well i decided to get out of vegas yesterday, and surprisingly enough it only cost me $10 to do so. (not counting some Uber costs later on). I increased my roll a bit since leaving playing poker, but its mostly all been spent on hotel costs, and today i finally found a place where i could wash my laundry and where the wifi would work. Not bad, and for less than $800 a week.
Of course, im looking to pay less which i think i will do once i get to a destination a bit further away where i wanted to check something out. (possibly find decent housing when i get there for under $1000 a month). It too, would be in california.
i shouldve gotten off the bus in monterey Park but i didnt realize it would closer, so i got off at the last stop. Then i paid more for Uber than i otherwise would've and it let me off in not the best neighborhood to be in downtown LA at night. (the bus, not the Uber).
rode out to the casino and played $40 NL, $200 NL, $8-16 mix stud8 and bigO, $20-40 stud, and $1-2 blinds $100-400 buyin PLO over the weekend. no other games or limits did i play, although in a different poker room ill be at later tonight, i will be playing a different game. and its shocking that this many years later (and even in the high limit section) still no phone chargers at the tables. Rob needs to try to fix this since he lives nearby with a lot of power even though for some odd reason he dont play here i think.
i won $17 in the $40 NL ($40 maximum buyin) lost $100 in the $200 NL, lost $150 in the stud8 big0 mix, won $300 in the $20-40 stud, and won the vast majority of the money in PLO. (i didnt play, but theres much much higher stakes PLO here too, quite a bit of it in fact). but the $650 i did win in the $1-2 blinds $100 minimum buyin PLO, $400 max buyin. its the BEST game to play in at the Commerce, and the only game u can beat the rake in and feels like playing in las vegas. By feels like playing in las vegas i mean the blinds are $1-2 instead of $3-5 (the $200 buyin NL) and u can still buyin DEEP. the other game where the blinds are $1-2 (the NL holdem) u cant buyin for more than $40.
the only thing i found offensive is they increased the time charge to $10 every half hour in the $20-40 stud. much much higher than anywhere else in the country. seems so many call the $5 to bring it in in PLO u dont notice the rake as much. im the only one who folds my $2 unraised BB all the time. most call out of position with junk in the blinds, particularly seattle irish. and this is where i get my edge. not only this, they got rid of the free food in the high limit section too i was told, find this must be some kind of mistake. maybe they only got rid of it for $20-40 stud?
i wonder if any of the other rooms in cali offer phone chargers at the tables? or if Rob would know? to ride the train to reno would only be $80 from los angeles, but it puts u on a bus into Bakersfield first. theres plenty of allegiant flights out of their airport too.
i heard the big0 high highlow mix is now being held at Hollywood park but ive not yet checked this out. its no longer in the commerce. of course, theyre not on the bravo as most rooms in this area arent. im still not sure which room is closest to the lower priced motels but im thinking its in the Stanton area, which i assume is closest to Hawaaiian gardens. of course lake elsinore and el Cajon is lower priced hotels too, and El cajon is ideal for me kind of like the very short walk in lake elsinore, simply because el cajon has tons of tour buses to the rooms
ive still got 2 books left of mine unread too and im only carrying about 10 shirts now and 2 pants. no room in the suitcase. and ive still got $14,800 left too. this doesnt sound that good, until u remember i was briefly down to $13,800 once in vegas. recovered some of it in vegas and some of it here. but my expenses are killing me. but theres no vbj machines around here i know of.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
how NOT to play 10-5 offsuit.
if im not going to win at poker, why play it? ill play the type of games i enjoy playing for a living, regardless of whether or not my bankroll is better suited (and ill make a lot bigger hourly) playing NL.
Yes i feel like im making NOTHING because im now only making $17 an hour in all forms and stakes of poker in 2018. u see, i was making $21 an hour. this is due to last nights $722 lost in a game with tons of deep stacks where i never won a pot once i moved from a broken game about midnite to 1 am and eventually left about 5.30 am. (the game i got pissed at the drunk, who i think mightve been partly an act). (discussed it last nite on twitter).
this is still better than last years $10.62 per hour so should i really let it bother me? but as old as ive gotten, (i will be 50 within less than a year now) and as much as the cost of rentals has increased since the early 2000s and 2010s, i really feel like u need about $20 per hour to live off of. i dont feel earning $50,000 a year is so rich anymore, except for good with good enough credit to have a low cost of shelter. i think u need about $60-100 thousand to be rich.
