For starters, thanks man. I once asked someone who works with people diagnosed with autism, and she said I don't have it. So at the very least, we can cross that off the list.

In regards to my perception of being an ******* who cannot properly socially communicate (or as you word, a narcissist). I whole heartily disagree, srs. Anyone who has done business with me, or knows me in person, knows I'm genuine. I've been in the "gambling" profession for nearly a decade, and there's not a single thread/word that you can find linked to me regarding scam/cheating. If I was as insufferable and intolerable as my social perception would have you believe, I would not have a decent network of friends/investors and the likes. Heck, the amount of random money that people would buy my action through my IG is evidence of that (though then again, with porn star NFT scams reaping in millions, maybe this was a poor analogy).

Anyways what you will find, are threads and comments posted by me, going after certain individuals such as RektByPanda, TwitchAshura?, and some other screen names that I'm sure I've called out in the past that you can easily find. The reasoning, calling it as I see it. You're going to have me believe a kid who is barely 18.5 years old, is crushing 25/50/100 PLO live at the (red rock?) but has a twitch stream that gave up after a $1/2 challenge that failed quickly? He also mentioned he could not produce a live picture of his $10K+ in live time, because he needed funds. Playing 25/50/100 but doesnt have 10K on hand. Or do you want me to believe a guy who went on a podcast who was labeled as a super crusher/wizard, barely beating 1/2 on global. Now why does any of this matter? Frankly it doesn't. At the end of the day I don't care if they succeed. Good for them.

But my question is, where are they now? What are they doing? How's their gambling careers going along. I'm just stating rhetorical probabilities (not sure if I worded that well) that most likely will prove that they will ultimately fail. Or at the very least, not as successful as they would imply towards me, in these conversations.

TL;DR - I tell it as I see it. If there's any suspicion of malice intent from me, purely for the sake of being an aggressive arsehat I'd love to see a SS of it (where I started it first). I will admit, once I start, I tend not to stop my attack.

Edit - I can already feel it flowing through my veins already. I swear on my life, I haven't given them any thought for about 6 months. But now that we're here, I scrolled up, TroothSayer is a prime example. What is this god's gift to poker doing? With my light research into him 1/2 a year ago, his own father was doubting his poker income/skills. Yet he has me to believe he's winning at $220/hour. If I was swimming in money, my parents wouldn't doubt me (I'm not rich, but my ASIAN parents know I can provide for myself at this point). They know nothing about poker or gambling, but they know I can pay my bills. His father clearly doesn't see the benefits of $220/hour. The inconsistencies is everywhere. And I hate that.

Maybe he's super rich, retired to the Bahamas now. But my money? He's failed from the gambling world. TroothSayer has not logged in for nearly a year soon.

Haha what’s this you bringing up about me posting about my dad not approving of my profession or smthg? Haha check again man, you must be talking about.

Glad to see nothing has changed here. You’re still spiraling, ranting at other posters, lost your backing for high stakes because you couldn’t succeed, couldn’t even succeed at finishing a donkament package, couldn’t succeed at lower stakes, and are back at blackjack.

And oh yeah still mad about posts from months ago from people who told you the trooth about yourself.

Funny how natural selection works

Hey TroothSayer, I'm really glad you addressed that. But before we do, let's point out some things.



Going radio silent without even logging in for basically 6+ months, and then showing up just on queue to respond to my accusations is a nice warm feeling inside. Makes me know I got an extra spicy fan out there, just updating and looking for my posts. Considering the fact that this thread got buried; can you tell me if you bookmarked my thread, or just scrolled for my name individually? Maybe you should DM me on discord, gimme your best shot. I'll have snacks on standby.

Regarding your father, let's make this quick (once again). If you were successful, bought a house/property, owned some things to show for your "poker income", your parents (or father) would not doubt your poker prowess as you mentioned. Basically if you showed your father a 6 figure tax income, he wouldn't be wondering if you could beat 2/5 or 5/10. In other words, the fact that your own bloodline thinks you're not gonna have a successful career, means you're barely clinging on in your DAILY LIFE situation right now (at least in their eyes). If I'm so off the mark here, then step up and show us otherwise. No need for excuses.

As for spiraling and losing everything and basically being at an all-time-nut-low as you claim;

1. High stakes PLO: I had an amazing deal, where I WON money, and the investors basically broke even. I was raking on average $800/hour off the table on average when I was mass tabling, and ended up winning close to 17bb/100 pre rake. So before you say I didn't succeed, maybe you should re-check the thread again. Why am I not still playing High stakes PLO then? How many 25/50 and 50/100 PLO6 games you know that are private ran, with 100% money vouched, and have 90% vpip whales that will let also me play? Lmk.

