amazing how many people came on here to bitch about tips. used to be people would support me if i didnt give out tips, specifically sickcallMcGee (Johnny Olson of omaha) and Ray. i feel like almost my entire bankroll of $33k came from not giving out as many tips as some people do. were i to have tipped what im supposed to have tipped, (an extra $1000-3000 per year) my bankroll wouldnt even be $5000 today.so to me its a survival issue critical to staying alive. mostly tips are given by drunks as far as the biggest sized ones at one time. As WEC poker knows, im over giving away money to other people. i did that all the time in my mid twenties to mid thirties, primarily to a few different women i knew. and during all that time i often never even had $8000. and i never had any dating experience when i was young enough to still be wrote to by women out of the blue who wanted to meet up and fool around, but that was primarily when i was well under age 25. reason why i never had any dating experience was because of dirt poverty, 100% of my time had to be used for nothing but coming up with money for shithole places to sleep inside at night. whether the money came from asking for change, poker, or whatever. and because of it it was only in the last few years my bankroll has been over 20k more often than its been under. Giving money away needlessly to other people was one of the most foolish things ive ever done. with that being said, i recently gave Ray $250 for a poker bankroll i hoped he would grow because i felt bad about him having no more cash to play, and deeply in debt so much he will need to ask for bankruptcy again. But thats because i felt i owed him for not returning to the toledo area. id told him id return in august and give him $1500 a month for living there and gas, and then never did.
im only giving money to those whove been my closest friends. certainly not to those who earn an hourly wage. (with the exception of a few nice cocktail waitresses i know in the deadwood area and a few dealers when the pot is sizeable and im way up or at least somewhat up). at those points i often give $2-3 instead of $1 to make up for all the times i cant give anything.
and the only person whose opinions really matter are the opinions of those who run the cab companies here in town and hire the drivers. though the one lady who owns the company i dont care for doesnt agree with me for the most part, the other guy who runs the other company, i discussed this with him the night i rode home with him driving, and he fully supports me. he suggested i give the other company a bad review with Yelp or google to let everyone know. he said i shouldnt have to tip unless they gave extremely good service and then maybe add $1 or so but otherwise no obligation. and of course drivers should never bring up tipping.
its far easier to identify with (and emotionally relate to) people like yourself. that means i cannot relate to anyone or emphasize with those who "work for the man" instead of run their own business. its always easier and more moral to side with those who own and manage large corporations and small businesses than with the workers. and when a customer has an issue with a worker, the management should never take the side of the worker over the customer. a poker room manager should never take an employees side over the side of the daily customer. a certain cab company in town is losing out on a substantial amount of business each month all over a few rude employees angry over $1 tips or ($3 tips maybe or higher). and the only one getting hurt by losing out is the owner of the company. the customers pay all the bills and they should be the only ones setting the rules, prices, etc of all decisions as to how the business is run. no one else qualifies.
finally took a loss on a video craps machine for the first time. i was up about $800 on it, getting back most of the $1000 i lost in wednesday nights $5-10 blinds $10-300 betting game $500 minimum buyin. one hand i lost because a guy called preflop with 10-2 and flopped 2 pair, and another hand i lost because the flop was TJ3, i bet $100 on the flop when they checked, and he put me allin for $300 more. i had QK suited. then on the river he said "i missed, your good". i couldnt see how, and i hadnt yet shown my hand. then he shows a missed ace high flush draw which is still good of course. but to get back to the story, by the time i left that video craps i was no longer up to $2005 from the $1200 id put in the machine. i cashed out $1080 after a rapid series of immediate 7 outs before a point or number made, so that had me stuck $120 on it instead of a win.
