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I'm makin a return trip, though, and all are welcome to coattail along...
BTW... I really think a poker journal is a good idea... I'm just too lazy and too embarassed about my play most days to warrant writing...
Statistics: Posted by MVPSPORTS — Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:31 am
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I already told him that I'd rather him not go than for her to go... Think of it this way, she got all pissed off that we were sitting behind a pornstar at dinner (which we couldn't do anything about)... Wait till she finds out that we're basically sleeping in a whorehouse... I'm sure that'll go over swell...
I'm kind of an old hat at poker, so no promises on leaving them any money at the tables(hopefully), but I'm pretty new to the whole "pick a woman, or two, or three, and it's a sure thing" deal, so I may be a little shaky at that at first... But, hell, that's what God created Tequila for, right...?
Statistics: Posted by MVPSPORTS — Tue May 03, 2005 1:25 am
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Heh, is your buddy taking his sweet gf to Costa Rica with ya'll? Yes? Just go ahead and slit your throat...rofl
Leave them boys a little cash in CR till i get there...and GL, tho you won't need it!
(fwiw, i was a blackjack counter and successful for 20 years...NL holdem is WAY better...to this day, i still hate splitting 8's and 6's and what not, and hitting those 16 vs 10's)
Statistics: Posted by WildBillHickok — Mon May 02, 2005 10:00 pm
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Anyways, her annoying me aside, had my first so-so day playing... I think I ended up about $100 or so... not too bad, not as good as I was hoping...
One of the reasons for this was that it is often VERY hard to find a 1/2 game that holds up for more than just a little while... Played at the Aladdin for a couple hours, with a horrible blind stucture (1/2 NL w/ $100 max).... I looked for TUP, but still no luck... The table was about as tight as possible, I might UBER-tight... This one guy kept throwing out a $5 flop bet and making everyone fold... I was dying to checkraise him, but just couldn't pull anything... The only hand I actually played...
I'm in the BB w/
![[5h]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/5h.gif "The Five of Hearts")
![[6h]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/6h.gif "The Six of Hearts")
... limped around to MP, who bumps it up to $5 (which is an INCREDIBLY weak bet for a live game)... So I call, about 5 others call...Flop
![[3d]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/3d.gif "The Three of Diamonds")
![[4c]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/4c.gif "The Four of Clubs")
![[7h]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/7h.gif "The Seven of Hearts")
... Dream flop for me... I check, it checks all the way around...Turn
![[Jh]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Jh.gif "The Jack of Hearts")
... keeps getting better for me... I still check, just dying for someone to bet... MP finally chimes in w/ a BIG $2 bet... everyone insta-folds... I raise him to $10... He looks me dead in the eyes, smiles, and says "This is a $2 hand, not a $10 hand"... Shows POCKET ACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To make it worse, the ace was the heart... After that, I figured it was time to get out, taking my $4 winnings with me... There's 100000000 LAG players in Vegas, and I'm sitting at a table w/ a friggin rock garden....Went to the George Carlin show... I like him... He's not the funniest guy in the world, but he's really smart and his humor is usually pretty good... My review.... ehhh.... It was ALRIGHT, but VERY morbid... He did 45 minutes on how good suicide is, and how his favorite things in the world are natural disasters... Kind of disturbing, but he made a lot of it funny, and overall it was a pretty good experience...
Anyways, I'm sure no one gives 10 craps about my opinion on comedians, so let me get back to more poker...
Nothing all that exciting happened to me... I was DYING to get to play at the Mirage, but I couldn't get any cards... There was a guy there that I saw blow through about $1200 in about 15 minutes... he went allin like 5 hands in a row, lost 4... He was betting chips before the lady brought his new chips from the cashier... While sitting there, I saw the WORST live poker mistake I'd ever seen in my life... I wrote it in the NL section, but will copy it here cause it looks like I'm writing a lot...
2/5 NL at the Mirage... Everyone's playin loose as hell, throwing money around, betting $100 into a $15 pot...
EP, who showed me his cards cause I was sitting next to him, and I can basically talk anyone into showing me their cards, has 96d in LP, says "Gotta be willing to die to live" or whatever that famous poker quote was (I was a little drunk), and limps... BB raises to $15, MP calls, LP says "I'm already in, maybe it's my lucky day", and calls...
Flop K72, w/ 2 diamonds...
BB, who was pretty shortstacked (LP and MP have about $700, BB has $300), immediately goes all-in... MP thinks for a while then calls... my buddy here, let's call him "the loosest caller in the world", calls w/ his draw (which people were doing ALL day)...
