg betting 3 hands for 100 each and got killed. He also asked me to leave. I should get free slot play for all this.

I made a lot of money in Foxwoods last week. Overall over 1800, but I was very upset with my plo8 play. I was up 1800 and ended up merely 80. I made a questionable call to a big shove and got scooped. I also lost a lot 3 handed. Called too much. I’m telling you, plo8 short handed is a different beast than NL and PLO. There’s a lot of “flexibility” as I like to call it and you need flexible cards. You also can’t EVER expect people to make “good folds” to you. So you just need to have better cards. If it means you need to get those blinds stolen, they get stolen. Oh and you do NOT necessarily need an ace short handed, but it sure is nice. But I’m very excited to play tomorrow.

Saturday is usually my shitty day, but not this time. I won in weird ways. Big draws that were up against smaller draws that missed, so I win with ace high. Me getting there on a bluff that was called light. All that crap. At one point I considered leaving at 9pm because the game was slow but it wouldn’t work out with the bus in Queens that takes me home. There’s a dead period and if the bus was late I’d have to wait out in the cold for an hour. Eventually I left NL and slipped into plo. I turned 200 into 550 and got the hell out. My JQKK with K suit hit quads.

I ran into the black guy again and he PROMISED he would be there next week and wanted me to bring the bag. I said ok. I tried to confirm today and he didn’t reply. So I see him on this exact bus and he asks for the bag. HE DIDNT REPLY SO NO BAG. He then shows me I didn’t text him. I showed him I did. Obv he blocked me. Suddenly he replies. What a fucking piece of shit

Give me a break

Lots of work drama going on lately. The other day I had an issue with a co-worker that wanted me to do mindless busy work just I can “do my part” like everyone else. This work would then need to be “reversed” after aka making that work worthless. I’m being vague here because I don’t want to tell you all my civilian job. So anyway I of course refused. She called my mother crazy(I sadly agreed), me a shitty worker that nobody wants to work with, and that I don’t contribute to society. This is all bullshit from her of course. So today I heard her go off on another worker(not in earshot) about her being an “angry person”. So I shut her down quick. She got pissed. Cunt.

Poker was ok last week, but it took a lot of work. Like we got the usual 2-5 plo8 going and check out this ridiculous hand that I lost. I made it 25 and got one caller holding 995J(I know) and the flop comes 983 two clubs one spade. I had low draw, ace, open ended straight draw, nut flush draw, backdoor nut flush draw. What comes out? Two red picture cards. Pretty incredible. I was stuck 1k at one point. Luckily towards the end of the night we made it into a 5-10 and I ended up winning 500. Thank God.

Looking at the stats I had a few ups and downs in hold em and plo. I did win 739 in hold em and lost 600 in plo. Those 3 plo bullets towards the end of the trip were painful. I’m back into stocks but I lost a lot on them lately. I’m getting out of it as soon as I possibly can. Stick to poker and all my other side ventures. Stocks too complicated and I’m not too smart about that stuff. With poker I ended winning like 1k. Bill Potts says that pretty much clockwork for me so I’ll take that.

I hate football

I took a week off from the blog because I didn’t go to the casino last week. My girlfriend had her 10 year High School reunion on Friday and I had to go. It would look bad if I didn’t go. We were only there for a little bit. They had a good spread of food and I tried it all, but the plates were far too small. I wanted to pile it on you know?

As for the casino two weeks ago, mostly good. I won a ton in plo8, lost some in plo, got fucked in NL. My new plan of taking a 5 hour energy in the later hours Saturday worked very well. I could barely blink while people were playing badly and yawning. Of course I was up like 500 before running into utter garbage spot. I have 79 in the big, 3 way limp to me. Flop 10-8-6 two clubs. I lead for 15, he makes it 30(RETARDED), I make it 140, he goes all in for about 800. Call obv. He has top set and boats the river. The sick thing is that he made a mistake on every decision. RAISE with tens, make it BIGGER than a fucking min raise, flat my raise to 140. Those beats are the ones that really upset me. I left shortly after to go to work.

Football annoys me. I was at my girlfriends today and her dad asked me if I bet football. I said not anymore, which is the truth. He said FanDuel has a thing where for your first bet if you wager 500 and lose they’ll give you it back(to play with of course). It was Saints -7. We both went 250 on it. I did another 500 by myself later. You gotta be in NJ to bet and since I’m approaching Foxwoods now I can’t hedge it. They’re down 13-0 right now at the half because of course they are. You’ll all know how it turned by the time you read this.

I just need 5 hours of help

I feel like my decisions late Saturday night are VERY dubious at minimum. I made a ridiculous move in plo last week with top pair and NO DRAW that cost me like 800 bucks. I got most of it back but that’s not the point. I’m thinking that I need to take a 5 hour energy in that 1am-6am period before I go home on the bus. I think it’ll be great for my decisions. I usually have tea but that’s not cutting it plus I don’t need all that excess sugar. I’ll mix the 5H in with a bottle of water and drink it little by little because otherwise it makes my heart race.

Poker was pretty good last week. Finally didn’t get screwed in plo8 in any major way. I even quartered Bruce in a huge pot. That felt better than anything I can remember doing in poker. I won 1592 in 9.5 hours, then sadly the game broke. Phil is coming in today and he loves to play short so I’m expecting a long dangerous game.

PLO was shitty, but that’s ok. I know I need the 5 hour now. I actually played 2-5 NL for a bit. I might mix that in now especially when the plo looks bad. I linked raised 10-10 and a guy shoved 250 in pre with J9 off and I held up. Those guys are a treasured yet dying breed sadly. So overall I won 910 bucks between everything. Oh and I saw the fucking black guy who owes me 60. We were on the same bus. This guy has nerve. He asks me if I want to sell him my match play. JUST PAY ME MY MONEY! These fuckers I swear to God.

2 bricks determined it all

Sometimes one hand determines the whole trip. It’s kind of like BJ counting. You win some, lose some, then the count gets good and you bomb it. That’s what happened to me last trip. But I’ll get to that soon. Earlier tonight I went to Brooklyn to see my friends perform in their band. I had to leave 6 songs in because I had to make the last casino bus in flushing. It was CLOSE. Literally had to run as fast as I could to make it. I did make it, and the fucking black guy whom owes me 60 is right there. He said he “tried to text me” and he got a new phone. Then JUST TEXT ME. More lies!

I run like garbage. Another 2 spins on roulette coupon and I lose both. 5 in a row. I know that’s a fully expected run but not when the same black number hits twice in a row. It’s like it’s mocking me. After that I went to bed.

I got a lot of plo8 in Friday. That hand happened. I raised preflop in the BB to 25 after 3 limpers with Ac2x4c5x. All call. Flop Kc6c7x. X means unimportant btw. So yeah, nut low draw, nut flush draw. Open ended straight. SB checks, I bet 50. Call, call, pot. I’ve played with this guy quite a bit and auto put him on KK. I called. One other caller. Turn 10x. He shoves for 827. I call. Other guy puts his last 150 in and I brick out the river. 3k pot. Shame.

The next day we played some 3 handed plo8 and I lost like 100 bucks. I lost 460 in that 3k pot session. Solid play/luck to only be stuck 460 that session. I ended up winning like 680 in plo high so I  actually won a few bucks. Back at it tomorrow.

Always changing my mind

Ahh the casino trips with the girlfriend. So very different than going by yourself, but in some ways better. It all really depends if you’re stuck or not on the times you do get to play poker. Financially, this trip sucked. Let’s get started. I screwed up before I even arrived in two ways: I left my keys at work(which has my BOX keys) and I forgot to buy 2 Asian bus tickets for GF and I so I had to use cash. I pay for her ticket and I don’t like her gambling so I use her 60 in coupons too. Split it up into 3 bets of red. All black. We get sone food and head to bed.

We go to the gym and after I look for my keys. Not there of course. Plo8 was already going(I apparently sleep well when I’m with her, even in a casino) and I was annoyed at myself. She’s awesome and asked if I wanted to borrow money. She’s sweet but she only had 500 and that wasn’t gonna cover it. I asked the box people how much to drill the box. 50 bucks. I then tried again to get a marker. I got further along than last time but I gave up when it became a hassle. Paid the 50. Lose lose lose. One time in plo8 I had trips, top kicker, and nut low draw and all he had was a bad low and a weak spade draw going into the river and he hit his high spade. Check check he scoop. A sign of my day.

Luckily, I invited the girlfriend because we got tickets to go to the casino version of Price is Right. They said if you want to go on you have to wait in line 3 hours before showtime to have a chance. We looked, line was too long, we said no. Later we go in and see you can show up 5 minutes before showtime and you can get on. It’s all random. Neither of us got picked for anything but it was fun.

After that plo8 was still going and I got virtually all my money back. I lost 521 and got 642 back. Ahead in poker but combined with the 194 of bus, box, and roulette still stuck. Cancer Bruce still alive.

Next day started out well. We got the couples massage again. This one is the Sugar and Spice Massage(something like that) and it felt really good. She really gave my legs and shoulders a good stretch. I played 1-2 because I’m the best player. I still lost. One hand I raise UTG to 10 with KK and get one caller. Flop 10-3-5 2 clubs. I have Kc. He has AJ. I bet 15...call. Turn Jc we get his last 57 in on the turn and he hits another J. Lost another flip to him with AK suited vs QQ. Not my trip. I got plo8 going with a straddle heads up and lost another couple hundred because I run like garbage. So I lost around 780 but it could be a LOT worse. Let’s get it back today.

If you’re the best, you play there

I’ve given some thought to it and I’ve given up PLO again. I change my mind about things very frequently but I think quitting plo is a good move. I don’t have the roll for 1k max buy-ins and, while there are for sure strategical advantages, I don’t like buying in for 200 dollar bullets. It’s probably recency bias but I don’t win when I do that. YES I REALIZE WHAT IM SAYING IS WRONG AND I SHOULD BUY IN SHORT, but I don’t like it. So I’ve decided to play the plo8 as much as I can, and if I can’t play that I’ll plsy 1-2 NL. I’m the best plo8 player and most assuredly be the best 1-2 player. I’ll try to recruit to plo8 from the NL. Sometimes idiots jump into plo8 so maybe I can help with that. Good chance they’ll be stupid.

I’m heading up to Fox tonight with the GF again. We are going to see the casino version of Price is Right and there’s a possibility we might try to get on there, but it’s a lot of time away from plo8. We will have to see the line I guess. Also getting another couples massage at that spa. My neck has been funky lately so I can use it.

