i finally won over $350 in a private game last night, but thats because i was playing in a different location this time. i ended up paying the rent for a week today instead of heading to Kansas, and that was primarily because when i get tired i only think of falling asleep and not catching planes all day and i didnt want to sit around til 7 in the morning and piss off the company im renting from by sleeping and staying home til about 3-4 pm and then trying to check out much later than 11am.
i think i got a good immune system because i dont ever drink or smoke or eat butter or mayonnaise or pizza. all poker players have built up a good one in my opinion. but my fat bloated stomach gets more pronounced.
i have no idea when poker rooms will finally be reopened, and with Trump extending things thru april 30 now, instead of Easter, i dont think ill have any income anytime soon. i guess i was lucky to have 14,800 plus (before i paid the dentist) before this happened, because most dont have that much in their checking account, and im down now to only $11,700. i forgot about my monthly $22 Uber Pink charge, until after the fact. im also glad i did the dental work when i did, but i do wish i wouldve done both teeth when i couldve instead of just the one. But after 1 more months worth of rental and food and miscellanoes expeneses or 2 months, i dread how low ill be then if i dont start winning and selling the winnings on acr.
i had a weird dream last night in which i was trying to shut a door and lock it at my moms house (and these dreams about being there the house never looks the way it actually is) and i couldnt see a soul outside but all of a sudden i felt someone opening the lock from outside and trying to push the door open. and then im at the cannery in las vegas and they are running the wsop there because of the virus because its the only room willing to stay open and hold it.
i ask for a seat in the 10-20 razz game but they were calling it some weird other name i cant remember. and i dream one guy is a pitboss from Binions whose previously thrown me out. and he tells me, these players are the absolute best players in the world and that i shouldnt be playing with them. and he says dont u know who these guys are? and i see stacks of blue $1 chips in front of Barbara Enright, Barney Boatman, and Jan fisher.
and then im outside without shoes on running to try to get to the next street a block away to cash in my chips and im worried about stepping on thistles.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
A trip to the grocery store during a stay at home order under the coronavirus
the city bus was still running, and if lightning is able to login and edit the pictures stored on my phone that are not on my laptop, u can see there is NO fare, half the seats are locked out so no one can sit next to anyone, and the driver is blocked far back from the passengers. (why there is no fare). u go in the back door of the bus instead of the front door to avoid being near the driver.
i have never been to an HEB store before but i was told it was better than Walmart, and it was closer to where im living but in the opposite direction of where the cardroom is, so id never been there before. when i got there i seen security outside (with guns in their pockets) and a line of people spread apart a little bit waiting for a shopping cart. eventually i was assigned a shopping cart (at the time Ray was phoning me) and they sanitized every cart before they handed it to a new person.
there was plenty of food inside, except none of the Hormel microwaveable Compleats meals i so desperately needed. and a lot of things like spaghetti and noodles missing too and canned goods. but there were plenty of eggs, cans of tuna, a whole aisle of bottled water, and also toilet paper and paper towels. it was a little higher priced than walmart and i also got some fruit. There was a wells fargo ATM inside which i used to withdraw $400.
But a lot of people were wearing masks, some makeshift masks made out of bandannas. and it made me nervous because it caused me to wonder if sick people were going out to shop who were out of food. the govt specifically said u shouldnt be wearing a mask if u arent sick. one of the illegal games i went to was passing out masks to anyone who wanted one, and the guy running the other game wasnt comfortable with the idea of someone wearing a mask. one thing i did NOT see in the store was hand sanitizer, unless i dont know how to tell the difference between it and regular soap.
i only ended up buying $35 worth of food, because i have some at home, including a refridgerated jar of dill pickles mom recommended were healthy which i cant seem to open. and there is still a chance i leave next tuesday to live at my moms house for a month while i have nothing else to do. she tells me i wont owe nothing but my food costs, and all i need to do is mow the yard.
i also got plenty of change so i can wash a load of laundry again. and i have some detergent.
yeah ive got only about $45 on ACR because i sold Maninblack $10.50 worth of it and i need to get more of it myself and ill need about $200 worth if i go to moms. theres really no way to win money online, and im playing way too low of stakes because i dont trust anything higher than microstakes. plus in the $1 and $2 tournies and under, the late registration is open FOREVER and by the time u reach the money u are in for like 6-10 buyins or so and when u cash u still lose. i imagine its different in the bigger tourneys but i cant afford the higher priced tournies.
to avoid this u can play sngs but they take longer to fill than in the old days of stars, but with all the new people online its getting better. so i finally switched to a lot more sngs and less mtts. and i still like the hilo stud games too.
i have never been to an HEB store before but i was told it was better than Walmart, and it was closer to where im living but in the opposite direction of where the cardroom is, so id never been there before. when i got there i seen security outside (with guns in their pockets) and a line of people spread apart a little bit waiting for a shopping cart. eventually i was assigned a shopping cart (at the time Ray was phoning me) and they sanitized every cart before they handed it to a new person.
there was plenty of food inside, except none of the Hormel microwaveable Compleats meals i so desperately needed. and a lot of things like spaghetti and noodles missing too and canned goods. but there were plenty of eggs, cans of tuna, a whole aisle of bottled water, and also toilet paper and paper towels. it was a little higher priced than walmart and i also got some fruit. There was a wells fargo ATM inside which i used to withdraw $400.
