dallas trip report

 well at least theres one thing u can say for playing in Dallas. at least u wont find bad poker games that are too tight. most of the players play like they just stepped off the Greyhound bus from west virginia. not that it has helped me any. i am really growing broke fast. lost well over half the bankroll i had when i was over 50k.

since coming to Dallas 2 weeks or so ago, (as soon as my place in Vegas was up) i have visited a lot of different places to play poker around town, although most of the time ive played at the place thats within a $7 Uber from my hotel instead of a $22 or more Uber. 

When i first arrived i noticed how much better the games were here than in Vegas, particularly at TCH irving. i won over $600 3 of the first 4 days before everything started going south. Now with expenses and losses playing in games way too high for me, and just the cost of living, im now over 7k worse than when i arrived here and barely have close to 25k but there is definitely much looser action here in the 12NL game and the PLO games than in vegas. 

I also played in 3 home games with rakes anywhere from $35 and higher, and where they had good massage girls, well at least 2 of them were. One of them paid for my Uber both ways. There is also a lady who is nice and friendly who runs a Big0 hilo game at one of the Texas cardhouses legal clubs and its a loose game. higher than i can afford. even though the min buy is only 300. 

the first hand, i turned my 300 into over 650 and about 5 minutes later i lost the entire thing back with double suited aces and was so mad at myself for not hitting and running although i wanted to play a couple hours before i did that. that put me on serious tilt and thats the day i lost over 3k all at poker. 

after Rebecca the host left early, others were leaving and me and a new player said he liked dramaha so we changed it to PL dramaha instead of Big 0. and i rebought 1600 and was within 100 of being even from being out over 1220 then everything went haywire and i eventually left with nothing. 

a bomb pot at the end took the last 1600 and one hand i lost with a flush in my hand because id forgotten one of the other players had just talked me into including dramaha zero in a mix and i forgot the game had switched, so i lost over 800 just that one hand. 

Kind of like how i would lose in Jaimes mix game in Reno, his home game. 

Unlike most clubs in other parts of TX u get no bonus here of any kind for buying time in bigger amounts so i keep paying for an hour at a time although it can be a pain in the ass to keep handing out $20 or so and keep being asked but i hate spending 100 at once and emotionally feeling out that much. all the rich old men with money could care less. 

and of course since i only win 1 pot every 5 hours as tight as i play, i hate paying time period. but Houston got so greedy on their rakes it made it a lot harder to win than when i first got to Houston in March of 2020. i remember games where they used to charge 5 and now charge 15. 

i still think Larrys game in el paso would be a way better option. i could get 100 every day for starting the game at 11am and i remember a decent hotel i stayed at for under 350 a week. But i need to try and replace an ID in louisiana somewhere before it expires before im on the opposite side of the state. 

one really nice thing about playing at TCH here is there is no small blind act first on the button straddle. it starts under the gun just like in Vegas. all the places around the country that make the sb act first drive me nuts. and the good news is in the 2-2 plo u cannot button straddle, only straddle under the gun. but of course in all the other plo games u can button straddle. its even mandatory in rebeccas game. 

and the other nice thing is the poker games in dallas go around the clock instead of breaking up at night. as horrible as ive been running, (some of it from blowing a few k online) i still think in the long run i could easily make about 75k a year here. 

33,333 a strange number for my bankroll but when i first started writing this over a week ago, the exact amount of it

 in this dream, im going thru a library looking at books that say the end on them and i find its interesting fiction like the kind i always read of my mothers and then im in a place where im staying with a lot of others living there and im in a big room downstairs that can seat several hundred and im wondering why they dont offer a religious services there for the residents and want to complain about it. then i am walking down a stairwell and i see arms loose on the floor, point it out to someone and notice that no one has any functioning arms to pick it up. and then a big guy wearing a uniform who seems a bit retarded is going to beat me up and his employer in charge comes up and says Danny we dont zap those who have the armband on. and i was saying how maybe he might be a nice guy cause i was worried about getting beat up. and i am walking with 2 other students with armbands who are being protected and this other guy keeps looking at us and then i a pinprick on my back and hes secretely inserted a needle they couldnt see and hes talking with them off to the side and i remove the needle and its on the floor with a bunch of other needles and im trying to extricate myself and the needles cant get loose from some other contraption and i finally do and hear him saying how he has to sell the research on the needle to get paid and i am running out outdoors in the other way around a building and he keeps turning back and forth into a woman to a man to a woman and comes after me and i want to go back to where there is other security but i cannot get over a large river and i see someone walking their dog who will stop him but they cannot get across the river to us and i wake up

this was written a few days ago so i would not forget the dream. 

