haha 3lbs is a good result! Wtf is villain doing in all 3 hands. So botty

Seems like a good place to play for nits


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Yeah 25nl is so rife with them. Party have banned some but the annoying thing is they have never redistributed their funds. Which is a bit scummy.

Forgot about the Vegas updates

Saturday...

Started the day off with yet more shopping at the Forum shops. I've been in there a lot during my 3 visits to Vegas but I never realised that there was a sort of show at one of the fountains in there. It depicts the fall of Atlantis and there's no actual people involved, it's all done with animatronics, fire etc. Quite enjoyed it.







After that we headed out for a 'haute' dog and then being rather greedy I decided I wanted a frrrrrrozen hot chocolate from Serendipity. I'd had them recommended to me but the thing I ended up with didn't seem to bare any relation to the pic on the menu. Maybe if we'd eaten in rather than taken away then we'd have ended up with something with a bit better presentation









Not quite as advertised


After that we took a walk around the Bellagio to check out their new display in the conservatory, the Autumn theme and then over to Miracle Mile shops for some shopping at Victoria Secrets. After that we headed back to the room for a bit to chill before we headed out for the night.





At night we headed down to NYNY to see Zumanity. I've gotta say I really enjoyed it. It was funny, a bit raunchy, and also had the usual impressive Cirque De Soliel athleticism. After that we headed to Shake Shack for a bite to eat. I'm not quite sure how I managed it but on the way out I managed to jam my finger in the door. Unfortunately for me it was a damn heavy door, I only jammed one finger and it happened to be right on the nail so it hurt A LOT. Outside Shake Shack there's a sort of wall/ sculpture thing with running water so I headed straight over there and stuck my finger in it hoping it would help the pain. It didn't Some guy was sitting at a table next to me looking at me like I was some sort of idiot (which I was). After going through every possible swear word in the English language, and possibly inventing a few new ones, we headed to the piano bar in NYNY. As well as drinking I ordered a glass of ice to stick my finger in. For anyone who hasn't been to one of these piano bars there's a little bit cheesy but also good fun if you've had a few drinks. Basically the two pianists had a thing going where one was playing 80's rock (Livin on a Prayer etc) and the other was playing rap stuff (Vanilla Ice lol, and Dre etc). Everyone was singing along so it was good.

We then headed along to Diablos for some drinks. It was kinda weird as we went in as normal but then about half an hour later they had security on the door and everone who was coming in was scanned with metal detectors then padded down. Womens bags were also checked etc. Also, I think everyone who came in at this point was South American. I've no idea why it changed so suddenly from a bar you could just walk into to something that had more checks than airport securiy.









Shake shack also do food for four legged friends




After that we headed back to the Chandelier Bar in the Cosmopolitan. We sat on the ground floor level people watching and the place was absolutely mobbed. Then we went to Bond bar which is also in the Cosmopolitan before heading to the Tilted Kilt (again) and O'Sheas. The barman in O'sheas asked my g/f for ID and when I asked if he needed mine, knowing full well he didn't, he gave the very diplomatic answer of 'No, you have an honest face, I trust you'. Kudos to him for that one Ended the night heading back to Paris for a slice of pizza, a couple of drinks and some video poker



At the end of the night I realised I'd bruised my finger under the nail, which was why it was throbbing so much. I remember reading somewhere that to relieve the pressure you should take a paperclip, flatten it out and then heat the end of it. You then put this on your nail till it burns a little hole through to the bruising and then the blood will all come out and it should feel better. Thought about it and then decided I might end up making the situation worse so I bottled it

I've enjoyed the trip reports. Even with the aid of the photos, I can't make sense of the phrase "frozen hot chocolate", but I'm sure it tasted nice.

Thanks. It was basically just a frozen chocolate drink. Not sure where the 'hot' part came in. The presentation was definitely a let down

I could've done a world tour in the time it's taken me to get around to updating the TR report. Anyway, onto my final night...