Last week was solid. Annoying people were at roulette so I used the full 60 match coupon in one shot and I won. After checking in to the room I looked at the plo and while there were 2 tables, it was all bad. Glad I’m quitting. I played some 5-10 Omaha HL fixed the next day and lost 63 dollars. Sounds about right. One guy literally never folds preflop so I thought I had a chance. No chance for me.

That’s ok though because we got plo8 going right after. We got a few morons in there. How often does a random mostly clueless black guy waiting to check into his room just sit into this game? Mostly never. But he dropped 800 in a half hour and I got a good bit of it. I lost a big one with A3KK on a 2810 flop where I was the aggressor. Weird spot vs AAJ10 where Q9 ran out. I won 752 over 9.5 hours.

The next day I won 1295 in plo where I got 1k in preflop with 910JQ DS and I won. I was happy I won but it also reconfirmed that I can’t afford to play this game. Plo was pretty terrible after too but I still took a profit in it. I fucked up in the game where I had 2 hundred dollar bills and I actually had 4, but that’s because the previous session I had 4 and I forgot. It won me a good pot but still. I ended up winning 976 on the trip so I’ll take that happily.

Still 60-less

It’s funny how much you learn by being around casino people so much. How some of them do the dirt worst strategy of trying to angle you for money. If you don’t know the story of the black guy, read the previous few blogs. So the black guy(found out his name is Anthony) told me he would get to Foxwoods Saturday for bag/60 dollar exchange. I lugged the bag all the way there, on the bus and everything. So he texts me there and says he would get there Sunday afternoon aka after I leave. But oh hide the ticket so he can claim the bag when he gets there. Of course if I do that I have 0% of ever getting that bag back. So he never paypaled me the money and I didn’t bring the bag. The dance continues...

Other stuff was good. I won the roulette using 45 in match. I forgot to bring the Naked Fruit Protein drink for the gym so I used the 15 match for 3 of those. I played plo pretty late. Game was ok but couldn’t get much going. Lost 87 dollars and went to bed around 6am. Usually I like to go to bed earlier so I can do gym and plo8 but I worked out 3 times last week already and could miss a day. I indeed missed that day but was in time for plo8. Kind of a middling session until Cancer Bruce got me again. He ALWAYS GETS THERE ON ME. If I have the draw, I miss. He has the draw, he smashes. He did it again for like a near 1600 dollar pot. All I can do is hope he is dead by the time I get there this trip. I got a guy who was semi-bluffing in a 1600 dollar pot(semi-bluffing on the flop and turn, pure bluff on river since he missed) so like even between the two. I still  lost like 568 over 10 hours. I got 3 orders of wanton soup and watched Smackdown before bed.

After gym the next day I played PLO for 50 mins and won 42 bucks. But we got plo8 going again. I was down 400 pretty quick on a dumb play I made. After that I decided to just be more aggressive, and I made hands. I ended 2033 in 8 hours. Pretty sure that’s the best I’ve ever done. Excited to get it going again Friday and hopefully can do at least partially as well. After that I played plo and had mixed success. Still a win in there though. It would be funny if Anthony was there giving me retarded excuses.

Coulda lost it all on Wednesday

Are you all aware the stock market suffered a massive loss this past Wednesday? I sure did. Even though I pulled out a couple days earlier I still had the money sitting on the sidelines just in case. Everything got brutalized. Even though it recovered somewhat on Thursday, I would have seriously lost like all my profits if I didn’t pull out. With that said, I’m back in now. I have a pretty decent sized  position in Verizon as a long term thing and WWE as short term. I keep hearing people talk up Allibaba as the “Amazon of Japan” but I don’t trust it.

Poker was pretty good last week. Larry borrowed 300 from me(bringing the tally back up to 600) and he says it’s fun owing and that I like it too. I don’t Larry! I really don’t. But whatever. I won 981 in the game. I lost a SICK hand early in plo8. I had A236 on a 336 board vs A357. Turn 2 river A. Quartered. I’m surprised the 7 didn’t come so I lose it all. But it’s ok! I’m in that game for the long haul.

PLO was alright. Over two sessions I won 374 over 11 hours. I ran into the black guy again from two blogs ago. He said an “emergency” came up  so he couldn’t meet me to exchange bag for cash, but I’ll see him this Saturday. I have the bag on me now. Let’s see how this goes. If he’s a super typical casino scumbag he will say he’s short the 60 but still want the bag back. He will not get it if that’s the case. Anyway, Let’s Go Pens. Oh and I decided to maybe play 1/2 again while I wait for plo8/plo just to get hours and keep myself occupied.

Get in MY GAME you fish!

Blog a bit later than usual this week because it was opening night of the Penguins and we had a group together at Foleys(aka the Pittsburgh Penguins bar in NYC). We won the game 7-6, but it went fast even in OT. I think if I said my goodbyes quicker I could have made the last bus to Foxwoods but I would rather socialize plus I cancelled my room for Thursday. Gotta work on that defense, Pens.

Last week was very very good. After a very quick plo session, plo8 got started. Frankie Flowers made a rare appearance and did well until he started giving it away. He made a new best friend with this person I call White Hat Guy. Big Jeff ran like garbage and his QQ with no low on a Q84 two heart board lost to both of them when an Ace and then a heart ran out. Disgusting. I just played and played and didn’t let their antics get to me. Cancer Bruce came in and I had to do breathing techniques. I literally said SHANTI like the guy from WWE. It worked. CB went nowhere in the game which I loved. I went to the lounge and the game broke because Larry went broke. Flowers and WHG left before that. +24 in PLO 25 mins and +1321 in plo8 7 hours.

I went back to plo after a bit and was stuck pretty big. I just ran bad...and then suddenly ran good for one big hand.  It was goes 5 way for 25 and I call in the big. I had 57910 with hearts. Flop comes out 568 rainbow. I pot. Small stack shoves. Big stack reports. Obv I’m in there. Turn Q..river A. Runner hearts! Scooped a big one. Short stack had a set and big stack had 67910. Good runout for me. Perfect timing too since they were about to move me to the main game with nits and it was 3am. I can’t even imagine a better spot to go to bed. 598 win in 5 hours 20 mins.

Next day started out like crap. Lost 569 in plo over 3 hours. White Hat was in the game but he was asking about plo8. Obviously I’m all over that. We got a list going and actually got it going on a Saturday! He was like a child and I had to assure him the game would fill up. Literally it was a grind getting him out of his plo seat to play. After like an hour it was full. James Woods is becoming a regular in the game. Game was super good. Won 591 in 8 hours 20 mins. My friend Helen even jumped in and she usually plays like 150/300 mix. I won a quick 77 bucks over 25 mins in plo to cap off the night. Over 2k win on the trip..love to do it again this time.

Cancer sucks but it needs to win just this one time

This was a weird one. So I get off the bus to fox and pretty much make a bee line to my room in Fox Tower. The bus driver was late getting there so I thought I missed out the Thursday midnight deadline to get my points, but I found out it expires at 5:59AM. That’ll be very helpful to me over time. So I go to the room and watched Big Brother(what a season, but very predictable...I predicted the winner weeks ago!) It’s around 2am and I get the itch to see if the PLO is good. I knew it wouldn’t but then I remembered I didn’t use my bus coupons. I won the bigger bet so 40 dollar profit. I checked and the PLO had bored regs so I left. Up the stairs this black guy goes “Flushing bus right?” I say yes. Now here’s the thing...I don’t know if I got tricked. Maybe I did. Maybe not. You decide. So he has the 60 in match since he took the same bus, but apparently ZERO DOLLARS. Like he was talking about needing 60 bucks for a 1-2 buyin. Couldn’t even afford to use his match play coupons. So, of course, he asks for 60 and will PayPal me the money. He shows me his phone that he was about to send it, but did it using his CC under Goods and Services which needs 3 days to clear(another red flag). I lent him the 60 so he could do 2 tries as banker on baccarat and he loses both. So now he is broke and says he will get money at 6am from the ATM. I’m really not sure what his plan was if he didn’t meet me. So he gives me his backpack as collateral. He says he will meet me at 6am in the fox tower lobby(and A HUGE DANGEROUS RED FLAG was that he wanted to room with me for a few hours until 6am. I said no. I could be dead right now if I said yes. Never allow new people to room with you, ever.) I went to lobby at 6am and went back to the room at 620, and he of course didn’t show. Obv looks like I got owned right? I’m not sure. His book bag is standard but decent. He has a nice clean pair of sneakers in there, toiletries, skin cream, headphone stuff. So I don’t know. I have it in my work locker now.

So the next day we get the plo8 going I’m doing super well. Up around 1k..but then Cancer Bruce comes in. HE IS MY LEAK. I hate him so much. Every week I go there and hope that his cancer finally worked and that he’s dead and burning in hell. I want to beat him so badly that I gamble too much with him, which I absolutely must stop. I’m very good at poker strategy and I need to use it, because he’s just a stupid face up nit. Part of me wants to just play great him and then he dies. That way I get the last laugh, so to speak. James Woods seems to be a reg in the game now. Brings people to the game a little bit. I ended up winning 648 then went back to bed. Nearly lost it all because a guy called my 3 bet to 85 when I had AA3x vs his 9854 on a 9549 board, but I rivered the low. I played 12.5 hours and didn’t want to deal with a new crowd of gamble players. This was for solely bankroll and fatigue reasons, I know it’s a good spot. I checked later and saw they made it 5-10 plo8. Today I took 6k from the bank so now I got 10k poker roll. More open to 5-10 plo8 as long as I’m not tired.

I love that Chinese Tariff!

I’m getting super sick of the ups and downs of the stock market. The Chinese tariff is apparently bad for tech stocks so I pulled out of amazon, google etc. But now I read stories where the tariff thing is overblown and the stocks go up anyway. So I had over 25k in there and I pulled out 6k for a bigger poker roll. Of course that can create a danger where I go to video poker after a bad poker session, but no I won’t do that. Two trips in a row no VP and intend to keep it going. So I took all the money and based it in a stock called ATI. It’s a Pittsburgh steel company that people are talking up a lot. The tariff helps a lot since it’s good for American products. But if that tariff gets worked out I’m pulling out every cent. I’m doing good on it right now though.

