Awesome man congrats! Keep it up gl!

Thanks for the sweats and follows everyone! Will do a full update soon, but we busted in 89th place in classic and standard AK v 99 coin flip action!! Played great for two+ very long days to get that far, and feel lucky and blessed to even be in contention for that prize on that stage today!

I'll be there again soon, no doubt in my mind!

Awesome run, nice job!

Thanks man, was a close call for sure. Had a blast and was fun keeping friends, family, and investors in the loop as it got to the 3rd day! So many people pulling for me only added to my confidence.

Gonna give it another shot at a bracelet this weekend with the Monster Stack, and really looking forward to being able to put my cash game learnings and knowledge to use with such a deep structure. That mixed in with my late game MTT knowledge could be a solid 1-2 punch to get something big done!! At the very least, making good decisions and staying on top of my mental game for the long hours these things take is always going to be a key for success, so I think I have set myself up to win (cash) a decent amount of the time!

A quick update on my cash volume for the month... It's so far been almost non existent unfortunately. Between the volume of MTTs and also making more than one Day 2 now it's just been about time and energy. I have snuck in a few hours here and there, but haven't even been able to play too much side game live action yet. I expect the 2nd half of the month to have much more availability for me to do so tho as my MTT schedule was pretty front loaded as far as big events go.

I set my monthly goal at just 60 hours this month for cash games and so far we are only at like 8 hours, so I'm looking to put in some long days later in the month to get to our goal still. Regardless of how the month plays out it is going to be a huge success already thanks to the MTT cashes, so I am not feeling too pressured for cash volume as I already knew the priority was to be involved heavily in the WSOP and side event mania as much as possible. I love the atmosphere and the setting and the high value prize pools in some of the small buy in stuff always remains to be pretty amazing!!

So we ended up getting in a pretty standard spot early on day 2 of the monster stack where I Raised/4b shoved my button to a big stack active SB 3b with my AQ. Obv he snapped it with the AK and we did not improve.

After the bust out there I was able to get over and register the early flight of the Planet Hollywood "Goliath" series $565 $500k gtd and we ended Day 1 with 116k coming back to 2k/4k blinds for Day 2 tomorrow. Had around 1200 runners and should pay close to or over $100k for first!

That makes 4 day 2 baggings in a row (Milly Maker, Planet Hollywood 200K, Monster Stack, and this 500K)the last week+, so we are on a pretty nice little run. Now to capitalize on it and make a run at this final table!!

Cash games still on hold... But not for long... A much needed MTT break is just around the bend...I think

Our big live final table for the summer is still waiting for us. Unfortunately we took a tough one on the chin in the big Goliath 500K. We got ITM and had a great table and was doing some good work. We chipped up a lot without showdown to become the table chip leader. Just when we were cruisin in the top 100, we opened from EP with AA and got 3b from the number 2 stack at the table. We took a minute or so, and 4b shipped and got the snap call we needed. He tabled dem Kings. When the K hit the window, and we did not rebink, we were left cripled, and soon to be all in and felted 2 hands later. Was a brutal one, but a spot we know all too well with my MTT history.

Already been back on the horse firing some small ones, and still have a full week+ of events to battle through, to make a run at playing the Main Event this year. If I can get another decent score for the package I sold, then I will be playing it mostly/all for the package, otherwise I will be selling off some more to go ahead and take my first shot in it. It is time!

