Eh, a reason to read PG&C again!

Good luck, bud. And GO HAWKS GO!!!

Thx, cya on the tables!

That would be wonderful, tyty

lol was so excited to watch game 2 after a brutal day yday, then ended up realizing it wasn't until today , nice fail by me

lmao, have only been there 3x since the time we were there :O

Okay I'll go somewhere in the middle then and count them as 1/2 hours as I don't think they should count as full hours at all, and so in that case, I'm coming into today with 129.24, played about 9 hours yday (flex).

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Stopped at 999k vpps last night lol, was more worried about getting my sleep sched back on track than finishing some stupid number like 1 mirrion. Am going to try to pack in all my grind hours in a few sessions today with very small breaks in between so I can KO myself with xanax early and actually fully be on the sleep sched I want starting tomorrow morning.

Really got showered on the tables yesterday, was quite the joke of the day. Forgot to start PT4 for my first sesh yesterday so posting HM2 graph today; run both programs when I grind now, planning on making a full switch over to PT4 at some point but just don't have everything in place to do so yet.

Gla on the tables, hoping to find my way to somewhere close to 1,010,000 today so that I really am only 1 day behind pace, but don't think it'll happen with how early I'm planning on going to bed.

in b4 quits SNE, moves to merge.

too late

the summer is magic

On a really nasty EV DS (in terms of bi's), kinda tragic that I put this thread up and then my plans change, but I'm going to just drop down to 60s-100s only for the time being and just aim get to 2mil vpps on the year. Going to try to focus on playing less tables, playing in better games/pre rb profit, etc. The fact that when I start trying to really push out volume leads to the worst looking RL graph I've had in a long while should be a good warning signal that I need to do something different...especially as I was doing great from March-April when I was playing a lower table count and focusing mostly on $60s-100s.

On a more positive note, I am starting to actively pick up PLO, have sporadically played over the past 3 yrs and have done well in the small sample I've put up, but going fwd I'm going to actively be attempting to get a lot better at it through playing, studying, watching vids, running spots and maybe eventually getting a study buddy. Might start posting some hands in here, but not too sure as I hate my hands being publicly posted and therefore seen by other players, especially as I think theory/balance-wise I'm already better than most PLO players up to 100 or 200plo so I don't want to give away any good info while describing what I did and why. Maybe I'll just post biggest winning hands/biggest losing hands every day just for fun. For a little while there won't be any huge hands to report as I decided 2 nights ago to quit and rebuy anytime I get >150bbs deep as I'm just too unsure in a lot of super deep spots; need to master 100bb plo before going onwards methinks.

An ideal day going fwd would be to put in 6-8 hours of hypers at a lower table count, watch 1 RIO video, and put in 1-2 hours of PLO play or running PLO spots. PLO graph below, taking today off other than putting in a big hyper review sesh and then playing some more 50plo zoom and maybe watching a couple more vids on RIO.





Biggest winning hands:

-lol gotta love 50ploaments, this makes me wanna continue to play deep too



















Biggest losing hands:

-Not really happy with my turn play





-Considering his 4bing range is most likely exclusively AAxx hands only, very easy OTF with all the BD's we have I think, by the time we GII OTT I'm 60% to win




-Good example from a few days ago of me not understanding that this is probably a GII OTF, hit a pretty perfect turn card but only get it in with 50% equity whereas if i get it in OTF I have 61%. It *might* be okay if the guy is a nit and won't barrel a heart turn w/out having a flush and I'd therefore be able to get away some of the time (along with getting it in very good on some other turns), but 50plo players tend to overplay their AAxx hands so I think I should just get it in with my wrap + bd draw, especially as I block the QT draw







Gonna get in another quick sesh of 50plo zoom and then get back on the hyper study grind, gla!

biggest fan, subbed...

Congrats on first SNE, may the second one bring back all the ev

wait, wahts going on?
I see cashgame hands with 4 cards

gl

+1


gogogogo Jdawg!

pulling a jdawg, classic

you seem to like swings so plo sounds perfect

Thx bros .

