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#23
10-25-2006, 01:12 PM
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Re: Opportunity Knocks
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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. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sorry I couldn't live up to the amazingly high standards of your own report, in which you merely stole the clever names from str8fish, and won as much money for your whole trip as I did in my first two hours of play. I know Befolder is going to be trying hard, as it's tough to be as balla as playing 2/4 and eating at a diner. 
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#24
10-25-2006, 01:24 PM
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Travel, Sites and Casino Layout
Travel & Image Notes
I left right from work, not bothering to stop by the hotel. I took a few wrong turns as the directions were complicated going through part of town to get to the one lane rural highway that would take me there. If you’ve ever taken a trip somewhere on a rural highway, there generally isn’t too much to see. At the same time, it’s the little things you start to notice that become interesting. Along the way I passed by a federal penitentiary way out in the middle of nowhere. It reminded me of Shawshank Redemption, a fine piece of cinema. I also passed through a little town called Dundee, population 2900. I had never had a reason to drive this road before and I’ve lived in Oregon all of my 32 years. There was a building and a couple of signs that read, “No Tolling, No Tracking My Car.” I wondering what these stupid messages were talking about so I decided to write down the website in small print at the bottom of the sign on my second pass during day 2. www.dundeeparkinglot.com I just now checked it out and some of the stuff is funny. Goofy ass ruralites. I tell ya. One of the highlights of the travel was along an open stretch of road (many country highways here are bordered by trees and not open) I started to see the appearance of a very large, almost entirely glass building. Once again, this is out in the middle of nowhere, 30 miles from any metro area. Occupying the entire freaking building was the Spruce Goose! http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_.../exhibits.html Howard Hughes was a big investor in this flying boat. The highlight was a one minute flight, for one mile, at an altitude of 70 feet. Anyway, it’s a gargantuan beast and I was surprised to come upon it where I did. I knew it was housed in Oregon, but didn’t know where. By now D-Mod is probably going apesh*t saying, “This ain’t balla, it’s boring." On to Spirit Mountain. This is an Indian Gaming Place w/ rooms to stay if you like. Like most places, slots own this place. The poker room has about 15 tables, which is more than some of the older places in LV. Only about five or six were running when I was there during these two weekdays. Game choices were 2/4 limit HE, 3/6 limit HE, 2/4 NL HE of the games I would consider. Now I want to talk about image. Usually when I go to a place where nobody knows me, my general strategy used to be that I want to look like a sucker, or at least a beginner. The nice thing is with my limited live casino knowledge, I can pull that off because I get to ask dumb questions like, “Hey, what are those punch cards you guys have for,” which I actually don’t know the answer to. Lots of stuff like that. What I realized since my last live experience and my increase in poker knowledge is, it generally doesn’t even matter to the average player because the average live player isn’t paying attention to anything at all. They don’t adjust to your image so just forget it. The only benefit would be for the first hour of play or so if you should happen to have a good player with you at the table. They are the only ones you can affect. So now I just want to portray the image of fun. I’m there to have a good time so I just let my natural talkativeness mesh with the table. I’m just one of the boys who happens to have built up the biggest chips stack real quickly if the cards let me. I signed up for the 3/6 waiting list which was three deep. After about ten minutes I put my list on the 2/4 table too. There were two of those and I’d be seated quicker. Even though the rake kills at 2/4 and I know it, as it’s been repeated time and time again, I know I’d be playing a little scared at 3/6 because I haven’t played that high before. And yes, I know it plays more like .50/$1. If it had come up sooner, I’d have been a man and taken it. While I waited I decided to sign up for their players club. Why not? Earn some free points for some day. Besides, any other ball would right? Happy Doc? LOL.
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#25
10-25-2006, 01:25 PM
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Re: Opportunity Knocks
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[ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sorry I couldn't live up to the amazingly high standards of your own report, in which you merely stole the clever names from str8fish, and won as much money for your whole trip as I did in my first two hours of play. I know Befolder is going to be trying hard, as it's tough to be as balla as playing 2/4 and eating at a diner. [/ QUOTE ] Well, This settles it. It's time to post the announcement for my next Foxwoods trip. This one will be waaaaaay more balla. Or at least more drunkern and hilarious.