2. Ranting at other posters. I basically made 1 post per month for the last several months, and rarely checked in for weeks at a time. Heck I'm glad I got to check in this week, otherwise I would've missed this gem. I'm actually too busy playing video games to be angry at the world, or at you for that matter. In fact, I actually forgot about you, until the last guy mentioned something that resparked my fuel. And given by the information we have on you; yeah my money is, you're failing life right now. You can say whatever you want, but if you wanna prove it, feel free. It's just what I think. And I'm usually pretty accurate with my speculations.

3. Failing donkament package. Well for starters, I sold out a $20K package at 1.20 MU within 15-30 minutes and I didn't even get to spread it to all my connects. So clearly there's more donks out there that believe in me, than myself. And that def shocks you. Anyways I failed to play through, because I'm not stressed for money. And I'm not saying it to brag, I'm saying it to declare that I have the freedom and ability to skip out on 1K and 3.5K MTTs with 20% MU, to stay home, play maplestory m, and go card count at will, because it's simply more fun to me at the moment than making a few hundred bucks in EV. -- Does this sound like the decision of someone at a nut low, clinging on to money?

4. "Couldn't succeed at lower stakes, and are back at blackjack." --- I'll leave my response to the imagination of whoever is reading this.

Lastly you know what natural selection thinks? It's highly possible my engagement ring is going to cost more than your entire poker bankroll combined.

Blackjack Update:

So with the recent bans/backoffs at a few casinos, I've begun expanding my casino rotation. By sheer luck, a poker pro(?) referred someone to my IG and we connected over the course of a week or two. We just came to an agreement today, after I was skill checked yesterday (which ironically I lost around $3K of my own money in the hour of him watching). I've mentioned this time and time again, it's quite insane the relative money and trust I am able to accrue through different ventures of my life; must be my asian baby face. I was somewhat embarrassed because I did use my 2+2 handle as one reference of vouch/rep, and I certainly have a non-professional image on here. At least very immature. (if you're reading this, hello I cannot help myself in this).

Anyways all-in-all, I'm getting staked for mid stakes BJ currently, with some wiggle room for higher stakes depending on the casino. I don't want to get into specifics or details, until this is all over. So we will leave this at that.

Youtube Channel AP blackjack

Every session, every time I head out there, I'm recording. I'm stock piling weeks and weeks of play. However going through it, while editing down boring times, while remaining truthful to the events that transpire, will be another tedious task. Idk when it will be released, but hopefully this excites you. If you're ever curious about the progress, feel free to DM on my IG as well!

Blackjack Update:

Good news and bad news. Let's start with bad news first. Investor mentioned above decided to pull out, not sure what went wrong, but that's that. Getting investors for that was always hard (for me) and in general, so it's a shame it didn't go through. Trading the massive amount of variance for relative small % in equity exchange would've been nutty. Okay on to the good news, my prior BJ teammate is headed to Vegas next month for a week. So we should be able to put in a solid few days of EV (hoping for a $10-15K weekend with him). Will update next month regarding this.

Poker Update:

It's almost approaching what 3-4 months since I've landed in Vegas and have not played a single hour of cash game. I don't want to keep repeating myself and ending up being too lazy, so I won't talk about "plans of playing" until I just do it. Hoping it's gonna be this weekend...

Loose Lips, Sink Ships - Maplestory M $30,000 USD exploit

So yesterday there was an exploit (you can look it up on reddit r/maplestoryM) where basically people were spending $200-300 USD and getting the equivalent of $30,000 USD back in gear (instant). Nexon the company got wind of this pretty fast, shut down the servers, and took it all away. Fast forward the next day, all is well. Until there was a picture surfaced from a discord community member, where a guy "hid" his $30,000 of gear in an inventory box that the Devs did not realize/think about. Long story short, if he kept his mouth shut, didnt brag/show off to his guildmates, he would've slowly milked/sold that $30K back on the market with no1 ever knowing. Instead it's gone now. If he's not a rich whale IRL, certainly that's a lesson he should never forget.

Most insane exploit/bug I've personally could've partook in (I was sleeping and missed the chance by about 1-2 hours window).

