Blackhawk CO trip report

 i have a bad habit of doing things the much more expensive way, and im not sure for how long ive picked up that bad habit. (buying Bob Evans mashed potatoes because it tastes so much better than other brands, and paying for pre cut apple slices which cost a lot more than buying apples). even on the train, i had bought my ticket in coach for $45 instead of paying the $185 fare for a private room for the 5 hour trip. once i boarded, i changed my mind however, because i didnt feel comfortable so far away from my luggage, and didnt want them to sit anyone next to me, and i had to pay an additional $185 to upgrade it to a private room, which i moved to. but that wasnt the smartest way to go about it because it cost me $45 more. 

at least the 2nd time i rode the train, (when i left elko for Denver a few days later) i had enough sense to pay the $365 upfront for a private room the second time, so i wouldnt need to change it later. I probably wouldve stayed in elko longer since i was doing good at poker, had the poker room been open all 7 days and the Gold Dust west wouldnt have told me not to play any more BJ. it was the only decent game in town. 

I've been too tired and too busy playing live NL here in Blackhawk CO to play any BJ here like id planned to do. you see, here, unlike Reno, the game doesnt break up to where u cant play any poker, and the only thing to do is to play BJ. also, here unlike Reno, im not getting any free rooms and the prices of rooms are outrageously high and are going to get much worse over Nye. ill have to either be in denver itself or fly out of denver. 

so far ive won $390 the 1 day ive been in Blackhawk but considering the first thing i did was get a room and sleep ($508 for 3 nights) this is already the second day so my times about up and i need to figure out where to get a room. so im not getting anywhere financially here even though its a good game here, and also all 4 of the poker rooms in Blackhawk are open all 7 days a week again. 

main thing about Blackhawk compared to reno is theres always a game about 6-7am going when there often isnt a game going in reno. there is a long pause between this paragraph i am writing today, and the previous paragraph i wrote a couple days earlier. yesterday i did beat the big 0 game for $358, and at one time was up $582 in it. the min buy is 200 and there is no cap on the max buy. 

had a weird dream right before i woke up this morning, i was in an alley in a bad area of town and it seemed like it would never end, and i was flying in the air a little bit up off the ground and had a small fridge under me and i saw a guy with a bike coming towards me who wouldve done me harm normally, and i started yelling about knocking people off rooptops as i flew over roofs with a bunch of people staring. then im suddenly in an area with nice homes without my fridge and im trying to get on a regular street on foot and i accidently make a turn and find myself inside someones home and im carrying a letter and im thinking how do i get out of here and get rid of my fingerprints all over the place and i find the front door and start walking out and some girl walks up to the door yells out honey im home and gives me a big kiss and im thinking her eyesight must not be too good and she tells me that my brother is also inside the house and she thinks im her man and im thinking how can i get away from this woman before she realizes im not him? and i mention i need to run up the street for something and right back, and the streets are suddenly filled with snow outside and she says ill just give u a ride in the car, and i say no i have to talk to someone quick

woke up signed the bravo list and its a shame how little i update this blog anymore. this isnt near enough material and i shouldve posted from elko a while back. ive probably forgotten almost everything i had planned to talk about. so i need to post it anyway now before i wait any longer to add other things to make it more interesting and longer. 

Like a runaway Balloon it keeps going up

 The casino expects u to lose. and im not losing lately at live 3-2 6 deck shoe BJ. According to the host, im up over $7000 in the last month or two. Including $500 today. I overheard the pit boss talking on the phone while at the table, (seems like they call up on the phone everytime my bets go way up) and him saying "i dont know why we cannot beat this guy". "he just keeps winning". "at least hes taking care of us"

they see me putting big bets out at times on new shoes (with a payback below 100%) since the count is still zero, they see me at times refusing to take insurance with a true count of plus 6, and at times raising my bets on negative counts. and of course, never ever splitting 2 tens. so they have no idea i know the exact count at all times. But it does let me play 16 vs 10 properly and i wonder how closely theyve noticed that?

also i wonder if theyve noticed the only times i quit the table or leave to use the restroom mid shoe are doing highly negative shoes?

or if the only times i bet 3 spots of $500 max bet are doing highly positive shoes?

they just see me martingaling bets, they see me going 2 hands of 20 to 3 spots of 500 and reducing most bets after a win. but on a positive shoe, im reducing it to 25 plus 25 instead of 1 spot of 10. and on a positive count, im going 20 plus 20 to 50 plus 50, 3 spots of 75, etc  instead of 10 to 11 to 22 to 22 plus 22 etc. But yeah, im raising bets, even on negative shoes. but at times if its too negative (over a true count of minus 1) ill back off entirely and flat bet 10 for a while, and then bet whatever i need to win back in 1 hand on the new shoe at the shuffle point. 

now we all know i usually lose at BJ because i play this way so i wont get banned at any more casinos for counting the cards. but in the last couple months, they claim im up over 7k on them. and said surely gravity will make u come back down. at least the host said that. 

and they see me put out $1 bets for the dealer a lot of times once i get up a few hundred. that too will make them think im not playing for a living. 

that is as long as the dealer isnt wearing a mask. im not giving money to some radical democrat out to send money to Biden or Fauci. but since i told them this, seems they make sure most of my dealers arent wearing masks ever since. 

early on today, i was up over $1200, then i ran into a little trouble when i lost a few hands during a good plus count, and on the final bet of 3 spots of $500 each, won a BJ on only 1 spot and lost both the other 2 spots, one with a double down. and then i was down $800-900. had it not been for the BJ on one spot, id been down over $2000. 

But that kept me from having too big a loss, and after playing a slot machine called winds of sails or some name similar to that, i seen it with the free games feature coin banking bonus of 59 free games for gold and 33 for silver and i dont know the game at all, but it was so much higher than on the 2 next to it and the other denominations i thought id see it. it was on the $1.50 a hand level. anyone know this game?

i was eventually in for $300 instead of $100 but it finally hit on the gold level (after twice earlier hitting much lower numbers on the bronze level) and it paid enough to let me cash out for $356, slightly reducing my loss for the day. 

then i played the 6-5 VBJ a little bit, and got up about $90 on it then started losing some hands, and needing to bet $192 but not wanting to on the 6-5 game, returned to the table which only had 1 player which is rare, but all the casinos are dead up here today. even tonights NL game broke before 11pm. very unusual. 

i made a bet of $192 divided among 3 spots on the first hand out of the shoe. and it won, including a couple of double downs. and the count remained at plus 3 but since thats the running count and not the true count, u really arent supposed to raise the bet at that count. 

but i left 2 hands of $20 out anyway instead of reducing it to the min of 1 spot of $10 which id have done on a poor count. and running count soon reached plus 9 making the true count more than plus 1. 

i then put out 3 spots totalling about $600 after first losing 2 bets for cover purposes, and won all 3 bets and was highly relieved. then continued to play for another hour, and eventually ended up 500 up for the day. i was supposed to double my bet up to about $500 total right before i quit but decided against it because i didnt want to risk being stuck again, and also the count had just went to minus 2 from plus 5. so instead i left and went to my room to take a nap woke up about 7pm and went to play poker. 

so im still sitting now at about $42,600. thats a lot better than the $26k i left houston with, but still far less than the $57k i had on my birthday in febraury of 2023. 

Laundry day

 im not sure if im managing my money the best, but im still holding onto 7k more than when i left Houston, and was briefly 7k better off than i left Houston with at one time. But im running out of free room offers rapidly, (im being cut off for using far too many). i knew it wasnt possible to live out of casino hotels free of charge forever. 

Greg on twitter (who to my knowledge ive never met) suggested that the timeshare hotel i took for 4 nights for $550 might be legacy vacation village. but that place would have been quite a bit cheaper than what i paid. maybe $325 or less plus tax for the 4 nights. This is the slow season of the year for reno, just like it is for deadwood where i used to often go in the winter before they removed all the good video BJ machines. 

also legacy vacation village does have laundry facilities but i took the one and only place in reno with in room laundry facilities (meaning i dont have to leave my room to wash and dry clothes) this is why it cost more. also the freezer in the kitchen is full sized and i can store ice cream and frozen meals, and all the kitchenware and dishes is provided, kind of like an airbnb. nowhere in downtown reno is safe outdoors but its nice and safe inside and my room opens to an interior hallway far removed from the outside so its safe in here. but i paid $7 to go home 5-6 blocks or less because i didnt want to walk it at midnite. 

if anyone would ever want to visit reno and consider living out of a very nice place that often is sold out, check out worldmark hotel reno. 

i am wondering if my foot will get better on its own, the toe on the far side feels sore at times where the new toenail that grew in once the other one fell completely off probably isnt growing properly. and of course that is far from the only thing i should be asking a doctor at my age. especially using the bathroom every 45 minutes at the poker table and even far more often that this when im in my room without the inconvenience of having a long walk from the table. that and i usually have to always sit to be able to go. 

i wont have rooms much longer either, too much of my play has been poker, which of course is what i should be doing anyway. living out of hotels in casinos without paying for life has never been that feasible. 

i really enjoyed the break for a few days of having a nice place to stay, but of course no one can really afford 3-4k a month for a place to live long term though inflation is coming to that in the largest major cities. i miss the good old days of an apt in a nice crime free area under $600 a month. that really wasnt too long ago. not more than 10 years ago 

id say more so this blog wouldnt be too short but i dont know what else to discuss that wont get me in trouble and piss alot of people off so ill go ahead and close. i will say there were several days between the first and the last paragraph and i had to change the amount i was up in reno from 5k to 7k so im doing good still. been lucky the last few times ive played live BJ. 

Jaimes mix game

 in case anyone has ever wondered why I (and probably others too) dont want housekeeping in the room til after you check out here is why. 

I was using my free rooms, which i normally use on weekends at the casino in sparks. (ive been in reno 6-7 weeks and once paid for a room once, over 2 nights during the air show a few weeks back). i always tell the staff unless i forget at every host office when i check in that i dont want housekeeping. 

