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.