well the bad news is every week i dont know if im going to be able to renew my room for another week, and again the price went up. instead of $395 including tax, (from $350 including tax) its now $416 including tax. but at least they let me renew it so i dont have to worry about checking out in 2 more hours with NO sleep, and i can go buy food again now. there is nothing any cheaper and on priceline the lowest price i seen for the week dec 22 to dec 29 wouldve been $557 and in a different area about 7 miles away. which is worse than the price i found for $465 last week for the same hotel thats $557 this week.
the good news is i won over $750 yesterday at poker, and made it back to my room still up over $700 of it. i was temporaly up over $1100 on the VBJ but when i quit i had lost $40 on VBJ so thats a $400 swing back the other way, even though i only lost $40 on it. wish i wouldnt go play it when the game breaks but i was waiting for daylight.
Last week after paying the $395 for the room sunday dec 15 i had $11,700 left after paying the rent. and this sunday after the rent was paid i was left with $13,400 so i did good at poker this week and also overall made about $500 on vbj. the week before i lost about $1200 on vbj.
i still wish there were better options as to places to stay but the normal places i stay at are like $2500 a month this time of year if i took it. and the airbnbs i thought about sold out because i didnt book in advance. and the ones left are not very cheap except for the shared room dormitory ones where id feel unsafe and have nowhere to lock up my belongings.
i still would rather be playing PLO as loose as those games are compared to NL, but it seems the NL game does have action most of the time. it sucks on the times it doesnt since $1+1 is taken on a $6 pot and i found out they take an extra $2 for running it twice i didnt know about.
someone claimed i should get a high hand at least once a week as many hours as i play but i havent and im going on my third week i play too few hands it seems.
christmas is coming soon and i never get any gifts from anyone, and as high as rental prices are, im not going to enjoy christmas this year because i feel like im forced to work much harder now and cant take time to relax. i wish i had a bunch of walmart gift cards and a stake for PLO games here if anyone wants to help. maybe someone can find me someone willing to assist in getting my passport, which is much cheaper than citizenship or finding me a better deal on housing. im seldom ever this broke like i was in the old days, and the 13k i got now is no more money in purchasing power than 5k was in 2010 so im very poor
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Sunday, December 15, 2019
did i do wrong paying for 1 more week and being down to $11,700 instead of flying elsewhere for $200
i dont know what to do to stop the VBJ losses, because i dont see myself capable of never playing it. i wouldnt be tempted if i could make a steady $100-200 a day at $1-2 NL. but every time i get off a poker table down a few hundred due to a bad beat, or a missed draw where i had the right pot odds to commit my stack, or when the game closes for the night and the casino is still open and im only up a very tiny amount, not near enough to cover minimum wage and the days living expenses, i run right to it out of anger because the emotional pain is so intense of losing, and that is the only remedy for the pain. its no different than people turning to alcohol or drugs, and yet all u bigots think drugs and pot are cool and should be legalize and every school child should be encouraged to start using it in u guyses opinions. by bigots i mean u loudly and soundly criticize me for running to the BJ machine, when its really no difference its a different form of the same insidious addiction of wanting to end the pain.
i did not know when i flew here id find video bj machines everywhere, i heard only the seminole tribe was allowed to offer BJ, and id never seen any of these machines before when i was way up north in Jacksonville one time. though the rake here isnt as bad as at the Commerce, they still take $1 plus $1 at $6, (no flop no drop) and nothing at $4. so if a third person limps $2 to see a flop, they drop it. and at $16 is where its $2+2, all the way up to $5+$2 if the pot gets big enough to reach 46
and i dont know if they do it here and im afraid to ask to be honest, but at Gulfstream they were raking extra $2 when they run it twice. here they let u run it twice too. the seminole hard rock wont let u run it twice and u have to buyin $100 there, and the games looser because there the alcohol is free and served all 24 hours and doesnt have a closing time for serving drinks like all these dogtracks do.
the ONLY way to save money here is to stop spending myself down to $0 shelling out $400 a week on motels (my rent just went up $50 a week) and buy a car and live out of it at least that way when i go broke ill have a $1000 asset. how i will ever move it out of florida without knowing how to drive i dont know. years ago in my early 20s when i was young enough to sleep outdoors and when my bankroll seldom ever was above 5000, i dont know how id have did it. id have loved the florida NL games back then had i came here in like 1991-2000.
i wish i could go home to rays as an exit strategy if needed but it seems he blew a big portion of his roll again and now is extremely short again til he gets his check for January. i told him to stick to NL and quit playing holdem. he dont have to worry about housing costs like i do and transportation costs either since he has a car, so if he loses 200 its time for him to quit for the day. and yet he blew $600. he needs to stop playing machines, particularly keno and pickempoker. that wouldve saved him at least $500 in the past month.
if i were Ray id go right into HOllywood and ask to be self banned for another year. would keep him from playing anywhere but detroit. he did it once but never renewed once the year was finally up. its due to his laziness of not wanting to drive to detroit. i left the area because i couldnt afford to keep staking him even though he won me money at times but i had to put up 100% of the stake. so one loss crushed me. i thought he might not gamble at all for like a month but he got a small amount from his dad, and built up from that, and i was proud of him when it hit $1800. but he sure destroyed it. what it means is had i stayed in detroit id have able to play in detroit after all everyday, and its only now that im about broke if i returned id be stuck in toledo for 2 weeks about unable to get to detroit unless he goes like 1-2 days a week anyway somehow without losing the last few hundred. he needs to forget about omaha. Ray is so passive aggressive with me he refuses ever win or go up to detroit daily unless im gone is the way it feels.
id love to play omaha too especially with all the 100 min buys everywhere here when most other places its usually 200 but i dont think id handle the variance well often u are in for your 5th buyin of 100 and the games so loose u havent got a pot yet. so i stick to holdem. and of course vbj, which has been actually much worse for me than playing omaha.
the difference is, when i play BJ, i feel like i know what im doing and at least have a 49% chance of winnning. and i dont feel that way in omaha because i feel like u cant win in omaha without having a bankroll and that determines how well u do in the long run a lot more than how well u play does.
i mean u can play extremely well. for example u can always wait to come in til the blinds pass u, refuse to ever straddle like most of the others are doing, and never play a hand and wait for monster hands and try to get it allin preflop. u can cut back on the $1000 a month tipping expense and do it on rare occasions only when ahead and get it down to only $200 a month for the waitress and $200 a month for the dealer.
but if u dont eventually get hands nothing will help. eventually u are going to have to both win a hand, and have it hold up til the river. now it might be possible to do one or the other on any given hand, but both?
i woke up way way later today than i intended i was going to get up about 3pm and i didnt wake up til about 8. guess i needed the sleep. im wondering if maybe i should start playing in another casino. i wish Hialeah and Palm Beach Kennel club werent so far out, the Lyft fare is way too high, and i only got around to visiting one of those two rooms listed above. the room i actually had my biggest win at was in the ISLE and i was only there one time. one guy was surprised because he claims the games are tighter there.
im thinking if i went north i might find cheaper housing. but i dont think i would around Palm beach either, i think id have to go WAY north all the way to either melbourne or Jacksonville. prices in jacksonville are actually pretty cheap if u bother to do a search u will be surprised how low they are during the winter. but there certainly isnt nearly as many rooms to go to.
i was told id misplayed this hand yesterday right before i left to go to the VBJ machine but i dont see how. there were a few limpers and i was in the BB with AA. one guy in the SB makes it $7, and i made it $24. how much would u have made it?
only the SB and one guy in late position with a deep stack calls. and before this hand, id finally got to where i was a bit over $120 ahead for the day and had been there for many hours.
flop comes J63 with 2 clubs. and the SB went allin for like $68. i wanted the third guy to fold. so i bet $268. he comes over the top and puts me allin. turn comes 6 river 10 of clubs and he has K2 of clubs for the flush. the original better only had a jack in his hand.
he said if id only called the flop and if he only called, then when the 6 pairs on the turn, if i shove allin then, he would folded. i believe him. but how do i know if i only call on the flop he wouldnt shove then? he might not, but wouldnt most of u feel im taking a risk by letting him see the turn so cheap. remember at the time theres no way to know what hes holding and drawing for.
i did not know when i flew here id find video bj machines everywhere, i heard only the seminole tribe was allowed to offer BJ, and id never seen any of these machines before when i was way up north in Jacksonville one time. though the rake here isnt as bad as at the Commerce, they still take $1 plus $1 at $6, (no flop no drop) and nothing at $4. so if a third person limps $2 to see a flop, they drop it. and at $16 is where its $2+2, all the way up to $5+$2 if the pot gets big enough to reach 46
and i dont know if they do it here and im afraid to ask to be honest, but at Gulfstream they were raking extra $2 when they run it twice. here they let u run it twice too. the seminole hard rock wont let u run it twice and u have to buyin $100 there, and the games looser because there the alcohol is free and served all 24 hours and doesnt have a closing time for serving drinks like all these dogtracks do.
the ONLY way to save money here is to stop spending myself down to $0 shelling out $400 a week on motels (my rent just went up $50 a week) and buy a car and live out of it at least that way when i go broke ill have a $1000 asset. how i will ever move it out of florida without knowing how to drive i dont know. years ago in my early 20s when i was young enough to sleep outdoors and when my bankroll seldom ever was above 5000, i dont know how id have did it. id have loved the florida NL games back then had i came here in like 1991-2000.
i wish i could go home to rays as an exit strategy if needed but it seems he blew a big portion of his roll again and now is extremely short again til he gets his check for January. i told him to stick to NL and quit playing holdem. he dont have to worry about housing costs like i do and transportation costs either since he has a car, so if he loses 200 its time for him to quit for the day. and yet he blew $600. he needs to stop playing machines, particularly keno and pickempoker. that wouldve saved him at least $500 in the past month.
if i were Ray id go right into HOllywood and ask to be self banned for another year. would keep him from playing anywhere but detroit. he did it once but never renewed once the year was finally up. its due to his laziness of not wanting to drive to detroit. i left the area because i couldnt afford to keep staking him even though he won me money at times but i had to put up 100% of the stake. so one loss crushed me. i thought he might not gamble at all for like a month but he got a small amount from his dad, and built up from that, and i was proud of him when it hit $1800. but he sure destroyed it. what it means is had i stayed in detroit id have able to play in detroit after all everyday, and its only now that im about broke if i returned id be stuck in toledo for 2 weeks about unable to get to detroit unless he goes like 1-2 days a week anyway somehow without losing the last few hundred. he needs to forget about omaha. Ray is so passive aggressive with me he refuses ever win or go up to detroit daily unless im gone is the way it feels.
id love to play omaha too especially with all the 100 min buys everywhere here when most other places its usually 200 but i dont think id handle the variance well often u are in for your 5th buyin of 100 and the games so loose u havent got a pot yet. so i stick to holdem. and of course vbj, which has been actually much worse for me than playing omaha.
the difference is, when i play BJ, i feel like i know what im doing and at least have a 49% chance of winnning. and i dont feel that way in omaha because i feel like u cant win in omaha without having a bankroll and that determines how well u do in the long run a lot more than how well u play does.
i mean u can play extremely well. for example u can always wait to come in til the blinds pass u, refuse to ever straddle like most of the others are doing, and never play a hand and wait for monster hands and try to get it allin preflop. u can cut back on the $1000 a month tipping expense and do it on rare occasions only when ahead and get it down to only $200 a month for the waitress and $200 a month for the dealer.
but if u dont eventually get hands nothing will help. eventually u are going to have to both win a hand, and have it hold up til the river. now it might be possible to do one or the other on any given hand, but both?
i woke up way way later today than i intended i was going to get up about 3pm and i didnt wake up til about 8. guess i needed the sleep. im wondering if maybe i should start playing in another casino. i wish Hialeah and Palm Beach Kennel club werent so far out, the Lyft fare is way too high, and i only got around to visiting one of those two rooms listed above. the room i actually had my biggest win at was in the ISLE and i was only there one time. one guy was surprised because he claims the games are tighter there.
im thinking if i went north i might find cheaper housing. but i dont think i would around Palm beach either, i think id have to go WAY north all the way to either melbourne or Jacksonville. prices in jacksonville are actually pretty cheap if u bother to do a search u will be surprised how low they are during the winter. but there certainly isnt nearly as many rooms to go to.
i was told id misplayed this hand yesterday right before i left to go to the VBJ machine but i dont see how. there were a few limpers and i was in the BB with AA. one guy in the SB makes it $7, and i made it $24. how much would u have made it?
only the SB and one guy in late position with a deep stack calls. and before this hand, id finally got to where i was a bit over $120 ahead for the day and had been there for many hours.
flop comes J63 with 2 clubs. and the SB went allin for like $68. i wanted the third guy to fold. so i bet $268. he comes over the top and puts me allin. turn comes 6 river 10 of clubs and he has K2 of clubs for the flush. the original better only had a jack in his hand.
he said if id only called the flop and if he only called, then when the 6 pairs on the turn, if i shove allin then, he would folded. i believe him. but how do i know if i only call on the flop he wouldnt shove then? he might not, but wouldnt most of u feel im taking a risk by letting him see the turn so cheap. remember at the time theres no way to know what hes holding and drawing for.
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Eventually im going to lose EVERYTHING. its only a matter of time
Before i forget, let me discuss whatever hand histories i remember since i always forget them. About the only hand ive won in the main casino ive been playing at recently is this one. i had Q8 suited and the flop was 346 with 2 clubs. i dont remember if there was a raise or straddle preflop. i made either a bet or a raise on the flop, and he was first to act or at least was to act before me. that much i remember. as all of the rooms (or at least most, in this part of the country do, u can run it twice in $1-2 NL holdem) there was a 3rd player in but he got out on the flop. one of the reasons for shoving allin, because at this casino u cant run it twice with 3 people in like u can at the casino up the road a mile off. he didnt have many chips left, and we got it allin on the flop. but somehow it wasnt too bad of a pot. in fact, as few pots as ive won, all pots feel bigger than they are.
so the turn and the river are BOTH run twice. one turn and river came A3 on the bottom and the other turn and river on the top came 8J. and i was wondering if i had lost on both, since my flush didnt come. i knew i definitely had nothing on the top. turns out i won the bottom with Q high because he had 7T of clubs for a lower flush draw and no pair, and the top with a pair of eights. definitely wasnt expecting to scoop this one.
then im up against the old man one time, and i am positive he has an overpair and ive got AA. flop is 258 he calls my bet after calling my raise preflop over the top of his much smaller raise preflop, turn 9, river 3. he has 222. and i lost a lot there, but i think most of u wouldve read him for a smaller overpair too.
and another hand ive got 555 on the flop of 569 with 2 hearts so i cant risk giving free cards. turn comes 10, and each bet i make gets progressively bigger with only 1 caller who hasnt been winning. river comes 2 and he checks i bet $30 and he check raises allin for $90. he flopped the straight, and theres a bitter discussion which starts about how poorly he played the hand and the black guy next to him doesnt understand how he played it so wrong. nor does he, and im sick of losing to the mentally retarted. if he gets me allin on the flop theres no way i fold he gets ALL my stack 100% of the time. but by slow paying it, he is risking letting me get away cheap if a big scare card comes for a straight or flush. the only way he gets all my money this way is for 2 blanks to come, which is exactly what happened. so thats a bad play. hes taking a risk.
losing money to rich white guys who are retired and young millenial assholes loaded with money. i got so mad at a different table (not where these hands took place) but i said a bunch of stuff i shouldnt about my feelings about people with more money than me and how i was sick of seeing them. the floor man looked at me funny after the fact and after id left the table because he overheard me talking and so did most of the room. i acted like i was a democrat, and spoke of how Bernie sanders would someday be president and how the govertment would confiscate their money by force, pointing out who the big stacks were and how they would end up in a reeducation camp in venezuela. then i spoke of how racist, sexist and homophobic i thought our unjust society was. i only said that because i figured its better to look like a democrat in a casino filled with black players everywhere i go along with the old retired white guys.
but an hour later i walked out of the casino and back into the poker room and had no problems getting back into a game. though i think those comments mightve affected a decision today that was really shitty in the PLO game. i played PLO only 3 times since coming here for a chance to play with $100 minimum buyins, but after losing so much in deadwood i can no longer even afford $100. i have not won one pot yet in PLO. i lost $100 in PLO at the casino way down south, a big LYFT fee away. i played PLO here the day before and the game broke as soon as id lost $6 in blinds. and i played PLO today and lost over $140. so in 3 sessions, still not won a single hand of PLO.
i raise over the top with AA47 single suited, when a guy whose the loose guy eating food, makes it $25 in late position. i made it $105. and im not quite allin. the only reason i had more than $100 is i had carried over about $40 in chips from the $1-2 table id left pissed.
some black guy calls allin for about $65, and seat one asks the dealer how much he owes. and for some reason he thought i was allin. id swear he didnt say allin, but call, but both the dealer and the black guy claimed he did, and i didnt believe them. i thought the dealer might dislike me due to my objection of him giving me the $100 i gave when i moved over in all green chips, instead of any red to play with and bet with. anyway i was looking down and then suddenly the flop was dealt 558 with 2 hearts and i wanted to bet my last $33, or $30 which played, and the dealer, who thinks everyone is allin, deals the turn with is a 6 of hearts for the third heart. i finally get a chance to stop him and seat one then complains he couldnt see my other chips and that he reraised allin preflop. and i KNOW the correct ruling is the flop and turn come back. and i feel like im beat since seat one didnt want them to come back. the floor rules i couldnt bet because my chips werent visible and its going to be played like im allin and no the board isnt coming back. so i lost because he had TJQK double suited for the flush. and i wasnt happy and said how unfair that was and felt like an angle shot and the floorman told me to not discuss it anymore.
later seat one gave me $50 off the table so he couldnt been too bad of guy. although right after that he lost a bunch of big pots and went from being up a lot to rebuying $500 twice so i wonder if he regretted it later. i left after an hour or two, never winning a pot.
and heres why ill never have money. im too low to win at poker anymore, or to handle losses of $175-400. i couldve fine were i to have flown here immediately from vegas when i still had 30 of the 40k. so just like the day before i went out to the 3 VBJ machines with the 3-2 payouts and the $5 minimum bets and blew over $450 on it and the previous time i blew over $600 on it. so thats one reason ive only got $12,300 left of the $14,400 i flew here from MN with. that and hotel costs and lfyt fees. yeah im out a few hundred at poker instead of up at poker like im supposed to be but this made it a whole lot worse. im down more on VBJ than poker.