Not only did housekeeping come into the room, they didnt even throw out the empty food trash. instead they picked it up off the floor and set it neatly on the desk. but the main thing that always irritates me is they open the curtains, (which i immediately have to reshut the minute i enter the room) and much worse, shut the lights off. i have a terrible fear of my safety walking into a pitch dark room, and its very emotionally hard and stressful on me. when the maid shuts off the lights in a room, thats like a violent physical assualt on the guest and could cause him to have a heart attack and panic and end up in a hospital. 

and then u have to unmake the bed all over again and set your laptop back up on it. and even worse, the $3-6 in loose junk change on the bathroom counter they must of assumed it was a tip for the maid because it was missing. 

and another little thing that bugs me in many casinos. they set out free water bottles in the rooms, but wouldnt it make a lot more sense to set them in the refridgerators in the rooms so theyd get cold?

and even worse is the fact in most casinos u have to put your key in the elevator before u press your floor. not only is this a horrible pain if u have a lot of food in your hand like ice cream u are carrying to the room to eat, it does the exact opposite of making people safer. to feel safe in the elevator (which is where most casino robberies occur (there and the bathroom) u need to be completely alone in the elevator. and when u waste time messing with getting the key inserted to work, it always gives someone else time to get in the elevator with u who u would much rather not be in that same elevator. 

If anyone can relate to any of these fears please let me know. 

now the other day i lost over $1000 in Jaimes mix game that id been wanting to go to for a long time.. and i found out its not actually him who holds the game but his friends holding it at the office he is the manager of. a sports gambling service selling picks. Jaime should offer to blow me for all the money i lost if he ever wants me at his game again. he knew i would be the sucker with no experience and wouldnt remember any of the games. by the way the game is rake free and they didnt help a bit. i lost over $500 on my final hand when i forgot i needed a 7 low to qualify instead of an 8 low. 

then after i lost, him and JJ were trying to get me to borrow money and buy back in. ill be damned if i owe a bookie or loan shark a dime. i left with Uber. i actually still had money but didnt want to tell anyone that. 

i will say one nice thing (and only one) about JJ. he did try to find a massage girl, but no luck. 

also some of these poker rooms dont cut people off the alcohol nearly soon enough because they dont want to piss off the people who want to take drunken players money. ive seen it more than once since i arrived. But they could get in trouble over this.

and this was in a live casino, not a home game. a drunk guy who all the staff knew said he had a really bad day he wanted to forget about, so much so he was on the phone with his mom who was really worried about him and he kept telling her he was ok and heading to his room soon. i wouldve never said this to the player at the table but i was worried he was planning to blow everything then go kill himself. 

his mom seemed scared to death that he was NOT ok and i was curious what bad thing had happened to him. he rebought in about 12 times 100-300 each and just totally threw the money away which he wouldnt normally do. one hand he called $100 then he still had about $150 behind and immediately after calling he turned up 57 offsuit face up when the hand was still on the flop. actually he did this later again too. 

and ive seen dealers off duty be way too drunk too. 

and when he finally was busted for good he kept sitting there with his debit card, not understanding why he couldnt buy in with it and i was wondering why it took the pit boss so long to get him off the table so the long wait list could sit in his seat. he was also trying to rebuy in for his last $6 and said he couldnt understand why no one cared that he wanted to play and couldnt be dealt cards. so he was just sitting there for like 15 minutes without cards. 

at least this time my room has a fridge, supposedly all their rooms do but last week the fridge was missing out of the room and im sure no one even knew it was missing. 

since coming to reno ive probably thrown away over 5k on machines and this is why i keep trying to avoid playing at the Peppermill because its the big split machine in the high limit room that tempts me the most. but i am still a few k better off than when i left Houston. i also notice bitcoin went way up back over 30k, no idea why. 

its a good thing i left Houston

 Who knows how low my roll might be right now had i stayed in texas? Thank God for the dealer who told me if i didnt give him at least a $20 tip on that huge pot, he was going to follow me to the parking lot and beat my ass when i left. otherwise i would still be paying a fortune in hotel costs and playing in games with $15 rakes. 

I flew to reno close to 6 weeks ago with $26,200 and only paid for a hotel room once since i arrived, and that was the time i paid the $450 for 2 nights in Carson city when 150,000 visitors came to town for the air show. 

Not paying for housing, as annoying as it might be to continually move every 2-5 days from one hotel to another (That was the smartest thing i ever did, throwing away that 3rd suitcase) but even having to move these 2 suitcases all the time, its saving me money. although i find it highly annoying not to have a large size fridge and freezer i can load up at walmart and a microwave. sure makes it a pain in the ass when u constantly are buying food in restaraunts. even if u are normally using comps. 

i was even considering leaving Reno to have a long term hotel with a kitchen again, but i just dont think its the wisest idea. 

So now im at $32,500. every day in the poker room i win $100-500 and leave. and once in the last 2 weeks i won over $800 at live Blackjack. 

and i played it correctly. this particular casino they deal out about 5 1/4th of 6 decks. about 90% penetration. and pay 3-2. $10 min $500 max bet. and it was about +8 running count still right before the shuffle when i put out 3 bets of $300 and won. 

and today, to get that profit i kept having to add on, was eventually in the game for $964 and cashed out for $1165 to go eat about 5 hours into the game. we had to wait over an hour to get the NL game going. i took 2 beats in the first 20 minutes and was in for $264. then added $300 (rest was added later). and i also ended up making a MS straddle (from any position, not just the button and UTG) about 40-50 times over an hour. but eventually i flopped T4A with 2 clubs and had TTT while he had AK and doubled up for over $587 off him. 

I never lose here. i win continously about 18 out of 20 sessions. why else would i be over 6k better off than when i last updated the blog?

the Bible says God blesses those who bless the nation of Israel and will curse those who curse them. first and foremost i am a Zionist. my allegiance is to the nation of Israel. and to Netanyahu. certainly not to Biden. and not to Trump. (that was a terrible thing he did today, praising Hezbollah). Desantis will make a good president if he wins as much as he supports Israel. 

everyone who knows me and reads my twitter sees my strong support of Israel. it totally deserves our help unlike the Ukraine and if Putin attacks them over Syria, i would not support Putin. he may be doing right in the Ukraine but not in Iran or Syria. this is the biggest war Israel was in since 1948 (more innocent civilians died in a few hours than in 1973) and could be the beginning of the Gog Magog war prophesied by ezekial in the Bible which is slightly before the rapture as it will take Israel 7 years to bury the dead. it depends on how involved Iran and Russia get, and if they lead a coalition of a few other nations into the war. 

https://www.larkspurhotels.com/renton/?utm_source=google-gbp&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gbp

what does anyone think about this hotel if i was to visit the seattle area? seems they have decent kitchens in the rooms and u can get the price down to as low as about $100 a day if u go thru Priceline. a lot of seattle is very expensive but it couldnt be too far from the nearest poker room in Renton. 

dreams

 well its almost 3am, and im waking up in my room at Boomtown that i went to sleep in before 5pm.. instead of waking up multiple times in the middle of the night to use the bathroom i only woke up 3 or 4 times. good news is this being a friday night, ill still be able to find a poker game somewhere, the bigger problem might be getting a driver to come all the way out to boomtown, or maybe the normal $22 fare will be a $75 fare. their live BJ tables here close in the middle of the night at 1am, and dont reopen til 9am. and the vbj i used to play here in the middle of the night i no longer want to because its now 6-5 and it wasnt on my previous visit. 

Imagine how much of our lives are wasted sleeping 8-10 hours per day. we could be living almost 40 percent longer lives. 

I had a shit ton of different dreams tonight. In the final dream i just woke up from, I was in one of these huge houses i dream about (which always are ones my mom owns) and i hadnt been in the house, which is often the case. (is that because i dont go visit like she wants?) To her her house isnt really big nor were any of the ones she rented when i was under 18 that i grew up in, but to someone like me whose been homeless their whole life and lived in apartments and motel rooms much smaller, all houses are big. 

there are people in here to play poker, and i see the front door not closing properly and someone i dont know coming down from the stairs. and i see her bringing catered food from somewhere and i wonder whats going on. and another young black girl sits down nearby her to play poker and im picking up a shit ton of change off the floor, so much so that it never ends and i cant pick up all the money and then im shocked the girl is listening to gospel music and i congratulate her. 

in the earlier dream i am outside a building and i am talking to a young guy who was watching me and giving me shit in a casino and im telling him that i grew up in a way different era than him and thats why i believe so differently than him, and he tells me thats not true, and says do u know that people who are religious believe there were 4 different virgin births in the 1800s and to look it up. 

and then im about to be thrown out of a poker room by the police and im talking with the poker room manager, and she tells them to throw out Gary instead of me and i hear her telling Gary "ive never liked u, and u are not going to tell me who im going to throw out". And this lady has turned into Cathy woods. and im hiding under a blanket because we are outside and Gary is going to be irate with me, and i dont want him to see me when he walks by after grabbing his chips and then im inside a dark room and Gary comes by but hes turned into an alien with a very odd bony structure like from outer space and i think he is leaving but then he comes back and reaches out with his hands and i think he can feel that im under the blanket and i wake up. Gary is actually a real person who is quite hostile and unfriendly and helps JB start up the morning PLO game some days at the Peppermill. 

before this, my memory is starting to fade a little, but im some earlier dreams i was again in one of moms houses (truth is she only has 1) but im in an unknown room, and finding all kind of packages in there ive gotten in the mail and old mail i need to open and im trying to find all the $20 bills and checks that im trying to grab before the strong winds that yes are inside, blow everything away. and i see a big package that says this is your notification from a publication called singles scene spirt and life. now this is a publication that existed in TN 25-35 yrs ago and was sold primarily thru the mail. 

and another dream in which im flying up in the air and have just left a place where the people with me turned a howitzer on an airplane and i was afraid of getting in trouble with the government but then instead they went up and away and im flying over a plane that fell into the water

and also my cat got string tangled up all over and cant get loose and its caught in a shirt or 2 and a fan and i dont know how to get it loose and my mom is giving me a pair of scissors. 

i'm actually not getting anywhere in reno. i thought that i was when i was up 2200 in the first 5 days i was in town but im still 200 less than the 26200 i arrived off the plane from Houston with. and most of the trip except for last weekend, ive had free housing. that took a few hundred off the roll for housing and another 200 off the rolls for a few Ubers to carson and back. 

