Not bad at all Mike! Wp. Longest I've seen was a rec player who had 16 straight :')

Wow that's incredible. Congrats

Depends on what you define as fish. Problem is a lot of the typical fish although obviously bad aren't complete idiots. Some of them have probably played for years but never bothered to improve their game beyond the basic "don't play T4o then call down your stack with a pair of fours". They aren't gonna hand out their stack like candy like the whale does. The one whale also changes the entire table dynamics. People will play looser and make themselves more exploitable in order to try to get into spots vs the whale. If you know how to exploit everyone in such a situation...way more +EV than a table that's half typical fish.

Also regs don't bring high variance. Whales do. Like that time I was playing 1/3 at the Wynn and a single whale changed the table so much the typical open was $30 to $35 and getting called in multiple spots. You think the nit reg wearing the hoodie/shades/headphones who says five words per session is gonna bring variance? Hellz nah.

Yeah when you grind low stakes you become very accustomed to just playing with whales or people who just randomly spazz and dont have to put in a lot of effort.

That's a luxury you don't always get. Really crushing means being able to play weak fish (weak regs) that play semi-solid but will eventually make a big mistake in a bloated pot -- and that one pot will account for your entire WR for the day. It could take hours to find that spot, but it'll happen eventually. Or maybe they're overfolding flops in 3bet pots so you do that once an hour or whatnot. It's not about needing to stack them every hand.

I know a guy who won 26 sessions in a row. It was all 1/3 and 1/2 I believe. He's also hit multiple bad beat jackpots.

Yeah that's crazy. Though in some 1/2 games, I can see it not being insanely difficult. Some people just run very, very good...

Some of that could also depend on whether or not the guy plays super long sessions and more importantly if he stays longer than he was planning when hes down so he can get unstuck because hes trying to protect his winning streak or conversely if he leaves early if hes winning to protect his win for the day.

Im not doing that crap. I just play whatever hours I planned to play that day. My sessions have been shortish during this streak because Ive been sick and I feel worse as the day goes on. The streak is at 16 now. My sessions have averaged 3 hrs 42 mins.

15 wins in a row is pretty cool, congrats mike.

GG and I have a long standing avatar bet on who can first hit 20. Think I've clipped 12 a few times...and tbh its been a long time since Ive clipped 5.

Had an amazing combo breaker yesterday, +2780 in a 2/5/10 game in like an hour after being stuck 700. Halfway out of my downswing!

Plus I just quit my job, so I may be able to do 60 hours this month to get to 1k hours live.

Depending on the postflop skill of your opponents (mine aren't wizards by any means but most aren't completely ******ed either), and depending on whether a rake is taken on a pot that doesn't see a flop (no flop no rake in my room), there is some argument to be made for shortstacking and attempting to take down all pots preflop. I mean, if all you did is once an orbit raise 3 limps and take it down, you'd cruise to a 9 bb/hr winrate. Course, I'm guessing this opportunity won't arise once an orbit, but throw in the occasional limp/reraise (which can take down a relatively huge pot preflop) and it's perhaps not as farfetched as you think.

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Can't remember the poster who actually ended up shipping that prop bet; I think Fun out of Calgary or something like that?

In 2012-2013 I went on a fun little 7 win 1 loss (-$12 over 12 hours, lol) 10 win 2 loss 15 win streak (32-3). Since then, I've had four 7 session win streaks and three 6 session winstreaks. 20 seems absolutely impossible to me (unless using a quitting method just to accomplish it).

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17 and counting

68.25 hours
+$10212
$149.60/hr

I'm in shock to be honest. My record was 14 and Ive had two 13s but even then the amounts werent this big. My room raised the max buy in to 200BBs in the 2/5 games on Feb 1st and the games have been really good since then.

Impressive Mike!

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Just looked back through poker income app, my longest winning sessions streak is 9 with average session length of 8.6 hours.

Total poker income db average session length is 8.7 with 67% of them being winners.





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Are you buying in for the max or sticking at $500? Where I usually play the max is $1000 but I start at 700-800 and chip up once I'm more comfortable with the players.

If its a new table I buy in for $700 for 2 reasons

1) Not very many people are buying in above $500 anyway and I can still top up anytime I need to if/when people get deeper if I havent gotten deeper myself yet.

2) Its intimidating to some recs to see a guy buy in for $1000, especially when some clown walks up and slaps down 10 blacks. He might as well hang a sign around his neck that says "Im a pro". Some of the guys who do that still arent very good but why alert the recs that a pro is at the table? The other day a player actually said out loud "Oh look at the pro!" when a guy sat down with a stack of blacks.

If its a table that's already running, I take a quick look at the stacks while walking by on the way to the cage. So far Ive still been mostly buying for $700 but with more blacks in my pocket. If there's a few deep stacks, especially if they are fish, then I add on discretely. Im not trying to hide anything or trick anyone. I just think its bad for the game to make it really obvious Im out for blood. Although anyone who has put any time in at my room knows me anyway.

Hmm that makes sense MikeStarr. I typically go for $1000, because so much of my winrate comes from players who don't know how to handle being 300+bb deep, but I don't want to intimidate anyone. I tend to buy in for reds and greens and have a lot of chips which I think is less of a pro look.

My most wins in a row is 8, with a 5 hour session length. Won $12,000 in 6 weeks at 2/5 (50 hours). 61% winrate overall

Thank you guys for not buying in with 10 blacks like some douchebags. Buying in for 10 blacks is just dumb. Unless someone offers you change dealer has to make change for you which slows the game down.

There are these chodes that buy into the 2/5/10 game with two $1000 chips and a $500 chip, then post a $500 chip for their $10 blind.

I refuse to make change for them. Go to the goddamn window

+1

Nut worst would be the wanna be pros that buy in for three blacks at 1/3...

This makes a lot of sense.

Tips like these are amazing and why I love live poker. It's so much more than math/vpip and there are +EV strategies that have nothing to do with your or your opponents cards.

As I usually start my sessions after 5/6pm, yep I have seen dozens of faces I've never seen before. Most of them middle aged guys with money.

I'll see you gents this weekend. Sorry in advance...