LOL. That was bloody. Stoplossed. Omahahahahaaaaaaaaaa

Ending up getting in 6 tilt-free hours of playing today. Hit the gym, cooked, played my instrument, unpacked, set up a date for tomorrow and finished off my last two assignments. very productive day.

Actually ended up about breakeven on the day despite the slaughter earlier.Not that results matter till another 12000 poker points have elapsed.

4320 points.

730 days till graduation.

Nice playing with you today bro. Seems like you got a good head on your shoulders. Will be following this thread

I wanna hear how it goes with this Vietnamese broad your seeing tomorrow lol

gl brotha

Hah thanks same to you. For the record my obnoxious chat game was to keep the shortstack fish that had run it up from 30 to 350 staying at the table.

Had a good time with her, will probably date this summer so I don't have to spend extra time searching for a partner/care/affection/sex etc. Although she flaked (phone died) for meeting at the bar late that night after spending the day together so just wrapped up a 10/25/50 session for a friend. Also likewise did some 10/20 hu plo using play chips as proxies on bovada phone/laptop against a whale while we were waiting for a seat in the big game. Ended a small winner on the night. Fun stuff.

Didn't get as much volume in online as I intended today so I'll put a few extra hours in the rest of the weekend. Kind of treading water recently results-wise but all is well as I journey down my path.

Stuck 5 bi on the session, going to try and soldier through. Mental game is fine.

had this beauty of a hand:
50/7 limps, tag pots otb, I 3b AQT5ss out of SB and whale cold calls, tag flats.
Flop is Jc 4s 2c, i cb 95% pot, whale flats, tag folds. Turn is a Qo and I check/shove for 180 more over his bet of 60.
Got it in for 650bb:

and now he's sitting 850bb. The hunting continues.

Dropped 9 buyins. Got <5 outted a bunch of times. Variance is what it is.

GG for today.

Not exactly sure what your thought process is on this hand. I dont like the 3b outta the SB I dont think this hand is strong enough to 3b outta position vs what is going to be a solid range from the tag PLUS he has position and PLUS you have another player whos going to come along as well. Not a good flop for you and your trying to bluff into a whale? And you decided to get it all in deep stacked on a coin flip? Not feeling this hand bro

I thought the same thing when I first read the hh. I dislike the 3bet from the sb. Post isn't terrible as its a board that shouldn't really be good for either players range.

Opinion given the fact that the whale has me covered and will limp cold call wide and reg is 100bb?

Yes. Your hand doesn't play extremely well post oop especially against a tags range

Still given I dont like the 3b or postflop play. I play a decent volume of PLO100 on bovada. Flipping with small edges with a deep stack I dont like. There are so many other great edges to be have. I prefer lower variance. Now you didnt get it in bad so dont get me wrong. There are just better spots

Fair enough. I suppose I wanted to play a large pot vs a guy that is cold calling garbage for 20bb when we're super deep and felt that benefit outweighed a reg being in the pot who will play fairly fit or fold.

Anyways I'm putting 100pl on hold as I'm playing some fairly large games for a friend for an unknown duration. Doing as high as 25-50 short handed nlhe and 5/T PLO live with some 1k and 2kpl on bovada. Up 7.5k as of the last few days. No way this can go wrong...

Well I've put in 44 hours since we started and i'm up 10350. Not bad. Got some omaha coming up and then maybe some 25/50 before hitting the beach with my ex this weekend.

Staking deal?

Something along those lines but more friendly and a worse deal for me to clear some initial $ before I get a cut. Although after X,Y,Z amounts my cut goes from 0 to 50 to 60 to 65 so it's more for a long term thing if it goes well. Up about 13k right now. There's a lot of mutual respect between us for each others games so it's also an exercise in seeing the differences between our games during sweating.

The heater is so real. 3 tabled a reg and stacked him for 10 bi. Up a tad over 19k going into a live session tonight.

Two biggest hands from the session that weren't chops:
Had this (lol) hand. I'd fought back on literally ever low paired flop in 3b pots and we're both playing close to the deck so the leveling was real. 333bb effective, I pot, he pots, I flat. He cbets 12 into 18 on a 6h 6s 2s I raise to 45bb he calls, turn is 4s he checks I bet 99bb into 108 he shoves for 320bb I call and have Ad 2c Qs 6d > As 9s Th Qc.

And
215bb effective, He pots, I flat, flop is 5d Qs Jh I check, he bets 6bb, I call, turn is 4d I lead for 13.5bb into 18bb, he raises to 47.25bb I call, river is 3h I check he bets 75bb, I call. Qd Ts 9c 4h > 8d As Kd 6c.

Maybe misplayed this hand but given the hand he shows up with on the river, I like how I played it.
321bb effective, he pots, I flat. Flop is Ac Ah Qc, I check, he bets 4bb, I call. Turn is Tc, I check, he bets 14bb into 14bb, I call. River is 6s, I check, he bets 31.5bb into 42, I call. 6c Ts 6h Js > Kc 7c 8c 4h.
Argument for folding flop? I can't see doing anything besides flatting and then calling down especially given the exact board for some of his value range being stuck into check backs and lots of his TT/A6 combos not barreling all three streets.

