there you go serio562

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10.../#post33274193

Gl OP, and sorry for posting alot in ur thread.. I will PM you in July, maybe we can meet up and have couple of beers

You guys have 2k to your name and trying to make it in poker in LV...you won't have funds to go out and party/get beers. The only beers you should be getting are the free ones at the casino and tipping the waitress.

Good luck op, heaters do happen.

Would rather run pretty mediocre at first instead of running hot to start to build a roll, jumping up in limits, then running terribly. Usually the way it works.

Level.

I fear for op. It's likely he is busted out and face down in the gutter. Or the 4g connect is no good in the tunnels. Fwiw I am not jealous of op. I believe every man in his 20's should do everything in their power to have reliable transportation and a fully functioning grill. I'm a stone degen who lives by very few rules. Those are a couple.

I'm pretty sure this is OP's best-case scenario.

But the fact that he hasn't posted on here since he left makes me think he's coming to realize he should have spent his $2,000 more wisely -- like on hookers.

Most likely scenario he wins med small over a week or two maybe longer then either busts or runs up at 2/5. Even if he runs up to 10k he still likely busts within 3/6mo. Or he grinds out a 25/65k year and "makes it". IMO

Just when I'm outta here you suck me back me.

give us some updates OP.. Hope u r doing well

updates op!

2 weeks and no post? That sucks.

I don't know who is a bigger loser.

A kid who grew up in a Missouri trailer park watching his VHS copy of Rounders everyday, carefully blowing the dust out of the cassette each time so it would last forever (those swamp coolers can really stir up the dust). A kid that followed his impossible dream and got on his first plane ride... straight to Vegas... thinking that $2000 is a lot of money.

Or me, who followed this stupid thread hoping this kid winds up finding some kind of job or career in life. He hasn't had much guidance or luck so far it seems, and there are a lot of young people in mid America with the same lack of direction.

I am proud of the guy for trying to live a dream. It is impossible to do after youth. But he should have taken a step to becoming a man and finished the story, no matter how embarrassing.

Just the memories of trying to live a dream, even for a week or two, can be satisfying for years to come.

GL OP

Yeah man nobody is gonna look down on you for busting the roll. Hope you're doing ok and that your lack of posting isn't because you are stranded in Vegas with no way out.

+1

and if for what ever reason you did not go , that is cool too

just post update and let us know you are ok

OP just post updates even if it didnt work out, its fine.. Most ppl who go to vegas seeking being a live pro don't make it anyways.. I went there with 10k 2 years ago and I didn't make it, but am proud of myself for following my dream and I WILL try again...

and If you it did work out for u, let us know as well.. we will be happy if u hit a jackpot or smthing

GL

I am back home in KC I will post a full TR I mean everything within 18 hours that happened I promise it is worth a read. I feel like it is owed when I was in Vegas I was to drained, busy, or resting to post sorry I just got sucked into the vegas vortex vacuum. It is all interesting none the least with some badbeats and scores. But right now I am to drunk to deliver the the whole package. But none the less it is owed with all the people that have looked at this thread and posted so I promise it will happen soon.

No worries buddy, here's a quote for you to read when you sober up.

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” - The Austrian Oak

Coddizzle don't let us down and tell us the story.

