Chipped up to 21k, with some bluffs. Can't make a hand to save my life. Blinds are getting high so I'll probably have heaps or bust by the next couple levels.

Just got crippled. Lady makes it 2.5x in the CO, folds to me in the BB and I shove for 25bbs and she tanks and calls off her 20bb stack with A3ss and says you're way ahead. He ends up turning a wheel an I'm now down to 6bbs.

Busto. Two limps in front of my SB and I rip in my last 6bbs with A9hh. One limper calls me with KQ. Flop is K64hh and I brick out. LOLDONKAMENTS

Looks like the "Summer" is over for me. My work schedule ended up crushing a lot of opportunities for me to play some huge bracelets events, but it was a fun experience nonetheless. Only got to play two bracelet events, in which I was 1/2. Next summer I will 100% be playing more events and will def be playing the Main Event for the first time, which will be a dream come true for me.

I am NOWHERE near my goal of 100k of tournament cashes in 2015, but the only brightside to that is that I didn't plan on having a "normal" job when I originally made my goal for the year. So, like I said earlier, the job has prevented me from playing a lot of tournaments so my tournament volume is nowhere near what it needs to be to be to making any serious progress with that goal.

I've still got 98k in cashes to go before the end of the year to meet my goal and my only hope in making the goal would be playing some events at "Legends of Poker" at the bike and making some really deep runs, hopefully I can manage to work around my schedule at Pala and find some free time to play some events.

Cheers

Just found out that my friend from High School has been a pornstar for sometime now. Google Kimberly Kasanova to see for yourselves. Hahaha pretty funny watching someone you know getting paid to have sex on film for money, I guess times are tough!

Bad Bead Jackpot got hit at my table the other day while I was working. Guy flopped Quad Jacks and my buddy Jay who is another prop, rivered a straight flush with QT. Table was 7 handed with 3 props playing (Props aren't Jackpot eligible while working) so everyone expect the props got to divvy up the $6,600, Quad Jacks guy left with $3,200 and the three other players got about $1,200 each. The players left me and the two other props some money since they felt bad we weren't eligible, which was much appreciated!

After all these years I've played that was only the second time a Jackpot has been hit at a table I was playing on, seems low considering I know tons of people who play less than I do and have handfuls of Jackpots under their belts. Anyway, the last week has been pretty dull, the action at work has been pretty bad the last couple shifts with the occasional punt from time to time. Hopefully it picks up soon, because I've been pretty bored at Pala the last couple shifts.

Gonna teach the GF to surf this week and also got a round of golf played with a friend of mine, so this should be a fun week!

LATE CIRCUMCISION 11-2011

I have been out of jail for a couple months at this time and have been sober for about 9 months when I decided to stay the night at my friend "Goat's" house. The night started off innocently enough with a group of us watching getting together at Goat's to watch a UFC fight on PPV. Some of them were drinking and some of us were sober (like me.)

Goat had recently met a girl from the website POF and had been hanging out with her pretty consistently and this was the night we finally got to meet her, which was exciting because Goat was never the type to bring girls around us, as he was the type to just find skanks and have one night stands. She turned out to be a pretty cool and chill girl, although pretty shy.

After the UFC fight was over, we all decided to make our way to a local bar in Encinitas for some late night dinner. I noticed that at this point Goat's POF girl was starting to get pretty comfy with us and had started loosening up with about 3-4 Tequila Sunrises.

Fast forward to about 1:30am, they call last call and I decide its time to leave because I don't see any girl that I am willing to take home, so we all decide to leave and go back to Goat's house. We all arrive back at Goats and I decide I am gonna sleep over because I am too tired to drive home. Goats roommate and his GF go into their downstairs bedroom, while me, goat and his POF girl go upstairs and talk while I setup my bed on the living room couch. Ten minutes later they both walk into Goat's bedroom to have sex and or go to bed.

Just as I am closing my eyes to go to bed I hear Goat scream "COCKBLOCK!!! Help me in the bathroom" I immediately run over to the bathroom and walk in and see all the horror! I looked like I had walking into a murder scene, blood all over the floor tile, toilet, bathtub and walls, not to mention Goat standing there naked with his bloody junk in his hand. "WTFFFFFFF happened" is the only thing I could say, being in shock of what I am witnessing. Goat tried explaining to me what happened, but I couldn't keep a straight face as he explained "my foreskin snapped" HAHAHAHA. Goat and his uncircumsized penis were gushing blood while we cleaned his bathroom and tried to figure out the most logical thing to do. The plan was to clean up the bleeding as much as possible and take him to the ER, then we hear a huge firetruck and ambulance pull up to Goat's quiet condo neighborhood at 3am! I go outside to see a group of five firefighters making their way to Goats front door, turns out that the POF girl got so scared at what had happened that she called the ambulance while me and Goat were in the bathroom cleaning up. By the time the five firefighters make their way inside, Goat's roommate and his GF are awake and all upstairs laughing at the situation they are witnessing. So the firemen finally make their way upstairs to see Goat naked in the bathroom with his bloody junk, cleaning the blood of the walls. They check out his cut (Goat's face while five firemen are closely examining his bloody junk was priceless!) and make the assumption that he will be okay but they say he should stop by the ER just to make sure. So after more cleaning and blood stopping Goat puts some clothes on and heads over to the ER.

