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Hi guys, pleasure to finally post on here with you all,

My name's Alex im 29, turning 30 this october
I moved to Canada from Bulgaria in 1996 with the fams, mom dad n sis
Ive been lurking around two plus two since 2010 when a random dude at a bar told me about it while listening to my (probably deluded) pokerstars hands analysis

This forum has helped me progress as a player more than anything, but Ive found it hard to fully assimilate all of the wonderful concepts and mental aspects that Ive understood thanks to all of you.

The dude initially told me to just post hands on here but I never did, figuring I already knew the sort of responses I would get and I could find similar spots to anything I may run into myself already in posts here to guide me...however I have since come to think that posting is the only true way to move forward and that it may be what I need to finally internalize these concepts.

So yesterday I signed up on here finally, got accused of being dgi on my first post lol, and as Ive mentioned in another post already I could sort of see why because of my fishy tendencies I briefly described that I could never fully get rid of...

Put simply, Im naturally inclined towards too aggressive of an approach to the game, a combination of entitlement/ego and overvaluing my postflop abilities (which actually also stems from that same entitlement/ego lol)

Anyways in the last year Ive managed to control my play a lot better (thank you gobbledygeek #potcontrol #passiveplay #stacksizes) and to put to practice the understanding that live llsnl plays so much different than online, namely learning how to be much more passive in general in live llsnl has helped me tremendously to control my entire game, and to pick my spots better

Ive been a microstakes pokerstars regular since 2009 (cash/mtt/husng) and Im down like 800 dollars in those 6 years lol... and while I owe a lot of that to basically being a lagtard fish for most of that time, closing up my leaks in the last couple of years hasnt helped a whole lot because..... im also **** at money managment.

To put it bluntly, Ive always had a hard time standing up from cash tables when im playing too significant of a stack as a ratio of my total bankroll to stay... I think its alright that I shot take because Ive always had an income coming (work fulltime) but I can never hold onto a decent bankroll due to the fact Ive been too impatient to build it slowly online through proper money managment and have instead regularly been trying to use any online winnings to take shots at live 1/2 trying to break into the game at least recrerationally.

So far , no good. And watching how bad these guys play baffles me that I can be so ******ed not to simply take advantage of them and getting caught up in fancy syndrome mental games n elaborate bluffs at opportune moments that they could careless about cuz theyre 'thinking' (overstatement) 1743 ***** levels below that lol...

So im going to take a more solid shot this time, hopefully with your guys help, and see if I can find the motivation not to spew both on the tables and in terms of bankroll managment. My plan is to walk the fk away when im sitting on a significant portion of my total roll... until I can afford to stay.

Usually Ill play with a 50bb buy in, run it up to 300bb, stay at the table because its good, the players are spewy, and I can read them relatively well, and get coolered. I know I have a future roll coming from work paychecks but that doesnt mean I shouldnt leave when up the first few times to start building a proper roll, right? Seems super hard for me to put into practice #ego

So now Im here, I have just been uncremoniously fired from my 5year long fulltime job and to be sure Im already looking for employment but Im taking a shot regardless and if I can make something happen and achieve some sort of real winrate in the next couple months, I might just work part time for the forseeable future...

So our new bankroll for this concurrent shot is coming from...thats right...my severance from my exjob hahaha, its a hefty large sum of 2500 canadian dollars, but lets be frank, im going to need at least 1000 of that for some upcoming bills, including but not limited to, car insurance, cell phone, and even moneymart #degen

Hopefully a part time job will cover those expenses afterwards and hopefully I can swindle 1500 dollars for a starting roll, although its likely we might be stuck with something closer to 1000, but no worries, we are going to prison ra pe some live fishes

I think obviously with such a short roll Im going to be forced to start with 50bb buy ins however (max at my casino is 100bb) which shouldnt be too much of an issue, im actually better at playing shortstacked, and Im very able to use my short stack to its full advantage and im hoping for your guys' help in improving my deeper game...

So money comes this friday, wish me luck, Ill be starting this weekend during the day friday and then again at midnight same day, then saturday 2pm is the local degen fish 20dollar buy in hyper turbo (dealing 2 hands an hour) donkathon (40player mtt) and afterwards its back for session number 3 at the cardroom if Im still not broke

inB4bustO Ill post some pics this week and some threadsavers i guess?
cant believe I made a pcg thread, this is downright...hilarious

Maybe Ill end up like rob farha? or butterflysymmetry? haha or more likely not

Please ask me questions and shoot advices, mad respect to you all and this community,

regards,


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To be clear I wont be lagging it up too much at all (at least until/IF i double my roll), we are mostly going for some straightforward taglike valuetown spots with some limping to tread water carefully post and stack incompetent villians and only the most clear cut bluff spots.

