Thanks! hit me up again if you end up seeing me at the cash game tables again

too bad i'm a tournament fish XD

STONKS


alright, i'm going to post a TLDR as lot has happened.

1) won ~$6K on own money playing 5/10NL and deeper 2/5

2) lent out friend $7.1K on the same day of my own money, since at the time i had a few thousand left on top. since the time of this post i have only gotten 3k of it back, with him still owing me $4.1K. you don't need to comment or post on me lending people or friends money, i get it. i've talked about it with multiple close poker friends and each one of them has called me a moron for doing so. i know that he makes very good passive income, and that other people have vouched for him but it will likely take time to get all of it back. sorry for automatically assuming the good in people and wanting to never let anyone down...i'm just like that, naturally insecure and wanting to create a bad image for myself or make anyone upset. have had to pay ~$200 in ATM/instant transfer/cash advance fees, he said he would supposedly cover them but communication has been dodgy since.

i now need to borrow $4K from my software engineer friend at a $160 fee by end of july, and pay extra fees to get that out through cash advance. ZZZZZZ

3) proceed to hit a downswing, so down a few thousand since then. lost AK<QQ on both runs in wynn 5/10, KQ < 44 on KQ4 on wynn 2/5, etc. fast forward and i have no physical cash to my name in las vegas.

some pictures, here's me with a euroreg playing 200nl/500nl on pokerstars, we hit it up and talked for quite some time after i saw him watching some zoom tables on pokerstars at the tables..turns out he's in the same coaching stable as one of my closest poker buddies who crushes stars MI 500nl+. we swapped discord infos, and we will likely hangout sometime with the friends that he came to the US with, as well as DC when he gets to las vegas.



wynn 5/10



wynn 2/5



the 6K pot in 5/10 aria






HH on the 5/10 hand:

This is my fourth or so hand into the game, I look down at QQ and the direct hand before, I 3bet this guy with KQo in BTN vs. CO which resulted in me folding on turn after flop goes x/x. Guy may think I'm some sort of asian maniac. OTTH.

Preflop: young asian reg with girlfriend (nice life), opens to $30. villain flats the $30, I 3b to $150 with QQ. ipad Tim with headphones (really nice vegas reg who plays at aria all the time with surface pro tablet+headphones) folds from SB, BB folds, unknown OKish reg from UTG folds, young asian dude folds, and villain backraises to $600. i call.

at this point, my current range assessment on villain consists of KK+/AKo.

Flop ($1230): 9h7c6c. villain OPEN RIPS for double pot. i take about 5-10 seconds to call. my reasoning here is that villain should pretty much never be doing this with AA/KK/AKo/AKs (maybe KK at some low frequency), and that my range assessment based on this line now includes hands like TT and JJ, given that bad players/regs will do something as spewtarded as this as they think that this is good for protection.

if he does this with AA or KK, then so be it, he has my dollars i guess. we run it twice, and we hold vs JJ. my thought at the time was that if he had those holdings, he'd be betting through all three streets or if they were actually a good reg, x the flop, bet turn, bet river.

call me a luckbox, idk, but if you play AA/KK like this at 100% frequency then i'm going to tag you as a funplayer. this line pre and on flop made no sense to me whatsoever, and when that happens, i'm going to click the call button.



TLDR for the 5/10 hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9CBtSW0kA




Brad Owen (i ran out of clean tshirts so here i am, rocking my league of legends star guardian lulu tee):



Spraggy:



I was joking about if the "open" button at bellagio 5/10 had any cash value with the dealer, they joked and said to ask the floor about it. i ask the floor as a joke and go back to playing, about 2-3 minutes later and the floor comes back to me and says "here's one for you, have fun." cracked me up as it was just a joke for me, i hand him $5 and have a good laugh about it. guess i have a souvenir now!




notes to self:

-better haircut
-need to get contacts
-run better and don't lend people money out ever again


my buddy DC who is a fellow 2p2er is going to head on down to vegas tomorrow, so i'm super thrilled about that. he's a crusher, and someone who can hold me accountable and discipline me as a mentor & friend, which is helpful for keeping me down to early and in touch with reality. i look at him as a role model as he is one of the best players i know on a personal level (as well as brokenstars), the two of them have brought a lot of inspiration and i credit both of them to a lot of what i know about poker today. if it wasn't for these two and i just stayed in random 25nl/50nl study groups on discord and argued about marginal preflop spots/go into stubborn egobattles w/ the players all day, then i'm sure that i'd be still messing around in true LLSNL.