But a lot of people were wearing masks, some makeshift masks made out of bandannas. and it made me nervous because it caused me to wonder if sick people were going out to shop who were out of food. the govt specifically said u shouldnt be wearing a mask if u arent sick. one of the illegal games i went to was passing out masks to anyone who wanted one, and the guy running the other game wasnt comfortable with the idea of someone wearing a mask. one thing i did NOT see in the store was hand sanitizer, unless i dont know how to tell the difference between it and regular soap.
i only ended up buying $35 worth of food, because i have some at home, including a refridgerated jar of dill pickles mom recommended were healthy which i cant seem to open. and there is still a chance i leave next tuesday to live at my moms house for a month while i have nothing else to do. she tells me i wont owe nothing but my food costs, and all i need to do is mow the yard.
i also got plenty of change so i can wash a load of laundry again. and i have some detergent.
yeah ive got only about $45 on ACR because i sold Maninblack $10.50 worth of it and i need to get more of it myself and ill need about $200 worth if i go to moms. theres really no way to win money online, and im playing way too low of stakes because i dont trust anything higher than microstakes. plus in the $1 and $2 tournies and under, the late registration is open FOREVER and by the time u reach the money u are in for like 6-10 buyins or so and when u cash u still lose. i imagine its different in the bigger tourneys but i cant afford the higher priced tournies.
to avoid this u can play sngs but they take longer to fill than in the old days of stars, but with all the new people online its getting better. so i finally switched to a lot more sngs and less mtts. and i still like the hilo stud games too.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
all my casinos shut down and im playing online
I'm glad that i got one person to put $20 in my ACR account, which i promptly sent him on venmo. hopefully i wont need more, but of course if it was all i could play for a few months i would need way more, but ive still got more than the $20, although just barely. but it does give me something to do in my hotel, or if i went to my moms house. but how id get out of my 1 month commitment to my hotel or how i would travel there with a ton of groceries i dont know. and yet i cant find none of the type of food i want, such as bottled water and the right kind of hormel microwaveable meals.
and im glad i got my teeth worked on but i ended up only doing tooth 6 instead of tooth 30 on top plus tooth 6 on the bottom, but they think i should get it out sometime in the next 3 months or so. since it wasnt hurting like the bottom one was and i didnt want the work to be too complicated to eat after the work was done, i only did the bottom one which was more important. so far its healing okay without pain and i sure hope it continues that way without anything going wrong.
all the clubs in Houston shut down, but Rounders is still operating in spring TX (a $33 uber ride just north of houston). but they allow only 2 tables and 20 people max so u have to come when they open at 2pm if u want a seat. i was in for $120 and i somehow turned it into $520 and left with the profit, which i sorely needed to bring my roll back to $14k after it dropped to 13,600 after paying the dentist.
i never think im able to play my best when im on a low bankroll and stressed about income, and i have already won $400 for the day (which is a lot because $400 a day is 130k a year) so you feel emotionally like your job is finished for the day and u just want to go home and relax. but normally i would just go to another room and start over with $100 again. of course now i cant do that since none of the rooms are open. i would play in an illegal underground game if i knew it was safe and i wouldnt get cheated, legal or not. regardless of if they raked $10 per pot. as long as i wasnt beaten or shot that would be all that matters. those are the fears ive had thats always kept me in the legal casinos. everywhere i go i worry the dealers cheat, just as much in the legal rooms as the underground ones. a lot of casinos installed auto matic shufflers to stop their dealers from cheating, but they dont have those in Houston, so they will cheat for their $20 a hand tippers. basically this is how u can tell if a game is honest by how much people tip. and the other way u can tell a game isnt honest is if one big stack quits and suddenly another big stack quits at the same time. i dont trust people to be ethical and on the square unless they prove themselves by limiting their buyin to $100.
its a shame i dont have someone to hang out and go partners myself with, then id never worry about a short bankroll if one player always paid back the other and split all profits.
more than 9400 cases of coronavirus in the US and 150 deaths so far. it will go up, but not nearly enough to warrant all these involuntary closings. people should be more willing to play 5 handed with seats and tables far apart with plenty of room.
ive never in my life seen what ive seen in the grocery stores. imagine what it would be like in a much worse tragedy without power and a way to get trucks in every day. theres so many trucks coming in the stores are closing early to fill the shelves and help wanted signs all over the place. maybe i should apply.
but signs everywhere saying limit of 1 item, milk, hand sanitizer, flu medicine, chlorox, bottled water pack of 24, 8 canned good items limit, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. and not letting anyone in the first hour theyre open unless theyre over 65 or with a person over 65. and by the time that hour is up, everythings sold out. so theres so many things u need and cant buy.
