so, my b-day is tomorrow and my buddy's fiance's was friday every year we do something nice for the occasion. last year was cabo with 2 other friends that all have early may b-days. this year ... laughlin bitches!
checked into the edgewater around 1 on friday and immedietely hit the craps tables. ouch, tables are full so we walked over to the colorado belle ... score! 2 dollar craps table has room. well ... none of us were feeling it and i quickly lost 70 bucks. no big deal, back to the edgewater. now there is room on the 3 dollar table.
yeah baby whats up now. straight out the gate i start hitting everything. some old guy was shooting, this old guy was straight money. he was throwing down huge bets he must have had 2 grand in chips. im bankin big money off this guy. i had all my numbers turned on and all my hard ways working. he finally crapped out but im up about 2 hundred. now its my buddy's turn to shoot. same deal, all my numbers on all my hard ways working and im pressing them all like a pro. my boy hits 8 hard 4 times for me and hits 10 hard twice, im stoked im up about 550 at this point.
then all the sudden i find it remarkabley easy to get a drink. interesting, when i first got on the table the damn drink bitch showed me no love, now everytime i turn around she is feeding me drinks. i bet they are trying to get me drunk and make me lose.
2 hours later im down 200 bucks .. wtf!
from then on i pretty much donated everytime i played anything .. i just couldnt get on a run or i stayed one bet to long. was up 550 bucks on roulette and i should have walked ... but no i let 600 ride on black ... double zero! fuck!
so then i hit up black jack ... did pretty well was up a hundred off 20 and walked. then went and played on another blackjack table that had a bunch of hot chicks playing ... flirted with them and lost all my profit
so ... now its about 2pm on saturday ... after some other gambling im down close to a grand. so we all went to the sports book. 4 hours and 4 3 dollar bets later, ive drank about 18 coors lights and we go get dinner. oh, btw fuck trinidad i placed a small bet on him to win by decision. fucking way to lose bitch. anyways on with my story.
after dinner im really fucking banged up and im down to my last 100 dollars that i allotted my self to gamble with. we leave the resturaunt place and head back up to the tables .. its around 9pm and we all drank a ton at this point. my buddy and his chick had no money left so they went upstairs to call it a weekend. im like ill be up in a bit im going to go look for the chick i was flirting with earlier and see if i cant con her into a birthday fuck ... no joy, couldnt find her.
oh whats that? is .. is that an open spot i see on the 2/4 hold em table? why yes it is. a nice dealer named bruce said u wanna play son? do i? hell yes i do sir.
cashed in my 100 bucks and got a fresh rack of chips. 15-20 hands later im up about 600 bucks. i could do no wrong and the ebst part was everyone was getting real solid hands, i was just getting better hands and not to sound to cocky im a way better player than they were. i knocked out about 8 people in the first hour i played. some poor bastard sat down right after me with 2 racks of chips. i took every last dollar he had. i knocked him out on an absolutely impossible hand, a hand i've never hit on a live table. i get delt pocket queens, i max bet .. he was delt king ace ... he called and so did pretty much everyone else on the table. most of them were drunk and didn have shit but 2 people had (they told me after) solid flush draw chances. one guy had ace jack spades and iirc the other guy was holding 10 8 or 10 9 spades .. unfortunately for them only 2 other spades came up ... unfortunately for me too cause i could have taken way more money.
flop comes ... king/king/queen .. im thinking sweet i've got queens over tens full boat lets see if someone else has the other king. i check, dude with the king max bets so i re-raise him on the turn was some garbage card i think a 5 or something. i check to him and re-raise him again. at this point i was already up big and had already hit 3 straights on the river. now, i wasnt playing asshole poker all 3 times i had decent hands, hands worth playing it just so happened that i had straight draws as well and was getting awsome river luck. in short the river had been real good to me and i had this wierd feeling i wasnt done. sure enough bam lovely lady number 4 drops on the river. im stoked, nothing can beat me and even better, king boy now has kings over ladies with ace high kicker. he thinks he is on top of the world. he reraises me after i max bet. so i put him all in with my last raise he was litteraly down to his last chips at this point and he was talking all kinds of shit. i had whooped him bad thus far and he was real angry.
