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.
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