I got away with the "bluff"

 there are several characters here in Cleveland that im sure that @joesalOG (a troll on twitter whose lived and played here before moving to florida) knows well. in fact a couple seemed to know who i meant when i asked if they knew him and described him as best as i could. a guy into golfing professional wrestling who played higher stakes PLO. one guy said he definitely knew him. i wonder what players he would remember and what he could tell me about them?

anyway, Anthony is a young player in the game whose here a lot and ill bet he knows him. and Anthony is a bit of a dick and hes friends with a very rich high stakes machine player named Jesse. or it might be his middle name, i forgot. But to be honest there are MANY things a person can do which make him a dick at the poker table. such as refusing to run it twice, ignoring u when u say something to him, buying in for all green or black instead of bringing red chips to the game so the dealer doesnt run out of red and need a fill, or tipping in 5 whites instead of tipping a red chip. 

anyway after id played with him earlier for some time at another table, and possibly on a previous day (i dont know) he perceived me to be a nit. and why i dont know, because i lost my first 3 buyins in about 20 minutes and eventually was in the game for 2000 instead of the 200 dollars i was in for when i first sat down. 

I was dealt TTJQ with 3 diamonds and i think called but possibly made a small raise preflop but i think i called. i dont remember how many of us called. the flop comes up QT8 rainbow. he checks i bet and he called. maybe someone else did too, i dont remember. the turn comes a 6 and he either bets or check raises, i cant remember which. on the river an A hits and i only have about 500-600 left. i shoved (because i know if he bets ill have to call anyway so what do i gain by checking.)

he said i had the nut straight and folded and i only showed 3 cards TTJ and he said i had the ace hi straight. i said i would bet him 1000 i didnt and the camera could check it and he said lets bet 20k 

the player next to him later once the game broke and we were both in the 1-3 nl game swore he saw his hand and he really did fold the smaller straight. i really dont see how he can fold here though i did bet the river knowing the A was probably a scare card for a wrap or set of As. But just how bad was his fold? i think hes overall a winning player. of course i could be wrong on that too. 

so i wasnt exactly bluffing though he did lay down the winner. 

another key hand, in the NL table this time instead of the PLO, i had ak of clubs. i limped UTG because i wanted someone else to raise so i could shove, since i had only $109 in chips. and i didnt raise because i didnt want to be first to act on a bad flop. well 6 of us limped in. 

the flop comes A56 with 2 hearts and no clubs. i bet $20 and one guy calls. an old regular who ive seen every night makes it $40 on a checkraise and i know im behind. so i fold, and im glad to see the other guy call. 

turn card comes Kh for 3 to a flush and it would give me 2 pair. theres a big bet and a call or raise and they get allin. river comes A and im sick. wouldve sucked out runner runner, one guy had the flush and lost to a guy who flopped 555. my read on the flop was right, and it was the right fold, but i sure wish all of the money wouldve gotten in preflop. 

also the guy in seat 1 next to me quit the NL game and forgot his phone. i didnt realize it was his, and i thought he might be at the cage since he took all his chips but not a rack which id offered but stuck them in his jacket pocket. at first i thought and a new player thought it might have been put there to lock up a seat. and he was going to sit there. But the new player said it wasnt him and the other new player said he didnt put it there either. well i told the floor he was at the cage and explained if that were me id want to know immediately id left my phone and not found out when i got 100 miles down the road. but it seemed they werent going to make any effort to find him. 

it was bugging me for the next 20 minutes, wondering if God wanted me to get out of my seat and go look for him, but i thought id waited too long. finally a dealer mentioned later he found him at a craps table. so i guess someone did look instead of the floorman or the other dealer id originally spoke to and who didnt even bother to pick up the phone for about 10 minutes. 

the reason it bugged me so much is all i could think of is what would i want people to do if it was ME that lost the phone?

---------this was written over 3 weeks ago and i never finished it and published it because i didnt feel it was long enough. well im going to publish it now, because i need to write a new blog discussing all the work going on regarding my proof of citizenship. so first ive got to hit submit and finish this blog. i shouldnt waited so long. 

Holy shit, are the games in Cleveland easy to beat

 I'll start off with the easy and the noncontroversial part, (what i dreamed last night) i was at my mothers house (actually it was a place ive never been in which is common when i have dreams about my mothers house) and i was opening up her refrigerator looking for food and it was like a safe deposit box, and every door i opened was just another door behind it so it looked like having 10 huge size boxes open and still not the entire fridge or any food seen.. and i dreamed she was going to be mad. 

Then i am on a train and im some kind of undercover person as a college age kid and meeting a few others and some guy says his brother is policeman for his first day and he arrested a basket economist, whatever that is, and another guy is saying he wants something in him that rhymes with Venus, and i was guessing what he was talking about. 