Poker was good this week. I hit a royal in plo8 and won a beach chair. A silly prize but you have an edge over the hold em players because of the extra cards. I only won 33 dollars over 8 hours though. Larry and I played a little 10-20 razz heads up and got raked to death. Never again. I told him it’s better if we play 20/40 stud8 because it’s better for the rake(and it is because there is far less raise and take it, which costs a fucking dollar) but I’m also a far superior stud8 player to him. He didn’t bite though.

Saturday was a tough decision. Do I play 2-5 plo for the min or max? Min is much more in my roll plus there’s some strategical advantages in there. But I decided to play max. I feel like I’m just better than a lot of other players there, especially vs that particular lineup. It worked out.  I won 894 in 5 hours and 40 mins. But that’s also the reason I pulled money out of the stock. Can’t be buying in for 1k in a high variance game with 3k roll. I was happy to get the win, then I decided to go home. I didn’t have a room, I had the chair to lug around, and I had work and a concert to go to Sunday whom are my friends from the Pittsburgh Penguins bar(the bands name is Cheeky). Took the bus and went home. A very memorable song from one of the other bands was Miami is Nice(Electric Grandnother cover) it’s quite umm memorable.

Nearly lose your ass, save it for the wrong reason

The plan to avoid all house games(besides the bus coupon roulette) was a SUCCESS. One trip don’t mean shit, unless you take a serious punch to the face in poker that can make you run to the pit. It happened to me in plo8 where my 10235 on a A21089 board got SCOOPED by an unknown opponent who had A234 and never showed a single aggressive action. I lost 650 that hand. Luckily I stuck with it and got it back with 9910J(a real shit hand in plo8, but I think sometimes it’s ok to raise with awkward shit in plo8 but obv you gotta hit. I stacked another mystery opponent that hand and got the 650 back. I’m liking that plo8 is, for whatever reason, getting new regs.

Anyway, I got to the casino Thursday and I took a look at the poker room. 2 shitty and 1 mediocre players were at 2-5 plo. I wanted to play it but it was late, I was hungry, and I had to watch Big Brother. ANOTHER week of Level 6 domination. That’s the tightest alliance ive ever seen, and that includes over 30 seasons of Survivor I have seen. I’m excited to see the double elimination episode tonight. I gave up waiting because there was no way the regs were leaving while they were playing. I ended up winning 585 in plo8 and 40 on bus coupon win so I was happy.

I’ve been putting lots of money in stocks and I have over 25k now, so I can freely daytrade. But I nearly got KILLED on Tuesday. I read some stuff online about how because of the Trump tariff stuff that stocks were in trouble. I did the nuclear option and SOLD IT ALL. I probably would have lost 7000 dollars or so if I didn’t. I purchased lots back at a heavily reduced price, was once up over 1k on the day, but ended up losing 600. The funny thing is that I saved money mostly by accident. I had a ton of money mixed up in Funko Pop, which makes those toys you see in GameStop etc with the big beads. This thing was a goldmine. Went up pretty much every day. But it got murdered because the people who make Call of Duty introduced a new mode to compete with Fortnite plus Hasbro is gonna start making Fortnite toys. Funko was supposed to be the exclusive maker of that. Fucked on two fronts. I took a few paper cuts on everything but that’s ok. Heading back to fox now.

You gotta soak your cash

Biggg tilty fuck up by me last week, but let’s get into that gradually. I got there Thursday night and as usual just got on WonTon soup(too lazy to check the spelling) and watched Big Brother on my tablet. Fessy is SUCH a moron and it’s hilarious he got knocked out. I’ve gotten into watching Camster when I’m bored. Some of those girls are really good.

Friday rolls around and plo8 goes. Talk about the opposite from last week, and it was a lot of the same people. I think it was just setups that forced people to gamble. Set vs massive draw will do that. I did the EXACT thing I hate to do, which is pay off cowards. I also did it in a stupid spot for a lot of money. I lost 1273 in 3 hours. It made me sick. I did come back a while later and got 864 back in 4 hours and we soon turned it into 5-10 plo8 3 handed.

Everything between this next game is pretty up and down. But I will say 2-5 NL at Foxwoods is an absolute waste of time. Bill Potts says the grinders should have quit playing there by now, but they won’t fit a few reasons:

1. They give you stuff. 2 free nights, points(aka casino dollars), and lounge access to eat. All of these things are free dollars in your pocket.
2. It’s all most of them know how to play. You rarely see a NL grinder mix it up in Omaha and do well.
3. All their little buddies are here.

On Saturday  they switched the FL 5-10 Omaha with kill to 1-2 plo/plo8 mix. A big surprise and I did well. One guy was hilariously dumb. There was like 40 in the pot pre and he’s first to act post. He goes “How much can I bet?” Then goes “How much can I call?!” Lol you’re first dude. He lost all his money you’ll be shocked to learn. I did win 263 in 4 hours which is a hell of a sum for a 1-2 game.

So here’s the super fuck up. In between sessions I was doing little mystery jackpot slots. The ones that were close to 50 dollars. Usually about in the 44.50 range. Not great but the major was always around 400 so not terrible. Near the end of the trip(about 4:30, and the last bus leaves at 7:30) I found a MJ slot that was at 438 and change. Minor was whatever. Not great. I played it. Lost 1000 on it. But that wasn’t the problem. Foxwoods has this new policy where they don’t freeze machines for you for more than 3 hours. IM POSITIVE THIS IS A LIE because I asked the slot attendant to freeze it until I come back Thursday(aka today) and he eventually asked what card I had. I’m positive if I had the best card with crazy play I would have gotten it frozen. So he says no and the supervisor says no. I’m max betting, still losing, and it eventually hits at 738 and my bus is gone. I ask them at the bus station if another bus to NY comes soon and they say no, but I can take the bus to New London and take the Amtrak. I wanted to go to work and see my GF in NJ after so I did that. I had time to kill! And I lost 1000 earlier! Uh oh. Not enough time to play poker...but what about VIDEO poker? Oh yes. And I lost 4500 quickly. That was beyond stupid. I assume Tony has done similar things for similar reasons. I get it. You just want the quads or something to get even and then get out. Didn’t happen. So I lost my ass. Anyway, that Amtrak was 107 fucking dollars. I paid it. I actually put 1k into global poker and ended up winning 279 so that was paid for. They have some bullshit new policy AND BEWARE OF THIS that you can’t just deposit, basically hit and run, and cashout. You need to play a sufficient amount to be able to cashout. It’s stupid. Luckily I was able to do that over a couple days.

So I have a new plan. It’s for people with a diseased brain like mine. At the beginning of the day, I’m going to take what I feel I need to play poker for the day and then soak the rest of my cash in water. By the next day it should be dry, but it’ll be too soaked to give them if I’m tilted that day. This is insane but I have to do it. Oh and I’m sorry about not replying to the last blog, for some reason that one is restricted on my phone. I’ll check it out on my tablet later tonight.

Stop scaring me Mom

Ahh another trip to Foxwoods with the girlfriend. Casino trips can be divided into 3 different experiences: Alone, with a girl, with buddies. Alone without fail means lots of poker. The other two are based upon the personalities of the girl and your friends, but assuredly with the girl you won’t get those deep late night sessions unless you’re a shitty boyfriend. My girlfriend is the best ever and wouldn’t complain if I played a lot, but I wouldn’t put her through that.

We got the 9am bus last Thursday since our massages were for 1pm. 2.5 hours to get there, check into the room, shower and get it. We arrived and our room wasn’t ready. Very rare. So we checked our bags and I picked up my 75 dollar free bet. I used both our sets of coupons for roulette. 120 in match and the free bet, pretty good. I did 3 forty dollar spins and 1 free bet. I ended winning 1 and the FB so 75 profit. We ate at Panera and noticed time was getting short to the massage, so we went to the VIP and they got us in right away. Figures.

Massage was great. We got a new one called Body Quench and I got some citrus oil thing and GF got the rose. I felt good after. Masseuse was pretty too which was key. I enjoy having good looking women feel me up without it being cheating. I got into a 2-5 PLO game with her watching me play. She’s never seen me play PLO before, only hold em, and she was highly intrigued by all the money being thrown around the table. I ended up scooping a little 123 dollar win over 3 hours and 40 mins. After that she got Noodles and I got Golden Dragon and watched Big Brother. I really don’t think Tyler can win. He’s making too many friends in the house and the jury will start talking and expose his lies. Plus Level 6 will turn against him possibly. After the show we went to bed. An amateur trick would be to play poker again, but I’ve learned that’s a bad idea. Btw, earlier we played the Slot Tournament. We didn’t win and found out that was the last day so that sucked.

Friday was the main point of the trip with her. Foxwoods gave me 2 tix to Cirque Hotel Eloize, and I saw Cirque KA in Vegas and I enjoyed it. This show wasn’t nearly as epic as the Vegas ones but they did lots of cool things and we had a great time. It’s still playing until sep 2nd, sometimes twice a day. After that we ate and played more plo 2-5. I cracked aces with big combo draw and won 130 bucks in an hour. They called me for a surprisingly late plo8 table. Couldn’t get much going and I lost 12 dollars in 4 hours 35 mins. I did see THE WORST POKER DECISION OF ALL TIME though. This guy had 67Q10(67Q diamonds) and he got it in(roughly 350) on a A35 board(35 diamonds) vs 2 people. One guy had 2468 for wheel and better straight outs and another had A29J with ace high flush draw. THE 4 OF DIAMONDS HIT. The idiot smashed it for HALF obv and the other two had a side pot which ace flush for 3 quarters of. This is a pretty poor decision in plo much less plo8. All his money to catch one card to get half! I mean sure the other fours are possible but dude you figure the wheel is out there taking away at least one four. Hopefully that guy comes back again. One funny thing is the GF told me plo8 is super boring and she is right.

Saturday was just a day to eat and play poker. I got into plo again and did very well. One Asian lady lost her mind and was just cold calling 3 bets with weird shit. One time she got 1125 in pre with 6778! GF was saying she needs to learn  how to play this  when she saw thousands of dollars in the pot in sometimes one hand. She ALSO said she would cry if she lost 500. Yeah so not being ok with variance in plo ain’t gonna work. I ended up winning a few hands and scored a 726 win in 3 hours 20 mins. The game was fun but I wanted to eat and lock up the big win, especially since it’s in front of her and the end of the trip.

As for the subject title, as some of you know I’m the lottery for my father. He gives me 8 dollars a day and if 213 hits he wins 1500 and if 333 hits he wins 500. It saves me a trip going to the lottery office plus it’s a 50% house edge. So I’m at the gym today and my mom texts me and says 213 hit. I’m steamed. I check the site and 312 cane out. She needs to get her shit straight. Anyway I’m heading to fox now.

