Ballys shreveport--trip report

 the cost of living is much cheaper in texas than it is most places where poker exists. and one of those places the cost of living is much higher is shreveport. look at the hotels on priceline and if u see the ones which are safe, compared to the ones that are unsafe, u will see how much more expensive they are than where i previously lived in san antonio and houston. 

and even more so go look at airbnb in shreveport. everything is far more expensive than in a lot of other areas, because of a occupancy fee airbnb adds by state law that is only in certain places across the country that u dont see in other cities. that can turn a $2000 airbnb into almost a $3000 airbnb when u add a $450 occupancy city fee, along with a $100 cleaning fee and a $250 airbnb service fee. (cleaning fees and airbnb fees are common all places). 

so when my week ends that i paid for (and got 4 of the nights free) and only paid the other 3 i dont have any good options for sticking around. but the game was loose, i played in the 1-3 during the early morning shift. most cities thats a bad time to play, but here the game was so loose i won over $680.

people think the games here are good because of the 400k BBJ which only takes 5555 losing to hit. and the horseshoe on the other side of the river being closed part of the week. 

as far as the casino itself goes there is no temptation to play VP because they have the worst and smallest selection of VP machines ive ever seen. i dont see any vultureable machines here either unlike most places. there is still the same 3-2 vbj machine i lost a lot of money on in the past. (when i dropped about $3000 on live BJ over a weeks time and about $2000 on video BJ for about 5k total)

me losing that 5k when the poker room was closed when i came up during the lake charles hurricane is why i got these offers in the first place. 2 hotel nights per week, and $300 in free bet coupons a few times a month. 

and when i found out i had 5 more days to pick up $300 a day in december i came up here from san antonio via amtrak. i paid extra for a private room to avoid having to wear the mask the whole time sitting next to someone. paid 310 instead of 78.

paid the attendant a $5 tip too, for setting up the bed in the room for me and bringing me my meals as i played online poker tourney in the room. 

the $300 free bet coupons for BJ? theyre not worth nearly $300, for if u win they take the coupon and u only get $300 and cant keep it for another hand like some places let u with promotional chips. and if u lose they take the coupon too. i broke down $600 worth of coupons into 24 $25 coupons and still only left with $187.50 in chips. also the coupons can only be used for even money bets. 

there is only 1 restaaunt remaining and the 2 which i liked better are no longer in business. theres also the steakhouse of course, but id never ever go there. would take an hour for a meal. never been to one.  and the restraunt closes at 10pm. 

i got lucky to get a free upgrade which gave me both a tub and a shower, and a fridge. 

an awful lot of employees remember me from years ago and my blog, far more than i can remember. a lot of players remember me too. good news is the vast majority are nice. no self service drink stations are in business however, and no massage service in the casino. there are decent promotions going on besides the BBJ too for high hands and at times a hilow game too expensive for me. and for those who still want to play fixed limit and i dont know why anyone would because its not real poker, theres a 20-40 fixed limit holdem game. 

and the wifi works great in my room too. and i ran into Jay who knew me and drove me to a bookstore once, and i convinced him to let me give him $500 cash which he sent me cash app so i could deposit it in the bank. i get worried people will reverse it so am very hesitant doing this with people, but i still need to deposit another $2000 or so because my nearest bank is like well over 100 miles away in texas. 

with cash app, u can instantly transfer the money into your bank.

and also my hotel in san antonio refunded me the $300 for the final week i checked out early. so im still hanging about $27k with the recent additions to the roll. which is the most ive had since i left NV. 

on taking a vacation

 I could tell u a lot of weird stories about strange things going on in texas poker rooms, but i really dont need to make enemies of any more owners and who knows what type of people might have a stake in some of these places. and almost all of the dealers act like prison thugs except for a few nice ones and this is their sole reason for dealing in texas, because the stuff wont fly in a licensed casino and also theyd get about 1 third the tips any other state other than texas. 

Believe it or not, one of the nicest dealers happens to be queer so i never discuss my views on sex outside of marriage at the table. No matter what i might think. 

yes i am discriminated against in every way because no woman wants a guy whose autistic and has mental health issues and is unable to drive a car, which is the number one thing women look for in a guy, that he not be crazy and has a car. i dont even get hugs ever and theres almost no masseueses here unlike houston, and i miss that. the few they do have are far more expensive. and texas recently made it a felony to ask a prostitute to hang out with u and keep u company and is the only state to make it a felony for a causal customer. so they punish people who want someone to love them and put their arms around them and tell them lifes worth living a whole lot more than they punish weed smokers unlike common knowledge people think in other states. 

everyone knows weed is banned here, almost no one knows prostituion isnt a felony, but asking a prostitute is. only the man is charged here. 

makes it real easy for women to blackmail men make up stories and lie knowing only he can be charged with a felony. 

anyway the guy up the street saw me turn $100 into over $800 the other day within 2 hours and then left when the BB got to me and told me thats the third time i hit and ran and people were complaining and he didnt want me back no more. same guy i told u about before but at the time he still let me back. no way in hell will i sit with $800 and be able to play well when im only in for $100. if i was stuck i could play well, but not when i worry of losing all the profit. and the table had several people with a lot more than me in front of them. this is why owners should not be sitting deepstacked in their clubs games. 

most of my wins lately have been in big0 hilow games i won 3 of the last 3 times i played, but the min at most is 300 because the blinds are 5 and 5 which is way too high for me since i have almost no experience in 5 5 blinds games. its a shame a bankroll of 25k isnt enough for that game because theres real money to be made in it. 

since most of my readers are born privledged and are one of the few with a job over 15 per hour, they dont understand because they have plenty of money. and even the degens will play in it with only 1 or 2 buyins because they dont know anything about bankroll and money management and follow my strict rules on it (unless im playing video blackjack). a person has no business ever buying in over 100 until they have 10k in their checking account at all times. and 200 not til the same checking acct has 20k. 

remember how Jesus felt about rich people. (much resentment and hatred). he said its easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

im glad the opportunity exists to play poker and is one of the few opportunities life offers to those who are mentally ill and cant hold a regular job. without it id be earning about half of what i make without enough for a safe room by the month in a nice hotel. pretty much all people have jobs that make minimum wage or far less except for like the top 25 percent who make over 75k a year. 

i wouldve played higher when i was young about 10-15 years ago when in a lot of vegas casinos etc, but i couldnt deal with must move games forcing me out of the 2 seat and into the middle seat in the main game. so i played exclusively 1-2 nl to avoid dealing with that stress. and now im paying for it because i still only have 25k when i should have 200k at my age. especially since i cant see a doctor and my prostrate health and kidneys are rapidly desentigrating. 

but i think that video and live BJ was just as much to blame as not taking more shots in bigger games.

yeah id like a vacation and to fly somewhere one more time because the vax is required because i could never take the vax. way too many people are dying from it. a paper came out saying in 2019 only 1 pilot that year died, and in 2020 it was about 25 or so due to covid and in 2021 once the vaccine came out it was 161 this year once everyone was forced to take the jab to pilot a plane. 

even Pfizer in those documents the judge released that they didnt want shown for 55 years, admitted they lied and over 1000 people died in trials testing the vaccine.

anyone read the troopers tweets? he never responds to me because he has a bias against those with mental health issues but he seems to be a republican and opposed to mandates and even spoke about the rapture this week if u can find it before its deleted. 

i wish card rooms would notify u if u win a drawing. a place in texas i hadnt been to for 2 months told me today when i went over there just to be somewhere different and play some big0 i found out id won $100 in time. great to know and helped reimburse the $21 uber i paid for twice, but i knew nothing about it and it had probably been on there for over a month. all they had to do is text me i get their spam texts all the time. i get those from a lot of houston rooms still too.

no reason at all not to text or email the player. they might otherwise never return but certainly will if they know they got 100 in time waiting

im glad i got back in my facebook account. i was worried today because my phone suggested i add my google address so i did, but then i got an email at my yahoo address (the only one i really use) that my primary address had been changed so i hit no i didnt want this. and then facebook assumed my account was hacked and wouldnt let me login thru either address, but wanted a code sent that was sent to an old phone number i no longer have. 

notice how when i complained about this on twitter every hacker and bot started sending me replies, one right after the other. 

i was able to get in on my phone because it says it recognizes my device. hmm i wonder why it didnt recognize my laptop as my device? then i deleted the old number off of there but it still wont let me add my correct number because it wont give me a text to verify it. 

i think i need to switch hotels to a different part of town but i probably wont be able to get any money back and will need to wait til dec 29 but i got to start playing more big0 games and not have huge uber costs. i wonder if the big0 still goes everyday in biloxi? i took bravo poker off my phone because it has so little space every time i needed one app a different app had to come off until i learn how to buy and install something in the phone.

believe it or not i found a place in missoula for only $850-900 on airbnb but if i flew there, its only good for a short time because its booked in feb but what a great price. it would be too small to have crime and be mostly a white city id think. good poker and its one of the few places i could hide without being known by staff and players. but its much lower than the alternatives in montana pricewise. 

id forgot it was winter because u dont have winters here in san antonio. i would deal with cold and snow most states if i went anywhere. 

why im no longer in the same hotel room

 I would like to discuss a weird situation that happened a week or so ago at my hotel. i come home late at night, in the middle of the night, and as everyone knows i never turn on the TV. this is why i dont mind staying at airbnbs that never ever have cable. (they always have other stuff to avoid paying a cable bill that i dont know how to use called hulu or netflix or whatever instead) which is an internet kind of TV. its got all kind of other names i cant think of right now. but what i do is watch you tube, either political shows such as Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin, or various preachers such as John Hagee and JD Farag. also good christian or country music too. 

so i try to keep it quiet in there and the first time i ever heard a loud tap or knock on a door down the hall, wasnt sure what it was and thought maybe there was sound they could hear and i can hardly ever hear my own laptop because my hearing is so bad due to my ears always being full of wax. even if i have my laptop on full volume which i dont. but then i heard it several times even with nothing on at all. i just assumed maybe it was a noise in the walls or coming from the pipes or someone trying to be quiet about wanting in someones room. 