I must say, my fears and paranoia are numerous and meaningful. i dont really know if they have at times saved my life (i remember the time i was afraid to get in Lightnings car when i first met him, and was afraid to be alone in Claudias house at night in summerlin with only me and her there, was worried she would plan to have me setup for a robbery). When i was homeless in seattle about 35 years ago or so, i remember playing cards during the day at Tower Lane bowling alley and the game being limit poker, 25c 50c 75c $1 on the end. i had less than $500 to my name, and i had all of it on me in cash, and if i had anything in a bank account to keep it open i cant remember but if i had a bank atm card at the time, it was less than $100. i was looking for somewhere to sleep at night in Tacoma, and a good looking woman not much older than me offered to let me get some rest at her place. any other homeless guy wouldve jumped at the offer, and the girl might've regretted what could've happened to her, had it been someone other than me. But i was too afraid of being robbed of the several hundred i had in my sock, and a guy being over there to actually accept the offer. i wonder what she thought to this day and what her intentions were? any guesses?

When i booked this hotel in Cleveland, i was trying to get a place close enough to the casino where i wouldnt need to pay for uber. but i also wanted to pay a price closer to 100 a night than 200 a night. (there is a very nice residence inn thats close enough to walk to safely but thats well over $200 a night). i thought this hotel im in now was a short 3-4 block walk without getting too far off the main lighted streets such as Euclid, Ontario and Prospect and 9th street. But its actually too close to a homeless shelter and about 12 blocks away or so so its not close enough after all to walk once its dark out. Google kind of misled me about how close it was. 

there are many long term hotels with a kitchen nearer the airport for under $550 a week with tax, but i didnt want to be paying 2 $30-40 Ubers per day. and i also found out something else about Cleveland downtown. Unlike most cities Lyft is much lower cost here than Uber. usually its the other way around. 

so what im saying is no matter how close this hotel ended up being, i still have to pay for a ride which irritates me. and its such a short ride and considering Uber or Lyft keep half or more of the $10-20 cost, most drivers wont take it since its such a short distance and that is way overpriced for the short distance. 

now lets talk about the situation at the lodge in texas for a few minutes. i shouldve updated this blog a month ago when this first happened and commented then. this has been the longest its been since ive updated the blog. 

The Lodge, as we all know, was recently raided and closed down by a few govt agencies in texas. no criminal charges were filed (nor should their be) but the state seized all the money and kept it for themself instead of returning it to the Lodge so it could be used to pay the players waiting to cash out their chips, many of whom its their life savings and needed for rent. 

the lodge was found by undercover agents of the TABC (alcohol commission) to be serving alcohol to people who didnt have a membership and they say that means the lodge isnt private like the law requires to play poker. but they never claimed that people were playing poker without one. because of this, i would advise all clubs in texas to quit serving alcohol immediately. only an idiot drinks when they play if they take winning money seriously and on top of that its a sin against God to get drunk. 

Doug has generously offered to repay the players out of his own funds, but when? his lawyer is afraid to let him do it yet, but those in desperate financial shape who have a few thousand in outstanding lodge chips cant wait years to get paid. and his other club in san antonio which is still open is afraid to do it because they dont want to get in trouble themselves. the club there has never accepted chips from the lodge in Austin. 

i never realized Doug owned a bigger share of the club than Brad and Neeme did. nor did i know of all the phantom owners id never heard of who also own more of it than brad and Neeme. i just knew he was a smart man because he got rid of the button straddle when he bought the club in san antonio

i hate that damn button straddle more than i hate anything else in poker. more than i hate bomb pots or too low a maximum buyin in 1-2 and 1-3 no limit games. more than i hate must move tables or racks on the floor. 

all straddles need to be under the gun and preferably mandatory, like they do in magic city miami in the 1-2-10 plo game. makes the game much better. 

this is one of the reasons ive had only 1 loss since coming to cleveland in the poker room, and about 7 winning sessions. the 1-3 NL here is much looser than in detroit, vegas and in oklahoma and many other places. and its because there is no button straddles here and also there isnt any bomb pots. (with the exception of time raked games at 5-5 and above). but i dont play them because the price in cleveland is a ridiculous 20 per hour. almost the highest time charge in the whole country. 

but today i played 2-5 NL for the first time and i turned an early 400 loss into an eventual 350 win. 

yeah i dont think ive ever seen daytime or nightime 1-3 NL games filled with action at almost every table and setting except for cleveland. usually theyre nitty as hell in most cities outside of texas. i think there arent many euros here because of the weather and that helps. and ive played at almost every poker room in the US at one point with the exception of most of the rooms in CA. 

if i could make 300 a day in cleveland between 1-3 nl, 2-5 nl, or maybe a short 5-5 plo session which is hard to stomach because of the time charge, that would be enough to afford the hotels and ubers. and remember my bankroll dropped to only 30k in florida and still is barely over 35k. 

i was doing quite well at the poker club in toledo on monroe street that woody runs called King of Clubs in their facebook ads. but they just do not have a 1-2 NL game often enough. maybe like 3 times a week or 4, but still its worth a lot of money every wednesday night. a lot of the regulars ruined it for everyone else by not being willing to let them use the $10 per person nit buttons when they tried it one night. then others ruined the $10 2-7 bounty game on thursday nights. 

but it sure was cheap to play there. no rake, no hourly time fees, only $10 a day to play. saves u a ton of money. 

