5/31/13: 4.75hrs, +$173

Foxwoods was super empty on a friday night. Maybe only 13-14 1/2s running instead of around 22-23 like it should.

i sat at a decent table though somehow. 2 really fishy players to left, and 2 somewhat passive players to my right. Not sure if the players to my right were fishy, I am tempted to think they were but I never got their money and they both left with big stacks. All the other players were also straight forward but not super fishy. My big hands basically came in the form of set of 8s against villain (who saw me earlier donk shipping a turn AK7x 3 3 way to turn, getting called by 777, and then I muck my hand and said I folded 2 pair when someone asked, which was true). Villain called 3 streets on A843T board.

Then the same villain called again 3 streets from me on 3569K board when I had 24o and he said he called me off with some kind of 2 pair.

Then I donated some back ATo vs JJ against fish who is capable of shipping a little lighter.

Roll @$16837

May monthly report:
Hours played: 81
Total profit: $648
May hourly: $8/hour

A farcry from my results in March and April but what can you do.

6/1/13: 5.5hrs, +$354

Brand new month starting off well! Actually, it started off kinda bad resulting in me losing a buy-in when limped pot on AQx flop, I bet $8 OTB with A6o (yea I didn't raise), called only by shortstack fish. J on turn, he check, I overbet $52 because that's all he has left. He snapcall with KTo. Oh well.

Then I had AKo in EP, raise to $10 fish in SB and an active player in BB called. Flop A98. check to me, I Cbet $21. BB calls. Turn is 4. Check to me, I bet $42, get raised to like $110ish, which is most of what I had (original eff stack about $140). I ship, he has A8 and I get stacked.

After those 2 hands and a rebuy, I did really well. Caught a bluff against the active player with 67 on a A578Q board when he fired out half the pot on river but his line made no sense so I call and he has K high.

Then I double barrel bluff the same active player with QJo and he folded. Could have had the best hand, who knows.

Also bluffed with QTo in LP 5 way to flop on 357 board after initial raiser in SB raised pre and then checked dark (lol). All checked to me, if that's not an invitation to barrel, hm...I dunno what else is. Original raiser called the flop bet and folded to my turn bet.

I did play one hand rather poorly. It's 5 way limped pot, I have T6o in SB. Flop comes A79dd. I lead out for $8 on the flop. Only one caller in late position, pretty straight forward older player.

Turn is an offsuit 8. I bet $25. Get raised to $60. I reraise to $135, he called rather quickly.

River is 4 I forget if the Ace was a diamond but I check and he checked down his A8o. Missed value.

Roll @ $17191

6/3/13: 10.25hrs, -$572

I've been playing Magic the Gathering a lot the past week, so slacking on the pokerz. Also, losing in this session mainly against an aggro fish didn't help. I basically paid him off twice or three times and he had value hands both times. Then when I did get it all in against him while ahead, he showed a draw and got there. There was another rather passive fish who played every hand against the aggro fish and just owned him. So basically, I donated to the aggro fish and he syphoned it off to the even worse passive fish.

6/10/13: 4.5hrs, +$802

So today, ran pretty good, I felt I had pretty decent control of the 2 tables I was at (1st table broke). Unfortunately, no one was making any bluffs against me. At the first table, I did make a semi-bluff against a solid but somewhat tight player. He limp in EP which strung along a weaker player to limp. I'm OTB with A4 and raise to $13. Him and the weaker player called.

Flop is KT2

EP leads out $25. Weak player folds. I call.
Turn is 4 He leads out $35. I raise to $110. He thought for quite a while which prompted me to almost go into twitching mode as I could only manage to stare blankly at my own raise. Eventually he did fold.

On the 2nd table after the first table broke, there was an obvious mark who either limped or raise to $7 every hand, and he was quite deep as I just transferred my $500 stack from the first table directly there.

I caught a few decent hands including 5s full and nutflush but couldn't get him to pay me off on the river. Finally, I get into a hand with him. I am in the BB with 8T. The fish limped OTB, SB completes, I check.

Flop: T35r, I lead out $5, Button calls, SB folds.