Turn Qd... MP checks, TLCINW bets $50... MP raises allin, about another $300 or so... Now he's sitting on a 9 high flush, and I'm SCREAMING inside to fold... This guy SOOOOOOOOOOO obviously has the nut flush, or at the very least a J high flush, that it's hurting... MP isn't an especially good player, and there's NO way I see him bluffing this, especially if the guy folds, all the gets is a $50 sidepot and a heads up w/ BB for the big pot... TLCINW thinks for eternity, then FINALLY, with a little of my psychic assistance, folds his hand (he was a nice old guy and I didn't wanna see him lose all his chips in such a bad way...)
So, MP won the hand, he's smiling from ear to ear as he throws his cards into the muck... WAIT A MINUTE... WHAT ABOUT THE BB... MP forgot about the BB and folded to a fold... They called the floorperson over, but they weren't very sympathetic (even though you could obviously tell which cards were his in the muck - he had AJd)...
The BB shows his trip Ks, takes his ~$1000 pot, and leaves right after that hand, presumably to go buy some lottery tickets... That was the first time I'd ever seen a fold to a fold, and the 3rd best hand hold up...
Anyways, stayed there for a while, moved down to the 1/2, then all of a sudden it broke up around 3am, and I was too lazy to go hunting for another game... I played a little limit, which I can't generally stand, but manage to get 2 pretty good hands early on, and actually made about $150... No memorable hands, other than to say that boy are they crappy... My buddy didn't wanna play... So, I made the unfortunate mistake of going to the Blackjack tables...
So we walk over to the tables, and it turns out they're all that single deck kind, which, for some reason, I don't like... We walk and walk and finally find a handicapped BJ table, which was fine with us... So we're playing, just the 3 of us, and my partners stupid gf sits down next to us... All of a sudden, the pit boss comes over and says that she can't sit there because they're handicapped seats... We're like "dude, it's 4 am, there's no one in the casino, don't be a dick"... He wouldn't hear it... We offered to leave if 3 handicapped insomniac gamblers happened to stroll in, but he wouldn't budge... So, with a nice, cheery, "Fuck you very much...", we head over to find another table... Unfortunately, the other side of the casino didn't have any tables either, and I was damned if I was gonna crawl back to that table with my tail between my legs... So, I look behind me, and decide to play a game that I can only, looking back now, say seemed like a good idea due to a mix of lack of sleep and chugging beers earlier in the day... WAR...
If none of you guys has ever played War in the casino, just feel like the best of it, and leave... Man, I lost all my hard earned Limit profits of about $150 in about 15 hands....
Oh well... to summarize, had an okay day, didn't get laid (damn his girlfriend...), with one day left to go...
I don't wanna bias my very objective analysis, but the cockblocking (are we allowed to say that on this forum?) his damned gf is doing is SERIOUSLY weighing my opinion toward Costa Rica, and I haven't even gotten there yet... I'll try to stay objective as I write my last Vegas review...
Statistics: Posted by MVPSPORTS — Mon May 02, 2005 3:47 pm
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RANT OF THE DAY....... WHAT IN THE HELL IS ANY MALE UNDER 40 DOING BRINGING A PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND TO VEGAS.......?????????????????????????????????? Boy, there's nothing that kills a good time like a woman in Vegas... Now, I don't wanna sound sexist, but I am, and boy did it suck... The whole freakin time I'm there, I can't go to a club, can't hit a strip club... can't talk to a "working girl" cause my buddy's girl is attached to him at the freakin hip the whole time... Even without the "not being able to hook up" angle, she still sucks... Example... He's a BIG TIME blackjack player (enough to get them to comp us a couple rooms...)... So, we're sitting at a table, me with my measly $10 on the table, him with $100+... A hand comes up where he happened to put $200 down, to which she was already crapping a green brick... He gets 2 sixes, dealer has a six... So, anyone who knows blackjack (which she obviously doesn't) knows to split the sixes, and basically try to get as much money in the hand as possible, because the dealer's six means that that's the most likely hand he'll bust with... So, he splits the 6s, gets a 3 on the first, and doubles down (now there's $600 on one bet) and gets a 4... Other hand he gets an 8 for 14... She starts screaming, right in front of everybody, for him to hit... she's shaking like shes having a convulsion, all pissed off, foaming at the mouth, screaming at the top of her lungs how stupid he is to stay on 14 and 13... We try to ignore her, as the dealer flips the under card for a 4, hits a J and gets 20 to win... That's why blackjack sucks, but he loves it...
So, at this point, she's screaming and flailing and foaming about how stupid he is and how they could've used that money for them to take a cruise to Alaska and yada yada yada... Nevermind the fact that, if he would've hit, he would've busted... She didn't care... She just wanted to bitch, and basically ruin my whole time, which she succeeded...
Statistics: Posted by MVPSPORTS — Mon May 02, 2005 2:31 pm
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Ya'll watch out...this MVP is a dang magician and a shark...don't let him kid you.
Statistics: Posted by WildBillHickok — Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:57 pm
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Statistics: Posted by MVPSPORTS — Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:15 pm
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