htf have i never seen this lol and WTF is that ingrowing toenail doing anywere there are humans with eyes

gl bro ur killing it keep it up <3

Oh snap. We back. tl;dr on the no updates yet, Got lazy during May, then missed the window to do a monthly recap of May, so I decided "yolo just update for the last 2 months"

So without further ado, let's begin.

***** May and June Update *****

It's been a wild couple months. Lots of ups, a fair amount of downs, but overall really good. We'll start with some giraffes of May/June:

May:


June (so far):


April to Today:


I haven't really replicated the same results as April, but that's ok. SCOOP went pretty poopy. Just didn't do well. We sold a decent amount of it, so we didn't eat too hard on the losses. We got out of the downswing at least which is hype.

June has been relatively tame. No major binks but we're running a net positive, so that's cool. Here's my list of top15 binks the past two months as well:


As you can see, the bulk come from the LateNight/Pacific Swordfish. They definitely have been my bread and butter during my schedule. Hilariously my top score is from WPN, considering I haven't binked off **** on there until that one. It's also not in there, but I'm up ~4500USD on GGPoker (the GGNetwork). I've been crushing the Night Schedule there. They used to have massive overlays too until they fixed them recently. Definitely some good $ to be made.


Growth and learning wise, I made what I think is an incredible decision and joined Team651. I'm incredibly happy so far. Love the crew and my fellow stablemates. It's been a great learning environment and I'm growing more and more confident daily.

I've also begun taking the RaiseYourEdge! Tournament Master Class by Bencb789. Considering how GOAT of a player he is, the price he charges is really quite a steal. There is so much content and the discord itself gives great insight. I'm taking it slow so I really get maximum value from it. He has a great way of teaching, taking it step by step and showing you how to apply things in real time. I strongly recommend the purchase to anyone on the fence about it, and have no problem fielding more questions if asked.

With poker, there has also been my streaming. I got the greatest Skype message in late May from Farhan, the Twitch Poker admin.



Proud to say I finally got the sub button and am partnered with twitch. It's great to see my time investment start to pay off. I've put an very large amount of hours into twitching and streaming, so generating a revenue after so long feels great. Albeit it's tiny so far, I fully expect to grow to Lex Veldhuis/Jaime Staples/Tonka numbers in the future. I've always had a grassroots approach to this. I never had the stardom/first-in/highstakes poker in's that make things easy. I've just put in the hours and let my personality shine. Looking forward to July's growth.

Here's a solid highlight from this week. I went ahead and played $25/$50 PLO. How'd it go? We'll watch:



If embedded still isn't working, links here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-lWAtwMB4

I've also made some considerable IRL changes. After some deliberation, I opted to move out of the ol' roommates place (My parents). I moved in with one of my best friends since Grade 8, and his GF (I mean she's my friend too, but if I say I moved in with two friends it doesn't fully explain the situation. I dunno. Do I say I moved in with two friends who are a couple perhaps? We're getting offtopic). Just felt like a necessary life change. I always planned on moving out and it just being temporary after I returned from Korea, but I was procrastinating on it due to comfort.

I'm debating a slight grind change as well. Currently my schedule is:

7:30-8:00pm EST - Start Playing, with 8-12 tables.
10:00PM EST - Slow registration, try to get tables down to 6.
11:00PM EST - Start streaming with 6 tables.
11:00PM - 5-6AM - Stream the rest of my grind.

What I'm debating is either sliding the start time a few hours earlier or a few hours later. TBH the Midnight to 1:30am timeslot is pretty try for MTTs. I Wouldn't like starting earlier because of competition stream wise. It's part of the reason I chose my current grind-time. But if I move a few hours later, I miss a lot of good stuff that starts ~7-8pm. Ideally if I started later, I could potentially start at ~1am and register until 7/8am. It could be better for stream quality too. Where I'm at how has been a good blend of stream quality and +EV MTT quality. input is appreciated here.

Anyways, I feel like I'm rambling on. Gonna cut 'er here. Hopefully I update more than once a month, we'll see. Here's some QTPI's:










You're such a fukboi. How you never see dis ish You're lucky you're cute.

Quick/Short Update:

I'm off to Vegas! Decided to yolo it and booked my flight Monday. I'll be there from tonight until the 17th. I'm pretty excited. First time to Vegas, and first WSOP. As a grinder whose rose through the ranks, this has always been a dream of mine.

I'll be firing the $1600 at PH and the $1111 1drop as my main tournaments. I'll also be there to hang out with friends/rail their main events/meet other twitchers.

Not much else to add since I'm off to my flight shortly. 1tiem binked mtt update for next one.

glgl brother get them shipped

I don't even know where to begin. Vegas itself was an incredible experience. I had the pleasure of a little run good, a couple day 2 sweats, seeing some of my friends have success, meeting and playing with some legends, and making an absolute fool of myself.

I guess we can start with WHY I went to Vegas. It was incredibly sudden. I originally had no intentions on heading to Vegas. I had no desire to play live poker, and was content with continuing my online career throughout the end of the WSOP Summer. It started with Christaborg winning a seat to the main event through Tonka's stream promotion. Chris has been one of my boys for the better part of the last 2 years. Our group of friends had begun discussions for heading to Vegas to sweat and hang out. I gave it some thought, but wasn't fully committed to the idea. Then Daniel Negreanu ran his twitter promotion to stake 1 person into the main event. It became clear early on that another one of my friends, Highhands89 was a clear-cut favorite to win the promotion. With two friends suddenly winning main event seats, flights and hotel accommodations began getting booked within our group of friends. I started to give Vegas a legitimate thought. With the flight there being paid for with Aeroplan points, Spending $0 on lodging, and having no issues with action, things changed from "Why" to "Why Not".

So On the Monday, Decided I'd make my first trek to Vegas. The flights were booked and I planned on a Saturday to Sunday night 8 day adventure. The main plan was to play the $1650 Grand Finale @ Planet Hollywood and the $1111 Little One for 1Drop. Some small practice tournaments were on the agenda as well.

The trek there was a breeze. No issues flight wise. I can't forget the feeling when I first walked out of the airport in Vegas, that "holy **** why is it so ****ing hot" feeling. I immediate jump into a cab and get my first "Always take an Uber" experience. The first night I spent at Ryan "Protential" LaPlante's house. I'd like to preface with a very serious thank you for his and his Fiancé Chris' Hospitality. They took great care of me and I had wonderful stay. So when I arrived, it was nearly the completion of a BBQ/games night party at his place. I introduced myself and partook in what I could before it wrapped up.

Sunday I wake up relatively early. I’m eager to fire my first live tournament in Vegas, the $400 1 Day at the Wynn. I’m ready to go with my standard jeans/hoodie with the addition of my GGPoker patch. As Chris drives me, I’m just in awe as I look through the window and see all the iconic hotel/casinos. We pull into the Wynn and I get my first taste of Vegas. My lord there are so many beautiful women at the Wynn. Poker wise, things went pretty well early on. First few breaks roll by and I’m at 3x start stacks relatively early. As we approach end of late registration, I’m moved tables. I get moved next to this beaut:



The picture is only half the story. As I’m taking it and captioning it for snapchat, I get dealt AKo UTG+1. UTG was a player with me my last table who seemed shove happy. He open shoves 16bb. I minclick to 33bb to isolate. Christaborg folds, and MP thinks for a bit a reshoves for about 70 bigs. I sigh call, and I’m up against AQo (UTG) and QQ (MP). Flops great, q63 rainbow. Turn pairs the board, improving my hand to 1 pair, and the ace on the river gives the ultimate needle. I’m reduced to 3bb, get dealt 83o, and face 4 shoves. Sure why not I call. I’m ****ing live vs like AJ, J7, and KQ. Pretty sure I even had a live suit. Nah let’s just brick it. Showers.