i did have a winning session when i visited the other room at the racetrack about 16 miles north of here. its right by a walmart too. i won over $500 in that room and its the biggest win ive had here. id return if the LYft costs werent so high.
and that same night i visited another casino even further NW thats connected to the main casino most people who fly here visit ive not yet went to. i lost $133 in that poker room too in the $1-2 NL. i went because its also 24 hours and some poker rooms here arent except for weekends.
and today i ran into the first guy who knew of me from my blog, not counting AKgal. he was with some girlfriend named Chloe but i dont remember his name and he is staying somewhere off craigslist and he said i should try finding housing that way. someone originally who knew me from vegas. but i dont know who he is.
and once i pay either airbnb, a hotel, or craigslist for a month somewhere long term, i doubt ill be over $10k still. so i dont see how i wont go broke. ill soon be placing ads on craigslist for someone to rent me a van to live out of for $100 a week.
tonights Lyft to walmart cost me $7 each way, for 2 $7 trips. and i was so pissed i dont have money to buy what i wanted, i bought me a pair of pants and a book anyway, for $11 and $8 because im sick of money going in gambling losses instead of what id like to spend it on.
i desperately needed another pair of pants and at least these are new. and ive got nothing to read in my room.
i did not realize there was so many VBJ machines in most of the casinos around here. didnt think they were legal here. ive visited over 6 different poker room in this area, and i dont have too many more to visit. a lot of the other rooms are much further north and too far. most of the rooms had tight games or loose games, it really depended on who was playing and the promotions. but i lost most of the time and i think it is due to a lack of patience to wait days or weeks for the wins to start coming since i feel i cant afford losses anymore. some of the better rooms id prefer to play at dont seem to have a nearby place to stay. and ill certainly never be able to do anything now for christmas or ID.
so the turn and the river are BOTH run twice. one turn and river came A3 on the bottom and the other turn and river on the top came 8J. and i was wondering if i had lost on both, since my flush didnt come. i knew i definitely had nothing on the top. turns out i won the bottom with Q high because he had 7T of clubs for a lower flush draw and no pair, and the top with a pair of eights. definitely wasnt expecting to scoop this one.
then im up against the old man one time, and i am positive he has an overpair and ive got AA. flop is 258 he calls my bet after calling my raise preflop over the top of his much smaller raise preflop, turn 9, river 3. he has 222. and i lost a lot there, but i think most of u wouldve read him for a smaller overpair too.
and another hand ive got 555 on the flop of 569 with 2 hearts so i cant risk giving free cards. turn comes 10, and each bet i make gets progressively bigger with only 1 caller who hasnt been winning. river comes 2 and he checks i bet $30 and he check raises allin for $90. he flopped the straight, and theres a bitter discussion which starts about how poorly he played the hand and the black guy next to him doesnt understand how he played it so wrong. nor does he, and im sick of losing to the mentally retarted. if he gets me allin on the flop theres no way i fold he gets ALL my stack 100% of the time. but by slow paying it, he is risking letting me get away cheap if a big scare card comes for a straight or flush. the only way he gets all my money this way is for 2 blanks to come, which is exactly what happened. so thats a bad play. hes taking a risk.
losing money to rich white guys who are retired and young millenial assholes loaded with money. i got so mad at a different table (not where these hands took place) but i said a bunch of stuff i shouldnt about my feelings about people with more money than me and how i was sick of seeing them. the floor man looked at me funny after the fact and after id left the table because he overheard me talking and so did most of the room. i acted like i was a democrat, and spoke of how Bernie sanders would someday be president and how the govertment would confiscate their money by force, pointing out who the big stacks were and how they would end up in a reeducation camp in venezuela. then i spoke of how racist, sexist and homophobic i thought our unjust society was. i only said that because i figured its better to look like a democrat in a casino filled with black players everywhere i go along with the old retired white guys.
but an hour later i walked out of the casino and back into the poker room and had no problems getting back into a game. though i think those comments mightve affected a decision today that was really shitty in the PLO game. i played PLO only 3 times since coming here for a chance to play with $100 minimum buyins, but after losing so much in deadwood i can no longer even afford $100. i have not won one pot yet in PLO. i lost $100 in PLO at the casino way down south, a big LYFT fee away. i played PLO here the day before and the game broke as soon as id lost $6 in blinds. and i played PLO today and lost over $140. so in 3 sessions, still not won a single hand of PLO.
i raise over the top with AA47 single suited, when a guy whose the loose guy eating food, makes it $25 in late position. i made it $105. and im not quite allin. the only reason i had more than $100 is i had carried over about $40 in chips from the $1-2 table id left pissed.
some black guy calls allin for about $65, and seat one asks the dealer how much he owes. and for some reason he thought i was allin. id swear he didnt say allin, but call, but both the dealer and the black guy claimed he did, and i didnt believe them. i thought the dealer might dislike me due to my objection of him giving me the $100 i gave when i moved over in all green chips, instead of any red to play with and bet with. anyway i was looking down and then suddenly the flop was dealt 558 with 2 hearts and i wanted to bet my last $33, or $30 which played, and the dealer, who thinks everyone is allin, deals the turn with is a 6 of hearts for the third heart. i finally get a chance to stop him and seat one then complains he couldnt see my other chips and that he reraised allin preflop. and i KNOW the correct ruling is the flop and turn come back. and i feel like im beat since seat one didnt want them to come back. the floor rules i couldnt bet because my chips werent visible and its going to be played like im allin and no the board isnt coming back. so i lost because he had TJQK double suited for the flush. and i wasnt happy and said how unfair that was and felt like an angle shot and the floorman told me to not discuss it anymore.
later seat one gave me $50 off the table so he couldnt been too bad of guy. although right after that he lost a bunch of big pots and went from being up a lot to rebuying $500 twice so i wonder if he regretted it later. i left after an hour or two, never winning a pot.
and heres why ill never have money. im too low to win at poker anymore, or to handle losses of $175-400. i couldve fine were i to have flown here immediately from vegas when i still had 30 of the 40k. so just like the day before i went out to the 3 VBJ machines with the 3-2 payouts and the $5 minimum bets and blew over $450 on it and the previous time i blew over $600 on it. so thats one reason ive only got $12,300 left of the $14,400 i flew here from MN with. that and hotel costs and lfyt fees. yeah im out a few hundred at poker instead of up at poker like im supposed to be but this made it a whole lot worse. im down more on VBJ than poker.
i did have a winning session when i visited the other room at the racetrack about 16 miles north of here. its right by a walmart too. i won over $500 in that room and its the biggest win ive had here. id return if the LYft costs werent so high.
and that same night i visited another casino even further NW thats connected to the main casino most people who fly here visit ive not yet went to. i lost $133 in that poker room too in the $1-2 NL. i went because its also 24 hours and some poker rooms here arent except for weekends.
and today i ran into the first guy who knew of me from my blog, not counting AKgal. he was with some girlfriend named Chloe but i dont remember his name and he is staying somewhere off craigslist and he said i should try finding housing that way. someone originally who knew me from vegas. but i dont know who he is.
and once i pay either airbnb, a hotel, or craigslist for a month somewhere long term, i doubt ill be over $10k still. so i dont see how i wont go broke. ill soon be placing ads on craigslist for someone to rent me a van to live out of for $100 a week.
tonights Lyft to walmart cost me $7 each way, for 2 $7 trips. and i was so pissed i dont have money to buy what i wanted, i bought me a pair of pants and a book anyway, for $11 and $8 because im sick of money going in gambling losses instead of what id like to spend it on.
i desperately needed another pair of pants and at least these are new. and ive got nothing to read in my room.
i did not realize there was so many VBJ machines in most of the casinos around here. didnt think they were legal here. ive visited over 6 different poker room in this area, and i dont have too many more to visit. a lot of the other rooms are much further north and too far. most of the rooms had tight games or loose games, it really depended on who was playing and the promotions. but i lost most of the time and i think it is due to a lack of patience to wait days or weeks for the wins to start coming since i feel i cant afford losses anymore. some of the better rooms id prefer to play at dont seem to have a nearby place to stay. and ill certainly never be able to do anything now for christmas or ID.
Monday, December 2, 2019
new trip report up
well i made my flight out of Minneapolis and i didnt think i would. for my motel in Forest Lake cost me $98 and it was the ONLY hotel anywhere near Running aces. and the weather had gotten so bad i got very lucky to finally get an Uber back to my hotel after an hours wait. there was a big snowstorm. and in the morning, no one was answering the phone (id gotten the number of my Lyft driver) and no drivers were in the area on the app either. so i had to call a cab, (and pay $100) instead of the $40 i paid thru Lyft when i first rode out to Forest Lake from the MSP airport the day before.
so im finally in a different area, and the weather is better here than it was there. and i had a hard time finding a motel, for all the places i seen offering low weekly rates were all filled up, or at least thats what they told me. i thought it might be because i looked like a bum lugging my suitcase around. but most of them werent in a very good neighborhood (by my definition). but i wanted to be within walking distance of a casino in daylight hours. which isnt very long considering how dark it gets about 5pm.
i went to this one casino (and tonight i visited a 2nd one) and i havent been over to any other casinos yet. the place i was at tonight i dont think ill return to because though the game was loose, there were very few games and they didnt take a players card at the poker table. and they had the same annoying $2 chips and button straddle most of the other rooms around here seem to have.
in fact i got $15 for signing up for a players card once id earned 15 points. and i earned the 15 points by checking the ocean magic, golden egypt and scarab machines. so thats where about $50 on todays profits came from. i even noticed a 3-2 vbj game but of course didnt play, ill never touch one of those ever again after what happened in deadwood.
but u cannot use the $15 on a video poker, so i had to go back and use it on a slot machine. had i known for sure id return, id have just saved it to use the next time i checked the vulturables. there dont seem to be any hustlers here. no one was checking the machines at the other cardroom either.
i did run into someone i knew from vegas here, whose been friendly and helpful in the past and who works at a casino dealing and flooring and is here on vacation. but we were never playing at the same table.
tonight the other guy i knew from twitter was in a tourney, but never came by to say hi once he busted out. i guess he either really didnt want to meet me someday like id thought, or was just too pissed off when he busted.
now the day before id gotten $30 for signing up for a players card, which is what i got when u spin the wheel, and the minimum is $25, which is really high for new card signups.
games were quite loose but i never got around to playing any PLO even with the low $100 minimum buyin. there was even a $2-4 limit omaha8 going but i didnt think the rake which is much higher here could be overcome in that game. the only omaha high game i couldve afforded and possibly beaten was the $4-20 spread limit which goes daily in Minneapolis, but that game is in too remote an area. u need a friend with a car to live there for transportation to a cheaper place to live.
i dont even feel i have enough for $1-2 NL with only $13,000 because im not used to being this low in a very long time. and the cost of hotels is going to be tremendous for the next few months which is why im going to be forced to live in substandard housing in the ghetto for quite some time. already my wells fargo account went to shit and i got charged a service fee for having only $63 left in an account that did have over $10000. and not too much is left in my BOA either compared to what used to be in there. so all ive played is $1-2 NL. and ive won every session of $1-2 NL, which is 3 for 3. at least im never touching any live BJ or VBJ again. so i keep minimum buying in which is usually $50 or $60 here instead of the $100 it is some other parts of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPuPaF2ZL_0 is a good sermon by David wilkerson which i was listening to while i wrote this blog. now thats a true man of God not like Joel Olsteen, Rick warren or Paula White, that Koala and vegas dwp hate so much but someone who actually is approved of by God and cared for others instead of money. he founded so many centers to get people off of drugs and to care for those out on the streets with no options. back in the days where people cared about ending addiction instead of making it legal.
i could disappear fast if i dont carefully grow the roll back up but as loose as the games are, its hard playing this small. i need a car to live out of or for better safety, an old van. i cant spend 1 percent of the roll every 2 days or so for room rentals, and my wins were quite small at poker. approximately around $200 for 3 sessions.
i wish i could take advantage of all the loose PLO action. but i cant risk buying in $100 in such a high variance game. had i came here sooner, id have much better housing further away at a higher cost but safer, and i probably couldve done good shortstacking and ratholing in PLO. me cutting a 25k roll in deadwood in approximately half was terrible. those machines got to be cheating, though dustin claims he got back a lot of the money.
so im finally in a different area, and the weather is better here than it was there. and i had a hard time finding a motel, for all the places i seen offering low weekly rates were all filled up, or at least thats what they told me. i thought it might be because i looked like a bum lugging my suitcase around. but most of them werent in a very good neighborhood (by my definition). but i wanted to be within walking distance of a casino in daylight hours. which isnt very long considering how dark it gets about 5pm.
i went to this one casino (and tonight i visited a 2nd one) and i havent been over to any other casinos yet. the place i was at tonight i dont think ill return to because though the game was loose, there were very few games and they didnt take a players card at the poker table. and they had the same annoying $2 chips and button straddle most of the other rooms around here seem to have.
in fact i got $15 for signing up for a players card once id earned 15 points. and i earned the 15 points by checking the ocean magic, golden egypt and scarab machines. so thats where about $50 on todays profits came from. i even noticed a 3-2 vbj game but of course didnt play, ill never touch one of those ever again after what happened in deadwood.
but u cannot use the $15 on a video poker, so i had to go back and use it on a slot machine. had i known for sure id return, id have just saved it to use the next time i checked the vulturables. there dont seem to be any hustlers here. no one was checking the machines at the other cardroom either.
i did run into someone i knew from vegas here, whose been friendly and helpful in the past and who works at a casino dealing and flooring and is here on vacation. but we were never playing at the same table.
tonight the other guy i knew from twitter was in a tourney, but never came by to say hi once he busted out. i guess he either really didnt want to meet me someday like id thought, or was just too pissed off when he busted.
now the day before id gotten $30 for signing up for a players card, which is what i got when u spin the wheel, and the minimum is $25, which is really high for new card signups.
games were quite loose but i never got around to playing any PLO even with the low $100 minimum buyin. there was even a $2-4 limit omaha8 going but i didnt think the rake which is much higher here could be overcome in that game. the only omaha high game i couldve afforded and possibly beaten was the $4-20 spread limit which goes daily in Minneapolis, but that game is in too remote an area. u need a friend with a car to live there for transportation to a cheaper place to live.
i dont even feel i have enough for $1-2 NL with only $13,000 because im not used to being this low in a very long time. and the cost of hotels is going to be tremendous for the next few months which is why im going to be forced to live in substandard housing in the ghetto for quite some time. already my wells fargo account went to shit and i got charged a service fee for having only $63 left in an account that did have over $10000. and not too much is left in my BOA either compared to what used to be in there. so all ive played is $1-2 NL. and ive won every session of $1-2 NL, which is 3 for 3. at least im never touching any live BJ or VBJ again. so i keep minimum buying in which is usually $50 or $60 here instead of the $100 it is some other parts of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPuPaF2ZL_0 is a good sermon by David wilkerson which i was listening to while i wrote this blog. now thats a true man of God not like Joel Olsteen, Rick warren or Paula White, that Koala and vegas dwp hate so much but someone who actually is approved of by God and cared for others instead of money. he founded so many centers to get people off of drugs and to care for those out on the streets with no options. back in the days where people cared about ending addiction instead of making it legal.
i could disappear fast if i dont carefully grow the roll back up but as loose as the games are, its hard playing this small. i need a car to live out of or for better safety, an old van. i cant spend 1 percent of the roll every 2 days or so for room rentals, and my wins were quite small at poker. approximately around $200 for 3 sessions.
i wish i could take advantage of all the loose PLO action. but i cant risk buying in $100 in such a high variance game. had i came here sooner, id have much better housing further away at a higher cost but safer, and i probably couldve done good shortstacking and ratholing in PLO. me cutting a 25k roll in deadwood in approximately half was terrible. those machines got to be cheating, though dustin claims he got back a lot of the money.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Running Aces Minnesota Trip report
Yeah i desperately needed to get out of deadwood after blowing $3000 taken out of my 3 bank accounts twice within a 72 hour period. i cannot believe i had over $24,000 when i left detroit, and have $14,000 (maybe slightly less now). how can i go thru that much of my roll so quickly when i need the money so bad for steady housing somewhere and enough left over to work with? its been a long time now since the roll has been this short, and everyday or 2 about 1% disappears on hotel costs and Lyft costs.