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well at least things are better, and im finally back to $1600 better off than when i first flew to reno, and ive got my room taken care of for the next 2 weeks set up. imagine how much better off id be had $1900 not been wasted on a 6-5 VBJ at boomtown over the weekend i stayed there. (if the pit was open between 1am and 9am, id have played their 3-2 live tables instead). 

have tickets tonight for Oreo speedwagon but dont plan to attend. i wonder what theyre worth? also i hear the room in lake tahoe will be open briefly all 7 days a week again sometime around november but only when a major wSOP tourney will be going on. then it go back to being closed 2 days a week. 

there seem to be many new AP machines i dont realize how they work. too bad Mickey or Yoshi arent still available to walk me around. 

i couldnt even win money finding a machine lit up with all 3 bags full of jewels. even lost $53. i do better when i find 2 bags full. but at least i seem to be winning almost every session of poker 300 or more. one day i won 1100 total at poker, 300 300 and 500. 

theres no reason i didnt post this blog a week earlier, except that i thought the post was too short. but its better to make short posts than none at all. 

reno trip report

 one of the nicest things about having an extra phone (although only 1 has a sim card in it with the tmobile network and can work to receive texts and browse the web and be used as an emergency wifi hotspot if i get stuck in a place the wifi wont work) but now if i play bejeweled for hours and it drains all the juice, i do it on the spare phone which is useful for nothing else. u see bejeweled doesnt need any internet connection. and this way i dont drain the power on the good phone. all i need to do is remember to charge them both fully while i sleep. 

not only this, but since the phone isnt doing anything but playing bejeweled i think the power is lasting longer since its the same as if it was in airplane mode since its not connected to a wifi or a simcard. 

that phone still shows the Houston time instead of the time here in Reno though. but at least now my computer is finally no longer 2 hours behind on its time clock. the new phone thats used for texts, calls, Uber etc, it shows the right time for reno. but i still dont know how to make my yahoo emails on the phone automatically type with much larger sized texts. my mom said to ask tmobile but i guarantee u they wouldnt want to figure it out. Lightning claimed he couldnt show me because he didnt know how, and Ray promised to show me if im ever in Toledo but he doesnt have a working car anymore and i wish Vince would buy him one. if i ever get back over 30k i need to go do it. 

no matter how bad of shape a new car under 3000 would be in it would be better than the old one with 300k miles on it. 100k and 300k miles could make a difference.. 

ive actually recovered money since coming to reno (only been here 3 days) but i won 300+ poker, $500 plus on a new EV advantage machine i dont understand yet (and neither did any other slot pros on twitter). guarantee u i just got lucky since i dont have any idea the correct numbers. then after that the following days i won another 300 at poker again, then 300 on another machine that i already knew the numbers on, and 100 more at poker. so yeah im up at least 1500 on the trip and still havent paid cash for a hotel room here. 

i was getting really tired of paying 400 a week for a not so great hotel and 650 a week for a really nice safe hotel in Houston. that is a real drain and i really miss living at Vinces house and Rays house. 

i really am going to miss bomb pots and PLO. u wont find bomb pots here in reno and very little PLO. 

also moving from one hotel to another continually (without a microwave to cook with and a large sized fridge) really limits what u can eat in the room without paying big prices at restaraunts. Uber fares are higher than i last remember here too now and its too unsafe to ride a bus even during the day. but thats only because i remember a guy starting a fight with the driver the last time i ever rode a bus in reno and ive never wanted to since. also im carrying too much cash on me in case i run past a machine in a huge plus ev state that might require a large investment. or i might need quite a few more rebuys in the poker game than i intended. i am going to really miss the long term hotels that are like apartments even though i can no longer afford them. and of course in Reno they would be like 170 a day instead of the nice one lightning found me in when he arrived that was like 90 a day. 

theres many cities around the country its unaffordable to get a place to live and where a large majority of the city is homeless due to it. think of spokane, seattle, bozeman, missoula, and almost everywhere in the far north except michigan and ohio. 

So many other countries around the world in Europe, Russia and China have such a better standard of living than the USA we really need RFK in office or we are just going to continue the downhill slide until we get bombed for not minding our own business in the Ukraine. the cost of a place to rent the cost of gas and the cost of food, would be far less than half of what it is now if it wasnt for US military spending in the Ukraine and on other useless adventures. 

now that i finally created a burner facebook account under a different email, i can now play games on facebook again and join groups for cities poker club groups. people without a facebook account are basically cut off from any kind of normal life in public. 

one piece of bad news for my longetivity in reno (which i wont exactly want anyway im only here to cut out hotel costs) but the games here not only suck because its mostly all NL, but the games are a bit more nitty and tight than i remembered previously. About the only good thing about Reno is there is more than 1location of a huge chain not offered in most cities that is a large sized low priced 24 hour grocery store similar to walmart or HEB. 

i also seem to have lost most of my spoons and ive only got 3 stainless steel spoons to eat with left. and ive hated plastic silverware my entire life. 

i think i left them in other hotels and they got mixed in with the hotels silverware. yes sometimes i took much nicer long term kitchen type places and the higher priced options include silverware. 

also none of downtown reno feels safe anymore to walk around outside in at night. 

i still need someone in reno to show me how the new regal riches machine at the atlantis works. (didnt see it elsewhere) the one with the new blue and orange levels and the extra money on the micro gray level (used to be colored blue on the old machines) that now includes dollar amounts on the wild symbols that increase the payouts. i know theres slot pros here such as Jaime Navarro who used to run the atlantis mix game. its a shame Yoshi is no longer with us. without the correct numbers i could lose my ass on it. but im sure theres plays left on it since its new. (although maybe its a trap to get people to take the plays way too low in which case they isnt plays on it). but then how did i win $500 on it? got me back from my poker loss at the atlantis that day. 

$23,900

 I know my rolls been this low before, but i certainly cant remember when, (was definitely well over a year ago) and it certainly wasnt in 2023 dollars either. And inflation didnt exist before Biden and the Ukraine. 

Even Trump brought us inflation, because of his ill management of Covid and poor hiring practices.They gave out a lot of government checks that shouldve never been given out. People shouldve stayed working.  i think only De Santis and RFK couldve done things right, and i dont fully trust De Santis to keep us out of war either. 

The only people who should be getting govt aid, (not those who dont belong in this country) but those who are truly too disabled to hold down a regular job. and people shouldnt be made to do belittiling slave labor like many disabled people are required to do for minimum wage. anyone who cant learn how to drive needs free transportation and housing for life to avoid a horrible struggle and mental health stress, and those who arent severly autistic should get no assistance at all. and then u should get assistance no matter how much money u have in the bank because unless u keep 5-20k in the bank at all times, how are u supposed to live and pay your bills?

i would almost guarantee u almost every player in my PLO games has that much in the bank (or more likely bitcoin or stocks) because otherwise they wouldnt play as horribly loose as they do by button straddling, and they wouldnt buy in so deep. i dont think everyones money management is that poor to only keep like 5 buyins when i strive for 100-300 buyins at all times. 

I lost so bad at Empire the day before i went to Elite social today (both of whom take a heavy rake which is illegal of course) but in the past ive won more times than not. and at Elite the PLO bomb pots are $15 and up the street theyre $5. and id really like to play bomb pots for higher amounts since thats where most of my wins in the past came from. (still curious how i would do in the los angelos game, but feel i cant afford it). and then i lost another $800 or so today at elite. (i thought it was less until i came home and counted the money). 

-------2 days later-----

Instead of booking a flight like i shouldve, (unable to decide where to) or getting into a more affordable hotel for $400 a week instead of $600 a week, i ended up paying for 2 more nights tonight which ill have to go into the office sometime before noon but after the day shift gets in the office at 8. sure does mess up my sleep hours and then theyll probably insist on housekeeping cleaning it at least once this week too. i still think i should find another hotel, but its a horrible pain in the ass to move your things when u have to do it by Uber then maybe wait 2 hours with 3 suitcases before the next hotel lets u check in at 3pm. 

and i won $260 or so today and $662 yesterday. yet im still below 25k. i destroyed my roll so bad due to all the times i played online BJ and lost, the most recent being the $2500 loss earlier this week. when Lightning left town i was still 27k plus. And hotels are constantly going up. especially in Reno when theyre not free, and so many cities such as those in Washington state, Montana, and New Hampshire are completely unaffordable. and Florida will definitely be that way too once hurricane season ends. thats really the only good time to go to Florida is during hurricane season. 

Plus i need more food again now too since im trying to buy no bigger supply than what my hotel is paid up for (in case i need to move or get a flight). 

You will probably enjoy Lightning36s trip report more than mine

 or maybe u will just feel like his is more honest about how poker in houston actually works. 

my bankroll has gone down an awful lot lately, a lot of it due to the $3500 i lost online playing Bj about a week ago. but ive had a lot of uber and hotel costs lately too. (the extra $12 a night i paid for a sofa bed for lightning, the $100 i reimbursed him on his car rental costs, and then switching phone companies when he took me to the Tmobile store, etc). 

were i not to have lost all that online BJ, i wouldve lost over $500 of it anyway, since bitcoin dropped over 10% since i had $5400 in bitcoin (of which $1200 was later sold). ive only got about $450 worth of bitcoin now. and that would have been over 500 lost without me playing anything online at all.

bitcoin went all the way down from the 30s to the 25000s

i havent been doing well at poker either since lightning arrived in Houston thursday night. i lost $821 the final night he was in town, and he was so worried id lose $2645 that night instead of $821 he came back to check on me once he finished eating at the restaraunt up the street to get me out of there. and then yesterday afternoon, once id had a good rest, i returned and lost $624 more.

then i had another good rest and played from 330am to 5am  this morning, and finally got back $322 of it. im glad the game was breaking because at one point i had over $100 more. i wouldve lost it all back and PLO wasnt even going only NL. sundays are dead, the night before there were 3 games going at that time in the middle of the night. 

But in houston a lot of the nl games still have 1 hand of PLO per NL orbit with a double board PLO bomb pot too. 