but that week, a guy i had no idea who or what room he was in or if he even knew what i looked like pounded on the door saying to quit tapping on the wall and i told him it wasnt me and i didnt know who did it. this was in the middle of the night and many construction workers have lived here long term. then i heard him knock on the room next to mine and someone say something about their kids need to be quiet. i thought no more of it til a week later. 

again i heard a loud noise without me making any noise at all in my room, and a few minutes later, the same guy comes up beating on my door saying he lives in the room directly below me and he knows it has to be me, and if he hears it again he will break my door down and beat me up really bad. so it petrified me and scared the hell out of me. i called the police and the guy in the office downstairs didnt know anything but said the manager would look at the hallway cameras

well i found out later from the manager that camera on my floor wasnt working. and i first i didnt think she believed me and she said she didnt have any other vacancies open but she would see about moving my room. i just wanted removed from that area of the building so theyd know it wasnt me. and i was irritated she was more concerned about the noise than a long term guest threatening someone who had nothing to do with it. 

she said plenty of people had complained about late night noises, but the next day she finally realizes it wasnt me because the people in room 221 complained about a noise in room 223 and i was in room 225. and this was when i was at the casino. we are on good terms now, and she moved me to a new floor a different side of the hallway, and ive heard no more since. no noises no one threatening me and i still dont know if that guy even knows what i look like or if i even still live there. i only seen him thru the peephole on the door and maybe wouldnt even know for sure its him if i seen him in the building otherwise. i dont think hes ever seen me. 

i guess its just some drunk guy with a temper when his sleep was disturbed probably a guy whose done time before and cant get any other type of work. all i heard was it was a long term tenant.

that being said i was a little irritated tonight there was no laundry soap in the office. i always buy it there and i needed to wash clothes since i ran out yesterday. came home stuck $900 at 430am wanting to use the laundry room. 

yeah ive gotten clobbered last 2 nights. i found myself playing really bad tonight and the final 500 i lost mostly stupidly and id love to get out of san antonio and be somewhere else. tired of all bomb pot games, but the day before i lost the 400 in holdem took a few bad beats. am all the way down to 24,400 from 25900 which was my high water mark since leaving Laughlin with 21700

at first i was so paranoid because i keep a few thousand in cash either on my person or in the room everywhere i go i thought maybe he was making the noise himself to have an excuse to get me to open my door, which of course i didnt do. the manager says the doors cannot be broken down anyway but i dont see how thats the case. any door can. but i guess this wasnt the case after all. it was the kids in room 223.

nicest thing about the new room is all new towels and bedding, since theyres no housekeeping because of the virus without paying extra for it. i even left a $10 tip for the maid because i felt she deserved it with all the extra work she would have. 

one other thing bugging me is all the little tiny poker rooms advertising on facebook, they dont answer messages. of course some of them advertise underground games, some might not see messages but still, its bad business. of course some do. and i really miss the $1 a minute masseuses at kings. also there was many ads for an eczema study in san antonio that would really help me, but they dont answer messages or comments or give out their number either. all u can do is fill out your name and expect them to contact u. 

i am totally not used to 2 card bomb pots instead of 4 card bomb pots, so i thought on a double board flop of Q63 29T i couldnt lose both boards with AQ unless he had QQ. i had QJ and the turn was a queen on the bottom board with the 29T so im thinking how can he win both boards and he said he would check it down, so im thinking hes weak. id just sat down and lost one buyin and was on tilt from being stuck up the street. 

turns out he has KK and id completely forgot about an overpair being a possibility because im so used to only playing 4 card bomb pots. when i insisted on betting the pot, he goes allin. and it cost me over $250. like i said i played very badly tonight on tilt. 

i think i might switch to NL just because thats where all the loose action in san antonio is. guys making horrible limps for $7 after 5 other limpers then when i shove 99, they call with 78 offsuit and hit trips by the river when we both get $100 allin preflop. 

lets talk about hitting and running

 When people go to work, and once theyve earned their daily pay, what do they want most to do? to go home and relax, get online, fix something to eat, and watch the news or read a book til they fall asleep, or go out somewhere else they might want to go. and what do they NOT want to do? stay at the job and keep working.

so then why would it be any different for Us poker players? why would i want to sit at the table and keep playing, once im up between $225 and $250 for the day (which is about 85k a year and a very good income compared to almost all other jobs i could do) when i could go to my room and take the rest of the day off? it doesnt make any sense.

since im old, and tire out easily and start playing poorly once ive put in 5-6 hours i dont really understand why others put in 12-24 hour sessions except for the fact the vast majority of people i play poker with are younger than me, some of them decades younger. also i've wasted over 30 years of my life playing in games way too small to become rich in, so i dont have much deepstack experience, because usually when i have a big stack in front of me, its because im stuck and had to rebuy in a hail mary attempt to try and double up so i can go home to bed. and sometimes its the rare occasion in which im up so much more than average even if i lose a chunk back, ill still have a good days pay, but thats only on the rare occasion all the other players dont have enough chips to do any damage.

what im saying is that my skill level in comparison to the skill levels of the other players isnt something im factoring into making my decision to stay or go, nor do i think it should. its mainly the emotional effect it will have on me if i suddenly go from being up $300 to being down $200. and then i probably should leave for sure and i definitely wont want to leave anymore then. why? because i havent made my days pay yet. 

this type of thinking is the very reason for all the blackjack losses, because i wouldnt leave when behind. but considering i mightve not been plus ev on the blackjack and i am plus ev on the poker, i see poker as different. and i dont feel its harmful in poker like its been to me on live BJ and video BJ.

what i dont like? thats what happened tonight. i left one club up only about $91 and i didnt want to go home with so little money but business was dead and they were down to 1 table early and the bomb pot omaha game never went. 

so i went to a different poker room up the street and they had 3 games going, 2 of which were NL holdem and 1 of which was $5 bomb pots every hand. and i bought in for the minimum $200 and sat. i usually would not do this, and sit in the NL game instead so i could sit with $100 instead of $200. but i just wanted to play omaha instead of NL tonight. 

incidently the normal PLO game is only $100 buyin and so is the $2 bomb pot omaha game i usually play in. but the $5 bomb pot game is $200 minimum 

and after a while, i won a decent pot and had it up to $367. and i mightve stayed longer had i enjoyed the game, but they were calling 5 card omaha and even 6 card omaha too often instead of the regular 4 card omaha im the most comfortable with. 

plus i was annoyed the girl on the other side of the table was tying up the masseuse nonstop for like 2-3 hours straight every time i was ever in there because i was thinking of doing a quick 10 minutes. its not fair to the masseuse, she should be allowed a break to rest her hands every once in a while. but it mightve been hours before i could do 10 minutes. how can anyone, even this girl who usually always wins at poker, be paying $200 or more a night for a massage? thats $6000 a month for someone who plays poker 30 days a month like she does. 

so i left to enjoy the rest of the night off work and relax, and when i went to cash out, the one of the 2 owners told me that if i was going to hit and run, i might not have anyone willing to play with me the next time i come in because he said all the players complained and said they wouldnt play me. 

funny thing is, that same owner was texting me a few days earlier and wondering how he could get me to come play in there more often. i even got him to contribute $5 towards my time before. and $4 on uber once. also he did a good thing for his club, he started having food for sale in a new big freezer that wasnt junk and could be warmed up in a microwave. hes probably overcharging more than HEB does, but i didnt investigate but it might come in handy someday. 

i dont think people understand the difference between a casino game and a home game. a casino game people have no obligation to sit a certain number of hours and can leave anytime theyre uncomfortable with the amount of money in front of them. thats good and responsible bankroll management.

i basically dont understand why they wouldnt want me to leave anyway. they have a far better chance of winning with me gone, so why care that i left while still ahead? do they really think theyre better than me at poker and ill lose it back? yeah i will a lot in the short run, but never in the long run. let the next player on the list sit who will give far more action than me. its difficult to not get upset when people are this privledged and ignorant. noone has a right to tell others to be irresponsible with their money and keep gambling with money theyre not comfortable losing. 

i dont understand people coming in for the BB or buying the button either. i never do and when i see others do it when they first sit, i lose all respect for them because it makes me feel theyre either ignorant, or rich and privledged and just want to show off, both of which offends my moral sensibilities because i feel like its wrong. and the same about straddling or running it only once. so much negative ev when people do it. ill never understand others and theyll never understand me. 

Ok, now what do i do?

 Its a good thing ive won 26 of the last 28 days here in san antonio because Joe Bidens inflation is getting very bad, and will get much worse once food and gas shortages start happening this winter. its awful how i destroyed my 45k roll between vegas and florida, because it would help so much if i prepaid a shit ton of food and housing costs upfront while its still somewhat less. at least here in texas we can still survive without needing to be vaccinnated to gamble. Biden isnt shipping us off in boxcars to camps just yet like Australia is planning to do if u are unvaccinnated. 

after paying my rent on sept 29, i was down to only $19,300 and im happy to say that after tonights $302 poker win, im now at $24,000. reducing expenses is exceedingly tough when u dont have a friends house to live at whose got a car. i think putting in more hours, so i could win 6k a month instead of 4 to 4.5k a month would be far easier than trying to lower costs of living. increasing your income is always easier.

if i were someone who wouldve invested money wisely when i was young, and didnt have a gambling problem when i play anything other than poker, i couldve stored up a lot of bitcoin, but i have none any bitcoin i ever bought was deposited online and lost. on video blackjack online or at poker.

ive always wondered why i cannot win online and yet im a good enough player to make over 60k a year buying in $100 at $1-2 NL and PLO. the only logical reason that makes any sense is widespread and massive cheating online. others dont see it they just think its bad players getting lucky. 

id rather live out in the middle of nowhere in a dilapidated house id buy for 15k, with a lot of badly needed repairs in a no crime area where no one else lives and never pay rent again, and make only 25k a year online than 50-75k live cash games in texas. would be less stressful without any bills, but its impossible to win unless u play live. this is why i fear vaccine mandates. 

