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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts
They do, and you'd get a job just fine. You'd go broke due to your gambling addiction though.  |
and I'm an absolute winning poker player...I crushed Thackerville, Oklahoma while I was in Dallas...I was 19 for 20 in winning sessions playing the EASY, FISH FILLED NL 1/2 $200 MAX game.
Problem was the 80 minute drive...hated being down $40 before I sat down (gas) and the fact I'm not the "grind" out 36 hour sessions kind of guy...if I take a SICK beat on the river I generally have to collect myself and often like to leave.
one of my winning sessions ($19 lol)...I was up around $300 and had AQ under the gun...raised it up a standard $12 and had two callers including the SB. Flop comes out A X X. I bet $15, fold, SB raises to $40. I call. Turn another X...nothing scary...SB bets $40 and I raise him immediately to $110. Dude goes all in for the rest of his stack $160 total. I call (frustratingly so, had to was committed) thinking damn...****er snapped two pair on me playing A X from the SB. Nope. Dude has A 9 off...how he thought he was good when I raised pre, bet flop (called his raise), and then reraised him on the turn I DO NOT KNOW...his all-in was like a "pissed off **** you I know I'm losing but I'm not laying down my pair of aces" all-in.
Anyways...9 rivers and I lose that ****ing pot and instead of sitting there pissed off I just took my $19 profit and drove the **** home.
That was really my only frustrating session I had there. I lost about $100 one session (15+ hours of grinding) but I had been drinking (something I never do when I play poker)...and other than the $19 profit I made between $120 and $510 every other session.
My roommate is on a HUGE string of winning sessions in Peoria right now, too...like a SICK run. Went Friday-Sunday and turned a $2300 profit. Now that the poker craze is "dead" all the new kids don't know how to play anymore (like how we learned in the Moneymaker era) and all the old men are still knits or suckers.
I wish I could go to Peoria with him but I work Saturdays...plus I just hate the 80 minute drives (same drive here as it was when I was in Dallas)...
so I imagine that's what I'd do in Vegas...but I also imagine the games are a bit tougher (I've played in Vegas before, but back in my 10/20 and 20/40 limit days)...I used to LOVE casino limit. LOT OF FISH.