Oh yeah, you need money

What a weird trip. Two weeks, as I’m apt to do, I was running short on time. I took a little nap next to the poker room and it was about a half hour until my bus came. I was a zombie. I had to get my bag, brush my teeth, and it’s a long walk to do that stuff. I had to decide if I wanted to put my money in the box or catch the bus. I chose the bus and took the money home and put it in a bag in the corner.

Fast forward to the trip. I get there, I win the bigger bus coupon roulette spin. The spinner guy HATED me. He tried to give me those roulette only chips but I wanted red 5 dollar chips instead. He got annoyed. I was supposed to win 70 bucks on my final spin but he tried to short me 5. I wasn’t having that and I got all the money.

After checking in, I go to my box. There’s only an ounce of gold and like 20 white chips in there. Oops. Forgot the money. I had about 500 dollars cash in my wallet but that’s not nearly enough to play.

Since I have a platinum card, one thing they offer are free cash advances on your credit card. I wanted to take 5k out, which would have cost 107.99. I tried 5k, declined. 4K, declined. 3k, declined. At that point I did a live chat with my bank on their site. They told me it would cost 4% PER DAY until they were paid back. 200 bucks a day! I’m not THAT much of a degenerate and I said hell no. I decided to try the next day to get a marker.

I go to the credit department and they take all my info. Job, assets, the whole bit. The credit department is right by roulette and I see Ted Forrest playing. I’m not sure why. Maybe that’s his fun? So they end up saying because I don’t have enough money and I’m a poker player the answer is no(it seemed like 75% because of poker).  Very frustrating, but I had one last ace in the hole.

Mike stayed in the room that day(usual thing). I told him my situation  and I ended up trading the gold to him for 1100(though it was worth 1178 at the time) as long he trades it back to me at that price. So I had a roughly 1600 roll. I like to buy in for 500(the max) at 2-5 NL and 3 buyins isn’t gonna work. But I had 8 buyins at plo since I like shortstacking that game.

Great plan. I win +124 in my first tiny session, and then plo8 opens up. I like to buy in for the max 1k in that. Very dangerous. I decide to nit it up. That’s the plan from now on. Low cards and combos. I win 155 in 4.5 hours. The only hands I lost significant on were flopping 3 pair and losing to top set, and it was a limp pot in the B.B. Disgusting. Also one where I have a set and second but flush draw on a 9QK board and the guy apparently had J10A with nut clubs. I lose on setups not bad play.

I played plo again later. Super good session. I won 704 in 3 hours 25 mins. There were some terrible players in there(one lady cold called a 3 bet to 140 with 8892, flop 855!). My stuff mostly held up. I got the gold and gave back the money. I left shortly after, this time on a Saturday morning. I left because I was going to Barclays in Brooklyn to see wrestling Saturday and Sunday(NXT Takeover and SummerSlam). Fun times! Before plo started I got advice to try the slot tournament. 2500 top prize and they pay the top 10 over a 6 hour period. I didn’t win but it’s sonething fun the GF and I can do(she’s with me now) over the next 3 days and we can split the money.

Chemotherapy generally fails right?

Don’t worry everyone, it’s not me. I feel fine for the most part(haven’t gotten sick in 6 months ever since I stopped using the air hand driers). But there’s this one old guy in Foxwoods. Everyone knows him. Very old guy who is generally a piece of shit and I’ve known this for a while.

Poker has been pretty up and down for me lately. The hold em game is reg filled(you CHERISH those times when the reg buddies play at each others table and they’re yucking it up at their shitty game while you get the amateurs), so I decided to start min-stacking plo. I have people I know in that  game who play solidly(including Mike, who makes a living at it) so I was always cautious about getting involved. But fuck it. There’s enough bad players in there where I can get a piece. It’s also nice to dance between that and NL based upon table quality. I actually think it’s a lot easier to switch between 2-5 plo and 2-5 NL than 1-2 NL and 2-5 NL. At least you know you’re playing different games in the first case.

Terrible things to begin the trip. I lost 1552 in plo8. All I get are brutal spots. These people just won’t put all their money in huge draws. It has to be locked made hands. For example on JQ2 board say they have 1k stack. The pot is 120. They have like AK910 with the nut clubs. Monster right? Sure they’ll pot it. But if you repot it, do they shove? Nope. They’ll call you. They’ll shove with QQ though. Probably crying call you down JJ. It actually makes hands like 22 kind of easy to play. Just gotta be aware of middle set. They’re also old which makes them conservative. But stupid. The losses mainly consisted of made hands tgst got destroyed by big draws, over and over again.

The old man showed up. He thinks he’s hot shit, but in reality he’s only good at stud high. He likes to tell amateur players he will play them in any game with any stakes. But someone once tried to take him up on it and he said the level wasn’t high enough. Shit talking coward. So here’s the hand that made me hate his cancerous face(and I raise money for cancer research, so I must hate him bad). I have AK26. He raises to 20 from EP. I call. Flop comes K89 rainbow. He pots to 40. I call. Turn A. Bets 120. I call. I debated shoving here since I had top two and a low draw but realized that’s a bad decision lol. Let’s see a river. And it’s a King. So now I have kings full. He pots it to like 360 with 250 behind. I shoved. A mistake, sure. Should have called. But here’s where the hate comes: he gives a fucking SPEECH. Shit like “so you’re telling me you one outtered me blah blah” and I just said you win and showed my hand. He had aces full of course. The guy was getting like 5 to 1 on his money and he’s going around telling people he was 50/50 to fold and that I’m a bad player. Yeah fuck you. The more he tells that story the dumber he looks. If he was really scared about quads he would checkcall river.

Plo high was nice to me though. All the money I lost in plo8 I got back in plo plus more. I messed up and started with a max stack and that’s just not good. I won a lot with it but variance is insane. The last hand I played for the the trip was NL. I had 33 vs QQ on a 23Q flop. My 700 stack went away. That finished the trip down 145 in 21 hours for poker, but the points etc made up for it. Nearly back there now.

Thank GOD for Fat Spazz

This trip wasn’t particularly good financially but it certainly was one of the must memorable trips I’ve had recently,  all thanks to one guy. But we can get to that later. All my other hoodies were dirty so I picked one I haven’t wore in a while and it had 3D glasses from the movies in there. Probably a Marvel film. These actually worked perfectly for poker. They were big enough to fit over my glasses and weren’t too heavy. I’ll be wearing these in hold em every time.

So I met Mike on the 1030 bus and we discussed the Giant PLO game. Good talk. A bus grinder asked us to keep it down so we were like fine and spoke lower. You know it’s a bus grinder when they plan to sleep going TO the casino. There’s def staking and shadiness in that game people should be very cautious of. I asked if he wanted to chop the bus coupons and he said no because he wanted to go to the PLO ASAP while I had to check in. It worked out because I won my spins and he lost his.

After checking in I figured I had to take a quick look to see how the NL looks. Looked shitty. My Thursday late night standards are super high because I want to watch Big Brother on the cbs app and I want to do the gym before plo8 on Friday. So it needs to be retard deluxe in there for me to play.

Plo8 actually went terribly for me. Simply couldn’t make a hand and got unlucky in big spots. Unlike the previous week there weren’t a steady crew of idiots coming in and out. The game went to 4 handed and I floated the idea of playing 5-10 so we would pay 4 bucks a half instead of “half rake” pot rake. It’s not really half. Everyone agreed except Big Jeff because he’s a scared nit. Nice guy though. I actually got them to break the game with Jeff there which was awkward. But after a while it ended up being me, Asian Danny, decent New kid, and Bruce. Bruce was actually the mark in the game. Anyone who checks in the dark in an Omaha game is bad IMO. I hear he plays stud very well but that might be it. Asian Danny left and then Bruce left. Apparently Danny was a WELCOME addition for Bruce. Danny is probably the best player in the casino. Maybe Bruce thinks I’m too dangerous shorthanded?  But it was terrible and I ended up losing 891 in plo8 total.

I took a break after it ended and had Thai for dinner. I played NL and was enjoying the glasses. Soon enough FAT SPAZZ joined the game. This guy was genuinely garbage. He’s the kind of guy who..we’ll lets just get to it. There’s a straddle, I’m button. Folds to me, I make it 30, he calls in BB only. I have AJ. Flop 910Q two diamonds(I have Ad). He checks, I bet 60. Call. Turn offsuit 2. I bomb it to 300. This is one of those boards you need to bomb or check imo. He calls! He has 100 behind at this point. River offsuit 5. He checks. I put him all in. Debate! He finally calls. I say You Win. He then says “Muck Then”. I say no lol. He shows J4! I won a 935 pot with A high over 3 streets of action. Never played a crazier hand. He proceeds to lose 3k over 7 hours or so I played with him. He settled down around 7am which I kind of liked because I needed some rest so I can play good Saturday. I did win 737 that session.

Next day was alright. I kept an eye out for F. Spazz and FOUND HIM. I won some decent cash from him. He got lucky and left. The previous night he tried to leave numerous times but I told him he shouldn’t leave before he was Big because he’s missing free hands. Like 3 times he got utterly destroyed during these “free hands” so when I tried it again he just left. The fucking nerve! That was pretty much trip. I ran bad in the next session but ehhh. I hope Indian Doctor or Fat Spazz are there this trip. I only won 112 in poker but I won 120 in the bus match, 100 points, 25 arcade coupon, 20 bucks mystery cash, free bus coupon, and I earned points playing so I made over 400 if you squint your eyes.

Long trip, thanks to LINDSEY

It was Round 2 of the Lindsey Stirling/Evanescence concert, this time up in Mohegan. I kind of wish it was in Foxwoods so I could get the tickets using my points, but I also heard that Foxwoods shows don’t go more than 2 hours because they want you back on floor gambling. I can’t confirm that exactly but the Christmas Lindsey show and the Criss Angel show were 2 hours or less so maybe. It was a different experience than the Camden show. The acoustics were better so Evanescence sounded  better. Amy Lee wasn’t drowned out by the orchestra this time. Lindsey went first this time which was a mistake because she’s the best on the planet. I did make a fatal mistake and got floor seats. NEVER BUY FLOOR SEATS. Everyone was getting up and down. The one cool thing was that I was in the last row and could stand but still never again. A good lesson because I’m gonna buy tickets to wrestling in Brooklyn in a couple weeks.

