Well.. it has been 2 months now... the good news is that it is still going well.
Month 2 I put in 162 hours and was up $4,324 for an hourly rate of $26.69. A nice improvement from last month where my hourly rate was on $18.11 and I only got in 153 hours.
I really got a lot of experience with "Gamblers Memory" as there were several times where I tried to push an edge and got burned hitting two huge downswings of over 2000 each time. This is something I definately have to avoid.... riding the wave is good, riding it into the gutter is bad.
I also realized what the difference between a Gambler and a Real Poker player is. A Gambler remembers his wins and goes back again and again to get another one. They live for that rush. A poker player remembers his losses and plays to avoid those in the future, sometimes to the detriment of his game (ie limping with pocket Aces because they always lose anyways)
In month 3 I plan to focus more on my game and look at possibly moving up to a higher limit game and see if I can handle that. My win rate at 4/8 has been very solid. I also want to give a shot at some of the baby No-limit games as well to broaden my scope of games.
I of course want to get in my hours and get my hourly rate up, but that is normal :)
Monday, April 24, 2006
Blast from the Past
It has been one heck of a busy week with Estie visiting from Atlanta from Tuesday to Sunday I had to get as much class in on Monday and Tuesday as I could. Class is going well if a bit boring now as all we do is sit around and play poker, take turns dealing different games, making mistakes and learning from them. I am about ready to find 8 people to play poker for 4-5 hours while I deal and get in the ryhtym of the rake and the game at the same time. The rake is really the only thing holding me back from being finished now.
Estie got in Tuesday night, and wednesday morning we headed over to the South Coast for the tournament. When I first started playing poker all the various concepts were very new to me, and I had a hard enough time figuring out what the right play was in any given situation... I had no time to pay attention to vibes, feelings, instinct, etc. Now I have gotten to the point where those decisions have become second nature and I can relax more... Unfortunately I find myself NOT paying attention to my instincts and getting into trouble. That happened again on Wednesday morning's tournament as I limped in from early position with 8/9 suited. As I was thinking of entering the pot I noticed the guy across the table fingering his chips. He was short stacked and I got the feeling he was going to push all-in. This was not a hand I wanted to play all-in, I wanted to hit or miss a flop and get away from it. Instead of listening to my feelings though I called anyways, he did push all-in, another guy called and I had to call getting the right price. The flop hit me marginally and I called off the rest of my chips getting the right price again and was out. I got stuck in a pot I should never have been in because I didn't pay attention to what the other players were doing, and didn't listen to the signals when they were there.
Wednesday night we headed over to the MGM where I played marginally well making a lot of mistakes and trying to hard several times. I finished up 114 but nothing remarkable to talk about... never got any high pairs or AK so it was good to survive that day.
Thursday we went and visited the new Red Rock Casino that opened on Tuesday night at midnight. They were having $2 movie day and showing older movies, so we went and saw The Family Stone. What a great movie that was... I really enjoyed it. The original plan for Thursday night was to go see a show... but all the good shows were sold out so we decided not to go to one and played at the MGM again. A solid day of poker and nothing impressive to tell put me up 187. It seems the more I play the more often I don't hit any hands, any draws, any major pots, and walk out with more money than I came in with. There is something to be said for playing it close to the vest....
Friday we hit the early South Coast tournament again and again I made a major mistake. The most important thing to determine before bluffing is WILL your opponent FOLD. I failed to read that properly and even though I read that he WANTED to fold (which he said later he did), he was not GOING to fold ever... I ended up pushing all in with Q high and he called with pocket Aces. An afternoon nap and then off to downtown and the Fremont Street Experience. The 7 PM rebuy tournament at the Plaza was pretty decent getting 30 people and 27 rebuys, a couple of coin flips later and I was out... I walked into a huge pot with top pair top kicker against a set. I just reacted without thinking and crippled myself. After getting knocked out of the tourney that Estie was still in I played a few hours of face up double deck... A good run saw me up 900 and made getting knocked out of the tournament early OK! Estie went out 8th but they only paid top 4.
Saturday I slept in for awhile before heading over to the Venetian to play. The Venetian was a tough game that got a little crazy at times, but in general a solid group of players. I struggled without any cards or any flops and managed to finish up 91. About 9 PM we went to eat at a mexican restaurante upstairs... Wow was that nice. It was right on the Gondala River running through the Venetian where they do the gondala rides. So we got to eat under the "stars" by the river with Gondalas going down the river singing to their patrons in Italian. It was amazing.. and the food was good as well!
Sunday was Estie's last day so we went down to the Wynn to play out the string. So far this week I had gotten horrible cards, missed most flops, draws weren't coming in, no sets flopping, etc. It was a miracle I was up at all... All that turned around at the wynn as the draws came in and huge pots came my way. I hit quads early on which really set the tone, made the right calls on a few hands which came in, and a huge draw on a nut flush against a made straight and suddenly I was up 300 and the table was backing down to me. Unfortunately I got a little big headed and ran off 130 of that trying to "ride the wave" before hitting a few hands at the end of the day and running up to +418 for a nice 6 hour session.
In the middle of that day we went over to the Wynn Buffet as I had two free buffet comps there, and WOW was that a good buffet. Some amazing creamed mushrooms, buttered carrots, salmon, awesome prime rib... just great! I would definately recommend it again!
Estie got in Tuesday night, and wednesday morning we headed over to the South Coast for the tournament. When I first started playing poker all the various concepts were very new to me, and I had a hard enough time figuring out what the right play was in any given situation... I had no time to pay attention to vibes, feelings, instinct, etc. Now I have gotten to the point where those decisions have become second nature and I can relax more... Unfortunately I find myself NOT paying attention to my instincts and getting into trouble. That happened again on Wednesday morning's tournament as I limped in from early position with 8/9 suited. As I was thinking of entering the pot I noticed the guy across the table fingering his chips. He was short stacked and I got the feeling he was going to push all-in. This was not a hand I wanted to play all-in, I wanted to hit or miss a flop and get away from it. Instead of listening to my feelings though I called anyways, he did push all-in, another guy called and I had to call getting the right price. The flop hit me marginally and I called off the rest of my chips getting the right price again and was out. I got stuck in a pot I should never have been in because I didn't pay attention to what the other players were doing, and didn't listen to the signals when they were there.
Wednesday night we headed over to the MGM where I played marginally well making a lot of mistakes and trying to hard several times. I finished up 114 but nothing remarkable to talk about... never got any high pairs or AK so it was good to survive that day.