So I’m now faced with a decision. Fire another MTT or retire for the day. It’s 3:50 and late registration for the $235 Daily Deepstack at the Rio ends at 4:20. So I bolt to the nearest cab and tell him to step on it. I show up, and run inside the Rio. No time to appreciate my first visit to the poker area, I’ve got a tournament to register! Insert World Series of Lines. I wait approximately 30 minutes in the line, missing late registration. I say **** it I’ll play a $575 satty to the main. As I get close to the registration, I notice people have player’s cards. I innocently ask people in line “Hey do I gotta have one of those to register?” I receive news I didn’t want to hear. I bow my head in shame as I walk out of the line, and head to the front desk for a player’s card. Tilted beyond belief, I opt to quit poker for the day. Ryan invited me to Thai for dinner, so I chill out and do that. Ready to accept my fate and head back to Ryan’s for the night, Christaborg texts me and asks if I want to fire some 1/3 at the Wynn and get some drinks with him and Kevin Martin. My ears perk up. That should hype. I get dropped off and sit immediately.

Now, I need to take an aside here to explain some details. Anyone who’s been around my stream knows the significance of this moment. Personally, I’ve never met Kmart. We only recently began talking to each other through some gracious twitch hosts and chat interactions. However, a strong meme derived from my stream involving a particular hand combination and Kevin’s experience winning Big Brother Canada.

So the game kicks off with me and Christaborg splashin around having fun. I’m in for ~460 because I had $400 in chips and won $60 from blackjack earlier. Kevin shows up and we commence drinking. Before I go into the 3 HH’s worth discussing, I’ll talk about the highlight story. So we made a friend at the table, Alan. Great guy and had lots of lovely banter. Eventually the conversation steers towards KevJobs and what those are. So I give a full explanation, from start to finish. Eventually, everyone kept showing their KevJobs and trying their hardest to win pots with them. It got near the point where we almost threw bounties on them. We discussed between $20 bonuses from each player to picking people to take shots. Unfortunately, it fizzled as Day 1C of the main was the next day, so getting too blitzed would have been a bad idea. Here’s some significant HH’s.
We’ll start with Hero in the Button. Kevin straddles in the 1 seat, and it’s folded to me. I open Q7o to $21. Folds to Kevin, who obliges and defends. Flop is 10 6 3 rainbow. Kevin checks, and I cbet 16. He raises to 42. At this point, it’s ~550 effective. As I’m 5 Amaretto sours in, I decide to call and get “creative”. Turn is an 8 bringing a club draw. Great I have a gutterball too. Kevin Barrels $75, and I make the standard call. Rivers an offsuit ace. He leads $125 and I tank for a bit. I really wanted to win this pot for some reason, so I continue my excellent decision making and overshove for like 350 more. I’m ready for some painful tanking. Instead, Kevin proceeds to snap and table 97 for the turned nuts. I couldn’t have sobered up more than in that moment when I realized how hard I just punted. I proceed to LOL pretty hard at the table, and boast about my punt as I reload.

We’ll skip forward to about 8 Amaretto Sours in, and Hero’s rebuilt his stack a little. We’re back to about $600 from $400. Our friend Alan Raises EP to $15. A Israeli Recreational (I only say Israeli because he told me, gotta give him some sort of descriptive) calls in CO, and I smoooooth call on Button with KQo. Blinds fold and we see a flop. It comes QQ2. Checks to me and I check. Turns a King. Alan checks, and the Israeli Rec snap bets $40. I’m excited. I call, and Alan tank folds. River is a 4. Israeli bets $40 again, and I think ~20 seconds before raising to $200. He hits the tank and says “oh I bet that 4 helped you.” He calls and tables QJ. EZPZ.

The final notable hand occurs at the end of the session. I’m now ~11 Amaretto sours in plus a couple shots and we’ve got maybe 15 minutes before Kevin, Chris and I intend on sitting up. I open the Button into Kevins Straddle again to $21 with 99, and he 3bet to about $65. I call and we see a flop. At this point I’m around 1k deep, he’s got about 450 after some lost pots. Flop is AA9. Bingo. He leads for $60, and I call. Turns a 10. He checks, and I think this is a great card for me to check behind. Honestly I think he barrels a lot of rivers, I disguise my hand, and the only bad ones are broadways. I only felt like I’m behind some A10, but I don’t think he 3bets those. Rivers a 6. He leads $225 and I think for a bit. I didn’t know how much he had behind, but it ended up being like 100ish. I make a nitty as hell flat, and he tables a4s. Ship the manies. Here’s the chip porn picture:



Anyways, we cash out and I booked a $450 profit while getting smashed. A couple glorious pictures came from the session:



My new friend Alan and Kevin Gettin their own selfie in. You take it with my phone, you best believe I post it on the internet:




The rest of the night included a trip to the rio, a greasy spoon diner, and an uber home. I get back at around 4am and I set my alarm for 9:55AM. Naturally, I wake up at 12:30pm. Day1 of the $1650 PH started at 12pm, so I’m already off to a great start. I rush getting ready and pack up all my stuff as I’m spending the night at the Vdara in Christaborgs room. I eventually show up, but I missed all the pre-ante levels. I hardly remember any significant HHs. For the most part, I was always the best player at the table. Eventually, a young European lad sat beside me, and I had suspicious. Upon probing investigative questions, I discover he’s a Lithuanian 400/600NL Reg. Well naturally I think that he’ll be strong overall. We never really battled, but we had fun chatting. I bagged a healthy 126k from 20k with relative easy. Day 1 ended earlier than normal because Day1a only had 40 entrants and had to end early due to only 6 players remaining. I was pretty excited as this was my biggest buyin tournament ever. Things were looking strong.

After bagging and tagging, I immediately grab my stuff and drop everything off at the Vdara. My initial impression was “daymmm”. It’s a pretty dec hotel. I had a friend who was on a FT at the Aria, so I walked over to the casino to check it out. Honestly, the Aria feels like the nicest poker room in the strip. What I loved most about it was how I could just look at the back of the room and see all the endbosses and poker personalities I’ve seen on TV and on Youtube just battling it out. While starstruck, Ryan Fees walked by and I humbly introduced myself. He’s a great guy and very approachable. We had a fairly long conversation, where he shared some knowledge and gave me some wonderful tips to improve my streaming/content career. After a lengthy convo, Ryan said his goodbyes and it was back to sweating my friend. There were 8 ppl left and they were talking ICM chops. My friends response to that was “Nah. Gambool!” He proceeds to finish 8th a few moments later and we leave for the Rio.
Monday night until Tuesday night was essentially hangout/chill-out time. The crew that I’ve been spent a vast amount of hours in skype chats with prowled the strip, heading to a mixture of casinos. It eventually capped off with all of us jumping into a roodypoo $150 daily at the Ceasars. Now I don’t want to say I initially punted, but I definitely didn’t play my best. After a quick punt, I said my goodbyes and opted to get some sleep as I had a big day2 ahead of me.



As you can see from the picture above, I stack chips like a true professional and am quite the handsome lad. Those chips didn’t last long. First hand I play, I open 8s from button to 4600 at 1k/2k blinds. Both blinds call. Flop comes k64xcc. Blinds check, I cbet 35%. SB folds and BB check raises to like 18000. I’m confused because I have no idea what value check raises aside from like k6/64/k4 and sets. Felt like considering it’s live he probably has more draws than anything. I call intending to call on brick turns. Turns a Q, and he snap shoves for ~44k. Again, I’m confused and put on my hero cape. He proceeds to roll over k7o and a brick hits the river. I feel like a ****** for my play, as I’ve blasted off half my stack and the day just started.