the american public has never hated Nancy Pelosi the way they hate her now. Trump banned all evictions and people from being thrown out but i dont think that applies to my hotel. im more worried the govt will shut down all hotels and i dont know how that would effect the people who live out of them year round like apartments but my manager said i shouldnt worry about it. but if her corporate office or the govt told her to close down and kick everyone out into the streets she wouldnt have no say in it. but the reason we all hate Pelosi so much is because she blocked Trump from sending UBI checks to everyone. some people will get help but not the checks people who live in the shadows wouldve gotten who dont have regular jobs. all because she wanted means testing. and i wouldnt know how to qualify for means testing to prove i dont make 85k a year if u dont file taxes because u dont track your income and know what u make. i see all kind of tweets talking about how Trump is further left on this issue of helping americans who need it than most establishment democrats. many other republicans also supported UBI checks sent to everyone, such as Tom Cotton, Mitt Romney, etc
but the reason i quit the game today id paid so much in Lyft fees to go play in is because i cant play my best with $400 profit in front of me. the guy who had the biggest stack of about $1700 on him an older fellow who called himself the mayor of poundtown, (but not in the sexual way that u do) and a friend of his at the table, and a few others a couple who had a lot of chips too. id just moved tables, it was a must move but not mandatory enforced. so its limped to him for $3 and he makes it $10 in the blind, so i assumed he had something because i hadnt seen him play loose in the short time i was there and he was the biggest winner. but thats a terrible spot to raise so little in.
flop comes 964 all different suits and i had A9 of diamonds. he bets $100 on the flop so i assumed he has an overpair, and was hoping he would get reraised preflop. i folded my A9 after 2 others called and showed it to his friend who couldnt understand why i folded.
turn comes A, so i wouldve had top two. river comes 5 and everyone checks, i wouldve won. all he has is 9 10 of clubs.i have no idea what the other 2 callers had. but i left when the blind got to me, i couldve left with $1000 had i not folded because id have won another $500.
and im glad i got my teeth worked on but i ended up only doing tooth 6 instead of tooth 30 on top plus tooth 6 on the bottom, but they think i should get it out sometime in the next 3 months or so. since it wasnt hurting like the bottom one was and i didnt want the work to be too complicated to eat after the work was done, i only did the bottom one which was more important. so far its healing okay without pain and i sure hope it continues that way without anything going wrong.
all the clubs in Houston shut down, but Rounders is still operating in spring TX (a $33 uber ride just north of houston). but they allow only 2 tables and 20 people max so u have to come when they open at 2pm if u want a seat. i was in for $120 and i somehow turned it into $520 and left with the profit, which i sorely needed to bring my roll back to $14k after it dropped to 13,600 after paying the dentist.
i never think im able to play my best when im on a low bankroll and stressed about income, and i have already won $400 for the day (which is a lot because $400 a day is 130k a year) so you feel emotionally like your job is finished for the day and u just want to go home and relax. but normally i would just go to another room and start over with $100 again. of course now i cant do that since none of the rooms are open. i would play in an illegal underground game if i knew it was safe and i wouldnt get cheated, legal or not. regardless of if they raked $10 per pot. as long as i wasnt beaten or shot that would be all that matters. those are the fears ive had thats always kept me in the legal casinos. everywhere i go i worry the dealers cheat, just as much in the legal rooms as the underground ones. a lot of casinos installed auto matic shufflers to stop their dealers from cheating, but they dont have those in Houston, so they will cheat for their $20 a hand tippers. basically this is how u can tell if a game is honest by how much people tip. and the other way u can tell a game isnt honest is if one big stack quits and suddenly another big stack quits at the same time. i dont trust people to be ethical and on the square unless they prove themselves by limiting their buyin to $100.
its a shame i dont have someone to hang out and go partners myself with, then id never worry about a short bankroll if one player always paid back the other and split all profits.
more than 9400 cases of coronavirus in the US and 150 deaths so far. it will go up, but not nearly enough to warrant all these involuntary closings. people should be more willing to play 5 handed with seats and tables far apart with plenty of room.
ive never in my life seen what ive seen in the grocery stores. imagine what it would be like in a much worse tragedy without power and a way to get trucks in every day. theres so many trucks coming in the stores are closing early to fill the shelves and help wanted signs all over the place. maybe i should apply.
but signs everywhere saying limit of 1 item, milk, hand sanitizer, flu medicine, chlorox, bottled water pack of 24, 8 canned good items limit, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. and not letting anyone in the first hour theyre open unless theyre over 65 or with a person over 65. and by the time that hour is up, everythings sold out. so theres so many things u need and cant buy.
