do you know when exactly you are going to be in Hammond? I was planning on giving you cash there, but I can go ahead and paypal if you're not sure.

I will be at Horseshoe Hammond tomorrow brother.....

You look like Rory Mcilroy on roids. Good luck!

Issue the travel advisory...

Your hero, Lotgrinder, will be traveling through the following cities over the next few weeks as he makes his way to Las Vegas, Nevada for the 2013 World Series Of Poker.

Horseshoe Hammond- Chicago, Illinois
Lumiere Place- St.Louis, Missouri
Hard Rock Tulsa, Oklahoma
Hard Rock- Albuquerque, New Mexico
Wherever The God Damn Trip Takes Me - Las Vegas, Nevada

After I play the WSOP Main Event, I'll be traveling through the following cities back to Detroit, Michigan to celebrate my winnings.

Commerce, Bike, Hustler- Los Angeles, California
Talking Stick Casino- Phoenix, Arizona
Wherever The God Damn Trip Takes Me- New Orleans, Louisiana
Beau Rivage - Bioloxi, Missisippi
Hard Rock- Tampa Bay, Florida
Bestbet- Jacksonville, Florida
Sun Cruz- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Wherever The God Damn Trip Takes Me- Atlantic City, New Jersey
Parx- Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Presque Isle Downs- Erie, Pennsylvania
Horseshoe Casino- Cleveland, Ohio

I will be arriving in Las Vegas with $10,000.00 cash, a paid stay at Ballys, and staking for the events listed in this thread.

As of today, I do not have staking for the WSOP Main Event.

But, I do have five smooth stones, a shepherd's sling, and the rage of a man that hasn't had sex in three months dwelling deep inside my heart.

I plan on winning the main event for every fish that's been berated by a poker goober in "Beats By Dre" headphones, every woman that's had to show a little skin or flirt with an old creepy old for staking , every poker player that's been ripped off by those scumbag pros who helped gambling sites defraud good people out of money, every prostitute that the CIA has ripped off, every Las Vegas tourist that was sold fake cocaine on the strip, every drunk that's been denied that one last drink at the bar when the bartender has already served him enough that he's going to get the DUI anyway, every stripper that's been given fake hundreds for her services or had to deal with men that purposely wear in jogging pants, every kid that's at an electronic music party and is dancing like no one is looking, every dude that's ever been stuck in the friend zone by a woman who ultimately ends up dating a guy that beats her or washes dishes at Big Boy, every pimp whose bitch didn't have his money, every single mother whose babby's daddy is at least six months behind on child support, every dj that still plays vinyl, every girl that's fell for some hipster fgt acoustic guitar romance $hit, every homosexual that's upset because I used the word fgt, and every man who has a wife that doesn't even give him a blowjob on his birthday anymore.

This one is for you America.

Soon, I will be leaving Detroit as Lotgrinder.

By August, I will return as "The People's Poker Champ."

If you'd like to follow my journey subscribe to this thread or follow me on...

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I'll be leaving tomorrow morning for Horseshoe Hammond.

I finished up $600 tonight at MGM $1/$2

Lmao how is this a real thread. GL on your adventure

I plan on making this thread one big party......

You're all invited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpK1MHnHRVo

Always remember to have fun.

Vehicle Selection For The Road Trip

One might ask, "Why does a thirty year old man with no wife, no kids, and no girl to suck his "Sugar Daddy" cokk need three automobiles?"

Let me explain...

My first car is a black 2010 Ford Taurus Limited.

I purchased this because the Ford dealer I was working at agreed to pay my monthly payments as long as I worked there. This vehicle is currently being used by my good friend Wes because his credit is so bad he couldn't get financed for a piece of cheese on a Whopper. So, rather than have him pay 24.99% interest to drive around in an old tattered jalopy, I decided to help him out and let him pay me to use this car. His smoking hot 23 year old girlfriend looks great in the passenger seat.

My second car is a metallic gray 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco.

