June Results. Back on track!(sort of)

I’ll just get right to the results first of all. It was a nice month for me winning 11k or so online (minus 1k or so in online tournies, plus some in rakeback) and winning 2.5k in the wsop events I played. I have started this month running pretty bad dropping almost 5k in 2/4 plo but I’m confident I’ll pull out of the hole in a couple of days or so.

I didn’t end up playing any more events. I was planning on one more, but I ended up playing table games and drinking with my housemates til like 4am the night before so it wasn’t going to be a great idea. The last two weeks of the month have been pretty degenerate. I’m pretty happy to be out of Vegas because that city was starting to destroy me. I played quite a lot of table games and partied quite a bit the last couple of weeks. I went to go see the cirque show “Ka” which was awesome btw, also went to a variety show “V” which I got called up on stage for (not because I volunteered but because he got one volunteer, asked how tall he was which the volunteer responded “5’10″” and then the host pointed at other people in the crowd including me and asked me how tall I was, I reply “6’3″” he replies “5’10”? Great! Come on up on stage!” anyways I didn’t have a hard job I just had to wear a clown mask and give a thumbs up sign every time he tapped me on the shoulder. I think my friends and family that came with me got a good kick out of me being up there.

I also got bottle service for the first time in Vegas at LAX in the mirage. The night started off pregaming a bit at the house, heading to the mirage and quickly dropping $200 in a $25min pai gow table. Moving to the blackjack tables where I ran super hot and won $280 or so getting a couple drinks along the way of course. Then heading into LAX with the group of 9 other people where we got three fifths and obviously get super hammered. Head out and watch my roommates lose a bunch of dough at the table games. Then head over to the mirage’s tiny poker room where a couple of my roommates are playing with what’s likely 90% vpips blind straddling and blind squeezing and such, I try to get them to spread some chinese poker, but their having none of it. I yell at the dealers a bit demanding to play chinese, all of us about get kicked out at one point and then I end up taking a taxi home by myself at like 6am and it’s broad daylight outside while my roommates stick around another hour or so at the poker room. A night like this was a pretty regular occurence in the latter half of June for me.

Another night we went to hooter’s 25 cent wings after midnight and almost ordered everyone in the bar one wing. There was only like 40 other people there so we definitely should have done it, we ended up betting on and talking about whether another guy there was with an escort or not most of the meal. A totally different night we had just gone out to “Tabu” at MGM and ended at hooters again where two of my roommates starting playing the piano there (which you are not allowed to do btw) security guard ended up kicking us off it like three times but the crowd there waiting with us seemed to enjoy the entertainment. After about the third time getting kicked off, my roommate drunkenly asks the security guard how big of an asshole dan marino is from a scale of 1-10 (the restaurant is dan marino’s wings or something at hooters). I missed the response, but we just ended up leaving wingless and taking a stretch hummer home which was pretty badass imo.

Loads of prop bets were made during the month. Quite a few bowling prop bets (Gold coast has $3/game bowling and it open 24/7) one my roommates got 30 to 1 that he wouldn’t get a strike on like $10 but alas he missed. Another roommate got $20 for getting smacked in the head with a plastic pitcher because the other bettor bet that he could either break it over his head or knock him over. Neither happened. My roommate and I both lost $50 to another roommate betting that the shark tank at the Golden Nugget was over 25 feet deep. Turns out its only 18 feet deep. Shenanigans. Obviously immediately after losing this bet I go and put $50 on a single hand of blackjack and win so really I broke even that night right? I lost $20 betting one of my roommates who’s like a pack a day smoker he couldn’t smoke only two cigarettes over the next 72 hours. He outsmarted me by smoking a quarter of cigarette at a time so he actually smoked like 8 or 9 times over that period. He did say he’d never make a bet like that again though as it was pretty tough for him apparently. Two of my roommates bet on whether there was ever a jaguar spotting in Nevada. Turns out there’s been some in Arizona and California but not Nevada. I almost bet my roommate $100 he couldn’t eat 5 In N Out double doubles in 30 minutes and given a couple more days in Vegas the bet probably would have went down but we didn’t come up with the bet til like the 28th or something. I lost maybe $150 playing in our home game which was usually chinese poker for between $1-$5 a point. That game is deceivingly simple, but there is definitely some skill to that game in how you set your hands and maximizing your EV. I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of prop bets but that’s all I can think of at the moment.

I started learning some O8 the past couple of weeks too. There’s not very many resources on the game but I did find this thread which is pretty helpful for first time noobs like me to the game as well as this video by Adam Schwartz from a couple of years ago. I’ve been talking a bit of strategy with some people about the game and I plan on getting a coach soon but for the first couple weeks of the month I want to make some rent money before I go back to fooling around learning limit games. That’s it for now, gl to everyone in the main event.