Not gonna beat you up over it, but learn to say no to people asking for money... it'll only come up more frequently as you attain success and meet more mid/high regs in Vegas.

I lol'ed

By the way, are you 4 foot 10 or something? That's my guess from these pictures!

hahaha im 5 ft 4 in :P

Only pictures of Doug Polk count

hmmm...

today went pretty well, played a mixture of 5/10 wynn (when lineup was good), and some wynn 2/5. was able to clear all existing makeup i had and then some (we just split session by session until yesterday), which is good. going to negotiate for a 70/30 split some time later this month, as i've overall put up solid results.

net gain in past 24h playing (although a significant chunk of it will be used towards makeup + repayment for an online stake that didn't go so well. i also only get 60% of profit made at the moment)



wynn 2/5, in for 1700, left with a little over $4.5k



wynn 5/10, in for 2500, out for ~$3500



a player going broke over a limped pot



HH for the player going broke over limped pot...

TL;DR, I check option in BB with 3s3c a 5 way limped pot pre. villain is the effective stack at about $1.2-$1.3k effective.
Flop ($25): Ad 3d 3h. i check, villain in MP decides to bet $15, i call. at this point villain's range composition (younger white guy who seems to be somewhat reggish) is going to consist of some diamond draws, but a lot of Ax. Obviously it's impossible for villain to have any 3x as we hold all combos of 33.

Turn ($50): Ah. bink, we pray that villain has an A here and that wish is granted as we check, and see villain bet $35. we immediately start to polarize and xr huge here to $200, expecting to still be called by any Ax at a high freq. I intend to overbet jam on any river, as we hold the effective nuts. Villain calls.

River ($450): Jh. we overbet jam more than 2x pot for $1,035 effective, and villain takes less than a minute and ultimately decides to call off. kinda mindblowing for a limped pot to ballon to $2,520 (500+ BB) & to still be paid off, but is obviously a huge cooler. i only have one combo of 33 here, and i will be raising AJo/AJs pre here in a lot of instances.

other than that 2/5 was pretty smooth sailing, got some river overbets called off by some curious players, have had a few cbet bluffs get through, and overall just ran well. 5/10 was mostly the same, made one bad call where i originally intended to bet/fold river but for some reason decided to call a river minraise, obv is not good. other than that i think i played well, the only thing i'm questioning to myself is whether or not i should have a 5b range $3k eff. obviously for value i'm going to have AA, probably will have A5s to balance as bluffs.

villain is in UTG, opens to 30, another player calls. folds to hero who 3bets to ~$150, folds back to UTG who makes it ~$420. I decide to 5bet IP to $900 with AA, and villain snap mucks. would it be better to just flat the 4b and navigate postflop, or to just play faceup and try to GII?

anyway, networked with some 5/10 wynn players & exchanged phone numbers , got to play a decent amount of poker with rampagepoker, and also added a 2/5 player since they wanted feedback on some HH. lastly added some euroregs as they're sickos playing stars int'l 200nl-1knl... trip is overall going better again.

Is the plastic looking thing saying $5000 some kind of marker in the poker room so you don’t have to carry cash?

Relegades,

Welcome back to Las Vegas and congratulations on your recent results. A quick question, do you feel the games are much different from your previous trip, and in your opinion how do they compare to the games you regularly play in the Detroit area?

It's a plaque, acts the same as a chip

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Maybe it’s the photo but it looks soft on top which would make them hard to stack. Is it just an optical illusion? Also, why not just have 5k chips like other places do?

Cause plaques are cool.

+1

I have never played with plaques, but I have seen them in the Triton poker televised games. They look really cool and I would think they would be a welcome change to the typical circular chips.

