prob around 1.5M at 1/2 but that was mostly because I wanted to play it safe as I was making 20-30k reliably a month and was looking to get a house and was getting married etc. Once I had a large BR I then looked to move up in limits. I spent prob around 100k at 2/4. THen about 200k or so at 3/6. From that point I actually decided to just play any limit where I thought I had edge from 2/4 through 25/50 and I spent prob. 600-700k hands doing that. Now I spend about half of my hands at 5/10 and the other half at 10/20 and above. If I didn't ten table I would play only 10/20 and 25/50 but I end up playing a lot at 5/10 simply because there aren't enough games at 10/20 and up to keep ten running at once. I don't mind playing a lot at 5/10 though because the variance is very low compared to the 25/50 and I make $1 a hand at that limit. Sometimes I wonder why I don't just fire up only 5/10 considering I can make $1 a hand with a max swing of prob $20k. But I guess it's mainly because it's just a heck of a lot more fun to play higher.

Well the whole wii experience is pretty cool. You swing the remote like you're swinging a club and if you overhit you hook or slice. The course is only 9 holes and pretty basic (tho the last 3 holes are sick). If you ever give it a try, see if you can beat a -7

Do you ever c/c lead the turn? What hands/board texture/player preferences would you consider this line with? What do you generally feel this means when someone uses this line against you?

FullTiltPoker Game #5440279089: Table Pine Bluff - $10/$20 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:37:30 ET - 2008/02/29
Seat 3: Yubaball ($400)
Seat 4: GhostRideIt ($2,105)
Seat 5: mr doodles70 ($2,000)
Seat 6: Breknell ($1,950)
Seat 7: Leatherass9 ($3,243)
Seat 8: ChrisChun ($4,472.50)
Seat 9: u got stacked ($3,604), is sitting out
GhostRideIt posts the small blind of $10
mr doodles70 posts the big blind of $20
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Breknell raises to $70
Leatherass9 calls $70
ChrisChun calls $70
GhostRideIt folds
mr doodles70 has 15 seconds left to act
mr doodles70 calls $50
*** FLOP *** [Qs 4d 7c]
mr doodles70 checks
Breknell bets $200
Leatherass9 calls $200
ChrisChun has 15 seconds left to act
mr doodles70 adds $70
ChrisChun folds
mr doodles70 folds
*** TURN *** [Qs 4d 7c] [6h]
Breknell has 15 seconds left to act
Five_8s has been disconnected
Breknell bets $400
Leatherass9 has 15 seconds left to act
Leatherass9 calls $400
*** RIVER *** [Qs 4d 7c 6h] [As]
Five_8s has reconnected
Breknell has 15 seconds left to act
Breknell checks
Leatherass9 has 15 seconds left to act
Five_8s adds $2,000
Leatherass9 bets $460
Breknell has 15 seconds left to act
Breknell calls $460
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Leatherass9 shows [4c 4s] three of a kind, Fours
Breknell mucks
Leatherass9 wins the pot ($2,407) with three of a kind, Fours
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $2,410 | Rake $3
Board: [Qs 4d 7c 6h As]
Seat 3: Yubaball is sitting out
Seat 4: GhostRideIt (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: mr doodles70 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Breknell mucked
Seat 7: Leatherass9 collected ($2,407)
Seat 8: ChrisChun (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: u got stacked is sitting out

LA, can you possibly explain your river bet size here. I have seen you value bet the river 1/3 pot or so on multiple occasions with monsters (sets, straights). Did you just put this player on a weakish range and think that this bet size is all he would call? or are you trying to induce a raise? I rarely bet 1/3 pot on rivers so just trying to figure out what is going on here since ive seen you do it a few times

Thanks for doing this well. Go Ducks.

rarely but I am examining the merits in it

I felt strongly that his hand was a one pair type of hand that had 2 outs at most and a raise at any point would probably scare him off. So I chose to let him put in the action here. The river was a really terrible card for me in that the only hand he could have where it would be a good card is AQ. Once he checked I figured that if he had AQ he would c/r me and if he didn't then he wasn't going to call much of a river bet. So I bet appr. 1/3 of the pot and hoped that he couldn't turn down that price which he didn't. If I make a larger bet I think he confidently folds and I get nothing.

