Funny little start to the trip last week. The Skyliner bus gives out a little more matchplay the week of Chinese New Year(from 5 to 100 dollar coupons) and of course I got the 5. This woman doesn’t play so she also gave me her 5, and I was gonna get her 45 in match(she wanted to keep the buffet one) for 10 bucks but of course the assholes who give a better deal were right up the escalator offering a better price. But I did get her 5.
I had Fox Tower and I don’t hate it as much as I used to because of the superior gym. I used the heck out of it Thursday and Friday. The fridge and WiFi worked well too so I was able to keep my protein drink cold and got in some global poker. I ran well in it. Such a good thing to do when the tables are bad.
Started out HOT. Won a cool 258 in 35 minutes. Zach(aka Santa Claus, and he’s a youngish dude who looks zero like Santa Claus) jumped in with his friend so the table lost all value. Zach is a very good player and I think I remember his buddy being solid. I took a break and they actually let me into the Newport Lounge again and they had some steak stuff so I was happy. Also the tasty Japanese Noodles.
I got back and somehow won 1657 over 3 hours in 20 minutes. This guy tilted BAD and I played AA like a champion. This Asian guy Lee tilted him bad so it set him off. I finished him off with JJ over his AK on a KJ3 board. That was cold deck but the AA play was nice. I will not reveal what I did because I may do it to YOU THE READER at some point. I went to bed soon after because the tables dried up, plus of course I wanted to work out and start the plo8 in the morning.
Friday game was eh. Ran mediocre and this crazy Asian named Sang was just ramming pots for better or worse. Def a guy you want to keep pots small with pre unless you have the world and are willing to put your thousand dollars or so in. Bill Potts actually played with him months ago and he told me that’s the only guy making the game worthwhile. We got Razz going 3 handed and between both games I won 364 over 11 hours 45 mins. Later I won 16 bucks in 2-5 NL. I ended the trip talking to UFC Mike while he played plo on Global and live.
They let me leave early from work this week because a 30 points giveaway expires at midnight. Usual 1030 bus no good. Oh and Foxwoods is giving away pots and pans this week which I’m taking but have no use for of course.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
I am the House!
Man I’m back to running cold on the bus coupon roulette. Lost again. Let me just win like 40% of the time so I beat the 54 or so dollars a month on the bus ticket. I’d be good with that. I got in Wednesday night and played 2-5 NL. Nothing particularly interesting and I won 121 over 95 minutes before going back to the room. I had Pequot this time and those have the good fridges. Great Cedars don’t really work at all and Fox Tower(where I’m at this week) freeze your stuff, so that’ll help. The Naked protein drinks also now come in a bigger size so I use that for pre and post workouts.
Thursday was fine, I did the gym and saw Dave Pachico(100% sure that’s spelled wrong but it’s good pronunciation) and he’s a regular at PLO8. We had a few names on the list but couldn’t get that going. Eventually I settled into 2-5 NL while he played 1-2. I did very well. Up 861 over 2 hours 45 mins. I think I’m probably one of the feared players in Foxwoods at this point. Super hot Michelle always either leaves my tables or try’s to get position on me, and not in the good way.
Next up was another session of 2-5(after I had lounge food) and it was basically me trying to get unstuck. I lost a 1k pot with KK vs 1010 after the guy totally spazzed out. Rivered it too. I went north quite a bit and nobody cares thank god. Foxwoods really needs to make 2-5 NL 200-1000 like they do with PLO. PLO is such a nut peddler game especially when deep. The only “poker” in it is if you have the Ace of the suit and there’s a flush out there. I mean short handed there’s some maneuvering to be done but full ring it’s who can get blessed today? 3 TERRIBLE players all left with a lot of chips. I ended up only losing 115 and I left because Michelle and her decent friend came and made the table bad. Before all of this I watched Amazing Race(what a finale last night by the way!) during the Penguin game intermission. They’re on fire right now 🐧
Next day was awesome. Got the 2-5 PLO8 going with the usual crew to start and stragglers jumping in and out. Ending up winning 2053 over 14 hours combined with the 10-20 with Full Kill and 20-40 Razz heads up with Larry. I did learn a bit that some of the total nits in that game that I feel are never bluffing in that spot are actually bluffing sometimes in that spot(or at least underrepping my hands). I learned. I hung out a while and then won 34 bucks on 2-5 NL. I’m pretty confident I won’t win like 3k again but I’ll try.
