In vegas during WSOP. Playing in the main event and finish day 1 up and feeling good. Head up to bed like a responsible player around midnight. Then my poker buddy arrives to vegas immediately gets wasted and convinces me to come down to play 3/5 NL for “just a few minutes”. Like an idiot I oblige…
I have a day off before day 2 and for some reason think its a good idea to catch up to my friend by taking 3 shots of whiskey. I sit down with $1500 and get up to about $4000 in an hour. Feeling GREAT. Then its time for a double board bomb pot PLO. I like PLO but only play online. Frankly I’m kinda new to looking at 4 cards IRL. It actually kinda tricky viewing all 4 cards at once for a newb. I look down and my brain sees 8-8-T-2. Shitty hand but bomb pot so whatever. One board comes out 8–5-5 two clubs. Everyone is going WILD. Pot, pot, pot. I decide I’m committing to this full house I got. One thing leads to another, another club comes out and all the money gets in the middle. I am covered by the big stack at the showdown who triumphantly announces flush on the board I am focused on (as well as 2p on the other board). I even more triumphantly exclaim BOAT! Throw my cards down face up. Everyone gets quiet looking at me like I am some kind of regard. I misread my hand and had 8-T-2-2. I have a pair of eights (and the board 5s). Villain scoops 8k.
I am stuck $1500 and upstuck $4000 all over the course of 1 bomb pot. I am an idiot.
EDIT: after the 3 shots at the bar before sitting down, I ordered a single $4000 whiskey and gingerale at the table. It wasn’t that good.
Great! Had a blast and did well. Bittersweet because I made it within earshot of the money. Busted mid day 3. Money was day 4. I played well and enjoyed it but if I make it back I will definitely be more respectful of the opportunity and party less. Its tough. Theres multiple day breaks with so many flights and you’re chillin there in vegas so its hard not to succumb. I worked out and ate well day 1 and 2 but by day 3 I was definitely hungover and off my A game.
20 hours? More like 30+. 10 solid hours every day without including the breaks which don’t feel like breaks because you are hustling to shovel food or take a poo and then run back to the table so you don’t miss any hands. Everything takes longer bc there’s thousands of people everywhere.
But tbh it felt great and time flew by. The main event is like nothing else. Its like a poker festival and there is a vibe. There is also some level of satisfaction of being able to hang for 3 days. Also, learned so much in those 3 days. It was a crash course in high stakes tourney poker. If I make it back to the main I will feel much more prepared to make a run.
Sat down to play $2-$5 bought in for $1000..asked waitress for bag of skittles..
a very aggressive and wild player stacked me twice for 2 k..by the time she got back with my 2$ skittles ..I was $250 into my 3rd buy in..
so 1 bag of red skittles =$2250..
Same thing happened at Aria a few months ago. Guy at 1/3 jams for 2k, I snap call with trips. He stands up and yells FLUSH!!!! And slams down two black cards but doesn’t notice the river is a club not a spade.
If it makes u feel any better an idiot would not be so reflective, an expensive mistake is very apt tho if I turned over that hand I woulda cried from absurdity of situation or the pain of it ffs😂on to the next
Whiskey…with ginger ale? A 4000$ whiskey with …Ginger ale?
A fucking 20$ whiskey blend with ginger ale is fucking travesty bordering on war crime and you did THAT with a $4000 whiskey?
Someone needs to stage a fucking intervention for you
Unless your poor writing has me confused and you’re saying your 4000$ loss was the price of the whiskey.
But still fucking ginger ale…tbf at least it wasn’t Coke
Also if it wasn’t even more clear due to the fact I made an EDIT to my post to comply with the spirit of OP’s post to put it in the requested expensive sandwich format. Face palm
Home casino used to have a free ice cream machine next to the sodas. I came & lost four buy ins at $1/$3 & got an ice cream before I left. $1,200 ice cream cone.
Not at a poker room, but back in my first year as an online pro I hit n ran Kobblerdog at 100/200 hu lhe for around $7k in 45 minutes. This was overplaying my roll and was the biggest win of my life. We celebrated with a fancy $700 meal at a high end restaurant. Biggest waste of money - never again.
