I am not one for making threads or posting replies, but read PG&C daily so I figure its about time I join the crowd.

After some friendly "theoretical debate" with my roommate, Brad, he threw down a bet that I could not profit $3300 in 33 days playing live 1/2 no limit. Bet amount (it is a monetary bet) was decided and rules were eventually agreed upon, that include the following:

1. Bet ends on June 1st - meaning bet ends at 12:01am June 1st.
2. Only No Limit Holdem may be played - this one took the longest of all debate as I tried to get PLO/mix games to be allowed. Unfortunately it was a deal breaker for him, which I understood.
3. Only NL games with a $2 Big blind or less can be played. Basically we have 2/2 , 1/2, and 1/1 in our general playing area so all needed to be included due to some rooms only offering one of those options.
4. No BRM restrictions, just simply a $3300 overall profit must be obtained.
5. I may tip out of pocket as opposed to out of stack.
6. Promo's - any cash (or gift card equivalent) won goes directly into profit count. If a BBJ is hit, Brad received 10% of payout, 10% of payout would also count towards profit. Remaining 80% is just mine to buy hookers or w/e.
7. Any comps earned would not count towards profit, unless the comp is issued in the form of cash/gift card.
8. Travel expenses do not get deducted from my total.
9. I am allowed to play games beyond 1/2 NL, they just will not count in this bet. (In case I see a juicy PLO or OFC game, I can jump in if I want)

Obviously a few other obvious ones like if I have a family emergency the bet is voided as a push, I can't set up some super soft home game, he can't intentionally follow me around to slow my game down, etc.

About me: 27 year old average white guy, played profitably part-time for years, blah blah blah. Moved to Florida from PA a little over a year ago. I do work full time on nights and weekends so thats kind of what makes this challenge an actual challenge.

I'll be playing all over Florida. We live in Northern Florida near Jacksonville, but I do enjoy traveling on my days off. I have barely explored south florida, but everytime I have, its been enjoyable.

I'll be updating as I go. I look forward to any questions and comments. Thank you.

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Gl, rungood, and lots of updates please :-)

Out of work at 2am, took a quick hour nap and now up about to start a drive south with another player/friend. Going to go play at the Isle poker room at Pompano Beach today, probably from 10am - 10pm. Then plan A is back to Jax to watch a friend take down the WPT main at Bestbet on Tuesday (he is sitting a little under avg stack going into day 3 with 25 remaining. They end Day 3 at 6 and resume the televised finale on Tuesday. Must watch and sweat that one if he gets there). Plan B is to travel over to Tampa to play all day Tuesday, joining another friend for that segment.

Thanks for the early support!

Updates will be done via phone. God its early.

First session from 10am to 5pm at the Isle poker room resulted in +216. Tons of hands to describe later when I get in front of my computer. Took a quick dinner/refresh break and now back on a table.

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Play well. How many hrs are you trying to put in at 1/2?

When taking the bet I used the basis that a 10bb/hour rate should be relatively easy to maintain. It should be higher but lolvariance can be a bitch.
So $20/hour divided by the 3300 total for 165 hours needed. Im going to pace myself early, to avoid burnout, as I only need to do an avg of 5 hours/day using the math above.
Ill adjust as I go, but assuming long sessions on my days off I should get 20 or 25 of the 35 hours needed per week in just those two days.

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Good luck!

I'm going to definitely recommend going to the Daytona kennel club on a Saturday. They give $750 half hour high hands so you will get fish that will limp/call a $15 raise OOP with 35s, 45s, 79s etc etc. Very profitable.

Second session at the isle yesterday went pretty poorly for -184 in 3.5 hours. Only one major hand that dictated the session:

One limper from ep and I raise from co with AKss. Super loose fish calls button, others fold. Flop 985 all spades. I check for few reasons, this guy overplayed all hands he was in and frequently spazzed. Plus if he checked behind and turn gives him straight we will get it in.
Turn is 5d. I bet 15 and he raises to 100. I go all in for about 200 total and he snap calls with A5. River was a 9c to fill him up of course. Cant complain as I got exactly what I wanted.

As for today, I slept in a bit after getting into tampa late last night. Bout to begin next session here soon.

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GL subbed

Subbed, go go

Just binked a high hand at derby lane in tampa with quad 10's. Good for $400 profit (had a share offer with friends I came with).

