Like a redheaded step-child
I've been taking a beating on the tables lately. My online bankroll has been cut in half in a weeks time- ouch! My bad run seemed to start when Jess and I went to Atlantic City the weekend before last. Thankfully, an early hit on the slot machines saved the trip from being a total disaster. I'm not one to play slots usually, that is where Jess prefers to spend her time when in the casino. On our way to find a place to eat dinner, she had decided to burn a voucher she had in her pocket at the $1 Wheel of Fortune slots that we were walking by. I sat down next to her and threw in a twenty, just to pass the time with her. And within three spins, I hit for $750. Now if we were smart, we would have just found something else to do with our time and had our nice little 5 day vacation at the shore paid for. Yeah, fat chance! I had yet to even hit the poker tables! I gave Jess $300 at dinner from our score, after all she did pick the machine next to my lucky machine! After dinner I sat down @ the 1/2 NL game, and it was a pretty typical session.... A little up, a little down, a little up again. Jess wasn't doing so well. Twice during the next few hours she visited me in the poker room with her hand out, and she is just too damn cute to say no to- lol. But it was house money, so as far as I am concerned, as long as she is having fun it's fine by me. Anyhow, back to poker. After a 8 hour session, the table I was sitting at broke- I was exactly even, I had my $200 buy in left in front of me. I moved to another table, where one gentleman just had a mountain of chips in front of him. He spoke with a very thick accent, was ultra aggressive, and was catching cards left and right. I started off well at this this table, and soon found myself up $80. I get dealt 5/7 of diamonds in the small blind, and just about everyone at the table limps in for the family pot. Flop comes 3/4/7, so I have top pair/ shitty kicker with an inside straight draw. I check, foreign guy bets $15, myself and one other player behind me calls. The turn comes and fills my straight- it's the 6 of clubs, which puts 2 clubs on the board. I check again, the player behind me bets $15, and foreign guy raises him another $40. I completely have this man on the flush draw, just a gut feeling from observing him push people around for the last hour or so. So I push all my chips into the middle of the table. I'm hoping this is enough for him to lay it down, even though he would be getting awful odds to chase. The original bettor folds, and with his mountain of chips in front of him, foreign guy calls. He flips over pocket clubs just as I thought, and the dealer flips the river card, the Ace of clubs. I leave the table without saying a word as his mountain of chips starts looking more and more like Everest. It was 5am at that time anyhow and as good a time as any for some sleep.
The next morning Jess and I wake up, and she is experiencing some serious gamblers remorse, thinking of all the nice, pretty things she could have bought with the $500 I gave her rather than giving it back to the one armed bandit. We grab some lunch, and talk ourselves into a couple more hours in the casino before we make the trip down to Cape May, NJ. I walk into the poker room just in time to get seated at a 1/2 NL table that they were just opening up. After an hour it becomes very apparent to me, that the majority people playing poker at 2 PM on a monday afternoon aren't playing hooky from work, they ARE at work. I cut my losses and leave down another $100. Off to Cape May we go.
The rest of vacation was nice, very relaxing. We had a great room right across the street from the beach, but the weather was kinda lousy so I spent my time alternating between napping and drinking.
Since being back from our little excursion, my online bankroll has taken a nosedive. I haven't come close to cashing in a MTT, but I can't seem to stop myself from buying in, and my cash games have been abysmal, to put it politely. I took a few days off earlier this week, but I jumped back in tonight and am up $10 at the moment. If I had any brains about me, I'd drop down limits right now, but I am still playing my usual 1/2NL. I never claimed I was bright.
