I subbed the original thread and I'll sub to this one as well. I still cant tell if this is just a very long winded trolling or if you have just embellished upon actual events or not. I am hoping the latter and that you haven't done most of the things you have said you've done. Nonetheless, I do hope the best for you and look forward to the craziness that is sure to ensue! Play well!

GL! been following for awhile keep it up and congrats

It's been the coldest in So Cal in the last 10+ years that I can remember. Last winter was warm.

Good Luck

haha that’s a good question. To your first question, it’s a no, I don’t usually play scared. The buy in is 200, so that’s the most I can lose per buy-in. The only time I’ve played “scared” money, imo, is when I’ve built up to a large amount, lets say 1k+, and some guy puts me to the test for like $700 ai. I mean it’s a lot of money, and I usually don’t try to be in that spot too often, I usually cash out before this happens. But every once in a blue moon, the game is so good that I have to stay the whole night. This happened to me about 2 months ago I believe, when I had an overpair of tens on a 6 high board, and some guy 3-bet me all in for $700. I end up folding, and he shows an over pair of sevens, which I beat.

For your example, “Like 4 betting pushing all in on the river with nothing that sort of thing?”
I have never found a spot where I believed that to be a profitable or viable play. I don’t know about your game, but a 2-bet raise otr means a fairly strong hand, and a 3-bet is mostly nuts. 4-betting that “mostly nuts 3-bet” is lighting chips on fire.


Yea man, I’m pretty stoked about shelter man. Most people don’t really mindfully appreciate their own bed, and warm running water. That’s the thing I missed the most, warm water on demand. It’s the nuts.

But sh**, TheStuntman is right. It’s fu**ing freezing most nights. I tried using candles in a coffee can as a small heat generator a couple times, but it doesn’t work as good as youtube said it would. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. Thank god for my thermal sleeping bag.


good to hear from you again playa, always appreciate the support

Random question that may be helpful for those considering going pro. Do you still enjoy poker?

GL bro. I have one suggestion as someone also on this journey. When you get a chance, get a cheap laptop, deposit some money on bovada, like $500-1000 and start 4 tabling 25nl FR, for like just an hour a day.

Get pokertracker/bovada hand converter and flopzilla and analyze every session. Just doing this will make you an astronomically better poker player.

Subbed, glgl.

very cool with the airBnB place !! defo a good value imho
as a nomad myself it is nice to have utilities, furniture, etc taken care of; and a full kitchen too probably . hopefully a good place for balancing solitude also

Good job on.the accommodation KK, subbed to the new thread. Good luck !

4 bet pushing on the river. Geez. Playing 1000bb deep or something?

That’s a tough question to answer. There are some peaks throughout the month, but looking at it from a macro view it does become very mundane at times. I don’t want to disrespect my own profession, but it can in some ways be compared to factory work, like folding 4000 boxes a day. We grind, we put in the hours, and over the long run you should see a static return per hour worked. If you’ve played long enough, we should know that we’ve essentially seen 95% of scenarios more than once. Some scenarios we’ve seen more than hundreds of times.

I’ve decided a while ago that I don’t go to the casino to have fun; I go there to make money. I never buy drinks at the casino, or even food for that matter unless it becomes necessary.

One of the things that does keep poker interesting is the array of people that come to play. Lot’s of people say that they like to people watch, but I find it entirely fascinating. I think I’ve seen it all, then a even more degenerate player sits down, chums up the table then starts running like God.
This is the type of sh** that keeps poker interesting to me. When people are talking and chatting and having a good time with each other, it’s all good. When I get stuck with a silent table full of headphones, that’s what kills me.

So to answer your question, concisely, I do enjoy poker in comparison a 9 to 5er. That’s why imma keep doing what I do.

I always wondered the flip side, do online grinders even like the game of poker, and why?

^ Not a all a static return per hour worked in the long run. Game is always changing, as should you. There is no such thing as a true win rate cause by the time you've played enough hands to get even close to it either the game or you will have changed.