$500 minimum buyin is just way too high to feel comfortable though ive often bet $500 on blackjack. but if it still feels too high in poker with 33k, when will it ever NOT feel too high? thats 66 buyins.
i just woke up (typed this last night) and i will be playing in the 5-200 game tonight at 5pm
Friday, August 23, 2019
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
more about rude taxi cab drivers
a few issues here in deadwood have been on my mind bothering me the last few days and ill give u all quite an interesting story. It annoying me couldve been why i lost $2200 today on video blackjack. and i lost $165 at poker, and won $80 at video craps. at one point, i was out over $3300 for the day, but recovered a little at the end when i went back in the Bullock for a couple hours before going home.
started off decent, i was up $260 in the DMG when i went to eat right after earning enough points, barely on the bubble, right before the promotion ends at 3pm. (the free meal promotion). i went in there to check on the river dragon which is now up to $4880 but of course the only person in the entire world who would play it at that low is Yoshi.
and i keep depositing money in the wells fargo across the street. i put $5000 in there when i opened the account, and i thought if i added 1% per day, in 300 days, it would be at $40,000. for some reason ive been adding 1% (approximately) each day and now its at $6290. thought i would quickly start running out of cash this way, but for some reason when i woke up today i still had $9555 on me in cash. and yes thats too much cash to have on hand. carrying too much cash around causes me to bet too much on games outside of poker. which i shouldnt overbet no matter if i have the edge or not.
of course, now im down to only $7200 in cash.
remember of course, when i came to deadwood, i had $5980 in cash. so to have $6290 deposited in cash (with the exception of a single $150 United airlines refund check) and still have another $7200 on me, there must of been a lot of wins in deadwood between VBJ poker, and vultureable machines. im up to about $600 on wins on video craps, no idea why, i know that isnt beatable. though i lost today at poker im still close to $4000 in poker wins for the first two thirds of the month of august.
and of course ALL of the wins at poker are in higher limit games, with blinds of $5 and $5. just goes to show u its better than $1-2 games, which of course dont exist here. only shithouse $3-50 spread limit games. and the bigger game with blinds of $5-5 and $200 maximum bets which sad to say wont go more than once a week most of the time, twice a week half the time and once 3 times during the week. i still aint quite comfortable buying in the $500 game with $5 and $10 blinds with a $300 cap betting, but after todays loss, i feel like i should.
now to get into what the main topic of this blog is supposed to be discussing, which is rude taxi drivers i dont trust to be honest. a couple weeks ago during the rally i met a girl and her husband from florida, and the girl was in the backseat with me and was drunk and her husband and some other guy were in the front seat which was also a backseat. think of a car with 3 rows, the first row being where the driver sits.
in this area, cabs often have more than 1 passenger in the cab at a time unlike the big cities, because they often take a call going in the same direction and bring them both into deadwood at the same time, or both into Lead.
one of the 2 companies in town i think the drivers are much friendlier and nicer than the other company. especially the 2 morning drivers, one elderly lady and one guy. the other company one guy one time (a young guy working the rally) told me i definitely wouldnt get fast service because i never tip. and he took me about 45 minutes out of the way on a scary trip in the country on dirt roads when after saying he had to pick up a guy and girl in front of the silverado (after he had finally picked me up to go to Lead) to take these 2 folks home who lived out in the middle of nowhere, before he finally brought me home to Lead, and is why i prefer to ride home with Ricky. its not to save $7.
and then this one older lady who drives for the other company when discussing how much my expenses are and how little im actually making, commented on how i should start making enough to tip my driver. now both of the 2 people bitching about tips worked for the same company. not a driver with the other company ever mentioned tips, except the old man who defended me one time when a passenger bitched at me over it. (he told me the next trip how she was out of line). and i told that lady driving who said how come i tip the cocktails and dealers and not her is because in south dakota, (unlike most states), they only get $2.25 per hour here plus tips and the cab drivers might be getting $15 an hour (although i dont know the real rate their boss pays them) but its more than casino employees by law. theres weird laws here in south dakota. one being no phones at any poker table very strictly enforced and no smoking anywhere in the casino. and lyft and Uber being illegal here in town.
now lets get back to the story of the girl in the back of the cab with me during the rally, riding with her husband to where theyre staying for the rally. she left her purse in the back of the cab and before this happened, had added me to her facebook for no particular reason just were talking about it while i was browsing it. seems she adds everyone she had almost 1800 friends. he is a big motorcycle dude for the rally. now the driver is the same person who'd bitched about tips a couple days earlier, so i dont feel too comfortable handing her the purse because i worry she might take money out of the purse to make me look bad since she doesnt like me. but i dont want to walk a long ways to return the purse or be seen carrying it out of the cab so i hand it to the driver, (so the driver can easily see im honest, but of course, no thank u.) this is why i feel i have way more integrity than others, i dont steal or live off govt assistance like others think nothing of doing.