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#27
10-25-2006, 02:13 PM
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Re: Travel, Sites and Casino Layout
I saw the same guy I described last time, yesterday. Taking a second look. I'm sure he's the same guy. He has more hair than I remembered the first sighting. More Connery-esque looking this time.
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#30
10-25-2006, 02:55 PM
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Day 1, Table 1
Day 1, Table 1
On my way to the desk to sign up for the Ballas’ Club, I passed Big Al. How did I know Big Al? I didn’t, but he was singing happy birthday to himself in Drunkenese as I passed him. Alllllrighty then Big Al, you have yourself a good time. Got back to the poker room and post birded for about another 20 before being called to a 2/4 seat. I leaned against a post. There are no rails there. The cast: Seat 1: No one of consequence Seat 2: Older Passive/Aggressive guy. We’ll call him OPA Seat 3: X Seat 4: Young internet player who has a Poker Stars cap and a Full Tilt jacket. Unless I’m being sponsored, I don’t ever want to be seen wearing this crap. It’s opposite the image I want. I hate these morons. He shall be known as Wannabe. He was loose aggressive Seat 5: The Straddler. Middle aged woman who was also loose aggressive. Seat 6: Another young fella w/ his gf sweating him from behind. He was loose passive. Seat 7: Befolder Seat 8: Middle Aged Anti-Milf or MAAM. She touched my arm in the first minute I sat. She was loose passive, occasionally aggressive in random spots, totally clueless. Seat 9: 20-something whiny bitch. She came to the table w/ $20, obviously for a short sit and complained about everything she saw as if she knew what she was talking about. A gf of hers was sitting behind. Seat 10: 50-some TAG w/ headphones. He was quietly annoying to me. There was an air of arrogance and entitlement. If you want my attention at the table, be either totally silent and too serious or just be a total ass. Either way, you’ve got me watching. As Seat 8 threw in her last few chips w/ a raise, he said, “If you can’t be a donkey, be a monkey.” She obviously had no idea what he said so she didn’t react. She was the type to have a retort if she even knew it was directed at her. I have to say it’s a pretty good feeling to sit at a table for ten minutes and realize that you might be the best player there. Even Wannabe and Straddler, whom I suspected from a couple hands played aggressively possibly being good, soon showed down ugly unsuited Ace/rags. That dispelled that notion, but I was glad to have immediate position on them My plan going into these tables was to look for many situations where I could see the flop cheaply w/ suited connectors and small pairs against many folks. This is something that has seems much harder to accomplish over the last year with the tables drying up. The hands were frequently 5-6 handed and probably only raised 30% of the time. I knew I’d have to adjust quickly and I made some mistakes in trying to find the right game. I found KK on my third hand and was thankful because I wanted some action. That hand didn’t make it to the river and I took down a small pot. My later JJ hand did and held up to a ten high flop. When I made mistakes, it was preflop trying to get hands against these donkeys. I usually made up for it by playing better postflop. Here’s one of my favorites: Straddler blind straddles from UTG, I cc2 w/ 67s, which I debated because I was basically first to act after her straddle, but I figured others would come along giving me odds. Surprisingly, only Wannabe called the extra bet. A three way pot was very rare. Flop came AT3, all my suit. Wannabe checked, Straddler checked cards and bet. I stupidly just called, knowing damn well I should be protecting my hand against a heart redraw. I was greedy and wanted the extra BB on the turn. There’s nothing worse than knowing what you should do, and ignoring it. My day two would be full of this. Wannabe called. Turn was 2x. I raised Straddlers’ bet, wannabe folded and she called. The river came Qx. Wannabe came out donking. Thank you, I raise. She was surprised and called. She ended up w/ AQ for her blind straddle. Ship it. I love stacking chips. Whenever I had more than a five stacks, I started towering a bit. Another was a J7 in the BB hand. It went 7 to the flop which came QJx. MAAM to my left bet out after two checks including mine. There were about three calls and I thought better of calling w/ middle pair and no draw. I called anyway…idiot. Turn came a wonderful seven. I thought about donking, but the bettor was to my left. I chanced that she’d bet again. She does, three callers and I raise trapping those 3 bets in there. MAAM calls only and I bet and show on the river for another nice pot earned but a poor flop play in my opinion, but a nice make up on the turn. I definitely was not playing my best. A bit too eager to get the money on the table.
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