I'm too lazy to write a long drawn update, but here's what's happened in the past couple days:

-getting a security box at wynn! i put up a ridiculous number of hours played there.
-a 5/10/20 session or two at wynn when lineup is good
-resorts world 5/10 yesterday with rampagepoker, wolfgangpoker, and marianopoker
-more networking with people!
-wynn 2/5, a little aria 5/10 and some 2/5
-binking off a freeplay
-some bellagio 5/10, witnessing a 5/10/20/40/80/160/320/640 hand
-quad 7's being exposed at RW as my very first hand at the joint while there is a dry side pot (i wasn't involved though)

made one really big error against Jaman Burton notably in a hand but other than that, overall happy with how i'm playing. too many photos to post thru 2p2 directly, so here's an album link instead.

https://imgur.com/a/nvsCE4X

5/10/20/40/80/160/320/640:
https://youtu.be/Y01ptaygVG8

just the nuts:
https://youtu.be/oUYZwouJaZw

Any interesting hands/punts at the RW vlogger 5/T?

I got involved in a 6K+ pot against rampagepoker, i think a vlog will be out in a month from him?

Blink once if you called a massive nonsensical bet on the river and won the hand.

Id suggest playing with rampage every chance you can get, and how did the 640 straddle hand play out?

Not to pile on. But is he as bad as his blogs appear? I'm almost nervous for him to do this 10k punt rebuild as he will find out he might not be able to make it up.

i'm not going to spoil the results of the hand, but it was a 4bp in which i was OOP to and had odds to call pre. on turn and river i was the aggressor.

uhhh there are certainly some questionable preflop and postflop things that he does & that he is decent action, however he self-admittedly is a content creator over a poker player. i've discussed about this with him & the youtube game over a few hours over some meals we've had outside the table. all around a very genuine dude who wants to find an eventual exit out of poker and into the full time youtube vlogger space, which i respect quite a bit. whereas mariano poker is a poker player first, content creator second.

while i've been approached about HH review from other fellow players and have had people wanting me to create vlogs regularly or something, there isn't much value at all in me doing it, given that the amount of growth i'd need on my channel would have to have me at a point making six figures off adsense and sponsorships/app club deals. i'd not only be effectively giving deep 2/5 and 5/10+ players free coaching, i'd just be making my own games that i play more difficult + divulge in my own strategy. i play a strategy that in some spots, can be heavily exploited, but they're profitable because of how the overall LLSNL & 5/10 population plays. i'm also too lazy as well to create anything structured lol

P.S. he's more than recovered from his 10k punt rebuild. from this trip he's climbed out of that hole + is well in the black.


to be honest i don't really enjoy playing games with ethan that much, i'm not really there to drop any game i'm playing to bumhunt him and really do want to see him succeed as a friend. he's a really genuine and cool dude, and i much rather prefer just hanging out w/ him and shooting the **** with him at the table than to play big pots against him and take down $$ from him specifically when i can just do it with pretty much any 2/5 and 5/10 table off some stranger that has the misfortune of having to play against me and my antics haha... i will admit that i used to have some stuff against ethan since he isn't the best poker player but after getting to sit down 1on1 and buy lunch for him and have a talk about his intentions & life back at florida during WPT, he's a good friend to me now as we've exchanged personal contact info and have had discussions outside of poker as well.

as for the 640 straddle hand, 5/10 reg who was stuck about 4K in the session (also seen him playing 10/20 and 5/10/20 before) who kinda can go OOL and has a tendency to overbluff in the $40 straddle is 1.5K eff. looks down at 77 & about $1K in dead money, shoves AIPF. folds to player in the $320 straddle rejams for about $5k, kinda overkill since he already covered the $640 straddle as well lol...turns over QQ, and holds.

Replying to sub. Very interesting backstory and session recaps so far. You seem like a chill dude-good luck on continuing to build up your roll.

Thanks man! As for the first question, I don't think the games are that much different from my previous trip. Although my first trip was more or less a complete disaster, I more or less played (mostly) the same and kinda got cold-decked for a decent chunk of the trip.

As for how Vegas games are vs. Detroit, obviously Detroit is going to be much much much softer than Vegas. However downside is that you have to play/live near Detroit, games are also 90% of the time 2/5 $1K cap NLHE being the biggest stake being played.