its too bad all the online sites suck, for if pokerstars was still an option, at least i wouldnt have to deal with the other players annoying personalities when i sit down in a live game. like the way 2 europeans (who i didnt even realize were together at first) got up to eat, breaking my game because some of the others wouldnt play 5 handed, and since there were no seats and plenty of stacks of those taking a break the floor waited to fill the game instead of giving us seats. which is fine with me because i wanted to stay in a corner seat and i dont like playing at a full table when im stuck and trying to get even because i feel it makes it harder and take a lot longer to do so because in a full table u get to play LESS hands, which makes the game less fun. i only dont mind a full table when way up and feel like nitting it up to protect the profits.
essentially what happened was so many got up to take a break, the 2-3 of us remaining sitting there waiting were waiting about 15 minutes before enough returned or newly sat to restart the game up with 5, which immediately became 7 within 2 hands.
so here is the final hand i lost on tonight and i really dont feel i played it badly, (at least the LAG players wont think i did). some of the nits will think i did. i hadnt made any moves all evening, and i knew by then whose straddling and whose raising their straddles and who isnt. i was stuck about $250 of $500 worth of buyins. first one $200 and second one $300. i only bought in for more tonight instead of the usual $120 because of the big loss last night and i was thinking maybe i wasnt buying in enough when first sitting down. in other words if u cant afford a $200 or $300 buyin with a $14,400 roll when CAN u afford a buyin that large? i also thought instead of making a 3rd buyin for a big amount like i did yesterday ($122, $160, $440) maybe i should quit the game (which i did) after just 2 buyins. so now im $13,900 first time ive been in the $13,000s for a year or more i think.
im in the big blind, the mexican guy with his mexican girlfriend playing in another seat is doing the straddling. i've got the 10 5 offsuit. its limped by 1 other player, so i make it $22 to take it down, with the full intention of showing it to the whole table. he calls his straddle with AK of hearts so this is proof hes worried ive got a good hand, otherwise he would reraise. people seem to often think ive got a monster when i dont because i fold so much. the asian guy other end calls too.
flop comes TQ2 all in hearts. i feel ive got no choice but to try a continuation bet to take it down, plus i could even have the best hand. i bet $60 and only he calls. J of hearts comes on the turn. i dont wish to check fold because ive got too much invested so i shove, hoping he puts me on the A of hearts if he dont have it. but he turned the royal flush for a high hand. i folded on the river, lying to him and swearing i had 10 10 10 and that was why i bet. no reason to show the truth if i didnt successfully bluff. i didnt rebuy left immediately to go to the grill to buy food.
i used to think my hourly rate was too low because i didnt incorporate a bluff into my game every time i could get away with it, knowing the biggest hourly rate winners are those who dont miss any opportunities to steal pots. but sometimes this will backfire on u too.
one other thing which bugs me and wouldnt bug most of u is people constantly asking for a rake reduction when it gets to be 6 handed. i think its because psycologically, i dont want them even being familiar with what the rake is, and i feel they dont like playing short so i worry ill be forced to move tables and maybe not get a seat i like. sure ill ask, but for Gods sakes i at least wait til im in the pot and about to win the hand. i could care less how much the others with all the money are paying if im not winning a hand. seems its the guys who can most afford the rake who complain the most (the deepest stacks) and theyre also the ones who complain the most about comp dollars. and theyre definitely not "good at poker" since theyd rather the table be full.
Yes i feel like im making NOTHING because im now only making $17 an hour in all forms and stakes of poker in 2018. u see, i was making $21 an hour. this is due to last nights $722 lost in a game with tons of deep stacks where i never won a pot once i moved from a broken game about midnite to 1 am and eventually left about 5.30 am. (the game i got pissed at the drunk, who i think mightve been partly an act). (discussed it last nite on twitter).
this is still better than last years $10.62 per hour so should i really let it bother me? but as old as ive gotten, (i will be 50 within less than a year now) and as much as the cost of rentals has increased since the early 2000s and 2010s, i really feel like u need about $20 per hour to live off of. i dont feel earning $50,000 a year is so rich anymore, except for good with good enough credit to have a low cost of shelter. i think u need about $60-100 thousand to be rich.
its too bad all the online sites suck, for if pokerstars was still an option, at least i wouldnt have to deal with the other players annoying personalities when i sit down in a live game. like the way 2 europeans (who i didnt even realize were together at first) got up to eat, breaking my game because some of the others wouldnt play 5 handed, and since there were no seats and plenty of stacks of those taking a break the floor waited to fill the game instead of giving us seats. which is fine with me because i wanted to stay in a corner seat and i dont like playing at a full table when im stuck and trying to get even because i feel it makes it harder and take a lot longer to do so because in a full table u get to play LESS hands, which makes the game less fun. i only dont mind a full table when way up and feel like nitting it up to protect the profits.
