This was a weird one. So I get off the bus to fox and pretty much make a bee line to my room in Fox Tower. The bus driver was late getting there so I thought I missed out the Thursday midnight deadline to get my points, but I found out it expires at 5:59AM. That’ll be very helpful to me over time. So I go to the room and watched Big Brother(what a season, but very predictable...I predicted the winner weeks ago!) It’s around 2am and I get the itch to see if the PLO is good. I knew it wouldn’t but then I remembered I didn’t use my bus coupons. I won the bigger bet so 40 dollar profit. I checked and the PLO had bored regs so I left. Up the stairs this black guy goes “Flushing bus right?” I say yes. Now here’s the thing...I don’t know if I got tricked. Maybe I did. Maybe not. You decide. So he has the 60 in match since he took the same bus, but apparently ZERO DOLLARS. Like he was talking about needing 60 bucks for a 1-2 buyin. Couldn’t even afford to use his match play coupons. So, of course, he asks for 60 and will PayPal me the money. He shows me his phone that he was about to send it, but did it using his CC under Goods and Services which needs 3 days to clear(another red flag). I lent him the 60 so he could do 2 tries as banker on baccarat and he loses both. So now he is broke and says he will get money at 6am from the ATM. I’m really not sure what his plan was if he didn’t meet me. So he gives me his backpack as collateral. He says he will meet me at 6am in the fox tower lobby(and A HUGE DANGEROUS RED FLAG was that he wanted to room with me for a few hours until 6am. I said no. I could be dead right now if I said yes. Never allow new people to room with you, ever.) I went to lobby at 6am and went back to the room at 620, and he of course didn’t show. Obv looks like I got owned right? I’m not sure. His book bag is standard but decent. He has a nice clean pair of sneakers in there, toiletries, skin cream, headphone stuff. So I don’t know. I have it in my work locker now.
So the next day we get the plo8 going I’m doing super well. Up around 1k..but then Cancer Bruce comes in. HE IS MY LEAK. I hate him so much. Every week I go there and hope that his cancer finally worked and that he’s dead and burning in hell. I want to beat him so badly that I gamble too much with him, which I absolutely must stop. I’m very good at poker strategy and I need to use it, because he’s just a stupid face up nit. Part of me wants to just play great him and then he dies. That way I get the last laugh, so to speak. James Woods seems to be a reg in the game now. Brings people to the game a little bit. I ended up winning 648 then went back to bed. Nearly lost it all because a guy called my 3 bet to 85 when I had AA3x vs his 9854 on a 9549 board, but I rivered the low. I played 12.5 hours and didn’t want to deal with a new crowd of gamble players. This was for solely bankroll and fatigue reasons, I know it’s a good spot. I checked later and saw they made it 5-10 plo8. Today I took 6k from the bank so now I got 10k poker roll. More open to 5-10 plo8 as long as I’m not tired.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
I love that Chinese Tariff!
I’m getting super sick of the ups and downs of the stock market. The Chinese tariff is apparently bad for tech stocks so I pulled out of amazon, google etc. But now I read stories where the tariff thing is overblown and the stocks go up anyway. So I had over 25k in there and I pulled out 6k for a bigger poker roll. Of course that can create a danger where I go to video poker after a bad poker session, but no I won’t do that. Two trips in a row no VP and intend to keep it going. So I took all the money and based it in a stock called ATI. It’s a Pittsburgh steel company that people are talking up a lot. The tariff helps a lot since it’s good for American products. But if that tariff gets worked out I’m pulling out every cent. I’m doing good on it right now though.
Poker was good this week. I hit a royal in plo8 and won a beach chair. A silly prize but you have an edge over the hold em players because of the extra cards. I only won 33 dollars over 8 hours though. Larry and I played a little 10-20 razz heads up and got raked to death. Never again. I told him it’s better if we play 20/40 stud8 because it’s better for the rake(and it is because there is far less raise and take it, which costs a fucking dollar) but I’m also a far superior stud8 player to him. He didn’t bite though.
