Going on air LATB in 5 minutes!

U got me again for the first hour gl gl

What are your thoughts on chopping? Obviously the rake is pretty high and most players will take offense to declining to chop. What is +ev? Also, how much longer do you plan to stay in LA?

Finally had a chance to read your thread. It took alot of courage to quit your job but few people have the ability to do so. Congrats on the heater although clearly you are a solid player.

Wasnt watching very closely so I am not sure about gameflow and dynamics, but that A2o float on 976 is probably too wide to be floating

yea that hand was a disaster- I'll tell you about the gameflow/dynamics. The gameflow/dynamics was: this guy is never going to fold ever, and I tried to bluff him. Yea.

On the bright side, I convinced him to play HU with me after the show ended and stacked him for $600 in about 5 hands.

Re: chopping. Ummm I dunno. A lot of people in LA don't chop, but since I've played mostly in the midwest where 99% of players chop I just have the habit of it. It's not a big deal either way I figure.

I played the freeroll and busted within like 3 minutes. I was warned that if you want to win, you have to stay until like 5 AM and hell no I was not doing that. I triple barreled on T963T or something can't remember vs. some lady for my entire stack (150bb) with KJ and she snapcalled every street with 88.

Thanks for the comments!

Overall I ended up down $673 in 8 hours.

LA total: $28207, 159 hours.

I had on in the background started watching wen u 3bet j5off n got some folds, saw u call the turn with KQ drawing dead then get doubled up with q8. Although you drowned with a2 bluff (i stopped watching shortly after cos I fell asleep) I felt you could definitely could get the better of the table and there were definitely guys paying off so was wondering why you reloaded so short, like if you were kinda tilted or thought you were playing bad you should've left. But if you wernt and had a clear mind and were ready to crush then deeper would have been the way to go.

I reload short whenever I'm in EP, and top off whenever it hits my button, haha.

Phone update. Just made a horrible river call on Q52K3 with K5 (I raised pre) where villain is only repping KQ. Obv he had it. Sigh.

Tuchman was saying you would never fold a full house in PLO and that you are aggressive preflop but not post flop, made me laugh among other comments. It was cool railing you in LATB.

fun thread, u wanted to win at least $15 hourly and now ur getting at least $ 100 hourly

stupid ass pointless rant: My entire 5/10 NLHE table flipped out at me because I left to go play PLO, saying "why start the game if you're gonna leave in 30 minutes". I explained how the game started without me, I wasn't even on the list, and I just sat down because there were multiple open seats, and if I wasn't there at all they wouldn't be better off. However they wouldn't have any of it... the only response I remember is an older reg who usually is really friendly telling me "anything you say won't change how I feel". Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I messed around in 20/40 limit for a bit and lost $300 in standard spots. /shrug

In PLO I got it in with KJT9 on AQ6r and lost vs AQxx. Went home after.

Played 5 hours and was down $1500 total.

LA total: $26707, 164 hours.

Wow NLHE PLO and LHE all in one day. Do you have a favorite game or do you just sit in whatever looks the best?

I don't play LHE at all. In fact this is my 2nd experience, you can read about my delightful introduction to limit here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=147

As for today, I was playing 6 handed and probably slightly better than breakeven EV at the table vs 4 decent/good players and 1 guy who was calling everything without looking at his cards.

Re: my schedule. I typically get to Bike around noon, play NLHE until the PLO game starts at 3:00 or so, then play that until I go home. I'm sure you've heard limon yelling "game of the future!" jokingly but it really has a lot of truth to it, the majority of the regs have no clue wtf they're doing.

For example, on Tuesday's LATB show, I value shove the river on 943T5r with 44xx, one guy calls (with A2xx unfortunately for me), and the last guy overcalls with 93xx (this is like a $2000 or so pot at 5-5). That was pretty ridiculous, but not so ridiculous that I don't see something similar on a daily basis. In the NLHE equivalent, if you witness a guy overcall a river shove after 2 other guys are all in with bottom pair, that's like a once per lifetime occurrence.

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Anyway, I went back to the Bike to talk about potential employment possibilities, if I help them start a 2-2 PLO game every single day I could get a percentage of the drop. Played about 3 hours NLHE while I was there, 4 handed almost the entire time. Was OK, other players were decent. I experimented with some stuff I don't usually do (flatting a wide preflop range instead of my usual aggressive dead-money style of 20% 3-bet/80% fold with "decent" hands like A4s, floating a lot postflop, etc.). I wasn't too fond of any of the changes, my very uncoventional traditional approaches still seem to work the best for me.

If anyone caught the edit, I decided against posting *it*. For now, anyway. Sorry.

Was up $93 in 3 hours.

LA total: $26800, 167 hours.

2-2 PLO would be great!! That's about as big as i would be able to play so good luck on getting that started. Not sure how much info you can give away but is this game anywhere close to actually being spread or is more of just preliminary talks?

And i saw that hand on LATB, the guy who overcalled with 2 pair said it was his first time playing PLO i think, but he's a fish in NLHE too from what i have seen

Move up to where they respect your raises IMO

I honestly have no clue what the timeline is at this point. However like I said if I do get part of the drop, I'll be doing something similar that limon does and reward the regulars with cash rakeback/free massages/alcohol/getting up for them when the table is full. What's really the most important thing in getting the game off the ground is a group of like ~15 people who come in almost daily, so if you know people who can help here, that'd be awesome.

Yea I've played PLO with that guy before. It was like his second time, the first time he was the guy I wrote about who limp/called literally 50 hands straight, then when 3-betting/4-betting happened he folded AAKTds preflop (and it was correct as someone else had aces). He's the guy I played HU after and stacked immediately.

really tired right now so just a results update. Played 7 hours and was down $60.

LA total: $26740, 174 hours.

headed to Bike now, most likely will play LATB tonight (on air at 7:30 pacific)

You continue to inspire, Aesah. Thank you for taking the time to post your adventures!

I'm on LATB (5-5 NLHE) in 40 mins!

Down $1500 in PLO, mostly by making the #1 most common PLO mistake of putting money in the pot when you do not hold the nuts. Sigh.

Up $715 from LATB despite misplaying literally every single river. So down $785 total, in 7 hours.

In other news, I've been trying hard to put some non-poker stuff in my life:
-Making progress on that 2-2 PLO game @ the Bike (ok this isn't non-poker)
-had a pretty good date last night but the girl is probably too busy/lives too far for it to work out between us... hmmm... will see where that goes.
-I also have an interview with Riot Games on Friday!!! Not sure what I'll do if I get accepted tbh since I'm REALLY excited about working on the 2-2 PLO game
-Going to my first home game ever this Sunday. Apparently it's at a mansion where Hollywood stars rent rooms for $30k/night. This is literally an unfathomable rate to me.

LA total: $25955, 181 hours.

That's awesome about the riot games interview. Congrats. I really think that esports may really take off in the coming years and LoL is the front runner for that.

tyty. It's actually an informal "interview" but in my opinion that's even better. I might just be naive/overconfident but I really feel if I can just chat with some guys they will see that I'm awesome, whereas in a more formal setting they're gonna ask me lame questions about my relevant background (which is almost exclusively working on David Sirlin's Puzzle Strike as an unpaid fan, but got my name on the product for my contributions.)

Best post i've read today

gl op. just did a little math and if you were working 40hrs a week every week and made 120k/yr youre hourly rate would be $57/hr. Making $25955 in 181 hours, your hourly rate is $143/hr! Youre doing well!