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June 6, 2004
The Recap
Well in recap the trip was an overall success. We managed to pay for the expenses (including some nice dinners) and end up a little more than a thousand ahead each. We were splitting, as we always do on roadies, so even though John had a relatively bad run (and was still up a little) I made up for it. In some ways I felt that I should have spent my time over at the Taj playing $30/$60 or $40/$80 (nothing bigger than $20/$40 went off at the Borgata) or some such higher stakes, but at the same time if my goal were to earn money I would have been better off just playing on Party from the broadband connection in the room. The purpose of the trip was to escape the grind of playing online for a short time, and I accomplished that and learned something valuable. I don’t have much experience playing live NL ring games, so I feel like I learned a lot. I still have a lot to learn about this fascinating game and my experiences playing short handed ring games and NL tournaments have done a good job preparing me for it. I look forward to playing it more in the future.
I lost my cell phone somewhere on the ride home. I think it fell out of my pocket at a rest stop or something. This is unfortunate but it seems I can get a nicer one anyway for not that much money and I would like to get one with a camera. That way I can have a moblog so my readers can see what I see at all the major events. I don’t think anyone else in the poker blog world is doing this, so it should be a great service to my readers.
I think the best part of the whole entire trip was playing with all of the WPT pro wannabes. It is so funny how all of these young kids watch a few televised events, read a book or two, and think they are going to be the next Phil Ivey. So many of them would say things to me like “we are going to run this table over” or “that guy doesn’t stand a chance at this table with us here” and I had a hard time holding back my laughter because it was invariably some weak tight kid who couldn’t fold top pair for his whole stack. Then there were the few insanely aggressive ones who would often just shove in their whole pile and expect you to fold. Those ones never lasted long because eventually John or I would flop a straight and they would try it. Hell, sometimes someone would just flop top pair and call them, sending them to the rail where they whined to their friends about the guy who couldn’t fold top pair for $300.
Also I learned that Atlantic City is actually just as nice as Vegas as long as you never leave the Borgata. Once you do that you realize what a shit hole it is. They have a few nice restaurants there, some shopping, and good poker action. The rooms are excellent and very affordable. So in the future I will just drive straight in to the Borgata and not leave the casino until it is time to go home.
Posted by themaroon at June 6, 2004 11:14 AM
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Congratulations on the success in Atlantic City. I'm going there in November and hope to have similar success. Have you ever publicly posted your screen name on Party Poker? I frequently find myself on the site and would be interested in seeing "an expert" play.
Posted by: Steve at June 7, 2004 1:39 AM