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. 

still staying in Miami

 I've got a lot to do as far as cleaning this airbnb before i check out, and switching to a hotel for 4 nights, and then ive also got to sleep, but let me post this one hand before i forget most of the details. (by cleaning it i mean throwing out all the trash, etc). lucky for me its the same person who rented me a different airbnb she also has nearby and she did not get mad that i do all my eating in bed which always gets food stains on all the bedding. 

Probably because she is overcharging so much. this house is divided up between 5 units, including all the places in the back near the laundry room, and they are horribly small. some dont even have doors or windows except for one and im not even sure if thats legal in case of fire. and she is getting close to 3k a month on all of them. some more with a little more space. although a bunch of it airbnb keeps and some of it goes for tax. 

its a bomb pot and there are only 4 of us left and the game is about to break. i lost several buyins, most of them with AAxx one of the aces being suited preflop, or hands such as AJK6 double suited and missing. 

so im already in the game for the entire $1485 i had on me when i came over. $200 buyin, $240 buyin, $320 buyin and a $725 buyin, each buyin being progressively larger as i always do it. 

i won a hand off the last $725, and id had it about $800-950 give or take (ive no idea) before the start of the hand. Black guy in seat 1, i cant say whether he is any good, but all of them had money and didnt really care except for me. the 2 players i most worried about beating all of us had just left a few minutes before. anyway ive got 27KT with 2 diamonds and one board is 732 and the other board im not totally sure, but i had no pair no draw nothing on that board. something like 853. 

he bets $100, some people fold, i call. i think my 72 might be good, but im heavily on tilt and not the wisest call. turn comes 8533 and 7326 with a second diamond hitting the board. we both check and seat 1 bets $400, other player folds and i just keep thinking hes bluffing. 

i shoved my whole stack, on tilt quite a lot. and i was hoping he would fold the bluff but he called. river comes and i hit the diamond on the bottom for a flush, but nothing still on the other board. 

and i tell him, well if u got the ace high flush u win on both boards. i was fully expecting to chop the pot. he looks at his cards a few times turns them over and folds. he had something like 7249 with the same 2 pair as me, and also missed everything on the other board. so i actually won the other board with my king high. i dont even remember what the river was on that other board. man was i shocked to scoop the pot, game broke i went to the cage and cashed out $1925 of the $1485. 

----definition of rich---

it means many different things to different people, but the main thing money can buy u is not the stuff most people waste their money on (i have no where to put anything) but convenience is what rich people have. (not to worry about the cost). for example, most people needing a hotel check in the day of their stay, and wait til in the afternoon to check in. and when checking out, they make sure to leave by 11am or noon. 

if u have money u check in the night before so u can sleep in the morning without being disturbed and can avoid having to wait til checkin to sleep instead and maybe sleeping 8am til 4pm like u prefer to sleep, or u can check out the day before too, and into your new place for the next week or month instead of dealing with the hassle of waking up on time to do it the next morning and of course having it disturb your sleep schedule, and of course if u dont own a car and drive, u have nowhere to store your stuff between 11am and say 4pm to check into the airbnb. (unless of course u Uber all the way back to the old hotel if theyll hold it and pay the Uber multiple extra times). 

same way u can eat while u are out playing poker instead of waiting til u get home like i always do. im warming up food in the microwave to eat now as i type. u really have to be rich to afford the prices in most casinos. especially at all the places that dont give food comps. 

Or to eat the much better tasting mashed potatoes like Bob evans instead of cooking them on the stove out of the instant mashed potatoes box u mix with milk and water or butter, etc. and to not have to cut prepeeled apples and eat them in the $5.99 package. 

as u can see, from this first paragraph this blog was started writing over 2 weeks ago and then never got finished and posted. im getting lazy i guess because all the old readers, most of who were democrats who couldnt handle my opinions, got tired of reading the blog and all disappeared. most of them likely died because they took the vaccine. 

im basically not getting anywhere and still barely a little close to 35k, but not over that. i dont see how ill ever get back over 40k i really do need to get out of Florida. the weather here is nice however and without a friend with a car, moving anywhere at all when i cant fly is a real pain in the ass. the closest trip that wouldnt be too long would be the amtrak to Jacksonville up north. at least the rent is paid up til feb 22nd. that still gives me a months time to try and recover at least 6k

Gordon Lamb's Pussy

 everyone who knows me well knows i wont ever use an alarm clock, or to force myself to be awake by a certain time, (often describes why i check out of a hotel the night before check out and take a second one, so i can sleep undisturbed at check out time) so i wake up when i wake up. i just wish i can force myself to sleep when im tired, but everyone who does that uses alcohol or medications to do it, which of course i refuse to do. 

so when i went to sleep around noon i knew i wouldnt be waking up til 9pm or so not counting a few trips to the bathroom. actually i would have preferred to go to sleep about 4am, and wake up about 1pm, then i couldve played earlier in the day and then went to the Target store across the street from the cardroom to buy food on the way home before they closed at midnight. 

now if i go there after im done playing, ill have to stay til 7am in the morning and all i have left to eat in here is 5 hormel meals. i ate everything else because its almost dec 23rd. 

in the dream i had last night, which seemed to be consecutive everytime i went back to sleep, im in some building where i was staying and was going to sleep, but first im in a public shower area or bathroom and im asking a guy working there what this soap is called, and he says its Gordon Lambs pussy. Isnt he a famous football star or something? i know there was a dentist on twitter who used to troll me with that name. 