so when i get home i told the girl on facebook thru private messaging i found her purse. turns out she didnt see it for 3 days, til it was finally marked read.
i figured she would check it right away, and she never did reply back to thank me for turning it in. so now i wondered what the cabbie did with it and said to her. i was worried that whole night it might have all the money missing, and id find my house broken into with them thinking i stole the money. who knows, maybe there was never any money in it. but that night i worried id be killed. why? because any cab driver rude enough and desperate enough to comment on tips, i dont trust. and its not just because of my paranoia.
so the other morning when needing a cab and when the other company i prefer to use didnt answer, i called the other company. turns out the lady who answered the call (who i thought was the boss but she wasnt working that morning) happened to be the same one whod bitched about tips who i returned the purse to. and as soon as i got in she told me that instead of $7 it would be $10 and id have to pay upfront. now of course, theres no reason to ask upfront since i always paid with no issues. i didnt really believe her boss told her to charge me more, because unlike the other company which charges more during the rally and special events, this company never changes its prices. but i was insulted like she didnt trust me to pay $10 instead of $7 and insisted i give it upfront.
so i asked her if she returned the purse and that i really didnt trust her and believe her. and she got insulted and said i was being rude (when nothing i could ever do could compare to the rudeness of bitching to a passenger about not tipping--in most companies that could get an employee fired--but not with this company). so she said i had to get out of the cab and she was calling the police if i didnt get out and i told her that state anti discrimination laws which dont let u refuse passengers with disabilities (mental and autism related ones included) she couldnt kick me out without cause. the police were there in 5 minutes (very small town) and suggested i just use the other company and said they couldnt force her to take me.
there was no way in hell me asking her that was rude like she claimed when she ordered me out of the cab. nothing is more rude than her bitching about tips and asking for $10 upfront. i cant imagine her superiors asking her to do that, when they wouldnt risk losing a customer who would order a cab 60 or more times a month who would be steady business on days theyve almost no business and its slow when summer is over. all over $1-2 tips each trip that would add another $100 or so a month to my bills. but now i feel like ive only got 1 company i can use, at least until i can talk to the lady who runs the company and explain or have her explain if and why she told her other driver this. i couldnt that day because the other driver said she was taking care of her sick mother. and is why she wasnt on duty that time of day
i still have not had a chance to speak with her boss but i know her boss stood up for the other driver who was rude to me about tips and said she used to be a driver, so she understands what hes coming from.
now i dont mind if they raise the fee to $10 instead of $7, but u cant do it for me unless its for everyone, not just for me only since they dont expect to get a tip from me. for the last 10 years, its always been $7 here. and fuck asking upfront when ive got proof of being honest with that cab company for turning in that ladys purse. had the lady thanked me on facebook, id not been stressed, because then id known she got it and all the money was intact. its the girl ignoring my 2 messages that had me so uncomfortable.
started off decent, i was up $260 in the DMG when i went to eat right after earning enough points, barely on the bubble, right before the promotion ends at 3pm. (the free meal promotion). i went in there to check on the river dragon which is now up to $4880 but of course the only person in the entire world who would play it at that low is Yoshi.
and i keep depositing money in the wells fargo across the street. i put $5000 in there when i opened the account, and i thought if i added 1% per day, in 300 days, it would be at $40,000. for some reason ive been adding 1% (approximately) each day and now its at $6290. thought i would quickly start running out of cash this way, but for some reason when i woke up today i still had $9555 on me in cash. and yes thats too much cash to have on hand. carrying too much cash around causes me to bet too much on games outside of poker. which i shouldnt overbet no matter if i have the edge or not.
of course, now im down to only $7200 in cash.
remember of course, when i came to deadwood, i had $5980 in cash. so to have $6290 deposited in cash (with the exception of a single $150 United airlines refund check) and still have another $7200 on me, there must of been a lot of wins in deadwood between VBJ poker, and vultureable machines. im up to about $600 on wins on video craps, no idea why, i know that isnt beatable. though i lost today at poker im still close to $4000 in poker wins for the first two thirds of the month of august.