In other news, we have slowly gotten in some cash volume and are about 30% done for my goal for June. Obviously that is well behind pace, but it will only take a few long sessions to put us close. I hopped around to a few rooms this weekend, and to my joy, I found an incredible game at Bally's of all places. I had 2 huuuuge whales sit on my right to start a new game. It was an incredible 3 hours. My immediate right was the biggest whale, who was running 100/100 vpip/pfr for the entire 3 hours, save one bathroom break he took. He was in for about $1200. Each and every pot he would win, he would blindly berate the table for not being good enough to play against him. Because I was closest to him, I took the brunt of his aimed verbal aggression. After I doubled through him once, ever single hand I folded for the next 30 minutes he would turn to me and say "What's the matter? Affraid to keep playing against me?" It was zomg loltacular and in a friendly smiling manner I would always joke back with him that I know I got really lucky the one time, and didn't expect to have that sort of luck again. To continue with the **** show, he was starting to appear a bit drunk to the dealers and the floor. He had most of, but not all his chips stacked. One lady dealer showed up and decided to take it upon herself to harass the guy to no end. She called her floor supervisor over even. Not a single player at the table had complained, for the obvious cash cow reason we all knew we were sitting on. This not only infuriated me that the dealer would do this, but then, the floor came over and sat directly behind me and the whale for a few hands to observe.

The funniest part, this guy was winning pots (not as much as he was losing obv) and tipping anywhere from $3-$10 every time! Not only was the dealer trying to give our payday the boot, SHE WAS HURTING HER OWN PAYDAY!! I was completely amazed at the stupidity and lack of foresight going on here. Anyway...Fast forward to a huuuuuge pot, where the whale does his signature tell maneuver on the river when he had a monster (surprised I was the only one to pick up on this, as he did it 4 different times and all 4 times he was nutted) of tanking forever, then just shoving. It was actually funny how he must have just tilted players into calling him. So he tables the stone nuts in this huge spot. The cocktail waitress was impatient and put his fresh Bud Light on the felt and walked away. Of course, he didn't know it was there and elbowed it right over and onto not only his cards, but all over all the chips the dealer was trying to stack and count. It was comical yet nearly catastrophic. The floor of course zoomed over as if he was connected to a foosball knob and just got yanked to the left.

"I'm pulling the plug on this now, you are done!"

Almost as quickly as he had said this, 3 of us at the table came to his immediate rescue. After we explained the spill was not a drunken one or his fault at all, the floor man now realized WE DID NOT WANT THIS GUY TO LEAVE. He obliged our request, apologized to the whale, and play continued. Just when I thought all hope was lost in how the dealer and floor was handling the situation, my faith was restored!

It was just a matter of time when he got some phone calls, and his night was then abruptly ended at his own doing when he bluff shoved T9o on a K8537 board and was snapped off by an AK who had just check/called him down. Needless to say, this is the sort of action that can be found in any room of course, but are not uncommon at all in the smaller rooms, especially on the weekend!

Cool story, eh, bros?

We were able to leave the game up 2+ buy ins, even after we had to pay premium prices preflop to set mine and speculate only to check fold on the flop. Although they were 'premium' prices, the implied odds were always there, especially because the table was all loosening up and playing poorly against him, which is also usually why those sorts of players can really turn a dead game into an incredible one! (Examples were calling $20 pre instead of the usual $10-12 in a 1/2 game).

Going to do my best to finish the month up strong on both cash game, and MTT grinding and volume. Let's see if we can't pull something big off before the WSOP leaves town!!

Been pretty busy the last few weeks and haven't taken the time to get in here, but will update my June shortly. There won't be much in terms of cash game results to share, but overall some pretty positive mental game stuff and a few other great things that made up a long and tiring, but fun and well worth the effort, month!

hey rossi its drew here. Just found this thread. Great read so far. Sort of a wakeup call for me to see how much i've been slacking compared to you in the mental game and study aspects of the grind.

I'm making a similar switch back to cashgames this month. Except i'm coming from sngs.

Awesome to see you've been doing solid so far in vegas, though not surprising considering all the work you've put into it.

I'm sure i will eventually see ya in game on wsop.com. I will text ya my sn since I know yours, only fair. And i'm sure you've already 4b bluffed me many times on bovada.


GL in the last throws of summer MTT time!

Oh and I have a new goal for you to hit that i'm sure would be useful for ya. Hook your total rewards acct to your wsop.com and make sure to earn at least 15k points online ($7500 rake) by end of year so you can get that diamond card and skip the long reg lines next wsop.

