Well I have 10 high so I can't follld....

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Decent day today ... won a couple hundo but ran +EV to do so. Still feeling amazing about my move back to the regular speeds. Up to #5 on the total profit leaderboard and #3 in average profit.

Top 5 is pretty damn good, so grats on that.

And on running +EV. It has to happen at some point.

Welcome back, WD. Seems like a solid decision to stick to the regular speed games for the time being. Good luck climbing the profit leaderboard!

He's making $15/game. While I'm sure he's a good player, I'm also guessing he's done just fine in the EV luck department.

I'm sure Dervish has had his upswings and downswings like any other player. That's no reason not to enjoy the upswings while they're there.

Also, I don't think profit per game is necessarily a good indicator of EV luck by itself. He could still be running at or slightly below expectation depending on the actual hands he's been playing. If you catch a hot streak of good starting hands, that'd be good luck without it showing up appreciably above EV even if they held.

Thanks Trend! I seriously feel like a reborn player since I've made the switch. I'm sure it helps that I've had good success since moving back, but I choose to think of that as the Poker Gods' way of telling me I'm going the right thing

All good points, Grim. It's real easy to get bummed out when the doomswitch is on, so it's good to enjoy it when things are going your way.

Also agree w you about EV; in the long-term, things like hand distributions and opponents' AI's vs each other on the bubble should even out, but in the short-term they can really skew the results of your EV line.

Fwiw, about 2 months ago I was at $18 per game. I'm sure I ran +EV to get there, and I definitely ran -EV to drop from there.

While I haven't run appreciably over EV overall, I definitely consider myself lucky that I haven't run way under. I think most players would be happy to just run at their true EV, and I'm fortunate enough to have pretty much done that so far.

This was a fun hand from today.

The villain is a tight, solid reg, who runs about 12/10. He's got a 12% avg ROI, so he's obviously a very good player. I generally attack him relentlessly because of his tightness (I've won 251 pots off him and lost 191, up 8,952 chips total), a fact that is not lost on him. At the time of this hand, he had raised my BB three straight times, and I had folded each time.

I only r/r'd him AI here because I felt he couldn't/wouldn't call without an absolute monster, and I wasn't going to put up with him attacking my blind any more. This is a definite spite-call, and even though he was right, I'm glad he didn't get positive reinforcement for making calls like this on me. **** him.


Full Tilt - $100+$9|80/160 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

SB: 4,380.00
Hero (BB): 3,810.00
UTG: 1,360.00
BTN: 3,950.00

SB posts SB 80.00, Hero posts BB 160.00

Pre Flop: (240.00) Hero has K J

fold, fold, SB raises to 400.00, Hero raises to 3,810.00 and is all-in, SB calls 3,410.00

Flop: (7620.00, 2 players) 8 9 2

Turn: (7620.00, 2 players) 8

River: (7620.00, 2 players) K

SB shows J A (One Pair, Eights) (PreFlop 70%, Flop 81%, Turn 93%)
Hero shows K J (Two Pair, Kings and Eights) (PreFlop 30%, Flop 19%, Turn 7%)
Hero wins 7,620.00

mbn

It was AWESOME. I don't often jump out of my chair and start dancing while singing gleefully about what a dumb ass**** my opponent is ... but this time, I did just that

nice giraffe!

great thread and gl to you achieving your goals!

huh?

Like a boss.

Read the whole thread man great stuff. Got some inspiration from this thread and another to hit it hard.

Your finish distribution is sick, but theres no way your ROI is sustainable. I'm sure you are a really good player, but you are definitely running well. gl this year.

Thanks Six. Whether or not my ROI stays at this level isn't something I'm concerned with. I'm just focused on playing as well as I can. Whatever numbers come out of that are what they are.

Keep crushing, sir--your attitude is perfect

Its so hard to keep a mindset for me like that sometimes, but your completely right! gl

Where is our boy WD ?? Hope everything is ok and he's just taking a break.

Is it true WD died? I bet hes was bored to death by playing STTs.



-TPvivTK

AJ call seems standard here? Especially if he thinks he isnt the best player left. I mean it is BVB

Also did op die from boredom or something?

He was swimming in his giant pile of money and drown.

OK, now Im getting worried. Where is he?