Hit 100k hands on ignition this year:





Also had a pretty good sunday a couple weeks ago. Took first for ~$7k and second for ~$14k in a couple $100 mtt's. It had been a while since I won anything significant in a tournament so it felt good to finally have a couple deep runs pan out.

The demon twins:



They are and they aren't as sweet as they look

Piloncillo is 100% as sweet as he looks:

Grats on the binks, do those cats have any maine c00n in them?

there's a pet picture thread here, you'd be pretty popular there

omg the demons are too much <3<3<3

You had those good timbey scores cuz of your commitment to posting epic kitty pics. So keep it up for your sake, not mine.

I have no idea. All I know is that they are the kittens of a mexican street cat lol

So lazy, tell them to come here

They really are. Every morning when I make the slightest movement in bed Diablo comes running, meowing the whole way until he jumps up on my back and meows in my ear until I either wake up or he settles onto my back for a morning nap. Every morning, same routine. So cute

Break even over my last 200 mtt's after not posting more cat pics so I think you're onto something

Been travelling so much lately that my cat ratio in my photos has dropped significantly. I'll try to work on that. Just got back from two weeks in columbia and I'm leaving again tomorrow for a week in california. Love it but also would love to have 1 or 2 or even 3 months to just be home and work and have a normalish life. Can't complain though I'm having a great time

Getting the side eye for trying to capture a private moment:



A couple waterfalls in columbia:





The view from the start of one of the waterfall hikes (las delicias)



150k hands update:

I don't think there's any way to explain this except that I time machined back to 2004 for just one glorious hand

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 99 BB
UTG: 118.69 BB
CO: 104.98 BB
Hero (BTN): 105.5 BB
SB: 95 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q K

fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) T J A
BB checks, Hero bets 2 BB, BB raises to 5 BB, Hero raises to 16.09 BB, BB raises to 30 BB, Hero calls 13.91 BB

Turn: (66.5 BB, 2 players) 3
BB bets 37.5 BB, Hero raises to 72.5 BB, BB calls 28.5 BB

River: (198.5 BB, 2 players) 7

Hero shows Q K (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 61%, Flop 95%, Turn 80%)
BB shows 2 4 (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 39%, Flop 5%, Turn 20%)
Hero wins 197 BB


being on a ~50k hand be stretch in games like this is brutal :/

He snapped in 0.1 seconds lol. Completely owned me this time but I absolutely love his call

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 252.47 BB
BB: 71.53 BB
UTG: 46.95 BB
UTG+1: 93.5 BB
Hero (MP): 185.91 BB
MP+1: 95.45 BB
MP+2: 16.23 BB
CO: 115 BB
BTN: 101.03 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K

fold, UTG+1 raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 8.5 BB, MP+1 calls 8.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 7.5 BB, UTG+1 calls 6 BB

Flop: (34.5 BB, 4 players) T 9 7
BB checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero checks, MP+1 checks

Turn: (34.5 BB, 4 players) 4
BB checks, UTG+1 bets 20 BB, Hero calls 20 BB, fold, fold

River: (74.5 BB, 2 players) 7
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets 72.5 BB, UTG+1 calls 65 BB

UTG+1 shows J A (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 71%, Flop 65%, Turn 63%)
Hero mucks J K (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 29%, Flop 35%, Turn 38%)
UTG+1 wins 202.5 BB

150bi downswing in soft relatively small field mtt's seems like a lot but I'm assuming it's just super standard variance? Just started playing them regularly in july to add some ev to the grind and have been getting wrekt for ~600 straight



at least I finally broke out of the break even slog in cash. wr took a beating






Started shorting a few different altcoins last week. Only using $500 to test things out for now, will update how it goes. Up 50% so I'm sure wreckage is around the corner

Really depends on what your expected ROI is in the fields. Primedope is down so can't look for sure right now, but 150 is a fair bit for small fields although prob within range of a normal swing if having a solid but not crushing roi.

Hope the shorting altcoins is because you feel like gambling and not because you expect it to be +ev!

What time of day do you usually play?

