Spirit Mountain Trip Report

[Befolder]

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Bf,

If you didn't detect me just ragging on you without much serious intent, I think you need to turn your sarcasm detector up. However, you could have used teh NC thread to announce your impending trip report, and then posted a new thread when it was actually written.

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Sarcasm alert went off, but I also wanted to add why I did it. I'm not too familiar w/ the readership of the NC thread, so I wasn't sure who'd see it. Either way it was premature, but now I just got word that we are finished for the day. It's noon here. I'm debating going back for a bit more play on my way home. It doubles my driving, but it's damn early. We shall see.

[MrWookie]

Doitdoitdoit.

[Thrakkar]

CRAZY!!! [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Never seen so many replies to a post that hasn't even been written yet!!!

What's next? Getting pushed a pot before the blinds were posted??? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Maybe one of you guys can lend me your

[DrModern]

Befolder,

DEFINITELY GO BACK AND PLAY MORE.

LET US GOGOGOGO!

Holla,
Doc

[Befolder]

Apparently I'm being persuaded to go back. Only thing I'm worried about is that it is the middle of the day and there were only 5 tables last night. Likely less right now, and perhaps not the limit I want to play. Looks like I'm going back though. This may delay the report though, but will lengthen it.

I'm pretty wordy so I could get a lot of tl;dr.

Logging off and heading to poker country.

[22pajo]

bf,
I'm hitting portland next month and Spirit Mountain is the high up my list of places to go.

I await the trip report with bated breath (well not quite but i'm curious)

[Befolder]

Short update.

Being out of town for work a couple of days has put me further behind than I thought for a couple of projects. I've got two pages of notes and a cell phone full of hand histories so it will get done, but I want it done well and that will take time. I'll try to get part of it done today to at least get us started. Sorry for the delay.

[Befolder]

Opportunity Knocks

As I have been mentioning, I had to attend a training in Beaverton, OR on Monday and Tuesday of this week. For those of you even remotely curious about the location and routes taken, I have mapped out all the driving here:



There is overlap between the routes so I’ll explain a bit.

F to D: Trip to Training
D to E to D: Back and forth to casino after Day 1 Training
D to E to F: Back to casino after Day 2 training, and then home.

Total driving for the trip, about 380 miles.
Total number of idiots that wouldn’t get right when I was driving faster: too damn many

Now, I knew that Spirit Mtn was close by (actually barely closer than to my home as you can see by the map), but I when I have to travel for business, I usually just prefer to relax in the hotel room in the evenings. I had brought my personal laptop and was planning on getting some online play in during the nights though.

What might have turned the tide was reading Wook’s version of the Niagra report, while on a break from training on Monday. I had been thinking about at least seeing what the route would be like to Spirit Mtn, but I think reading his fun turned the tables for me.

I decided to do it. I’d need the practice in these ridiculously loose games for my Vegas trip in three weeks anyway. I hadn’t played in games that ridiculous since I first started at .50/$1 on Party over three years ago.

Actually now that I think about it, finishing two hours early that day was the biggest clincher of all because I didn’t want to roll in extremely late and be groggy for another training ‘stare fest’ the next morning. Trying to stay awake in these things is excruciating and the group wasn’t big enough that I could get away from it.

Cold Cash asked earlier if this would be my first time playing in a casino. It would not be, though my experience isn’t extensive. My experience is as follows:

10 years ago
Reno, in town for the Nevada/Oregon football game. Played only BJ and roulette. Won money on the roulette and lost the rest on BJ. Final hand as I was walking out of the casino. I stopped at some random BJ table after hearing we weren’t coming back and plopped down my final $94 on one hand. Got a 14, took a hit, busted. Dealer would have beaten me anyway. I’m a low roller so for me to throw $90-anything into one thing is rare. Balla for a moment baby! Had no idea how great poker was at the time. I played semi-regularly with friends, but that was it.

Vegas: Twice in three years, early in my poker educated career. Down small sums at the end of both trips.

About four other trips to the places in Oregon that are more than 1 ½ hours away. Down under $100 on all of those trips. These were after I started playing online.

So while I certainly have the poker fortitude to run well at these joints, I was never better prepared for this trip, or less intimidated by the environment.

Not a lot of live experience, but not ashamed to ask stupid questions either. I’ll talk more about that during an image discussion in the next section. Pretty boring so far, but I like setting the tone.

Part 2 when I can.

[DrModern]

Befolder,

I hope this gets at least 38% jucier in the next go-round. So far very dry and un-balla.

Also,

What was it about Wookie's TR that inspired you? Wookie trip reports don't have funny jokes or creative names for villains and just contain the phrase "O RLY?" over and over again.

[Befolder]

It's not so much the presentation of Wook's report, but just the fact that I read it and was close to making a decision on going.

As far as being balla, this report may not get there, but it will come in stages. Each with perhaps a different flavor. Opponents will have appropriate names and such and they will be described also. You'll enjoy that part much more. I have about 20 hands roughly noted.