The rest of the tourney got pretty boring. Until I cashed, I played virtually no hands and did nothing. I lingered around the 10-20BB mark the entire way through. I even got called out for tanking every hand before the money bubble. Well it worked because I did eventually cash. Here’s one of the weirder HH’s of the tournament. I open CO with A10o. BB defends. We’re around 20BB effective. Flop comes AK6 rainbow. He checks, and I opt for a check. Normally, Cbet yes. But I figured it’s a 2 streets of value hand, and I don’t think I’m going to allow myself to get exploited long term, since I don’t intend to do this everytime, just this time. Turns an 8, keeping it rainbow. He proceeds to lead ~50% pot. I call. Rivers a 6 pairing the board. He shoves after 10-15 seconds of thinking. I’m sooooooo high up in my range here I think there is no way I can fold. I rep way weaker. But at the same time, what the **** is he shoving here. I don’t think too much longer before I call.



I proceeded to fold some more until the final 2 hands. I shove over an EP open with AKo with 8bb and double through KJs. Then in MP2, with the blinds going up in 10 seconds from 12kbb to 16kbb, I opt to shove 77 for ~18bb. Folds to BB who thinks for 20 seconds. I’m thinking “ok don’t have 8s or 9s.” He calls and doesn’t have 8s or 9s. He has jacks. Brick runout and it’s GG 40th place. It’s always disappointing to bust, but I was relatively confident I played well. It did take the wind out of me for the day though. I get my manies and it’s on to the next one. Upon hitting the showers I head over to the Bellagio (I think?) and then walk all the way over to the Wynn because my girl Melissa was ITM of the 1day Wynn $550. The squad and I were excellent rail support, as we screamed “LADDERS” and “PAYJUMPS” everytime someone got KO’d. Unfortunately, I had Day1 of the 1drop the next day and Christaborg had Day3 of the main, so we jetted off to bed.

I wake up with the news I was hoping for, Melissa up and shipped the wynn for $36k. EZPZ. Thursday was a big day for me. I was firing my first ever WSOP event. The little one for one drop. A ****show of an event due to re-entries, but I didn’t care. I was just along for the grind. I pull up to my table and I’m the first one there. The next one who pulls up to my table was a familiar face….



I couldn’t believe it. This was my troll dreams becoming real. Will ****ing Kassouf. I absolutely enjoyed the banter. Throughout early Day1 people were giving him lots of love and hate. Was a delight watching him handle his “haters” as you could tell some people had waited all year to tell him “He’s annoying.” The table got worse though. It was essentially all recs/bad regs until Sorel Mizzi walks up and left sits me. I’m now disappointed this isn’t being streamed, because this would easily be a streamed feature table given the starpower we had. We also had Alan Shulman (sp?), the lady who won the WSOP Seniors event in 2012. I knew this because he wore her bracelet at the table. I got off to a slow start until I doubled up through Sorel AA>AK and proceed to pick up heat. Will eventually blasted off, and it got relatively quiet. That was until this legend sat:




What the **** is going on. This is just a little 1k buyin event. This is my first WSOP. Couldn’t believe the man himself Phil Hellmuth was at my table. It was an honor to share the table with him. Honestly, I felt like he was a nice guy. You ****ing know I got needles in though. When he was talking to Shulman, he asked her if her husband had his number, saying how he had it changed. I go “Oh Phil was that because of the one time you showed it on stream?” He says “Yah that was quite the disaster.” I respond with “But Phil that wasn’t even the worst thing you showed that day!” with the biggest **** eating grin on my face. He looks at me with the I know exactly what you’re talking about face and goes “No Comment.” I proceed to rofl, and say “Look Phil, I’m the only internet kid here, no one else gets it. You’re ok.” As he proceeds to keep saying “No comment” with a smile. I was glad that he was able to be lighthearted and joking about the incident.
(For those that don’t know, Philly showed his wifes vag on stream)
Anyways, I ran up a decent stack to about 36k, when I get dealt AKo. I open hijack to 1400 at 300/600. The SB 3bets to 4200, and Phil shoves in BB with 8200. Holy **** this is my shot to KO Phil Hellmuth. I reshove for 36k, and SB has ~30-33k. He tank folds, and we’re off to the races. Phil tables QQ. Unfortunately, it’s a brick runout and I double him up. Man though I woulda been hyped. We play a few more levels, Sorel busts, and our table breaks.

The only meaningful HH to share from the next table was when I had KK MP. UTG was a reg who opens to ~2400. I 3bet to 7k, and he calls. It’s ~44k effective. Flop comes J76ssx. I cbet 6k, and he checkraises to 18k. With about 37k total, I 3bet shove and he sighcalls q10ss. This is the biggest butthole clench of my WSOP career. Turn is an offsuit 8 giving him a gutterball, but river was a Q and we hold the baby and double to about 95k. I let out a “let’s flippin go” roar and a few “wooo’s” because you know I’ve been here before, I should act like it. Things stayed rather uneventful from that point aside from excellent table banter that I can’t remember. The guy on my direct left was hilarious and a delight to hang out with. I proceed to bag 106k, nearly solidifying my first ever WSOP cash. Day2 here I come.

I return to the Vdara, and Christaborg is fast asleep as he unfortunately busted Day3 of the main without making the manies. I jump right to bed as tomorrow was a big day. Day 2 of a ****ing WSOP event. We wake up and pack up all our stuff. We were checking out of the hotel and Chris was heading home Friday. We meet up with the squad at an omelet house as I get myself a hearty breakfast for the day. We say our goodbyes to Chris, and we head off to the Rio. We start heading over to see how Highhands is doing, but we get the bad news that he busted early Day4. It’s still impressive that he landed the cash, and we get a celebratory photo:

It was gametime though for me. Everyone was off to hangout/chill and it was day2 1drop for me. I show up and wait eagerly outside the rail. My table draw was pretty good. Bunch of recs and one strong reg far from me on the table. I effectively did nothing until the bubble popped. We hit first break and I chipped up from 106k to 126k. We also cashed during the first 2 hours, solidifying my 100% Cash rate at the WSOP. Take that Phil. The table broke and I proceed to the next table. I got off to a quick start, doubling up two shortstacks losing two flips. However, we get 67o in the BB, and it’s folded to the SB. He 2.5x’s, to like 6200, and I defend. It’s ~90k effective. Flop comes 985 rainbow. **** I play good. He checks and I stab for 5k. He calls. Turns an Ace bringing a club draw. He checks and I get the nut hand to “rep bluffs” so I continue for 15k. He calls. Rivers a brick 4 and he checks a third time. I take maybe 25-30 seconds, and bet 32k. He had probably 42k total. He tanks for a long ass time, then calls. I flip over my well-played hand, and receive the pot. I proceed to chip up even more, and I hit 278k by the next break.

The table got fun over the next few hours. I successfully got the table to talk about dicks for about 30-40 minutes. Every way possible, I insert a dick comment. Then I get Jacks in the CO. I’ve got 199k at this point and it’s 4kbb. I open to 9k. folds to the Big Dick chip stack in the big blind. He was one of those recs who just won big hands. Sooo many chips in his stack, but I guess I had him covered slightly. He 3bets to 42k. I’m confused because that’s a massive ****ing 3bet. Flatting seems bad, folding seems dumb, so I just 4bet shove for 199k total. He hits the tank for a long ass time. Now keep in mind he was quiet and didn’t make any jokes throughout the table. He then goes “Man that was a dick move” and the entire table bursts out in laughter. It took me a few seconds to register, and I break my poker face and start laughing. Absolutely well played sir. I put my poker face back on, and he proceeds to tank further. He made comments like “Man if you just have AK here” and scoffs. At this point I’m thinking he has 10s or queens. I block Jacks or I’d assume that. He shows one queen and folds. It made me think it had to be either a Hollywood tank or he folded queens. Did I bluff with JJ? Who knows. I rake in the pot and earn my first 25k chip of the tournament. That was cool. The dick jokes subside, and sadly the table breaks. I get moved to the worst table of my tournament.