My friend says he wants to play poker, but I really don’t think he enjoys it that much so I got him going on VP. He won like 400 bucks on it. I had the wizard of odds optimal strategy ready to go if I forgot something. He was loving VP when he left the next day but I had to warn him the VP machine is not an ATM. It’s highly dangerous as we all know. I think he understood me.

Poker was fine. One disgusting hand was I had 10-6 off in the BB, I check after four limpers. Flop 10-6-2 two hearts I check with intention of check raising. Guy makes it 25, gets one caller, I make it 85 with 250 behind. Only the caller calls. Turn offsuit Q, I shove he snap calls with Q10. Nothing I can do there, besides remember his face lol. There were a bunch of up and down hold em sessions in here too.

One INSANE thing happened as I was watching my friend play 10-20-40 PLO. It was between Super Dave and Bahvin, however that’s spelled. Both aggressive and kind crazy. SD has JJK7 with clubs and Bahvin 10KQx with hearts. Flop comes AJx. 1100 pot. Dave pots it and Bahvin calls, but the dealer runs out both the turn and river even though Bahvin had 250 behind. The turn was a 6 and river was a 6. BUT WAIT! Because the dealer messed up that river goes away and it because a...Q. Dave is a loud guy anyway but dealer cost him a 3800 pot because Bahvin isn’t folding his Broadway draw on a missed turn. Pretty fucking crazy.

Plo8 went on Friday. Usually runs 7-8 hours on average but this time it went until 6AM! A large variety of bad players fueled it, none worse than this crazy Indian doctor. Indian doctors are always terrible at poker by law. He never folded preflop even to a raise. Any 4! He always said stuff like “I’m getting there” and “I’m learning” but he really wasn’t at all. He left at 6am because he said he had to take a cab back to Boston but I saw him the next day at like noon. Liar! I won around 800 bucks on the trip over the course of 34 hours. Not great but heading back now hoping for a better trip.

Plugging that emotional leak

When you play flop games, it’s very very important to not feel bad about your luck. You can’t feel you’re unlucky or anything like that.  This doesn’t really apply to stud games because people can see you calling with the nonsense so the embarrassment of that is bigger than the feel bad. I felt like this on the last trip and I got crushed...for a while. It was another thrilling trip overall so let’s get into it.

I ate food after work so I had no desire to go to the Noodle Bar(at Foxwoods, obv) so I used my match play/food coupon on roulette. I had 3 coupons and used them for 2 spins, and I lost both. Starting like a champ. I checked out the poker room just in case it looked ok. Cookie Monster was there(who is crazy but probably not quite as crazy as most people assume) and I wanted to get into that game. The problem was there were two Must Move tables to the Main Game and he was older one and I probably would never get to play with him. I ran like crap and lost 415. When you get down to 4 handed and you run JJ into AA on a safe looking board it’s bad news. I decided it wasn’t my night and went to bed.

The next day I got a good gym session in(working out while stuck in the casino is a major sign of strength) and then got an hour of NL in. Plo8 was touch and go but we got it going. I lost 181 in an hour of NL. Plo8 went well. I needed a win. Larry won every pot early but eventually got destroyed. He got very unlucky against me on a J102 rainbow board where he had J10 and I had JJ. The game broke when he left and I did win 357 in about 7 hours. Charlene showed up and we went to the lounge. It’s always cool when she’s there. After I got crushed in NL. I did get a bit unlucky in one hand but I just didn’t like my play. I was feeling sorry for myself and when that happens I call those raises to 25/30 far too often. It’s kind of like I just want to win a good pot to soothe my emotion burden or something. I left the game, went back to my room, and told myself to STOP BITCHING. BIG FUCKING DEAL YOU DONT GET HANDS SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE. YOU PUT THAT COLD DECK ON LARRY EARLIER AND NOW YOURE COMPLAING? GET THE FUCK OVER IT! So I did. I slapped myself a few times too.

It didn’t go well immediately and I lost 223 in 2 hours, but I liked how I played. I switched tables but right next to it was 2-5 Crazy Pineapple featuring Shirley AND Cookie Monster! Full table and some of the CP regs weren’t in there either. It went INCREDIBLE. I played some hands well, got lucky in a few, and one held up. Dream scenario I have 457 on a 236 board and I’m against 66 and 62 all in on flop. Some stuff I got a bit lucky on but I recognized it which is important. I left the game around 4AM with all the money and the game immediately ended. I’m not sure if it’s because they consider me the fish or just the guy with all the money. Maybe both. I had to get some rest though because I don’t have a room on Saturday’s.

I actually got the rare Saturday morning gym session in. I had a need. I sacrificed the free lounge breakfast though. I kept up the fight from last night. Over the course of 10.5 hours I won 1273. The HORRIBLE black woman came back(the one whom Bill Potts defends to death even though he’s never once played with her) and she lost 1000 dollars in 8 minutes. Bill said I should keep an eye on her and I did. I literally was texting him everything she did in one hand and while I was doing that in detail she got stacked again. A couple hands later once again. She left the table soon after and I saw her with very few chips over there. Bill thinks I’m biased thinking no black female player can be good, but i marginally disagree. I’ve seen white female players be very good(an ex-girlfriend I met at Fox and Michelle for instance). I’ve never seen a good black female player, but admittedly there are so few and certainly not above the 1-2 level. Possibly she’s the only one I’ve played 2-5 with. Soon the game died out but my bus was leaving in 3 hours. I took care of my box and had Noodles. I saw a guy I used to play HORSE with at Pai Gow playing 3 hands. 30 bucks a piece. Got crushed lost it all. Then he did 60. More losing. Then he played banker and did 200 just one hand. Lost. Back to multiple hands. Lost. Put his last 300 on one hand banker. King high no good. Lost. He then left. After that I checked out poker, wasn’t in the mood to possibly lose, I was tired, games were eh. I took a little nap for 2.5 hours in the eating area and nobody bothered me. After that I went home.

I’m heading to fox on Wednesday this time with my friend to see Lindsey Stirling again. The one who did bad gambles last time. That’ll make for a fun story.

She’s just incredible

What a fun and exciting time since I last posted. You really only need money, fun, and a good woman  by your side to really enjoy life and it’s been nice. Let’s try to go in order of things:

I’ve been doing well in the stocks lately. I know I told Twitter that I purchased lots of MoviePass stock(HMNY) but that was a big fail. I probably ended up losing 220 dollars on that thing. I love MoviePass but it’s a very bad business model, although I am obviously cheering for them. Another bad move was purchasing Netflix stock. I figured hey it’s Netflix, everyone has that shit it’ll shoot up. At the peak I had it for 9 shares and it was around 400 at that time. I then sold 5 because I wanted to get an amazon share and later in the day it sunk like a stone. Didn’t meet projections for the quarter. I waited a couple days and it recovered some then sold the rest. Co-worker told me they paid Chappelle 200 million for 3 stand up comedy specials. I can’t roll with that so I sold. I have since purchased another share of Amazon and I’m stuck on that. Funny thing is I’m actually UP on stocks. Planet Fitness has been good, WWE has been incredible,  and I purchased some Funko today and I’m up in that. I hope to keep that going.

Poker last week was very good. It was basically a series of big hands with a lot of boring stuff in between. Thursday is usually a pretty shitty day to play but I arrive after work on Thursday to check in so I pretty much have to at least take a look at the games. I found one with actual legit DUMB white kids. Not angling white kids who are faking it. Felt like a decade ago. I actually stacked 3 people with top set on a J83 two spade board. Big pot too. Dumb opponent had bottom set, Preflop raiser had I GUESS queens because non-spade A and K ran out. Other guy flush draw I guess. Game died shortly after and I had a 987 win in an hour.

PLO8 actually went on Friday! The one guy who makes the game(yet is inexplicably decent, I assume players like his forcefulness to get it started) is back from Vegas. Hopefully it goes more now. My friend UFC Mike actually played. I won a big one with A244 with a suit on a 10-6-4 rainbow board. Mike got cold decked with his 10-6-A2. Big spazz villain had a low wrap(I guess) but it bricked out for no low. I also got a gift from a big crazy fish in the room with 10-J-4-5 on a QKA27 board. We both got 1k in on the river. He was the one who potted it at the end. I was a little scared about getting quarted honestly. He ended up having 10-JJ-5 so that was a 5 hundred dollar gift. The game ended after the bad players left. I really hope some very specific people like Shirley play Friday.

It wasn’t all roses. I ended up losing a big one to Michelle. I 3 bet AK and she had Queens. She calls. Flop 345 I bet half stack she shoves, I’m committed and call, brick city. It’s ok. I lost 700 that table but I took a 687 profit that day and went to bed. Larry also gave me back 100 dollars of the 700.

This particular Saturday was not great. Very very grinder heavy. At one point it was insanely deep aggro Asian,  glasses grinder, Michelle, bald smart yet a bit spazz grinder, very smart Sun Glasses grinder, rungood Kirk who gets value on everything. He’s a good player though. I got outta there and played 1-2 PLO. Black guy to my direct left would not shut up about how if you have AA in Omaha don’t get your whole stack in pre so you can shove on the flop and defend against opponents hitting their runner runner straights and flushes. I’m a bit of a PLO high novice so 10% of me understands but the other 90% just knows that has to be stupid. He got stacked and left. I eventually got stacked with 8810J with 2 diamonds on an 89K two diamonds board. I think I was ahead there but not fully sure of his two other cards. I’ll assume slightly ahead. Bricked tho. He had top set btw.

I got put back on the shitty 2-5 game but was eventually moved to a good one FINALLY. I ran pretty decent and ended up capturing 633 in that game. I love how the grinders first priority seems to be playing together and sharing a laugh and not finding the best game. I eventually took the last bus of the morning and the Main Event ended while I was on it. I wish Cada won. He played great. I bet Larry 5 dollars the last hand would be a pair or less so I’m tilted big lol. I ended up winning 2006 dollars in poker over around 20 hours.

I went to Camden, NJ with the girlfriend, her sister and her boyfriend to see the Lindsey Stirling/Evanescence show. Evanescence was ok but Lindsey was a STAR. Get a ticket if it comes near you, watch her on YouTube, everything. She’s incredible and just the best. I’m seeing her again next Wednesday in Mohegan Sun with a friend too. Should be hitting Fox soon so good luck to me.

Thank God for Saturday

I feel like I make a ton of good life decisions recently. Got a great girlfriend, I have a good diet(maybe a little carb heavy because pasta is great), working out consistently, financials etc. Switching from poker Thursday to Saturday has been great. Last week, I lost 1205 over 5 hours and 55 minutes. Every big hand I had they folded PREFLOP, and every hand I missed on they seemed to call or check raise me. I felt like I had my cards stapled to my head for all to see.