And then im walking into another room trying to leave and i see a bunch of food i want to eat and i cant wake up yet because not enough people have woken up and its not time yet. i had a lot more to tell u but ive forgotten the rest of the dream. 

anyway here is the final hand tonight right before i quit the game. and in the middle of the hand i told the guy i was going to have to quit if i folded this hand (primarily because i wonder if i am playing too tight because i have too many chips on the table). i was in the game for $250 and when i cashed out, i still had $454. 

i had AK suited and i hadnt played a hand in awhile (when i raised a $10 straddle and a $20 blind bet to $125 with 10 10 and they all folded. yes i know i am not supposed to show the hand, but i was so relieved to get no action and not have to worry about losing it all anymore). maybe im also not supposed to want all to fold, or am I? 

only 1 guy calls, and i dont know if he is any good, but being a young kid with headphones he could be a grinder. i think this is not his home casino though, i havent seen him all month. its possible he either went broke and rebought earlier or maybe he just moved seats i dont remember. 

i think my initial raise was to $27. primarily to rid myself of a green $25 chip which i hate, and a purple $2 chip, which i also hate. i like to have only a bunch of $5 and $1 chips on me. Plus i consider other players assholes and annoying when they remove all the chips from the game forcing the dealer to need a fill sooner when they tip $5 in small chips instead of a red chip, but people do this shit all the time. . flop comes AQ6 with 1 card of my suit. we both check. turn comes 9 i bet $30 and he raises to $75.

i did NOT want to lose my entire stack, but i feel im playing too tight, so thats why i said id have to leave if i fold. but i asked if he would show if i folded. he wouldnt respond to me, meaning he was serious and not there to be friendly and have fun. that pissed me off so i quit. what do u guys think he likely had?

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Psychologically, its very hard for me to not always ask for the other players to run it twice, even when the other players consider the pot small, and even more strange, my desire to do this, even when i need to double up so i can leave. i guess its because i cant help but always think i will lose the pot 100% of the time if i dont protect myself from running it twice. this fear has no basis, and its simply mental. but since i am losing so much money with the extra $2 or $3 they take per pot if u run it twice, starting yesterday i have finally quit asking people on the smaller sized pots in the NL games and only if they suggest it do i say sure. if i can break myself of this habit i might start winning more money and pay a little less of the enormous rakes and jackpot drops they have in Miami. 

they do this many places in south florida, and also at the MGM in detroit (charge u extra rake or jackpot drop if u run it twice). which other poker rooms in the US do this also that i dont know about?

my new life in Moscow

 this is an old post, written months ago, that i had decided NOT to publish. rest assured, me and Ray get along fine now, but at the time i was a little upset because i wasnt hearing back from him. ive had such horrible luck at casino magic and am upset with some of the employees and decided not to publish the blog i wanted to write but instead ill publish this just so i can update the blog. i only got 35k left now and i did have that back over 38k. and my airbnb ends in about 5 more days. not sure yet where ill go. i know its much cheaper to get a place for a month in Jacksonville, but i remember the NL games sucked and only the PLO was good. but at least im not around any machines. i cannot believe how much money i threw away on machines. i had over 60k when i came to florida. including over 1400 last night in the craps machine. every paragraph after this first one was written months ago. im wondering if i need to go back to playing PLO or if ill lose the whole last 30 if i do thats not very many 1000s and it could easily go to zero, just like bitcoin and xrp will do if i dont sell what tiny little bit i have left (under 2000 worth)

Well i dont remember when i last updated the blog, but after leaving Dallas due to losing over $1000 5 out of 8 sessions in the course of a couple weeks (which of course had never happened in my life before, i rarely ever lose $1000 because im not someone who often buys in deep). but Ray and I who had been sharing a hotel in dallas ever since he drove me back here from Chicago, left the city and went to Austin. 

and at first in the 2 weeks i stayed in Austin i was back on track to winning. in fact i made over 4000 in the 2 weeks, had 2 sessions of PLO where i made over 1000 each time. and also wins in NL which i was going to start playing more often because Ray said im better at it than PLO and because i was starting to question and second guess how i play PLO. 

i think the real reason i started losing at PLO in dallas though is the sheer number of asian players and euros and other overseas players living in texas for a few months all colluding and raising each others hands for them. thats how u can tell when cheating is going on, when 2 people both sit deep and quit at the same time and are the same ethicity. 

but the hotel which was a nice brand (home2suites) wasnt nearly as good as many other hotels with the same brand name ive stayed at in other cities, and i guess that was why the price wasnt bad but still about 200 a week more than the really shitty extended stay america and woodspring suites places around there. at least there were no bugs and i cant often say that for extended stay america. but the wifi wasnt great in the room at times, and the dishwasher was messed up at times and phone service wasnt the best it would drop calls in the middle of a conversation. 