I immediately make my presence felt as I bring up the fact that I just talked about dicks with my table for 40 minutes. I get the table laughing, but I notice a player who just looks like he’s an online professional. I just got that vibe. Then I found out he was Russian and I knew he was a professional. We end up clashing with a fun hand a few moments later. I open K10o in MP2, folds to Russian in SB who calls, and BB calls. Flop comes AJ8 rainbow. Checks to me and I cbet about 15k. Blinds were 2.5k/5k I think at this point. Russian calls, BB folds. Turns a brick 6. He checks and I bet around 35k. He calls sorta quickly. Like the kind of quickly where you don’t think it’s that strong. Rivers a 9. I brick out, but I got a blocker to the nuts, and king high, so I bet 45k. TBH I think I shoulda sized up to like 60-70% pot instead of the 35-40% I picked. He tanks, then shoves putting me all in. Here’s where I deviate. I hit the Hollywood tank. I make it seem like it’s the toughest fold ever. I even called the clock on myself after 2 minutes. The table protests saying “No why don’t it’s ok.” No I need the floor to kill my hand so I look cool shut up. Floor kills my hand, and the Russian shows 108 for the check shove bluff. The entire table gasps. I sit there giggling. I knew he was on the weaker end range wise, so I was sorta happy with my triple barrel. I proceed to call him Trueteller and keep pestering him for what limits he plays/what his screenname was. He starts to smile and joke back which made me happy. Eventually, the table breaks and I find out it’s Roma-Tilt. ****ing knew it. God I’m such a live pro with these ****ing reads.

And without us knowing it, we get moved to our final table of our WSOP career. It’s a lively one. We’ve got the dude who won the 25k PLO highroller this year, two young females, a gentleman wearing a RIU hoodie, A greek fello with the most complicated full name I decide to just call Anthony, and a former principal who swears I act just like his son. It was probably some of the best banter I’ve ever had. The 25k PLO winner was the stereotypical Italian American type, so he had some good jokes, primarily at my expense. Didn’t take long for the table to find out I was Canadian (probably because I gave a whole speech about GGPoker). 2 to my left, a lovely lady by the name of Emily, asks if I was interested in a green card wife. Now call me old fashioned, but I’m not one to rush things. I ask the table if you can even get married in this Las Vegas city. To my surprise, there were indeed nearby wedding chapels who did these sorts of things! The table talk changed to us planning our wedding. She was going to wear a traditional H&M dress, I of course dawning a hoodie and sunglasses so people could continue to not get reads on me. The post-wedding celebration would have been at Applebees were we could gorge on half-price appies. We were getting married after all, gotta maintain some sort of fiscal responsibility. We needed to build pillars for this successful relationship.
With talking with my new wife, banter at the table, and a familiar face in Matt Affleck joining the table, it was a great atmosphere. Here are some wonderful PokerNews articles that arouse from the table:
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop...ips.179584.htm
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop...ips.179588.htm
Unfortunately, all good things come to an end eventually. With 30 minutes remaining in day2, I was sitting at 180k. I open to 23k EP with AKo, and my wife calls in MP. She had about 130k to start the hand. Everyone else folds and we see a flop. It comes 973 rainbow. I opt to check given the low SPR. TBH I probably should have still cbet. My beautiful bride checks behind. Turn is a King. Bink. I check to induce, since I knew my lovely wife couldn’t resist stabbing. He bets 30k with about 90k left. Now I’m facing with an awkward spot because I’m a moron and I checked to streets. Xc’ing seems speculative because I miss value on rivers if she checks behind. Shoving seems ok since she’s already pretty short and near pot committed. I opt to go for the jugular vs my BAE and shove. She literally couldn’t have snapped any quicker and tables 77 for the flopped set. I’m left with 43k, as my successful chipdump to my wife worked. At least it stayed in the family.
My tournament ended the next hand, as I shove my 4.3BB with AJo UTG+1. Folds to Matt Affleck on the button, who an incredible 26bb effective iso shove with a4s that gets through. He flops a FD and binks the Flush on the turn and my WSOP is over. I needle him saying “OMG you Duhamel’d me” and start to say my goodbyes. The dream was indeed dead.



It was bittersweet walking to the cashier. It was one hell of a performance, and I was pretty proud of how I played all the poker. I walked away with a profitable summer, one a lot of people wish they did. I made a ton of new friends, got to hang out with wonderful people, and battled with legends. I’m incredibly grateful for the experience, and feel better for it. I think it made me more motivated and hungry for success. I think it also made me want to become a better person in my daily life as well as in my work life.

Saturday and Sunday were more chill days if anything. It was a lot of hanging out and saying good byes. I got to play some 9/18 mixed games where I swear half the games were made up. I got to play with my boy Jimmy who I’d yet to have met, as well as my new friend Kevin who I met at Ryan’s place and played with in the 1drop. I also met someone who I wasn’t prepared to see during my WSOP:

****ing Nick Diaz. 209 STOCKTON WHAT WHAT.

Anyways, I think I need to wrap this puppy up. It’s getting extensive, and it’s already taken me several days just to write it. I definitely skimmed parts due to the length of it. I didn’t forget things, I just wasn’t able to get it all down <3. No threadsaver for this one. Plenty of lovely photo’s to cover for it.

Disclaimer: to lazy to spell check and re-read. ENJOY AUTHENTICITY.

forgot to add this at end. FML

this thread is inspiring i am also on my journey grinding from micros in the next year i have the goal to move to seoul

Great read Patrick, wishing you the best over the coming months.

Hey look there I am

Pat you sick ****, great TR!

July Recap

Welp, I had my best month ever. Here's my sharkscope of my online results:



Decent results for the month. I had a ton of close calls for massive scores. Including:

5th 33BB
3rd Big 27
Two 5th 44BB's
2nd Swordfish

It was a consistent result month, with no major bink online. It could have easily been a 10k-15k+ month if I closed a few of these birds. Oh well, such is life.

On GGPoker I ended up ~5500 on the month. Absolutely crushed it. This number is definitely going to shock people especially when I play offpeak, and play tournaments with GTD's no bigger than 1500 or 2000. Majority are 600-1200. I'm definitely the best reg during offpeak hours, which isn't saying much. There are like 3-4 winnings regs that fire at my timeslot, tops.

with a +3950 Vegas trip, We had a ~13,000 Month. This is the first I've actually calculated it, so that sounds pretty neat. Considering I literally hit 50% of my monetary goal for the year July, I think We've made up for January-March.

I averaged 18evBB as well for the month of July. If I repeat, I'm going to move up and play the higher stakes stuff for the offpeak hours. The plan is firing the 82BB/Big 82 on stars, $55s on 888, and the $44-66s on ACR. Aside from that, there isn't much else higher stakes I wanna mix in. I have no interest in the late night turbos on stars or anything else that runs at night. It's just a 40%+ reg ****show for turbos 16.50+. I'll mix in bigger Hots maybe, but otherwise I don't really care. After 4 months of firing this schedule, I've become pretty confident on my game selection.

Lifewise, I'm planning a move to downtown Toronto. The plan is to move in October/perhaps early November. ATM it's just me and my boy Rudi, but odds are 1-2 more people are going to be moving in with us too. By then it'll near my 1 year mark for playing poker professionally. We're 7 months down, and it's feeling pretty good. I think the move will further legitimize things for myself and family members that this is a real thing I'm pursuing, and the stream/poker dream is apparently viable.

Anyways, August no goals. Just going to try and play and stream every day. I'm heading to Montreal for a week as well. Gonna play some roodypoo live poker + hopefully hit that BBJ that's running atm at the playground.

GLGL brotha. If you do move to Seoul, you'll love it.

ty bbecakes.

THERE U WERE

Ey SCOOP Champ tyty

Threadsaver:

Sup Pat!