Couple things: I’m still gonna play for on Friday, and the above stuff happened on a Friday. Secondly,  this is the beauty of only having a 5k roll in the box. It keeps you on your toes. Every dollar means more. Can’t be tempted by VP either. I love it. I also won 90 bucks from the bus coupon and 50 from a cash giveaway that mitigated those losses a bit.

I came into Saturday feeling good. I did some exercises in the room and felt ready to go. That black chick from last week wasn’t there this time, even though I saw her Friday. I’m assuming she got crushed and needed a break. Bill Potts says he wants me to keep an eye out for specific fish stuff she might do and I will.

First table was good. The guy whom I considered the best at the tabke started to think he could just own people with his play. He got super out of line when he limped 96 off and then called my raise to 35 pre. He had position but it worked out. He tried to bluff trips but I called. The one guy who I was staying for tightened up so I happily locked up a 461 win and left.

Next table was a Must Move. Crazy Shirley was in there. I won another 430 over here and left too. One highlight was Shirley being so happy that the Knicks were up 4 points in a summer league game 3 minutes into it. Because you can’t come back from that obv

Next table was insane. I ended up cracking a guys set of eights with a set of aces on the turn AND river. I was in line to win the 500 dollar high hand but seconds later a king high straight flush took it. But still that was about a 2k pot. I ended up winning 1612 and left. I took a break and did some people watching of blackjack. THE THINGS I SAW. Player 9 vs dealer 10? Double! Player 4 vs dealer 7? Double! Player 12 vs dealer 5? Double! Later I saw 66 vs dealer 5, guy split and was fine. On the other one he got another 6 and DOUBLED! That’s a rare one. All these people lost their asses btw

They ended up putting me back at the same table the rest of the night and I won 25 bucks. That’s ok with me. I’m heading back to fox now and I’m hoping Joe Cada wins the main.i win around 1250 over 23 hours

20% is good

This was another trip with the girlfriend. We have been planning this one for a while because Criss Angel was in town and I got two comp tickets. She’s a big fan of his. We went Thursday morning and I paid for her ticket again and she offered to pay me back. She’s really nice that way. I said no of course but I kept her match play coupons. I ended up losing on 3 of the 4. I think it’s important to show a girl wins so I’d usually do 2 spins of 2 coupons but I did 4.

We got the couples massage shortly after we checked into the room. She had the same girl but I had a new one from last time. I can’t remember if I’ve ever had her before. She really squeezed my ass good so I was a big fan of her and hope I get her again. She got in there like it was her life’s mission!

After a quick trip to eat at the lounge I played 2/5. Now before I got there I remembered that she said she wanted to gamble this time. She doesnt really know how to play anything and I’d feel bad if she lost so I suggested that she invest in me. Bill Potts suggested 20% so that’s what we agreed to. The first session started out terrible. I 3 barreled a guy and that failed. I was stuck 500 at one point. The great thing about her is most non-gamblers would be breathing down your neck at this point, but she was supportive. I turned it around and actually won 399 that session.

We left around 820 because we wanted to get some Golden Dragon and watch Big Brother. That girl Sam is the best one and I like how she’s literally a robot right now. If she goes first I’ll be pissed. I ate my whole serving of pad Thai while hers lasted 3 days. Small lady. We fell asleep shortly after. You know you’re with the girlfriend when you go to bed at the casino at 1030pm.

We went to the gym the next day then more lounge. Pretty big day of poker. I won 788 in 4 hours. Larry was in the game(he still owes me 700 btw) and he lost with AA vs KK. River. That hand probably cost me a payment. I ended up winning with AA vs KK and getting a big pot.

Criss Angel was fun. He did a lot of fun illusions that are hard for me to figure out, but I’m sure there are logical explanations. He did some fun shit with a 20 dollar bill. It ended really quick. Only 90 minutes, so I played a little more poker. Game wasn’t great and wasn’t getting any cards so I took a 157 loss in 2 hours 45 minutes. After that was bed.

Saturday was interesting to say the least. I saw that ridiculous black girl who SPAZZED with AQ suited at another table and I figured I’d probably have to deal with her Saturday. Little did I know. After lounge breakfast i got my name activated from the call list. There were about 13 names but only like 6 active ones. I did a very smart thing because the main games looked iffy so I rolled my name onto the bottom of the list and then a minute later they made a new game(#Protip) so I got more time in the must move. Eventually I was moved and I won a good pot with queens. Guy I beat left so I left. Took a 237 dollar win over an hour and got my name back on the call list. Always good to pocket a win in those circumstances.

We people watched BJ a little bit and saw a young kid lose around 800 in 25 minutes. Tony hates people like me lol. I partially like those people to lose who just play pit games because I’ll never see any of that money in poker plus the casino are the ones giving me stuff, not him.

Got back in another must move. The black girl was 2 to my left. Here was the hand of the trip. Bill Potts and I had a major disagreement on this one. So, she straddles to 10. Middle position makes it 30(with QQ), I make it 95 in SB with KK, she flats with AQ suited(Bill and I actually both thought this was a very iffy decision). The guy shoves for 350. I go all in, and she has a 424 stack. She calls. She rivers a flush. She probably maybe MAYBE pot committed herself by calling the 95 by only having 329 behind, but i can’t give credit to her because she fucked up by calling the 95. Also judging from last week she totally overplays big suited aces. Not even AK suited. Bill thought it wasn’t a mistake but I say in 2-5 it totally is. Whatever though we disagree on stuff but we both win overall. Saturday was all about getting it back and I ended up only losing 19 in that session. Black girl lost a shit ton of it back and then left. It was a fun trip and I won 1250 and gladly gave her 250.

Saturday is good for poker. Shocking!

Is poker dying everywhere? Even on a FRIDAY last week during high hand it was pretty dead. Unfortunately it didn’t lead to me getting the 500 dollar prize. I also ran like TOTAL SHIT. In the roughly 9 hours of playing on Friday I didn’t flop better than a pair and my greatest hand were nines twice. Trip started out good though. I won 90 dollars on the bus coupon roulette matchplay and then won 35 bucks on the free bet I got. I got there at like 2 in the morning. I probably could have asked work if I could leave early to get the hour earlier bus but I miss so much to go to casino/see girlfriend  that I don’t like asking for favors.

My friend Charlene unexpectedly came to Fox again with her friend Alison from Pittsburgh. I had clam chowder at Cedars because I went to the lounge an hour earlier. My meal was 10 bucks but I used my Platinum card to knock 15% off our total bill so Alison said I was even. She also owes me a 5 dollar chip from Rivers Casino that has a Penguins logo on it. I need that thing, They both played 1/2 after. I watched Charlene. One dealer later asked if Charlene and I were married. We aren’t lol. We also haven’t done a single thing like kissing. I need to be even more careful with that because if the girlfriend is gonna come to Foxwoods sometimes I don’t need any misunderstandings.

Saturday was incredible. Bluffs worked. Hands got paid off. This black chick with tits 66% out was playing 2-5. She’s usually a 1-2 girl, but it was more like a sit n go girl. She got 500 in pre with AQ suited, made kings fold, but short stacked QQ won the whole thing. She was like “AQ suit what else can I do?” She later tried to I GUESS rep something big on a KQ626 board when she shoved 800 more on the river. She ended up trying to get AA to fold and that failed. She was brutally annoying because she said poker was her “Summer job”. Bitch poker isn’t something where you can expect a regular wage and you’re too horrible to expect a steady wage. I ended up winning 2k in poker over 20 hours. Going back Thursday with the girlfriend.

I kind of hate Vegas

The Def Leopard/Journey concert was a good time. The seats were high up but centered so we saw everything, even though they looked like ants. But that’s ok since it was crazy loud and I didn’t need men sweating on me. The girlfriend loves 80s rock and knew all the songs and I knew like 4 combined. It’s not gonna hold a candle to the Lindsey Stirling/Evanescence concerts next month but nothing can.

Totally decided to give up Thursday’s at Foxwoods. We used to get plo8 going on the regular and now there’s no shot. There’s no more high hand that day for NL either. The only value is my points expire at midnight  Thursday but I’ll get the 9pm bus one way or another. I’m ok working the bare minimum at the civilian job as long as I get in the better poker days and see the girlfriend enough. Speaking of that we are getting couples massage and seeing Criss Angel there end of the month, Fox gave us free tickets.

I’m a really big wrestling fan, and it’s actually somewhat kept me from Vegas for a few years. I used to meet up with this wrestling observer convention to watch UFC in July(International Fight Week) but they cancelled that and now meet there on Summerslam weekend. I live in NYC and actually go to NXT and Summerslam so I don’t go, plus going alone to Vegas sucks. It’s also EXPENSIVE. I don’t like paying Uber, rooms, food, everything just so I can play poker. I don’t pay any of that in Foxwoods. You’re legit down 1k at the end of a week if you add all that up.

That’s a good deal!

I went to Foxwoods by myself this time and I was immediately disappointed. The insane deal where the bus gives you 30 match, 30 slot, and 15 food is gone and went back to the old 60 match(or 45 match 15 food). The greeter said that “promotion” ended. Sounds like bullshit to me. The bus grinders were just taking advantage too much.

Foxwoods poker is becoming too much of a grind. There’s a bunch of solid players and very few huge fish. The only one that’s a true reg is Shirley and she doesn’t play that much, and plays random shit. There’s like a group of 6 solid players who all the same, led by the beautiful Michelle. They all respect me and we try to avoid each others tables, but when there’s few tables it’ll happen. Nothing in particular happened in poker and I won 290 over 13 hours 40 minutes.

My friend Charlene came back in. She’s pretty wild with her gambling, but she can afford it. She ran terrible in everything. Pai Gow, BJ, Slots, poker. One thing I NEEEEEED to do is stay with her when she plays BJ. She doesn’t like to double when she should. Like she had a 10 vs a dealer 3 and didn’t double, 50 dollar bet. I jumped on it and won 50. That feels like key money that I need to go for. My girlfriend got tickets to Journey/Def Leopard in Jersey on June 15th so we are doing that instead of Fox. It’s very important to do stuff she likes and sacrifice when she does that for you. Never be selfish in a relationship.