Turn: 8 making club draw possible. I bet $15, Button raises to $35. I was super tempted to just call and then most likely check all rivers, but assessing his range, he isn't likely to be bluffing but he simply has way more 2 pairs then sets so I 4bet to $110 and snapcalled his 5bet all in for $330ish.

River: J He announces 2 pair, I flip my cards and he mucks. Pretty happy I took the line that extracted the most value there.

After that hand, there wasn't too many notable hands. In one hand, I was heads up against a weaker player who was just running bad and probably very gun shy at this point. I tried to value bet AT on a K98T2 board and he hemmed and hawed and then called me with AK. Oh well, value owned.

Then towards the closing end of the session, the asian OTB who just sat down about 2 orbits ago but has shown some aggro tendency and feels a bit like he was going to be sticky postflop raise to $10 after 2 limpers. SB folds, I 3bet the BB with 8T to $30 (too little I think). He snaps, rest folds.

Flop is 963 with 1 spade. I ask him how much he has left (about $120ish) and I just shoved lol. At the time, I felt maybe he would play back at a cbet and I don't want to be calling against his bluffing range so shoving will prevent that. I think its still fine to shove but the play is kinda iffy b/c it doesn't have a lot of fold equity.

Roll @ $17421

He definitely doesn't have the nuts on the turn, but it's possible he turned a sick combo draw. I guess the question is does he re-raise with a fd+sd, but not shove over your 3-bet... stack sizes would help a bit. Though a LOT of villains do not consider stack sizes when making bets. Also, what would you do if you raise and he shoves (assuming he has enough behind for you to consider a fold)? I don't know, I'm sure someone will show that this was mathematically a spot to raise, but I wouldn't beat yourself up over it

In this particular case, we were somewhat deep. I think after I raised to $135 and he called, he still had close to $300 behind, maybe like $275, I'm not sure exactly how much but it was around that ballpark.

I think my 3bet to $135 was both for information and for value. As I said, he's pretty straight forward and my turn bet was actually for about pot size even though it is small relative to how much was behind. For him to reraise that makes his hand skewed towards more value hands, some of them being the nuts. If he ships there on the turn, I don't think I call. If he calls turn with any mannerism other than a snap-call, I think I have to tank the river. However, my rather quick check on a is not excuse-able. I don't think its terribly likely that he raise turn with combo-draw given his straight forwardness.

6/14/13: 14.25hrs, +$449

Put in a pretty long session, broken up into 2 tables. The first table had a few weak-ish players, no one particularly solid. However, I get sucked out twice, once with top pair against guttterball, and the other middle set against OESD and both times, they got there. Also, KQJ flops continue to be the crappiest flops for me. I had 9To on KQJ and bet out, 2 callers. Q turn, checks through. Guy then leads for $30 on a 9 river, I obv call and he has quads.

Then, I (sort of) sucked out on a shortstacked when I raised with A9 in the CO and the shorty OTB called with A6o, along with a bunch of other callers. The flop came A6x, I bet close to the pot because the players in the hand are pretty straight-forward but some of them like to draw to things like 2 pair or gutshot, so betting big was a fairly easy decision. Shorty called all in, I hit 9 on the turn. Aside from that, I hit a few more top pairs in multiway pots (around $50-$70 range) and take down the money postflop, which brought me to being up $29.

The table got to 4 handed which really killed the action so table broke, however, I'd snap play against the 4 handed line-up. Only 1 guy I had difficulty reading, the other 2 were fish. At the new table, there were always 3-4 fish. I managed to get AA vs KK against a fish for his $250 stack. Another fish had about $600 at his peak, he ended up calling off all of it towards the early morning hours and then rebought 3 times. I got about $200 of it, another fish took the rest. The other fish had about $900 at his peak, then he whittled himself down to $100 chasing draws, calling huge preflop bets with 95s, and not pulling the trigger on the river with his bluffs. I get about $265 from him in one hand where I had J8 and he had JQ on a 9TQQ6 board and paid me off on all 3 streets.

