Cool that you enjoyed it Jeez, that is pretty harsh about Terry Who was the centre manager? What about the kitchen coordinator?

I'm not sure who the manager is now Valerie is the kitchen coordinator I think.

My weight fluctuates quite a bit but I'd say I'm weighing in at about 235-238 lbs now for about 15-18 lbs lost. I gotta lose another 22-25lbs at a quicker rate around 3lbs a week so I'm really watching my diet and upping the workout frequency.

I'm going to start going to jiu-jitsu 6-7x per week and still running 2x per week.
In an ideal week or eventually I'd like to do P90x plyometrics once a week as well as P90x Yoga or X Stretch once a week.

Fun times.
I think I'm going to try to go back to work in a few weeks and just play poker on weekends and keep studying PLO and PLO8 and other games for fun.

Did you realize that poker's not worth it anymore or is there any other reasoning behind it?

It's probably still worth it to play but I bought an apartment and with new apartments you can put a deposit down then a downpayment/mortgage through a bank when it's done being built which is next summer so I gotta work for a while to be able to get approved for a mortgage. Also variance in poker is pretty tilting if you see my sharkscope graph for rickyt88 I'm not the greatest player but I've bubbled so many big tourneys or had ****ty like 6-15th place finishes it gets annoying and seems like I've had less than my fair share of top 3 finishes. I'll play softer cash games for fun and learn new games etc being a semi-recreational player. I might delete my mtt hem 2 hands so here are my final winrate things which are only from last June when I had to reformat my computer.







I played hard for about 2 years. I think I finished up over $100k in poker overall but hard to track. The peak of my glory was in the Fall of 2015 September, October and November I remember I made about $30k CAD in each of the months just crushing playnow.com and bodog and doing okay on the other sites. Hard to prove how much I've made on the other sites. I have here just my payout history from betonline and I deposited $500 usd twice and ran like god to run it up:



I was going to wait until CAD got to 1.4 to withdraw from betonline but it might not anymore I'm not sure.
I'm not sure what fees were but for latest cashout I can use bitcoin for no fees.
6400+9000+6050 usd lets say x 1.3 to account for fees etc=27885 CAD plus 3560x1.366=4864 CAD total betonline profit = $32750 CAD- $1400 deposit = $31,350.

Anyway my stars graph and other graphs are **** but I remember it was cause I was taking from the softer playnow, bodog sites back then and just running like **** on stars and stuff. I'd guess between Playnow, Bodog, Betonline, Fulpot I am up $125K CAD the past couple years and live poker since I did so poorly in Vegas I might only be up around $10-15K cad and around 10K CAD in live cash.

Pretty lame graph I built it up during christmas in lower stakes then played tcoop staked and didn't run well:



So maybe my overall profits are around 150k CAD I don't know where dafuq all that money went I spend quite a bit I guess. EDIT: I gave away about $30K CAD of my profits from being stakes/swaps etc so $120K makes sense which isn't much more than I would've made working and on weekends.

FWIW I had a similar story to you. I'm not the best poker player but I made a living off it for about a year or so but realised that it's not going to be around forever and you need a real job in the end.

I've enjoyed poker a lot more since playing it for fun and not for a main income. You might actually find that you have a higher winrate when you play now even though you're gonna cut your volume a ton


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Thanks yeah I think so. I miss the early days. I remember reading my first thread on 2+2 saying how I loved my job and didn't plan on quitting I really did love it and hopefully I can work there again or somewhere I'll enjoy.

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Sweet betonline withdraw for bitcoin is already in blockchain wallet and it was for $4968 CAD.

Ah I'm pretty noob to bitcoin I see it changes value fast.

Wow bitcoins going up fast:



At the time I withdrew from two sites the withdrawal equivalent in CAD was $6215 CAD and I traded $700 usd worth or $959 CAD worth of bitcoins which would of made my balance $5256 but now it's at $5644 so I made $400 holding onto it for a day or so.

http://www.coindesk.com/price/

I guess I'll try to hold onto it as long as possible now.