Actually you may need less than that if you also play at caesars casinos live as you can mix and match points live and online to get to diamond.

Also there is a $1k reload (20% rb) that can be activated by july 14th on wsop.com. And this promo starts on the 19th to aug 15th thats good for about another 10% rb. http://www.wsop.com/promotions/climb-july-2015/NV/

Anyways, i'll be curious to see what you get up to once wsop time is over. Don't stop poastin!

Hey Drew, thanks for stopping in and sharing that info for wsop.com. Look forward to grindin some with ya soon!

So I wanted to take a few minutes to catch the thread up to speed with how the month of June played out, and the WSOP grind in general.

First, we were unsuccessful in satty'n into the main event, and just decided there wasn't enough time to market the sale of enough action, so I begrudgingly skipped playing it, again. Rather unhappy with myself for 'poor planning' again this year on my part, and will not be making the same mistake again next year. Anyway, moving on from that, I am very happy with my play for the most part for the series. The one thing I would have done different/better is get involved in some more cash game action than I did. Part of the 'problem' with that tho, was that we made a lot of deepish runs in MTTs and the long days added up and the consecutive days/MTTs played just made it very difficult to get good cash sessions in. I was still able to get a small bit of volume in for the cash grind, so it wasn't a total abandon ship, but certainly I know I missed value by not getting more volume.

As for my MTT results, I played 19 total tourneys with about $10k total worth of buy ins, and finished with a 40% ROI for the run. At the very least, I was happy to turn in a successful and profitable package for my investors, even if we didn't get that big score we were searching for!

I know July is already half over, but with my MTT grind taking me right up to the main event, as well as attending a very full and fun 4 days with my backers and a bunch of cash game grinders for our annual "ImaWhale" meet up, I got a slow start to the month. I am taking off a few days for a mini break in the action to head to the beaches of San Diego, but will be back at it and in full stride by the weekend! Looking to attack the second half of July with a vengeance, get my volume back on track, and get this cash game party movin' onward and upward!!

July has been a nice return to cash game schedule for me. The long days, multiple days in a row, and mentally exhausting overall month+ of MTT grinding was fun because it had been a while since doing it, but I can honestly and happily say I am quite relieved and happy to be back to my super flexible and much more enjoyable schedule where my sessions can be just a few hours and show a nice ROI vs grinding 25 MTTs (investing God knows how many hours) just to try to show a +ROI. Granted, the big score is the pull into MTT land, which is why I will still mix them in, but the full time life of them is gladly in the rear view mirror!

Now I'm not going to get too much more into bashing MTT grinding here, because I myself took part of that way of life for several years. I am more just reporting that in my personal experience, the mental soul crushing rat race of high variance living has been replaced with a nice relaxing day at the beach of minimal variance and maximum enjoyment! Viva la cash games!

I have a pretty solid mix of online and live cash so far this month, and have experienced only one really rough session where I came close to any sort of stop loss needed, so that is good. I think the fact that having both variants (live and online) can be just what the doctor ordered to break up monotony and also help to curtail any bit of a downswing and help keep it from spiraling out of control. Of course, if your mental game is weak in general, it won't matter where you are losing. Your mind will carry it right over into the next place with you. That form of tilt is real. However, if we have the ability to wash the slate clean each time we start a session, there won't be any of that form of tilt following along. I think that a change of scenery and pace is great personally to help with just that.

Going from 4-8 tabling and making split second decisions over and over for a few hours (or longer) can get pretty mentally and even physically draining. Mixing in a nice one tabling experience where the action is slowed waaaaay down, where we can breathe in a bit of a social experience and perhaps enjoy some of the perks that come with that (comped meals from nice restaurants on breaks, people watching, and the overall laxxed mental break from making so many decisions in the course of just a few hours) can be very beneficial and a great change of pace. For me, after a few hours online, I can pop into a live game refreshed from a bit of a break and play in it like its my first hand of the day because it is so different than the button clicking monotony of sitting at my desk at home. Of course, vice versa holds just as powerfully true for me. I can grind out a 6-8 hour live session and show a slight loss or break even and be just as mentally drained as a 2 hour session online. So getting up from that table and calling it a day, knowing that I can decide if I want to play live again tomorrow I can, or I can just conveniently hop behind my computer for a session and find some great +EV games in the comfort of my own home is a wonderful thing.

