Really well written and inspirational OP.

Good to see the literate making money at poker

Thanks.

3 days at fw again starting tommorow.

hey you gonna be playing friday night too then?
and do you play tourneys ? gonna play the main event ?


also i saw you started with mohegan and now foxwoods. I have only done foxwoods as I have heard its better (although want to do some tourneys there but not cash) is that true. Especially as far as comps go.

maybe ill see ya friday, would like to hear your thoughts on 1/2 vs 2/5 difference at foxwoods more.

This is a great thread. I think you play very well, Rob. No criticism there. You may be looking into the guy's compliment too much though . It's definitely better to have a recreational vibe. You can wear nice clothes, drink, etc. But when you play, it's hard to maintain the ruse. I don't want fake-mishandling my chips to distract me from deciding whether I should 3 bet the frequent raiser with A9o or whether I should fire the 3rd bullet vs the solid reg. Just play your game, and slowly, you will find yourself more comfortable and able to give off a more relaxed vibe. Just tell the fish they're unlucky if they lose or nice hand if they win a pot. They'll love you.

And yea, 2/5 regs talk about strat way too much. I don't mind it. The 'fish' probably have somewhat of a clue and prob have money, so they're not going to be scared off like clueless 1/2 fish. I just add an occasion 'mhm' or 'yea, true'. I'll gladly take any information good players want to give away about their thought processes.

Definitely following the thread. Good Luck!

Don't play tourneys. Got a few horses I backed in megastack but thats it. I may decide to eventually play some when a 300$ loss doesnt hurt my BR that much but with a 6-7k I don't really want to play tourneys.

I started playing at Mohegan Sun because the 1/2 is better there imo and I like the room better overall.

My switch to mostly FW now is because
1. They give me 2 free rooms a week like clockwork.
2. The 2/5 game (which I mostly play now) at Mohegan is absolutely terribleeee. Bunch of regs sharing bankrolls and checking it down vs each other.

It has gotten a little better at mohegan because you get treated like a high roller playing 2/5 lol, as its often the biggest game in the room.

They bring you free shrimp, free sandwiches and stuff, so it's kind of relaxing. But the actual game is pretty bad.

I mostly do just throw in the "mhm" routine and stuff, or play ignorant. I feel like an asshat though because I'm pretty much shutting the kids down when they want to talk strat. I absolutely hate when younger players talk about playing good and visually take the game too seriously.

This will make me sound like a lolloser but I've recently been exposed to a book called the "The Game" which is about picking up women and using certain social skills to make yourself seem more alpha and desirable. I plan on working on keeping conversations going with random people (guys as well) at the poker table, so that will make me seem less serious also.

Fwiw I'm not a dweeb and have hooked up with plenty of girls in my life, it's designed to make you seem desirable when cold approaching women at bars/public spots, as opposed to "oh man, some random guy hitting on us again". Been using the techniques from the book at bars recently and it has been working quite well. Definitely worth a read, once you can get over the lame aspect of it being a book about speaking to girls/stories about the author hooking up with girls.


I will be at Foxwoods this friday grinding, young dude in a West Virginia hoodie.

Probably about 80% of my 1/2 play has been at Mohegan, but I have played close to 100hrs of 1/2 at Foxwoods, again, I could break down Mohegan's 1/2 games in and out but I have somewhat limited exposure to Foxwoods, I will give you my opinion based on 100hrs of play.

1/2 at Foxwood's has more of an older regular crowd as opposed to Mohegan's younger/drunker crowd. This is the general vibe of the respective casino atmosphere as well. I feel foxwoods has an older, more dedicated serious gambler crowd. Mohegan is more oriented toward 21-30 year olds.

This is 1/2nl, of course there are fish and the game is obviously very beatable. It's more profitable to play 1/2 at Mohegan, that I can almost guarantee. Mohegan offers 1/1 which intercepts some fish, but the 1/2 games at Mohegan are still better.

