Cheers mate, pm'd you!

I enjoyed that, right up to the bit where he said he doesn't do steroids

Yeah, he definitely uses steroids but still enjoyed the video.

nitty small to medium losing players are the backbone of the midstakes economy

this week was cool for me. played 31 hour won 80/h started tracking again even though I told myself it's pointless just because I want something tangible to look back on in a year or however long.

I also had my first strategy article released today for a local online news site and it will be a once a week poker column so I'm looking forward to that

oh and I also won like 80$ on acr sold my balance to my friend and bought pizza

After 156 hours, I'm now at $4600. Averaging $29.30/hr.

Just put together my first 5k week over 3 sessions (2/5, 2/5, 1/3). BR ~20k

Jesus Christ we got 15bb/hr and 5k weeks in here.

Awesome.

FWIW there's a guy in the travel section complaining that he is no longer allowed to sit in his local game. The main reason given for why is: So yeah it's your right to leave whenever you want, but well yeah....

Edit: Having said that, I had my first hit and run in years about a week ago. I was racking up, doubled through a guy and left the next hand. Someone asked me "seriously going to leave?" I was already racking up bruh, couldn't be helped.

I moved a seat away from a 2/5 reg-whale yesterday, and he asked me, do I stink? He then whispered something next to another whale reg and later asked me why am I looking at his huge stack....

I was being positionally optimal, but I know I can beat this idiot regardless of him being IP or OOP, and am starting to think maybe making him uncomfortable is less EV than being IP to him? We had a great rapport going, just jabbering back an forth like two idiots..

What do you think? Do you think blatantly moving and keeping IP of the reg-whales is foolish?

Not foolish at all. Just need to cover your tracks a little better...

Just tell him seat X is your lucky seat or you're card dead or something. There are plenty of fish who move for ridiculous reasons and announce it to the whole table, just use one of those

This is good.

I use alot of camo when im doing stuff like this. Im young and kind of have a hotshot kind of image so people are already naturally leary of me but I setup things early on by doing or saying certain silly things and nonsense.

Its hard to convince people your all of a sudden a superstitious gambler if you've been sitting there withyour backpack and hoody/headphones (not saying this is you)

True. Any move out of the 1 or 9/10 seat is easy to justify. Getting hit by the dealer, kneeing the damn box, etc. Those seats suck.

A good reason that even a grinder-looking player can use is a better view at a TV.

What are some of the things you say bro?

- moving to favorite seat
- card dead
- better view of tv
- hate sitting at 1 or 9/10 seat
- hate sitting in middle of table (works especially well if you are a bigger person)
- better view of women walking by (obv if it makes sense that this would work)
- seat X is getting all the cards (if a guy who was getting good cards racks up and leaves and happens to be to the left of fish)
- better view of entrance because you're waiting for someone
- all the money is going to one end of the table, so i want to be on that end

basically just make up any reason. no one is going to grill you on it and if anyone keeps asking questions just say you werent comfortable in your old seat. i've never seen anyone ask more than a simple question as to why we moved so i wouldnt get too worried about it.

lets not forget, most of these players are level 0-1 thinkers anyway, they're gonna completely forget about you 3 hands after you move...

I always say "I got a good feeling about this one"

The seat-change-justification lines are transparent and patronizing FYI.

Yes. It's much better for the game if you answer "I want relative position on you."

I don't get the problem with hitting and running at all. Sure if you are bad at playing deep then it is in your best interest to get up. That being said, the terrible players that hit and run are going to lose their money regardless. Sure, they are probably going to lose it faster with a deep stack but either way it isn't much difference to me. If someone doubles up and leaves, the next time they come to the table they may drop their next 4 buyins.

If you are in a large room then hitting and running shouldn't be an issue at all. It's in the small player pools when you play with the same players over and over that it can be a big problem for some but even then it can be smoothed over by befriending the other players.

+1.

There is really no good answer in this situation. Sometimes being friendly and being predatory are exclusive. No problem to pick either one. And giving a patronizing answer still may be the only comfortable way out, but just don't delude yourself that the lines solve all.

Depends on pool size. Continously moving into position in a small pool is very bad manners.

You have a bad attitude though and they probably think you are a tool anyway so feel free to move into position.

I would give a "patronizing" answer for the same reason I don't wear earphones or sit stoically at the table: to mitigate the predatory nature of the game as much as possible, though I have recently began to question how much value there really is in this. In any case, if someone knows why I changed seats and is verbally giving me a hard time about it in front of other players who may not know, he deserves whatever response he gets.

The "hate seat 1/9" excuse is fine because those seats actually do suck. But I agree no excuse at all is better than a flimsy one.

So if someone asks you why you are changing seats you simply don't respond?