well its a good thing i left vegas, because i was down to the last $14,000 to my name around the time i flew to cleveland. i couldnt keep myself from playing blackjack there, because the minimums were too low, too many games were available, and i had the pressure of needing bigger wins because of the cost of hotels all the time hanging over my head. how does someone build and grow a bankroll when they spend $200 a week on uber and $500 a week on their hoteil?
Dont suggest that u spend less on hotels because now that ive passed my 50th birthday a little over a week ago, im too old to be worrying about people breaking in demanding money while im asleep. ill never stay in hotels where the doors arent from inside hallways inside of outside to the street.
anyway, having a place to live, (and a friend whose also playing poker and has a car) really helps in lowering the cost. were i capable of learning how to drive and owning a car, i couldve saved a ton on expenses over my life, visited rooms ive never had a chance to visit, and greatly lowered hotel costs. and id probably have at least a 50,000 roll unless it wouldve been lost on blackjack too.
but sometimes Ray dont want to drive to detroit in bad weather or if he needs a day off. one day i used the greyhound to get to detroit and i felt very uncomfortable when there was only 1 cab outside the bus depot instead of multiplies and he said he wouldnt do it, then later said $20, and then refused again. and its only a short distance. u can read a lot of articles online about this illegal cab practice in detroit of drivers refusing to use the meter.
and then he had the audacity to suggest i use an unlicensed driver in a private car parked next to him which looked like an illegal immigrant who for all i know couldve had a violent criminal recent past in which case would explain why he wouldnt be driving for Uber or Lyft instead of this. so i had about $5000 or so in cash on me and ill be damned if i get in a car with him. with Uber, theres a button on your cell to press in case of emergency which sends the police the Uber route map showing them exactly where your driver is. so its much safer, even much more so than a cab. he said that guy would do it for $12, and that guy said yes he would.
so after refusing to even open the door and insisting i use the other guy, and not even letting me use him for $20, and then going into the station to try to get someone else going a much longer way, i called the police to complain about him and report him. i hope someone is done, because this shit is illegal and ridiculous. ive often wanted to complain numerous times in vegas about cabs downtown violating regulations set by the taxicab authority and also about uber drivers staging outside casinos when theyre not supposed to do that because it creeps me out when the drivers already there, i feel they might be waiting for me to leave the poker room as a robbery setup by one of their friends at the table.
what can be done to rid the world of this illegal and scary situation? someone could be seriously setup by these unlicensed drivers. im sure its happened a lot and is why the cities dont allow it.i shouldve used uber to start with, but i figured since a cabs outside and its close i couldve just saved time using it for under $10 but i was wrong. i ended up using uber for $15, they usually have surges in detroit.
now tell Koala i put down a $5 down payment on his $35. i gave a black woman a $5 bill, she was driving for Uber and i could tell she was poor and needed the money by the condition of her car. i trusted her because of the Bible on her dashboard and her stickers about Jesus. so its about the only tip ive ever given out in my life when using Uber. i trusted her so much i explained how i needed to deposit money at an atm machine where its safe and she helped me find one on the way to my hotel near the airport. it was a $125 a night hotel i got on priceline for $65, total cost being $165 for 2 nights with taxes, etc. and they will let u check in extremely early if theyre not sold out like 6am possibly sooner, so its a really good deal. and very safe.
anyway i done well in the last 2 weeks. played only poker except for the $118 i profited off the Harley machine which was at 83/32/39 its been ages ive seen any worth playing. im over 17400 from the 13998 i had when i got to cleveland.
a lot was one in one game where i bought in for $59, rebought twice $40 more (actually an addon, not a rebuy because i wasnt broke) so i was in for $139 total. and i eventually quit with $1517. a black guy with tons of tattoos and a few thousand dollars all in $20 bills sat on the other end of the table and kept raising blind to like $30 preflop or $20 or so. he lost fairly quickly and the 2 old guys who are regulars tried to get his money too but were too loose so it didnt work for them. plus i had much better position since i wasnt immediately after him.
all the money was won from him, i kept doubling up, including the last hand where i called his reraise of my raise with my JJ to $200, i only called and the flop comes 10 63 all in spades. i bet $100, he puts me allin as a check raise and i have to call. and i had $766 in front of me, all from winnings off of him and another guy. another 10 hits the turn which i dont like and then a 4th spade on the river so i feel im screwed. i had no spade. its on him to show first and all he had was 64 of clubs. so i won.