Turns out the live game was quite poor and was ending around when I was going to leave so I played a little more online before grabbing some sushi to unwind.

I've got some pics to contribute from this past week.
First is of going to war, starting a 9max table with some HU then shorthanded and a full 9max game. Being in for 3bi on one table and breaking even:

My worst session (of 33 distinct, short sessions) so far has been -4800 although I've been stuck 3-5k multiple times. The swing is real. Haven't lost more though because I stoploss at a relatively small amount of bb. When I've been playing online I'm doing a couple short handed games with one or two HU and then 4 tables on Bovada, usually 9max or high vpip 6max with sitting one empty table for HU action. Usually so far around 6 tables running with 2 waiting. Plenty of action although I might be the spot

I had a sick encounter today with a spewy whale at hu 2kpl that wanted to play mandatory 3x/9x-call to play postflop after always flatting the 3bet. We ended up doing it at 1kpl. He got it in pretty bad spots three times and sucked out each time but it was definitely a great spot. He was a novice plo player and wanted both of us to show hands each hand so I had to walk him through turning off auto muck. Claimed he was a mixed game player, which I believe.

Next are from my morning session after the live plo game I was at broke and we bought flights for vegas that left three hours later and I was playing at the Aria soon after:



I was in for 1.7k and they are in stacks of 30, including the 100s in the back. I put in three sessions at Aria and one short 300bb deep 2/5 session at the Wynn where I got in KK<A3cc on a Q67cc flop for stacks. The tourist kept saying "ty for the donation" to try and tilt me after because I think he thought I was a pro, but I was nothing but pleasant to him both before and after. Seemed totally uncalled for tbh.

I think my play so far has been really solid although I am running above average. I've put in 52 hours in the last 6 days and am up 21k. Tomorrow is some online before a big live game and then the beach on Saturday for a well deserved break. This has been a sick sick week. Going forward after this initial surge, I'll likely be putting in around 25 hrs/week. That amount of time investment works for both of our goals. I've already cleared the starting $ goal and am getting 50% of most of what I've won then 60% soon & 65% eventually, provided I keep winning. This is a much better option than donking around at 100pl on Bovada. What a truly incredible opportunity.

I know it's been a lot of posts in a short amount of time, but I've put in a lot of hours compared to what I was doing a few weeks ago.

723 days till graduation.

Grats man. Sounds like an awesome opportunity. Keep it up.

Grats man. Sounds like an awesome opportunity. Keep it up.

Well that's a wrap on the week. Up $30501 in the last 7 days over 55 hours. I won 7.6k in a 10/25 no straddle game tonight with the rest of the gain since last post being from online.
I'll be taking some time off starting with the beach tomorrow.
I'm also in the 60% bracket (60-40 split) for any money cashed out between +28k to +58k.

Unreal opportunity, ran well, played tons of A game hours. I'm so happy that it turned out this way. I didn't think I'd see a 40k bovada balance or a 10k+ stack live for a long, long time.

Bro awesome job! Way to take advantage of a great opportunity

Thanks, appreciate it. I'm doing another site now too so can talk hands from saved HHs. Cheers.


I'm going to dial back a bit now on hours as planned. I've got so much else I want to get done this summer. My proposed schedule keeps poker mostly to the evenings, so will be focusing primarily online. I'll stick some HHs in this thread from actually interesting spots rather than bad beats lol.

Off to spend tonight with one of my mentors who I haven't seen in person in a long time. Santa Cruz was awesome too. Although I might just avoid women altogether this summer as aligning our interests/preferred relationship investment is proving to be difficult.

Made friends with a guy at 10/25 that wanted to go party on his bday with some models last night who invited me because I was the only non-nit non-social-nit at the table. That was an enjoyable experience till they started doing blow off my phone.

Poker has been swingy so it's back to normal. Down some online and up some live. Played an interesting hand where I raised out of the blinds in a reg-posted-blind-in-the-CO-pot over him and a btn fish then bet bet x/jammed a AhTh7s9s6s runout 400bb deep with AKss and got paid by J8 that flatted turn (??) vs the reg @ 2/5.

Lined up some dates now that I figured out I won't be dating my exes. Although hopefully I find someone to be exclusive with so it's less time consuming. All is well in the universe. Got to crack down on some coding projects tho meaning a little less poker (something I've caught myself always saying).

717 days till graduation.

Hmphh well that was short but sweet. We ended the stake today for a couple reasons, mostly incompatibility. He was very happy with the results obviously, but some behind the scenes stuff made us not a good fit. I'm putting almost all of the 11.4k I ended up personally netting towards school so will be back to the 100pl grind.

On that note played a quick +6bi session. Poker points are at 4790. Considering I put in a decent chunk of volume on the stake (~80 hours), I'll probably decrease the # of pp till 200pl by about 5-7000 but will decide this later.

Huh.

Line check: UTG raises 2bb, CO flats, I flat otb with QJ98ss blinds fold. Flop is Js Jd 3h. UTG bets 4.75bb, CO folds, I flat. Turn is 6s, UTG bets 9bb, I flat. River is 2d, UTG bets 35bb, I fold.
Thoughts on the river fold? Turn sizing is suspiciously/bizarrely small then river is huge.