the only good thing was that it was really close to TCH about a 2 mile ride up the street and a low Uber fare for all the times i rode there not with Ray. 

but for whatever reasons we left, primarily because i thought Ray preferred going to Houston instead of staying in Austin (turned out i was wrong, Ray thought it was ME who wanted to go to Houston) but i asked him the morning before if we should leave or renew the room and he said to leave. 

i wouldve rather gone to san antonio than houston but Ray was dead set against going to san antonio because he felt like there was nothing but NL there and not much PLO but i remembered the SA card house that Foster ran being a great room and easy to make money there. 

and i wasnt thinking about how every place in Houston with the lone exception of 1 of the TCH rooms here, uses the button straddle and make the small blind act first, which we all know i hate and is very bad for the game. id forgotten about that since i hadnt played in Houston in so long. i hadnt been back since the last covid case ended about 3 years prior, but Dustin kept telling me how great the promotions were in Houston, how time was cheaper there etc and suggested it. Imagine how surprised i was the day i walked into Champions and realized i still had an hours worth of time in my account. 

there are more places to play poker in all the different suburbs of Houston than Dallas or Austin but u would be surprised how many are really small and might have only 1 game

i remember when i left Houston i was getting tired of cardhouse managers greed and how every place was making the rake $10 or $15 instead of a reasonable amount like $7. Legends which had all the shootings and robberies does use $7 rake, i guess to get people in there but the asians i seen colluding like a motherfucker in there. 

I had been proud of how Ray was doing at poker, many times in Chicago he covered my PLO losses, although my bankroll had still declined by 30k in the past few months but a lot of that was on online blackjack losses. and of course some of it on hotel expenses. and the huge losses in PLO in dallas in a short period of time. and also i did repay his loss a few times but he was winning far more than me, in Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, etc. But Ray all did this off me loaning him $1000 and then getting it back early on and of course he added his monthly disability check to it also, but that leaves him very little after bills. remember hes still paying his rent in ohio of $250 a month, all the car expenses, etc. 

so that is quite an accomplishment doing this with no money. but Ray was getting very worried about his car. its got over 335k miles now and wont last forever. and he doesnt think it will make it home to toledo. but he said since hes got credit cards again now since its been so much time since his last bankruptcy he said he would be okay. 

although he sure wasnt acting like he would be okay he was worried sick about it getting mad at me every time he lost and blaming me for him driving me there or suggesting it over the place he thought about playing at and hes been doing this for a long time and i cant stand being around him with his attitude if he doesnt win. and he blames the dealers and says such awful stuff to them ive been thrown out of rooms for saying way less many years ago. 

he is so privledged compared to me. hes got free medical care and free dental care, and housing he will never lose because he only has to pay $250 in rent and the government pays the rest. Plus he has no mental health issues and is able to drive. and a car. and yet HE stresses out over money when im down one entire third of my life savings of 90k (only at 60k now) i am the ONLY one who should be worried about money. not him. 

he even says he knows a girl who lives in spring texas he plays yathzee with all the time whose husband is in prison for sex crimes he says if he ever needed it she would give him money and let him stay there. 

so i cant stand listening to his bitching at me when hes stuck 100 or 200 when i am out literally tens of thousands and i havent been winning at poker particularly PLO in quite some time and i know im not a bad player at PLO because of the year before when i was winnning 100-120k mostly in dallas. and mostly in PLO. 

i really dont know whats wrong with him, he used to do so much to act like a friend such as all the rides he gave me and money on the room and food. including the time at tch austin i thought i was having a stroke and the ambulance took me to seton hospital and i found out i had walking pneumonia in my lung. he was telling them that i was his best friend for 35 years. 

he feels i work him too much on driving me places but what am i to do? silly to pay for Uber when he is here with a car and he doesnt use good judgement on choosing where to play and when to quit and when to stay. i offered to buy him a car upfront when i still had the 90k with my money and he refused because he wanted to use his credit to get a more expensive car of like 10k or more with a dealer and he said there was no point in getting another car until this one gave out first. but he cant stop thinking about being completely broke without a way to get a car to drive back to ohio. and he also said he didnt want to take my money but i knew if i didnt pay that upfront i would end up losing so much money i wouldnt be able to help them so i wanted to right away before i lost it on blackjack like i knew i would. ive never been able to hold onto 90k

he is down to about 2000 left out of 5000 he had less than a week ago. 

i got annoyed when he wouldnt answer his email for over 24 hours and told me not to talk to him anymore til sunday when he leaves and wouldnt tell me how he lost his money or how much in Katy 101 poker. i think the rakes too high there so i mostly been playing elsewhere. i even offered to reimburse his loss somewhat like he did for me a few days earlier but he never responded back. and i didnt want to be around him when he came home

you see often he drinks to sleep and i dont want to be around someone if they are drinking. and for a while i thought he had cured himself of that habit. Vince said he had. 

i decided that now is a good time to use my exit strategy so i will no longer ever have to depend on winning at poker to survive because its a hard life. and inflation is going up all the time wiping out the value of the bankroll. poker is slowly getting unbeatable due to the rake and the overseas problem of massive influx of them coming to the US to grind poker for a living. they infiltrate and fill up all the games in texas. 

