Decided to play the $55 PLO SCOOP, the big $44, the hot $33 and a €50 15k on Winamax. ~1hr later and I'm out of everything except the big $44. Also managed to lose close to $400 in cash games in zero seconds, and then my internet died. So all in all a pretty fun Sunday so far.

Currently one-tabling the $44 on my laptop while watching Silicon Valley. Might try to fire up some cash tables and maybe play another couple of MTTs in a bit, but nothing tilts me more than internet issues so I prob won't.

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Ended up booking my biggest losing day online in quite some time. -$1258 (only ~$350 in MTT losses). Ran horrendously obviously but zzz what'cha gonna do. Days like this honestly make me super thankful I've made good choices/made sure I've got a solid career. A day like this instantly kills any sort of idea I might have about doing this full time.

On a side note, I'm planning on moving most of my euro site roll over to PP, so we'll see how that goes. The software's terrible but I like the idea of decent rb and fast fold games.

Kind of torn about this. The NL100 games on PP are quite ridiculous. There are practically zero recs, and you're basically just surrounded by the same wonderful Russian/Belarusian hybrids on every table. Just seeing someone from Russia/Belarus snap-tilts me to oblivion at this point.

Anyway, the edges are obviously tiny and the variance is lol-i-wanna-die massive, not exactly a source of happiness or w/e. While I do enjoy competition in poker, I think I enjoy steady profit/relatively stress-free games more. I'm considering just throwing in the towel when it comes to the NL100 fast fold games, and focusing completely on my soft online games and live poker. A bit meh since I like the format, but having to spend another day playing against 5 Russians on every table might be more than I can handle on a bunch of different levels.

Anyway, change of pace tomorrow, live poker. Not sure how I'm doing this month exactly after the last few days of Eastern European torment, but I'm prob up ~$1500 or so. Got like 30 hours of live poker left this month so there's still time to fix that though.

Ended up taking the day off yesterday. Basically felt hungover when I woke up, which typically happens after a few days of running bad online (#strongmentalgame), so I figured staying home and getting a billion hours of sleep would be better.

Today's gonna be a huge live day, and I'll be going to the casino in 2-3 hours. I've really felt like playing since the second I woke up though, so I put in a shortish Party session just now, and managed to book a win. Bring out the champagne. With rb included I'm only down a couple of buy-ins overall now on Party, so that's a bit of a miracle. AlwaysMars - Stalin 1-0. A couple of hands:

Reasonable turn.



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You're looking at the newly-elected mayor of turn city.



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Sadly May's gonna be my worst month of the year in terms of results. I'm not sure exactly how bad it is since I've been playing on two different computers and I can't access my main PC right now, but I'm close to b/e (probably up $200 or so). So yeah, not the end of the world obviously, but it still hurts since I was past +$3k at one point.

Anyway, live poker this weekend was an absolute horrorshow from start to finish. I went through extremely long stretches where I didn't pick up any playable hands, and while it's super standard it kind of got to me after a while. I ran horribly overall, but I definitely threw away some money by playing poorly too.

Also, something that truly bothers me live more than anything is constant straddling and the fact that most regs encourage it/insist on doing it. I simply don't get why. All it does is minimize edges by essentially changing what's a 150bb-250bb game into a 75bb-125bb one. This would be fine in an online setting, but the problem here is that it doesn't really affect people's lol-live sizings (in terms of bbs) since people still 4-8x and go for massive 3bets. So yeah, fun times when the SPR is always gonna be stupidly low and there's not much room for post-flop play. I find this incredibly tilting, and I definitely played suboptimally/had trouble adjusting and lost money as a result.

In total I lost about $1400 over ~20 hours of live play. And I ended up breaking even online after booking a $350 win yday and a $600 loss today.

Gonna take a few days to clear my head and not play a single hand. Going to study hard and especially focus on potential leaks in the fast fold games since I'm really struggling there. Not throwing in the towel just yet.

Straddle = someone puts 1 big blind with 100% range and playes from worst position postflop. Always good for the rest of the table.

1bb?

haha yeah and then the dealer says 1 more please.

While it's obviously good for the reason you point out, I don't think it makes up for the reduction in overall edge (not really sure whether this is true in terms of actual EV, but the consequences of people straddling are pretty clear (having to adjust your ranges in a bunch of spots/having far less maneuverability in every way etc.)). The edge when playing deep NL is just so massive that I'm not really interested in giving any of it up for a more swingy, far less interesting game.

