read the whole thread which is rare, keep it up man. I'll be in your footsteps somewhat in due time. good luck.

Hey im just travelling round the us at the moment and staying with family near philladelphia, Mainly played at parx and also penn national race course, im heading over to AC sometime this week to hit the grind. any advice on where to go i normally play 1/2 plo8 and also 1/2 and occasionally 2/5 nl cash. Also any advice on the best comps/ cheap hotels etc as this is my first time playing in the states and never been AC before. Also anyone wanting to meet up for a grind could be fun.

Thanks Chris

 

Originally Posted by cmerry_123

Hey im just travelling round the us at the moment and staying with family near philladelphia, Mainly played at parx and also penn national race course, im heading over to AC sometime this week to hit the grind. any advice on where to go i normally play 1/2 plo8 and also 1/2 and occasionally 2/5 nl cash. Also any advice on the best comps/ cheap hotels etc as this is my first time playing in the states and never been AC before. Also anyone wanting to meet up for a grind could be fun.

Thanks Chris

Any hope of finding a plo8 game is at Borgata. Even though I haven't played there consistantly (their chips tilt me to no end, i rifle my chips non stop and borgata chips suck for that). Still the B is by far the best environment for true poker players across the board. Now that I think about it I'm not 100% certain the B has a poker rate. Harrah's is basically next door and definitely does. Less than $40 a night after taxes and fees and has one of the top 3 rooms in the city. I think parx has a great room and Borgata is the only room in AC that is a step up. I think all rooms are profitable tho. I've been with the gf since friday but will be back early tuesday. Hit me up with a pm or something.

Totals are +$4035 @ 102 hrs for June

 

Originally Posted by unemployable

130 hrs @ +$4110

The suspense was killing you? So happy for an update? Don't ever keep you waiting this long again? Okay, I knew coming in that I would be doing the majority of the posting ITT. However, there are many people who are strictly readers. But, I do want to have a little more meat and/or depth to my posts, so maybe not daily posts.

KEEPING YOUR HEAD

So I've only made about $100 in about $25 hours of play over the last week. I had a setback two days ago were I played 14 hrs straight with no breaks and without eating. Wasn't a smart idea. I played well for the first 12 hours but was just having a day where I couldn't find any great situations to win a huge pot. I went back and forth between being up $50 and being down $50. The longer that went on, frustration started to wear on me. I was starving too but I kept putting off getting food because I wanted to end on a high note. Not thinking clearly I started leveling myself and paying people off when obvious draws got there on the river and they would bet full pot. "Why would he bet so much? Everyone can see that the flush got there. Maybe he doesn't have it? Yes, he's trying to bluff me!" The biggest hit was when I turned top two with AQ on the button and got check raised by both of my villians. I ship it against the bigger of the two stacks and both of them had flopped sets. I finally gave in -$260 after losing $300 in the last two hours and ate McDonalds at four in the morning.

The next day at noon I get up to switch hotels. I sit in a game and realize I felt pretty similar to the night before. Still a little tired and haven't eaten yet. Over the next hour or so I convince myself I don't want the same result so I take my $35 profit go have a big meal, go to the room and take a nap. Sleep a few hours, watch a little TV, take a long shower and head back to poker. Not only did I feel great, it showed in my game. I took my time in decisions, I picked my spots, and most importantly I kept up great table talk. Overlooked a lot in live cash games is that your opponents want to have fun. Our table was located in a spot that made it freezing and everyone was complaining. However the banter was so lively and casual that nobody left even though they kept saying they were about too.

As far as what was happening in the game. I had spots were I could have tilted. Had a guy two seats to my left that called down my four barrel bluff with KQ high for most of his stack. Then called my turn bet in a limped pot with deuces unimproved. Had AK another time, raised pre and cbet a AA5 board and got check raised huge. Ship it, I'm against A5 and turn a 5 for a freeroll chop. Had to listen to her (the villian) berate me for getting lucky as though I played it as bad as she did. But I felt great and was able to keep my head and be entertaining while being entertained as egos crumbled around me as things went south for my opponents. As most of them gave up on rebuying and left the table I decided to call it a night when they finally broke our table. Feeling satisfied, not with my $330 profit in four short hours but more so that I kept my head. Funny thing was that at four a.m. this morning the 24 hr McDonalds was closed for cleaning, so I ate Lucky Charms.

talk about running bad

get'em son

So how's it going, not busto? Wanting an update here.

