what shouldnt be allowed in dallas

i remember years ago when Amtrak used to be controlled by TSA, but ive been researching and it seems like the new REAL ID isnt needed for Amtrak trips. (years ago i remember reading that it would also be enforced on Amtrak). but that thankfully doesnt seem to be the case this time. so when i lose my right to fly on May 7th, ill still be able to get to places far away, such as florida (dallas chicago chicago florida) or Reno NV, (dallas chicago chicago reno). so losing my right to fly wont be quite as bad as i originally thought. nothing is more miserable than spending 2 days on a bus with the worst possible classes of people demanding to sit in the seat next to u. a train if u dont mind paying 6 times the cost of riding coach, u can get a private room where u can put your luggage beside u instead of where everyone else puts theirs and lock the door while u sleep. a great option if u are carrying a ton of cash across the country. 

so i guess instead of flying out of here before my place ends on May 8th that i paid $3400 for, i might as well stay here and use it up since im winning so much in PLO here. At least ive discovered where in Florida there is just as much PLO as dallas. im back above my high water mark of 71k in Tulsa.

the bad news is i didnt recover it all back from playing poker. Since the day i lost about 10k in bitcoin, ive recovered about 6 or 7k in bitcoin, and ive got over 17k in bitcoin and or xrp total. so that means im due for a big loss again soon. 

but still most days i win over 500 at PLO, so ive still won plenty at PLO. 

im getting a little tired of Dallas because the longer i play poker in the same place the harder it becomes to win. i do my best when on the move and no one knows how i play. and Florida u can never run out of card rooms there is more in florida than in nevada. im also getting a little tired of having to listen to rap music when i play. (although i admit its only about 25% of the time). if i could find headphones that work, i could drown it out playing other music. but u need the expensive kind to be able to hear.

also i find it really annoying that a lot of the people pay for time per hour ($13) with a credit card. when i played in Reno, i couldnt use a CC (if id had one) each time $6 comes out of the pot and keep the $6 in chips. so its annoying they let people pay their "rake" this way. People do it for 1 reason and 1 reason only. (they have no ethics and dont intend to pay their credit back). and the credit card companies get ripped off and never paid, raising the price of credit for everyone else. so yes i find it annoying. i should go complain at the city council meeting and try to get it stopped but im lazy and i wont. i just dont see why its legal. but its why all the other players love paying time instead of a rake so much. they cant use a cc when they pay a normal rake in casinos. 

it is really nice playing in a room that does not allow button straddles though. its extremely rare for a poker room not to push the button straddle on their customers. and i think them being banned has a lot to do with my high win rate here. 

also i was surprised how many players at my table were using the left pocket bankroll manager app for recording wins and losses that i cant use because its for iphones only. 

i will grant u that some of my PLO wins came from sheer luck. one day i did a $1084 flip for my entire stack as the game was breaking and won, getting me close to even for the night. one day 7 of us at the table did a $500 flip and i split a $3500 pot. we both made a full boat with 10 3. one day i had it all in on the flop after a big raise preflop with a naked unsuited aa that i didnt want to raise preflop but another guy did and i was trying to get it heads up. and then on a flop of 347 i shoved into a guy holding the nut straight. turn comes 9 river comes 10, and i won with my AAJ8 all unsuited. a third player was in also and i turned the last 400 rebuy id just made into over 1200. 

bankroll updates and Tulsa news

 i dont understand why i was so broke for the first 50+ years of my life. (as good as my poker skills are, I mean) i went many many years with a bankroll of less than $10,000, and sometimes less than half that. and i shouldve had a bankroll of over $100k by the time i was 30. (of course i still dont now, but if i wouldve, id have a bank of over 1 million now.)

the highest i got it up to was 71,700 (recently in Tulsa right before i left town). but then it started to disappear rapidly. Uber fare back to Choctaw, a hotel charging me for a microwave door that wasnt my fault, a loss of a few hundred in 10-20 big 0 fixed limit right before i left, and worst of all i got settled in my room at Choctaw, played PLO and won, and then got a good sleep.

woke up and found the other half of the casino all shut down, and the machine i wanted to play wasnt turned back on for about 16 hours. So i ended up playing the VBJ on the other side in the sky tower with not as good of odds. lost about $2000, then went to my room and lost the remaining 9k online for a loss of over $10,000. 

there went all my bitcoin, and had i not bought $5000 in bitcoin off someone before leaving Tulsa, i wouldnt have had that much bitcoin to lose in 1 day. At the time i thought i might fly out of Tulsa and i wanted to have less than 10k in cash on me in case i left by plane instead of via Uber. 

and worst of all, once the right VBJ machine was up and running i ended up losing about $1400 on it too. thats why i decided to return to Dallas. besides i was sick of not having my own place with a kitchen, and washer and dryer.

so now my rent is paid up til May 8th and who knows what ill do then. but it cost me $3400.. so yeah ive got about 56k left of almost 72k.

Tulsa had good games, but its at the River Spirit, not the Hard Rock. but u have to wait til 6pm for it to go, and some days its 1-2 PLO and other days its round of each. sometimes they have 2-5 PLO or round of each, the only difference being the min then is 200 instead of 100 and no cap on the buyin instead of match the stack. during the day except for weekends which include 10-20 hilow with 5 cards, its just 1-2 nl with 300 cap. if u want to buyin a lot more, u have to wait for the 6pm game of the day. 

and the other room at hardrock gets no business except for during tourneys. otherwise its just 1-2 tables of NL. but the people who come for tournaments during series time dont know this since they never leave the hardrock. 

i remember when the hardrock wasnt called the hardrock and it was way outside of town. now its all built up and industrialized with many stores and its close enough and safe enough to walk to nice hotels. but i stayed nearer to river spirit by 73rd street. 

Uber was really expensive there and Lyft was usually 10 dollars less very late at night. on the way to the casino the fare was like 15-20 and on the way home was like 25-40

every time i get my bankroll up to a new high, something soon happens to start dropping it back down. but at least its still close to the OLD high of 57k at the Palms on my 55th birthday. so it doesnt really feel like its fallen back down. a large part of my life (almost 90% or more of it) my bankroll was never over 50k but about half that or less. 

but it is far easier to win than it used to be. no wonder marc goone wants to interview me and put me on his show. 100 an hour is easy in PLO. i wasted my whole life in horrible cities like vegas and atlantic city when poker is so much better elsewhere. and i wasted my whole life playing NL when its not a game thats easily beatable for anyone except Bill Potts. 

also i dont give money to people like Britni or Lorna anymore and that was a horrible drain in my 30s when i was young enough to still be interested in women. i havent given any hookers money in a good 15 years or more now. 

its also possible Covid removed a lot of the tightest pros from the market and loosened up the games, or maybe its just the new bomb pots have loosened the games.