and of course ALL of the wins at poker are in higher limit games, with blinds of $5 and $5. just goes to show u its better than $1-2 games, which of course dont exist here. only shithouse $3-50 spread limit games. and the bigger game with blinds of $5-5 and $200 maximum bets which sad to say wont go more than once a week most of the time, twice a week half the time and once 3 times during the week. i still aint quite comfortable buying in the $500 game with $5 and $10 blinds with a $300 cap betting, but after todays loss, i feel like i should.
now to get into what the main topic of this blog is supposed to be discussing, which is rude taxi drivers i dont trust to be honest. a couple weeks ago during the rally i met a girl and her husband from florida, and the girl was in the backseat with me and was drunk and her husband and some other guy were in the front seat which was also a backseat. think of a car with 3 rows, the first row being where the driver sits.
in this area, cabs often have more than 1 passenger in the cab at a time unlike the big cities, because they often take a call going in the same direction and bring them both into deadwood at the same time, or both into Lead.
one of the 2 companies in town i think the drivers are much friendlier and nicer than the other company. especially the 2 morning drivers, one elderly lady and one guy. the other company one guy one time (a young guy working the rally) told me i definitely wouldnt get fast service because i never tip. and he took me about 45 minutes out of the way on a scary trip in the country on dirt roads when after saying he had to pick up a guy and girl in front of the silverado (after he had finally picked me up to go to Lead) to take these 2 folks home who lived out in the middle of nowhere, before he finally brought me home to Lead, and is why i prefer to ride home with Ricky. its not to save $7.
and then this one older lady who drives for the other company when discussing how much my expenses are and how little im actually making, commented on how i should start making enough to tip my driver. now both of the 2 people bitching about tips worked for the same company. not a driver with the other company ever mentioned tips, except the old man who defended me one time when a passenger bitched at me over it. (he told me the next trip how she was out of line). and i told that lady driving who said how come i tip the cocktails and dealers and not her is because in south dakota, (unlike most states), they only get $2.25 per hour here plus tips and the cab drivers might be getting $15 an hour (although i dont know the real rate their boss pays them) but its more than casino employees by law. theres weird laws here in south dakota. one being no phones at any poker table very strictly enforced and no smoking anywhere in the casino. and lyft and Uber being illegal here in town.
now lets get back to the story of the girl in the back of the cab with me during the rally, riding with her husband to where theyre staying for the rally. she left her purse in the back of the cab and before this happened, had added me to her facebook for no particular reason just were talking about it while i was browsing it. seems she adds everyone she had almost 1800 friends. he is a big motorcycle dude for the rally. now the driver is the same person who'd bitched about tips a couple days earlier, so i dont feel too comfortable handing her the purse because i worry she might take money out of the purse to make me look bad since she doesnt like me. but i dont want to walk a long ways to return the purse or be seen carrying it out of the cab so i hand it to the driver, (so the driver can easily see im honest, but of course, no thank u.) this is why i feel i have way more integrity than others, i dont steal or live off govt assistance like others think nothing of doing.
so when i get home i told the girl on facebook thru private messaging i found her purse. turns out she didnt see it for 3 days, til it was finally marked read.
i figured she would check it right away, and she never did reply back to thank me for turning it in. so now i wondered what the cabbie did with it and said to her. i was worried that whole night it might have all the money missing, and id find my house broken into with them thinking i stole the money. who knows, maybe there was never any money in it. but that night i worried id be killed. why? because any cab driver rude enough and desperate enough to comment on tips, i dont trust. and its not just because of my paranoia.
so the other morning when needing a cab and when the other company i prefer to use didnt answer, i called the other company. turns out the lady who answered the call (who i thought was the boss but she wasnt working that morning) happened to be the same one whod bitched about tips who i returned the purse to. and as soon as i got in she told me that instead of $7 it would be $10 and id have to pay upfront. now of course, theres no reason to ask upfront since i always paid with no issues. i didnt really believe her boss told her to charge me more, because unlike the other company which charges more during the rally and special events, this company never changes its prices. but i was insulted like she didnt trust me to pay $10 instead of $7 and insisted i give it upfront.
