Do you have a specific reason you can share why you usually do about halfpot-halfpot-potjam and not more even sizing thru streets?

Monthly Results

Soooo we can safely say that this month was not my finest, however due to a good couple days it's by no means my worst month either! Also I broke even in EV so gotta take something positive away from that too.

Graph



Stake breakdown



Goals review

All in all pretty average on the goals, not too disappointed apart from meditation and gym (again)

Decent VPP's again this month



Other stuff



Goals for new month

[ ] Keep playing my best game + improving the back end of my game
[ ] 50-60k hands
[ ] Win at 1k?!
[ ] Meditate regularly
[ ] Gym

I'm going away for the last 8 days of the month so that's why volume goals are low.

Off to center parcs for the weekend with my entire family today which i'm reaaaally excited for!

Gl and here's to a better August!

How about your equity in the stake, does that push you up close to even?

Nice little recovery at the end of the month and solid vpps bro, glgl in August!

When someone does it against you it will be the ABBB line (Anti BenaBadBeat like) because it prevents you from winning the pot.

Nice recovery to get the EV line back to zero, graph doesn't look too bad. Gl with August

Doesnt look too good either...

lol

gl in august bra

Do you mean in 3b pots? I vary my sizing in 3b pots but i would say as a standard half half pot is just pretty normal sizing for a lot of regs. Setting up stacks this way is just something i do!

With rakeback it must be close! tyty

Thanks man, gl to you too

hahaha, i'll definitely be incorporating this into my poker lingo!

Thanks for the vote of confidence man. As Tim says it's not too good either but I like to take away the positives rather than focus on the negatives

I could do what tim does though and just not update my blog when i'm losing and only update when i'm winning to trick people into thinking i ALWAYS win...

thanks mate!

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So center parcs was sooo fun. Felt like a kid again going on rapids, playing archery and generally messing around with the family. Didn't really take any photos but charlotte got a couple of me tilting playing crazy golf plus a nice pic of the lake. It was really nice to be out of London so soon after Budapest to just enjoy some outdoor time



Golf anger. I got sooooooo crushed and actually ended up losing my ball being unable to finish



Wish i had a pic or video from the archery as it's something i definitely wanna take up as a hobby!

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I was welcomed back to the tables in expected fashion of getting brutalised by everything and everyone. I'm happy with the way i played bar 1 5b shove. Some hands:

Thoughts here vs aggro botreg (botreg is my new term for stupidly high wwsf 'cheater stats' fyi)



Fish not making the best of calls otr:



Back and ready to grind hard until i go away again on the 20 something of August.

Also wanted to update about my Card Runners contract. I'm going to be making my 10th and final video for this contract and am currently umming and ahhing whether or not i want to make more. With the games getting noticeably harder, seeing good regs not winning anywhere near as much as they were, and all the talk of bots and GTO programmes yadda yadda, I feel like i gotta be super careful how i proceed, both with regards to the videos and also this thread. Dw though, i won't be closing down the thread in the near future!

Gl guys

To be honest I tend to not update things when the chips are down too, nothing worse than posting a horrible looking graph for all to see the struggle.

I didnt even realise TimStone had a blog until about a week ago. I seem to remember reading it at like 5am. Think the cliff notes were dude makes a lot of cash, he doesnt make flushes or straights and something about buying a Corvette.

phew

Could just lock teh thread then... pls dont do it







V accurate. Dont make much sets either...

Yeah i kinda feel that not posting when doing bad defeats the purpose of having the thread! hahaha, good summary of tehstone blog

biglurker

loool, guess i shoulda expected that response. dw, it will stay open for at least 1 more decent winning month that makes you sad

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Today was really swingy. Made a bit of money overall but was stuck what felt like over 1k.

The dream vs fish



Thoughts vs good reg:



Had a nice meal tonight with the guys for dccnesquick's leaving meal. He's been living in london for a period and is now heading home. It's been fun having so many different people stopping off here!

Back to it tomorrow glgl

Nesquick must be happy as **** finally leaving that hellhole of a city 😂

Making me sad gonna be hard task. Always happy when u win. Better u than some russian...

Rgd hand looks alot like a line pair+nutblocker would take. Im going nowhere

What line are you taking with your sets straights and 2 pear otr with that flush hand?

Might be best to bet bet check some flushes some % of the time. This is assuming he'll bluff checked rivers ofc with the pear/blocker stuff.

Any reads on how he plays nfds ip?

haha, i like it

haha, he was sad but yeah i think ultimately happy too Aw, that's very nice of you to say so. ok, cool, ty for feedback. I can never fold vs this villain but thinking bout others it's closer. I did call and win vs KhJ

I'd be checking a lot of my 2p and sets sometimes - it's kinda close tbh. Definitely can see where you're coming from with regards to the check, however in this day and age people are turning hands into bluffs left right and centre so it could definitely be a mistake checking any flushes. No reads apart from aggro guy who wins!

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Today was definitely a decent winning day, hopefully a couple k. Again kept up my A game and in my 2nd session i felt tilt arising as i was on 2 tables after 1 hour. I just felt extremely agitated and wanted to make something happen. I was able to notice these feelings and quit immediately which is something i'm really happy with. Also managed to get a long meditation in and a good gym session.

Fish just seemed to give me money today, was kinda weird.







Sick all in vs reg and whale. I won the 2nd run out fortunately but it could have been a HUGE pot to win:



Getting slow played like a boss by fish

This hand puzzles me, reason being I wonder how often he plays his flush draws this way as check/calling 2 streets oop purely on a draw doesn't seem very +ev since you're going to check back the river so often when the flush hits.

Ie. He seems to have repped a flush in a position where he has few, if any, in his range.

Ian

The thing is, there aren't many FDs that are bare FDs. Mostly they're either NFD, pair+FD or FD+SD, all of which are happy calling turn.

Btw I think pokerarb read the hand wrong - Villain is OOP.

What do you think of the game quality at the moment?

Hi Ian. Ron pretty much summed things up below, i do agree that he would check fold some worse FD's ott but given our hand it's relatively hard for him to have many bare FD's bar the NFD.

ty for picking up on this, didn't notice.

I mean the actual game quality is pretty good in my opinion. The only thing that puzzles me is that there simply are not as many big winners as there used to be. I don't know if that's just variance but i have to put a decent amount of it down to bots and people generally playing a LOT better than they used to. It's just not as frequent these days that i look at my hud and see a glaring leak on someone.

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Saying the above^ we have finally caught some more heat. It just feels sooo good to think that i patiently waited it out, not doing anything stupid and now things have turned (i'm not counting my chickens yet as i know how things can turn back around in no time at all!). Some of my favourite whales have been online and they've been playing as bad as always, the only difference being that i'm making hands!

Delightful turn vs fish:



Not so nice vs diff guy:



Stacking a guy who loves to say easy breezy:



Easy breezy getting me back:



puke:



Double puke vs reg:



vs reg with high f24b



Oh i also got out and out slowrolled by some moron called driss832, 4b tanked AA for ages, so if anyone can slowroll him back (i will be intending on doing so) please post here

Let's hope this heat continues right through till my holiday!

gl

Well, that's kind of what i was getting at in a roundabout way. Unless he's check/calling naked draws, he gets to the river with a flush with 1 combo of nut flush (assuming he doesn't 3bet some portion of these), 2 combos of pair+draw... and a few straight combo draws (which I'd forgotten about initially - thanks Ron )... but its not many, so i wondered whether he wasn't over bluffing in that spot

Yep, he likely is.

Playing a few MTT's if anyone wants a painful rail

Why would anyone EVER play MTTs