Thursday we went and visited the new Red Rock Casino that opened on Tuesday night at midnight. They were having $2 movie day and showing older movies, so we went and saw The Family Stone. What a great movie that was... I really enjoyed it. The original plan for Thursday night was to go see a show... but all the good shows were sold out so we decided not to go to one and played at the MGM again. A solid day of poker and nothing impressive to tell put me up 187. It seems the more I play the more often I don't hit any hands, any draws, any major pots, and walk out with more money than I came in with. There is something to be said for playing it close to the vest....
Friday we hit the early South Coast tournament again and again I made a major mistake. The most important thing to determine before bluffing is WILL your opponent FOLD. I failed to read that properly and even though I read that he WANTED to fold (which he said later he did), he was not GOING to fold ever... I ended up pushing all in with Q high and he called with pocket Aces. An afternoon nap and then off to downtown and the Fremont Street Experience. The 7 PM rebuy tournament at the Plaza was pretty decent getting 30 people and 27 rebuys, a couple of coin flips later and I was out... I walked into a huge pot with top pair top kicker against a set. I just reacted without thinking and crippled myself. After getting knocked out of the tourney that Estie was still in I played a few hours of face up double deck... A good run saw me up 900 and made getting knocked out of the tournament early OK! Estie went out 8th but they only paid top 4.
Saturday I slept in for awhile before heading over to the Venetian to play. The Venetian was a tough game that got a little crazy at times, but in general a solid group of players. I struggled without any cards or any flops and managed to finish up 91. About 9 PM we went to eat at a mexican restaurante upstairs... Wow was that nice. It was right on the Gondala River running through the Venetian where they do the gondala rides. So we got to eat under the "stars" by the river with Gondalas going down the river singing to their patrons in Italian. It was amazing.. and the food was good as well!
Sunday was Estie's last day so we went down to the Wynn to play out the string. So far this week I had gotten horrible cards, missed most flops, draws weren't coming in, no sets flopping, etc. It was a miracle I was up at all... All that turned around at the wynn as the draws came in and huge pots came my way. I hit quads early on which really set the tone, made the right calls on a few hands which came in, and a huge draw on a nut flush against a made straight and suddenly I was up 300 and the table was backing down to me. Unfortunately I got a little big headed and ran off 130 of that trying to "ride the wave" before hitting a few hands at the end of the day and running up to +418 for a nice 6 hour session.
In the middle of that day we went over to the Wynn Buffet as I had two free buffet comps there, and WOW was that a good buffet. Some amazing creamed mushrooms, buttered carrots, salmon, awesome prime rib... just great! I would definately recommend it again!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Brune blows through town
Oh boy... I always forget how crazy a few days with Ken can be, and how people who don't live in Vegas have to do EVERYTHING right now... sleep is for the plane ride home.
Ken got in Sunday afternoon and was staying at the Venetian so I met them over there after they finished lunch. We played there for a little while before decided to head downtown for the best blackjack in town as well as cheaper food. It turned out downtown was awesome! A great microbrewery, some awesome blackjack and craps games, and some amazingly cool old-style vegas entertainment.
Downtown Vegas is a very interesting place. They have setup the "Fremont Street Experience" which is a very nice road (which noone is allowed to drive on) with vendors and entertainment, a light show and musc. Add in all the lights and glitter from all the casinos littering the corners and it was very entertaining. I really like it a lot.
Downtown was good to us for awhile, and the beer at Main Street was AWESOME. Unfortunately we found Binions and a great single deck, 3/2 game with a 25 dollar min and the dealer proceeded to lay the beatdown on me and Ken pretty serious like. Unfortunately Binions wiped us out and we hung around a few more places until around 10 and we headed back to the Venetian so Ken could get some more money, and played there until around 1 AM before hitting the sack. The plan the next day was to play the 9:30 AM at Paris so we needed our rest.
Unfortunately Ken's roommate had to be at the conference at 7 AM so he was up at 6 and I couldn't sleep so I didn't get asleep until 3. So we were both exhausted and tapped out of the Paris tournament early. We decided to hit the Ballys 11 AM but there was only one seat left. I took it and Ken played blackjack. He was up 400 at BJ and I managed to take 3rd thanks to an INSANE outdraw. I get KQ on the bigblind with only 8500 total (4000 is the big blind), a min raise from UTG and I have to call with only 4500 behind. He flips up KK for a massive hand and me drawing so slim it wasn't even funny. The flop is J/10/9 for the nut straight. No Q and I take the whole pot and cruise into 3rd place.
After that and some craps I drop Ken at the Venetian for a nap and I head home to rest up. I managed to get an hour nap or so before we headed back out on Monday night. A quick trip to Circus Circus, Rivieara, the Wynn and Frontier managed to net me 700 for the day and a 2 AM bedtime again. Unfortunately for Ken, he went to the Strat without me and got crushed so he was cruising around at down 1500.
We agreed to sleep in on Tuesday morning as we were both tired... My version of sleeping in was till around 2... Ken's was till about 10 AM before he was back down gambling it up. I met up with him and Kevin at TI around 5 after getting tickets to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton then we headed over to there.
Now I don't get motion sickness very bad, but some people do... If you do, avoid the motion rides (DUH!) which Startrek is. I loved every minute of it... the history museum on the way into the theatre, and the live action actors acting out the scenes before the motion ride at the end... They have the Klingon one and the Borg one and I of course had to do both of them.
We ended up playing until 4 AM at the Hilton with me hitting a massive craps run at the end to finish up 900, and Ken catching some monster cards at the blackjack table to pull back to down only a grand. A funny story on the way to the buffet :)
Kevin and I are starving, so we are heading to the buffet. While we are waiting to cashout Ken sits down at a roulette table and wins his first bet... So he tells us he will meet us at the buffet in a minute. Needless to say 45 mins later the buffet is closed, and we are ken-less still. Bruneville was rocking the blackjack tables when we got out, and had managed to acquire a comp to the paradise cafe so he could eat later.
Ken got in Sunday afternoon and was staying at the Venetian so I met them over there after they finished lunch. We played there for a little while before decided to head downtown for the best blackjack in town as well as cheaper food. It turned out downtown was awesome! A great microbrewery, some awesome blackjack and craps games, and some amazingly cool old-style vegas entertainment.
Downtown Vegas is a very interesting place. They have setup the "Fremont Street Experience" which is a very nice road (which noone is allowed to drive on) with vendors and entertainment, a light show and musc. Add in all the lights and glitter from all the casinos littering the corners and it was very entertaining. I really like it a lot.