Everything turned out okay, I guess his foreskin got cut due to friction while he was attempting to have sex. Never heard or seen anything like that happening, it was pretty classic and he handled it like a champ! We always messed with Goat throughout High School about his uncircumsized junk, calling him "Burrito Dick" "Anteater" among other things, which made this night 100000x funnier. Moral of this story is please circumcise your children, you don't want this happening to them!

Had a nice win streak broken at work yesterday, ahhhh variance you can be a cruel bitch! I got 4 outed three times and 2 or 3 outed four times on the turn or river, all when we got all the chips in on the flop, FUN TIMES! Really hoping I can start a new winning streak today and put that awful session behind me, god I really hate losing to morons!

A couple all ins that I lost last night;
TT < 56 all in on 8 8 9r
KK < T8 all in on 4 J 7
J9 < 34 all in on J 4 8 3


In other news, me and the GF went to Disneyland and California Adventure on Wednesday for her birthday. It was really fun but god damn, that place gets absurdly crowded. Those fast passes they have on most rides really save the day if waiting in never-ending lines all day isn't your idea of fun. We were at the parks for a total of 15 hours total and my feet were killing us by days end, as we walked 11 miles total, according to the health app on her phone.

PS I never want to have kids, thanks Disneyland!

Do people that smoke cigarettes think its not littering to throw cigarettes out their car windows and or on the ground after smoking?!? Smokers are ****ing beyond stupid for multiple reasons just for smoking in the first place but they get 100000x worse when they litter the cigarette butts all over, I wonder how they would like it if I came to their house and just emptied a bunch of garbage cans all over their property!? GFY to all the smokers out there, you guys are some of the stupidest people on this planet.

Fun read. Looking forward to more adventures and rooting for you to scoop a big donkament.

Playing the Legends of Poker 200k guarantee right now at the bike. Can't remember the last time I play a tourney here, the tourney area seems nicer than I remember which was a pleasant surprise.

On second break I've got 28k, the blinds will be 250/500/50 ante when I return from break. Nothing to exciting to report besides an obv super soft table and that the first 5 hands I was dealt were J8 off suit. Hopefully some of these shmucks start punting so I have something interesting to report.

5th times a charm.


Wearing my Sloth Marley shirt today which means I'm 100% bagging the chiplead.


PS reentry is now closed so I will gladly only be firing one bullet!

This fine gentleman has the honors for my tables first big punt!


He flats KTss on button in a multiway and jams over the cbet on QJ5ddd for 55bbs and sadly he is drawing dead

23k on 3rd break, coming back to 400/800/100 ante. I have yet to be dealt a premium hand and or flop a pair or any draw so it can't be much worse. My table is next to break which is great news.

4th break, was a total rollercoaster last couple levels, peaked at 37k but I haven't won a hand for two levels and I finally picked up a pocket pair but unfortunately the bb had AA, but I had him covered so now I have 6bbs. Hoping for a major comeback.

Busto, shoved my last 4bbs on the button with A4ss and I couldn't get there vs KK of UTG. Can't remember ever being that carddead in a tourney before, do I pretty happy with the way I played considering I played over 11 levels of poker and was dealt one pair (77) and KJdd was my next best preflop hand. See you in hell Bicycle casino!!!

Thanks man, glad you enjoy. Hoping the bink comes very soon, until then I think it's "Time For A Nap."

I wanted to make a new section to my blog called "REALLY!?!" Working in a casino and poker room has made me victim of hearing some of the dumbest **** I have every heard in my life, it really makes me wonder how some of these people function in society, it shocks me that some of these people are capable of even wiping their own asses!

Anyway, a "REALLY!?!" post will just consist of me sharing some of the dumb comments and or questions I hear on a regular basis at work. I might as well start it off now, while a couple instances are still fresh in my memory, so enjoy!


Guy gets stacked at a 1-2 table and calls me over to get him chips, I make my way over and notice he has his checkbook out and says "I can write you a check for chips in this cash game, right!?" REALLY!?!

Last night a guy tables changes to the table I am playing at and snaps starts telling me about his bad beat. "Chad, I was running so bad over at table 8, I went all with AK preflop and got called by AK and I lost, you'll never guess how I lost." Never guess how you lost!?!?! REALLY!?! His opponent must of flopped a straight and beat him.

So after only 3 months I officially put in my two week notice at Pala Casino for my job as a "Prop." I put the word prop in quotes because I rarely got to play poker while working due to lack of tables running during the majority of my shifts, and was averaging around 28-32 hours a month playing poker, which simply isn't enough for me. Anyway, I biggest reason why I am going to stop working at Pala is because I got offered a Prop position at Oceans Eleven, which I gladly accepted. More money per hour, more opportunity to play among a lot of other things made it a no brainer for me to accept the new job at Oceans.

