How come these guys haven’t responded yet?

Maybe they figured you'd still be in the main.

Currently…



On my stocktwits…


Tried to get a few super heavy bags of litecoin couple weeks back and barely missed. I didn’t chase after it and stayed put w an open order. Now up 50% ugh.

Thanks for joining us at the Sahara deep stack game, GL.

Chris

Oh dude. That was so much fun.
Awesome u got that game together beginning this year. It was my most enjoyable session of the whole trip. I was texting my poker group bout this game during play. Telling them $600 min,uncapped max, and pretty much anything goes. Show 1, plo double bomb pots, re straddles…Fun times.
Ur are a great player w gd reads!!

Glad u responded here. That’s pretty cool! Stay up man.

How much did you lose?

Overall -$6k ish. Shd hv been -$5kish if I didn’t blow the bet size otf in one of the $100 bomb pots at the B. Ugh still tilted over that.

Thursday night in Chris’ game I was hitting freaking everything. Leading blind half pot size otf and hitting sets. Chris was involved in one of those, and his read was glass sharp in so many spots…of course he snap folded. .

I wd outshoot Steph, just hitting from any where. Turning nuts in plo bomb pots on top and flopping the nuts on bottom board.

May those sessions are so much fun!!

I sat from 8p-til 12:30a. First couple hours were short handed. +2k ish..

Overall on trip I think I dropped -$6k ish including main.
Lost my only cash sesh, before my flight, for a small -$240 ish in 2 hours of 2/5

Cliff Notes for Late Comers to Thread

In 2013 my 2+2 thread started w a $40k 1/2nl challenge. This challenge came up about $6k short.
2013 Poker Totals
Cash: $35,031 @ 26.66/hr on 1313.5 total hours. 70.5% winning %
Tourney: -$1,027
Overall: $34,004.

2014 Goal was to play bigger
2014 POKER TOTALS
Overall for 2014:
Cash: +$45,314. $52.22/hr.
Tournaments: -$4,115
Overall: +$41,199

2015 compiled of 10 goals. In parenthesis next to each goal is how I ended up.
MY 10 POKER GOALS FOR 2015.
1). -Be up 6 stacks of high society by the end of 2015 playing 1/2nl up to 10/20nl. $60,000.($42,582)
2). -No Losing Months. (*April lost -$2,528).
3). -Log an average of 25/hrs a week.. (23.3hrs)
4). -Come in top 3 in the WSOP League Finale. Getting top 3 will win me a Las Vegas tourney package. (WSOP Packages are: $11k, $4k, $1,500. Finale is April 11, 2015). (*ended up getting 5th in Finale)
5). -Log 1,000+ hours at Horseshoe Southern Indiana's poker room. This feat will take me from platinum to diamond card. (*Diamond card achieved in July).
6). -Log 200 hrs in Jan and get the $400 promotional bonus HSI is offering. (HSI rake back promotion for Jan rewards a player $2 x hrs logged. 200+hrs requirement). (*Logged 202 hrs in Jan)
7). -Have a $10k winning month. (*January +$10,151 Overall)
8). -Have a $5k winning session playing 2/5nl or higher. (Nope)
9). -Have a $2k winning session playing 1/2nl.(*+$2,236 on June 26th at HSI. +$2,709 on July 10 at HSI
10). -Play a 24hr session (*May 18/19th at HCO+$1,059)

2015 POKER TOTALS
Cash: $44,412. $38.95/HR @1,140hrs
63% win. *Crushed 1/2nl @ $45.52/hr on 667 hrs. *Only $15.96/hr at 2/5/10nl on 185hrs.
Tournaments: -$1,830 74hrs
Overall: $42,582 on 1,214 total hours

2016
Attempted to go the whole month of March without talking. Lasted 8 days when I slipped and said, "Oh ****" while playing rummy with my daughter. No Talk March, #NTM, oddly led me into trading stocks where I started w $40k and ran it down to $20k and then back up. We toyed around trading on the daily, and learning the stock game.
*Didn't put in a lot of hours on the poker table and ended the year $21,759.

2017
$40K Challenge: Attempt 2.
Try to make $40k playing 1/2nl only.
The challenge got cut short on August 22nd when I received a lifetime ban from all Harrah’s properties for vlogging on premises. At that time, I was on pace to achieve this challenge.
Sold my Melody 5 plex. Put that money, and poker money on a penny stock that made me some serious cash. Used that to pay off my home mortgage.
Ban was eventually uplifted. Thanks to some poker player support.

2018.
No debt. No mortgage.
Monthly expenses have been lowered, and trying to live a semi retired life. But w little money leftover it feels I’m still trying to survive.
Money has been strapped ever since paying Uncle Sam 5 figs for profits on ENPH stock and capital gains of Melody, but we hv kept our head above water.
Didn’t track any poker this year.