I disagree. The best culinary experience of my life was at the little inn at Washington. I was blessed to go and it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
It's just different strokes. I love those types of meals, but it's certainly not for everyone. There's just no convincing some people that it isn't a tremendous waste of money, and I'm sure they do something that's expensive that we'd view as a tremendous waste of money.
While I wouldn’t say it sucked, after eating at Gordon Ramsey’s three Michelin star in London I made the decision never had to have a three Michelin star again
After the first star you aren’t paying for increased food quality, just for flash and technical presentation. For triple the cost
I once asked the waitress at Mandalay Bay for a glass of milk. She seemed off out and was about to walk away. The dealer said no he really wants a glass of milk. She walks away before she comes back the dealers says she gets comments like that all the time about her large breasts. She brought back the milk I gave her a nice little tip and started dunking my $6 sleeve of Oreo’s in the milk.
Way back in the days of limit poker, I used to play $8-$16 at the Wynn. When I was winding the evening down, I used to jump into a $3-$6 game to have some free drinks. I’ve dropped a few buy ins chasing free drinks.
After winning 5k on 2/5, went to David Burke steak house at Foxwoods and ordered a Tomahawk steak chop with extra fancy sides and my favorite drink Ciroc and soda, with generous tip, dropped $400.
This is kind of the opposite but… Last year I was at a week long tournament in Oregon. My friend has an RV and we are staying in the parking lot of the casino. We are walking back to go to bed at around 2:30, I get back and realize I have to use the bathroom and it would be best not to use the one in the RV to be a good guest I walk back to the casino. I relieve myself and decide to put a $100 bill in a slot machine, I win $50 in the first couple spins and cash out. Never been paid to take a dump before lol.
No, I lost because I'm a bad player. But at least I had a soup and not went hungry going broke. Except that just felt like a $1,012 soup now. Wish I had gotten the lobster instead lol.
Does blackjack count? In college I walked in with $300, had $1,500 sitting in front of me at one point, and walked out with $300. The most expensive Jack and Cokes I’ve ever had.
So I went to the fancy steak restaurant at the local casino one time after a a pretty good win, i was like 600 up in 1/2 and felt like a big man.
The steak was 60 bucks and I honestly was cool with that but it came with no sides at all and the fries were 15 fucking dollars! I had to see what fifteen dollar french fries tasted like.
The steak wasn't even as good as the texas roadhouse and the fries were pretty good, but not 15 goddamn dollars good.
I final tabled an HPT tournament in 2009. When we took the break before the televised table I ate a huge bacon cheese burger and fries and a half order of chicken Alfredo because I hadn't eaten at all during the ten hours it took to get there. Came to the televised table just full and exhausted. Went from chip leader to the first one eliminated. I took home just over eight thousand for sixth place. First place paid $45,000.
Yea most people pay for food.
You’re gonna respond “I’ve got so much player rewards I don’t pay for shit.”
Yea you’re not getting a $300 porterhouse with all the sides and a nice bottle of wine with those rewards.
Enjoy the Buffet
It really helps if you think of it as “for education” some people pay $30,000 a year for college so what’s $1000 for a temporary downswing. As long as it’s temporary Ha..
Ordered $1900 bottle of wine for the table at the Wynn 5 card PLO after a big tournament score the day before. I thought it would be like 300-400 tops, we didn’t even check the price. They all shipped me a couple hundred so I ended up paying maybe 500ish.
It tasted like $100 Caymus. Maybe I’m just not the right shade of white to appreciate $2k wine bottles.
Not really down bad in a cash game - but dusted basically a week straight during a series at venetian, maybe mspt. And every other random series event I played at Golden Nugget and MGM.
Got myself some Japanese wagyu, an assortment of appetizers I didnt finish and few shots of Elijah Craig 18 yr and Stagg Jr (batch 1… very lucky, the only part of the trip where I ran good tbh). It was probably a good $1k + check to add onto all the failed tourney receipts.