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So, I'm glad to have left May behind me and I'm really really gonna work super hard in every way this month. I've only got 3 work days left, and then I've got the rest of June and a decent bit of July off. The goal this month is 150 hours. So far I've put in 10 live hours, and a couple of online sessions, and I'm currently up $945.

I've also decided I'm prob just gonna gg PP, since I'd rather focus on main site where I just cannot stop winning for some reason. I honestly just don't see how you can get more than ~2bb/100 in the NL100 PP games, and the swings that come with such a low wr just don't really interest me. I'll probably put some money back onto my previous EU site instead, since I can actually win there at a much healthier bb/100.

And I'm off work for a month. Tonight will be my first poker session since last weekend - time to start grinding hard.

I've also been seeing a girl from Tinder, and I'm pretty torn as to whether it's a good idea to keep going. She's young (only 19), blonde, half-Russian, incredibly hot, but there are some pretty major red flags when it comes to her personality. But yeah, I basically can't help myself. The logical/rational part of me's telling me to wrap this up somehow, but I somehow doubt that's what I'll end up doing for a number of fairly obvious reasons.

Post pics and the internet will help you decide.

Pleasant little session - 8 hours of play, +$1402. My table was just, yeah, words cannot describe how alive and well live poker is. The month's at +$2347 now.

Haha. Was actually gonna post a pic, but I feel like it might not be worth getting stabbed over.

Was away Mon-Thurs doing family stuff, so I haven't been able to play too much this week. Anyway, as soon as I got back yesterday I played a bit online and ended up booking a smallish $116 win.

Today I went to the casino, and the plan was to play for 8-10 hours, but I ended up leaving after ~3 hours. There was only one table going for some reason, and once the only real whale at the table left it wasn't really worth sticking around. Anyway, I ran hot and managed to book a $1146 win (1. got it in w/ 55 on 259ssx vs the ^ whale who had 9Jo (classic GII spot 200bb eff.), 2. went for a x/r /w KTss on A673xxss (MP opened and I defended my BB, flop went x/x) and got there, 3. EP opens and I 3bet AKo OTB, he 4bets, I flat, flop comes A48r and he puts in a massive 80% c-bet (lol), I call, turn Q x/x, blank river, he checks, I bet ~25% pot and he calls after tanking for a bit).

The month's at ~+$3609. Time to step things up in terms of volume.

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Subbed! Just binged the thread, keep up the good work.

Super slow day atm. Lying in bed and I wouldn't mind staying in this exact spot all day.

The Russian girl came over last night, so I didn't play any poker. Was gonna play during the day, but apparently making sure my apartment isn't a total mess takes quite some time. Who would've thought.

The plan for today and most of next week (Mon-Wednes) is to play live poker, so approx. 36 hours of live play over the next few days. Thursday will be an online day, and on Friday I'm going to Germany. I'll be back earlyish on Sunday though, so I'll definitely play poker then in some form unless I'm a corpse.

Glad you're enjoying it.

Just got back home. 8 hours of play, +$1263, which means the month's at ~+$4872. Spent most of the session trying to dig myself out of a small hole, but then I got to make a few decent hands vs the worst players at the table.

The hand that made the night: I open QQ in the HJ, SB (rec) flats, BB defends. Flop QJ7ddd, x x I bet 75% pot and get x/raised by SB, BB folds and I flat. The turn is a dreamy 7, he fires again, I call. The river's the 4 of spades, and he bet/calls my jam, says "wow sick" or something along those lines and shows 52dd. 650 bb pot.

Back at it tomorrow.

Didn't play at all yesterday. I went to the casino, but they couldn't get anything higher than €1/€1 going for some reason. I even tried to start a table myself quite desperately, but no luck.

Today was more fun in terms of action. 8ish hours, +$125. I was down around $450 until the very last hand of the night, when the following happened: a couple of limpers, I raise it up w/ KQhh OTB, both limpers call. Flop QJss4x, x x and I c-bet big, one limper sticks around (massive fish). Turn 8h, x I bet and he calls. River 8d, x I jam and he calls pretty quickly w/ Q6cc. ~$1150 pot.

On a slightly more interesting note, H@££INGGOL (https://www.highstakesdb.com/profile...%A3INGGOL.aspx) was sitting at the table next to mine all night playing HSPLO. Almost on the same level as running into Viktor Blom basically.

