When i'm not playing or studying poker, I like to get out and be active. Been really loving central park lately. You are in the middle of a big city but also in nature at the same time. Cool vibes. It's great for the body and also for the mind. Get out of the apt for a while and out in the fresh air(as fresh as it's gonna get in Manhattan at least ). Did not play poker today. Will play one more session tomorrow before heading for Atlantic city Wednesday morning.

Here are some photos from the park:

Been there while wtc was still standing. Had a hotel room with 20degree view on the park, and it really felt surreal taking a walk there.

Not sure there's anything more frustrating than shoving wide only for a reg to call you down so loose you feel you should've folded AQ

GL on your journey.

@Parasense. Yea it's crazy to think about the twin towers falling. My last union job I did was actually right across the from the new wtc. A building called brookfield place. It overlooks ground zero and both of the 9/11 memorial pools. The names of all the people who passed on that day are etched in the marble (i think it's marble). There are guys who work there that have the job of putting a flower in whichever persons birthday it would have been on that day. Pretty sad.

@xnbomb I mean I get going for the win and all But A5s is lighting money on fire. By doubling up this guy went from 6/8 to 3/8 and got no money jump. He makes way more $$$ in folding imo. Yea just gotta adjust the shoving range in the future. T9o would still make it in there as we get to shove 65%. But will defo be taking out the bottom of that range form now on vs that villain.

@CL_flush Thank you very much

Guys I was wondering how to quote everyone's message in one reply rather than me taking up a bunch of space and making 3 individual posts when replying? I know there's an easy fix but I dunno how to do it.

@Parasense Here is a pic from brookfield place. This was taken about 6:50am right before I started work. Early mornings You can see the Oculus. Unfortunately I didn't capture the wtc in this pic. All the content I have from the WTC was taken in videos. I would start with camera at street level and pan up all the way . It's insanely big. Pity I didn't take any pics of it

Use the "+" (multi-quote) button to start selecting posts to quote, then use the "Quote" button on the last post.

Awesome thanks

Well that's it for April. A great month on and off the felt. Feeling fitter than I have in a long time. Eating healthier. Finding enjoyment in my work. Things are going well. Let's keep it going now in May. I really want to ramp up the study. Have slacked off a little in the last 2 or 3 weeks if i'm being honest. As the bankroll has increased and i'm taking shots at bigger buyins, I need to make sure that my game is on point and i'm beating the fields i'm playing in at a decent clip. Now is not the time to be complacent after having some success. It's time to move up to the next level.


April Results:




I know this is ridiculously low volume compared to most pros, but i'm focusing right now on quality play and improving my game. My play deteriorates if i'm playing too many tables. Especially when nearing a ft or high equity spot, I just stop regging tables where other pros will keep firing up new ones. That being said, i'm slowly but surely becoming more comfortable to more tables. So will aim to increase the volume of mtt's played by 10-15% this month(adjusted lower for the week of live poker where I won't play much (if any) online).

Next stop Atlantic City !

Here in my hotel room chilling. The 1st bullet in the $500 1 Million GTD went horrific. Did not win one hand lol.

Woke up today at 5am and couldn't get back to sleep. The plan was to get here and reg the 6pm flight. But because i'm not feeling so well, I elected to late reg the earlier 12pm flight with 33bb instead. Just fire one bullet and hen be back for tomorrow afternoon flight well rested. The 6pm flight is going to run till 3-4am and i'm not up for that. Anyways I prepped by hitting the gym and then the pool for a quick workout. Showered and got something to eat. Then regged and sat at my table.

Only real hands to note were that I 3b K9cc in co to 6.5bb vs 75vpip opener who was opening a super wide range. He tanked and then put me in for 30bb eff. I folded and he fires 44 across the table and scowls at me. Nice one bud. I continued to just fold for like a level and a half, we had a 15 min break and then we come back and the blinds are up to 3k/5k/5k bb ante. I have 58k in front of me and have to post 10k(5k bb and 5k bb ante). UTG shoves for his last 15k, utg+1 who has the biggest stack at the table flat calls. Folds to me and I peel Qc. Squeeze the other one and it's the lovely Qs. I shove for 43K more. Guy snap calls. UTG opens QTo and utg+1 has A8o. Ace on the flop and we are out.