Oh and about that headline. My father plays the pick 3 lottery every day where if you win you get 500 for every dollar played. He plays 2 on 333 and 6 on 213. I’m now taking the 8 a day and if he wins I pay him. 50% house edge in my pocket is nice.
Thursday was fine, I did the gym and saw Dave Pachico(100% sure that’s spelled wrong but it’s good pronunciation) and he’s a regular at PLO8. We had a few names on the list but couldn’t get that going. Eventually I settled into 2-5 NL while he played 1-2. I did very well. Up 861 over 2 hours 45 mins. I think I’m probably one of the feared players in Foxwoods at this point. Super hot Michelle always either leaves my tables or try’s to get position on me, and not in the good way.
Next up was another session of 2-5(after I had lounge food) and it was basically me trying to get unstuck. I lost a 1k pot with KK vs 1010 after the guy totally spazzed out. Rivered it too. I went north quite a bit and nobody cares thank god. Foxwoods really needs to make 2-5 NL 200-1000 like they do with PLO. PLO is such a nut peddler game especially when deep. The only “poker” in it is if you have the Ace of the suit and there’s a flush out there. I mean short handed there’s some maneuvering to be done but full ring it’s who can get blessed today? 3 TERRIBLE players all left with a lot of chips. I ended up only losing 115 and I left because Michelle and her decent friend came and made the table bad. Before all of this I watched Amazing Race(what a finale last night by the way!) during the Penguin game intermission. They’re on fire right now 🐧
Next day was awesome. Got the 2-5 PLO8 going with the usual crew to start and stragglers jumping in and out. Ending up winning 2053 over 14 hours combined with the 10-20 with Full Kill and 20-40 Razz heads up with Larry. I did learn a bit that some of the total nits in that game that I feel are never bluffing in that spot are actually bluffing sometimes in that spot(or at least underrepping my hands). I learned. I hung out a while and then won 34 bucks on 2-5 NL. I’m pretty confident I won’t win like 3k again but I’ll try.
Oh and about that headline. My father plays the pick 3 lottery every day where if you win you get 500 for every dollar played. He plays 2 on 333 and 6 on 213. I’m now taking the 8 a day and if he wins I pay him. 50% house edge in my pocket is nice.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Penguin Road Trip Ends
So after spending the day basically sleeping with the girlfriend(although we made sure to watch Celebrity Big Brother) I went back to Foxwoods for three full days. Always good to stay an extra day when tournaments are going around. After getting there and doing gym I settled in for 2-5 NL. I’m really liking how I look nowadays with all of this eating better and working out. I’d say I’m in better shape than 95% of the Foxwoods poker room for sure. Josie would agree 💪💪 lol
First two sessions were pretty worthless. Combined 90 minutes and a 40 dollar loss. Problem is they were must moves and they tried to get me into bad seats at the move. No thanks I’ll wait the hour.
I was then stupid and played 2-5 PLO. There was a point where I was under rolled for that game, but not now. Lost a 3 way pot with decent Aces all in pre and then another one heads up with Aces all in pre. That’s bad luck but I just hate that game. A lot of times all you do is shove and pray with good things and I’m just not that lucky. So no more, and then I went to sleep. Lost 899.
I ran into UFC Mike the next day and he told me he lost like 3500 in 10/25 PLO Heads Up to Deena. I’d put Deena right next to Michelle in terms of best looking reg in the room, but Michelle is a far better player than Deena. Deena likes to 3 bet with J553 for instance vs Mike and flop was 544. Yikes. So Mike was depressed and wanted to play Video Poker. He lost 1460 and was super tilted. Then we went over to roulette and he put a pumpkin(1k chip) on 1-12 and 13-24 and he actually won twice for a 2k win. Took the money and ran, but not before giving the “dealer” 5 dollars. Mike is young and absolutely needs to look in the mirror and realize he won’t go anywhere by just giving these dealers money!