I purchased this vehicle because I wanted to maintain the image of success. Where I'm from, if you don't look like Tom Cruise or have one of those straight billed baseball caps and a goatee, you don't get laid unless a girl thinks you have money. The best way to fool a girl into thinking you're loaded is by making sure to buy a vehicle with a leather package or getting a big truck/suv lease on the cheap. A last ditch resort that works if you're too poor to afford any of the options I listed above is to buy a beat up pick up truck and attach a "Justin's Landscaping" sticker to it. This lets the woman know you're a small business owner and all women flock to a self made man. If you have to resort to this last ditch method, be sure to peel out of every parking lot to show the woman how "bad boy" you are.

My best friend Tony, also has bad credit and he recently got married/had a child. So, I decided that it's more important for him to be maintaining the image of success and have a reliable vehicle for his family. He's been using the 2013 Malibu Eco for the last few months.

My third car is a black 2002 Hyundai Sonata.

This vehicle is the last material possession my Grandfather ever gave me and much like myself, it has a checkered past. It's successfully delivered over ten thousand pills of MDMA, ten kilos of cocaine, countless lbs of marijuana, and I once caught a blowjob in the vehicle to the Andrew W.K. cd "I Get Wet" in it's entirety. The vehicle currently has 154,000 miles on the odometer, it's "check engine" light on, moderate rust on two of it's doors, and some would say that it's on it's last leg.

In fact, I'd place the motherfukking jap car as a 10-1 underdog to even make it to Las Vegas. I figure one Cinderella story should arrive in another. So, as you would expect, I've chosen the 2002 Hyundai Sonata for the road trip. I'm going to ride the last god-damn thing my Grandfather gave me right into the bowels of the fukking devil and reclaim the $15,000.00 I lost in Las Vegas two years ago.

Get your popcorn ready ladies and gentleman...

The adventure starts tomorrow.

Over and out,
-LG

OK mr america I know youre sold out but I've got one question for you:

Are you playing the main?

Lol awesome thread

Lemme know if any pieces open up, ill ship via paypal.

We will see soon.

After I perform well in these first 4 tournaments, I am going to offer a 2nd staking package in the second week of June include The Main Event.

cool, i'll PM you if i can make it tonite.

Your hero has arrived in Chicago and is rooting on his Detroit Red Wings in enemy territory.

Phase one of the road trip is complete.

I'll be beating the Horseshoe Hammond 2/5 game with an easton synergy later on tonight.

moll dog millionaire

that vehicle selection blog is ****in epic

gl sir and may you run as pure as bolivian flake

fun thread

your posts are hilarious. would be epic if you shipped or even ft'ed. or for you, even if you made day 2 so you get the free coaching session from goldenbears

gl op. get maneys, the f do.

15 Rounds At Horseshoe Hammond

Round 1:

Super donk has $200 and has been opening over and over for $25.

I am in sb with 1010 and ship after 3 callers. He calls with Kj and doubles.

-$200

Round 2:

Hero in sb with JJ, $15 open, 3 callers, I raise to $75.00, I get 4bet all in by original raiser. I didn't have much information on the guy at the time besides he was sitting with a 3k stack, didn't want to mess with him just yet.

-$75

Round 3:

UTG gambooler guy makes it $25, I am MP2 with JJ, I make it $75, nittiest guy at table in SB Jams for $400, I fold.

-$75

Round 4:

Hero otb, kskc 5 limpers..I raise to 35.00. 5 callers.

Flop is Qd 5d 7d...all check to me..I bet 125.00. The strongest villian at table ships. This is the villain that 4bet me off JJ earlier.

I call off around 300.00 dead. He flopped flush.

I had been making a lot of good folds..I thought he was trying to take advantage of me.

Wrong.

My perceived range was kk...aa..or qa to him and he extracted max value.

I am drinking...so I should have known no way does he think he can make a drunk fish fold out an overpair.

Bad bad bad play by hero.