Ill also post pokerstars results as Im always playing mtt's and running deep as well I tend to be a very solid microstakes husng player most of the time....

Lastly theres some live local private (cash/mtt) games Ive discovered in the last year full of uber maniacs and ultra spewy local wana be poker player super fit/fold villians who see me as a bluffer LAGGY aggrotard because I cbet 75% of the time and I double barrel half the time and i dont limp pre every hand.... and they at the same time believe im on a lifelong heater everytime i have a winning hand........ standard!

Lots of new stuff going on already tonight, Ive narrowed my future career options to proba bly finishing my university degree at the local university but not in the psychology/political science/economics i majored in 2003-2006 but instead....im going to take a teaching english as a second language course in september and crush that for a year or two and orient myself into that field. Its hard without networking but i actually have connections and I have some experience from teaching english to mostly little kids and some teenagers in china 2006 through 2007 when i was 19-20yrs old which was a huge defining moment in my life obviously...

ive still never went back which is on my list of things to go before im 35, but for more recent times, on the list of things to do before im 30, namely this summer, is to incoporate a super healthy lifestyle into this shot at live 1/2, like most people do on their pcg threads lol but thats not my reason for wanting it, Ive just always promised myself in the last decade that Ill quit smoking cigaretes and weed (im a regular, but the weed im ok with smoking once or twice a month i guess) and replace them with a daily fitness routine beforrrre i turn 30...mostly interested in running and push ups/situps (for my lower back, it sucks) and mostly because once i cross that 30 mark my body is sure to start sending disappointed signals (its already begun i think), its been hard for me to motivate myself towards such goals because im naturally super healthy with a brilliant metabolism, its a blessing, and a curse. But fk it im done

Im well aware the extreme degree to which being usually under the influence of weed while playing poker has affected my game but its just that poker no matter how seriously I try to take it has always been a fun hobby for me and weed is part of me relaxing, so theyve gone together, same with alcohol although im not a big drinker (just beer mostly) i do like to unwind with a couple of beers on weekends, problem is i usually play great poker on 1-4 beers but not so much past that, and its hard for me to have just 1-4 beers and stop when im at these private games, at the casino is a different story i dont drink there (too much moneys) but i do keep plenty stoned which also affects my game negatively.

Basically I loosen the fk up too much and it inflates my already naturally expanded ego, things I need to avoid as much as possible. For this shot, Im going fullout sober and aware to all my casino sessions, although the same cannot be said for my private games degen donkathons and for online, although regardless all of those venues will be strictly managed bankroll wise so my affected decision making shouldnt have much of a negative effect! Not to mention the player pool at my private games is so horrendous I could probably be +ev against them while playing dead.

Ill give you an example of how they play, villian is super spewy 70yr old lagtard who plays weirdly tight for hours just to spew off with the most random hands in the most random spots for apparently no fk ing reason whatsoever other than I has a pair you must NOW be surely bluffing... soo were in a 4 handed sng style game and i gots the Q6sooted in the BB and obviously its limped to me cuz these kids would never even think of raising without AA/KK/QQ/JJ/1010/AK and possibly any raises would just be jams anyways since blinds were 1k/2k with around 30k effective stax, i check flop is 886ss villian smashes flop for....2k into the 8k pot...i call because he has plenty of worse hands but honestly it might be a fold, turn is a Q villian bets 4k into the now 12k pot, i call. (he makes these small bets with an 8 AND with 90% of his range when he is attempting to execute a "bluff").

river is a random 2 no spade, villian bets pot pretty much 18k out of his total stack of 22k or so lol, ive seen him do this with 99/1010/JJ and especially AJ/A10/A6/57 or two spades in this spot and if you hadnt guessed already this is how he plays 78o (if you also hadnt guessed i actually had just smoked a fat joint of some good weed and ....yep...paid him off) This guy honestly is capable of making some ridiculous bluffs in spots like this but in retrospect i think it was clear as day that in this particular spot he had the 8, but thank you weed for that snap off case n point.

im going to go out on a limb here and assume walls of texts kill boners

Beyond wordy. Skimmed half of it.

Good luck