Saturday was a tough decision. Do I play 2-5 plo for the min or max? Min is much more in my roll plus there’s some strategical advantages in there. But I decided to play max. I feel like I’m just better than a lot of other players there, especially vs that particular lineup. It worked out. I won 894 in 5 hours and 40 mins. But that’s also the reason I pulled money out of the stock. Can’t be buying in for 1k in a high variance game with 3k roll. I was happy to get the win, then I decided to go home. I didn’t have a room, I had the chair to lug around, and I had work and a concert to go to Sunday whom are my friends from the Pittsburgh Penguins bar(the bands name is Cheeky). Took the bus and went home. A very memorable song from one of the other bands was Miami is Nice(Electric Grandnother cover) it’s quite umm memorable.
Poker was good this week. I hit a royal in plo8 and won a beach chair. A silly prize but you have an edge over the hold em players because of the extra cards. I only won 33 dollars over 8 hours though. Larry and I played a little 10-20 razz heads up and got raked to death. Never again. I told him it’s better if we play 20/40 stud8 because it’s better for the rake(and it is because there is far less raise and take it, which costs a fucking dollar) but I’m also a far superior stud8 player to him. He didn’t bite though.
Saturday was a tough decision. Do I play 2-5 plo for the min or max? Min is much more in my roll plus there’s some strategical advantages in there. But I decided to play max. I feel like I’m just better than a lot of other players there, especially vs that particular lineup. It worked out. I won 894 in 5 hours and 40 mins. But that’s also the reason I pulled money out of the stock. Can’t be buying in for 1k in a high variance game with 3k roll. I was happy to get the win, then I decided to go home. I didn’t have a room, I had the chair to lug around, and I had work and a concert to go to Sunday whom are my friends from the Pittsburgh Penguins bar(the bands name is Cheeky). Took the bus and went home. A very memorable song from one of the other bands was Miami is Nice(Electric Grandnother cover) it’s quite umm memorable.
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Nearly lose your ass, save it for the wrong reason
The plan to avoid all house games(besides the bus coupon roulette) was a SUCCESS. One trip don’t mean shit, unless you take a serious punch to the face in poker that can make you run to the pit. It happened to me in plo8 where my 10235 on a A21089 board got SCOOPED by an unknown opponent who had A234 and never showed a single aggressive action. I lost 650 that hand. Luckily I stuck with it and got it back with 9910J(a real shit hand in plo8, but I think sometimes it’s ok to raise with awkward shit in plo8 but obv you gotta hit. I stacked another mystery opponent that hand and got the 650 back. I’m liking that plo8 is, for whatever reason, getting new regs.
Anyway, I got to the casino Thursday and I took a look at the poker room. 2 shitty and 1 mediocre players were at 2-5 plo. I wanted to play it but it was late, I was hungry, and I had to watch Big Brother. ANOTHER week of Level 6 domination. That’s the tightest alliance ive ever seen, and that includes over 30 seasons of Survivor I have seen. I’m excited to see the double elimination episode tonight. I gave up waiting because there was no way the regs were leaving while they were playing. I ended up winning 585 in plo8 and 40 on bus coupon win so I was happy.
I’ve been putting lots of money in stocks and I have over 25k now, so I can freely daytrade. But I nearly got KILLED on Tuesday. I read some stuff online about how because of the Trump tariff stuff that stocks were in trouble. I did the nuclear option and SOLD IT ALL. I probably would have lost 7000 dollars or so if I didn’t. I purchased lots back at a heavily reduced price, was once up over 1k on the day, but ended up losing 600. The funny thing is that I saved money mostly by accident. I had a ton of money mixed up in Funko Pop, which makes those toys you see in GameStop etc with the big beads. This thing was a goldmine. Went up pretty much every day. But it got murdered because the people who make Call of Duty introduced a new mode to compete with Fortnite plus Hasbro is gonna start making Fortnite toys. Funko was supposed to be the exclusive maker of that. Fucked on two fronts. I took a few paper cuts on everything but that’s ok. Heading back to fox now.