Started the day with the obligatory visit to Starbucks for an iced coffee and then decided that I fancied checking out another show so we bought tickets for 'O' at the Bellagio. Fancied brunch at Bouchon but we were too late getting there so we just headed to Hash House a Go Go for the chicken and waffles again. After that it was back to Paris a few drinks (Blue Moon for me, vodka for my other half) while we watched some American football.







Later that night we headed over to the Bellagio to see 'O'. It's a cirque du soleil show that's based around water. I'll freely admit to now being a 'show' kinda guy but I was completely blown away by this. It's one of the most incredible/ enjoyable things I've ever seen. The stage is incredible, one minute it's a deep pool, a few seconds later it dry land etc and the performers are brilliant. We paid $400 for our seats and if we'd had enough time the next day before our flights we'd have gone back again. I can't recommend it highly enough. Not allowed to take any pics during the show so I only have one from my seat before it all started



After that we headed to the Cosmopolitan for dinner at Holsteins. I'd been there on my last visit to Vegas and it has the best burgers I've ever had. Thankfully this visit confirmed my earlier thoughts and it may have been even better than I remembered it. Unfortunately my phone died so I don't have any pics. There's a pic of a small part of the menu below. I had the 'Rising Sun' and it was done medium rare. G/f had the 'Nom Nom'. They also do some pretty outrageous shakes






After that we headed out for a few drinks and then headed back to the room and crashed. Our flights home were the next day, but not till 9:00 pm so we still had time to squeeze in a bit more Vegas.

This post will seem rather random but I'm posting it here in case I have to point out something I posted about on another thread...i.e. I know Finnish is the nationality, I was deliberately going for the poor pun

O/T but there's a new Danny MacAskill video out. It's bike stuff, not a music video in case anyone is wondering

I suppose it's time for me to get back to the poker here.

I was losing motivation due to my results and I've almost gone busto on Party, something that's never happened to me since I deposited all those years ago. I've decided to withdraw my remaining roll for a couple of reasons, both obviously related to the fact I'm losing

1) The player pool at 25nl at Party seems to be absolutely rife with very aggro bots. They all have 51%+ WWSF and have very high flop, turn and river barrels. When you've got a few at your table it's very difficult to play against them and I'm just not good enough for that frankly. I've got some of them banned by reporting them and others have done the same but new names keep appearing all the time with similar stats. I'm pretty certain it's just the same players again as there are certain things that set the spidey senses tingling, i.e. one player who was banned had a very high donk bet against me, but normal against everyone else and immediately a new player came along who was the exact same right from the very first hand we played. Maybe I should be able to exploit their unbalanced lines but it's very high variance and I'm clearly not good enough for it.

2) Party has now made their hand histories anonymous. This means you see a players name on the tables but you will only ever have the session stats. The site is now a dream for bots and the opportunity to investigate and report them has now gone. The site has taken a fair bit of criticism for this as everyone believes thay have basically given in to the bots and hope no one notices them from now on. I also found it very shady that despite all the bannings there was never any refunds to players until they decided to make the tables anonymous. At that point they suddenly announced they would be giving refunds for players banned in the past. I never got an answer as to why it had taken them up till that point and the refunds were all pretty tiny and worthless anyway. It was just another thing that made me question the site.

So anyway, without further ado, here's my trainwreck of a graph. There's a bit of runbad at the very end, hence the steep drop from around -$800 to -$1200.




So where to now? Well I had a roll on Stars from when FTP merged with them. I've never played on Stars as everyone seemed to say it's the toughest site out there, so I never really seen the point. Having started playing on it a couple of days ago though I've got to say I've been really pleasantly surprised. There's fish on every table, really spewy fish in some cases and the regs seem less aggro. I've had a couple of big coolers (and a site crash just as I was scooping a large pot ) but I'm finding the play much more fun and my motivation has come back. So I'll try to get back to updating this now and again and see where it goes.

I've always said it, stars regs are completely horrible up to 400nl and they convince themselves that their bad winrates(even with lower rake) are due to "hard games" but the truth is that they have the worst regs and best fishes. Some of their regs even at lower limits are really ton better than on other sites(if you remove bots, though bots are 95% of the reg pool everywhere else so it does not really apply does it?)