the american public has never hated Nancy Pelosi the way they hate her now. Trump banned all evictions and people from being thrown out but i dont think that applies to my hotel. im more worried the govt will shut down all hotels and i dont know how that would effect the people who live out of them year round like apartments but my manager said i shouldnt worry about it. but if her corporate office or the govt told her to close down and kick everyone out into the streets she wouldnt have no say in it. but the reason we all hate Pelosi so much is because she blocked Trump from sending UBI checks to everyone. some people will get help but not the checks people who live in the shadows wouldve gotten who dont have regular jobs. all because she wanted means testing. and i wouldnt know how to qualify for means testing to prove i dont make 85k a year if u dont file taxes because u dont track your income and know what u make. i see all kind of tweets talking about how Trump is further left on this issue of helping americans who need it than most establishment democrats. many other republicans also supported UBI checks sent to everyone, such as Tom Cotton, Mitt Romney, etc
but the reason i quit the game today id paid so much in Lyft fees to go play in is because i cant play my best with $400 profit in front of me. the guy who had the biggest stack of about $1700 on him an older fellow who called himself the mayor of poundtown, (but not in the sexual way that u do) and a friend of his at the table, and a few others a couple who had a lot of chips too. id just moved tables, it was a must move but not mandatory enforced. so its limped to him for $3 and he makes it $10 in the blind, so i assumed he had something because i hadnt seen him play loose in the short time i was there and he was the biggest winner. but thats a terrible spot to raise so little in.
flop comes 964 all different suits and i had A9 of diamonds. he bets $100 on the flop so i assumed he has an overpair, and was hoping he would get reraised preflop. i folded my A9 after 2 others called and showed it to his friend who couldnt understand why i folded.
turn comes A, so i wouldve had top two. river comes 5 and everyone checks, i wouldve won. all he has is 9 10 of clubs.i have no idea what the other 2 callers had. but i left when the blind got to me, i couldve left with $1000 had i not folded because id have won another $500.
Friday, March 13, 2020
life in Houston under the threat of the coronavirus
well so far, im getting things done. My dental appt is set for Tuesday the 17th and i have paid upfront for part of it and the rest will be paid at the time of service. $680 plus $785, and possibly more if the surgery takes longer than an hour, which is unlikely.
and besides getting this done, ive switched hotels to one i think might be good to hole up in longterm if it becomes neccessary, and works for the city bus a little better. at least living in a hotel u dont need to worry about running out of toilet paper.
im trying to win whatever i can before the city decides that all private clubs must close down involuntarily, which would immediately end all income unless Tulsi gabbard succeeds in giving every american UBI. and of course, $1000 a month isnt nearly enough for rent and food. i think this emergency is probably the ONLY time trump would be willing to sign the UBI if passed.
i had $11,900 left once i arrived from florida, and i still have $14,300 today, so in 2 weeks time ive won over $3000 from poker, meaning the games are easily beatable here. if i had another 6 months times before the virus hit, id have time to stockpile enough to live off.
u should see how the cardroom is continually wiping down the table and has large bottles of hand sanitizer sitting on the counters for public use. well at least in the room i normally visit. i havent seen many people cough and if they do i avoid them. i could get the virus as easily on the city bus as in the room or even in the grocery store.
and its sure hard to buy bottled water in the grocery store unless u want a weird flavor that isnt really water. if people wise up, it might be the medicine u most need thats sold out instead of water. its scary how China controls the supply of 95% of ibuprofen. and a lot of the other food i warm up in the microwave im finding in much lower qualities than usual.
i hope that ill find a way to get money into my ACR account. i might have to buy $20 worth of so thru lightning or wec, because im sure not trusting any more scammers. ive still got about $10 in there for the very smallest of tournies. i wonder if more people will decide to play online though its not legal if thats their only alternative?
and if so, will at least some of them be losing players? for online poker doesnt have any losing players, which is why i cant win there.
one thing about this virus, its caused me to talk more to my mother about the end times or even talk in general than i have in a long time on facebook. Ill be glad when the books from Ray arrive next week.
i was stuck a ton Thursday at Kings and cards, worried i was getting outplayed, bluffed, and was starting to play bad and rode the bus to prime to recover in PLO. as soon as i got there i immediately lost $178 in $1-3 NL with AK of spades the very first hand when i went allin over a $25 raise (a $25 raise preflop means NOTHING in Houston) and i got called with K3, KT suited, and AJ. flop comes 22439 and the worst hand scooped the $700+ Then i rebought $100, got dealt AK again, split a small pot and got called for PLO with $152.
i won a pot, had it up to $278, and eventually dropped to only $16 because i folded on a pot on the river i knew i couldnt win though i was being laid massive odds to call my last $16. there has been times in the past thats not been a good idea.
then i potted a hand with good cards, (cant remember exactly) but in the course of one dealers down, i won at least 4 big pots in which sometimes i tripled up or quadrupled up. twice was single suited AA and once was double suited JJ. every one won. and my $16 reached $959 at the time i cashed out, when i was told i needed to purchase more time (at $16 an hour) to keep playing. so i cashed out after the hand. i was told this at the beginning and i told them it was my final hand, and i had about $400+ but i won that hand too. (had aa single suited)
and besides getting this done, ive switched hotels to one i think might be good to hole up in longterm if it becomes neccessary, and works for the city bus a little better. at least living in a hotel u dont need to worry about running out of toilet paper.