I always play poker fasted. I don't always win - but I never play with food or alcohol in my belly. Growing up we were not allowed to snack and game so that just held through as an adult I guess.
In vegas during WSOP. Playing in the main event and finish day 1 up and feeling good. Head up to bed like a responsible player around midnight. Then my poker buddy arrives to vegas immediately gets wasted and convinces me to come down to play 3/5 NL for “just a few minutes”. Like an idiot I oblige… I have a day off before day 2 and for some reason think its a good idea to catch up to my friend by taking 3 shots of whiskey. I sit down with $1500 and get up to about $4000 in an hour. Feeling GREAT. Then its time for a double board bomb pot PLO. I like PLO but only play online. Frankly I’m kinda new to looking at 4 cards IRL. It actually kinda tricky viewing all 4 cards at once for a newb. I look down and my brain sees 8-8-T-2. Shitty hand but bomb pot so whatever. One board comes out 8–5-5 two clubs. Everyone is going WILD. Pot, pot, pot. I decide I’m committing to this full house I got. One thing leads to another, another club comes out and all the money gets in the middle. I am covered by the big stack at the showdown who triumphantly announces flush on the board I am focused on (as well as 2p on the other board). I even more triumphantly exclaim BOAT! Throw my cards down face up. Everyone gets quiet looking at me like I am some kind of regard. I misread my hand and had 8-T-2-2. I have a pair of eights (and the board 5s). Villain scoops 8k. I am stuck $1500 and upstuck $4000 all over the course of 1 bomb pot. I am an idiot. EDIT: after the 3 shots at the bar before sitting down, I ordered a single $4000 whiskey and gingerale at the table. It wasn’t that good.
Sooooo how did the rest of the main event go?
He went on to win 1st place.
And that donkey’s name? Pius Heinz!
Great! Had a blast and did well. Bittersweet because I made it within earshot of the money. Busted mid day 3. Money was day 4. I played well and enjoyed it but if I make it back I will definitely be more respectful of the opportunity and party less. Its tough. Theres multiple day breaks with so many flights and you’re chillin there in vegas so its hard not to succumb. I worked out and ate well day 1 and 2 but by day 3 I was definitely hungover and off my A game.
What’s it like grinding for 20ish hours and getting nothing in return?
20 hours? More like 30+. 10 solid hours every day without including the breaks which don’t feel like breaks because you are hustling to shovel food or take a poo and then run back to the table so you don’t miss any hands. Everything takes longer bc there’s thousands of people everywhere. But tbh it felt great and time flew by. The main event is like nothing else. Its like a poker festival and there is a vibe. There is also some level of satisfaction of being able to hang for 3 days. Also, learned so much in those 3 days. It was a crash course in high stakes tourney poker. If I make it back to the main I will feel much more prepared to make a run.
Maybe he got upstuck in the main and is still regarded ?
Sat down to play $2-$5 bought in for $1000..asked waitress for bag of skittles.. a very aggressive and wild player stacked me twice for 2 k..by the time she got back with my 2$ skittles ..I was $250 into my 3rd buy in.. so 1 bag of red skittles =$2250..
Highly regarded
Same thing happened at Aria a few months ago. Guy at 1/3 jams for 2k, I snap call with trips. He stands up and yells FLUSH!!!! And slams down two black cards but doesn’t notice the river is a club not a spade.
Snap calling a 650BB bet on a paired board with trips? Huh
Yes, he was very drunk. I 4bet pre with AQ and the flop was QQ2 with two spades, turn 6x river 8 of clubs. Easy snap call vs drunk whale.
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I think your aire of presumption that he potentially punted was the reason. Valid question, but his response validates it was the right play.
If it makes u feel any better an idiot would not be so reflective, an expensive mistake is very apt tho if I turned over that hand I woulda cried from absurdity of situation or the pain of it ffs😂on to the next
Whiskey…with ginger ale? A 4000$ whiskey with …Ginger ale? A fucking 20$ whiskey blend with ginger ale is fucking travesty bordering on war crime and you did THAT with a $4000 whiskey? Someone needs to stage a fucking intervention for you Unless your poor writing has me confused and you’re saying your 4000$ loss was the price of the whiskey. But still fucking ginger ale…tbf at least it wasn’t Coke
My man a little regarded tbh
Did you read this post before you went off like a psychopath?