Didn't get in a ton of hyper volume today as I had some stuff to do + got in a big coaching session with my backer, looking fwd to getting back to pumping out some good hours starting tomorrow.

Looked at the PLO lobbies as the 25bb hypers weren't THAT great considering it's Friday night, and 100plo tables were insanely soft so I took a shot. Got kind of out of hand as the regular tables were ridic soft compared to the zoom lobby, so ended up playing 2 tables of 100plo zoom and then at one point had 8 additional tables of 100plo up; probably a bad idea as I'm still having to think through a lot of spots and it lead to me making a really spewy, terrible play that cost me a stack (will show below), but overall was a fun session and was insane just how bad most of the rec players were on my regular tables. Had 2 tables that had 3 whales running like 70/10ish type numbers which was quite fun . In the future I will probably stick to 2 tables of zoom and 4 regular tables or 3 tables of zoom and 3 regular tables if the reg tables look good and I'd like to add them in; can tile that way and will give me much more time to think through spots.

Anyway, not gonna bother to post graphs, didn't play a whole lot today, so here's just the biggest winning hand and biggest losing hand (sigh at how badly i played this hand, i think i musta misread my hand in game and thought i had TP + fd but even that is a terrible get in and checking the flop seems a must if that was our hand. That hand is strong enough that we don't need to bet for protection and we'd only be folding out the air part of his range which is bad for us obv, and strengthening/balancing our check back range is always a good thing imo. The hand I actually have is also a good CB hand imo as we have some BD equity to go with our middling FD that can lead to us being able to take some cool lines on turns. Doh, nono to strat, I guess since I've typed it I'll leave it and if anyone thinks there's any flaw in my thought process, def point it out)














Gl this weekend bros

I'm fcked on hours. Only at 144. Going out tomorrow night, Darren gets here Monday, move in to my new place Tuesday.

My only hope is that you are equally lazy.

I am at 149.76 coming into today so yea, probs gonna be tough going for you but I don't think I'll hit much more than 200, but doubt I ever don't get to 200 as well. Glgl

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Up and at it, almost on the sleep sched I want to be on, need to wake up a tad earlier than I did today, maybe like 1.5 hours ago. Have a few options today, not sure if I'll end up playing some hyper sats or just stick to 25bb, really going to just depend on how games look at different times going fwd. Will keep my options open, playing 1 when the other looks gross and vice versa.

Gl on the tables all, planning on pounding out a lot of sng hours today, hopefully have a good red+greenline day!

If anyone wants a sweat in the saturday 320
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/16...ounts-1446439/


Sats looking real bad right now, hopefully the 109s clear up at some point. 181s been softer than 74s, always fun to see that. Studying and right back at it!

How much do you think the drugs you take actually benefit you on a whole in regards to sleeping pattern? Or is it just something you do to force yourself to sleep at the "right" times to edge that extra bit of volume?

Obviously feel free to ignore if too private or answered before.

The adderall helps me grind so much its not even real. I struggle to put in 5 hours of hypers w/out being on it (and seemingly so do most regs seeing how much most people are playing ), but when I take it, I can just sit there and grind all day, and grind very very well in terms of not autopiloting, noticing little things etc.

It does suck that I have to take xanax to come down from the addy, literally can't sleep when I'm taking adderall, fall asleep maybe 1-2 hours at a time and then cant sleep anymore; every 4th day or so I'd randomly pass out for like 6-7 hrs but yea thats not good.

I have tapered off to where I'm only usually taking 1mg of xanax a night, maximum 2mg, so don't think that's too bad.



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Got in a big grind today and actually got 10k vpps today for the first time in a while. Don't really have a set VPP goal anymore as I said a few days ago, but am going to just try to pump out lots of hours at whatever game I think gives me the highest hourly at the time. I think going fwd I will be playing lots of hyper sats, but the lobbies are ever changing so it's really hard to say; literally just looking at the lobbies and trying to decide which I think gives me a better hourly for that session, and then go and do it. When sat lobbies get bogged down I move over to 25bb or take a break and vice versa, if they are both real withered and I don't have a bunch of hands to look over, I can toss in a session of PLO if I want to.

