Yeah they're the best in town. I've made most of my major purchases there and they always seem to have good ammo choices in stock. I also took my CCW classes there and built my AR15 in one of their classes.

I can't tell you the number of times where I've had questions or need repairs while on the range and they are happy to step in and help, no charge. My favorite RSO there is Joe, he's hilarious and really knows firearms.

Just some really good people running that store.

The question is not "should I do it?". The question is "who's going to stop me?"

I'm meeting @which for dinner tonight and I've asked him if he's agreeable to doing a sweat session with me. We might do that later tonight, which would be great and I'm grateful for his help.

It would be my first time playing cash since October. My concepts on the game have come along pretty good in that time. So I'm looking forward to trying cash games again.

For clarity, you two aren't going to be hanging out in the Mandalay Bay sauna for this "sweat session" are you?

Cool blog update, D.

Played the Venetian 1/2 with @which. It was a nice change of pace and there is definitely a different crowd there at night rather than the day time that I used to play. We discussed a couple of hands afterwards and I found that to be helpful - he's really insightful with poker.

Booked a nice win, which is great! Definitely makes me more optimistic and enthusiastic about playing cash again. Once I can settle into my study routine and make sure I got this semester's class under control then I might start putting cash sessions back into my rotation. I would almost certainly start playing nights instead of day shift.

You...played...cash? The end is nigh!!!

and made money! Where is that asteroid?

Sounds like a good result Beam... I like the Venetian action at night much better than day action (lack thereof lol)

See ya at the Orleans Horse tourney Sunday night once I get to Vegas... lets take it down! 1st and 2nd

B

I know right???? But yeah, I got through a session and actually posted a profit!

I'll give you first only because I'm still not 100% clear on what all the letters in HORSE stand for . . . but that should still be good enough for second place

Lol
H=hold em
O= omaha hi lo 08
R=razz
S= stud hi
E= stud hi lo 08

Last year my best friend and I decided that we needed to get out ham radio licenses. Don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time . . .

We both bought the exam guide - my friend studied it, took notes, asked questions, all that stuff. My guide is still in it's plastic wrapping in some Amazon box somewhere, couldn't really tell you where, never actually opened it.

The only studying I did was to use Anki for 1 week prior to the exam. 100 Anki cards, every single morning for about 1 hour (its variable due to the nature of Anki). Ironically, both of us got 100% scores on the exam - I think I might just learn better with Anki tools.

So, I decided to apply some of the same stuff to poker. Since I'm thinking of playing cash more & more, I've decided that I need to "tune up" my pre-flop hands and make sure I'm not making any obvious mistakes. This is one of the better charts I've found for that: http://www.pokerology.com/charts/nlh...ands-chart.pdf

I've spent the greater part of today painstakingly converting that to an Anki deck to quiz myself on every single morning. When you extrapolate the chart, it comes out to something crazy like 350+ cards in the Anki deck. I am pledging to study this deck every single morning in order to make sure that I don't have any leaks in my pre-flop game. I might add to the deck (or make other decks) to account for post-flop situations.

If anyone else reading this uses Anki, let me know and I can ship you the deck. I'm thinking of making it publicly available. Creating it made my eyes go cross-eyed but it's a pretty good deck so far and am willing to give back to the community.

WTF? Come on, stop joking around, you're making some of this ***** up! what kind of fawked up name is "razz". GTFO!

ahhh where is 2. and where is A.? Now that very well is a possible level?

Astute observation RR! Indeed I bet "A" on the river when I hero called with KKxx on a 23459hhhhx board.

2 is currently being crafted on my toilet while I type this on my iPhone.

Playing cash again tonight. Twice in a week, but what the heck, let's get back on that horse!

Two winning cash sessions in a row. WHAT?!?!?! Going well so far. I'm taking a revised approach to my preflop play and I think it's helping so far. I'm being very, very sensitive to position and that's also a good thing.

Your chart says to fold AQs in early position no matter what the action is - wtf?

That's right. I mean I hear what you're saying, it's very tight. But I think most people underestimate how tight you have to be early. I know I was. So this chart is a little more "strict" than most.

FWIW the bottom of the chart does say to adjust on your own for game conditions. That may be one of them.

very tight???? fishes butts are less tight than that! Your not married to it but to auto fold it is crazy.

the whole chart is a joke and the idea of making flashcards is just plain silly. Folding 99 in ep, overlimping 99,open limping JTs from lp. this list of silliness is endless

You own a guy in another thread and he comes after me in my own thread . . . keep it classy!