Late afternoon, July 21st 2018, I ascended upon Eugene Oregon. First order of business is to stop at Sundance Natural Grocers to see if I can do something about this goddamn pneumonia aids shit I caught in Vegas that is wrecking havoc on me. If anyplace has stronger colloidal silver, this would be the place... and lo and behold, they did.... something called the Silver Warrior.. with 70 trace minerals along with the silver... tasted like a bucket of piss after someone hadn't drank any water for 100 years, but whatever.. I would drink someones piss if I knew it was the true anti-VegasAidsVirus.
After a healthy meal, I headed over to Hendricks Park to take a walk, sit on the grass at the Rose Garden, and soak in the energy that was me 20 years ago. This was a special place I would always come to when I first moved to Oregon, even before the birth of my daughter. But it was also a place I would bring her and the family when she was a baby.... better versions of myself than the current loser. Environment is a trigger for me.. seeing and being in a place that brings me back to an era or time... there is a hope that I will allow that frequency to distrupt the hardened exterior of what I am today and bring me back to an energy that has as much hope and belief as I used to have.
Full House Poker is a beautiful room by appearance in downtown Eugene. They also have well trained dealers from a staff that cares about professionalism. This doesn't mean that I always agree with them and there ways of doing things, but at least they are consistent and they care.
I was here for Corcheval.... as you all know, my favorite game these days is Pot Limit Big O.. .and you all know that I don't have a bankroll to play for stakes over pennies right now. Corcheval is a version that exposes one of the cards on the flop before the normal preflop betting round. This is an advantage for a player like myself, and here is why: You get dealt A2345 with a suited Ace. In an normal Big O game, say you get this and someone raises preflop... of course you will call to see a flop at the least. But in this game, say the King of Diamonds comes as that first card on the flop.... you have Ace high spade draw with the wheel in your hand... this is a terrible card for your holding... exactly 2 low cards have to follow for the flop to simply give you a low draw. This is a folding hand for even the minimum ante.
Now, most players don't have the discipline to lay those kinds of hands down REGARDLESS of what the board looks like.... so that is just one more major edge for me in a game like this.
I bought in for my standard $200, and in the first hour I picked up AA455 double suited.. both black suits. The Window Card was the 2 of spades. Now here is the beauty of this game... would you rather have my hand? or the nuts currently.. a set of deuces. A set of deuces is garbage... its very very hard to improve and have it hold up as the best hand in a game like this. The A4 alone would give me the second nut low draw at this time.. but having 2 Aces, including the Ace high spades, makes my hand even more valuable. AA355 would be even better of course, but this was worth a 3 bet in position... and of course the guy with 22 in his hand tried to get it all in with me preflop... and was very disappointed when I made NUT NUT for a double up.
After this hand, I was as card dead as possible for hours and hours..... the window card ALWAYS hurt my hand.. in fact I would say it only helped my hand 4 or 5 times in the entire night.
The Jack of Clubs hit the Window at least 10 of the first 20 hands. This is interesting because the Jack represents the astrological 6th house of the apprentice.. and clubs as one in the esoteric arts... somewhat like myself and this blog... finally timing each session so we can learn a bit more about astrology and luck. This puts the rising for the session, that began at 6:30pm, at 24 degrees of Sag rising. We will keep this on ice for now and I will come back to it.
The very last hand of the night was a great opportunity to book a really nice win for me.. but I got unlucky against a poor player. With a window card of 2 of clubs, and me holding AA38K with Ace high clubs, I raised preflop and saw the 5 of clubs added to that flop along with a red Queen. The bad player bet the pot into me, and I raised. Fortunately she slowed down and didn't reraise... because a 3 on the turn and a Ten on the river took a fat steaming shit on my holding.... she flopped Queens and 2s with an A7 low.. only because she showed it on the river after I folded to her half pot bet... oh well.......
I booked a $259 win for the night.
Now, I will add a few knocks I have on this card room. It annoys me that you cant eat at the tables, but I get it somewhat. It is obvious that the owner is pretty OCD about certain things in the procedural department, so that carries over.... They have a nice little coffee station, but they don't trust their customers to make their own coffee... which annoys me because I don't like having to bother the dealer on break to make me coffee... same goes with the water. Your choices are, go get water out of a fucking machine, or ask the dealer to go do it. How hard is it to have a water cooler? I suppose part of their business model is to profit off the drinks.. so they have you pay for water.. its a major annoyance, but all together this is a nice room with good perks for members.... but I wont even get into the annoyance of membership at this club.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
8. THE ORLEANS
Day 7 began with a trip to the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas. This was always one of my favorite stops, because I love Omaha Hi/Low... but also when you battle in the fucking sewers with the dogshit bankroll that I have, LIMIT Omaha hi/lo, and low limit at that, is a great way to grind out a profit with small risk.
