Mucho Thanks

What type of device is this?

Its called “abacus” and you can find it in the app store.

That's not an abacus, I know what an abacus is.

But this device seems to have a very high screen resolution with a PPI to match, while having weird light reflecting properties. I bet it's good on the eyes.

Lol, was legit going to make an abacus joke myself but thought better.

Gbutgogogo!,imoG

I see you also had a great Nov and Dec ... Happy new year.

Oh you mean my calculator. TBF I write my sessions out that way not planning to ever show anyone until GG called me out. Im afraid if I use a giraffe app the government laserbeams via Elon satillites will know my winrate.

2023, all nlh public games

Sick. NH, WP, GG, etc.

Hmmm....
1st few hours in January have me concerned that you're actually not a winning player.

Seriously/awesome results, very impressive!

Can you give us some short snippets of advice for great results like this? Thanks for your post.

Nice! Where do you play?

Just spend a **** load of hours in solver and strive to play theoretically optimally as possible, just mixing in light exploits like overfolding vs nits. Also play/study like an online player until you beat 100nl+. Live players are extremely bad and it's shooting fish in a barrel for any decent online player

Inspiring and motivational thread here. Keep it up!

Last night I went home dejected that I'm playing in a 1/2 game I cannot beat. My cardroom raised their rake to 10 percent up to 60 + up to 3 additional for promotions. The promotions are hard to win because they run at inconvenient times or fill up the room, and there are no seats, or pay out 100,000 just once a year. Add to that a stingy $1 tip to the dealers who work only for tips. Now, when you win a pot with 60, you feel like you paid for a large bowl of soup but got a small one that retails for only 50. I still make plenty of errors. There is lots of room to improve my game. With a degen or whale on the table, I feel like a pro. But when average loose-passives populate the table, and stacks go below 200, it feels like the game is unbeatable. The margin for error just gets too thin, and the variance of multiway pots with all the loose passives is brutal.

For decades, I was lucky to play in games run for tips in warehouses in bad neighborhoods. I was prepared these games would get robbed eventually. Then the casino opened up and killed all the home games. I know the rake is the price you pay for civilized poker in public. My family appreciates now I won't get shot. But if you are priced out of poker, how civilized is the world, really?

Please feel free to write: this question has been covered hundreds of times in the forum.

Very smart and reasonably poker smart but somewhat undisciplined young LAG rec who plays better than most of the local regs did a bet with his non poker buddy whether he could win 100k+ in my player pool in 1 month.

I think the bet motivated him to play his best and to put a lot of volume at the best prime time hours. He is young and single with a demanding job, but he had more time off during the holidays when he started the bet in late December. I definitely suspect that he cut down on the spewy nonsense that he would sometimes do when he would normally get bored because he really wanted to win this bet.

He hit his target in less than 3 weeks and won the bet.

3 weeks, 100k? What stake was this

Yeah, $6 + $3 + $1 is fairly brutal for a 1/2 NL game. With shortish stacks (i.e. < $200) and high rake, my guess is a decent strategy to have a shot is outnitting your opponents by playing *extremely* nitty (which is what I do in my $9 + $2 + $1 1/3 NL game).

Ggoodluck!G

The stakes were a combination of:

5/5/10 bounty ($25 bonus from every player to someone who wins 2+ pots in a row) with mandatory $25 single board NLHE bomb pots. Sometimes mandatory straddle to $20.

5/10/20 double bounty ($50 bonus from every player to someone who wins 2+ pots in a row) with mandatory $50 single board NLHE bomb pots. Sometimes mandatory straddle to $40.

It is hard to convert these structures to “vanilla” NLHE structures, but I think say that the stakes were a mix of 10/20 NLHE to 20/40 NLHE essentially.

Where the hell can you play those stakes in a public poker room? I thought the 10-20+ player pool was fleeing to private games.

Sounds like Gardens. If it's one of the young kids I'm thinking of he runs pretty damn pure too. My last couple of LA trips the same 2 kids have gotten it in bad against me multiple times and I have yet to get any money back from those pots.

At 20-40 if he played 12 hours/ day for 21 straight days, its about 10bb/hour, its doable but still very impressive.

Thanks for the advice. I always read your posts, so maybe one day I’ll have the skill to shift gears into GGnit. Sorry about that rake (although misery loves company).

What's your bankroll?

If it's >$10k you should be taking shots at the $5 level ASAP

Others have told me that too. Bankroll was up to $3.5K, now down to 2.7. I have about $500 a month cash flow for recreation. To play 2/5, I would want to be rolled closer to 20K. I could take some cash out of my IRA now, paying the penalty. Or wait nine years until I retire. The kid will be done with college, house almost paid off, a large state pension in addition to savings, endless time to play poker.

My low estimate is that my cardroom took from the pots I won about 10K. I'm trying to get an unraked home game started to build up my bankroll.

So an UPDATE: while I’m up a bit over $13,000 since I started this in July, the inevitable DOWNSWING has struck, and after yet another two-bullet/$600 losing session yesterday, I am down to just $300 left in my sock drawer.

I don’t know what to do! I wanted to avoid ever having to withdraw money from our checking account, and now that’s exactly what’s happened!

(Complicating all this is that I’ve just had a Round 2 interview for a full-time job, which, if I get it, would allow me to quit poker…So, I don’t know, I might only be needing to play for another couple weeks, maybe I just pray this final $300 bullet can carry me through? But I’m not stupid, I know there’s no way in hell I can play well knowing if I lose I can never play again…that’s how I played as a Degen in my 20s, and I SUCKED!)

So anyway, I don’t know what to do. Why couldn’t I have just tripled up yesterday???