so i asked her if she returned the purse and that i really didnt trust her and believe her. and she got insulted and said i was being rude (when nothing i could ever do could compare to the rudeness of bitching to a passenger about not tipping--in most companies that could get an employee fired--but not with this company). so she said i had to get out of the cab and she was calling the police if i didnt get out and i told her that state anti discrimination laws which dont let u refuse passengers with disabilities (mental and autism related ones included) she couldnt kick me out without cause. the police were there in 5 minutes (very small town) and suggested i just use the other company and said they couldnt force her to take me.
there was no way in hell me asking her that was rude like she claimed when she ordered me out of the cab. nothing is more rude than her bitching about tips and asking for $10 upfront. i cant imagine her superiors asking her to do that, when they wouldnt risk losing a customer who would order a cab 60 or more times a month who would be steady business on days theyve almost no business and its slow when summer is over. all over $1-2 tips each trip that would add another $100 or so a month to my bills. but now i feel like ive only got 1 company i can use, at least until i can talk to the lady who runs the company and explain or have her explain if and why she told her other driver this. i couldnt that day because the other driver said she was taking care of her sick mother. and is why she wasnt on duty that time of day
i still have not had a chance to speak with her boss but i know her boss stood up for the other driver who was rude to me about tips and said she used to be a driver, so she understands what hes coming from.
now i dont mind if they raise the fee to $10 instead of $7, but u cant do it for me unless its for everyone, not just for me only since they dont expect to get a tip from me. for the last 10 years, its always been $7 here. and fuck asking upfront when ive got proof of being honest with that cab company for turning in that ladys purse. had the lady thanked me on facebook, id not been stressed, because then id known she got it and all the money was intact. its the girl ignoring my 2 messages that had me so uncomfortable.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
i was due for a loss but it wasnt that bad of loss
I didnt realize how long id waited to update this blog, until just now i noticed it was 9 whole days. i guess ive lost interest in it, due to me publishing my blog and stating emotions and feelings in the past causing so many problems for me. every time i write theres so much i want to say i feel i cannot say without certain people getting angry at me for being honest.
I found out finally from someone playing at Cadillac today where to find a poker game in a bar in Gillette (google wouldnt show me this when i looked a few months ago) but i doubt ill ever get a chance to use it since i dont drive, and have no plans to pay a huge price for an Uber out that way, but theres a good omaha dealers choice on friday nights.
i will tell u the cab drivers in this area for the most part are extremely rude about commenting on people if u dont tip. except for one really nice guy i met last year who told me another customer was way out of line for doing so, but im not sure if he still works and cant remember for sure who it was. theres basically only 2 cab companies that service deadwood and lead all the time for a $7 fare. (and one that will service this area for a $10-15 fare but not all the time). and doing the rally it was very difficult and often a wait to get one, or they didnt answer the phone. but ive ran to at least 3 who make rude comments about it, and thats almost i think 25-33% of the drivers. and the lady running the one company didnt seem concerned about it. she is as greedy as the drivers since even though she owns and runs the company she drives herself. but i do know that unlike the drink servers and the dealers (who alone cost u about $1200 a month to tip) they arent getting $2.25 that south dakota law allows, but a regular minimum wage. so they dont need it. way too many professions expect tips nowdays and the only people considered the working poor who really could use the money dont get them. im talking about your fast food workers, convenience store workers,etc all of whom get maybe $10 or less per hour without tips, while those making tips hardly ever make less than $25 an hour.
imagine how much resentment they would feel having to give out a lot of their $10 an hour in tips to others. and us poker players dont really make more than that. im only at $13 per hour for this year at poker, for a bit less than $19,500 for the year off poker alone.
never had to deal with rude comments in reno or vegas, because lyft and uber werent illegal there. and i never would use a cab for the most part due to the high fees. in this area cabs are cheap its often $7 unless u go far out, such as spearfish or rapid city. then it really is outrageously high. like $28 to spearfish and $80 to rapid city. but i would usually have a new driver every time although there were a few repeats who drove for these companies all the time but with Uber and Lyft many people drive for them so infrequently and so many 1000s of "employees" u dont get the same 10 people or less driving u get here in deadwood.