I assume I have around 20% roi pretty easily but no idea if it's 20 or 40 or maybe more.

I think there are some edges to be had if you're patient and attentive but yeah it's definitely a gamble like any other investment

On a 8am - 5/6pm schedule basically all year but going to try to start playing more nights and weekends. Just have a hard time wanting to play a lot of volume unless I wake up and get going

Nice thread + cute cats.

thanks

first 500nl of the year, per usual got destroyed by a bunch of button mashing whales binking everything :/

iPoker - $5 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
UTG+1: 39.5 BB
MP: 131.53 BB
Hero (MP+1): 144 BB
MP+2: 103.6 BB
CO: 26 BB
BTN: 96.44 BB
SB: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, MP raises to 22 BB, Hero raises to 144 BB, MP calls 109.53 BB

Flop: (264.56 BB, 2 players) Q Q 7

Turn: (264.56 BB, 2 players) 8

River: (264.56 BB, 2 players) T

MP shows A Q (Three of a Kind, Queens)
(Pre 32%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
Hero mucks K K (Two Pair, Kings and Queens)
(Pre 68%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
MP wins 263.76 BB


iPoker - $5 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 206.37 BB
MP+1: 108.2 BB
CO: 93.32 BB
BTN: 203.4 BB
Hero (SB): 190.49 BB
BB: 107.04 BB
UTG: 103.07 BB
UTG+1: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 6

fold, fold, fold, MP+1 raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, MP+1 calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 5 7 K
Hero bets 7.1 BB, MP+1 raises to 24.3 BB, Hero calls 17.2 BB

Turn: (69.6 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, MP+1 bets 73.9 BB, Hero calls 73.9 BB

River: (217.4 BB, 2 players) 4

MP+1 shows A 9 (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 61%, Flop 26%, Turn 34%)
Hero mucks 7 6 (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 40%, Flop 74%, Turn 66%)
MP+1 wins 216.6 BB



just cant run clean against these donks no matter how hard they try to gift it away. now I remember why I moved down to roll with the nut peddlers. variance sucks

Trying really hard to manage my emotions today and not get too down. That is the hardest part about this career... dealing with not just the huge money swings but also the huge emotional swings.

I took 7th last night in the $210k gt. It feels dumb to be upset about it because I ran pretty ****ing pure just to final table. I mean, I got multiple walks when I shoved 3-4bb on the final couple tables. And yet, I haven't run well in a big mtt in years so there is this sense of entitlement. Like it's my time to finally ****ing win one. Of course, that's never the case for anyone.

The final hand:

iPoker - 300,000/600,000 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 17.44 BB
SB: 27.37 BB
Hero (BB): 13.15 BB
UTG: 25.46 BB
UTG+1: 8.97 BB
MP: 15.31 BB
CO: 47.7 BB

7 players post ante of 0.15 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.55 BB) Hero has A K

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 27.22 BB, Hero calls 12 BB

Flop: (27.05 BB, 2 players) 9 J 4

Turn: (27.05 BB, 2 players) 6

River: (27.05 BB, 2 players) 3

SB shows 8 9 (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 36%, Flop 76%, Turn 86%)
Hero mucks A K (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 64%, Flop 24%, Turn 14%)
SB wins 27.05 BB


1st: 32k
2nd: 22k
3rd: 15k
4th: 10k
5th: 7k
6th: 5k
7th: 3k

Thought about icm folding and would have if the short stack was on more like 2-3 bb rather than 9bb or if it was for 20-25bb with several shorter stacks on the table. But I have to assume this specific spot is a slam dunk get it in with AK and just hope to hold one ****ing time.


I don't think I've talked about financials since I got to 100k net worth at the end of 2020. It's been a wild ride since then. The crypto boom helped me quickly spin that 100k up into 250k. That led to complacency and 2021 was the first year I earned less money playing poker than what I spent. And really, I don't blame myself for that too much. Coming out of the pandemic I knew I was going to spend a lot of time and money travelling and I was fine with taking a hit to my net worth to make up for what was essentially lost time.

