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.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Thursday, August 23, 2018
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.
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.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
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.
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.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
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.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
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.
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.
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