Rick if you had $200 of income to spend on poker each week how would you build the roll using that $200?

Play a $200 tournament a week until you win, of course

nah i think i'm going to play 5PLO on ignition. I work 40 hours and looking at playing for 30 hours and studying 10 hours.

You're not lurking any more!

Back in 2013 or so I was broke and loaned my car to my friend for a few months for $250. I put the $250 on Bovada and started playing 50nl halfstack buy-in to reduce my ROR and to capitalize on my nitty style. I played 50nl until I got the roll up to $2500 then started playing 100nl, then 200nl at $5k and 400nl at $10k. Got up to about 25k and then started cashing out 3k checks every month and lost some back. That took about 5 or so months to make 25k and I was playing almost constantly.

Back in 2017 right before I started this thread I was working driving a bus flat broke and I just went to the casino every time I got paid and played the $3-$5 $200 buy-in at Commerce. As long as you're a winning player it will come together eventually, just keep throwing money at it.

So I would just start halfstacking 50nl.

Tournaments are stupid and people who play tournaments are also stupid, I should know.

Definitely not this. Stay away from the micros. Even if you just had $200 and no job I wouldn't bother playing at the micros. Run it up at 50nl or get a job. Don't waste your time at the micros unless you are trying to learn poker.

theres a live game here 2-3 NLH $300 max buy-in. 10% rake capped at $20.

im thinking about buying in for $100 and playing like a super nit like you rick. probably got 2-3 buy-ins a week at that game.

what u think?

Fark it bro I'm going to play 5 16.50 MTTs during the week mon-fri and two $55 mtts on the weekends bro. So I will play a total of 7 mtts guaranteed. Any winnings just push back into other mtts bro. Can't play the monday big mtts (sunday your time) because of work bro. If i win at 30% ROI i will make $60 a week bro.

Upgrade to the $55s 7 days a week soon bro playing 9 mtts a week and I make nearly $150 US a week bro at 30% roi bro.

Then mix in some live $400 and above mtts on weekends bro making 100% ROI. I reckon I could make $10000 aussie a year bro by doing this. Then go and play in the aussie millions main event bro for 10k and win it for millions bro. I'm going to start a thread like you bro.

read this http://www.nsdpoker.com/2011/01/mtt-pros/

I've read that **** ages ago. I'm not playing massive fields, I'm got no interest in playing for a living solely from online poker or live.

I'm interested in playing 300+ MTTs a year online with perhaps a handful of live mtts and perhaps binking a aussie millions main event for millions and even then I'm not playing poker solely to make money after i win it.

fark the haters. rick won $100,000+ in a mtt so can I. Fark the free world.

Didn't Expect That

Hero CO ($246.55) QQ
Villain 56/12 BTN (covers) AA

We open to $6 and villain just calls, blinds fold.

Flop ($14.25) AQ9r

We bet $6 and villain calls.

Turn ($25.65) Jh

We bet $12 and villain calls.

River ($38.95) Ah

We bet $36 and villain raises to $126.34 and we call. We saved $90 by not 3bet jamming river. I guess there is a world where we can exploitably fold on this river because I don't see villain showing up with worse too often here. Obviously calling is fine though. Very surprised to see villain show up with AA here lol. Nice hand.

Sounds good.

Good luck! Tourneys are a crapshoot if you got a job though and just want to fire some disposable income at it then that should be fine.

Yeah tournaments are stupid, like I've said before. Anyone who's been on this site long enough has read that article.

Anything's possible. I reckon if I played that 1866 person tourney 1866 times I'd win it maybe 2 or 3 times. Probably not even that much to be honest, maybe 1.5 times out of 1866. I got really lucky to win it. But anything's possible.

yeah im going to do that rick. afterwards pull 4 girls into the van and bang time USA bro.

To Raise Or Not To Raise

Hero HJ ($203) AA
Villain 1 BTN (covers) ??
Villain 2 BB ($192) ??

We open to $6, BTN calls and BB calls.

Flop ($18.05) A55r

BB checks, we check, BTN bets $12, BB calls and we??? Raise or call here??

Call

At least litecoin is doing good, eh?

1 ace and 2 fives left in the deck. Problem with calling is we aren't going to stack someone with a five very often. If we call the turn is going to check through very often because the button isn't going to bet an ace on the turn and there's a good chance he's just trying to buy the pot.

We raised to $30 button folds and big blind calls. Turn blank big blind checks we bet $42 and big blind calls. River queen and big blind jams $114 and we call and he has 95 and loses.

I'm all out of litecoin. I'm HODLing BTC, XLM, and ADA. To the moon!!!

I got 3rd in the heads up tournament last night btw. I'm not very good at heads up don't have much experience with it. It's fun I'd like to play more and if the rake was back to $0.50 instead of a dollar I'd play more.

Ignition added another monthly milly in May so I guess it's doing better than I thought. Hopefully they make it permanent.

This thread is boring lately. I need to get back to live updates to spice things up imo. Hopefully this summer I'll be out in Vegas. Might get an apartment out there.

Milk and cereal!

Call Or Fold?