Fast forward to today. My net worth sits around $60k and honestly it ****ing hurts to do the math. It feels like $0. I've just had one big net worth swing before: in 2017 I started playing poker with ~5k to my name and generally never got past 10-20k until I ran it up to ~60k the first time in early 2019. By late 2019 I was hurting again and down to 15k.

I told myself 100k net worth was my new $0. That I would never fall below it again. Yet here I am. Through a combination of bad investments (my stock account is down ~$60k since I opened it in 2019), laziness and overspending I've found myself feeling once again like I squandered a nest egg I had built for the future.

It's weird because my lifestyle never really changed. I don't buy flashy things. When I had to buy a new car my networth had just reached 200k for the first time. I bought an 07 camry for 5k and was stressing about that being too much. But even for a somewhat frugal person, travel obliterates money.

These last few months have been the most diligently I've sat down and grinded since I started playing poker. I'm not ending sessions because I'd rather go do something else, I'm ending them because I've played the hours I intended to play, My whole career I've just played when I feel inclined and taken large swaths of time off for basically no reason other than I'd rather just not work. Organizing and utilizing my work hours effectively is what I'm focusing on to rebuild my stack. Oh, and hoping my index fund recovers

We should meet up for food one day soon my man! I remember we've chatted multiple times in person how I felt like I squandered time when I was younger and games softer and that was why (in like 2018 or whenever I first met you....2017? idr now haha) I was grinding so ****ing hard as I'd never let myself waste another day of not making the most possible out of this game that is quickly drying up and where just making an easy 100k+ per year no longer is the case. I remember saying just working harder than everyone else, putting the hours in on and off the tables, was my personal thought on the biggest way to have success at this game.

But yea, HMU dude. I either telegramed you or whatsapped you a few months ago but can't remember if you have a new number or what....I"ll have to hit ya up again

Hey, definitely been too long since we hung out. I don't really use telegram but my whatsapp is still the same. The last ~12 months I've spent at least half of every month travelling and the little time I've been home I'm grinding 12-14 hours a day to make up for it. Haven't even been to ollie's or surf sushi in at least a year now. You try the new pizza spot that the old ollie's chef opened? Lets catch up soon man.

As for putting in the work, you know how I am about off table studying lol. Never been my thing. I think 100k/year is still pretty easy if you can put in 2000 hours on the tables but that's a lot easier said than done. My yearly average is more like 1k hours and 80k net which would be fine if I wasn't worried it will dry up and if I could be a little less complacent and play more like 1500 hours a year even during bull market years.

I don't think I can play even 1k hours of live poker in a year so I definitely feel the urgency of taking advantage of online now. Though I remember worrying 5 years ago about whether I would still be able to profit in 2022 and the games really haven't changed much since then so who knows how long it will last, could be 15+ more years of easy money or less than 5. Hard to say but my bb/100 is higher in 2022 than it was in 2017-2018 and I've studied close to 0 hours since then lol

Sorry to hear about the financial troubles man. Unfortunately this type of stuff obviously isn't super uncommon, even in the general population. Just remember you are still young and you have a long time to rebuild. Keep your expenses low, pile as much money into VTSAX/FSKAX as you can, stay away from yoloing a huge % of your net worth in crypto/individual stocks, and you'll be fine.

Playing 2000 hours of active play hours a year seems very unlikely to be sustainable. And even if you can get the hours in your winrate likely suffers due to fatigue/worse game quality during a chunk of the hours/etc. 100k/yr EV$ is definitely very achievable still but you should be making projections based on reasonable worst case scenarios instead of just best case scenario. This will make life a whole lot less stressful during the eventual bad stretches that none of us can avoid playing full time. It's also dangerous to read too much into smallish samples of a couple hundred thousand hands. There's still a decent amount of variability in your actual long term winrate along with the fact that game quality can change and vary over time. It's super unlikely but not impossible that you could have an actual winrate of 10bb/100 in your 1/2 games, play 200k hands, and end up making sub 20k over that time frame. When things are going well save more instead of spend more. Gl man, hope you turn it around asap.

