All the games randomly stopped tonight at ~3:00 am PST which was pretty weird. Sucks - games were good and wanted to keep playing. Anyway, results:

Edit: Ignition update software and got rid of lobby. I'm sure the Ignition/Bovada thread will be abuzz w/ ppl talking about it in short order. Seems ****ty.

Playing at Hollywood Park tonight and probably over the next several days. If any of you are gonna be here too feel free to send me a PM

anybody know a good app to recommend for tracking live results? I use a droid not iphone

for droid i prefer "poker agent"

imo overall a little bit better than "poker income" which is more popular,especially that it's possible to back up to google drive,always had problems with the connection to the "poker income" backup servers :/

Hey just found this thread. Glgl. You should hit up the live games more often. Cali has some of the softest games in the world. Take advantage of that.

Good looking out man - I downloaded it. back-up to google drive is perfect

Agreed, esp LA - love this live scene. A lot of other places I've played live have been way nittier and low action, with Vegas being the nut low. I'm trying to change the online:live ratio from last year's 80:20 to more 70:30 or 65:35 for this year. But I def wanna keep online as the main one though, because of the experience from 8x the hands/hr and higher difficulty level is much better for my continued development.

Hey what's happening guys. Had a couple great online sessions since the last update (results below) but also played 30 hours of live poker since last Wednesday so the online volume took a hit past week.

Been running pretty **** at live so down a few hundred bucks at live for the month. But I also have a lot of work I need to do on my live game and the adjustments from online --> live. Some of that ranges from super basic stuff like opening too wide because I am getting bored w/ 1/8th as many hands per hour (dumb I know - correcting it) to adjusting with the SPRs. For example, standard opens are 2.5-3 bb online and in LA live poker I'm often opening 7-10 bb and getting multiple(!) callers. So basically opening $35-$50 at the $5/$5 game. Naturally, postflop the SPR ratios are totally out of whack from what I am used and some scenarios that are "standard" decisions online are throwing me off in live due to much higher pot and earlier commitment points. I mean I could write extensively about the areas where I need to make adjustments but those are a few of the major ones off top of my head.

With regards to posting my results from online, I think I am going to keep doing it until the month is finished and from then I'll likely just post the graph or results for the total month at month-end. Not sure that anybody cares about my day to day results and it's not something I should be focusing on myself too much either.

Lastly - workout goals are going great! I'm down 6 lbs and have been good about hitting the gym 5x a week. I am on week 6 so I am averaging -1 lb/week. Each work-out basically consists of burning 700 calories on the elliptical which usually takes me 50-54 minutes depending on intensity. 1 lb = 3500 calories, so my current results have me on right on pace for what I expected for going 5x a week

So below is the total month breakdown from April. Shot taking at 400nl went good, def helped by some rungood and hoping to continue the upward momentum and establishing myself at that stake in May and the coming months.

Total hours played online was just 52. I also played live poker for 51.5 hours, but I ran horrendously and ended up -$1,134 overall in live poker for April. Study-wise I got just 12 hours in which I definitely want to double in May as well as increase my total hours of poker played. This month I'm going to really focus on playing online way more than live, maybe even exclusively. My # goal at the moment continues to be to successfully be at 1knl online by year end, so I will be adjusting my focus accordingly.

As I mentioned last post, I will no longer be posting day-to-day session updates but I will be updating the thread in other ways. Good luck to you all this month and let's get it!

w t f bitcoin. on the most unreal run past week. hell, past year. I almost bought some when it was $930ish for a hot sec several weeks ago too. fml

ya, it's real smart to invest in things you know basically nothing about

What's up guise. It's been a really rough week. I've worked very hard on my mental game the past year, including meditating 10-15 minutes a day, every day. That being said, I still have my occasional slip-ups. This week, however, I seemed to just fallen off the rocker. I spewed at a rate I haven't seen in over 6 months. It culminated at one point last night, where I spewed 100bb full stacks in back to back spots (within 3 hands). Full spews guise - I might as well have lit the $800 on fire or at least blown it at a ****ing strip club and had some fun memories with friends to show for it.

It's the strangest thing because it seemed so sudden but overtook me with great force. I can lose to coolers and I can lose to runbad and it sucks but I get over it; it's out of my control. But nothing depresses me more than money lost where I knew better - where I knew not to click call or not to click bet but I did anyway. I tried to look deep within me and identify some causes and came up with several leaks that I have been aware of but not doing enough to fix. I'll list one example of a prominent one - I try to bluff whales too much, contrary to the classic proverb of not overbluffing fish. These ****ing incredible idiots fun players just aren't thinking clearly enough about the game, ranges, or probability at the level needed for some of my bluffs to get through as often as they do vs reggies.