you see many years ago i went to the Russian embassy in Houston and signed up with the KGB. and they know how much i support their country and their agenda in the Ukraine and how evil the US govt really is. especially our military which uses its influence to force homosexuality on countries that dont want it, or we deny them military aid. 

and ive been getting a lot of money from them for the social media work i do for them in the US. 

and i told them of my citizenship and my ID issues and they told me not to worry about it and whenever im ready they had a job for me in Russia and will fly me privately to Russia and make me up a new identity with documents i can use to live there. 

commuism, as practiced by the early apostles in the first century takes care of those who cannot help themselves but most countries by punishing christians under communism, ruined it by kicking out God. with Putin as our leader we have now returned God to his rightful place in government. 

i wanted communism for me and Ray, each of us working off the same bankroll, buying in much deeper than 100 and splitting up the proceeds its the only way to make money at poker but Ray didnt want that he wanted to keep it seperate and all he cared about was his 4000 or 5000 he ran it up to and not risking more than 100 or so a day at it and when he lost he would get livid at me and treat me like an abused spouse. 

the goverment has ruined it by forcing those who get assistance in the US to never keep more than 2k in the bank. if u are as badly mentally disabled as me u should get it for life even if u have a million in the bank or in bitcoin because ill never be able to drive. no one should have to prove they are penniless with no income to qualify for help if they really need it. this is why ive never tried to get ssi. 

so i called my contact in the KGB, and got permission to go live in Russia and they are flying me first to alaska privately, and then into a place in siberia called Omsk. supposedly they have a small community of US citizens there who left the US to escape the wokeness of the biden administration. thats when i left the hotel before Ray came home and took me stuff to go meet the guy whose flying me to Russia. i will not have to go thru US customs because its all being done behind the scenes. its a pretty short flight. 

with a job theyll have for me working in social media, at least ill never have to play poker for my only income again and have to stress over the money. because that will cause people to flip out mentally very bad if theyre constantly not winning. i never thought id see the day i would lose 10k a month in PLO regularly. and its only because games in places like texas, vegas and florida are filling up with nothing but cheaters buying in deep to have their buddy raise their hand for them so they can reraise. 

in a way im kind of hurt and disappointed how things turned out with Ray making it so clear and so bluntly how my friendship meant nothing to him and how he didnt want it anymore. but at least ive got a new life to look forward to. my supervisor in the KGB told me if i did a good job recruiting more Americans to join the cause he would have the government supply me with a wife. 

@trafficbrokerx is not a man of his word

 well i may have not won today. i finally lost after recovering a small portion of the previous months monster loss the last few weeks, (had brought the last 33k back to over 37k). but then today, i ended up losing $402, and at one point, i was up over $250 for the day. I shouldve hit and ran, but i got too greedy and wanted to make at least $300 before i hit and ran. 

Im sure many of u, can identify with that feeling, (not wanting to hit and run with such a small profit). 

i lost over $200 of it on the VBJ machine, and the only reason i dont lose more on it like i did at the big easy is not only because my roll is much smaller, there is only 1 machine here and its hardly ever empty to play multiple spots. even at 3am there are people on it. so its not like Calder or the Big easy where there are many machines. Plus i started only bringing like $500-900 with me so i dont ever have too much cash on me. no more trips to the casino with $2000-3000 in my pocket. that was the reason i was having so many huge losses when i first got to florida. 

i was actually up $133 on a machine once. it has oriental symbols and has lamps that will bring up dancing pigs once u hit them. the blue must hit by 40, the green by 60 and the red by 100 if i remember right. i dont know the correct numbers, but i saw the blue on 22, and it was on the minimum bet and i just wanted to play something. i got lucky to make near that much on it, it hit really early on. 

i still have only played $1-3 NL. i did not play PLO since Ray left the area for ohio, and i didnt play the $2-5 nl when it went the other day either, which it rarely does. i will play the 1-2 while im waiting for a 1-3 seat. but the high drop here makes it difficult. ($4 jackpot drop and $1 rake at $10).

and unlike many cardrooms it isnt no flop no drop here. they still take.

@TrafficbrokerX on twitter who has known me for over 25 years and to my knowledge ive never met in person, (but who i think could be Mark Ortega from 2 plus 2 and neverbeg) gave me his word the other day he would be there tonight to pay me $208 for a twitter spaces interview, along with showing me how to take the screenshot on my phone for that $11 deposit they never would accept my attempts at the screenshot and also scan my ID on my phone for me so i could sign up with Kraken and Gemini to buy and sell xrp without going thru an exchange site in my Coinimi wallet, is NOT A MAN OF HIS word. Mark Ortega had a weird obsession with me for years and wanted to always interview and write about me too. Kind of like Herbie and Claudia who have long since disappeared.

he never showed up so i missed out on that, and lost a fortune by staying in the other game way too long, down to 4 handed against some really good players, Saul, and one other guy i first thought was a donkey. Saul is the guy wearing the mask and i pray to God he isnt the masked AP who scammed me last year. But he doesnt seem knowledgeable about games other than poker, so it cant be him. 

