I couldda boughta car

A few years I bricked two 3k mtts in less than 24 hours, both while getting huge stacks in as a more than 70% favourite. Also fired two bullets in the last chance satellite after the first brick.

I had to invest another $300 at the rubntug to get me off tilt and remember thinking how much better my life would have been if I’d just invested the 7k there in the first place

Not wanting to brag but I am now up to a solid 1.5% ROI at .10/.20. AMA.

My primary strat tip: find a way to flop a set on an A high board versus AK. Also recommend having AA when someone jams with AK.

Those were free. Have to charge you for any additional coaching.

feelie steps to go about spending $7k in one night at an Australian rub n tug? LOL.

asking for a friend.

re LOL shortstackers: my theory as to why there are so many shortstackers is that they are all multi (maybe even double digit) accounting in an attempt to basically guarantee hitting the bad beat eventually. And maybe stack a few whales in the process.

just takes a bunch of cheap devices I think.

what losers

I lost 8 sessions in the last year

I lost 80% of my sessions

I suspect I lost some records

My wife is currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn on ps4 right now, so I can check that one off 10 year old turtle's life goal checklist.

Saw what may have been Zoltan take a LOL beat on Bros. If this was our boy there may be a phone in need of replacement.

I'm listening...

Sadly, it was not Zollie.

Did involve our chat hero calling an all in on the turn on a A-3-8-2r board with 66. And being ahead against a spewy J9. RIT rejected and J ball on the river.

I needed that to be Zollie. lol

This all sounds completely reasonable and in no way seems like chat hero had been drinking.

Soon as RIT was rejected against that garbage hand I could see the jack peeling in my mind. I mean I reject it there also but I know what will happen.

Serious question:

How more advanced has live poker gotten in the last 2-3 years? Is it possible i could jump into a 1-2 or 1-3 game and smash in the way I used to?

Provided games are running, you should have no trouble. You might be a little rusty thought and it may take a bit to get back in the groove.

is it possible to pull 7bb/hr in a 1-3 given the rake of $7 nowadays?

i have barely played in recent years so I too am very interested in what others would say but for me the major gap in skill occurred in the few years after black friday as the new players stopped showing up and those who stayed got markedly better

playing in 2007 knowing something like pot odds would put you in elite company and people who were otherwise generally pretty good players would still overplay trouble hands like KT and AJ because they didn't know the math and game theory behind why

there are still people who make those mistakes, but they are exclusively in the dngaf camp of people there to play cards with little view of the big picture, and those with no fs to give may still understand things like pot odds

played once live about a year ago (posted about it here in 1-3 against people who had specifically flown in for a tournament) and felt they all knew things like relative hand strength and pot odds etc but they'd make the kind of mistakes that separates the wheat from the chaff like getting married to a hand that is good on the flop but bad on the turn or having a pretty good hand & getting reraised in a spot where it's nearly impossible for villain to think you are weak and still calling off your stack

it's a lol sample size of 1 but also on acr playing micro spins and sngs have noticed no difference in overall skill from before, it's even arguably easier than in the past but that could be because acr has a weaker player pool than stars

tl:dr there was a time when even the good players were acting on instinct and inuition whereas now they are much better because they have real data as backing instead of suspect subconcious knowledge - but that moment happened a while ago and now while the good players are able to continue getting better, the average 1-2 guy isn't going to be putting in the work and if they were putting in the work but still playing 1-2 then they clearly don't have it anyway

Based on what little I have seen and depending on how fluid your pool is with fresh money...yes.

Players are but snugger than they were back a few years ago but your area is transient enough you should get enough new action to keep games good (economy may **** that up some idk).

check with gg

the amount of straight up misinformation and rigtard chatter in that thread is amazing

Since 1/2 and 1/3 are the entry points into low stakes nl they are always going to be quite soft. The games are filled with players giving money away, scared money players, players that understand concepts but lack discipline, and players that are disciplined but kind of suck fundamentally and might as well play their hands face up.

I have no clue what you can make playing 1/3.

There would be more but they keep moving my conversations to the "Online poker is rigged" thread.

achievable win rates at 1/3 range from treefiddy/hr to sixtynine/hr.

you heard it here first

i apologize to the thread for my post, i treated you guys like i would in reddit or quora whereas I'd safely put myself in the bottom quartile of skill and knowledge here

seriously, can you delete that for me garrick, seeing it there now fills me with deep shame

i'll take a timeout from spamming here as penance, honestly sorry for the cringe

Live poker is back guys!

https://youtu.be/Fd40OL3v07I?t=165

deadfish,

If you were playing regularly 2-3 years ago, it hasn't changed much, ime. As rick said, most of the change happened before that. Max rake $7 hurts a bit. Any of it promo, or all straight rake?

Don't give up on your college degree plans though, imo.