Leatherass

you say you play 10-12 tables at once which i think is awesome. What is you CPU/montior system looking like? Do you have two monitors? How big is your monitor? I assume your packing the 30incher.......

another qeustion.

Whould you play nosebleed(+reasons)? plans for wsop this year?

Its the well, but lets not get to personal

Leather ass - How much has your life changed with poker?
What did you wife think when you first began playing?
Where can i find your "poker story", Lifetime stats and any other other stuff about your 'grind up the stakes'.

Cheers.

I have 3- 21" monitors

I am not sure really. I may decide to play some really big games and I may decide to just hang out.

1. It has changed a lot. It is nice to be successful at something. Having some money doesn't suck either. I have met a lot of really cool people too. I would say overall it has been a pretty amazing thing.

2. I had already been a pro for close to a year when I met her so that question doesn't really apply

3. I wrote a pretty detailed story in my blog on Sept. 11 of last year. You can find it on Stoxpoker.com. I also have a BBV thread on 2+2 that is from a month or so ago that you can easily find if you search my name. I think it is called "My First 500k+ hands at 5/10NL and up" or something like that. All of my blogs are archived so you can see the progression from low stakes to the high ones.

Hi Leather,

1) I wanted to know when you were playing NL200, what was your win rate? You said that you made $20k-$30K a months, so I assume you were probably making 4-8BB/100 8-tabling.

2) What style/Stats did you have when you played the NL200? Was it a LAG style or more of a TAG style. What were your Stats (VPIP/PFR/Total Aggression)?

Thanks
Jacob

I think that over the 1M+ hands I played there it was somewhere around 5.5-6ptbb/100. I was 8 tabling for the most part.

I mostly played about a 25/22/5 but towards the end as I was improving it was like a 32/30/10.

Thanks for doing this LA, good content in here

that is a very high TA, wow.

You say here your game is improving
http://stoxpoker.com/node/1025

How did you improve it?

That was pretty fun to read! That was from about 14 months ago. I guess I did all I claimed I would do and more so that is a pretty good feeling.

Honestly I just kept grinding hard on improving my game. There really wasn't anything specific. Whenever I had a question I basically investigated the answer until I found it and then I implemented it.

Your strategy of playing loose at small stakes because everyone folds intrigues me. Do you say this because they fold their blinds and fold flops to your c-bets, or are you talking about turn and river too? Would you 2 and 3 barrel more at the lower stakes as well?

I think you can safely buy the finest Meusli on the market now

It depends but mostly just by isolating limpers and c betting almost every flop.

1. Who would win in a arm wrestling match between you and stox, assuming your both right or left handed? 2.If you could pick any stox instructor to play jeporady to win you money who would you choose? 3. Do you have any hole in ones to your credit? 4. Have you ever flopped a four of a kind or a straight flush where both hole cards played then lost the hand to an opponent who had both hole cards play? 5. Can you shuffle chips? 6. We still on for that free lesson you offered me awhile back sometime that I never got back to you on? Thanks for going in the "well" LA!

1. Stox for sure. I am so out of shape from 2 years of solid clicking and not being active enough that I am best off with 12 ounce curls than taking on anyone at this point
2. This is a tough one as I have yet to get to know some of the coaches as well as I would like. It would seem like Matros would be the most obvious choice, but I can't say for sure.
3. Yes I have 6
4. I don't think so
5. No
6. I'm a man of my word so you betcha

Just two questions:

1.
How do you evaluate the success of a bluff or inducing a play when you have a made hand. E.g. A given scenario where say the board texture is exactly the same on flop,turn and river and you repeat the same play but you get different results for say a bluff. E.g. 1 failed, 1 succeeded. On an opponent with similar stats how would you differentiate?

2.
How do you manage an aggression factor of 10 at NL200? It sounds like fun and I wouldn't mind experimenting with this.

Hi Leatherass. I was watching one of your video blogs a while back and you mentioned that you were a huge Rambo fan and you were going to see the new Rambo movie and seemed pretty excited about it. Just curious, what did you think of it and how do you think it stacks up? It was absolutely hammered by the critics in the media but I saw it (I am also a huge Rambo fan) and just loved it.