Put in 8.93 hours today mr barone, bringing me up to 158.69 hours total. Doubt I play less than 9 hours tomorrow fwiw, sounds quite withered () for u imo.

Day graph below, Ruse cooking up some good food right now and I'm gonna watch the Blackhawks game, shower and then snap go to bed, alarm will be going off between 1:30 and 2am! Gla on sundayfunday




Oh and Sunday500 at no MU if anyone wants a sweat
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/16...no-mu-1446547/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UTSqg4sqlU
bawsssss

Haha so good, I need to watch that, have heard so many good things. I know you know it, but to other readers, the stories I tell are pretty much kept PG13 compared to what has actually happened (especially from when I first moved to Mexico in Nov 2011 til like late 2012), some of the **** I have done is insane. My backer put it best after the latest crazy Dan Bilzerian stunt where he threw that pornstar off the roof when he (my backer that is) said that I'm pretty much the broke version of Bilz , its pretty true with how absurd I am. Will put the clip below in case you have somehow not seen it yet (shame on you if so!)





Forgot to mention too with the whole adderall and xanax discussion that I was up to taking 8mg of xanax per day at my worst, and sometimes was taking more. Thats really really bad, glad I got control of the situation before it spun out of control. Hilariously enough, the time when I was barring that hard was in March/April when I was crushing, gotta love how the world works lol.





Anyway, on to more interesting things; I wasn't tired yet so decided I was gonna fire a session of PLO. I get to the zoom lobby and notice that the 200 plo lobby not only had just 3 4tabling regs (also noticed a couple other regular table regs I had tagged 1-2 tabling), but it also had more players than the 100plo zoom pool, which had like 12 4tabling regs in it. I also noticed some absolute whales who I already had tagged in the 200 lobby whereas I only had a 2 of those in the 100lobby, so I said F it, this is the perfect time to take a shot, especially as I had talked to 2 different friends earlier in the day, one who plays all the non nlhe games at midstakes on PS (and is very good at plo imo) and then the other being a live/online midstakes plo cash reg and went over some spots (including the misread hand I posted itt last night with thought process) and they both thought that from a theory point I am going to be ahead of nearly everyone in the 100zoom lobby, so that gave me even more confidence to sack up and play.

Ended up going quite well, was nice being able to actually make some thin calldowns on boards where villain's line just didnt make sense with the board that ran out; 50plo everyone just nutpeddling all day which is cool, but annoying considering I would like to get into some complex spot and start improving more rapidly. I did get 'owned' in a spot where I woulda gotten it in 3way for a ~280bb, folded top 2 with BD nfd and gutter + bd straight in a spot where I woulda had the original raiser who c/r'd crushed, but oh well.

Anyway, I'll just post the biggest hands I played and a graph, doubt I'll get around to finding the interesting spots like the one I described just above.





Biggest winning hands



-Not really sure wtf guy with NFD was doing, he is a 4tabling reg as well; he's only put in $29 otf, not sure how the hell the other $163 ends up in there but maybe I'm a fish at plo mathz? Feel he got it in here in almost a dream situation with neither of us having a set (or someone with 2pr FD of their own or something) and only 2 of his hearts are blocked and he still only had ~35% eq otf, could be absolutely crushed and drawing dead going to rivers many times here in a 3way AI here I would think.





-Really scary c/r by villain here as it's such a dry board that he should really only have AA here but he was a fairly bad rec in a small sample so figd he could have some combos of 33 (which is a bad raise on this board texture, wtf worse is gonna GII with u), AJ, A3 and then maybe just a random bluff very very occasionally. Called to keep the other rec player in behind to hope he would catch some equity OTT, not really any horrid turn cards in the deck and if the A pairs ott and we face major action we can probably lay down our hand as gross as it is.