Downtown was good to us for awhile, and the beer at Main Street was AWESOME. Unfortunately we found Binions and a great single deck, 3/2 game with a 25 dollar min and the dealer proceeded to lay the beatdown on me and Ken pretty serious like. Unfortunately Binions wiped us out and we hung around a few more places until around 10 and we headed back to the Venetian so Ken could get some more money, and played there until around 1 AM before hitting the sack. The plan the next day was to play the 9:30 AM at Paris so we needed our rest.
Unfortunately Ken's roommate had to be at the conference at 7 AM so he was up at 6 and I couldn't sleep so I didn't get asleep until 3. So we were both exhausted and tapped out of the Paris tournament early. We decided to hit the Ballys 11 AM but there was only one seat left. I took it and Ken played blackjack. He was up 400 at BJ and I managed to take 3rd thanks to an INSANE outdraw. I get KQ on the bigblind with only 8500 total (4000 is the big blind), a min raise from UTG and I have to call with only 4500 behind. He flips up KK for a massive hand and me drawing so slim it wasn't even funny. The flop is J/10/9 for the nut straight. No Q and I take the whole pot and cruise into 3rd place.
After that and some craps I drop Ken at the Venetian for a nap and I head home to rest up. I managed to get an hour nap or so before we headed back out on Monday night. A quick trip to Circus Circus, Rivieara, the Wynn and Frontier managed to net me 700 for the day and a 2 AM bedtime again. Unfortunately for Ken, he went to the Strat without me and got crushed so he was cruising around at down 1500.
We agreed to sleep in on Tuesday morning as we were both tired... My version of sleeping in was till around 2... Ken's was till about 10 AM before he was back down gambling it up. I met up with him and Kevin at TI around 5 after getting tickets to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton then we headed over to there.
Now I don't get motion sickness very bad, but some people do... If you do, avoid the motion rides (DUH!) which Startrek is. I loved every minute of it... the history museum on the way into the theatre, and the live action actors acting out the scenes before the motion ride at the end... They have the Klingon one and the Borg one and I of course had to do both of them.
We ended up playing until 4 AM at the Hilton with me hitting a massive craps run at the end to finish up 900, and Ken catching some monster cards at the blackjack table to pull back to down only a grand. A funny story on the way to the buffet :)
Kevin and I are starving, so we are heading to the buffet. While we are waiting to cashout Ken sits down at a roulette table and wins his first bet... So he tells us he will meet us at the buffet in a minute. Needless to say 45 mins later the buffet is closed, and we are ken-less still. Bruneville was rocking the blackjack tables when we got out, and had managed to acquire a comp to the paradise cafe so he could eat later.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Celeb Reality
What a busy week this has been... you would think being unemployed and single you would have a lot of free time, however somehow I manage to fill every second up. After getting the job on Tuesday I slept in on Wednesday before going out to get my social security card. I know I *HAD* one but I couldn't find it when I needed it. I found out later that "only an hour" wait at the Social Security Office was good, but I thought it was AWFUL! I finally finished that and stopped at the Walmart to finally buy a TV to go with my furniture. It turns out the 24 inch TV boxes are too big to fit into my Camry, so I left the box and just took the TV.. Sorry trash guy.
The casinos in town make it VERY easy to get to places you lose your money at... Lots of signs, directions, easy to follow paths, etc. This is NOT the case when you try to get the Human Resource department. From the Bally's parking garage these were the directions I got to the HR Department and I quote:
"Go down to the main casino level, out to Ballys and past the bar, turn right and go down the escalator, down the shopping hallway to the sportsbook. Turn left at the sportsbook, go outside, down the construction hallway, into the building marked 'Human Resources' turn right and go down the hallway foollowing the signs for 'Processing' and into that room marked 'Processing done here'."
Piece of cake! Only took 15 mins to walk that far, and 20 more mins to get the lady to repeat the instructions 8 times because I was sure she was kidding. I finally get there at 3:40 and they stop processing at 3:30. Well THAT sucks. So I have to come back tomorrow, as long as I am here I might as well play some. I hit up the blackjack tables at Ballys and have a grand old time with some tourists and cash out up 240. I then decide to check out the Ceaser's poker room as I am across the street from it. Over the bridge I go and walk the 10-20 miles throuogh Ceasers to get to the poker room. It turns out they are taping an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy today and I get to watch Penn, George Wallace and some gay guys play poker. The whole time arguing over what the proper arrangement of chips and cards, and colors of chips, etc. It was quite humurous. I waited around long enough to shake hands with Penn and George and tell them I enjoy their shows and then went to play 3/6 with a half kill that we later turned into a full kill.
Now there are times when the world works as it should... this was not to be one of those days. Flopped set loses to runner runner flush (but he had 2 overs was his excuse), flopped straight loses to better straight on the river. It was just plain ugly, but the table was fun and I enjoyed the game and the people... only down 101 so can't complain much.
Now for those of you who say I never lose at Blackjack I won't even get into how much I lost on Wed and Thursday but suffice it to say there are some casinos in Vegas I will ALWAYS be welcome in now. Even me and the South Coast are square now... the pit boss from my +800 day remembered me and took notice of me giving most of that back.
Thursday evening I went to the Las Vegas 51's AAA Baseball team's season opener. It is a nice little stadium that only holds make 3K fans.. and it wasn't even 15% full... I know I can be really smart at times, however when trying to figure out why they were the 51's I was totally blanking. However, when the alien mascot ran on the field I figured it out pretty quick... Area 51 - Las Vegas 51's... yeah yeah I get it now. Ha Ha very funny. We left at 7-2 Vegas in the 7th and I proceeded to give MORE of my blackjack money back to the casinos (they have employees to pay and I felt bad)
Thursday afternoon I had finished my "processing" and was then sent to get my fingerprints done. So Friday morning I went to eat and then to get my fingerprints done. I have never before been told I need to Moisturize! The fingerprint lady seemed highly offended that my fingerprints were so sucky because my hands were so dry. BAH! Girly moisturizing... hmmph. I might do it,but I will NEVER admit to it.