On a much better note, this week the announcement was emailed around that the Vegoose music festival will be back again for it's second year. I had such an absolute blast last year, there is no way I won't be in attendance again this year. Jess and I have already started looking at flights and hotels. Last year I put Jess on a plane the day after the festival ended and I stayed an extra couple of days to focus on poker. This year, I think I will head out for a few days before the fest and then have Jess join me. Hopefully I won't be broke when she gets there! We had such an awesome crew out in Vegas last time, we must have rolled 25 deep. Sleep deprivation, an absurd amount of alcohol, party favors, and hot music makes for an unforgettable combination, not to mention the fact that it's VEGAS! One night we all pooled some $$ and rented a suite at the MGM with a huge patio (jacuzzi included) overlooking the strip, and threw a toga party. Even on halloween weekend, we got plenty of stares in our togas as we made our way from the Excalibur where Jess and I were staying, across the MGM casino floor, and up the elevators! Some of us then made our way to the Galactic show @ the House of Blues, which was rocking..... when we returned @ 5am the party was still going as strong as when we had left. I found it to be quite amusing watching the sun rise and calling all my friends back on the east coast as they were making their way into work.... yeah, I can be a prick like that. I'm looking forward to an even bigger crew this time around. So any of you who may be reading this, let's rally the troops!
The next morning Jess and I wake up, and she is experiencing some serious gamblers remorse, thinking of all the nice, pretty things she could have bought with the $500 I gave her rather than giving it back to the one armed bandit. We grab some lunch, and talk ourselves into a couple more hours in the casino before we make the trip down to Cape May, NJ. I walk into the poker room just in time to get seated at a 1/2 NL table that they were just opening up. After an hour it becomes very apparent to me, that the majority people playing poker at 2 PM on a monday afternoon aren't playing hooky from work, they ARE at work. I cut my losses and leave down another $100. Off to Cape May we go.
The rest of vacation was nice, very relaxing. We had a great room right across the street from the beach, but the weather was kinda lousy so I spent my time alternating between napping and drinking.
Since being back from our little excursion, my online bankroll has taken a nosedive. I haven't come close to cashing in a MTT, but I can't seem to stop myself from buying in, and my cash games have been abysmal, to put it politely. I took a few days off earlier this week, but I jumped back in tonight and am up $10 at the moment. If I had any brains about me, I'd drop down limits right now, but I am still playing my usual 1/2NL. I never claimed I was bright.
On a much better note, this week the announcement was emailed around that the Vegoose music festival will be back again for it's second year. I had such an absolute blast last year, there is no way I won't be in attendance again this year. Jess and I have already started looking at flights and hotels. Last year I put Jess on a plane the day after the festival ended and I stayed an extra couple of days to focus on poker. This year, I think I will head out for a few days before the fest and then have Jess join me. Hopefully I won't be broke when she gets there! We had such an awesome crew out in Vegas last time, we must have rolled 25 deep. Sleep deprivation, an absurd amount of alcohol, party favors, and hot music makes for an unforgettable combination, not to mention the fact that it's VEGAS! One night we all pooled some $$ and rented a suite at the MGM with a huge patio (jacuzzi included) overlooking the strip, and threw a toga party. Even on halloween weekend, we got plenty of stares in our togas as we made our way from the Excalibur where Jess and I were staying, across the MGM casino floor, and up the elevators! Some of us then made our way to the Galactic show @ the House of Blues, which was rocking..... when we returned @ 5am the party was still going as strong as when we had left. I found it to be quite amusing watching the sun rise and calling all my friends back on the east coast as they were making their way into work.... yeah, I can be a prick like that. I'm looking forward to an even bigger crew this time around. So any of you who may be reading this, let's rally the troops!
posted by kindbits at 11:17 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah! Can't wait for Vegoose!! We should be back from our honeymoon just in time to make it.
I played last night and it wasn't good. I never caught good cards and slowly got blinded out as I waited for the cards to fall the right way. The only hand I'm really kicking myself for is the J/4 off suit that I simply had to lay down when someone raised 100 (blinds were 2/4 then) and there were 6 people still in. 2 more 4s on the river would have given me the hand, but there was no way I was sticking around with J/4 and a huge preflop bet like that.
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