Originally i was scheduled to be somewhere a lot further east by now, but things happen. i didnt purchase a ticket to minneapolis, i purchased a ticket to somewhere else much further east. but this was my transfer point out of rapid city. and the plane was delayed due to mechanical issues and wouldnt fly out of Rapid thursday night as planned. so Delta put me (and about 6 other passengers) up at the Cambria suites hotel in rapid city and gave us meal vouchers. and also the pilots were staying there. everyone rode in the same shuttle to the hotel.
so i was able to eat a nice thanksgiving dinner that night after all. Mom asks me about that every Thanksgiving.
now today, the good news was the pilots found out the plane had gotten repaired by the crew that drove up there of mechanics all the way from denver to fix the plane. so we left rapid city right on time at 7am and got to minneapolis. but i didnt arrive in time to make my connection originally scheduled, so they were going to put me on a plane later that day, but i told them i preferred the nonstop one flying out tomorrow instead, so they let me take one for tomorrow morning instead. (when the real reason i wanted to wait til tomorrow was so i could visit running aces casino which id never been to before). i heard it had good omaha games and better and more choices of spread limit games than Canterbury which i understood to be almost nothing but fixed limit games.
so i got me a Lyft, found a motel, (overpriced) and took my stuff to the hotel, then found a banks atm machine, and then went to the casino. let me be the first to say i didnt play any VBJ here because they pay 6-5 instead of $3-2 even though the minimum bet is $1. in fact the casino has no slot machines at all. just a few Video poker and video blackjack. and a huge selection of live BJ.
so i stuck to playing nothing but poker today. and i started off playing $2 small blind $4 big blind $40 minimum buyin no cap max buyin spread limit omaha high. $20 maximum bet, $4 minimum. most people bet the whole $20, particularly post flop. i thought it would be a great omaha game for a short bankroll because there was so much action, u could easily quadruple up or better every pot u win.
even the $2-100 spread limit games use $2 chips instead of $5s and $1s and it sure feels weird, as did the omaha, but in the omaha at least its for blinds. its probably to get the dealer a lot bigger tips, and of course, so the pot looks bigger and the players wont notice the immediate $2 taken out of $6 pots on the flop for the bad beat. which is weird, usually the rake is whats taken out on the flop.
but here on a $6-8 pot, its $0 for the rake and $2 for the BBJ.
if u take it down preflop, its both NO rake and NO BBJ, which is good.
not a soul mentioned knowing about my blog, which is good. so as far as i know i played semi anonymously. and i won $16 in the $2-100 but certainly didnt feel like a winner since id lost $120 in the omaha before i sat when they broke the game 4 handed (which is when the game turns fun because its short enough where i might actually win a pot but of course the other players dont want the game to be more fun, they just want a 9 handed table). and here u can ONLY straddle UTG.
and the other reason i didnt feel like a winner is because i had my $50 buyin up to $325 once, and then suddenly started giving it all back very quickly. eventually i quit with $66, thinking if i dont hurry up and return to my hotel i wont wake up in time for tomorrows flight.
and then i couldnt get a Lyft driver for nothing the weather had turned really bad outside and will only get worse tomorrow. my plane might get canceled again. after about a whole hour i FINALLY got a driver. this is so far north of Minneapolis there just isnt the drivers in horrible weather.
i wonder if i wouldve had better and cheaper results booking a hotel, and finding a driver, had i played at Canterbury? most likely. but then no $4-20 omaha high.
there was also a game of $300 min buyin with a ton of deep stacks full of green chips too high for me since i blew all my money on VBJ in deadwood, otherwise it wouldnt have been too high. it was $100 max bet omaha high with $5-5 blinds. i didnt play.
so i sat back down when i couldnt get a driver, and there is a bus but it runs like once a day early in the morning, its a park and ride bus for the morning commute that only makes a morning run and an off work run instead of a regularly scheduled bus. so if someone lived here there would have to use it weird hours or only take it one way and use Lyft to get home.
i looked around and seen some BJ tables played 6-5 and some 3-2 on the live BJ. probably most were 6-5, especially the live $2 ones. didnt play however.
and when i sat back down with $40 in the omaha, i finally got a driver while they were delivering my chips and i was relieved. he was about 15 minutes out. and i won a big pot allin on my $40 buyin while waiting the 15 minutes. so i cashed out $200 and got even
i had KKA8 and made it $24 preflop and bet the last $16 (actually called the last $16) on a flop of KQ4 with 2 clubs and i had no clubs. turn comes 3 and i pick up the king high heart flush draw along with my set of kings. too bad i was out of chips. river comes 5 for possible straight but luckily neither of the 2 guys still in had it.
but 5 seen the flop so i got my $200 from the $40.
i think Ray would do well in that omaha game and i couldve gotten a cheap airbnb for a month for less than $1300 in stillwater which is a $28 uber fare each way. way too much without him being here with a car for me to book. and that would be a very safe nice suburb way outside the city in which to live if i knew how to drive. its the ONLY game appropriate for his roll.
also agsweep told me the hotel had an airport shuttle but they dont. they said they havent in about 4 years. i wonder if one of the other 3 motels same name closer to town have it. i sure wish it did, wouldve solved a big problem. ive gotten mad before when hotels advertise this and dont offer it anymore.
they charge for bottled water here, but the good news is the ice water, pop and coffee is sitting out where anyone can pick it up. and my food comps of $9 got put on immediately so i could use it before i left.
Originally i was scheduled to be somewhere a lot further east by now, but things happen. i didnt purchase a ticket to minneapolis, i purchased a ticket to somewhere else much further east. but this was my transfer point out of rapid city. and the plane was delayed due to mechanical issues and wouldnt fly out of Rapid thursday night as planned. so Delta put me (and about 6 other passengers) up at the Cambria suites hotel in rapid city and gave us meal vouchers. and also the pilots were staying there. everyone rode in the same shuttle to the hotel.
so i was able to eat a nice thanksgiving dinner that night after all. Mom asks me about that every Thanksgiving.
now today, the good news was the pilots found out the plane had gotten repaired by the crew that drove up there of mechanics all the way from denver to fix the plane. so we left rapid city right on time at 7am and got to minneapolis. but i didnt arrive in time to make my connection originally scheduled, so they were going to put me on a plane later that day, but i told them i preferred the nonstop one flying out tomorrow instead, so they let me take one for tomorrow morning instead. (when the real reason i wanted to wait til tomorrow was so i could visit running aces casino which id never been to before). i heard it had good omaha games and better and more choices of spread limit games than Canterbury which i understood to be almost nothing but fixed limit games.
so i got me a Lyft, found a motel, (overpriced) and took my stuff to the hotel, then found a banks atm machine, and then went to the casino. let me be the first to say i didnt play any VBJ here because they pay 6-5 instead of $3-2 even though the minimum bet is $1. in fact the casino has no slot machines at all. just a few Video poker and video blackjack. and a huge selection of live BJ.
so i stuck to playing nothing but poker today. and i started off playing $2 small blind $4 big blind $40 minimum buyin no cap max buyin spread limit omaha high. $20 maximum bet, $4 minimum. most people bet the whole $20, particularly post flop. i thought it would be a great omaha game for a short bankroll because there was so much action, u could easily quadruple up or better every pot u win.
even the $2-100 spread limit games use $2 chips instead of $5s and $1s and it sure feels weird, as did the omaha, but in the omaha at least its for blinds. its probably to get the dealer a lot bigger tips, and of course, so the pot looks bigger and the players wont notice the immediate $2 taken out of $6 pots on the flop for the bad beat. which is weird, usually the rake is whats taken out on the flop.
but here on a $6-8 pot, its $0 for the rake and $2 for the BBJ.
if u take it down preflop, its both NO rake and NO BBJ, which is good.
not a soul mentioned knowing about my blog, which is good. so as far as i know i played semi anonymously. and i won $16 in the $2-100 but certainly didnt feel like a winner since id lost $120 in the omaha before i sat when they broke the game 4 handed (which is when the game turns fun because its short enough where i might actually win a pot but of course the other players dont want the game to be more fun, they just want a 9 handed table). and here u can ONLY straddle UTG.
and the other reason i didnt feel like a winner is because i had my $50 buyin up to $325 once, and then suddenly started giving it all back very quickly. eventually i quit with $66, thinking if i dont hurry up and return to my hotel i wont wake up in time for tomorrows flight.
and then i couldnt get a Lyft driver for nothing the weather had turned really bad outside and will only get worse tomorrow. my plane might get canceled again. after about a whole hour i FINALLY got a driver. this is so far north of Minneapolis there just isnt the drivers in horrible weather.
i wonder if i wouldve had better and cheaper results booking a hotel, and finding a driver, had i played at Canterbury? most likely. but then no $4-20 omaha high.
there was also a game of $300 min buyin with a ton of deep stacks full of green chips too high for me since i blew all my money on VBJ in deadwood, otherwise it wouldnt have been too high. it was $100 max bet omaha high with $5-5 blinds. i didnt play.
so i sat back down when i couldnt get a driver, and there is a bus but it runs like once a day early in the morning, its a park and ride bus for the morning commute that only makes a morning run and an off work run instead of a regularly scheduled bus. so if someone lived here there would have to use it weird hours or only take it one way and use Lyft to get home.
i looked around and seen some BJ tables played 6-5 and some 3-2 on the live BJ. probably most were 6-5, especially the live $2 ones. didnt play however.
and when i sat back down with $40 in the omaha, i finally got a driver while they were delivering my chips and i was relieved. he was about 15 minutes out. and i won a big pot allin on my $40 buyin while waiting the 15 minutes. so i cashed out $200 and got even
i had KKA8 and made it $24 preflop and bet the last $16 (actually called the last $16) on a flop of KQ4 with 2 clubs and i had no clubs. turn comes 3 and i pick up the king high heart flush draw along with my set of kings. too bad i was out of chips. river comes 5 for possible straight but luckily neither of the 2 guys still in had it.
but 5 seen the flop so i got my $200 from the $40.
i think Ray would do well in that omaha game and i couldve gotten a cheap airbnb for a month for less than $1300 in stillwater which is a $28 uber fare each way. way too much without him being here with a car for me to book. and that would be a very safe nice suburb way outside the city in which to live if i knew how to drive. its the ONLY game appropriate for his roll.
also agsweep told me the hotel had an airport shuttle but they dont. they said they havent in about 4 years. i wonder if one of the other 3 motels same name closer to town have it. i sure wish it did, wouldve solved a big problem. ive gotten mad before when hotels advertise this and dont offer it anymore.
they charge for bottled water here, but the good news is the ice water, pop and coffee is sitting out where anyone can pick it up. and my food comps of $9 got put on immediately so i could use it before i left.
Monday, November 25, 2019
not such good news, and i really dont belong here in deadwood
If Corey has wondered why i havent been in Cadillac Jacks every time theres poker since coming to deadwood, truth is im just as lazy as Ray is about driving to Detroit. its a long 1-2 mile walk in cold weather and i dont want to sit around outside waiting for a trolley, nor do i want to get charged for a cab. and ive been losing so heavily in the bigger games id just as soon play VBJ. why go to deadwood to play poker?
all 3 times i played the bigger game this week i lost almost $1000 or a bit more than that. i know i should go over this afternoon though, because of all the promotions going on. but im no longer ahead at poker since coming to deadwood. im stuck a bunch now. and im back down in the $22,000s again. at one point early on, i was up over $1800 for poker in deadwood.
i dont really know if im playing good or bad in the $5-5 blinds game and the $5-10 blinds game and some of the players might not be as bad as originally thought. i know Mike Campbell isnt nearly as bad as Dustin thought. and Dustin is probably right about the mandatory winner of the pot straddle not hurting my short $200 stack, but we both agree that making it mandatory UTG instead would be much better for the action. at least then its worth stealing blinds. whats the point in stealing blinds if u have to put it right back in as a straddle? This is why he told me he would often fold as high of hands as JJ in that spot.
i still do better on the VBJ in the Bullock (the only one of its kind i know of that still exists in the USA) than on the one in the DMG and Dustin is probably right about the one in the DMG cheating as often as it has a 10 as the dealers upcard every time u make $100 bets. the way its cheating is anytime it has both a high card and a low card, it turns up the high card (instead of randomly) and this forces u to always hit and bust when u wouldnt if it had the low card up.
ive also been told that the company that owns the VBJ in the Bullock was bought out by a garbage company which we know is Mafia controlled. all garbage companies are and this has been known for years by those into organized crime.
now last night one of the biggest assholes in the $5-5 game whose normally a heavy loser and who was bitching about not giving out a tip (i think it was about the only time all night i didnt give a tip on a big pot) but i was stuck over $600 by that time, and had i tipped everytime someone else wanted me to, id be spending 10k a year on tips instead of 5k and my roll wouldve been reduced to zero a long time ago. Had i spent only $1000 less per year on tips over the course of the last 25 years id have an extra $25k or more in my bankroll today. and id be a much more pleasent person to get along with at the table with all that extra money and less stress had i simply given out a few less tips over my life.
i had 55 and the flop comes 764 with 2 spades and it got checked around to me. theres about $60-80 in the pot from preflop and i shouldve checked here instead i bet $75, but didnt want to give free cards. but i open myself up to get check raised too much. Dustin says i need to stop continuation betting so much.
i got reraised $100 more by the guy who hates me, who usually loses heavily. turn comes 8 and he checks and i bet the $200 max bet allowed. river comes 6 and he bets which puts me allin for around $160 more. then he says youre good, right before he turns over the full house. he had 67
earlier Mike Campbell cost me a big pot because i seen a flop with KQ suited, there was a small raise or maybe a straddle and quite a few of us seen the flop. flop comes KQ7 and i bet $185 allin. he has AK and shouldve went $385. but he only called and the loose player decided to call $185 too with 34 of hearts. 10 of hearts on the turn gives him the flush and finally Mike decides to bet but its too late. so Mike lost the pot too. had he knocked him out, i wouldve won.
and another pot, i had K7 of hearts and the flop came AK7. i bet, the guy who hates me called, maybe someone else too i dont remember. i made a bigger sized bet, dont remember the exact amount. turn comes offsuit 6. i bet $125, he made it $275, and sure enough, he has A6. i didnt like to slowplay my 2 pair on the flop because i worry another ace will come and i get paid, or be counterfeited later in the hand. instead of putting it all on the table at once i kept rebuying $200 and one time i added on for $100 when i wasnt entirely broke til i had the whole $900 out there eventually after a few hours.
most of this was written a day or two ago, but its finally ready to publish. im still holding around $22,500 which is quite worrisome compared to my usual roll and much needed expenses to be taken care of soon. but at least tonight i finally won $115 in poker. i know i didnt put in nearly enough hours and wouldve been much better off playing yesterday during all the good promotions every other sunday, but hey a win is a win. had i not lost a pot on the river when up about $170, id have not quit the game so soon. i worked hard for that win, had to call a $6 straddle, a $21 raise, and then stay in all the way to the river to make 2 pair on the end with 64 suited.
all 3 times i played the bigger game this week i lost almost $1000 or a bit more than that. i know i should go over this afternoon though, because of all the promotions going on. but im no longer ahead at poker since coming to deadwood. im stuck a bunch now. and im back down in the $22,000s again. at one point early on, i was up over $1800 for poker in deadwood.
i dont really know if im playing good or bad in the $5-5 blinds game and the $5-10 blinds game and some of the players might not be as bad as originally thought. i know Mike Campbell isnt nearly as bad as Dustin thought. and Dustin is probably right about the mandatory winner of the pot straddle not hurting my short $200 stack, but we both agree that making it mandatory UTG instead would be much better for the action. at least then its worth stealing blinds. whats the point in stealing blinds if u have to put it right back in as a straddle? This is why he told me he would often fold as high of hands as JJ in that spot.
i still do better on the VBJ in the Bullock (the only one of its kind i know of that still exists in the USA) than on the one in the DMG and Dustin is probably right about the one in the DMG cheating as often as it has a 10 as the dealers upcard every time u make $100 bets. the way its cheating is anytime it has both a high card and a low card, it turns up the high card (instead of randomly) and this forces u to always hit and bust when u wouldnt if it had the low card up.
ive also been told that the company that owns the VBJ in the Bullock was bought out by a garbage company which we know is Mafia controlled. all garbage companies are and this has been known for years by those into organized crime.
now last night one of the biggest assholes in the $5-5 game whose normally a heavy loser and who was bitching about not giving out a tip (i think it was about the only time all night i didnt give a tip on a big pot) but i was stuck over $600 by that time, and had i tipped everytime someone else wanted me to, id be spending 10k a year on tips instead of 5k and my roll wouldve been reduced to zero a long time ago. Had i spent only $1000 less per year on tips over the course of the last 25 years id have an extra $25k or more in my bankroll today. and id be a much more pleasent person to get along with at the table with all that extra money and less stress had i simply given out a few less tips over my life.
i had 55 and the flop comes 764 with 2 spades and it got checked around to me. theres about $60-80 in the pot from preflop and i shouldve checked here instead i bet $75, but didnt want to give free cards. but i open myself up to get check raised too much. Dustin says i need to stop continuation betting so much.
i got reraised $100 more by the guy who hates me, who usually loses heavily. turn comes 8 and he checks and i bet the $200 max bet allowed. river comes 6 and he bets which puts me allin for around $160 more. then he says youre good, right before he turns over the full house. he had 67
earlier Mike Campbell cost me a big pot because i seen a flop with KQ suited, there was a small raise or maybe a straddle and quite a few of us seen the flop. flop comes KQ7 and i bet $185 allin. he has AK and shouldve went $385. but he only called and the loose player decided to call $185 too with 34 of hearts. 10 of hearts on the turn gives him the flush and finally Mike decides to bet but its too late. so Mike lost the pot too. had he knocked him out, i wouldve won.
and another pot, i had K7 of hearts and the flop came AK7. i bet, the guy who hates me called, maybe someone else too i dont remember. i made a bigger sized bet, dont remember the exact amount. turn comes offsuit 6. i bet $125, he made it $275, and sure enough, he has A6. i didnt like to slowplay my 2 pair on the flop because i worry another ace will come and i get paid, or be counterfeited later in the hand. instead of putting it all on the table at once i kept rebuying $200 and one time i added on for $100 when i wasnt entirely broke til i had the whole $900 out there eventually after a few hours.
most of this was written a day or two ago, but its finally ready to publish. im still holding around $22,500 which is quite worrisome compared to my usual roll and much needed expenses to be taken care of soon. but at least tonight i finally won $115 in poker. i know i didnt put in nearly enough hours and wouldve been much better off playing yesterday during all the good promotions every other sunday, but hey a win is a win. had i not lost a pot on the river when up about $170, id have not quit the game so soon. i worked hard for that win, had to call a $6 straddle, a $21 raise, and then stay in all the way to the river to make 2 pair on the end with 64 suited.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
return to deadwood
I didnt exactly notice til just now, its been 13 whole days since i last updated the blog, which is kind of a record id think. does anyone have any ideas what poker tracking application to use on an android phone? since i lost my iphone, i havent officially kept any records, although i can tell im up over $1800 for poker in deadwood, though ive lost far more than that on the VBJ machines. still holding somewhat less than $22,500.
if i had a large roll, the proper thing would be to play nothing but the higher stakes poker games in deadwood on wednesday, and on weekends. $5-10 on wednesday $300 cap bet and $500 minimum buyin, and $200 cap bet and $200 minimum buyin with $5-5 blinds (and often a mandatory winner straddles the pot) on weekends. those games u can make over $1000 a week in. but im mostly just playing the smaller game.
ive looked around at the cost of airbnb in montana, (several cities) and the cost for Spokane, but i should probably fly south.
theres just not enough poker going on here the rest of the time, and being limited as to who i can use for a cab makes me afraid to get a place in Lead for the winter instead of in deadwood.
i wish id went to a good place for poker immediately upon leaving scottsdale, for the drop in detroit and in Vegas really hurt me. i was somewhat over 24 when i left grand rapids MI and i briefly had it up to close to 27 here in deadwood before some big drops on the VBJ.
Dustin too has had lots of big drops here in deadwood on the VBJ and we've been wondering if theyre somehow rigged here. but he is making a fortune most of the time in the higher limit poker games and unlike me, he wanted the mandatory straddle. i didnt want to so all the other players moved to a new table and started a new game with a mandatory straddle without me. and Danny let them do it after some initial resistance. (he is the guy who works underneath Corey when he is gone). When i told Dustin about it, he decided he wanted to play because of the straddle. he says it benefits instead of hurts a tight shortstack like me.
