So apparently I have the touch of stinkfinger in the gambools this trip, because every machine I touch turns to poop. Total down gambool like -150 to -200 (haven't been keeping track outside of what's NOT in my wallet anymore) and -100 in poorly played poker.
I have a couple of extra pictures from last night, including the $70 of PF Changs that I currently need to go release.
Talent at Aria pool has been JV level but it's mid-week and I haven't stopped by Liquid. I think Liquid is on the gameplan today along with possibly a buffet and some sort of show experience. More to come…
Liquid was full for tanning, the girls looked good at a glance though.
Trying to talk Jeff my best friend I to staying at Aria next week for our World Cup trip.
Been at the pool way too long today yet am looking at a menu to order food.
Amusedlol, s.paul, chrisman and watbri are inside grinding. I feel real Hollywood just being a lazy wanker by the pool. But they would just take my money anyway because I'm fishy.
I'm gonna go make introductions and say hey to amused in a few. No word or sign if NCJ, but maybe he's really bentaylor in disguise?
But I'll get on my grind later. No food after 4:30 poolside?!? wtf it's 7 down at Mandalay bay. Oh well pizza it is for me.
Took another nap upstairs after saying hi to amused and friends in the Aria poker room. Felt bad because I wanted to chat it up and stuff but I was starving and feeling drained by the sun so I let them know I was heading to eat and bounced.
Now I'm awake and feeling refreshed, smoking my face off and prepping to play tonight. Feeling like bellagio or a smaller CET room like Bally's or flamingo. OSB has suggested Venetian but I'm not sure I wanna go that far.
Bum hunting 30-60 minutes at a time unless a table uber donates. Starting At flamingo an going to quad, mirage and possibly V before doubling back down the other side of the street.
Stop loss is 200 and stop win is 1000 unless things again get very generous. Then we'll take it as it comes.
Walk into Mirage. Greeted by 3 locals with coffee/water by first name at the I only open table. Walk over to Caesars while laughing after exchanging pleasantries.
Getting great exercise while walking in circles. Maybe I should go to Venetian? Why do I get a weird feeling as I wrote that? There's nothing scary there maybe I'm just feeling naturally anxious/gunshy?
So, this next post is a lesson in listening to people who care about you and know better.
I sat at Aria tonight in for 200. I quickly was messaged by jhair (my new coach if he'll still take me after this) to get up and move because I'm in over my head at Aria.
I told him I would listen to him and go upstairs or move to PH, but I was stubborn, and foolish and felt like I knew better. I'm here to tell you I don't know better.
I treaded water for like 90 minutes down to like 170. Then I came across Ad6d UTG and came in for 10, several callers including the big stack (about 1500 behind) and we go to a 728 2 spades flop. I check, big stack bets 15 and it's folded to the girl next to me (cute, a dealer from PA here for the WSOP) who calls as do I.
Turn 9s. Checked around. River 8x and it's checked by big stack and girl auto mucks. I 60 on the river and big stack tanks before meekly calling and flipping over 4h2h. I feel like the biggest tuna in the room.
Next hand is straddled and I'm on the BB with 77, it's limp/folded around to me and I now have like 90 behind and am tilting. I bet 18 and 4 people auto call including the girl and the straddle, I've lost any and all meager amounts of respect I had previously had.
1086 rainbow flop and I snap shove. Straddler and Girl in SB both auto call with 10J and 10Q respectively. Board runs out blank and I feel like a bigger Tuna and Donkey. Unnecessary losing.
In other notes on this trip I stepped on a toothpick sticking up in my room carpet and it stabbed right into the outer ball on my left foot last night. Serious puncture wound and perhaps it is becoming infected and affecting my thought processes. Either way, I'm embarassed by how I played and I should be. I played like total **** all week in just about every game I tried to play.
It may just be variance and I shouldn't have such swingy confidence. I think I'm feeling a little bad/dumb because jhair went out of his way to look out for me and to know better for me, and I told him I would do it and then didn't, and I paid for my mistake. These are life lessons as much as poker lessons.
Good news is I played a much tighter range and played stronger bets this session compared to last night. Unfortunately I missed my 88, 99, both AKs, a KQ I hit the flop on everyone folded and an 89 suited I played flopped the top straight and got no money in post flop with the 1 villain.
I'm searching for something that doesn't make this a pity post… Oh yea, this money is small change compared to the money I just made at home, some of which I'll bring back to donk off next week. So there is that.
I'm just 1. A sore loser 2. Hate making dumb mistakes.
I knew jhair was 100% right when he told me to leave and I think ego and the want to post Aria chip porn and a "I can hang and double/triple up" at Aria brag-post were blinding me. I won't make that mistake again. I play poker to make side money, not for ego or pride or to show off. I got off gameplan this trip and wanted to share cool stories and cool chip porn pics for the 2+2 community that entertains me with the same.
But you know what? Sometimes an honest "I lost because I'm dumb" story is hopefully nearly as entertaining as all the cool winning stories are. The summer is just beginning and this is trip 1 of 4/5 so we won't let this ruin the confidence more than it already has and we will pick up again tomorrow before we head home for a few days to Hollywood.
BTW for reference: all the talk of "weird vibes" "energy" "feelings" and the such aren't me being some hippie or weird bohemian douche bag. I have severe generalized anxiety as well as ADD.
I do take prescribed medicines for both (no adderall or ritalin tho so don't ask for pill hook ups LOL) and I DID NOT take those meds tonight before I went out to play. That probably had a lot to do with my behavior and my choices tonight. Another lesson learned, if you don't take care of yourself, you cannot perform at your best :/
This is officially the most I think I've ever heard/read someone bitch about a 200 loss in a poker forum. I'm gonna take my meds ASAP and get back to you guys in a few.
OSB gets back to the room from visiting with a friend. She was suppose to go out and dance with her girl but apparently her Sephora bag with $336 worth of make up (documented last trip) that she picked out very meticulously over 2 hours disappeared on the conveyer belt from the bell desk to our floor. The receipt was in the bag because she wanted to exchange some of the items before we left town today. I know for a fact that the items weren't stolen by housekeeping because I haven't let housekeeping in my room this trip. I put the bag of make up on the cart myself and it never made it to the room. I never noticed it before because I don't wear make up and OSB didn't notice because it's "going out" make up and she wasn't going out until tonight with her friend.
Now I have to go make a report with Security and them + Bell will do an investigation to try and recover or discover the whereabouts of the lost items. In the meantime I check out at 1pm but am so stressed out from OSB's being upset plus Security saying it would take until the end of today to give me some sort of answer on their investigation, I don't know what to do. I should be 2+ hours asleep and instead I'm just sitting here watching the sunrise stressed out because my GF is upset and I don't want to leave for LA until security tells me they have our stuff or Guest Services credits me some amount for what the bell desk lost towards a future stay.
I know the $500 I dropped downstairs wasn't much this trip, but I did all my casino play at aria and my coin in amounted to more than that. I'm an mLife gold member so I'm gonna go to the mLife desk (opens at 8am but I'll go down after that, after I talk to security) and ask them, due to the issues caused at the bell desk that are going to keep me here an extra night, if they will comp me out their most basic, 2 queen non smoking, lowest floor with zero view room. I just need somewhere to catch up on my rest after this travesty and debalace.
Hey, if they are courtesy and agreeable I'll probably attack my credit card in the casino atm and drown my sorrows in a DDB VP machine. Or alternative take it to a green chip black jack table and donate more money than a base room is worth with my mlife discount anyway. So WTF they should just take care of a brother for all my MF'ing trouble over this dumb little bag of make up, right?