the only reason i can beat live games is because i dont ever sit with more than $100 unless im stuck first. if Ray wouldve done this too, he wouldnt be at home moping refusing to talk because hes got no money to go play. and yet he had $5200. 

im not even sure ill get last months sales tax refunded if i dont renew my hotel and i can renew it for as low as $1344 this month which is a lot less than the $1590 plus tax i paid last month for $1850 total. and its such a horrible pain the ass to move since i sleep about 8am to 6pm im much better off just knocking my roll down a bunch of money upfront again, and paying to stay where i am. 

i did look around online at Austin too and i seen a good deal on a place to live within a few blocks of the Palms poker room and quite a bit further from other rooms, but i cant really go anywhere until i settle this sales tax thing that i paid last month. every time id move id owe it all over again and thats a lot of money. 

i even wrote a place on craigslist which offered to rent to me without needing proof of income as long as i passed a background check and a no prior evictions check. the no prior evictions wouldnt be an issue but i worry that my felony might present questions even though i was only 19 and had no idea what i was saying would get me in any legal trouble at all. i told the landlord in the email about my autism. 

im almost out of food again too, and its unbelievable the grocery bills, and all the stores quit selling the 6 packs of oncor veal patties quite a few months ago. only the 6 packs of steaks are sold by oncor foods now. 

i wish i had a friend in san antonio with a car, i get sick of playing in the same room all the time because its a $7.45 uber ride and a couple of other places id like to play are a $20 uber ride and a $33 uber ride. i dont see Ray ever having any money unless he bans himself out of hollywood once and for all like he promised he would but he doesnt want to be banned out of other ohio rooms and some other places around the country the state includes in all bans signed voluntarily. 

i dont see Vince moving here either and getting rid of the bitch and lightning is far too selfish to let me live with him and drive me back and forth to the poker room with him every night, so that leaves Phoenix out too. 

a person only making 20k a year can save money up much easier if he lives with friend without any expenses and plays poker with friends every night. young college age guys have it made and i was never a part of that at that age. a lot easier than i can making 55k a spending 50k on the cost of living

so its not your poker abilities that determine your success at poker. its your personal relationships and if u can avoid casino games. well ive got that half fixed now. ill never visit a casino again in my life. 

even with that $4250 in free bets, i never left texas all month long to go to the casino that offered me a $250 free bet 4 times a week for the month of october. couldnt risk losing my discipline there. 

even if i couldve got out of this motel and into a long term place it mightve been far less safe and it was in a mobile home park so even if id been approved it was near the wrong poker room. but i do wish i had long term housing id never have to move out of for under 1000 a month. 

i know most of u have never played in an all bomb pot game every single hand but it does make it a lot easier to win consistently if u are tight enough and know what u are doing. u should be willing to try new things or you never grow at poker. lightning doesnt and thats why he dont grow. 

even though certain players are assholes and want to see me lose and go broke at my table, there are some nice people higher up in charge of the place and some guys are friendly so i guess im not too unhappy. its hard to be when i am winning so many days in a row. plus i got 2 royal flushes this week. and a $25 bonus on each one. 

ive asked them to raise the bomb pot $1 each hand, from $2, to $3, etc, and theyre all nits so they refuse. i just want to see how high it can go and if id survive once the bomb pots got to be $125 a hand. can we privately arrange this as a home game maybe? will Bart do it who lives up the road in Austin? all they will do is change it to a flat 5 or 10 and thats not what i want but a bomb pot going up 1 dollar every single hand. 

just like how i played at the peppermill in reno when id straddle for $4 and then increase it $1 every hand til i scooped a big pot once the straddle grew to $19. here the min straddle is 4 and the max straddle is 10. so its not worth doing at all. 

an awful future is in store for us

 i've thought of a pretty strange way to save the USA, and its not something many of u would accept, because it involves Pelosi becoming president. But its better than Biden being in office, because he is so senile and incompetent a nuclear war could break out at any moment. and its also far better than Harris becoming president, she doesnt even have any support in her own party to win a single delegate. polls show Biden has only a 38% approval rating now and a 53% disapproval rating. and a 67% disapproval rating on his handling of the southern border. 

all we need to do is to impeach Biden, then Harris, and that would put Pelosi into office as president. now shes a democrat, and supports a lot of things i dont approve of, but being an old style Clinton democrat, instead of the new style Ilhan Omar democrat, shes far less dangerous. Pelosi did say once well over a year ago the government had no right to enforce vaccine mandates, although i dont know how she feels about the issue today. 

If Biden continues in office, thats pretty much will cause genicide of a lot of the population among those who are the poorest. as food prices and housing costs skyrocket to unbelievable levels. im down to only $20,600 again after 2 horrible nights of poker. and before then i was winning here in san antonio every day. 

my 20k will soon not afford a months rent and food. i never spent over 200 a month on food because id always buy the cheapest brands at walmart, but now, at Heb and walmart i know im spending well over 300 a month on food because the prices have went up so bad. inflation is well over 100 percent a year and the government wont admit it and hides the real figures. when the cost of gas goes up because of less drilling of oil and less production of oil because pipelines are shut down, the cost of everything skyrockets and it doesnt have any effect on most americans lives but it sure hurts the poorest of us.

now i know after about 6 hours i cant play worth a shit anymore now that im old. but 2 days in a row of $600+ losing sessions? today i spent $60 in time (texas way of taking a rake since a rake isnt legal) and i was already stuck $219 plus time and door fees when i quit the $1-2 NL table to play the $2 bomb pot game. And i still took beats in the all bomb pot game, and many hours later switched to $5 bomb pot and i made the error of agreeing to switch it to 5 cards, which is how i lost the rest of the money. for a tight player who doesnt want to get rivered near as high a percent of the time, 4 cards is better. 

on one big hand, early on, in the $2 bomb pot game, i think i had the nut straight on one board, and Q9 on the other board for 2 pair and the other 2 cards on that board were a 2 and a 3. for the first time i thought i had a good shot of scooping both boards and it was for a decent pot. and against the loose player whose a dealer who i found out was a good guy. story to come. he had been wining several pots more than average. i dont remember the exact cards that consisted of the straight on the other board but i remember it being the nuts on the turn. river is dealt and im afraid to look, so im covering up the board and staring straight ahead with my hands over my eyes and its heads up. hes pretty drunk so i call for a clock because he is taking forever to act and im worried about a bad card coming to pair the board and ruin my nut hand. 

floor comes and starts the clock and he continues to talk and all of a sudden he turns his hand over and just like Vince always says when hes drunk is that he loves me and who loves you and i see he rivered the nut flush on one board, and a boat on the other board. and of course i fold. so he did me a favor by not betting. then he does another thing which surprises me. i am down to only about $60 because i lost quite a bit on that pot before the river, and he buys me $40 worth of time, which is when i suddenly notice what a great guy he is. never before has anyone ever done that for me. certainly not in this cardroom. 

later on he bought the whole table an extra hour of time too to keep everyone playing he said he didnt want no one to leave. and this one asian girl he kept giving a green chip so often it was weird, seeing the other asian woman he never gave one too who was just as good looking. But maybe he heard her mention making 300k in the stock market in 1 day and showing it on her phone to her friends. i just figured it was alysia changs friend named debbie she went to detroit once to see at the casino because she was asian. maybe its a different debbie. he eventually quit broke and got into some dispute with the floorman and pissed him off. But hey he was a good guy, saved me $50 in time. once for $40 once more for $10 when he paid time for the entire table. Last time someone helped me out that much was outside resorts poker room in vegas when a guy whod been playing at my table walked up and handed me $100 and told me to run it up right as vince was coming up to get me in his car and that shocked me too 

other dealers here certainly wouldnt done that for me. one time the guy told the dealer to split the pot in half even though he won 3 fourths of the pot, but the dealer didnt he gave me only 1 quarter and since he was drunk and had done me other favors i didnt bother to say anything. i dont think he even knew the dealer gave him 3 fourths. he knew he was supposed to win 3 quarters but he said to give me half the pot anyway. and just like Vince, kept saying who loves you. 

i am also missing out on a really good casino offer i cant use because i paid a month for a motel in san antonio good thru oct 29th. a certain casino in a different state offered me $250 free bet about 17 different times in the month of october, if i was only there to use it. almost considered flying there and back to use a few of them over 4 days, but the airfare is too much. i have never got an offer that good from a casino ever, and never will again. but its for blackjack table play, not slot play, so no, another person cant claim it. Bill potts also got an offer for $390 a week this month at a casino he cant visit right now either. hes working really hard in virginia this month to make sure the democrats lose the next election and the candidate supported both by the libertarian party and the republican party gets in. the name of the candidate is Mike Cherry. 

out of houston and my new poker experiences now that im someone new and fresh

 why is it that over the long run it doesnt matter whether u play well or badly at poker and u are just as likely to win playing poorly as you are playing well? and the ONLY thing that really affects whether u win or lose is the CITY in which u are playing? why is it that whether i played BJ well or not never mattered and i was just as likely to win on a 6-5 vbj as i was to lose on a machine with an extra promotion attached that added enough to the payback to bring it up to about $100.25 or more back on every $100 ran thru it while i was in nevada last month?

why did i lose solidly the last 2 weeks i was in houston, every day for like 12 days in a row when ive never seen that happen once in the last few years of playing and never lost more than $900 at poker at any time for the overall month in the last 3 years? some years i had zero losing months when i used to keep good records before i lost the Iphone. and had i never had that iphone stolen from me in samstown las vegas a few years ago, id still be keeping accurate records on the iphone. 

never have i ever lost 3000 before (at poker i mean) in 2 weeks. i know i lost that and more all the time when i played games outside of poker, but not at the game im dependent on to survive. not in 30 years of daily playing. i wonder how astronomical the odds against this actually are? no wonder my nerves are shot and i say so many things i regret that make people hate me and me afraid to return to places i played 

its the once in a thousand years downswing others have talked about that only happens to 1 out of 10,000 people. i dont know how to handle it mental health wise because in my real life experience, its never happened. but to lose 3k right when ive returned from over 20k on video blackjack losses?