Go figure, i win something and it becomes a "weekly update"

We had a good start to the week:





Final moments:
https://clips.twitch.tv/VainEnticingEndiveOptimizePrime

How it felt to win:


We won the $44 Bounty Builder yet again. 2nd time winning it since April. FeelsGoodMan. Earlier in the week, as well as my hyper punt on the big 16.50 2 days prior. We had a lot of notable FT's the past week but no closes, and I was worried about mental blocks.

We're up ~2k on GGPoker, so it's been a roughly +6k week. Sharkscope has begun tracking GGNetwork results, but unfortunately they dont record Bounty Hunter Bounties yet, so my graphs off. It's hilarious looking at the "Team Pro's" graphs. Some of them are wonderful for the economy and I'm glad they play. They dump thousands into the prizepool, and they remain happy because people pay their absurd 1.3+ markup in client when they wouldnt even be buys at .9 markup.


Anyways, lifes good. I have Montreal in a week and a half. I think we finally booked our stuff. I'm starting to branch out into other social medias. I'm beginning to see the value in a "Social Media Manager" and **** I'd probably hire some Eastern European who I can pay cheap wages in the near future.

Anyways, check out my youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz...z_w8XK6sfyWsJQ

and here's my latest highlight, the $50 Daily Red on GGPoker. Shared the FT with BDDK, which was cool. He's one of the few pros I admire/respect on the site. OFC he's a legend.




Hey bbeface

Thread Saver:

Hi man

Congratz on your results. It is going very well for you. I was thinking about giving a try at GGPoker. When you say that you play offpeak, is it at nights in Canada? Or what is your playing hours at Canadian time?

Keep going with the hard work!!

Grats on the score!

Subbed

Side note: It's super weird/random that you live with my GF's sister

More gratz to 2nd place for getting there without ever taking a bounty! Madness

(Jks gratz Pat! )

in

what do you miss most about Korea?

NEW

HIGH

SCORE



We now have a new personal best. We also got 3rd in the Big $27 and $44 BB at the same time. We have 3 major FT's at the same god damn time lol. WAL.


I had my first 10k+ month, then my first 10k+ week, now I've had my first 10k+ day. Feels f*cking good man. I'll have a Montreal trip report + August Update shortly. Cliffs of Montreal though:

Bricked, Misclicked, Friend ships 84k, partied.

Anyways, short brag update.






tyty. GGPoker is awesome man. Absolutely recommend it to anyone. Such a fun site. Yeah offpeak means low traffic hours, which is the late night/AM Canada time.

<3 tyty

Finally, gosh.

It is quite the coincidence. I am forever grateful for her cooking/baking. My weight/health might not be as happy.

TYTY SCOOP champ Yeah honestly it's pretty impressive to make it that deep in a bounty tourney with no bountys. Thankfully for him it was 50% bounties and not more.

The convenience. I loved how everything was right there for you. I miss the atmosphere. I was always in awe everytime I stepped outside. I miss my students. Even the sh*theads. I fully intend on returning in some capacity. Welcome to the thread bbe

Montreal Trip Report + August Month Review

I'll start with Montreal, and then give an August update.

How about starting with the drive up? It was relatively chill. My friend drove us from London to Brantford, where we met up with another friend who would be the one driving us to Montreal. We picked up another friend (making our wolf pack, now 4) in Waterloo and off we went. It was a buttclenching drive. I won't bother saying the speeds we topped out at, but I will say I was genuinely spooked at moments.

The highlight of the drive up was when one of the guys got an email from bodog about a free $8. He proceeded to open his laptop, tether internet from his phone, and play some blackjack. After some wonderful reverse-martingale, he spun to 128 and laughs were had.

The lowlight of the drive up was the ****ing bad-beat jackpot at Playground going off. We were roughly 2 hours away from the venue and on our way to play cash. It sucked.

Flash-forward to me at the playground. I sit for 1/2 cash anyways for some dinner. Within 10 minutes I'm already down $300 and realizing sitting just to eat was a mistake. I do however get the guy to my left to agree to do a blind $100 flip if folded to us in the blinds. a few orbits go by, but no luck. But hope glimmers. I'm sitting with about $170, and utg limps. We both collectively sigh as we've lost our opportunity. But it gets folded to me, and buddy on my left goes "Do it!" and I realize there's no way dude limping utg will overcall $100, so I snap bet $100 and buddy on my left snap calls. UTG mulls it over and goes "you guys are crazy" and folds. we snap check it down, and the board runs out j4567ddxdx. He tables 2s. I flip over my first card, 8x. I then table the 9d. I didn't even realize I hit the straight, and I successfully scoop the pot. ezgame ezlife

I rake up my in for 600 out for 300 chipstack, and call it quits for the night. All 4 of us returned for the 12pm flight of the $220 1milly GTD. TBH I kinda punted pretty quick. within ~2 hours I was busto and regging for the 4pm flight. The 4pm flight brought me a little more luck. long story short, we get to Money/Day2 bubble with 22 left and 20 making it. I'm dealt A8o in the BB with a 292k stack at this point. Blinds are 12k/24k. The interesting thing about the tournament was once we day2, blinds reset to 5k/10k, so I sort of have 29BB effective. Anyways, a tight player Hijack shoves for ~140k. It's folds to me in the BB and I'm stuck in the stupidest spot. It's a weird ICM spot I've never been in. If I look at it like it's 24kbb, it's an ezpz snap imo even if he's nitty. But on money bubble and with blinds resetting, I feel like I should look at it like it's 10kbb. I opt to call and he tables 10s. We brick it and lose a good chunk of chips. We fortunately do make day2, but with only 90k chips. I was gtd a mincash, but I wanted a much bigger stack. So Saturday I fire more bullets.

Sidenote: I got to sit beside WalmartCXNN for a good chunk of my 2nd bullet. He didn't tell me who he was for a while though. Had an excellent time with him and trying to figure out who he was. Top Lad 10/10 would sit beside again.

The first bullet of saturday was a fun one. I was sat beside PartyPoker Pro Kristen Bicknell. She had a wonderful table presence and enjoyed the converations it provided. The table was lighthearted throughout, but unfortunately I busted on a QJs<99 flip ~5 hours in. I immediately flicked into the 4pm flight, late reggin it a bit. Within a few months, Kristen sat at the table, making it a hilarious coincidence we re-united. She busted shortly after I did. My 2nd bullet was going pretty well. I built up to ~290k at 8kbb and was cruising. A few table moves and I'd gotten a pretty hilarious table. Some old man at our table was opening 8x with a big stack. I witnessed him open to 50k and fold to a shove with a 300k stack, showing a 9.

Then we got into a hand with him. I opened the Hijack with K10o. CO called, Old man calls in SB, and BB calls. Flop comes 1072 rainbow. checks to me and I cbet ~40% pot. CO folds and the old man gives some silly speech I can't recall and shoves. BB folds and I snapcall. he shows 109o. He begins cheering for a 9, and I retort, "Ok how about an 8". Turn comes a 2, so I cheer for a 2 for a friendly chop. River is a 9.

He lets out the loudest possible "YAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO" and fist pumps with extreme pleasure. The entire room stops and looks to see what/who made the noise. I sit there with that "you've gotta be ****ting me" smile on my face. Oh well, I've been here before and we're not even that deep. I get over it but still am shaking my head in laughter. I do double up qj>a10 to 90k again, and our table breaks. I get moved to another table, get dealt 10s and call an UTG shove who slightly covers me. He tables Kings, and rip in pepperoni.