essentially what happened was so many got up to take a break, the 2-3 of us remaining sitting there waiting were waiting about 15 minutes before enough returned or newly sat to restart the game up with 5, which immediately became 7 within 2 hands.
so here is the final hand i lost on tonight and i really dont feel i played it badly, (at least the LAG players wont think i did). some of the nits will think i did. i hadnt made any moves all evening, and i knew by then whose straddling and whose raising their straddles and who isnt. i was stuck about $250 of $500 worth of buyins. first one $200 and second one $300. i only bought in for more tonight instead of the usual $120 because of the big loss last night and i was thinking maybe i wasnt buying in enough when first sitting down. in other words if u cant afford a $200 or $300 buyin with a $14,400 roll when CAN u afford a buyin that large? i also thought instead of making a 3rd buyin for a big amount like i did yesterday ($122, $160, $440) maybe i should quit the game (which i did) after just 2 buyins. so now im $13,900 first time ive been in the $13,000s for a year or more i think.
im in the big blind, the mexican guy with his mexican girlfriend playing in another seat is doing the straddling. i've got the 10 5 offsuit. its limped by 1 other player, so i make it $22 to take it down, with the full intention of showing it to the whole table. he calls his straddle with AK of hearts so this is proof hes worried ive got a good hand, otherwise he would reraise. people seem to often think ive got a monster when i dont because i fold so much. the asian guy other end calls too.
flop comes TQ2 all in hearts. i feel ive got no choice but to try a continuation bet to take it down, plus i could even have the best hand. i bet $60 and only he calls. J of hearts comes on the turn. i dont wish to check fold because ive got too much invested so i shove, hoping he puts me on the A of hearts if he dont have it. but he turned the royal flush for a high hand. i folded on the river, lying to him and swearing i had 10 10 10 and that was why i bet. no reason to show the truth if i didnt successfully bluff. i didnt rebuy left immediately to go to the grill to buy food.
i used to think my hourly rate was too low because i didnt incorporate a bluff into my game every time i could get away with it, knowing the biggest hourly rate winners are those who dont miss any opportunities to steal pots. but sometimes this will backfire on u too.
one other thing which bugs me and wouldnt bug most of u is people constantly asking for a rake reduction when it gets to be 6 handed. i think its because psycologically, i dont want them even being familiar with what the rake is, and i feel they dont like playing short so i worry ill be forced to move tables and maybe not get a seat i like. sure ill ask, but for Gods sakes i at least wait til im in the pot and about to win the hand. i could care less how much the others with all the money are paying if im not winning a hand. seems its the guys who can most afford the rake who complain the most (the deepest stacks) and theyre also the ones who complain the most about comp dollars. and theyre definitely not "good at poker" since theyd rather the table be full.
Monday, February 19, 2018
how emotions effect your poker playing
Well i've sure messed everything up, and i wish i wouldve done things right back in the early 2000s when no one knew how to play $1-2 NL correctly. (of course, i didnt either back then). I had lots of opportunities to win big money and save up a $100,000 roll by the time i hit 50, but i played too much VBJ. and not the kind of VBJ i play today, but a lot of 6-5 and even money BJ. (2009-2013). so much wasted money in the orleans, planet H, binions (7 hands at once VBJ machines such as the Borgata offers) bartop kind of machines instead of the ones with the electronic vitrual dealers. i played much better VBJ machines in 2015, but those are mostly gone now. yes the one at hoover dam is a decent one to play if i dont bet the huge percentages of my roll when i severly overbet in a desperate attempt to get unstuck so i could leave because i didnt like the lesbian couple who had sat recently. i had a lot more enjoyment on the even better VBJ in deadwood since i always had it to myself. so i didnt feel pressure to win "quickly". i knew i had all day. also, the machine in deadwood in the Bullock hotel deals so much faster than the dealers angels ones.
the good machines were in north lake tahoe in the Biltmore, the one in ellis island, the one which used to be in the el cortez 2 yrs ago, and the best one was the one 4-5 yrs ago at the lucky club with the extra 2% payback on this one promotion. but i had so little money back then, and it was before i understood how the red 7s count went on an unknown shuffle point, so i was not playing it or betting it correctly. i'm sure theres other good ones i forgot about and no longer exist, such as the old one in the silverado franklin. i think all of them have been removed now except the one in the bullock hotel which doesnt use a players card. only the dealers angels much slower type of machine and which shuffles way too soon at 38% of 4 decks at hoover dam gives decent points, but not nearly the point multipliers which ellis island and the el cortez gave on their dealers angels in the old days. practically NO vbj machines paying 3-2 still give points at all.