In the search for fixing tilt and bad calls, one of the best pieces of advice came from a friend of mine who is currently a resident in psychiatry. He identified that the main component in all of my bad decisions were that they were snap "click-back" decisions. As those of you who have read up on mental game know, initial reactions are often reptilian "fight or flight" in the amygdala region of our brain and these snap reactions are primitive and not logical and reasoned. All of these bad decisions were trapped in that initial primitive phase. I always make better decisions when I take my time to think through the pieces of the puzzle. Anyway, I consciously decided to make that effort for every big decision in tonight's session and it went much better. It hurts that after so much work in this area I still have the occasional slip through, but it's something I always have to keep front of mind. If I'm facing a big bet or decision, take a deep breath, gather thoughts and analyze. No snap decisions when it comes to big decisions. Think straight. Think clear. Think slowly.

Poker for a living isn't easy and it's riddled with trials, learning, and humbling moments. I think you have to do your best and catch yourself when you feel like you're not. These moments suck and they remind me how of long a road I have ahead of me, but they also serve to make me better going forward.

GL today, let's get it

Is this a standard float on the turn with the flush draw and we turn the gutter?

vs 28/26/10 reg

^yea I think it's pretty standard. Folding 88-99, calling with 55,TT, Jx, sets, 67, FD's.

How are you guys playing this hand? Both callers had reggish type stats

e-z fold ott

I like check/calling flop. We are going to be betting our QQ+, some of our Jacks, and a few bluffs.

I think this hand plays better as a check so we can have a checking range that isn't super weak. Also check some Jx hands as well so we have some relatively strong hands when we check.

dang this thread caught aids. Does 2p2 still allow threadsavers? maybe some stacked cuties can bring it back to life

On a sidenote, I'm driving out to Vegas June 1st - 9th to play the side games for Colussus which starts the 2nd. Cash games supposedly really good during it. I'll be going with my buddy who was a Vegas live pro who recently moved to LA to grind the games out here. If any of y'all are gonna be out there too feel free to shoot me a PM

alright I'll post some sexy pots from last night. altho i think there's only 2? and if that doesn't work, **** it, I'm posting threadsavers.

First one was deep vs a 48/17 whale through 67 hands. turn is #goals. he's a whale so the whole "overpairs lose a lot of value when deep" concept went right over his head when he tries to go for a 400bb pot with AA #greed

Second hand is a great example on using blockers/card removal to make 'tough' choices easier. In SB we flat what is almost otherwise always a std 3bet because we want to keep the moron in BB in. His value range on flop is A3, A7, 33 and 77 and his bluffs are mostly flush draws. That river is sweet as **** as it counterfeits A3, and is a big card removal factor for A7 and 77.

Third hand was just incredibly close. Villain had reg stats through 17 hands. I think 3 factors made me call turn here. The first is that a 2x overbet ai on turn is always going to be suspicious to some extent (although there's 2 flush draws on the board, which makes such a play way more justified for value). The second is that precisely because there is 2 flush draws, he theoretically has that many more bluffs. The fact that the turn completes a straight for T9s further complicates our decision - he could easily be a nitfish super scared of the two draws and goin for it, lest he suck out. Regardless, we had 31%ish vs overpairs and needed just 40% to breakeven. I think the overbet (bluffy factor) + all the draws out here justified our play but I literally tanked til the last second. The other inconsistency is that he bets small on flop which is wildy inconsistent with a solid plan to jam turn. (P.S. seeing his actual hand was hilarious. He actually started abusing me in the chat for the call, too)

i bet you'd get more responses itt if you did less lecturing about uninteresting hands and more talking about the 1%er who threatened ur life the other day

Yo im in.

I play same stakes. GL

I've been following. Im a micro grinder in Ignition. Your thread is inspiring and results impressive

cool little update from Vegas - played a $22 satellite on wsop.com for Colussus and binked! Playing it today at 4 pm PST. Will need all the run good I can get

Aside from that, spent the first night drinking, relaxing, trolling the strip. But was back to business after that. 1-4 on my cash sessions but up overall


lfg!

What's goodie! Vegas was a blast. But definitely was half vacation half work. Coming from an environment of being cooped up in my room on a computer, I might never understand how the Vegas live pros do it with all the distractions.

Regardless, returned to LA this past Tuesday and been on a bit of a live heater. HPC and Hustler have been v good to me. I'll be clear that even though I think I have a lot of room for improvement, and at times I feel like I outright suck at poker, I am clearly miles above LA live poker. It's safe to say that even the bulk of the LA 'pros' are fish to me. It's pretty remarkable tbqh, esp after another dosage of live Vegas.

Here on out, I will def be mixing more live poker in. I have my sights set on 20/40 Commerce and 1kNL ignition. Gonna do everything in my power to successfully transition over to both or take a page out of 50's debut album

quick update. having a really strong month, mostly fueled by live. have about 120 hours of live and 30 online this month so far. making a big push tonight and tomorrow to wrap it up. live went so well I am gonna keep riding the momentum into July and see what happens.