ROUUUGGHHHHHHH

I'm on almost a 50-60K blackjack downswing, soloing 100% of my action majority of the time (outside of team play). I hit that 17-18% for $50K downswing in this venture. YIKES.

Update from last post:

First teammate flew in, over 1 week of play (approx 25 hours), we BROKE EVEN.

Second teammate flew in, over 2 days of play, I won $70 iirc. He won $29,000... L O L

POKER

My own instagram follower, found out I was playing at the aria, came on my table. And stacked me.

And ended my 26th winning session streak....

Long Story Short

Dealer at yesterday Aria, did his job, but also ****ed me. Opponent misread my hand, after hero calling my $1K river jam after a 5 minute tank, and after I flipped, he misread my hand, said "thats what I thought you had, good hand. You win" and proceeds to start mucking. As he starts pushing his hand forward, dealer announces my hand that wins, which the guy realizes, he can beat... (I had nothing). Villian is older guy, like 50-60s+. If the dealer never said a word, I win. My own friend felt like I was stretching/creating a narrative/story that the dealer was trying to help the old man realize I had nothing...

My POV: DEALERS RARELY SAY WHAT WINS. Think about it:

EX: you bet $50 on river, guy calls. You show TPTK, villain mucks hand. Does dealer ever say, TPTK wins? NO. They just push chips and cards and move on (primarily cus lazy, but we're all adults and know how to read the board). Dealer DOESNT SAY ANYTHING. At best, he PUSHES the cards up (as someone mentioned to me). THEY RARELY announce the winning hand, unless asked, or the other guy looks confused.

This dealer, took initiative for no reason.

Here we go again:

WSOP 10k Main Event around the corner. I've been contemplating if I wanted to start putting in some 10+ hour days before the flight, or just stay cruising/fresh going into it.
My only worry is that I haven't really had 12 hour grind days in a while, so that's my only fear.
My only annoyance is that I need to figure out where to walk to in Bally/Paris to buy my ticket and plan my "Daily routine" from car/poker/food/bathroom etc.

Anyways selling at 1.25 MU for those interested. Will be jumping it to 1.30 MU by next week and closing 2 days before the actual flight.
DM me at my IG. Easier to reach there.

Sold out faster than I thought.

1.30 MU for last remaining 10-15% that Im happy to offload.

busted out 10k main day 1. last level of the night.

BvB, I limp sb with KK to 500, BB old man raises me to 2000, I reraise to 7000, he reraise to 18,000, I jam him for 42,000. He snap calls me with A9.

I don't know how people perceive me, but it's insane how much action I get. And how poorly I just run overall this year. Not just in poker. This downswing is brutal.

After losing what would've put me at like 230bb stack, I proceed to get in QQ vs AK pre and I'm dead once again on flop.

My girl wasn't happy. First time she ever bought action (10% - even though I just ended up paying for it....), and it was gone before she could sweat it. Oh boy

If I were to sit down and see you in my game I would put you into crazy aggro tricky young whippersnapper 'reg' until I'd have 100s of hands proving otherwise lol.

Haven't caught up on updates ... has it been blackjack that has been the source of the downswongingggg?

Sorry for late response!! Not much gambling has been happening on my side for the past month after WSOP. Yes, BJ has been the source of my demise for the majority of this year. I basically moved to Vegas for poker, but didn't poker much, and ended up losing almost every session at BJ (you could imagine that over the course of half a year). It was pretty unreal. According to my sim, it was about a 17% chance of blowing up X dollars.

Update:

- We purchased our first home together in the Bay Area, though she did a lot of the heavy lifting considering how I ****ed up this year. Lucky Chance / Bay 101 is like 1hr drive from me. So it's kinda far. The closest thing is Oaks. And we've all heard things there. So if online poker doesnt work out for me, I might end up doing 1-2 sessions there a week/max. I think?

- I'm back to private online PLO games. Found a few clubs and sites, though it seems like it's already dying for some. Like no1 wants to play me or my friend for any reasonable stake like $2/4 or higher in there. There is one that's basically $3/6/12 and could be a gold mine from what I've seen. Issue is, no rakeback. Yikes. Hopefully there's an update about it in coming weeks/months.

- I started scaling my mobile gaming farming rigs through MSM harder. What was supposed to be $200/day returns (it was peaking there for a while), has ended up with a tanking market - resulting in about $50 - 75/day. So that's only like $11K if this current market survives for several more months.. Not great. Though not bad, for doing nothing.

My friends said they just feel bad for the guy. Who took the time out out to carve this little gem up for me (while I've been afk-silent on my IG since WSOP ME).

