the day got off to a very poor start because after 3-4 hours sleep they were knocking on my door wanting to check the smoke detectors in every room in the building, and i definitely dont wake up til 4-7pm in the evening most all days and get to sleep about 8am. and i just couldnt get back to sleep after that no matter how hard i tried. so i went to the casino to try and recover the previous days $250 loss. i have not played VBJ since a few weeks ago when i had the big loss because i dont want to pay a lot of money on Uber fares, and im scared ill just have a loss again too.
so im still at only $15,900 of my low of $13,600 right after the big loss. were the cost of living here not being $800-900 a week it would grow a lot faster. not all of that is rent of course, some is the cost of food and Lyft. and a $70 monthly unlimited everything phone bill, automatically deducted every month prepaid.
i couldnt get any good cards, and was too tired to play my best, hung out over 4-5 hours and eventually went home at 530pm to sleep down another $260.
i slept quickly and got up about midnite with about 5 more hours of sleep. then left for the cardroom before it closes at 4am to get my schedule back on track to sleep days again. and i started off losing $100 in the $1-2 NL. and moved to the $2-5 though the game was good because i hate the way the max buyin here in $1-2 NL is only $200.
so i sat in it with $500 and ended up winning a big pot which got me up to over $825, and then nothing much happened for the next hour, and then i decided to move to a different $1-2 with $61 of my $861. i didnt want to give it back, but i still needed to win a few more hundred. one guy was straddling too much and $2-5 has the missisippi straddle instead of the button straddle and i had to act in EP way too much. only one old man had it even worse acting before me.
the big pot i won was with 79 offsuit in an unraised pot. i was the BB and i checked and so did others and a guy bets in late position on a flop of 258 with 2 diamonds. i thought maybe he only bet because it was checked and he was last to act. (seems i ALWAYS think this). so i check raised another $35 in hopes he folded. the smart thing for him to do there is shove and of course i snap fold, but no he calls.
turn hits the 6c for the gutshot nut straight. i make a bet of $90 and he calls. turned out he had the 34 of diamonds for the smaller straight and the flush draw. river comes 4, and i feel like he had a big hand on the turn or flop and was thinking of reraising (my read was correct). i shove and hope he has a 7 so he will call, and he calls all right and i won a huge pot.
i have no business check raising with 79 on a flop of 258, but im lucky he didnt shove the flop. maybe the check raise disguised my hand?
i still think i should get out of here, because i thought about playing the VBJ yesterday and making the long ride over. i need to be where the ride is a few hundred miles away. and id like to get a membership card in those tx clubs before my id expires. i found out once u have the membership card, most seldom ever need the id again. because there is no bad beat jackpots and high hands to worry about ever needing to show it.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020
sticking with poker
well ever since my last blog post i havent played anything but poker. thats because i havent been anywhere to gamble except the casino which doesnt offer any live BJ and cant legally offer slot machines. i guess thats the best solution. i could possibly even visit dallas now since they finally can legally offer a poker room. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/01/25/dallas-could-have-had-a-legal-poker-room-if-only-the-city-council-hadn-t-folded/?493 but of course houston, austin and san antonio would offer far better options.
so in the past week or so ive won $2900 at poker, which is way above average for such a short time period, but of course $800-900 of it went on food, motel, and Lyft. all it did is get the bankroll back to $15,700 from $13,600. thats still nothing considering i once had 20k here in florida when at the high water mark when i was still at the other hotel before the first $4200 drop, which was a week or two or three before the $3000 drop but of course i only had $14,500 when i flew out of Minnesota here.
Ray really needs to open a ACR account and either deposit some bitcoin or buy some ACR off someone else he trusts, like me. it would give him a way to play micro low stakes at home for $5 or less for a few hours and maybe earn a few bucks and watch it grow very slowly. the lowest my account ever got down to was under $9 but now im still hanging onto about $30. it was never higher than $180.