I'm now 4 bullets deep, and have a 9BB stack going into day2. I wasn't too happy, but I knew I had to live with it. Two of my friend I drove up with went into day2 with 1.2mill and 680k, so they had some good sweats. I had quite a few other friends with heaps, so a deep run was inevitable out of someone I knew. Day2 started quick. The first level I doubled up q2>108 on a q103 board, then doubled up qj>j9 (lol he called a 18bb shove with j9 sb vs his button open). And in a flash I had 360k and 36BB. However it was shortlived. I pick up queens in the BB, and misread the table. I thought I was facing a MP limp and a SB call, but it was actually an UTG limp that started it. I raise to 38k and realize my mistake, and get all 3 callers. Flop comes j93. I cbet 75k, and UTG shoves for slightly over 380k total. The other 2 players fold, and I sigh call. he shows 3s, and I brick out. It sucks because I want that hand to call, but results oriented thinking he might have folded if I made it ~45-50k. Oh well, showers.

Somehow, that wasn't even my most painful memory of the trip. I fire the $220 shootout, and end up crushing it. Round1 I'm feeling confident. I get 3 handed, and have ~50k with a decent player and a sunrunning rec. I proceed to make the biggest mistake of my live poker career.

Button (reg) opens to 2600 at 600/1200. SB folds I defend Q7o in the BB. Flop comes JJ10 rainbow. XX flop. Turn is a King. I pick up 3000 in chips and go to bet 2900, but as I drop the chips I say 29000 instead of 2900. Floor gets called and it gets ruled after some arguments that the 29000 bet stands. Villain snap shoves once it's official, and I sighcall his remaining 6-8k ontop. he tables j9, and I brick the river. I sit there stunned by my mistake as the dealer chops out my chips.

While I'm beginning my loathing, I get a tap on my shoulder, I turn around and a guy goes "Hey are you IrEgption?" I'm thinking **** not now, but in case this is a fan of the stream, I put on my happy face and proceed to engage. I ask him what his username is, and as I'm being talked to I realize this isn't a normal fan. Another person walks by with his phone out and is clearly recording the scenario, and one of my friends I drove up with walks past with a **** eating grin on his face. I realize that my friend told this guy to come up to me and pretend he knew my stream as a troll. Now honestly, it would have been hilarious and I would have played along, but I literally just misclicked my MTT away and was super shook. I try to get him to stop recording and tell them to stop, but he pushes the camera closer to my face asking "LOL WHATS UR USERNAME? HOW DO YOU SPELL IT? LOLOL WHAT'S YOUR TWITCH!!?!?". Fortunately a security guard walks up and asks if I know the guy. I tell him "No I don't know him, can you get him to delete the video."

I'm even further on monkey tilt, and break just ends. I get dealt 98o in the SB, and shove my 8bb. BB snaps with KK, and I'm out of the shootout. And that about does it for poker in Montreal.

But tbh I didn't mind once my friend that drove up finished 3rd for 84k in the $220. I railed all day3, and it was an awesome experience. Was thrilled and excited for him. We partied the Monday and Tuesday night to cele. I treated the rest of the trip like it was a vaycay, and had fun.

There are some personal stories I've decided to leave out. Perhaps another time I'll share them. Let's Review August:

MTD


This and around +4-5k on GGPoker made it an over 20k month. Incredibly stoked to top my record best month in July with an even better August. Poker is proving to be fruitful. We're looking into playing some of the bigger games now in the night schedule, and I'm excited for September. I'm undecided on WCOOP and what I'll play. TBH I'm cool with skipping it all together. I might fire a few sundays, if anything.

Lets set some goals for September. I'm feeling a little inspired:

[ ] Lose 15 Pounds (Easier considering my initial weight and lack of movement as is)
[ ] win 10k+
[ ] play 600+ games
[ ] Stream 5x a week
[ ] Get new emotes for my stream
[ ] Bink one of my new 55-82's I'm playing
[ ] Figure out my move to Toronto
[ ] Eat less than 2 Bad meals
[ ] Finish RYE package

That looks good. Alright threadsaver time. See you next time

Punter


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Wake me up when September ends



So big surprise, you can't soul crush forever. Month started off great with a couple small binks and winning the $55 Cyclone for 1200ish. Then it was just a steady decline of losing sessions from there. I was having problems with my mindset/play all month. Even while winning I wasn't happy with my overall play. By the end of WCOOP I realized the problem and started to make the correct steps to fix it. Honestly if this is what a "bad month is" I think I'll be just fine

[ ] Lose 15 Pounds (Easier considering my initial weight and lack of movement as is)

Didn't even bother trying.

[ ] win 10k+

Nope.

[x] play 600+ games

Close. i think if you add my GGPoker games, I'm like a few games away. I took the last few days off as a mental reset, so I'm just gonna give myself this one.
[x] Stream 5x a week

Was active. I took time off for WCOOP but other than that consistent.

[ ] Get new emotes for my stream

**** I'm a PoS. I know my next one though

[x] Bink one of my new 55-82's I'm playing

won the Cyclone, FT'd a few others. Overall I'm happy with what I've done so far in my new "higher stakes" tournaments.

[/] Figure out my move to Toronto

Half points. Started searching and may have found the perfect condo. Still likely to be downtown TDot at this point

[ ] Eat less than 2 Bad meals

LOL

[ ] Finish RYE package

Yeah again I'm a PoS. I focused way more on playing though. I studied like 5-6 hours the entire month

Anyways, October will be a much more fun month for me. It'll start with ~2 weeks of streaming/regular grinding. I then fly out October 15th to Reno Nevada where I'll be at the RunItUp Series. It'll be a good time with some good friends. Definitely looking forward to kickin it with the great poker friends I've made the past year. I then follow it up with a trip to Council Bluff's for a small poker series. It's more "who" I'm going for than "what". Following a lovely stay in Council Bluffs, I fly home on the 27th, and return for an old friends wedding on the 28th. Afterwards, I should be packing all my **** and preparing for a November 1st move to Toronto.

So needless to say it'll be an action packed month. I'm coming upon 1 year since returning from Korea. 1 year since I started this Journey as a professional "streamer" and poker player. I'll definitely do a very long life recap in November. Honestly, I think it's the best decision I've made since deciding to teach in Korea. For one year I've gotten to chase my passions, and grow as an adult. I'll give a quick spoiler for next months update, and say I'll be doing another year. I've cleared my "goal" and am ready for the next one. I'll cut it there for now. Until next time



Grow up.

Thread saver:

I'm just going to do my update now since I have no intentions on playing poker to finish the month. I'm currently enjoying some rare time off after a trip that withered me mentally and physically.


So it was about this time last year where I made my grand posts about going full time professional. I gave my final analysis on my life and times in Korea, and set some goals for my first year as a pro. While technically I "started" in November, I decided to evaluate my professional career as starting January 1st, 2017. So I won't go over my yearly goals and do a massive yearly review. I sit here and wonder if the Patrick 1 year ago would be surprised/impressed where Patrick now is. If he saw what levels of success I've achieved, would he be happy? Would he expect more? Would he have aborted and changed trajectory? To be honest, I'm happy with my progress. 2017 has been one hell of a life experience. I was going through a ton of adversity with the beginning of my twitch growth and ****-show of a spin-career. I think the fact that I made it through my January-March stretch is a testament to how bad I wanted this. Like it ****ing sucked. I took a step back, re-evaluated, and reset myself. Then the success of April-August. The nonstop sunshine and excitement. The bumpy road of September to Beginning of October. If I wasn't winning, I was learning. I've steps to bettering my life as well as my poker life. Too many people have contributed to this as well. I won't even bother trying to list everyone. It's at least 40-50 people minimum who've had positive impacts in my life. Tons of them are new relationships I've built just this year. Several are old ones who I've grown with IRL or in Poker. I'm blessed to have the support base I have. And what I love most about it is I'm not even close to satisfied yet. I'm still motivated as ever to continue to improve. There is room for growth and I intend to expand. I have so many open doors for opportunities.

