Bill Potts gave me a call last week while I was at Foxwoods and asked me to help him with something at the Sands in PA. Obviously I can’t get into specifics, but I got a nice bit of money for the work. I hate that place though. I took the early bus from the NY Port Authority and the ride was actually smooth. Outlets etc, but then the good times ended. There was a glitch in the system where you get the 45 in slot play but couldn’t actually use it(and it costs 38 to get on, not exactly an Asian grinder bus). My ID is cracked in two and they gave me shit about it being fake. I have like 4 weeks of playoff beard on my face and they still think I’m under 21. I was let in though. After helping Bill, I tried to get my 45 in slot since the VP machine said I had 0. It doesn’t work on video roulette or video poker. Foxwoods allows you to use bus slot play on 9:6 VP while the best Sands can muster is 8:5 VP that doesn’t work. I ended up winning 80 dollars playing though. I also don’t like how the security looks at everyone like they’re a criminal. I had a wristband that signified I was over 30(must be a PA thing, got the same shit in Rivers when I went to Pittsburgh) and STILL got stopped and escorted to the bus. Luckily I was leaving anyway.
The Foxwoods trip before that was alright. I won 354 playing plo8 over 12 hours. The super relevant thing is how I got into an argument about showing hands. Big fat predator guy David Duke(not the KKK guy I assume) is under some weird impression that I’m a thief since I don’t alert the table if someone won a hand and the dealer and player don’t notice. The absolute trump statement to this is “not my hand, not my business”. I don’t give a shit if it’s tabled hand I’m not gonna say a word. Unless you’re my friend, then I might cough or something.
I’m heading to Foxwoods now. My boss let me take a sick day. I fucked up though. I forgot that I had a reservation for both yesterday and today, separated. I fucked up the days so hopefully they don’t give me the fee.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
I guess calling for Capital Fan death is fine!
I mean these fuckers were happy with Tom Wilson basically trying to kill people with headshots. I guess when you call for people to die you gotta be specific. Plus I never said I would do it. Disease would work. I heard Poker Grump got TBC arrested because he alluded to murder and suicide. What I don’t understand is why didn’t PG give Tony a call? I understand the logic of being cautious with stuff but call him. Weird.
So as you know, I’m my fathers lottery for the pick 3 numbers in NYC. He plays 3 a day on 213 and 1 a day on 333, but both day and night drawings. He actually hit the 213 on Monday. 1500 dollar hit to the pocket. Even with a 50% house edge sometimes you gotta pay out. I’m probably down 1k in it but that’s why you gotta stay well rolled.
So as you know, I’m my fathers lottery for the pick 3 numbers in NYC. He plays 3 a day on 213 and 1 a day on 333, but both day and night drawings. He actually hit the 213 on Monday. 1500 dollar hit to the pocket. Even with a 50% house edge sometimes you gotta pay out. I’m probably down 1k in it but that’s why you gotta stay well rolled.
Monday, April 30, 2018
Back on the good run
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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.
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.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
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.
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.
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