I personally don't mind it. It brings flavor to my morning. Knowing he's sitting there, most likely failing in whatever endeavor it is (likely poker). And wanting me to feel bad, to alleviate his own problems. Here's a reality check. My life is pretty peaked, yeah I'm not rich or anything, but outside of that, I got it / can get it. And that's all that matters in life really. Simple happiness.

But it wouldn't be very like me to end it on that cliche note. I hope @billthebest9 that his misery & inner turmoil and struggle continues!!

Damn mannnnnn Bay Area house!? Had the market gone down a little from the peaks last year?

What do you mean by mobile gaming farming rigs? Is it crypto play to earn or something?

If anything, the thing me and my partner was more worried about was the interest rate being locked in at X. Cus at the time, our agent was telling us, it was more than likely to sky rocket even higher, which would've resulted in butt loads of money lost. As for housing prices themselves, we looked all over. So hard to say. Our place we got, we had to outbid a few people, but not more than $12K to seal the deal.

As for farming rigs, I have desktop rigs running 24/7 farming essentially crypto, but it's online gaming currency. Not play to earn, full automation.

Tiny Tiny Tilt BM

So contrary to my online rep of being a keyboard warrior, I actually am always on my best online behavior in the online private games. I know, I can get booted at any second, the minute the hosts/admins/whatnot say so. So always giving smiley faces and all the wonderful words of nhnh & gg etc. However tonight session was a bit different. Playing against one of the biggest nits of the pool (he has literally 1% 3bet, flats all AAxx combos IP/OOP, you get the idea). Anyways we're playing HU close to $3.5/$7 PLO for about 3 hours straight. Grinding him down was a brutal mental workout, as he would time down literally every hand. I started watching youtube and playing MAPLESTORY during my match. I thought at one point, is this his strat? To make me go insane from timing down every decision? Or is he just drunk? Is he playing too many tables? Idk anymore..

Long story short, he got even/slightly up after I bluffed into his most nutted hand he could've had. And he INSTANT left. Now if he was a bigger whale, I think I would've handled it different.

Sent him a nice little DM on disc basically saying - Do me a fav, don't ever sit me HU again if you're gonna do that.

Pros & Cons:

Pros: Him not sitting me HU, I can get a faster/bigger fish to sit me. Bigger/faster winrate.

Cons: During dead hours, no1 would play me. He's still (eventual) money. Lost cost opportunity.

Reality: He'll probably sit me again. And I'll have to either BM him back because I'm immature and not continue stacking him potentially after getting his first buy-in. Or bite it. And move on with life. Either way, needed to rant.

Fwiw when the whales do it, I take it in stride. And just stomach the annoyance. When pros/regs do it. I don't handle it so well.

What does that mean? I used to play MS, actually remember blowing all my allowance on those MS cards that you can get from CVS lmao.

So you farm MS gold and sell for USD? Is this really a thing? Hope you’ve been well, gl for the rest of 2022.

Yep similar to a lot of online MORPG you can farm currency/gold and sell it through venmo/PP as long as they have player to player transfer in some manner. The more rigs, the more $/day. The only limit is how many buyers/demand you can find through DMs, unless big enough to set up an established website.

As for poker, I'll announce it here if I haven't announced it before (sometimes I forget, and dont read my past post).

Quitting NLH and going into PLO:

The only time I will play NLH from now on, is WSOP ME. That's it.

Focusing on 4 card HU (25-100bb stack depths). Rat hole at 200bb, rinse repeat. So I can play as good as I possibly can (never studied deep).

Playing 5 card mostly and dabbling back into 6 card. Games are good. Competition has mostly no clue.

Rakeback vs No-Rakeback:

I have close to 90% rakeback on a private game, where my RB is obviously HUGE, as one would expect in a 6-8% 2.5bb cap game, playing anywhere from like .50c/$1 to $3/6/12. I sat there 24/7, even waking up at 5am to find whales when I randomly wake up. The whales from the beginning didn't last longer than 4-6 weeks if I had to guess. But there's still "some". However my volume has gone from like every hour of the day excited, to barely playing 1-2 hours a day.

All of my attention now is in a PLO game where I basically have like 3% rakeback. It's quite sad, considering the fact that they have forced action buy on me as well. And they will/are printing through me. With that being said, I guess that's the cost of the connection into these games. Hoping to fight/negotiate for at least 15-20% RB, somewhere in the future.