So I got a 13 hour 30 minutes session of PLO8 in. Nothing very exciting and I won 167 bucks.
2-5 then went AWFUL on Saturday. Kept getting endlessly fucked. KK loses to JJ all in pre. (800 dollar pot)K2 loses to K7 on K28 flop(700 dollar pot!), A10 loses to A3 on A29 flop(400 dollar pot), and my 89 suited lost to A6 190 main and 45 in dead on the side, plus high hand was 2222 so random shot at 500. I actually flopped a gut shot to the straight flush then bricked. I took a break after.
Came back to same table, same seat. I won 1270. Shit actually went well. I bluffed with AQ and a guy with AJ called me because his logic was he didn’t think I had AK. Saturday night poker. The last session of the trip ended being a 293 loss. It’s fine. Penguin Road Trip was fun and successful.
I’ll post the trip I just had on Thursday afternoon on the bus heading back.
First two sessions were pretty worthless. Combined 90 minutes and a 40 dollar loss. Problem is they were must moves and they tried to get me into bad seats at the move. No thanks I’ll wait the hour.
I was then stupid and played 2-5 PLO. There was a point where I was under rolled for that game, but not now. Lost a 3 way pot with decent Aces all in pre and then another one heads up with Aces all in pre. That’s bad luck but I just hate that game. A lot of times all you do is shove and pray with good things and I’m just not that lucky. So no more, and then I went to sleep. Lost 899.
I ran into UFC Mike the next day and he told me he lost like 3500 in 10/25 PLO Heads Up to Deena. I’d put Deena right next to Michelle in terms of best looking reg in the room, but Michelle is a far better player than Deena. Deena likes to 3 bet with J553 for instance vs Mike and flop was 544. Yikes. So Mike was depressed and wanted to play Video Poker. He lost 1460 and was super tilted. Then we went over to roulette and he put a pumpkin(1k chip) on 1-12 and 13-24 and he actually won twice for a 2k win. Took the money and ran, but not before giving the “dealer” 5 dollars. Mike is young and absolutely needs to look in the mirror and realize he won’t go anywhere by just giving these dealers money!
So I got a 13 hour 30 minutes session of PLO8 in. Nothing very exciting and I won 167 bucks.
2-5 then went AWFUL on Saturday. Kept getting endlessly fucked. KK loses to JJ all in pre. (800 dollar pot)K2 loses to K7 on K28 flop(700 dollar pot!), A10 loses to A3 on A29 flop(400 dollar pot), and my 89 suited lost to A6 190 main and 45 in dead on the side, plus high hand was 2222 so random shot at 500. I actually flopped a gut shot to the straight flush then bricked. I took a break after.
Came back to same table, same seat. I won 1270. Shit actually went well. I bluffed with AQ and a guy with AJ called me because his logic was he didn’t think I had AK. Saturday night poker. The last session of the trip ended being a 293 loss. It’s fine. Penguin Road Trip was fun and successful.
I’ll post the trip I just had on Thursday afternoon on the bus heading back.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Penguin Road Trip Part 2
After getting back from Foxwoods I went directly to civilian job to take a nap, but couldn’t. I guess I slept enough in the room and on the bus. So after working a little bit(there’s like a 3 hour gap here that I’m racking my brain about which I have no clue what I did. Maybe caught up on wrestling) I took New Jersey Transit to Newark to see the Penguins/Devils game. What a shit show that game was. First off, fuck the Prudential Center and it’s ridiculous banisters. First row on the aisle? You’re basically looking at a banister and glass. Total shit. Never EVER get those seats if you go there. Plus the Penguins played like crap. Malkin scored a goal but that’s it. I’ll post a pic of my seat angle on twitter.
After that the girlfriend and I went back to her house for a couple days. She still lives with mom and dad(to save money😍) and they like me I think. The dad teases me because I eat a lot which is a surprise because I don’t usually but the food there is really good. You always tell when people like you when they feel comfortable enough to lightly make fun of you. We watched the Super Bowl too. Girlfriends sister and her BF came over. He’s a big Patriot fan, but that makes sense since he’s from Mass and is part of the brainwashed Patriot Cult. They’ll excuse anything the team or refs do as I know from Foxwoods. The dad loves the Cowboys so he was cheering NE. Thank God Eagles won because NE is the most cheated for team in the league. They actually maybe slightly favored Philly in this one but clearly karma is a bitch.