It wasn't all cherry pie as I made a huge erroneous bluff going all in into a $120 pot when villain had about $250 and I did not see his black chip and thought he mighta had only $130 or so. I had complete airball and he called with top2 (I was hoping the Ace on the turn is a scare card but nope, he paired that one). I woulda still fired a 2nd bullet anyway but it would have been a way smaller bet. Ran into top range yada yada. Overall a fun but exhausting night, really trying to bust the fishes.

Roll @ $17870

this spot isn't crappy (except that you don't win ), it's a really easy fold. What bluffs can villain possibly have, and what value hands are you expecting to beat here? About 0%, and 0% to both questions.

fold pre. nit can play Q5, Q8, or QT this way. Unlikely he's bluffing into a million people and he's never valuebetting worse ever, fold.

that K8 on K88 sounds like a hell of a cooler.

KQJ7ss from your later post is a fold pre too in most situations IMO

gl sir

Hello Aesah! I'm a big big fan of your thread! I think yours and DGIharris's thread are the 2 I check regularly now for juicy contents

I also tried to find your live at the bike videos but I guess I have to pay for them since I can't find them anywhere. I'm assuming you are asian and I did not find any asian playing fitting your description.

I haven't been playing/updating too much lately, my parents and I got into a bit of an argument about playing poker. They think I am gambling and obv I can't convince them otherwise. Standard stuff. Also, there's very few people stopping by to say hi in my thread which in turn, demotivates me a bit as well.

As for PLO, I think I am shying away from it because the PLO game at foxwoods runs infrequently and most of the time it does run, I don't think I have a huge edge over it. My edge at NLHE is probably more than 10X compared to PLO, and there's this one annoying reg at PLO that keeps wanting to get into a "reg" war with me (if you can even call it that). I don't need the variance.

Thanks for your comment though, I actually have a few thoughts about it:

The first hand was with the reg who always feels like he's trying to war with me. It probably is a standard fold but it felt like a "crappy" spot simply because the villain was him and he likes to put me into tough spots.
(funny story: one night I actually owned him pretty bad, just value-towning him in like 5 separate hands and him paying all of them off, the table eventually broke because the fishes left and it was me, him, and one tight reg. He immediately asked if I wanted to play 5-10 PLO because he was sitting with maybe $700 and I had about $1100 or so. I turned him down, but it would have been degen if I took him up on it.)

The Q972hhdd hand. I completed it from the SB. I think folding for half a bb in the SB is one of those things that when you do it, it just broadcasts "NIT" to the rest of the table. It makes getting value hands paid off much harder. That's the only problem I have with folding. Having said that, it is 1/2 PLO so maybe its not as relevant.

The K8 vs KK on K88xx, I think on the river, I had the 2nd possible nuts but the old nit barreled 3 streets in this hand when there were 4 to the flop. Maybe its not that much of a cooler in this case...in real time, I wasn't happy to call off river but wasn't good enough to fold it either.

Are you living at home?

If you love poker as an income then move out. It will suit you much better on the path of achieving what you want! It really sucks to make sacrifices like that but it sucks to have people weighing you down too. Up to you though You are Flux and it appears obvious you are dominating it!

Gl man keep it up!

Currently living with my brother. I dont think i currently need to move out, living situation is pretty good.

Don't get demotivated man! Just remember that you're doing this for yourself and that you're posting to keep yourself accountable for your results and improvement. Good luck.

Oh, and subbed.

HI!

Keep it up, you seem to be a solid winning player. Prove the 'rentals wrong by succeeding, that's all they really want anyway. If you've shown you can handle your **** then they should come around eventually.

Just read entire thread. Good luck. Subbed

Thanks folks! You guys really help keep the fire burning. Going to grind out a sesh now, i will post results soon again.

6/16/13: 7hrs, -$651

Pretty tough session, honestly cant remember a whole lot. First table, out of position against a decent player who keep flatting my open. I finally got out of line in a 3 way pot with 8To on a 567ss flop. I lead $12 in limped pot, he called and the other decent player behind also called. Turn is 6, i check, villain1 bets $26, v2 calls behind, i call. 7 of spade river. I felt this was perfect card for my range and not that good for theirs so i lead $95. I get snapped by v1 who had 79o.

Other than that, not too much happened, 3bet with mostly AJo oop against a weak $7 open a few times to mixed results (laid down the best hand with AJ against the guy with FD who overshipped.