2/5 at Foxwoods is capped at 100bb to preserve the health of their regular 5/10nl game. They do not take a BBJ dollar from 2/5 games at FW, you are not eligible for the BBJ at 2/5 (which I personally like cause I couldnt hit anything for a jackpot if my life depended on it). 2/5 at foxwoods has several good younger regular types that I see topping their stack off at 500. There are also a ton of 2/5 games as opposed to Mohegan which usually gets 4-5 tops on a weekend. During a weekday your lucky if you see 2 2-5 games at mohegan.

More games = more fish = more game/seat selection = good.

1/2 at Foxwoods has a lot of shortstacking and a lot more old man regulars that play 1/2 to qualify for Black card/gold card. These are the guys that fold for 3 hours and 3bet to 45 and complain they got no action.

Live poker is live poker though, everyone's pretty much equally terrible. The players that are good are usually identifiable within 10 mins of me sitting down, any place any stake.

Another 3 dayer at Foxwoods inc.

#grindmode #protential?

Grind on the Mind
Lately I have been playing a lot of poker. Like an insane amount for me. Regularly playing 30 hours a week and actually doing quite well.

Unfortunatly I haven't been able to update this thread because I smashed my fist into my computer's keyboard during a starcraft 2 game where I got proxied (I suck) and broke my comp. Ordering another one soon.

Anyway, poker has been going quite well. Been doing pretty good at 2/5 which is all I play now and been playing wed/thurs/fri pretty much every week. Enjoying myself as well.

I can honestly say that I consider myself good at live poker now. I used to just coast, but I have been playing exceptional well the last 2 or 3 weeks. Folded kings preflop to a 4bet to 240 and just generally making more disciplined laydowns. As I have said so many times in this thread the challenges of live poker is not whether to call raise or fold, it's controlling your emotions and not making erroneous plays due to tilt/boredom/alcohol/ego etc.

I might get that tattooed

The 2/5 games at Mohegan and Foxwoods play looser than 1/2, yet they are much harder because there are legitimate good regs that are capable of 3betting light and owning me postflop.

For example- hand against a young regular who I see playing 2/5 at Foxwoods all the time. Had a few conversations with him, obvious 2+2er, may or may not play professionally, could potentially be in a similar situation to me, overall really solid player.

I'm SB hes in the HJ. Roughly 900ish eff stacks

He raises to 25 pre and I 3bet to 80 with Ak

Flop (160) QJ9

Hmm. This is a very bad board because it essentially lights up his calling range, my line is to c/f because he wont flat my 3bet with a small pocket pair because he knows his IO's arent that great vs me and he's not tilting or anything.

Check. Check.

Hmm. He checks back the flop, this tells me he cannot have 1 pair beat right now. All his sets and QJ are going to bet this flop 100%.

Turn 3
Completes the rainbow. I can maybe rep a scared overpair or a set I was intending to check raise. I bet 100. He calls confirming he is not that strong because his sets absolutely pop the turn.

River 2
Completes the rainbow and now I'm sure my bet can get him to fold.

I fire 165. He thinks for about 20 seconds and calls with Q10.

These are the type of players you just don't encounter in 1/2. He just owned me that hand for a few hundred dollars. No big deal, although I was rather annoying when he told his friend behind him "flop top pair and call, just clicking buttons", 2p2ism I've said before so I can't really fault him. NBD, it's only money right? In order to be good at winning you have to be really really good at losing.

Ego

Let me pump my ego.

Here's a 2600$ stack I amassed at Foxwoods 2/5 on thursday night. Played till about 330 am.



Recent pokerjournal log -


Ego Ego Ego. Can be the downfall of so many people, not necessarily just pertaining to poker either. There are so many people I encounter at the poker table, as well as my daily life that would greatly benefit from having their ego downsized.

Not to say that I am completely humble, because I am not. I enjoy telling my friends that I regularly win and lose 1000's of dollars (when they ask), because it is simply incomprehensible. I have friends that have a slight clue about gambling/poker and then friends who go nuts at betting 10$ in a hand of blackjack and are convinced the house is cheating when the dealer makes a 6 card 21. Not to say having fun betting 10$ is looked down upon, just I have separate types of friends.