well i may not have any money tonight but i made sure that traffic broker x wont either. i sent a DM to all of his followers on twitter, explaining to them that he isnt a man of his word, and he is heavily into affailiate marketing, and i let them all know he is likely not trustworthy and hopefully it will cost him $20,800 since i missed out on $208. 

what the hell is a twitter spaces anyway? anyone ever done it? is it easy or a lot of tech knowhow is needed just like u need to take a screenshot?

scary incident in Biloxi

 Ray doesnt really know why i left Katy immediately for Coushatta. Ray also bought me a pair of pants. And that pair of pants comes in really handy, cosidering how bad i needed another pair since the old ones have a hole in the pocket. plus there are extra pockets on the legs to carry a phone charger and a cord. 

i forgot to tell u guys of something that happened to me in Biloxi a month or 2 ago on the way down to Florida when Ray was driving us there from Houston. i should have mentioned it in a much earlier blog. There was a truck driving poorly and to avoid hitting it Ray had to swerve over into another lane. and then a lady in a car somewhat behind us (im not sure exactly what happened) but she did something to damage her car and Ray was worried about her and he drove back to check on her, which is a good thing, but i felt that it was nothing to worry about, and i didnt think she actually done anything to her car, and for my safety, being paranoid it being in the middle of the night i wanted dropped off at the casino we were headed to 2 blocks away first. plus at the time i still had a lot of cash in my pocket. its not like today where i keep having to take another $1000 out of the ATM, (for the 3rd time this week) after losing all of the other $13k in cash. 

he suggested i stay in the car when he went to talk to her. turned out it was a black lady and there was a black guy in the car with her, which really made me nervous considering they might of wanted to beat the shit out of us had they really damaged the car. but he didnt realize that she wasnt driving alone. 

he ended up giving them $100 voluntarily (which he certainly couldnt afford to do) i guess he felt responsible and he thought and they thought they needed a tow truck but it turned out they didnt because 20 minutes later their car was gone. im just glad we didnt get robbed or shot and i was irate at the time he didnt let me out of the car before he went back 2 blocks to check on them as we were pulling into the casino. 

i am scared to death of going broke. i had my bankroll finally below 40k because of all the recent losses on the big easy video blackjack machines and i know theyve got to be rigged and cheating me. and then i still went out and threw away $2500 tonight on them after first winning $38 in $1-2 NL. i was never up more than about $80 in the $1-2 NL. but the $1-2 NL game here is loose enough unlike most of the high raked $1-2 NL games. Please say a prayer for me, because i need God to deliver me from the spirit of a wild donkey. (david wilkersons words). if u dont know who he is, he is the one who founded Times square church and teen challenge on helping people with addictions of various kinds. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B0driFE5cQ&t=3689s

Also i spent $93 today at Publix loading up the freezer with more groceries to carry me over til my sunday next week checkout date. 

Even though the rake is less at the Big Easy than the rooms with the looser games in Miami, and the $1-2 NL isnt nearly as nitty and tight at the Big Easy than the games at the Seminole Hard Rock, i wonder if i would be better off taking Uber there for $20 (its only $11 to the Big Easy or $2 if u use Ride Circuit app). Simply because they dont have any video blackjack machines only $25 and up live BJ instead which doesnt tempt me because the minimum bet is too high. but overall the Seminole isnt nearly as good a room because all it basically has is higher limit games than many people want to play. they only do it because theyre a bunch of rich guys who only care about overcoming the high rake. 

i even failed to offer to run it twice on a hand tonight (although i wouldve always done it if asked) but i didnt ask because it wasnt a very big pot and i dont like them taking an extra drop if they ran it twice. they do that with the excuse u can get the high hand even if they go twice so they use it as an excuse to charge u twice. and that is something i never ever do i always ask right away. 

also i threw away a high hand too. i had a small pocket pair of 77 and because i knew a guy was going to raise i folded it preflop would have flopped quads. am i playing too tight out of fear? why doesnt this same fear keep me from playing blackjack?

I'm actually scared to leave my room and go to the cardroom anymore, and i really miss being in texas where i wasnt around any of my other bad habits. i keep staying home until late in the day because i know even if i get up 100-300 and want to hit and run, there is no other game to go to since i cant afford the PLO (the min buy is 200 here instead of 100) and the other room is $20 Uber ride away unlike in Dallas. so i end up going out to the video BJ machine. i kind of got half a mind to go to a city where there is no way to gamble at all. all these drops are freaking me out, seeing as i have about 38k left of over 65k i had when i first got to florida. 

i just feel like if im paying over $3500 a month for a place to stay and almost $800 in resort fees not to count the few hundred for tax, about 1-2 blocks from the beach, i might as well get full use of it. 

i guess it wouldnt be a good idea for me to stay down here long term like i originally thought. i had heard so many good things about Florida poker and there are so many different rooms i was going to buy a trailer for $2900 in the trailer park about 3 blocks away from the Big Easy and i couldve lived there forever for only $960 a month in lot rent and about $150 a month in electric. but this trailer was really shitty on the inside and the guy who owned it had to flee the country a few months ago and the park was anxious to find someone to buy it. i would have had to install a bed, a table and chairs, a refridgerator, a stove a microwave, etc. it was basically empty inside and run down. id have spent a few thousand fixing it up inside too. 