Corey hooked me up with a good deal on a hotel for saturday and i spent a few other nights at the silverado so id be in deadwood and not Lead. and then im still not used up quite all the 4 nights at the DMG free that i couldnt do on a saturday.
i need ideas on cities to go and play poker, primarilarly it might be a good idea for somewhere new, preferably where id be able to play poker anytime and avoid BJ. I feel ive made a lot of mistakes and mismanaged money badly since leaving Scottsdale.
if i had a large roll, the proper thing would be to play nothing but the higher stakes poker games in deadwood on wednesday, and on weekends. $5-10 on wednesday $300 cap bet and $500 minimum buyin, and $200 cap bet and $200 minimum buyin with $5-5 blinds (and often a mandatory winner straddles the pot) on weekends. those games u can make over $1000 a week in. but im mostly just playing the smaller game.
ive looked around at the cost of airbnb in montana, (several cities) and the cost for Spokane, but i should probably fly south.
theres just not enough poker going on here the rest of the time, and being limited as to who i can use for a cab makes me afraid to get a place in Lead for the winter instead of in deadwood.
i wish id went to a good place for poker immediately upon leaving scottsdale, for the drop in detroit and in Vegas really hurt me. i was somewhat over 24 when i left grand rapids MI and i briefly had it up to close to 27 here in deadwood before some big drops on the VBJ.
Dustin too has had lots of big drops here in deadwood on the VBJ and we've been wondering if theyre somehow rigged here. but he is making a fortune most of the time in the higher limit poker games and unlike me, he wanted the mandatory straddle. i didnt want to so all the other players moved to a new table and started a new game with a mandatory straddle without me. and Danny let them do it after some initial resistance. (he is the guy who works underneath Corey when he is gone). When i told Dustin about it, he decided he wanted to play because of the straddle. he says it benefits instead of hurts a tight shortstack like me.
Corey hooked me up with a good deal on a hotel for saturday and i spent a few other nights at the silverado so id be in deadwood and not Lead. and then im still not used up quite all the 4 nights at the DMG free that i couldnt do on a saturday.
i need ideas on cities to go and play poker, primarilarly it might be a good idea for somewhere new, preferably where id be able to play poker anytime and avoid BJ. I feel ive made a lot of mistakes and mismanaged money badly since leaving Scottsdale.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Im a horrible PLO deepstacked player
Going to Detroit hasnt really worked out so well, im out over $4500 between what i gave Ray, what i spent on a motel for a week, and what ive spent on Uber fees. and the $532 i lost on video blackjack and the $3000 plus i lost on pot limit omaha. today i broke the ice and finally won again $180 total, by not playing anything but $1-2 NL. i came here because i thought with 30k id finally have enough to handle the live variance in PLO with $200 min buyins. but i guess i was wrong. on my previous visits to detroit, i played a lot more NL than PLO because most of the time my roll was only about 12k-18k and i thought, well this time i might finally be adequately staked. Shouldnt 100 plus buyins be enough? maybe i shouldnt have been buying in $600-800 once stuck 3-4 buyins. i dont think i play a deep stack near as well as a short stack in ANY game and all it does is add to the variance.
For an example of possible deepstacked errors, heres a hand.
about 4-5 of us see a limped pot for $5. i have AK96 single suited, with the K9 of diamonds. flop comes AK7 rainbow with the ace of diamonds. i bet $25 once a couple check to me. and get 2 callers. turn comes 10. new guy in seat 1 checks, who i dont recognize (theres several who play often) and he just came from a must move table. i bet $100. the loose black guy whose action goes allin for $185 in seat 5 after i bet. im in seat 3. seat 1 check raises to $500, and ive got a tough decision to make. i now have 4 to the nut flush draw since the 10 was a diamond. plus ive still got top 2 pair, but im worried hes got the straight. i finally call since ive got about $350 or so behind to bet the river for implied odds if i hit. river comes a small unconnected card offsuit and i fold when he bets me allin. then he shows (for the side pot) KT for nothing but 2 pair. i folded for $360 more for a pot of $1400 or so.
the black guy scoops the main pot since i folded, with two pair, aces and sevens. so id have won it all.
i think the fact the button straddle makes the small blind act first here screws it up too and makes winning tougher in detroit. its not just the extra $1-2 in rake every pot. im used to it being in the other order, and acting first a lot ruins my positional edge.
another big deepstacked pot a couple days before cost me a lot of money too. i had $1050 in front of me and was only needing about $400 more to be even for the night. we all put in about $45 preflop and i dont remember how many seen the flop. flop is AQ9 and we all checked. turn comes J and i got the nut straight. i have no redraw though. guy in the middle of the table bets whose first to act for $205. i go allin for $1005 and i hesitate because i wonder if i should wait for a safe card on the river, or to get out the 2 other guys who are behind me or at least make them pay to draw, both of whom have over $500 left. i get called by only the original better, who has the same straight, and rivers an improvement to a flush to scoop me.
and ive lost so much im wondering where to go. my hotel ends on wednesday i paid for, and Ray is broke the rest of the month and wont be driving to detroit. he no longer has access to credit and also lost the stake. and he doesnt want to cost me anymore money. to catch a bus both ways everyday is still about $50 a day counting Uber. so me living here wouldnt work out so well.
where should i go? the motor home i lived in reno is now booked up til december of 2020 over a year away. atlantic city and deadwood suck for poker where the cost of rooms is more reasonable now that its winter. southern florida is starting to go way up in price, though live BJ is banned there in most of the casinos. in reno its too easy to play $1 machine blackjack and i actually won very little there at poker, but i can no longer view my records since my iphone got stolen in vegas at samstown.
i do remember though, that even though my hourly in all games combined this year was over $18 for about 1900 hours of play, my $1-2 hourly is barely about 7-8. especially when the sample size was large. and now im no longer keeping records until one of u suggests a good one for the android phone. for poker income is much more different there than the iphone app and i dont understand it like i did the old app.
also i broke the screen on my phone and as broke as i am, ill just let it go for awhile. more important uses for money.
and the suggestion mickey once made about staying in OK, seems the NL game doesnt go everyday there like he thought. Ray called and asked how often it went. i cant return to talking stick because they banned me when they overpaid me $100 on a blackjack table. and they used my blog as an excuse as to why, and not for the overpayment which i returned. they said theyd gotten a lot of discussion among employees thru the corporate office back and forth all month wondering if they should ban me or not. but i mightve still been playing there today had they not overpaid me.
that was the only poker room i could win consistently at too. i still think i could beat PLO overall if i could find a casino i could buyin $100 and not $200 because id have so many more buyins. its amazing how 25-26k feels like nothing since i did have more. and also my housing costs are always well over $2000 a month compared to the old days, so it pretty much is nothing.
For an example of possible deepstacked errors, heres a hand.
about 4-5 of us see a limped pot for $5. i have AK96 single suited, with the K9 of diamonds. flop comes AK7 rainbow with the ace of diamonds. i bet $25 once a couple check to me. and get 2 callers. turn comes 10. new guy in seat 1 checks, who i dont recognize (theres several who play often) and he just came from a must move table. i bet $100. the loose black guy whose action goes allin for $185 in seat 5 after i bet. im in seat 3. seat 1 check raises to $500, and ive got a tough decision to make. i now have 4 to the nut flush draw since the 10 was a diamond. plus ive still got top 2 pair, but im worried hes got the straight. i finally call since ive got about $350 or so behind to bet the river for implied odds if i hit. river comes a small unconnected card offsuit and i fold when he bets me allin. then he shows (for the side pot) KT for nothing but 2 pair. i folded for $360 more for a pot of $1400 or so.
the black guy scoops the main pot since i folded, with two pair, aces and sevens. so id have won it all.
i think the fact the button straddle makes the small blind act first here screws it up too and makes winning tougher in detroit. its not just the extra $1-2 in rake every pot. im used to it being in the other order, and acting first a lot ruins my positional edge.
another big deepstacked pot a couple days before cost me a lot of money too. i had $1050 in front of me and was only needing about $400 more to be even for the night. we all put in about $45 preflop and i dont remember how many seen the flop. flop is AQ9 and we all checked. turn comes J and i got the nut straight. i have no redraw though. guy in the middle of the table bets whose first to act for $205. i go allin for $1005 and i hesitate because i wonder if i should wait for a safe card on the river, or to get out the 2 other guys who are behind me or at least make them pay to draw, both of whom have over $500 left. i get called by only the original better, who has the same straight, and rivers an improvement to a flush to scoop me.
and ive lost so much im wondering where to go. my hotel ends on wednesday i paid for, and Ray is broke the rest of the month and wont be driving to detroit. he no longer has access to credit and also lost the stake. and he doesnt want to cost me anymore money. to catch a bus both ways everyday is still about $50 a day counting Uber. so me living here wouldnt work out so well.
where should i go? the motor home i lived in reno is now booked up til december of 2020 over a year away. atlantic city and deadwood suck for poker where the cost of rooms is more reasonable now that its winter. southern florida is starting to go way up in price, though live BJ is banned there in most of the casinos. in reno its too easy to play $1 machine blackjack and i actually won very little there at poker, but i can no longer view my records since my iphone got stolen in vegas at samstown.
i do remember though, that even though my hourly in all games combined this year was over $18 for about 1900 hours of play, my $1-2 hourly is barely about 7-8. especially when the sample size was large. and now im no longer keeping records until one of u suggests a good one for the android phone. for poker income is much more different there than the iphone app and i dont understand it like i did the old app.
also i broke the screen on my phone and as broke as i am, ill just let it go for awhile. more important uses for money.
and the suggestion mickey once made about staying in OK, seems the NL game doesnt go everyday there like he thought. Ray called and asked how often it went. i cant return to talking stick because they banned me when they overpaid me $100 on a blackjack table. and they used my blog as an excuse as to why, and not for the overpayment which i returned. they said theyd gotten a lot of discussion among employees thru the corporate office back and forth all month wondering if they should ban me or not. but i mightve still been playing there today had they not overpaid me.
that was the only poker room i could win consistently at too. i still think i could beat PLO overall if i could find a casino i could buyin $100 and not $200 because id have so many more buyins. its amazing how 25-26k feels like nothing since i did have more. and also my housing costs are always well over $2000 a month compared to the old days, so it pretty much is nothing.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
detroit trip report
well i didnt want to lose anymore money on blackjack in downtown vegas, so i finally left and went to Rays house while i was still above 30k, but above it by very little, seeing as i had over 41k less than a week before. after my 2nd $4000-5000 loss at live blackjack within the same week between the golden gate and the D casinos in downtown vegas, i was worried id lose another $10,000 and go from 30k to 20k. and there was a big concert coming into town called Lost wages. and because of it all the cheaper hotels normally $79-99 on a weekend were about $200-250 and up for that weekend. and everything downtown was sold out and overbooked. so my host who told me any other time (or other weekend would be fine) after id gotten 3 free nites at the golden gate and 2 more free nites at the d, though she was willing to give me more free nights there just werent any rooms available. although she tried, she asked the front desk to let her know if anyone cancelled their reservations. But they were already 20% overbooked, so a lot of people thinking theyd have rooms that weekend were going to be in for some very bad news.
i wonder what makes that concert so important and terribly busy? its rare the prices go up that much on the weekend.
i did have some wins in live blackjack too. one for $1100 at the golden gate, and one for $900 at the longhorn. but i also lost over $2500 on the video blackjack in the el cortez. and it shuffles every hand though it still pays 3-2. and i won a few times at poker, but i had one bad day at southpoint where i lost over $500 in poker between $2-3NL and $1-2 NL.
so i flew to detroit and in the past 5 days ive been here, ive essentially gained nothing. im about $600 worse than when i got here, because of helping Ray out buying him into the games. and food and gas etc. i would be ahead quite a bit except for one day i lost $1400 in pot limit omaha. most of the times i won $300 or so. but both me and him have not touched any machines or live blackjack this week. and the good news is his car is in good shape. this was written last night, and i got back another $300 today too.
at least im just playing poker and nothing else, hopefully things will go ok over the long run. my mother is resending to him the stuff she thinks will help me get proof of citizenship.
i wonder what makes that concert so important and terribly busy? its rare the prices go up that much on the weekend.
i did have some wins in live blackjack too. one for $1100 at the golden gate, and one for $900 at the longhorn. but i also lost over $2500 on the video blackjack in the el cortez. and it shuffles every hand though it still pays 3-2. and i won a few times at poker, but i had one bad day at southpoint where i lost over $500 in poker between $2-3NL and $1-2 NL.
so i flew to detroit and in the past 5 days ive been here, ive essentially gained nothing. im about $600 worse than when i got here, because of helping Ray out buying him into the games. and food and gas etc. i would be ahead quite a bit except for one day i lost $1400 in pot limit omaha. most of the times i won $300 or so. but both me and him have not touched any machines or live blackjack this week. and the good news is his car is in good shape. this was written last night, and i got back another $300 today too.
at least im just playing poker and nothing else, hopefully things will go ok over the long run. my mother is resending to him the stuff she thinks will help me get proof of citizenship.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Poor Judgement and bad decisions costing me a boatload of moolah.
tonight being that i was down to only $35900 left because id played too much blackjack and video BJ on poor machines (at least $2000 worth between the elcortez and the orleans) i decided to go play poker. actually id still like to play some more live BJ, and i did for a little bit tonight, winning $200 in the golden gate twice, and losing $150 at southpoint once. but the vbj lately has killed me since theres no good machines in vegas. and the video poker. thats cost me a few hundred too. and i never did get back the cell phone i lost at samstown. i guess i should return there to play and see if its found yet.
and though my host here is willing to extend my room for another 2-3 nights as much as i lost the other day, theyll all sold out due to some concert this weekend called lost wages. which keeps her from it, though she offered to let me know if someone canceles their reservation last minute.
yeah i played $2-3 NL at southpoint tonight and though at times it could be loose due to poker grump sitting in the game (guy looked just like him wish id snapped a picture) and the black guy whose a local on my immediate left for a little while, i couldnt win. id flop 75 suited on a flop of 457 and lose to 444. and i had the ace high nut flush draw 4 times and missed every one. the biggest loss was when i had 9T suited and the flop came 478 giving me the open end straight flush draw with 2 overcards we got all the money in on the flop and the other player with his 56 didnt like the runner runner 88 anymore than i did.
then i started shoving way too loose, trying to get the loose players i knew were bluffing out of the pot. and i went broke for my last $200 or so with J5 offsuit preflop allin.
at south point u need to use 2 different players cards one in slots and one in poker. the poker card doesnt work on the video machines. i actually won $14 on the big split machine there.
and i won $900 plus playing live BJ in the longhorn, where they have good rules, but only deal out 50-60% of the shoe. but of course it all disappeared right back in the el c video BJ before i got to my room. and i wasted money for Lyft again, which ive done thousands of times because i didnt want to walk to the bus stop across the street when everyone homeless and broke seen me cash out over $1500 when i quit the Bj table.
id originally walked there from samstown right after filing a report on my lost iphone, which i think someone took at the poker table, but then again, now im wondering if i left it in the bathroom. i cant even delete it using find my iphone because id shut off service or vince did over a month prior. and i cant get verified by apple ID because there sending it to my old number the text i must enter to verify its me. so its a several days process to re verify.
the guy running samstown at night knows me and his boss is friends with AKgal, and he is trying to get a 50c50c50c three blinds PLO going if anyone is interested in setting up a date. their 50c $1 NL goes regularly with a good promotion at night. any aces full or better first one pays $200 or close to it. varies a little. if even 3-4 of us show he will let us play short.
and i found Mark working in westgate too when i went there from the stratosphere. it also has some decent promotions adding $6 or so an hour to the winrate but the game i wasnt winning in. lost $232 and quit frustrated. and thats the night i went to golden gate, checked into my 3 free nites and lost over $4000 that same night on the live tables. had vince bring me all my stuff and food from his house where id been staying. now i might need that option again, if i dont fly out of town within the next 24 hours. for theres nothing at all hardly to rent this weekend and its not cheap.
and im sure my KKK55 will not hold up as one of the top 3 high hands of october at the poker palace in NLV, though i did win $200 in fridays nights game.
i wonder how many people think im a democrat now whove always known me as republican simply because ive been wearing a tulsi gabbard 2020 tshirt which cost me a $25 donation? first time ive ever donated to a democrat, but i like what she stands for, if not some of her positions i disagree with. shes slightly more to the center than the others, and more sensible. no more middle east wars for sure. and to accept those of the other party and include them in legislation.
and though my host here is willing to extend my room for another 2-3 nights as much as i lost the other day, theyll all sold out due to some concert this weekend called lost wages. which keeps her from it, though she offered to let me know if someone canceles their reservation last minute.
yeah i played $2-3 NL at southpoint tonight and though at times it could be loose due to poker grump sitting in the game (guy looked just like him wish id snapped a picture) and the black guy whose a local on my immediate left for a little while, i couldnt win. id flop 75 suited on a flop of 457 and lose to 444. and i had the ace high nut flush draw 4 times and missed every one. the biggest loss was when i had 9T suited and the flop came 478 giving me the open end straight flush draw with 2 overcards we got all the money in on the flop and the other player with his 56 didnt like the runner runner 88 anymore than i did.
then i started shoving way too loose, trying to get the loose players i knew were bluffing out of the pot. and i went broke for my last $200 or so with J5 offsuit preflop allin.
at south point u need to use 2 different players cards one in slots and one in poker. the poker card doesnt work on the video machines. i actually won $14 on the big split machine there.
and i won $900 plus playing live BJ in the longhorn, where they have good rules, but only deal out 50-60% of the shoe. but of course it all disappeared right back in the el c video BJ before i got to my room. and i wasted money for Lyft again, which ive done thousands of times because i didnt want to walk to the bus stop across the street when everyone homeless and broke seen me cash out over $1500 when i quit the Bj table.
id originally walked there from samstown right after filing a report on my lost iphone, which i think someone took at the poker table, but then again, now im wondering if i left it in the bathroom. i cant even delete it using find my iphone because id shut off service or vince did over a month prior. and i cant get verified by apple ID because there sending it to my old number the text i must enter to verify its me. so its a several days process to re verify.
the guy running samstown at night knows me and his boss is friends with AKgal, and he is trying to get a 50c50c50c three blinds PLO going if anyone is interested in setting up a date. their 50c $1 NL goes regularly with a good promotion at night. any aces full or better first one pays $200 or close to it. varies a little. if even 3-4 of us show he will let us play short.
and i found Mark working in westgate too when i went there from the stratosphere. it also has some decent promotions adding $6 or so an hour to the winrate but the game i wasnt winning in. lost $232 and quit frustrated. and thats the night i went to golden gate, checked into my 3 free nites and lost over $4000 that same night on the live tables. had vince bring me all my stuff and food from his house where id been staying. now i might need that option again, if i dont fly out of town within the next 24 hours. for theres nothing at all hardly to rent this weekend and its not cheap.
