Couple things. First make sure you're not a pusy messaging me with an alias created this week. How about a DM on my IG. Let's see what you got there. Say hi!

Clearly youre a fan boy similar to TwitchAshuraPoker or RektByPanda (who btw, both have quit poker since the last thread, or at least gone MIA). I think AshuraPoker is going into accounting and no more twittter poker posts. RektByPanda refuses to go back on his twitch account and stream. I'll explain it simply to you.

Just because I can play a solid high stake game without tilting, doesn't mean off the felt, swinging $15-20K a day, isn't taxing. While it is indeed only a small amount of buy-ins, it is literally my parent's and other people's yearly salary. Think about that for a second. That notion.

For anyone who grew up poor, despite whatever financial freedom one may have achieved, they will generally respect the value of the earned dollar no matter what. You're implying that I should just shrug and dust off $20K, because it's just buy-ins. That $20K has real world implications. Fwiw, on felt, I don't see it as money, so your whole argument 2NL grinders have better mental game is false. Try grinding 300 hours in 2.5 weeks and still crushing the game. I did that.

Third, I don't coach people for money. I coach people who I then buy action of. There's a difference buddy. Coaching someone for even $100/hour would be a waste of time. Having an investment like a future horse, is way more valuable. Esp when there are fishes in my games, at the lower stakes, who know one even knows about. And why wouldnt I. I don't play those stakes.

Lastly, you imply no one would go into business with me. How do I get into these private games all year long? Yeah I'm entering public games, where I can crank out $100,000/EV in 20K hands. Better question yet, who in the world am i selling to? Who would buy my action! I must be the worst tilty fish where 2NL grinders have better mental fortitude.

Too Much Sleep, Too Much Whale

Been very productive these past few days, finishing up all my errands like taxes and expenses, medical etc to the traditional, Chinese New Year cleaning of the house. Started experimenting with new cooking methods and gonna start exploring baking soon (getting a baking sheet). Recently got a blender, so gonna try to make more smoothie/shakes to save on those $25 boba-ubers every other day. I mean it is what it is, paying for someone to cook is saving time (where being productive, could technically pay for itself and more in $/time), but $1.5k-2k/mo food/grocery/ubereat bill is not good usage of money for two people, subjectively speaking.

Anyways, let's get to the poker. I slept really early like at 11pm yesterday, my body cant really adjust. So I basically kept waking up through the night, here and there. I forced slept. Though I saw the dream lineup in the middle of the AM. A new whale, never seen before. Was insane.



they were pretty light for the action, 2P+wrapflush vs 2P+flush, you'd expect a set. Like 2P, middling FD is getting crushed by a lot of combos. Esp if it goes 3 way, one hand is for sure dead if I come in. I folded, but would've scooped $15k.



^ Not my hand

Whale (L) in this hand 3!, folds, guy defends IP. Whale (L) cbets massive, 3/4 on a locked board. Guy then min-clicks him, leaving less than 1 SPR behind basically. Then this dude just straight rips. I mean Whale (L) basically blocks the bluffs of the villain, T, J, 9. This is probably the last hand he could choose to re-rip over even with a single T blocker.



That second three, was very annoying but humorous at the same time.

Profit Today: $8,365 w/o RB
Profit For Feb: -$5714 w/o RB

It's safe to say if I really volume in and grind, I could make over $1K in rakeback per day. Nowhere as insane as my previous private game, but solid for sure. I mean that's $100K+ in rakeback alone for me, if I can volume in for like just 4-5 months. Let's see how long this game last though, we'll see then. Fwiw I've seen charts of like JnadezPoker on GG, where his rakeback is like $50K in 2 months? But the guy probably 10x my volume with fast forward and hours put in.

So you're not underrolled for 6 card PLO 50/100? Seems unlikely. What does how much money your family makes have to do with dealing with swings? And yes you should just shrug off 20k losses as that's just going to be super normal and go with the territory. What good does it do to get super upset by things you can't control?

I sell action, so I am rolled up to 25/50 PLO. Regarding my previous run at 25/50/100 PLO, I sold even more action and had an insane deal. So yes even in that game, you could say, I was rolled for it. At no point was I going "busto" if I lost $50,000 in a night. As someone who's been living off poker his entire life, if I had poor BRM I wouldn't have made it this long/far (though I have damaged my roll). Same with the tilt issues; I rarely ever tilt while playing.

I agree WHILE playing poker, the money is irrelevant and is just essentially play chips that allows us to play. What I have an issue with is; while it is just buy-ins (while playing), off the felt, away from the table, that few buy-ins is literally some people's yearly income. To just shrug, and say whatever, while I dust off 1000 hours equivalent to someone's salary, in a single night, is insane.