today was not a good day, and its because i just cant fix my sleep hours because im too old to force myself to stay awake and lose a ton of money playing too long of sessions. so im still waking up about 7am and going to bed at 8pm or so which are horrible hours because the hours i tend to sleep because im too tired not to are the very hours i should be playing poker. 

so i found myself at 10am with nothing to do but go play blackjack and decided to go to the nearby silver 7 casino which offers $10 6 deck shoe 3-2 BJ to save a big Uber fare going to a much better game thats a DD and close to the same stakes. 

and i still carry way too much cash. i had the whole 6k i have at home on me because i might need it when i play BJ. im lucky i didnt lose more than $1000 of it. theres so many bums asking for money in the parking lot of the grocery store i felt very unsafe walking home in the dark at 845 pm with food with all that money in my pocket but luckily made it ok. 

and once i got stuck quite a bit at the $10 BJ game, i tried to bet 2 spots of about $300 each to get unstuck. the table said min 10 max bet 500. the pit boss said the 500 was the total of all bets combined and wouldnt let me do 300 and 300. he claimed thats true in all the casinos he ever worked at. and i dont believe it. ive played at many casinos with a max bet of 500 where u can bet 2 or 3 spots of 500 each. 

when i play the DD game i win most of the time at station casinos. i won 500 in there one day this week but i sure do lose on shoe games

maybe i should get a room in a station casinos property but theyre usually more expensive. 

then i went to the Palms to get my $200 in promo chips it was way before 2pm which is the earliest i can pick them up every tuesday at the cage. so i ended up losing about 100 in VP.

i had a shot to win $1000 or more when i got dealt 3 wild deuces as my starting hand but i missed getting 4 deuces on every single hand i was playing, a big disappointment. it was on the triple spin poker machines. the one at the Palms has a lower min bet making it easy to martingale plus a better pay schedule, even on the lower stakes. 

when i got my promo chips finally i was disappointed the DD 3-2 table wasnt open and all the tables were 6-5 except the hi limit room. i should have went to craps, last time i cashed out 113 off the promo chips when i played craps but instead i went into hi limit and then lost 2 hands of 100 in a row

after that i was pissed off i had not 1 dollar off the promo chips, first time thats ever happened. so i immediately got an Uber to play poker and sat in a $1-3 NL game. i played a few hours and eventually recovered $233 of what i lost but am still way down for the night. 

--a few more days later--

well yesterday Palace station backed me off from playing BJ. granted i was spreading a bit much on a $15 DD game, and this is why i was playing shoes so much, because its the ONLY way i know to be permitted to play BJ with no issues. but i just got so tired of losing with shoes. such as the 8 deck shoe thats cut off at 5 1half decks downtown vegas. i remember when it was cut off at 6 and a half decks instead before the virus with a min bet of 5 instead of 10 or 15. 

i was betting like from 150 to 500 or more as soon as the count went to plus 3 or higher (running count not the true) and 15 flat all other times. thats too big for my bankroll also. but i think if all the readers of my blog showed them how much i lose at BJ overall theyd realize im not nearly skilled enough to be a threat to them in the long run and its a mistake to back me off. Koala would know this. he used to be a pit boss. 

then i went and played poker and won about 600 but my belt broke and i immediately had to get another belt because it was a horrible pain holding up my pants. barely made it to Target before they closed. damn belt was $27 ($2 just for the tax) must be inflation. and then since its too unsafe to walk about 8 blocks home, paid 12 more for an Uber which most wouldnt do who wasnt worried about crime, but i had over 6k on me.