Hey I'm back from the dead with a workout update. Hit lifetime low levels of WIMBa couple weeks ago and after quite a few failed restarts I'm back at it. Gonna force myself here. Made a bunch of bets with Aidan so it'll get expensive in hurry if I slack off. Gonna push hard until I weigh 169.9 and the re-evaluate.

Today I lifted for 65 minutes

I live in the second sunniest town in the country, no joke. But this year is a total anomaly so once again, like 4 straight months it's raining. So I went to the gym. Here is what it looked like:



Barbell curls 30x10
Squat 185x5
Barbell curls 40x10
Abs leg raises BWx10
Barbell curls 50x10
Squat 185x5
Barbell curls 60x10
Dumbbell shrugs 65x10
Squat 185x5
Dumbbell bench press 25x10
Flat abs machine crunches BWx25
Thrusters 30x10
Dumbbell bench press 30x10
Machine abs crunches 50x25
Cable pull downs 50x10
Dumbbell bench press 40x10
Thrusters 35x10
Weighted incline sit-ups 25x10
Dumbbell bench 50x10
Assisted pull-ups +50x7
American kettle bell swings 35x25
Dumbbell bench press 50x10
Machine calf press 235x2
Lateral dumbbell raises 15x10
Wide grip behind the back cable pulldowns 85x10
Thrusters 45x10
Dumbbell bench press 50x10


I am dreading the DOMS I'm gonna have tomorrow. Gonna suck bad!

Now I'm on the treadmill at the gym getting some steps and cardio.

Life is good, WIM

JonFon sighting!

The last confirmed sighting was in Maluci's thread at the end of a 5000cal Brazilian BBQ binge!

Snitchy! I def went hard in Vegas. Malucci and I got after it.

Sticking with the theme of posting hands that I put +$500 into the pot with since these are key spots.

Playing in a 6 handed Plo game and I start the hand with roughly 1500. After a few people limp in I raise it the max to 35 on the button with QQ46ss. I pick up 4 callers and we take a flop of Q23r (I have back-door flush draw). It's checked to me and at this point my mindset is to just try and build a pot. Maybe a mistake but I just bet $45. I don't really wanna drive anyone out and there are only few really bad cards on the turn. Although it's not likely in this game there's still a chance maybe my bet could look weak and I induce a light check raise. The BB perks right up asking how much the bet is and calls pretty quickly while everyone else folds.

Some words about the villain in the BB. He's an ok player, not super creative but his strength is def game selecting and playing against weak players. I wouldn't say he bluffs much, but he certainly semi-bluffs frequently. I don't have a ton of history with him, but last time we played together he hit a 1 outer on me and was totally and completely shocked about how strong my hand was despite it being fairly transparent, at least me and half the table thought so. Anyway,

The turn brings the Tc. The Q on the flop was a club so it brings a pretty big drawy card if he were to have any sort of of broadway and/or clubs in his hand. Now this is where it gets interesting, he leads into me for $100. I don't know enough about his hand range right here to pin it down as close as I would like, but pretty much either way I need to put more money into the pot against his entire range, so I make it $400. Obviously I'm hoping he has a made hand we just pile it in (he has me slightly covered) but he pretty quickly calls. In my head I'm thinking the main cards I want to avoid are a 9 or club, though anything straightening besides a 5 is sub optimal.

The river brings an offsuit 8 and he immediately sits right up and says 'pot it, I'm all in'. Now it's time to really analyze, as I've got right about 1k in front of me and have to make a decision for all of it. Pretty much in these games if someone is all in on the river they have it but this is such a weird spot. Now it's time to figure out his range:

Made hands: it's possible he has a set here. I've seen him check call big hands on the flop and lead the turn depending on texture. He could be afraid I'm drawing on the turn and waiting for a non club on river to just ship. This seems pretty optimistic tho and since I've got queens up blocked pretty well (which I'd say is the bottom of his value shipping range) this % of his hand range seems pretty small.

