It’s 4:11am PST on my what will be my last full day in Vegas. I have been sick for 3 days now and have spend a total of about 3 full nights in bed. I will write up a compete review shortly but wanted to share with you my experiences of this day.

After finally getting out of bed, still sick of being sick and anxious to try and make the best of the situation I decided to get some lunch and go play a poker tournament. I ended up driving over to Ceasars and playing in the noon tournament (which is without a doubt the best structured tournament I’ve ever played in.

After getting knocked out of this tournament, I went over to the slots to try my luck again. Earlier in the week I had won 2 $300 pot jackpots on the same machine pretty much back to back. On the same row of machines, I hit again $300 and then followed up by $200.

Over the past 4 days I would hit this same jackpot a total of 4 times. Also, I would hit the a $200 jackpot one other time. So, as of Thursday, after losing quite a bit of money back on slots and craps (which i’ve found is my new favorite form of gambling) I was back in the green.

Back in my hotel room was the $500 pink chip from the Golden Nugget I had recieved for getting a straight flush in 3 card poker with a $10 bet. This chip would be cashed in on Friday and would be my Friday budget.

On a last minute hunch… I put another $4o in one of the Ceasar’s slots and the following happend:
This was the progressive jackpot and was good for $1000. Shortly after this picture was taken, I went over to the high limit room at Ceasars and played a little 3 card poker. After losing about a hundred bucks I put down $25 on the pair plus and the ante spots and asked Sue, the asian dealer, “How bout 3 of a kind?” …. and she gladly obliged. I looked down to see trip 8’s. Trips pays 30 to 1 on the first spot and like 6 or 8 to 1 on the ante. I don’t know exactly what the payouts are exactly but I looked down to see that I was paid over $1000 for that hand. What is even more astronomical is that the gentleman to my right (who had moved to that seat just 2 hands before to duck his bad luck in seat 4) also had trip 5’s.

I went over to the Venetian to get my ass handed to me in a poker tournament. It was nice, but in my opinion Ceasars is waaay better as far as tournys go. I was starting to feel terrible again and my medicine was starting to wear off so I headed back to the Orleans.

If you are familiar with the area, you know that once you pass the highway while on Tropicana you will see an In and Out burger and the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall and Casino. The Wild Wild West caters to truckers and people passing through town (transients). I had to go in. It was like being in the twilight zone. When I walked in the first thing I saw was 1 person playing craps on a half sized table. I had to play….

more to come…

Off to Vegas

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In exactly 6 days I will be in Vegas. Again. This time I will be there all by myself. Which, to me, is an experience EVERYONE should try at least once in their lifetime. My plan is to blog like crazy so I hope to have a fairly lengthy multi-day blog/review.

I’ll be at the Luxor from Sunday March, 25 through Wednesday. I’ll be at The Orleans Wednesday and Thursday and will be at Fitzgerald’s Friday night and leaving Saturday. Looking back I probably should have just done Fremont for the 2nd half of the trip and bypassed the 2 nights at the Orleans… but they comped me a free night so it was more economical this way. It turns out I am only truly paying for 2 hotel night stays as the Luxor stay is completely comped and 1 of 2 nights at the orleans are comped as well.

Wish me luck!

By the way, I ran across this nifty little device and would like to pass it on to you. I ordered it early Monday morning so my fingers are crossed that I will receive it by Saturday. When I get back from Vegas I’ll let you know how effective it was.

Its called the Winners Bank200.

What is the Winners Bank200?
It is a cassette-sized, metallic lock-box that allows the user to deposit gambling winnings through a tamper-proof slot. It will accept both bills and casino chips and cannot be opened without a key. It is effective because winnings remain in the lock box until the user opens it with the key at home.

How to use the Winners Bank200?
Click here for instructions.

How many bills can it hold?
The Winners Bank200 can hold as much as 20-25 bills. Just make sure you fold the bills in eights and put it in the same way. You can also fold two bills at once and deposit it.

Can the Winners Bank200 take casino chips?
Yes. The chip feature was specially designed for table games players (i.e. Blackjack and Pai-Gow).

How many casino chips can it fit inside?
The Winners Bank200 can accommodate 5-7 casino chips by themselves (given no other monetary units in combination with the chips).