6/20/13: 1hr, +$80

Short sesh today. Only one hand of note, flop set of 3s, stacked oldmancoffer with aces.

Roll @$17299

Aw sounds great man! Got the impression you were living at home haha.

Gl buddy! Keep at it!

I don't see how a 7 is good for your perceived range, you shouldn't be check/calling that turn with a 7. Spade is irrelevant since you're not going to value bet spades there.

perceived range is overrated anyway

The 2 players were both solid from a 1/2 standpoint so its not unreasonable to think they put me on a range. I'm basically trying to force them to fold everything but topboat (because I have not gotten out of line yet either, and also I actually had the 8 blocker). With that being considered, I didn't think a 7 is a big part of V1's range (since he called flop bet, then bet on the turn into me and another player). V2 calling also indicates he probably doesn't have a 7.

I thought it was entirely reasonable that they can think I have a 7 that I stubbornly called the turn bet with. The spade is relevant in making my case for representing a 7 stronger (as they should be folding a flush on river)

Having said that, I still have mixed feeling about how I played out the hand. I am trying to convince myself to go one way or the other.

+1 for the 2BI or more, blackout losing session. Not blackout drunk. Just no memory of where it went wrong.

Stay steady and you will be booking big winning sessions again soon.

Haha bortron, yay to blackout-ish sesh. Honestly, whenever I have a bad session, I skip writing for a few days so I don't remember some of the hands.

6/21/13: 6hrs, +$422

Today's session went pretty decent. Played an early afternoon session, went out, then went back to the casino to play a late night session. In the afternoon session, the table was quite juicy. Funny thing is, about 3 different players moved to my right and didn't like it and wanted to move. Maybe they don't like to sit to my right, I dunno. For the majority of the duration, there was a station in seat 1, talkative OMC in seat 2, seat 3 is a fishy jamaican, seat 4 is a tight abc reg that I've played before. Seat 5 is total fish, seat 6 is me. Seat 7 is another jamaican but slightly better, seat 8 is tight abc rec player who I know will not make a play against me, seat 9 is quiet nitty recreational player, seat 10 is old japanese lady who seems like a newb. Suffice to say I did what I pleased.

Key hands:
1) Japanese lady raise to 6, seat 1,2,3,4,5 all call. I am btn with A9o and squeeze to $36. Seat 8 in the BB thinks for a minute and fold, folds to seat 2, he talks which gets me to talk (bad for the game). Then dealer told us to shut up because others were in the hand so I did. He folds, folds to fish in seat 5 who called off his shortstack $26. We flip over, he has 95o, he catches the 5. Me and seat 8 gets into a small argument on whether my play was a squeeze play, he says he has me beat and tells me that my play was nothing but a squeeze play (I disagreed but meh I didn't want to say too much to make it bad for the game). I also said that I got "punished" for my play in the end.

2) I have KK in MP, seat 3 limps, seat 5 limp, I raise to $15, rather large raise but both villains are fish so they'll call a large-ish bet which they did. Flop is Q85 all clubs. I have no clubs. checks to me, I bet $35. Seat 3 made a nervous-ish call, seat 5 folds. turn is T. He checks, I bet $40, he has $115 behind, and he ships. I call, he has T6cc. I think I should have folded but who knows, he tried to bluff me earlier with busted straight draw and plays lots of pot so yea. If I could have only deciphered his "nervousness" as strength, then I could have folded more easily.

After that hand, I won a $130ish pot with AQo 5 way pot and left up $59.

My late night session was actually a lot tougher than my afternoon sesh. Multiple solid opponents, probably all winning players and only a few soft spots, also played 7 handed for quite a bit. Here's the set-up for the table:

Seat 1: Looks like OMC, plays his big hands strongly but is also quite fishy.
Seat 2: Me
Seat 3: 1st player is fishy black dude. When he busted, a weak-ish Asian dude replaced him.
Seat 4: Fairly abc, tight player. Seems like he's scared of his big hands getting cracked.
Seat 5: Various random players going in and out.
Seat 6: Was some OMC, then later a 5/10 player who was probably just fooling around.
Seat 7: 1st was solid-ish player, then a fish who overvalues TP/overpairs.
Seat 8: First solid player with $800 stack, then Solid asian.
Seat 9: Tight, generally solid female player
Seat 10: Was an abc player who was card dead, then replaced by generally solid player.