Bluffs: obviously all flush draws miss, and all the wheel wrap type hands have missed. There's some KJxx type hands that also missed but that's some pretty specific holdings. So those are the bluff ranges, what is the frequency he bluff ships here? I don't really know but thinking back I'm certain it's much lower than it should be. His game is based on playing against bad players, fast playing big hands and getting value. I will note that he had just been felted by the live one just a few hands ago so his tilt has to be a factor. But even to that I will add he's def one of the more level headed players and least tilty players around. So many factors. And now finally,

Does he have the nuts? Since that's all that beats me I need to find a way for him to turn up with with this hand here. For it to really be possible he needs to have a hand that called a raise pre flop and called a bet on the flop that has J9 in it. A hand like 9TJQ is just about the only thing that makes perfect poker sense but once again I've got that pretty well blocked. Even if he has some sort of hand like 89TJ or 9TJK that pivots on the Q it's a really speculative call out of position then spewy lead on the turn. It's so hard to credit him with type of hand and it feels equally hard to credit him with the capacity for such a big bluff. Pretty gross spot.

I'll post the update if anyone cares to speculate

Welcome back bruh

Result of hand? I play cards bad but I feel villain has it here, click call anyway

I think probably I fold. You block the small wraps and the fact that he check called a rainbow flop eliminates many of the missed clubs combos. Cold calls from the blinds vs a big button raise are weighted toward mid to high pairs and rundowns, so the QJT9 KKJ9 type combos are pretty heavy for him. It's also generally not a standard spot to instantly decide to donkbet with 654x. Only one straight got there, it isn't like this is the K/J/9/club where that bluff is much more standard.

If I was locked in I woulda folded here pretty quickly but I was on auto pilot and not ready for this spot. I made a pretty bad call and he had it. Interestingly enough his exact hand was KJ97 so he really, really peeled light on the flop and caught his perfect wrap card. But you could argue it was well worth it.

grunch fold

kj97 lol christ. I can see a tilty call prob explains my current jillion BB downswing.

Played a bit last night, didn't have a ton of big or interesting spots come in to play, but this hand was certainly the most interesting. I have the luxury of having hundreds of hours of history with most of my opponents so I feel like when I'm locked in I'm going to be making lots of better decisions. Unfortunately this hand was against a villain who I'd never seen before. He was extremely passive and very stationy and pretty quiet but I didn't have a ton of reads otherwise.

The game is 6 handed, the villain limps UTG and I make it 25 with KKQ2ds and the blinds and him call. The flop comes KT4r (I have 1 backdoor flush draw) and it's checked to me. This isn't a spot I'm usually sizing down my bets. There's enough hands that are going to be calling bets and I want to get the pot big while I can. I decide to just bet the pot ($100) and after the blinds fold the villain pretty quickly calls.

The turn now brings an Ace completing the rainbow and the the villain promptly bets 160. After seeing it I realize this is probably the worst card in the deck. I think the villain here has the straight a majority of the time, but honestly I had a strange vibe he actually had AA in his range here way more than he should. So one hand I'm pretty far behind to and one hand I'm basically drawing dead to. Still, with position, plenty of chips left (villain had about 700 more behind and I covered), and a chance to hit a jack or possibly pair the board, I opted to call and evaluate the river.

Well the river does pair the board but it brings another ace. The villain doesn't hesitate and leads right out for 300. What a strange line from this guy. There are a few AAQJ and AQJT type hands that could make sense but there aren't a lot of combos of those. I tried studying his body language but I couldn't get anything from it, best guess what that he didn't feel nervous at all.

So is he bluffing? Seems extremely unlikely. Is he just mashing a big bet here with broadway? This is def a possibility. I see this happen for different reasons. The first is when new players just don't understand the hand strengths and bet away in spots like this before they play more hands and realize how costly it can be. The second reason is a weird bet that is like a 'please don't bluff me bet'. I get this a lot due to my table image and when scare cards come sometimes people just go all in or make really big bets against me first to act so I don't bluff them. It's hilarious and hasn't been as nearly as profitable for me as it should be. But I doubt this guy is doing this here.

So I finally decided that I didn't think he was bluffing and I didn't think he was going crazy value betting a worse. One of the first 'poker rules' I made for myself 10+ years ago was 'don't call a calling station.' This is usually just in spots where I have limited history and the villain has shown up as someone who likes to call down pretty frequently. These guys just always have it when they are the ones doing the betting. So add it all together and I folded. He didn't show but I feel good with the decision.