-$470

Round 5:

Hero in BB with A9s, $15 open, 6 callers, I make it $125, guy in MP with $275 left ships. This was your $hitty reg type villain. I call, he has K/Q, spikes a K.

-$275

Round 6:

Hero is in SB with 10/10, the same villain from Round 2 does a $20 raise, 3 callers, I 3bet to $125 and villain 4bet jams again. I fold.

Two times this guy has 4 bet jammed owned me now.

The other time he owned me with the flopped flush.

-$125

Round 7

Hero is OTB with 10/6 suited, 5 limpers, I raise to $40, villain who has owned me 3 times calls the $40.

Flop is Q/8/7 rainbow, he checks, I bet $80, he calls.

Turn is a 10, giving me a pair, he checks, I bet $200.

He folds Q/K face up and says nice hand.

+$150

Round 8
Hero is OTB with 87s and I just have a feeling this certain villain is looking to play pots with me because he has my raising range at 1010+ AQ+, 5 limpers, and I want to make sure this villain calls me, so I make it $35, only caller is that villain.

Flop is 8h,7h, 2c, he checks, I bet $50, he raises to $150. I call.

Turn is an ACE.

This stops my action, he checks, I bet $150 again, he folds.

If that ace doesn't hit I bet I get more $$$ from him.

+$210

Round 9

I am in sb with AA, a $hitty reg opens to $20, 3 callers, I make it $65, original raiser calls, villain from hand above 4bets to $300, it gets back to me, I flat. Original raiser folds.

Flop is A/4/8, I check, villain checks, turn is a 4, I bet $300, villain groans and folds his queens face up to me. (He must have put me on A/K, uhhh, if that ace doesn't hit I stack his ass.)

+$420

Round 10
Hero Otb with J/10 suited, 4 limpers, I raise to $35, same villain who always calls me, calls....

Flop has an A on it, I bet out $55, he folds.

+55

Round 11

I have 9/10s in the CO, I raise to $35, villain who always calls me calls. Flop has a K on it, I cbet, villain folds.

+50

Round 12

I am otb with QQ, 5 limpers, I bet to $45, a super nit kid 3bets to $200 and he has $200 back. All fold to me, I auto fold my QQ, and don't even ask to see his cards. I know he had AA or KK. Guy hadn't played a raised pot in 2 hours.

-$45

After this hand, I decided it was time to get something to eat at Horseshoe Hammond.

What I ate, gave me food poisoning and lead to three additional three rounds.

Round 13

Vicious Vomiting.

Round 14

Migraine headache that lasted forever because I couldn't hold any Excedrin Pms or Xanax down so I could go to sleep to get rid of it.

Round 15

A bout with multiple acidic $****s that set your ******* on fire.

After all of this, though.... your hero is sitting comfortably in a Baymont Inn and preparing to hit the felt here in a few hours.

Sorry for the lack of updates, yesterday, I was sick for 24 hours.

Will get some pics up soon.

I Get Wet was the last thing I listened to before I self surrendered to the FCI in Milan.

Put me on the wait list for 4%, brother.

wow...this is some classic stuff brotha!

I play full time at the V - and for your efforts would love to buy you lunch at noodle asia. Hit me up when you roll into town!

disappointed i couldn't make it up to the shoe.
not disappointed the hawks are bringing it home for game 7.
shipped via paypal.

Read the first 4 rounds of your session and go bored (KK call was terrible, BTW), scrolled a little and when I stopped I read "Vicious Vomiting". LOL

Gonna be epic.

Pics of car, ldo.

Pics of the Hyundai....





Indiana State Police are obviously watching me already.

