Having an issue with Uber drivers and could use some advice, especially from fellow drivers

 yesterday (or the day before) i took Uber to Walmart on the way home and it showed the driver was going to be a woman called Janette. when the driver arrived, a guy was driving with a woman sitting in the front seat and the weather wasnt too good because there was a little snow and it never snows here. so it was very slick outside and i just assumed maybe he was driving for his wife because she was afraid to drive in the weather and they couldnt afford to take a day off work. (of course he couldve also been using her account because he had a violent criminal record and couldnt drive himself, so this why Uber bans it). 

i made it to Walmart with no issues and i decided to let it go and not say anything to Uber, but i left the trip unrated just in case. 

funny thing is today, when leaving one poker room and headed to another, it assigned me the exact same driver, and i noticed she has only done 18 trips total and is brand new. so maybe he was just showing her how it works, or maybe he really does have a reason he cant drive for Uber under his name. 

but today i never got a chance to find out if the man was driving or the woman, for the driver was going the wrong direction on the highway and he was supposed to uturn around but instead the driver kept getting further and further away so i cancelled for free and got another driver. 

now im thinking this person, either the man or the woman, obviously doesnt know what theyre doing and shouldnt be driving, but i still hesitate to turn them in in case theyd try to look me up at the poker room angry i got his wife fired. i would like to know what BobbyG would do who was an Uber driver. 

i left arizona with $39k and now im over $44k and ive never met any other city as easy to win at poker as this city. Probably because im paying less in time and or rake. also almost every gas station u see, gas is like only $2.78 per gallon, or at least less than $3. 

ive had almost no losing sessions (well thats because i martingale and dont leave til im up $200 or so and then im hitting and running constantly). so maybe thats how i covered all my expenses here and still gained over 5k to the roll in under a month. i must have made well over 8 or 9k. even Ray could win here if he would only come visit, and probably even Vince could win. Certainly Lightning could. 

i could save about $100 if i paid up a whole month, but i still keep feeling like i might fly out. i dont like waiting til late in the day to be able to play PLO instead of NL. and i miss the good deal at Vinces house for $500 a month. plus i worry i should be seeing a doctor, a dentist, and Vince still has the paperwork mom sent to assist me in getting proof of citizenship. 

still in the same town, same trip report.

 Often i dont know what to discuss in this blog or fear discussing what i would like to discuss. so maybe i should write down some of the weird dreams. this is why i posted that strange tweet last night, to help me remember one of those dreams. 

i was on a hybrid bus and train and couldnt find a safe place to sit because people were throwing arrows at each other. and i went around this one corner and was sitting where a couple of women were in a room alone, and then i wanted to walk outside and couldnt because they had a bunch of dogs and i couldnt let the dogs get out the front door and i needed help holding back the dogs. 

then all of a sudden im outside and trying to check into my hotel and i see a girl and she is talking into a microphone to help find the right employee and im over a ton of water and i can only see water everywhere i go and im flying over the water, looking for employee number 4 who is going to be able to check me in. 

and the girl says into her speaker "you know some days u just have to coldwire the pimp, four four four"

id talk about some other dreams from all the other days, but i tend to forget them very quickly if not immediately written down (which isnt the best idea either because by the time ive got my laptop open and working, i might be too much awake then to fall back to sleep). i wish i could not wake up til late in the afternoon, (so i could play more PLO and less holdem). but the thing that messed up my schedule was having to wake up all the time before 11 to either renew hotel rooms or switch hotels. 

and since im no longer young enough to force myself to play my best 12-15 hour sessions, i cant switch my hours. Ask Ray, it was very difficult. 

im concerned about my Uber rating going down. its only at 4.74 i think i complain way too much about GPS taking horrible routes to up my costs. sometimes i get a lower rate by making the driver take side routes instead of the freeway but it takes more time. but the total distance is much less so the fares lower. and one day i put in a stop at an ATM beforehand thru the app to force it to take a certain route. but then after driving me a few miles one way i dont know if the gps changed the route or if he was just not following it because he wanted to take the highway but he goes back the whole 3 miles the other way and then before he gets on the highway going way out of the way (and after id asked him not to) i suddenly decide i want out and have him drop me off at this walmart instead of the walmart close to where im staying. so it was such a funny route map i got the auto message from uber my trip ended early is everything ok? i shouldve complained but its so much effort to do it from the cell i let it go. usually i dont let it go. 

my carpal tunnel is getting worse in my arm. this one cardroom had a football promo during the game they draw a table to throw a tiny miniature football thru 4 hoops all of which pay money. i missed both throws and got zero. most people at least get the $20 and sometimes $100. its because that right arm couldnt hardly toss it high enough it was way too low. 

