After staying so long at Vegas hotels without fridges and microwaves such as the Golden Gate to save money u kind of want a hotel room in which u can store milk and warm up food in the microwave so u dont have to leave home whenever u want something to eat.  Remember the time i paid $3900 for a nice place in Palms Place near the Palms because i was deceived by the pictures, thought i had a full size fridge with a freezer (i didnt) and then regretted taking it for a month? and then losing $9k at BJ there which is why i started getting the offers 6 months or so later and why i have $1 ..read more

 well ive been in vegas a month now, and havent updated the blog once. i seem to do better at poker when i focus on earning money instead of on the blog. but i sure do miss a lot of former readers that have long disappeared. i wonder how many of them died without any of us ever knowing? Possibly from the covid vaccine, or maybe another cause. But i can think of about 50 people that used to read it all the time who are long gone.  i lost interest in updating when i started worrying that anything i might say from the heart will get me in trouble. i tried that once years ago to screw wi ..read more

 to be around 30k or less, from over $44k when i left Reno, yes something is very wrong. and by the way for those who dont know, today is my 55th birthday and im back in Vegas.  i was last here exactly 1 year ago on my 54th birthday. that was the day i took an airbnb at Palms place for a month for $3900. (and is why i didnt ask for a host and room comps the day i lost the $9k because i had no need at the time). i think that happened about 2-3 days after my birthday  Vince is doing my laundry at his house (at his suggestion not mine) and today i used $66 on my comps at the Palms ..read more

 I'm paranoid about a lot of things. whether i should go to tomorrows dentist appointment or just disappear, and whether a lot of the desantis supporters i follow on twitter are truly supporters of ron de santis, or just pretended to be because theyre secretly democrats who hate Trump. with the sheer number who still say they will write him in come election day, instead of actually selecting a viable candidate who can defeat Biden (and we have 2 who can if people would vote for them and one of them isnt Trump) isnt too smart. and i lost faith when i saw how many of them actually believed ..read more

 i have a bad habit of doing things the much more expensive way, and im not sure for how long ive picked up that bad habit. (buying Bob Evans mashed potatoes because it tastes so much better than other brands, and paying for pre cut apple slices which cost a lot more than buying apples). even on the train, i had bought my ticket in coach for $45 instead of paying the $185 fare for a private room for the 5 hour trip. once i boarded, i changed my mind however, because i didnt feel comfortable so far away from my luggage, and didnt want them to sit anyone next to me, and i had to pay an addi ..read more

 The casino expects u to lose. and im not losing lately at live 3-2 6 deck shoe BJ. According to the host, im up over $7000 in the last month or two. Including $500 today. I overheard the pit boss talking on the phone while at the table, (seems like they call up on the phone everytime my bets go way up) and him saying "i dont know why we cannot beat this guy". "he just keeps winning". "at least hes taking care of us" they see me putting big bets out at times on new shoes (with a payback below 100%) since the count is still zero, they see me at times refusing to take insurance with a true ..read more

 im not sure if im managing my money the best, but im still holding onto 7k more than when i left Houston, and was briefly 7k better off than i left Houston with at one time. But im running out of free room offers rapidly, (im being cut off for using far too many). i knew it wasnt possible to live out of casino hotels free of charge forever.  Greg on twitter (who to my knowledge ive never met) suggested that the timeshare hotel i took for 4 nights for $550 might be legacy vacation village. but that place would have been quite a bit cheaper than what i paid. maybe $325 or less plus ta ..read more

 in case anyone has ever wondered why I (and probably others too) dont want housekeeping in the room til after you check out here is why.  I was using my free rooms, which i normally use on weekends at the casino in sparks. (ive been in reno 6-7 weeks and once paid for a room once, over 2 nights during the air show a few weeks back). i always tell the staff unless i forget at every host office when i check in that i dont want housekeeping.  Not only did housekeeping come into the room, they didnt even throw out the empty food trash. instead they picked it up off the floor and se ..read more

 Who knows how low my roll might be right now had i stayed in texas? Thank God for the dealer who told me if i didnt give him at least a $20 tip on that huge pot, he was going to follow me to the parking lot and beat my ass when i left. otherwise i would still be paying a fortune in hotel costs and playing in games with $15 rakes.  I flew to reno close to 6 weeks ago with $26,200 and only paid for a hotel room once since i arrived, and that was the time i paid the $450 for 2 nights in Carson city when 150,000 visitors came to town for the air show.  Not paying for housing, as an ..read more

 well its almost 3am, and im waking up in my room at Boomtown that i went to sleep in before 5pm.. instead of waking up multiple times in the middle of the night to use the bathroom i only woke up 3 or 4 times. good news is this being a friday night, ill still be able to find a poker game somewhere, the bigger problem might be getting a driver to come all the way out to boomtown, or maybe the normal $22 fare will be a $75 fare. their live BJ tables here close in the middle of the night at 1am, and dont reopen til 9am. and the vbj i used to play here in the middle of the night i no longer ..read more