Making plans to get out of Florida on Feb 26th

 Well many people think i should get a different phone, because of how cracked mine is and how some programs operate incorrectly (example being when i book hotel rooms on Priceline i always have to do it on my laptop instead because my phone wont let me do it), and also i need to buy a different charging cord because the old cord is broke a little in a spot. 

speaking of buying things, ive went the entire winter without a coat or jacket, even on the coldest day of the winter when it was only 28 degrees for the low temperature of the day. That was the day it got down to only 56 inside the house. and now i have a jacket that wont really be needed until i hit the state line. But it will still be cold then so im glad i have it. a dealer gave it to me FREE and its even got zippered pockets on it. 

but going back to my phone, i never knew there was an emergency setting on a phone that will dial 911 without u dialing it if the phone got wet or damaged, or the power button was hit too many times (according to google search). Thank God i found out later how to shut it off. i woke up with my phone saying it was dialing 911 and i just assumed it got a virus on it and this was after id found my phone wet about 30 minutes earlier and had went back to sleep after being unable to turn it on. So when i heard the words 911 whats your emergency i didnt respond because i thought it was a scammer and not really 911. lucky for me, they didnt hunt me down and come in person but they wouldnt know where my airbnb is. 

then they called back from another number and i still didnt answer, thinking i was being scammed. (which i always ignore so they cant hear my voice and verify that they really got my number right) it was only when i google searched phone dials 911 that i found out this can really happen and i went into my settings and fixed it so it cant ever do it again. but yeah i do need to buy another phone. it was acting funny later at the casino too, it kept turning itself off in the poker room and rebooting and then finally stopped. 

even worse news is why the phone got wet. i had it on the kitchen counter near the charger plugged into the wall, and the overhead cupboard had a glass in it that i had taken out of the freezer a few hours earlier. the glass looked cracked on the side and i was worried that id ruined the glass by putting it full of water in the icebox instead of the fridge so it would get cold much faster. i cant stand room temperature water instead of cold, and i hate the idiots in the poker room who order room temperature waters as much as i hate those who put black chips in the game. 

well it completely froze up because id went to sleep forgetting to take the glass out after an hour. and yeah the glass broke in the cupboard and shattered and the water i think must of dripped out of the cupboard onto the counter next to the phone while i was asleep. so thats how i woke up to a wet phone, kept hitting power to try to reboot it and gave up and went back to sleep. (and then later it dialed 911 on its own). 

so now i need to tell my landlord i broke a glass of hers. 

-------------------------------several days later-------------------------------------------------------------------------

well the phone wouldnt charge to more than exactly 51% (while i was in the poker room using their charging cord) so i realized when i google searched as to why it wouldnt, id have to break down and get another phone against my will. Although people have often said for a long time i should get a new phone because the screen was in such bad of shape. so the first thing i did today when i woke up, was to go to a t mobile store, and the lady there said that i only had 2 options. to either try to get approved for a regular phone that would be free instead of on the prepaid plan (and i assume id be denied) or to go to best buy instead to get and keep the same phone number im using now with the prepaid plan. otherwise id have to switch my number. 

so the only thing i knew to do was to take another Uber, $20 far away, almost to the beach to the only best buy store i seen on google. and when i got there i had no idea how to find the best buy store when the Uber driver dropped me off. all i saw was elevators going up and it looked like there was a best buy store on the 2nd floor, but when i got off the elevator (which was outside) all i saw was a parking lot, no one spoke any english, and then i saw another elevator showing it on the 3rd floor. 

once i finally got in the store, a lady spoke great english (a black lady) and arranged for the right dept to come out and help me in 15 minutes, and i got a new phone worth $300 for only $139 and got everything transferred to the other phone from the old one with her help and she was able to transfer the SIM card right at the store without me having to return to Tmobile. (i didnt believe the lady at Tmobile who claimed i wouldnt need to go back to her store). and i also paid another $8 for another charging cord. 

so this phone has just as much space as the one i had before and there was also some other reason i dont remember as to why its a better phone. 

and then since im out of food, there was a Publix down on the bottom floor, so i went there and being im only here for 5 more days, bought only 3 frozen meals and a little bit of canned food, of course that still isnt quite enough, so if i dont take the train out of here tomorrow or the next door, ill just go to the targets across from the card room. 