I'm playing the Badugi event today. I gotta show the haters it wasn't just a one-time lucbox thing even though it really was:

Making a run! I'm taking a course over the weekend I wonder if it works to play on my phone for day 2. I'll have to test it out.

FT is 8 players lol I semi-jokingly called the exact FT bubble:

First 1k mtt hands in omaha biggest nit ever lmfao positionally aware at least though.

$17238/$100K
I think that was the last update.

I had a great month in April terrible one this one. I can't be bothered getting exact results but I think I finished at around $19K profit. Pretty terrible overall.

I dropped off my resume to IATSE now I guess it's just a waiting game. I'm not sure what the future brings or how soon I'll get work. It could take a while to get full-time work/onto a crew long-term so I should grind a bit. I think I'll do a really small bankroll type challenge. I'm depositing $600 CAD and I'll try I'll probably start playing Monday and try to spin it up for $500 profit or $5600 overall. I don't really want to put a timeline on it but I'll aim for getting it done before August. I'll probably work with my brother or find random work during the day until I get regular work with iatse and just grind at night 5-6 hours.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24294963_887A3C0863

greatest player I've ever played against

I might be heading back to work really soon. I've applied to the cities and the lighting and grips department. I will retake the lighting test soon but I called into the union today it might be busy enough I could get work soon off the secondary list since I've done all the courses and everything. Anyway reflecting on my past year and thinking about what work I want to do over the next few months. I want to try to still play poker as much as possible and study/work on my game a ton as well. I could just put this in a notepad or wordpad file and leave on the computer but hopefully it helps someone out there and plus I can always find it here. I'm not sure what I'll be like in a year or two but I hope I do most of the things I've thought about.

MTT BBs won the past year or so since I got a new computer:



Cash games the last part is PLO:



I really suck at PLO but working hard to learn it maybe I"ll make a video of how I'm trying to learn.



This is PLO at 5c/10c getting wrecked. I've studied a tiny bit but otherwise pretty clueless especially postflop about what are standard triple barrel hands or call downs/hero calls. It seems like everyone always has the nuts so I definitely punt hard and should be overfolding to all aggression.

I have PLO400+ hands and created an alias for all the boss players and have so far somewhat emulated the raise first in %s. Filtered for 6 handed only, I only had about 460K hands on them. They seem to have a flat 60-65% calling range in the BB vs all positions but something like 5-20% 3betting ranges vs UTG - SB. It's extremely hard for me right now to play such a wide range since I suck postflop but it'll be good to study each scenario and try to memorize as many ranges as possible.

UTG opening range is probably the only range I have down right now but I still have to review/study more.

Pokerjuice has preflop ranges that can be imported into propokertools' Odds Oracle and it's pretty hard to read the coding to see the hand ranges but it's easy to check which range a hand falls into when you plug "How often" - "Player 1 Hand" "Match Range" then the $FI12-$FI50. I think for figuring out a hand in the 5-65% for flatting in BB vs UTG I have to type that in I'm not sure. A lot to learn in PLO I'm partially just playing for fun and I like it but I should get better and study more before I play too much.

I have a ton of ICM work to do as well. I haven't studied it nearly enough but I've been marking a ton of hands since last Thursday. I looked at a few examples and I've been punting so hard misjudging people's calling ranges on final tables. I had a spot where I shoved 55 with 15bbs from the CO 5 handed on a 45 person mttsng. It's the bottom of the nash shoving range with one shorty on the table and me being in 2nd but nash assumes people call a certain range. ICM nash had a player calling JJ+, AK but he called with ATs and I adjusted his calling range to what I think he calls and it makes my shoving range insanely tight. I punt so often shoving nash since people call much looser than nash. I created notecaddy stats to study population pushing ranges on different stacksizes and also calling ranges from all positions vs all positions shoves.

Cliff notes were to shove looser than nash CO-SB and tighter than nash from UTG-MP even for chip ev. When I started getting into poker, I used to think nash/GTO was the **** and that shoving nash ranges made you great for push/fold but it's obviously bad to shove nash and in a lot of final table situations.