this is why i won $3000 over a months time in ellis isle only going a few days, and over $7000 that one october in the el cortez. the VBJ machines and promotions were actually worthwhile to play. if i wouldve ran better and had the roll and knew what i was doing when the lucky club had one i couldve done really well.
sad thing is, poker gets so boring folding constantly (a big reason why i wish i could always play with no more than 6-7 people at the tables) i would much rather be sitting there playing BJ so i dont need to be out of the action every hand. but i cant afford live BJ. there the minimum is either $5,10, more likely $15, $25 or so. and on the video its often $1, sometimes slightly more. and it makes it so easy to keep your losses to very low levels until its okay to raise the bet. which is why i should never play when they shuffle every hand.(like they do now in the el cortez, since their current machine isnt a dealers angels) because then u never have plus ev to raise the bets.
of course if i did have the proper bankroll to play a $5 or $10 8 deck shoe game, gambling for a living would still be exciting to me as long as i could do it without others present or watching. but its too bad u cant get room comps from playing live BJ (unless u take on huge losses, or be betting at way too high of levels).
and how do u avoid being angry and in a bad mood and very stressed out the entire time u are playing LIVE poker?
1. pretty much everyone is just sitting their chip rack on the floor (about 80%) of the players. those who are, only about half of them are sticking them under the chair towards the middle of the inside of the table(far enough back where we wont step on it), instead of just sitting them behind them in the open where the dealers, other players, the cocktail waitress, (or if we are lucky, that players wife, mother, or child) trips over them and gets sent to the hospital. would teach them a motherfucking lesson for putting the rack there. and if its ok for them to be rude by putting the rack there, why would it be wrong for me to be rude by suggesting their closest family trip over it?
2. people talk on the phone at the table, or talk to write text because theyre too lazy to type words out. i wont even talk to my closest friends and family and instead have them text me and sometimes they get annoyed by this. but im not going to talk where others can hear me at the table because its embarrassing to me.
3. often when first sitting, i have to deal with lots of annoyances. first thing i always must do is lower my seat to the floor as much as it allows, everyone has it up too high and no one puts it low enough to sit comfortably. then i must plug my cell phone in. then i need a seat change button from the dealer if im not in one of the 4 end seats such as seat 2,3 and the equivalent on the opposite side, (which depends on if its 10 max or 9 max). And then im trying to login on my phone too my initial buyin and my start time and casino location and stake. and the entire time the dealers asking me if i have a players card when he knows damn well i have a card because im there everyday and ill give it to him soon as i got a spare minute. wouldnt a much nicer way to say it be to tell the player "as soon as u got a minute ill take your players card from u whenever u get time if u got it on you today, no rush." instead of being asked more than once til u finally find it. plus ive got to be seeing if the cocktail waitress is nearby and making sure im not about to post or ill wait to come in behind the button.
4. and u sure dont need a massuese walking by every 15 minutes hawking overpriced massages to try to make the players feel bad for not being wealthy enough to afford them. its been told to me on twitter the only players really earning enough per hour to afford one of these every session is $5-10 NL and up. either charge $1 per minute like commerce, horseshoe baltimore and firekeepers does, or shut the hell up.
its amazing how in some casinos rooms, u feel far more comfortable playing than in other casino rooms. the best ones are Greektown, the golden nugget downtown vegas, and the Peppermill in reno. its due to either the straddle policies, the min and max buyin policies or the fact drinks are available without going thru the waitress (different reasons for different rooms). the worst rooms are the ones which do one must move after another even in $1-2, or use the $2 chips. or where it takes forever to get seated. or where u get charged time instead of raking the pot. this being said a small $4-5 hourly time charge wouldnt be so big a deal if los angeles would let u do this instead of paying $7 rake regardless of how little the pot is. but in most casinos u hate paying time. because often u win no pots over a 2 hour period and get charged $28 for never winning 1 pot. but putting up with this isnt quite as bad as listening to others mouths when they claim it "benefits the player". yeah i can see how it benefits the fish (otherwise known as a LAG player or calling station) since he wins about 3 hands every 30 minutes til he goes busto.
