*** TJ's 2024 WSOP Trip! ...That Might Turn Into A Move?
“They all know me as a small-timer. But that’s about to change.”
It’s that time of year again!
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Home safe!
The Day 1 shirt is on the left, and even though I hate the University of Tennessee, I think it’s a good looking shirt.
The cash games run pure shirt is on the right, and you can’t tell very well from this pic, but it has a small repeating pattern of a drink with ice and a straw in it. Looks very summertime/cook-out’y.
As Moby watches over.
Link to purchase lucky shirt?
Even though I’m not from the Midwest, the Law of Midwestern Dads applies here. It states that if you ever compliment a man from the US Midwest on a possession that he owns, then he is honor-bound to inform you that he acquired said item at a significant financial discount.
They were both $15 shirts from Walmart.
If you were offering to buy my exact specific shirts, then I can truthfully tell you there is literally no amount of money I could be offered that I would ever accept to part with them.
I also DO like the shirt I wore on Saturday, when I busto’d my third bullet, then punted off $3k+, but it will NOT be making the return trip to Cherokee with us this upcoming weekend. Too much of a liability.
I've got a couple of "poker shirts" that are brightly-colored with tropical designs. I will often wear them when playing to new-to-me players, hoping to give off a touristy, loose, fun-player vibe.
While I am fun to play with, I'm generally on the tighter side.
Do you think the shirts (especially the drinks one) affect others' perception of you as a player?
The after dinner nightcap session went well.…This shirt, man.In for $1500, out with: New best live cash session ever, at +6173! Almost a +10k in 24 hours ROBUSTO kind of day today.It was my turn to get hit with the deck.Some hands: raise pot over the $25 straddle in late position with AA73 with spades, several callers. Flop Ah Jh 4s, checks to me, I pot nearly a committing am
TJ,
What a great comeback and day!
That closes the book on Leg 1 of this Cherokee trip.Drove here with 60 bills. After all of it, I’m driving home tomorrow with 117.Very happy with this result. Especially considering where I was at mentally being down over $3k as I went to bed Saturday night.I’m FIRED UP to play in the Main Event on Friday! …And hopefully Sunday, and Monday as well. Yet if it doesn’t go well
on the topic of lucky t-shirts sure wish i was around saturday to offer up meaningless words of encouragement during the tourney
your streak of winning days might remain unbroken if i did
I've got a couple of "poker shirts" that are brightly-colored with tropical designs. I will often wear them when playing to new-to-me players, hoping to give off a touristy, loose, fun-player vibe.
While I am fun to play with, I'm generally on the tighter side.
Do you think the shirts (especially the drinks one) affect others' perception of you as a player?
I don’t go for a deceptive appearance at the poker table. I try to be pleasant and amiable with everyone, but I also strive to be as forgettable as possible. It’s a game of information warfare. I’m trying to gather as much information as possible, while revealing as little as possible.
I wear nice and presentable clothes, but not dressy, or certainly not flashy. Golf shirts and dark jeans in the winter, or cargo shorts or khaki shorts in the summer (for the extra pockets). I’m well groomed and clean shaven, unlike the hoodie backpack pros with the 4 week unkempt ass-hair beards growing.
It’s the quiet guy at the table you should be most afraid of, that’s my mantra.
Other players [discussing TJ away from the tables]:
"Poor bastard only owns three shirts."
"Yeah. I noticed that too. He probably plows every cent he has into these tournaments."
"Sad. He obviously has a gambling addiction."
"Should we try to encourage him to get some help?"
"Are you kidding?!?!?! This is poker!"
"How about if we all pitch in and buy him a few shirts and tell him it's a 'Sportsmanship Award?'"
Meanwhile, back at the hotel room:
Moby: "TJ, did you notice the look some of the other players were giving you?"
TJ: "I did. They were obviously admiring my clean-shaven face and my nice and presentable clothes."
"Yeah, about those clothes..."
"What about them? You don't like them?"
"They're fine, but you wear the same shirt all the time."
"If the other players admired it, that means I must have picked a good one."
"Except it didn't look like admiration to me. More like...pity?"
"Oh, come on! You're just jealous because you haven't got any clothes yourself!"
"I'm just trying to help, you know. I really think you ought to buy yourself a couple of new shirts."
"How about I unravel you and wear you as a hat?"
"Hey, that's no way to talk to your card protector!"
"I'm sorry, man. I didn't mean that. But this shirt brings me luck. With you and this shirt on my side, I basically cannot lose."
"Fair enough. Let them look, I say. We'll see how pitiful they are next time, after you'll have cleared out the entire table. But will you please get me a nice little hat, so I'll have something to wear as well?"
"Deal."
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join us for our next installment when we discover evidence of hero alongside thomas keller selling cherokee licorice chips out of a car trunk
Done with work for the week!
I’ve practically been counting down the minutes since I clocked in on Tuesday.
Hit the Longhorn in Burlington again for a good steak after work for the drive.
Got the mac and cheese this time, it was tasty.
An unhappy side effect of having to be at work by 4:30 am means I’m in bed by 7 pm… so I’ve watched hardly ANY of these great NBA playoff games. The Knicks are somehow up 2-0 on Boston, heading back to New York?!? I thought the Celtics would wax them.
Can’t wait to slurp Bill Simmons’ salty tears on my podcast app for the rest of the drive.
Next stop: the Econo Lodge!
Pull!!!
You can guess where I’m starting my morning.
We had some rain last night, and fog rolling in this morning. So the Great Smoky Mountains are looking EXTRA smoky today.
The go-to breakfast. Once again, she accidentally added onions to my hashbrowns. It logically follows that the only conclusion to be made is that another final table run is surely incoming.
Bought into the tournament, now I have about an hour and a half to kill before it starts. So let’s sit in a 1/3 game, to get back into hold’em mode, and practice folding!
…I guess poker players are notoriously NOT morning people.
This is how the poker room looks at 9:30 am on a Friday. In Vegas, I’d be hoping for a chance to sit in an overnight game, and pick off some bleary-eyed drunks. I guess it’s not so, here.
Ah well. I’m on the list to get a game started, and open the poker room for what could be a great weekend!
The Accidental Onion
gogogo!
Saturday , I discovered (ot my surprise) we have a Waffle House out here, at the same exit I turn to go to our home-game tournament group. We start at 4 PM, so I'd have to be up there around 3:30.
Can I get hash browns at that time of the day, to ensure rungood? Is it only hash that works the magic?
let the accumulation begin...
I wasn’t feeling confident about it until REDeYeS gave me permission.
+205 in under an hour of 1/3, so the weekend’s off to a positive start!
Now it’s time for the tournament. Lucky Day 1 shirt, (one of the only three shirts I own), is locked and loaded.
Moby and I are ready to spin!