A quick stop back at the HR office (I know where it is now and can park closer :) ) to drop off my fingerprint info and my 75 dollar money order to apply for my Gaming Control Board card so I can legally deal poker in Vegas after I pass the background check. I got off easy though... you should see the hoops the bartenders have to go through, and I didn't even have to pass a drug test since I was only temporary (that scared me a little... knowing the 800 people they are hiring are not drug-free)
I then headed over to the Wynn for some 4/8 action. I love the Rio but they rake a straight 10% to 4 dollars, the Wynn rakes at 10/30/50/80 which adds up after awhile. I try NOT to win pots smaller than 80 dollars, but I do on occasion. I would MUCH rather all my pots be over 80, but I won't turn down any winning pots.
The night started off card dead, and I managed to finagle being up 35 without anything reasonable. I then got dealt KJ of hearts in late position and it was folded to me, so of course I raised. Folded to the big blind who called. Flop is 3 low cards and 2 hearts checked to me, and I bet. He calls. Turn is nothing, he checks, I bet he check/raises. I figure he hit a pair on that board and I am still drawing live, or is just mad at me for raising his blind. So I call drawing to I figure 15 outs (9 hearts, 3 J's, 3 K's). The River is a K and I figure I am good, he bets and I just call. He had freaking pocket K's. Hmmph.
The NEXT hand I get dealt KK myself, so I of course raise get a few callers. Flop is crap and I keep betting, and getting called. 2 Diamonds on the flop and of course I get chased down by A6 of diamonds and the King of diamonds comes in on the river. I check/call the river and cry at the luck on that one. The NEXT hand I get dealt 10/10 and the flop is raggedy enough to keep me around and I end up losing to J/2 who called 2 bets cold from mid-position and hit 2 pair on the river. What else can I do... 2 hands later I get dealt KK AGAIN, and unfortunately being on the button raise and get called by 3 people. Flop is 7/9/x and I get bet into by a straightforward player. I reraise to see if he is kidding and he just calls. I put him on top pair and I keep betting into him and he just calls. Turns out he flopped 2 pair and the board doesn't bring a pair or a K and I am down again. So 4 hands, net loss of about 120 bucks... UGLY
I decide to take a walk, stop at the Wynn blackjack tables and manage to bring 100 back out of the game to make me feel a little better. Head back to the poker room and the whole lineup has changed, so I get my reads down on the new people and manage to get back all 120 and another 150 before I leave after 8 hours. These people were passive, calling stations playing scared. Limping with A's and K's, and getting outdrawn constantly and complaining. One fun hand towards the end...
I get dealt 2/4 of diamonds in the big blind and it is raised with 6 players in to me so I call getting 11 to 1 effectively on low suited 1 gappers. Behind me it is 3 bet and 4 bet by the original bettor so now I am getting 11 to 1 to call 2 more bets and I have to do it. A Cap behind me and I call the final bets 6 ways for a $120 pot pre-flop. Flop is K/x/4 with 1 diamond. Bet into me by the original raiser who is surely on AK or AA at this point, maybe KK, but getting 35 to 1 on the call it is hardly a tough decision drawing to at least 1 out, and probably 6 (3 2's, 2 4's and backdoor diamonds). The turn is another 4... So the original bettor bets into me and I reraise, freezing out the table and isolating against him. I probably should have flat called to encourage calls behind me, but I just didn't feel very strong... a lot of things can go wrong from here and I wanted to know if I was Way ahead or Way behind. (ie did he flop a set of K's). On the river is the 4th 4! So now I KNOW I am winning... Quads don't lose often, and he checked I bet and he called to bring home a MASSIVE pot.
An interesting little side note. The Wynn is just FULL of celebrities this weekend as I saw Meadow from the Sopranos, Cuba Gooding Jr, and heard Paris Hilton was partying like a rockstar at the Maxim party in the Wynn. Meadow was playing the 1/3 NL game at the table next to me at the Wynn... it was really cool.
Saturday morning I decided boxes of furniture was not the best arrangement and put together my desk, chair and TV stand I bought. I even put away my luggage, arranged my closet, and washed all my clothes. I know... SOOO domestic. The room looks MUCH better now, and I can now relax some having it put together properly.
I got a phone call from my friend Tiffany telling me all about the OC and chastising me for not watching it, but it is on at 8 PM on Thursdays which is a prime night for poker! I told her I can't afford a TIVO yet, and I am not going to stay home and watch TV at night... It is always amazing how technology can taint our view of things. We used to watch shows we weren't home for BEFORE TIVO so what did we do? Oh yeah... we used a VCR, and I just bought a Tv with a built-in DVD and VCR... oh what a concept! I could USE THAT! Wow... DUH! Such a dork sometimes.
By the time I finished putting the furniture together, doing 3 loads of laundry, folding it all, going to get something to eat, reading a few chapters in the book, it was already 5 PM! I decided to hit the Rio again and got clocked in around 5:30. I somehow managed to rediscover my patience at the tables and hit a few flops, and really played well finishing up 388 before getting to tired to focus anymore around 11. I wasn't quite ready to go home so I tried the Texas Hold'em table game which promptly sucked 200 bucks out of me... BAH! So I hit the shoe blackjack at the Rio with a $15 min-bet and watched the dealer go the ENTIRE SHOE without busting on a 6 deck shoe. We are talking hard 15 and 16's and drawing to 3's and 4's constantly. It was flat out brutal, cleared the table out and new players came in who had no idea how to play. They just flat out tanked the game and I dropped the entire 200 I bought in with before getting mad and putting 200 cash down to play, dealt 18, dealer draws to 17 and I am back to even at blackjack. I play a little more before moving to the Single deck 6/5 blackjack game (I know horrible game but the Rio spreads a LOT of this and all the shoe games were full). I managed to get some AMAZING counts in a single deck 5 handed game when the first run put 22 cards on the table and only 3 tens and 1 Ace, tripled the bet and hit blackjack twice for nice wins even at 6-5 and cashed out at 530 for a 330 profit to erase my 200 from the other games, and headed home to bed.
Sunday Ken Brune arrives in vegas so I am off to meet him at the Venetian before we go Monday morning to the Paris and Bally's morning poker tournaments.
The casinos in town make it VERY easy to get to places you lose your money at... Lots of signs, directions, easy to follow paths, etc. This is NOT the case when you try to get the Human Resource department. From the Bally's parking garage these were the directions I got to the HR Department and I quote:
"Go down to the main casino level, out to Ballys and past the bar, turn right and go down the escalator, down the shopping hallway to the sportsbook. Turn left at the sportsbook, go outside, down the construction hallway, into the building marked 'Human Resources' turn right and go down the hallway foollowing the signs for 'Processing' and into that room marked 'Processing done here'."