Anyway, I got to the casino Thursday and I took a look at the poker room. 2 shitty and 1 mediocre players were at 2-5 plo. I wanted to play it but it was late, I was hungry, and I had to watch Big Brother. ANOTHER week of Level 6 domination. That’s the tightest alliance ive ever seen, and that includes over 30 seasons of Survivor I have seen. I’m excited to see the double elimination episode tonight. I gave up waiting because there was no way the regs were leaving while they were playing. I ended up winning 585 in plo8 and 40 on bus coupon win so I was happy.
I’ve been putting lots of money in stocks and I have over 25k now, so I can freely daytrade. But I nearly got KILLED on Tuesday. I read some stuff online about how because of the Trump tariff stuff that stocks were in trouble. I did the nuclear option and SOLD IT ALL. I probably would have lost 7000 dollars or so if I didn’t. I purchased lots back at a heavily reduced price, was once up over 1k on the day, but ended up losing 600. The funny thing is that I saved money mostly by accident. I had a ton of money mixed up in Funko Pop, which makes those toys you see in GameStop etc with the big beads. This thing was a goldmine. Went up pretty much every day. But it got murdered because the people who make Call of Duty introduced a new mode to compete with Fortnite plus Hasbro is gonna start making Fortnite toys. Funko was supposed to be the exclusive maker of that. Fucked on two fronts. I took a few paper cuts on everything but that’s ok. Heading back to fox now.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
You gotta soak your cash
Biggg tilty fuck up by me last week, but let’s get into that gradually. I got there Thursday night and as usual just got on WonTon soup(too lazy to check the spelling) and watched Big Brother on my tablet. Fessy is SUCH a moron and it’s hilarious he got knocked out. I’ve gotten into watching Camster when I’m bored. Some of those girls are really good.
Friday rolls around and plo8 goes. Talk about the opposite from last week, and it was a lot of the same people. I think it was just setups that forced people to gamble. Set vs massive draw will do that. I did the EXACT thing I hate to do, which is pay off cowards. I also did it in a stupid spot for a lot of money. I lost 1273 in 3 hours. It made me sick. I did come back a while later and got 864 back in 4 hours and we soon turned it into 5-10 plo8 3 handed.
Everything between this next game is pretty up and down. But I will say 2-5 NL at Foxwoods is an absolute waste of time. Bill Potts says the grinders should have quit playing there by now, but they won’t fit a few reasons:
1. They give you stuff. 2 free nights, points(aka casino dollars), and lounge access to eat. All of these things are free dollars in your pocket.
2. It’s all most of them know how to play. You rarely see a NL grinder mix it up in Omaha and do well.
3. All their little buddies are here.
On Saturday they switched the FL 5-10 Omaha with kill to 1-2 plo/plo8 mix. A big surprise and I did well. One guy was hilariously dumb. There was like 40 in the pot pre and he’s first to act post. He goes “How much can I bet?” Then goes “How much can I call?!” Lol you’re first dude. He lost all his money you’ll be shocked to learn. I did win 263 in 4 hours which is a hell of a sum for a 1-2 game.
So here’s the super fuck up. In between sessions I was doing little mystery jackpot slots. The ones that were close to 50 dollars. Usually about in the 44.50 range. Not great but the major was always around 400 so not terrible. Near the end of the trip(about 4:30, and the last bus leaves at 7:30) I found a MJ slot that was at 438 and change. Minor was whatever. Not great. I played it. Lost 1000 on it. But that wasn’t the problem. Foxwoods has this new policy where they don’t freeze machines for you for more than 3 hours. IM POSITIVE THIS IS A LIE because I asked the slot attendant to freeze it until I come back Thursday(aka today) and he eventually asked what card I had. I’m positive if I had the best card with crazy play I would have gotten it frozen. So he says no and the supervisor says no. I’m max betting, still losing, and it eventually hits at 738 and my bus is gone. I ask them at the bus station if another bus to NY comes soon and they say no, but I can take the bus to New London and take the Amtrak. I wanted to go to work and see my GF in NJ after so I did that. I had time to kill! And I lost 1000 earlier! Uh oh. Not enough time to play poker...but what about VIDEO poker? Oh yes. And I lost 4500 quickly. That was beyond stupid. I assume Tony has done similar things for similar reasons. I get it. You just want the quads or something to get even and then get out. Didn’t happen. So I lost my ass. Anyway, that Amtrak was 107 fucking dollars. I paid it. I actually put 1k into global poker and ended up winning 279 so that was paid for. They have some bullshit new policy AND BEWARE OF THIS that you can’t just deposit, basically hit and run, and cashout. You need to play a sufficient amount to be able to cashout. It’s stupid. Luckily I was able to do that over a couple days.