Not really trying to turn this thought into an online vs live debate, but more or less just sharing my personal experience with how I can stay sharp in my mental game by utilizing the different forms of the game as sort of breaks. Not falling victim to the "day in day out" grind because the setting is always the same is so important to me, especially coming from my corporate career background that centered around working face to face with people. I enjoyed doing office/computer tasks as a change of pace, but by depriving myself from the person to person face to face social aspect of that job would have been detrimental to me. I view my poker business much the same. I can't quite decide the ratio of hours I want to have of each just yet, but I think it's ok to keep that a bit undefined for now. I'm still in my first year of this cash game odyssey and I know it will be an ever changing experience so I don't feel the need to structure it any more so than I already have. My goals set out in the beginning of this journey are a great guideline to keep me on track, but even those goals can be adjusted as I get more hours/days/months behind me.

At the end of the day, I just want to enjoy what I do. I want to do my work with a passion, and whatever I need to do to keep that fire alive is what is most important to me! Right now, that passion and fire is in poker. I hope to be able to do this still for a long time to come, but as with any business, it is always going to be important to evaluate and reevaluate what is working and keeping the business successful, and adapt and change as needed. Ok, time to end the philosophical and mental soap box rant on my pokering, and time to get back to...pokering!

nice post! cash games for sure less soul draining than mtt. idk how people can handle full time mtt life, but i guess it can be worth it if your hourly is a ton higher than what that person can achieve in cash games. do you think your live hourly is pretty comparable right now to your online hourly? I enjoy putting some live hours in but with the casino being an hour away from me, added expenses, lower hourly, and such few hands to work through the variance it's hard to justify it for my situation a lot of the time.

I think long term everything that factors into calculating hourly will always show online as being higher, especially given being able to play more hands at higher stakes than perhaps you can find on a given day live. I'm pretty sure this discussion has been had in our skype chat on many occasions with some real numbers shown, as well as just in general discussions and other threads in 2+2 many examples are cited as to the fact that online hourly is going to be greater. All the factors you mentioned about drive time, waiting to get in games, dealer changes, etc are going to make the volume of hands so much lower in live it just isn't possible to maintain the same type of hourly that can be found playing across multiple sites online.

I think this leads back into my previous post well when I say that for me, my poker goals do not center entirely around maximizing my hourly at all costs. What I mean by that is, my priority isn't simply to make the most money in the shortest amount of time. If those were my only intentions, I would stick to just online for sure! Understanding the value of enjoying what you do for a living and the face to face interactions, as well as the different forms of live "rake back" that hold value to me (comped meals, tier credits toward Diamond Level for CET properties, MTT freerolls, etc) are all a part of why I would choose to put in any time at all in live poker. Those things are certainly not going to hold more monetary value than an online winrate, but those intangibles and just the simple importance of those things to someone can help weigh the overall priority of "the business".

Long answer to a simple question of course, but figured it would be of some value to share my viewpoint on.

Gonna be playing at my old home Talking Stick Resort next month. Gonna fire two shots at the AZ State Poker championship! I've had moderate success during the weeks of this main event over the years, and I know the local player pool very well. In case anyone is interested in a small sweat, very reasonable 1%=$26...

Info here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh....php?t=1550134

Thanks for taking a look guys!

Just a quick yearly update for my volume goals... Through June 30th I had 500 hours as a goal, and despite June itself being an almost complete loss as far as cash game hours go, my planning ahead in March-May helped me to stay ahead of my yearly pace. I finished with 511 cash game hours played.

