The Poker to Bitcoin Pipeline - Journey to 1.0
09-12-2022
, 06:01 PM
The heater continues
I can't even lie to you folks, my graph has been basically up only since I recovered from a 500 hour downswing in July of 2021 - At some point I'm gonna have to deal with the downswing that comes afterwards, but for now.....weeeeee
A fun hand vs a mixed game pro:
3/5, 1,000 effective. Hero opens CO to 15 with 44, Villain in SB 3bets to 60, folds to Hero, call.
(130) Flop: Jh 4c 5c
V bets 40, Hero calls.
(210) Turn: Jh 4c 5c 2h
V bets 120, Hero raises to 300, V calls
(930) River: Jh 4c 5c 2h 8s
Hero jams ~600, V calls. Hero shows and V mucks
Not exactly virtuoso level of skill when you play a set in position, but it felt good to stack one of the stronger players in my pool
September Update
Hours Played: 25
Profit/Loss: +$2,924
2022 Update
Hours Played: 758
Profit/Loss: +$17,431
At the beginning of this year I made a new year's resolution to hit either $20,000 in cash game winnings or 1,000 hours. If things continue looking bright, I may hit the monetary goal before the hours one!
Bitcoin HODL Update
Havent bought BTC since this recent move upwards as I am eternally skeptical of any bullish price action given the macro background etc etc. Always good to keep some capital sidelined just in case.
Current BTC HODLings: 1.29067352
Cheers!
I can't even lie to you folks, my graph has been basically up only since I recovered from a 500 hour downswing in July of 2021 - At some point I'm gonna have to deal with the downswing that comes afterwards, but for now.....weeeeee
A fun hand vs a mixed game pro:
3/5, 1,000 effective. Hero opens CO to 15 with 44, Villain in SB 3bets to 60, folds to Hero, call.
(130) Flop: Jh 4c 5c
V bets 40, Hero calls.
(210) Turn: Jh 4c 5c 2h
V bets 120, Hero raises to 300, V calls
(930) River: Jh 4c 5c 2h 8s
Hero jams ~600, V calls. Hero shows and V mucks
Not exactly virtuoso level of skill when you play a set in position, but it felt good to stack one of the stronger players in my pool
September Update
Hours Played: 25
Profit/Loss: +$2,924
2022 Update
Hours Played: 758
Profit/Loss: +$17,431
At the beginning of this year I made a new year's resolution to hit either $20,000 in cash game winnings or 1,000 hours. If things continue looking bright, I may hit the monetary goal before the hours one!
Bitcoin HODL Update
Havent bought BTC since this recent move upwards as I am eternally skeptical of any bullish price action given the macro background etc etc. Always good to keep some capital sidelined just in case.
Current BTC HODLings: 1.29067352
Cheers!
09-13-2022
, 01:54 PM
Boy am I glad I didn't FOMO into that rally 
I will def be picking up some extra orange coin around this level later today after work - panic selling on bad CPI report is ripe opportunity for boring dollar cost averaging long term investors like myself! I don't know how to trade, so I just don't.
Played the Quarterly Freeroll at my local room last night and busted within the first hour. I've played it five times and have cashed zero times now lol. Variance sucks sometimes.
I totally forgot about this much cooler hand that I got lucky in, but felt it was interesting enough to share:
Combo Draw Multiway
2/5 900 or so effective with main villain
Hero Opens to 15 with KJhh in LJ. BU, SB, BB call.
(60) Flop Qc 9h 3h
Checks to me, I check, BU bets 25, SB calls, BB raises to 80. Hero 3bets to 200. BU tank folds, SB folds, BB snap jams like 800 in there, I call.
Turn smacks me in the face with the 4h and BB shows Q2hh. Good to be lucky!
Total Profit @ Same Casino: $33,408 / 100K GOAL
Will update my HODLings status later when I have bought some BTC. Cheers!
I will def be picking up some extra orange coin around this level later today after work - panic selling on bad CPI report is ripe opportunity for boring dollar cost averaging long term investors like myself! I don't know how to trade, so I just don't.
Played the Quarterly Freeroll at my local room last night and busted within the first hour. I've played it five times and have cashed zero times now lol. Variance sucks sometimes.
