Wowzers. You are a volume monster!

ETA: Do you have much time for any hobbies / sports / entertainment / social life outside of poker? Long term, my guess is this volume will destroy your love for the game unless you are able to properly balance it with other parts of life; something to be aware of, imo.

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Strongly agree with this. I think even the summers in college where I was grinding full-time, the most I could ever grind online was like 35 hours a week. Live is a different situation, I feel like I can sometimes grind longer live than online, but 50 hours a week is still just so many.

Do you track hours spent studying/posting on here? Cause I mean, 50 hours at the table and add in another 5-10 of study/posting/discussing hands and that's a lot of poker.

Oh yeah, that number doesn't include time off the tables. Wow, that's a lot of poker....

This month I honestly haven't gotten out much. I've been too focused on growing the roll. But June was also the month when I got on a first-name basis with more of the pros in the 2/5 so that was a nice accomplishment/achievement. Definitely makes time at the tables more bearable when you are in good company who (I think?) respect you/your game. Even hair lady was being nice to me the other night. ;P

Still get the occasional flack for min-buying (of course), but some things will never change and I honestly don't even take it personally. It's actually kinda comical to sit down with three little stacks of green chips when all the regs know what's up and all the non-regs think I'm easy money.

You open fold ako utg?


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Yeah that’s pretty standard actually....

Just kidding. I was just ready to leave. Should have racked up before this hand.

This afternoon's session was yaaawn. Very few playable hands, QQ held v. AK, set of 2s didn't get the full payout, AA l/rr didn't get action this time. Somehow in spite of all this, and being blinded out for six hours, I ended up $33. Won lucky table promo and split it with Jeff for $250 apiece, so that's something.

Had to come home to take care of the dogs. Don't know whether I'll head back for a late night session. Quite possibly have a second wind in me. The afternoon session certainly left something to be desired. First table was all regs. Immediately asked for a table change. Didn't even put my chips on the felt before doing so. Next table I got exactly one premium hand in three hours (QQ) and then asked for a transfer. People tend not to give action to players who have been card dead for a long time. Sadly, each time I changed tables the bad players got up within half an hour. Oh, and one table smelled like pee (and after I left due to the odor it proceeded to hit lucky table!). Sigh.

Couldn't make it back out for an evening session, probably for the better. My sanity thanks me. Up early today for unknown reasons, couldn't get back into sleep mode so just heated up a coffee and milk and let the dogs out. Promos running this morning so off to do that, then home game tonight at Dennis'.

Barring anything strange happening in the last few days (don't count 'em before they hatch!), June is going to end up around the same as March/April/May profit-wise. I've been surprisingly consistent in terms of my monthly results since I started playing 2/5 much more. I guess that means I play a low variance style of poker? My sanity thanks me for that as well. I don't think I would be able to handle the big swings some people talk about. Would be way too stressful/depressing at this point in my journey to lose multiple thousands of dollars in single sessions...! I do think my pretty hard stop-loss of around $600 has been extremely helpful in keeping things consistent and also buoying the winrate.

OK, off to the races!

End of the month “lock it up” mentality cost me a big pot early in the session. Now stuck $350. Gotta play fearless no matter what!

Just so I get shamed a little: pretty inactive CO open, BTN 3! $60, I flat black KK BB, pfr calls. Flop ($175): Q-T-5r. 3! continues for $150, I call, pfr folds. Turn ($475): Td, bringing bdfd. 3! jams $500 effective. I end up calling against his possible AQ, combo draws and lose to trips - JTs. And I just got a double through this V with AA v. JJ AI pre. So instead of up $500 I’m down $350. What a fish I am. Just gotta play my best every hand and remember long term not short term. My wish to beat my April numbers (short term thinking) led me to play bad poker. Even given V descriptions the KK should have been a 4! all day. Instead I flatted. And it cost me!

This is just absurd. If you're not gonna open AK utg at anytime you need to step away and put in some serious work on your mental game. Obv you're grinding up a roll/money at a pace your pleased with and that's great but till you detach yourself from money at the table and get rid of your fear you're never gonna come close to reaching your potential and are just leaving money on the table. Also don't know why you focus at all on how you're getting along with other regs/people in the room you frequent. If you like people you meet and make friends thats obviously notta bad thing but I wouldn't really be concerned with what they think of you/your play, in fact if I were you I'd want them to think I was weak and would want them to try and run me over. Your attitude at the table should be F them and you should be trying to take their money and increase your hourly because they will try and take yours and exploit you any chance they get. "Great card players aren't trying to prove anything they're just trying to take each others money."

I might be coming off a little harsh but just trying to offer some advice, GL goin forward!

Been up since 5:00 am and just got home from home game. Can't read any replies, too tired and don't wanna sleep any more "depressed" than I am. Home game got oversetted QQ v. 99 when I raised and V flatted, over-straighted, got aces up counterfeit in bomb pot and my money was chopped, chopped tourney, so down $45 overall in home game.