The next day me, GF, and the mom hung out watching Dr Phil. This mom and grandma kept accusing the father of sexually abusing the daughter but had no proof and Phil wasn’t having it. Later we watched Jeopardy and I got lots of answers right, naturally. After that we took an Uber back to Newark, but this time to go to Pittsburgh to see the city and go see the Vegas Golden Knights face the Penguins in Marc-Andre Fleurys big return. Bus was ok. It was on a path to St Louis so it was partially full and after the first stop the GF and I got to sit together. We had no hotel room so we made sure to sleep on the bus.
I have some Pittsburgh lady friends who gave me advice on what to do(we got in at 6am and the game started at 7pm) there. First thing was we took an Uber to this diner called Delucas. Very good. I got peanut butter pancakes and she got honey pecan pancakes. We had like a 2 hour gap before Pittsburgh “woke up” and while we should have gone up the Duquesne Incline I wasn’t too good with the geography so we checked out Rivers Casino instead. The Uber took 45 minutes. No tip. Nobody in the poker room at 830am on a Tuesday. Most casinos on the east coast would have a bit of action at that time but not there.
After that we did do incline. We got 3 of the squashed pennies with the crank and designs. It was a nice view of the city. I did this the previous time I came to Pittsburgh(Game 1 of the SCF vs Predators last year) but I got more pennies this time. The lady who took my ticket was intrigued I lived in NYC and spoke to us for a while.
Later we headed over to the National Aviary. This was super cool. We saw real life Penguins and other cool birds. Some not even in cages and just flying around by you. I fed a few birds fish. I threw this last fish directly into the pelican type things mouth with solid aim.
After that we went over to the Andy Warhol museum. The GF and I aren’t the artsy types but we did see all the stuff. There’s 6 floors of his work and some of it was interesting so good experience.
I purchased tickets to do the tour of PPG Paints Arena but we got hungry so we went to this spot called The Souper Bowl. The big thing about this place was they had provolone cheese sticks. I never knew that was a thing. They were great. I recommend this place if you’re ever in town. Prices good too🙌🏻🙌🏻
The tour was fun. Saw a lot of the building and learned a few things about the Penguins. College girl was our tour guide and it took a bit but she found her groove guiding us. They show Suite 66 and the visitors locker room on non-game days so that was a bummer. But hey good time still. We still had 2 hours to kill after tour so we hit up Pizza Bosa. Lots of Penguins fans in there and it was a wonderful feeling. We both rested our eyes because we were both feeling the day at that point.
Finally it was time for the game! We had second to the last row and that was good, but then this elderly couple 6 rows ahead offered to switch because the husband couldn’t get up the stairs if he went down them. Much better seats. Legit 100 dollars of value. The game was insane. We were down 2-0 and then scored 5 straight and won 5-4. Fleury got a massive hand and his video was incredible. Great great time.
After that we had to take the bus back to NYC. The bus back is on the strip where Delucas is and it’s scary and run down as fuck at night. Luckily Primanti Brothers is over there. Very famous Pittsburgh eatery. The “bus station” looks like a crack house that they never sweep up. Luckily the bus came and all went well. I’ll actually do another blog pretty soon because I did go to the casino for a few days after this trip but this blog too long now.
After that the girlfriend and I went back to her house for a couple days. She still lives with mom and dad(to save money😍) and they like me I think. The dad teases me because I eat a lot which is a surprise because I don’t usually but the food there is really good. You always tell when people like you when they feel comfortable enough to lightly make fun of you. We watched the Super Bowl too. Girlfriends sister and her BF came over. He’s a big Patriot fan, but that makes sense since he’s from Mass and is part of the brainwashed Patriot Cult. They’ll excuse anything the team or refs do as I know from Foxwoods. The dad loves the Cowboys so he was cheering NE. Thank God Eagles won because NE is the most cheated for team in the league. They actually maybe slightly favored Philly in this one but clearly karma is a bitch.