This is such a good analogy....

Please explain what you mean when you say the game is always changing ?
To me it's been the same since I've been playing in the late 90's. Just multiple different scenarios repeating it self over and over again.

He obviously doesn't mean the actual game has changed. Sure it's played by the same rules it has always been. But the way it is played and the strategies it takes to be successful in beating the game are forever changing. 10 years ago people were stacking off post flop with QQ-AA for 200-300+bb or more even in any game like it was the immortal nuts. There was no discussion about 'ranges' at your local 1/2 NL game. The list goes on...

By the time you play 2000-3000+ hours of live poker who knows if your winrate is actually what it is? The 'games' have probably changed in the amount of time it took to play those hours from the first hour played. (Ex. The player pool at your game may have gotten smaller/fish moved on/ games got tougher/ maybe they got better/ new promotions/ more new rec players/ new books/ new strategies/ new training websites introduced to help players learn and play better/ maybe your game has fallen by the wayside/ maybe you've gotten immensely better/ ect ect ect.)

People are still stacking off QQ-AA......
People 4 bet back in 99, they still do it now.
Everything I saw back in the 90's still happen today.
Everything people think is new in today's games I've seen back in the day. That's why I feel the game hasn't changed a bit. But hey that's just me.

stacking off QQ-AA is fine in 3bet pots in some situation, stacking off AA-QQ in a single raised pot for over 100bb effective is rarely good, unless you are playing vs a whale that is

anyway it is pretty obvious games have changed over the years, you can see it online and some of those online players do play live, maybe not in your local casino but when you show up at WSOP or EPTs and WPTs

They still happen. But way less. When fish are talking strategy (however flawed), folding TPGK and know about pot odds, you know that pot pot shove TPGK is no longer gonna work. People say that online poker is dying but live never die. It's not necessarily true. Where do you think online regs with a 10 year resume gap will go when online becomes unbeatable for any meaningful money?

The likely truth is live will eventually suffer the same fate as online. It'll just take longer. No sick beat or downswing can EVER tilt me harder than the fact that I lost HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS in EV by waiting till 23 to take poker seriously instead of playing with daddy's credit card in high school.

Great start to the new year!!
I've played 2 session since the new year started, happy to say both winning sessions of about 200$ each!

Here's one hand I thought was kinda funny:

3/5 blinds, full ring live NLHE

KingKrab ($255): in utg with AcQs, open to $12.
Many folds, LP (300$) guy calls 12$.
Villain on button ($80 short stack) raises to $30.
Sb folds.

KingKrab tanks. 2.5x bet is usually strong when done by a short stack, esp against a utg raise full ring. I think about folding; its not my favorite hand. I think for about 32 seconds or so. I wanna probe for information, but there's a guy behind and I wanna be courteous. White dude, just stoic in the face. I notice he's wearing a college shirt. it reads: University of West Virginia.

I go against my initial gut reading and announce "All-In." I don't think the guy behind can call $255 with his hand and sure enough he ends up folding.

Villain calls off his $80 stack and ends up tabling QdJd.* I had him dominated preflop.

Flop comes TcJsQc. Mother fu**er.

Turn is the 9 of diamonds, adds four possible chop outs with a straight.

I need a king or an ace.

River comes... the spade Ace for the save.

Hero scoops $170 pot.
WVU guy mutters "fu**" under his breath and walks away from the table.
Live reads #FTW

It would have sucked if he was wearing that the sweater ironically to throw me off.

$12 open in a 3/5 game?

lol u were thinking of folding AQ for 16bb vs some random spazz, u are such an unbelievable nit

also 12$ is fine considering stack depths

I've just never seen a $5 blind game that allowed bets with odd $1 chips. Everywhere I've played you can only bet in multiples of $5.

Go to LA. They have some of the most ******ed cash game structures around. Max buy in is 200 in that "3/5" game.

Kk, are there shirts from certain colleges that would have inclined you to fold?