One thing I will add about the Orleans casino... they have the worst fucking cocktail servers in the history of life. Do they actually advertise for help by asking for the dumbest, rudest women with zero personality?? They have this one dumb tall blonde chic that just walks around like a robot repeating rapidly again and again "Cocktails, cocktails, cocktails, cocktails...... she says it so often that she usually cant hear you respond, and sometimes just walks right by. That means you can either run her down, or wait maybe fucking 2 hours for her to come around again... Thankfully, the Orleans has two water coolers in the back... likely for the dealers and staff, but hey, I fuck it... if they don't like me drinking the staff water, hire better fucking servers... that simple. If its not the tall blonde, then it is a number of almost non existant servers that come around as often as blue moon eclipses.. and this is one of the busier rooms in all of Vegas. I just don't see how these girls still have jobs.
However, once again returning to the concept of energy, and how there are some card rooms that we just don't vibe with.... whose energy is not compatible to ours, Orleans is simply a place where I tend to go card dead for hours and hours and hours and hours.
But, I have good momentum going, so my energy is renewed and excited.. it is different... and that seemed to show with the very first hand I sat down. I seated in 4/8 limit Omaha hi/low, waiting on a seat in the 8/16 game. I was in the cutoff position and every player in front of me limped in for $4. I called with a marginal holding of A59T with a suited Ace in diamonds. However, my marginal call looked pretty good with a flop of 938 with 2 diamonds.. giving me top pair, the nut flush draw, and a low draw that wasn't likely best at this point. Still easily this is a flop to continue with as the action was great post flop. to the turn.... a perfect 4 of diamonds. Now I have the nut high hand with the second nut low.... which turned into the nuts when a black 2 hit the river!
The point of sharing the above hand is this.... I believe the positive momentum did many things, which especially includes intuiting a time to start my session that was astrologically appropriate for a positive energy flow between myself and this card room. When we feel defeated and negative, even unconsciously, we choose times that compound and resonate with this feeling and belief. Even under harder times and aspects, there are windows in a day that allows for better flow of energy, and this is the power of momentum for me.
Soon after that hand, I was moved to 8/16, and there was a little anxiety given that some bad luck can easily lead to a $400 loss in a game like this. I proceeded to go card dead... for hours.... and after several hours of card dead play, I found myself ahead exactly $7 for the session. After getting up to take a phone call, I returned to find my chips were picked up for having been gone 30 minutes... I looked at this as a sign to head to the Rio, maybe try the 11pm nightly tournament running everyday during the WSOP....
On to the Rio, it was only 10pm and the $150 buy in tournament starts in an hour, so I was lucky to find an open seat in the only 1/2/5 Big O game going. I played tight, hit one good hand to double up my $200 buy in, and cashed out $412 for a nice $212 profit! When I went to the registration desk to get into the 11pm tournament, I discovered I had remembered wrong and it was 10pm instead. Good thing actually, because I would've bought in right away, and considering I won $212 in the short hour prior, I was essentially freerolling this event.
Once again, the energy shift in tournaments hits. there were ZERO situations I could exploit. The minute I was ready to make a play with 15 big blinds left with T9 suited or 75 suited... someone would make a big raise in front of me.. and these aren't the type of hands I wanted to play heads up with for my whole stack... I subscribe to the gap concept a bit here..... it is one thing to be the aggressor, and I would call in position with these hands if we were both deep stacked...but when your tournament comes down to only one or two hands left, I have to pick my spot.....
When I first sat, I only had 33 big blinds since I got in 3 levels late.. still plenty of time with my 10k starting stack.... but for the first 2 full levels, the best hand I got dealt was an A7 offsuit, and in that hand there was significant action to indicate it had no chance..... Q3, J2, 82, 74, 85, K3... and on and on and on endlessly... when I got down to 10 bigs, I did get all in with 55 and won the blinds and antes, however this would be the only hand I would win. That would also be the only pocket pair I would get dealt. with the blinds at 300/600 and my stack at 5500, I got it all in in mid/late position with QJ suited. the button woke up with KK, and it was over. Did I ever say Fuck Tournaments to you? Fuck tournaments.
I returned to the Orleans for a nightcap... and after another 2 hours of play, grinded a $43 profit in the 4/8 limit Omaha game before it broke for the night. Decided to call it a night for poker.