one thing that pissed me off when i left the Publix to wait for the Uber 15 whole minutes out, there was nothing but bikes and scooters all over the place and a very thin street for cars to pass and a cab stand. i saw a homeless guy and of course i have a very low opinion of people who ride scooters, seems like they are for gangbangers, thugs, and the general scum of the earth. punks who like to fight, etc. i would be scared to death to ride one would be so easy to die hitting a car or to fall off. i cant believe why there were so many in that area of miami on one except maybe it had something to do with it being so near the beach. 

i was glad to be out of there and in the drivers car and get home to fix a frozen meal and put the rest away. im down to only 33k again and i still havent gone to the casino yet tonight. 

i had to keep the same phone number otherwise my crypto wallets, my cash app, my lyft my Uber, etc wouldnt work anymore because id be screwed when they send a text to verify its u. i dont know why it should be so difficult to keep the same phone number and why i couldnt just buy a phone at the tmobile store. 

-----another week or more later----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

well now my ticket out of here has been bought several days ago, and im leaving miami 11am on feb 26th and getting on the Amtrak into cleveland. Private sleeper the entire way, (goes thru wash dc enroute) for $714. and ive barely got 30k left. lost money 2 more times on the vbj machine in casino miami a few miles up the road. 

had a lot of weird dreams, as many times as i kept going back to sleep, many of them about being homeless and looking for a place to sleep behind some building or church. or else im in a casino around a poker table, or they involve my moms house. but the one i remember the most is im at a poker table. the pot has millions of chips in it about the size of a birthday cake, or all different colors. im holding 4 cards of TJT9. my opponent is a young black guy holding 2 cards. 

i make a bet of allin for my last $15, (weird thing is there is no board in the middle just that huge mountain of chips) and he FOLDS. 

im in disbelief. the dealer starts pushing me the pot. i throw him a couple of dollars in chips and he is just looking at me and has only pushed me a small portion of the pot so far. i realize hey this is a huge pot and throw him 2 more chips that are gray in color, not sure of how much theyre worth. 

dealer starts saying to the floor lady this guy only gave me $50 in tips for this huge pot and i tell the floor lady (in my dream its Elena the main manager of the poker room) i'll give anyone $25,000 right now if they slice this dealers tongue out and she says to me Thank you sweetheart. 

i was just mad because the dealer shouldnt talk about tips when hes not even pushed the entire pot. wait til u are done pushing the pot and on the next hand, he might not be done tipping yet. it was way too early for the dealer to speak up. made me feel like he wanted the tip upfront. 

Am i playing my best poker?

 i play poker weird, unconventially, not the way you would expect a person to play their hands. it could be helping my win rate, it could be hurting my win rate. who knows?

the other day i had JJ and raised it to $25 preflop, got 2 callers. the first caller was an asian girl id never seen before. the 2nd caller was her boyfriend sitting next to her and u could see them in previous hands not betting each other. Flop comes 10 6 2 with a possible flush draw but not for me. well with a shorter stack than most people what else can i do? i bet $75 and she folds and he calls. turn Q i shove, and he called with AA. had his girlfriend not been in there preflop, he likely wouldve raised back earlier i think and his hand not been as hidden.

then on a different hand (and i dont remember if it was the same day) i had KQ and i was going to quit soon and i didnt want to take much risk so i folded it UTG plus 2. most people wouldnt have folded it. flop comes 4KK and a black guy bets. and im thinking oh shit. turn comes K and he bets again, they all fold. i then got up and left and told them i was going to quit because i had just folded the hi hand, but it was because i had a bad kicker with my king, instead of telling them the truth and looking like an idiot. the black guy had 44, he had flopped a boat but once the turn comes i would have won. 

and then im in a PLO game, either this day or a day next to it, with TTJK and i folded preflop because of a raise, and my hand not being double suited, although im sure most dont fold this in PLO. flop comes 5 9 10. the raiser had a junk hand, but flopped 555. and the guy who called his raise preflop had 999. i wouldve tripled up and been in great shape for the day. 

and then i had Q2Q5 double suited and went over the top of a raiser preflop allin because i wanted to isolate, and didnt respect the raiser. rarely do i respect a guy who raises too often preflop. most of the time its not a good player, (otherwise known as long term winner) its just a guy with lots of money who can rebuy in often and deep. i hadnt been getting anything to play and i was tired of being down and i just wanted to win a huge pot. 