I hope you doubled your net worth

Will be waiting for ur TR

TR-Las Vegas Vacuum Ups, Downs and everything in between.
Starting off...
June-7 I am told at my place of work that I will not be needed for about a month and a half (very unpredictable company told that will be busy then there is no work and it is corp). I had been following the WSOP up until then had a small roll and haven't really decided to play poker around this time for a while like maybe a few months. But I new the 2-7 SD $1500 event was coming up and thats my cherry I new if I would have a chance in any event thats the one small field a lot of gamble and hey I probably gte to play with the most esteemed pro's. Although I had almost abandoned the idea of taking a crazy shot in Vegas I still had a little spark in me. I was hanging out with a friend got grabed his laptop while he was mowing his yard and looked at one way tickets to Vegas. I saw one for $282 on Sunday, June 10 and started concocting a idea right then. I said to myself you know you just paid off a signature loan to the bank I had received for $1000. So I started thinking if I could one for $1500 that would put my roll a around a little more than $2300 after I purchase a plane ticket so I said what the hell. I called up my Mom and asked her if she would cosign on a loan for a "vacation" I had really been wanting to take. I got her to agree my family is in very good standing with the bank so I new it would be automatic with a cosigner. Long story short i get the loan the next day which is friday and immediately purchase ticket on orbitz.
June 10- I arrive in Vegas at around 4pm Vegas time had a good flight sat next to few kids that told me about EDC. I had never heard of it until then and they seemed pretty hyped so I didn't rule it out. Get a cab straight to the Rio after arriving at the Mccarren wanted to jump right in the action that's why I am there right? My friend was dealing there to and told me I could crash with him at a house him and a few other dealers were renting. Anyways the cabby starts going on about EDC telling me how awesome it is and so on cool guy none the less. I show up to the Rio and go right into a 1/3 game table looked pretty soft but I felt really out of my element and didn't start of playing to good. My friend that was dealing said it was a few hours until he got off work so i decided I would play until the was ready to leave and catch up with him. I end up -120 after I am guessing a hour and a half I bought in for $200. I end up doubling up with AK on AK3 flop vs a old asian guy so I am still down roughly $40. I leave the game shortly after to meet my friend.
He is irritated that his room mates Don't want to leave and he has been dealing all damn day and just wants to leave blah blah blah. A friend of a friend was at a final table and they wanted to watch him so we don't get out
Rio till about 10 pm it didn't bother me to much it's not like I had a place to be. I want to play and he insures me his roomates are will be down. This is where s*** started to get crazy. We start playing this game with 13 cards I do not remember the name of it and no it was not chinese it was called "duece" or something 4 of us playing and I am horrible at this game I end up getting stuck something like $80 over 5 hours of my first time playing this crazy game. It's starting to get late I'm jet lagged down a little but still have some gamble in me. Everybody else is tired and is about to pack it in they have to wake up early then all of the sudden one of the roomates I didn't get to meet yet comes in he had just woke up kind of a older asian guy I will call him "M" he said who want to gamble? I had a a single $20 bill in my roll I and I go M you want to high card for $20 he concures. I go on to win 4 straight high cards for $20 a piece. Then we move up to $40 I lose one then win one. Then we go back to $20 I end up $140 after about 2 minutes of this craziness. He said "I got no more $20 only hundreds I don't want to take your money we are done". I thought this was pretty funny and cool of the guy at the same time. I only had the intentions of letting him win back his money at the best if we kept playing but still cool. Then he asked who wants to go to the strip? I said hey man I'm down my friend says to me man it's 5 am don't you think you need sleep I said what the hell I will just get a cheap room M says yeah sure I will hope you find one so then it why not I said?

I hope in the car with M and he tells me we wants to go to the Rio to play 5/10 and I figure I will go play some 1/3. I told him I would pass on looking for a room and just find one later. We walk into the Rio I decided I didn't want to play there and started walking toward the strip which sucked had a backpack with about 15 pounds of stuff in it. For whatever reason I went into Ballys walked past the poker room and saw one table of 1/2 going looked like a bunch of out vacationers so I decided to jump in for $200. About 30 minutes into the game I'm down somewhere around $50 but the game is veeery soft it's now morning.I'm sleep deprived exhausted but I feel really into the game I start really playing loose like KQ in position $20 and making it $25 pre with air and showing it. I feel very comfortable playing like this I feel I can really get the table loose three people I am playing with asked about basic rules to the dealer and the rest are drunk or clueless. Then a young arab kid sits down and is a very solid playing and he seems he wants to play loose or even looser than I have progressively gotten. I have around $480 in front of me and this guy is 3 and 4 betting me pre with a very wide range. I get A2 off I make it $12 he makes it $25 total I call flop K66 rainbow I check he bets $60 I call turn is 3 I check he bets 150 I call River is a 8 he moves all in for less a little less than pot. He moves in for what is around $120>? a little less. And I say to him I think your bluffing I have A2 I call and he cracks a huge smile so I immediately thing I have him and he tells he had Q10S and mucks. I was in shock right after saying to myself how the hell do I make a call down like that? I new I had been up way way to long. But I make the horrible decision to keep playing reaching $870+ at my pinnacle. Long story short I keep playing like a agro maniac take a few horrible beats and tilt off every dollar in a delirium state. I have $201 I am up $1 UTG decide to throw the dealer the single and walk off dead even. It is now after 1pm time to get a room and pass out.

I need to get something to eat I realize I haven't ate since I got in town nearly a day ago which is insane so I got to the deli at Ballys and gets the best damn meatball sub I have ever had for $15 tasted like heaven. I go to the Hotel check-in at Ballys they say they are booked ok i say I will just a cheap hotel and get a room I'm on the strip right Flamingo is the next stop I see somewhere around 200 people standing around the check-in so many a line cannot even be formed I call them and they say booked on to the next. I would just get on the interwebs and book one if the work laptop I had didn't have a spent like battery and need to be plugged into a outlet. About 7 hotels later I end up at Imperial Palace. I get in line and call while I am in line I get quoted $149?!? I remember seeing there cheap ass rates online and it made me sick with my lack of planning. But it was after 3pm had not sleep in over a day in a half nearly and bit the bullet I figure I will compensate in poker after much needed rest. I have to escrow another $75 for "accidentals" which was another dagger in the heart. I get to my room on what may have been the 16th floor? I don't remember anyways this room was lol horrible the worst hotel room I have seen in 10+ years everything outdated by more than 10 years it was pathetic it kind of gave me a good laugh though. I wake up and it is dark outside and I am scared it might almost be morning again in is 11:00 pm not to bad and I feel well rested.