Foxwoods with the Girlfriend

I took a little time off because I felt like I didn’t have too much to discuss. No point in wasting time on a dull blog, so only when something different or interesting happens will I post. So my anniversary with the GF was May 27th. It’s been a great year, and she’s the best girl I’ve ever been with. I told her as a gift we should get a couples massage. By her in Jersey the fee is 295 plus tax and at Fox it’s 280 total and I can use points. Total no brainer. 

She took a cab up to Flushing and I took the train there. There was actually a Sands bus in the Foxwoods spot which is good to know if Bill Potts heads back there and asks me to come up. It leaves at 830pm and I’m never there at that time so it’s good to know. So I met her and the ride was smooth. We went to the Noodle Bar and she really enjoyed the lo mein. I assured her this was low quality restaurant but I’m glad she enjoyed it. It’s VERY VERY good to find a girl who has inexpensive tastes. By the time we checked in and ate we decided to sleep rather than her watch me play poker. It’s important to not seem like a gambling addict when you go to casino with a girl.

The next day we had Panera bread then played poker for 5 hours. I wrote little notes for her giving my opinion on the players and the game on general plus I rubbed her leg a bit. It’s good to keep the girl engaged when you play. It’s not good if you can smell the boredom. I ended up winning 290 on the session. This black woman was a huge fish, but unfortunately she won a massive pot and slowed WAY down after that. Emotionally satisfied not good.

Actually between Panera and poker we did the massage. It was incredible. I’m tall so my neck is funky so that helped a ton. We both agreed to do it again soon. Possibly the end of June because Criss Angel is going there and she’s a fan. There’s also the zip line which I hope takes points but I heard doesn’t. We went to the lounge and she liked the food there too.

We went to the Arcade over there too. There’s good value on one of the crane machines because for 6 points you can play until you win one. I got her a white bear and she won me a bulldog in a construction costume. She said his name was Rubble. I think we went to bed pretty shortly after. I forget.

The next day we went to the gym pretty early. She wants to get back into the gym routine and I showed her what I do. After that we lounged it again and I actually tried to get plo8 going again because a terrible player wanted to play but couldn’t do it. Such a dying game. I actually got stacked for 500. I flopped a set and another guy had gut shot straight flush draw. He turned the non-flush gut shot straight card. No help on the river. I guess I could have gotten away but that’s really really hard to do. We went back to the arcade for a bit and then this restaurant called Sugar.

I actually fucked up and thought there was a cruise from 6-10pm leaving from Foxwoods. This was absurd though and it was just a voucher giveaway for a discounted cruise in the future. Very annoying. After that I played poker for a little bit and lost 37 dollars. Somewhere during the course of the trip we played video poker 10 dollar hands. She had 10% of my action and we came out 40 dollars ahead. 4 bucks for her! When we came back on the bus someone urinated in this empty spot across from us. I hope he gets hit by a car.

Finally got the finances counted

I won 1957 in 2-5 NL over 16 hours and lost 892 over 11 hours and 45 minutes in 2-5 plo8. I’m taking a break, potentially a life long break, from plo8. Too many shoulder shrug aggressive decisions  in that game. If you want to win you need to make them pay for their draw. Or you bet your draw and hopefully they fold or you hit. Problem is the big draw goes against the made hand way too much. It’s  happened to me a lot this trip, lost quite a few times. But a few interesting things happened:

An old lady folded 25 pre with 45 suited and would have won 40k in the bad beat. Obv it’s a good fold but hopefully now she makes that call every time. Good for the game.

My friend Elise got into an incident with another(well known) poker player. It was her turn to show(first), and she didn’t. The guy was pretty aggressive talking to her and she wasn’t having it. She told him to shut up  and he said Fuck You, Sweetheart and that wasn’t exactly a term of endearment in her view lol. They both stayed at the table but I told her he does coke big time so you can’t expect rational conversation.

Counted up my roll. Total assets combined of gold and cash is about 40k. Not bad. I hope to really increase that soon by just playing hold em. But don’t get this twisted, I’m the best player in that plo8 lineup . I’m the only one who’s actually brave. That’s pretty crucial in poker, knowing who is brave enough to do certain moves. I mean that can also be stupidity but still. 

You fat piece of shit!

Now that my Penguins have been eliminated I can go back to my usual casino routine. Some might see this as a good thing, but I assuredly do not. I love my team and all the friends I’ve made at the Penguin Bar. Next year will be better, hopefully. Foxwoods started out pretty badly. Somehow with a free bus ticket, 30 in slot, and 30 in match I still came out a 30 dollar loser. Lost all 3 10 dollar hands of VP plus the roulette spin. I guess it’s not that hard but still. After settling into the room I played 2-5. I actually got hands. Like AA and AK etc that held up plus I won a lot on. Soon this insane(and very pretty) woman joined the game. She was giving 10, 15, 25, 50(!) dollar tips to the dealers and waitresses. She lost a little bit to me because, shock of shocks, she was terrible. Unfortunately I was at a must move and my next table was garbage so I decided to sleep. She was on a break and didn’t have much left anyway. Over an hour I won 616. I wish I could maintain that lol

I got into PLO8 the next day and was probably my unluckiest session ever. Lost with a set vs a flush draw with backdoor low that turned into a straight. Lost with TPTK and weak diamonds and backdoor nut low vs no pair and nut diamonds(but he had 3 of them) and backdoor nut low with a 5. Lost with A4103 vs AAKQ on a 1083 board after the board ran out J9. Finally took a break after my AQ4x was in a 3 way all in pot against mystery cards and AA. No raise pre btw. Flop AQ4. Bricked out so I assume mystery cards were wheel draws. After taking a 1669 loss in 4 hours I had to take a break. Fat piece of shit was the one who put the last 3 hands on me. He’s a new player so he must be feeling great about the game.

The last interesting part of the trip was 2-5 Crazy Pineapple. It’s a thrilling game. The weird part is that the field attracts players you don’t want to face in NL, but it’s like the party game so they play a little bit loose. I did win 377 over 5.5 hours and I’d like for it to go again sometime this trip. Oh and my “casino wife” Charlene came this trip and that’s always great. She tries to get me to become a better tipper but that’s just not gonna happen. I won 138 in minor sessions btw so only a 568 loss.

Sands is so terrible

Bill Potts gave me a call last week while I was at Foxwoods and asked me to help him with something at the Sands in PA. Obviously I can’t get into specifics, but I got a nice bit of money for the work. I hate that place though. I took the early bus from the NY Port Authority and the ride was actually smooth. Outlets etc, but then the good times ended. There was a glitch in the system where you get the 45 in slot play but couldn’t actually use it(and it costs 38 to get on, not exactly an Asian grinder bus). My ID is cracked in two and they gave me shit about it being fake. I have like 4 weeks of playoff beard on my face and they still think I’m under 21. I was let in though. After helping Bill, I tried to get my 45 in slot since the VP machine said I had 0. It doesn’t work on video roulette or video poker. Foxwoods allows you to use bus slot play on 9:6 VP while the best Sands can muster is 8:5 VP that doesn’t work. I ended up winning 80 dollars playing though. I also don’t like how the security looks at everyone like they’re a criminal. I had a wristband that signified I was over 30(must be a PA thing, got the same shit in Rivers when I went to Pittsburgh) and STILL got stopped and escorted to the bus. Luckily I was leaving anyway.

The Foxwoods trip before that was alright. I won 354 playing plo8 over 12 hours. The super relevant thing is how I got into an argument about showing hands. Big fat predator guy David Duke(not the KKK guy I assume) is under some weird impression that I’m a thief since I don’t alert the table if someone won a hand and the dealer and player don’t notice. The absolute trump statement to this is “not my hand, not my business”. I don’t give a shit if it’s tabled hand I’m not gonna say a word. Unless you’re my friend, then I might cough or something.

I’m heading to Foxwoods now. My boss let me take a sick day. I fucked up though. I forgot that I had a reservation for both yesterday and today, separated. I fucked up the days so hopefully they don’t give me the fee.

I guess calling for Capital Fan death is fine!

I mean these fuckers were happy with Tom Wilson basically trying to kill people with headshots. I guess when you call for people to die you gotta be specific. Plus I never said I would do it. Disease would work. I heard Poker Grump got TBC arrested because he alluded to murder and suicide. What I don’t understand is why didn’t PG give Tony a call? I understand the logic of being cautious with stuff but call him. Weird.

So as you know, I’m my fathers lottery for the pick 3 numbers in NYC. He plays 3 a day on 213 and 1 a day on 333, but both day and night drawings. He actually hit the 213 on Monday. 1500 dollar hit to the pocket. Even with a 50% house edge sometimes you gotta pay out. I’m probably down 1k in it but that’s why you gotta stay well rolled.

Back on the good run

Things are all twisted around because of the hockey playoffs, but I still found time to go to Foxwoods because they gave me a ton of points in April. I don’t mind though, as shown through the Penguins Bar videos I post on twitter.

I went to Foxwoods a couple weeks ago for a very short period of time and only won 24 dollars in poker, but I did pick up 175 in points. My neck has been hurting me lately(and as usual) and I need to go to the spa for a massage. There’s been an uptick on the amount of people taking the bus lately so it’s been tough to get a 2 seater by myself. Plus I’m tall so it’s tough.

This past week was cool. My friend Al picked me up at the Bar after the game and drove us up to Fox. I wasn’t sure I’d make it to Flushing to get the bus at 1130 but I would have. If it went OT I’d have no shot. Al is a big gambler, but only when he’s at the casino. No sports, horses, etc. By the time we got there, there wasn’t even a 2-5 NL. The 2-5 PLO8 also broke that was surprisingly going all day(tournaments are in town). So Al and I looked for a good mystery jackpot slot. He wanted to play so I lent him 200. The machine wasn’t great and he lost 200. Then he lost another 200 on roulette. Then we decided sleep was good.

Next day he asked me if he should do roulette to get even. I said no, try video poker but big bets. We ended up doing 600 dollars in with 50 dollar bets. Broke even for a while then hit 4 Jacks. So he was up 850 after paying me back. He ended the trip up 380.

I ended up winning 617 in plo8 over 9 hours and 108 in NL over 2 hours 40 mins. Going back next week too Thursday night I think.