I dont understand why im winning so much more at poker here than in all the other cities around the country, with the lone exception of Scottsdale. it certainly doesnt have the big buyins allowed like Reno and Biloxi allow. and there certainly isnt nowhere here the UTG acts first instead of the SB on button straddles (which arent allowed in this room unless its $2-5 or higher).
maybe its because this room dont have machines so the people decide to use the poker tables to do their negative EV gambling, i really dont know. or maybe it will change once everyone flies home in April. but most of the players seem to live here year round. or maybe its that people here are less familiar with my play and expect me to play differently than i really do. the longer i play in a new place, the worse my results get. i never know if its a good idea to show bluffs or not.
this is one of my shorter blogs, but i dont know what to talk about and its been a week now since i last updated the blog. although i kind of wish i was relaxing at Rays house with no stress about bills, and in Vegas with lightning, i dont see how i can leave when its so much easier to win at poker here, at least in $1-2. and i did play $2-5 NL a few times and won in it too, but still most of the play has been at $1-2.
i might need to start looking for a dentist in florida who offers IV sedation, but im sure they wont do it unless i bring someone along, and i still know no one in the area. and i still dont know if rates will reduce that much come April. had i had a working ID in april the motel i used to stay at would allow people to rent monthly again at a much lower cost.
so in the past week or so ive won $2900 at poker, which is way above average for such a short time period, but of course $800-900 of it went on food, motel, and Lyft. all it did is get the bankroll back to $15,700 from $13,600. thats still nothing considering i once had 20k here in florida when at the high water mark when i was still at the other hotel before the first $4200 drop, which was a week or two or three before the $3000 drop but of course i only had $14,500 when i flew out of Minnesota here.
Ray really needs to open a ACR account and either deposit some bitcoin or buy some ACR off someone else he trusts, like me. it would give him a way to play micro low stakes at home for $5 or less for a few hours and maybe earn a few bucks and watch it grow very slowly. the lowest my account ever got down to was under $9 but now im still hanging onto about $30. it was never higher than $180.
I dont understand why im winning so much more at poker here than in all the other cities around the country, with the lone exception of Scottsdale. it certainly doesnt have the big buyins allowed like Reno and Biloxi allow. and there certainly isnt nowhere here the UTG acts first instead of the SB on button straddles (which arent allowed in this room unless its $2-5 or higher).
maybe its because this room dont have machines so the people decide to use the poker tables to do their negative EV gambling, i really dont know. or maybe it will change once everyone flies home in April. but most of the players seem to live here year round. or maybe its that people here are less familiar with my play and expect me to play differently than i really do. the longer i play in a new place, the worse my results get. i never know if its a good idea to show bluffs or not.
this is one of my shorter blogs, but i dont know what to talk about and its been a week now since i last updated the blog. although i kind of wish i was relaxing at Rays house with no stress about bills, and in Vegas with lightning, i dont see how i can leave when its so much easier to win at poker here, at least in $1-2. and i did play $2-5 NL a few times and won in it too, but still most of the play has been at $1-2.
i might need to start looking for a dentist in florida who offers IV sedation, but im sure they wont do it unless i bring someone along, and i still know no one in the area. and i still dont know if rates will reduce that much come April. had i had a working ID in april the motel i used to stay at would allow people to rent monthly again at a much lower cost.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
how can i stop playing VBJ and still play poker?
Well if being so far away from live BJ or video BJ wont stop me from playing VBJ instead of nothing but poker, what will? i thought being a $28-45 Uber or Lyft fee just for one way would be enough to keep me from going, and many days it did. but on the 1 day it doesnt work it wipes out weeks of progress. everyone who knows me knows i wasted years of my life in small stakes games seldom ever playing $2-5 NL or higher. But this past week i played $2-5 NL several times. (and $5-10 NL)
here is why. theres no $1-2 PLO here to move to if u get stuck too much at $1-2 NL. there is a $2-5 PLO but seldom. and u cannot rebuy for $300 if u get stuck too much in $1-2 NL either because they cap it at $60-200 and being from Reno, i am not used to all these small cap games. a lot of the places i always played around the country were at least $300 max buyin, sometimes $500 or match the biggest stack. so the only way to get more money into play if u are stuck big is to play $2-5 ($500 cap on the buyin which is still ridicously low and no real $2-5 grinder would sit in a game without at least $1000 buyin limit) even in the $5-10 NL the max buyin is only $300 and the minimum $100.
