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Originally Posted by Chasqui
Those must have been some rough for two years. Perseverance paid off though. High five!
Well to be fair, I played as little as posible because I knew I sucked.
I'll see how much I can write while I poop.
In 2002 I was in Vegas with 9 friends, we watched people play at Luxor and the floor invited us to start a new table. They taught us that we should tip 5-10% of the pot, so naturally just about everyone lost, but I had stumbled ass backwards into some basic strategy because I had hit my stoploss for the day and I only played to fill up the table. I basically played AJ+ 22+ based on the fact that AJ was a strong hand in pai gow poker.
In 2003 the Moneymaker thing hit and we got a poker room rate to stay at the Bellagio. I bitched about it because I thought we were going to lose more playing 4/8 than the amount we saved on the room. Truth be told, if everyone played and ran as badly as I did, I would have been right. We needed 50-60 hours combined between 8 of us, I negotiated a 4 hour share and lost like $200.
One quirk that happened was that our play that summer apparently granted us lifetime poker player status at the Bellagio - I never had to track my play again. I took another trip but didn't play poker at all (just mooched), then in 2004 I read some books, sucked less, and since I wasn't locked into playing at the B, discovered the Excalibur and booked a win.