Lightning agreed with me that Heb is better grocery store. it was his first time ever inside of one. but i didnt buy enough food, i am soon going to be out but i couldnt because ill need to switch to a smaller room once my week is up so im no longer paying $12 a night extra for a couch. and i might just leave town or switch back to the other area of Houston i stayed in last year. 

The players way out in this suburb of houston appear to be far better players. i ran into AA with KK and KK when i flopped 2 pair with KT suited. seems like 1 guy always had a monster when he raised and im not used to that. usually i dominate the raiser. 

i am getting tired of texas poker policies though. im sick of people always button straddling when it makes me act first. because i have to fold everything i normally wouldnt in the blinds either that or call a massive raise out of position with an inferior hand. the BS almost always raises. and another really annoying thing about texas poker is always having to ask to please change the music so i dont have to listen to nonstop profanities masquerading as music. i like the good old music i grew up with, michael jackson and Cyndi Lauper. 

Plus the beat is annoying as hell. i dont like no music with a beat. 

i was really surprised that lightning doesnt care for Houston poker and i think his large loss this week played a big roll in that. he says he prefers games where the people buyin short for $300 max(no $1000 buyins in 1-3) and where they wont raise him preflop with garbage, but only when they actually have a hand. i tell him thats not how u make money and he said he doesnt try to play to win money. 

the only game he really cared for was when he jived with the owner at a little tiny club near spring, so far north its not even on poker atlas because its so small. but he won a small amount there. i didnt, but the previous visit i did quite well there. and they do a much lower rake. so many places in texas have 10 and up to 15 rakes which arent even legal but that doesnt stop so many rooms from doing it. only the houston area rooms though. they definitely crack down in the other cities other parts of the state and no room in san antonio, austin, or dallas would ever consider risking trying it. 

i am a little concerned also about 1 more thing. seems the cost of hotels at least in the area i used to stay are slowly going up in price. the only ones cheaper are where i didnt feel comfortable staying at. also my last stay on airbnb was in el paso where i was given a bad review so i hope i wont have a harder time using it again. 

that was mainly because i never returned to el paso to clean the place so they said i was messy. and they never got the keys back either. 

i got thrown out of the doghouse tonight

 we all know that i dont order food in a poker room. Not even when the food is "free" or "free using comps". but when i was in shreveport for a while i was actually staying in the casinos hotel. and that meant no microwave in the room, and no freezer. and the fridge was very tiny. and as much as i was getting in comps per hour for food, i pretty much felt i had no choice. so i began using some for food. 

now part of the time i was in Shreveport i was staying at a place that had a full size fridge with a freezer, but i moved out because i started worrying about having too much cash on me due to there not being a way to deposit into Bank of america or wells fargo in shreveport. and i didnt want to worry about the wrong person knowing where i was staying and people busting the door down in the middle of the night. so i started paying a little more to stay in the casino. not as much more as you would think because i got him to give me really good deal, but he said he could only do it for a very short term and then id need to be out again. 

i was frantically looking for people to give me zelle the whole time i was in shreveport and i found even 1 or 2 i thought could be trusted to do cash app. (always worry someone will reverse it by claiming they got hacked). its only safe with zelle. zelle is like bitcoin, it cant be reversed. 

so i bought a greendot card at walmart and then i had more than 1 way to add money at walmart. i could do both 500 max cash app at walmart and another 500 max greendot. but neither are a good solution for those wishing to store large sums, both have a limit of 500 and 1000 a week. 

Vince wondered why i decided to leave Shreveport and pay $400 for Uber to Houston when i was doing so well there. (actually the only reason i was really doing well was because of winning close to $2500 in bitcoin since i bought $2100 worth of bitcoin almost a month ago). i was losing all the time in their 10-20 omaha hilo game, so much so that i offered the other players $500 if they ever caught me playing that game (in that casino) ever again, and i never played it once since i said this to the table. 

But i was sick and tired of not being able to deposit cash into my bank and my bank got smaller every week because the hotel wouldnt let me pay the bill in cash at checkout. the casino said they absolutely do not accept any cash. so i left the area, and i was also getting tired of only 1 boat there allowing bomb pots. and as far as $1-3 PLO? the game i make almost all my money in in texas? it never goes in shreveport. only got to play once in 5 weeks. all they have is $2-5 or $5-5 PLO with a $500 min buy in both games. 

speaking of Vince u can ask him when u see him dealing graveyard at the Horseshoe in vegas, but he really enjoyed his vacation at Rays house in Toledo. he was there a whole week, and they visited Michigan, Sandusky OH, and a private poker club (similar to the ones in TX) but with mostly tourneys and way less cash games. and him and Ray played 2 tourneys and Vince was the staker. Ray actually reached the final table in 1, but not the money. 

Now as for the story about being thrown out of the doghouse, the doghouse is the name of a cardroom in the Houston area. its quite a ways out from most of the rooms ive played at in the past, but it had some really good promotions i wanted to take a shot at. and being so far out its tough to find an Uber if u wait too late after midnite. Houston is a very large area. you know how in reno u never will pay more than $20 to go from one end of the metro area to the far opposite end? well in Houston that might be $60 from the far NW to the far Southeast. and an hours drive. 

so what u really need around here is a friend with a car. and i am afraid to trust new people i havent been close to already for the past 30 years or so. so i dont have anyone in the area im close enough to. 

if u know how to fight or carry a gun on you, then it doesnt matter how little a time period youve known this person. but this isnt the case with me. 

also if u know how to fight and carry a gun on you, u can stay at motels with doors to the outside costing $300 a week instead of having to be in one luxurious and indoors, costing $700-900 a week. 

remember in the previous blog i mentioned why i left Houston? and about how someone was bitching about a $15 tip since he claimed others wouldve tipped $25-100?

well these guys (and the owner who often plays in the PLO with his wife) have seen im a little wierd due to my autism and emotionally get worked up easily. especially when forced to seat change to the middle of a new table from my original table where i was in the 3 seat because of a must move rule. (this was the day before). 

i love bomb pots and am frustrated so few states allow them in live games. for this is what makes poker fun and worth playing instead of a drudgery of hard joyless work. And not only do bomb pots make the pots a lot better, i wish we could get a mandatory $10 2-7 bounty in all the games too. (but of course no one will ever agree) that way u never know if someone raising has a real hand, or just wants to steal the blinds for the extra $80 from the other 8 players. (and is why it must be $10 instead of $5. $40 instead of $80 just doesnt make the raise with 7-2 worth the risk). and the only time people would ever agree is for $5 not $10. 

No one wants to make changes to the game, because they dont want to do anything that takes them out of their comfort zone. its the same reason people will agree to a button straddle, but not an UTG straddle. Instead all they do is buyin deep (im usually always the only one at a PLO in TX with less than $2000 in front of me) and bitch at me for playing so few pots. and Bill Potts wont come to TX because he thinks a 1-3 game with $20,000 on the table is way too small and u need a nitty vegas style Bellagio $5-10 blinds game to be able to win. 

Anyway i would love to play in an all bomb pot game here (like u can in san antonio or dallas) but only one club here has it and its a horrible game. $11 rake per hand and a ton of short stacks in the game. and its the ONLY game in all of texas filled with short stacks. it seems people are scared of playing a big stack in a bomb pot game, while they are totally comfortable with it in a regular PLO or NL game. Or maybe its because at the place that offers an all bomb pot game regularly the game is full of "house players".

this being said, i want to make SURE i get to play the one bomb pot per orbit on the dealer change. i used to only play the bomb pots where i had a positional advantage but some players give u a hard time if u do this, and others dont ever play the bomb pot, even if theyre on the button (which is tremendously stupid on their part).

and this club, unlike all the other clubs i played bomb pots in, they were doing either $6 or $12 bomb pots. But the reason the bomb pot wasnt $5 or $10 was because they were putting in the extra for the dealer. so the dealer either made an extra $9 or $18 on the hand. and it was mandatory or else u couldnt be dealt in the bomb pot.

now i have a real problem with a tip being mandatory and i especially dont like the policy of an upfront tip from all the losers so the winner wont have to tip. i hate this policy in tourneys where theres a $10 dealers fee additional too. 

so the dealers and players were already bitching at me over tips. 

and i wasnt in a good mood because id lost my first buyin early with T9TQ double suited and had rebought a few times and was eventually in the game for $834. 

and then when i finally won 2 3rd of a huge pot, i and seat 4 were positive the dealer made a mistake in dividing up the pot and the rest of the table was pissed i wasnt going to let myself be shorted and finally we found out i got paid correctly from the floorman after he had double checked the camera. (the owner was at the table, but didnt want to get involved). 

i wouldnt have even made a lot of money on that hand had i asked to run it twice. but i asked to run it 3 times and the other player agreed. 

and not only that it took AA99 single suited to win. all my lower hands id had all day were useless.

that pot got me back to $801 to where i was finally stuck less than $50 but they were pissed off when i didnt tip. 

i didnt feel obligated to i was still stuck and it was the only pot id won. 

then a little while later i got in a pot with the owners wife in it and after the hand, and us splitting a pot, i had $856 on me (and for the first time was $22 ahead). i wouldve given the dealer a tip that time of $1 since i hadnt the previous hand, since i was now unstuck finally and he had dealt me a piece of a pot twice, but i didnt.

here is why. the odd dollar which was supposed to go to me being in front of the button, he just put in his tray. had he given it to me, id have gave it back to him. now that was wrong of him unless that really is the house policy. 