2019
Got a heloc loan $70k (10k Sara and 60k me).
From that, we put $58k into the market and used $2k for poker/life roll. We added $4,000 to RH and was in the stock game for $62,000 total. Risked all-n on a couple high volatile stocks (NIO mostly) w margin capped to the brim.
We lost it all. Went broke and had to get a job driving for Lyft/Uber to build the roll back.
#semiretired life hasn’t worked out too great. We restructured our deal w Sara who owes me for when I paid off our house in 2017.
2019 Poker Stats: $6,313 on 427 hours $14.8/hr.

2020
After playing some catch up from last couple years, we finally got back on track. Going forward, everything earned will go towards the next shot take.
The 2020 goal is simple. $50,000 in liquid money by the end of the year. We started the year at $0.
What we gonna do once we accomplish the $50kl challenge? Super high roller? Buy a flip house? Another all-in on a penny stock? Who knows...

2021 GOAL:
We crushed the 2020 goal and sold the house during a booming real estate market 2021
•took all monies and loaded up w MANA coin (penny stock). Nearly 200,000 coins of MANA.
•Rest of monies downsized to a 130k flip home
• will the flip be a flop? We will find out.
*sold flip (9/10/21) Made $21k in a 3 month flip.
Goal is after sell flip, pile more MANA, get back on the poker grind, and buy the rest of these sports cards rookies we need. Well we ended up doing just that and triple on mana for over a MILLION DOLLARS!
*2021 Pokers started w playing over-raked, 5 handed Covid regulated game. Now (mid summer) restrictions hv loosened up and they’re looking really gd. Amped to sell flip and get back to playing as big as possible. September got back to felt, started a 5/10 weekly game, busted main event, played in biggest session ever 10/20 w bb $20 ante as well then it played w continuous $40 straddle, and a seldom $80 re-straddle at the upstairs Bellagio on Nov 10th.

The rookies cards for 2021 buys:
Tiger Woods ✔️
Messi ✔️
Roger Fed ✔️
Djokovic ✔️
Serena Williams ✔️
Tom Brady ✔️
Lebron James ✔️
Usain Bolt (w auto)
Michael Phelps
Pete Rose
Rafa Nadal ✔️
Jack Nicklaus ✔️
Michael Jordan ✔️
*Unopened pack of 1986 Fleer Basketball ✔️
*unopened pack of 2000 Bowman Chrome Football ✔️

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Some goals we hv met through the years, some we hv exceeded, and some came up short. What I noticed is setting these yearly goals drives me and motivates me. Without them, mayb we accomplish half of what we hv so far.

Trying to get that Pete Rose rookie today.

I've been back and forth on you my dude. At times I thought you were making good moves and at times I thought you might just be a dummy. Through it all you're now an inspiration. You deserve all this. Hope you keep moving forward my friend.

As much as I love cheering for hero I think calling him an inspiration is a bit much. He was yoloing with money he didn’t care about or he has made a lot of really poor financial decisions, blamed others or bad luck for his mistakes and stole with no regret.

I don’t know his family dynamics and therefore won’t comment on it, but I hope others with families aren’t inspired to make decisions similar to his when the shady company he decided to work with got shady.

Thanks dude. When ur the realest and illest it seems either people like it or hate. To me, doesn’t matter what others think too much. I do me and u do u.
I’ll keep moving forward. Still hungry for more.
Been thinking of what 2022 goals shd b. Any ideas?

*didn’t land the deal on the Pete Rose rookie I was in negotiations w, but did land a decent deal on a Willie Mays rookie w another seller.

IMHO, if you're done gambling significant $$:

1. put your money in a broad market index stock fund
2. Find hobbies that make a few $$, like teaching tennis part and playing beatable poker games

But that would be boring for this thread. So, instead play in high stakes poker streams and go for 2 milly !

I don’t understand why ur not in Texas already. Houston or Dallas doesn’t matter. It’s like 2006 down there.

A clear case of results-oriented thinking.

If MANA went to 0 by your logic he'd have been a dummy. As MANA shot up he's now an inspiration.

+1

It's a game of inches my friend

Rayz Inspiration Count: 2+

BahBahMickey Inspiration Count: 0

Who’s in first in the AFC west?

Also if anyone here wants to defend RH; then we are so far apart it’s not worth commenting. Therefore; I’ll just let u speak without no reply/rebuttal.

What grade is the Mays? Have a PSA 4.5 52T but wouldn’t mind getting a 51B at some point.

Nice! His 52 is relatively inexpensive compared to Mantle and Jackie Robinson.

I don't think anyone in here has defended robinhood. However, I think everyone in here has agreed that you're driving cross country to stand on a street corner with a sign for a month was a bad and crazy move.

Not everyone Rick