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.
Monday, April 30, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
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.
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.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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.
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