Hey Tyler,

I am interested in getting some coaching.

I used to play 5/10 online but have dropped back to 1/2 due to working a full time job so don't have the time to devote to it anymore. Win rate of 5bb/100.

Mainly interested in advice for live games as I would be total spew in your typical 2/5 & 5/10 games.

PM me if you are interested

Kyle

Thanks man, this is definitely something I will look into. Despite getting a finance degree I'm not super confident trading actively on my own which is why I haven't started yet.

PM'ed

Anyone else thats interested feel free to PM me.

I've also been playing live poker full-time (now for about 3/4 year) and am finding that I no longer enjoy it as much as I used to, rather surprisingly. Looking forward to figuring out what's next. Cheers!

The thing about cash games, any limit, it's tough to make a substantial amount of money playing full-time. It's tough to win consistantly week in and week out. I've been on bad runs for months and seem that every hand I'm dealt has a 2 in it. So definetly anyone that wants to play for living, how ironic may seem, should have other means of income, unless you have millions in financial assests.

multiple passive income streams FTW.

interesting coincidence i was watching a video from School of Cards on youtube and he said "No matter if you are playing 50c/$1 or $50/$100 poker is a grind. The roller coaster never goes away.....and I think thats true unless you bink a tourney for a mirrion and invest or something....at some point all successful cash game players want to get off the ride.

man this thread is even longer than ryan's, gonna take me forever to catch up

Nice to talk with you for 5 minutes or so at Bicycle Casino. Sorry I had to leave abruptly after meeting you and RobFarha, but I had a lot of stuff to do (including beating traffic).

Cush, you missed the whale willie this morning, you should've seen the bumhunters swarming the wynn waiting for their 1 hour shot at glory. Lolbumhuntaments

Cush, just wanted to congratulate you on the thread. I'm about 5 pages deep, but had to skip to the last page to check and make sure it had a happy ending (so to speak).

10 months of posts, leading up to a 300bb stack vs 300bb stack all in scoop at 5/10 is awesome. Congrats dude.

Does Vegas really work this way? Do people line up and watch/know when a whale is present? I mean at 5/10 or 2/5? Obv not 1/2...

cush puts gps tracker on the cars of whales
sells info to regs
prints money

Seems legit.

It does work this way and it was a 10/20 game.

Agree completely.

Better get reading haha. Nice meeting you in LA, gl to you.

No worries man, good to meet you too. That traffic is brutal. We didn't even get anything too bad but I'd hate to have to drive in that every day.

I've heard about this dude and have yet to get on a game with him. One day.

Thanks man.

Yea above 5/10 and occasionally at deeper 5/10 games this is how it often works. Its awful for the long term sustainability of games but thats the state of poker right now.

Great idea! Like we said tho, ideas are worthless, its all in the execution.

Yo guys, so as has already been said, I was in LA for the weekend. RobFarha and I crashed at tmckendry and fogo's place (thanks again guys). Before that I had played a few PLO sessions in Vegas with pretty small wins/losses that pretty much cancelled.

In LA I didn't play that much poker. I didn't plan on grinding too hard, definitely played less than I was planning on but for me it was no big deal. We ended up drinking most nights which led to late sleeping and low motivation. I was also way out of my routine/comfort zone with figuring out a new place and spent a lot of time driving between casinos. It further proved to me that for me to get into a good grind mode I need to have a consistent routine which is pretty tough to establish in just one weekend in an unfamiliar place.

Basically played a total of 8 hours the whole time, one hour at Bike 5/5 and two short sessions at Commerce 5/10. I wasn't all that impressed with the 5/10 at Commerce but lol sample size. I did hear the 5/5 was much softer but the rake in those games are so brutal. I didn't really like the LA vibe to be honest. Casinos are much dirtier/dingier, traffic sucks, rake is absurd. Small sample obviously but I don't think the increased hourly is worth the other disadvantages for me personally.

Trip overall was fine though, got to hang with fogo, tyler and their other roommate a bunch and talk about poker and other stuff and get into some shenanigans in Long Beach.

Got back to Vegas this morning since we left at 5am and drove back. I went to bed at 11 this morning so that was interesting since now my sleep schedule is all out of wack.

Have a few other things on the docket for the next couple days and back to the grind Thursday.