dealer tells us to show and he very loudly flops over his ace king and i see he has a boat. he thinks he has it. so i looked at him and apologized for hurting him like this, and showed him my 4 ladies. i thought i was going to have to fight this dude he got so pissed off. he was livid! he left without incident and i went on kicking people's asses for about 20 minutes more. im up 600ish at this point.
so .. as sometimes happens my card luck just went bitterly cold. i just couldnt get any cards. 7-2 j-2 off suit just getting asshole cards. what was worse was there were still 4 people on the table that were playing smart while i was on an unstoppable run. everytime i did get good cards nobody would show down with me cause half the table saw me just beating people's asses. another thing, the 2/4 limit shit is really frustrating sometimes for me. non face card pairs are tough to win with IMO in a limit situation. in no LM i would have had a lot more ability to muscle people around and buy some pots. there were quite a few times i got delt NFC pairs and i just couldnt make them hold up. people were calling with nothing and making their hands on the turn or the river that beat me .. i need to read some of the pro player books to see if i can find a better way to play NFC pairs in limit poker.
anyways ... 3 or so hours pass. im getting nickle and dimed, winning only real small pots here and there. i ended up walking up 400 dollars which made the weekend hurt a lot less.
moral of the story ... learn when to walk from the tables and i should have played way more hold em. im no pro but im a pretty solid player IMO but OMG it was like these people were just giving me their money. bunch of drunk idiots playing cards they had no business playing. honestly, even without the insane card luck i was getting i still would have won a lot of money with my normal card luck. this was the first time ive played in a casino in a year ive heard the stories of all the idiots playing cause poker is so hot right now and all i have to say is hell yes. if youre a card player get your ass into your local casino and start taking these people for all their money. im going to have to hit up my local casinos more. i usually play private 100 dollar NL games but man, i need to read up on limit play and go to the casinos more.
cliff notes:
went to laughlin for b-day weekend.
was up huge on craps then lost my ass.
played poker saturday night and recovered a good percentage of my losses.
had a lot of fun and drank extremely heavily.
checked into the edgewater around 1 on friday and immedietely hit the craps tables. ouch, tables are full so we walked over to the colorado belle ... score! 2 dollar craps table has room. well ... none of us were feeling it and i quickly lost 70 bucks. no big deal, back to the edgewater. now there is room on the 3 dollar table.
yeah baby whats up now. straight out the gate i start hitting everything. some old guy was shooting, this old guy was straight money. he was throwing down huge bets he must have had 2 grand in chips. im bankin big money off this guy. i had all my numbers turned on and all my hard ways working. he finally crapped out but im up about 2 hundred. now its my buddy's turn to shoot. same deal, all my numbers on all my hard ways working and im pressing them all like a pro. my boy hits 8 hard 4 times for me and hits 10 hard twice, im stoked im up about 550 at this point.
then all the sudden i find it remarkabley easy to get a drink. interesting, when i first got on the table the damn drink bitch showed me no love, now everytime i turn around she is feeding me drinks. i bet they are trying to get me drunk and make me lose.
2 hours later im down 200 bucks .. wtf!
from then on i pretty much donated everytime i played anything .. i just couldnt get on a run or i stayed one bet to long. was up 550 bucks on roulette and i should have walked ... but no i let 600 ride on black ... double zero! fuck!
so then i hit up black jack ... did pretty well was up a hundred off 20 and walked. then went and played on another blackjack table that had a bunch of hot chicks playing ... flirted with them and lost all my profit
so ... now its about 2pm on saturday ... after some other gambling im down close to a grand. so we all went to the sports book. 4 hours and 4 3 dollar bets later, ive drank about 18 coors lights and we go get dinner. oh, btw fuck trinidad i placed a small bet on him to win by decision. fucking way to lose bitch. anyways on with my story.
after dinner im really fucking banged up and im down to my last 100 dollars that i allotted my self to gamble with. we leave the resturaunt place and head back up to the tables .. its around 9pm and we all drank a ton at this point. my buddy and his chick had no money left so they went upstairs to call it a weekend. im like ill be up in a bit im going to go look for the chick i was flirting with earlier and see if i cant con her into a birthday fuck ... no joy, couldnt find her.