Piece of cake! Only took 15 mins to walk that far, and 20 more mins to get the lady to repeat the instructions 8 times because I was sure she was kidding. I finally get there at 3:40 and they stop processing at 3:30. Well THAT sucks. So I have to come back tomorrow, as long as I am here I might as well play some. I hit up the blackjack tables at Ballys and have a grand old time with some tourists and cash out up 240. I then decide to check out the Ceaser's poker room as I am across the street from it. Over the bridge I go and walk the 10-20 miles throuogh Ceasers to get to the poker room. It turns out they are taping an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy today and I get to watch Penn, George Wallace and some gay guys play poker. The whole time arguing over what the proper arrangement of chips and cards, and colors of chips, etc. It was quite humurous. I waited around long enough to shake hands with Penn and George and tell them I enjoy their shows and then went to play 3/6 with a half kill that we later turned into a full kill.
Now there are times when the world works as it should... this was not to be one of those days. Flopped set loses to runner runner flush (but he had 2 overs was his excuse), flopped straight loses to better straight on the river. It was just plain ugly, but the table was fun and I enjoyed the game and the people... only down 101 so can't complain much.
Now for those of you who say I never lose at Blackjack I won't even get into how much I lost on Wed and Thursday but suffice it to say there are some casinos in Vegas I will ALWAYS be welcome in now. Even me and the South Coast are square now... the pit boss from my +800 day remembered me and took notice of me giving most of that back.
Thursday evening I went to the Las Vegas 51's AAA Baseball team's season opener. It is a nice little stadium that only holds make 3K fans.. and it wasn't even 15% full... I know I can be really smart at times, however when trying to figure out why they were the 51's I was totally blanking. However, when the alien mascot ran on the field I figured it out pretty quick... Area 51 - Las Vegas 51's... yeah yeah I get it now. Ha Ha very funny. We left at 7-2 Vegas in the 7th and I proceeded to give MORE of my blackjack money back to the casinos (they have employees to pay and I felt bad)
Thursday afternoon I had finished my "processing" and was then sent to get my fingerprints done. So Friday morning I went to eat and then to get my fingerprints done. I have never before been told I need to Moisturize! The fingerprint lady seemed highly offended that my fingerprints were so sucky because my hands were so dry. BAH! Girly moisturizing... hmmph. I might do it,but I will NEVER admit to it.
A quick stop back at the HR office (I know where it is now and can park closer :) ) to drop off my fingerprint info and my 75 dollar money order to apply for my Gaming Control Board card so I can legally deal poker in Vegas after I pass the background check. I got off easy though... you should see the hoops the bartenders have to go through, and I didn't even have to pass a drug test since I was only temporary (that scared me a little... knowing the 800 people they are hiring are not drug-free)
I then headed over to the Wynn for some 4/8 action. I love the Rio but they rake a straight 10% to 4 dollars, the Wynn rakes at 10/30/50/80 which adds up after awhile. I try NOT to win pots smaller than 80 dollars, but I do on occasion. I would MUCH rather all my pots be over 80, but I won't turn down any winning pots.
The night started off card dead, and I managed to finagle being up 35 without anything reasonable. I then got dealt KJ of hearts in late position and it was folded to me, so of course I raised. Folded to the big blind who called. Flop is 3 low cards and 2 hearts checked to me, and I bet. He calls. Turn is nothing, he checks, I bet he check/raises. I figure he hit a pair on that board and I am still drawing live, or is just mad at me for raising his blind. So I call drawing to I figure 15 outs (9 hearts, 3 J's, 3 K's). The River is a K and I figure I am good, he bets and I just call. He had freaking pocket K's. Hmmph.
The NEXT hand I get dealt KK myself, so I of course raise get a few callers. Flop is crap and I keep betting, and getting called. 2 Diamonds on the flop and of course I get chased down by A6 of diamonds and the King of diamonds comes in on the river. I check/call the river and cry at the luck on that one. The NEXT hand I get dealt 10/10 and the flop is raggedy enough to keep me around and I end up losing to J/2 who called 2 bets cold from mid-position and hit 2 pair on the river. What else can I do... 2 hands later I get dealt KK AGAIN, and unfortunately being on the button raise and get called by 3 people. Flop is 7/9/x and I get bet into by a straightforward player. I reraise to see if he is kidding and he just calls. I put him on top pair and I keep betting into him and he just calls. Turns out he flopped 2 pair and the board doesn't bring a pair or a K and I am down again. So 4 hands, net loss of about 120 bucks... UGLY
I decide to take a walk, stop at the Wynn blackjack tables and manage to bring 100 back out of the game to make me feel a little better. Head back to the poker room and the whole lineup has changed, so I get my reads down on the new people and manage to get back all 120 and another 150 before I leave after 8 hours. These people were passive, calling stations playing scared. Limping with A's and K's, and getting outdrawn constantly and complaining. One fun hand towards the end...
I get dealt 2/4 of diamonds in the big blind and it is raised with 6 players in to me so I call getting 11 to 1 effectively on low suited 1 gappers. Behind me it is 3 bet and 4 bet by the original bettor so now I am getting 11 to 1 to call 2 more bets and I have to do it. A Cap behind me and I call the final bets 6 ways for a $120 pot pre-flop. Flop is K/x/4 with 1 diamond. Bet into me by the original raiser who is surely on AK or AA at this point, maybe KK, but getting 35 to 1 on the call it is hardly a tough decision drawing to at least 1 out, and probably 6 (3 2's, 2 4's and backdoor diamonds). The turn is another 4... So the original bettor bets into me and I reraise, freezing out the table and isolating against him. I probably should have flat called to encourage calls behind me, but I just didn't feel very strong... a lot of things can go wrong from here and I wanted to know if I was Way ahead or Way behind. (ie did he flop a set of K's). On the river is the 4th 4! So now I KNOW I am winning... Quads don't lose often, and he checked I bet and he called to bring home a MASSIVE pot.
An interesting little side note. The Wynn is just FULL of celebrities this weekend as I saw Meadow from the Sopranos, Cuba Gooding Jr, and heard Paris Hilton was partying like a rockstar at the Maxim party in the Wynn. Meadow was playing the 1/3 NL game at the table next to me at the Wynn... it was really cool.
Saturday morning I decided boxes of furniture was not the best arrangement and put together my desk, chair and TV stand I bought. I even put away my luggage, arranged my closet, and washed all my clothes. I know... SOOO domestic. The room looks MUCH better now, and I can now relax some having it put together properly.