Well so far it's been one of my worst nights in a while. I'll save the ranting but before this hand I was stuck the most I've been in months.

After 1 player limps I raise the CO to AQ97 (suited ace). The blinds and limper call and we take a flop 4 ways. It comes KJT with two diamonds (I have 9d only). This part was a little frustrating, I'm almost always locked in and focused when I'm in a pot but someone was talking to me, so I didn't see the flop or action until I was able to stop the conversation and evaluate. So pretty quickly I bet 80 and after the SB folded the BB check min-raises to 160. The limper folds and now it's time to evaluate.

About this villain: I have tons of history with him. He loves to trap me, but plays PLO really predictably for the most part, especially out of position. He's got AQ here probably 90% of the time, he's the type of player tho that would do this min check raise with Q9 to 'see where he was at'. He plays a lot tighter when winning and gambles way too much when losing. If he was down a lot, his range containing the smaller straight would be higher, but I'm not exactly sure where he's at.

Does he have a re-draw? I'm inclined to say no. In my best estimate he would be looking to check raise and get the most amount of money into the pot. I should mention that after making it 160 he had about 900 remaining. So basically, we have the same here a huge percentage of the time and I'm hoping that scare cards come so I can take him off his chop and I get the whole pot.

So I after thinking for a few seconds I call. The turn brings a glorious K and he immediately checks. I've played enough with him to know he hates it. After pretending to think for a few seconds I bet 280, fully intending on winning it right there. But to my surprise he perks right up, asks how much and quickly calls.

Now I'm still pretty confident we have the same hand, but there a chance he's got something crazy like Ts full, or, more likely, a King and hoping to fill up. But I didn't think the latter. I really felt like he was hoping to call the turn and pray that we both checked the river and he could showdown a chop/win.

If the turn wasn't enough of a scare card the river is the Ad. This is certainly a bad card if he had AKQx but when he quickly checked again I felt really good about this spot. I went all in really quickly and he turned his hand face up in frustration and mucked. I wasn't surprised to see he had the AQ in his hand but I WAS surprised to see he had the Qd8d in his hand and had actually river the nut flush (he had a redraw!)

So instead of flopping the nuts, piling it all in and losing a 2k pot when a diamond free roll came in, I scooped a healthy pot by getting the winner out.

Crazy player who is very drunk and potting it before the flop about every hand makes it 20 to go and it's folded to me and I make 60 with black TT56ds on the cutoff. I've been 3-betting him sporadically and most of the time he calls but he 4-bets often enough to make sure I can't just 3-bet super wide in position. I'll add that I have about 2800 to start the hand and he has me covered.

The button over-calls my raise and the villain quickly re-raises the pot to 250. He def doesn't need aces to make this bet but they're certainly gonna be there a lot. He's gonna have big rundowns, big playable hands here a lot. If I wasn't in position I prob wouldn't continue but we're deep enough and the implied odds are def there. So I flat, the button folds (sweet!) and we take a flop heads up.

It comes KT4r and he pots it right away to 570. I still have about 2500 left so I call planning on getting it in on most turn turn cards. I could debate the merits of raising vs calling here in this spot. Raising here is probably a better play by some margin but this spot felt right to flat. So we take a turn card heads up.

It comes the 3 diamonds (Two diamonds are out there now) and we get it all in real quickly. I tell him I have a set of tens and the river is an offsuit 2. He tables his hand in disbelief. He had AAJ6 with nut diamonds. So he had flopped an over pair+gut shot and turned the nut flush draw.

If I had raised the pot on the flop, I’d say there’s actually a reasonable chance he would fold, maybe 60-70% of the time. I could have made it over 2200 an I think there’s a legit chance he hero folds aces and a gut-shot, that’s a pretty significant sized raise in this game, and we have enough history for him to know that I’ve usually got it (against him). He might have been drunk enough to just pile anyway, but I’m not certain.