the only good news was i won over 4k the first two and a half weeks of that month before then, but still counting the money i spent on my airbnb while in houston, i didnt make a dime. 

why do lyft and uber drivers constantly report me for not wearing a mask when i make sure to always have one on, and worry anytime now ill have too many false reports and my service suspended? i think they lie because they dont like my attitude. (my uncomfortableness in being asked to rehash how shitty my days going by drivers who couldnt give a fuck how its going and just like to hear themselves talk their little script which they think will get them more tips) or maybe the drivers dont like me constantly complaining about how the gps is taking such a horrible route no one would ever use if driving normally without using gps. 

why do businesses do whatever they can to make their customers so angry it will lower their sales and make the client want nothing to do with you or your product? such as candy crush on facebook (which i ONLY play from my laptop, never my cell) always turning the music back on about every 5th time i log on no matter how many times ive permanently switched the music off in my settings. leave my damned setting the way i put them. 

why do tens of millions of people have to live out of motels or airbnb without any way to obtain housing because they have no proof of credit or income? we are rapidly running out of motel space in this country because of this, and because of Biden letting people en masse come across the mexican border into texas. remember how i said extended stay america in vegas, reno, and a lot of other cities has reached increases of over 100 percent a year in prices compared to a few years ago to unsustainable levels. and yet they claim the inflation rate is only a little over 5 percent what a lie. of course its being claimed by the same people who claim the vaccine is safe to take. so theres that. so many cities and smaller towns i cannot ever move to or visit because theres nowhere to get a hotel at a reasonable cost. Montana, Reno, and new hampshire are excellent examples of this. 

all those people coming into the US, the govt pays for them shelter in hotels so almost no motel space is left for those in need of housing and those traveling across country. all of them are being used up by illegals living there. 

and its all because liberal white women working in the poker industry as dealers or floorpeople or in their corporate offices and the poker news media who read my blog didnt want to vote for Trump because he reminded them of a guy who wanted to date them they werent physically attracted to. such bullshit. 

what is going to happen in this country when the military takes over as they did in australia and people are being shot in the streets for protesting (which theres millions of online videos). and every casino or business requires u to be vaccinnated to buy food or have a place to live, or even to walk into a hospital to receive medical care? let alone for being able to sit on a poker table. and all the left wing sheep who read this blog are just letting it happen. and then people wonder why im such a complete emotional wreck all stressed out. 

why wouldnt i be when prices keep going up and my roll is no longer at a point where it can no longer emotionally handle a loss of $200-300 since im down to my last 21k soon to be only about 19k once housing is paid up for a month again?

even though ive won all 3 days now since leaving Houston for good, i still arent winning nearly enough to live on. i need at least $200 a day to survive and not be on the streets, because if u make less than $73,000 a year in this country u are going to have a very hard time not worrying and obsessing over homelessness night and day til u mentally snap and end up in a mental health center. and as far as i know i dont think ive ever had a year where i won that much. im not sure because of the lack of good records. 

ive only won about 375 in the last 3 days which isnt nearly enough to grow a bankroll. i quit almost every time with the smallest possible wins out of fear of losing it back, and i feel like i cant afford to lose even 100 without it really emotionally upsetting me. 

the players are still all dicks, even though ive found better rules and structures in the cardrooms here than the cardrooms in houston. im no longer acting first in the sb on the button straddle, but i still have to deal with assholes daily who arent even fit to live and just like to flaunt their wealth by buying in way too deep and wont run it twice just to be a dick to the guy whose struggling to not have to rebuy another $100. the object isnt to bust the short stack dammit, its to bust the big stack who doesnt care and has plenty to reload. i feel like a lot of guys would gladly pay $500 just to take the short stacks $100 because they get a sick sadistic sexual thrill of causing those who are suffering emotionally mental anguish and pain. no one ever listened to the words of Jesus about having empathy and caring for others. but what can u expect from those who didnt vote trump? Trump was the only one in this country to ever have empathy and compassion for those who are marganilized and suffering such as the disabled and the poor. 

a guy today in a new poker room i visited, at first i got screwed by the dealer not getting seat change because they only had 2 seat change buttons and both were given out and i was number 3. and i was in the 9 seat next to the dealer and didnt see seat 3 get up and a new player sat there instantly and they said i was too late to ask to move because he already had his chips on the table. that wouldnt be the rule in most casinos ive played in. 

and then i had waited for the blinds to pass and the bomb pot to pass, and sat behind. and then i had to shove KK and suddenly had $117 instead of $100. and a few minutes later right after getting screwed out of the seat change, had JJ. 

so i shoved again and one guy with well over $800 said he was going to just gamble and called with A5 offsuit, then refused to run it twice because he was an asshole. reminds me so much of Joey sal.

flop comes KK5QQ and i lost my stack. got counterfeited on the river. was good til then. 

i got up and waited for the other table to start about 30 minutes later, but i figured it would in about 10 minutes. nope. 

everyone could see how mad i was though

now the first day i won the most. it was a little over 250 and it was in an all bomb pot cash game. i had over 650 when i quit the table and i wonder what wouldve happened had i stayed and played but im terrified of having more than 100-200 on the table. im not in a position to risk more than one percent at a time. 

its terrible to be a winning player lifetime of well over a million over 30 yrs and not be able to comfortably sit once u have more than 200 in front of me.

this is what blackjack and video poker losses and play will do to someone it will ruin their life and is why casinos are bad 

i pray to God theyre never legalized in the state of texas

so far ive visited 3 new poker rooms and theres another 10 in this part of the state ive yet to visit. i have no idea where ill find a place to live and what room it might be near. i might just fly on out of here but to where?

and then i also worry that my landlady on airbnb will give me a bad rating when she goes to clean the place tomorrow and sees i slept on the mattress and constantly ate crackers in bed. i wonder how to remove them from cracks in the mattress. and i hope i dont get blamed for the fact the sink never drained properly that i told her about. it was that way when i moved in. 

i cant get an airbnb here til i decide which poker room id rather be near and first ive got to visit a hell of a lot more rooms. some of them are a big uber ride away. ive wasted too much time playing near to where my hotel is. 

sinking faster than the titanic

 im not sure whats going on and ive never seen anything like it. makes me wonder if i did the right thing in coming back to texas from vegas. there is only 1 reason i still think i mightve done the right thing, and thats that the $2400 ive lost in the last 6-8 days i lost that and more in less than 1 hour at the pioneer in laughlin right before i left town. 

So maybe the fact im only playing poker without any way to play video blackjack or video poker or live blackjack is helping me lose the money just a little bit slower even if im not winning anything. i suppose things could always be worse even when emotionally it doesnt feel like they could be. 

when i used to live in texas, i never had a month where i didnt win at least 5-6k or more. and the first 5 days i was here in texas before Bill Potts left town for an unknown location (i still have no idea if he is in VA or NH or PA) all i know about Bill Potts is he wanted me to retweet his opinion that there should be another civil war, and the united states should be broken up into 2 parts. (which id rather not do).  i was up over $2500, and a week later i was up over $4000. now the month is up almost, and i have exactly the same $21,800 i had right before i paid for the airbnb which took me down to a little under the 20k. if i were able to renew the airbnb right now for another month at the same price, i would be again under 20k.

all the money i won in Houston was won on those first few days, beginning with the $884 i won the first night back and of course, never won again. a high hand for $500 had a large part to do with that. ive never won that again since. 

i am wondering if im so emotionally depressed about the losing i cant play my best. im afraid to go back to this one room after the scene i made when i walked out mad and after what i said to the guy working the floor. 

now ill grant u this, one of the reasons im losing is because some of these rooms are now taking a rake which is illegal of $3-15 depending on the pot and they werent doing this a year ago, but just membership and time fees. and remember i talked about how one or more of the places was doing it totally free for a while or at times only $5 per hour. 

so that could have caused my wins to decrease by $40 or more a day, but still, i dont think it accounts for nearly all. im either running bad, playing bad, the players have gotten better, or am not playing my best due to previous losses in vegas and since vegas depressing me, and knowing my airbnb is about up putting on additional stress. ill have to go back to living out of a motel to reduce the costs to about 1300 a month or less. im really going to miss a real kitchen, real living room, real bathroom and right now ive got 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms which of course i dont need anymore. im going to miss all kitchen supplies and miscellaneous things such as cleaning supplies, towels, etc. 

here are a few hands i played tonight. tell me if im playing poorly. 

one hand is omaha and its a game with 2 hands of omaha per orbit, the rest of the time its NL. i had AA35 single suited and didnt raise because im in the blinds and i dont believe in ever raising from those positions in omaha, and rarely in NL. some people are complete and total idiots or assholes who raise every time its limped around to their BB or straddle UTG. they dont understand how its not a good idea to bloat a pot then be forced to be first to act every round. 

flop comes 334 with 2 clubs and i have no clubs. i pot it and only 2 guys call. now granted, if i pot it preflop the loose asian guy ive played with all week long and often lost to, i dont think he will fold his 2467 with 3 clubs and one spade no matter what. 

turn comes 4, everyone checks. river comes 4. guy whose in the SB and first to act bets $25, which is maybe just under half the pot. i feel obligated to call, since only 1 hand beats me. then the asian guy makes it $175 and the bettor quickly folds, and then gets mad i was mad he made such a dumb bet, that he cant possibly win since he will get snap called every time hes beat and never get paid off when hes behind. but his $25 let the other eventual winner win a much larger pot and be able to make a much bigger bet. i had to call the first better i had him beat, but he thought i played it bad for calling the other guy and said not to blame his bet. 

and the asian guy shows the 267 before i called, and almost 100 percent of the time people do this its an attempt to get u to fold. i am always bluffing every time i show 1 card. but turns out he wasnt. arent people usually bluffing when they show 1?