I have met or exceeded all of my goals in regards to personal HH review and coaching/sweat sessions. I'm adjusting a few of my monthly goals moving forward as a result of my revaluations upon a mid year review. I am going to go up to 25 hours/week (~110/month) from 20/week, 80/month. This will put me on pace to clear 1100 hours for the year easily and probably will push 1200. This of course only includes 'actual play time' and not all the additional hours spent on off the felt study and review. Once you add that back in, the aspect and comparison to a standard full time salaried position job becomes evident.

I am also going to stick with a 2 hours per week personal HH review. That comes in many forms for me, but in general it involves me looking at hands played on my own from HM2, or by reviewing and mentally replaying live hands. Also including another person, coach or peer, in some of those scenarios. That leads me to part two of my review and study goals. I am going to stay active in some group discussions and HH reviews when I can (they happen almost daily in my coaches chat, and formally 1x per week), and I will maintain 1 coaching or sweat session per month as well. This will include goal reviews and recaps of prior month results, as well as flash forward projections and evaluations to make sure I am pushing myself enough (but not too much in some instances) toward next steps for me. That might mean toward moving up in stakes, or simply adjusting time spent in certain aspects of where I am playing. In addition to all that, in order to stay sharp in my technical game, I will be sure to include sweat sessions of my play and formal database and HH reviews with my coaches during that monthly session as well.
My experience in the last nearly full year now with my current coaches has been extraordinary. They are extremely good in being persistent with me in sticking to our monthly processes, even in months when I am busy and not pursuing the session with them, they are always on top of it for me! This is a huge benefit to being in a stable and playing backed by one of the best out there.

People ask me why I still wish to give up profits for all my hard work, but I tell them aside from the standard "move up in stakes quicker with less risk, personal bankroll variance minimizing, and post Black Friday bankroll seizure risks, etc" that having the resources that this group provides to its players is invaluable to me as I continue to grow, adapt, and evolve as a professional poker player. So for all that, I'll conclude today's thought and post with the mini shout out and much deserved praise to Shane, Eric, Sean, and Dan of the ImaWhale group for all you guys do for your players! Thanks guys!

Great post, couldn't have said better!

Had one of my more mentally tougher sessions yesterday than I have had in a long time. I was mixing in some of the high value MTTs for the US grinders but kept 4 tables going for cash alongside most of my day. I dropped to just 3 tables at one point, when I had 3 MTTs going, so I made it a point to never have more than 6 tables going, in order to keep my decisions a bit easier and less of them 'overlapping' each other at any one time.

I was down close to my stop loss just a few hours into my session. I had planned on a long day, and so that made things a little frustrating mentally, but I injected some logic into the fact that it didn't matter how many hands of cash I played for any reason other than just me 'selfishly' trying to stockpile some early in the month volume. This of course is a disastrous way of thinking. There is no reason to put any sort of volume pressure on myself simply because I want to get the month off to a fast start. I constantly had to remind myself of the big picture. It's not about todays success. It's not about this months success. It IS about long term career success. Regardless of me getting 2 solid hours in today, or 8 hard fought C game hours, we still have the same end goal in mind.

To that end, I was able to settle my mind back down a bit, drop a table, and play solid and quality poker for the next few hours, as I continued to plug away at my MTTs. Pretty happy to say that I was able to grind my cash all the way back up to a break even day. More importantly, I did it with the correct mindset, and made good decisions all the way, rather than trying to 'force some action' or take on unnecessary high variance lines just to try to recoop from ONE DAY. Understanding that my results from one day are insignificant to my overall journey once again helped me to mentally stabilize myself, and pull the car back into the garage safely after my day of joyriding.

As for the MTTs...bahahaha...let's just say we are thankful we don't grind every Sunday, (or every day for that matter) with an MTT bink on our mind. #iGotMySoulBack

Let's go August, you are mine!

Great post.


Good recognition here. You picked up on a underlying goal.