flop comes J35 and we somehow both got it allin and agreed to go twice. (i think either me or him had very little left). i ended up winning both boards, one board with 2255 to beat his AA and the other board with JQQQJ with it comes QJ the next 2 cards. 

at least its finally warm inside the house. its 66 in here tonight. this is a very old and very small place outside of the main house unit. and i just found out a lot of places in the Miami area dont have winter heating because its never needed. and there was a bitter cold spell the other day and it got as low as 33 in miami with a windchill of 28. and the inside of the house got to 56 degrees and i was freezing in here. i tried to buy a space heater when she promised to reimburse me for it and the Targets across the street from the poker room was sold out. and the following day, her cleaning lady went to 6 places to buy me one and every place was sold out. but now 1 day later, its no longer needed. but still, she should keep one on hand for future use in emergencies. 

if i remember right it seems like certain places up north in the past, possibly reno, didnt have AC because it wasnt needed either. and i remember using a fan. 

i actually managed to recover a big loss today, id brought a little less than 1400 with me to the poker room and was down to only 400 left after losing a few buyins. and i brought it up all the way back to 1486 before leaving to Uber to Walmart. i dont remember the key hand, but i do remember a pot where i called a big raise and reraise preflop with K987 double suited and then shoving on a flop of 6TK with a inside straight wrap and a small flush draw. and i was glad no one called my $400 plus pot sized bet. 

most of my bitcoin and XRP was either sold or lost gambling at blackjack online earlier this month or last, but i did send some of it to my bank account back to recover some of the airbnb charges i paid late dec to carry me up to feb 22nd. xrp is down below 1.60 and bitcoin is under 75k. 

they said its because Jeffrey Epstein ended up being the creator of bitcoin. i always knew someday XRP would surpass btc, but right now its hurting all the other coins, including xrp. 

---just waking up now the next morning and i had a weird dream in which im in a police station and im getting a phone call from a judge who tells me ill be charged with a felony if i keep taking pictures of people who dont want their picture took. but the other people in the police station, including her boss, claim thats not true. and one door in the police station has a big sign saying C Murphy district attorney democrat. then when im leaving they tell me they need to store my laptop somewhere for safekeeping and i tell them i need to be able to use it everyday to survive. and im following someone thru a hotel to go get my laptop and they enter a hotel room, and when they go to bag something up i let them know thats not my hotel room, but someone elses. but i think i was in the room on the previous day before, but had checked out. then a girl lying on the floor asks me if id placed any personal ads and said that i needed to send her the details of anyone who responded. and i was wanting her for my girl instead of anyone else. 

---------4 days later------okay i guess i should go ahead and finish this blog, i hadnt posted it yet because i didnt feel like the blog was big enough. But im down again to the lowest i had in a very long time, about 33,800. this is because i lost 1600 in the poker room today, well actually only 472 of it was lost in the poker room, the rest on the craps machine. and then twice in the past 3 days i threw away more than 1000 online blackjack. i miss the days when i couldnt lose money online because i didnt have a way to buy bitcoin. 

i will say that i attempted to renew my place another month but it was too late, she was sold out in all her units near here. (has multiple units) and the one place that wasnt it would have cost me $2912 for the month plus $500 for 4 days in a different unit, so i guess ill just go elsewhere. best i leave the area anyway. i miss not being able to make money in NL and dont like feeling like the rake is too high (with a $4 jackpot drop taken on $10) and feeling like i have to play PLO when i dont have the roll for PLO. 

i wish i could get rid of my laptop and my cell phone and still have a way to commute back and forth and function otherwise in life. shame how those things are mandatory nowdays to live. i remember when i was in AC homeless part of the time, and went to the internet cafe to pay like $1 or $2 an hour to get on yahoo messenger or pokerstars. i remember doing this in a place in vegas close to UNLV too on the main street connecting flamingo to Tropicana by UNLV, but i dont remember the name of the street. the 108 bus goes down it. because if i did that, i think my roll would be far higher. then i would stay in the poker room much longer instead of leaving as soon as i get up 200 or so, and then coming home and throwing money away online because i need something to do and want to try to get more money. better i not come home til im so dead tired all i want is to go to sleep.