now a bit later, at another table (i moved to an all NL table without any hands of omaha) i raise it preflop to $10 with AQ. a guy with a large stack makes it $20 and one other guy and me both call. what would u do in this spot? reraise? fold? i think i had somewhere between $125 and $200. 

flop comes 357 i check. he bets i fold. he shows J2. so i folded all the hands id won and called all the times a guy actually had the winner. no matter which table im at. how do u know who is bluffing and who isnt? this was a white guy, young, and id just recently moved to his table. 

another hand, another table, another day, i had JQ of diamonds and called a raise preflop. flop comes 852 all in diamonds. guy bets $25, guy goes allin for $225, i call, and then the bettor goes allin with K6 suited for $130 more. and i paid him off too. the loose dealer who went allin for $225 had the ace hi flush draw but missed.

another hand i got 33. i raised preflop tired of not being aggressive in late positon. a bit more than i shouldve to $30. flop comes 29T. i bet he calls, turn comes Q i quit the game when he bet. would u check the flop with 33 after making it $30 preflop in late position hoping to take down the blinds and limps?

i have TT and raise it preflop 2 callers. flop comes K65 we all check. turn comes 8. i bet only 1 caller, and i put him on a mid size pair, probably with a straight draw. well the 7 comes on the end, so what can i do but check and he bets big. i dont see how i can win so i fold, and then he shows A5. so i wouldve been good. 

im so tired of playing in houston and just want to go somewhere no one knows me. i know of other cities in texas hosting all bomb pot games or plo8 games instead of plo. and i think i should avoid plo til i get my run good back. no matter if the plo is where most of last years wins came from. maybe the plo players have got better. or maybe Ray is right and i play way too many double suited hands such as J779. Ray says TTQK with 3 of the same suit is a better hand than my double suited hand. 

and im getting really tired of playing where straddles are legal. and where i act first. that and people who constantly raise in the blinds. i try to see flops with KK27 double suited on the button, and then someone just burns off my chips making it $10 and then everyone calls. and no i cant pot it because it will not help they still all call and hit regardless of the fact they originally all tried to limp $3.

this isnt as much the case in NL so i think i should return to it. i have more moves there, but theres so much more people it seems bluff me, and every call i make im then shown the nuts. in omaha people usually have the nuts it seems because bluffing is pretty pointless in a game thats PL instead of NL. 

a few thoughts about poker and about long term housing

 even though im feeling fairly safe being on a high floor of an apt complex enclosed in a building locked behind a gated community, i often wish i could take time off to relax from poker, and get a very fancy big 2 story house (not an apartment, no matter how the nice the apartment is) or a place in a rural setting outside of town. But when i dont drive, nor have the ability to learn how to drive, its not easy. i did learn however how to search on airbnb by the state instead of by the city and i didnt realize at first this option even existed.

Bill Potts did say however he thought the bottom door lock could be picked by a credit card, but i dont see how. the top 2 locks on the door are fairly safe however, and without a main key to the building no one would ever be able to get into the elevators to even reach my floor. 

to get the prices on airbnb down to a more reasonable level, since most other cities in texas and the rest of the USA are much higher than Houston except for a few smaller holdouts, i wish they had a forum where u could state the type of place u were looking for and how much u were willing to pay. 

This place feels too big for me, now that im here by myself and no longer collecting $31 or $32 everyday from Bill Potts. and its still good for a little bit more than 2 weeks. 

hopefully i have enough food to last that long, so i wont need to make any Uber trips to a walmart store. i bought $134 the first trip with Bill Potts and $60 the 2nd trip so i think im good. 

its nice living in places with all kitchen supplies furnished instead of hotels. i was getting really sick of hotels in vegas and Laughlin after having been away from hotels when i was living in florida.

now ive got over $3300 cash more than i had when i arrived in Houston on august 26, which is almost 2 weeks ago. now of course a large portion of that went for airbnb, food, transportation etc, but most of that was not paid for with cash but out of my bank accounts balances.

so where did the cash come from? all of it from poker of course with the exception of a little bit of rental income. but its nice to be in the 22s instead of the 19s where i was when i first arrived once the airbnb was subtracted out of my roll. 

i guess that shows u how much money can be won playing poker and nothing but poker in texas. no machines, no blackjack, etc. and if i can win this much in less than 2 weeks with a roll of under 20k, imagine what could be won with a much higher sized roll.

picture a guy who buys in for $100 every time and plays 365 days a year and makes $36,500. but thats about all i can afford to sit with unless i get stuck. now that the roll is back over 20, i can sit with $200 if i want and still have 100 buyins so i can be a little more risk adverse than i really want to be. 

how can i be so horribly risky at blackjack and video blackjack yet take so little risk at poker? something just doesnt feel right with the way i do things. 

if i was buying in $300 (but i cant without at least 30k) i would average 300 a day, which is a little over 100k a year. and of course if i were rich like some of the local asians guys who buyin deep, i could make 1000 a day buying in 1000 every time i sit. most of these guys do. at least in the bigger cardroom. in the smaller room, most still dont buyin for 1000. its more rare. 

so a guy with a 10k roll can average 36500 a year in houston and a guy with 100k roll can average 365,000 a year in houston both playing the same game, $1-3 PLO or $1-3 round of each. or $1-3 NL with 1 hand of omaha per orbit. 

it really doesnt matter if u are a good player or not, Omaha is all luck according to Bill Potts and a smart guy wouldnt play nothing but holdem (his words, certainly not mine). the money u make in houston is not based on your skill level, but by how deep u buyin and this is why he left the area. that, and because he wants to make a difference in this world by fighting masks and vaccine mandates and by supporting libertarian candidates such as mike cherry in virginia who is running. he will be working full time for the libertarian party about 2 weeks a year. he never could handle the fact houston wont offer $5-10 NL holdem and only offers it for omaha. this is because he always makes the minimum buyin and to win money in houston u have to cover all the deepstacked 1-3 fish sitting with well more than 1000 in front of them

i often wonder how my life would be different had i taken far more risks at poker, instead of all the foolish risks on non poker activites just so i could gamble a lot higher to where i could make enough to get rich. i could easily have well over a million with an excellent credit rating since id never ruin it if i ever got an initial card. 

Bill Potts claims i have enough to buyin 500, because thats still 40 buyins, which he says should be enough, but unless im stuck $500 and desperate i hate having that much in front of me. it makes my decisions so much tougher. now earlier today i won a $575 pot that wouldve been well over $1000 had i not ran out of money on the flop with AAA in the PLO game. but i made over 300 for the day and im happy. without any possessions to sell, with no bitcoin to sell, nothing of value to my name, no car, no government assistance, no long term housing, im scared to death of sitting with more than i absolutely have to in front of me. 

and thats not how a winning player is supposed to feel, but i feel if i change anything at all, ill no longer win. imagine how angry i get now when i keep playing instead of hit and run to be on the safe side, and then give it all back. i feel like such a donkey when i dont hit and run, and also when i do. 

also, we need to be working on a way to convince lightning to visit houston. 

Trip report --avi laughlin promotion, and the Gin mill cardroom in Lubbock texas.

 Let me start with the fact its good to be out of Las Vegas, because i had only 21k left of the 36k i had in cincinnati when i flew to vegas. most of it was all lost on blackjack of all forms, live and video, 6-5 and 3-2 both. at least now i wont be playing any more blackjack.

i was at the Avi in Laughlin and i dont know who turned me in, because the only one i know besides me and Bill Potts that knew about that promotion was Benny and Cutter, and Benny is the one who told me about it, then got pissed i told Bill Potts. but i think a lot of the dealers and players at the riverside in laughlin who dont like me probably also saw me playing in there, and some of them knew of the blog i would assume. also the NL at the riverside isnt going quite as often as theyd originally claimed since Laughlin went back to masks and summers ending. but still far more often than it did years ago before prices skyrocketed in laughlin.

but i lost a ton of money on that promotion and so did Bill Potts. and when i went back to get my free rooms promised to me by the host, security told me they didnt want me there and told me about my old blog post making them uncomfortable and said someone who wanted to remain anonymous told them about it, and i think they just googled my name and just didnt want to tell me. i cant picture Benny doing it and no one else knew where i was playing. 

so if u are an AP, go burn out the promotion. the video BJ which normally pays 99.25 on every 100 dollars run thru it has 6x points if u are over 50 on monday and wednesday. which brings the payout up to 100.45 and if u bet enough u should earn 200 or more in ev per hour, with a limit of $500 free play per day. but u can bet up to 3 spots and Bill Potts recommends $149 per spot. which is about $450 in bets 120 times an hour. hopefully they will take a huge loss as long as their machine isnt rigged, being an indian casino. 

i assume whoever told them just didnt want me doing the promotion.

so i went back to vegas, used my 3 free nites at resorts but i still had to pay $51 a day in resort fees. and then he drove me to lubbock texas for $200

i went to the wrong cardroom in Lubbock, but it was a few blocks across the freeway from my hotel. and Bill Potts wasnt staying at my hotel, but with a friend at his house.

so i went to the Gin Mill and had to wait til almost 1130 at night once the tourney ended for a cash game to start and then it was only 4 of us, and soon became 3 of us and i lost between $160-200.

had i went to stacks or west texas card house, i couldve started playing much sooner and sat at a full table. stacks had a $5 blind on the button (weird spot for it) and the other club had big o with a blind of $10-25 (your choice) on the button and a higher min buy of $200 which i didnt feel i could afford because if the blind put out 25, id only have 8 big bets. 

had i not blew all the money id have gladly played. Bill Potts thought the game was too small for him and i found it much too high.