The only negative on stars is the damn seating scripts but if you watch opening tables at 50 and 100 you can easily get 2-3fish per table, its a joke site. I have only seen 1 reg with less than 40 wwsf and that was on microgaming. Stars has TONS of 35 WWSF regs even on zoom games. I put a 100k hands there and i found only 4 bots that were above decent.

Went back to party because im only part time and i want a quick 300$ in rb, i 14 tabled lower to warmup and already found 7 bots in the first 5mins that played better than a good 200nl reg. Few of them matched with Lessu's bot list.

took that sshot when i deposited on stars to show my friend the difference

I had party and stars and microgaming 50nl open. Needed 1 fish to join the table, after 30m+ i had 1 party table and the rest were stars, no waitlist joining just newly spawned tables at off-peak. Theres usualy about 3 tables of party running, usualy with 4 bots and microgaming its 5bots waiting for a mark.

Greens are fish and the limper isnt tagged yet.. The only time i ever had similar tables on party was when all the bots were down and i had all my tables with 100% fish as no regs play 50nl anymore, either regs are at 10nl being ****ties or they play 100+ 25-50nl on other sites than stars is almost exclusively bots. These bots are better than the bots i used to play at 200nl a year ago on bot friendly shady sites.

Never seen that and I've been girding exclusively zoom the past 2 years. Maybe at FR but even then, that was ultra rare.

I can assure you you won't find any reg with less than 41-42 WWSF at 200z.

just play on stars mate you can't go wrong

work on your game and review your database

don't give up

What do you think a good regs WWSF should be? Mine currently sits at 48 but I've been told thats low

I'm grinding 25nl on stars until the end of the year, so I guess I'll be seeing you again! PM me if you want to know my SN or ask for any advice (not that I'm necessarily qualified to give any, unsure what my 25nl winrate is since I've had a break from poker). Good luck on turning it around!

Just like i said, stars players are always in denial






6 max WWSF by numbers of hands played

the 67 WWSF is beast9881 a russian bot that nobody seems to care about
34.9 = PerkeoX
37.8 = Supermegopro
32.1 = Bofa23
37.1 = RUSLANFTW

All these guys play 8hrs+ per day

worthy mentions lower in my list nakphanan69 thai weak bot or reg he's there 2 tabling 24hrs a day with 34.9 WWSF
asmodej666 reg table reg with 38 WWSF, there almost all day


Party, microgaming, ipoker i ALWAYS have the lowest WWSF and im in the mid 40's

Your WWSF is only an indication of your style of play; it doesn't correlate to if you are bad or good tbh.

FWIW, 48 WWSF is pretty high. Would never consider that remotely close to being "low" lol.

Really? I'm amazed, wow. That's 50z right?

So pretty much weak passive, teamnobluff.

67 is completely broken, don't think I've ever seen that.

What stakes do these guys play zoom on ? Only one irecognize is perkeoX yet i dont remember his wwsf being so low but it might be, at the stake he plays it's laughable if true

I play 50z and only person I recognise is beast and pretty sure his WWSF isn't that high. Others might play zoom but I don't really see names on my client so I don't really know.

He plays a ton and stars support has told me "human"

He bets 100% 3street over a few thousands hands
his VPIP per position is senseless(folds a ton in the blinds)

he wins

While stars has some of the best regs around, most of their rangs are runitonce wannabes and really really bad fishes which makes it the softest site.

Stars reg are so weak, my WTSD went from 32% on party to 24% on stars as nobody ever bluffs rivers even in 5bb pots.. Party everytime i check back turn i get checkshoved on the river by second pairs and tp's

god you are so full of ****, you just cant help it, control your mental illness man

You haven't played long enough on stars if you think it's the softest sight..

Yes of course, as i said you are the perfect proof:

Never played outside of stars
Never beat above 25nl on stars

KNOWS stars is the hardest site.

I've been playing 50z for like 2 weeks and I am beating it atm on stars (small sample).

I've played on 888 party and unibet all of them are a joke compared to pokerstars.

How do you know what I'm beating or where I've played??

Every time you post I say to my self this guy can't look more stupid and you prove me wrong every time...