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.

Sweet Deal yum yum

This just might be the best bus deal in the country. The Skyliner from Flushing, Queens costs 15 bucks(12 if you take the last 2 buses of the night) and it USED to give 60 in matchplay coupons. Now it gives 15 in food or free buffet, 30 match, 30 slot. It’s incredible. I’m on the bus going back now so I’ll tweet soon if they dropped that deal. But man this is good.

So after I did room and gym stuff I played some 2-5 NL. I had Santa Claus there but he was 2 on my right so that was a relief. Unfortunately we got into a hand this time and he got me for 205. I feel like he had AK and flopped it but whatever. I was on the table change list and directly after that hand I got put my Shirley who is nearly the worst in the room. I got her in a hand and she went over to 20/40 stud which is like the worst game for her to play. I ended up winning 125 in 6 hours.

I feel like I did something here for a while that didn’t involve gambling, probably ate Pad Thai from Golden Dragon. The owner type guy always shakes my hand. He also knows I need the mild spice or else I die.

Plo8 was incredible on Friday. Big fish were in the game. I got technically lucky on Larry where I shoved with a 9 outer and he called with AA and I got there on the river. Whatever I’ll take it. Pacheco and Big Jeff got murdered. Larry I think won a little. We played Razz later and NEVER AGAIN will I play the 10/20 or 15/30 limit. For half rake they take 1 at the ANTE, 1 at 40, 1 at 140. The ante dollar kills the game. Razz has a lot of raise and take it so constantly taking that dollar won’t work. I did win 1831 over 13 hours.

Before heading over to 2 trees I won 61 dollars in 2-5 NL. This new smart Asian was coming to my game so I jumped to a better one right away. That’s what you gotta DO in poker! So I ended up winning 2017 on the trip.

I’m spending an extra day at fox this time because tournaments are going and they’ll be more cash action. I also booked a massage for 2pm😴

Cold Deck

Civilian Job was good to me this week and let me leave at 8 instead of the real time of 8:15. Foxwoods is giving out pots and pans all this month so it changed the giveaway schedule and I would have lost 30 points if I didn’t take the 9pm bus(expired at midnight). I take the 7 train all the way to the Chinese bus and I’d never make it. Great bus btw, very empty. So empty in fact I was able to change my clothes without anyone seeing. I got the 30 and I also won the bus coupon roulette spin.

Nothing really happened big that night. I won 22 bucks over 3 hours. I always leave when the table gets bad, stuck or not. That’s the big upside to playing the same place every week: you know who’s good. Just leave if it’s bad! You’ll get even at another table. I stayed with UFC Mike that night. He keeps a clean room. He’s developed a roulette habit that I’m trying to get him to break. That’ll happen sometimes when you run bad in poker.

Next day was good. After gym I won 1430 in 4 hours 15 minutes at 2/5 NL. I feel like it was a combo of good cards, good plays, and people spazzing out to me. Oh and I also made a nitty old man fold KK preflop when I had QQ and the JJ guy spazz shoved all in pre. Sadly I flopped a set and I did win, but the story would have been better if KK would have won. He left soonly there after. It worked out perfectly because there was 170 in dead money and I’m pretty sure if we all saw a flop JJ gets off cheap and KK puts me on QQ or AA and loses only a little. After dinner I played a super nitty 2-5 game for a half hour and won 6 bucks.

The next day I played the usual 2/5 PLO8 game/10-20 razz(with a half kill this time, we wanted a full kill but Foxwoods either allows or despises the 15/30 level. It makes NO SENSE). I ended up winning 263 in 10 hours. We added stud8 to the mix and the one guy who was very good in s8 was GOD AWFUL in Razz. He came in with 900 and left with 380. I actually started the RE game stuck so that was good. Larry was also stuck big and he got a big chunk of it back. Weather was terrible outside so Larry offered to drive me back because the bus might not run.

The game broke so I went back to NL, and ended up playing heads up 2-5 for a bit. Bill Potts says it’s dumb because they rake too much, and they do, but sometimes I like to practice my heads up game vs  bad or mystery players. Unfortunately I ran my Aces into pair/massive draw and he smashed the turn.
I lost 595 in 55 minutes, first real loss in many sessions. I’m going to change my heads up philosophy and only face bad spazzy players. Not even bad nitty players because even though it’s NFND they’ll eventually see flops. In the morning Larry drove me back to manhattan for work. I was super late but they let me work anyway so it was good.

I ended the trip up 1126 in poker.