so if im martingaling my poker buyins and im stuck too much in $1-2 NL and theres no machines around, if i want to get even for the night in one hand (without having to win either multiple pots or a BBJ or high hand) im forced to play a game i seldom play. and one thing ive noticed thats different about $2-5 NL is a lot more people check and raise instead of bet. and the game has far less people who see the flop. so why would a good player ever want to play it instead of $1-2 where the players are much worse and its a lot easier to win their money?
theres so much more money available to be made in $1-2 NL than in $2-5 but u need to be in a place like Reno that doesnt limit the size of how much u can buyin for. i've also heard Biloxi is no cap in all their NL games, but Biloxi ruined the game by making it $1-3 instead of $1-2 in an attemption to get the games to tighten up a little by forcing the SB to fold more often because he is only 1 3rd of the way already invested instead of 1/2. $1-3 has never been good for poker, nor has $2-5. all games should be either $1-2, $2-3 or $3-5 NL. Scottsdale ONLY offers $2-3 and $3-5 NL and remember that was where the loosest games were.
also casinos could make the games better by making the UTG straddle mandatory. ive often fought for this in games and never could get the table to agree. mainly the way this makes the games better is by stopping people from being able to straddle the button (which ruins and tightens up games) because only one person can straddle at a time.
i either need to go a whole lot further north or fly to texas where machines offering VBJ dont exist. i cant just play online because the online players in the tiniest of stakes are much more skilled than most live $5-10 NL players. there just isnt any multiway pots with 7 limpers in 9 handed games. this is why i quickly built my $100 of bitcoin into over $180 on ACR, then lost it all back, a lot of it tonight constantly rebuying in the PLO8 sngs and the stud8 MTT. and lightning told me he doesnt believe the random number generator on ACR is honest and fair. ive also been told in WA video BJ is illegal because of WA state laws on what type of machines are legal. but im a bit unsure of this and dont know if i have any readers in WA to look around the casino.
the only way to recover the bankroll (this is the first year ive probably cleared more than $50k at $1-2 NL in the past 12 months AND also lost about $30k or more of it in VBJ). most of the time i won a lot less at poker and certainly didnt have that much to lose on blackjack. but remember i lost a lot on live BJ in vegas too that week between the D and golden gate. i havent been back to use my mailers but im still getting free nights and $200 or more in match play when i do. but to recover the roll there must be no machine VBJ or live VBJ or VP play whatsoever. and also no tipping the dealer whatsoever. i waste about $10k a year in tips, and ive got to cut that out. i need to be somewhere there are drink stations so i dont ever have to tip the cocktail waitress either. i will tip the dealer if i go to the place alaska gal suggested though because i promised her i would.
if i cant spend my money on the machines i like to play, then i sure shouldnt waste it giving it away to other people who seldom appreciate it especially when i need it for important medical and dental procedures and obtaining proof of my citizenship. right now the only expense i can use money on is continuing to sleep indoors instead of outdoors and getting to and from the cardroom. and today some rich asian girl (who i later found out dealt at a different cardroom) and was wearing a fancy piece of expensive jewelry asked me one pot if i tipped the dealer on that pot. now thats rude to say that when she had enough money to tip for the entire room, and if Bernie sanders won, he would force her to spend her wealth on others.
and what made it worse later was she was talking with the dealer about the room and shift she worked on, and said she couldnt believe how her friend (some girl) quit the Isle to deal there at coconut creek, and her friend claimed to her she was making over $400 a night. when almost 95% of employees in this country earn well below minimum wage at their non tip jobs. its pure selfishness that pressures people to tip the dealer when the dealers earn so much more than everyone else and their customers struggle to get by. remember the blog years ago where the dealers at the Lodge in colorado were telling a customer he should apply for a dealing job because they were getting close to 85000 a year in tips.