and of course both Uber and Lyft are quick to quack down on drivers who badger the customers for tips.
i got all of the books delivered finally, (well the notice i can pick them up at the post office tomorrow). i knew they wouldnt fit in the mailbox especially since i ordered over 70 of them.
i need another suitcase when i leave this area by plane someday soon. i wont have time to read near all these books and of course ill need something to pack more clothes in too.
and theres a guy here who plays regularly who appears to be broke, but somehow buys into the game and plays pretty tight. hes about 5-10 years older than me it appears. he keeps trying to say he will teach me to drive, (not interested) and now wants to sell me his car since hes buying a van and plans to travel. im afraid to trust him or get in his car because i dont believe hes got any money and because i feel like im such as easy target. i only trust the cab drivers (for the most part) and of course, either Ricky or Corey for rides. and Nick because lightning vouches for him. otherwise id not.
i was glad nick took time out to come to deadwood from mt rushmore though he was tired. he almost lost his money but thankfully recovered, i didnt want to feel responsible. he won at least $110 i think. i won too about $600 and in fact won good several times during the rally. before the awful night today, id won over $3000 for poker since august 1. i think mostly because of luck and the rally and the $200 max bet $5-5 blinds going a lot more days than usual.
tonight i got dealt QQ and id ran my $158 buyins up to almost $400. flopped top set, both a raise and reraise preflop , again on the flop ($50 max) on the turn when he hits his gutshot AK and the game breaks after the river because 3 guys left to go play a tourney at the lodge. too bad it didnt break a hand sooner. i cashed out only $65, and was surprised the game went on a monday. i came over there stuck over $1500 on video BJ from the dmg ($700) and the Bullock ($800) expecting to play the craps machine. but i seen 3 people waiting for a game, so started one up and it actually got up to 7 people. very odd for a monday. and whats even more odd is after it broke, a new group of 3-4 people restarted a game almost 2 hours later right before the dealers wouldve quit and gave up and went home. im sure Corey was shocked it went twice.
and the second time i lost over $300. so today wasnt good. only thing i won on was video craps. and i did win back about $300 on video BJ in the Bullock after leaving cadillac jacks after i managed to disappear from the guy who wants to sell me his car. but im still down to $33 from $34. at least ive still got everything i left reno with. to be honest i dont really enjoy being here anymore. sick of not being able to play PLO.
I found out finally from someone playing at Cadillac today where to find a poker game in a bar in Gillette (google wouldnt show me this when i looked a few months ago) but i doubt ill ever get a chance to use it since i dont drive, and have no plans to pay a huge price for an Uber out that way, but theres a good omaha dealers choice on friday nights.
i will tell u the cab drivers in this area for the most part are extremely rude about commenting on people if u dont tip. except for one really nice guy i met last year who told me another customer was way out of line for doing so, but im not sure if he still works and cant remember for sure who it was. theres basically only 2 cab companies that service deadwood and lead all the time for a $7 fare. (and one that will service this area for a $10-15 fare but not all the time). and doing the rally it was very difficult and often a wait to get one, or they didnt answer the phone. but ive ran to at least 3 who make rude comments about it, and thats almost i think 25-33% of the drivers. and the lady running the one company didnt seem concerned about it. she is as greedy as the drivers since even though she owns and runs the company she drives herself. but i do know that unlike the drink servers and the dealers (who alone cost u about $1200 a month to tip) they arent getting $2.25 that south dakota law allows, but a regular minimum wage. so they dont need it. way too many professions expect tips nowdays and the only people considered the working poor who really could use the money dont get them. im talking about your fast food workers, convenience store workers,etc all of whom get maybe $10 or less per hour without tips, while those making tips hardly ever make less than $25 an hour.
imagine how much resentment they would feel having to give out a lot of their $10 an hour in tips to others. and us poker players dont really make more than that. im only at $13 per hour for this year at poker, for a bit less than $19,500 for the year off poker alone.