then i got pissed because one of the good regulars in seat 9, im in seat 2 and the guy donating heavily is in seat 7. this regular likes to buyin for a shitton of chips every time and he already had over 800 in front of him. so when i won that pot he adds enough to his stack to bring it up to 1500, and the guy who kept adding chips every hand whose donating only was putting on like 200-300 at a time when he goes broke which was regularly. but every time he did he pulled out a shitload of 20s and put most back in his pocket. but i let him know im not the sucker and im insulted he feels i am and has to cover me instead of worrying about covering the fish instead, so i left. ill be damned if im going to feel like the one everyone feels they got to cover.
had he not done this, he mightve got $800-900 out of me id been trying to not lose back. instead i came back 2 hours later with $50 again.
a different game of course, without the guy spewing off chips. i was at the place where u can match the big stack which is only 1 room here. it comes in handy if u get stuck too much to match the big stack, but this guy was winning. its an asshole move to buyin for more than $50 if u arent stuck and its stupidity to buyin for 300 when u first sit without a clue how anyone plays. buyin 50 and watch a bit first so u wont be put to a tough decision when sitting down.
wait til u get stuck 300 to buyin 300. and dont buy in for the big stack unless u are stuck that much and need a double up. how can u win in the long run without martingaling your buyins?
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Saturday, February 9, 2019
weird dreams
i have a lot of strange dreams in which im worried for my safety, so this is common. at first theres a dream in which i am filling out paperwork to become a driver for Lyft. and im in a big rich shopping center area and theres a building type warehouse im living in. and of course theres a casino. often i dream im barred from the casino im walking thru. anyway im talking to the other people who are talking about their experiences working for Lyft and im worried about them finding out how i feel about homosexuality and i think theyre checking my twitter. and then im in my room, very small and tiny, and i see something funny happening with the lock on the door, it suddently turns around backwards. i investigate and instead of being able to lock myself in the room, theres several of the same locks in the hallway and im locked into a little space of 3 rooms like mine and i cant get into the rest of the building or the outside.
then i dream some woman walks in (who is responsible for having me trapped in the space) and she shows me a parade going on outside where animals are dressed up in costumes, buffaloes, lions, etc and i dream she tells me she is a witch and hates me because she thinks im racist. and then all of a sudden her and i are walking into a big room in the top floor of another building where a bunch of her friends are gathered all women and she starts calling them all by name and asks them to leave to go buy us food and they tell her its 3 o clock in the morning and its light as hell outside and i find this odd and she says to me, remember we are witches. so they leave and then she starts making out with me and says to me, i still need dick.
i woke up and later went back to sleep. and in a later dream im in a poker game and 3 to 4 guys and one girl walk into a room where my mother is in charge of running the room. in the dream she gets their names and theyll all introducing themselves with the same exact names of the last few people who all followed me out of nowhere on twitter and seem to support homosexuality and be anti trump so im a little freaked out. i dream theyre pounding the floor and table loud while theyre doing some weird cheer, and i didnt notice my mother slip out to get security. security comes in and the guy leading the group has also disappeared so they open the guys suitcase my mom requests they open to check it. i dream its got a $5 bill and some ones exactly what i lost in a suitcase stolen from me and the same piece of paper with a story in it. and i dream im going back to my room and its in a cabin on a ship. then i woke up again and seen how late it is. i guess i should go wake ray up in his room too, i didnt realize its so late should be waking up going to detroit a lot earlier than 9pm.
and ive been winning at least, both in cleveland and detroit. PLO is better in cleveland plenty of tables always in detroit some days it was a struggle. plus im needing to spend money on food, gas and fixing his car but its still much less than hotel rooms, so im happy. but im still got work to do to be back over 15 and be on the way to 20. it wasnt til ray left to go to the gym last night and picked me up later to take me home that i finally got unstuck and made 200 or so i didnt do it earlier.
then i dream some woman walks in (who is responsible for having me trapped in the space) and she shows me a parade going on outside where animals are dressed up in costumes, buffaloes, lions, etc and i dream she tells me she is a witch and hates me because she thinks im racist. and then all of a sudden her and i are walking into a big room in the top floor of another building where a bunch of her friends are gathered all women and she starts calling them all by name and asks them to leave to go buy us food and they tell her its 3 o clock in the morning and its light as hell outside and i find this odd and she says to me, remember we are witches. so they leave and then she starts making out with me and says to me, i still need dick.