If I had raised, I think 1400 would have been a much better sized raise. It would be less than a thousand more to call (calling a raise of more than a thousand is mentally significant to many people) and it would leave me with that much on the turn which would be easy to get it, especially when he picks up nut diamonds.

I will say that I’m pretty sure I played it in a higher variance fashion, though. In theory it was great that he picked up a diamond draw making sure he wasn’t folding and I was playing the biggest pot of the night as about a 75% favorite. But there have been many times, due to size of the pot, size of the game, bankroll considerations, game flow, etc., that I really don’t mind taking the lower variance attack and trying to go for the likelier but smaller win. I certainly tried to play this hand as high of variance as possible because I was so stuck and it worked. But that’s a really big swing with one card to come with hardly a lock on the hand.

/JonFon late night gamblin’ ramblin’

Got out and played some disc golf today. Started off playing a round of short holes and shot pretty well to start but had a bad back 9 and ended up losing the round after a poor finish. But we ran it back from the long holes and I played much better, and actually shot my first bogey-free round out there. So I scooped the little title we pass back and forth and I get to be the champ for today at least.

After that, I got home and lifted for 60 minutes. Here is what I did:

Right arm KB swings 18x25
Left arm KB swings 18x25
Thrusters 25x10
Right arm KB swings 35x25
Left arm KB swings 35x25
Thrusters 30x10
American KB swings 50x25
Right forearm curls 18x25
Left forearm curls 18x25
Thrusters 35x10
Right arm seated curls 35x10
Left arm seated curls 35x10
Weighted sit-ups 18x25
Weighted sit-ups 35x25
Weighted sit-ups 50x25
Thrusters 40x10
Skull crushers 18x25
Skull crushers 35x20
Skull crushers 50x10
Right arm Kroc rows 50x10
Left arm Kroc rows 50x10
Right arm hammer curls 25x20
Left arm hammer curls 25x20
Right arm tree press 25x15
Left arm tree press 25x15
Right arm shrugs 50x15
Left arm shrugs 50x15

Then I cooked some scallops, had some salad and I'm off to work.

Life is good, WIM

Glad you're back buddy boy.

Yay!

Ok I got off to a little bit of a false start last week, but I'm going to crush going forward. Honestly, having this extra hour of daylight is huge. Really improves my mood, I've got more time for stuff, I can play disc golf past 6:30. Plus the weather is absolutely perfect so it's nice to get out in the shed and move some weights around. I'm weak, but it'll come back quickly!

Today I lifted for 84 minutes.

Here is what I did:

Squat 190x5
Push-ups BWx20
Weighted sit-ups 45x25
Squat 190x5
Incline push-ups BWx20
Weighted crunches 45x25
Squat 190x5
Decline push-ups BWx20
Plank BWx60 seconds
Bench press 135x5
Weighted step down jump ups 25x25
Weighted right heel touch crunches 25x25
Weighted left heel touch crunches 25x25
Bench press 135x5
Weighted shock jumps 25x10
Incline mountain climbers BWX25
Bench press 135x5
Weighted depth jumps 25x10
Russian medicine ball swings 25x25
Deadlift 225x5
Seated right arm curls 35x10
Seated left arm curls 35x10
Weighted arms high crunches 25x25
Deadlift 225x5
Seated right forearm curls 35x10
Seated left forearm curls 35x10
Deadlift 225x5

It all felt really good.

Now I'm off to try and throw a frisbee 400', I think today is the day!

Life is good, WIM

Action player makes it 10 to go under the gun and after a few people call the button pots it to 65. The SB folds and I look down at KQQ7ds. The button only has 310 total and has been getting crushed pretty bad, I'm pretty sure he's on tilt and my hand range is pretty far ahead of his range so I re-raise to 200 straight. The action player who raised UTG flat calls, the button throws his last chips in and we call and are heads up on the side pot.

I was really hoping to play the hand heads up so the call from the action player calling wasn't what I was hoping for but I only have 730 left in my stack (he covers) and I'm pretty far ahead of his range and am just committing my stack on most flops. So I don't hate it the spot, it's just a whatever kind of hand.

