Hating Live and Updates (3/3/2013)
Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 11:10PM Hello all.
I haven’t been updating much mainly because there is a lot of negativity surrounding me right now. Most of the time I’d rather not write or even talk to anyone when I’m feeling negative or things are going badly. But hell it’s a new month! Why not update! Here comes the rant!
Borgata has become hell on earth for me. Last week I actually went on vacation for 4 nights. I came back and it took a TWO full days before I returned to pretty much hating all that is living. I’d pretty much give anything to never again have to see 99% of the fucking idiot 2/5 player pool at Borgata. The faces are beyond stupid, the nitiness is at all time new levels, the collective lives being wasted is unimaginable, and the stupidity is beyond thinkable.
I can’t decide what actually tilts me more, the younger grinders or the middle aged+ regulars. I hate them all, but I’d have to say the younger grinders. You can’t sit next to one under 30 grinder at Borgata, it’s pretty much impossible unless you want to be subjected to:
1) Endless poker talk during their entire session.
Nothing is more stupid. If there is at least 3 of them on the table forget it, the game is already ruined. Why must they endlessly try as hard as possible to educate casual live players, the same players they are theoretically trying to take money from. Not that the ‘educating live players’ matters much. Having a conversation with a water cooler would improve your game more than talking to a 2/5 Borgata “poker talker grinder.” This is the bottom 20% of the 2+2 population we are talking about here.
More importantly, no one gives a shit. Seriously, shut the fuck up!
And it’s not like you can just transfer to another table. There are about 2-3 of these idiots at every table now.
2) Listening to them whine like a little bitch after they lose a hand.
Grow up seriously….
3) Constantly being talked to like they’re somehow your friend.
Not only do I not want to talk to you, I actually want to shoot you in the face for having the nerve to attempt talking to me. No I don’t want to be your friend. I would never hang out or talk to you OFF the poker table, WHY the fuck would that suddenly change on the poker table?
4) Watching in disbelief as they violently berate the ONE fish on the table.
OH RIGHT, that’s why Borgata has the worst 2/5 game in the country. And keep in mind the “fish” is the only person on the table not retarded. The only one not wasting his life, let’s be honest here.
Furthermore, the 2/5 game structure at Borgata is beyond stupid. The buy-in is capped at $500. Also, the floor is super strict on collecting time rake. That’s right, at a capped 2/5 game Borgata takes $5 time every half hour.
You sit down now TEN MINUTES after time is collected on every half-hour and they STILL take the fucking $5 time from you. There is no escape from the rape. Also the games on average run slower than average. WAY SLOWER. Brace yourself for fills to come up every hour, even if the table doesn’t need them. Oh and don’t worry, they will change the deck at least once per hour, even if the decks are totally fine. And the floor will take 5 minutes to swap out two decks. So you’re now getting less than 20 hands per hour and paying $10 per hour to sit in one of the shittiest 2/5 games in the world.
From now on I’m never tipping a dealer their more than $1, seriously, fuck that. I’m beyond sick of this shit.
I feel like I’m getting gouged when I play there. It’s the only time-rake 2/5 game I’ve heard of in the country, but you can’t blame them. The herds of retarded cattle still line up and play there. There is no other stable 2/5 game in the city, they have monopoly, they do what they want.
Therefore, I’m completely done with this city. As soon as my lease is up I’m out. The only place I can make a real living playing poker here is Hellgota, the same place I despise, so that is obviously not going to work. The only way I’d even consider staying is if I was playing online over 90% as the lease was ending. Even then there is no reason to live around here. It’s the most-tilting and least profitable 2/5 game on the east coast. It’s also the least profitable 5/10 games in the country. And the life outside of poker? Not good enough, not even close. Every girl I meet is pretty much visiting from NY. The only time I get laid around AC is when I go out to clubs, which I’m sick of to the point where I rarely even go at this point. When I want to get laid, hang out with interesting girls, or hang out with family/friends I now just travel to Manhattan a few nights. No reason to even waste time in AC. If I manage a few good months I should just sublet the remainder of my lease asap.
The only thing I’m looking forward to weekly is committing time to playing online. I almost don't care if I'm breaking even or losing money net on a month at this point. I mean I can't run normally playing live regardless. I'm also not passionate enough to grind out live games that I hate playing in. 25 hours per week, and the rest online I don't really care. Beats walking into Borgata daily. Fuck money, it's not even worth it. What is the point of torturing myself to make an extra $500 per week? There will be no bankroll building in those games. I'm either running not good enough, too tilted, or the games just aren't profitable enough at the earlier times I'm playing. This week I’m going to be playing exclusively online Monday-Wednesday. It’s going to take time to get things rolling, but it’s at least something fresh to work towards.
I'll resume live play Thursday-Sunday.
-bag