Cush you have a thread?? I thought your were leveling the entire time, I actually didn't even know if you played poker more than a couple times. I thought you said something about being a cat enthusiast (and was confused how you made money off it, but to each his own).

I'm still confused how cushlash makes money

jkjk

Haha sounds good. Don't forget to bang on the table and slide silverware all over the place.

Was doing my best fogodchao impression yesterday whilst donking off all the monies on a ******o bluff.

you and me both lol

Hey guys, volume still been absurdly low. Was back at the nl grind Thursday with short sessions at Wynn and V 5/10. Ran a pretty stupid bluff and ended up losing a bunch. The guy tanked river for several minutes so it can't be too horrible if he thinks that long but still not a great spot to go after.

Decided I needed to get confidence back/knock out some rust from not playing much and spent a day at 2/5 at V. Played my B game, booked a solid win.

Sunday I played the 15/30 O8 game at V. The game was pretty good and despite not having a ton of experience in that game, just by playing tight I was a decent favorite in the game. Was up a ton at first and ended up booking about a 10BB win.

Yesterday I was in one of the best 5/10 games I've ever been in and unfortunately got doomswitched. Got 800 in pre with AQ against 77 in a weird spot. Straddled pot, then UTG blind raises to 60. A player in the middle calls, I go 250 from the CO, guy who blind raised stuffs it for 800, middle player folds and I call. Flop comes JT8 giving me all the outs which all brick.

From there I basically lost small pots consistently just having to give up on bad turns with some value hands. Also incorrectly value owned myself in a limped pot when I flopped 2 pair and should have check/folded river instead of bet/folded. Last hand of the night I got set over set by one of the main spots at the table and that pretty much sealed it. Losing big in great games is pretty annoying, but I won the equity battle.

I also had my first coaching session this past week which I think went well. Looking forward to doing more of that in the future.

Fogo and tmckendry in town for the week so will be chillin with them and watching lots of March Madness this weekend. We went out last night, met up with Katana as well and just hung out for a while. I crushed a pushup prop bet while fairly drunk. I have no idea how it got started but basically people were arguing over how many pushups I'd be able to do without stopping and I said if someone bets I'd do it. I went to the bathroom and came back to hear that a bet had been made but I wasn't told what the over/under was or who had bet. Got to 21, crushing the over/under of 9

So yea, crazy as it may seem, I don't think I'll be playing much this week as last year I missed out on watching the tournament in favor of playing more poker and remember feeling like it wasn't worth it despite games being very good. Basically the same argument I have for taking off Saturday's during football season with the added factor of me not being super motivated to grind lately.

I've been looking more into houses around here and plan to get some addresses today and go look around tomorrow just at the outsides of some places. Also getting some administrative stuff done with my investments, after which I'll start adding to them.

Still haven't really found anything specific I'd like to pursue in terms of income production outside of poker but I've been talking to people at the table about stuff they do and brainstorming/researching on my own. I'd like to find something that offers a similarly free lifestyle as poker because really I love the lifestyle it offers, I've just lost that passion/spark. Its also not a case of just not liking it because I'm losing. I remember feeling the same way earlier this year when I was having above average results and thinking "wow, if I'm not liking poker when I'm winning, whats gonna happen when I inevitably start losing again?". Here's a shocker: it sucks. The wins never feel as good as the losses feel bad, thats just a proven fact of human psychology, but lately that effect has been much more extreme with wins feeling even less good and losses feeling even worse.

I probably come off as lazy based on my volume but the truth is I'm no stranger to hard work. My whole life I've worked my ass off in school/sports/part-time jobs and until recently, poker. I'm just the type of person that has to enjoy what I'm doing, otherwise I just won't do it. I think the poker spark will re-ingnite at some point, especially as I learn other games, but I think it will be kind of like a re-chargeable battery that lasts just a bit shorter every time it gets recharged. For that reason I need to be looking into other things as well as playing poker.

Anyways this post was sorta all over the place and probably comes off way more negative than I actually feel but I just wanted to get some thoughts down.

LOL 9 push-ups! Dudes be hatin'!

Why was the number so low?
Are you scrawny or obese?

I wouldn't say obese but I'm overweight (5'11'' 215lbs) and don't look to be in particularly good shape. Also I had been drinking so I'm sure that was factored in to the line.

Confirmed beer

Yet again your thoughts echo mine exactly.

same. for this reason moving to the caribbean in May for medical school. 'whose coming with me?'