So I have a new plan. It’s for people with a diseased brain like mine. At the beginning of the day, I’m going to take what I feel I need to play poker for the day and then soak the rest of my cash in water. By the next day it should be dry, but it’ll be too soaked to give them if I’m tilted that day. This is insane but I have to do it. Oh and I’m sorry about not replying to the last blog, for some reason that one is restricted on my phone. I’ll check it out on my tablet later tonight.
Friday rolls around and plo8 goes. Talk about the opposite from last week, and it was a lot of the same people. I think it was just setups that forced people to gamble. Set vs massive draw will do that. I did the EXACT thing I hate to do, which is pay off cowards. I also did it in a stupid spot for a lot of money. I lost 1273 in 3 hours. It made me sick. I did come back a while later and got 864 back in 4 hours and we soon turned it into 5-10 plo8 3 handed.
Everything between this next game is pretty up and down. But I will say 2-5 NL at Foxwoods is an absolute waste of time. Bill Potts says the grinders should have quit playing there by now, but they won’t fit a few reasons:
1. They give you stuff. 2 free nights, points(aka casino dollars), and lounge access to eat. All of these things are free dollars in your pocket.
2. It’s all most of them know how to play. You rarely see a NL grinder mix it up in Omaha and do well.
3. All their little buddies are here.
On Saturday they switched the FL 5-10 Omaha with kill to 1-2 plo/plo8 mix. A big surprise and I did well. One guy was hilariously dumb. There was like 40 in the pot pre and he’s first to act post. He goes “How much can I bet?” Then goes “How much can I call?!” Lol you’re first dude. He lost all his money you’ll be shocked to learn. I did win 263 in 4 hours which is a hell of a sum for a 1-2 game.
So here’s the super fuck up. In between sessions I was doing little mystery jackpot slots. The ones that were close to 50 dollars. Usually about in the 44.50 range. Not great but the major was always around 400 so not terrible. Near the end of the trip(about 4:30, and the last bus leaves at 7:30) I found a MJ slot that was at 438 and change. Minor was whatever. Not great. I played it. Lost 1000 on it. But that wasn’t the problem. Foxwoods has this new policy where they don’t freeze machines for you for more than 3 hours. IM POSITIVE THIS IS A LIE because I asked the slot attendant to freeze it until I come back Thursday(aka today) and he eventually asked what card I had. I’m positive if I had the best card with crazy play I would have gotten it frozen. So he says no and the supervisor says no. I’m max betting, still losing, and it eventually hits at 738 and my bus is gone. I ask them at the bus station if another bus to NY comes soon and they say no, but I can take the bus to New London and take the Amtrak. I wanted to go to work and see my GF in NJ after so I did that. I had time to kill! And I lost 1000 earlier! Uh oh. Not enough time to play poker...but what about VIDEO poker? Oh yes. And I lost 4500 quickly. That was beyond stupid. I assume Tony has done similar things for similar reasons. I get it. You just want the quads or something to get even and then get out. Didn’t happen. So I lost my ass. Anyway, that Amtrak was 107 fucking dollars. I paid it. I actually put 1k into global poker and ended up winning 279 so that was paid for. They have some bullshit new policy AND BEWARE OF THIS that you can’t just deposit, basically hit and run, and cashout. You need to play a sufficient amount to be able to cashout. It’s stupid. Luckily I was able to do that over a couple days.
So I have a new plan. It’s for people with a diseased brain like mine. At the beginning of the day, I’m going to take what I feel I need to play poker for the day and then soak the rest of my cash in water. By the next day it should be dry, but it’ll be too soaked to give them if I’m tilted that day. This is insane but I have to do it. Oh and I’m sorry about not replying to the last blog, for some reason that one is restricted on my phone. I’ll check it out on my tablet later tonight.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Stop scaring me Mom
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.
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 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.
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