I forgot to mention, spotted a famous Olympian in the poker room playing 2/5 last night! Was hoping he'd join the 5/T...we made eye contact! He's cute in person too. Maybe I will say hi if I see him again.

I didn't get the best sleep because I was adjusting to a new schedule, I didn't relax before my session, I showered the night before instead of in the morning, I didn't exercise. These results are not surprising as I was not in the right mindset to play my best. That's why it was my fault that I got OOL and was not in a good mental state. No good pre-session routine! Fak. All this could have been avoided. Gotta be more like an athlete...Olympian?

In random news, a reg in our plo pool FT'd the $3k plo, which was cool to watch. Nice $100k score.

I did my full routine (gym, etc.) and played pretty well! Made some money too. The 5/T/Q PLO4/HE mix was running and I jumped in - two sessions in a row it's been a mix, which is cool. Got AAJ4ss in straddle over a raise and calls, squeezed to $450, original raiser jammed $850 eff., I called HU and scooped both boards (he had QJ78ds) after he flopped OESD against my top set and a full wrap on the bottom. The action players left and we were short handed and I started losing so I left too.

Played decently well, up some, now I think I've set a new monthly record with a week to go in the month! Let's go!

Good pre-session routine again, was very relaxed at the table, played well and won again, mostly 1/2 5plo, a small loss at 5/5 where I didn't really feel like playing with a reg who had too much to drink and was holding up the action every hand he was in (which was every hand). New monthly profit record confirmed!

After I quit the 5/5 a couple hours in which felt like an eternity, I played a little more 1/2 5plo and got AQQT8ss, called BB against utg loose open, short stacked straddler 3!, utg called, I backraised almost all in and GII and held for the larger side pot. Ended up over $1k on the day!

Really focused on pre-session routine again, no slip-ups, so was able to play focused/not on tilt, won $700 something. Made a royal at 5/T/Q but V didn't have anything, then got counterfeited with 88 on 855 on a 5-5 runout. Won at plo with top set+wrap on QT7 against TT of a plo4 card player who later asked for my number and suggested I could coach him.

That's about it! That $20k goal is within reach now but I think this may be a "shoot for the moon, get to the stars" situation as I am quite satisfied with where I am in the month already and won't sweat not quite getting to $20k.

Reflected on the downswing re-reading some old posts and yeah...definitely a lot of runbad but I also went on tilt because of it and lost more than I needed to. What's new. Dad speculated I was also off my mental game because work wanted me to go on an out-of-state training for two weeks and that was stressing me out, and I was in the middle of changing my dosage. Now all that is by the wayside and things appear to have turned around. I would like to keep this mental state for the rest of the year if possible. I'll focus on pre-session routine mainly and reducing life stressors (if possible). If I do maybe, just maybe I can still get close to that $150k annual goal, but it's gonna be a stretch. Maybe I should revisit and aim for $100k.

I'm really proud my myself for following up my worst month with my best month. That's quite the feat IMHO.

Forgot to mention had dinner with "pat on the butt guy," he keep bringing up having no bankroll...not sure if he's hoping I pony up. Anyway, good to have some friendly company again. I think that lady's husband started getting jealous I was taking her away from him during our poker trips so those visits have stopped.

In the meantime, still seeing my ex consistently...used the L word over dinner for the first time.

Probably just made the laydown of my career.

Overlimp AJJ84 suited to A, five ways, JJ2. Checks through. Td bringing bdfd (Jd too), $10, next to act raises to $20 (probably TT, then cold caller), hero flats. River: 9d. Checks to cold caller who pots $90, hero folds. Hero shows. Potter, a jovial older reg, gives hero two thumbs up and says heÂ’s proud of me. Fist pump!

On a board of 85555 in Omaha 88 is the nut hand. No one can have a 5 so the next best hand is 555(on board) AA(in hand). What am I missing?

You must be one hell of a calling station then

This was in hold ‘em.

Word! Hahaha.

Just running whatever now losing the minimum. Good mental game tho.

Played a very boring session where I whiffed everything or got raised a lot and let it go, one of those days. Eventually a man and his girl sat down (girl had a laptop out and was sitting nearby him, at the table adjacent to ours), something I've seen before - dude player at plo5 has chick sit close to table with a laptop out and running. He immediately got KK32x and got it all in and won on 334K5, the unbeatable hand. I racked up, which I was planning on doing anyway. But I'm very suspicious of anyone with electronics, especially computers, out near the table these days due to allegations that the autoshufflers have been hacked. Who comes with her man to a casino with a laptop out at 2am anyway? Funky. I think computers should be banned from anywhere near a poker table.