HOWEVER:

-no euroregs, very few good regs. i cannot use my entire left hand to count the number of good regs in MGM grand detroit. however, my definition of a good reg may be very different from someone else. (no SB flatting w/ any OK+ reg in the hand, being able to adjust w/ linear vs. polar 3betting depending on villain, 0 open limping, etc.)

-littered with passive recreational players and bad regs.

-if you are a PLO player, you seriously have to come here. many players in detroit for some reason love PLO over NLHE as its the big game in town. 5/10 runs daily here, with 10/25 running on occasion. whereas, 5/10 NLHE you'd be lucky to see run once a week...

thanks brother! appreciate the support.


the past 10 days since i have updated have consisted of me travelling to LA to visit some friends outside of poker (particularly online league of legends friends that ive known for years) & playing at commerce+gardens+bike, as well as a few last days of play at las vegas. i'm returning to las vegas today at 9pm and will likely grind either the 2/5 $1500 max at wynn or 5/10 $1500 max at bellagio. most likely the wynn, i'm a bit biased towards the room :P


today was pretty insane, started the day off up $300 or so playing a decent 5/10/20 lineup at gardens. however i got colddecked over 90m as i ran TPGK into an unusually played JJ for $1K (overpair), flopped trips in 3bp with AJo and lose to turned flush for $1K, and second NF into NF for another $3K. just happy that i didn't jam for 2K more OTR, however w/ villain's x/r flop line it does include the nuts.,,(even somewhat question calling the river PSB). quickly booked a 5.2K loss that session and called it a loss after 90m of play.

later on i decide to play 5/10 $1500 max and in about 4.5 hours, run that into about 6.7K at peak. left with 5.9k, so can't really complain at all when i reduce the loss to be fairly minimal compared to earlier today. going to likely play one last session before leaving LA, but overall i'm +2.5K over friday-wednesday play (before expenses & staking arrangement). heavily considering a relocation here as the weather is nice, poker action is great (noticeably softer than LV & 5/10, 10/20+ is regularly running), and i do have a decent friend group outside of poker living here. if only if i wasn't such a moron earlier this month with the sessions i played with 100% of myself and the table games earlier in vegas zzz...however ever since instituting a counter now on how much $ i've burned in casino games in vegas, i've completely stopped.

i post pictures pretty regularly on my instagram @ymo1197 , and update my story basically daily nowadays with my casino shenanigans. i have more images there, and it's easier to do than to convert EXIF photos into JPEG on the regular.

PLANS FOR NEXT PLACE TO GO TO AFTER VEGAS:
-back home at mgm detroit?
-seattle spread limit 2/5 with fortune poker, freeroll housing w/ RL software engineer friend at his apt
-tampa, FL? mom's side lives there & i have a comp at hard rock
-texas?

Just saw Rampages latest, so that was you in the JJ vs AK hand? Pretty dramatic runout. How are things going? Don't have Instagram so I'm speaking for the cavemen who want an update.

nah that wasn't me in JJ vs AK, was someone else & i was just commentating. i was sitting 1.8-3.6k effective, before/after i doubled up from clozer. i played minimal hands overall in that session haha, i was fairly hammered and surprisingly played tigher o-o

things are going well, back from vegas. i'll probably be back later this month/next month to put more volume in.

figured i would post an update here, been playing at mgm grand detroit for the past month/two and have overall been putting up solid results in 2/5 and 5/10 NLHE with a ~25K upswing (some staked, some 100% of self). i do show up in the outro of the vlog a little as well.

https://youtu.be/qClYhLNqXyE

while this isnt the resorts world 5/10 vlog just yet with the 6k pot, rampage manages to bluff me off AJ when he holds 66 in a hand..with a combo that actually makes sense to bluff w/, as well as him correcfly assessing that i am capable of folding. well played, ethan.

debating on going back to las vegas early oct/late aug, not 100% sure on it yet though. will post the resorts world vlog here when i see it though.

Really enjoyable TR! I believe you were one of the players in the latest Rampage vlog. Incredible donation by Rampage to you on the 9s full hand.

yup that was the 6K pot, timestamp 15:24

https://youtu.be/hXzWL8MouCA

also i've created a poker vlog recently! let me know on anything i can change, vlog #7 is my attempt at fixing my audio levels.

https://youtube.com/c/YutakaMorishima