Played 6 hours at Harrah's, mostly at 2/5, down $449. On the 1/2 Omaha tables, people were shipping 200BB literally every 3rd hand. I am now like, extremely inspired to learn Omaha.

Main hand that's been bothering me: I raise TT from SB over like 5 limpers to 55$, very good player in BB calls. Everyone else folds.

Flop 933

I cbet $95, BB calls. Pot is now roughly $300.

Turn 4, check check.

River 7, I check/call a $125 bet. He has QQ.

Cooler or is river a fold?

Another hand that blew my mind, 3 limpers, I raise 6x with AA. Everyone folds, last guy folds QQ faceup. FUUUUUUUUUUUUU god that tilted me. wtf. aoidfmoidjoktwnoraijasfd. REALLY.

Anyway, I think I will play more tonight like a true workaholic!

St. Louis total: -$398, 13 hours.
Everything total: +$3379, 79 hours.

Saw that hand online all the time. Little more info about villain and his ranges/style might help too. What is his assessment of your image?
Where he is a known good making what seems to be a value bet and I have hindsight because you gave the answer, I say fold. I've called before in that situation though.

Not sure why Mr. QQ threw you off so much - were people constantly flatting large raises pf? Was it because he acted Hollywood? Gotta have thicker skin than that my friend

Wouldn't worry about the QQ hand.

Someone folded KK to me last week. He folded it faceup (I 4bet AKs 90BBs effective). I showed a king and he started tilting.

Thanks for the comments, guys!

It wasn't a large raise, it was a single standard 6x raise over 3 limpers, no 3 bet or anything, and he folds QQ. He is obliterating my range there... soul read I guess? Ah well.

In the hand where I had TT, villain probably views me as a decent LAG. I'm fairly certain villain is a pro. I'm not gonna worry about it too much, seems kind of standard although it's true that in hindsight I think he's never bluffing for 1/3 pot there (I thought maybe he put me on AK... lol). It was also my second losing session ever so that hand bothered me more than otherwise.

HOWEVER- I just played 4 hours at 1/3 at the Lumiere and was up $603. So, if I cheat and count the whole of today as an entire session, I didn't actually lose, right?

Nothing too interesting at the Lumiere, biggest pot I won was against some guy who paid off my somewhat-poorly played flush for his entire stack with AA after he leveled himself. Only play I really regretted was bombing a 3 bet pot with AA on AQJ instead of betting a bit lighter, SPR of ~2. Villain claims to have TT and probably wouldn't have called anything reasonable anyway if she's telling the truth, but I still felt terrible for like 30 minutes after that hand.

St. Louis total: $205, 17 hours.
Everything total: $3982, 83 hours.

Also, I'm considering playing in the WSOP circuit main event at 1600 buy-in. Anyone want to buy a $100 share (no markup/markdown)?

Cool thread, keep it up!

The day that you stop running is the day that you arrive.

This song really speaks out to me. I "worked" 23 hours in the past two days and I feel GREAT. Hell I put worked in quotes because it's actually play, except you also get money. Cool! In comparison, if I had to do 23 hours of bioinformatics in two days, I would be in a "kill me now god" mood.

I was at extremely fishy tables today (I watched 2 guys split a $300 pot with ten high... one had T6 the other had T9, all in preflop for 50+ bb each, what), but ran pretty card dead. Played 9 hours of 1/3 for a grand total of.... $21! 2bb/100 isn't a bad winrate if you look at it with the right perspective, right? Interestingly, I seem to be really good at barely dodging losing days at least, still only at one of those despite being really close a couple times now.

I was up like $500 but then I ran top pair, trips, and two pair into 3 different sets within a 30 minute span However, I lost minimum on pretty much every hand, checking behind on the river possibly thanks to recently listening to Bart Hanson's Why So Much. All the hands I can think of from today are just stupid sick hands like the one at the top of the previous paragraph where I folded 73o preflop. I started to write about some but they're really just dumb. Anyway yea needless to say I am disappointed I could not capitalize at a freaking seafood buffet today, but you can't run good forever.

I also played in a $120 buyin 16 man tournament (practice for WSOP-C main event if I do choose to play that), I played well the whole way through IMO but busted in 6th.

So... I'm just going to track my STL total because adding is hard, then calculate the everywhere total after each city. I'm gonna exclude tournament from this for now, but for the record I am -$120 in tournaments.

St Louis total: $226, 26 hours.