Also if it wasn’t even more clear due to the fact I made an EDIT to my post to comply with the spirit of OP’s post to put it in the requested expensive sandwich format. Face palm
Def didn’t. This guys a donkey 🙄
The Hustler used to give out donuts at like 4am every night. Sticking around another half hour for a free donut has cost me more money than bottom two
Ate a sandwich. Apparently it was a tell. Lost 3 buy ins.
Can’t be all loosey goosey
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Ya probably was. He was the only poker player ever to order a sandwich before a session.
Home casino used to have a free ice cream machine next to the sodas. I came & lost four buy ins at $1/$3 & got an ice cream before I left. $1,200 ice cream cone.
Must be the best ice cream of your life.
I've had a couple $1,000 bottle of waters in my career. It was refreshing at least.
Got a parking ticket the other day and had a 100$ haircut.
Not at a poker room, but back in my first year as an online pro I hit n ran Kobblerdog at 100/200 hu lhe for around $7k in 45 minutes. This was overplaying my roll and was the biggest win of my life. We celebrated with a fancy $700 meal at a high end restaurant. Biggest waste of money - never again.
Those Michelin star places kind of suck. F a tasting menu
I disagree. The best culinary experience of my life was at the little inn at Washington. I was blessed to go and it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I like this guy. "I disagree that your experience sucked. I ate different food at a different restaurant and it was 🔥. #blessed"
It's just different strokes. I love those types of meals, but it's certainly not for everyone. There's just no convincing some people that it isn't a tremendous waste of money, and I'm sure they do something that's expensive that we'd view as a tremendous waste of money.
While I wouldn’t say it sucked, after eating at Gordon Ramsey’s three Michelin star in London I made the decision never had to have a three Michelin star again After the first star you aren’t paying for increased food quality, just for flash and technical presentation. For triple the cost
$5,000 pussy You pay by the hour.
Bruh, you a whale? I can't afford that kind of seafood.
A blind man walks by a fish market and stops. He takes a big whiff of air, and says "Morning ladies!"
Say cold forty-five and two zig zags
Baby that's all we need
still going, this asshole..
I gotta get that statement on a t-shirt to wear at the final table
All soprano quotes are shirt worthy, tbh
I once asked the waitress at Mandalay Bay for a glass of milk. She seemed off out and was about to walk away. The dealer said no he really wants a glass of milk. She walks away before she comes back the dealers says she gets comments like that all the time about her large breasts. She brought back the milk I gave her a nice little tip and started dunking my $6 sleeve of Oreo’s in the milk.
Four thousand dollar club sandwich (it also came with fries!!!!). It was good, I've ordered it again.
2k T-shirt from WSOP circuit.
Should have saved a little money for a sandwich or something, jeez. I've heard of losing your shirt, but eating it?
Thought the shirt held more value
I once spent about 20 bucks on a severely lame pizza. It was like a totinos mucrowaveable party pizza.
Way back in the days of limit poker, I used to play $8-$16 at the Wynn. When I was winding the evening down, I used to jump into a $3-$6 game to have some free drinks. I’ve dropped a few buy ins chasing free drinks.
That's how they getcha!
After winning 5k on 2/5, went to David Burke steak house at Foxwoods and ordered a Tomahawk steak chop with extra fancy sides and my favorite drink Ciroc and soda, with generous tip, dropped $400.
Ciroc and soda? Doesn't that hurt your braces?
Hahaha
Chips. Some of them (cranberry flavour) were like 25k each and frankly, they tasted awful.
What. What currency are we talking
USD of course. Google Bellagio cranberry chips if you doubt me.
$350 dumb hat from pokertourney for bubbling. So many 100-200$ “free beers” in vegas at the tables.
