wait wait wait

Anyone can get a med card for $300???

in one post, you say play for a few hours, then smoke pot

a few posts later you say you don't carry weed with you any more.

you just bumming off DMW now?

seriously, though, i just don't advocate or support all the drug use. i get very excited when someone walks up to the table and i get a contact high because i pretty much guarantee they are going to lose their stack quickly. and they usually do.

i thought about taking adderall a while back when one of our common friends talked about the benefits he was deriving from using it before a session.

gl

I just suggested that's what someone do. I don't actually do it. But i did before and if I did again that's how it'd be.

I get very excited when basically anyone sits down at the table. They all lose their money eventually. It has nothing to do with smoking.

Weed affects everyone differently. The type of strain and dosage also determines what kind of experience you'll have. I've had it affect my play both positively and negatively in different sessions. I think its benefits are pretty much only in the mental game side. I do find it can help me refocus, stay patient and pretty much tilt-proof. Definitely only in small doses and I almost never smoke during sessions anymore but will sometimes be a little buzzed for the first couple hours of my session.

Adderall is really just too good. I think you described its effects pretty accurately. I disagree that it can't be an occasional thing though. That's basically how I've used it in the past. It's been effective just for getting me back on the right track when my mental game was suffering, after taking it for 3-5 sessions and then stopping. I wish I could take it all the time but it screws with my sleep schedule and appetite too much. I also would worry about becoming dependent on it.

I love this!

Ldo

In non-legalized states it's kind of a toss up whether it'll help or not because as JoeyBlaze said, the type of strain makes so much of a difference in effect, and typically you're getting whatever strains have good yields and are marketable, because the grower at the top is black market for-profit 94% of the time.

When you can specifically pick the strains that are best for lucid, intense thought it's awesome. Plus, your growers are actually doing it as a profession legitimately (by state law, not Federal) and thus have inclination towards making better medicine instead of strictly worrying about profit.

Also in legal states: you can get hash oil products easily without an explosion in your kitchen, and it's almost impossible to get caught taking a quick dab off a vape pen nearly anywhere unless you're a complete fish. Plus you can just say it's an e-cig because it looks exactly the same.

Let the alcoholic rage build as you rise through the stakes and bang all the bitchez

vapes (e-cigs) are great

This is kind of an interesting equity calc:

Here's the HH of the other night where I won a $3.4k pot

Reads: Villain A is a good-aggressive player. (UTG+1)

Villain B is a reg-fish. He is on a big downswing and is probably on perma-tilt. I'd categorize him as a bad-aggressive player who tries to be a good-aggressive player. (BB)

Hero has a very nitty image. (UTG)

$1100 effective with both.

The game has been A+ at this point with tons of money flying around so it is painfully obvious that I am playing a very nitty style. In reality, I've been pretty card dead. I've been needled for being a nit and not straddling or blind raising.

Preflop: 55 UTG. Hero limps. Villain A UTG+1 limps. BTN Whale raises to $40. SB fish calls. Villain B BB calls. Hero calls. Villain A calls.

Flop: ($200) 985 SB bets $5. Villain B raises to $85. Hero raises to $420. Villain A raises to $920 (max raise is $500 on top here). BTN folds. SB folds. Villain B calls. Hero calls.

The betting here is capped at the 4th bet which is why Villain B and Hero could not 5-bet shove.

Turn: ($2,965) 3 Villain B bets $500 all-in. Hero calls $150 all-in. Villain A calls all-in.

River: 3

Villain B opens AT

Hero opens 55

Villain A opens 98

So OTF when everyone basically commits themselves to this pot, I am 52% vs their hands

That's great considering I'm closing the action getting 5:1 on my money!

But how do you guys think I'm doing against their range? I had a pretty sinking feeling when I was putting the money in because I knew I couldn't be better than like 45% vs their range. Like even if the board pairs, I'm not happy. And I could be drawing to 1 out.

It turns out that if we give Villain A and Villain B the same range (I took 98 out of Villain B's range because he's good enough to know he's no good when he gets cold 3-bet and cold 4-bet... and I also took stuff like AJhh and KQhh out of Villain A's range because he'd raise preflop) of sets, 76, every NFD, and every other FD that has a pair or SD to go with it...

Hero is in last place!

Its still +EV because I'm 30% vs their range and getting 5:1 on a call... but I was pretty shocked to find out that I was literally in last place here!

So here are the equities:

Hero: 30%
Villain A: 32%
Villain B: 38%

How many of you were expecting that when you read the HH? Am I just a equity-calc fish? Like, while the hand was going on, I knew I was more likely to lose than I was to win... but I definitely figured I had well over 30% equity and didn't even imagine I was ever in last place here with bottom set!

And this is with thinking "There is no way anyone has 98 here" after Villain A made it $920 and Villain B called lol.

This game is crazy.

That is the exact kind of board where bottom set doesn't have a ton of equity if lots of money goes in. At best you are against top two or a combo draw.

I don't know if it is best to be heads up here and only against one hand (meaning that it is less likely someone has a bigger set) or to be 3 way and getting better odds (but much better odds one of them has a bigger set). Would be an interesting calc to run.

Unless there is something in the dynamics that I'm missing Villain A had a pretty easy fold.

How do u know hindi? How proficient are you?

...and that's why this game is so great.

[Quote: (I took 98 out of Villain B's range because he's good enough to know he's no good when he gets cold 3-bet and cold 4-bet... and I also took stuff like AJhh and KQhh out of Villain A's range because he'd raise preflop) of sets, 76, every NFD, and every other FD that has a pair or SD to go with it... Quote]

Did I misread? Earlier in the HH you said Villain B is the fish, but he's "good enough to know he's not good" with top two? Did you mean Villain A? But as described Villain A the "good player" actually showed up with 9-8. It would make more sense if the good player had the 11 out draw and the fish had the two pair.

Anyway NH, glad it held up.

Ya i mean its pretty obvious you are behind both their ranges, but then again you literally have the worst hand in your range(nut fd>>>>>55 3 way), so it isnt all that of a surprise is it?

You also can never fold as it played

Mixed it up

The guy with 98 is the reg-fish wannabe pro

Guy with AThh is the young good aggressive player

That makes more sense cuz the limp call is horrible lol

Ahhhhh just stacked my friend for $800

I must be a Dairy Queen soft serve because it does not feel good at all

I'm Indian

I can have a casual non-sophisticated conversation

Holy **** I just read every page and every post. Cant wait till I take the plunge Full time in January.

This guy gets it.

Barely played this week but the results have been pretty good...

+$4,783 in 24.05 hours. Last day, going to try to get in a long session to hit that $5k week! $200/hr sustainable?

Since I left Philly...

+$7,851 in 85.93 hours

Don't call it a heater.

I'm running really well, making great decisions, not tilting, staying patient, and working hard off the table as well. All of that makes for a perfect storm.

This is what I feel like these last three weeks since I left the east coast...

5k week?

yes sir!

Good job!

I'm like regularly winning and losing pots that are bigger than my initial bankroll... Feels good and also feels crazy