Easy answer : none

Better question : how many streets had even a single raise?

I'm not sure tbh. I just know that I always try to give 110% on and off the felt.

Used to sit in the Monte Carlo 1-5 stud game on occasion, waiting for a LHE seat. They shared the same HHJP that the LHE game had. Was it a $20 or $40 minimum pot to qualify for the HH? I remember watching a hand where a guy who had a qualifying hand (quads or better) was up against another decent hand and came nowhere near the qualifying pot size. Something like he tabled his trips that paired his door card on 6th street vs some actual hand, and the tiny pot meant he didn't win $500.

Sitting there playing vs guys with dusty chips watching an off the hook LHE game with no open seats.

I almost always give away at least 110% of a buy-in myself.

The Stud players were better at the game than average low stakes LHE players which doesn't say that much and there was betting going on usually HU past 5th street. I had fun playing/talking to the couple of 1,000 y.o. men.

You enjoy talking to younger people?

Kids these days!
Spoiled by their horseless carriages!

And their revolutions, both industrial and dance dance!

When I was 55 we stayed at some hotel in Laughlin bec we got two free nights which is the only reason to ever visit Laughlin and 'free' might be over priced. Anyway, the busiest poker room was the Colorado Belle, there was an open seat in the 4-8 08, and I was greeted as 'kid.'

I should go back bec I could use a boost like that again.

When I was young, we didn't have these newfangled phonographs! We invited the local monks to come over to the castle to sing their Gregorian chants!

Gregorian chants go very well w/ the ganja and, if you haven't already bec it's legal now, give it a try.

Gregorian chants have always been legal in California.

I give up. I'm so old that I'm just now getting used to electricity.

I can't listen to baseball on the radio, because the announcer here (Jon Miller) calls the action about 2 seconds after the play is already over. I find it super tilting.

The only thing the dealer does that tilts me is when they take an extra second to place the card on the turn/river. Like when you're sitting in the 1/9 seat and their hand blocks the card as they're placing it on the turn/river and they study it with their hand in the way, so you see it about a second later after everyone else does.

Just place the damn card!

Hey Howard, how is mom? Saw the post that she was in the hospital for tests.

She's ok, thanks for asking.

Baseball is the game for the radio. Listen to it while doing stuff around the garage. NFL is best on TV. Hockey is best in person. NBA? Not sure.

I used to like baseball until I moved to the Bay area. Now I hate it. KNBR has that schmuck (can't remember the name) that is the most ridiculous fanboi, especially considering how old he is, that is just terrible on the radio. I think he works for free so they stick him on there literally for 6 hours on game days, and when people call in, he'll have the same long drawn out discussion on the same subject 5 times an hour. It got to be so I dreaded April every year.

Fun radio baseball moment from my last poker blog:

"Second, a baseball story: Radio Mike checks in from Cheney Stadium and asks if I can check the [Rainiers] radio broadcast and make sure it’s playing online. I agree, as long as he works a “Dark Knight” into his play-by-play in the next inning.

They come back from commercial and he opens with a reference to last night’s massive rain delay: “A lot can change in one day: yesterday, lots of rain, dark night…” Gotta love it.

Also, he just mentioned that Shohei Ohtani hit his third homerun of the season tonight and said that Ohtani was “sandbagging” everyone in spring training. Spoken like a true poker player!"

You can probably win a lot of prop bets with power like that...

****ing commie pinkos, forcing you to listen to these schmucks on the radio for hours on end!

I am firmly in favor of holding accountable all the people who physically strapped you down and blasted this **** into your ears for 6 months every year.

I’m switching CPAs for the 2018 tax year because my experienced CPA is retiring and the CPA that took over has really struggled with my return.

I’m talking to a potential new CPA that allegedly has experience filing for professional poker players and he’s advising me to track all my tips in cash games so that I can deduct them later.

Is it just me or is this incorrect? When I report my cash game winnings any tips to dealers are already subtracted to get my net profit , yeah? So why would I deduct them separately later? I would be hesitant to start a new relationship if he’s already giving me bad advice, but this seems to conflict what I currently believe to be correct procedure.

Ask the accountant, ldo.

Seems like a gr8 guy. Show lower revenue, take maximum deductions. Some questions are better left unasked.

Calculate rake and deduct that too

A session is still the valid criteria, correct? Some suggested a few years ago that a session is one table's results (live of course).....so if you have a table change, your 1st session is done, you are starting a second session. Not really to the point of your question...just asking for my own knowledge.

But...with a session, it's probably been (for you):
Started session with 1000.00 in your pocket (numbers don't matter)
Ended session with 1100.00 in your pocket.
Profit/loss: Your journal date and +$100.00
(I am not using "other" expenses that you are able to deduct)

"Now" it will be:
Started session with $1000.00
Ended session with $1100.00
Paid $35.00 in tips to dealer

So you actual declare on your 1040:
Profit/Loss: date and +$135.00
Expense $35.

So you have increased income. But the INCOME TAX less EXPENSES will still be $100 after taxes (simply put). BUT,,,,,, you are increasing your Social Security and Medicare costs. 15.3%* x 35.00 = $5.355

*Medicare percent changes if you are making hay at the tables $200K+.