and im sure my KKK55 will not hold up as one of the top 3 high hands of october at the poker palace in NLV, though i did win $200 in fridays nights game.
i wonder how many people think im a democrat now whove always known me as republican simply because ive been wearing a tulsi gabbard 2020 tshirt which cost me a $25 donation? first time ive ever donated to a democrat, but i like what she stands for, if not some of her positions i disagree with. shes slightly more to the center than the others, and more sensible. no more middle east wars for sure. and to accept those of the other party and include them in legislation.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
trip report. Prescott, Laughlin, vegas, etc.
when i left scottsdale for las vegas, i took multiple Lyfts and made multiple trips and as usual, the cost totaled up to quite a lot, but i didnt care as i was still winning. id been winning for so long id forgotten how easy it is to lose. even in Prescott, where i discovered theres not really nothing worth playing and the NL seldom goes (never played any poker there) i still won over $300 on a $10-250 blackjack game that wasnt the best game. and it was Prescott where i found the Bison machine at $390.47 and eventually won $160 on that too before it hit at $396.66 had it went all the way to the top id probably lost.
and then i played the VBJ at the Pioneer in Laughlin and got thursday and friday and saturday free. i went over to the Riverside and played $1-2 NL friday night there just like the golden Nugget in vegas, theres no cap on the buyin. now granted, the average stack size is smaller in laughlin, a lot of people buyin no more than $100 or $200. but one guy had over $1200 in front of him and another guy had over $500. id taken several bad beats, both times i had pocket kings, and both times id gotten beat by a very loose preflop call for a decent amount of money by two clubs. one with J7 and once with Q7. once the flop came all low cards when i had KK and nothing was higher than a jack. the other time 3 clubs came and my KK was an overpair and i had the king of clubs. i was originally in the must move game (the 2nd NL table always is) and id just got moved to the main game.
so i rebought $3000 thinking the biggest stack had a lot more than he actually had. (only $1200) and it turns out green and black chips dont play here, so they gave me all red. i bought too much.
i eventually won some hands, when AJ, who owns the fatburgers inside the riverside and is well known here, tried to bluff me with 45 of clubs into my AA when he flopped 4 clubs and the flop came 9TJ with 2 clubs. and as usual, a third club hits the turn. but this time a 4th club hit the river and i had the ace of clubs for the win. he bet $513 on the flop all in and though it was over twice the size of the pot, i still had to call.
gave the dealer $13 and i dont think he even saw, even though he had bitched once earlier when i won a pot of a few hundred and gave the dealer $2, (he thought it shouldve been more). he left immediately and was standing up as the dealer was pushing me the pot.
ive done good at $1-2 NL ever since i left scottsdale where i did well in a slightly bigger NL game. on saturday i was that same NL game with $100 buyin and eventually quit the game with $1383.
although i had one big loss on the VBJ friday night i was still slightly up overall. but i did lose a bunch of money on a high stakes VP machine tonight in vegas. i lost over $1900, hope i can get some rooms out of it but the host office had closed for the night.
i have some other things id like to do with some of this money while i have a chance before it disappears thats important to get done, but im going to be consulting with Ray and Vince first and ill need them to talk to someone for me. dont worry im still holding onto over $37k. but everytime im right close to 40k (was less than $300 from it twice) i take some kind of big loss.
wrote a day or two earlier. since then ive won a little more at live blackjack and at poker. so now im back to $39,900 was going to wait til publish til Vince and i had a chance to speak with someone, but its been too long without a post.
and then i played the VBJ at the Pioneer in Laughlin and got thursday and friday and saturday free. i went over to the Riverside and played $1-2 NL friday night there just like the golden Nugget in vegas, theres no cap on the buyin. now granted, the average stack size is smaller in laughlin, a lot of people buyin no more than $100 or $200. but one guy had over $1200 in front of him and another guy had over $500. id taken several bad beats, both times i had pocket kings, and both times id gotten beat by a very loose preflop call for a decent amount of money by two clubs. one with J7 and once with Q7. once the flop came all low cards when i had KK and nothing was higher than a jack. the other time 3 clubs came and my KK was an overpair and i had the king of clubs. i was originally in the must move game (the 2nd NL table always is) and id just got moved to the main game.
so i rebought $3000 thinking the biggest stack had a lot more than he actually had. (only $1200) and it turns out green and black chips dont play here, so they gave me all red. i bought too much.
i eventually won some hands, when AJ, who owns the fatburgers inside the riverside and is well known here, tried to bluff me with 45 of clubs into my AA when he flopped 4 clubs and the flop came 9TJ with 2 clubs. and as usual, a third club hits the turn. but this time a 4th club hit the river and i had the ace of clubs for the win. he bet $513 on the flop all in and though it was over twice the size of the pot, i still had to call.
gave the dealer $13 and i dont think he even saw, even though he had bitched once earlier when i won a pot of a few hundred and gave the dealer $2, (he thought it shouldve been more). he left immediately and was standing up as the dealer was pushing me the pot.
ive done good at $1-2 NL ever since i left scottsdale where i did well in a slightly bigger NL game. on saturday i was that same NL game with $100 buyin and eventually quit the game with $1383.
although i had one big loss on the VBJ friday night i was still slightly up overall. but i did lose a bunch of money on a high stakes VP machine tonight in vegas. i lost over $1900, hope i can get some rooms out of it but the host office had closed for the night.
i have some other things id like to do with some of this money while i have a chance before it disappears thats important to get done, but im going to be consulting with Ray and Vince first and ill need them to talk to someone for me. dont worry im still holding onto over $37k. but everytime im right close to 40k (was less than $300 from it twice) i take some kind of big loss.
wrote a day or two earlier. since then ive won a little more at live blackjack and at poker. so now im back to $39,900 was going to wait til publish til Vince and i had a chance to speak with someone, but its been too long without a post.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Queen Nine of spades
well im off to a good start for the month of october. 1 day into the month, and over $1000 ahead for the month. could possibly surpass the september total of over $10,000. to do it every month over the long term, id have to spend almost all my time in the much higher limits and deeper buyins though. so it wont happen anytime soon til i get my roll over 50k.
i started off today playing $5-10 NL omaha. why? because there was no seats open elsewhere and i was tired of waiting, and besides, even after yesterdays $600+ win, i was still quite a bit off my high water mark of $36,200 in Scottsdale after dropping $1475 a couple early mornings ago in the $3-5 NL and $2-3 NL.
in fact i helped the game start up 4 handed, which i really shouldnt due to the high variance and the fact i dont like buying in $500. it couldve went really bad for me that shorthanded. good news is players arrived fairly quickly, and it was only 4 handed for about 30 minutes. once another guy or 2 sat it filled right up.
i lost the $500 (and the $21 in oddball change i added to my stack once to get rid of when down to about $320 left). but eventually i lost an allin and rebought $600 more. the action player was in seat 8, i was in seat 3. and he was already stuck about $6000 when the following hand occured. seat 7, put $100 dark UTG preflop. seat 8 put $500 dark. (u arent allowed to live straddle that much from those positions or at all). it folded to me, with still a few people to act behind. i was already out over $521 mind u and by then i was ready to take risks, and was praying i wouldnt lose the entire $4000+ i had in my back pocket or on the table combined.
i looked down and seen A6 spades, Q9 of clubs. and wouldve folded but thats better than a random blind hand is it not? and i thought with my extremely tight image and history of hitting and running possibly no one else would call. but i ended up getting 2 callers. i forgot the board, but i had a flush draw which never got there, and made aces on the river as my one and only pair. it beat a guy who held 9988 and i never seen the hand the fish was holding.
so my $570 shove allin preflop worked for a 3 way triple up along with the other dead $100 etc. and i left the game once the BB got back to me. (is waiting for the BB to get back to u even a good idea when u are playing for stakes u cant afford? i couldve lost it all had i got a hand to play).
for those of u who say i shouldnt play for stakes i cant afford, it wasnt til after i won that pot and got way ahead did they suddenly become "stakes i cant afford". earlier i was behind, which means it wouldnt negatively affected my game.
and so i moved to the $2-3 NL once it opened later, with a short break on a video poker machine, where i won $17. triple spin poker and i hate the fact u cant martingale as much as u want with it being either 5c demomination or 10c. id like a 1c 2c 5c 10c 25c 50c $1 option. i wonder which casino offers the widest martingaling spread on triple spin poker?
i won a monster hand with AQ in which i flopped a boat during a splash pot, and ive been lucky to win multiple splash pots this past month plus two different times got paid on the football promotion
and then the very next hand won another big pot with AQ when i flopped top 2 and it held up. i was in for my 2nd buyin and $224 total, and eventually cashed out over $700 when i gave back $100 on the final hand or more.
i had the Q9 of spades and made it $15 preflop in late position and i dont know why i did because i had seen an exposed Q a split second too late as i was raising someone had mucked. one guy called.
flop comes 449 and i had a feeling the caller had either a better kicker a four, or a bigger pair or a flush draw since there were 2 clubs. he seemed to want to reraise preflop so im thinking maybe a bigger pair. an old guy. i bet $25 he calls
turn comes 8 and i bet $45 and again he calls. i worry im in trouble. river comes Qclubs, completing the possible flush. i check he instantly bets $70. i show the 9 but not the pair of queens i made on the river thinking im surely beat and he had an overpair, or rivered the flush with like AK of clubs. and of course as soon as i fold my hand he shows JJ thinking i made a good laydown since all id shown was the 9
all i can think of is what an idiot i am for not calling the river and i silently quit as the BB had just gotten to me. i knew if i told them i folded the Q no one wouldve believed me so whats the point. i just left. no one knows til now i folded the winner if anyone who reads this happened to be at that table.
i left and stopped at the bank on the way home, deposited another $1500 and bought some food.
i started off today playing $5-10 NL omaha. why? because there was no seats open elsewhere and i was tired of waiting, and besides, even after yesterdays $600+ win, i was still quite a bit off my high water mark of $36,200 in Scottsdale after dropping $1475 a couple early mornings ago in the $3-5 NL and $2-3 NL.
in fact i helped the game start up 4 handed, which i really shouldnt due to the high variance and the fact i dont like buying in $500. it couldve went really bad for me that shorthanded. good news is players arrived fairly quickly, and it was only 4 handed for about 30 minutes. once another guy or 2 sat it filled right up.
i lost the $500 (and the $21 in oddball change i added to my stack once to get rid of when down to about $320 left). but eventually i lost an allin and rebought $600 more. the action player was in seat 8, i was in seat 3. and he was already stuck about $6000 when the following hand occured. seat 7, put $100 dark UTG preflop. seat 8 put $500 dark. (u arent allowed to live straddle that much from those positions or at all). it folded to me, with still a few people to act behind. i was already out over $521 mind u and by then i was ready to take risks, and was praying i wouldnt lose the entire $4000+ i had in my back pocket or on the table combined.
i looked down and seen A6 spades, Q9 of clubs. and wouldve folded but thats better than a random blind hand is it not? and i thought with my extremely tight image and history of hitting and running possibly no one else would call. but i ended up getting 2 callers. i forgot the board, but i had a flush draw which never got there, and made aces on the river as my one and only pair. it beat a guy who held 9988 and i never seen the hand the fish was holding.
so my $570 shove allin preflop worked for a 3 way triple up along with the other dead $100 etc. and i left the game once the BB got back to me. (is waiting for the BB to get back to u even a good idea when u are playing for stakes u cant afford? i couldve lost it all had i got a hand to play).
for those of u who say i shouldnt play for stakes i cant afford, it wasnt til after i won that pot and got way ahead did they suddenly become "stakes i cant afford". earlier i was behind, which means it wouldnt negatively affected my game.
and so i moved to the $2-3 NL once it opened later, with a short break on a video poker machine, where i won $17. triple spin poker and i hate the fact u cant martingale as much as u want with it being either 5c demomination or 10c. id like a 1c 2c 5c 10c 25c 50c $1 option. i wonder which casino offers the widest martingaling spread on triple spin poker?
i won a monster hand with AQ in which i flopped a boat during a splash pot, and ive been lucky to win multiple splash pots this past month plus two different times got paid on the football promotion
and then the very next hand won another big pot with AQ when i flopped top 2 and it held up. i was in for my 2nd buyin and $224 total, and eventually cashed out over $700 when i gave back $100 on the final hand or more.
i had the Q9 of spades and made it $15 preflop in late position and i dont know why i did because i had seen an exposed Q a split second too late as i was raising someone had mucked. one guy called.
flop comes 449 and i had a feeling the caller had either a better kicker a four, or a bigger pair or a flush draw since there were 2 clubs. he seemed to want to reraise preflop so im thinking maybe a bigger pair. an old guy. i bet $25 he calls
turn comes 8 and i bet $45 and again he calls. i worry im in trouble. river comes Qclubs, completing the possible flush. i check he instantly bets $70. i show the 9 but not the pair of queens i made on the river thinking im surely beat and he had an overpair, or rivered the flush with like AK of clubs. and of course as soon as i fold my hand he shows JJ thinking i made a good laydown since all id shown was the 9
all i can think of is what an idiot i am for not calling the river and i silently quit as the BB had just gotten to me. i knew if i told them i folded the Q no one wouldve believed me so whats the point. i just left. no one knows til now i folded the winner if anyone who reads this happened to be at that table.
i left and stopped at the bank on the way home, deposited another $1500 and bought some food.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
still doing well, as september comes to a close.
Well im still winning here in Scottsdale, and as the month of september is coming to an end, I'm still winning over $11,500 from poker this month, which im totally unused to, since the best month i had before coming to scottsdale this year was in the $4000s, and the best month id had in the previous year was 1 month in the $6000s. before this it was many years earlier one month of over $9000.
but i have won enough to now get my roll up to $36,200. and im back to being up about $600-700 overall for blackjack too.
and though im back to being up in the $8-16 by a few hundred is all, and still up over $2000-3000 in the $2-3 NL, the vast majority of the poker winnings were won from buying in for more than i shouldve and in games too high for me. specifically, $3-5 NL with a $981 buyin, and some $500 buyins in $5-10 NL omaha.
which means i wasted a ton of years in my life by not playing higher than $1-2 NL. since this casino doesnt even offer $1-2 NL, i havent played $1-2 NL in quite some time. had i been playing either here (or bigger stakes) i would have had way more money by now than what i have. like everyone else in Scottsdale, id have well over 100k
i wish i could remember hand histories, id have some interesting stories for u. i know ive been congratuled by a $3-5 NL regular for making good calls which won when i just felt like i wasnt folding because i was on tilt til i got unstuck and up over $150.
i still think i should change where im living at, so i wont be woken up or having to renew my room all the table and being disturbed while sleeping. its annoying my whole life to have hotel staff knock on the door, so i should start using airbnb again. this is what is so nice about airbnb.
to tell the truth theres a few other cities id like to go, places where i could commit to longer term because theres multiple casinos. but its hard to leave before i take a big loss. but i am sure it will happen soon. i cant work on the ID and the citizenship until i know ill be at the same address for a long time.
but i have won enough to now get my roll up to $36,200. and im back to being up about $600-700 overall for blackjack too.
and though im back to being up in the $8-16 by a few hundred is all, and still up over $2000-3000 in the $2-3 NL, the vast majority of the poker winnings were won from buying in for more than i shouldve and in games too high for me. specifically, $3-5 NL with a $981 buyin, and some $500 buyins in $5-10 NL omaha.
which means i wasted a ton of years in my life by not playing higher than $1-2 NL. since this casino doesnt even offer $1-2 NL, i havent played $1-2 NL in quite some time. had i been playing either here (or bigger stakes) i would have had way more money by now than what i have. like everyone else in Scottsdale, id have well over 100k
i wish i could remember hand histories, id have some interesting stories for u. i know ive been congratuled by a $3-5 NL regular for making good calls which won when i just felt like i wasnt folding because i was on tilt til i got unstuck and up over $150.
i still think i should change where im living at, so i wont be woken up or having to renew my room all the table and being disturbed while sleeping. its annoying my whole life to have hotel staff knock on the door, so i should start using airbnb again. this is what is so nice about airbnb.
to tell the truth theres a few other cities id like to go, places where i could commit to longer term because theres multiple casinos. but its hard to leave before i take a big loss. but i am sure it will happen soon. i cant work on the ID and the citizenship until i know ill be at the same address for a long time.