Played another pretty up and down Sunday mixing in some MTTs alongside a solid long day of cash games. It was one of those days where everything seemed to happen in waves. We would win a bunch of pots in a row, then lose a bunch in a row. Those sorts of things really shouldn't be as noticeable to the brain if we are truly playing in the zone, staying mentally tough, and not concerning ourselves with immediate results. That of course is not always the case. I did a pretty good job of not really paying attention to it most of the day, but I must confess, as the day was winding down, I started to recognize the negative results. I was at a big final table of the Bovada 100k gtd (not so subtle brag?) and I had 2 cash games going as well. I lost a big flip to an agro fish, followed by getting coolered in an unavoidable spot with a reg with QQ to KK. Both pots going south on me happened almost simultaneous to busting the tourney with QQ<TT for a huuuge pot to get me back in contention. Of course, it was the end of a long day and I was stopping my session regardless, but the negative residual that I took away from the day stayed with me for several hours.

I decided to not post until today, although I think journaling this last night would have been a good idea too. I had a hard time falling asleep, and I was replaying hand after hand over in my head. I will certainly be looking at some hands in the next few days, because I feel like I probably made some mistakes along the way. Funny thing is, I was only a pot or 2 away from having a really big day. So it should not have tormented me the way it did, for as long as it did. It has been a while since I took negative feelings away and held on to them for more than a few minutes. I'm not sure if it was coming so close in my MTT (finished 9th sigh) or losing those last few big pots at the end of the day, or a combination of the two. Regardless it is something I am now addressing with myself to ensure I don't carry anything over from it into my next session.

I had a great week returning home to Scottsdale and Phoenix area last weekend to play in the annual Arizona State Poker Championship. I did not get very deep in the tourney (only played 2 bullets of the 3 day unlimited entry format), but as always, it was a solid reminder of why I love the room in Talking Stick. The play is beyond bad, and the action is generally great!

I didn't grind much NL cash (technically spread limit) but I did pretty good in the Omaha O8 game the two times I played it. I also enjoyed some down time with friends, so overall was a nice break from the usual grind.

I have since returned home and gotten right back to work online. I have played a few sessions since being back, and felt locked in pretty good yesterday especially. I am running into a fairly high negative variance month so far of finding the tops of peoples ranges in my big 3b and 4b pots, and I am always encouraged when this seems to be happening a lot and yet I am still near break even or up for the month. It is very easy to talk about variance in a bad light, but I always remind myself that it is variance itself that keeps the games alive! The battle isn't about being on the right side of variance more than the wrong side, but it is in fact about minimizing losses when we are going through it by making less mistakes than our opponents in the heat of battle! It is all the pots I can win by exploiting certain player types in between all the bigger pots where we may not always get the best of it. It is a marathon, not a sprint! Today's results are merely a milepost on a long distance journey, and the more I can remember and realize that, I will have all the logic I need to accomplish my desired results.

It is also nice to be able to turn an $11 ticket into 2 buyins by final tabling something as well! (Thinly veiled brag about finishing 5th in the $11 $8k gtd as well last night).

Going through a bit of a tough stretch my last few sessions. Taking the worst of it on a lot of spots, and making some mistakes in others, no doubt. Trying to keep the volume up as the month winds down, but feels like I might need to key in on my warm up and cool downs and not push my sessions so long for a bit until I have reviewed the last week or so of HH and can be sure I'm not getting too out of line in some spots.

I have been working a lot on 3b ranges and squeezing ranges and widening them vs certain player types and in certain positions specifically, and I need to make sure I am 'tuned in' to the reasonings for these decisions as well as that my lines don't contain too much unnecessary spew just to try to work on some 'creativity'. I also feel like I might be making some mistakes trying to play a little too unexploitably in spots that don't call for it.