I got a phone call from my friend Tiffany telling me all about the OC and chastising me for not watching it, but it is on at 8 PM on Thursdays which is a prime night for poker! I told her I can't afford a TIVO yet, and I am not going to stay home and watch TV at night... It is always amazing how technology can taint our view of things. We used to watch shows we weren't home for BEFORE TIVO so what did we do? Oh yeah... we used a VCR, and I just bought a Tv with a built-in DVD and VCR... oh what a concept! I could USE THAT! Wow... DUH! Such a dork sometimes.
By the time I finished putting the furniture together, doing 3 loads of laundry, folding it all, going to get something to eat, reading a few chapters in the book, it was already 5 PM! I decided to hit the Rio again and got clocked in around 5:30. I somehow managed to rediscover my patience at the tables and hit a few flops, and really played well finishing up 388 before getting to tired to focus anymore around 11. I wasn't quite ready to go home so I tried the Texas Hold'em table game which promptly sucked 200 bucks out of me... BAH! So I hit the shoe blackjack at the Rio with a $15 min-bet and watched the dealer go the ENTIRE SHOE without busting on a 6 deck shoe. We are talking hard 15 and 16's and drawing to 3's and 4's constantly. It was flat out brutal, cleared the table out and new players came in who had no idea how to play. They just flat out tanked the game and I dropped the entire 200 I bought in with before getting mad and putting 200 cash down to play, dealt 18, dealer draws to 17 and I am back to even at blackjack. I play a little more before moving to the Single deck 6/5 blackjack game (I know horrible game but the Rio spreads a LOT of this and all the shoe games were full). I managed to get some AMAZING counts in a single deck 5 handed game when the first run put 22 cards on the table and only 3 tens and 1 Ace, tripled the bet and hit blackjack twice for nice wins even at 6-5 and cashed out at 530 for a 330 profit to erase my 200 from the other games, and headed home to bed.
Sunday Ken Brune arrives in vegas so I am off to meet him at the Venetian before we go Monday morning to the Paris and Bally's morning poker tournaments.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Best Damn 4 Hours EVER!
Oh tuesdays... so much to do and so little time. The testing for WACA's new WISE release is going poorly as I am getting some strange ramp up results and the script which ran fine in testing is now erroring out. So I have to get that fixed, the wireless at the new place is flaky at best but I did find a Panera where I can relax and work with a lot more speed.
After chasing a fax machine all over town, getting a printout of the IRS forms my contracting payments, and signing everything I was only 2 hours late for class... Not to bad, class was good felt good in the box both downs and am really starting to feel good dealing Hold'em. I even worked on my Stud pitch and it is looking a lot better when I relax :)
After class and fighting traffic (I thought I left this behind in Atlanta!) I hit the Rio for a night of poker. About 5 PM the fun really started... oh lordy. An hour of blackjack results in me being up 230, even thought the pit boss wouldn't give a buffet comp! WTF! I bet 25 dollars a hand for an hour, I get to eat for free... I read that in the manual! Harrah's is different of course... bastards. Still not a bad start...
I then go over to the poker room and the 4/8 is full so I get on the list, while I am waiting I heard they were doing World Series of Poker auditions on Tuesday mornings. I thought this might be a good way to get a lot of time in the box and make some contacts by dealing the World Series of Poker. I planned to spend a LOT of time practicing in class and go next Tuesday to audition. I ask the floor manager some questions about the audition, what time, what documentation do I need, etc. He tells me the answers and then says "Well they are over there right now, go ahead and audition now." Oh lordy! I am soooo not ready! I haven't practiced nearly enough, I am dressed in Jeans and sneakers, haven't shaved in 3 days... Oh god. Sure why not :) Worst they can say is I suck and go practice. So I go over and have to wait about 30 mins till they get to me, and then it starts.
I blow the first two questions out of the box. What is HORSE? and what is the max bet in a Pot Limit Omaha game? I knew the answers but I missed them anyways (I said the E in horse was Omaha 8 or better instead of Stud 8 or better, and the max bet in PL Omaha was the pot, but it is really a CALL then a RAISE of the pot). So at this point I just want to run away but I hang with it... I answer the rest of the questions, read a few hands, count down the stub for Omaha and Hold'em, give him the rules for Razz and Omaha H/L split, and then deal a hand of 2-7 Triple Draw lowball (thank god I tried that once on line), Omaha High, and Hold'em.
He tricks me once with a stupid question when dealing Omaha High he asks me what the nut hand is and I tell him, he then asks me what the nut low is and I show him. He says "Nope, we are playing Omaha not hi-low". Dork! Don't ask questions you don't want an answer to...
We then go through an ante exercise where he intentionally shorts the ante and another hand reading with a stub question. At the end he gives me the paper and tells me I start June 12th, go fill out the paperwork at HR! Holy cow they hired me! What a rush! I was shaking so bad I couldn't even say anything after that... I am going to be dealing the World Series of POKER! The big kahuna, the biggest tournament in the world! 6 weeks of 12-15 hour days at $5.25 an hour! Oh boy... what have I gotten into! If nothing else, it will be a shitload of experience!
So after all that I go eat dinner and get a fortune cookie which says (I am NOT kidding it really said this) "Today all your hard work will be rewarded" you better believe it! I sit in the 4/8 game and catch a gutshot for a huge pot, top pair, top kicker outkicks his Q/10 for another big pot, flopped set turns into a boat, Flop a broadway straight, and top pair holds up for some nice pots and a +174 profit playing for 2 hours and I call it a night.
Up 404 and got a job... How do you beat THAT for 4 hours of work! I can now officially say I am a "Professional Poker Dealer"! Bring it on biatch... life is good.
After chasing a fax machine all over town, getting a printout of the IRS forms my contracting payments, and signing everything I was only 2 hours late for class... Not to bad, class was good felt good in the box both downs and am really starting to feel good dealing Hold'em. I even worked on my Stud pitch and it is looking a lot better when I relax :)
After class and fighting traffic (I thought I left this behind in Atlanta!) I hit the Rio for a night of poker. About 5 PM the fun really started... oh lordy. An hour of blackjack results in me being up 230, even thought the pit boss wouldn't give a buffet comp! WTF! I bet 25 dollars a hand for an hour, I get to eat for free... I read that in the manual! Harrah's is different of course... bastards. Still not a bad start...