Monday, September 23, 2019
2 remarkable hands in the $3-5 NL
Well i told myself id leave Scottsdale as soon as i dropped a lot of money in one day, which i considered close to $2000 or more. and after losing a little more than $1500 saturday night playing blackjack, i wouldve left this morning except tomorrow morning was my checkout date for my hotel instead of this morning.
no reason to go if im not losing, especially because i was up over $6000 for the month of september for poker, and only poker. thats by far better than any other month ive had in 2019. i only remember one month in which i ever made more than $6000 all from poker, which was also achieved outside denver in 2018 or was it 2017? that was a $9000 month i had once in shreveport a few years back.
so today i was up $168 when i quit the $2-3 NL game, and decided to move to the Omaha $8-16 mix, where though i had 2 days of decent wins this month, ive mostly lost in that game for some reason. i quit because i was once up about $250, and was ready to lock up the win and play something else.
and i briefly increased the $168 i was still up when i moved over to the $8-16 mix to $235, but then as usual no matter how good of low hand i started with, nothing would ever come thru. Limit has far more variance than NL, in that u must wait much longer for pots.
so when i got down to my last $36 and the BB got to me, i got up and quit, not too happy. and Ray sent me a message about how i should try to help my mom out in getting an attorney which she might need not to lose guardianship of my son, because if u see her facebook, she has a fundraiser for an attorney. although i think if the state and that corrupt group home in which Mark is at is determined to end her custody, there really isnt anything an attorney can do to help. but she really wants one if she could find one. she tried legal aid 30 miles away in hutchinson and they said her issue doesnt qualify.
the problem is, ive never had the money to do ANYTHING for others. and how can i when i dont have the money for much needed medical care and housing and citizenship for myself? which desperately must come first before id ever be able to do anything for anything else. Plus i feel my mom must of screwed up somehow bringing me into the USA from canada at the age of 1, which is keeping me from getting the new real ID. without a ton of paperwork i dont understand how to do. people who are institutionalized have others to help with this, i dont see why i cant have an attorney doing this work for me or a good friend as long as i give them the money to do it.
a normal family if they had someone in it as messed up as i am, would be doing everything to help and certainly wouldnt expect something from me when its mainly all her fault the govt lost the paperwork. i feel like she evidently didnt register my birth the right way.
i am upset my mother never remarried due to her strict religious beliefs because i wouldnt grown up in dirt poverty and without a father otherwise. she never even went on a date once he died when i was age 1.
so i sent Ray some not so nice texts and i felt like i should maybe leave this area before i blew back all the winnings. not only was i mad about stress over money, i felt if Ray wouldve only turned himself into a winning poker of at least $500 or so a week, he wouldve never had credit card issues, and i could still been living and traveling with him. i felt he let me down by not being able to achieve this in success and for blowing everything on machines.
anyone should be able to especially with all the poker he played in the old days. but his friends gave up poker for machines and are losers and hooked and i think it influenced him in the wrong way too.
but to return to the story, i took the $981 i had in my back pocket which included what i woke up with and the $36 i was still ahead for the day, which was once about $250 of winnings. and decided to sit in the $3-5 NL and try to double it up, where the buyin is $300-1500
if i lost,id leave and if i won, i could continue to stay, because the poker here would be too good to leave for elsewhere.
so after a while a short fat guy came and sat next to me who i suspected of being Munchkin who runs a podcast but its probably wasnt him. Just like the black guy who offered me money for sex as a juvenile in chicago probably wasnt Obama, though it certainly looked just like him.
and this guy played LOOSE. he raised, reraised and bluffed me twice, once with 7-2 offsuit and shortly thereafter in a bigger pot in which id already had $100 or so committed when he had 10-3 absolutely nothing. eventually i only called him with AQ preflop (was i playing scared?) i shouldnt been, i had immediate position on him. the flop comes QJ9 with 2 to a flush, not mine. he checks, i bet, other guy folds, he check raises me, i fold, and am relieved he was willing to show me 2 pair, or id wondered if i was playing bad all the rest of the night.
a short while later i get QQ and raise preflop to $30 and get reraised to $85 by seat 6 and im in seat 3. Munchkin is in seat 2. i rebet to about $250-320 and he reraises himself allin. i dont like it but feel i must call. on the river with all lower cards on the board i hit the Q for top set. and it wins against his KK, which i only seen since it was on him to show first.
so i got lucky and hit a 2 outer. i shouldve hit and ran but was still only about $1700, so thats only $800 back of the previous days loss. so i kept playing.
about 10 minutes later Munchkin keeps raising and reraising against seat 9 and theres like over $1200 each in the middle and seat 9 wins with AA against @RWM21 on twitters 83 of hearts. this was all before the flop believe it or not.
then he quits and we are still playing 5 handed. the game doesnt break. the asian guy whose newly sat in seat 1 about 20 minutes later, a hand comes up where i raise it preflop to $35 and he bets a lot more. i reraise $500 (max bet in the $3-5 NL) and so does he and he is allin. i have him covered.
my AA holds up against his KK, i thought he had the other AA. then the game breaks and ive got $3046 from my $981 buyin, almost makes me feel like i should play with a bigger chip stack more often. i wonder how much money id have had i done this 5-10 years ago all these last few years.
and of course then i went and lost back $246 in the $8-16 mix again. no idea why i cant beat it. i sure get the money in good at least.
so now my winnings at poker for september are over $8500 in Phoenix so i extended my room 2 more nights after all, and im back to $32800 after paying the next 2 nights up.
no reason to go if im not losing, especially because i was up over $6000 for the month of september for poker, and only poker. thats by far better than any other month ive had in 2019. i only remember one month in which i ever made more than $6000 all from poker, which was also achieved outside denver in 2018 or was it 2017? that was a $9000 month i had once in shreveport a few years back.
so today i was up $168 when i quit the $2-3 NL game, and decided to move to the Omaha $8-16 mix, where though i had 2 days of decent wins this month, ive mostly lost in that game for some reason. i quit because i was once up about $250, and was ready to lock up the win and play something else.
and i briefly increased the $168 i was still up when i moved over to the $8-16 mix to $235, but then as usual no matter how good of low hand i started with, nothing would ever come thru. Limit has far more variance than NL, in that u must wait much longer for pots.
so when i got down to my last $36 and the BB got to me, i got up and quit, not too happy. and Ray sent me a message about how i should try to help my mom out in getting an attorney which she might need not to lose guardianship of my son, because if u see her facebook, she has a fundraiser for an attorney. although i think if the state and that corrupt group home in which Mark is at is determined to end her custody, there really isnt anything an attorney can do to help. but she really wants one if she could find one. she tried legal aid 30 miles away in hutchinson and they said her issue doesnt qualify.
the problem is, ive never had the money to do ANYTHING for others. and how can i when i dont have the money for much needed medical care and housing and citizenship for myself? which desperately must come first before id ever be able to do anything for anything else. Plus i feel my mom must of screwed up somehow bringing me into the USA from canada at the age of 1, which is keeping me from getting the new real ID. without a ton of paperwork i dont understand how to do. people who are institutionalized have others to help with this, i dont see why i cant have an attorney doing this work for me or a good friend as long as i give them the money to do it.
a normal family if they had someone in it as messed up as i am, would be doing everything to help and certainly wouldnt expect something from me when its mainly all her fault the govt lost the paperwork. i feel like she evidently didnt register my birth the right way.
i am upset my mother never remarried due to her strict religious beliefs because i wouldnt grown up in dirt poverty and without a father otherwise. she never even went on a date once he died when i was age 1.
so i sent Ray some not so nice texts and i felt like i should maybe leave this area before i blew back all the winnings. not only was i mad about stress over money, i felt if Ray wouldve only turned himself into a winning poker of at least $500 or so a week, he wouldve never had credit card issues, and i could still been living and traveling with him. i felt he let me down by not being able to achieve this in success and for blowing everything on machines.
anyone should be able to especially with all the poker he played in the old days. but his friends gave up poker for machines and are losers and hooked and i think it influenced him in the wrong way too.
but to return to the story, i took the $981 i had in my back pocket which included what i woke up with and the $36 i was still ahead for the day, which was once about $250 of winnings. and decided to sit in the $3-5 NL and try to double it up, where the buyin is $300-1500
if i lost,id leave and if i won, i could continue to stay, because the poker here would be too good to leave for elsewhere.
so after a while a short fat guy came and sat next to me who i suspected of being Munchkin who runs a podcast but its probably wasnt him. Just like the black guy who offered me money for sex as a juvenile in chicago probably wasnt Obama, though it certainly looked just like him.
and this guy played LOOSE. he raised, reraised and bluffed me twice, once with 7-2 offsuit and shortly thereafter in a bigger pot in which id already had $100 or so committed when he had 10-3 absolutely nothing. eventually i only called him with AQ preflop (was i playing scared?) i shouldnt been, i had immediate position on him. the flop comes QJ9 with 2 to a flush, not mine. he checks, i bet, other guy folds, he check raises me, i fold, and am relieved he was willing to show me 2 pair, or id wondered if i was playing bad all the rest of the night.
a short while later i get QQ and raise preflop to $30 and get reraised to $85 by seat 6 and im in seat 3. Munchkin is in seat 2. i rebet to about $250-320 and he reraises himself allin. i dont like it but feel i must call. on the river with all lower cards on the board i hit the Q for top set. and it wins against his KK, which i only seen since it was on him to show first.
so i got lucky and hit a 2 outer. i shouldve hit and ran but was still only about $1700, so thats only $800 back of the previous days loss. so i kept playing.
about 10 minutes later Munchkin keeps raising and reraising against seat 9 and theres like over $1200 each in the middle and seat 9 wins with AA against @RWM21 on twitters 83 of hearts. this was all before the flop believe it or not.
then he quits and we are still playing 5 handed. the game doesnt break. the asian guy whose newly sat in seat 1 about 20 minutes later, a hand comes up where i raise it preflop to $35 and he bets a lot more. i reraise $500 (max bet in the $3-5 NL) and so does he and he is allin. i have him covered.
my AA holds up against his KK, i thought he had the other AA. then the game breaks and ive got $3046 from my $981 buyin, almost makes me feel like i should play with a bigger chip stack more often. i wonder how much money id have had i done this 5-10 years ago all these last few years.
and of course then i went and lost back $246 in the $8-16 mix again. no idea why i cant beat it. i sure get the money in good at least.
so now my winnings at poker for september are over $8500 in Phoenix so i extended my room 2 more nights after all, and im back to $32800 after paying the next 2 nights up.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
A long overdue loss
well i havent lost anything overall in Scottsdale from playing blackjack at the live tables. but i kind of feel like i did now. id had several small wins at blackjack since coming to Phoenix. one for $300 plus, one for $900 plus, and one for $500 plus. and at least one for $40 and for about $150. so today i was up about $215 at poker, and had been up closer to $350. wanted to quit to avoid my streak where my roll was slightly slipping up in value, (before i went to the casino, i was over $32,700). it was going up about $100-200 a day after hotel expenses, food expenses, Uber, etc. i think when i first arrived from Tortoise rock, it was about $26,500.
But i didnt feel that was quite enough, or that i was getting enough hours in. my win rate is supposed to be 10bb per hour and in $2-3 NL, thats $30 per hour and of course im winning only about half this in the long run over the year. so i decided to play BJ one shoe only and quit at the end up maybe like $50-200 more and then id be ready to go to the grocery store, then on home.
but it didnt work. the shoe went pretty bad, though i was up a very small amount in the beginning. by the time i left after losing 2 spots of $425 each, i counted my money away from the table and discovered i was now losing $1468.
i went back in the poker room, and started winning. played a lot of different games besides the $2-3 NL and the $8-16 mix id originally sat in. i won in $3-5 NL. then i won in $2-3 NL omaha high. (of course, that game broke very early and didnt go long as usual). i even sat in $20-40 mix and won. then i sat in the $3-5 NL again, still out $1100 for the day, with the same $425 i quit the $20-40 mix with where id bought in $300.
but by then i was too tired. i was either going to win a big pot or head on home. and i did succeed in one bluff with nothing but 56 offsuit when i raised to $90 preflop over 2 $20 bets or calls. black guy behind me eating food, suddenly calls $90 cold. flop comes KJ3. i check, fully prepared to fold, he checks. turn comes 2. i bet allin, tired of waiting and thought he could have TT or lower. he finally folds and i show the 56. one of the other players noticed and caught my eye
but later on, a guy with his girl watching him for hours makes it $35 in late position after a few limpers. i feel he wants to end the hand. and i call with A3 suited. flop comes 732 and i call. theres a potential flush draw with 2 hearts. my suit is clubs however. turn comes 6. i check he shoves, and now theres 2 flush draws. so many draws and he could have overcards and i think he really wants me to fold. i finally call being tired and wanting to double and ive got 5 outs if im wrong and he has a big pair. turned out he had TT. he won i immediately left and didnt go nowhere but the grocery store and home. bought junk food i shouldnt eat, pumpkin pie, ice cream, tomatoes, etc.
were my hotel not still good for one more night id probably be hitting up the airport in the morning before i drop any more. according to my records, ive still got $31,100 left. probably close to what i had when i flew out of deadwood but dont have a record of that exact amount.
But i didnt feel that was quite enough, or that i was getting enough hours in. my win rate is supposed to be 10bb per hour and in $2-3 NL, thats $30 per hour and of course im winning only about half this in the long run over the year. so i decided to play BJ one shoe only and quit at the end up maybe like $50-200 more and then id be ready to go to the grocery store, then on home.
but it didnt work. the shoe went pretty bad, though i was up a very small amount in the beginning. by the time i left after losing 2 spots of $425 each, i counted my money away from the table and discovered i was now losing $1468.
i went back in the poker room, and started winning. played a lot of different games besides the $2-3 NL and the $8-16 mix id originally sat in. i won in $3-5 NL. then i won in $2-3 NL omaha high. (of course, that game broke very early and didnt go long as usual). i even sat in $20-40 mix and won. then i sat in the $3-5 NL again, still out $1100 for the day, with the same $425 i quit the $20-40 mix with where id bought in $300.
but by then i was too tired. i was either going to win a big pot or head on home. and i did succeed in one bluff with nothing but 56 offsuit when i raised to $90 preflop over 2 $20 bets or calls. black guy behind me eating food, suddenly calls $90 cold. flop comes KJ3. i check, fully prepared to fold, he checks. turn comes 2. i bet allin, tired of waiting and thought he could have TT or lower. he finally folds and i show the 56. one of the other players noticed and caught my eye
but later on, a guy with his girl watching him for hours makes it $35 in late position after a few limpers. i feel he wants to end the hand. and i call with A3 suited. flop comes 732 and i call. theres a potential flush draw with 2 hearts. my suit is clubs however. turn comes 6. i check he shoves, and now theres 2 flush draws. so many draws and he could have overcards and i think he really wants me to fold. i finally call being tired and wanting to double and ive got 5 outs if im wrong and he has a big pair. turned out he had TT. he won i immediately left and didnt go nowhere but the grocery store and home. bought junk food i shouldnt eat, pumpkin pie, ice cream, tomatoes, etc.
were my hotel not still good for one more night id probably be hitting up the airport in the morning before i drop any more. according to my records, ive still got $31,100 left. probably close to what i had when i flew out of deadwood but dont have a record of that exact amount.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
why cant i win in omaha8 stud8 mix?
Slowly growing the roll back up since my $3000 loss at Tortoise rock followed by a $350 Uber fare into scottsdale. these 2 expenses, plus an early loss in scottsdale of over $900 in one session and a weeks hotel expenses upfront, put me a slight bit below $25,000 at the lowest point since much earlier in this year in reno. but as of tonight, its back to $32100. not as much as i had when i left reno for deadwood, but more than i had when i left deadwood for los angeles.
and im still winning over $6000 for the month of september here at Talking stick. of course, i was over that on the 14th too, so its kind of slowed down. early on, i was winning over $500 a day, and i said $150,000 a year is possible here. (and it still is, but only for bigger stakes, and a high enough roll to win $500+ per day, all 365 days a year on average). theres high enough stakes here where even winning $1000 a day might be possible.
but what i dont like is HOW i won the money. the other day, i had to win $300 at blackjack (live in the pit) to get back to being up for the night. and today, i had to win $900 at blackjack to get back to being $600 up for the day. yes its good blackjack rules and this table was located inside of the poker room. but i dont want to be getting my winnings from blackjack instead of poker because overall i dont often win at blackjack, and its not stable and reliable.
ive won at most of the games offered in this poker room. i dont have the money for the $20-40 mix stud big O and thats a weird type of stud with discards so i havent sat in it. ive won in the $2-3 NL, the $3-5 NL with a $1500 maximum buyin instead of the smaller games $600 max buyin, and ive won in the $10-500 $5-10 blinds omaha high only. im up about $2000 in the $5-10 NL omaha. and the rare times the $3-300 $100-600 buyin smaller stakes $2-3 blinds omaha high has went, (very seldom) im up over $700 in it too. so ive had multiple winning sessions at omaha high, and not even one losing session.
u would think that would cause me to not be afraid to sit with $500, but i cannot without a roll of $50,000, i like to have at least 200 buyins (which is $20k for the games i buyin $100 in). and i just cant bring myself to sit down with only 64 buyins of $500. unless im stuck of course and have no other choice not to to get even.
but there is one game i cannot win at under any circumstances, and its pissing me off because i used to win in both stud games and omaha games small amounts many years ago before i started playing holdem. when i used to win about $40-50 per day and lived in rooming houses under $100 a week. and this game is omaha8 stud8 $8-16 mix.
i had ONE winning session where i won $652. and one $28 winning session where i was up $300. and about 3-5 losing sessions of a few hundred each. overall im down $400-500. maybe i should quit playing it, but when i get up $100-200 in NL or start to give it back, or feel im going on tilt, i like to get up and play a different game so i can reset with $80 minimum again.
i hadnt played stud so long except in mix games, and usually not high low stud. this is the game Britni and i used to play on pokerstars at very low stakes and lorna and i played online party poker and stars. and i guarantee u im not playing it bad. theres a kill pot and the guy with K high had to post the $12 kill. everyone folds to me and ive got an ace up and 58 underneath so i raise. he calls with nothing but K7and one other card (not sure which was his river card, but he had no pair). on 4th street he pairs the 7. and of course on 7th street he scoops the pot without ever improving the pair of 7s he picks up on 4th street. no matter what comment anyone might make, i dont think my raise was bad. hes forced in there and odds are hes got nothing, which was correct at the time i raised.
and in the omaha i got AK23, raise preflop one of the callers had Q9T6 with 3 diamonds. flop comes AK5 i bet the flop, the turn, and on the river i check when a third diamond hits and theres still no low. i missed the nut low draw, the nut full house draw, and he wins with a flush. there was no flush draw on the flop, the 2nd diamond didnt come til the turn. so i dont see how im playing bad.
in stud8 im folding hands like 872 preflop and 556 except under the right rare circumstances when most play those hands no matter what and even much worse. so why am i losing? variance? do i need like 20 sessions to have a fair test? or am i not a limit player since i seldom play limit no more and should just give up the ghost and never play it again?
also there was an asian guy taking a picture of me the other day named alfred. i wonder if he knows wec? he eventually bought me lunch at my table and mentioned he knew of me, but i lost my ass both days when he sat. not to him though. i think its better if no one knows who i am, makes it easier to win. this is why i dont advertise who i am at the tables. id swear the one guy Brian in my omaha split game knows me from somewhere though. or Jan the dealer always playing in the omaha game and was discussing her time with card player cruises too looks like someone whose picture used to be in card player magazine. i used to read it religiously when it was a much bigger magazine but then quit years ago.
and im still winning over $6000 for the month of september here at Talking stick. of course, i was over that on the 14th too, so its kind of slowed down. early on, i was winning over $500 a day, and i said $150,000 a year is possible here. (and it still is, but only for bigger stakes, and a high enough roll to win $500+ per day, all 365 days a year on average). theres high enough stakes here where even winning $1000 a day might be possible.
but what i dont like is HOW i won the money. the other day, i had to win $300 at blackjack (live in the pit) to get back to being up for the night. and today, i had to win $900 at blackjack to get back to being $600 up for the day. yes its good blackjack rules and this table was located inside of the poker room. but i dont want to be getting my winnings from blackjack instead of poker because overall i dont often win at blackjack, and its not stable and reliable.