Day 7 sessions : Orleans: Win $7
Rio Win $62
Orleans Win $43
One thing I will add about the Orleans casino... they have the worst fucking cocktail servers in the history of life. Do they actually advertise for help by asking for the dumbest, rudest women with zero personality?? They have this one dumb tall blonde chic that just walks around like a robot repeating rapidly again and again "Cocktails, cocktails, cocktails, cocktails...... she says it so often that she usually cant hear you respond, and sometimes just walks right by. That means you can either run her down, or wait maybe fucking 2 hours for her to come around again... Thankfully, the Orleans has two water coolers in the back... likely for the dealers and staff, but hey, I fuck it... if they don't like me drinking the staff water, hire better fucking servers... that simple. If its not the tall blonde, then it is a number of almost non existant servers that come around as often as blue moon eclipses.. and this is one of the busier rooms in all of Vegas. I just don't see how these girls still have jobs.
However, once again returning to the concept of energy, and how there are some card rooms that we just don't vibe with.... whose energy is not compatible to ours, Orleans is simply a place where I tend to go card dead for hours and hours and hours and hours.
But, I have good momentum going, so my energy is renewed and excited.. it is different... and that seemed to show with the very first hand I sat down. I seated in 4/8 limit Omaha hi/low, waiting on a seat in the 8/16 game. I was in the cutoff position and every player in front of me limped in for $4. I called with a marginal holding of A59T with a suited Ace in diamonds. However, my marginal call looked pretty good with a flop of 938 with 2 diamonds.. giving me top pair, the nut flush draw, and a low draw that wasn't likely best at this point. Still easily this is a flop to continue with as the action was great post flop. to the turn.... a perfect 4 of diamonds. Now I have the nut high hand with the second nut low.... which turned into the nuts when a black 2 hit the river!
The point of sharing the above hand is this.... I believe the positive momentum did many things, which especially includes intuiting a time to start my session that was astrologically appropriate for a positive energy flow between myself and this card room. When we feel defeated and negative, even unconsciously, we choose times that compound and resonate with this feeling and belief. Even under harder times and aspects, there are windows in a day that allows for better flow of energy, and this is the power of momentum for me.
Soon after that hand, I was moved to 8/16, and there was a little anxiety given that some bad luck can easily lead to a $400 loss in a game like this. I proceeded to go card dead... for hours.... and after several hours of card dead play, I found myself ahead exactly $7 for the session. After getting up to take a phone call, I returned to find my chips were picked up for having been gone 30 minutes... I looked at this as a sign to head to the Rio, maybe try the 11pm nightly tournament running everyday during the WSOP....
On to the Rio, it was only 10pm and the $150 buy in tournament starts in an hour, so I was lucky to find an open seat in the only 1/2/5 Big O game going. I played tight, hit one good hand to double up my $200 buy in, and cashed out $412 for a nice $212 profit! When I went to the registration desk to get into the 11pm tournament, I discovered I had remembered wrong and it was 10pm instead. Good thing actually, because I would've bought in right away, and considering I won $212 in the short hour prior, I was essentially freerolling this event.
Once again, the energy shift in tournaments hits. there were ZERO situations I could exploit. The minute I was ready to make a play with 15 big blinds left with T9 suited or 75 suited... someone would make a big raise in front of me.. and these aren't the type of hands I wanted to play heads up with for my whole stack... I subscribe to the gap concept a bit here..... it is one thing to be the aggressor, and I would call in position with these hands if we were both deep stacked...but when your tournament comes down to only one or two hands left, I have to pick my spot.....
When I first sat, I only had 33 big blinds since I got in 3 levels late.. still plenty of time with my 10k starting stack.... but for the first 2 full levels, the best hand I got dealt was an A7 offsuit, and in that hand there was significant action to indicate it had no chance..... Q3, J2, 82, 74, 85, K3... and on and on and on endlessly... when I got down to 10 bigs, I did get all in with 55 and won the blinds and antes, however this would be the only hand I would win. That would also be the only pocket pair I would get dealt. with the blinds at 300/600 and my stack at 5500, I got it all in in mid/late position with QJ suited. the button woke up with KK, and it was over. Did I ever say Fuck Tournaments to you? Fuck tournaments.
I returned to the Orleans for a nightcap... and after another 2 hours of play, grinded a $43 profit in the 4/8 limit Omaha game before it broke for the night. Decided to call it a night for poker.
Day 7 sessions : Orleans: Win $7
Rio Win $62
Orleans Win $43
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