Thanks man, honestly a little afraid of the future if I do stupid things, but gradually increasing discipline, and playing conservative roll while I’m in a good frame of mind reduces the damage I can do to myself if I do go crazy.

Yeah never playing HU or 3h unless massive whale or whatever. Just want to reach 2ks on global playing boring 6m with fish and then bridge to HS.

Just lose 4.7k at 2/4 to the whale from yesterday on playnow… every HH looks like - I xr massive pair+wrap+fd, stack off for 400bb vs naked top pair, he magically wins. Every hand he should be getting it in dead, he somehow has 30% and win.. busted account I can’t even win it back now… not going to bother re-deposit on this site honestly, no rakeback and games are mostly just nit fest at 400s. It honestly feels impossible to lose this much in that game. Guy was 100vpip for a while and regularly stacked off drawing legitimately stone dead.

I hate being physically incapable of winning pots at my highest stake, when I’m winning at an absurd amt overall. Oh well, a bit more work to do…

And obviously a ton of the losses were short handed where my winrate is absurdly low. I get the best spot to play vs some guy who should be putting it in dead but just get annihilated again and again I honestly don’t understand. Should be the highest winrate game, but it’s where I am losing the most.

Can you post your 10ish or so biggest pots vs Whale in this session?

Untracked unfortunately.

Up about 6k today from 11 tabling 100s-500s got around $300 in rakeback which is awesome. Still feel quite upset about busting my playnow acc / losing so much vs whale, but at least ran pretty well today.

Also, have a splitting headache now from 11 tabling. Wanting to play for a couple hours more but taking a break at the least. Would be nice to rathole a bit as well so will take a couple hours off.

No action today games were kinda meh only played for a couple hours. Won like 700.

Have been studying a lot of 20-40bb pre when games aren’t running, very easy once I studied it, but very unintuitive until I actually hit the books. BTN rfi 25% is funny. Should make the 20bb cap games even better

shortstack plo is crazy yeah
also kinda hilarious how much big stacks have to tighten up once there is one shorty at the table in theory...

what is playnow is it new american site or app or can all of the world play there?

coool blog gl on the midstakes games!

Yeah mostly doesn’t matter that much in practice if the short stack is random loose spewy, but very annoying vs some players.

PlayNow is Canadian in certain provinces only. Thanks!

up decent amt like 1k today was just playing 100s and 20bb cap mostly, 2.5/5 and 1/2 kinda sucked. General rule of thumb for me is highest stake (2.5/5) I'm gonna game select pretty hard apart from my no HU or 3h rule. 100s will play most games whatever and 200s will game select a bit but not as hard as 500s.

Min stacked 1k for whale game broke after 45 minutes, up like 300 couldn’t play much yet today school + going rock climbing with friends… will see how games are going around midnight I guess.

-5k today pretty brutal, got on late and tried to start games, ended up with multiple 2 whale tables but couldn't win any all-ins, so we got smashed.

Tapping out from the 20bb tables... Really awesome when running hot deep vs whales, but raking $600-800 on those tables per day isn't sustainable. Almost certainly not +ev when I'm 20bb deep, due to the nature of the rake (1.5/3 20bb cap is raked the same as 2.5/5) so can get crushed pretty hard trying to spin up a stack to fight ppl deep.

Will have to drop 2.5/5 for now, just losing many 2k+ pots this last week. Just want to stay over rolled and not force things to move too quickly.

Honestly feeling quite tilted from how things went at 2/5 think I have very high wr in these games… on the plus side this is a chance to test myself to move down and not be irresponsible when tilted.

On another note, struggling with sleep lately. Have been dealing with sleep paralysis that is following loud ringing in ears (like tinnitus). So when I go to bed and hear the ringing, I get scared that I will enter sleep paralysis and just don’t go to bed. For example last night went to bed at 8am. I don’t want to destroy my sleep schedule like this but dealing with the nightmares and seeing demons is just brutal.

Deposited 12BI onto GG for some MTTs and to try cash and just sent it into the aether… straight down getting it in with 80% gone. Why did I even deposit knowing the superuser stuff? Because global traffic is slow at my stakes rn and ignition is possibly even sketchier. Playnow isn’t running often. Party isn’t running often. For low stakes it’s honestly pretty bleak outside of global right now. Trying to find a way to deposit for winamax, could see that being a good solution to my volume concerns. Sites like ACR, Pokerstars and GG are full of nitty leaderboard / rakeback grinders which is bleh.

Insanley tilted,

Great ****ing week! Opponent clicks it pre, bombs flop and turn and jams riv for 20% pot... If I win this hand I can fold to 3.7k in the satellite. And best part is one opponent on the table was telling everybody to not fold to me when I was short when there were a couple clueless players at the table, that led to one calling me off with T6o and busting me...

On the plus side, finally got onto winamax. Depositing is a huge hassle, hopefully we can just run it up.

Had a good day so far, went to bed and woke up early. For roughly the last year or so, I've always told myself that the nighttime games are the highest hourly. Today at least, this wasn't really the case. But this narrative I've been telling myself has kept me going to be late, giving me a bad sleep schedule. At least with Winamax I can put in good morning volume even if Global is a bit slow.

I had also been running into productivity issues and sleeping in when going to bed so late. Time to start turning that around.

Also, have been feeling really good about my intuition lately, and trying to create logic that fits why I feel strongly about certain spots lets me internalize my feeling and apply it to my game to exploit people rly hard.

Busted winamax account that had ~1k on it... Don't even know if I could have withdrawn anyways, so ridiculous that I can play on the site but none of the deposit methods I can use happen to work... Have to deposit $50 at a time using some sketchy prepaid card thing, but they want me to send over CC details to "unlock" my account...

Playing unibet instead, would consider it an “S” tier site anyways, and peak traffic is west coast morning time which is perfect.

Back at 2.5/5, and 2/4 for Unibet for now...

Oi mate love the thread. I can feel the swings with you its both exciting and shitty haha

What is playnow rules for USA players? I know youre saying youre done on there but where else is good action? Im not sure if Ive fallen into a rut and not looking the right places but theres just so much less action nowadays than in the past. Ill scroll thru all the network lobbies and only rarely find good 4c games. I despise 5c w a passion but its almost what I am forced to play the most of these days. Coinp will randomly have a half dozen 5/10-25/50 4c tables rolling but its so cyclical. Granted Im pretty sure Im one of the fish that if I sit down the tables will start up, but I try to join other ppls getting bumhunted than myself.

Fwiw I dont think any plo players on acr are chasing leaderboard. Games are good there at 2/4+ but action is slow. Global is the same 10 people total that have been there for years it seems. Ill give it a shot once a blue moon and its the same accounts.

Ive started to consider going to Michigan for a few weeks and grinding on there.

PlayNow is locked to IP address, and need Canadian bank account, Canadian ID etc. I think betonline could have some good games occasionally, but it’s a hassle to sort through anon lobby. Could also try to VPN onto GG / get an account through an agent, it’s kind of “allowed” afaik. Run the risk of getting banned / confiscated tho I guess.

I’m glad you enjoy the thread! Thanks for reading!