It is super normal and swings at these stakes will be every day. All I'm saying is, I can't enjoy a proper day with my GF doing fun activities, if I know I nuked off my parent's salary in a single session. Therefore, I don't play any poker at all, on such days, to avoid that mentality.

The TL;DR is, parents make $30K year. I lose $20K in a night. I feel bad. Who wouldn't? It's not just poker chips. It has real value.

But when I grind, I grind. We all have our solutions and what not.

This Morning Was Slow, But Great

Didn't see much of the usual green/purple tag whales on, so tried my best to table -hunt. Pickings weren't the greatest, but upon scouting, found new a fish/whale. The guy below in the SS.



Money actually went in on the flop. It was MULTIWAY, I donk bet 3/4 pot of around $300 into $400, he went pot against me, and all the money went in. I mean he has problems to even ATxxxx, let alone a FH by me already. He could be literally ded to K, and quite frequently too. At bare minimum I have Tx here, so what combos is he ahead of where he wants to jam in flop lol.

Today's Profit: $4017 w/o RB
Feb's Total Profit: -$1697 w/o RB

Almost Green Green, But Still Green

At one point today, the Feb's Total Profit would've been finally positive again, but I had to play a few more sessions due to "okay" table and just putting in some volume simply. Anyways peaked around $5K profit, but ended down around $1.6K. I normally would have more screenshots, but I was recording them instead, so too lazy to edit. As mentioned, will compile this into a youtube vid or something maybe down the road.



I went near full pot flop, and he called with 1SPR turn basically. Looking at his hand, jeeez he could've been dead in so many ways since I was PFR.

Today's Profit: -$1694 w/o rb
Feb's Total Profit: -$3391 w/o rb

Today's Profit: -$5179
Feb's Total Profit: -$8570

Feb 1st to Feb 14th TOTAL RAKE: ~$12,500

I decided it's just easier to write my total rake generated, and not mention my rb % and you can estimate at your own leisure. With that being said, I'm a #rakebackpro at this point.

The real questionable highlight was me calling down with A4 on AAK42, when the guy was sizing me on the turn for a river jam. I basically called cus I think he's totally OOL, but perhaps upon further thought, from his POV, even if he's insane, how can he just bet river without the K. I'll have lots of AK. Unless he essentially was turning KK into a bluff. Questionable from me. I think calling two is totally great. Check/fold river probably to river bluff frequencies.



Even a "safe" turn card, isn't safe in 6c. I did not end up winning this.

Today's Profit: -$11960
Feb's Total Profit: -$20530

More Pain, No Gain



So once the top right guy cold 4bet his $2K stack, I can assume he's basically 90% AA, which means other guy cant have it. Triple suited AKK against him for the "side" seems pretty decent; I still win money as long as he doesn't win or could fully scoop both with a bit of luck.



I 3! this guy pre, he defends. I cbet 1/2 pot to induce, he goes for it, and just x/r pot, i repot, he get's it in for like 5.5 SPR. So OOL, I don't win this.

Today's Profit: -$13,212
Feb's Total Profit: -$33,742

I'm just watching players win like $20-$40K in a matter of hours, just scooping left and right at 36%, and I'm struggling to break even, let alone beat the pool. Even if I'm reg-bad, I should still have a heater-spree of wins against my level of competition. Like cmon.

Up, Up, And Away

Almost a monster-monster session, almost closed out the day with $33,000 profit. But got slapped back down for $10K. There were plenty of hands, but this one below summarized my day, and my level of competition.



Single raised pot, I bet into the multiway field, and this guy X/R POT, commits off against me (with like 3-4 SPR). I basically never have worse against him, always flipping, or crushing him completely (could have top set as backup as KK is very common in 6c ranges). I hold.

New Private Game



Stakes dropped to 5/10 PLO, max buy-in is 50bb. But it's pretty fun, as you can see in the SS. Everyone just ships pre. And the rake is capped to 1bb w/ rb, so coolio. Was playing this as I was resting/eating and taking it easy before calling it a day. Been playing since the AM, so just woke up from a power nap before typing this out. I ended up winning about $400, after being stuck $1K in that game.

Today's Profit: $21,559
Feb's Total Profit: -$12,183

Close

Started the session with a small win in the AM (approx 12-16 hours ago). I would proceed to nuke it off, and be stuck around $10K-12K. Then the cycle of being down, near break even, down, near break even, round and round. Eventually till now, on both private games, up $483. And the second game, up approx $700 (after being stuck $2K w/ a $500 BI cap game).



That's a spicy turn card. Idk why I chose this SS to represent my day. It's cool I guess.