I am 21 years old. We get a bad rep for acting like know it alls. I know nothing. I know so relatively little about poker and life its almost sad. A lot of my friends in college who pursue "real world jobs" with massive college debt would not be so keen to admit that. Managing money is difficult, managing friendships and relationships with friends and my parents is even more difficult sometimes.

I was recently attending a friend's college in Rhode Island (I'm from CT), so I drove up there straight from Foxwoods on Friday night. Of course my drunk ass friend introduces me to all his friends as a "professional poker player". My mother cooks me dinner and buys me socks, I'm far from a professional. He just knows the money that circulates and it's obviously semi-interesting to him because your average person is looking for the cheapest roulette table in the casino. Losing 1k in a poker game would break every single one of my friends hearts for about a month. For me its Thursday.

There was a girl there whom I attended high school with. Late at night she was talking to my other friend about how she is getting into an internship for something and how she is great at managing money and knows all about return on investment, risk of ruin and equity management. I was just lol'ing at this bright eyed, pretty young girl who has literally no idea what the hell she is talking about. You can't learn to handle money by reading a book.

That sounds douchey but it's the type of logic that causes him to introduce me as a pro poker player.

It's awkward/annoying when my friends do this nonsense (I constantly tell them to not bring poker up around people), because
1. They have a story about their uncle who lost a fortune playing craps. So be careful.
2. Some random dbag wants to tell me about his quarter homegame in which his aces lost to 68 suited.
3. Girls think that your FOS and trying to impress them.

Not once has anything good from that statement. When I first started playing I thought telling girls your a professional would be so impressive, it's not.

I either tell girls I work for AT&T (I once did), or I'm taking a break from college. The general public (in the northeast at least) does not view poker in a positive light. Which is fine.

My Future
To me this is the biggest concern. I have no desire to go back to college. I absolutely hated it the second I stopped living there and couldn't party all the time with my friends. Those days are simply behind me. When I was 18-19 I was a complete maniac, drank 4 times a week, smoked a lot of weed, experimented with drugs a good amount. My grades were bad to average until I eventually decided to drop out and work full time for AT&T. Hated that job after a while, quit, and decided to pursue poker for now.

My future is the biggest thing I am concerned with at this point. The present is pretty awesome. I can guarantee my hourly playing poker (true hourly after gas/food etc) is significantly higher than my friends who work "real" jobs. I worked on a golf course where I had to get up at 4am to go blow leaves and use weed-whackers for 10$ an hour. To hell with that.

The problem is that they won't have a 4 year gap in their resume that they have to explain to potential employers.

I have met several people who claim to play poker for a living that are in the 25-30 range, I never have the balls to ask this but-
Are you still going to be grinding at 45 years old? 50? Probably not, so whats your plan?

Like I stated earlier. Right now I can do this without fear. 21, single, low cost of living, ambition for the game, mental toughness, drive.

That is going to wear off some day, I have no idea what I'll be doing 20 years from now. Hopefully I can back a horse or bink a tourney myself and then open a bar or something.

In all seriousness you would be ignorant to assume that poker money will be around for ever. The future will be interesting.


Haven't posted in a while, just wanted to put my thoughts into text. If anyone wants to follow me on twitter, I post random poker stuff sometime...

@robbyrobbb

thanks

At least I got my new computer.

-1k from my BR though

Break
I haven't played poker in a week and a half or so. This is a combination of me taking a mental break and enjoying my social life more.

I coach baseball for an AAU team in CT and our legitimate practices are starting now so I'm busy with that for the most part.

Since I havent had a computer in a while, I have been unable to browse 2p2 either so this was a complete break from poker. I have been studying and posting in LLSNL the past few days as I got my new computer in the mail (YES PORN!) and I feel I'm getting back into the poker mindset again.

I spent 1k on an asus that runs starcraft really smoothly and I'm super happy with it thusfar. Big screen and great definition, perfect for online poker as well even though I don't play.