How would one hack an auto shuffled deck which is then hand cut by the dealer? I’d be far more concerned about places like Texas cardhouses that leverage hand shuffled decks


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Another reason I will probably never set foot in a Texas card house. Maybe my fear is overblown but still. Gets you thinking.

Uneventful session, lost a little at plo and 5/t/q. Sold another plo5 strat guide, he thought it was pretty good!

Went to Live for 5/5, must move was good but I got called for the much worse main game after an hour or two and just left after playing one hand (the blind $50 SB was on and I wasn't feeling it in a mediocre line-up). Made very little at 5/5, lost some with AAAT7ds three ways at 2/2 and AKQ45ds on 9TJ with two backdoor flush draws and my A versus KQJT (I got 3/4'd), won a little at 2/5, and finished off the night with some big o where I was largely card dead until finally getting AA235ds which I l/rr, bet flop and jammed turn with AA+nut low draw+nfd and scooped when I got there!

Very uneventful session but didn't lose my cool and blast off (no opportunities to really). Biggest punt was probably at 1/3 calling a $20 open with AKo and then calling a BB 3! to $80. Thank you, pre-session routine!

Tough spot: KKsT76 with two flush draws and two wraps, turn top set, front door spade flush gets there as does low wrap on the river. X/V bets $100 into $150. We block some flushes with the Ks and also some broadway wraps with our T and low wraps but unblock clubs, the other flush draw. Still seems like a hero spot in a game where hero'ing doesn't usually pay off, but if there was a reason to hero it's here.

Long weekend ahead, looking forward! Might try Delaware Park for the huge plo4 game.

You can find out if you watch Joey's podcast with the card cheat from a few weeks ago. Time stamp is in description or top of comments. It's pretty fascinating.

Wrapped up the month with a solid profit at plo and 5/t/q, won AQJT5ds against top set (made nut flush) in 4! pot and won a good 3! pot at 5/t/q as well ($525 pre, $325 flop, ai $200 turn, V folds...?). I officially broke my monthly record, over $17.1k profit! Let's goooooo! Worst month to best month ever! I think I played titled exactly once in June. Cool thing is I know if I played a few spots differently and didn't tilt at all, this would have been a $20k+ month. Something to strive for moving forward.

Posted worst single session loss tonight, lost almost all of my AIs as a favorite at 5/5; oh well. 70/30, 85/15, 60/40, 55/45, and one 40/60 with spr 4 but I was priced in after cbetting flop HU. Yawn. Would not have been in for so much except this was perhaps one of the best 5/5s I'd ever played. I wish I could have played longer but everyone has a stop loss and mine was reached when I ran out of money I brought/maxed out my atm withdrawal. Brutal to run bad in this line up!

Hands from last night's amazing session:

- open AATT7, a few calls, 3! squeeze to $500 (less than pot), hero jams $1,600, loses to AQJJ7.

- overlimp AA567, action $200, call, hero l/rr $905, call, short stack all in for a little more, flop 467 with my suit, nfd, top two, oesd, rip $1,800, get called by AQ972. Runout: Kx-9x.

- On the btn straddle, there is an EP open and 3! and I have AAJ73 and rip $950, two callers, flop 456dd, turn 7, lose to QT976 (I would lose to this V throughout the night as a favorite).

- Limp AKJT5, action makes it $100, three calls, hero $600, everyone calls. Flop: AA8r. Hero jams $200, action repots with AQ346, runout: Q-x.

- Iso KQJ97ss, HU, flop J-7-3 (my suit), cbet pot IP with top two and decent flush draw, V crai $800, I snap, lost to AQJ98 with nut hearts on both runouts.

- Limp/call AKQTT, flop QJ6, flop wrap, nfd, top pair, donk almost pot, gii against action with KKJT9cc and chop.

- One of my only wins: limp AAT56, GII against action on AQ7hh and hold against QQKTJ.

I am of course disappointed with the results but I played very well overall. Imagine if I'd won a couple more of these! I wonder what the probability of losing all these hands was? Have to be frank, was wondering whether I was cheated on the ride home.

1:1.

It was actually quite remote. I just don’t know how remote or as remote as to question the game integrity because of it.

Won some at plo, making top set or getting there with my draws, but lost a chunky buy-in at 5/t/q after losing a flip pre, so ended down on the day. So sad.