Hooray rungood after yesterdays run bad fiasco. (That trip report coming soon)

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Out after a quick 2.5 hours. Realized that if I received any further promo money I would be w-2'd. Now off to dinner with friends than headed back to jax.

Session total of +436 in 2.5 hours.

Longer trip report to follow once I am home and have my laptop.

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Thanks for all the subs guys.

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Hard to remember all the big hands from this session. Guess I should actually note better while playing. But as planned here is an overall trip report.

Game was pretty boring early on. Mostly call station fish and had to wait for hands. Was chipped up to about 300 when this hand occurred about 3 hours in:

Two limpers, one abc guy(utg) who's "wanna be good" reg seeming and other bad player, to me in MP with AA. I raise to 12, button calls, blinds fold, utg raises to 30. I try not to smile as I know he's trying to play KK in a super creative way that no one else will know what hes doing. I oblige and make it 65. He flats leaving 80 behind. Flop is 955 and he snap shoves. I call, and ask if he has kings as I tell him I have aces. I say "sick cooler" to be nice and stroke his ego that he played it right, and dealer peels a king on the turn. Fun fun.

I put in my transfer request because this game got super boring aside from one old guy on my immediate right who would make it ~50 about 1/10 hands. Just he either folded, limped, or made it 50. I noticed a few times how he'd gear up for it when looking at his hole cards so I was waiting for a good spot. Seemed like an old amatuer way of playing 88+ or AQs+.

The spot arrives as I look down at KK utg, and notice him in BB beside me getting antsy for his turn after looking at his hole cards. So eff it, I limp and wait for the 50. Limps to him in BB and grabs a chunk of chips about 50 and puts em out, I shove, folds to him and he snaps. And he flips over AA, and I say nice hand, and then transfer off. Whatever, can't get to upset. Only down 200 with some pretty ugly coolers outta my system.

Transfer to new table immediately after this hand. Go to sit down and dealer says "your first buy in has to be at cage" (on opposite side of the room). I say I just got stacked at my last table. He pretty much shrugs, and I walk pissy saying, "nice, get stacked then have to take a walk of shame" and see him smirk. A-hole. See my friend at another table with a seat open, and he says its a good, fun table. I say screw it and sit down there instead. It was a talkative friendly game with looser fish. Much better. Also, right beside the outlets to charge my phone.

Up over $100 easy in the first couple of hands. Just getting lots of free value from top pair, good kicker spots where you could value town. Table was very fun, I was sitting next to a friendly older woman who was there to celebrate he 93rd birthday. Never woulda guessed he for being that old. She was hilarious and fun. Shout out to you Ester. She told me how her son set up a 3 day trip for her and some other family at the poker room and restaurant. I told her she had a good son, to which she agreed and told me stories. Its nice to remember some of the important things in life sometimes. She even told me that she could tell I was very good person. So yay, even got hit on by a lady on this trip

Good table aside from one annoying hand. KK in CO. One new guy just sat down on my right and he's been active. He raised to 7 (his stack is only 90). Super fish on button (sitting with about 300) calls out of turn. I debate but raise to only 17 to keep super fish in as he was playing his cards face up post flop. So I want value out of him, and maybe aggro guy may repop since I went small. Plus if he does flat, that pots bloated enough to commit him. He flats.

Flop is Jx 6h 3h. New guy donk bets 30 leaving about 40 behind . Weird spot. I think he either flopped set, AJ, or flush draw. Really doesn't feel like set since he'd most likely check raise. Fish on button behind me is reaching to count chips before I act, so I only flat to keep him in. That, plus new guy won't fold anything anyways for rest of hand, so i'd rather let him do the work and extract value from button since he'll call down most anything with a pair from what I've seen so far.

Turn is 5h and new guy goes all in for his remaining chips. I semi-hero call hoping he has AJ or KJ with ace/king of hearts, or he doesnt have much of anything since he seemed to be non thinking player who spewed. Also, button was holding his cards ready to fold, so I know he didn't hit flush. He folds, and new guy shows K6hh. Then talks some **** to me/dealer bout shipping the pot where it belongs. I say **** it, I'm hungry and rack for lunch break. I'd rather punish this a-hole. But negative feelings combined with hunger isn't the best. Needed a break.

Overall, I still liked the Isle. Some a-hole players, some not so friendly/professional dealers, but overall a good room. Tables could use railings fixed and refelting, but not aweful yet. I tried a caeser salad early into session for a brunch. It was a pretty cheap, not so great bite to eat. Like $8 (pre-tip) for the equivalent of two wendy's side salads. Not what I would expect. Food overall there seemed overpriced. Maybe I'm missing a decent food option there. I need to explore next time.