I decide I will go back to the Rio and get in some 1/3 I shower up and head out. After pissing off a lot of money on a s***** room I decide to walk from the IP. I get to the Rio around 12:30ish get in a 1/3. Soon as I sat in my seat I noticed this guy being real loud drunk playing in a 2/5 wearing a pink shirt and a pink hat behind me I will call him "D" he was screaming getting a massage from a masseuse. I am up $20 after 30 minutes but I can't help but put all the focus on the game behind me with D. Somebody at my table I am talking to said they heard he bought the pink hat from a lady for $300 and I was thinking no way. Then I heard him say at his table he bought the pink shirt for $200x as a joke and was paying the masseuse $20 a minute girl was good looking but not worth $20 a min imo. With the small bankroll I had I new I should not playing 2/5 but this game looked to good to be true. Players betting all types of props. And this player D keeping it real live another 30 minutes go by and I hear him pay 2 guys at the table to kiss each others hands for hundreds of $ and I am in wtf shock at this point guy is wasted. I see him get up so I take it upon myself to walk over and say man I would love to play with you when there there is a seat open whole table seems to want me to play. But no one is in a rush to leave the table 3 hours go by. It is a little after 4 and the game breaks I am up $120 in my 1/3 close to hedging my BS room I got at IP. they open up another 2/5 game right infront of the floor box for the cash games. D goes and sits and the table is full I go get something to eat I come back 20 minutes later and D once again has taken control of the table it turned into a must drink game with more props than one could imagine. I catch his eye watching and he starts screaming I got you a seat! This guy is leaving I sit I notice everybody is insanely deep for a 2/5 game this was a game where people a lot of the people looked liked the were slumming and wanting to drink so it was low to them. I announce to the whole table I playing on a low bankroll and I don't want to look short stack everyone was more than fine with me playing. I come in for $350 Immediately D starts firing of all types of prop bets I end up slaughtering them majority of the players didn't even listen to the props they just said yes or no they were so wasted haha. Two of the players in this game seemed really familiar to me players I had remembered from TV I wasn't sure.

Not much later I was talking to a kid to my left a player from the UK who also looked familiar to me. I was telling him how I was working up the roll to play in the $1500 2-7 Friday and asked him if he played mixed games he said no I am not very good then went on to tell me he staked a few friends who excel in them in a 10k event a week earlier I realized I may have picked the wrong 2/5 game. Not much later the kid from the UK said to me do you watch the I will call it the "gangsta show" I said Yeah? I think that is AJ from the show in the 7 seat we where in the 2 and 3. He went on to ask him and he nodded his head yeah and looked uncomfortable after being outed as who he was. Then a prop came how much you made when you were 24 years old. and I was the banker D handed me a piece of paper with the amount written on it. I flip it over after everyone declared there action and it said $6,000 a hour and he went on to explain himself and his position. Which left me in shock I was really in the wrong 2/5 game. I am wasted about 11 white Russians in and it is 7:30am D says I want to go to Aria! I said what the hell 2 others players agreed that were socially involved in the game. I leave the game +78 some how I can still remember this probably because I new I shouldn't of been in this game anyways. We go to the cage and cash out grab a cab soon as we get in the cab D starts joking around with cabie proping his age and nationality. I don't think he mean't anything bad by it just his style once we arrived at Aria he went on to tip the gentlemen insanely well more than I have ever seen anyone tip for anything before I had ever met him.


Posting this took way longer than I thought I am sorry for any spelling errors or anything else like I said before I feel like it is owed and as long as people can read and understand it will have to be good enough all of this is 100% to best of my memory and recollection. I have to get up early tomm and do a odd job so I will finish this tomm afternoon or night. Thanks Codizzle

Nice TR. was a dry fun read.

However, I really don't think you like poker. Instead, you just like the action. (ie. so many impulsive acts in your TR).

Cheers,

S

So many questions that I am sure have no logical explanations, but 1st off.... Why did you pay ~$150 + $75 to stay at IP when you supposedly had a FREE place to stay with your dealer buddy?

Aj...from Sopranos?

Sounds like a few of the times I degened it up in Vegas years ago... Forgetting to eat, half delusional, overall a good experience though.