here is why. theres no $1-2 PLO here to move to if u get stuck too much at $1-2 NL. there is a $2-5 PLO but seldom. and u cannot rebuy for $300 if u get stuck too much in $1-2 NL either because they cap it at $60-200 and being from Reno, i am not used to all these small cap games. a lot of the places i always played around the country were at least $300 max buyin, sometimes $500 or match the biggest stack. so the only way to get more money into play if u are stuck big is to play $2-5 ($500 cap on the buyin which is still ridicously low and no real $2-5 grinder would sit in a game without at least $1000 buyin limit) even in the $5-10 NL the max buyin is only $300 and the minimum $100.
so if im martingaling my poker buyins and im stuck too much in $1-2 NL and theres no machines around, if i want to get even for the night in one hand (without having to win either multiple pots or a BBJ or high hand) im forced to play a game i seldom play. and one thing ive noticed thats different about $2-5 NL is a lot more people check and raise instead of bet. and the game has far less people who see the flop. so why would a good player ever want to play it instead of $1-2 where the players are much worse and its a lot easier to win their money?
theres so much more money available to be made in $1-2 NL than in $2-5 but u need to be in a place like Reno that doesnt limit the size of how much u can buyin for. i've also heard Biloxi is no cap in all their NL games, but Biloxi ruined the game by making it $1-3 instead of $1-2 in an attemption to get the games to tighten up a little by forcing the SB to fold more often because he is only 1 3rd of the way already invested instead of 1/2. $1-3 has never been good for poker, nor has $2-5. all games should be either $1-2, $2-3 or $3-5 NL. Scottsdale ONLY offers $2-3 and $3-5 NL and remember that was where the loosest games were.
also casinos could make the games better by making the UTG straddle mandatory. ive often fought for this in games and never could get the table to agree. mainly the way this makes the games better is by stopping people from being able to straddle the button (which ruins and tightens up games) because only one person can straddle at a time.
i either need to go a whole lot further north or fly to texas where machines offering VBJ dont exist. i cant just play online because the online players in the tiniest of stakes are much more skilled than most live $5-10 NL players. there just isnt any multiway pots with 7 limpers in 9 handed games. this is why i quickly built my $100 of bitcoin into over $180 on ACR, then lost it all back, a lot of it tonight constantly rebuying in the PLO8 sngs and the stud8 MTT. and lightning told me he doesnt believe the random number generator on ACR is honest and fair. ive also been told in WA video BJ is illegal because of WA state laws on what type of machines are legal. but im a bit unsure of this and dont know if i have any readers in WA to look around the casino.
the only way to recover the bankroll (this is the first year ive probably cleared more than $50k at $1-2 NL in the past 12 months AND also lost about $30k or more of it in VBJ). most of the time i won a lot less at poker and certainly didnt have that much to lose on blackjack. but remember i lost a lot on live BJ in vegas too that week between the D and golden gate. i havent been back to use my mailers but im still getting free nights and $200 or more in match play when i do. but to recover the roll there must be no machine VBJ or live VBJ or VP play whatsoever. and also no tipping the dealer whatsoever. i waste about $10k a year in tips, and ive got to cut that out. i need to be somewhere there are drink stations so i dont ever have to tip the cocktail waitress either. i will tip the dealer if i go to the place alaska gal suggested though because i promised her i would.
if i cant spend my money on the machines i like to play, then i sure shouldnt waste it giving it away to other people who seldom appreciate it especially when i need it for important medical and dental procedures and obtaining proof of my citizenship. right now the only expense i can use money on is continuing to sleep indoors instead of outdoors and getting to and from the cardroom. and today some rich asian girl (who i later found out dealt at a different cardroom) and was wearing a fancy piece of expensive jewelry asked me one pot if i tipped the dealer on that pot. now thats rude to say that when she had enough money to tip for the entire room, and if Bernie sanders won, he would force her to spend her wealth on others.
and what made it worse later was she was talking with the dealer about the room and shift she worked on, and said she couldnt believe how her friend (some girl) quit the Isle to deal there at coconut creek, and her friend claimed to her she was making over $400 a night. when almost 95% of employees in this country earn well below minimum wage at their non tip jobs. its pure selfishness that pressures people to tip the dealer when the dealers earn so much more than everyone else and their customers struggle to get by. remember the blog years ago where the dealers at the Lodge in colorado were telling a customer he should apply for a dealing job because they were getting close to 85000 a year in tips.
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