Stakers:

grindhogday- 3% ($75)
senorbendito- 8% ($200) X
Golfpro- 4% ($100) X
rolledup222-2% ($50) X
zima421- 4% ($100)
laxxed- 4% ($100) X
sqydro- 4% ($100)
FA-DEED- 1% ($25)
GrimeRat420-4% ($100) X
acdawg712- 1% ($25)
thedinergetsby-2% ($50) X
mightyredwud-4% ($100) -split with dankness3
MrTimCaum- 4% ($100)
nbajam- 2% ($50)
sheebz13- 1% ($25)
iplaywasted-1% ($25)
chiefsfan17- 4% ($100)
goldenbears- 4% ($100)
rodgethat-2% ($50) X
deke971-2% ($50) X
nutsbusted-4% ($100)
rponeal- 2% ($50) X
jcorb- 1% ($25) X
The Tank- 2% ($50) X

Waiting List:
Bubonic Play- 2%
Spectral Fury- 2%
Anonymous Man -1%
DgiHarris- 4%
polarbeat- 4%
exec771

A Letter To My Grandmother

Gram,

I am writing you from my cell phone since the fat miserable black lady working the front desk of the Baymont Inn didn't care enough to help a scruffy looking man in an eagle shirt and American flag pants get their public computer with internet access to work.

I was thinking about emailing in a complaint, but in this day and age where everybody is paid a slave wage can you really blame her for not wanting to do any more work than she already has to....???

I am sure she takes enough **** from her boss, her husband, and her kids already. No need for me to pile it on. Who knows, maybe if I complained, that would be the last straw. Then she'd get fired, end up buying a mass amount of weapons from Wal-Mart, and go on a vicious killing spree. I don't want that type of blood on my hands Gram.

Speaking of blood, there was lots of it on Saturday night. The Horseshoe Hammond $500 max buy in poker players were beating your grandson with a stick, bat, billy club, remote control, and any other hard object they could get their hands on. I was worn out, down $1000, and breaking one of the most important poker rules.

Never play while you're drunk.

But, I've done drugs gram, all kinds in my youth. So, I can hold it together better than most under the influence of alcohol and these poker players were ripe for the taking. Like Rocky Balboa in the later stages of a fight I came back with a vengeance and left the casino at 7am down only $200.00.

To save $100 I slept for five hours in my car. Then I checked into The Baymont Inn. I had the money to pay for a room, but I've read many stories about people down on their luck sleeping in cars and I wanted to experience it. I wanted to see if I had what it takes.

As you know, I woke up with a migraine headache. I started to throw up from food poisoning when I checked in my room. Therefore, I couldn't hold my Excedrin pm medicine down so I could sleep. So, I endured 8 hours of pure hell. It would be comparable to me having to work another day at the auto dealership. I don't miss that place at all.

Anyway, I made it through and went back to The Horseshoe Hammond today. This time it was me who gave the beating Gram. I won $800.00. I played perfect poker and was rewarded for it. You might be wondering what perfect poker is, so let me explain.

Within a casino, there are games of chance. Like blackjack, craps, roulette, slot machines, etc...

These games give you a 1% to 48% chance to win money depending on the game you choose to play. So, the absolute best chance you have to win money is around 50%. In poker, you can find situations where you are a 55%, 66%, 84%, 92%, 96%, and even 100% to win money. These are the spots you must wait patiently for and when you find them you put in your money.

It takes patience and discipline, but if you consistently put your money in when the % is on your side. You will come out a winner in the end Gram. I promise you, it has nothing to do with luck as long as you can withstand the variance.

Variance is when you put your money in good, but your opponent gets lucky and wins that hand instead. It happens sometimes, the worst is when you are 92% to win and your opponent hits the 8% chance and defeats you.

Losing like that put some people on tilt. Tilt is that feeling you get when you see The Rex Wings start losing Gram. You get all hot, sweaty, and irate. You turn the god-damm television off because you just can't stand it. Well, in poker, people get real upset like that and they keep playing. Then they start putting their money in when the % aren't on their side. Their emotions get the best of them and then they go broke.

I won't let that happen to me Gram. I have too many good people from all across America cheering me on. They have actually sent me, a complete stranger, money to play in The World Series of Poker.