i miss the days of playing 12-15 hour sessions at home. but theres no good sites like pokerstars no more. not even for NJ residents since they dont include the players from other countries. for some reason, i hate needing to commute back and forth to casinos most of all and is why id like to live either inside of one or across the street from one. and im feeling so old at age 49 since ive not had my health checked out in so long i just keep playing smaller and smaller number of hours per day while my sleep hours per day keep increasing. its why once 3-4am got there on friday night i couldnt stay awake no more and took a room for a week in a place i would rather not have.
im still over $20 per hour for a small sample size of under 350 hours. if i could put in 3000 hours a year, (approximately 9 hours per day) at $20 per hour, i could earn about $60,000 per year mostly playing $1-2. this is why i dont understand why u must play higher. the problem is im way too old to get 9 hours a day in. i could if i never had to leave home and just sit online.
the good machines were in north lake tahoe in the Biltmore, the one in ellis island, the one which used to be in the el cortez 2 yrs ago, and the best one was the one 4-5 yrs ago at the lucky club with the extra 2% payback on this one promotion. but i had so little money back then, and it was before i understood how the red 7s count went on an unknown shuffle point, so i was not playing it or betting it correctly. i'm sure theres other good ones i forgot about and no longer exist, such as the old one in the silverado franklin. i think all of them have been removed now except the one in the bullock hotel which doesnt use a players card. only the dealers angels much slower type of machine and which shuffles way too soon at 38% of 4 decks at hoover dam gives decent points, but not nearly the point multipliers which ellis island and the el cortez gave on their dealers angels in the old days. practically NO vbj machines paying 3-2 still give points at all.
this is why i won $3000 over a months time in ellis isle only going a few days, and over $7000 that one october in the el cortez. the VBJ machines and promotions were actually worthwhile to play. if i wouldve ran better and had the roll and knew what i was doing when the lucky club had one i couldve done really well.
sad thing is, poker gets so boring folding constantly (a big reason why i wish i could always play with no more than 6-7 people at the tables) i would much rather be sitting there playing BJ so i dont need to be out of the action every hand. but i cant afford live BJ. there the minimum is either $5,10, more likely $15, $25 or so. and on the video its often $1, sometimes slightly more. and it makes it so easy to keep your losses to very low levels until its okay to raise the bet. which is why i should never play when they shuffle every hand.(like they do now in the el cortez, since their current machine isnt a dealers angels) because then u never have plus ev to raise the bets.
of course if i did have the proper bankroll to play a $5 or $10 8 deck shoe game, gambling for a living would still be exciting to me as long as i could do it without others present or watching. but its too bad u cant get room comps from playing live BJ (unless u take on huge losses, or be betting at way too high of levels).
and how do u avoid being angry and in a bad mood and very stressed out the entire time u are playing LIVE poker?
1. pretty much everyone is just sitting their chip rack on the floor (about 80%) of the players. those who are, only about half of them are sticking them under the chair towards the middle of the inside of the table(far enough back where we wont step on it), instead of just sitting them behind them in the open where the dealers, other players, the cocktail waitress, (or if we are lucky, that players wife, mother, or child) trips over them and gets sent to the hospital. would teach them a motherfucking lesson for putting the rack there. and if its ok for them to be rude by putting the rack there, why would it be wrong for me to be rude by suggesting their closest family trip over it?
2. people talk on the phone at the table, or talk to write text because theyre too lazy to type words out. i wont even talk to my closest friends and family and instead have them text me and sometimes they get annoyed by this. but im not going to talk where others can hear me at the table because its embarrassing to me.
3. often when first sitting, i have to deal with lots of annoyances. first thing i always must do is lower my seat to the floor as much as it allows, everyone has it up too high and no one puts it low enough to sit comfortably. then i must plug my cell phone in. then i need a seat change button from the dealer if im not in one of the 4 end seats such as seat 2,3 and the equivalent on the opposite side, (which depends on if its 10 max or 9 max). And then im trying to login on my phone too my initial buyin and my start time and casino location and stake. and the entire time the dealers asking me if i have a players card when he knows damn well i have a card because im there everyday and ill give it to him soon as i got a spare minute. wouldnt a much nicer way to say it be to tell the player "as soon as u got a minute ill take your players card from u whenever u get time if u got it on you today, no rush." instead of being asked more than once til u finally find it. plus ive got to be seeing if the cocktail waitress is nearby and making sure im not about to post or ill wait to come in behind the button.