Then i won another pot a short time later with a different dealer and i was finally up over $200 for the day. and the owners wife started bitching about me "only" giving the dealer $1 and said it wasnt nearly enough. now the owner and his wife they were very rich people and so it seemed like everyone else was at the table but me. 

so i got quite mad and started speaking about how awful it is that the dealers in TX are way overpaid compared to how little my friends who are dealers are making in NV and other states and how in those other states people get fired for not being thankful over every dollar. and how i wish i could take these dealers money and give it to those who deserved it. and the owner said i couldnt be speaking to his wife that way and forced me to leave and said not to come back. his wife was asian so that probably is why. a lot of guys get an asian wife because they want a possession they own instead of an equal partner like a normal white or black american would be. he a lot of times thought she would lose if he put her in for too much and is why he thought she should be in 1-3 instead of 5-5 the other day (before i knew he was the owner) and she played a lot of hands i sure wouldnt play. Had his wife not been asian i dont think he wouldve been so mad. 

i dont know where ill play now since my hotel is in the wrong part of town. guess im stuck with some high Uber fees for a bit. its a shame because the promotions were good there that Mickey (not the Mickey u know but a local on facebook) told me about back when i still played a different club he said that club was ripping me off and to try the doghouse instead. also this is about the 2nd nicest hotel ive ever stayed at for a price unbeliveably low. like i said Houston is by far the cheapest place in the country to live. so much cheaper than Vegas. thats why its so unfair to those working in Vegas they dont get tipped nearly what the locals tip here 

most of the locals playing are dealers at the other clubs, its why they tip so much. dealers here make 3 times what dealers make in any other state and yet only pay half as much in housing and gas costs. 

under the gun straddles and 2-7 bounties

 

theres a common form of poker that i went my whole life hardly ever playing, limit holdem. in fact im surprised this game still exists. a couple of poker rooms here in shreveport have it about once a week, in the $20-40 version. Because it was going it ruined my 10-20 hilo omaha 8 yesterday, because the worst player in the game was in it instead. so of course i lost. ive been losing a lot of sessions of 10-20 hilo lately, well over $1000 worth and i used to always win at that game. but now i need to play a PL or NL version of it to win. 

my only limit experience was in stud, and i usually played 1-5 spread limit which is quite different than limit and more like PL. i think ive forgotten how to play limit and maybe it hurt me to not have any limit experience. the only times i played limit holdem was when i had on me $100 or less and broke and was too lazy to go to a casino that had another game going besides $2-4 fixed limit. 

im back to around 26k from over 29k, thats over 3000 gone since leaving Houston. some on expenses but ive got great deals on room prices (at both casinos) and when i was staying at a regular motel that wasnt nearly as safe. most of the loss was about 6 out of 7 losing days lately, some for over 1000. and im certainly no longer carrying too much cash for a plane. in fact i think i put too much cash into cash app. 

were it not for all the horror stories ive read about highway cops, and TSA seizing peoples money who had as little as $2000 or $4000 on an amtrak or on the highway, id probably flown out of here long ago when i still had 7 or 8k in cash on me. 

i wish i was anywhere other than here, (except for the great deals im getting on much lower room prices than anyone else). For i cant win unless im in Texas, and that is NOT a good thing. i should be able to win no matter where i am. i made over 80k last year  (and thats a wild guess of course) and its a good thing i banked much of it or id be broke now, but am rapidly getting down to zero and i doubt ive had even 20k in income this year. 

also i got my facebook banned and my mother is wondering why, and im not comfortable telling her the reason. its a little embarrassing. 

someone i never knew who they were was at my table the other day, (Black guy named Brandon) and i thought the reason he added me as a friend on facebook 2-3 yrs ago was from playing at the clubs in Houston (those were listed as friends of his). he was telling the young pro at my table who had recently won big in a stud tourney that he could "get him a girlfriend". so i commented on his page and sent him a link to a hookers ad on escort alligator for shreveport and asked him "was this the woman?". 

now as we all know, no humans review facebook, and theres no customer service to email them. everything is automated and done by robots. and Brandon says he didnt even know of my comment to him and never saw it. the algorhythm removed my link and i got my account banned because they said id had multiple strikes in the past and was "promoting human trafficking". now a real person would see i wasnt but only joking around. but theres no live customer support. 

i was also going to talk about some weird dreams but ive forgotten them by now. all i remember is having to go up really high on a highway being pulled up by rope on some lighthouse shaking in the air, and looking for food inside wondering how i could call for help through some electronic gidget. and being afraid for my safety and going outside a house to get an Uber, and a city bus showing up instead, and me not knowing how to find a Philliac casino on the east coast and the bus entering a really bad neighborhood filled with unsafe $20 hotels. but a lot of the details and the minor dreams and the poker hands involved ive forgot the details. i do remember something about being mad the church no longer had scrabble games. 

why i dont live in shreveport no more

 Well, leaving Houston was a big mistake, because at the time i left, i had a little over 29000. and going to shreveport from Coushatta instead of returning to texas was another big mistake. I didnt notice it at first because i was winning at poker when i first came here, mostly because 1 of the 2 boats here has bomb pots. but im usually playing on the other boat which is open all 7 days. (and supposedly has a 24 hour poker room) although some days like tonight the game breaks early. 

Resorts in vegas too has 24 hour poker but thats during the WSOP and most people who wont come the rest of the year have no idea. i even noticed 2 1-2 PLO games at resorts on a sunday night and when i was in vegas that game only went once a month, certainly not 2 games on a sunday night. Maybe vegas isnt as bad a place to be during the wsop after all. 

I really should be doing laundry right now, but its one of the chores i despise and hate the most and need someone to do it for me. its a shame i went thru life never being married to a good woman. But thats dangerous today when women no longer believe in loyalty and commitment to 1 man for life. the values of civilization were so much better 100 years ago. 

Nowdays far left wing liberal white women fight for the right for men to enter their locker rooms showers and homeless shelters so they can see them naked. and so their fellow sisters will be able to experience being raped.  when i was born, it was seen as the mental illness that it is. a man would get beat up if he entered a womans only area.

one reason its hard to win is no omaha games in town, unless u play in the once a week game with a 500 min buy and thats awful high for 2-5 blinds. i really miss buying in for 100 everywhere in houston with 1-3 blinds and u did NOT have to bring it in for 5. 

the games were still loose as hell, most people bought in 500-1500. 

theres hilo a few times a week but since i sleep the wrong hours its never going the hours i am playing. i might be playing say 9pm til 9am sometime and it goes in the early afternoons. 10-20 limit high low. Used to be 4 cards when Ray was in town, now its 5. 

i left Houston because of ungrateful and unthankful dealers. i would finally get even on a 1200 pot give the dealer $15, and he would act like ive insulted him and tell me a few hands later most would give him 25 and the other player had he won wouldve gave 100. dealers in texas are so overtipped and spoiled because almost everyone else playing in the game is a fellow dealer. the next day he was drunk in a home game and badgering me for giving the dealer $3 when i finally got close to even on a pot of 400-500. said i should give him at least $6 or $10. and he said i aint going to stand up for u or protect u anymore from those who hate u and want to beat u up. 

i think since he dealt me 2 huge hands that week with a total of $19 in tips, for about 3000 total, he felt i cost him a lot of money. and he probably thought i was way up for the past 9 days, when truthfully id only broken even. because of all the losses when he wasnt in the box. 

still it was a rash and dumb decision to leave Houston for the video blackjack game at Coushatta. i was once down 4000 plus on it and ended up losing 2400. within the next 2 days i got all of it back except for 300. most of what i was down in coushatta was hotel and uber fees, not the video BJ machine. 

and i also found out i still cannot win at poker at coushatta, no matter what. 

online poker sucks too. especially if u play on seals with clubs. almost every table has 3 people or less, at least in the middle of the night and if u want to play something besides NL. often its true for NL in the middle of the night too. only a tournament would be a full table. 

and now being at a casino i remember how annoying it is to constantly act first in the SB u have to fold all kinds of hand u would normally limp with. only the casinos in NV do it right. i would love to see it banned altogether and i dont understand why them same nits who love to button straddle wont get the whole table to agree to a mandatory UTG straddle in place of the button. much better action but i can only get them to agree to it about once of the 100 times a year i suggest it. why are others so much nittier than me? some even hate the bomb pots and sit them out. 

and im not getting in nearly the hours i did in my 20s and 30s. i worry my health has deteriorated so rapidly and i often end up playing very short sessions when up and only a few long sessions if stuck. and its not worth the Uber fare back and forth home to wait 2 hours to sit with $100. i sure would like to live out of the casinos and avoid uber altogether. 

but that would save me $1000 or more a month with Uber and add $4000 a month or more to housing costs. $5500 a month instead of $1500-2000. casinos here are terribly high on weekends. worse than vegas because theres less to choose from. 

the ONLY cheap way out of town is the amtrak bus which only goes one way and thats west towards dallas. to go east u need to be on the train. 32 will get u to dallas. it will take u to marshall and them put u on the train the other few hours. but u cannot go east on the train. only west. u need to be in dallas to go east on it. (if u want to go to chicago or toledo). 

airfares out of shreveport are high. some cities u cant get to. without 24 hour trips with multiple connections. vegas or detroit or dallas or houston are even a few hundred. sometimes allegiant is 99 to los angeles or fort walton beach, which is far from the right areas of florida with poker. 

and of course the biggest problem with shreveport is lack of bank of america, or lack of wells fargo to deposit the cash as u win it. motels wont take cash. and i dont know the right people with zelle to give cash to multiple times a month. the closest bank of america is in tyler tx and the closest wells fargo is 90 miles north in texarkana. and it seems the cardroom in texarkana doesnt have a game too many hours a day and some times they lie to u on the app. some night just the tourney. 

with all these issues im surprised im still so close to 28k i know this isnt the right place for me long term. i dont know why i had 3 bad poker nights here recently good action in the NL. lost 971 once, 272 once and 200-300 once. the last few times i played. 

see how much better life is without playing blackjack?

 i won a lot more than usual this month (and since i dont keep track, the ONLY way i know im up somewhere from 6-7k in the last 5 weeks at poker in Houston is because i have $6300 more in cash than when i arrived in houston). and i spent about $400-500 more in cash on food at the grocery store. everything else i paid for (ubers, housing, etc) was with a debit card. so only the increase in cash on hand is the poker profit. i had less than 2k in cash and now have over 8k in cash so i need to deposit a little in the bank. 

i am wondering if not focusing on updating the blog (and focusing only on winning money-i havent paid for a massage the whole 5 weeks ive been here, when in the past, ive paid for one about 15 times in 5 weeks). nothing in life matters more than money does. You can get thru life without family, friends, love, health, but u cannot get thru life without money. for without money u have to sleep outdoors every night instead of indoors. and considering my life ages 17-22, theres nothing in life more terrifying thats worse than sleeping outdoors. 

