ok poker fans we are back in exciting ATLANTIC CITY for day number two of our adventure where we wake up at the beautiful OCEAN resort and casino!!
after a small breakfast
estrella and i begin walking down the boardwalk towards the tropicana to kickoff my 2022 poker campaign. hopefully we can get in a game with pen great THE LION to get a front row view of his play!!
walking down the boardwalk i make a rule: we only speak spanish on this boardwalk!!! when the eight people between ocean and tropicana ask us for a dollar we say:
"lo siento. no tenemos dinero porque hemos perdido nuestro dinero en el casino."
this works great and we arrive at tropicana without being overly harrassed!
i start the season in a brand new 1/2 no limit contest and of course THE LION is nowhere to be found.
with AA i get no action but spring out to an early lead when 33 flops a set and rivers a boat on a board that ends up Q 3 6 8 Q. i raise the river here and get called but immediately sense i made a rusty mistake by not raising more..... a move which comes back to haunt me as i end up missing several flush draws and fall behind. finally with a suited JT i turn a flush but an action killing card hits the river, cutting my rally short.
i lose $84 over several lionless hours, note my ring rust, and cash out.
fortunately
estrella has won (again) in the casino and is controlling the players card. maybe tropicana will give us a room in the future?
back up the boardwalk we meet up with the lion family at resorts and find that my worst nightmares have come true (see last week's trooper series). apparently last night there was a big game at tropicana? the lion ultimately prevails to go 4-0 on the trip by dragging a $650 pot or something but the lioness is watching the game and is completely turned off by a lot of the behavior. despite the great time she had at harrah's, she now wants to abandon the game.
here is some footage:
thank you for reading!!
game -84 (1/2 nl)
year -84 (0-1)