I totally forgot about this much cooler hand that I got lucky in, but felt it was interesting enough to share:
Combo Draw Multiway
2/5 900 or so effective with main villain
Hero Opens to 15 with KJhh in LJ. BU, SB, BB call.
(60) Flop Qc 9h 3h
Checks to me, I check, BU bets 25, SB calls, BB raises to 80. Hero 3bets to 200. BU tank folds, SB folds, BB snap jams like 800 in there, I call.
Turn smacks me in the face with the 4h and BB shows Q2hh. Good to be lucky!
Total Profit @ Same Casino: $33,408 / 100K GOAL
Will update my HODLings status later when I have bought some BTC. Cheers!
Last edited by ejames209; 09-13-2022 at 02:21 PM.
09-14-2022
, 12:29 AM
Quick 2 hour session after work that worked out pretty well, finishing up $369 on the night! Crazy crazy heater I've been on.
Key Hand:
1/3 ~350 eff with main villain, who limps in HJ. Hero opens J8hh to 15, SB and HJ call.
(50) Flop: 4h 5h 7c
Checks to HJ who bets 25. Hero calls, SB folds
(100) Turn 4h 5h 7c 6h, HJ bets 35. Hero calls.
(170) River 9d, HJ bets 75. Hero moves all-in, HJ calls and mucks
September Update
Hours Played: 27
Profit/Loss: +$3,293
2022 Update
Hours Played: 760
Profit/Loss: $17,800
Profit at Same Casino Update
$33,777 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin HODL Update
Added ~0.051 BTC to the cold storage wallet, bringing our total HODLings to: 1.34227853 BTC
Cheers!
Key Hand:
1/3 ~350 eff with main villain, who limps in HJ. Hero opens J8hh to 15, SB and HJ call.
(50) Flop: 4h 5h 7c
Checks to HJ who bets 25. Hero calls, SB folds
(100) Turn 4h 5h 7c 6h, HJ bets 35. Hero calls.
(170) River 9d, HJ bets 75. Hero moves all-in, HJ calls and mucks
September Update
Hours Played: 27
Profit/Loss: +$3,293
2022 Update
Hours Played: 760
Profit/Loss: $17,800
Profit at Same Casino Update
$33,777 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin HODL Update
Added ~0.051 BTC to the cold storage wallet, bringing our total HODLings to: 1.34227853 BTC
Cheers!
09-29-2022
, 12:01 AM
Quick Poker updates
Been working a lot, have not had much time to play poker. But I have been working in some hours and I am starting to hit a bit of turbulence in my results.
Current plan is to continue playing 1/3 and foregoing 2/5 for a while - the opportunity cost of going on a quick 2-3k downswing at 2/5, which is quite possible, would be huge in terms of my ability or lack thereof to continue buying large amounts of Bitcoin. I have had a couple of 3k-3.5k downswings at 1/3 though, so you never know!
I have noticed that my win rate at 1/3 has jumped significantly ever since I started opening for 15. Not sure if I've said that already, I do smoke a lot of weed so my mind is forgetful
Hours Played in September: 62
Profit/Loss: +$3,343
Hours Played in 2022: 796
Profit/Loss: +$17,850
Bitcoin Update
No new purchases. Total Bitcoin HODLings: 1.41857943 BTC
Cheers!
Been working a lot, have not had much time to play poker. But I have been working in some hours and I am starting to hit a bit of turbulence in my results.
Current plan is to continue playing 1/3 and foregoing 2/5 for a while - the opportunity cost of going on a quick 2-3k downswing at 2/5, which is quite possible, would be huge in terms of my ability or lack thereof to continue buying large amounts of Bitcoin. I have had a couple of 3k-3.5k downswings at 1/3 though, so you never know!
I have noticed that my win rate at 1/3 has jumped significantly ever since I started opening for 15. Not sure if I've said that already, I do smoke a lot of weed so my mind is forgetful
Hours Played in September: 62
Profit/Loss: +$3,343
Hours Played in 2022: 796
Profit/Loss: +$17,850
Bitcoin Update
No new purchases. Total Bitcoin HODLings: 1.41857943 BTC
Cheers!