never had to deal with rude comments in reno or vegas, because lyft and uber werent illegal there. and i never would use a cab for the most part due to the high fees. in this area cabs are cheap its often $7 unless u go far out, such as spearfish or rapid city. then it really is outrageously high. like $28 to spearfish and $80 to rapid city. but i would usually have a new driver every time although there were a few repeats who drove for these companies all the time but with Uber and Lyft many people drive for them so infrequently and so many 1000s of "employees" u dont get the same 10 people or less driving u get here in deadwood.
and of course both Uber and Lyft are quick to quack down on drivers who badger the customers for tips.
i got all of the books delivered finally, (well the notice i can pick them up at the post office tomorrow). i knew they wouldnt fit in the mailbox especially since i ordered over 70 of them.
i need another suitcase when i leave this area by plane someday soon. i wont have time to read near all these books and of course ill need something to pack more clothes in too.
and theres a guy here who plays regularly who appears to be broke, but somehow buys into the game and plays pretty tight. hes about 5-10 years older than me it appears. he keeps trying to say he will teach me to drive, (not interested) and now wants to sell me his car since hes buying a van and plans to travel. im afraid to trust him or get in his car because i dont believe hes got any money and because i feel like im such as easy target. i only trust the cab drivers (for the most part) and of course, either Ricky or Corey for rides. and Nick because lightning vouches for him. otherwise id not.
i was glad nick took time out to come to deadwood from mt rushmore though he was tired. he almost lost his money but thankfully recovered, i didnt want to feel responsible. he won at least $110 i think. i won too about $600 and in fact won good several times during the rally. before the awful night today, id won over $3000 for poker since august 1. i think mostly because of luck and the rally and the $200 max bet $5-5 blinds going a lot more days than usual.
tonight i got dealt QQ and id ran my $158 buyins up to almost $400. flopped top set, both a raise and reraise preflop , again on the flop ($50 max) on the turn when he hits his gutshot AK and the game breaks after the river because 3 guys left to go play a tourney at the lodge. too bad it didnt break a hand sooner. i cashed out only $65, and was surprised the game went on a monday. i came over there stuck over $1500 on video BJ from the dmg ($700) and the Bullock ($800) expecting to play the craps machine. but i seen 3 people waiting for a game, so started one up and it actually got up to 7 people. very odd for a monday. and whats even more odd is after it broke, a new group of 3-4 people restarted a game almost 2 hours later right before the dealers wouldve quit and gave up and went home. im sure Corey was shocked it went twice.
and the second time i lost over $300. so today wasnt good. only thing i won on was video craps. and i did win back about $300 on video BJ in the Bullock after leaving cadillac jacks after i managed to disappear from the guy who wants to sell me his car. but im still down to $33 from $34. at least ive still got everything i left reno with. to be honest i dont really enjoy being here anymore. sick of not being able to play PLO.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Life during the Sturgis motorcycle rally here in deadwood
This is the first time ive ever been in deadwood while the rally is going on, and i didnt realize what an affect it would have on the cab industry. i just thought more would be out on the roads. but it seems like everyone wants to ONLY go back and forth to sturgis, (for a $28 ride) instead of doing the $7 rides to lead. so i had to wait 2 hours or so extra, and almost turned a $400 winning poker session overall ($550 won at cadillac in the $5/5 $200 cap bet NL game) and the other $100 lost in saloon ten--into a losing session when while waiting for a cab to be available, walked into the DMG and almost got stuck several hundred or more on the VBJ. ended up only losing about $100 or so in there but i was down over $500 once, and couldve lost over $1000 had one big bet the dealer not of busted. someone was on the one in the Bullock. so i still made it back home up about $300 for the night.
and its difficult to get the key to work to lock the front door properly, the wifi doesnt have a very good signal. and another issue i wouldnt mind talking to the owner with, but hes out in international waters for the next few days. as many properties as he owns without living in this area, im sure hes making a shitton of money.