Good luck man, keep it up!

They like me! They really like me!

So there's still interest in this thread and my adventures? I'm still at it. I have had a couple discouraging days at the table but overall my liferoll has not suffered any setbacks. I played the monthy freeroll again yesterday, cashed for $300, lose $250 of that at the $1/$1 (crazy right) and then go play video poker cause I might be tilted and hit a royal for a grand. This life is a motherfucker. Still trying to find a proper balance. Looking into something that would put an extra few thousand in my pocket before months end, outside of poker, not sure if I'm going to say exactly what ITT. Might head out to LA end of August for the rock the bells concert with my best friend. If I do I'm pretty sure I'll end up in Vegas ahead of schedule.

Even with the couple of bad days I'm still crushing dreams at the tables. The regs are telling me they don't like playing against me. I think they're trying to figure me out. I see them analyzing and discussing my play across the table. Some have adjusted and I'm doing my best to adjust to there adjustments cause Bally's is reg infested. Maybe has to do with the bad beat jackpot being over $600,000.

I have more that I want to say, I'll write up the update that I wanted to post in the next day or so with some details and my numbers.

40K or bust YOLO!!

"I gotta call you" lol

I also disagree a bit with the 60 hours not being possibly or very hard. If you go in with the outlook that you are working hard at something you love to build a future for yourself you should be happy to put in 60 hours a week. I work in between 60-80 hours a week in the marketing department of a golf resort and enjoy it. Sure there are times when I wish I had a little more time off but I enjoy what I'm dojng and I know I'm building a future for myself, my wife, and my future family. I have a totally different outlook now that I am moving up and not just in a job. And that's what your doing in poker you are working on moving up with great goals. Keep it up! Again on my phone sorry if theres errors

Hey unemployable have you read Ace on the River by Barry Greenstein? A must read if you're really wanting to be a grinder. gl at the tables

I read pretty much every poker book that came out between '05 and '09. Gus Hanson's was the last one I sought out when it was released. I've read Matasow, Duke, and Rizen's books since but I don't get much out of books anymore.

As far as video poker, I learned Jacks or Better specifically so I was getting the most EV out of slot dollars I am given when I come down on the bus. Recently, I played more because Showboat has a promotion where once you earn 10 tier credits you get a free buffet. Thats about 35 minutes of 1/2 or 80 max bets at a quarter video poker machine. Showboat has 9/6 machines so I can sit at that for about ten minutes, play optimal strategy, and lose 50 cents on average racking up ten tier credits. There is something very calming about knowing you are making the correct decision every time. I figure its a good idea to play video poker if I'm tired, moody etc and have nothing else to do. I can also use the points. If I'm able to get up to diamond card at the casear properties I get extra perks and the competing casinos will also give me their top tier cards. Revel is giving out free rooms and slot play on a repeating basis to these players to attract them to their casino since they aren't getting the traffic they hoped for.

downswings at these stakes can be large and uncontrollable.
hit me up if you want to split a room starting like aug 13 or 14

Lost your number.

Im coming to play the $400 borgata tourney on saturday. You going to be around?

Hit me up.

Hey my peoples. I'm still living. Been playing a heap of video poker to get to diamond status so the casinos will give me rooms and shit come winter time. Staying at Taj Mahal right now and will be moving into Revel tomorrow. Trying to find rooms the last couple of weeks has been a headache. Sharing rooms with degen grinders who just talk about their latest bad beat over and over again. Sometimes I hate people. I prefer to live alone but thats expensivee when you're hotel hopping during the summer months. I got a number for a decent rooming house thats just off the boardwalk. An older guy I play with gave me the number and said the house is full of russian girls (win?). I might degen it up tomorrow and get drunk and see what kind of trouble I get into since I'll be living large in the new billion dollar hotel/casino.