also candy is junk food, im sick of convenience stores, gift shops selling it over what people actually like to eat. if the waitress would come around passing out apples or bananas id throw her a dollar or two every time and grab one. but ill never take a piece of junk candy or bag of chips. very microscopic tiny bags too. i hate those tiny bags. 

one club the players are far worse and its easier to win in than the others i think its where i had most of the wins. sad thing is its open later in the day than the others and charges more for time. but at least i pay far less here than houston or dallas. 

the water was off 1-2 days at my hotel and i got 1 free day as compensation, but weirdly enough, i couldnt log in to the net that night i wasnt officially registered for that free day, and the manager claimed there was no way i could log in the net without paying for the room which is weird. only time in my life ive went without internet for a night. drove me nuts. its just how their internet is set up u log in with your last name and room number. 

im still over $3k better off than i was when Lightning drove me to Harrahs ak chin from phoenix. 

out of town trip report

 i suppose i should be feeling good, since ive won over $300 5 times in the past week. in this new location, ive had more winning sessions by far than losing sessions. and the cost of Uber isnt too bad as long as i stay not that far from the cardroom. when i first came to town, it was high because my hotel was too far away. 

i also visited a new casino, and i actually won on the video BJ even though it was 6-5 i made about $300 or so, but i had to put a bet of $880 up once divided up among multiple spots. Thank God that didnt lose. 

Remember when i seen the dentist a couple years ago in Houston and never went back for the other 3 teeth on the other side? the day i paid the $1700 right before the lockdown? those teeth or others are starting to feel sore and really need to be taken care of. 

Koala claims on twitter im not in Mexico and i guess technically he is right. but im often within 1-2 blocks of the border and it certainly feels like Mexico. the games are quite good, and at one poker room, i am saving money by paying $20 upfront and it covers the rake for the entire day, no matter how long i play for. but i hit and run too much to take full advantage of it. 

on the way here, before riding Amtrak, i went and checked out the casino in Tucson and a few places in Phoenix, with the help of lightning. but the trip to Tucson i used Uber for. I must say thats a good poker room on the west side of Phoenix but it wasnt 24 hours yet in the poker room when i was there. it will be about the time u read this blog. but not enough PLO and way too high a min buy in their plo and worse yet, a lack of double board bomb pots 

the room in Tucson wasnt taking much in rake, but the room was small and dead. not more than 1-2 tables going. and the Uber fare was sky high seeing everywhere to stay is so far from their casino. its too far out. 

i got lucky to recover a phone i left in the Uber drivers car which gave me a big scare the other day, with the help of some friendly poker room employees who let me arrive with a suitcase when it was too early to checkin to my hotel (meant i had my laptop on me) and they also tried to text and call my phone for me. i did give the driver a big tip once the phone was returned. the real problem with Uber is if u lose the phone, u cant login on someone elses phone, because it tries to send a text code to the phone u lost which of course u must verify to login, and are unable to recieve. thank God for Uber twitter support. 

and i found a way to keep Uber from longhauling me a shit ton out of the way to this one hotel i was using. (put in a stop halfway in between that forces a different route than the one uber app would use) which has them go another way. it actually made the fare a few bucks less too. 

also heres a great reason why to find the most right wing christian conservative and vote for them in every school board election. i went into Target today and was buying food and my bill came to $73.84. i handed the clerk $84 (because i didnt want more $1s in change). instead of giving me a $10 bill and 16 cents, he handed me $6.16. he was asking me why was i giving him one dollar bills when id get change back anyway. 

i didnt notice it til i was outside waiting for the Uber so i didnt want to go back in and look for the boss with the Uber on its way but it shows how dumb people are at math and i realized he didnt know what he was doing. i was looking at my receipt and it claimed i gave him $80 instead of $84 and the change due on $80. this is what happens when schools push far left woke agendas instead of math. 

one thing i didnt like this evening is when stuck too fast in a game that got too shorthanded way too fast, i was told if i bought in $1000 they would  be willing to switch the game for me from regular PLO to all bomb pot double board PLO. i did so and eventaully quit up over $330. and at the time i was stuck about $225. i feel so much more comfortable because when a game is short im continually getting raised and having to pay more than $5 to see a flop so $10 bomb pots are much better because it stops me from being raised all the time preflop. 

once both flops are out u know about 66% of your hand so u have a real good idea what to do which u dont in a normal game. much less variance and a lot more skill than normal PLO. thats why i can win easier. i would never put $1000 on the table in a normal game unless badly stuck trying to get unstuck.