Sometimes live, sometimes online

It changes tbh.

Played an interesting live session yesterday.

I was planning on going today (Saturday) this week, instead of Friday, like I did last week, because last Friday the 2-5 game sucked and was all regs. However, my Friday afternoon French course got cancelled, so I figured I would go since I could go early.

I got there just before 2pm and immediately got seated. Game wasn't great, only slightly better than last week. For a while we had 2-3 seats open, which makes it better and funner than 10 handed.

I immediately started running good.

I had this nice little hand to start, the first one I played.

https://pokerbankrolltracker.net/replayer/109742

Villain is a weaker reg. He mucked river as soon as I reached for chips, but I was going to go big to target Ax.


Shortly after in the next hand I played, I had the biggest pot I've won yet: https://pokerbankrolltracker.net/replayer/109746

This guy is an old asian guy, who is kind of decent? He opens to a bunch of different sizes, but I have seen him flat AA in BB. OTT, there was the whale in between us, but I figure I gotta raise to put more money in. I was shocked when he jammed OTT, but there is no way I am folding. He mucked.


Then shortly after, I played my only other biggish lost hand of the night. I doubled up a guy (presumably fish) who had just sat down short at 2-5.

https://pokerbankrolltracker.net/replayer/109748

This seems super nutted, but I really could see it be top pair and NFD. This may well be a fold. Thoughts?

For the next few hours after that, the table got worse. More regs from last Friday showed up (this is at like 4pm) too, and there was basically no action other than one whale. There was no real 2-5 list, or hope of another one opening until atleast 9pm.

It was just kind of miserable once we got 9 regs packed into the 10 handed table. No conversation, no vibe or dynamic. Brantford is honestly just one of the worst rooms I've played at most of the time. Terrible rake, 10 people tables, awful lighting in the room, no ambience, no other 2-5 so can't table select. The vibe there is so often just awful.

Ultimately, I just decided to leave at 5pm, took my $1200 win and called it a day. It was very unlikely this 2-5 game improves before 9pm, so why sit there for hours. In recent months I have really made game selection a big thing for me, so I think leaving and taking a win is a smart decision.

Despite a nice win, I left feeling frustrated. It is just such a shame what that room is. Honestly, if I was at that table at Deerfoot in Calgary I probably stay, just cause the vibe is so much better. I wouldn't even mind a tough table if people are chatting and it's a fun experience. Some of the most enjoyable sessions that I remember are because I met people and we chatted and hungout on the table for the entire session, and I don't even end up remember the results, just that I had a good time.

I think for the couple months, I will only go play on Saturday nights, cause the 2-5 seems to be a bit better than. I hope in a couple months the 2-5 Friday will improve, but for now, I don't want to play in that, because it'll end up totally killing my desire to play live.

Anyway, this probably sounds pretty pathetic for a guy who got up $1500 within 30 minutes of sitting down and booked at $1200 win, but I can honestly say that I just didn't really enjoy myself that much. The win is great, and I am grateful and lucky to have run great, but I don't just play for the money.

Quick update for February. It was a good month live and a bad month online.

Live, I continued running great, winning $3500 and not having a losing session. I have been running great live so far this year. I am really enjoying playing live right now, despite how generally miserable the Brantford poker room is compared to most other rooms.

Online, it was a different story:



Just like last month, I have just been running generally bad and couldn't get much going. However it is just mostly variance, so I am not super concerned. However, my volume was super low, which isnt ideal. I would like to be consistently at atleast 15k hands.

As I said, I have been really enjoying live the past couple months. Probably because I have been running well though tbh. However, I am going to try and focus more on live for the moment, trying to get atleast 1, maybe 2 sessions a week. Either Friday or Saturday and some Wednesdays.

Been a while since I updated this thread, out of sheer laziness.

So far this year online has been very swingy. It seems like I go on a 1k downswing, grind it back the next month and repeat. But obviously lots of runbad and standard spots not going my way so its not too bad. Plus with RB and bonuses I am still up a chunk.

Volume obviously been low, but there is a 600 deposit bonus match I am grinding right now. Going to try and complete it before going to Ottawa to apartment hunt at the end of this month, so putting in big volume right now.




Live has been okay. It would be good but I have developed a bad mental game leak of making big punt calls every couple sessions, which has been killing my WR. But I am working on that mental game issue.

I played a session sunday, one of the most pure sessions I have ever played, it was incredible. Table was so soft, even made a new friend with another friendly reg, and just hit everything. Here are a couple fun hands:

River bluffraise vs reg:

https://pokerbankrolltracker.net/replayer/136106

Fun hand vs whale:

https://pokerbankrolltracker.net/replayer/136277

Same whale, this hand he just mucked river on his action, didnt bet or check back, just threw it away. I may fold if he bluffed LOL:

https://pokerbankrolltracker.net/replayer/136280

Nice. was gonna ask how its goin'

Changed anything red-line wise the last 5k hands? I have a new red-line study technique but it's so revolutionary i'm going to have to pm you on discord

damn you need more volume. its never gonna get better then its been the last year in ontario for you. glgl

I know... I'll get a chunk more during this deposit bonus, then after that try for 15k hands a month.

no tbh,

my redline ebbs and flows lol


itll be flat, then tank for a while, then flat

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