Key hands:
3) So right out of the gates, I get KK in my 1st orbit. Raise to $15 in MP. Black dude in seat 3 calls. 2 more callers. Flop is Jack high rainbow. I bet $35, black dude cuts out a call, then decided to ship $110 total. I snap because his cut out a call then ship felt weak. He shows AA, I guess 2pair+ hands aren't in his range but that still is. FML.

4) I guess I'll post some minor hands as well. So this orbit, I already raised SB and OTB. I had 66 in SB against a $7 raise from EP and bunch of callers. Decent time to squeeze rather than trying to setmine OOP. Took down pre. OTB hand, I raised with 89o after a bunch of limpers, took down pre.
So I'm now in the CO, Lady in seat 9 raise to $6, seat 10 calls, seat 1 calls. I have 99 and 3bet to $40. Black dude OTB cold calls. Old guy from Seat 1 also calls. Flop is KTx rainbow. Bleh, I check to black guy who bets $45. FML and fold.


5) Seat 8 solid player with $800 stack raise to $8, called by lady seat 9. I'm in SB with K9cc. Generally I will fold here but decided I'll try to play a pot against so far the most solid player on the table OOP. Haha I dunno. I call $8. Black dude reraises to $18 lol. He's got like $160 or so behind, such awful raise. Seat 8 and 9 calls. WTH, getting about 6.5 to 1, I call. I'm in 2 pair+ or fold mode because Black dude obv has a big hand. Flop is AT5 bingo. Black dude bets $50, folds to me, I call. Blank turn, he ships, I call. Got my revenge lol.

6) So after being 6 or 7 handed for awhile, the 2 asians show up, the weaker one takes seat 3, the stronger player takes seat 8, which was vacant after the other solid player left. Their first orbit, I'm in the BB. Seat 8 open to $10, 1 caller, I decide to 3bet him with TJ to size him up. He calls. Flop is T high, I bet $35, he folds.

7) So this hand, I try to bully the other asian in seat 3. I have TJo in HJ and raise to $10. Asian in CO flats, someone else flats I think.
Flop is 998. I check (no particular reason so probably just a bad check). Asian does the quick $15 bet. It looked more like a subconscious quick bet so don't think he's trying to give off any false tells. So I'm think he's probably got a medium strength hand. I could raise but elected to call.

Turn is 5. He bets $25, still nothing to change my read so I repop to $100. He paused then finally ships for $125 total. Bleh, I call. River T. I say I have a T. He flips JJ. Oh well.

Turns out he was a bit of a station in a later hand when he paid off a huge overbet ship by seat 4 with AK on a K high no flush board. The other guy minraised turn and overshipped with set of T and got called.

So no more making crappy bluffs on this asian, only thin value bets etc.

8) This hand is against seat 4, the guy who earlier mentions something like he hates getting Aces cracked or the like. Can't figure out if he just never believes me or what b/c I think he plays terrible against me and plays well versus everyone else.

I raise with KJo in EP to $10, he 3bets to $20. I call but not terribly excited about it. Flop is J high with 2 spades. He bets $20, I call...again not terribly excited. He has $76 behind at this point.

Turn: J. I pause for about 30seconds and then ships. He pause for about 30 seconds then calls. River is K, I take it down, he said he had QQ.

9) This hand also against seat 4, I'm OTB with T8o, 7 or 8 people limped pot.

Flop is T85r. Seat 4 in BB leads $6. 4 callers, I raise to $40. Seat 4 calls, rest fold.

Turn: T. He checks, I bet $65, he calls. about $250 or so behind.

River Q. He checks, I ship. He thinks for a minute and then folds KT bleh, FML again.

There are some other minor hands but they are all pretty boring.

Roll@ $17721

6/24/13: 3.5hrs, -$275

The PLO sirens beckoned and I get a pretty good seat, sitting behind a talkative monster stack of $4000 and I have a measly $200. There was another stack of about $2K (20/40 stud reg) and another nitty player with $1K. Not too sure what happened before I came, probably some whale that just left.