I met all of them via 2+2 poker forum. They say my forum posts, stories, and sense of humor entertains + inspires them. They believe in me, just like you believed in me when I was rotting away in Isabella County jail for 104 days back in 2003.

No matter how much money they stake me, I will never forget who my number #1 fan is....

For as sure as the password to your email account is "Justin"....the password to my heart will always be "Marge."

I love you and miss you already...
- Justin

Session 1 Yesterday: +$800



Session 2 Yesterday: +$425

After the black lady wouldn't help me, I was bored/couldn't sleep, went back and bought into $1/$2 for $200....



Thank you fish of the Horseshoe Hammond....

A Letter To My Grandmother 2

From: Marge
To: justin
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Hello....

Good Morning Justin:

So happy to get your pictures and your message! The pictures were so nice and clear-my favorite is the one with your winnings with the sunglasses.
I love the sunglasses-funny!
I am proud of you for not confronting the lady at the front desk-yes, who knows her life and just maybe she was having a bad day when you arrived!
So sorry that you were so sick-I can only imagine what you went thru. Always remember that most hotels have a doctor on call.
Justin, strange that I got your message and the same day I read about the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati. 5 people were caught on surveillance
cameras in March (same month that it opened) caught cheating, but just arrested them Tuesday. Probably thought that they had got away with it. They can face probation, or 2 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Article says that the trend is once the casino opens, they see a flurry of cheating cases. A lot of people try to come in and test the facility. They catch about 10 cheaters per month. They have at least 1,000 cameras inside and out. Don't you think that people would be too scared to cheat, plus it's wrong. Do the right thing!
I enjoy reading about your adventures-that's what I call it and how you explain things to me, a layman!!!!!!
Tonight the Red Wings play, THEY MUST WIN, OH I WANT THEM TO WIN SO BAD, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, EVEN IF THEY LOSE, TO ME THEY ARE STILL THE BEST!!
All is fine here, of course I started missing you when you walked out the door on Saturday. Please be safe, watch people around you at all times, even
going to your room, leaving your room, going to your car. I know I keep preaching this, but there are bad people. But they are also good people.
We have had rain and terrible humidity-stopped working outside and I was almost done! They are talking rain and thunderstorms for most of the
week and I have to wait until everything is dry outside. Christopher is fine, going to work each day-he is all excited, hoping that the Miami Heat wins.
Well, I will close for now. Is there someone there who would take pictures of you in your different costumes-sure would love to see them
LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART! Gram XOXOXO

My Response:

Gram,

I am happy you enjoyed the pictures.

I've included another that I took yesterday when I won $625.00 at the $2/$5 No Limit Hold Em game.

Since, you are laman when it comes to poker, let me explain what $1/2 No Limit Hold Em and $2/$5 No Limit Hold Em is....

$1/$2 means the blinds are $1/$2 and the maximum you can buy in for is $200-$300 at most casinos.
$2/$5 means the blinds are $2/$5 and the maximum you can buy in for is $500-$1000 at most casinos.

The blinds are bets that two players are required to put in before even seeing their cards. The small blind and the big blind. That way there is money in the pot to fight over and if a player wants to play his two hole cards he can call the big blind or raise to any amount he'd like.

The $1/$2 NLHE game is mostly recreational players. The $2/$5 NLHE has a lot of recreational players, but it's also filled with aspiring professional players such as myself, therefore the game is more difficult than $1/$2. Over the course of 1000 hours I have beat the $1/$2 game for an average of $21.00 a hour, so it's safe to say that I've mastered that level of poker. If I am to master $2/$5 I should be making around $40-$50 a hour.

That's a work in progress, though.

Speaking of a work in progress, you brought up my cousin Christopher. I am so proud of him. I remember when he was down on his luck, homeless, living with a friends family, and not even his Father had faith in him anymore. It was Thanksgiving and you went out searching for him to make sure he had money to get a warm cooked/good meal. It's little things like that you do that keeps people going Gram. When you decided to take him in, most of the family disagreed with your decision, but like you, I believe in comeback stories and I was happy to loan Christopher the money he needed to get back on his feet.

