an incident with Priceline support

 i was concerned about having a big overdue loss on the VBJ machine in Oklahoma that id been winning on, so when kingofdonks was at the casino and offered to let me ride into dallas with him, i decided to go back to dallas with him. id lost enough by having my whole 6k in bitcoin be lost online playing BJ, and i was still ahead on the machine and i didnt want to lose on it too. also the poker room there sucks and the PLO only goes on fri and sat nights and i lost 4200 in it the last time i played it. why?

they were playing it 4 handed at 6am on sunday morning those were all the players left, everyone else had quit so they were doing a $25 ante per person and going right to the flop before any more betting started. it was similar to a bomb pot (which OK doesnt allow) but with only 1 board, not 2 like in a real bomb pot. 

i began to get stuck, and eventually was out 1100, ($25 a hand goes fast) and then i made the grave error of rebuying for the whole $3700 i had in my pocket instead of $1100. and a new lady had recently sat and was nonstop raising everything, said she had lost a lot at live blackjack, and was hitting every hand and said she wish she couldve hit it in blackjack instead. 

i finally got a flop of 88T and i had TTA9 single suited in my hand and i was letting her bet and then i raised the river, she reraised me and had 8888. so i left the table stuck 4200 and went to bed. 

they still played 3 handed for 2 more hours or so. one regular was stuck a ton of money besides me. 

my host said id been staying at choctaw way too many nights a month and he couldnt really comp me any more and said i was limited to 20 nights a month but he was going to go ahead and let me have friday and saturday but i ended up going to dallas instead so i wouldnt be needing to pay Uber on sunday. 

on the way into dallas i went to book a hotel room for thursday night for 6 days, to check out wednesday of next week with the plan to then return to OK, pick up $225 and likely more in free play and get 4 free nights again. and we lost the signal in his car enroute while doing the reservation and it said it didnt go thru. 

so i went to do it again a few minutes later as we got closer to Sherman. and i didnt see the other hotel, so i thought maybe it had sold out, so i booked a different hotel for a little bit more i thought was a better hotel. the first reservation was $572 and the 2nd reservation was $697.

this time it went thru and i put the phone away, never even bothering to check yahoo email to see what emails i might have received. he was nice enough to stop at walmart enroute and i bought food for 6 nights, and dropped off the food and the suitcases at the hotel. 

i did not realize at the time, i put the food that belongs in the freezer in the fridge, and the food that belonged in the fridge in the freezer because the freezer was in the bottom of the fridge instead of the top like on every other fridge. i noticed it only after i had returned a few hours later. 

he then dropped me off at the cardhouse, and i played poker a few hours, and eventually left the game up $2 after being stuck 400 at one point. 

i never checked my emails the whole time because i was using the phone either not at all or to play bejeweled. 

so when i got to my room and was using my laptop i noticed the other reservation had went thru and of course i immediately contacted priceline and explained the situation. the lady was really nice and said she would contact the hotel, because it was listed as nonrefundable. 

then she told me that priceline hadnt actually handled the reservation (i was on hold for a few minutes) and that their partner company agoda, had my reservation so she then called them and explained the situation and said id hear from them and they would contact the other hotel. 

well when i woke up this morning i got an email saying they contacted the hotel and was told due to the hotels cancellation policy that id be charged in full and the reservation couldnt be cancelled. 

so when i woke up at 145pm and found the email, the first thing i did was contact the manager of the hotel to explain and complain. 

and i was told theyd never talked to the manager, no idea if they had even talked to anyone at 4am, and the manager said i was listed as a no show and wouldve only been charged the 1 night not the whole reservation if at all and she would gladly cancel it but to have priceline contact the hotel again. 

so thats what i did, and now im waiting on priceline to have agoda contact the hotel a 2nd time but i dont believe they even contacted them the first time. i wish priceline would stop using other companies to book when i do the booking thru priceline. 

i still have no idea if i will even get my $572 back or at least only be charged 1 night. 

i dont see how this is my fault since my phone showed it as not going thru, in the car and that is why i immediately made the other reservation. guess that is a lesson to always check all emails constantly. 