Hero HJ ($351.33) QQ
Villain UTG+1 (covers) ??

CO posts $2, villain opens to $9 we just call everyone else folds.

Flop ($21.85) 533ddx

Villain bets $12.93 and we call.

Turn ($46.41) 7x

Villain checks we bet $24 and villain calls

River ($92.86) 2x

Villain checks we bet $72 and villain rips it in for ~$233 more. Call or fold here guys? Thanks for any responses.

Any reads? Reason for flatting pre? As played and if we are flying blind wrt reads, b/f OTR seems fine. River raises tend to be super strong.

Vegas is getting busy again, plenty of action out here and the ambience is better than the LA tents.

Dude play some 6max even if it's lower than what you are playing now and start working on your game and opening it up some and evolving. You are obv way too passive /nitty and still probably playing the way you did when you played 5/10 live. You have a 6 figure roll and you're still playing 200 nl. Again congrats on the tourney Bink but I sweated you for a little bit when it was down to 2-3 tables and you were time banking down every single hand even when you folded pre, it was pretty unbearable to watch actually but I'm glad you won. Seriously get out of your comfort zone, start working on your game so you get better obv and also so you stop playing scared and you'll crush live cash when you start grinding it again

turning A7 into a bluff looks spicy.

Thanks. Yeah plan is to be out in Vegas this summer. So many damn tents in LA it's crazy. And right where everyone can see, right on the sidewalk. At least have some damn shame and go hide somewhere. When I slept in a tent I would hike up into the hills because I didn't want anyone to see me.

Thanks. I generally always use the max time on every hand once it's down to a few tables. Unless I have a significant chip lead. Then I'd act almost instantaneously. ICM means surviving is worth money. Why wouldn't I play in a way that maximizes my EV? You think because I just called preflop with QQ that I'm scared? Not true. I will take your advice on playing more 6max and getting out of my comfort zone though thanks. I've played a fair amount of 200zone and I'm pretty sure I'm beating it. Maybe I'll mix some more of that in.

I got 3rd in the $162 heads up tournament two days ago or whatever. My short handed game isn't atrocious. Back when I played 5/T I played short handed and never quit. Once we were 4 handed and one guy busted and the other two watched him walk past the ATM and out the door and then decided to quit. I would have kept playing them 3 handed. I like to gamble. My natural inclination is to play loose and just blast away but I have to tame myself and pick my spots. I wouldn't be winning if I was just a scared nit.

When I binked that tournament I played way tighter than most people would once it got to 3 handed. It was 63k for third, 92k for 2nd and 134k for 1st. So it was a very flat increase in payouts. That dictates how I play drastically. Just surviving to heads up is worth almost as big of a difference as winning the heads up match! If the payout instead looked like 63k,92k,180k or something then I would have played 3handed totally differently. I got a pretty good mind for poker and ICM. I could always improve though.

Yeah I couldn't figure out what hands would take his line so I ended up deciding to call and he had KK. I gave him the old "nice hand" and rebought. I got outplayed.

I was actually referring to Commerce, Bike and Hustler etc. But the Skid Row situation is pretty baffling, seems like the richest country in the world would be able to atleast provide a minimum form of free shelter for the destitute.

It wouldn't be a problem if the tents were just in Skid Row or in Venice or something. But there are tents literally everywhere. It's insane. Under every overpass. Just outside right on the sidewalk in a lot of areas. I read an article the other day about a neighborhood of tiny homes that they were building for the homeless. I think that's a good idea.

I know why you were doing what you were doing in that tourney, my approach/mindset would have been different in those circumstances. I would have been trying to see/get dealt as many hands as possible before blinds get higher and looking for spots to attack/accumulate in. It worked out for ya in the end and was life changing money for you, congrats again!

You can be a winning player in poker playing like a "scared nit", especially if you're not playing against the same people all the time, you're just gonna be limited in how much you win though. I don't read every post in your thread but most of the HH'S i see you post are of hands you're basically getting money gift wrapped your way.

You're pretty sure you're beating 200 zone? Over what kind of sample is that? You should know for sure now, don't you have a hud now and as you know you can already see all the wholecards once you download the hands. How much review/study are you doing? If you have a decent sample in that format or any 6 max in general, curious to see what your W/R and stats look like, should tell alot about your play and what ya need to work on.

Good Bluff

Hero BB ($217.40) A3dd
Villain CO (covers) ??

UTG+1 limps, UTG+2 opens to $8, villain calls from the cutoff, we 3bet to $32 and only villain calls.

Opener was opening too wide so seems like a good spot to 3bet.

Flop ($71.25) T43xcc

We bet $24 and villain calls.

Turn ($119) 7x

We jam all-in for $161.40 and villain folds.

Straight And Flush Draws

500nl

Hero SB (covers) A9hh
Villain BB ($494.05) 75hh

Folds to us we raise to $15 and villain calls.

Flop ($28.50) T86hxh

We bet $20, villain raises to $60, we rip it in for $420 more and villain calls.

Turn ($984.10) 9x
River ($984.10) Tx

Makes sense the first time I play 500nl in a while I get stacked as a big favorite. I can't complain about bad luck though.