Are you based in Europe? For some odd reason I always thought you played from Canada.

Just read entire thread. Pretty positive he's in Europe because when he mentioned his job offer, he said that he would be in Europe.

Might be wrong :P

Great thread man, I like your mindset and I wish I could play 100NL online + live for a living

I am, yeah. In Sweden to be exact.

Thanks!

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Yesterday's live session wasn't overly eventful. Ended up losing back what I won the day before (so $120 or so). Couldn't get much going and ran poorly in a bunch of spots, but I'd say I played well overall. Not much you can do/these sessions are inevitable when you're getting dealt such a lolworthy # of hands per hour and session (probably averaging <20 hands an hour since most of the dealers at my casino shouldn't be dealing cards for a living).

Today will be a big online day; aiming for 6-7 hours. Been a while since I put in a proper online session, so it should be fun.

Stopping/taking a break after 4 hours, so I didn't quite hit my 6-7 hour goal.
+$347 on my main site, and I also played a couple of tables on my old EU site (where I'm playing again after ditching PP):



So, +$505 in total. I did get pretty tilted at one point though, but it had nothing to do with the actual game. I managed to get a seat at an absolutely amazing NL600 table (just a couple of mediocre regs + 3 absurdly ridiculous whales, basically too good to be true in 2017), but for some reason I got disconnected after a few hands, and only from that table - the others were fine. Makes total sense.

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Flying to Düsseldorf tomorrow, gonna be good. The weather's amazing and there's obviously no shortage of beer in good ol' Deutschland. Pretty much planning on drinking all of it, gl me.

Have fun! Take lots of pics for us who are still stuck at work.

In, love the thread and the format in which you update!
Actually plan on copying a bit for my upcoming trip to Lille, hope you don't mind

A couple of questions, since you live and play in sweden and I planned on going there for 2 weeks in october:
What casino do you play at? How do they rake and what games run there?
Also in general what is the cost of life? (the price of a cappuccino should give me a good idea)
Any restaurants that are musts?

Keep it up and keep crushing! (and you swedes have no right to complain about russians and actually gotta start sharing your secrets with the rest of us dreamers sooner or later, we wanna make some munny too )

Ok, god, time for an update. I've literally been living and breathing live poker since the minute I got back from Germany, so I haven't had much time for 2+2/anything else in life. I guess I'll start with the results for June.

Live results



And in case you're unfortunate enough not to be familiar with the glorious currency that is the Swedish crown,

Net result: $6981
Net hourly: $85

Only managed to put in ~81 hours though, but I'm still pretty happy with it all things considered.

NL100-200 online (6m & FR)

+$1128 over a total of 4 sessions (#grindcity).

Total results - June: +$8109

Not sure whether this is my biggest month this year, but it's certainly my biggest live month at least. Not by a huge margin or anything, but still.

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So, a super quick TR/summary of last weekend. It was definitely a fun trip overall, and it's always nice with a change of scenery. Weekend trips are pretty exhausting though for obvious reasons, and I was completely dead by the time I got back on Sunday (didn't stop me from going straight to the casino from the airport though (..and booking a $1k loss due to poor play/playing corpse poker)).

I was gonna post a picture of myself, but I don't really wanna go full ****** wrt outing myself. But yeah, basically ended up doing a bunch of this:



and this:



Good times.

Glad you like it. I play at Casino Cosmopol, which is the only casino you're gonna find here (state-run, monopoly etc.). There are a total of 4 casinos in Sweden, and you'll find one in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Sundsvall.

NL10/10 (~€1/€1) and NL25/25 (~€2.5/€2.5) run daily, and for PLO it's the same except ~€5/€5 runs as well. The max buy-in is 200 bb.

The 10/10 games are raked at 10%, capped at €10. 25/25 is 5% capped at €10. So stay away from 10/10 basically.

As for the cost of living, it's quite high compared to pretty much anything. Whenever this topic comes up people love bringing up the Big Mac index, so I guess you could take a look at it here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-for-a-big-mac.

I wouldn't know where to start with the restaurant question haha, sorry. There's a ton of good information online though obviously.

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I was gonna post a few hands too, but this post is already too much of an essay. I'll make another post later today or tomorrow instead.

Went to Europe for the first time Sept 16 and stopped by Norway/Sweden/Finland. Beautiful country, although the cured fish takes some time to get used to.