ive won at most of the games offered in this poker room. i dont have the money for the $20-40 mix stud big O and thats a weird type of stud with discards so i havent sat in it. ive won in the $2-3 NL, the $3-5 NL with a $1500 maximum buyin instead of the smaller games $600 max buyin, and ive won in the $10-500 $5-10 blinds omaha high only. im up about $2000 in the $5-10 NL omaha. and the rare times the $3-300 $100-600 buyin smaller stakes $2-3 blinds omaha high has went, (very seldom) im up over $700 in it too. so ive had multiple winning sessions at omaha high, and not even one losing session.
u would think that would cause me to not be afraid to sit with $500, but i cannot without a roll of $50,000, i like to have at least 200 buyins (which is $20k for the games i buyin $100 in). and i just cant bring myself to sit down with only 64 buyins of $500. unless im stuck of course and have no other choice not to to get even.
but there is one game i cannot win at under any circumstances, and its pissing me off because i used to win in both stud games and omaha games small amounts many years ago before i started playing holdem. when i used to win about $40-50 per day and lived in rooming houses under $100 a week. and this game is omaha8 stud8 $8-16 mix.
i had ONE winning session where i won $652. and one $28 winning session where i was up $300. and about 3-5 losing sessions of a few hundred each. overall im down $400-500. maybe i should quit playing it, but when i get up $100-200 in NL or start to give it back, or feel im going on tilt, i like to get up and play a different game so i can reset with $80 minimum again.
i hadnt played stud so long except in mix games, and usually not high low stud. this is the game Britni and i used to play on pokerstars at very low stakes and lorna and i played online party poker and stars. and i guarantee u im not playing it bad. theres a kill pot and the guy with K high had to post the $12 kill. everyone folds to me and ive got an ace up and 58 underneath so i raise. he calls with nothing but K7and one other card (not sure which was his river card, but he had no pair). on 4th street he pairs the 7. and of course on 7th street he scoops the pot without ever improving the pair of 7s he picks up on 4th street. no matter what comment anyone might make, i dont think my raise was bad. hes forced in there and odds are hes got nothing, which was correct at the time i raised.
and in the omaha i got AK23, raise preflop one of the callers had Q9T6 with 3 diamonds. flop comes AK5 i bet the flop, the turn, and on the river i check when a third diamond hits and theres still no low. i missed the nut low draw, the nut full house draw, and he wins with a flush. there was no flush draw on the flop, the 2nd diamond didnt come til the turn. so i dont see how im playing bad.
in stud8 im folding hands like 872 preflop and 556 except under the right rare circumstances when most play those hands no matter what and even much worse. so why am i losing? variance? do i need like 20 sessions to have a fair test? or am i not a limit player since i seldom play limit no more and should just give up the ghost and never play it again?
also there was an asian guy taking a picture of me the other day named alfred. i wonder if he knows wec? he eventually bought me lunch at my table and mentioned he knew of me, but i lost my ass both days when he sat. not to him though. i think its better if no one knows who i am, makes it easier to win. this is why i dont advertise who i am at the tables. id swear the one guy Brian in my omaha split game knows me from somewhere though. or Jan the dealer always playing in the omaha game and was discussing her time with card player cruises too looks like someone whose picture used to be in card player magazine. i used to read it religiously when it was a much bigger magazine but then quit years ago.
Friday, September 13, 2019
the things that really matter in life
when people get old, they worry about different things than when they were young. all i care about anymore is to have a place indoors to sleep thats stable where i dont have to keep moving and renewing hotels all the time. this is why i feel like i shouldve stayed in deadwood, no matter the fact the poker sucked most of the time, and i couldnt play the type of poker i wanted. or that i was losing a lot of money on the VBJ at times, (also won a lot some of the time). i couldve avoided pissing off an airbnb landlord, and had a stable place for the entire winter for only $875 a month. i sure aint getting that price now. im paying about $450-700 a week most of the time here in scottsdale depending on how nice of a place im staying and how close to Talking stick, and as it gets closer to winter, the price will only continue to increase.
this is why i lived with Ray so many times. stability in where im going to sleep every night, and a place to keep my things. homelessness gets old when u are old. and the other thing u worry about is your health. i have no idea how someone makes a doctors appointment for an office visit without having to go to an urgent care place, where they dont care about u and just want u gone. but my stomach is so fat i dont know if its belly fat or a serious tumor growing inside of there. it worries me, but theres nothing i can do about it because all my time has to be spent either sleeping or earning money so i have enough to survive, at least til im back to my 38k again.
Yet the poker is so easy to win here in scottsdale, i cant easily leave the area because if i do, im missing out on well over $140,000 a year. its not quite halfway thru the month of september, and i just passed the $6000 mark in poker winnings so far for september. im still at $56 per hour for over 100 hours of play in september. ive never averaged over $56 per hour for all limits and games combined in my life, certainly not with shortstacking involved and a lot of stud8 and omaha8
A lot of cartel money and coyote money flows heavily thru the Phoenix area since the dismissal of our good friend we all admired so much for how he ran things. (sheriff Joe arpaio). unless its just the blessings of God over the way Trump has been handling the economy. i think its due to the way he supports Israel, for its a well known truth God blesses people and countries who stand by Israel.
ive never seen this kind of wealth in poker rooms in the lowest of stakes NL games, and im rarely at a table where most of the field doesnt have well over the $600 max buyin in front of them, and many with a lot of green chips. today the poker room for some reason hosted well more $40-80 $75-150 and $100-200 mix games than normal. maybe because a charity tourney was taking place this evening. so it brought out the people who didnt care about money.
and this is why, when u have earned the money u need to earn for the day, u no longer feel like playing poker. u see its only a means of income, not an enjoyable activity, and people only do it because it pays so much better than the alternative, which is an $9 an hour job at walmart or mc donalds or govt assistance. so once u are up a few hundred u dont want to sit there and keep playing when emotionally u feel that the ONLY thing that could happen is that u will lose back all of your winnings. i left my NL table when i got called for $8-16 OE mix and up $135. i sat with the $80 minimum in the OE and very soon i suddenly had $310 in front of me. and this is where i messed up by not quitting. i hate to hit and run because i feel a winning player shouldnt have to since its a limit game and the other day i won $652 before i left the game. but i eventually got down to only being up $28 and i quit upset with myself not quitting sooner. for a long time, i never got one pot.
sat back down in the $100 min buyin $2-3 NL game. and after about 50 minutes i finally won a good sized pot with AA and had $298 in front of me. yet i still felt it was too early to leave, id only been there less than 4 hours. and eventually i left with only $200 when i lost a big hand. was lucky to still be up anything at all. thats when i got out and went home still up $253 for the day. not nearly as much as the $500 a day ive been averaging but still enough to bring my bankroll back to $30,900
when i was 19, i had radically different perspectives on money, the bankroll needed to survive, and the cost of living expenses. and how i spent my money. often my roll was never above $1000 or $2000, remember the story of my mom not believing Vince when he told her i had over $2000 because she had never known me to have so much. i inherited $1900 from the canadian government when i turned 19 (the money they held for me due to my mother suing the man who killed my dad). it was $500 and had earned interest for many years which is why it was now $1900. and do u know what i did when i received the money? i spent the entire thing on hookers within a week. this was in Toledo ohio, and Ray knew me at the time from the poker games.
i lost interest in women years ago, or at least in giving them money. WEC and maybe others will remember Britni and Lorna. this is why all the years i wasted age 25-35 on pokerstars and other online sites i never had money. i kept giving it away instead of warehousing it like i do now. it takes getting old to discover money is the most important thing in life and not your relationships with others. and without money, u cannot survive and function in life. i still wish i could have the company of women or hookers, since i used to be one myself when i was ages 17-20. not in the way that u think, since im not gay and couldnt ever bring myself to give blowjobs. but since everyone who is homosexual and queer prefers sex with kids to sex with adults (and its how people get fucked up enough to turn gay) when i ran away from home a few times guys would always offer me money if i let them suck me off and this was primarily guys in their 60s and 70s. and i wasnt even 18..
lightning has for years kept a secret for me at least 8 years or longer of how when i was homeless in chicago about the time Obama was in college or a senator, and how Obama used to mess around in their gay community, how Obama once offered me $25 for sex in a old run down tenement hotel up the street from Pacific garden mission, where they share the gospel and love of Jesus Christ to the homeless. it scared me and made me quite uncomfortable what he wanted me to do. this was about 20 years before he was president.
well i could talk forever of the old days and how much better my life has come since then. but unless i spent a year in the company of all this rich folks money in scottsdale, ill never get mine up to where im comfortable with $500 buyins so i can play in some of these good games way too high for me. i can only imagine how many good players are making $1000 a day here in Talking stick, its weird wec spends so little time here. even Benny, Dustin, and Count everything could probably win good money in the games here. i couldve been very rich had i not wasted all my money trying to buy love when i was young enough to still enjoy it. took me til i was over 40 to start storing up money to where my roll slowly started being over 10k most of the time, and now finally over 20k most of the time. still remember so vividly when it was often below 4k and worry about those days returning day and night, and is why im so nitty involving tips, and get so mad when the dealer doesnt remind me to wait for the BB to pass. and not straddling or buying in for more than the minimum.
this is why i lived with Ray so many times. stability in where im going to sleep every night, and a place to keep my things. homelessness gets old when u are old. and the other thing u worry about is your health. i have no idea how someone makes a doctors appointment for an office visit without having to go to an urgent care place, where they dont care about u and just want u gone. but my stomach is so fat i dont know if its belly fat or a serious tumor growing inside of there. it worries me, but theres nothing i can do about it because all my time has to be spent either sleeping or earning money so i have enough to survive, at least til im back to my 38k again.
Yet the poker is so easy to win here in scottsdale, i cant easily leave the area because if i do, im missing out on well over $140,000 a year. its not quite halfway thru the month of september, and i just passed the $6000 mark in poker winnings so far for september. im still at $56 per hour for over 100 hours of play in september. ive never averaged over $56 per hour for all limits and games combined in my life, certainly not with shortstacking involved and a lot of stud8 and omaha8
A lot of cartel money and coyote money flows heavily thru the Phoenix area since the dismissal of our good friend we all admired so much for how he ran things. (sheriff Joe arpaio). unless its just the blessings of God over the way Trump has been handling the economy. i think its due to the way he supports Israel, for its a well known truth God blesses people and countries who stand by Israel.
ive never seen this kind of wealth in poker rooms in the lowest of stakes NL games, and im rarely at a table where most of the field doesnt have well over the $600 max buyin in front of them, and many with a lot of green chips. today the poker room for some reason hosted well more $40-80 $75-150 and $100-200 mix games than normal. maybe because a charity tourney was taking place this evening. so it brought out the people who didnt care about money.
and this is why, when u have earned the money u need to earn for the day, u no longer feel like playing poker. u see its only a means of income, not an enjoyable activity, and people only do it because it pays so much better than the alternative, which is an $9 an hour job at walmart or mc donalds or govt assistance. so once u are up a few hundred u dont want to sit there and keep playing when emotionally u feel that the ONLY thing that could happen is that u will lose back all of your winnings. i left my NL table when i got called for $8-16 OE mix and up $135. i sat with the $80 minimum in the OE and very soon i suddenly had $310 in front of me. and this is where i messed up by not quitting. i hate to hit and run because i feel a winning player shouldnt have to since its a limit game and the other day i won $652 before i left the game. but i eventually got down to only being up $28 and i quit upset with myself not quitting sooner. for a long time, i never got one pot.
sat back down in the $100 min buyin $2-3 NL game. and after about 50 minutes i finally won a good sized pot with AA and had $298 in front of me. yet i still felt it was too early to leave, id only been there less than 4 hours. and eventually i left with only $200 when i lost a big hand. was lucky to still be up anything at all. thats when i got out and went home still up $253 for the day. not nearly as much as the $500 a day ive been averaging but still enough to bring my bankroll back to $30,900
when i was 19, i had radically different perspectives on money, the bankroll needed to survive, and the cost of living expenses. and how i spent my money. often my roll was never above $1000 or $2000, remember the story of my mom not believing Vince when he told her i had over $2000 because she had never known me to have so much. i inherited $1900 from the canadian government when i turned 19 (the money they held for me due to my mother suing the man who killed my dad). it was $500 and had earned interest for many years which is why it was now $1900. and do u know what i did when i received the money? i spent the entire thing on hookers within a week. this was in Toledo ohio, and Ray knew me at the time from the poker games.
i lost interest in women years ago, or at least in giving them money. WEC and maybe others will remember Britni and Lorna. this is why all the years i wasted age 25-35 on pokerstars and other online sites i never had money. i kept giving it away instead of warehousing it like i do now. it takes getting old to discover money is the most important thing in life and not your relationships with others. and without money, u cannot survive and function in life. i still wish i could have the company of women or hookers, since i used to be one myself when i was ages 17-20. not in the way that u think, since im not gay and couldnt ever bring myself to give blowjobs. but since everyone who is homosexual and queer prefers sex with kids to sex with adults (and its how people get fucked up enough to turn gay) when i ran away from home a few times guys would always offer me money if i let them suck me off and this was primarily guys in their 60s and 70s. and i wasnt even 18..
lightning has for years kept a secret for me at least 8 years or longer of how when i was homeless in chicago about the time Obama was in college or a senator, and how Obama used to mess around in their gay community, how Obama once offered me $25 for sex in a old run down tenement hotel up the street from Pacific garden mission, where they share the gospel and love of Jesus Christ to the homeless. it scared me and made me quite uncomfortable what he wanted me to do. this was about 20 years before he was president.
well i could talk forever of the old days and how much better my life has come since then. but unless i spent a year in the company of all this rich folks money in scottsdale, ill never get mine up to where im comfortable with $500 buyins so i can play in some of these good games way too high for me. i can only imagine how many good players are making $1000 a day here in Talking stick, its weird wec spends so little time here. even Benny, Dustin, and Count everything could probably win good money in the games here. i couldve been very rich had i not wasted all my money trying to buy love when i was young enough to still enjoy it. took me til i was over 40 to start storing up money to where my roll slowly started being over 10k most of the time, and now finally over 20k most of the time. still remember so vividly when it was often below 4k and worry about those days returning day and night, and is why im so nitty involving tips, and get so mad when the dealer doesnt remind me to wait for the BB to pass. and not straddling or buying in for more than the minimum.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
LARGE SIZED wins
well it seems like no matter how much money i win here in Scottsdale im still not getting anywhere. i had $38,000 once in deadwood. i had between $30 and $30,500 when i left deadwood and flew to Los Angeles. and i once was down to $24,900. this was after id lost $3000 at tortoise rock playing both video BJ and live BJ. and after id paid $350 on an Uber to Scottsdale, $130 on an Uber to twentynine palms from lake elsinore, and $90 on an Uber to lake elsinore from Los angeles. and a lot of hotels, such as a weeks worth of lodging in scottsdale, etc. im still only at $29,200 but thats a lot better than $24,900
the hotel im at tonight is a better (and higher priced hotel) but a much better fridge, and safer being its indoors instead of outdoors. only issue is its a more expensive Uber ride to the casino. i will later discuss on trip advisor about how Priceline lied and deceived me. i went to where u dont see the name of the hotel til after u book, although i had reason to believe it was the Hampton right by the casino within a 2 block walk and a free ride. it wasnt.
Priceline has done this many times, listing a hotel as a "casino hotel" when it isnt. But this hotel is over 4 miles away, and my last hotel was only 1.9 miles from the casino, much less with Uber. $7-8 instead of $11.
i know i should be booking a hotel a month at a time, or at least a week at a time, but i never know how well ill do in the casino, if ill take a big loss too much for me all on the same day, and i dont want to risk committing if i wont be around. id like to return to detroit but im winning way too much here to leave, and even Ray might win if he came. so far for the month of September im at $4000 plus in profits at poker for september, (but even then im only at $29,200 after expenses). this isnt even back what i left deadwood with, and is why i feel im getting nowhere. even though i won $4000 plus within the first 10 days of the month which is $12,000 per month, $144,000 per year if i spent the entire year in Phoenix. considering i play low stakes and often only buyin for $100, though i will buyin for the $600 max if im martingaling or a higher stakes game, such as my $500 $10 to $500 $5-10 blinds omaha high game where i turned my $500 into $1450 monday afternoon. they didnt like me hitting and running, but if they dont like it, lower the buyin so its not a neccessity.
everyone else in scottsdale is insanely rich. u can see from the others buyins in ALL the games. no one within 100 miles of Phoenix lives in poverty or has less than $100,000 in their checking account, with the sole exception of me. all the elderly here recieve at least 1 million a year from social security payments they get the first of every month.
no other city in the country has people close to having this kind of money. certainly not reno, detroit, las vegas, or many other cities i played in. other cities, some buyin for $50. here the buyin is $100-600 for both $2-3 omaha and $2-3 NL holdem. and most buyin for the maximum or maybe $500, certainly not the minimum with the exception of me of course when i first sit and havent gotten stuck enough yet to buyin bigger.
if i stayed here an entire year, id win well over 100k for the year and would have a bankroll well over 100k myself within a years time. if im averaging close to $500 a day in winnings now, think of how much per day id be winning with much bigger buyins. there was a $25-500 NL omaha game here today with a minimum buyin of $2500 and NO maximum. a smart person would consider staking me in it and securing me steady housing in their name.
i never thought it was possible til i came to Phoenix, but if u have never played poker here, u should check out for yourself how loose the games are and how wide the choice of games are. the room is HUGE. tonight i even managed to win $652 in the $8-16 omaha8 stud8 mix game. thats the same game i lost over $400 in the day before and had to move to the other much higher stakes omaha high game to get it back.
the $3-300 omaha game high only just doesnt go enough. it only lasted about 2 hours today, although i did manage to win $158 in it. wasnt til i was on my 3rd $100 buyin though.
to tell u how loose it was, the hand i lost, i had AAJT and the caller of my allin preflop had KT63 of various suits. he won with 2 pair.
the hand i won i had TJJK double suited, and before it got to me, 2 others had already bet $100 preflop. i shoved and 4 of us went to the flop, and 3 to the river. board J5345 i needed that 5, one of the raisers hit a wheel on the turn.
the hotel im at tonight is a better (and higher priced hotel) but a much better fridge, and safer being its indoors instead of outdoors. only issue is its a more expensive Uber ride to the casino. i will later discuss on trip advisor about how Priceline lied and deceived me. i went to where u dont see the name of the hotel til after u book, although i had reason to believe it was the Hampton right by the casino within a 2 block walk and a free ride. it wasnt.