The fields are super good though. Very splashy. 4 ways to a flop a lot. Not as much limping as I was expecting. Even the 88 year old guy was 2.7x open raising (yes he really was 88 fair play to him. What a legend). It plays similar to a $22 online in terms of skill. Just a tad more aggressive. At least from what I have seen. Really looking to get a solid 8 hours sleep tonight if possible. Will fire 2 bullets tomorrow if needed. There is a $600 30k gtd bounty tournament on at 5pm if I bust the 2 bullets early. Really taking a shot for the next week with a potential of ~4k in buyins. If I brick everything it's ok though. That's just the way it goes. I'll drop some of the online $55 and $109's and work it back up. This week is purely to see if I can get a little lucky in the live streets to really propel the bankroll upward. The main thing though is that I'm confident in these games. Wasn't 100% how the field would be today but I must say it's fairly soft. Some good players for sure but it's not a table full of crushers. Just listening to some of the table talk and how guys are explaining hands gives me confidence that I fit right in here with them and can win.

$500 Million gtd thursday flight- This was the last flight for day one. It got over 1k entries which is pretty wild. The guarantee is going to get absolutely smashed.

Hands to note: At 500/1k, utg2 open 2200, hj call, I flat btn 9h9s, sb squeezes really small to 8200. Everyone else folds and i call. We are playing 76k eff. I cover with 91k. Flop is As9dTs (22,800). He c bets 7200. I flat. Raising is defo an option here. Don't want any Ax to start folding if a spade rolls off but it looks very strong to raise in this spot in 3b pot on A high board. I want to keep bluffs in villains range. Turn is 3s (37,200) He slows down and checks on flush completer. I bet 16k and he calls. River offsuit 4 (69,200). He checks and I value shove ~45k into 69k with my set. He tanks and then starts talking. "I don't think I can fold here." Eventually he calls it off and rolls over .....ACES for top set. I'm crippled and left with 15k.

Got my last 10,100 in with A7hh at bb 1,600 multiway. Flop 10 high. One guy bets and we have some protection. He rolls over jacks but I bink an ace on the turn and am back to ~35k.

Doubled with AQcc on A63ccx vs a limper. Turn Q river blank.

Won a bunch of uncontested pots with c bets in srp's and got back above starting stack.

The same kid that tank called with aces vs my 9's earlier has gone on a huge run and now has over 600k in front of him. 3x opening A3o from ep type of moves.Vpip>50%.
I open utg QJcc with 30-35bb. He 3 bets from utg2. I call. Flop 752ddh. I check fold and he says " straight flush draw." Was just thinking oh wow nice play with A3 /A4 d. But then he windmills 52dd across the table. Nice hand buddy.

Tight reg opens LJ to 7k at 3k bb. I call btn with 33. Table captain 52 guy calls sb and bb completes. Flop is 456ddc. Checks around. I contemplated betting ip here esp after LJ checks but I think sb and bb hit this flop pretty well so just check back. Turn is 3d completing a flush and straight but also giving me a set. Our buddy leads sb for 10k. BB calls, LJ folds and I call hoping to house up on the river. It's a beautiful 6. SB leads 45k BB takes 30 seconds an calls. I have 78k total so just 33k behind. I don't think these guys are ever folding a flush here. SB can even call with the lower end of the straight I think. So super easy shove for value. SB kid snap shoves and BB curses his luck and folds. Finally a get this kid back and am up over average stack. NOPE. He turns over 64 offsuit for a better fullhouse....... Really couldn't win a pot versus this guy.

I elected not to fire another bullet as it was the last level of late reg and the $600 bounty was just about to start. I went to play that instead.

$600 Bounty: $350 to prizepool, $200 bounty per KO, $50 rake.

This tournament had 20 min blinds and ended up playing very very shallow after some levels. It had a $25k guarantee but absolutely crushed it with almost 200 runners. Can't remember the exact number but the prizepool ended up ~100k.

I picked up 3 bounties in this tournament in total for $600 to break even.
AKo in co vs sb 3b jam w KQdd for 15bb
My AJcc>Ako for 10bb
My K9o co open get flatted by btn. I c bet small on 332hhd. Btn calls. Turn Kd. I bet close to 1/2 pot and he jams. I snap and he rolls over Ajo... I hold.