but i decided to stick to 1-2 and waited all damn night for a game to start in the smaller room

am glad to finally be back in Houston, won $883 today, which helps a tiny bit but doesnt begin to recover all the fees, ive already spent far more that on my housing this month in houston for the next 4 weeks. at least i cant play no more machines or BJ or vbj. theres some good promotions going on now in houston and games are still just as loose. some of them are totally free rake but theres still a gimmick involved such as a $5-8 BBJ drop per hand if the pot is over $50 (and no drop if under)

its nice also to be in a state where the governor cares about his citizens and where no one will be forced to take a vaccine or wear a mask, unlike the mangers of the wsop this year. how will they get any business at all? the vaccine doesnt do near as much to protect u as having covid in the past does to protect u. Bill potts left vegas specifically because he refused to wear a mask anymore and would constantly be told to leave. he isnt staying here long he found a job in Keene NH working for the libertarian party to end masks and vaccine mandates. i wonder how poker will be up there?

poker room scam which i discussed on twitter, and also being banned at two plus two

 ok im ready to talk about the scam i found in a poker room that i posted on twitter that people wondered what i meant, now that im up and awake now and am down to a new low of $26,600. i need to get out of town anyway and go somewhere where all I'll play is poker since my vbj addiction has grown so much worse than it used to be. 

but first i want to tell u guys this, because by the time i finish posting about the scam, id likely forget to add this at the end of the post, and this is important. 

i got banned on two plus two forum and this forum was recently bought out by a brand new owner and in the thread that describes the purchase that said whats the future of 2p2, it seemed everyone was being unbanned. i really dont know who banned me (which moderator) because i cant log in. when i try to log in it said it was for spreading lies about covid, and would never be lifted. 

although theres always been bad moderators on the site, one or two of the much higher up moderators in the past (there are a HUGE number of people on there who can ban anyone) always gave me a lot of leeway because they knew i had autism and said things most people found odd. but i have no idea whose controlling things now. i am almost positive its not the new owner, because as u can see from reading the thread, he wanted to bring back almost everyone whose ever been banned. if a moderator did want to ban me in those days, someone higher up would always talk him out of it and let me stay unbanned, but just had my posts moderated extremely heavily. there were certain threads i would not be allowed to post in, and i couldnt post from my blog on the site. 

would like for people to discuss this on there, and talk about it, and maybe send me a link to where they do it to me that i can try to log in from on my phone which supposedly wont be IP banned like my laptop is when i log in. or is there some way i can log in anyway even if ive no way to log out first from the laptop. also why isnt my IP address constantly changing since im always at a new address, getting internet a new way?

not being able to read the forums is a real problem. not posting isnt so much. 

in the old days, being able to post used to be extremely critical, because i needed to sometimes trade money. but not anymore. the new owner is some guy from vancouver, and i think if he knew and understood me as well as David sklansky, mason malmouth and ray zee did, he would lift the ban. i am positive he had nothing to do with the ban, and one of the far left wing radicals pushing left wing covid fear mongering did it. 

ok here is the scam-----

incidently, does anyone know who the new manager is of the Boulder station poker room, or what his email is? its changed so many times. and ive no idea which floor is over all the other floor. ive seen 2 or 3 bad floors, and 1 or 2 decent people all the different times ive been in there. the guy who threw me out is called Adam, appears to be gay and someone whose never liked me from the past somewhere and wouldnt know where that wouldve been. he told me to leave for the night and didnt want me to argue with him and force him to call security. so i went to buy food, and play a little bj on the video and then head to the room. played a little bj on the video when i woke up this morning too and ended up losing over $800

i had been playing at my $1-3 NL table in boulder station since the game opened about 5pm, and it was getting closer to midnite and id just returned from using the restroom, and noticed the dealer had been switched to the same lady who was such a nazi about people keeping their masks up above the nose. evidently she watches too much CNN and has become paralyzed with fear. being told to wear a mask really hasnt stopped me from visiting a casino, because although an inconveinence, its not near as much a one as having to show a vaccine passport would be, and i can still breathe unless u are constantly being told to pull it above your nose, like choctaw used to do before they quit requiring masks. 

but anyway, i had been playing with a guy named Eddie who lives in town, a wealthy older guy, and his girlfriend Laura, who later moved to the omaha game. eddie was in seat 4 and laura was in seat 3, before she removed and a regular who knew me and is a nice guy took seat 3, and i was in seat 2. i dont remember laura ever being in seat 2, but i was in seat 3 once too real early on. 

eddie has a strong dislike for me, no idea why, but its for something in the past that could be 20 years ago for all i know. and like all rich guys are he is a complete asshole. 

the other regular who took Lauras spot, he is guy who knows me and has absolutely nothing against me, but i forgot his name. he used to play with me at the nugget too and i think possibly in the stratosphere but not sure on that one. hes been in vegas for just as many years as eddie has. 

anyway i dont really feel most of the dealers are too friendly, and this is why i prefer to go to new rooms and cities i dont know to play poker in so no one will have anything against me from years ago where i mightve inadvertently offended them due to my either losing heavily, or my autism, and have no memory or recollection of it. some people hold a grudge and dont ever tip a certain dealer or waitress ever again, or remember when 1 guy dont chop with them like he did everyone else. me i constantly forgot because im not in the same room my whole life like some of these guys are. 

plus i stand out, and people constantly know who i am when i have no idea who they are, and when i dont know who they are they get offended. 

i dont cause any problems in rooms where i feel like the management understand my mental condition, because i feel like i can trust them. (a great example is Mark from Westgate who now does the graveyard shift in resorts, and the guy who manages the Peppermill in Reno and also Jennifer Gays husband who runs the sahara). speaking of which if i ever saw her in person, i wouldnt even know it was her, but she did me a favor by suggesting her husband let me play there when the room opened. which ill always appreciate. 

but if i feel like all the staff hates me and wont give me a fair hearing, then im inclined to get worked up far more easily and it only makes the problem worse. for i get very riled up if i feel im being treated unkindly by the staff. remember the incident at the gold dust casino in deadwood?

anyway about the scam. i look to see if im logged in (for the first time all night) when i return from the bathroom and post a blind. and i see the name "Laura" logged into seat 2. 

i immediately blow up, and i know the dealers couldnt be so ignorant as to been thinking that was my name all the hours it was logged in there in error. and since its a clique or regulars i assume they let it stay that way on purpose so she would get my comps and hope id never know. im sure they do it all the time and most never catch on. 

the nice guy in seat 3 is trying to defuse the situation and him being nice to both me and Eddie, says hes positive it was not intentional. and me not seeing how it can not be intentional, says to him are u really that fucking gullible as to think its an accident? u probably think Trump lost the election fair and square too. or that the virus is really a threat. 

hes not offended, but seat 4 and the dealer immediately call the floor adam who doesnt like me, probably because he knows how i feel about queers. and he says ive got to leave for swearing. 

weird world we live in where people can use drugs legally now, kill their children before theyre born, but oh no, u cant say a swear word when youre gambling and find out someones cheating you. thats a horrible sin we need to punish. in the old days people got shot for cheating and there wasnt a huge crowd of people defending the person who did the cheating.

a responsible employee wouldve understood i was upset, and why, and also spoken to the dealers as to why this had been going on for hours, since everyone knew i wasnt Laura. since they both are regulars. and went to defuse the situation and simply requested i calm down and talk to him off to the side away from the table and not do it again. 

adam refunded the $7 to my players card which i used in the machines after i left the poker room, but i felt like i deserved was an apology not to be asked to cash out for the night. 

ive seen a lot of weird things in poker rooms lately

 i really should start updating this blog more often, but no matter what i post people are always going to be offended. its very difficult to not get mad and start speaking about how i truly feel, especially when under so much financial pressure having so much less than when i came to vegas and with the cost of a place to live skyrocketing and never having a way to rent a permanent place to live. nor do i have even 1 friend in vegas i can trust willing to help me buy an old RV with my own money for under 5k and get it parked in a safe rv lot in laughlin whod drive it for me and hook it up for me. Or in reno or texas for that matter. Ray wont ever leave Ohio and Vince is too busy working all the time. 

No one believes in helping their fellow man with their time anymore. they all think the government should do everything instead of private individuals, and they dont understand how debiliating autism is, and falsely think i can do it myself. i wish i could pay someone to get my ID for me but first they would need power of attorney. (the new real ID where its actually the citizenship proof id need, in other words a passport). 

imagine what its like to be totally dependent on others to drive u around, or be paying $1500 plus per month on taxis, ubers and lyfts because its too dangerous not to in the middle of the night. 

imagine what its like to have such a powerful addiction to playing machines ive lost over $600 between 8-13 times since coming to vegas. 

i still only have about 29k left out of the 36k i came with since i lost again this morning and thats even after winning over 2000 yesterday at boulder statlooion. 

the BBJ got hit at the sante fe, and those of us playing at boulder station were still going to get paid. it ended up being $1030 each, which was quite a bit more than i thought it would be. guess with so many less stations open, it makes the players share go up substantially. 

its not just me thats stressed out, its a lot of people and its all due to the virus and the fact it seems to be getting worse again and having the vaccine isnt doing anything to stop people from getting it or getting sick. people have no idea if things will lock back down and theyve seen their cost of living go up so much and theyre scared. never in the history of the US has there been this kind of inflation in the cost of rent.

i look at the TX covid statistics put out by the official govt of the state every day on twitter, and every day i see less and less icu beds available. its now down to under 500. i dont even know for sure games wont close down if i return to texas, and the same for florida. im getting emails from places in florida saying masks are now required again. (hialeah)

it would be so nice not to be dependent on gambling (or at least be able to beat online poker). to live in a small town, for not more than $800 a month somewhere, in a city free of crime. anywhere in the US. 

maybe i could even find work there though ive always known no employer would ever hire me because my disability is so severe i provoke everyone to anger and no one can tolerate me. it would pay less than what id need to live unless i could walk to work and my housing was dirt cheap. i only think its possible now because employers are so desperate for help theyll hire anyone who walks in and my felony that kept me from getting interviews all the time i looked 25-30 yrs ago is so many years removed. i wasnt even 21 when i had the felony. 

yeah i was all the way back from a low of what i thought was $27,500 (mightve been more since i hadnt looked it up yet) and last night had $30,900. and now its only $$29300 video blackjack keeps people broke. 