I've pretty much ruined and wasted my whole life because i didnt always put money first over everything else. i remember how broke i was throughout my 20s and 30s because everything i won, i wasted it on hookers and giving money to people like Britni and Lorna and i dont know if wec or Vook still read this blog, but if so they are likely the only ones who would not only remember that, but actually realize it was true. for today, no one would ever think id give a woman a dime. i couldve easily had half a million saved up from poker by age 50 with my skill level 

that and of course blackjack and video poker. those games hurt me terribly over the years. i always did far worse that expected ev from counting cards because i would keep lowering the bet on good plus counts to hide the fact i was counting and betting big on counts i shouldnt have just because i was down. 

a lot of societys problems with homelessness can be traced to 2 reasons. one landlords wont rent to good tenants with plenty of cash in their bank accounts who dont need to work because they have so much cash, but instead of being able to easily have plenty of money to afford to pay, theyd rather have a guy living paycheck to paycheck always broke who has credit cards he can borrow from to pay rent. 

so we end up paying twice as much on airbnb and hotels and often would like to shoot someone every time they ask us why we cant get an apartment because we are so sick of hearing it. 

and reason 2 we dont have nearly enough mental institutions taking inpatients. the law made them all go to outpatients unless u threaten to kill yourself or others. they could get 1 million off the streets overnite and make life much safer for people who would like to ride a bus to save money on Uber. 

when i was homeless under age 21, i tried to get myself committed to them so i wouldnt be homeless and they wouldnt let me stay because i wasnt suicidal. so at times i pretended to be, like when i walked outside the window on the ledge of the roof at a hospital in toledo ohio. i met my sons mother in a mental institution and was her boyfriend for over 3 years. 

or when hitchhiking and would get naked so the police would come and pick me up. i wouldve had a vastly different life (and wouldve been able to get a dealing job and make 500 a nite and never worry about money) had i not gotten a felony because of my autism. i never thought the police would think it was serious enough to charge me. 

now the only way ill ever be much better off financially (since im too old and it would take another 25 yrs to earn it at poker and save it up) will be if i can ever find an attorney willing to sue the police in vegas for a civil rights violation and a false arrest im sure the case could easily be won if an attorney would take it. 

one of the things i hate the most about Houston is they do the button straddle the wrong way, and i hate acting first in the small blind. u would think the game would be unbeatable because its very difficult play against, yet im winning far easier than i would be in vegas. Its really a shame i cant learn from Bart Hanson (Gus Hansons brother), because he did have a good podcast on bomb pot strategy (and now all the all bomb pot games are way too tight and too high a rake) and even the 1 bomb pot every half hour games the bomb pots arent nearly as beatable as when they were new. 

i am often in situations with hands like KJ and in the BB and theres a $5 button straddle and its my $2 in the BB. in a regular game reno or vegas style i could easily know what to do once i see what the rest of the table does. but in a bomb pot game i keep having to fold because its not worth the risk of someone raising behind me out of position and for me to raise out of position and have a bloated pot id have to bluff to the river with K high no pair would be really quick way to go bust. 

also i hate people who raise in the BB or SB, this is incredibly stupid unless u are so short u have good equity getting allin preflop with hands like JJ or better. 

so many times im on the button with hands like A3 suited and i sure cant fold with such great pot odds but then i end up having to fold anyway preflop after a sizeable raise in the blinds. 

or like today, (although i did win over $385 between 2 different rooms) when i would be trying to see a flop in sb with AJ and i put the extra $1 in with great pot odds and i had too many chips to try to go allin. 

guy raises to $15 and a guy calls, and i sure didnt want to call $15 just to fold on the flop and felt he was raising really light so i shoved the $55. he calls and we run it twice so my read was right he is weak. he has KQ. and i lost twice. this room has a policy when u run it twice u cannot do 2 boards its flop twice twice and i hate this too. 

he has absolutely no business raising KQ off in the BB. do u know how many hundreds of times ive folded that preflop this week just because im in too early a position for $2

i guess maybe everyones horrible play is why im winning or am i just running above average? i doubt im playing different than when i lost 3k in 10 days right before i left houston for good 2 yrs ago.

changes needed in my life

 im going to keep this very brief, because its very difficult to type from my phone instead of my laptop and ive never done it before. 

after a few small wins today, and after getting back about $1000 from coinroyale management (because im such a GOOD customer for having well over 10k in online losses in a few months) for the error i made i told u about in my last blog, i got a partial compensation for hitting the wrong button. they said they normally never do it but they made an exception for me. 

so i was back to about 26 and a half and am now at 24k

i came home, thinking i wasnt winning nearly enough to get this roll back up, and i did what ive always been doing at home for hours for 1-3 months. (play and martingale BJ online. and i couldnt figure out how to stop myself). the min bets are only about 3c worth of bitcoin which makes martingaling 5 hands at once so easy. 

the vast majority of the drop from 57k to 24k was online BJ. more than any other issue. its an addiction i couldnt control. 

after losing 2200 (all of my bitcoin) i made an extremely rash decision out of rage. i went and threw both of my laptops off a high bridge into the water to prevent someone from finding them and deleting my bank accounts. 

how else can i prevent myself from nonstop gambling in the room?

i wont be able to publish any more blogs. for this took about 2 hours to type on the phone when it would been done in 10 minutes online. and ill be online much less. probably for the best. i cant stand typing from a cell phone. all my time will be spent playing at the live poker table til im too tired to do anything but sleep. just like when i was 21-25 and healthy. 

Monarch Blackhawk trip report.

 let me talk about a couple of hands of poker that would drive anyone up the wall. I had been playing for hours with $100, was up $30 early on, and had eventually added money a few times and id been there 4-5 hours and was in the game for $293, then $393.

i called a raise from the blinds with 44 in a 4 way pot and flopped a set on a board of Q54 with 2 spades. i felt the lady who raised probably had a big hand because she hadnt raised much, and was out of position. she bet $35, one guy called, so i shoved my last $200-300. i wouldve been glad to end it there, because i was anxious to go eat. and just taking down the dead money wouldve cut enough off the loss to go. 

when she called, i was praying she had AA and not AK of spades. (2 outs instead of 9). the other guy showed a Q then folded. and u know what she did have AA. and then the dealer dealt 3 2 for the turn and river. 

i wouldve left immediately but i wanted to wait for my blind. so i rebought $100 and 2-3 hands later this happened. i tried a $6 button straddle and figured id quit in one more round. i got dealt KJ offsuit and one other player made it $15 and i called and one other player. 

flop comes 7JK offsuit and the original raiser bets $30. i felt obligated to shove the $100 and prayed they didnt have a set. and they didnt i was ahead. (until the ace hit the turn of course). i did leave then. 

i came back to my room, ate, and played a little BJ online with the $3800 i had in bitcoin. my bitcoin had been increasing in value all week long, by several hundred dollars, about $300 in winnings and about $500 more by the recent uptick in the price of bitcoin. 

i was martingaling the bets and getting down quite a bit but on that final hand i had 5 hands out and got dealt 55 on the first hand against the dealers 2. i accidently hit the wrong button (biggest mistake of my life) and SPLIT instead of double down, and immediately got a 10 on both hands. out of my 5 hands, i only had 1 good hand of 20 in all the hands and did not take any other hits. 

dealer turns over J, then 6 for 18 and i lost on 4 of the 5 hands, and then i withdrew $1100 (which was what was left of the $3800). and put the 1100 back in my bitcoin ewallet. 

had i not took that extra 10 on accident, dealer wouldve turned over J, then 10 for a bust card, and id have won all 5 hands, and then i couldve withdrawn about $4300 instead of $1100.

ive never in my life made that error before playing online blackjack and it was probably all due to listening to Bob Neresians podcast about BJ advantage play while playing, and the earlier poker loss might had me sidetracked. 

only got $38 left online of the $82 i had the poker money online up to once a few days ago too.

so now my live bankroll is about 27600 which is the lowest its been in about 75 years. i still need to fly out of denver,  to somewhere its cheap. 

i dont want to play nothing other than omaha ever again. no no limit, no bj. i won over 1100 in omaha the first 2 nights i was here. 

but it doesnt go everyday. wed and fri

Trip report

 Well im still not sure if theres a laundrymat around here except for the one in the RV Park, but at least the wifi in my room works really well which is nice after being stuck in my room at the D without it a few days before hand. i will always use my free nites at the golden gate from now on instead of the d. never have problems with wifi there. 

okay now for the trip report. i flew out of vegas the day after playing the meet up game with lightning and Luke at the sahara, where i couldnt win anything and was glad it ended. was really shocked Vince showed up on time for the game. and the next day i won about $700 playing BJ at the D, but that was only when i had a bunch of splits and double downs with a $90 bet out there. 6 bets of $90, all winning when the dealer busted is $540 winners instead of $540 losers and that hand made all the difference. Good thing i know to split 44 v 5 in a good count when doubles after splits are allowed. 

also the same day before i left i played Troopers bomb pot tourney and once i entered i realized the game was holdem instead of omaha. luckily though it didnt cause any issues for me and i still ended up in the chop at the end and got $396 for my efforts. 

i was going to fly to Reno but at the last minute decided to fly somewhere ive never been where i wanted to fly to where so far, ive not ran into a soul who knows either me, or my blog. but instead of a lot of free rooms, im paying like $100 a night. i misunderstood a promotion (i was told it would take at least 1000 points before i could have them see about getting me a room) so thats $2000 thru a video craps (the VBJ was 6-5) and since they cant fuck up the odds on craps like they can on VBJ, i played craps instead. i finally had 1011 points when i got off it hours later, and then they told me my theo was way too low and id need about 3x the play. so there went that free room. i had signed up for a players card for the first time. 

i played poker in a different casino up the road a ways, and the blinds were 2 and 2 NL. $100-500 buyin. anyone could kill it for $4 and then u would have to bring it in for $8, but otherwise u still had to bring it in for $4 instead of limp the $2. was i glad to see theyre doing it the reno and vegas way instead of the detroit and philadelphia way of the small bling acting  first. 

this morning i got stuck over $500 but eventually recovered and left $187 up. the same loose young player whose a regular (everyone lives in the area but me) was raising all the time preflop eventually donated $300 to me when i had AQ and flopped top 2 pair on a flop of AQ2 and he had AJ. the earlier times he calls my allin preflop with AK hearts with J4 of diamonds for over $100 and wins when he hits a 4 on the river. and then when i had JJ the same player put me allin preflop with 67 offsuit and turned a set. and another guy stayed in with 46 suited and busted the set of 8s i flopped on a flop of K85. 