4. and u sure dont need a massuese walking by every 15 minutes hawking overpriced massages to try to make the players feel bad for not being wealthy enough to afford them. its been told to me on twitter the only players really earning enough per hour to afford one of these every session is $5-10 NL and up. either charge $1 per minute like commerce, horseshoe baltimore and firekeepers does, or shut the hell up.
its amazing how in some casinos rooms, u feel far more comfortable playing than in other casino rooms. the best ones are Greektown, the golden nugget downtown vegas, and the Peppermill in reno. its due to either the straddle policies, the min and max buyin policies or the fact drinks are available without going thru the waitress (different reasons for different rooms). the worst rooms are the ones which do one must move after another even in $1-2, or use the $2 chips. or where it takes forever to get seated. or where u get charged time instead of raking the pot. this being said a small $4-5 hourly time charge wouldnt be so big a deal if los angeles would let u do this instead of paying $7 rake regardless of how little the pot is. but in most casinos u hate paying time. because often u win no pots over a 2 hour period and get charged $28 for never winning 1 pot. but putting up with this isnt quite as bad as listening to others mouths when they claim it "benefits the player". yeah i can see how it benefits the fish (otherwise known as a LAG player or calling station) since he wins about 3 hands every 30 minutes til he goes busto.
i miss the days of playing 12-15 hour sessions at home. but theres no good sites like pokerstars no more. not even for NJ residents since they dont include the players from other countries. for some reason, i hate needing to commute back and forth to casinos most of all and is why id like to live either inside of one or across the street from one. and im feeling so old at age 49 since ive not had my health checked out in so long i just keep playing smaller and smaller number of hours per day while my sleep hours per day keep increasing. its why once 3-4am got there on friday night i couldnt stay awake no more and took a room for a week in a place i would rather not have.
im still over $20 per hour for a small sample size of under 350 hours. if i could put in 3000 hours a year, (approximately 9 hours per day) at $20 per hour, i could earn about $60,000 per year mostly playing $1-2. this is why i dont understand why u must play higher. the problem is im way too old to get 9 hours a day in. i could if i never had to leave home and just sit online.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
back to the grind
well, i'm now at a new low of $14,300 but at least 1 weeks rent is paid for, which will end in 6 days from now. i still cant believe how much i lost on the VBJ at hoover dam, most of it after the lesbian couple sat down. (the 4 spots with $400 each out there, counting my 4 back bets on my other 4 hands). i thought i was doing the right thing only bringing the cash from the nugget (over $2000 worth) instead of closing out the wynn box first, but since i withdrew $1000 off both debit cards for $2000 more so i could make bigger sized bets, it didnt help.
and whyd the uber fare go up to $56 one way instead of $40? anyway i finally lost money in PLO in the wynn, and at one point i was only losing $38 in it after rebuying. i guess it was i told too many i would be playing there, some guy was in it who knew me and i still dont know who he was. so my hourly in 2018 from poker is now back to slightly below $20 from $22 again. i am going to need a very highly hourly at poker to survive all these losses elsewhere and my living expenses.
so today first thing im going to a bank of america, depositing about $3000 of the money left from the wynn, then going to play some poker. and im waking up starving too. i also played in the nugget a bit last night, trying to stay awake til either the morning bus went to LA or to reno. but i was too tired to and the $150 i was up in the nugget i lost back, quitting the game only up $6.
and whyd the uber fare go up to $56 one way instead of $40? anyway i finally lost money in PLO in the wynn, and at one point i was only losing $38 in it after rebuying. i guess it was i told too many i would be playing there, some guy was in it who knew me and i still dont know who he was. so my hourly in 2018 from poker is now back to slightly below $20 from $22 again. i am going to need a very highly hourly at poker to survive all these losses elsewhere and my living expenses.
so today first thing im going to a bank of america, depositing about $3000 of the money left from the wynn, then going to play some poker. and im waking up starving too. i also played in the nugget a bit last night, trying to stay awake til either the morning bus went to LA or to reno. but i was too tired to and the $150 i was up in the nugget i lost back, quitting the game only up $6.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
no more commuting neccessary
many things to tell u guys but id like to explain to Bill Potts why my last few texts havent included the Signal application he helped me downtown while sitting behind the D casino in downtown vegas. i thought he was staying thru feb 13, but hes went silent several days ago so maybe hes left town. he downloaded this, (we had to go far outside to be away from any type of wifi signals so i wouldnt be constantly asked to log into wifi to be able to use my phone) but this was before i got my new iphone5 from the apple store, and after id been in there to have it being sent to the store for me. since my last backup on the phone was like 5 days ago, when i got the new phone and gave them the old phone (we took off the data and wiped it clean first so a dishonest employee wouldnt know my cc info) it had some things missing from the backup, including the signal app. and also a few poker income sessions i replaced best of my memory. but most everything came up good on the new phone and its working fine, even better than the old phone before the battery gave out.
