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.