Will be at Foxwoods saturday and sunday more than likely to resume my grindful ways.

Good luck.

Just read the whole thread and it has been very entertaining so far, but you haven't posted in a while so are you letting the thread die?

Nonononono. Was planning on an update today. Been really busy with baseball the past month or so (our season starts in 10days) so I haven't been able to play poker and haven't been updating.

Mom! The meatloaf!

So I hit a mini(ish) downswing before I took my break from poker. About 2k in the hole over my past few sessions. I recently expressed this to my parents when they spoke to me about poker and she kind of freaked out. Not as in a "youradegenyouneedhelp" type of way, but in a "ohmygodthatsmoremoneythanIgamble" kind of way. Felt pretty baller actually. I showed them my PokerJournal recent session log and they were amazed at +1600 -1100 +600 -700 numbers. Again, they support whatever I do and they were very skeptical at first but I showed them a glimpse of my roll and they believe that it's possible to be a long term winner (or at least they have me fooled). I heard from my dad several times (a long time ago), "lucks going to run out" "quit while your ahead" etc type stuff, but now I think he realizes I'm not on a 500 hour heater and if I had any drinking/gambling leak I'de be broke by now. I also drive over an hour home on 95 (holy cops batman) after my sessions so it's not a good idea to be buzzed.

Another thing I spoke to them about is a possible 1month stint in Vegas. Actually I lied. I only spoke to my mom about it, but she seemed cool with it except she made me have to agree to leave my TV/xbox/car here so I don't jump ship and live there fulltime.

My plan is basically to go out there for a month (october or september), after baseball, miss no holidays and see how I fair. My monetary goal by this point would be 15-20k. If I can grind that much up, I will definitely have a go out there. I would try and find someone on 2+2 or some young internet grinder I know from Foxwoods or Mohegan and try and make it happen. Really not interested in asking my RL/non poker friends as
1. I want to grind, not party/find hookers/play BJ.
2. Doubt any of them would be interested/financially stable enough to do it.

I am but 21 years old, still live at home, but I pretty much do my own thing. I'm almost never home, pay for all my stuff by myself and live a pretty free life. It's quite cool actually, compared to most of my friends bogged down by parental/girlfriend restrictions. Part of the reason I like living here, they don't sass me about anything.

3 Days.

Doing my standard 3 day Foxwoods ritual starting tomorrow. 2 free rooms wednesday and thursday. Go up wed, play until friday afternoon/night depending on baseball and then drive home.

It's kind of draining playing 30 hours in a 3 day span, but I pretty much lock myself up there and do alright most of the time. Hopefully the regs forgot who I was and I can get away with my borderline nitty/tag style.

I certainly want this trip to be a profitable one because I am coming off a -1100 mohegan session. Lost 700ish in one hand here where I made an absolutely horrible river call. This was at the tail end of a 10hour session so maybe I should of quit while I was marginally behind instead of making this 60bb mistake.

I don't press as much when I have rooms at Foxwoods because I can go sleep/jerk it/whatever and just come back. When I daytrip to mohegan I am there to 99% play poker and 1% eat.

Mistakes I Make Live
I have also been doing something that sounds incredibly corny but I think it will help me.

When I make a mistake (in my mind) at the poker table I save it into my Iphone notes. When I get home I tally up how many mistakes and how much money said mistakes costed me this session.

This goes from cbetting a bad board, making a bad call, missing a value bet, applying my thought process to complete morons, playing incorrectly against certain villains etc. The most important thing is to not be results oriented. I shove a FD, get snap called by a set and bink my river, I write the mistake down.

I go home and write it in a little notebook and then analyze it down the road.

When you think about it, poker at this level is a game that comes down to who makes the least amount of mistakes. I do not have to push what I think is a 52% edge because I am not durrrr and these games are not nosebleed high level thinking games. Why make the game so hard on myself? Play super solid ABC poker with a little bit of 2+2/online/fancy stuff sprinkled in at the same time and you can crush.

