Weak Ass Trip Report

I left November 30th at 3pm. I arrived at the hotel around 5:45 pm. I should've got there around 5 pm but rush hour traffic and fucked up directions from Expedia kicked me in the junk. From there it was about a 1.5 hour drive to Spirit Mountain Casino in Grande Ronde, OR.My friend Jason had flown down from Alaska and we had two nights to play cards. He had never played live before because Alaska only allows bingo and pull tabs. Not even a state lottery. Retarted, I know. Honestly, I've never been to any casino other than Chinook Winds so this was going to be a new experience for me as well. As I stated in a previous post, Chinook's cardroom sucks balls. Spirit Mountain's room was ten times better. It was like the difference between Jessica Simpson and Bea Arthur. Like Heineken compared to Milaukees Best Ice. Or, perhaps like PokerStars as opposed to Titan/Noble poker. Maybe like.....ok ok enough.

We arrived Wednesday night at 8pm. Unfortunately there weren't any seats open so we put our names on the list for 2/4 limit holdem and 1/2 NL hold em. We found the lounge and ordered a beer. By the time we were done, they hadn't paged us yet. We stumbled upon video poker machines to kill time. We both lost money. Fortunately we didn't have to play long because we got paged for the poker room 10 mins later. The 2/4 limit had two seats open. Cool, or so I thought. We sit down and something occurs to me after playing for a few minutes. Everyone except for Jason and two other guys are at least fifty years old. The guy on my right is on a fuckin oxygen tank and has to be pushing 107 years old. He was a good guy but he took for fuckin ever to act. Jason was on my left and later he told me how the old guy said he got shot during deer season, haha. I heard him say he got shot but he talked so damn quietly I did the smile head nod thing with him many times. Anyways we both ended up losing money. I dropped $80 before we left.

The next night we went back and got in the $1/$2 NLHE right when we got there. I had $60 left to play with so I put it on the table. The table consisted of alot of younger college age kids. This is the table texture I was looking for, opposite of the 2/4 from the night before. I left the table with $327. It was sweet. I should've busted early. I get A3 off in the BB. It was either raised a tiny amount or I saw a free flop I can't remember. Flop is AAK. I bet 15 get called by another dude in late position. Turn is an 8 I believe. I bet again, $20 if I remember right. He calls me again. River is a lovely 3. I push in for my last $40 or so. He calls. He has AJ. He wasn't pleased. It was a $220 pot (counting the money I put in as well). That was the key hand for my succesful night. I took a decent sized pot off of Jason as well. Flop had AAx, I had AT he had A9 I believe. In the end my kicker played and I won.

It was a great time. I'm going to play at Spirit Mountain as much as possible now. It's about the same driving distance away as Chinook Winds. The only reason I've went to Chinook is because I do grocery shopping when I go there. Spirit doesn't have any shopping centers near it.

Sorry this took so long to post, and it's kinda weak. But I haven't been in the mood to write lately. Today is my birthday though and I promised to get it up by then. I'm 27 yrs old today btw. Peace.