Hi bro im playing spin and go at los cabos on my sail boat.
Hope one day can drink a beer.
I thought about moving to rosarito, but i bought my boat and it was a good choice too, now i can play in any bay at Baja California Mexico. If anyone is interested in sharing expenses as an online poker player on a sailboat, please let me know cheers!

Still definitely a call. Maybe not for 20-25bbs with several shorter stacks but I might just yolo call eff you to the big stack in that spot anyways.

Thanks for taking the time Tyman, I appreciate it. I'm not too worried and generally try not to even think about things like total net worth because it has almost 0 impact on day to day life. You think it's better to hold FSKAX vs FXAIX? My only index fund is FXAIX but FSKAX is a more diverse group pf holdings correct? And the same expense ratio so probably makes sense to add some there.

All good advice in there and generally what I try to do but it's always a lot easier said than done.

They don't let you drink beer on your sail boat? It's funny, I feel like I see very few sailboats pass by my condo in rosarito. You guys tend to sail within sight of the coast, right? Sounds like a pretty interesting life but not for me. I prefer land lol. You ever sail up to northern baja?

Ahh so you're the guy who commits icm suicide and knocks me out every mtt I play?


Had a decent month for the first time in what feels like a while



after a couple months off of the apps I decided to give the donkfests another shot the last week of october and made ~5k over ~12k hands. Also played 300 mtt's, ~18k of volume and lost 2.5k. Made it to the final 2 tables of the 210k this last sunday but couldn't find the cards or the plays to close it out again. Played ~225 hours which has to be the most I've ever played in a month except for maybe the first couple months I started playing seriously. It was also the only month of 2022 where I didn't travel which was pretty nice to be honest. Hoping to match this volume in november.

Hi, I dont see too many people playing Full Ring, so can I ask u at Ignition what are the differennces betweeen 6max and 9max? Because I play 6max NL100 and now i want to play 9max. Thanks

You play exclusive full ring?

FXAIX is totally fine. I prefer FSKAX but it doesn't matter which, just pile into whatever low fee broad market index fund you want and pretend it doesn't exist for the next few decades. Definitely think it's good to not overly focus on the ups and downs in your net worth, although definitely good to keep an eye on things at some reasonable interval to make sure you aren't living over your means. I'm sure poker will be beatable for a long time to come especially at low stakes, but who knows what that will look like in terms of online/live/different game types/etc. More money saved = more flexibility to be able to choose how you want to spend your time in the future.

Nice month, apps are just such a pain in the ass but obviously can be quite soft. You on pokerbros using emulators?

just ape glp

One has a max of 9 players, one has a max of 6.

But really it's not different. If you encounter different player types then you can adjust to specific players but it's just 3 extra early positions where you play a little tighter than utg in 6 max.

No but it's at least 50%

Emulators crash my pc no matter what settings I've tried so I play tablet + laptop at the same time. Can be a pain in the ass but theoretically the hourly is worth it. seems to be only in theory though.

not ape szn yet

On another horrendous stretch of poker. Had really high hopes for november after a decent sept/oct but I ended the month down 15 bi over ~87k hands. Went on a personal record setting 23 bi downswing on ignition while on a 25bi downswing on the apps. What are the odds of a 10bb/100 winner downswings 50 bi? Just insane. Every overpair runs into a set, every flush is outflushed, every hand is either 5 way to the flop or some weird overlimp 3bet/4bet squeeze 3 way to flop. Flop any pair bet bet bet because the river is either trips or two pair so why not. 7/8bets preflop with AK vs AA and oh look two kings on the flop isn't that special. 6bets flying pre. Legitimately special people winning chunks with a bet bet bet strategy with 0 checks and maybe 10% folds. The only players in the pool who I thought could be regs are flatting offsuit Ax in the sb vs mp raisers so it's basically a 100% fish pond but barely beatable for more than rb. Wouldn't be surprised to learn there's seriously shady **** going on but I'm still winning crumbs despite it all so I guess I just have to keep grinding through the torture and hope it gets better

About to turn my brain off for two weeks on a beach in the caribbean. Maybe a shark eats me so I never have to play this stupid ****ing game again