99.92% is not over 100

 i have been losing money like crazy since returning to choctaw from dallas saturday morning with $50,500. The host seen me lose at least 8 or 9k on the VBJ and because of the bad weather coming Thursday and the difficulty in Uber drivers likely wanting to drive to Dallas for a couple of days in it (heavy ice and snow) extended me til saturday morning. and its rare for a host to let u have 7 nites in a row free unless u lose 100,000 or more. 

yet im playing the same way i was which had me up over 7k at one point in the weeks earlier when i had my 44 briefly at 51. also my crypto keeps dropping in price. and because i was winning at online blackjack which is rare, i had an extra few thousand in bitcoin. so im going to sell some of it back. for someone with a bankroll as low as me, i should not be keeping 25% or more of it in crypto. 

i might play the 500 stud hilo tourney this afternoon at 4 pm if vince buys me in for half like he did the other day, (although he did it mid tourney instead of at the beginning) that is the game i took 3rd in for about 3400 he bought me in at resorts last year.

500 is an awful lot to spend on a tourney when u seldom play tourneys and the ones u do play such as southpoint and sahara were like 45 to 130. 

to really make money i wish id had the bankroll and the backing to have bought in deep the other day in the PLO game. it was 2-5 blinds with many straddling to 25. i saw a guy named Tony from scottsdale who sold cars giving the dealer 100 tips and a guy named Bobby everyone knew who was losing but kept going allin blind (at least he claimed it) and would get hands like AA double suited. i kept losing my aa single or double suited, and was stuck 1200 at one point. and he would beat me with hands like TTQQ 

but a lot of the players had 5k to 15k on the table. and about 2 or 3 had under 1000 like me, but almost all had way more. 

and one of the dealers here is a guy called Henry only here because of the tourney and he lives in lake tahoe and used to deal at atlantis many years ago in reno. id swear ive seen him though he claims he dont know me. 

another guy was named Joe, acted like a comedian and appears to be gay as fuck, might be black or mexican and he swears hes dealt the wsop for many years and knew exactly who vince was when i said he was from atlantic city originally though he claims vince wouldnt know him. 

the other day i was stuck 1000 on the machine, won it back in my room playing online blackjack, and the other day almost lost 5500 on the online blackjack but won 600 instead because of a couple of huge double downs on the final hand. im overdue to lose at online BJ, and its why i have too much in bitcoin. 

i could easily have a roll no more than 30k or so if i drop big online or live one more time, but i have little cash left. took 1000 out of an atm twice and could do it a few more times. 

this is still the best VBJ machine in the country and the only one of its kind still in existence until the company install them in Puerto rico soon as is planned. most machines, even the sucker ones like baccarat, craps or roulette, which have a massive house edge, give no points, especially in NV. here u not only get points, u get rooms up to 4 nights a week and about 40 a day in food comps or more without needing to touch your points if u play the same amount as me or Herbie or more. 

i had a weird dream last night about Alaska gal. i was at her house lying down, and she was talking to me and took my hand to give me a massage. i asked her who that other guy was lying in her bed, and she said it was her brother and he didnt know i was there. i was afraid he would wake up and beat my ass. 

I miss all the old friends i used to have in this blog who quit reading it over the past 20 years. her, seattle irish, king of donks, tatude, pokerdogg, Josie, poker grump, wec poker, and many many others whose names i currently arent thinking of, but who used to post in the comments all the time which gave the blog life. i wish there could be a reunion in texas of all the old members at a cardroom. 

i wrote most of this blog the previous day. i ended up playing the tourney, and we chopped it 3 ways for 1802 each. and then i gave the dealer 37. and then i paid vince his 882. it was quite a struggle for the other 2 of us to finally get the 3rd guy to chop but who wants to sit 12 hours when always awake so long? then i went to sleep immediately without eating for 12 hours. just getting up today. was too tired to buy food first. this is why u always  need food in the room. and i had a half pack of crackers.