live poker and a quick online session

[loltrickedu]

If i had a blog it would go there however i dont so read if you want or not.

So last night there wasnt much going on so after i went to the bar with a few friends and played some darts i decided to go out to the casino to play some live poker. I hadn't played live in a while and i have a cali and vegas trip coming up so i thought i should get some practice in. Plus i had 15$ in free slot play and a free meal that expired soon so meh might as well use it.

So i get there and get on the 5-10 list and looks pretty juicy, however takes forever to get into live games often so i went to use my free slot play. Ive never put my own money in a slot machine so i didnt know what i was doing. I found a slot and put it the ticket in and began spinning max credit. After about half was gone some how i won. So basically i had more credits then i started with so i decided to cash out, amazingly up $50.75, ship it!!!

So i grabbed my food and my seat was ready, no spectacular hands really i bluffed alot, live players are so easy to read imo. Anyway i took some beats but after like 5 hours of play i was up $450, i really only wanted benjamins so i took the 50 to one hand of bj, i got a 20 and won, ship it!!! The real point was that i was thinking about the money, because $400-$500 really doesnt matter to me and i felt like i wasted time only making that much. But then i got to thinking about the real world, if i worked all day and made $400 that would be a job at $50/hr. Which is a very nice job $50/hr for the year ~2000 hrs would give a wage of $100,000 very very nice. Not to mention i was not taxed and that 100k is. I don't really know what my point is but basically i have an immature disregard for money sometimes and don't look at what i have and respect it enough.

So after all that the night before i get up today ~1pm and hope online for a session. The 2/4 tables look decent and there is one 3/6 that is juicy and going. The new wait list for cake sucks alot so it takes me forever to get any 2/4 tables. So before i even get any i have $~1800 on the 3/6. Mostly from this: Cake Poker people r so bad. I play for like 10 more minutes and am up ~$1400 after 30 min of play and 120 hands. $1400 for 120 hands was pretty sweet. Basically i just quit and am going to watch the Nebraska game and get some drinks/food. I think you can make alot more online then live, maybe thats the point of this entry? I'm not really sure. But gl at the tables guy see you around.


-I just realized i started off every paragraph with "So," so im sorry im a bad writer, so im going to go, so i can drink, so have fun, so later.

[TheDeKay]

Well, I made the same experience with the money thing and I don't even earn as much as you! You get so used to just ship 400$ into a pot, that you don't care, if you pay 10$ for something in the real life. That is really one side, I don't like at poker - that you start thinking in BigBlinds at everything, that has to do /w money (e.g. inviting my girlfriend to the cinema = 3-4BB -> about 5minutes of play).
And it's really sick, if you think about "normal" people at our age, who do not play poker. I just started studying at university and about everybody has no money... they are happy, if the get a job that pays 20$/h and I feel sick, if I am running at 50$/h over 20k hands xD

[Trikkur]

I can't wait till we got our blogs going it will be pretty sweet to hear all the degen shit we do. I went to a casino for my first time ever last week and was just messing around with some friends at a 2-10 spread game. At the end of the night I was trying to get the people we went with to flip for out stacks so one of us would be a big winner on the night. Where I was at, they don't allow a bet higher than $60 at any time, so there weren't any no limit games going. When I was walking out after cashing out, I found out the $60 rule only applied to poker and they had a $200 blackjack table. I was so pissed because I would of 100% put it all on 1 hand to see what happens because $200 is pretty irrelevant any more and gambling is fun lol.

The best part about your story though was this

So i get there and get on the 5-10 list and looks pretty juicy, however takes forever to get into live games often so i went to use my free slot play. Ive never put my own money in a slot machine so i didnt know what i was doing. I found a slot and put it the ticket in and began spinning max credit. After about half was gone some how i won. So basically i had more credits then i started with so i decided to cash out, amazingly up $50.75, ship it!!!

This is how I would of done it exactly. We both realize how shitty slot machines are, so you get up $50 and insta cash out. That's so baller imo.

[quadfive]

so is 200 dollars irrelevant because you've won so much? or is it irrelevant because you've lost it on worse coolers than any blackjack hand can give?


so this thread shuld be renamed the 'so' thread... lol used it, trikkur used it.. i had to...

is 'baller' the new word of the month trikkur? if so it needs to be thrown in a video.

[TheDeKay]

Originally Posted by quadfive

so is 200 dollars irrelevant because you've won so much? or is it irrelevant because you've lost it on worse coolers than any blackjack hand can give?

It feels pretty irrelevant, cause you win/lose it many times in a session, so you get used to lose/win 200$ pretty often => You start feeling, that 200$ doesn't mean that much, since you lose/win in about 10times/h.

[Padawan]

ummmm "SO" if $200 is so irrelevant how bout some coaching lessons over here for free.

[ShoveOrFold]

I guess to them, its not really "insignificant" but they can just look at it in terms of Buyins. If they end up losing 400 dollars at a casino over a couple hours, it may seem like a lot of money to most of us, but i guess to someone like loltrickedu its just 1 buyin.

[dansiek]

haha that would be an awesome way to live
i fancy a choc bar, may as well get 400 its only a BI

[loltrickedu]

Originally Posted by loltrickedu

I don't really know what my point is but basically i have an immature disregard for money sometimes and don't look at what i have and respect it enough.

i dont know what my point is but unless i lose or win 1-2k i just really dont notice it that much.

[quadfive]

Thats Very cool in a way, but also very scary