i woke up and later went back to sleep. and in a later dream im in a poker game and 3 to 4 guys and one girl walk into a room where my mother is in charge of running the room. in the dream she gets their names and theyll all introducing themselves with the same exact names of the last few people who all followed me out of nowhere on twitter and seem to support homosexuality and be anti trump so im a little freaked out. i dream theyre pounding the floor and table loud while theyre doing some weird cheer, and i didnt notice my mother slip out to get security. security comes in and the guy leading the group has also disappeared so they open the guys suitcase my mom requests they open to check it. i dream its got a $5 bill and some ones exactly what i lost in a suitcase stolen from me and the same piece of paper with a story in it. and i dream im going back to my room and its in a cabin on a ship. then i woke up again and seen how late it is. i guess i should go wake ray up in his room too, i didnt realize its so late should be waking up going to detroit a lot earlier than 9pm.
and ive been winning at least, both in cleveland and detroit. PLO is better in cleveland plenty of tables always in detroit some days it was a struggle. plus im needing to spend money on food, gas and fixing his car but its still much less than hotel rooms, so im happy. but im still got work to do to be back over 15 and be on the way to 20. it wasnt til ray left to go to the gym last night and picked me up later to take me home that i finally got unstuck and made 200 or so i didnt do it earlier.
Monday, February 4, 2019
im an idiot
Well my biggest issue as always is a lack of discipline, but i sure have wasted a lot of money since mid december when i was doing so well. Of course id not been doing that well either had i not been winning so much on the VBJ in Laughlin and live bj wins in the golden gate. but i ran my money up from $18,000 to $28,000 before i started giving it all away, the first $5000 or so even before i left Vegas for deadwood.
heres the point. i thought leaving deadwood would keep me away from VBJ where i feared id take a big loss on the VBJ so there wasnt enough poker in deadwood. well there wasnt much poker in billings either, the only difference between there and deadwood a game all 7 nights of the week. but nothing like vegas, reno, detroit or etc. and after rebuying in way too deep on 2 different days when stuck and losing over $2000 in less than 3 days, i just didnt feel like being there no more.
then i left for Phoenix, but i had bad luck there too, surprisingly enough, because the games were good there the few times i was there and i usually won in the past. so i left. not because of the losses there but mainly due to the high costs of hotels. i did have one $600 win in phoenix but that dont counter act 2 $800 losses there.
but what i was saying was i thought staying off blackjack and sticking to poker would cause my roll to go back up, and it didnt. its now early february less than a week to go until my 50th birthday and im still in the hole close to $1000 for 2019. From poker i mean.
and yesterday was the day that concerns me. for while in the Orleans (and i never go there for 1 reason which im about to tell u) i lost $100 in the 15-30 omaha8 where i sat because it had immediate seating instead of the long waits lists everything else has, unless u wait til midnight or so to come by. but thats so little for that game it doesnt mean anything while i was waiting for them to bring me my original $300 buyin, i briefly got up $126. i was glad to see u dont have to pay time in it to sit.
so i went out and lost $700-800 in their 7 hands at once even money VBJ game.. the kind that binions had, and planet H still has and the old las vegas club used to be the only place at town which had it on a nickel minimum denomination instead of 25c minimum for $1.75. ive always wished the minimum was lower and ive never seen one that payed the bj correctly. so i should never play it. at least not the final hand of the martingale which was 7 hands on the $2 at 50 units each for 7 spots of $100 (at even money). im a fool.
were it not for that machine i wouldnt be afraid to come to the orleans. but ive never been in the orleans without eventually heading to that machine for a few hands. so i came back to the poker room, to get my chips and leave which id assumed got picked up from 15-30. i seen a guy i knew in the $1-3 NL so i sat a bit with $500 and turns out it was a good thing i did. game was far looser than i expected for $1-3 at orleans and i eventually quit when about everyone left but me and him and i won back $730 in it, cashing out $1230. this guy usually plays wynn and is a jeweler and everyone knows him, hes a huge nit. not sure but he might be from the middle east.
usually wins and constantly in fights with the floorman over lowering the rake. even when its only $1 for 1 hand and insists it be for that hand even when he isnt going to be the winner. floorman was saying next hand. i bet he finds him a pain in the ass. but he wins. hes doing the hours promo at the orleans. im not sure but someone mightve called him Brad or a similar name. i seen him at south point once too a long time ago. the asian lady he ran off over fighting about the rake cost him far more than the $1 he mightve saved the next pot he won.
i left because i wasnt playing him 4 handed he had about $1000 in chips too and he didnt really want to play because he thought $2+1 was too much rake. i think the Peppermill is the best room in the country, the regulars there can verify if they still do $1+1 automatically with less than 6 players, being able to buyin from $40 to $1000 (biggest stack in the room to be honest) and get all your drinks yourself and no worries about Uber and cheap rooms nearby makes it so.