Actually, I thought I sat at a really crappy table since the 4K stack, although talkative, was playing pretty solid. The only soft spot seems to be the asian in seat 1 (I was in seat 8) but he was perpetually shortstack so there was very little to gain trying to play most pots against him. I actually got buried really early, flopping top set KKxx vs AAQJhh on KTxhh and he turned the flush.

Then again, I had KK86 OTB. $4K stack in CO raise to $8, I call. Shortstack SB(who seem to have bought in for $60 just so he can 3bet all in in certain spots), chose this particular spot to 3bet to $40, with $3 behind. CO calls. I only have eff stack of $220 or so, I 4bet to $160 b/c I'm pretty sure I know what SB was up to (he showed down 3456ss) and CO's range is really wide (he could be flatting with AA to get me to call but doubtful). Surprisingly, CO called. Flop is KJx so I flop top set again. CO bets me all in, I call. He has QTTx, Ace on the river.

So this hand basically changed my impression of the big stack from solid aggro to semi-donk who raises with too many marginal hands...so all of a sudden, I'm just trying to play pots against him, instead of not being terribly thrilled with the table.

Few hands later, I have T986ss OTB, he raises $10, I call, SB calls, BB calls. Flop is T85 with 2 spades. He bets something like $25. Usually if he bets *not pot* in a multiway flop, he has some kind of hand that connected with the flop and he's not really afraid of a raise. If he pots it, he has something like set of 5s or some kind of wrap. Since he didn't, he should have either a much weaker draw or top set which he wants to get action from. Since I have the top2 set blockers, I reraise the pot to $115, with only about $30 behind. SB and BB folds and again CO makes a strange flat call. Turn is offsuit J. He goes all in, I call. He has KJJx with 2 spades so he turned me down to 3 outs, fortunately, I get the non spade Q on the river.

After this hand, I think I wrestle a few smaller pots off him and went from being down $600 to down $275.

6/24/13: 2hrs, +$53

After the PLO went to 3 handed, it broke and I sat at a 1/2 table. Table was pretty soft, I didn't get any big hands, caught a small bluff from the most active player. He wasn't really a fish but he was still the guy I was targetting since he's the only one giving significant action while the rest of the table just nitted up really hard. Got most of my meager profits from opening and taking down flops with Cbets.

6/25/13: 4.75hrs, +$672

Went to Mohegan Sun for today. The 1/2 action was awful because it was already past midnight. I actually chose the best table, I was probably the most aggressive player mostly taking down flops. One guy called me down with AQ high (I didn't push hard enough) and overcalled with trips on flush board 3 way to the river so he became the player for me to play against. Unfortunately I didn't end up playing against him a whole lot. Coolered Someone with 35o in the BB against EP who limped with AA and the flop was 246hh. Turn was Ace and we got it in.

The table got short soon after and the other 1/2 table in the room broke so they sent two regs over to this table, both having position on me. I lose all desire to continue playing but donated about $50 or so before I decided to quit the 1/2 table.

One of the older gentlemen mentions the 1/1 table and hopped over there. This enticed me to check it out. I have never thought to play 1/1 before because I was afraid the rake was going to be significantly prohibitive. But seeing the 1/2 being so 'meh', I decided to give it a shot.

They only allow you to buy in for $100, but that's fine. The rake was slightly higher than the 1/2 because they always rake minimum of $1 per hand, regardless of the size of pot compared to at 1/2, its $1 at $10.

Anyway, the table was pretty delicious. A pretty different experience and reminds me of my play money days at cake where people overvalue 2pair and trips on straightened or flushed board. This happened at least twice, when someone will raise with like the 37th nut on the river. There's also a lot more river flush over flush hands whereas its nowhere as prevalent on 1/2. The sweet thing I realize is when one or two players get deep, like around 200 to 300 BB. If I can ever get to about as deep as them, the table becomes super profitable as they have no clue what to do this deep. Furthermore, the betsizing is sometimes lol bad, which makes me play a lot more speculative hands in all kinds of position, the implied odds are always pretty good when I hit.