Heh fun spot, CO was active and the btn is a very lag reg with a huge 3b % overall (and massive from btn) so I feel I have a great hand to 4b with as I'm going to get credit on A/K high boards being a random and since he is probably 3bing a lot of rundowns, gapped rundowns with FD (like T986ss or something), low DS hands etc, I'm actually going to crush his range quite often when I hit OTF myself and he's going to be expecting that my range is only made up of AAxx hands I would assume as I'm a random to him; so yea, really felt it was a great spot to cold 4b, would be cooler if we were deeper but I'm not comfy on those stacks yet . As played, had to GII as against AAxx I'm going to usually have at ~40% equity, obv sucks anytime he has 1 of my suits dominated but even then I think I still have like 30-35% equity (not sure, have to play around with this hand some later)










Biggest losing hands

-Not too sure about my play here, this is same guy who 3b's crazy wide as the cold 4b hand from above, we pretty much whiff the flop and SPR is kinda weird. These are spots I'm still quite unsure on, I think I'm maybe supposed to c/c 1 and then GII on non bad turns as by betting myself I'm only eliminating his air and not really allowing him to bluff at the pot if he wants to. I'm really not sure, c/fing seems really absurd, this is a spot I'd like to talk to one of my plo friends about obv. I'm thinking though that cbetting this flop is pretty bad, we block nothing and sure we have a gutter but that's not going to really help us much when we get it in like we did.





-Another interesting spot, from a previously played hand I was quite certain villain didn't have a set or 2pr and had a FD/SD type hand. It's an absurd board and I do block the NFD which sometimes can discount him having spades with him being a non reg, leaving him with pair+SD or wrap type hands. So if my read is 100% accurate always (which it can't be in lol_plo) I'm easily getting the right price to call it would seem. As it was, he had a fairly monster draw having pr+fd+open ender and I still got it in with 40% equity. Once again though, another spot I'd like to talk over with one of my plo friends as I'm just not sure





-Heh this should just be a fold to the 3b pre methinks, hand plays so terribly postflop and this guy is on <60bb and probably going to be ripping every board. Idk, guess I just knew I was gonna flop top set








Lol man, looking at these 3 losing hands, they were by far my most poorly played hands I think; felt I battled back well after defending out of the BB quite well, trying to have a balanced c/r and c/c range against some of the better regs. Also felt I played quite well out of the SB which is a tricky position in plololol obv. Was doing a lot of limping against regs and then trying to come up with balanced limp/raise, limp/call raises and then trying to split my ranges postflop a bit. Obviously I'm not too great at all of this yet as I'm just starting to really study the game, but my actual game theory/thought process towards the game and how to balance is apparently quite good according to my buddy I talked to for a while today.


Wow, what a wall of text, tl;dr etc...this is what happens when I take 1 hour to make a post and am drinking crown the entire time; just leads to INF words :O.

Gla on the grind, def anyone who wants to leave feedback on the plo hands, plz do so either publicly or in private

Some people just love the game

i would be more worried about the longterm effects

Good luck Josh!

Apparently I don't have enough heart

I am well aware of the long term effects and have talked to a couple of zomg real doctors (1 US, 1 Euro) about it.

Thx man, hope you're doing well

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Put in a pretty big grind today, 9.55 hours/~12k vpps which brings me up to 168.24 hours on the month. Pretty damn tired, only got like 2.5 hours of sleep last night before waking up to get the big sunday grind in. Fortunately due to adderall, felt tremendous throughout the entire day until about 1.5 hours ago, so called it quits a bit earlier than I was planning on. Might take tomorrow off, have some stuff to do and want to do a sat DB review.

Too tired to type more, so here's the graph . Gla on the tables

Awesome with the plo content. Keep it coming.

About the AA52 hand CO vs. BU, crazy 3bettor.

A low paired flop is actually in the top 40% of flops for us and you should be quite happy with this situation. I think your bet sizing is a bit off, 45-52$ with our range is sufficient to leverage a turn shove. I would also expect him to shove with alot of hands that might want FE so him coming over the top isnt all that bad. You mention that your afraid of shutting out his air but with smaller SPR and the prioritized importance of protection our equity and folding out his, we should be betting.