I get moved table and it's a dream spot. Serial limper limps HJ with 52k at 4k bb. Major punter big stack flats btn. Im in sb with 28bb and T9dd. BB has ~12bb. I think it's an easy shove given the bounties. The btn is dead money 99% here of the time here as he was 4x opening his strong hands. Unfortunately, the HJ limper had it this time with KK. We lose and table breaks again 20 mins later.

I was back up to ~100k at 4k bb and opened red 99 utg first hand at this table. MP shoves for 45k and bb gets in his last 3bb. I snap and have a shot at 2 bounties and above avg stack. BB shows q6o and MP has AKo. K in the window and AK holds. He takes the chips and the bounty which is a sick result as he only had 11bb left so nice for him.

Same guy who won AK vs 99 opens ep. Woman flats in co and SB tilted guy shoves for 45k. I look down at AQo in sb and shove for ~63k covering for a bounty. EP reshoves and then CO goes into the tank big time. She really wanted to fold but eventually calls it off with TT covering for 3 bounties. EP AQo, she has TT, SB has 97cc and I have AQo. Maybe me and EP can chop SB bounty and pick up some chips. Flop is pretty sick. AAT ! Turn J river 7. Me and ep trips no good versus her boat and we are out. It was turning into a real crapshoot by the end to be honest. When I got knocked out there were ~50 people left and avg stack was ~18bb. The ft must have had ~10bb avg i'm guessing bc of the 20 min blinds. Anyways happy enough to get some bounties and get some momentum coming into today. Just need a sunrun in one of these to get to a ft. The games are great.

Live poker can be pretty boring tbh though. Literally had 2 occasions where I just folded for 60-90 mins straight.


Today is the $400 25k guaranteed at 4pm

I get asked all the time if I go to casino to play, and when I say no, I tell them it's because I'm bored out of my mind.

More power to you, idk how you can do that

To be honest, I can't say i'm enjoying it too much. If I go to a live stop again it's going to be for 3 days max. Variance is huge, have to just sit and fold for hours on end with whales explaining how to play 75 offsuit in 3b pots to me and I have to smile and nod lol. Was very tempted to just go play cash for the next few days but i'll stick out the mtt grind. Busted 2 bullets today in the $400 30k gtd. It ended up being over 130k prizepool!!! Absolutely smashed it. I ran horrendously but what can you do. I was at literally the best table I have ever been on. One guy didn't know the rules, one woman kept asking the dealer that when he spread the flop could he please move the cards toward her that she couldn't differentiate the picture cards. It was a comedy show. Drawback is that we got in about 10 hands per level. I just kept seeing bottom 20% of range and kept folding. Is what it is.

Tomorrow is the $400 100k gtd at 11am. There's also a $500 40k gtd at 4pm. Dunno what i'm going to fire yet. Still hoping for a deep run. Online seems so much easier bc I play 20-30 mtt's in a session in small fields and have at least 1ft most days of the week. Here it's kinda painful when running bad. I just gotta keep patient and wait for the run good. If that doesn't happen, I need to shrug it off, take the hit to the bankroll and get back on the online grind asap.

Here's to hoping for some gold tomorrow

$400 30k guaranteed. The prizepool ended up being ~$140,000. Absolutely smashed it. Live poker is alive and well in the US.

First bullet: UTG opens, I flat 88 utg1, 3 more flats. Flop is 332. UTG checks I bet 30% pot everyone folds except utg. Turn Ace. Check check. River 9 and he leads for like 10% pot. I'm gonna get shown an ace here I think quite often but I have to call this bet. He shows 63o for flopped trips. Gotta love it.

Few levels later, a lady min opens utg to 800 off 30bb. I flat BTN ATcc(35k) as does both blinds. Flop is k83ccx. Checks to me and I decided to bet 1/3. Can defo check back this hand but after utg checks, I think taking the lead here is fine. Only BB calls. He is pretty drunk and just joined the tournament 10 mins ago and lost a few pots. Turn is offsuit Q. He leads 1200 into 5800. I raise to 5100. I just think his line is super weak here and he doesn't have many strong holdings at all. He calls and the river is a blank. He again leads this time for 5100 (again same sizing as my turn raise ) and I just think his line is so full of **** He only has like 11k behind. I block some of the missed draws he can have but I jam anyways because his line is just so weird. He snap folds and I chip up nicely.

Won a nice pot when I opened KQdd in co and btn reg jammed 18bb with QThh. I faded the world after Jh9x3h flop. Turn Ace river T to give me broadway.