Anyways, October updates I'll just sum up quickly:

Lose little money online
Travel to Reno. Break even until Main event. Brick 1st bullet. Go back to hotel room and meditate, then fire 2nd bullet. 2 days later:


http://www.runitup.com/reno-october-...rd-place-21840

Sidenote: This is me thinking about an incredible puntcall with 4th pair no kicker which ended up being an incorrect hero. FeelsBadMan.

Also that AThh call was incorrect too. ICM says 99+ only calls when he shoves 100%. who woulda thought -.-

Anyways, I'm kinda off my train of thought, so I'll wrap it up here. Heres to the rest of the year. I'll be playing the WPT Montreal Main in less than 2 weeks. GLGL me there. Hopefully another brag live score inc.

Since I'm taking tonight and tomorrow off, hey let's do a month update:


A NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER

Well by golly this was quite the month. Lets start with WPT Montreal. I showed up to Montreal strictly for it. I flew in Wednesday morning out of London, and enjoy a nice chill day. I hung out with my friends and effectively just watched netflix lmao. Some of them spent the day grinding at Playground, others chilled with me. We got a nice dinner at the Keg, and called it a night. Thursday was much of the same. I chilled but intended to fire some satties. My first satty attempt I end up starting on the same table as 2 of my friends I was spending the trip with. That was great. There was a lot of banter that kept it friendly. It was some $165 bird so I was enjoying myself. After a long grind, I end up busting ~19th out of about 180ppl with it paying 7, so that kinda sucked. Was in the BB with 66 and 4.5bb. rec shoves for 2bb, and a massive whale snap reshoves and starts going "OMG I'M GONNA KNOCK OUT THE PRO. CALL." He was calling my buddy over to come watch. I genuinely wanted to fold lmao. But it's like **** i have 4.5bb and 66. I prob fold 22/33 here cuz LOLSATTIES. average was probably 9bb at that point. I call, whale has KK and other guy had 108. I turn an open-ender but brick and bust out. I proceed to fire the $415 satty which had a 20 seat gtd. It was the main attraction for me.

Things went well right out the gate. I had about 85k from 20k within the first few levels, and I really only needed to hit 200k to cash so I was feeling good. I ran pretty card-dead and next thing you know it's like 5k/10k blinds (cuz lol live sattys) and I've still got 80k. With live satties I've realized it runs so shallow. We're about 63 left and 43 get a seat. UTG who I've got a pretty good read on just minraises off a 13bb stack. Alarm bells were ringing here. Folds to me and I got K10s. I mean **** it literally is only aces that does this right? But can I really fold K10s? I sigh call and flop comes j104cxs. I'm thinking well I normally stop-n-go here, do I just do it? But he has aces god do I do it? Well I utter the words "all in" and he goes lol ok and calls. he tables AA. I feel like a dip****. Turn 7c. River 10. I instantly go "oh my ****ing god i'm such an idiot. I'm the biggest idiot ever" as dealer counts my stack. Fortunately this was the last hand before break so I got to wallow in my mental deficiency for an extended period before resetting. I was effectively guaranteed a cash at this point. I proceed to fold my way into the money. Wooo! After flipping $570 into a $3850 seat, and selling 50% at 1.1, I was gauranteed a profit which was great.

A fun little side-story from the satty, was at the table I'd reach the ITM, I had a lovely gentleman/recreational on my right named Nick. He was inexperienced, but I loved listening to his story and chatting to him. Honestly he was such a genuine and great guy. One thing I sort of knew but learned first hand, is recreationals love to talk strategy. They love to learn. They aren't stupid. So I was very open with giving him clear advice on maybe how a hand should be played. I also told him once he hit 200k chips, "Hey so here's the secret to sattys. You hit a magic #, then you're effectively gtd a seat. You've hit it, coast to the win my friend." He did proceed to cash and I was super happy for him. It was going to be his first WPT just like me. I gave him some tips on what Day1's to pick, added him on FB, and that was that. Seriously though people, be engaging and kind to your table. Chat with recreationals. Have fun. Make it fun. You're an ambassador for poker. You make it fun, they return. Now I'm not just saying this because it helps our bottom line. Just doing this makes it much more fun for you. The table becomes more friendly and more exciting. You also just get to be a good person lol.

So I chose to fire Day1B. Honestly, I sunran the first 6 levels. I was CRUSHING the table. by first ****ing break I had doubled start stack. I was using Protential™ Ranges and having boatloads of success. by end of level 7, I was over 105k from a 30k stack going into 300/600. I had 2 hours to go, and was thinking Vegas and the Mirage. Then the non-stop coolers happened. I picked up some mandatory bluffs (imo) and mandatory 3bets/4bets and just couldn't win a pot. Next thing you know, by end of level 8 and going into the final break I have 25k. I couldn't believe what just transpired. I instantly popped on a Primed Mind, relaxed and refocused. I put my phone in my bag and was ready to grind the final 2 hours and try to secure a Day2. I lasted until the final 25 minutes, where I 3bet shoved ~28bb from the CO vs a HJ open with AQo and got snapped by 1010. Bricked the flip and was out. TBH I coulda probably just 3bet NAI. Villain never folded to 3bet and I knew he was opening mega wide. I probably could have just taken advantage and pushed my edge postflop. I think it was a mental lapse in judgement, but isn't the biggest punt to shove 28bb so I'll live with it.

So that's it. Showers. I walk outside the venue, and get the valet to call an cab. Now this entire time, my friend has hyped up Saturday night. "OMG we're gonna go out with all these hot girls from the Playground. X is going to bring all her friends it's going to be sick." I fired Day1B because of this with the intentions of just sleeping through Sunday and being fresh for Monday. Well at least I had that to look forward to right? Now this trip consistented of me and 4 friends. 3 guys 1 girl. the 3 guys were there for poker, the girl was there to chill and enjoy Montreal. I meet all of them at a restaurant called "Joe Beef." I eventually find their table and It's my 4 friends, and 2 other girls. One girl is an ex of one of my buddies but she's cool so it's not a big deal. More of just a friend with everyone at this point. The other girl is effectively a 9-10/10 depending on your preference or rating. There were no Playground girls there. I'm kinda confused, but I go along with it. I find out later that my buddy who was setting it all up got this one dimes number at a club Friday, and effectively canceled/ditched the other plans for this one girl. We had a feast of a meal. Literally just everything on the menu ordered. Duck, Filet Mignon, Horse (lol), escargot, and incredible side-dishes. **** was lit. Kinda wish I got a photo but oh well. After the meal, the plan was to go to a club. I was still in my poker attire, (See photo below)


(****ing come on. I knew he was taking the photo. I'm seriously a moron. Why didn't I smile. Kill me. W/e im sexy as ***)

