So I finally got done with finals (and hopefully college assuming I passed all my classes). The past week has been really brutal on me. I spent multiple days at the library for 12 hours+ and have been eating really poorly. I’m moving home to NC today to live with my parents LOL and I’ll probably be getting a place of my own around February – if you are a poker player and want to live with me let me know, I’m willing to relocate pretty much anywhere.
Yesterday I went to MGM Grand in Detroit to play some live poker because I hadn’t played live in a really long time. Overall I was pretty dissatisfied and have a number of complaints.
1. Highest game offered was $2/$5
2. Long ass wait times(I had to wait 4+ hours to get in the $2/$5 game. During the wait I had to play $1/$2. Awesome, I really drove an hour to play 1/2 the stakes I normally play online and 1/6 the number of tables.)
3. Absolutely no comps, nothing, nada not even a bad beat jackpot or anything.
I doubt I will ever go back there I give their poker room a C-.
While there I saw a number of pretty sick beats and interesting hands including a straight flush, a flopped boat lose to a 2 outer on the river and lots of ridiculous things like someone putting in 3/4 of their stack and then folding on the flop or river or something retarded like that. I ended up losing about $200 while there (all at $1/$2, I broke even at $2/$5). I was really card dead at $1/$2 and I basically just tilted off my last $100 there and then at $2/$5 I was getting some decent cards but just missing every single flop.
Hands like these happened ALOT to me at $2/$5, some guy straddles for $10, two people limp, I have AJs on the button and raise to like $50, sb coldcalls, straddler calls, one limper calls, one folds and flop comes K67 rainbow. It will get checked around to me and I check behind? It will get checked down to the river and then someone will bet something like $10 and I sigh and call with Ahigh knowing its no good but I can’t fold for $10 and they’ll show 64o for the win. Hands like these I really have no experience with and I’m unsure of how to play. These never occur online. I also was a little unsure of how to play at the first 3 positions at the table, I was raising PF but I think it was a mistake and limping live is probably better. I am just not used to seeing flops with 3 other people on a regular basis. I was also folding hands like A9o and KJo to raises which online is definitely standard but live I think is a mistake when they show Q6s like I saw. Sigh… basically live poker is a completely different game IMO and is going to take some real adjustments before I get good at or used to it I think.
In the coming days I’m going to try to grind a lot to get supernova status, but honestly I don’t know if its possible with Christmas and New Years and what not. I think I have to play like 20k hands in what will likely be 7 or 8 days of play. We’ll see. I’ll leave you with a monkey video and story cuz monkeys are awesome. So jealous of this chick and her pet monkey. Check out him beating her with his tail at the end. Awesome. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/12/11/intv.monkey.reunion.cnn