10-01-2022
, 09:16 AM
September Update
Had a nice rebound at the end to keep the month's profits healthy. Opened A9s on BU and got 3bet by the SB, call, flop 9c9d3h, he barrels Tc turn and Ac river for 400bb pot. Board ran out 3 to a flush and he had KQo with the Qc blocker. Pretty sweet to have the perfect runout to get bluffed into like that one for the good guys
Hours Played: 73
Profit/Loss: +$4,063
Total Profit at Same Casino: $34,547 / 100K GOAL
Kind of expecting further lows for Bitcoin in all honesty so I'm cautiously waiting for a good entry. I think the markets will tank a bit further before a strong rally ever happens. Let's see what takes place.
Cheers!
Had a nice rebound at the end to keep the month's profits healthy. Opened A9s on BU and got 3bet by the SB, call, flop 9c9d3h, he barrels Tc turn and Ac river for 400bb pot. Board ran out 3 to a flush and he had KQo with the Qc blocker. Pretty sweet to have the perfect runout to get bluffed into like that
one for the good guysHours Played: 73
Profit/Loss: +$4,063
Total Profit at Same Casino: $34,547 / 100K GOAL
Kind of expecting further lows for Bitcoin in all honesty so I'm cautiously waiting for a good entry. I think the markets will tank a bit further before a strong rally ever happens. Let's see what takes place.
Cheers!
Last edited by ejames209; 10-01-2022 at 09:23 AM.
10-19-2022
, 08:12 PM
Biggest 1/3 Win Yet
Had a quick change of schedule in my work that opened up playing time for six days and I def took advantage! Put in a bunch of hours over the last week, which ended up giving me my biggest win at 1/3 since I moved to Vegas.
I had one session in Cali on the Stones Live stream (supposedly first stream session Postle has been suspected of cheating in) that was bigger than this, but that place had a match the stack structure so stacks became like 1,000bb lol. Not very comparable.
Anyways, here were the two big pots, both against the same guy so after it was said and done I pretty much had this man talking to himself and trying to find God. It happens
1st hand
about 750 eff at 1/3, hero opens 66 in MP to 15, CO 3bets to 40. Hero calls.
(~80) Flop: 6c4c3s. Hero donk leads 25, Villain calls.
(~130) Turn: 8h. Hero bets 125, villain calls.
(~380) River: 8s. Hero bets 350, villain tanks and tanks, says they have an overpair, everyone knows he's gonna call anyway, eventually he does and mucks.
The guy ends up rebuying and does pretty well and ends up building his stack to a respectable amount. This is where I feel like the tilt meter went completely off the rails for this guy because the last hand was completely unavoidable on his part. I'm not sure exactly how much he had but it was a huge pot for these stakes. To the hand...
Moral of the Story is Fold Pre
1/3 Player UTG opens to 10, gets caller in CO, Hero 3bets red KK to 40, Main Villain cold calls in SB, folds to CO who also calls and has like 350 behind.
(~130) Flop Ac Ks Td. SB checks, CO leads for 100, Hero raises to 200, SB jams roughly 800 or so, not sure how much it was but I'm never folding. CO says "**** it" and calls it off. I of course call as well.
SB ends up with QJo (????????) and CO has AKo. Luckily board runs out 6 and 6 and I scoop the whole thing!
Played a few sessions after that and did fairly well. Also bought nearly 0.1 BTC as I just couldn't help myself and had to splurge
October Update
Hours Played: 45
Profit/Loss: +$3,312
2022 update
Hours Played: 852
Profit/Loss: +$21,882
Profit at Same Casino Update
$37,859 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin Update
Total HODLings: 1.55848606 BTC
Will prob get to play next time on Sunday. Cheers!
Had a quick change of schedule in my work that opened up playing time for six days and I def took advantage! Put in a bunch of hours over the last week, which ended up giving me my biggest win at 1/3 since I moved to Vegas.
I had one session in Cali on the Stones Live stream (supposedly first stream session Postle has been suspected of cheating in) that was bigger than this, but that place had a match the stack structure so stacks became like 1,000bb lol. Not very comparable.