I then go over to the poker room and the 4/8 is full so I get on the list, while I am waiting I heard they were doing World Series of Poker auditions on Tuesday mornings. I thought this might be a good way to get a lot of time in the box and make some contacts by dealing the World Series of Poker. I planned to spend a LOT of time practicing in class and go next Tuesday to audition. I ask the floor manager some questions about the audition, what time, what documentation do I need, etc. He tells me the answers and then says "Well they are over there right now, go ahead and audition now." Oh lordy! I am soooo not ready! I haven't practiced nearly enough, I am dressed in Jeans and sneakers, haven't shaved in 3 days... Oh god. Sure why not :) Worst they can say is I suck and go practice. So I go over and have to wait about 30 mins till they get to me, and then it starts.
I blow the first two questions out of the box. What is HORSE? and what is the max bet in a Pot Limit Omaha game? I knew the answers but I missed them anyways (I said the E in horse was Omaha 8 or better instead of Stud 8 or better, and the max bet in PL Omaha was the pot, but it is really a CALL then a RAISE of the pot). So at this point I just want to run away but I hang with it... I answer the rest of the questions, read a few hands, count down the stub for Omaha and Hold'em, give him the rules for Razz and Omaha H/L split, and then deal a hand of 2-7 Triple Draw lowball (thank god I tried that once on line), Omaha High, and Hold'em.
He tricks me once with a stupid question when dealing Omaha High he asks me what the nut hand is and I tell him, he then asks me what the nut low is and I show him. He says "Nope, we are playing Omaha not hi-low". Dork! Don't ask questions you don't want an answer to...
We then go through an ante exercise where he intentionally shorts the ante and another hand reading with a stub question. At the end he gives me the paper and tells me I start June 12th, go fill out the paperwork at HR! Holy cow they hired me! What a rush! I was shaking so bad I couldn't even say anything after that... I am going to be dealing the World Series of POKER! The big kahuna, the biggest tournament in the world! 6 weeks of 12-15 hour days at $5.25 an hour! Oh boy... what have I gotten into! If nothing else, it will be a shitload of experience!
So after all that I go eat dinner and get a fortune cookie which says (I am NOT kidding it really said this) "Today all your hard work will be rewarded" you better believe it! I sit in the 4/8 game and catch a gutshot for a huge pot, top pair, top kicker outkicks his Q/10 for another big pot, flopped set turns into a boat, Flop a broadway straight, and top pair holds up for some nice pots and a +174 profit playing for 2 hours and I call it a night.
Up 404 and got a job... How do you beat THAT for 4 hours of work! I can now officially say I am a "Professional Poker Dealer"! Bring it on biatch... life is good.
Oh what a weekend
So much going on here I feel like I need a vacation! Sheesh... I went shopping on Saturday to get a desk, chair, TV Stand, and a television (I failed on the TV search....) and a miserably failed search for a small black dresser... I think I am giving up on that search. I can live out of a suitcase until I get my own place and a full bedroom suite. How hard is it when you only have boxers, socks, and T-shirts and everything else is hung up in the closet.
Saturday I was so tired I went to bed early and then didn't get up until late on Sunday and hit the Rio for a few hours of suck-out city poker. It really wasn't my day but a few good hands of Blackjack and I finished up 17 dollars overall... WHEE! Maybe I need to take Sundays off now as well.
Monday is my day off from school (my choice), and I hung around the house watched the Braves game, caught up on some documentation for WACA and relaxed a little. I then headed over to South Coast for the 7 PM tournament arriving around 5:30 since signups start at 5. It turns out I was WAY to early and they only had 27 people for the tournament. I hit the blackjack table to play some doubledeck blackjack and managed to run 200 into 450 in a little over an hour, and then hit the tourney. I kept running into bigger hands iwth my hands and folding smartly but was getting whittled down. I finally hit an Open ended straight draw on the button and get check/raised all-in for 900 more (start with 2000). I decide I don't want to play short stack poker and am either going to get a good chip stack or go out. So I call, and miss and am out of the tourney 20 minutes in.
Head back over to the Blackjack tables and run that 450 from earlier into a grand in about 75 minutes, get a buffet comp, cash out and go eat at the Steak Buffet they have on Monday nights.
At this point it is only 9 PM so I decide to check out the brand new room at the Venetian. This is a GORGEOUS casino and even better poker room... Wow is it nice. talk about luxury. The dealers need some work, the floor is mediocre... but boy can they decorate. 2 hours of poker and I am up 100 so decide to call it a night. Up 800 from blackjack, up 100 from the Ventian, down 120 at Video Poker (maybe I should give up the Video Poker dream), and 60 from the tournament for a nice 720 dollar profit for the day. Not bad for watching the braves game, and lounging around the house most of the day.
Saturday I was so tired I went to bed early and then didn't get up until late on Sunday and hit the Rio for a few hours of suck-out city poker. It really wasn't my day but a few good hands of Blackjack and I finished up 17 dollars overall... WHEE! Maybe I need to take Sundays off now as well.
Monday is my day off from school (my choice), and I hung around the house watched the Braves game, caught up on some documentation for WACA and relaxed a little. I then headed over to South Coast for the 7 PM tournament arriving around 5:30 since signups start at 5. It turns out I was WAY to early and they only had 27 people for the tournament. I hit the blackjack table to play some doubledeck blackjack and managed to run 200 into 450 in a little over an hour, and then hit the tourney. I kept running into bigger hands iwth my hands and folding smartly but was getting whittled down. I finally hit an Open ended straight draw on the button and get check/raised all-in for 900 more (start with 2000). I decide I don't want to play short stack poker and am either going to get a good chip stack or go out. So I call, and miss and am out of the tourney 20 minutes in.
Head back over to the Blackjack tables and run that 450 from earlier into a grand in about 75 minutes, get a buffet comp, cash out and go eat at the Steak Buffet they have on Monday nights.
At this point it is only 9 PM so I decide to check out the brand new room at the Venetian. This is a GORGEOUS casino and even better poker room... Wow is it nice. talk about luxury. The dealers need some work, the floor is mediocre... but boy can they decorate. 2 hours of poker and I am up 100 so decide to call it a night. Up 800 from blackjack, up 100 from the Ventian, down 120 at Video Poker (maybe I should give up the Video Poker dream), and 60 from the tournament for a nice 720 dollar profit for the day. Not bad for watching the braves game, and lounging around the house most of the day.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Constantly amazed
I am almost 35 years old... you would think that after awhile I would not be surpised anymore. Yet, I still am... let me give you some stories from vegas to explain.