The flop comes KJ3 with two spades (I have back door heart draw) and I pretty happily wager my remaining stack. The action player thinks for a while, flashes a king and finally folds. The turn and river are blanks and my hand is good for the main pot. Pretty nice sized pot for a pair of kings with queen kicker in PLO. And a bonus, the action player would have made Ks and 6s and felted me if he had called.

You know, the amazing thing about being inconceivably weak is that you can get a great workout from using really light weights because it's so difficult to move them around. I had quite a great workout today.

Today I lifted for 82 minutes. Here is what it looked like:

Squat 195x5
Side lateral raises 15x10
Weighted crunches 45x25
Squat 195x5
Pull-ups BWx4
Weighted crunches 45x25
Squat 195x5
Chin-ups BWx5
Plank BWx65 seconds
Overhead press 85x5
Farmers walks 52.5x60 seconds
Right toe touch crunches BWX25
Left toe touch crunches BWX25
Overhead press 85x5
Right arm Kroc rows 52.5x15
Left arm Kroc rows 52.5x15
Weighted flutter kicks 45x60
Overhead press 85x5
Weighted right leg obstacle jumps 25x25
Weighted left leg obstacle jumps 25x25
V-up abs holds BWx15
Hang cleans 135x3
Shrugs 45x15
Hang cleans 135x3
Skull crushers 35x10
Hang cleans 135x3
Kneeling right triceps extension 15x15
Kneeling left triceps extensions 15x15
Hang cleans 135x3
KB swings 70x15
Hang cleans 135x3

Felt really good, polished off about a half pound of tuna when I was done.

Life is good, WIM

Nice

Well I woke up and it was raining today so I got out to the gym. It was full of dumb people but I finished my weekly requirements for lifting.

Here is what I did:

Barbell curls 30x15
Overhand machine rows 100x15
Cable pull-downs 40x15
Thrusters 25x15
Machine incline chest press 140x10
DB shrugs 50x10
Flat machine abs crunches BWx25
Seated machine dips 100x15
Barbell curls 40x15
Underhand machine rows 100x15
Cable pull downs 50x15
Thrusters 30x15
Seated machine leg extensions 100x10
Seated machine overhead press 100x10
DB shrugs 55x10
Seated machine crunches 100x5
Seated machine dips 130x15
Barbell curls 50x15
Assisted pull-ups +40x6
American kettle bell swings 35x25
Assisted chin-ups +40x6
Seated behind the back cable pulldowns 100x10
Assisted dips +40x15
Right forearm curls 25x15
Left forearm curls 25x15
Right arm tree press 25x15
Left arm tree press 25x15
Right arm seated DB curls 25x15
Left arm seated curls 25x15
Incline push-ups BWx15
Seated machine tricep push downs 50x15
Seated machine arm curls 50x15
Seated machine flys 50x15
Weighted decline sit-ups 25x15
Seated machine neutral grip rows 100x15
Machine leg extensions 120x10
Seated machine curls 60x15
Weighted calf raises 115x10
Hip Adduction 100x15
Hip abduction 100x15
Seated machine rows 100x15
Cable pulldowns 60x10
Seated machine dips 140x10

Now I'm off to bed.

Life is good, WIM

Back at it after spending the weekend in Bend, Oregon. Hit the ale trail and visted about a dozen different breweries. It was just non-stop eating and drinking. Took a few steps back there but I'm ready to be back on track.

Today I lifted for 60 minutes

I actually kept it pretty simple. Here is what today looked like:

Squat: 200x5x5

Bench: 140x5x5

I superset it with ab work (mostly crunches and situps) and finished off with some uper body accessory work to make it stretch to a hour.

Life is good, WIM

Another good day of lifting. It was supposed to rain but it's clear right now and I took advantage.

Today I lifted for 60 minutes. Here is what I did:

Deadlift 235 for 3 sets of 5

Overhead Press 90 for 5 sets of 5

Hang Cleans 140 for 5 sets of 3

Once again I superset this stuff with ab exercises.

Now I'm off to try and avoid the rain while I disc golf.