Anyways, here were the two big pots, both against the same guy so after it was said and done I pretty much had this man talking to himself and trying to find God. It happens
1st hand
about 750 eff at 1/3, hero opens 66 in MP to 15, CO 3bets to 40. Hero calls.
(~80) Flop: 6c4c3s. Hero donk leads 25, Villain calls.
(~130) Turn: 8h. Hero bets 125, villain calls.
(~380) River: 8s. Hero bets 350, villain tanks and tanks, says they have an overpair, everyone knows he's gonna call anyway, eventually he does and mucks.
The guy ends up rebuying and does pretty well and ends up building his stack to a respectable amount. This is where I feel like the tilt meter went completely off the rails for this guy because the last hand was completely unavoidable on his part. I'm not sure exactly how much he had but it was a huge pot for these stakes. To the hand...
Moral of the Story is Fold Pre
1/3 Player UTG opens to 10, gets caller in CO, Hero 3bets red KK to 40, Main Villain cold calls in SB, folds to CO who also calls and has like 350 behind.
(~130) Flop Ac Ks Td. SB checks, CO leads for 100, Hero raises to 200, SB jams roughly 800 or so, not sure how much it was but I'm never folding. CO says "**** it" and calls it off. I of course call as well.
SB ends up with QJo (????????) and CO has AKo. Luckily board runs out 6 and 6 and I scoop the whole thing!
Played a few sessions after that and did fairly well. Also bought nearly 0.1 BTC as I just couldn't help myself and had to splurge
October Update
Hours Played: 45
Profit/Loss: +$3,312
2022 update
Hours Played: 852
Profit/Loss: +$21,882
Profit at Same Casino Update
$37,859 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin Update
Total HODLings: 1.55848606 BTC
Will prob get to play next time on Sunday. Cheers!
10-27-2022
, 12:31 AM
October Update
Swingy last few sessions but still maintaining good profits on the month. I'll be able to play plenty more hours as the days go on, though I'm likely not able to play much in December due to work. We'll see!
Bluffing Where No Man Has Bluffed Before
1/3 about 600 effective with main villain who is decent 2/5 reg
Villain opens to 15 in HJ, Hero 3bets KQdd to 60 in SB, Villain calls.
(~120) Flop: Jc 7s Th
Hero checks, Villain bets 55. Hero calls.
(~230) Turn: Js
Hero donk leads 75, Villain calls.
(~380) River: Jh
Hero jams, Villain tanks for a couple minutes and calls it off with AThh. Nice hand.
I looked this hand up in the dream machine and it turns out the lead is a low frequency thing, but it is a thing, and I wouldn't have taken the line vs many other people, so I am prob doing OK with taking this line once in a blue moon. Once you lead the turn it is a pure jam on the river.
The good thing about getting caught bluffing is people never give you as much credit ever again, so it made it way easier to get paid off later on in that session and I ended up swinging upwards $1,100 to finish the night +$466.
October Results so far
Hours Played: 60
Profit/Loss: $3,375
2022 Results so far
Hours Played: 866
Profit/Loss: $21,945
Bitcoin Update
I finally got my bank to allow me to deposit USD on Strike (got a good laugh about this as it further amplifies one of the many use cases of BTC). I am buying $1 in BTC every single hour. It's like a little dopamine rush every day lol
Current BTC HODLings:
Cold Storage wallet: 1.5584606 BTC
Lightning wallet: 0.0009151 BTC
Cheers!
Swingy last few sessions but still maintaining good profits on the month. I'll be able to play plenty more hours as the days go on, though I'm likely not able to play much in December due to work. We'll see!
Bluffing Where No Man Has Bluffed Before
1/3 about 600 effective with main villain who is decent 2/5 reg
Villain opens to 15 in HJ, Hero 3bets KQdd to 60 in SB, Villain calls.
(~120) Flop: Jc 7s Th
Hero checks, Villain bets 55. Hero calls.
(~230) Turn: Js
Hero donk leads 75, Villain calls.
(~380) River: Jh
Hero jams, Villain tanks for a couple minutes and calls it off with AThh. Nice hand.
I looked this hand up in the dream machine and it turns out the lead is a low frequency thing, but it is a thing, and I wouldn't have taken the line vs many other people, so I am prob doing OK with taking this line once in a blue moon. Once you lead the turn it is a pure jam on the river.