More I think about it, the more I think I just was too tired to play 2/5 today. Probably burnout after putting in too many hours this month and lost focus. Oh well. You live you learn. At least I made a little back at 1/3. Down $345 today all in all. In the grand scheme of things, not a big deal. But the fact that today should have been a $500+ win and ended up a loss due to one big mistake has definitely been on my mind. Could have made June my best month to date. I can't expect to be perfect all the time, can't be too hard on myself. Just need to be sure I am in the right state of mind (including rest) whenever I am playing. Maybe I'll just stick to 1/3 the rest of the month or better yet take a couple days off and consider June over. Finally.

Yeah I agree. I need to stop playing scared and just treat it as one long session or else I'm leaving money on the table. Will try to implement tonight at 1/3 and if I feel confident enough move back up.

Last night went fine. Lost $100 at 1/3 iso-ing AJo over a few limps from CO and value owning myself against an EP limp/call of AQo on A-high flop. I b/b/x. Don't think I lost too much all things considered. Then switched to 2/5 where nothing happened for 30 minutes before I was called to join my friend Franco at 1-2 PLO. He's gotten into online/live PLO lately and I wanted to catch up with him. I ran well and made $600 there. My sets actually held up for once.

Ended up $450, undoing the damage from Friday's 2/5 KK debacle. A much-needed win.

All right, it's the last day in June. Will I beat my best month (April)? I am $125 shy. Also, this month I have put in the most volume ever at 223 hours thus far. I gotta say it sure feels like it.... I don't think this is sustainable to be honest. Will be interesting to see how much I play in July.

At MD Live for a change of pace. Back at 5-card. Seems like a soft game. Time raked which is nice. Figured I owe myself a little fun after a grueling month grinding hold ‘em.

5-card started off well, getting a double with AA AI pre. Then lost everything with another AAss with SPR 1 against A5KT7ds against his gutshot and flush draw. He hit the gutshot. Down $350. Now at 1/3.

Ended up making it back at 1/3, so up $7 on the night. Didn't beat my best month, shy by about $100. Does it really matter though? Not really. I'm sure there will be plenty of better months down the line. One nice thing was my 1/3 hourly moved over $9/hr. And now that it's July I can stop worrying about preserving my winnings for the month and play fresh.

One nice hand from 1/3: open AA $10, two calls, SB $50, I $110, fold, fold, SB calls. SB open jams my last $130 on AK6r. I snap and table. Oops. (He had AQ.)

Gotta come up with some goal(s) for this month. Maybe a 1/3 challenge since I've wanted to increase my hourly in that game for a while now? Any other suggestions?

Congrats... So how much did u make in june?

Don't tally results at all until you're done playing for the month

$6,055 including promos of $800. Wait, including promos June WAS my best month! In raw numbers (not hourly since I don’t count promos in my winrate) . Lol. I’m so silly.

Good idea. Thanks. I guess I just won’t look at my monthly in the app. Hard not to though.

If you believe your hourly is higher at 2/5 than 1/3 then doing a 1/3 challenge is pointless. Are you playing 100bb at 2/5 yet? If not, definitely start doing that.

I've been subbed to this thread for a while. I really enjoy reading about your progress/development, and I like your fairly bare-bones approach to writing and honesty about your game.

I rarely go on the 2p2 site, and was wondering if you could put links in this thread to the threads you start in the Strategy Forum. I don't know if it would be against 2p2 policy to promote threads that way, but I know I would appreciate easy access to the additional content.

Thanks for the kind words. You can find all my threads by clicking my username. There should be an option for “all threads started by this user” or something similar. This way you can find all my worst poker moments (since I normally post my worst-played hands lol)!

I think I just escaped disaster...UTG+1 $15, pro UTG+2 flat, CO 3! $65, I flat BTN QQ with $500 behind, UTG +1 folds, UTG+2 backraises $225. CO folds, I fold. Seemed pretty strong. Wwyd?

Anyway I told pro what I folded and he seemed frustrated and stormed off from the table shortly thereafter.

Probably not tell a pro I made a huge fold

Tonight was a mix of 1/3, 2/5, and omaha. 1/3 went well, made $200 or so with a set, flopped boat in BB, and flopped trips within half an hour. Then called for 2/5 where nothing except the QQ hand above. The table was terrible and no one was moving off the table that looked half-decent so I moved to 5-card where I did well and ran it up from $300 to $600 and then this happened: UTG straddle, UTG+1 blind raise, I call $20 in EP with 789TJss, UTG raises to $50, we both call. Flop: 3-7-9r. I have top two and a wrap and I think I am a favorite against bottom set, blocking other sets, in a flip against them and freerolling other draws. Blind raiser bets $125, I re-pot, pfr folds, we GII and V has 9944x for top set. Turn: 4. River: 3. Meh.

Move back to 1/3 for a hot second until I see a very action player arrive at the 5-card I just left. I go back and end up running it up some again, mainly with a l/rr AA774ds three-ways and flop a set of 7s, turned boat and am good. Gave some back over the next hour (didn't want to hit and run, to these guys this seemed important). Left up $150 on the night.