im trying to win whatever i can before the city decides that all private clubs must close down involuntarily, which would immediately end all income unless Tulsi gabbard succeeds in giving every american UBI. and of course, $1000 a month isnt nearly enough for rent and food. i think this emergency is probably the ONLY time trump would be willing to sign the UBI if passed.
i had $11,900 left once i arrived from florida, and i still have $14,300 today, so in 2 weeks time ive won over $3000 from poker, meaning the games are easily beatable here. if i had another 6 months times before the virus hit, id have time to stockpile enough to live off.
u should see how the cardroom is continually wiping down the table and has large bottles of hand sanitizer sitting on the counters for public use. well at least in the room i normally visit. i havent seen many people cough and if they do i avoid them. i could get the virus as easily on the city bus as in the room or even in the grocery store.
and its sure hard to buy bottled water in the grocery store unless u want a weird flavor that isnt really water. if people wise up, it might be the medicine u most need thats sold out instead of water. its scary how China controls the supply of 95% of ibuprofen. and a lot of the other food i warm up in the microwave im finding in much lower qualities than usual.
i hope that ill find a way to get money into my ACR account. i might have to buy $20 worth of so thru lightning or wec, because im sure not trusting any more scammers. ive still got about $10 in there for the very smallest of tournies. i wonder if more people will decide to play online though its not legal if thats their only alternative?
and if so, will at least some of them be losing players? for online poker doesnt have any losing players, which is why i cant win there.
one thing about this virus, its caused me to talk more to my mother about the end times or even talk in general than i have in a long time on facebook. Ill be glad when the books from Ray arrive next week.
i was stuck a ton Thursday at Kings and cards, worried i was getting outplayed, bluffed, and was starting to play bad and rode the bus to prime to recover in PLO. as soon as i got there i immediately lost $178 in $1-3 NL with AK of spades the very first hand when i went allin over a $25 raise (a $25 raise preflop means NOTHING in Houston) and i got called with K3, KT suited, and AJ. flop comes 22439 and the worst hand scooped the $700+ Then i rebought $100, got dealt AK again, split a small pot and got called for PLO with $152.
i won a pot, had it up to $278, and eventually dropped to only $16 because i folded on a pot on the river i knew i couldnt win though i was being laid massive odds to call my last $16. there has been times in the past thats not been a good idea.
then i potted a hand with good cards, (cant remember exactly) but in the course of one dealers down, i won at least 4 big pots in which sometimes i tripled up or quadrupled up. twice was single suited AA and once was double suited JJ. every one won. and my $16 reached $959 at the time i cashed out, when i was told i needed to purchase more time (at $16 an hour) to keep playing. so i cashed out after the hand. i was told this at the beginning and i told them it was my final hand, and i had about $400+ but i won that hand too. (had aa single suited)
Sunday, March 8, 2020
is there a doctor in the house who reads this blog?
Just waking up and before i go thru a bunch of missed calls (shut my sound off on my phone before i slept since the phone was next to me so i wouldnt be disturbed) and a bunch of messages and tweets online, etc, i figured ill write this quick to refer everyone to and explain whats going on
what i was feeling, many years ago at Rays house, (maybe Ray would like to describe what he saw) and yesterday, was the same thing i think i once described on the blog (of course now i dont remember if talked about it but i must of?) in shreveport one day at the eldorado. i was originally feeling it on the shreveport city bus enroute to the eldorado, and again in the casino poker room multiple times. that day i took peoples advice, and worried if i would have a heart attack, so i rode another city bus (this was before Uber was in shreveport) and went to the hospital, where they immediately took me into the back and hooked me up to some machines to check my heart, i never got a bill, but it was probably mailed to the address on my shreveport ID which of course isnt valid.
i do remember they couldnt find nothing wrong, and released me within an hour or so. i remember being given a prescription, and i cant remember what they told me couldve been the cause or what the prescription was for. if i remember to do so, once i finish this blog, ill try to find that entry.
this article i read online last night https://www.healthline.com/health/spasticity#takeaway and one other link not saved in my copy and paste seems like the problem is some kind of muscle spasm, or something which i think better fits as far as a tight grip squeezing me all around, is something it said was called the MS hug, which doesnt make sense because i dont have MS. thats a major disability i dont understand which affects several people. i just wondered if my tooth might be causing other health issues right now and this is why it needs fixed so quickly. but of course i need to be checked out by a regular doctor in his office since its been so many years since i have and since then ive gotten to pass 50 and developed many symptoms
if someone can call around and find me an office visit for under $75 in a regular doctors office instead of an urgent care clinic, and the main thing is the doctor spends at least 30 minutes with you instead of walking in an out in 5 minutes and having his assistants do everything because he is so busy, but one who sees very few patients per day and has Plenty of time. this is why i never will use an er, because i dont want more bills ruining my credit and preventing me from ever renting an apartment and i think hospitals give low quality care. i could get much better care if i had whats called a primary doctor who is a resident physician. so i need someone to help me find one.