The next day me, GF, and the mom hung out watching Dr Phil. This mom and grandma kept accusing the father of sexually abusing the daughter but had no proof and Phil wasn’t having it. Later we watched Jeopardy and I got lots of answers right, naturally. After that we took an Uber back to Newark, but this time to go to Pittsburgh to see the city and go see the Vegas Golden Knights face the Penguins in Marc-Andre Fleurys big return. Bus was ok. It was on a path to St Louis so it was partially full and after the first stop the GF and I got to sit together. We had no hotel room so we made sure to sleep on the bus.
I have some Pittsburgh lady friends who gave me advice on what to do(we got in at 6am and the game started at 7pm) there. First thing was we took an Uber to this diner called Delucas. Very good. I got peanut butter pancakes and she got honey pecan pancakes. We had like a 2 hour gap before Pittsburgh “woke up” and while we should have gone up the Duquesne Incline I wasn’t too good with the geography so we checked out Rivers Casino instead. The Uber took 45 minutes. No tip. Nobody in the poker room at 830am on a Tuesday. Most casinos on the east coast would have a bit of action at that time but not there.
After that we did do incline. We got 3 of the squashed pennies with the crank and designs. It was a nice view of the city. I did this the previous time I came to Pittsburgh(Game 1 of the SCF vs Predators last year) but I got more pennies this time. The lady who took my ticket was intrigued I lived in NYC and spoke to us for a while.
Later we headed over to the National Aviary. This was super cool. We saw real life Penguins and other cool birds. Some not even in cages and just flying around by you. I fed a few birds fish. I threw this last fish directly into the pelican type things mouth with solid aim.
After that we went over to the Andy Warhol museum. The GF and I aren’t the artsy types but we did see all the stuff. There’s 6 floors of his work and some of it was interesting so good experience.
I purchased tickets to do the tour of PPG Paints Arena but we got hungry so we went to this spot called The Souper Bowl. The big thing about this place was they had provolone cheese sticks. I never knew that was a thing. They were great. I recommend this place if you’re ever in town. Prices good too🙌🏻🙌🏻
The tour was fun. Saw a lot of the building and learned a few things about the Penguins. College girl was our tour guide and it took a bit but she found her groove guiding us. They show Suite 66 and the visitors locker room on non-game days so that was a bummer. But hey good time still. We still had 2 hours to kill after tour so we hit up Pizza Bosa. Lots of Penguins fans in there and it was a wonderful feeling. We both rested our eyes because we were both feeling the day at that point.
Finally it was time for the game! We had second to the last row and that was good, but then this elderly couple 6 rows ahead offered to switch because the husband couldn’t get up the stairs if he went down them. Much better seats. Legit 100 dollars of value. The game was insane. We were down 2-0 and then scored 5 straight and won 5-4. Fleury got a massive hand and his video was incredible. Great great time.
After that we had to take the bus back to NYC. The bus back is on the strip where Delucas is and it’s scary and run down as fuck at night. Luckily Primanti Brothers is over there. Very famous Pittsburgh eatery. The “bus station” looks like a crack house that they never sweep up. Luckily the bus came and all went well. I’ll actually do another blog pretty soon because I did go to the casino for a few days after this trip but this blog too long now.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Penguin Road Trip!
On the bus to Foxwoods writing this and haven’t been home since last Wednesday. I haven’t been away from home this long, even my Vegas trips were only about a week. Packed up more clothes than ever before too. So here’s how it gone:
Started the trip by going to civilian job last Wednesday. Was there all day(luckily it’s easy) and wanted to squeeze a movie in but the time wasn’t right with job schedule. I do want to see that 17:15 to Paris though. So I got to Foxwoods around 1am and promptly lost the bus coupon roulette spin. Not even any drama either. Ball just easily fell in Black 2. I was staying that night with UFC Mike and I had to wait a bit because he took a later bus. I sat at 2-5 NL and won 582 over 3 hours. The big spot was 4 handed and the board was 56882. He had 89 and I had K8 suited and doubled my 450 up. Game got bad and Mike gave me the key so I slept.