The good thing about getting caught bluffing is people never give you as much credit ever again, so it made it way easier to get paid off later on in that session and I ended up swinging upwards $1,100 to finish the night +$466.
October Results so far
Hours Played: 60
Profit/Loss: $3,375
2022 Results so far
Hours Played: 866
Profit/Loss: $21,945
Bitcoin Update
I finally got my bank to allow me to deposit USD on Strike (got a good laugh about this as it further amplifies one of the many use cases of BTC). I am buying $1 in BTC every single hour. It's like a little dopamine rush every day lol
Current BTC HODLings:
Cold Storage wallet: 1.5584606 BTC
Lightning wallet: 0.0009151 BTC
Cheers!
Last edited by ejames209; 10-27-2022 at 12:55 AM.
10-30-2022
, 08:46 PM
End of October Update & Graph
Won $795 in just under 8 hours last night to finish strong! Won't be able to play until Thursday due to work, so I wanted to wrap up the update now.
Hours Played: 77
Profit/Loss: +$4,155
2022 Update
Hours Played: 884
Profit/Loss: +$22,725
Profit at same casino Update
$38,702 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin Update
Cold Storage Wallet: 1.5584606 BTC
Lightning wallet: 0.00537326 BTC
Cheers!
Won $795 in just under 8 hours last night to finish strong! Won't be able to play until Thursday due to work, so I wanted to wrap up the update now.
Hours Played: 77
Profit/Loss: +$4,155
2022 Update
Hours Played: 884
Profit/Loss: +$22,725
Profit at same casino Update
$38,702 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin Update
Cold Storage Wallet: 1.5584606 BTC
Lightning wallet: 0.00537326 BTC
Cheers!
11-08-2022
, 09:43 PM
Bitcoin Update
Wow what a pump and dump in the last 12 hours LOL...that's the volatility I've come to know and love from good ole orange coin
Bought 0.05579088 less than an hour ago, pretty sweet entry if I do say so myself!
Cold Storage wallet: 1.61419688 BTC
Lightning Wallet ($1 purchased 24/7): 0.02082727
(I did FOMO buy $100 on Strike when the Binance/FTX merger news pumped the market lol
)
Cheers!
Wow what a pump and dump in the last 12 hours LOL...that's the volatility I've come to know and love from good ole orange coin
Bought 0.05579088 less than an hour ago, pretty sweet entry if I do say so myself!
Cold Storage wallet: 1.61419688 BTC
Lightning Wallet ($1 purchased 24/7): 0.02082727
(I did FOMO buy $100 on Strike when the Binance/FTX merger news pumped the market lol
)Cheers!
11-13-2022
, 10:57 AM
Quote:
Ejames, are you going to hold through and not sell any? I see that you follow Capo as well, fk based off what's happening right now w/ FTX I can imagine it going even lower than 14k fml. Crypto Twitter has been an absolute shitshow past couple days, fkn sbf. Apparently as I type this FTX and FTX US is getting "hacked" lmao.
I appreciate you posting ITT!
November Update
Had a monstrous +$1,210 session at 2/3. Everything going right. Dream setups. The usual. Ended up dropping $219 the next night, but it's hard to complain in all honesty. I've just been running like god this year. Posting 9.24bb/hour at 2/3 is excellent for me. Once Bitcoin makes a serious rally again, which idk, might be in 2030 at this rate lol...only then will I start playing 3/5 again. I want to make sure I am maximizing my buying power with how cheap Bitcoin is right now. If I were to go on a 3-4k downswing at 3/5 and couldn't make any Bitcoin purchases I'd be really bummed.
Hours played in Nov: 28
Profit/Loss: +$1,260
2022 Update
Hours Played: 912
Profit/Loss: +$23,985
Profit At Same Casino: $39,962 / 100K GOAL
Bitcoin Update
Added 0.0625284 BTC to bring our total HODLings to 1.70180765 BTC
I also sent all the BTC I had in my lightning wallet to my cold storage wallet. With all these exchanges blowing up and people stealing funds and all kinds of shady **** going on, I'm sticking to my private wallet and will have NOTHING on any centralized platform.
Cheers!