an urgent care clinic, or a hospital emergency room, it only rushes people in an out and doesnt really take the time to find out whats wrong. i think this is what happened in shreveport once they figured they probably wouldnt get paid, and that i was not dying from a heart attack, they just wanted me out of there.did i actually write about this? does anyone remember?
yes this did scare me yesterday because i was stepping out of Lyft and into the poker room when i felt like i must immediately sit, and once i sit, i could barely turn to my side to drink my water because i felt like i couldnt move without feeling it but then it passes within 20 minutes or less.
now about the dentist i went to see on friday at 11am. they xrayed the tooth and i found out its tooth 6 and tooth 30 one on top one on bottom that needs removed. the one on the bottom is the sore one and the most serious. i have most all the bottom teeth but few on top left. and though the receptionist who sets the appointment at all 7 of their houston offices did not tell me or Ray this, i was told at the office i was being referred to an oral surgeon who could do the work much quicker because their guy who does the IV was out of town for the month.
now ray thinks its because i told them about my psychiatrical issues they just didnt want to do it. but the oral surgeon wanted $130 more for a first visit with him, in which he too wouldnt do the work the first time but on a return visit and $300 per tooth instead of the $160 per tooth the other dentist wanted and then of course he would not mention at all his price for iv sedation, so im assuming instead of $121 per 15 minutes as quoted by the first dentist at summit dental of gossner road, it would be well over $800-1000 so it sure dont feel its quick or cheap. i would think well over $1200, maybe over 1500.
so i still need a dentist i can use who can do it in his office without referring me elsewhere at a much higher price, and there are 4 more i found that i need called on monday to find out who will be the quickest or the lowest price. its hard to get quotes on iv sedation since they dont know how long u would need to be under but they should at least tell u the price per hour, or price per half hour.
as far as the cost of hotels here in houston or if u google search apartments near westheimer road and richmond road, the rectangle of about 5 miles where all 4 rooms i visit often are located on, there are so many for about 1000 or less within walking distance i cant even count them all, and i wish they were renting them on airbnb because of course i cant qualify for any of them. but i can get a motel for under 300 a week if i wanted, im still in the better motel and i guarantee u, in the event of a medical emergency wec poker does know which motel im at because he and i have talked many times how much he likes the hotel. especially because i mentioned the free laundry and the free dishes in their kitchens in room. but i dont want the whole world to know either, so dont mention it online.
but costs of living are so low here i dont really want to go back to a place like florida or anywhere else really, not even reno or vegas, because i feel id immediately start playing vbj machines and this is the only state except montana or washington where i cant and there is no good poker in those other 2 states.
i was wondering at first if i can win here, but i finally have 12,700 and that is more than the 11,900 i arrived with after airfare and the first 3 nites hotel. of course all of my wins but not quite were at PLO which is the one game i cant afford the variance. but at least in the past week, the variance was an upward swing of about 1300. i think i might be down a bit on the holdem.
what i was feeling, many years ago at Rays house, (maybe Ray would like to describe what he saw) and yesterday, was the same thing i think i once described on the blog (of course now i dont remember if talked about it but i must of?) in shreveport one day at the eldorado. i was originally feeling it on the shreveport city bus enroute to the eldorado, and again in the casino poker room multiple times. that day i took peoples advice, and worried if i would have a heart attack, so i rode another city bus (this was before Uber was in shreveport) and went to the hospital, where they immediately took me into the back and hooked me up to some machines to check my heart, i never got a bill, but it was probably mailed to the address on my shreveport ID which of course isnt valid.
i do remember they couldnt find nothing wrong, and released me within an hour or so. i remember being given a prescription, and i cant remember what they told me couldve been the cause or what the prescription was for. if i remember to do so, once i finish this blog, ill try to find that entry.
this article i read online last night https://www.healthline.com/health/spasticity#takeaway and one other link not saved in my copy and paste seems like the problem is some kind of muscle spasm, or something which i think better fits as far as a tight grip squeezing me all around, is something it said was called the MS hug, which doesnt make sense because i dont have MS. thats a major disability i dont understand which affects several people. i just wondered if my tooth might be causing other health issues right now and this is why it needs fixed so quickly. but of course i need to be checked out by a regular doctor in his office since its been so many years since i have and since then ive gotten to pass 50 and developed many symptoms
if someone can call around and find me an office visit for under $75 in a regular doctors office instead of an urgent care clinic, and the main thing is the doctor spends at least 30 minutes with you instead of walking in an out in 5 minutes and having his assistants do everything because he is so busy, but one who sees very few patients per day and has Plenty of time. this is why i never will use an er, because i dont want more bills ruining my credit and preventing me from ever renting an apartment and i think hospitals give low quality care. i could get much better care if i had whats called a primary doctor who is a resident physician. so i need someone to help me find one.
an urgent care clinic, or a hospital emergency room, it only rushes people in an out and doesnt really take the time to find out whats wrong. i think this is what happened in shreveport once they figured they probably wouldnt get paid, and that i was not dying from a heart attack, they just wanted me out of there.did i actually write about this? does anyone remember?
