continued WSOP trip report part 3 which includes friends

 well i guess i wont be going home early. my reservation for 4 weeks on Priceline thru July 8th i tried to get out of a week early and the manager was willing to let me and refund me $857 of the $3673 i paid, but Priceline refused to agree to it when she contacted them. so it was unable to be changed, so ill be in town another week now. im trying real hard to make sure i dont get out of vegas with a bankroll under 35k. 

lightning and koala are leaving town either tonight or in the morning, and lightning was going to the airport when i left the westgate a little while ago and i went on back to my hotel. Koala has a 15 hour flight he dreads in the morning. Koala also gave me a $34 voucher for a flix bus that i can use anywhere they service. (maybe toledo detroit?)

and the day before lightning and a guy named zetus larry on twitter who reads my blog and lives in louisiana and i were playing at the redrock, where the game is horribly tight in the 1-2 although the 2-5 looked wild. lightning told me today someone stole the catalac converter off his friends car and i dont really understand what it does since i dont drive, but its supposedly a real problem. i wonder if Ray know what its used for

and today something weird happened at the westgate. a guy swore he knew me from detroit about 8-9 years ago. said i used to turn in bottles and cans at his cousins store. it couldnt have been me, and maybe it was Ray or his friends and he seen me with them at the casino. this sounds like something Keith or Todd wouldve done. if i ever did that in the old days when i was homeless and panhandling in toledo it wouldve happened in toledo, not detroit. and wouldve been 30 yrs ago, not 8-9

he also said he seen me at greektown which couldve been true, but i certainly wouldnt be who hes thinking of if a guy was bringing in cans and bottles in detroit. 

so now ill need more food again. lightning and i stopped at the store on the way home from redrock so i could buy food and he was originally going to drive for the guy who was drunk so he wouldnt get stopped but he isnt nearly as drunk as vince is when he drives home and he drove home just fine. 

i thought that was nice of him but i didnt like the text he sent Ray when he grabbed my phone. lightning must of been offended that Ray thought it would be a good idea to pray Koala had good health. 

ive not played any live BJ recently because of the time i wasted $1000 on 6-5 machine in resorts and $2000 more online blackjack. but live wouldve been a better game with better odds.

we all know online poker is rigged, maybe online BJ could be too? i went all in on a flop of 774 with AA and i also raised preflop a guy called me post flop and preflop with K9 offsuit. turn and river KK to knock me out. this wouldve been mathamathecally impossible in a game where he couldnt see the entire board ahead of time. i dont understand why people waste time hooking up bots in only $1.50 tourneis. 

and also i lost a big pot in $2-5 the other day which i never play unless im stuck and dont feel at ease in but i wish i had more time playing it. for a guy whose only income is from poker for 30 years, i dont play high enough. 

i raised preflop and some lady called with Q6 suited and hit a flop of 10c7c3c and i had aa with one being a club. so i couldnt fold on the flop when she raised. cost me my whole stack. 

ive seen very little of vince since hes so busy working the wsop, but he was originally going to put me in a southpoint tourney since hes loaded with cash. 

almost any city in the US is unaffordable due to inflation and will only get worse if we dont start producing and buying russian oil. i seen prices about 3k and more for spokane if i wanted to visit for a month and all of montana too. only place affordable is texas. and i hate paying time rake. 

although its clear the rapture will take place soon as wicked as this worlds getting, i think it wont happen til after the november election since Trump was promised by God 2 terms. 

wsop vegas visit continued trip report

 I suppose what most of you are wondering is why im still in vegas, when vegas is always where my bankroll starts rapidly disappearing. I originally stayed because of the all bomb pot $5 game on tuesdays at 4pm, but its not really that good a game, and is much harder to win in than in texas. for one thing, theres no casual losing players in vegas at this time of year. its nothing but all wsop pros, and worse yet, a lot of them are Euros. so the games are bad here and very good in all other cities in the USA with all the pros gone to vegas. 

in texas a lot of bomb pot players are people only playing 1 per dealer change instead of every hand, and are a lot less experienced with bomb pots. and its causal players. in vegas, a lot of them are much higher limit players stepping down in stakes to play it. (such as the $5-10 NL player who wanted to sit in $1-2 PLO today, which didnt go). but the previous 2 nights we had no problem getting PLO going. people who signed up for it here said they came here because the Wynn had like 43 on the list and they knew theyd never get seated there. 

i even considered signing the list for 5-5 PLO just to be able to play it although id hate the $500 min buyin, but that didnt go either. but i saw 9 names at one point. but there were 19 on the $1-2 Plo when only 3 of us showed up. 