Priceline has done this many times, listing a hotel as a "casino hotel" when it isnt. But this hotel is over 4 miles away, and my last hotel was only 1.9 miles from the casino, much less with Uber. $7-8 instead of $11.
i know i should be booking a hotel a month at a time, or at least a week at a time, but i never know how well ill do in the casino, if ill take a big loss too much for me all on the same day, and i dont want to risk committing if i wont be around. id like to return to detroit but im winning way too much here to leave, and even Ray might win if he came. so far for the month of September im at $4000 plus in profits at poker for september, (but even then im only at $29,200 after expenses). this isnt even back what i left deadwood with, and is why i feel im getting nowhere. even though i won $4000 plus within the first 10 days of the month which is $12,000 per month, $144,000 per year if i spent the entire year in Phoenix. considering i play low stakes and often only buyin for $100, though i will buyin for the $600 max if im martingaling or a higher stakes game, such as my $500 $10 to $500 $5-10 blinds omaha high game where i turned my $500 into $1450 monday afternoon. they didnt like me hitting and running, but if they dont like it, lower the buyin so its not a neccessity.
everyone else in scottsdale is insanely rich. u can see from the others buyins in ALL the games. no one within 100 miles of Phoenix lives in poverty or has less than $100,000 in their checking account, with the sole exception of me. all the elderly here recieve at least 1 million a year from social security payments they get the first of every month.
no other city in the country has people close to having this kind of money. certainly not reno, detroit, las vegas, or many other cities i played in. other cities, some buyin for $50. here the buyin is $100-600 for both $2-3 omaha and $2-3 NL holdem. and most buyin for the maximum or maybe $500, certainly not the minimum with the exception of me of course when i first sit and havent gotten stuck enough yet to buyin bigger.
if i stayed here an entire year, id win well over 100k for the year and would have a bankroll well over 100k myself within a years time. if im averaging close to $500 a day in winnings now, think of how much per day id be winning with much bigger buyins. there was a $25-500 NL omaha game here today with a minimum buyin of $2500 and NO maximum. a smart person would consider staking me in it and securing me steady housing in their name.
i never thought it was possible til i came to Phoenix, but if u have never played poker here, u should check out for yourself how loose the games are and how wide the choice of games are. the room is HUGE. tonight i even managed to win $652 in the $8-16 omaha8 stud8 mix game. thats the same game i lost over $400 in the day before and had to move to the other much higher stakes omaha high game to get it back.
the $3-300 omaha game high only just doesnt go enough. it only lasted about 2 hours today, although i did manage to win $158 in it. wasnt til i was on my 3rd $100 buyin though.
to tell u how loose it was, the hand i lost, i had AAJT and the caller of my allin preflop had KT63 of various suits. he won with 2 pair.
the hand i won i had TJJK double suited, and before it got to me, 2 others had already bet $100 preflop. i shoved and 4 of us went to the flop, and 3 to the river. board J5345 i needed that 5, one of the raisers hit a wheel on the turn.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
talking stick casino
i've probably spent more time this year playing more than just $1-2 NL (since casinos have offered NL in the mid 2000s) than in any previous year. although its still the game i play the most often. but its NOT increasing my hourly, my hourly is only about $13 an hour this year for all limits combined, at about $21,000 so far for 2019. i think its just been a low year overall, and i also think my $1-2 NL rate has gone way down. (a lot less than the overall rate of $13).
ill never feel i can afford to play higher though. i thought i would when i had over $20,000. then i thought i would when i had over $30,000 but everytime my roll gets that high, things like high expenses and sometimes losses outside of poker reduce it back down so rapidly i never feel like its enough to do anything except buyin for $100 or less.
and when i get ahead about $200 and dont quit, and lose a big pot and become stuck i feel like such an idiot for not hitting and running. and i feel like the other players are thinking im an idiot for not leaving too. though if i do, they get annoyed.
i was $195 up tonight and felt like leaving the $3-300 holdem game to return to the $3-300 omaha game. my hour was up long ago and i couldve sat back down with $100. But i didnt quit with the $295 id ran my $100 buyin up to. as soon as i first sat down, i got QQ within the first few hands and my $12 raise got 6 callers. thought i had no shot with so many in. but on a flop of J52, i bet allin and everyone folded. so i was already up to $152. then i continued to win from there. as always i dont remember most of the hands i won. Only the hand i lost. at the end, i had AA and raised to $17 preflop and got 2 callers. flop comes J63 with 2 spades and i dont have the ace of spades. i bet $55 and one guy called. turn comes offsuit K. i go allin for over $200 and he calls me so fast i worry im beat. turns out all he has is AT of spades for a spade draw and a gut shot draw. he hits the Q on the river for the straight.
except for one table i played at the other day and probably shouldve tried to transfer from, the games in scottsdale are still looser than in most other cities around the country. multiple callers preflop with hands theyre supposed to fold. i think the fact the minimum buy is so high at $100 and the larger sized blinds of $2-3 might have something to do with it plus the fact the maximum buyin is also higher at $600.
i did the right thing in quitting the omaha game once id ran my buyins up to $688. i was in for $440 total, $100, $120 and $220. i was briefly up about $40 one other time, but $40 isnt enough to hit and run. $240+ is, especially when $688 is way more to have in front of me than im comfortable with. u should never put more than 1% of your net worth on the table, although at times its necessary to have over $250 in front of me, but i mean as a general rule. those guys famous in poker who say 5% or 10% thats way too high if u have no other income car credit or stable address. i seriously become way too stressed out once its starts getting close to 3%, makes it very difficult to think only about the most EV play.
as wealthy as all the other players in that game were, many old retired rich people and young poker professionals, im sure the $1500 or more most of them had in front of them off their $600 maximum buyin was also not more than 1% of their net worth. its no wonder most of them dont see how $8 every half hour in time charges hurts them unless the game is quite shorthanded.
what i didnt like is the softplay forms of collusion among the regulars. i wouldnt object if they were shortstacked, but the fact theyre deepstacked is what makes it morally wrong. they dont want to risk big pots against each other but only when theyre against an unknown or multi way action. got tired of 2 always checking it down when they were the only ones in the pot, yet to say anything against her and him makes me look to be the bad guy, because the others dont understand why its wrong
Being able to call a $300 maximum bet without having to worry about any more money being bet between then and the river changes the play of the game so much, i dont see why the others at the table dont understand why this isnt a type of cheating and so bad for the game. then i found a guy trying to screw me by leaving $2 in front of him when he called my $300 bet and only had about $225 in chips and i had to ask for the $2 and another guy at the other end of the table thought i was making an issue over nothing. How is this any different than say if the guy had taken a few dollars off the table and sat it on his tray? or if he reached in his pocket and put another $2 worth of chips into the game? i dont see any difference. just because its $2 and the others thought it okay, lets say next time its $8?
and then later on when i finally left the NL game to return to the omaha, because it showed multiple open seats, by the time i walk up they tell me theyd just changed the game for a round of high and a round of big 0 to which i said thats fine. but i lose interest once i heard they also changed the stakes to $5-10 $500 minimum buyin. thats a huge step up from $100 minimum $3-300. i wish the $3-300 players could do a round of high and a round of split pot too. it was 4 of them and another guy was packing up his stuff and leaving.
that game seems to break up early. surprisingly enough the $8-16 OE omaha stud8 mix breaks up early too. only the holdem games and the $20-40 mix and higher go more hours. and its weird how so many people still exist who play $20-40 limit when its not even real poker, or beatable over the long run.
how can someone have that kind of money, and prefer limit to no limit higher stakes game? u cant protect your hand by betting since u cant bluff, and bluffing your entire stack is what makes a game poker. even younger guys sit in $20-40 not just the old guys u would think. only logical reason to play limit is if u are a $2-4 player and cannot afford to sit with more than $40
ill never feel i can afford to play higher though. i thought i would when i had over $20,000. then i thought i would when i had over $30,000 but everytime my roll gets that high, things like high expenses and sometimes losses outside of poker reduce it back down so rapidly i never feel like its enough to do anything except buyin for $100 or less.
and when i get ahead about $200 and dont quit, and lose a big pot and become stuck i feel like such an idiot for not hitting and running. and i feel like the other players are thinking im an idiot for not leaving too. though if i do, they get annoyed.
i was $195 up tonight and felt like leaving the $3-300 holdem game to return to the $3-300 omaha game. my hour was up long ago and i couldve sat back down with $100. But i didnt quit with the $295 id ran my $100 buyin up to. as soon as i first sat down, i got QQ within the first few hands and my $12 raise got 6 callers. thought i had no shot with so many in. but on a flop of J52, i bet allin and everyone folded. so i was already up to $152. then i continued to win from there. as always i dont remember most of the hands i won. Only the hand i lost. at the end, i had AA and raised to $17 preflop and got 2 callers. flop comes J63 with 2 spades and i dont have the ace of spades. i bet $55 and one guy called. turn comes offsuit K. i go allin for over $200 and he calls me so fast i worry im beat. turns out all he has is AT of spades for a spade draw and a gut shot draw. he hits the Q on the river for the straight.
except for one table i played at the other day and probably shouldve tried to transfer from, the games in scottsdale are still looser than in most other cities around the country. multiple callers preflop with hands theyre supposed to fold. i think the fact the minimum buy is so high at $100 and the larger sized blinds of $2-3 might have something to do with it plus the fact the maximum buyin is also higher at $600.
i did the right thing in quitting the omaha game once id ran my buyins up to $688. i was in for $440 total, $100, $120 and $220. i was briefly up about $40 one other time, but $40 isnt enough to hit and run. $240+ is, especially when $688 is way more to have in front of me than im comfortable with. u should never put more than 1% of your net worth on the table, although at times its necessary to have over $250 in front of me, but i mean as a general rule. those guys famous in poker who say 5% or 10% thats way too high if u have no other income car credit or stable address. i seriously become way too stressed out once its starts getting close to 3%, makes it very difficult to think only about the most EV play.
as wealthy as all the other players in that game were, many old retired rich people and young poker professionals, im sure the $1500 or more most of them had in front of them off their $600 maximum buyin was also not more than 1% of their net worth. its no wonder most of them dont see how $8 every half hour in time charges hurts them unless the game is quite shorthanded.
what i didnt like is the softplay forms of collusion among the regulars. i wouldnt object if they were shortstacked, but the fact theyre deepstacked is what makes it morally wrong. they dont want to risk big pots against each other but only when theyre against an unknown or multi way action. got tired of 2 always checking it down when they were the only ones in the pot, yet to say anything against her and him makes me look to be the bad guy, because the others dont understand why its wrong
Being able to call a $300 maximum bet without having to worry about any more money being bet between then and the river changes the play of the game so much, i dont see why the others at the table dont understand why this isnt a type of cheating and so bad for the game. then i found a guy trying to screw me by leaving $2 in front of him when he called my $300 bet and only had about $225 in chips and i had to ask for the $2 and another guy at the other end of the table thought i was making an issue over nothing. How is this any different than say if the guy had taken a few dollars off the table and sat it on his tray? or if he reached in his pocket and put another $2 worth of chips into the game? i dont see any difference. just because its $2 and the others thought it okay, lets say next time its $8?
and then later on when i finally left the NL game to return to the omaha, because it showed multiple open seats, by the time i walk up they tell me theyd just changed the game for a round of high and a round of big 0 to which i said thats fine. but i lose interest once i heard they also changed the stakes to $5-10 $500 minimum buyin. thats a huge step up from $100 minimum $3-300. i wish the $3-300 players could do a round of high and a round of split pot too. it was 4 of them and another guy was packing up his stuff and leaving.
that game seems to break up early. surprisingly enough the $8-16 OE omaha stud8 mix breaks up early too. only the holdem games and the $20-40 mix and higher go more hours. and its weird how so many people still exist who play $20-40 limit when its not even real poker, or beatable over the long run.
how can someone have that kind of money, and prefer limit to no limit higher stakes game? u cant protect your hand by betting since u cant bluff, and bluffing your entire stack is what makes a game poker. even younger guys sit in $20-40 not just the old guys u would think. only logical reason to play limit is if u are a $2-4 player and cannot afford to sit with more than $40
Sunday, September 1, 2019
california road trip
well the last few days have been interesting at least if not very profitable. once i flew out of deadwood, a lot of poker was played in the state of california til i left california earlier today. and eventually, i found some live blackjack and some video blackjack in california too, not quite as good as the one in deadwood. (it showed the shuffle, but only let u bet from 1-33 units per spot instead of 1-100 units per spot and only had 3 spots instead of 5. there was a $3 minimum bet).
i wouldnt have played it so long, but the poker game on one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year in most places around the country didnt start til 8pm. who wouldve knew ahead of time? and i didnt want to leave the area because id already paid for my hotel for the night the day before.
and i didnt really play an ainsworth machine and lose $1600 i just wanted to know if thats likely or possible. i played it for about an hour and lost $65 raising the meter from about 388.78 to 399.30 then i quit. thought maybe it might actually need to be higher to be worth it as so many spins were paying nothing the base game seemed extremely low.
the money was lost slightly over half on live $10-300 blackjack 6 deck paying 3-2. no ante at this indian casino.
originally left the commerce to go play omaha in lake elsinore but i was tired and just wanted to check in and sleep. found out i couldnt do that, turns out theyd heard of my arrest and blog comments and had banned me in my absence when they heard of them about 2 years since id last been there and id known nothing of it so i was a little irritated id went there for nothing. so i took an uber to 29palms.
yeah id wanted to play in a good omaha game, but when i tried a good omaha game at commerce $100-400 buyin, i lost my $100 original buyin, then another $137, then $200, and finally the last $400 but hey, that last $400 was briefly back to $951 after a couple good pots before it went to pieces. this one guy wouldnt stop winning no matter what, he had about 10x times his $400 buyin or more and had busted multiple players with very weak hands. because he kept calling preflop and hitting. busted me when i had aa95 with a flush draw on a flop of 88J and he had JJxx i forgot the other 2 cards.
same guy who when i flopped 777aa, he won with 8888 when the turn and river went runner runner 88 and since i had 77 i thought the double paired board lowered his chances of a boat.
i got to play omaha finally (too tired the night before to play more than a few minutes) after playing stud all day and stuck $612 when the plo started. had the floor started it with 9-10 names on the list instead of waiting for 11 or 12, i wouldve been stuck only about $200 in the $20-40 stud but most was lost in the final 30 minutes.
now the day before i won $1500-1600 in the $20-40 stud and id won the day before that too, where i made $330. that was the day i decided to move my hotel to commerce even though id paid $137 a night thru priceline instead of the other hotel which id paid $85. the reason i checked out of commerce was i couldnt renew the room friday, the price had went way up even thru priceline to over $220 with taxes and fees. the price thru the front desk was even more.
i wouldve been far better off flying to detroit and paying the higher price with 3-4 connections to fly out that night, or just waiting til the next day to leave deadwood where i couldve flown to detroit for less, but id lost about $7000 back off my $38k roll and just wanted to get away and back to some good poker. was tired of only video bj to play, nothing else. but i wanted to leave immediately instead of waiting was worried id blow more money on blackjack. ive no idea if i got my september mailer
i left so i could have over 30k still for good poker. but now im down to 26k its going down way too fast on uber long distance trips, hotels at a much higher cost, and some bad luck recently on various forms of gambling.
and now this guy in south dakota whose disappointed i moved out when id promised to pay for another month several weeks earlier will probably give me a poor review on airbnb. were i not worried id lost $7000 in the last week or so mostly from video blackjack it wouldve been crazy to leave, since my new month wouldve only been $825 for the entire month for a place of all to myself to live. a nice house too.
i wouldnt have played it so long, but the poker game on one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year in most places around the country didnt start til 8pm. who wouldve knew ahead of time? and i didnt want to leave the area because id already paid for my hotel for the night the day before.
and i didnt really play an ainsworth machine and lose $1600 i just wanted to know if thats likely or possible. i played it for about an hour and lost $65 raising the meter from about 388.78 to 399.30 then i quit. thought maybe it might actually need to be higher to be worth it as so many spins were paying nothing the base game seemed extremely low.
the money was lost slightly over half on live $10-300 blackjack 6 deck paying 3-2. no ante at this indian casino.
originally left the commerce to go play omaha in lake elsinore but i was tired and just wanted to check in and sleep. found out i couldnt do that, turns out theyd heard of my arrest and blog comments and had banned me in my absence when they heard of them about 2 years since id last been there and id known nothing of it so i was a little irritated id went there for nothing. so i took an uber to 29palms.
yeah id wanted to play in a good omaha game, but when i tried a good omaha game at commerce $100-400 buyin, i lost my $100 original buyin, then another $137, then $200, and finally the last $400 but hey, that last $400 was briefly back to $951 after a couple good pots before it went to pieces. this one guy wouldnt stop winning no matter what, he had about 10x times his $400 buyin or more and had busted multiple players with very weak hands. because he kept calling preflop and hitting. busted me when i had aa95 with a flush draw on a flop of 88J and he had JJxx i forgot the other 2 cards.
same guy who when i flopped 777aa, he won with 8888 when the turn and river went runner runner 88 and since i had 77 i thought the double paired board lowered his chances of a boat.
i got to play omaha finally (too tired the night before to play more than a few minutes) after playing stud all day and stuck $612 when the plo started. had the floor started it with 9-10 names on the list instead of waiting for 11 or 12, i wouldve been stuck only about $200 in the $20-40 stud but most was lost in the final 30 minutes.
now the day before i won $1500-1600 in the $20-40 stud and id won the day before that too, where i made $330. that was the day i decided to move my hotel to commerce even though id paid $137 a night thru priceline instead of the other hotel which id paid $85. the reason i checked out of commerce was i couldnt renew the room friday, the price had went way up even thru priceline to over $220 with taxes and fees. the price thru the front desk was even more.
i wouldve been far better off flying to detroit and paying the higher price with 3-4 connections to fly out that night, or just waiting til the next day to leave deadwood where i couldve flown to detroit for less, but id lost about $7000 back off my $38k roll and just wanted to get away and back to some good poker. was tired of only video bj to play, nothing else. but i wanted to leave immediately instead of waiting was worried id blow more money on blackjack. ive no idea if i got my september mailer
i left so i could have over 30k still for good poker. but now im down to 26k its going down way too fast on uber long distance trips, hotels at a much higher cost, and some bad luck recently on various forms of gambling.
and now this guy in south dakota whose disappointed i moved out when id promised to pay for another month several weeks earlier will probably give me a poor review on airbnb. were i not worried id lost $7000 in the last week or so mostly from video blackjack it wouldve been crazy to leave, since my new month wouldve only been $825 for the entire month for a place of all to myself to live. a nice house too.
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