yes this did scare me yesterday because i was stepping out of Lyft and into the poker room when i felt like i must immediately sit, and once i sit, i could barely turn to my side to drink my water because i felt like i couldnt move without feeling it but then it passes within 20 minutes or less.
now about the dentist i went to see on friday at 11am. they xrayed the tooth and i found out its tooth 6 and tooth 30 one on top one on bottom that needs removed. the one on the bottom is the sore one and the most serious. i have most all the bottom teeth but few on top left. and though the receptionist who sets the appointment at all 7 of their houston offices did not tell me or Ray this, i was told at the office i was being referred to an oral surgeon who could do the work much quicker because their guy who does the IV was out of town for the month.
now ray thinks its because i told them about my psychiatrical issues they just didnt want to do it. but the oral surgeon wanted $130 more for a first visit with him, in which he too wouldnt do the work the first time but on a return visit and $300 per tooth instead of the $160 per tooth the other dentist wanted and then of course he would not mention at all his price for iv sedation, so im assuming instead of $121 per 15 minutes as quoted by the first dentist at summit dental of gossner road, it would be well over $800-1000 so it sure dont feel its quick or cheap. i would think well over $1200, maybe over 1500.
so i still need a dentist i can use who can do it in his office without referring me elsewhere at a much higher price, and there are 4 more i found that i need called on monday to find out who will be the quickest or the lowest price. its hard to get quotes on iv sedation since they dont know how long u would need to be under but they should at least tell u the price per hour, or price per half hour.
as far as the cost of hotels here in houston or if u google search apartments near westheimer road and richmond road, the rectangle of about 5 miles where all 4 rooms i visit often are located on, there are so many for about 1000 or less within walking distance i cant even count them all, and i wish they were renting them on airbnb because of course i cant qualify for any of them. but i can get a motel for under 300 a week if i wanted, im still in the better motel and i guarantee u, in the event of a medical emergency wec poker does know which motel im at because he and i have talked many times how much he likes the hotel. especially because i mentioned the free laundry and the free dishes in their kitchens in room. but i dont want the whole world to know either, so dont mention it online.
but costs of living are so low here i dont really want to go back to a place like florida or anywhere else really, not even reno or vegas, because i feel id immediately start playing vbj machines and this is the only state except montana or washington where i cant and there is no good poker in those other 2 states.
i was wondering at first if i can win here, but i finally have 12,700 and that is more than the 11,900 i arrived with after airfare and the first 3 nites hotel. of course all of my wins but not quite were at PLO which is the one game i cant afford the variance. but at least in the past week, the variance was an upward swing of about 1300. i think i might be down a bit on the holdem.
Monday, March 2, 2020
finally out of florida
i couldnt stick around florida any more because i got tired of paying $600 a week for hotel and another $200 plus a week for Uber, which was slowly breaking me. by the time i left the state and paid for my $300 flight, i didnt even have 12k left.
i couldnt refrain from playing video BJ in florida, and i lost about $6000 or so on VBJ while in florida, and paid a shit ton on hotels and Uber over 3 months i was there. but since i won well over $12,000 at the poker i only ended up about $2500 worse off than when i first flew to fort lauderdale.
so i figured i needed to fly somewhere where i would be at least 300 miles or so from the nearest video Blackjack machine to stop me from playing it. of course, i may need to leave this area for other reasons, like to fix some teeth or get an ID.
the cost of hotels is certainly much less here. there is one i wouldnt mind staying in for $1059 a month but too far out, and several a much shorter Uber ride and maybe even the city bus would work, which i used once this morning to go to walmart from the poker room. the ones nearby the monthly would be from $1300-1800. also about the same for a couple of airbnb options.
you can save money on memberships paying for longer than a day at a time, and on hourly time fees some places, or maybe by arriving so early in the day the game wont be going yet. but i hate paying anything upfront and before my ID expires i need a membership card in every different poker room in the state.
in the middle of washing laundry, which happens to be free of charge at my hotel, and all the dishes in the kitchen are provided for me. this is where i would pay $1800 a month and a little more the first month with taxes included. this is NOT the cheapest one, but both me and WEC know this is a good brand and a safe place, and me not knowing anything about houston, wanted to find a place i could trust. paid $189 for 3 nights using priceline. or $169, ive forgot.
its still a lot better hotel than i had in florida and a lower price. my 2nd hotel in florida (woodsprings suites lake worth) was better than my first hotel, (richards hotel) near the big easy at US1 and Pembroke road. and it cost more than my first hotel in florida too, seeing the woodsprings suites was $577 a week. but if i paid $175 twice for 6 nights on priceline at this hotel, its a way cheaper deal. even with $8 uber rides seeing i cant walk 4 miles. the city is so huge in size its very spread out and it costs a ton to get here from the airport 40 miles away.
and they also do not have shared Lyft here, which would reduce the fare if they did.