A little bit about PBC

I was asked to do a bit of a background on myself in the comments last blog so I’ll satisfy my fans on that. I was first introduced to poker when I was about 8 years old. My father used to invite his friends over and they used to play 7 card stud(badly I’m sure). I got wide-eyed when I saw dollar bills and sometimes FIVE dollar bills on the table. A five was a sign of a big game to me in those days. Later in life my friends from high school got me into playing NL after the Moneymaker win. I never played hold em before. We got a chip set and played little sit n goes amongst each other. I remember my friends tendencies as well. Victor was a huge fish, Will was a nit, Al was aggressive and annoyingly splashed the pot way too often, Mike was pretty balanced, and Jerry was pretty tight. It was like 5 dollar buy in with a top two prize pool, then it went to 10, then it went to 10 with a REBUY...then UNLIMITED REBUYS. Those prizes got pretty nice actually.

Will was the oldest by a few months and started making bus trips to AC. He lived in my neighborhood and took the morning bus there. Once I turned 18 I went with him to the Tropicana. It was so brutal, a 4 hour ride. I remember when I first went there I had 98(!) dollars total and for some reason I thought 50 dollars was the most you can bet on every street. My very first hand I had Kings and doubled up. I turned my 98 into like 283 over the course of playing 1/2. For a guy with no money  that’s HUGE! Over the next few years I was very up and down. Did pretty good in NL(Tropicana was a fish haven for a while). Did pretty bad online. I should have realized it’s too many bots and collusion.

One day I was coming home from AC on the shitty greyhound and for some reason it let off at the bus station and it was completely empty. Really weird. I complained to the bitch at the station to no avail to get a free ticket, so I purchased one. It didn’t come for another few hours so I went back to play poker, to at least try to win the bus money back. That was the day I met Bill Potts. He was wearing this wacky Hawaiian looking shirt and was probably calling too much(Potts was pretty new to poker at this point) even though he had big hands. I don’t remember the hand details(this was in 2012) but I do remember him being pissed. I think he started to get more aggressive because of this and I 3 bet his raise one time with junk, but then he 4 bet me and I had to fold. He later told me he respected my ability to make that 3 bet. We saw each other a bit around AC. One day we were in Bally’s playing either 1/1 or 1/2 and Bill I think lost all his money. I felt he was good for it and I lent him 100 dollars. He got the money back and paid me back ASAP. We had a falling out for a brief while but we became good friends. I can not on good conscious give the reason why the falling out happened because we would both look bad. One reason we started talking again is because we both wanted to start counting blackjack at like the exact same time(we heard this from a mutual friend named Eric that we long since stopped talking to). It was pretty cool actually. Eventually I started going around AC and was counting and got shit tons of heat everywhere. Borgata even took all my comps and rooms away.

One day Bill told me how good Foxwoods was and how free rooms were actually free. This was in like 2015 I think. I really liked the place and I dropped AC quickly. Only been back once in 3 years. So now I come here like every week. Roll is doing well and I’m happy. Btw I’ll try to do the update on how I did two weeks ago(I don’t go to the casino as much during Penguins playoff games because I go to this Pittsburgh Penguins bar in Manhattan for all the games. We also do a raffle for the Mario Lemieux foundation and I’m the main guy who sells the tickets. It’s really fun. I post videos from there on twitter.

There goes the win streak

It was a shorter trip than usual this time because I went to the Penguins/Devils game in Newark on Thursday. It was unique because I had both friends and family going(and later found out the girlfriend had some family there too). We were supposed to meet the family by the Devils Den gift shop to eat, but it was cold and they were late so her and I went to Chipotle instead. I’m glad I did because I had 3 cups of tasty lemonade.

We got in there pretty quickly after the doors opened to see the Penguins practice.

The girlfriend says as a gift one day she wants to get us close tickets to a game. I’m in for that. We later saw friends from the Pittsburgh Penguins bar in Manhattan and the family. My cousins sadly have their kids in Devils garbage at a young age and that’s upsetting. Maybe I need to become more of an influence on their lives. The game was good. Penguins had the grit. Crosby had the goal of the year to win in OT. You know, pretty standard.

I went to Foxwoods the next day and they didn’t start the plo8 on time(didnt have enough players). Played some 2-5 NL and lost 70 bucks in one hour. No cards. Didn’t win a hand. PLO8 then got going and it quickly became a battle of trying to get even. My AA with a suit and low cards lost to A2  and crap. Amazingly though I only got stuck 400 in the game then we switched it to 20-40 RE. Apparently people FUCKING HATE RAZZ, yet they still play it while playing it. I add the stud8 because I’m still good in it plus it gets a certain group of players in. I’m considering adding 20-40 omaha8 and just not play it. They love that shit. Whatever gets them in. Ended up playing 8 hours combined and won 195. The players don’t seem to care that I go north often but they really should because I’m the most dangerous reg there.

I still had a few hours before 500 dollar high hand ended and I had to check in so I played 2-5 NL. Brutal stuff. I had AA(with the ace of hearts) on a 810J board where 3 fish called me preflop and I absolutely had to fold after I got check-called AND check-raised. Caller had K9 and raiser had Q9. I also flopped a steel wheel gutshot draw that missed but I didn’t lose too much on that. Over 3 hours and 25 mins I lost 415. Over 12 hours and 25 minutes I lost 290. I’m nearly at Foxwoods now and I intend to keep my head down and make money. Maybe.

I’m such a generous guy

Another week, another Nor’Easter, another lucky break that it didn’t stop me from going to Foxwoods. Snow always seems to stop at the right time. I went to the Penguin game at Barclays and saw them get trounced by the Islanders. This black guy was acting like the Islanders winning was actually supposed to happen. Anyway, after that I stayed with the girlfriend until Thursday morning. Mom was supposed to come up to the casino with me(I was going to buy her matchplay from her) but she got the stomach flu. You can probably brave most illnesses but when you can potentially shit yourself on a 2.5 hour bus ride with a terrible bathroom it’s best to stay home. My aunt and uncle were there though.

Fox gave me 25 in slot, plus I had 30 in slot and a 30 matchplay coupon(I’m very reluctant to call it a 30 “dollar” matchplay coupon but you know what I mean). I somehow turned all of this into a 10 dollar loss. After settling into the room I played 2-5. I lost one dollar over 2 hours 25 minutes. After cashing out I deeply regretted ordering that cup of tea/bottle of water at the end. I’m just scared of not being fully awake playing poker. One time I had no tea and I called a river bet in plo8 with A2xx on like a 3499J board. Not profitable.

A short while I hit a 2-5 NL game and won 963 over 1 hour 40 mins. This was probably the table where I NEARLY HIT THE BAD BEAT for 20k. It limped around and I had 67 of clubs on the button. Flop 8910 clubs and Shirley’s boyfriend had 88. He didn’t hit but I got some decent action from multiple players on all 3 streets. No scare cards for opponents on turn and river. Every few years  I get close.

The next day I took a LOSS in plo8. I missed on a few big pots. I didn’t sit near Larry like I usually do until near the end(when I got a chunk back) so I’m thinking bullshitting with him during the game is good for me. I also made a terrible bluff against Alex and he rebluffed me big time. I broke the play down and I realized how dumb it was. But I’ll learn from it. I win in this game most weeks but I can still learn. We got down to 3 handed and Larry left after not hitting a draw on the river. 564 loss in 11 hours. The craziest flop was 345 of diamonds and I was holding A26 of diamonds.

There was still some time  left in the 500 dollar high hand so I jumped into 2-5 again. It was a good game because this one kid had zero patience. It was a must move and I took like 300 from him. I moved and put 300 in my pocket since the table was a bit of a question mark. The SAME KID  joined my table but luckily didn’t notice I ratholed 300. I ended up seeing a guy I used to play poker with in Albany and announced it was my last hand and I ended up flopping a set on a 10-J-Q all club board. These boards freaked me out. Two streets of value and I checked the river and took it. 415 profit in 1 hour 55 mins.

I’m going to Newark to see the Penguins(probably lose) on Thursday. Just Friday at fox this week.
I won 813 over 17 hours.

Oh and about the title, I met my aunt and uncle and took them to David Burke’s steakhouse and paid for it. 213 points after the discount. I will never go to this place alone.

Good plans go to hell

I had a good plan last week, logical. There’s tournaments going on at Foxwoods so I stayed an extra day, aka Saturday. Saturday, tournament players, seems good right? That’s all fine except it can mess with the head to get nothing better than 99 over the course of 8 hours and never hit a set. But hey let’s start in order of events.

The awesome bus deal is still going, they announced that it all changed on March 1st. So from that I turned 30 in slot to 20 cash and won 60 cash on roulette coupon spin. You can’t take a big hit anymore like you could on the previous deal. I’m expecting a bus grinder to smash a Royal
Soon.

I booked a massage for Thursday but I was running kind of late. I wanted to check in, eat, do my bus gambling, and work out before my 2pm appointment. Keep in mind I got in at 1120. So I’m working out and I see Michelle come in. I’m attracted to this woman and I think she’s the prettiest reg in the room. I couldn’t tell it was her at first because I didn’t have my glasses on. But she and I are building a bit of a friendship so that’s cool. I took a shower and washed the important stuff. Masssge was good. Woman looked like that one from the car insurance commercial.

Thursday night poker was blah. I won 98 in NL and surprisingly plo8 got off the ground. I lost a big hand to a guy who literally wasn’t aware we were playing plo8. The perfect cards and circumstances had to happen to fuck me. It did!

Next day we got the plo8 going as usual. I didn’t get much. Larry ran his top boat into Stans rivered quads. I think Larry was gonna pay me back if that didn’t happen. He owes 500. But I’ll get it. Everyone left besides this ridic fish terrible black guy. We played 5-10 plo8 heads up. 4 bucks every half beats pot rake any day. I was scared that he would leave because I had to check into my Two Trees room and it was 345AM(deadline is 4am). I literally had to run blocks away and I formulated a plan to crush this scrub mid stride. Imagine a guy where you can dictate the size of the pot pre every time and you can size it based on the strength of your hand and he would NEVER REALIZE IT. I ended up taking 1k from him and some mixed game reg jumped in and took the last 300. I went back to the room and slept after.

Ahh Saturday. Best thing I got past the 8 hours was JJ and I doubled up vs some Asian kid I’ve never seen before. There was a king out there and I rivered the set. He said he was ahead(I was aggressor pre) but took that rivered jack for a 1k pot WAY too well for me to believe it. Later I played again and I ran my 10-J hearts on a 89Q two diamond board. I was up against AA and KJ diamonds. Turn A diamonds river 9. Insanity. I walked away after and was sad. But hey whatever let’s see how this week goes. It’ll be a weird week maybe because my Aunt and Uncle are there.

Over the course of 31 hours 35 mins I won 94 dollars.