its not just me whose about to flip out on anyone and everyone, especially the cleaning crew who continually tries to sit an ashtray next to where youre playing since u removed the ashtray since u dont want such a disgusting thing around where u are sitting. dont they realize theres far more people who dont want an ashtray by their machine than those that do?

for example the guy david who everyone knows as a nit from the peppermill who would never buyin more than $40. and constantly tries to qualify for freeroll promotions in vegas. most of which arent worth playing in since u have to sit in poor games with freeroll grinders. 

he walked into boulder yesterday, and mightve been pissed he got there slightly too late for the BBJ. i dont know the whole story because i was on the NL table in the far back corner against the wall, and the incident happened on the front omaha table by the desk. somehow he got into a dispute with someone who was mad at him and thought he was being rude. he knocked over someones chips all over the floor intentionally, i think might of hit someone and ran out the room with others getting out of their seats and following him. i dont know if he made it outside or if they got him. i never left my seat because i was worried i wouldnt be allowed to carry my BBJ chip they pass out off the table, and also worried i wouldnt get paid if someone picked it up and i didnt have one. so i stayed in my seat for over 2 hours til i got paid. all i saw was in under a minute there was security all over the place a lot of pandemonium, and someone who seemed to be getting medical attention on their face. this is the same David who always refused bomb pots at resorts and constantly moved table to table to avoid blinds and to sit back down with the minimum buyin. i hadnt seen him there recently and wondered if he got banned there.

the other day resorts world threw out a drunk lady and her husband and i understand shes been thrown out of the ceasers palace poker room because of a fight with a guy who said a very mean thing about her jewishness and her son passing away. she claims she is related to Eli elezra. famous poker player. 

she refused to pay a black guy next to me on a big allin and after he went allin and she called the allin, i showed pocket tens (with no more action pending) and folded it. then she used that as an excuse to not pay and the floor ruled she had to. what an angle shot. i was originally going to title this blog "white lady tries to fuck black guy in the poker room" but i was afraid if i did flush draw wouldnt retweet it. 

but yeah she was about to fuck him over big time, and i stood up for the guy. that wasnt right. but that wasnt what she got thrown out for it. i was over an hour later, with some dispute involving her husband watching the rail and some other arguement i think about how she played a hand and the comments pissed off either her or her husband. 

be aware that resorts world will not allow u to show a card, even in HU situations. this is an unusual rule most rooms dont have, and shouldnt have. but they warned her a few times on this. 

im still getting free rooms though i desperately need to leave town and go somewhere i cant play machines but im getting so many free nites due to losses and the fact no more visitors are coming to vegas anymore. 

one thing that would still really help me play poker more and video BJ less would be if i had different sleep hours i hate waking up sometime between 2am and 6am when few poker games exist. id much rather wake up every day about 6pm a much better time to go play poker when not tired. im too old to force myself to stay awake and play when tired just to fix those hours because id lose heavily. i play awful once im tired. almost as awful as i do when i play 4 handed. 

also boulder station has a new rule thats odd. they no longer allow people to chop the blinds. i guess the general poker room manager must have personally hated feeling pressure to chop when he plays himself at other rooms so he made up this new rule to fuck everyone else over. ive always thought a rule should be made making it mandatory in all HU situations so theres never any assholes who can refuse to chop. 

vegas trip report part 2

 well Joe Stanley from MGM national Harbor told me on twitter he wants me to update my blog, and of course its long overdue. But he still needs to answer his PMs just as much as i need to update the blog. both are long overdue. 

when i arrived here after massive blackjack and video poker losses in cincinnati, i was down to only $35,800 and now im at only $31,100. So me coming here hasnt really helped as far as regrowing my bankroll. the only good news i have to report is ive made about $4000 or more playing poker in vegas in the month or less ive been here. mostly all of it in Resorts World. theres more tourists there, so games are better than at places populated by locals and grinders. 

of those winnings, about $2500 of it was spent on hotels and Ubers, Lyfts and cabs. and all the rest was lost on blackjack and video poker. (probably about $6000 worth). 

the reason so much got spent on transportation is its too unsafe to ride a bus anymore, unless u do it in daytime and stick to the strip. so u always need a higher priced form, and the governor allowed them to do surge pricing again, so fares have gone way up. almost as bad as hotels have. 

i might fly out of here tomorrow or again i might not, i hate feeling like im being forced to leave because of inflation, and my inability to stick to nothing but poker. i cant believe ive wasted over $15-20k on games outside of poker even since i first started doing it in florida, then ohio.

ive had some interesting things happen while in vegas this trip. got to see lightning, and i keep forgetting to remind Ray to read lightnings blog report of his trip which includes me in both of his last 2 blogs. i will forget again, but this post will remind him. i was glad to see he paid for the meal. but i did offer to use tuscany comps. or sahara comps, but the restaraunt wasnt open in the middle of the night about 3am. 

i did play a session of poker with a good looking older woman named Crystal who seems to be a local in vegas who i think must work in the industry. she reraised my bet on the flop and i flopped top pair with QT suited so i didnt want to fold. i called again on the turn to a bigger bet and an even bigger one for $100 on the river. turned out she had nothing but T6 of clubs, and runner runnered the straight and i was shocked by her hand and mad at myself for not coming over the top on the flop in which case she would have to fold. Flop was Q93 without any clubs. turn 7, river 8. 

i made some plays at other tables too in which i managed to steal pots also of course. but not in PLO though, its hard to steal there. its hard even to get a table going. today i found a full game on a tuesday which is rare but then as always it just didnt last that long. 

a guy named Alan was throwing away a lot of money and everyone but me knew him so i wondered if it was allen kessler but it wasnt. 

one nice guy even bought me a massage which surprised me he is a guy who tries all the time to help start it and buys in very deep and like a lot of players he wont use a card because he says it will lower his daily theo and his offers. sounds like something Bill Potts would say. i noticed quite a few here who have a card and wont use it at poker. there must be some good casino comps im unaware of for table players. 

ive lost way too much on 6-5 BJ but i was winning on it for a while. i started the trip off bad losing on live blackjack and ive lost quite a bit on 3-2 machines also, but more on 6-5 machines which i really have no business playing. i must have much worse discipline than i used to have. 

Las Vegas trip report-includes new resorts world review

 to begin with, i never wanted to visit Las Vegas. but i knew i had to get out of Cincinnati after a huge loss of $3600 in one day between video triple spin poker and live blackjack especially since it was the second time id done that in cincinnati and Ray had already returned to Toledo. 

with my roll already down to 36k of the 45k i had in florida before i started screwing up the roll by playing blackjack, there was no reason to be in Ohio any longer, so i went to the airport in the Uber, planning to book the 6 pm flight to reno. by the time i arrived, it was too late to book it so i took the vegas plane that left a little after 7. it made a stop in minneapolis and i almost didnt make it to vegas, because the hydraulic water pump needed to be fixed to fly and we ended up on a different plane 2 hours later and got to vegas a bit late. 

Unlike its been reported, getting Uber is quite easy here. but its higher priced. i guess the surge got a few more drivers out since the governor changed it to allow surges. but i used a cab that first nite because i was unsure if i could get Uber and i was in a hurry to check in to the 3 nights i had at the D.

and that night, i lost $2165 playing live blackjack. and couldnt get more money to double my bets again, or i might have lost over $5000 that night and still not be over 30k. i did a shit ton of vultureable machines on the second floor of circa, but of course nothing of value left on them, too many hustlers in vegas. and circa has decent VBJ paying 3-2 with liberal rules as to what u can double down with, but its not giving any points. and neither are most vbj machines in vegas.

the VBJ in the Oyo (theres 2 of them) one of them and only one is 3-2 but it also has liberal rules and even allows surrender also. but it too gives no points. a lot of casinos in vegas now limit the bets to $100 max, but not all. 

southpoint has an extremely fast 3-2 vbj machine mixed in with other games, on a machine table gaming wizard. ive not yet been there, but ive been told cosmo and the plaza and the mohegan sun in virgin casino (former hard rock vegas) also offer this machine. but i dont know if any of them give points and some dont pay 3-2 like southpoint did. its easy to play and much faster than the virtual machine but other than 3-2 the rules werent as good. and southpoint u cant even put a card in the machine, let alone get points. 

the poker room manager on graveyard at southpoint said the poker room rate is available on the weekends, but i still think it might be sold out. and even $99 plus resort fee and tax is still high, even if its available. that would end up being $150 or so a night. Vince and i played 4-8 hilo there one night (rarely runs there) and i lost while he won. 

vince and i also played the $4-8 mix game at sahara along with alysia chang, but they have too much 2-7 different versions in it. that being said, i still won the first time i played it. the second time on a different day, i did not. 

i did have a great time with out of position and vlogger P-man in the $50 min buyin $1-1 no cap max buyin on tuesday at 8. we worked hard and played shorthanded to get it going until some more people came in as a group of 3 and got the game running. it was full when i quit it earlier than id planned due to being tired and hungry and giving back half my profits.

im still down about $400 of what i came to vegas with, mostly all of it on expenses. i got lucky to recover over $500 on video blackjack, including a lot of wins on 6-5 vbj to see if theyd send me some offers. and of course ive won in every single session of PLO in the new resorts world casino, although i lost in their $1-3 NL today. 

i lost in the NL because i got slowrolled by a guy who said my comments about how he played earlier was rude, but i never meant it that way. and when he slowrolled me he said he did it intentionally to be rude and a dick. i wonder if he knows of the Joliet incident? and before that, id even protected his coffee that was going to be thrown out by the waitress.

i had AA and i seen he was raising his straddle out of turn, (they do the straddle the correct way like they do in Reno instead of the backwards way detroit and florida do it). it skips over the button, the blinds act, and then the button is last. so i only limped the $6 with AA, he raised last to act on the straddle the $21 i knew he was making it, and i shoved the AA. he called me with 66.

board comes up something like QT476 and he rivered a set. but first he had the dealer count out my chips asking how much is it, and when the dealer told him $92 once he finished counting it, he then turned over 666 and told me to get more money ready. 