- They have cup holders in the bathroom stalls.... seriously.
- I live in a desert, yet I am 45 mins from a ski resort.
- I live in a desert that has flood zones.
- If you are 80 years old and have to gum a piece of watermelon to death to eat it... A push-up bra and a low cut shirt is NOT the outfit for you to wear EVER. And DEFINATELY not acrosss the poker table from ME!
Friday night I tried to play at the Wynn. A girl I met and I were heading over there (They have strawberry julius.... yummy), I got there and the wait was over 2 hours for a table! but Jennifer wasn't there yet, so I waited... Jen calls tells me she is stuck downtown and how is the wait. I tell her 2 hours+ and that I am going to the Rio (which has no wait). The game at the Rio is donktastic as usual.... unfortunately I am frustrated from waiting so long to play, a long day on Friday and starting to play later than normal.... So I get sucked into the table after my Aces get cracked for the second time and donk it up with the table. Unfortunately my donking skills are lacking and I lose all 200 of my buy-in and sulk over to the blackjack table where I make it back.
Friday afternoon I had my first evaluation of my actual dealing skills. I take written tests REALLY well. I always have. However physical coordination and evaluation have never been my strong suit... Let's be honest, I am not the most athletically gifted person on the planet. So I was nervous... My best game to deal for me is Hold'em, followed by Omaha and then 7 card stud. So of course I am shaking nervous and they make me do Stud first... BAH! I throw one card off the table, can't control the rest of them and get graded very poorly on my stud game. The other 2 games go much better and I calm down, other than dragging a pot through the flop and messing it up I did fine and passed with a few comments
Saturday is moving day as I move into my new place. I get everything packed up and moved out, get my whole security deposit back and everything goes fairly smoothly. I don't get out to the poker tables until around 7 PM and stop for dinner at the NY NY "village" food court. The place is jam packed and I get a coney dog and am waiting for a table to open up to sit at when one finally does. I of course jump on it to sit down and notice 4 college cuties standing up at the counter in their clubbing outfits trying to eat chili and cheese fries and hotdogs with a knife and fork balanced on their hands... EEK! So I of course invite them to join me at the table which is plenty big for the 5 of us. They readily agree and we have a pleasant conversation about where they go to school and that is one of their birthdays and they are here for spring break, etc. They then tell me they are going to meet some more friends out clubbing tonight and what was I doing.
Now at this point in the story I have to decide how much of a dork I REALLY want to look like. If you really know me you know the answer I gave them which was "Oh, I am going to play poker on a saturday night by myself with a bunch of other guys no way I can go to the club". I really want to change the story to be some crazy night of dancing and making out with college girls on spring break in vegas... but well I can't. Everyone would know I was lying... so I gave them exactly the answer I put above and they gave me exactly the look every one of you has on your face right now... the ever famous head shake and "Richard is a dork" look. But really... Saturday nights are good for poker, lots of people play bad on the weekends.
This story would be REALLY good if I then told you I went to the MGM, made 100's of dollars playing poker and I am the smartest person EVER. It is nowhere NEAR as amazing if I tell you that I went played for only a few hours before being too tired to continue and went home and went to bed.
Look on the bright side... at least I didn't say "EWWW! They are girls stay away!". Does that help my image at all? No? Dang it!
- They have cup holders in the bathroom stalls.... seriously.
- I live in a desert, yet I am 45 mins from a ski resort.
- I live in a desert that has flood zones.
- If you are 80 years old and have to gum a piece of watermelon to death to eat it... A push-up bra and a low cut shirt is NOT the outfit for you to wear EVER. And DEFINATELY not acrosss the poker table from ME!
Friday night I tried to play at the Wynn. A girl I met and I were heading over there (They have strawberry julius.... yummy), I got there and the wait was over 2 hours for a table! but Jennifer wasn't there yet, so I waited... Jen calls tells me she is stuck downtown and how is the wait. I tell her 2 hours+ and that I am going to the Rio (which has no wait). The game at the Rio is donktastic as usual.... unfortunately I am frustrated from waiting so long to play, a long day on Friday and starting to play later than normal.... So I get sucked into the table after my Aces get cracked for the second time and donk it up with the table. Unfortunately my donking skills are lacking and I lose all 200 of my buy-in and sulk over to the blackjack table where I make it back.
Friday afternoon I had my first evaluation of my actual dealing skills. I take written tests REALLY well. I always have. However physical coordination and evaluation have never been my strong suit... Let's be honest, I am not the most athletically gifted person on the planet. So I was nervous... My best game to deal for me is Hold'em, followed by Omaha and then 7 card stud. So of course I am shaking nervous and they make me do Stud first... BAH! I throw one card off the table, can't control the rest of them and get graded very poorly on my stud game. The other 2 games go much better and I calm down, other than dragging a pot through the flop and messing it up I did fine and passed with a few comments
Saturday is moving day as I move into my new place. I get everything packed up and moved out, get my whole security deposit back and everything goes fairly smoothly. I don't get out to the poker tables until around 7 PM and stop for dinner at the NY NY "village" food court. The place is jam packed and I get a coney dog and am waiting for a table to open up to sit at when one finally does. I of course jump on it to sit down and notice 4 college cuties standing up at the counter in their clubbing outfits trying to eat chili and cheese fries and hotdogs with a knife and fork balanced on their hands... EEK! So I of course invite them to join me at the table which is plenty big for the 5 of us. They readily agree and we have a pleasant conversation about where they go to school and that is one of their birthdays and they are here for spring break, etc. They then tell me they are going to meet some more friends out clubbing tonight and what was I doing.
Now at this point in the story I have to decide how much of a dork I REALLY want to look like. If you really know me you know the answer I gave them which was "Oh, I am going to play poker on a saturday night by myself with a bunch of other guys no way I can go to the club". I really want to change the story to be some crazy night of dancing and making out with college girls on spring break in vegas... but well I can't. Everyone would know I was lying... so I gave them exactly the answer I put above and they gave me exactly the look every one of you has on your face right now... the ever famous head shake and "Richard is a dork" look. But really... Saturday nights are good for poker, lots of people play bad on the weekends.
This story would be REALLY good if I then told you I went to the MGM, made 100's of dollars playing poker and I am the smartest person EVER. It is nowhere NEAR as amazing if I tell you that I went played for only a few hours before being too tired to continue and went home and went to bed.
Look on the bright side... at least I didn't say "EWWW! They are girls stay away!". Does that help my image at all? No? Dang it!
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