oh whats that? is .. is that an open spot i see on the 2/4 hold em table? why yes it is. a nice dealer named bruce said u wanna play son? do i? hell yes i do sir.
cashed in my 100 bucks and got a fresh rack of chips. 15-20 hands later im up about 600 bucks. i could do no wrong and the ebst part was everyone was getting real solid hands, i was just getting better hands and not to sound to cocky im a way better player than they were. i knocked out about 8 people in the first hour i played. some poor bastard sat down right after me with 2 racks of chips. i took every last dollar he had. i knocked him out on an absolutely impossible hand, a hand i've never hit on a live table. i get delt pocket queens, i max bet .. he was delt king ace ... he called and so did pretty much everyone else on the table. most of them were drunk and didn have shit but 2 people had (they told me after) solid flush draw chances. one guy had ace jack spades and iirc the other guy was holding 10 8 or 10 9 spades .. unfortunately for them only 2 other spades came up ... unfortunately for me too cause i could have taken way more money.
flop comes ... king/king/queen .. im thinking sweet i've got queens over tens full boat lets see if someone else has the other king. i check, dude with the king max bets so i re-raise him on the turn was some garbage card i think a 5 or something. i check to him and re-raise him again. at this point i was already up big and had already hit 3 straights on the river. now, i wasnt playing asshole poker all 3 times i had decent hands, hands worth playing it just so happened that i had straight draws as well and was getting awsome river luck. in short the river had been real good to me and i had this wierd feeling i wasnt done. sure enough bam lovely lady number 4 drops on the river. im stoked, nothing can beat me and even better, king boy now has kings over ladies with ace high kicker. he thinks he is on top of the world. he reraises me after i max bet. so i put him all in with my last raise he was litteraly down to his last chips at this point and he was talking all kinds of shit. i had whooped him bad thus far and he was real angry.
dealer tells us to show and he very loudly flops over his ace king and i see he has a boat. he thinks he has it. so i looked at him and apologized for hurting him like this, and showed him my 4 ladies. i thought i was going to have to fight this dude he got so pissed off. he was livid! he left without incident and i went on kicking people's asses for about 20 minutes more. im up 600ish at this point.
so .. as sometimes happens my card luck just went bitterly cold. i just couldnt get any cards. 7-2 j-2 off suit just getting asshole cards. what was worse was there were still 4 people on the table that were playing smart while i was on an unstoppable run. everytime i did get good cards nobody would show down with me cause half the table saw me just beating people's asses. another thing, the 2/4 limit shit is really frustrating sometimes for me. non face card pairs are tough to win with IMO in a limit situation. in no LM i would have had a lot more ability to muscle people around and buy some pots. there were quite a few times i got delt NFC pairs and i just couldnt make them hold up. people were calling with nothing and making their hands on the turn or the river that beat me .. i need to read some of the pro player books to see if i can find a better way to play NFC pairs in limit poker.
anyways ... 3 or so hours pass. im getting nickle and dimed, winning only real small pots here and there. i ended up walking up 400 dollars which made the weekend hurt a lot less.
moral of the story ... learn when to walk from the tables and i should have played way more hold em. im no pro but im a pretty solid player IMO but OMG it was like these people were just giving me their money. bunch of drunk idiots playing cards they had no business playing. honestly, even without the insane card luck i was getting i still would have won a lot of money with my normal card luck. this was the first time ive played in a casino in a year ive heard the stories of all the idiots playing cause poker is so hot right now and all i have to say is hell yes. if youre a card player get your ass into your local casino and start taking these people for all their money. im going to have to hit up my local casinos more. i usually play private 100 dollar NL games but man, i need to read up on limit play and go to the casinos more
.cliff notes:
went to laughlin for b-day weekend.
was up huge on craps then lost my ass.
played poker saturday night and recovered a good percentage of my losses.
had a lot of fun and drank extremely heavily.
i had fun and planned to lose more than i did ... all part of gambling 