@slowking: thanks!

I think maybe it can negatively affect your play to think of dodging losing days because you might play unwisely when you are down near the end of a session trying to make it back, or playing too timidly when you are slightly up at the end of a session jmo

the 1010 hand, river is either a check and a fold or a bet and fold to a raise. If you do bet the river, i'd bet it for around 135$.

Vs a tight reg i'd c/f the river, vs bad players i'd bet/f the river. Majority of the time im going to bet the river as we should get called by all 9's, 66/88/AK.

hihi garcia!

I was checking to induce on that hand, I snapcalled there but then it bothered me for awhile afterwards. Thanks for the comments.

Today I played 7 hours and was up $1252! Some big hands: 1) Lost a $600 pot all in on the flop on a K53 board with two spades with AK vs T9. 2) I raised on the button with 55 and stacked Q8 on a Q85 board for a $900 pot (I bet/3bet on the flop, he called leaving a bit behind on the turn). 3) Hit 77 on a 752 board in a limped pot, some guy leads for 10, 3 people call, I make it 50 (MAYBE too small?). One caller, he calls my PSB on the turn T basically all in. He didn't show but I'm guessing he had like A7 or like KK or something based on his reaction.

To make good on my promise to improve on ranging, here was one interesting hand I won for a $900 pot. I straddle on button for $9 with 58, 3 callers. Flop comes 567, I bet $30 after it's checked to me. 1 caller (old retired guy, but a gambler type). Turn is a 9. I bet $70 into $105, villain checkraises to $150. I flat. River is 9, villain leads out for $250. So, I think 5 years ago I may have said "I haz straight" and call, 2 years ago I might have said no old guy is bluffing this river and snapfolded, but his line made zero sense. A set isn't smooth calling that flop then raising the turn. Leading the river there I suppose COULD be someone overvaluing a straight (which I don't think he does), but I'm almost certain he has air. I call and he shows K2.

Interestingly enough, as I mentioned on my birthday post that you can actually play on the Oaklawn tables for 100% free by dodging the blinds, you can also choose to dodge the blinds in STL and instead of posting dead money and missing the button like you would online, you can come back in as a button straddle. Fairly certain this is +EV given how passive games are preflop, but obviously I won't abuse it because that would be silly.

Also another funny story about the straddle in STL. You can do it from anywhere, and action starts to your left- near the end of my session the guy to my right straddled every single hand, effectively making me preflop UTG every hand. I knew I was leaving soon so I didn't care but damn, this seems very -EV for me!

Hm some other amusing stories at the tables, another guy played with 1 out of his two cards revealed (showed preflop!) for like 30 hands in a row, was hilarious. He also tried to make a chip tower after he won the $600 pot from me with T9, of all reds so 100+ chips. It stayed up for a few minutes before falling over.

St Louis total: $1478, 33 hours.

How is this even legal? And btw is your table WITH live straddle or do people just straddle because they want to? Where I play we got 2 tables, 1 where straddling is allowed and 1 where you can also straddle but only if every person on the table agrees with it.

With this being said, being able to straddle from anywhere I would say something about this because it seems super unrealistic and completely ruins the aspect of position doesn't it?

you quit a 6 figure job at 23 to grind poker. hmm. Thats a risky move man. I hope its working out. Whats your profits so far? You can tell them I'll fill your spot lol

Remember he can just go back to it if he fails at poker. Its a nice safety net to have behind you.

If you work hard enough to get to the 100k/year job then I think you deserve a chance to follow your dream.

@Hicham009: Hah, well it's legal here in St. Louis on any table, it's called "Mississippi Straddle" if you want to google it. The majority of players aren't thinking about position anyway, but rather if a straddle for $8 or $11 is more likely to bring them pocket aces

Which is good for me of course. I was talking to a friend and mentioned how different it feels when you sit down at a table and people are talking about bankroll, fold equity, and ranges compared to lucky seats, cards that have been flopping often, and how pocket jacks is the worst hand in poker. The latter really makes the former feel like a waste of time.

But yea the guy was nice, someone else at the table pointed out how it was hurting me by him straddling every hand and he said he would stop, but I told him "hey do whatever you want, I don't mind." However I definitely would not play a long period of time in that situation because it is terribly -EV to act first preflop every hand.

@pls try to bluf: it's at the bottom of like almost every post I've made in this thread but roughly 50/hr over 100 hours-ish.

Sorry didn't see that. & totally agree

gl man