Won a nice pot when I opened KJo utg 8 handed last hand before break. BTN and BB call. Flop QJ8ccs. I check called 40% vs btn. Turn blank 4 or something. Check call 40% pot again. River offsuit K. Pretty interesting here. Not sure if I want to be leading this river. Maybe I can have some AXcc hands that want to turn into a bluff here and can balance with value. Really uncertain about this spot. I ended up leading for like 60% pot and btn said he missed his club draw and folded.

Up to 2x starting stack and feeling good.

Lost a few pots post break and then looked down at QQ in the SB versus a btn open to 3500 at 1600 bb. I make it 11200. BB jams for like 50k btn folds and i snap. He rolls over AKss. Unlucly to see this hand here as bb was active and loose aggressive. Flop is clean T82 but the turn ace crippled me and i'm left with 10bb.

Folded down to 7bb and look down at JJ on the btn. I jam and BB calls KJo. Flop QT3. Turn 9 and i'm dead to a chop. No dice on the diver and i'm out.

Late regged a 2nd bullet in the last level of late reg and got in my last 10bb with K9cc. Btn raises and shows TT. Flop TJ3 . No queens on turn or river and i'm done for the night.


Decided to skip the $400 100k. 25K starting stack with 25 min levels. Will play like a hyper turbo. I'm instead just chilling for a few extra hours and gonna reg the $500 40k gtd at 4pm. It'll get 100k prizepool anyways the way the fields have been. Got a good night sleep and think it's best to come in fresh today. Has a 40k starting stack so still gonna end up very turboish but a bit more playability.

Tomorrow is a nice $560 with deeper stacks and 30 min levels for first 12 levels and 40 min levels thereafter.

Just checked the KJo hand in gto wizarHd on QJ8ccx 4x turn Kx river. With my particular combo(not having a club), It likes check call flop and turn and leading river. So super happy I got the line right. The issue it that it likes to lead 1/10th pot as a block bet. Interesting. I guess it serves it's purpose in getting all the missed draws to fold and we get called by a q and a lot of jx almost 100% ? Can balance ourselves with some missed draw as a bluff. Will have to think about it a little deeper. Versus this particular villain(60 year old rec), I think it's fine to get greedy and go for value. I expect to get called by all 2pair combos and maybe he gets sticky with a QT,Q9 hand. I also never expect him to turn those hands into a bluff. Guess i'm fine with it.


Here's a fun one from last night's mtt: AA all in pre flop versus pocket Tens. Ten on the flop but AA hits the royal flush on the river!

Yeah I went for a week last year to Tunic. Ran like crap in MTTs but killed a bunch of bad players in cash so only walked down a little. Didn't really enjoy the poker aspect, but it was more a vacation than anything so didn't hate it too much.


Love your line on the ATcc. That's one that the computer will never tell you do, but works way more than it should.

Good luck the rest of your series!

Pretty tilted right now. Got in pre for 3x starting stack w Aces vs Aqo and JTs for 180bb and lost. Can't get anything going

Glad you got em in the cash streets at least man. Live mtt's are are crazy for real.. So much variance. Yea same as that trying to have a bit of fun also. Did degen a bit with the blackjack. I had freebet vouchers since my trip to vegas last thanksgiving. Needless to say things didn't end up going so well. I drank some free beer and had a lot of fun though. Haven't drank in almost 6 weeks so was fun to grab a few beers and meet some new people. Just as an aside though: I have very little interest in alcohol in my future. I think it's fine every so often but in my usual weekly routine I don't want to see any form of alcohol in my life. I now enjoy working out and eating clean and the feelings that those activities bring. I'm getting old too for the hangovers and feeling like **** the next day . Now is time to focus on improvement in all walks of life. It seems to be what I enjoy these days thankfully.


I used to be a very heavy drinker in my early-mid 20's. Didn't even realize it at the time. But now can see it for what it was ofc.

$560 40k gtd in about 8 hours. Heading to sleep now and ready for (hopefully) a long day of poker tomorrow. I just need like a few levels of rungood lol.