But this evening i wasnt so lucky went back about 10pm to play til 4am after some sleep, and eventually was in the game for $414 and i was down to my last $228 when a lady raised to $27 and one guy called. i shoved my AK and she thought a long time and i thought if she thought that long she certainly dont have too much and would likely fold since i hadnt hardly played a hand. she finally called with JJ. and i said lets show 1 card to make it more interesting, she said ok, and i randomly turned over the K, and then got mad when she refused to turn a card over after saying Ok. i was hoping she would turn over an ace, because i knew she couldnt have aa, so then i wouldnt have to worry about her having a pair. and she makes a full house with the JJ. i never did show the other card and she might still think it was KK instead of AK. 

at least she showed the full boat very excitedly instead of forcing me to turn over both cards before she shows. could been worse i guess.

so i left stuck $414 and got it back on the 3-2 BJ machine next door where i signed up for a card. earned 394 points for the sign up bonus and my loss back from poker. well i earned $412, plus $15. 

sad thing is i dont think i can stay around here long, the poker room is only open 4 nights a week, and my mouth and scalp feel sore constantly due to me never fixing my teeth, slowly deterioting and probably have 15 cavities now instead of the 3 on the other side. also my excema in terrible shape. i need to go to texas or somewhere i can get a steady address and play everyday. 

theres several live BJ 3-2 rooms here with 10 dollar minimum bets.

and i didnt plan this out well. i shouldve stayed near the airport the first nite and rode out to the casinos the following day the Lfyt driver was bitching and moaning about thinking he would only get 30 of the 85 fare, and said i was lucky he didnt leave me by the side of the road, and then almost kicked me out when i mentioned giving another driver a $5 tip which he thought was horrible since id told him id lost over $12k at BJ right before i came. people dont understand the difference between losing 12k and winning 12k had i said that after winning 12k id be the horrible person but after losing 12k, they  are lucky to get shit. and the driver made me uncomfortable saying i should give him some of that. he wanted to cancel once he saw how far i was going and i was afraid of being taken outside of town and robbed. 

when people are autistic so severly they cant learn to drive, the govt should provide free transportation and they should never have to pay a dime. it would be different if they wouldnt severly disabled and could rent a car. the govt doesnt take care of people the way God wants them to. 

Out of Laughlin

 its really good to be out of Laughlin, and id have never went there in the first place except for the fact i was tired of losing money at live BJ and online BJ, and wanted to go back to the machine i knew id won $6000 on the previous time i was in Laughlin. now i can remember many times ive lost on it, but i also know its still the best type of VBJ machine also because it was the same machine they had in the deadwood mountain grand where i won over $8000 on it and was told i couldnt come in and play anymore. 

But this time i lost over $5000 on it, and then even more than that at online blackjack, which is a terrible addiction to have. i thought my 10% percent loss rebate with no playthrough requirement (can be withdrawn in bitcoin immediately) was worth something but it really isnt according to Axel on wizard of vegas, who is kind of an expert in this. and even worse i lost over $3800 trying out a pai gow game on a machine in a place im banned at (but id never been inside before to see what games they offered). but its in Laughlin and owned by dotties., who also owns the hoover dam lodge, so i didnt bother to get a copy of my card. also a few hundred of the loss was on some other game where u swap cards with the dealer that i forget the name of. 

then i wanted out of Laughlin immediately and paid over twice as much to get to vegas as i wouldve paid had i taken the morning airport shuttle. actually over 3x the price. because the only Uber driver wanted an extra $150 for his gas. besides the price on the app and he wanted to go thru the app. most drivers wouldnt do it this way. and even worse, my hotel cost me a lot more than it wouldve had i booked the room 12 hours earlier, or even 6 hours earlier. and i ended up staying at a different hotel than i wouldve took that ended up being sold out. 

i didnt trust myself and i was scared if i went to sleep in laughlin (my room was still paid up til monday morning) (and i was getting tired) id wake up at midnite again, withdraw the max on all my debit bank cards, and lose another 2000 or 3000. 

i hadnt been playing poker in laughlin because i had my hours adjusted to being awake 1am to 8am so i could play the VBJ at the Pioneer all by myself with no one else on it. that and also i dont trust the integrity of the dealers at the riverside because they hand shuffle. a lot of them have known me for years and really hate me, especially Frank and Barry (claudias friend). plus its a horrible game to try and make money in, the rake is $3 plus $3 promo on a $30 pot. 

it felt really strange to be in Laughlin 9 days and to have only played poker once in those 9 days, where i wrote about the hand i went bust on on twitter the one time i played. 

since i returned to vegas (and will stay long enough for the wed meetup game with lightning) i have the $409 cash i arrived with up to $634. but ive spent money out of my bank accounts with Uber, etc. i hate the idea ill probably have to pay huge fees for an ATM again. im used to having 10,000 or more in cash. 

and then i still got to decide where to go. reno, houston or ?

i need to go somewhere either ill have a shit ton more free rooms than i get in vegas or where housing is dirt cheap via motels and airbnb. its been a long time since ive been under 30k. actually i need to figure up my bankroll. ive put it off since i havent done the work of logging into every online bank account to see the newest balance and then adjusting it to its correct totals once all deposits are returned. 

with a small win, i think its probably between 30k and 30k 500 instead of between 29k 500 and 30k. 

at least im not playing any blackjack since returning to vegas. and the $20 i deposited into bet online while in Laughlin to play poker is now up to $44. 

im not seeing as many of the annoyances in casinos as i did right before i left vegas. i see less young people wearing masks (its almost always a guy in his early 20s instead of an old person which is backwards) more women are dressed the way the Saudi Arabian religious authorities want them to dress instead of in a way so morally offensive to the way i was taught as a child is modest, and i see less people drunk and holding up the game, which costs u a lot of money and puts u heavily on tilt. 

shame Dave never cared about meeting me (he said he wont play nothing but omaha and wouldnt come over to play NL said he stopped playing it) he would had to play NL had he played lightnings meetup game next wednesday because its going to be half NL and half PLO. 

a much bigger shame is that vinces house is no longer available for rent if i wanted an affordable place to stay in vegas long term now that im broker than ive been in about a year. i was dumb to move out and now someone he knows whose a dealer has moved in. 

one really important thing i need to be doing is fixing my sleep hours. i cant keep falling asleep about 5pm or so (or ill miss lightnings game) and waking up after 3am. those are the hours to play poker not be asleep if u want to play in the best games. 

i wish i wouldnt have missed out on that $40

 I had a lot of misconceptions about the place i rented on my birthday for a month thats turned out to be not true. for one the gym isnt open. at least not in the middle of the night at 4am when i investigated. i have no idea about other hours. and of course the biggest one, i didnt have a full size freezer and fridge like the pictures looked like i would. and theres a $10 charge to use the luggage cart to bring groceries to the room (and of course no charge for using it to bring luggage). 

yeah me renting this place for a month for $3913 started a large downhill slide. i felt insanely rich when i had $57,000 and thought i was far richer than i really was. ive never stayed at a place i consider to be really luxurious and i thought a high rise apt on the strip attached to a casino would be that. also i didnt realize id have no laundry facilities of any type either to wash clothes. Thank God for Vince.

Speaking of Vince im proud of him because for the first time ever, he actually won money in a poker tourney at south point tonight. almost $1000 but a little less especially after his big tip since hes a dealer at Ballys. 

were i not to have rented this place (and then had an issue with not being able to get my in room safe to lock) i wouldnt have put $10k in front money in a casino and then lost it playing BJ. most of it anyway. about 8k of it was lost on BJ and the rest was what i was down on VP before i went to play BJ. but it sure was a good plus count when i bet 3 spots of $1200 that final hand (and then lost 4 bets of $1200). i still have $1000 in front money i havent yet touched. 

and im still trying to work this bankroll back to the right side of 45-50 instead of 40-45. the loss Monday evening of $1200 in the red rock on Big split poker and BJ didnt help. i wouldnt have kept playing so much had the stadium BJ, which everyone knows only gives 1 point for every $12 in bets, not been overpaying so much and giving $1 dollar bet 1 point in error. 

if anyone wants to know if its still overpaying by mistake it wouldnt be too hard to find which terminal it was at red rock. 

the poker game broke up about 5am, way too early to buy food at the grocery store (and i was out) or id have left then. but i was still out about $180 for the night. but not as bad as the $400 i was out when id left the game at resorts. i was doing really bad at resorts in a very short time period losing multiple buyins so i left for red rock where there was $1-2 and $2-5 still going. 

intended to sit in $2-5 but i didnt like which seat was open, so i sat in $1-2. but it was much looser than the normal $1-2 red rock game. but it didnt last very long. 

Later i did get seat 2 in the $2-5 but it was only 4 handed by then and didnt last long either. so i went back to the machine. i lost quite a bit in big split before i went to the BJ machine. 

Had a weird dream last night about being asked if anyone knew how to sing the song "are u washed in the blood of the lamb" at the poker table. the whole table was singing at first then stopped while i sang an entire verse and chorus by myself while everyone was looking at me in amazement. not as weird as the dream a couple days earlier where a bunch of resorts world dealers were having women undress to shower at the table by force, but still its weird the odd types of dreams i have. 

seen lightning recently and Thank God he brought a cat with him this time to drive us around in. made life a whole lot easier and i got to show him a new casino he wrote about on his blog which u should  read. his blogroll is in the link to the right which u wont see unless u are looking at the blog from a laptop webpage instead of a cell phone. 

Vince brought me the books mom sent for my birthday and some big size trash bags i requested to throw all the food trash out of my place for the month. and then i got to play both $5-5 PLO (a rarity) and bomb pot this evening. won at both. 

there was also something going on called Dice poker tourney, but i googled it to see what it was and google came up empty. it was some private groups tourney, i highly doubt they use actual dice. i didnt see any. 