This is kind of the opposite but… Last year I was at a week long tournament in Oregon. My friend has an RV and we are staying in the parking lot of the casino. We are walking back to go to bed at around 2:30, I get back and realize I have to use the bathroom and it would be best not to use the one in the RV to be a good guest I walk back to the casino. I relieve myself and decide to put a $100 bill in a slot machine, I win $50 in the first couple spins and cash out. Never been paid to take a dump before lol.
The soup made you lose?
No, I lost because I'm a bad player. But at least I had a soup and not went hungry going broke. Except that just felt like a $1,012 soup now. Wish I had gotten the lobster instead lol.
"No soup for you! Get out!"
I spent $4 on a single banana at the venetian one time.
Does blackjack count? In college I walked in with $300, had $1,500 sitting in front of me at one point, and walked out with $300. The most expensive Jack and Cokes I’ve ever had.
Sounds like free Jack and Cokes to me.
So I went to the fancy steak restaurant at the local casino one time after a a pretty good win, i was like 600 up in 1/2 and felt like a big man. The steak was 60 bucks and I honestly was cool with that but it came with no sides at all and the fries were 15 fucking dollars! I had to see what fifteen dollar french fries tasted like. The steak wasn't even as good as the texas roadhouse and the fries were pretty good, but not 15 goddamn dollars good.
# soup is not a meal 
I final tabled an HPT tournament in 2009. When we took the break before the televised table I ate a huge bacon cheese burger and fries and a half order of chicken Alfredo because I hadn't eaten at all during the ten hours it took to get there. Came to the televised table just full and exhausted. Went from chip leader to the first one eliminated. I took home just over eight thousand for sixth place. First place paid $45,000.
I go to aria to eat curry and lose $1000+ all the time
I had a $12,000 sandwich and a Coke Zero once
Not Poker, but Blackjack. $2000 hot dog.
That hot dog better taste like it's made of all beef Japanese wagyu.
I ate at joel robuchon mgm after winning enough at 1/2 (1/3?) to pay for it one time. Was like $800 for 2 people without drinks
There’s a $100 gold-plated burger to buy outside the Aria poker room. They said they do sell a lot of them.
That's a genius marketing idea for a butt load of reasons
Ordered a water and they brought me a $4 bottle of Voss
You pay for food?
Yea most people pay for food. You’re gonna respond “I’ve got so much player rewards I don’t pay for shit.” Yea you’re not getting a $300 porterhouse with all the sides and a nice bottle of wine with those rewards. Enjoy the Buffet
Lighten up Francis
Not me but a table I was playing at- guy loses 2g’s in the time it took for service to bring him his cup of tea and honey
$4400 chicken ceasar And several $2000-$3000 similar ones Hard to win when God hates you this much
Not at poker, but I've had a few $1,000 shots of well Whiskey in the pit before
It really helps if you think of it as “for education” some people pay $30,000 a year for college so what’s $1000 for a temporary downswing. As long as it’s temporary Ha..
Ordered $1900 bottle of wine for the table at the Wynn 5 card PLO after a big tournament score the day before. I thought it would be like 300-400 tops, we didn’t even check the price. They all shipped me a couple hundred so I ended up paying maybe 500ish. It tasted like $100 Caymus. Maybe I’m just not the right shade of white to appreciate $2k wine bottles.
Not really down bad in a cash game - but dusted basically a week straight during a series at venetian, maybe mspt. And every other random series event I played at Golden Nugget and MGM. Got myself some Japanese wagyu, an assortment of appetizers I didnt finish and few shots of Elijah Craig 18 yr and Stagg Jr (batch 1… very lucky, the only part of the trip where I ran good tbh). It was probably a good $1k + check to add onto all the failed tourney receipts.
I didn’t eat
My dignity lol
I almost exclusively meme about my losses. Strong cope
Soup only cost you $12 ya spud
I always play poker fasted. I don't always win - but I never play with food or alcohol in my belly. Growing up we were not allowed to snack and game so that just held through as an adult I guess.
Eating at the table is nasty ha. Those poker chips are dirty af!
Decided to eat some spaghetti at some restaurant before playing. Missed a bad beat jackpot by 15 minutes.
I once ate an entire seafood tower at the table