$560 40k went not so good. KO'd in level 7. Lost a flip for above starting stack with QTcc btn 3b jam 25bb vs co aggro reg open with 88. Flop QT3. Turn 8... The sb in this hand had 5bb so I think jam is the play here. If I flat co can iso. I would definitely have some more traps in that spot given sb stack but I still think this hand plays well as a jam. Has good equity versus the calling range and we also fold out all the offsuit broadway hands that dominate us. Maybe he calls KQo for 25bb ? Table was much tougher this time. At one stage it was just 8 regs which is the first time all trip I have seen this. Gonna fire one last time today and head back home tomorrow unless I have a big score. There was one Chinese kid who I battled with at the table that ended up finishing 2nd for 9k. Was happy for him he was a nice fella. He was down to like 12bb at one stage so I know it can be done. Just gotta keep firing.

Well that's it for the live poker trip. Only had one cash from 8 events plus 2x $100 satties and that was just 3 bounties in a $600 bounty for a breakeven mtt. Total buyins $4,260. Total cashes $600. Net result: -$3,650. I took a shot and unfortunately it just didn't work out. Had a lot of bad variance in the last week so couldn't do much about it. Happy with the way I played for the most part. There is a bit of getting used to the live poker scene. It's much more boring than online poker and the games play a little different. Disappointed but have to get back on the online grind now. Back in the gym and eating healthy. ZERO alcohol. To last as a poker pro, you have to have that good bounce back in you and not dwell on some bad results. Just gotta keep showing up, putting in the work and play your best.

Aint nothing to it but to do it

Hey what's up, I play in similar games as you (with similar winrates), and I try to study a ton of spots like this because I feel like it's something that comes up a bunch and stuff like this is how to gain separation from the % of the field that actually knows what they are doing. If you would indulge my take on the spot:

Rejamming here is profitable for one of two reasons: either the opponent overfolds, or the opponent is playing "correctly" and we have to rejam here for balance to protect the times where we rejam top of range. If opponent is an aggro reg, then the first option is off the table. He might be slightly overopening, but he's not overfolding because he knows what to do.

So we rejam here for balance, but what are we balancing? Opponent doesn't have a hud, he doesn't have a database of hands on us. From playing for an hour or so, plus random chit chat, you've both probably sussed out that each other are regs/pros/competent/learned, whatever your mental process is to mark someone as "knows what they are doing". So you know that he knows that you have to rejam [range], just as he knows that you know that he has to call [range]. But if you know that he's calling a specific range (or close approximation), I feel like you don't have to shove your entire rejam range, because you don't need to balance/protect anything, because he'll never get enough hands on you to realize that you're exploiting him. Since you're not gaining value on him overfolding, you can only rejam that top of your range that you know performs well vs his calling range.

As far as what that means for this specific hand, I'm not really sure. Flatting has got to be bad because of the SB. Folding is clearly bad. Maybe a 5-6bb 3b? It looks stronger to better players than a std rejam?

Hey whats up man how you keeping? All good here back to the online felt today feels good Thanks for sending in your thoughts.

So if opponent is over opening the CO here, then I think QTs plays great as a jam. He now has to fold even more than GTO because he is opening even wider than 34% (this is gto chip ev opening range at 25bb). So if he is expanding his opening range to say 40%, then all those extra opens have to all fold as those hands are all weaker than his first 34% of opens. To be honest I think his opening ranges would be fairly solid(most people open too tight and don't find the k3s k4s, q5s etc). If that's the case and he is opening correctly, then it comes down to what's going to make the most EV with QTs. I would likely flat btn here a bunch if bb(chinese kid very competent) behind isn't squeezing as much and sb doesn't have such a short stack. But given these conditions I think jam is the play. I really dislike 3B/call or 3b/folding this specific hand. Our hand would be doing bad equity wise vs a 4b jam. And to 3b fold would suck as we are losing 5-6bb pre. I t would be nice to define his range more by 3b small but I think it just doesn't produce the same amount of EV as flat or jam.


Below are two situaions form the solver. First is 25bb chip ev ranges. This one likes to jam QTs 70.3% and flat 29.7%. But this doesn't take into account the SB with 6bb. Granted, given that there is a 6bb stack in sb, that may make the CO even tighter in this spot because he can't raise fold to this stack.




Second situation is the closest sim I could find to this scenario. CO 23BB BTN 25BB AND SB 8.5BB. This sim likes the BTN jam even more. 87.3% jam versus 12.7% flat. Must be because of SB's ability to squeeze more and then btn being dead money more often. It's a spot where I would over do it with the traps to be honest if I had the nuts.


EDIT: Had to put second screenshot in another post for some reason