Also calling shoves with a nashy range is terrible. Here's an example for 8bbs in 3r 180s:



That stacksize is easy to solve since people don't minraise/fold but even at 10-12bbs so many fkers minraise in these games:



So it's harder to figure out ranges have to check their non-allin raise % - fold %

I need to create notecaddy stats just for different player types like good regs, passive fish and nit regs and start reviewing/modeling calling ranges based on that instead of nash. I get lazy when I review and copy/paste a hand history into icmizer or holdem resources calculator without adjusting the shovers range and if it's a +EV call I give myself a pat on the back but that's not good. Studying like that is bad. Perfect practice makes perfect not imperfect studying.

I gotta look for IP c-bet stats on certain board textures. I think I can create stats for different player c-bet styles. Most regs cbet 55-65% and have a higher check/fold or low turn and river c-bet but I know a lot of people use different styles. It seems like very few regs in the games adjust their postflop strategy based on the player they're facing in the pot. I have to get better at this as well. Flatting wider or tighter from the BB or calling c-bets wider or tighter depending on the player and his tendencies.

I want to be one of the best players in the games I play and just the best I can be and I hope I don't turn into some lazy **** that goes to work and watched TV and chills when he gets back home.

Filter/create note caddy stat
HEM 2 for <25bbs to see how often population cbets and also folds to check raises
if possible filter for regs cbetting only
I think we realize more equity shorter partially because we get it in on more flops and barreled/bluffed off our equity less on turns and rivers
but also because I think people cbet less to realize their hands equity at the fear of getting check jammed on more

I myself am guilty of not checking someone's checkraise % and saying **** right after I cbet J8 on T75 or whatever when I think it's better to check back on shallow stacksizes. It's arguable but yeah I should also check population and regs' check raising %s on a few board textures from 12,18, 25bbs.

I should explore several board textures
Explore 3b pots IP OOP and BB defending vs IP flatting and OOP cbet on short stacksizes

Population reg stats for 3b shoving 15-20bbs from CO-BB

Anyway I'll add my notes to all this. I've just had the idea that maybe I should apply to work for stables doing this kinda analysis type stuff. In reality I'll do it all partially for fun but it's hard to justify if I'm working full-time and only playing sundays or something.

Bankroll rebuilding month. I hope to get a job soon by Monday July 10th so I'll go hard until then and on the weekends. I'm being staked on playnow by a couple friends. I'm up about $1k since starting last Thursday I'll probably continue that until I have a few paycheques or bink something. I'm taking a yolo shot on one of those friends for 2% of his main event in vegas. #OneTime

I've been playing some $3 spin and goes $1.50 hypers to learn them and get sharper with ranges:



and playing pretty lowstakes MTTs and MTTSNGS:



I've had a couple nice suprises from pokerstars this week:

Holy I actually booked a winning session in PLO.



I think I got a stack up to $57 highest stack I've had in it so far. I still suck for sure so I just play the minimum for the challenge and match thing like a good fun player would. One of these days I'll review a ton of marked hands and spots and put more work into memorizing preflop ranges. I have ICM situations and stuff I want to study first.

Slowroll list for playnow:
holdemgirl - said I was biggest fish on the table yesterday I think for jamming KQo on BU for 12bb
Caszman - showed 96s HU after 19bb shove (as if it was a bluff and not a good nash shove) then called me the biggest donk when I won HU. I wish I saved the chat.

I love playing on playnow and just playing the lowstakes in general everybody talks more and it's fun being active in the chat lol.



I played different then usual on this final table just limping from all positions. There were some spazzes on the table that would make a lot of hands terrible opens or shoves. I might review a couple tourneys now while they're fresh. I'm pretty sure I'd have to shove really tight in some spots and also pretty sure caszman had a bad icm shove that he won 3 handed and berated a fun player for calling with 43s instead of just saying GG.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24421595_92A5F992E4

Nice little end of the month heater:



Still only breakeven in plo10 now.



First half or so was from 6-max hypers I guess there was cheating goig on that's why I was reimbursed $72.

Got back out of bed the other night to review a spot that was sorta bugging me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti6qTttbLPk

This ICM thing is so depressing and such a fun killer.

Gonna close this thread out and maybe start a new one when I get full-time work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo8h...ature=youtu.be