i started my day writing 3 entries, doing laundry and dishes, cleaning my room and walking the dogs.
i went to the texas station first. it was about a 3.4 on dump richter scale. could possibly be a good place to mop up, but they were only dealing limit games at the time. there was a 1-2 nl list but only 2 people on it. ate china panda (not recommended) my fortune said "ask you mom". i called, but she didn't answer. i still don't know what i would have asked her.
then i went to paris. it was empty except for a tournament, so i went to bellagio. their room is much smaller now and is uncomfortably cramped. you literally bump into the players behind you at the next table. great chairs and tables, but they make you post to enter the game and they only deal 2-5 nl 2h-5h buy-in and then bigger games. i sat down in a 2-5 game for 400. played real tight as the play was aggressive and big. won 100 then lost it plus 80 more on an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw. guy bullied me with q4off, raised with second pair then called 60 on the river with the same queens. i am either very readable at those 2-5 tables, or i think it is more that i am timid. i played for a while longer and got even then left. i just can't play in games where they throw around the chips that way. walked with 6 dollars profit.
went to bally's next. got into a really good 1-2 game. 300 max buy-in. i got up to like 450 then got a2s on the button, flop comes 2k2 rainbow. guy with k bets 15, i call, sm blind calls. turn is a 9, check, k bets 30, i make it 60, small blind calls, k folds. she bets 100 on river which is an Ace. i go all in and she instacalls with 260. i was shocked. she had played so tight for so long, then she gives up all her chips with a shit kicker. oh well. i was happy.
so i have 9 in front of me and i flop the nut straight q-high, bet 20, call call i raise to 100. fold fold call. turn is Q, check i bet 100, guy goes all in for 200 more. i ask if he hit the miracle. he says yes. i know he has it, but i call anyway because i possibly put him on a diamond draw with the Jd. he was nuts. so i lose all my profit. son of a bitch. i was pissed at myself for making such a donkey call.
an hour or so goes by and i rake a couple of pots, then flop a set of 222, get a caller for 100 and turn a 2. i go all in because i put the guy on a set, what else would he call 100 with? it was a flush draw, so he didn't call, but i turned it over and because 10 dollars was in the pot, i win the high hand jackpot for quad deuces. 190. not bad. i play for a long time now because the game is so vibrant.
side note. 2 guys in a hand and big call on turn then checked river. button says i missed and turns over kq. guy says i have a pair of sixes and lays his hand down thinking that the kq mucked. ruling as anywhere you must show your cards to win.
the guy ended up splitting the pot with the guy to be a gentleman, but i wouldn't do that. you muck you lose. always keep your cards until the dealer pushes you the pot!!!!!!!!!
i get back up 400 and feel like i have done all i could there, the big stacks left and only the guy with 1800 is left. i leave content with 400 profit.
i then go back to paris. real drunk game is going on and a lot of cash is moving hands. i get up like a 100, then lose it. then have to endure the drunk fiasco. new players come in, anxious to mop up. i win 200 and leave.
so not a bad day's work 600 profit.
i will be staying at the 1-2 tables. i am just so dominant in those games that it almost isn't fair. i know i can play at the higher stakes, but not now. i need to work daily, and not get enticed by the big hits. one day soon it will come, but why not clean up on the weak?
is there ever a point that you should feel sorry for a drunk?
i almost wanted to tell this one guy to call it a night, but i let him keep buying back in.
does this make me a bad person?
i haven't been looking at it that way, i have been using everything i can to my advantage.
it's the high price of entertainment.
who knows? maybe that guy will one day say, "i was able to sit down with the great mortal nuts" ha
i've decided that if i get into the wsop main event and i last a few days, i'm breaking out the poncho.
might have to go back to paris and bally's tomorrow, a few of the dumpers are staying there and will be back.
MN
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Travis,
It is really sad to see how your previous losses have utterly destroyed your confidence. ;)
We've all been that drunk once or twice before. What goes around comes around. You can't really start trying to make judgments on whether or not others can afford to keep drinking or losing to you.
That is something they have to figure out on their own. Some a-hole at the poker table telling them they should get their drunk ass to bed and stop losing money is probably not likely to be their springboard to self-enlightment.
Poncho is a must if you are going to be on TV.
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