My best sessions have been sessions where I avoided all marginal/difficult spots and did not give myself the opportunity to make a sick play (read:huge mistake). Keep the game simple and capitalize on my opponents many leaks.

Oh yeah. And 3bet the young 2/5 Foxwoods guys. They spazz.

Thanks for reading

@robbyrobbb on twitter. (very lame)

Just Ship It


+2.2k this trip.

Really, really, really, felt like I played good and ran awesome for the first 2 days. Was up about 3k and then dumped 700 on Friday before I went home meh.

Most of it was on a triple barrel vs a young dude who kind of owned me.

Raised AJ and cbet Q72 bet 2 turn and fired a K river. He called me with 107 of clubs. Definitely owned me that hand (was like an 800ish pot), thought it was a really good spot to bluff but apparently he knew that too. He called river pretty quickly too which surprised me. Oh well.

I think I may of looked nervous too, his live read probably helped him alot on that hand.


Almost ready to sit in a 5/10 game can't wait.



Overcalling 68o was when a super nit raised UTG and 3 people called before me. Very bad plays by me.


Heres my live graph. Almost made 10k playing this stupid game.



Just wanted to post a quick thing in here as I'm really bored. Will post a more detailed TR tomorrow/later tonight when I'm not hungover.

Gonna go back to sweating this Foxwoods 2500 main where a young 2/5 reg I play with a lot is the chip leader. First place 157k omg.

Good luck to you megamillions suckers too.

Peace.

The Old Me
Just read through my thread. Wow. I was terribad when I made this thread judging by some of the HHs I posted early on. I'm still pretty bad but people live are even worse.

One thing I will say about live poker is that it absolutely forces you to think. Very rarely if ever do I ever have the problem of going on autopilot like I did online.

I am playing 1 table, making 1 decision at a time. My entire attention span should be completely dedicated to making that single decision be the best decision possible. It forces me to adjust.

There are a few elements of my game that I feel are probably terrible right now.

#1 being blind vs blind or blind vs button- never happens live
#2 3bet pots- 3 bets are so infrequent.

Meh. When online comes back this is going to be a huge problem for me.

Foxwoods
As I stated in my previous entry I had a great trip this week, +2.2k. Ran great, played pretty well and didn't make any huge mistakes. Really trying to limit my curiosity calls and not pay off nits.

Also had a fantastic meal at Shrine on thursday night.

Usually just get a burger for a few bucks but when I was up 2k I though spending 35$ on sushi wasn't that bad of an idea. It was awesome btw.

Be a Poker Player
One thing about my poker game is that it is not well rounded at all.

I know how to play FR NLHE. That's about it. I struggle 6m, get run over HU and I don't play tournaments.

I absolutely want to learn how to play tournament poker. From what I understand live NLHE tournaments are literally the softest form of poker available.

I have been sweating this Foxwoods 2500main event every few hours (first place 157k) and I want that. I feel like all the people who are legitimately making money at this game are doing it mostly from tournament play. Obviously the variance in tournaments is soul-crushing, but the money just seems to be there.

I got my start in poker playing <10$ SNGs and built my roll playing them (like durrrr ), but I played FR cash online and play FR cash live, that's it. I do not know anything in-depth about tournament play, have a very vague understanding of M-ratio and the value of chips as the tournament progresses. I want to learn though.

I am going to take some of my time that I normally spend reading LLSNL and start to read the tourney forum. I can imagine that my cash background would allow me to beat live tourneys but it seems as though it isn't good BRM for me to be playing 300$ tourneys with a ~10k roll.

I have played one tournament live and I didn't get knocked out either! It was a top 100 player freeroll from Mohegan Sun that I ended up cashing for 500 dollars. The field was probably a lot tougher (lol live) then a normal tournament because it was all regular players (top 100 hour players in the room over a 3mo span). That's the extent of my live tourney experience.

I also don't know any other games. I have an infant understanding of PLO. I understand calling a pot sized bet on a paired board with a 6 high flush is a bad play. I feel very limited.