so i need to redownload it and thats why my recent texts werent on signal to him. but im never at a place where i can use my normal 3G sprint to do it, everywhere offers wifi, which either needs a password not available or a pain in the butt to login. i just need to be blocks from civilization where wifi isnt used. then my sprint 3G will let me download apps. maybe do it back behind the D when i think of it.
he told me id eventually be only about $8 per hour if i didnt move up from $1-2. well not all my records this year were on $1-2, some were on $1-3 some were on PLO, some were on $2-5, and of course the big loss in $20-40 mixed game. considering im behind for the year in $2-5 NL, and up over $100 per hour in PLO, and over $1000 behind in mixed games, im now at $21 per hour for over 265 hours of play (not yet a near large enough sample) but its double the $10.62 i won last year, and its much more than $21 per hour if it only includes $1-2 NL and $1-3 and $1-2 and $1-3 PLO, without including $2-5 NL and $20-40 mix.
so its looking like his estimate of $8 is way off, or else he thinks im a donkey. not sure which.
now for the rest of the news. we all knew i came up here without any luggage, but i finally got me another suitcase, its a smaller size but i got it for $36 in a tourist store on fremont and a bigger size wouldve been quite a bit higher expense. good news is it has wheels and is new meaning its in better shape. so tomorrow (or tonight too) i can go back over to the other place i wont reveal here where i took a month, which ends feb 13. i always hate waiting til the final day to check out because i worry my schedule wont fit the checkout hours and ruin my sleep. so its much less stress on me to always do it the night or two beforehand. this way i dont have to do it by 11-12am.
so i used up my $480 in comps for 5 nites in the nugget checked in today (sunday) and check out is on friday at noon. i still need to bring over my clothes (only took my laptop) and miscellaneous things left in the other hotel which ill get sometime before the 13th. at least now i have a way to get those things (including some unread books) since ill finally have a suitcase to store them in. i hope it will fit as many of those 18 shirts and 3 pants as possible too.
after my time is up on the 16th, i might go to reno, los angeles, albuquerque, or back to toledo to cut costs. at least now with $19,300, ive gotten back to where i have slightly more than when i left detroit. were it not for the $4500 loss that one day, id be way up. and i cant forget to close out the wynn box before i leave town. theres $4000 in there stored once more.
it was good to have spent so much time with Lightning this week and with Vince, who i busted in the $1-2 NL game last night at boulder station with AA. he took me out to the samstown buffet for my birthday. i had the AA, not him and i warned him not to call. lightning and i visited the trooper game thrusday night where i briefly appear in the video talking with pure aggression.
so i need to redownload it and thats why my recent texts werent on signal to him. but im never at a place where i can use my normal 3G sprint to do it, everywhere offers wifi, which either needs a password not available or a pain in the butt to login. i just need to be blocks from civilization where wifi isnt used. then my sprint 3G will let me download apps. maybe do it back behind the D when i think of it.
he told me id eventually be only about $8 per hour if i didnt move up from $1-2. well not all my records this year were on $1-2, some were on $1-3 some were on PLO, some were on $2-5, and of course the big loss in $20-40 mixed game. considering im behind for the year in $2-5 NL, and up over $100 per hour in PLO, and over $1000 behind in mixed games, im now at $21 per hour for over 265 hours of play (not yet a near large enough sample) but its double the $10.62 i won last year, and its much more than $21 per hour if it only includes $1-2 NL and $1-3 and $1-2 and $1-3 PLO, without including $2-5 NL and $20-40 mix.
so its looking like his estimate of $8 is way off, or else he thinks im a donkey. not sure which.
now for the rest of the news. we all knew i came up here without any luggage, but i finally got me another suitcase, its a smaller size but i got it for $36 in a tourist store on fremont and a bigger size wouldve been quite a bit higher expense. good news is it has wheels and is new meaning its in better shape. so tomorrow (or tonight too) i can go back over to the other place i wont reveal here where i took a month, which ends feb 13. i always hate waiting til the final day to check out because i worry my schedule wont fit the checkout hours and ruin my sleep. so its much less stress on me to always do it the night or two beforehand. this way i dont have to do it by 11-12am.
