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.