I used to love Daytona, but the last year or so not so much. After being in some better rooms, this place just has some turn-offs. Crappy chips, a lot of dealers with bad attitudes, not so great tables, and lots of whiney annoying players. I'd put up with it for the good promo and worse play it drags in, but Saturdays are hard for me to play on due to work. I'm sure its your closest room, but if you travel up north to Bestbet, the comfortability and warmer feel makes it harder to ever go back to Daytona. Plus the pure EV of driving about an hour to attempt a high hand win vs playing right near me is in favor of playing close to home.

Yea Daytona is my closest room. I went to BestBet for the first time about a week ago for one of their Spring Series tourneys, and the room was so nice. I agree it is a ton nice than Daytona. Unfortunately I can't make the 2 hour trip up there often, so the 45 minute trip to Daytona is more desirable.

Just played a hand. Looking for opinions. On button with 33. Ep (tighter fish)raises to 7, mp super fish playing atc calls, I flat, blinds fold. My stack is about 200, both cover.

Flop (25) K 2 3 rainbow. Ep villian cbets 15, super fish raises to 30. Hes spazzed on one pair type hands and hoping for ep to have ak and re raise so I flat the 30. Ep folds. Turn (100) is 4, and fish leads 30. I opt to raise to 80 to try and induce shove from two pair type hands /get max value in case river is scare card like A or 5.

Thoughts of the play of this hand?

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Yesterdays 6 hour session resulted in a loss of 358.

After the first two hours I was cruising on a passive table up about 100 with taking down small pots fairly often. Then it tightened up and player moved to my table from another one saying, "that table just has two *******s going all in nearly every hand. They never fold preflop." Tablenods while I request and get transfer. It was true, there were two mid-40's guys playing atc, and going/calling all ins with anything suited or connected. Gamble, gamble.

About an hour into this table I get AA in BB when utg straddles. Preflop I get it in 3-ways w/ the two atc guys. One has 34ss and other has 57cc. Flop is 10 6 5 rainbow. Turn 7 and I'm drawing dead. Blugh stuck 200 and rebuy.

About another hour goes by and I get into a hand of A 10 on button vs one of the atc guys, as one has busted and left. Utg made it 15 and loose guy calls so I only flat. Flop is Q 10 6. Utg checks for a clear shut down, loose guy checks, and I bet 25. Loose guy calls. Turn is a 4. With pot near 100 and my stack of about 180, I only bet 30 to keep him in and get value. He chased/called anything and I read him for weak here. he overplayed all draws and top pair hands previously. he called and river was an ace. He jams all in. He's done this before with nothing a few times and people showed weakness. I think for a while and call because I can only really lose to KJ here, and there a lot of other hands he jams with - worse two pair and missed draws. I call and he tables KJ.

Couldn't play much longer and headed to work with the loss. Wish I could of stayed on the table. I'm sure that guys over $800 stack did not leave the game.

I call against a passive fish playing atc. if i raise I make it a min raise. I assume any raise will make river shove less then pot so I would min raise

Solid advice, thank you. Ive moved away from min raising with big hands cuz against thinking players its obvious u have a monster. Ive forgotten how useful it is in these types of situations.

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Quick session tonight after work. Played 2.5 hours for a profit of 259.

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A 3.5 hour session before work today was good for a 270 profit.

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2 hour session before meeting up with some friends tonight. Boring cards/situations on a nice table for only a session resulting in -8.

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Overall update which was long overdue:

Days completed in bet: 8
Current profit mark: +$621
Hours played: 30

Summary: I don't hate the quality of play I've had so far. I've picked up a few small adjustments along the way as well. I can easliy see a few hands that could of been better, and if a few more big hands held early on, I could be way ahead of schedule. At near $20/hour I'm running at my pre-bet estimated number. Hopefully this aspect stays or improves.

I haven't pushed the quantity of play too much yet. I did go a little hard on my self this past Saturday night, but nothing else during the work week too much. I certainly need to increase the volume of play to make it to the goal.

Also, I'm trying to go play a tournament or two in the Hollywood Seminole Deepstack Series this week and/or next. Its a crazy good looking structure for how cheap the buy-ins are. Should be great value and fairly soft.