it took a LONG time today to start a PLO game and i left before it started and went out to play 6-5 VBJ. luckily i didnt lose, and eventually received the text it was going, but it only lasted about 90 minutes. good news is i turned my $200 into well over $500 so it wasnt too bad it broke. 

my 3 wins in PLO in resorts world are $170, $461, and $350 plus (forgot amount). no plo losses at all on the entire trip.

i must say i will give this room a good review others arent for some reasons online. it might not have enough business as id hoped to get the PLO going all the time and not be starting til a lot later in the day than id hoped, but it does have deeper buyin structures than other rooms and the cocktail service is almost instant in the poker room. not so much in the main casino. also there a lot of massage girls standing around if u are earning at least $120 an hour at your job so u can afford the $2 a minute

but its difficult to understand where the uber pick up is, i followed the valets instructions to walk down the road around the corner, and somehow ended up on industrial road, never seeing an uber pickup spot. so i walked across the street to sapphire and got it there. 

i dont like the way so many of the Uber pickup spots are in the parking garage in other casinos, makes it scary late at night, so i went and used a cab a few more times, and that didnt work out so well. got overcharged and an angry driver i paid him only $15 on a $14.54 fare that was overpriced in itself

and Vince let me stay at his house last weekend because nothing is available on weekends without being way overpriced. no idea what ill do this weekend. his girlfriend sure wasnt happy with him. 

when the PLO goes in resorts, its a very easy game to beat. $200-1000 buyin. and the room looks really nice, and the staff will be friendly and nice and want to try to start more things. they dont make u go to the cage for chips and u can hand them money and theyll go there for u. which is really nice. and being on poker atlas is far better than bravo since u can sign the list online or get a text the game is about to start up. more rooms should ditch bravo and use poker atlas, its a much better app. PLO was going all the time when it first opened. there is a bathroom nearby, sadly most of the stalls are always being used and u wait. 

at least they wont let others MS straddle and they will let u do a bomb pot if u want, at least the dealers will. in omaha, its strictly UTG straddle. in holdem its button or UTG. and u can run it twice if u can get the other player to agree. 

they might have to start giving out rooms like the Borgata does, which is a similar type of fancy place for the rich folks for accomodations. they need to bring in more people so people have more options to where to play PLO. 

here is the link to Pmans u tube channel but i dont think he has any video of the game. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVjPFKzgls

hard rock cincinnati trip report

 i have been too busy lately to update the blog and of course i lost interest in publishing because i could never publish what i wanted to say without worrying about the ramifications of upsetting people and places. but i still cant win in PLO in detroit. at least they removed the plexiglass finally and the PLO tables in the other room are no longer 7 handed, but are 8 now just like the NL tables are. and u can drink water in the poker room and theres a coffee machine full of coffee in there again. 

on the way to the hard rock in cincinnati, Ray (my driver) and i stopped and visited a place called the mad river poker club in dayton. there was a wild and loose 2-5 plo game there which goes daily and doesnt allow button straddles but had a lot of double board bomb pots. but they were a little higher than id preferred, they were $25 every dealer change. $10 or $15 wouldve been better. 

and a cheap motel nearby but no idea how safe. we didnt stay in dayton and just like toledo and most places nowdays no Uber available or lyft most of the time. 

even in downtown cincinnati that was often the case except for during busy hours i actually seen a few tonight downtown. 

a guy in the PLO yesterday didnt know who i was til after i quit the PLO up over $500 and told him i was going to update my blog and do a trip report. he asked me which blog it was, and i showed him on his phone and he said he was familiar with it and used to read it. he did not know i was with Ray who was playing on the other end of the table and found out about 30 minutes after i left the table when he was mentioning the blog, knew i had autism, and difficulty refraining from live blackjack, and when Ray mentioned it was video blackjack thats when he asked ray how he knew me and if he also read the blog. and Ray told him how he had since i was 19. Ray also told me the guy stood up for me to another player at the table after i left, and was a supporter of the blog. not a troll like i first feared when he said he knew about the blog. 

i won another $1000 in the NL, but of course most of its all been used paying Ray, gas, and of course overpriced hotel rooms that arent that great. especially weekends. the drunk girl in seat 1 i first thought was the pro who knew everyone and was flying to vegas on frontier today donated over $600 in about 3 hands and she had over $800 on the table a bit earlier. i had 99, flop was A93 all in diamonds, 5 of diamonds on the turn where she bet $70 into a big pot and i only called scared of that 4th diamond (she had 10 7 offsuit one of which was a diamond) river pairs the 3 for my full house. so then i bet $70, and she makes it $250 and that scared me that she had aces full or quads, but no, i won.

the other big pot i won from her soon thereafter. and there were 2 other drunk guys giving away a lot of money there too. i had aj of clubs called a raise preflop from another player, and she pops it again. and the flop comes AQ7 and i bet and she goes allin for about 600. (with ace 2 offsuit and a guy is looking at her hand thats also drunk and had just sat). i finally called, and was relieved to see the hand. and it held up too. 

tonight the PLO was a little tighter, but i won 2 big pots early and left the PLO with over $600 still and was up over 200 more. after leaving, i lost about $125 more in NL. then ray and i found a good bank of america far outside downtown in a nice safe suburb. and i was still over 380 up when i left the casino. 

and they dont even have the staff wear masks here, which is good. most players make the staff do it even when they no longer require the players to. and unlike the private club in toledo where u have to get your massage from a militant bull dyke for $1 a minute, here an attractive girl gives the massage but sadly it $2 a minute so i cant afford it. 

i guess didnt talk enough before about businesses ripping me off, and now we need to talk about it once again

 I havent always made the right decisions since flying out of Fort Lauderdale, but i was avoiding video blackjack at least since i was far away from the ones i was losing money on in florida. of course, most of the money i lost in florida was simply lost on living expenses. i was there over 6-7 weeks, and left with about $1000 less than i came with, and of course i spent well over $7000 to live on while i was there. so overall i didnt lose much of my poker winnings on vbj there. but when $6000 was lost in the final week, i just felt like i was, so i left. 

as far as gulfstream was concerned, the only thing i ever got since that other blog was $100 in free play twice for may. one i used, and the other i left town before i could use it since it didnt start til may 16. they removed their vbj machines or at least removed vbj as one of the options u could play on that machine, and even on the remaining video craps and baccarat they ended letting u get 8x points on it during the promotions. 

so all my vbj play in florida was at the other casino a mile up the road from gulfstream where they also had good PLO. gulfstream aint offered poker since the virus. 

i hear alot of rooms around the country have now ended masks, supposedly for vaccinated people but they arent checking peoples papers. i wonder what casinos do when they see people they know damn well are well enough informed to never take the vaccine, and know the evils Bill gates vaccine will cause a few years down the road, but also are no longer wearing the masks since they cant ask medical questions. i was surprised to see vegas end them before the rest of the country however. 

the private membership only $25 a day club here dont require it but the casinos up north still do because they have such an evil governor. she is one of the worst. plexiglass too and u cant even drink water in the poker room so u have to quit the PLO game and go find a person with a cart full of waters and coffees, or grab one upon exiting the casino. 

and i got too angry and pissed in that private club to want to go back, and neither did Ray unless they start doing more omaha. i was playing just NL because the others wouldnt start round by round, and took a couple bad beats (while losing my $280 on poker bros on bad beats at the exact same time) it irriated me so much to have to play 4 handed with all them idiots nonstop straddling the button, and i just wanted to wait til more people play or til they start offering omaha everyday. 

tonight in the casino i gave back most of my $300 profit in plo and left the table up a little over $100, almost took a big loss playing live BJ, but luckily i didnt and left in about 15 minutes. martingaled a few bets on a $50 minimum table, which can get expensive. only sat because of the great rules offering stand on ALL 17s, which is very rare. it also paid 3-2. 

so i made either $70 or $170, because i couldnt remember how much i was in the game for. 

now to talk about something else i seen in the PLO, guy next to me is HU in a pot with the other guy on the other end of the table, he is in seat 2 and im in seat 3. board is A234K and the K made a third spade. 

other guy checks, and the guy made some kind of wave, but never checked, and then put out a big bet. he said he was trying to see the other guys stack, keep in mind the plexiglass makes it difficult to see.

the dealer rules he checked but he never tapped the floor, and the floor is called, tells me not to speak up since im "not in the hand" but they were doing this guy wrong, a wave isnt a check. only tapping the table is, and the one floor got the other floor and eventually its ruled he checked though he never tapped the table and the floor said other moves with the hand can be a check also. never heard of that and im sure the manager whose friends with Ray wouldnt have ruled that way. so the guy immediately quit and was still complaining at the desk when i quit soon thereafter because i was losing back all the profits. 

it would be horrible if someone can force u to check when u never touch the table just because u move your hand around a bit, this could be used to angleshoot anytime someone doesnt want u to bet. 

and now to talk about the new story of another business ripping me off and this happened in Holland about 60 miles south of the casino. 

Ray and I found a new bitcoin atm in a gas station, and in the previrus days, toledo did not have them, u had to use one in detroit. now i know the juice is too much but remember i cant scan an ID or find someone i can pay to do it because they always give up too when they try to scan mine. and i figured for $200 id not be charged more than $20 juice, but actually got charged about $40 plus in juice when i got home and looked up the price of bitcoin. see the machine was charging $65,000 a bitcoin 

the bitcoin never arrived and i emailed them the next day, and they said "the developer would try to speed up the queue" whatever that meant. no record of them sending anything appears on blockchain, because they said its stuck and not yet sent. and over 24 hours later when i emailed them again today, they still have not sent it and the second email they never answered. 

at least now ive got their phone and i wont only complain to that company but to the gas station owner who probably has no clue theyre screwing people over and hopefully he will bitch to the guy who installed it enough to make them come to their senses. see it looks bad on him when people complain that a machine inside his business ripped me off of $200 and the vendors dont care. 

yes i know u should not buy bitcoin thru an atm, but i was stuck that night, broke online, and just felt like playing something, and could not reach Mr Bug on twitter, who i otherwise buy from.