RTP, skip LA. I know you're set on it and you're gonna do it regardless but LA is not worth the hassle. I've been pretty disappointed in the game quality over the week I've been here, there's dozens of European regs (myself included) and 5/T+ looks awful most of the time.

This one gave me a good laugh.

Did you follow that up by telling them the +EV move was to take their clothes off at a strip club?

next time you post to imgur go to bbc share code and then it's all good it even puts in the coding for you

unbreakable is a low key legit good movie

couldn't bear myself to see split but would have had i known it was a sequel, saw glass because i thought it was the sequel and regret it and lost interest in watching split

Yeah, I don't get it. By the sounds of it one can make some really good money playing big games in TX without even being that good. Austin is an amazing place for a young person to live and if the games are good there, that seems like a no-brainer. I'm guessing most of the best games are in Houston. While I'm not a huge fan of living in Houston, he's going to be spending most of his time in a poker room anyways.

It will be interesting to see how the legal Dallas games are. I"m guessing they will be more akin to Winstar games than other Texas games but we'll see in a few months.

Austin is one of my favourite places I've ever been to, I'd snap move there if it were possible visa wise. The only advantage LA has over Austin is the weather imo.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well and it's not like Austin has terrible weather.

I'd take advantage of Vegas pros in similar ways. With the way I played, it would generally be silly for them to assume I was anything other than another dumbass tourist. That would give me a tremendous advantage because I knew what their ranges were in spots and I also knew what they thought a typical dumbass tourist's range was in spots.

So it's a . . . pseudo-steroid that might turn into a normal steroid?

Ahem. They never intended for the franchise to be another Friday on Elm St X. It was supposed to be about bad things that happen on Halloween. Now the commercial triggered exploding costume thing was a bit of a reach, but I wouldn't have skipped @6 installments if they had kept innovating.


It's actually the latter because you won't move money into investments when you are on a major downswing. And you will have one.

Cmdr beat me to it. That would be better than much of the HS curriculum and all of U level victim studies.

It's hilarious that you cannot comprehend they trust both.

I read it as "how legal the Dallas games are"

That might work vs Vegas regs. In my game it's a guaranteed way to hear 'I have to keep you honest'

wj, thanks for taking the time to let me know what you think. As you said I’m set on it so it’s in vain but I appreciate it man.

I wish I wasn't a ****ing nit and overfolded to 4x pot shoves in $20K pots. I know that in theory I don't have to defend vs that every often, but it's literally a value hand 0% of the time that I've seen and really should not work. I feel like taking a big knife and sticking it in my stomach right now.

/tilt

Some day I'll be able to handle these spots better. There are just too many people with way too much money playing this game. I'm going to ****ing destroy everyone.

/tilt

Weren't you just a day ago crowing about a 300bb bluff you made to pick up like 30 or 40bb?

You’re amazing DC and given me so much great advice but you’re missing the point imo.

Poker in Texas is a goldmine. But in the sense that if you’re well rolled, patient, and play tight you’ll be way better off in some of these games than in most places. I mean this as a compliment, GG/his strat could easily make $50/hr (with more risk and money at stake, of course.)

But anyone can do that and it doesn’t maximize my strengths, at all. Also, it’s incredibly boring. I can do just as well in tougher lineups with constant mental warfare that others find challenging. Yes, in terms of poker skills I’m behind at the moment but that’s where I have the most confidence in my self to improve extremely rapidly. I don’t believe any of the wizards at the 10/20 level in LA or 5/10 in Vegas from what I’ve heard from friends to be smarter, more talented than me. And I’ve always worked very hard.

A large part of the reason I want to play this game every day is the intellectual stimulation. I don’t find it difficult at all and in fact I love it so much. I honestly find tougher lineups way easier, but my experience is limited of course and I’m definitely in the minority there.

The main disadvantage is the high expenses. But I’d rather be accustomed to the degenerate, cesspool scene that is Commerce which I know will take time for me socially, once I start playing 10/20 as my main game. Not just move to LA when I have a ton of cash.

Easy is relative. I want to play as close to GTO as possible eventually and make as much money as possible doing so. Waiting for 10s+, AQ+ 50 hours a week while playing online 30 to get better seems suboptimal to me personally than 80 hours a week of battling a 5/5 pro deepstack. I’m more likely to burn out being a nit lol, in my opinion.

If not LA, I’ve considered Vegas. But not Texas. Texas games will not help me in the path to becoming a human solver. They’ll just be an easier way to build the roll, and I’m not looking for easy. If I was I’d make bank for 10 years working in high finance and then quit to play poker full time at 30.

fwiw I’m not disagreeing with any of you. Just sharing my perspective. Call me a troll if you like, it’s fine.

That hand was actually pretty standard.

It was a $5/5 game and the guy on my left was literally opening 10-20BB every hand. So I limp A5, he makes it his usual $50, 3 people call the $50 (people had been isolating him with hands as bad as KTo so none of their calls were very strong) so I crammed $1500 into like $210 when the action got back to me.

Where do you play?

Various LA locations.

Nice! I’d love to meet you when i start playing out there.

I used to kind of think like this years ago. I took on everyone, confident that I was better than everyone, because I put in more work than they did and understood the theory better.

But I'm in my 30's now and don't play poker to feed my ego anymore. I play anything from $5/5 to $50/100 depending on what game I think is the softest (sometimes it's the biggest game). I'm totally happy to play in games where I can be a nit and print money. Money is what pays the bills.

sabr, I’m sure you’re a crusher with thousands of hours in those games and I’m not going to tell you it’s guaranteed that I do so well that paying the bills won’t be a problem. But I certainly believe so.

Maybe it’s going to be extremely difficult to make as much as I think I will overtime. And even if I do, maybe it’ll be a soul crushing, isolated life.

But if I was just trying to pay the bills, I’d rather work in finance. And get solid benefits. But that’s not my goal. It helps that I’ve never not accomplished a goal I’ve set for myself.

I should clarify that I've never worried about the bills/rent not being paid and I've played poker for almost 15 years now.

I enjoy owning/outplaying regs, sure, but I just play for money now. I have no problem leaving a terrible $5/10 game to play a softer $5/5 game, or any game where you can print money nitting it up.

Aaaaand we're back...

NH SABR. I love mixing in a good limp reraise, I probably find a spot for it once or twice a month. I make a quick prayer to the limp raise god GG and then let his spirit guide me.

I mean it's not part of my general strategy but if the guy on your left is literally playing 90/70 you should not open any hand lol.

Feel Wrath - here is my limited knowledge that is 8 years old on HGH. My daughter got heavily cuncussed. It was an ordeal that took nearly 2 years to recover from. Evidently when that happens your pituitary can get phuct and stop producing it. She was prescribed a low doseage of it.

Pharm grade is insanely expensive. My ex ended up doing an absolute shitload of research on it. There are knockoffs available. However, they are massively counterfeitted and the potency can be some to next to none. A huge slug of the fakes are made in china and I would not mess with that based on the current Corona biz going on there