so I wanted to head back to the apartment to change. Most left for the club, and I came back to our AirBnB with my boy Z and his ex. I'm going to give him a name for a future part of this story. We get back at about 12:30, and I change and am ready by about 12:35. I sit down on the couch for a moment, check my phone, and it's 1:15am. I lol a bit, cuz I knew Z didn't want to really go to the club anyways. But I said I was going to go, so I felt like I should honor my word. We get in an uber and show up to (I forget the name, but it's Whore House translated in English. Someone from Montreal might be able to answer. Starts with a B? Not brothel lol.) and the bouncers are like "lol at capacity no one can get in." We try to argue our case, but they say no. Then they look at my outfit and are like "yah dress shoes only, couldn't let you in anyways." RIP Dreams. I text my buddies we can't get in, and one of them comes out to help but to no avail. Oh well. I call and uber and get ready to call it a night. I'm at the passenger door of the uber, telling my friends to come over, when a guy comes out, goes "hey they're with me" and now we're magically allowed in. I cancel the uber and run over. Apparently the kid was a promoter for the club so he had some push. Connections ftw. I get in and you guessed it the place was packed AF. My buddy had already ordered a couple bottles of grey goose, so it was turning into an ok night. Then the girl my friend's stunting for wants a bottle of champagne. Apparently they talked about getting one at the restaurant but didn't do it. So my buddy does the only logical thing in this situation and orders a $1k bottle of Dom. It comes out with all these neat sparklers which really enhance the experience. Oh wow, the VIP life. It had a neat green neon carrying case just to make sure the sparklers didn't get everyones attention. VIP guys come look. I get a glassed poured for me as I'm still relatively stunned my friend pulls the trigger on this nonsense. TBH, wasn't that good. Anyone on my snapchat saw this as I snapped "Lol tastes like a$$". Would not recommend purchasing at a club. So fresh from the purchase, my buddies feeling pretty good. I'm sure the girl he's been wheeling is mighty impressed at this point. Said buddy then grabs my hand and tries to get me to touch her ass. I resist. "No," I say. "It'll be funny!" he retorts. "lol no it won't." "Come on she'll like it." "uhm. *sigh* ok." As my hand is guided to cup her left buttcheek, she turns around and makes eye-contact with me. With said eye-contact I touch her ass. TBF it's pretty nice. Not the point. She gives me a look of 'What the ****'. I go, "Man he's so strong." and flex my muscles to signal his strength. "You'd be surprised. I couldn't do anything he just grabbed my hand." She didn't accept this answer. Within 2 minutes she stormed off. At this point my buddy realizes he's ****ed up. All this work and it's just gone to ruin. I'm in disbelief, but I don't accept any responsibility here. I giggle while he does the hands on his head wide eyed look.

Good news though, she does return. I assume he apologies and things are better. 3am rolls around and it's time to head back. 5 of us hop in an uber, the other (Z and his ex) hop in their own uber back to the airbnb. Our party of 5 arrive early. So I never explained this previously, but our apartment was on the 1st floor of the building. It's actually the first door when you walk into the lobby, even before the elevators or stairs. With this in mind, we get to the apartment but Z has the key. So we chill in the lobby. While we wait for Z to open the door, two guys walk into the lobby. One guy is trying to take care of his buddy, and his buddy is super ****ing drunk. The mega drunk one first mean-mugs me. Just dead-eye stares at me. I proceed to turn around 2-3 times to see what he could be possibly staring at. Perhaps there was something behind me outside the window. Nope. He's mean-mugging. ok. I giggle and smile. He then mean-mugs the 1 girl on the trip and the rest of the squad. Now the girl speaks some french. She tells him (allegedly) in french that we're cool and it's nbd. This sets the guy off. He starts screaming something in french. The girl approaches him (lol) and tbh I don't remember how exactly it went down. But she got close, he approaches her and shoves her. Me and my friend B (bottle buyer/girl wheeler) step up to get inbetween. The girl wasn't having the shove. She goes to push him back. He then proceeds to hit her with a fairly strong right-handed ***** slap.



Well that just starts a brawl. The dudes buddy is trying to hold him back, but B starts swingin and they go at it. Next thing you know, Z comes charging in and tackles the dude. The scuffle stops for a moment, and yelling is exchanged. The girl who got slapped keeps trying at him, and the dude starts swinging again. He actually hits me with a ***** slap, and I'm just like "lol wtf". For a split second, I saw blood and was ready to rumble, but I wasn't drunk enough to let that take over and I proceed to try to continue splitting this up. He then smacks the girl again as she's still trying to swing at him, and the brawl re-ignites. Eventually it gets taken to the staircase, and Z has him held down on the stairs. The *****-slapped girl comes up from the side and proceeds to feed the guy with 8-10 unanswered/unprotected punches to the face. I holy-**** and pull her off, as it's getting excessive. She throws a couple kicks, screams a lot, then moves away. Z holds him down for ~20-30 seconds before getting off him, and dude lays down on the stairs.

Now his buddy trying to take care of him is pretty OI at this point. "OH MY ****ING GOD. EVERY ****ING TIME. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. HE DOES THIS EVERY TIME. I'M SO DONE WITH HIM." lol. As Z gets off him, I see the aftermath of the beating. The dudes face is beat to ****. I extend my hand to help him up and get him in the elevator. He surprisingly accepts my help, and looks at me with a calm gaze. Dude was def concussed AF. Him and his buddy get in the elevator, and that's the last we see of them. We all evaluate each other to see if we're good. I look down and see blood on my favorite (new) white hoodie. I'm like man come onnnnnnnnn. I look at Z. He's got a massive gash on his eyebrow and his upper lip below his nose. He 100% needs stitches for both. But mannnnnnnn my favorite ****ing hoodie come on. Why me.

I know what you're thinking. Don't worry, there's good news. We got the blood out and my hoodies good as new! Z on the other hand, he's pretty shook. Now he missed the initial confrontation, so he had no idea why the fight broke out. He's pissed at us for it happening and is just pissed overall about being cut and the whole situation. I feel for the sake of confidentiality and out of respect, I'm going to yada-yada this part of the story and rap it up. We get him to the hospital, he gets his stitches after 6-8 hours (lol canada healthcare bbe) and that was that. Now I know you're all wondering, I know. Did B close on the 9-10/10 girl he was flexing on the whole night? Yes. Yes he did. I was worried this fight ripped that opportunity, but it ended up ok. We all were at the hospital (aside from the 1 girl who was maybe 15-20% at fault for this occurring) who left to see a guy pretty much instantly after it ended. So they had the apartment to themselves. Jesus I really didn't expect to tell this entire story.

Anywayssss, I return to London Monday night, and get back on the online/stream grind for the rest of the month. I think I took 2 days off from then until today. Here's my results:



We've also got about +3k on GGnetwork, and +1.5k from WPT. So I had around a 15k month. I went 15-1 for profitable sessions this month. I absolutely soul-crushed. I didn't even sun-run to maximum potential either. I had a TON of F2T/F3T of some significant birds of my schedule too. I was operating at a completely different level. Part of it is going to be sunrunning, no doubt. I have a 14evbb for the month (which is ok I guess) at my $33 ABI. Honestly, I want higher and know I can get higher. I think I'm at least a top 10 reg now at this night shift schedule. I'm hitting a lot of Pads Optimal stats as well. Ryan's coaching is really working for me. Every session he just ****s on me, but it's for my own good. I make stupid mistakes (in his eyes) and should not be making simple easy mistakes like missing opens or missing defends.

I've been putting in work outside of poker as well. I've spent the entire month eating clean/proper. Aside from 1-2 exceptions, I've been proud of my diet. I'm meal prepping and cooking good food. I've also started to workout. I've got a friend who I've been going to the gym with, and I've also been working out at my parents place. I had my first mindset coaching session today as well. I'm trying to put in a lot of off the felt work on my life and improve that aspect as well. In the past as you might have read, I've tried this. But it genuinely feels different this time. I feel more motivated and more determined to do this. I truly want to do it. I feel the need to do it. I know that I have to do it if I want to be the end boss in poker I know I can be. I want there to be no excuses for me.

And with that, we entire our final month of my 1st year as a professional. I'm going to set 1 singular goal, and it's a monetary one. The only reason I set it is because if I hit it, I intended to go to Korea for a full month. I will take the entire month of February to see the Olympics and reconnect with old friends. The goal is $20,000. If I make $20,000, I'm going to pull the trigger on the trip. I think it is surely attainable. I don't plan on taking many days off December. Aside from 1-2 days with one of my best friends returning from Ireland for a few weeks, and Christmas, I plan on firing hard.

Outside of that, Ideally I hope to work out 3-4 times a week, study 10 hours a week, grind 6-7 days a week, and have 2 max "cheat" days for eating which'll probably have to be Christmas/New Years related. Let's get it.

Oh, and I won't forget the threadsaver this time. I won't be a PoS and skip two updates in a row. Here's to hoping December will be fun!

$15k month with minimal volume isn't terrible.

Also, looks like you're about to puke in that photo.