So far, so hot this month. Played 6 sessions, profit 6 sessions. Cracked a grandma's aces at Bellagio for a $725 pot at $1/$3. I'll post the hand, if I'm not mistaking I think this may be the largest pot in dollar amount I've scooped yet live, and I didn't play it that well either lol.
Grandma opens UTG to $15. So warning bells already, as she had limped called my $20 button bet when I had AJ, and checked called an A high runout with AKs, no big loss there but you see the super passive play. So I flat IP with 55. Both the blinds call as well. Flop is pretty decent. Flop 678r. Grandma checks, and I make the mistake of betting my open ender to $35. Before the blinds even fold grandma says "raise." She clicks it $70. I internally facepalm my mistake, but still getting a good price and crack the aces or kings she has, so I flat. Turn isn't great, 6 pairs the board, but I also don't think she's raising $15 UTG with 77 or 88 when limp calling so I discount the full houses. She bets pretty small, $50. Great pot odds not to mention the implied odds as we started the hand about $320 effective, she had me covered barely. Bink the river with a 4 and make my straight. She bets $70, I jam for $220. She thinks for a little while and makes the call. I table my hand and she looks down sadly at her hand. This is when the dealer gets out of line. She says "I know honey, you've got aces, everyone knows you have aces." She didn't have to show anyways could have just mucked, and I didn't think needling a player like this was ever correct especially in this situation. Dealer pushes the pot my way and I tip $10 which in my mind was a fine tip, but the dealer says "Oh gee, thanks." Very sarcastically as if I was being super cheap with her. I ended up tossing another $5 which I regret.
The players at the table commented on her behavior afterwards and I did end up going to the floor at the end of my session after talking to one of my friends who is a floor manager at Commerce and he said that was something that should be brought up. Floorman apologized for it and said he would bring it up to her at the end of her shift and that was that.
Trip to California was great, snowboarding not so much it was all slush, and I sprained my thumb which didn't feel awesome. Had two sessions at Commerce, both profitable, flopped the nut straight in a limped pot and tripled up from a $130 stack, and then got aces all in pre 3 ways vs QQ and AKo for a $608 pot.
Got mini coolered a little while later when I had J9 on a Q10994 board and villain had 94, but wasn't playing for stacks thankfully so was still able to book a W. LA poker is just pretty crazy, my hourly there is higher than anywhere it is in Vegas, see guys fire seven or eight buy-ins to the $200 3/5 game, at a good table there's an all-in nearly orbit, people love to just gamble it up.
Plus the fact that SoCal is just an awesome spot to visit, went to Amoeba Music in Hollywood which I think is the world's largest independent music store, litterally anything ever produced they most likely have it, usually always stop in, got my dad a belated birthday present for when I see him this weekend. Friends down in San Diego were cool, good times, just a really nice weekend trip making money and mini-getaway.
Leaving Thursday at about midnight on a red-eye to Orlando. I like to schedule my flights to maximize my time there, so I get into Orlando at 7:30 Saturday morning, and don't leave until 9:30 PM Tuesday night. Pretty excited to see family and friends, also going to see Chris Rock with my friend who we promised each other 5 years ago we would if he ever went on tour again and finally he is.
In regards to a vlog, this is something I've been flip-flopping with. With my addictive type personality, I would put quite a bit of work into it, so there's the time factor to produce and edit it, and there's also just looking at ROI. I try and keep my table image as a rec fun player who's a visitor like most people. Usually, I'm in a button down shirt, combed hair, order a drink when I sit down even if I don't drink it. I think this as opposed to just showing up in a hoodie and headphones conveys a better image, even if it's minor, I mean I'll say it players at these stakes just don't think a lot and it might not matter. But when I'm in LA and I hear people talking about Neeme and Trooper, I wonder if being recognized at the table from vlogs would be a good or a bad thing for my ROI. Idk maybe I'm worried about nothing here, it's something I've been on the fence with for awhile now.
Well, got a few more days of grinding, guess I better get to it, let me know your thoughts on a vlog and if you think being recognized at 1/2, 2/5 games would impact how players played against you.
I'll try and include some images now in posts too for a little bit of visual stimulation, here's some LA this past time and the LAPC when I had a fanboy day with the pros. Hopefully I post them right and they actually show, first time doing so haha. Deuces.