My first significant pot in 1/1 is limped multiway, I have K8. Flop is Q high with 2 . I lead out in MP for $9 (pot size bet) and I get the kid in the wheelchair in CO to call. Turn is T whee. Wheelchair kid is basically an unknown. I decide to check here to not blow him off the hand. He bets $10. I assume he has something he will give action with as I have not seen anyone bet fold on the same street. I reraise to $30, he ships about $40 more, I call. He has A6 so he's drawing dead.

Later, I have about $130 stack, I have 47. UTG spewtard raises $8 all in (lol). $300 stack in the CO calls. I call because I want to see if I can win any more money off CO. He was probably the 3rd or 4th worst player at the table, which still means he's pretty bad.

Flop is A35. I check. CO bets $15. I call.
Turn is 7 I check, CO bets $30. I came pretty close to folding. Just a matter of if I improve on the river, can I get my remaining $78 paid off. I decide it was worth it and call.
River is the deuce. I ship my last $78 and CO tank calls with A5o. Yippee.

The 3rd and basically the last big hand was also against the same villain. This time He is in UTG and I am in MP. We are both $300+ eff stack. He raise to $15 (which is a HUGE raise). UTG+1 calls, I call with QQ, wheelchair behind me calls, and I think OTB calls.

Flop: QJ5r bingo. UTG bets $20. folds to me, I call. Wheelchair calls.
Turn: 4. UTG bets $40. So now I am damn sure UTG has something he can call back with so I raise to $110. Wheelchair folds. UTG pauses for 1 min and calls. We have $170 eff stack behind.
River: 4. He checks, I ship. He tank calls with KK.

I'm pretty sure doing well today was a function of getting good hands but the play @ 1/1 is so lolbad that it might just be worth trying out again. We'll see.

Roll @ $18171

$1/1 is a complete and utter waste of time. Even if you were to completely crush the game (which is fairly improbable due to the rake), you'd make, what, $10/hr?

The game is for beginners, poor people, and wannabe poker players who have a $400 bankroll.

I understand you were kinda just playing it to check it out, but really, don't ever play it again.

Dayu--thanks for posting. I'm going to be defensive a bit here as my initial foray into 1/1 seemed promising. I do plan to play more 1/1 if for nothing else but collecting more insight into the game. I mean, initially, I probably thought similarly to you, thinking 1/1 is "beneath me", but really, this game is just about making money for me. Crushing is nice, but making money is what counts.
1) Stack size compares not too badly against 1/2. When you consider that a bunch of 1/2 players buy in fairly short, maybe only 30-40% of players buy in for $200 or more, the rest minbuys or buys in for random amount like $120, the average stack in BB for 1/1 seems like it is higher compared to 1/2. Obvious sample size error not withstanding. My play happened on a tuesday 4:00am so I imagine action gets better from there.
2) More dead money. Well, the play in 1/1 is atrocious, so playing deep in 1/1 compared to playing deep in 1/2 is significantly different.
3) opening sizes. I tested all kinds of opening sizes from $6 initially all the way up to $15. I still got a lot of action on my biggest raises, which means it is quite easy to treat this game as 1/2 against shortstacks, which is the majority of my experience in 1/2 anyway.
4) Straddling to $2. This makes the game effectively like 1/2 as well.

Haters gonna hate. Lovers gonna love. I don't even want, NONE OF THE ABOVE I want to piss on you, yes I do.

I have never seen 1/1, that's a little crazy. If it works though, it works.

I do apologize if I came off as a hater.

If anything, my intentions were to compliment your game-- you're not a beginner, your bankroll isn't $400, therefore, you shouldn't play $1/1.

Listen, $1/1 will always have a soft spot in my heart. I played that game with nothing but a $100 bankroll. Once I had $600, I moved up to $1/2. By the end of the year, I was playing $2/5 with over $15,000.

I'm not saying the game isn't beatable, nor am I saying the game shouldn't exist. All I'm saying is that you ARE above this game. Your bankroll is above it, and your skill is above it. Crushing $1/2 is just as easy (just as many donks), and your win-rate will be higher.