I sent vince today his $60, im glad ive still got both phones (and paying both bills). they come in handy now and im sure they will later on too.
also i ordered a bunch of things thru ebay (mostly christian books) but i need to talk with the post office as to how it works when it wont fit in the mailbox and im not at home. dont exactly want it left on the porch. especially when i spent over $80 in total for all orders combined. i even think its possible its the neighbors mailbox and the owner doesnt have the mailbox required by law for mail to be delivered here.
also i dont understand how to use hulu and netflix so though its offered here, i never use it. i was even told hulu has the news, but i have no idea how it works. ive never watched movies or have any interest in so. i wouldve watched the documentary "behind the edge" or was it beyond the edge? but i didnt want to pay the $3.99 fee thru google pay to watch it on utube.
now the $5/5 $200 cap bet no limit game (for the smaller stacked players) and for some of the others its more like a $200 fixed limit game. without Merle or Angel playing in the game (or Terry or Mike campbell) its not really got any loose action in it. but according to Bill Potts i should still play it. i think since i lost on wednesday when the minimum buyin is $500 (i wonder if id still lost had i not shoved preflop with K5 after waiting a long time for a hand i could dominate preflop) and then losing twice when Karim offered to run it twice, which i gladly accepted.
but since i lost when i bought $500, i should only play when i buyin less than that. although i did win the week before when i was stuck $752 and then bought in $800 to get even. but $500 is just too high starting off.
i doubled up with my AA once early on when stuck, and the big hand at the end? i called Terry with 10 10 down all the way on a flop of 457 with 2 of one suit, turn 4, river 9. and he was on some type of draw with 6 in his hand. didnt see the other card he briefly was flashing before he discarded. actually i had about 10% of my stack in preflop, and another 20% on the flop, so when he reraised me $200, i just came over the top allin. after winning the hand, i had over $960 off my $410 in buyins so i quit the game and went to saloon ten. the game wasnt nearly as loose there in saloon ten as it shouldve been on most fridays this time of year.
thanks to ricky for driving me to walmarts in spearfish and home. i needed to fill up the place with $135 worth of groceries (a months supply). i learned a lot of interesting stories in the car about his beliefs and his exs.
and its difficult to get the key to work to lock the front door properly, the wifi doesnt have a very good signal. and another issue i wouldnt mind talking to the owner with, but hes out in international waters for the next few days. as many properties as he owns without living in this area, im sure hes making a shitton of money.
I sent vince today his $60, im glad ive still got both phones (and paying both bills). they come in handy now and im sure they will later on too.
also i ordered a bunch of things thru ebay (mostly christian books) but i need to talk with the post office as to how it works when it wont fit in the mailbox and im not at home. dont exactly want it left on the porch. especially when i spent over $80 in total for all orders combined. i even think its possible its the neighbors mailbox and the owner doesnt have the mailbox required by law for mail to be delivered here.
also i dont understand how to use hulu and netflix so though its offered here, i never use it. i was even told hulu has the news, but i have no idea how it works. ive never watched movies or have any interest in so. i wouldve watched the documentary "behind the edge" or was it beyond the edge? but i didnt want to pay the $3.99 fee thru google pay to watch it on utube.
now the $5/5 $200 cap bet no limit game (for the smaller stacked players) and for some of the others its more like a $200 fixed limit game. without Merle or Angel playing in the game (or Terry or Mike campbell) its not really got any loose action in it. but according to Bill Potts i should still play it. i think since i lost on wednesday when the minimum buyin is $500 (i wonder if id still lost had i not shoved preflop with K5 after waiting a long time for a hand i could dominate preflop) and then losing twice when Karim offered to run it twice, which i gladly accepted.
but since i lost when i bought $500, i should only play when i buyin less than that. although i did win the week before when i was stuck $752 and then bought in $800 to get even. but $500 is just too high starting off.
i doubled up with my AA once early on when stuck, and the big hand at the end? i called Terry with 10 10 down all the way on a flop of 457 with 2 of one suit, turn 4, river 9. and he was on some type of draw with 6 in his hand. didnt see the other card he briefly was flashing before he discarded. actually i had about 10% of my stack in preflop, and another 20% on the flop, so when he reraised me $200, i just came over the top allin. after winning the hand, i had over $960 off my $410 in buyins so i quit the game and went to saloon ten. the game wasnt nearly as loose there in saloon ten as it shouldve been on most fridays this time of year.
thanks to ricky for driving me to walmarts in spearfish and home. i needed to fill up the place with $135 worth of groceries (a months supply). i learned a lot of interesting stories in the car about his beliefs and his exs.
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