At foxwoods there is often a big stud game, a big OE game, big mixed limit games. Looking over at the game it doesn't seem like the players involved are all that knowledgeable. There are a few people who probably crush it day in and day it, but my point is that bigger stakes games probably don't always equal unbeatable. If I learned I'm sure I could adjust be ahead of the curve.

I want a big tourney score.

Nice post, good profit live too, keep it up

Nice Little Bankroll Boost
Hit up Foxwoods for 500 on Easter sunday night and monday.

Went up after Easter festivities cause I had the opportunity to get two free rooms so I decided to play all day Monday too.

Game on monday wasn't so bad either because there was this girl who just won like 20k in the Foxwoods Poker Classic sitting on my immediate left. She was drinking and sub sequentially lighting money on fire. Quite nice. My seat sucked but it's whatever, got her to bluff into my nuts (lol) two or 3 times.

This hand was the worst I've ever been owned in a live game though.

Girl in the BB with ~1.4kish
Me in SB with ~850

Few limps I look down at JJ. I decided to limp/rr her here cause she is never not raising after this many limps here, and If someone limp shoves on her I can reliably fold.

She makes it 35, 1 caller to me. I make it 140 and she snap shoves all in for like 700 more.

I tank fold and she shows me



Pretty lol moment, but I didn't tilt and ended up taking her for like 600ish after that.

Not bad considering I started off my trip stuck 1k and ended up leaving +500.

The Morality of Poker

Went to Mohegan sun on Sunday after my baseball games because my mother (a quarter video poker grinder) got a free room.

Played for a little while there and make about 600$ in a 2/5 game.

There was one dude at my table who somehow amassed a stack of about 2.6k and this guy was absolutely hammered. When I had taken my original seat (2 to his left) I had no idea what type of free money fest I was in for. I saw this guy call off 200$ with 82dd and turn a flush against AK. Just sick stuff.

Kind of felt bad for the guy at first because he was so hammered he had no idea how much money he had infront of him (maybe it's not alot for him but I doubt it) and ended up going bust. I was certainly entertaining the guy (he actually turned 2pair on AxxQ vs my AK in a huge pot) and just in general being really friendly to him and his GF cause I wanted them to stay.'

The game was insanely good with this guy there, I ended up taking about 1000 from him after he took 400 from me in the AK hand.

Felt bad for his sober GF watching this and asking him to go with his responses of "stfu" and the like. Oh well, she is probably used to it. She was a solid 8 too. (pics or gtfo)

Delusions

There are a lot of people involved in the poker community of Foxwoods/Mohegan that are completely delusional about their actual winrate/ability to play poker. The staff at the casinos certainly does do a fantastic job of making these guys feel like ballers with infinite poker knowledge.

One thing I will say about a majority of 30ish year old regs is that they love to spread their awesome poker knowledge to everyone, it is terrible for the games.

I recently found out that one of these guys whom does this type of stuff (talk strategy aloud, use the term "soft game" openly... etc) is supposedly a "full-time player". This boggles my mind. How on earth can a guy who overlimps after fish with 1010 on the button play this game for a living. I do not get it.

Playing 45hrs a week and breaking even after comps does not make you a professional. I'm sure the dude owns real estate or some sort of independant/low effort type of business structure that allows him to just play poker all day. It is incredibly tilting to hear these people deem themselves "professionals" because -

1. They don't beat the game.
2. They are bad for the overall health of the game
3. This type of fantasy/degen gambler attitude makes poker generally look bad.

I will never challenge anyone because to be fair I have about a 50ish hour sample with a lot of them so maybe they just tilt easy or something and actually play good in tournaments or whatever they do. Also let them think that they aren't incredibly exploitable. Who cares.

My Monday/Sunday Trip
I went 3/3 on my most recent trip for a total of $1800.

Felt like I played pretty good, also made a concious effort to walk around and drink water. Segmented my sessions too.

I always play better when I don't sit still for 9 hours. Get up and walk around the table every once in a while, makes your back feel better and lets the blood start flowing a little more, it helps, try it.

