6 days down, 359 and $199,643 to go...
A little off track for my annual goals thus far. What's happened the last few days... Greetings from the frozen, windy, and just plain cold tundra of Montana. Lara and I left Las Vegas shortly after USC finished beating the snot out of the University of Michigan (thats right!) and drove straight through to Helena, Montana. I was quite grumpy as I was mildly hungover from the night before. We spent New Years Eve on the strip and quite frankly I have never experienced anything like it in all my life. I have never seen so many people in a place where there usually aren't any people!I learned something that night also. After midnight, casinos actually tell you that you can't come in. Really? Wow. You must be a guest of the hotel to get in. Well, screw that, out came the diamond card and we wandered into Bally's for bathroom and beer. Around 1am we all started a new 1-2 NL game with the intention of relaxing for a minute and getting free drinks quickly. Around 1:30am I took AA pre-flop all-in against KK, QQ, and JJ and properly lost to the Jacks. This one however, is my favorite. Around 3am, Devo's good and hammed, and he looks down at the T8o in the cutoff and limps. Him and three other players see the flop of J77. They all check, and Devo decides to be smart and check, looking for the nine-ball. Turn: nine. Check, bet $10, raise to $20, Devo makes it $60, fold, fold, dealer squares the pot, player owes $40, player pushes in $55.
"What's that?"
"Thats just a call," says the dealer.
Oh. That guy's a little drunk too. But Devo knows he has him by the balls now. That guy is slow playing a seven. The river bricks out, The guy bets $20 into this huge pot, Devo goes all in for $270, guy calls instantly and rolls over the A7. Nice! Straight good! Devo then looks at the board again and sees that the Jack on the flop wasn't a Jack. It was a King. Oops. Devo just shoved all-in on the river with ten high knowing that he was going to get called. LOL. So far it's the best "I'm an idiot" story of the year.
Anyways, back to New Years Day night, she was driving, I was hungover playing online. Win $2k quickly, stoked about the start of a new year, blow it all back, quit up $180. Next day: Win $1500 quickly, lose $1k. Day three, Get stuck $1k, win 2k, lose 800. Well, three winning days in a row. Day four: play a TON, grind my year to up $2600, then find myself up $150 within thirty minutes. Now, I don't mind losing, but when the wheels fall off the turnip truck and I get tortured on eight hands straight, that's annoying, especially when it happens eight times a night. Lost yesterday, same story, stuck $1150 online this year in 4k hands thus far.
Now, the good news: Up $650 in Lara's room playing, $215 in prop betting including: $100 in coin flips with Terry, $100 in sports betting with Terry, $10 in red/black with Bob, $5 in rock-paper-scissors with Pete, and $5 on the nickel keno machines. I'm getting $510 in rakeback from site A so far this week, $150 from site B, so put that all together and I'm in the black this year baby!
For those of you who know about Lara's medical stuff, things went well this week, but we're still not out of the woods. If you didn't know, now you do, and keep praying.
I'm up here until Tuesday and then I take a one way flight back to Vegas. I really want to head to Tunica, but it kinda sounds like a pain in the butt with nothing to do except poker. Meh... not really interested in being stuck in a casino town in the middle of nowhere with no escape. If you have any Tunica expereince or recommendations, please shoot me an e-mail.
Ok, Peace Out! Good Luck...
Devo
posted by Devo @ 2:50 PM
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