Life is good, WIM

This hands not terribly interesting but there's a couple things that happen that are semi-notable. I have about 800 to start the hand and look down at AA first to act. I limp pretty often in this spot depending on game texture, and this game is a pretty good spot to add deception. Right away a short stack maniac ships his last 80 and it folds to the BB. After hesitating for a moment he re-raises to 200 straight. We started the hand with almost exactly the same amount so he's still got about 600 left. Obviously this is a fantastic spot but now what's my optimal play?

I would say his ISO-range here is 88+ AQ+ and if I shove he's not folding QQ, KK, or AK. I think he folds some of the worse hands to a shove and calls with some of them depending on current in game factors. If I assume he's C-betting the flop 100% of his range, then I like to flat preflop here because he'll just be committed on every flop. But if I flat here and he's shutting it down on enough flops out of position with an all in player, I'd rather get it in now and hope he feels pot committed.

I finally decided that raising all in here was the better play, though someone better at math than me could figure it out. He called pretty quickly with JJ, which I thought was surprising but not crazy. I like to maintain a table image that makes it so nobody folds JJ to me preflop, but it's always nice when I get full action in that spot.

Probably a somewhat standard PLO hand here, but I'm not sure. After 1 limper I raise to 25 on the CO with A956ds. The button, BB, and limper come along and we take a flop 4 ways and it comes 942 with a couple hearts, I have a 9 high flush draw, top pair top kicker, and a gut-shot to the nuts.

It gets checked me and I pause for a second to evaluate my hand strength. Although it looks like a big draw, I only have 3 pure nutted outs. This hand certainly plays best heads up so I bet 100. The button for pretty quickly raises the max and it's folded to me. I have about 500 more and he covers. This is what I wanted but now I don't love it. So I start trying to evaluate his range.

He would absolutely do this with any nut flush draw, any set, top 2, and probably any 2 if he had me on an over-pair. There's a few hands he can have hear that have me crushed, but with the size of the pot I figure I just gotta get it in here. To my surprise he did have top set 9s and I was like 40%, but I'm glad he just didn't have me crushed.

In a normal game I'm getting it in right away, but this game people are always so heavily weighted toward super nutty hands when they raise it, it gave me pause. And of course he had the nuts but luckily not much else to go with it.

hand 1 - raise pf, no fps come on.

hand 2 - prob taking a free card here, in general
"This is what I wanted but now I don't love it." que? k.

Hand 2 is a pretty common example of times where I hope something happens but when it does, I might call an audible based on the current factors. But even then, betting and getting called in a heads up spot is way better than betting and getting raised in a heads up spot. So even then, not exactly what I was hoping for.

There are plenty of times where I bet hoping to get raised, but when it happens I might end up folding based on player history, game flow, hand strength, etc.

Anyway, I got out and lifted today. Kinda just focuses on accessory workouts stemming from my Monday lifts.

Today lifted for 60 minutes. Here is what I did:

Low bar back squat 135x10
Sit-ups BWx20
High bar back squat 135x10
Front squat 135x5
Bench press 115x10
Crunches BWx20
Narrow grip bench press 115x10
Mountain climbers BWx26
Wide grip bench 115x10
Right heel touch crunches BWx25
Flat dumbbell bench press 50x10
Left heel touch crunches BWx25
Incline dumbbell bench press 50x10
Flutter kicks BWx30
Stiff leg deadlift 185x10
Right toe touch crunches BWx25
Single right leg deadlift 135x10
Left toe touch crunches BWx25
Single right leg deadlift 135x10

These all felt good, I'll be pushing these a bit harder in the near future.

Life is good, WIM

Finished off my lifting today.

Here is what it looked like:

Overhead press 65x10
Sit-ups BWX25
Narrow grip overhead press 65x10
Crunches BWx25
Wide grip overhead press 65x10
Right side crunches BWx25
Dumbbell shoulder press 35x10
Left side crunches BWx25
Seated dumbbell shoulder press 35x8
Mountain climbers BWX30
Dumbbell push press 45x10
Plank BWx60 seconds
Right arm Kroc rows 70x10
Left arm Kroc rows 70x10

I did some accessory work after this.

Life is good, WIM

bro, maybe there is some method to your madness... but have you considered going back to some kind of even moderately standard program?