i told them about my lack of credit and income but at the time was a lot wealthier than i am now, and i offered to prepay up to 6-12 months and they told me they would accept proof of bank statements for the last 6 months, so i went out to all 3 banks and got those. that will show i rarely have less than 25-50k in the bank which is better than a lot of others have in cash on hand. and its a damn shame its no longer the case. i would have also had a background check but thats basically for the last 10 years and old stuff wont show up. also i would have had to go thru an interview. i finally think its too complicated a process and i dont really belong here, but it sure wouldve cut my expenses down to nothing because im not going to have enough to live ive lost too much. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXtVPfyrASk this is beautiful music and it will bless your soul and give u peace. 

wtf did i ever come to florida for? my addiction to VBJ is getting worse

 i wish i would have never came to Florida. I had about 25,000 more when i hit the Florida state line than i do today, and only about $6000 of it was spent on hotels and maybe about 8k total counting food and Ubers. (Ray flew back to Toledo once his car broke down to buy another one). 

Almost all of the money lost was lost on blackjack. almost all of the bitcoin i had online, plus several losses of $1000-5000 on all the 3-2 Video blackjack machines around south Florida. i had $13,200 cash when i came to the area, and earlier tonight i was down to only $42 of that, so i went and took another $1000 out of the ATM. i even won over $300 at poker tonight in the $1-2 NL, (it was a looser game than normal which u need it to be as high as the rake is) but im still about $200 poorer when i got back to my hotel because of what i lost on VBJ. 

I've barely got about 40k left. Plus i had to send my mother $1385 to pay for the filing of my citizenship paperwork, someone is helping her with it. 

Also the games in Miami are much looser than the games in the Fort Lauderdale area, and they have a little bit higher rake upfront too, but the only really good PLO game that can be beaten is the game at Magic City casino in Miami. the reason why its beatable is its the only game without a Mississippi straddle. no game can be beaten if u are always forced to act first because of people either button straddling or Mississippi straddling to steal your button. the blinds in the Magic City game are $1, $2 and a 3rd mandatory blind of $10 (which they call a straddle, making it the ONLY straddle in that game). but its under the gun instead of on the button which makes it a far better game. 

yeah its the only way to beat the PLO. get rid of any and all button straddles and MS straddles and force people to do it under the gun regardless of it they want to or not. fuck letting people have a choice. 

i get tired of watching rich people blow hundreds of dollars on massages at the table that should be banned. no one wants to look at someone getting a massage. Eating at the table should be banned too, no one wants to have to look at rich people who have far more money than u who never earned it or deserved it and got it only from exploiting the working class. and u have to sit and watch them order a meal about 3 times in a 6 hour period and pay about $20 each time and another $5 tip. People shouldnt be allowed to eat just because they are hungry, they should wait til they get back home just like i do. ill go all day without ever eating til its time to go to bed. 

In an ideal society that was just for all people, the death penalty would be mandatory for having a job, having a place to live, having access to credit cards, being physically able to drive, etc. all the things that the common man doesnt have access to because he wasnt born privledged like other people. an awful lot of people in the US do not have any of those things. 

this is why u want to throw up when u see people buying into the poker game for more than the minimum buyin. how dare they have more money than me and be able to afford to buyin deep when ive played every day for 30-40 years and still have to min buy to make sure i never run out of buyins and always have 200 or more buyins in my bankroll. 

they certainly havent earned it or deserve it. they play like shit and they play way too many hands. they wont fold hands like AJ offsuit under the gun or wait for the button to pass when they sit down. so how do they not run out of money and go broke and be able to sit there and play every day? i certainly wouldnt be able to play every day for that many years if i played that way. at least i try to win.

i just wish i could stop playing video blackjack and online blackjack. its a horrible habit and a terrible addiction. but at least if im going to do something minus EV, ill do it away from poker. this is why i wont straddle the button, but will lose a ton of money martingaling a video blackjack machine

the smart thing for me to do is to leave Florida once my place ends on Nov 23. take a train to a regular casino that rakes the pot normally, maybe $1 for the jackpot at $10 and $1 for the house up to a maximum of $6. not the $2 plus $2 at $10, or even worse $4 right out as soon as the pot is $6. you can get almost everywhere in the country on Amtrak from the Miami Ft Lauderdale area. there is a direct train into Chicago and also a direct train all the way up to Philadelpia. and from Chicago u can easily get to Reno or Dallas or Minneapolis or anywhere else u might want to settle in as your final stop. the cost of Uber here, and the cost of a place to stay for the winter is much higher than many cities across the USA. its not just the rake, and by the way if u play at the Seminole, or further north, u would be surpised how nitty the NL games can be. 

i also think the game at Hialeah can be beaten (the PLO game) but i am not used to a game with only a $10-25 button straddle and no blinds so im not sure how to adjust and play it. now me, i would never do it for $25 like some will but only $10. since there are no blinds, u need to play much tighter than normal. but with no blinds i would think a tight player could win.