Most of my losses have come on Bovada this month, while turning in a break even performance with my LIVE grind (albeit small volume sample of it for the month). It is easy to chalk it up to negative variance and all, but the important thing is for me to be sure I am minimizing those losses by staying aware of my mental state while making all my decisions and not adding to them. I feel like I have made a few too many 'heroic' button clicks this month, and it is definitely noticeable in some of my cool down self evaluations of my play. I have caught myself saying out loud at the end of a session things like "well that was a dumb decision in that hand" and "how could you possibly think bluffing THAT villain type was good in that situation" and things similar.

On the other hand, not all has been negative evaluations, so that is some silver lining. I actually ran a really good triple barrel semi bluff that turned into just a great river stone bluff spot, and it should have worked a very high percent of the time. It just so happened to not work in that particular spot vs that exact villain who seemed to just have some sort of 'brain aneurism' by the time the river came, and he made the super wide hero call and was correct. (It was live and I heard the guy say 3 or 4 times he just 'knew' he was beat, but he felt pot committed and decided he couldn't fold). I also have run a few very high double barrel semi bluffs that didn't work, but I would play the hand exactly the same way in those spots every time. So these are encouraging tidbits to note as I wind my way through this months paths through the forest.

I am really going to have to buckle down this last week of August if I don't wanna turn in my 2nd losing cash game month of the year! The actual result of the month is, however, not my immediate concern. All that is left to do now is reevaluate my latest stretch of HHs, and then make the best plays and decisions moving forward until the August clock strikes midnight. This quick journaled post will no doubt help keep me reminded and accountable to closing out the month playing some fresh and refocused poker. Time to do work!

After a much needed complete day off from both thinking and playing any poker, I returned to the grind today and tackled two shorter than usual sessions to really focus on zero mistake poker, and A game top top mental game! Of course, I was able to lock in two nice wins and enjoy a rather simple day of "no awkward spots" and "minimal negative variance" so naturally this is an easier post to write up.

A couple things to note, I would have pushed my live session longer, but I did a great job to table and seat select into a really good spot. And once that spot and that game dried up, I was on my way. Didn't stick around to match wits with the few decent spots at the table once the 2 fish and the whale bounced. This generally isn't an issue with me anyway, but knowing it is very easy to mentally feel "stuck" because I am still having a losing month, I let the game dictate the time of the session, rather than letting any mentally weak decisions creep in that would perhaps push us to grind through the dry table for a while to see if something better developed again, while in the meantime not getting anywhere near close to hourly expectations in general.

Let me be clear tho, that yeah there are times that making that decision isn't terrible. However, a big reason why I have chosen to grind in Vegas currently is based on the fact that it is so easy to walk next door, across the street, or even head back to my home office to grind a much better game. This is much better use of my time almost always. Granted, on weekends and during busy moments in any room, the games can get great fast, so having a handle on knowing when that can be the case is also important to consider before just deciding to 'jump ship' to a better game.

I am certainly not a 'hit n run' artist by any means, but I have also come to learn that wasting time in dry games where there is a limited upside potential in said game for that particular night or for an expected extended length of time is clearly the bigger mistake.

Totally agree with you on leaving dry games, no excuse to stay in a rock garden with so many alternative options in LV.

Many people wouldn't even put Vegas in their top 3-5 places to grind in this country. Probably the best thing it has going for it is game selection so it would really be foolish to not take full advantage of its arguably best quality of a location to live and play!

Small bump in the road this week has me a little behind volume to close out the month. Just spent the last 3 days without AC in our house! Pretty unfortunate scenario that we ended up needing to pack up the cat and stay somewhere finally as the nights were pretty brutal to try to sleep at the house.

Long story short, our unit blew up and it took that many days for the owner and property mgmt company to find the right company/price to replace it. It is finally fixed as of 5 pm last night, but now I am heading out of town for the weekend to visit mom before she moves from Tahoe to Alaska. It is an unplanned weekend away, and will eat into the volume goal a bit as well, so all in all this last week hasn't been the week I wanted or needed to close out as strong as I had hoped, but we did string together a few wins.

Looking forward to some good HH reviews next week to look back over the month and prepare for a solid effort of quality volume in September!