Now he's paid me back, has a good job, and has put on around 20lbs of muscle at the gym. I can see his confidence growing and as long as he keeps working his ass off, life will keep giving him more opportunities. As much as I am rooting for him to keep proving that you and I were right about him in the end, I am not rooting for The Miami Heat. I am rooting for the Indiana Pacers. The Indiana Pacers are much like our Detroit Red Wings Gram. They are the scrappy underdogs, the David going against Goliath.

Our Detroit Red Wings started this Chicago series with a shepherd's sling and four smooth stones in their hand. They slung three of those stones right into the eyes of those Blackhawk bastards but haven't been able to load the last stone and sling it home to complete the series victory. I had planned to head to St.Louis today, but just in case Zetterberg and Datsyuk drop that last stone and lose the series, I want to be hear to pick it up and use it for myself when I get to The World Series Of Poker Gram. I've got a shepherd's sling and some smooth stones of my own, but I can always use another.

Like you, my eyes will be pasted to the television screen tonight, and I'll be cheering on the Red Wings win or lose because that's what you and I do Gram, we don't turn out back on anybody, especially when things look bleak. Things look bleak here in the part of Chicago I am in. There's a lot of pawn shops, car title loan stores, payday loan stores, and liquor stores on every corner. I guess you could say it's a lower class neighborhood. I went to the L.A. Fitness center today and they had to close the basketball courts down permanently because the youths keep getting in fistfights. Also, the entire free weight rack that holds 5,10,15,20,25, all the way up to 125lb dumbbells was empty. Not one person put the dumb bells back where they belong when they were done using them.

Hateful people would have called the patrons of the gym "lazy ******s," but you taught me better than that Gram. In poker, there's often a lot of talk about luck, but not so much when it comes to talking about life in general. I think a lot and when I think, I think deep. Perhaps all of the people in that gym were unlucky when it comes to life. They didn't have a Gram, a Papa, a Grandma Eda, or any role model to show them how to take pride in anything they do. I didn't let the scene fill me with disgust, like any crazy white person all jacked up on fat burners wearing American flag pants in an all black gym I started picking up the dumb bells by myself. One after another I started putting them on the rack in-between sets of my own.

After I got the rack half way filled, others started following suit. By the time I left the gym, the rack was no longer empty, in fact it was almost full. The fitness representative named Nick thanked me and invited me to come back and workout the next day for free. Now, do I think all those people will continue to keep putting back their weights, probably not, but at least everyone was there saw that one person can make a difference in the scene that's surrounding them. We need more good people to take charge in their own neighborhoods, their own schools, their own churches, and do good, do what's right, lead by example. A brick by brick, wall by wall, city by city, state by state all the way across the nation sort of thing. I say it all starts with taking more pride in our public education system.

You show me more people with a high education level, I'll then show you less people committing crime. I have no idea why anyone would try to do anything illegal in casinos. There's cameras everywhere, it's a recipe for disaster, just like me trying to cook anything but a steak.

When you are working outside, please be careful not to lift anything too heavy. Christopher will help you if you ask him. If he doesn't, I'll be flying in to give him a proper ass whupping.

I look forward to your next response.

In the meantime, I'll be beating the $2/$5 NLHE game like a god-damn gong.

Love,

-Justin

Your Bull Is Leaving Chicago Up $2100.00

I bought in for $500 last night, cashed out for just a little over $1100.00.



I am leaving for St. Louis today.

!!!!!!!!Stakers, please have money sent to jmv_clutch@yahoo.com!!!!!!!

That's my paypal.

If you need my personal information for Western Union, please send me an im.

If you plan to meet me in L.V and give me cash, please send me an im.

Looking forward to meeting some of you soon in Las Vegas.