so i ended up not losing all that much because of how the night recovered at the end, but still i was once up over $200 for the day (id won before i left the Tuscany) but i dont feel good about myself at all when i lose almost $800 on even money blackjack of all things. thats the worst thing u can lose it on and it makes me a complete fool. i need to get out of here. i should go to Rays house but i have zero confidence in him to get off his ass and go to work. at least he goes to the gym regularly now.
while waiting to checkin to my hotel i am washing laundry and its almost done now and its about time to get checked in. so ill close. i found out i didnt get my $50 in match play this month at the golden gate. i wish id been there in January i had it then but i forgot about this until feb 1 when i checked. actually feb 3. i last got it in dec
heres the point. i thought leaving deadwood would keep me away from VBJ where i feared id take a big loss on the VBJ so there wasnt enough poker in deadwood. well there wasnt much poker in billings either, the only difference between there and deadwood a game all 7 nights of the week. but nothing like vegas, reno, detroit or etc. and after rebuying in way too deep on 2 different days when stuck and losing over $2000 in less than 3 days, i just didnt feel like being there no more.
then i left for Phoenix, but i had bad luck there too, surprisingly enough, because the games were good there the few times i was there and i usually won in the past. so i left. not because of the losses there but mainly due to the high costs of hotels. i did have one $600 win in phoenix but that dont counter act 2 $800 losses there.
but what i was saying was i thought staying off blackjack and sticking to poker would cause my roll to go back up, and it didnt. its now early february less than a week to go until my 50th birthday and im still in the hole close to $1000 for 2019. From poker i mean.
and yesterday was the day that concerns me. for while in the Orleans (and i never go there for 1 reason which im about to tell u) i lost $100 in the 15-30 omaha8 where i sat because it had immediate seating instead of the long waits lists everything else has, unless u wait til midnight or so to come by. but thats so little for that game it doesnt mean anything while i was waiting for them to bring me my original $300 buyin, i briefly got up $126. i was glad to see u dont have to pay time in it to sit.
so i went out and lost $700-800 in their 7 hands at once even money VBJ game.. the kind that binions had, and planet H still has and the old las vegas club used to be the only place at town which had it on a nickel minimum denomination instead of 25c minimum for $1.75. ive always wished the minimum was lower and ive never seen one that payed the bj correctly. so i should never play it. at least not the final hand of the martingale which was 7 hands on the $2 at 50 units each for 7 spots of $100 (at even money). im a fool.
were it not for that machine i wouldnt be afraid to come to the orleans. but ive never been in the orleans without eventually heading to that machine for a few hands. so i came back to the poker room, to get my chips and leave which id assumed got picked up from 15-30. i seen a guy i knew in the $1-3 NL so i sat a bit with $500 and turns out it was a good thing i did. game was far looser than i expected for $1-3 at orleans and i eventually quit when about everyone left but me and him and i won back $730 in it, cashing out $1230. this guy usually plays wynn and is a jeweler and everyone knows him, hes a huge nit. not sure but he might be from the middle east.
usually wins and constantly in fights with the floorman over lowering the rake. even when its only $1 for 1 hand and insists it be for that hand even when he isnt going to be the winner. floorman was saying next hand. i bet he finds him a pain in the ass. but he wins. hes doing the hours promo at the orleans. im not sure but someone mightve called him Brad or a similar name. i seen him at south point once too a long time ago. the asian lady he ran off over fighting about the rake cost him far more than the $1 he mightve saved the next pot he won.
i left because i wasnt playing him 4 handed he had about $1000 in chips too and he didnt really want to play because he thought $2+1 was too much rake. i think the Peppermill is the best room in the country, the regulars there can verify if they still do $1+1 automatically with less than 6 players, being able to buyin from $40 to $1000 (biggest stack in the room to be honest) and get all your drinks yourself and no worries about Uber and cheap rooms nearby makes it so.
so i ended up not losing all that much because of how the night recovered at the end, but still i was once up over $200 for the day (id won before i left the Tuscany) but i dont feel good about myself at all when i lose almost $800 on even money blackjack of all things. thats the worst thing u can lose it on and it makes me a complete fool. i need to get out of here. i should go to Rays house but i have zero confidence in him to get off his ass and go to work. at least he goes to the gym regularly now.
while waiting to checkin to my hotel i am washing laundry and its almost done now and its about time to get checked in. so ill close. i found out i didnt get my $50 in match play this month at the golden gate. i wish id been there in January i had it then but i forgot about this until feb 1 when i checked. actually feb 3. i last got it in dec
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