Considering I started off -400 @ mohegan getting sucked out on by a fish I'de say I turned it around quite nicely.

Getting very close to the 10k profit mark. When I hit it I'll post a plethora of sexy wimmenz for everyone to gawk at.

Oh yeah, and rachel starr is coming to a strip club in my city next month so I will probably drop about 300$ there for 5 mins of her time (if that).

Thanks.

10K 10K 10K 10K 10K 10K HOORAY


Finally got there and it feels good. Major plateau I wanted to cross. I must admit after I was browsing Pokerjournal on the way home from the casino and randomly saw that number I let out a huge "YES" in my car by myself. Was very happy and all my studying has paid off.

Heres some stack pics from the 10k breaking trip. Kinda crushed.




Bart Hanson

Recently subscribed to "Crush Live Poker" by Bart Hanson and I am loving it so. I actually tweeted him the other day about it and he responded thank you which was pretty cool. Highly recommend it to the internet players transitioning to live, or people who make live mistakes like limping too much/getting bored etc. His hand analysis is great and he is a very good speaker. I'm not paid or have any affiliation with him or LATB, just loving the material so far. Never even heard of the guy before I started watching LATB.


Just wanted to throw a quick update in, gotta go for baseball practice now. Thanks to everyone on 2+2 who analyzes posted hands and puts effort into their game which makes everyone around them better. Love 2+2.

Oh yeah.

Best thread im really happy for you keep crushing when you get to 20k post pic of real woman youve obtained stay beasting

Hai 2+2!!!!

Wow. 2+2 finally came back. Feels like the longest 3 weeks ever. This was a classic example of not realizing how much you like something until they take it away. Hopefully noones information gets sold out of whatever and this was just a minor setback that doesn't completely screw a ton of people.

I never realized how much I browse this site until they took it away.

Ballin'
I have hit my biggest upswing yet. North of 5k. Been contemplating making a major purchase (which I did while 2p2 was down). First here's some chip pics from foxwoods.





Been playing and running very well in my opinion. Early in this thread I talking about how I used to mass-multitable nanostakes online and then realized that I was not growing as a player.

The comparison of that scenario to live is to shorten your sessions. Or at least take dinner/walking breaks etc. I play so much better when I get up and walk around for a minute or two every few hours. You don't even have to walk anywhere, oftentimes when I'm carddead or whatever I just get up and walk around the poker room around my table (don't miss a hand) and sit back down. It helps tremondously.

And finally, my proudest moment of my poker career-

Just Ship It.

Here's an image I made one day when I was bored (no 2p2 = this)


Chase dreams, YOLO- as the 13 year old kids on my baseball team say. (You only live once)

White Altima Coupe 3.5L with a technology package.






Considering my old car was a 2000 chevy prizm with a dented hood from an accident at my senior prom, this is quite a step up.

I feel like a lot of people do exactly what soceity tells them to do. College, get some low paying job sweeping a floor up for some idiot who could absolutely care less about you.

I absolutely hated college (i will probably go back and finish just to do it). Dropped out to get a full time job at AT&T, and hated that too.

One thing that stands out in my mind is when I used to blow leaves on a golf course, I made 9 or 10$ an hour (don't remember).

Then I got a job at at&t where I made 15.50 an hour and thought I was an absolute boss. Best paying job I've ever had, by far. The real world, as they call it. That job was an absolute nightmare.

Then I did what I wanted to do. Now I make roughly double what American Telephone and Telegraph were paying me. I wouldn't even consider waking up in the morning to work for under 22$/hr

No matter what you do in life, if you put effort into it it will pay off. I truly, truly believe that. Keep learning and stay hungry.

Nice job, your making monthly payments right? Tint ur windows soon.

Like the car, how much that set you back?

Just read through the enitre thread. Really solid journey that I'm looking to mirror soon. Some inspirational stuff in there. Keep crushing.

Edit - Except I have to drive 3hrs one way for the nearest casino, ugh. The upside being it's Tunica and really soft I hear.

Yeah put down a biggish down payment. Car was like 22k after everything I got.