so i used up my $480 in comps for 5 nites in the nugget checked in today (sunday) and check out is on friday at noon. i still need to bring over my clothes (only took my laptop) and miscellaneous things left in the other hotel which ill get sometime before the 13th. at least now i have a way to get those things (including some unread books) since ill finally have a suitcase to store them in. i hope it will fit as many of those 18 shirts and 3 pants as possible too.
after my time is up on the 16th, i might go to reno, los angeles, albuquerque, or back to toledo to cut costs. at least now with $19,300, ive gotten back to where i have slightly more than when i left detroit. were it not for the $4500 loss that one day, id be way up. and i cant forget to close out the wynn box before i leave town. theres $4000 in there stored once more.
it was good to have spent so much time with Lightning this week and with Vince, who i busted in the $1-2 NL game last night at boulder station with AA. he took me out to the samstown buffet for my birthday. i had the AA, not him and i warned him not to call. lightning and i visited the trooper game thrusday night where i briefly appear in the video talking with pure aggression.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
my time will soon be up
I have no idea if i'm a good or a bad PLO high player. but i do know one thing, most of my sessions in the last few months show a much higher win rate in PLO than at NL. mostly from MGM detroit. and $2-5 NL is still much worse than $1-2 or $1-3 NL, which is why i cant ever move up. i think i worry too much about being underrolled if i play $2-5 and it effects my game.
its about 15x higher per hour or more than NL holdem is. of course the sample size isnt that large.
not much else is good to report. im still not even back to $16,000. Mark's mother died today. but he seems to be taking it well since he didnt hardly ever see her. My mother said she had gotten cancer. i did however get the monthly uber pass again finally, giving me unlimited rides up to $25 each for only $6.99 (thats what their site says, but its really $7.20 each). and i got a brand new apple iphone5 for only $79, no they no longer sell them, but they keep them on stock for replacements if theres issues. and they let me have one for the cost of another battery since the tech made an err in trying to install a new battery. $79 u see, is the battery cost, not the phone cost.
and i need to do laundry or buy more clothes, im finally out of clean shirts. and i need to get a suitcase bad, or ill have no way to move out of here and go to reno, los angeles, albuquerque or back to toledo once my time is up.
at least i got my sleep hours fixed. not sure how, but i did. at least for now.
friday night i went to the poker palace in NLV and for a while i wasnt doing too well, but i eventually left with over $250 profit to keep up the exceptionally high hourly in that friday nite only NL game. a guy i knew from Reno called David offered me a ride for less than an Uber, but since i dont feel able to defend myself im too nervous and suspicious when someone tries to get me into their car. especially if a lot of the time they seem to be a troll. same way for another guy i used to play poker with that some of u know as Herbie from RTP. if i knew how to protect myself if something was to go wrong during the ride, i would gladly accept for the lower price offered.
i would write much more, but i need to sleep and the things id really like to talk about i probably better not. ive lost interest in this anyway, i dont get paid for writing like the Trooper does with his vlogs.
its about 15x higher per hour or more than NL holdem is. of course the sample size isnt that large.
not much else is good to report. im still not even back to $16,000. Mark's mother died today. but he seems to be taking it well since he didnt hardly ever see her. My mother said she had gotten cancer. i did however get the monthly uber pass again finally, giving me unlimited rides up to $25 each for only $6.99 (thats what their site says, but its really $7.20 each). and i got a brand new apple iphone5 for only $79, no they no longer sell them, but they keep them on stock for replacements if theres issues. and they let me have one for the cost of another battery since the tech made an err in trying to install a new battery. $79 u see, is the battery cost, not the phone cost.
and i need to do laundry or buy more clothes, im finally out of clean shirts. and i need to get a suitcase bad, or ill have no way to move out of here and go to reno, los angeles, albuquerque or back to toledo once my time is up.
at least i got my sleep hours fixed. not sure how, but i did. at least for now.
friday night i went to the poker palace in NLV and for a while i wasnt doing too well, but i eventually left with over $250 profit to keep up the exceptionally high hourly in that friday nite only NL game. a guy i knew from Reno called David offered me a ride for less than an Uber, but since i dont feel able to defend myself im too nervous and suspicious when someone tries to get me into their car. especially if a lot of the time they seem to be a troll. same way for another guy i used to play poker with that some of u know as Herbie from RTP. if i knew how to protect myself if something was to go wrong during the ride, i would gladly accept for the lower price offered.
i would write much more, but i need to sleep and the things id really like to talk about i probably better not. ive lost interest in this anyway, i dont get paid for writing like the Trooper does with his vlogs.
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