Imagine if you had to work in a mill or a factory. The horror.

It sounds like your in a very good game with horrific regs,, would you employ the same style if another good player sat down is this style only sustaianble in this game, and do you play the same vs unknowns

Do you mind answering how you built you roll was it from 1/2

A quartely bonus is predictable not a BBJ,, would you calculate finding $100k on the streets as a part of your yearly income from your job making it seem as if your one of your companies top earners....NO, unless your insecure

So I was playing more recreationally in 2014. I didn't have a proper bankroll or anything, I just set aside $600 and grinded it up to $4000. Thought I was on top of the world "crushing" 1/2. I also had a nasty little habit called "getting shitfaced at the poker table." Well needless to say that roll went bust around August 2014.

I took 4 months off to save up a proper roll ($4000) and read a handful of books during that time. Started playing again in late December (still drinking). After having a breakeven January where I gave back $2000 due to being blackout drunk and getting two 24-hour bans I completely stopped drinking.

And lo and behold, my results since February (~400-450 hours) have been phenomenal. Maybe it's just run-good but I think there is a strong correlation to a) having a proper roll and b) not drinking while playing - that have allowed me to progress as much as I have in 2015.

I take the game very seriously now. I just started playing 2/5 and I *ALMOST ALMOST* took a shot at 10/10 last night after doubling up from $500 to $1200 at 2/5.

Hope this helped

Good call on the cessation of drinking. Nice hit for 700 too. Keep it up.

Don't think shot taking 10/10 is advisable. Sure 2/5 is only marginally tougher than 1/2 but 5/T-T/T is a completely different animal.

^ yeah I agree, for someone that just moved to $2/5 I would put at least 200 hrs in at $2/5 before shot taking $10/10 unless you have reason to believe your $10/10 has a particularly soft line up with some big fish.

Not quite the same.

You get to put in the work and know that work translate into hard earn money.

Poker doesn't give you that same feeling.

Yah it wasn't gonna be a multiple shot attempt or anything, I was just up $700 very quick at 2/5 so I effectively would be buying in for $1000 at 10/10 risking only $300 which I would have been fine with losing. Not trying to actually play it right now or anything it was just good circumstances with a big whale I recognized about to sit down. Didn't end up playing it though.

This^^

Ive played 4000 career hours or so of $5 blind games and even though I've crushed 5/5 & 2/5 over the last 3 years, "shot taking" a 10/10 after running up a $500 stack to check it all out is not very wise. I've played 300-400 hours of 5/10 lifetime and the games are far different in a vacuum. Much tougher, it's a whole new type of game. "Standard" lines get eaten alive by the good pros.

So you're saying I should move up.

Where do you play 5/10? If you are a standard 50$ per hour balla 2p2 2/5 crusher you should be able to at least squeak that out at 5/10. It isn't that much harder but you do need to make adjustments.

Also regarding not drinking at the table, I've had the opposite experience. Since I quit I've hit a brick wall. If you can handle your alcohol though I honestly don't think there is any bigger action builder than drinking.

If you can't drink and play maybe you should drop down and learn. Single most EV thing you can do at the table besides growing boobs

^ this guy knows the truth

Opinions on short stacking 2/5 live ($200-$500) vs full stacking 1/2 ($60-$300)?

And by shortstack I don't mean buy in short and play normal poker. I mean play an extremely tight strategy that has zero play after the flop. No set mining. Just pushing preflop equities and dead money. I've done this online at up to 200nl with pretty good success and live should be even better given that the preflop opening size is larger and the fact that these players call $25 opens with random junk.

I would then decide if the table were good enough to top off my stack and play deep or to rathole and switch tables.

Will 2/5 players adjust to a pro shortstack or will they repeatedly pay you off with TT when the worst hand you ever have is AKs?

How would the hourly compare in these two games?

LOL, pro short stacker.

And please, do not carry your douchbaggery to local casinos...

+1

xeleventybillion

You ranged?

If another good player sits then position starts to become more important when it comes to my exploitable plays. I take periodic trips to vegas to play 1-3 and 2-5 and have had very good success playing with unknowns (1-3 in vegas included in the results I posted), and I just play my style significantly tighter and more position aware. I'll pull the last 5 vegas 1-3 session results in a minute.

Location Hours result
Aria 5:09 +1326
Aria 3:25 +174
Venetian 3:06 +260
Bellagio 1:57 -132
Phollywood 6:20 +1100

These are the last 5 sessions I played in Vegas. The Bellagio loss is me leaving after the one fish busted and game wasn't great so went to find a new table.

FYP

How is this douchbaggery (although I'm assuming ratholing is allowed when switching tables at his room)? Sounds like he's simply asking a strategy question, no?

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2/5 short stacker hit and run artists are the worst