yeah the rolls going down all right. i think i had about 43k or more when i first flew out of reno on May 30th. and my room is good here til July 8th. and ive barely got not much more than $37k

the second question u are probably wondering is why would i pay over $3600 for a place to stay for a month with a decent kitchen?

well its like this, ive never had a nice place to stay in my life, and this is the first time ive ever paid this much for a place to live for a month, and yes even with inflation, i couldve got a place for over $1000 a month less thats not quite as nice but still safe. but im so used to throwing it away in vegas anyway on previous visits on vbj and vp and live bj i figured it would be a better use of the money than those things would be. 

as highly skilled a poker player as i am for so many years i definitely feel like i deserve it too. 

my only regret is i wont spend any money to visit a massage parlor in vegas, i still feel like the money is way too valuable to spend on anything i dont have to. although i did spent money today buying books and tshirts because im too lazy to wash clothes. 

and i also regret the fact the woman vince and i met in reno got rid of her twitter and went back to washington. that wouldve been a really nice girl to fall in love with and spend time traveling with like she wanted me to, but me and a few friends of mine were wondering what her motives truly were to want me to do this, but she actually gave me $100 to show her how to play video blackjack when i first met her, so i dont think shes as hurting for money as my friends think. plus she spent money at ross buying me a few clothes. 

she even thought about traveling the USA with mickey. she loves traveling. and mickey crimm doesnt even know it. 

im playing far less of the games i shouldnt in the casino on this trip and a lot more poker. and i think it might be because my hotel rooms no longer in the casino so i dont play as much BJ. 

i definitely made a mistake not buying large size trash bags at walmart. i need them bad but dont want to pay $25 in 2 trips round trip to buy some. 

i might be running out of money and making not much of anything but if i spent $5000 a month and made only $4500 a month it would still take me 72 months (6 years) before id be out of money. this is why having a bankroll is important. 

Joe the attorney or ex attorney from nugget and peppermill who now runs home games told me not to tell anyone how much money i keep, because he said id be surprised how much bigger my bankroll is than most poker players or the guys in his home games. its amazing how many people who put a couple k on the table have only 5 or less buyins to their name and are so deeply in debt theyre committing crimes to not be on the street. to me they look like theyre extremely privledged to buyin for so much but to me everyone else is privledged because they dont have autism and are able to drive. 

since everyone else plays 2-5 and 5-10 theyre privledged compared to me too. but how can anyone stand having to be forced to move out of seat 2 to seat 5 when called for the must move? i could never play a higher stakes game since they have must moves which 1-3 doesnt have. and who would want to play with blue $10 chips instead of fives, twenty fives, and hundreds?

if someone wants to make a lot more than they can make in $1-3 NL but doesnt have the 50k minimum required to start moving up to $2-5 NL, all they have to do is switch to plo. then a good player could probably make 100k a year instead of 60k. i cant because i dont get to play it everyday. 

its a lot easier to make 6k a month than 3k a month than it is to lower your living expenses from 5k a month to 3k a month. inflation and people who vote demonrat are hurting poor people immensely

Ray thought with me in vegas id be spending all my time with friends. its amazing how little ive seen of vince and koala. vince is busy working and koala got the covid although he at first swore it was the flu instead, and he just recently got over it. so he was keeping to himself. 

Las Vegas trip report

 well even though i know i dont belong in vegas, and my roll has went down quite a bit since leaving reno, in a way im glad i came because i got to spend some time with close friends i dont get to see often. 

i lost $4300 in one day at blackjack, and $1800 in 1 day at video poker, but ive had some good days too, including a $1900 poker session in bomb pot PLO. 

and so far i still havent been charged for a hotel room, although that will end soon. 

i need to find a way to block myself from playing online blackjack though or at least block myself from using cashapp to buy bitcoin for gambling purposes. 

and at least Vince finally went by a walmart so i can have food items in my room. its annoying to not be able to eat when i wake up, but have to walk across the street to mc d in the plaza to buy food. 

Koala is also staying at the same hotel for a few days in a room about 15 feet down the hall. 

at least las vegas has an all bomb pot double board omaha game now even though its currently only going on tuesdays. we are trying to get it to go more often. its at resorts world. 

the meetup game at sahara i went to on may 30th had like 2 tables going and lasted a few hours. mostly everyone showed up who had originally signed up. tatude also showed up and count everything showed up. 

if someone has decent money and doesnt mind paying $3500 or more per month for a place to live, theres nice condos in the palms with kitchens available on airbnb. i think its more than i can afford but at least u would be safe. 

Koala will be here til the end of the wsop, i might not be. 

I was glad to be able to ride with lightning a few times, i was worried i might not be able to. and the Palms has the best games and rules (surrender is permitted) on 8 deck 3-2 low stakes blackjack games and even better rules in the high limit room.