gather around boys and girls. i have a story to share in the morning. it is a tale that chronicles patience, determination, guile and majestic dragons.

that is a crapload of money for $1/$2. looks like you made back the $3k you lost.

very nice. wish you had that heater at $2/$5.

although i guess that could be from $2/$5. which is still impressive.

Nice win

since he's at parx and there are a blue ($2) and red chip out there, i'm guessing it is 2/5, though it still could be 1/2 and both didnt have change. either way, 3k+ is nice on most tables...

oh damn he is at parx. I was just there a dew months ago. Wish we met up Johnybuz. I may be back around Thanksgiving.

Nice stack also keep it up.

Jesus you guys are the most unobservant people ever.

arn't you guys supposed to be poker players?

clearly 2/5, look at the blinds.

did i earn my gold star for the day?

I didnt see you had already observed what I had.

Thanks guys. The actual tally was $4,437 which crushes all of my previous records for largest pot won, biggest chip stack, biggest cash, etc. You can't really see from the picture, but the black chips actually extend pretty far down in that pile.

The story goes, I wasn't planning on playing 2/5 for awhile, but after the good week I had last week at 1/2 and 1/3, I thought I would consider it Tuesday if the tables looked soft (Tuesday is biggest night @ Parx for some reason). 1/2 and 1/3 had a long list and I actually got put at a tough 2/5 table with a bunch of regs, grinders, etc.

So I decided to play it but just tone down my aggression, go back to a real basic ABC premium hand strategy buying in for 100 BB's (everyone else buys in for 200 BB's). I meandered around for two hours, not doing much but being up $300. Then I ran AK into TT on a KT676 board that TT limp/called pre. Managed to lose a minimum on that hand I think (70 BB's). Chipped up a little bit, then lost KQ AI on flop JT6 to AT by some guy that bought in short for $400. I'm thinking to myself "Great ... 21 outs twice bricks out, it's going to be one of those nights."

But I felt pretty happy with the way I was playing and didn't feel like I was tilting or anything, so I chipped up to $1000 with the last that I had (in for $1400 now) and just kept chipping away. Main table broke, got moved to a new table and won a few more small pots. I'm sitting on $1500 now at about 2:30am thinking to myself "the only thing worse/biggest waste of my time than grinding a $100 win at 1/2 is grinding a $100 win at 2/5," like I'm about to rack it up and accept my fate of grinding 1/2 and 1/3 for awhile..

We are playing 5 handed at the moment so it sucks, but another table breaks and I see three deep stacks headed over to my table. I've got one seat open to my left, followed by two deep stacks and then an open seat. I make the seat change of a lifetime and take the opening with position on 4 deep stacks now and the following transpires in about 30 minutes:

Hand 1:



Hand 2: 10 minutes later



And now I'm back at a crossroads with a BR at an all-time high and unsure which limit to play. I came up with a schedule of which days I would play 1/2, 1/3 and 2/5 so I think I should just be disciplined with the schedule and stick to it. There are definitely some BAD nights to play 2/5 and I learned that the hard way during August.

I was judging my win rate as being "dismal" due to this sticky thread:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32...g-pro-1426688/

Where it says:
Step #1) You have to be a demonstrated winning player with a track record of beating 1/2nl for a minimum of 500 hours for a winrate of $20/hr or better. You also need a minimum roll of $4k. If this is the case, proceed onward to Step #2. If this is not the case, skip this section and go to the next section titled “Hail Mary”.

2/5 when games good. Lower when it's not IMO. Holy slowplay on those HH.

Hey all back to update for August.

I made a post a few pages back about a dismal summer I was having. I decided to take a month and not look at my graph or stats at all and just focus on playing my best everyday. Well today I finally looked at my results for the month and was happy with what I saw.

August 15: $3003 profit over 91 hours ($33/hr).

I play mostly 1/2nl (150bb BI) and sometimes 2/5nl (200bb BI). This month I only played about 10 hrs of 2/5 so it didn't throw the stats too far in either direction. Feeling pretty good about my results considering I had a $1300 loss at 1/2 while getting ran over in a deep whale infested game about 3/4 through the month.

First session of sept went great with a $1250 win at the morning 1/2game over hours.

It seems DGI never followed any of that himself.

A lot of urban legends out there about how commonplace big LLSNL WRs are.

Somehow the context was lost...

Skill level of your opponents is relative.

My comment was directed at players that are crushing 1/2 at ~10bb/hr, or as you would call them, best 1/2 players in the room.

For them, skill gap that would take to beat either game at similar dollar amount is small.

It seems that the guy was more of a fictional writer than anything else.

Congrats! I'm guessing you have a new favorite hand?

Worst color scheme ever for chips?

GJFC,everygoddamcoloroftherainbowisineverysinglech ip,blechG

But how much did u lose?

Johnny, is that you?

Nice job keep it up. 90hrs. If you have a job on top of that holy cow that's a lot.

The $2's hide well in a rack of $5's.

Not as bad as MDL where the $2's are similar to $25's.

Do we still think 40bis + 6 month life expenses is an adeqaute fulltime BR?

Sounds like plenty to me.

$20

Some guy I saw get felted earlier in the night stalked me to the cage asking for gas money to get back to NYC. That good karma should be worth a few extra sets this month.