chicago trip report

i was originally planning on getting my citizenship resolved, last year when i sent my mother the $1385 needed to fill out an official govt form, (at the time a minister who was helping her in Lyons who is a mexican guy and knows a lot about citizenship, hes helped a lot of his members with it and his church is spanish speaking and small, told her she could file it for me). well it turned out it wouldnt let her and i had to file it. and then when i tried to do it using Rays sisters address and had all the paperwork done by Oscar the minister it later wouldnt take my mothers payment. why we dont know because my mother is too old and disabled to hear and understand anyone on the phone and cant hardly leave her house without assistance and she isnt able to use a phone anymore because she cant hear. so she never was able to ask the bank why her payment didnt go thru, and needless to say she still has my money. which she told me she would return someday whenever i visit. 

she also is no longer able to walk the stairs and enter the post office. remember she is 84 and isnt nearly in as good of health as most 84 year olds. 

the good news is i still have all the paperwork on me that her and Oscar did to send in to the govt. things such as copies of her marriage license, birth certificate, dates she entered and left Canada and documents proving it, etc. all of which is needed for citizenship. i emailed all those documents to lightning once so he could see what was done. i also asked him to send them to agsweep, but i dont think he ever did. but agsweep wouldve been able to verify that it was filled out properly. 

and one day, once i have a stable address for at least 3 months and another $1385 to blow and the assurance i wont be forced to leave town for any reason during those 3 months ill switch the addresses on those forms to the new correct address and file it out. i wouldve stayed at Rays longer but there really is no way suitable to be playing poker in the area daily, for a long list of reasons. most of which involve him not wanting to do a ton of driving, no matter how much money is offered. 

ive spent a ton of money, lost a few thousand at the casino a few weeks ago on things besides poker, lost a little in poker (ive only had 3 days in the last 18 that were $350 wins or more, none over $550) and in texas i won big all the time, but i dont want to go back to paying $14 an hour time and $200 min buy in omaha instead of $100 when my roll is so low. 

and yet im paying $4300 a month for rent just so im not in an unsafe hotel. well, actually $3900 eventually if i stay long enough. 

i havent figured up my bankroll in a long time since ive not looked at my bank account in over 3 weeks, but im guessing its somewhere a little over or under 30k. 

and now lets talk about Uber. i would be wasting another $40-50 a day with it if the casino wasnt letting u earn Uber vouchers for playing on their app and also depending on how much non poker play u give them daily. and the annoying thing is u cant use a new voucher until u use up all of the previous Uber voucher, and no u cannot combine 2 small vouchers on the same trip. so if u use a voucher and you have $1.02 left u must use that on your next trip instead of another $30 voucher.

and ive had some bad luck with drivers recently. i was at walmart on the 4th of July about 10pm and it was completely dead inside. almost no customers. ive never seen that before. everyone was watching the fireworks instead. and the store closes at 11pm, unlike the Meijers store $6 further away that doesnt close til midnite. so i was worried id have a hard time getting an Uber to come before the store closed at 11, and afraid the staff would make me wait outside. (but i asked and they said id be okay to wait for the ride inside). the Uber i got for a reasonable price the driver went from 4 minutes out to 12 minutes out and then basically wouldnt move even though i sent a text offering a tip if he didnt cancel he ignored it. eventually i canceled but i waited like 20 minutes to make sure he couldnt earn anything if he didnt cancel. and in those 20 minutes i had ordered and received a lyft that came 2 minutes before it closed. and of course it was 3x the price. 

Then other drivers have balked at using the tollway (its only 30c) and the heavy traffic and went way out of the way and it added $5 to my fare which i had to complain about to Uber to get reimbursed. 

they used the $8 sky bridge toll as an excuse and said they werent using all tollways, even though Uber has me pay it, not them. and this toll is far less expensive and a totally different highway. 

im getting fed up with not winning much in this place. its the cheapest PLO game in the country and the ONLY one i can afford with a roll of only about 30k. $100 minimum buyin only $3 per orbit in blinds. no bomb pot to drain u, no jackpot drop to drain u, and no mandatory straddle, although the 1-3-6 NL game does have a mandatory straddle under the gun which play at times. 

There are a lot of bad players here but also a lot of grinders but of course i dont think most of the grinders are that great since they put out $15 both under the gun or on the button when they totally dont need to. ive never understood how anyone can win when they do but some of these guys always have deep stacks even though the max is $500 and i always dont trust people and think they slip the chips on illegally. and if i get up too much for my comfort level ill hit and run by moving to NL or waiting out my 2 hours to rejoin the must move game.

even in the NL, u can hit and run by moving from 1-3 to 1-3-6 or vice versa and sitting with 100 as long as its not the same limit. both games just like 1-2 PLO are $100-500

odd they rarely if ever have 2-5 NL. the 1-3-6 is far better the blinds are bigger with the mandatory straddle under the gun plus it prevents button straddling.

and i have no idea where to find a homegame in the hammond to chicago area with good massage girls.

Its annoying as hell to see all these guys with purses in the games pulling out black chips. i refuse to carry big chips around and always keep $500 in red in a rack on the drink table next to me so i dont have to walk to the cage. here and in all the other rooms nearby like rivers and MGM detroit they dont sell u chips at the table. 

its gay. having sex with a man isnt what makes a person gay. its carrying a purse around with a little bag of chips just like a fucking euro does. and the tables are filled with these types. i dont understand it ive played poker my whole life no other income and i sure dont do this. and i know im far better at PLO than any of these guys. for years Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmouth used to offer to blow me if i could teach them how to be as good at me at poker. and yet i dont have the bankroll to sit $500 instead of $100 on the table when i first sit like these guys do. shows u what a terrible habit machines and blackjack can do to ruin a good poker player. 

if i ran a poker room i would consider it collusion for a ton of people to just call my short stack allin to try to bust me. instead of just calling the original raiser should be shoving preflop to isolate me HU when i am allin, but most of the time they never do, and its a form of cheating that they dont. and im getting really sick of seeing poker room allow sunglasses at the table. how do i know theyre not using them to cheat?

and its annoying to see people watching the world cup on TV instead of paying attention to the game. they should be watching the game, and there shouldnt be TVs in poker rooms. the world cup wont affect them financially like the game on the table where. even women watch the game and since i know nothing about sports why do they?

betting on sports is like having another person play poker for u, instead of being in control of if u win, u have others do the playing for u. 

its annoying to see people get up to eat all the time too, people should eat before they come and again when they go home, not during the day. restaurants shouldnt be allowed to exist. only the rich can afford it anyway.