I was considering selling my equity (more action buy) and swapping it in for RB. To lessen the sweat on my bankroll. I'll update you guys in the future on this deal.

Sometimes it's not how good of a player you are, it's how good of a deal you can establish.

2 Week Update:

To start off the morning: 1/3 of my maplestory m rig set up got banned, for 3650 days (10 years). That's pretty annoying as the setup time is a solid month+ .... Not sure if I'll go through the trouble of remaking them so hopefully can recover through an appeal.

PLO, down like $10K recently, in the past 2 weeks. How many more tens of hours do I need to play before my upswangg happens? Like I'm playing in high rake, no rakeback, private game environment. cmon poker gods!!

It's getting pretty demoralizing losing hands where I'm favorite, running it twice over and over. And essentially "hero-calling" lines where it's unlikely a decent player would have (ex: they would have to call bad, then take a weird line on top of it).

I'm trying to be as unbiased as possible and ponder the notion; which is it really more about, constantly losing, or losing chunks of money with it. Things was "okay" 2 months ago when I was playing lower 4 card HU against passive-fish and stomping with rakeback, but since I've moved up stakes again with no RB, it's been all pain, no gain.

Sad face. Downswing continues.

UPDATE PLEASE SIR

STILL GRINDING 5 CARD?

I used to play at Oaks when I’d come through Oakland - not from the area so wasn’t clued in on the local chatter. What’s there to know? Haven’t been back in awhile but always liked it when I did.

Hi guys. Sorry for the long overdue update!



Almost didn't happen because hilariously everywhere we went on Honolulu was extremely packed with people (on the coastlines), the destination spots (the lava flow from the volcano eruption had too many tourists), old people blocking me from proposing by being next to us, and simply she was too tired to continue the day/night. In my head, I said, sure let's wait another 4 months till the next vacation and I'll try proposing in Maui that time (but luckily fate/luck gave me the chance to shoot the shot).

Regarding online PLO, my bankroll couldn't sustain another 50-75K hands of this downswing (or my mind rather - started doubting things, because I was using GTO charts). Too much risk now, plus my BR is dwindling from my life expenses. So in about 1-2 months, I'll be returning to live poker, either Matrix if they host enough PLO games for me, or Bay 101 begrudgingly for 2/5 NL.

In the meantime, I'm expanding on my MSM little enterprise and setting up more rigs. I've come to a recent conclusion that one of my "mobile pixel female girl character" is worth almost $10-12K. Eventually this game will die, who knows when/where, but the signs will be obvious (supply > demand), prices will crash, etc. Will I be able to sell out?

Letting $20-30K disappear in a video game seems ******ed, simply because I enjoyed tapping on my cellphone/emulator.

Lastly I've been thinking of setting up a NEW youtube channel for things I'm just really getting into (archery, bouldering (currently moving up to V5), fine dining out and cooking imitations of them etc, and posting back maybe 1 video every 2 weeks on my AdvantagePlayer YT one.

Or do you guys believe I could / have the potential of posting POKER in an ALL-INCLUSIVE channel where it's all the above in one. Which may annoy others who just want poker, or people who don't like poker vice versa.

That's all off the top my head for now! Thanks for reading

congrats on the marriage OP. the rest of this is depressing as hell. get a job son.

As long as I don't torch 2-3k a day playing or whatnot, I am happy to AFK through life with limited poker hours (5-10 hours a week) + passive income. It's when I'm playing mid-high stakes that I'm stressing, because my $$$ BR matters A LOT for whether I need more investor's backing (always embarrassing to me), or moving up / down stakes.

Describing this as depressing isn't accurate. It's just a downswing.

Getting a full-time job would truly suck. I would feel like my life was ending tbvh.

Regarding poker - the sessions and YT content will be on hold for 2 more months (but I'll post 1-2 sessions in the coming weeks on the IG).
Off to Singapore for 1 week, then Hawaii for another week. After these two vacations, then I'll try to fire up the channel again with some content from the live tables if I got the enerrrgyyy

Long over due update:

Wsop Main Event is around the corner, deciding between playing or not. Time is running down not sure - not sure. If I do sell I feel a bit compelled to sell at less MU than last year (despite getting it in SO GOOD for chip lead of table). But really dont want to fly to vegas.

Also epiphany, infinite playing video games as a 30 year old, isnt all that neat. I feel guilty lately being zero-productive. Resulting in my putting in 1-2 sessions a week, resulting in a 11 win streak so far. See you guys on the IG.