There are definitely better timelines out there atm. We can hope that this one steers into a nicer vector.

Results Catch-up:

Wednesday: Flamingo: 6.5 hours:
+$28

Thursday: Flamingo: 4.5 hours:
+$100

Friday: Flamingo "Freeroll": 2 hours:
(-$5)

Tonight will be Bally's for 6 hours, in part to make their freeroll tomorrow.

pm where you're playing on fri nov 23 and sat nov 24. brother and i will sit at the table and not introduce ourselves. you get thirty minutes to identify which of us is;

a: a bankrupt ex-realtor expat who fled to Canada and married an oncologist and now travels school to school teaching children chess, and which is

b; worked 20 years as an engineer at Microsoft, then divorced his wife, bought a motorcycle, rode it to Alaska, moved to Vegas, lasted <year, and is now back at Microsoft.

guess correctly and chess-guy will slide you a stack of red. shots!!!

Okay, so you're not Canadian by birth. That's a new piece of information. I won't be looking for a Canadian accent, then. Midwest, or Western New York/PA?

Also note that two players likely won't be able to get on the same table right away at the same time.

Done and ****ing done.

How's Bally's tonight? Looking forward to the weekend trip report.

And to know that you made the dollars

and rubbed them

treasure island....no. just joking.

we are so notoriously bad at poker that we often get the 11-handed option. might be a tell.

Heading there now. I was watching my Red Sox in an apparent soccer game. Still ongoing.

Bally's: 6 hours:
+$747

But where did you rub them?

On mah tittays ofc. Super standard play.

The Red Sox bats finally woke up for a nice win. They have LA over a barrel.

I watched the game while pulling in a good score at the Bally's freeroll, so it was an excellent night all around.

Tomorrow is a challenge day, then a tournament on Monday. That will be the last poker I play for two weeks. Tuesday I head out for Japan and Taiwan. More on that later.

Bally's freeroll: 4 hours:
+$671

GJ SJ! Treat yourself to some Yakitori when in Japan. I recently visited one of the few Yakitori restaurants in Germany; soooo good!

SJ with a nice run before taking a break.

Solid work!

Be careful with those papercuts on ya tittays, make sure you get some triple antibiotic ointment for them before traveling abroad.

Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet

Listen the man he’s a pharmacist

I blame the LHC. And Morph obv

Yes! The Japanese do food on a stick better than just about anyone. It's expensive, but I won't be paying, so it's worth it.

Thanks Fid!

Not to worry. I wore a bright orange safety vest. #nitlife

Careful, you'll summon the ghost.

He still has to make me some bathtub mescaline.

Twas Obama and his magic Time/Weather Machine.

I intended to play for 6 hours at the Orleans last night: a 3 hour session, dinner at the buffet, then 3 more hours.

The buffet line was huge, so I strolled over to TGI Friday's. That line was also very long, so I snuck past it and sidled up to their bar--advantage singleton play.

I watched the rest of the World Series while eating, and chatted and joshed with the other bar patrons. When the game ended, I found myself to be 3 large beers in, so I made a gametime decision to pull myself off the field and head home.

So, after a few slightly better than breakeven months spent learning and adjusting, I've averaged around $25/hour playing in October. That number does not include several hundred dollars worth of free and discounted meals, which would push the hourly North of $30--not bad for $1/$2.

What I'll need to address when returning in two weeks will be the lack of hours, as I've not achieved playing a full-time schedule. There's also the looming transition to $2/$5 to consider. At this point, I'm hoping that playing the challenge will bring me there first. If that goes South, then I'll have to retool and consider taking a shot once a week on a non-challenge day.

Orleans: 3 hours:
+$83

Three Stacks $600-$60,000 Challenge:$1/$3 Level:

Link to Challenge Rules

Starting bankroll: $600
Last bankroll: $1380
Challenge day progress:+$83
Current bankroll: $1463
Bankroll needed for $2/$5: $1875

What were the odds on the fifth game? Did you place any bets?

Nah. The Negreanus and Iveys of the sports betting world set the lines for the bookies. They can't have my EV, when they won't even look me in the eye.

Given the excellent 2nd shift service, it's a cinch to drink $50+ worth of mixed at the Bally's $105/$2k gtd. The rest is all drunk EV calc.

7 drinks in, and 50% chance of cashing. Not driving ofc.

Go go go

I wish I could have made it but I can’t get myself out of the Cosmo

Enjoy your honeymoon brother. Much more exciting than a Bally's small stakes bout.

Out on the bubble. We paid the bub a bit (I was the last one to agree to that,) so I only lost $25 plus $7 in drink tips.

Bally's $105 tournament: 4 hours:
(-$32)

Good thing you chose to pay yourself