I really did enjoy my time at Pala, I met some cool people who I now consider friends and I will miss the relaxed chill nights there. There was just way too many things wrong with the way the Prop position is handled at Pala and I felt that I wasn't getting paid enough money per hour to make it worth my time.


PROS:
Friendly Co-workers
Extremely Soft Cash Games
Free Meals for Employees
Pala is a good company for in house promotions
Good discounts across the whole casino for Employees

CONS:
Props must run chips and brush while not playing
Props must wear (ugly) uniform while working
Props aren't really needed majority of the time because room is rarely busy for more than 2 games on weekdays
Huge portion of shift is spent standing around watching paint dry
Props aren't jackpot eligible even though our money is spent for the rake
Overstaffed which again leads to lots of standing around
Not enough time and chances to get unstuck if you take some bad beats due to lack of games

I am sure there are more Pros and Cons to the Prop Job at Pala but I am too tired to sit here and think of more but the biggest cons for me about the job was having to wear a uniform during our shifts (only casino that has props that have to be uniformed) which lead to a lot of annoying conversations among other things with some guests that were confused and convinced that the props are in collusion with the dealers , and the not being jackpot eligible really rubbed me the wrong way (even though the BBJ at Pala is crumbs,) so I pay rake while I play but for some reason my money is no good and I can't get the BBJ!?!? Nonsense, if you ask me. Oh and Pala pays their props the lowest hourly wage among all casinos and card-rooms in California that employee props, so that mixed with all the "Cons" I listed made it a pretty fast and easy decision to take the Oceans job. All that being said, I do wish George and everyone at Pala Poker the absolute best!

Congrats! Sounds like a well thought out, and a positive change.

Thank you Ghstflame! Started the new gig at O11 last night, and I can already tell I am gonna like proping here a lot more than I liked it at Pala. I got to play poker for 7 of my 8 hour shift last night, which is awesome for me as I was used to playing an average of 1.5 hours a shift over a Pala.

The small differences of the two jobs are really standing out to me and really for the better, like being able to have my phone out while I am playing and not having to wear a uniform are really refreshing to me.

Played a fun hand in 2-3 NL last night where somebody raised UTG, I flatted UTG +1 with 33 and four others call. It checks all the way to the river on AT57A. OR checks to me on the river and I put out a 3/4 pot value bet (I am certain nobody has an Ace or Ten so I can rep a Ten by get somebody to fold a seven and the OR is fishy and stubborn enough to look me up with K high if everyone else folds.) It folds back to OR and he says "this is really bad but I call" I snap table my red Threes and he mucks. The guy to my left said he folded a seven but couldn't call with four others left to act. OMG my plan worked to perfection!

Anyway, as far as my 100k tourney goal for the year, its still a huge work in progress. My job makes it so I have almost no time to play tourneys but I wont make any excuses as I still plan to achieve this goal by the end of the year. I sadly have to miss the 1MM guarantee at the Bike that has been going on the past week or so due to work but LA always has massive tournaments to play so I'm sure I'll be able to play and bink one soon.

That's all I got for now, have a good weekend.

August is finally over! The month started off worse than any month in recent memory, poker wise. The first three weeks consisted of tons of horrid luck (ex. check raise all in on flop of QT2 with QT only to get hero called by JT and lost) which luckily turned around just in time to end my time working at Pala on a winning note and start my time working at Oceans on the plus side. I ended August with a winrate of $14.85/hour which is meh, but considering how awful the month started, I am happy overall, plus the hourly wage from my job gives the winrate a good cushion and is a great added bonus.

Me and the GF are headed to Hawaii a week from tomorrow for a friends wedding, so we are super excited for that! I'll leave you with random pic from the 8-16 O8 game at Oceans last night, since I haven't posted a pic in awhile. Adios amigos.

Have fun in Hawaii!

Really???

A lady at the Village Club (now 7 Mile) once said, "I never buy stuff made in China; it's all too cheap," as she toys around on her iPhone. Her whole wardrobe was probably made in China while the tags were made elsewhere.

Thanks bud, I just got a GoPro camera that I have falling in love with, so I will bring it and try and get some cool shots. I'm really looking forward to this trip! If you guys want so see more pics you can follow me on IG: @mistercockblock but I'll also do my best to post some pics on here.

Ignorance is bliss!


"Hey Chad, What time does the 7pm tournament start?!?" REALLY?!?
"Pala Poker Room, this is Chad, how may I help you?" "Hi, what games do you have running right now?" "We have two 1-2 games at the moment" "Oh ok, no fixed limit games?" "Only 1-2 NL" "Do you know if Pechanga has any limit games running right now?" REALLY?!?

Btw, if 7 handed, 3 prop. Can poker room still make money out of it?