i won about $300 in the $1-3 NL this morning. nowhere in the city offers $1-2 NL, just $1-3, PLO, and some other things at busier times. minimum buyin $100 max $1000 for both NL and PLO. no button straddles thank God. so yes, i can sit there and martingale buyins all day long, and if i want to hit and run i can switch between NL and PLO.
of course out of that i paid $10 membership fee, $10 door fee, and $16 an hour for 3 hours of time. and once my laundry is finished im investigating a different room nearby which might have lower fees or deals for people who come early. hope a game is going.
i never did find out what the asian girl at the wpb kennel club was upset about but i seen her being handcuffed about 4 days ago or 5 at 245am in the morning when the nicer floorman was on duty who told me one day in his office his son has autism too, so he knows a bit how it makes people odd. this was when i was complaining to him about an employee. but he isnt the main guy i dont think. but the girl kept insisting he check the camera, wanted a different floorman over him, and she was told he was the only one on duty. she wouldnt let it go and kept trying to force her way into his closed door office, and finally got taken out in cuffs and tackled to the ground. i have no idea what she was upset about and no other person would tell me. i think it happened in a $2-5 game.
if it wasnt for my terrible fears of dental work being done without being put to sleep first, i could fix this at any local dentist, but i dont know of any here offering cheap IV sedation for $300-450 like in vegas or shreveport or reno. it keeps me from using all the cheap dentists. a lot of people with emotionally disabilities have to be knocked out to have dental work done.
ill have more to say with more poker experience and new room visits over the next few days.
i couldnt refrain from playing video BJ in florida, and i lost about $6000 or so on VBJ while in florida, and paid a shit ton on hotels and Uber over 3 months i was there. but since i won well over $12,000 at the poker i only ended up about $2500 worse off than when i first flew to fort lauderdale.
so i figured i needed to fly somewhere where i would be at least 300 miles or so from the nearest video Blackjack machine to stop me from playing it. of course, i may need to leave this area for other reasons, like to fix some teeth or get an ID.
the cost of hotels is certainly much less here. there is one i wouldnt mind staying in for $1059 a month but too far out, and several a much shorter Uber ride and maybe even the city bus would work, which i used once this morning to go to walmart from the poker room. the ones nearby the monthly would be from $1300-1800. also about the same for a couple of airbnb options.
you can save money on memberships paying for longer than a day at a time, and on hourly time fees some places, or maybe by arriving so early in the day the game wont be going yet. but i hate paying anything upfront and before my ID expires i need a membership card in every different poker room in the state.
in the middle of washing laundry, which happens to be free of charge at my hotel, and all the dishes in the kitchen are provided for me. this is where i would pay $1800 a month and a little more the first month with taxes included. this is NOT the cheapest one, but both me and WEC know this is a good brand and a safe place, and me not knowing anything about houston, wanted to find a place i could trust. paid $189 for 3 nights using priceline. or $169, ive forgot.
its still a lot better hotel than i had in florida and a lower price. my 2nd hotel in florida (woodsprings suites lake worth) was better than my first hotel, (richards hotel) near the big easy at US1 and Pembroke road. and it cost more than my first hotel in florida too, seeing the woodsprings suites was $577 a week. but if i paid $175 twice for 6 nights on priceline at this hotel, its a way cheaper deal. even with $8 uber rides seeing i cant walk 4 miles. the city is so huge in size its very spread out and it costs a ton to get here from the airport 40 miles away.
and they also do not have shared Lyft here, which would reduce the fare if they did.
i won about $300 in the $1-3 NL this morning. nowhere in the city offers $1-2 NL, just $1-3, PLO, and some other things at busier times. minimum buyin $100 max $1000 for both NL and PLO. no button straddles thank God. so yes, i can sit there and martingale buyins all day long, and if i want to hit and run i can switch between NL and PLO.
of course out of that i paid $10 membership fee, $10 door fee, and $16 an hour for 3 hours of time. and once my laundry is finished im investigating a different room nearby which might have lower fees or deals for people who come early. hope a game is going.
i never did find out what the asian girl at the wpb kennel club was upset about but i seen her being handcuffed about 4 days ago or 5 at 245am in the morning when the nicer floorman was on duty who told me one day in his office his son has autism too, so he knows a bit how it makes people odd. this was when i was complaining to him about an employee. but he isnt the main guy i dont think. but the girl kept insisting he check the camera, wanted a different floorman over him, and she was told he was the only one on duty. she wouldnt let it go and kept trying to force her way into his closed door office, and finally got taken out in cuffs and tackled to the ground. i have no idea what she was upset about and no other person would tell me. i think it happened in a $2-5 game.
if it wasnt for my terrible fears of dental work being done without being put to sleep first, i could fix this at any local dentist, but i dont know of any here offering cheap IV sedation for $300-450 like in vegas or shreveport or reno. it keeps me from using all the cheap dentists. a lot of people with emotionally disabilities have to be knocked out to have dental work done.
ill have more to say with more poker experience and new room visits over the next few days.
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