Thursday was nothing special. I got into a must move at 2-5 and won 30 dollars. Very surprisingly though was we got a 2-5 PLO8 going. Usually that starts up only on fridays now. I got a lot of cards and won 995 over 8 hours. I got heads up with a decent player who def got better hands than I did but had shitty strategy. He didn’t take advantage of his button at all. Oh and I got them to change it to 5-10 plo8 so we could pay half time instead of pot rake. He had to leave and I was ok with that because he played alright, I was tired, and I wanted to get in the early plo8 game Friday.
Friday I lost a big hand in plo8 because I didn’t make a what seems on the surface a ridiculous fold, but because of the player and circumstance it was a fold. It was just gross. I’m not even gonna explain the hand but just know I didn’t get stacked on the river. My big mistake was calling his pot bet of 390 on the turn. I lost 175 in 3 hours there. The game broke because 2 regs, Larry and Irv, lost big early and we didn’t really have anyone to replace them. I ate at the Newport Lounge for dinner and soon came back for 2-5 NL. Only won 22 bucks over 5 hours but was VERY interesting. This guy was just the biggest aggressive fish who of course built up a stack then lost it(the last 450 he had to me, aka I was stuck). He then got 5-10 NL going. Michelle was at the 2-5 and she’s super hot IMO(blonde, pretty, chubby which is like my favorite combo) but she didn’t join because besides the spazz the field was too tough. She was right. He blew 1500 like 90 minutes in. Brought in for 2000 later. I ended up winning 232 and ran because the field was murderers row.
Oh and it’s called Penguin Road Trip because I went to The Pittsburgh Penguins game vs the Devils in Jersey with the girlfriend and then her and I took a bus to Pittsburgh to see them face the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday. I’ll talk about that next blog. Hand hurts now.
Started the trip by going to civilian job last Wednesday. Was there all day(luckily it’s easy) and wanted to squeeze a movie in but the time wasn’t right with job schedule. I do want to see that 17:15 to Paris though. So I got to Foxwoods around 1am and promptly lost the bus coupon roulette spin. Not even any drama either. Ball just easily fell in Black 2. I was staying that night with UFC Mike and I had to wait a bit because he took a later bus. I sat at 2-5 NL and won 582 over 3 hours. The big spot was 4 handed and the board was 56882. He had 89 and I had K8 suited and doubled my 450 up. Game got bad and Mike gave me the key so I slept.
Thursday was nothing special. I got into a must move at 2-5 and won 30 dollars. Very surprisingly though was we got a 2-5 PLO8 going. Usually that starts up only on fridays now. I got a lot of cards and won 995 over 8 hours. I got heads up with a decent player who def got better hands than I did but had shitty strategy. He didn’t take advantage of his button at all. Oh and I got them to change it to 5-10 plo8 so we could pay half time instead of pot rake. He had to leave and I was ok with that because he played alright, I was tired, and I wanted to get in the early plo8 game Friday.
Friday I lost a big hand in plo8 because I didn’t make a what seems on the surface a ridiculous fold, but because of the player and circumstance it was a fold. It was just gross. I’m not even gonna explain the hand but just know I didn’t get stacked on the river. My big mistake was calling his pot bet of 390 on the turn. I lost 175 in 3 hours there. The game broke because 2 regs, Larry and Irv, lost big early and we didn’t really have anyone to replace them. I ate at the Newport Lounge for dinner and soon came back for 2-5 NL. Only won 22 bucks over 5 hours but was VERY interesting. This guy was just the biggest aggressive fish who of course built up a stack then lost it(the last 450 he had to me, aka I was stuck). He then got 5-10 NL going. Michelle was at the 2-5 and she’s super hot IMO(blonde, pretty, chubby which is like my favorite combo) but she didn’t join because besides the spazz the field was too tough. She was right. He blew 1500 like 90 minutes in. Brought in for 2000 later. I ended up winning 232 and ran because the field was murderers row.
Oh and it’s called Penguin Road Trip because I went to The Pittsburgh Penguins game vs the Devils in Jersey with the girlfriend and then her and I took a bus to Pittsburgh to see them face the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday. I’ll talk about that next blog. Hand hurts now.
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