Winnersbank200 Official Website

“**UPDATE***Current Profit: $2303 as of 7:18am CST.”That is when it ended…..

In the spirit of my quest to share with you my experiences of poker, both online and live I will now teach you how to avoid the “kill switch”. In order to fully understand you MUST look at the previous post, after you’ve done that come back to the next paragraph.

When my stack was a little over $1550 (putting my account at $2303) a player came into the room and within 5 hands took around $600 from me. I was in 3 of those hands. On all 3 I was rivered by either the full house or the flush. The first 2 were all in doubles ups for my oppponent in which I had a straight by the flop (1st hand) and by the turn (2nd hand) and this opponent caught the boat on the river (on both hands). On the third hand my straight was blasted by his flush. Yes, it sounds far fetched having 3 VERY powerful showdowns in only 5 hands with 2 opponents out of a full 6 person table. Yes, I want to jump off of a building right now because I feel so sick about it. But it is unfortunately the truth.

At this time, I exited this room and went into a new $1/$2 room with the maximum buy-in of $200. There was someone already in there by himself waiting for another player. This player also had the maximum buy in of $200. Hand 1: I folded. Hand 2: I catch a straight on the turn, we are both all in, he has trip 9’s. On the river a 3 to give him a full house. $200 gone.

Therefore, my $2300 day turned out to be a $1500 day. All in all a good night. But, shame on me for not sticking to my own rules. I have done this before. Now it is more clear than ever. I have had 3 occasions where I have gotten up over $2k in a night online. On one occasion I lost all $2350 in less than 1 hr. On the other I lost $600 before wising up.

One thing you should watch out for…. How many times have you been in a $1/$2 no limit room where the maximum is $200 and you see someone with a VERY big cheap lead? Have you ever been in a room with $1/$2 blinds and seen someone with $10,000? No! You never see that! But, in reality why wouldn’t someone who is running the table be able to make that type of huge chip lead? My theory is because the programming wouldn’t allow that. I am now realizing the pattern. You have $1500 or so, you’re in a room with $200 buy-in limit, at a certain point a new player comes in, he doubles, then triples up. Now, you’re staring at a player that can REALLY hurt your stack. Next thing you know you’re looking at an action flop and you take a ridiculous bad beat that takes half of your stack away. So my advice to you? If you are ever in this situation, once you see that a NEW player has come in and run the table, it’s time for you to go. He is your cooler. No, I don’t think this is a rogue bounty hunter sent in by the online poker site gods to take you out… BUT, I think it is something in the programming that allows someone to go on a tremendous run which balances out the table. Just like the tremendous run I had to get to my huge chip stack. I went into those final rooms and seemed like I could have done no wrong. It all happened so fast it was almost hypnotic.

Also, please notice that this big night happened 1 month (Feb 7th) after my last deposit on Ultimate Bet. What happened on that day? A $400 MTT win…. and remember my advice in the previous post The Bible of Rigged Online Poker? I told you then, after a big win take all of your money out and don’t put any back in until at least 1 month later.

Hope you will learn from my experiences. Go back and read over some of my previous posts and you’ll start to see the patterns too. People can tell you all they want that it’s not rigged. You just need to decide for yourself if you too see suspicious events happen over and over and over.

Eventually, after enough electric shocks, even mice learn not to eat the cheese on the left.

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Just remember, Bobostonepony is NOT YOUR BITCH! Just as I told the sorry sap who tried to bully my $1/$2 NL table on Ultimate Bet this morning.

At the same time this was me in a seperate room:

And a few minutes later back in room 1:

Current profit: $1166 as of 5:23am CST.
**UPDATE*** Current profit: $1400 as of 6:30am CST.
**UPDATE***Current Profit: $1500 as of 6:38am CST.
**UPDATE***Current Profit: $1600 as of 6:38am CST.
**UPDATE***Current Profit: $1781 as of 6:45am CST.
**UPDATE***Current Profit: $1973 as of 7:09am CST.
**UPDATE***Current Profit: $2303 as of 7:18am CST.

Was just checking the stats for my site and saw the following hits… Cool to know that people all over the world have seen the blog (even if they got there looking for something completely different)

I won a MTT satellite tournament into the $10,000 Guarantee tournament on Ultimate Bet. I recorded the last few hands. Wish me luck.

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