Maybe its sponsored by andrew dice clay?

now about the title of this post, since im running out of money i turned down $40 a week or so ago and that was dumb of me. i was outside of walmart awaiting my Uber. and some lady who looked homeless and had been standing there outside the store forever offered me $40 to ride in my Uber to where she was going. i guess maybe she had no phone and no way to call Uber? or whoever was picking her up never showed? i couldnt believe she had money i saw a bunch of $20s when she pulled out the $40  but i thought something was weird when she went to hand it to me if she could ride along and i have no idea where she wanted to go or if she wouldve ran up a much bigger bill than $40 once i got out where i was headed on her way home. but i guess i shouldve accepted the $40 and offered her a ride. i just thought it was so weird i was going to be setup in some way, or demanded the $40 back while in the Uber, etc. 

she also had groceries but far less than mine. 

do not trust this computer repairman

 as many of u know i recently took my computer in for service. (it was because the mouse had stopped working). and the computer was bought about a year ago in a walmart in Louisiana right before i went to reno before the wsop last year. i cant remember the exact month, although it would likely be searchable in the older blogs history. the place i took it to for service was the same place Allen (the guy who runs the bomb pot games) took my phone to for service when he accidently dropped and broke it and offered to pay for fixing it. and since i had the broken laptop with me at the time, i went along and took it in too. 

i got the phone back from Allen a couple days later and it works absolutely fine, but when i went to claim the computer, the employee there said it was fixed, but then i couldnt turn the computer on and neither of us knew why and it eventually ended up being 5 days or so before i got it back. he claimed the motherboard had went out and replaced it with a new motherboard for $110. 

now there was nothing wrong with the motherboard when i took it in, only the mouse had stopped working. to be more specific, the mouse was jumping around like crazy all over the page, changing sizes of type  and pages, etc. and i looked up how to fix it and i turned off an on off switch on my touchpad, and then i couldnt switch the mouse back to on. 

this is how i know he (the computer repairman) isnt honest. i got an email from Yelp thanking me for my review. and i knew i hadnt posted a review, so i went to look at it and it was from one of my emails, claiming he did great work, fast and cheap. im sure he had no idea Yelp would send me this. and it was the ONLY review for his business. guess hes desperate for more work. 

now its dangerous to piss off a computer repairman because if he wanted to, he could do things to your laptop which could get u 20 years to life. but i think he mightve broken the motherboard intentionally too since if he could do this, he could do anything. a great way to get a free $110. by the way, the mouse still only works on the far right side, not the left (the same way government policies work). i still at times accidently hit the wrong side of the mouse. to be safe i should go throw this laptop in a lake off a high bridge and get a brand new one. 

i also needed to change some of my most commonly used passwords into a new password that ill need to remember. i had passwords to things like priceline, etc, which would bring up my stored debit cards. even though the one password i hadnt actually saved was the ones to my online bank accounts. but i had cash app, bitcoin ewallets, etc on it. and of course, the password to yahoo mail. 

yahoo mail gets hacked a lot, but usually more so by people wanting to use it for millions of spam, not by someone i know maliciously. 

the 3rd way (and probably the most dangerous) i knew the guy isnt honest is because i found an app called team viewer on my laptop. and im not sure if this was actually useful in fixing a computer with a broken motherboard or mouse. (any honest computer techs reading this please let me know). but i understand its for people to remotely access my computer. so of course i removed the app. at least i think its uninstalled as far as i know. like i said, i should go throw this laptop off a high bridge into deep water to be safe. 

ive certainly got the money to rebuy a computer. i have $49700 if u count the $460 on pokerbros which i hesitate to include. ive never counted online money as part of my roll ever. only when its cashed out. 

i wouldve been over $50k had it not been for the $562 i paid for a place to stay for a week. 

speaking of pokerbros, Allen would like me to let others know that he has a pokerbros site that gives rakeback. (and he offered me a small comission for each new member who deposits and signs up that i send his way). Allen is the guy who runs bomb pot games at the Horseshoe, and the Mgm, and mandalay bay and resorts world on various days. an older bald guy who is the guy who was nice enough to pay the $80 to fix my phone when he badly splintered the glass on it and made it completely useless til it got fixed. 

his site has $1 all bomb pot games and $3 all double board omaha bomb pot games, and theres also a few other type of games on the site. i will admit the games (at least for me probably not for u) are quite easy to beat. ive won a few hundred on it in the short time ive been on. its a great way to learn the double board omaha bomb pot how it works, and he promises quick and easy cash outs. im sure he would love to talk to u if u post in the comments and let me know u are interested. 

that being said let me tell u about an interesting NL hand that came up last night. i was getting hungry and bored and had won about $175 playing BJ while i waited for my poker seat, and bought in for $72 and had it up to about $260 and the guys were commenting about how tight i was and how few hands i was playing. 

i decided to show them something i didnt think they would think id be capable of, so in a multi  way limped pot, i raised to about $32 preflop once no one else raised except one guys $8. 2 people call to see the flop. 

all i have is 34 offsuit and im hoping to get all to fold so i can show it. 

flop comes Q53 with 2 clubs. i bet $61 and one guy thinks a long time and folds. but sadly the other guy, whose been losing all night goes allin. dammit. 

i call, thinking i might be ahead, and ive got so much invested and i want to quit, still up $110 from BJ if i lose. turns out all he has that he called both preflop and shoved with was 26 of clubs. but he hits the flush on the river. so i played it right to call his ass. 

i never showed my losing hand, and left. they probably still think i had a way better hand that 34 offsuit. no reason to show it if i dont win the hand, ill let them keep thinking i am not capable of making the bluff til the bluff works out. 

Any advantage slot hustlers in the Laughlin area?

 not counting Benny of course who did me wrong a couple years ago when Dustin was here, but maybe some people Mickey knew in the 1990s who are still alive today and still living in the same place?

theres only 1 way to really hustle the casino and make money here in Laughlin, and it isnt from playing poker at Harrahs or the riverside, where the dealers hand deal instead of using a machine where u have to worry u might be cheated if u dont tip $5 on every $40 win. Harrah closes their poker room most of the week, and usually only has NL on weekends. only the riverside has it every day either one or two tables. most of their games are $2-10 spread limit with a highly unbeatable rake. u put in $10 one other guy puts in $10, and they take $2 plus $2 out for the rake and BBJ. so either u lose $10 or win $6, $5 if u tip. 

this is one of the reasons i liked playing so much at the sahara and at resorts, the lack of any promo drop. it really counts up over 8 hours of play every single day. 

live BJ sucks too because its too crowded to get a table by yourself and just like in poker a lot of games are hand shuffled. and they will cheat u just like i would swear i was being cheated in Sparks outside of Reno at John Asquagas Nugget. its why i wont play unless its a 6 deck or 8 deck shoe.  no true counter would ever play anything but a shoe because its the only way to hide the fact u are counting and where u wont get preferential shuffled on good counts. 

and there is no one playing the advantage play slots. no one. the casino is almost completely dead in the middle of the night. so checking them is worthless unless u are going to be walking by the machine anyway. u sure wouldnt make a special trip and maybe even if in the long run u would gain an average of 72 cents each visit its not worth the gas, the bus fare, or the long walk from the riverside to the Pioneer. 

Laughlin is not near as bad as vegas because u dont hear of murders or shooting here with the exception of a motorcycle rally many years ago. But i still dont feel comfortable on the riverwalk at night, or even the main drag between Harrahs and Riverside. i was leaving the riverside poker room the other night and since the restarunt is closed in the middle of the night at the Pioneer i went ahead and walked it so i could grab food in the convenience store. there are 2 and i didnt realize the first one by the edgewater wouldnt be 24 hours. 

i saw a drunk guy outside it i assumed must be homeless because theres a lot of homeless people who go here to be away from as bad as vegas is and to hide out away from others and cops. it scared me when i couldnt get inside the first conveinence store that he was also wanting to go in and found closed so he said "ill walk up the street with u" to the other store. i felt hyper paranoid, especially with $2500 or so on me, but of course he didnt know that. i wouldve still felt like i might get robbed and stabbed if i had only $50 on me. 

then when i walk inside the store i lose him but then when hes buying cigarettes the cashier is IDing him even though its obvious he is 45-60 yrs old. and then his ID wont scan and he calls out to me over by the Subway sandwich shop inside if i can scan mine so he can get his cigarettes. 

now personally i would feel like the law would crack down on this far more than some cashier not scanning a guys ID whose that old. and it shouldnt be allowed. but i did it just so he wouldnt pick a fight or cause a scene and the cashier sold him the cigarettes. at least he had a $20 and didnt ask me to pay for them. i found out for sure (after i bought the subway food) that he had left going back in the other direction before i continued to my motel. 

maybe he wasnt homeless and was only drunk, but still having someone approach u outside a closed store and saying ill walk with u is a very frightening experience to a guy who cannot fight. 

and all the guys i see checking the slots when theres been no one playing them and only a ton of hustlers checking them, well maybe 1-3 a night is all, get an attitude too and nasty when i explain why theyre wasting their time since no one ever plays them. i know these guys have to be homeless or theyd have a better attitude and almost all the hustlers in most vegas casinos are or they wouldnt waste their time. these guys rarely find a single play and the play might be worth far less than $1. this is why i dont bother with it unless im in the casino anyway and bored. 

the only reason others do it (unless u are like Mickey Crimm in a place all to yourself) is because they are broke and desperate for money. like the homeless black guy i seen at the silver legacy who checked the same Ocean Magic 3 different times when i was close to it over 90 minutes and i finally told him no one had played it the whole time and then he got a nasty attitude and said that i wasnt his kind, and i know by that he meant my color, so he is racist. 

and they never want to talk to u they always say to get away from me. so they want to waste their whole day doing hard work making nothing when i could easily teach them how to make a shit ton of money or give them cash to walk me around like Mickey did and show me anything in Laughlin they know that i dont. 

theres real ways to make money hustling and its not slots. its live blackjack and poker. (and the machine BJ at the Pioneer) the last surviving dealers angels around, which im now up over $6000 on. 

its very rare to be up this much on it and still not had a losing session. maybe im just overdue.