That's a pretty nice turn for all the money to go in. He gained wrap outs. I didn't hold though.

Today's Profit: $1183
Feb's Total Profit: -$11,000 <----- my ocd, I like perfectly round number, a good sign!

Been really lazy to update, probably because I've been catching up on a year's worth of Trooper poker vlogs. That man is now marketing coffee beans with go gamble. He might not be the best at poker, but he sure can utilize his fan base. Every time I think about him, I cannot forget the fact that he sold his ME at like 1.3/MU within 2 hour, was inSaN3.

Anyways, since the update my numbers will be close to this, I only played for like 3 days, and took like 4 days off with the gf, doing random things like first time kayaking. That **** is actually pretty fun.

2/25 -$11,795
2/28 -$2897

Feb's Total Profit: -$25,692
Feb's Total Rakeback ~$10,000+

Total Challenge Update:
Jan Total Profit RB Included: 19,100

Actually might just do an estimation on total rakeback instead of giving total rake number. Easier so I can be more vague about specific number details. So many times Feb had numerous chances to turn it green, but really struggled to ever hold on to that dream. Overall, it was a #rakebackpro month so to speak.

3/1 +$8821

At least march is off to a great start.



That guy doesnt have a FD, he has A6ss (in case the pixels are too small). I went all-in on the turn, and he called off lol. And I 3! him preflop. I'm all the Axxxxxx. Thank goodness for the hold.

Taking the day easy, put in several hours, doing more errands for the day. Having trouble with some VPN/remote access stuff, I feel like there's another pro using the same (server/ip) as me (I'm not tech savy, so not sure if that even made sense), but I was GPS locked using this new emulator. Been fine with my other accounts though.



I got it in pre against his Aces, and was 57%. I don't remember too often being that ahead of AA in a HU preflop all-in while holding an A myself. Pretty much pushed my break even session into the win.

Today's Profit: $860
March's Total Profit w/o RB: $9681

Is this thread one big troll?

Only thing trolly is me actually trying to push 16bb+/100 winrate in 6c.

how much u rake in these tables in a month sir?

For this exact particular game, with this current deal I have. At about 40-50 hours of play a month (I do have a lot of idle time waiting for a good table where I'm just sitting out), I rakeback around $15K/mo.

Today's Profit: $4063
March's Total Profit w/o RB: $13744

wow, this thread sounds awesome. along for the ride. Good luck Captain!

Basically the bulk of my winnings, was stuck/up on two other tables that ended up negating each other pretty much. Any win over $0 is a super win in my books.

Might do another session later today if the tables allow me to, and I feel up for it.

Today's Profit: $2280
March's Total Profit w/o RB $16024

Look up the APP trap on pokerr2

If you're talking about what I am thinking about, I already played in that club before. Though I may be mistaking it for another game, it was alright/cool. Hard to imagine any game too much softer than mine without weird stipulations.

In other news, I've been playing maplestory m and just got possibly temp/perma banned about 30 minutes ago. This mobile game, on the emulator, has been super time consuming for me. And people spend like $500-$1k/mo playing this game.

Anyways I churned my money really well on there, and created $300+ of value alone this week (pretty good for a 2D video game).

My one last F-U, if they do ban me. Call up my credit card and try to rollback/claim fraud on all recent transactions. And go as far back as I can. Might get back hopefully a few hundred back at least...

Thats my rant. Haven't played poker in the last 3-4 days or w/e. I did play for like 30 mins, but didn't want to post up the tiny win.

29 Days Of Decent Volume Incoming

So I guess with this, I can focus and put in more poker hours and other various projects. I see a good 20-24 days of poker on the horizon.



Not much happened, pondering about river sizing and how I want to go about this in future scenarios and at what frequency.

I checked, he cbets 1/3, I X/Red small, he calls. Turn I bet 1/2, he calls. River I went 3/4, he folds. <---- I'm pondering if I want to size down and do a 15-25% bet more often than going bigger. River bluff frequencies here are quite low, my only bluff is a X% of Qxxx low rundown that would do this (to block his opening/low wraps that include a 2). So if it's X% x %x, it's unlikely I'm bluffing here really. But if he's really just folding everything, then I should just take this line with any 6c that blocks him. Hmmm, food for thought.

Today's Profit + Random Session Before: $1812
March's Total Profit w/o RB $17836

Okay, okay. One last lazy day for a little while, tomorrow I'm putting in volume hopefully.



Basically got it in, a few times, generated rakeback for an hour or so, and then called it a day with a small profit.

Today's Profit: $600
March's Total Profit w/o RB $18436

isnt that fraud?