Blue

Didn’t have enough blue parlays.

Small loss. Def not a dumpster fire.
Shd hv been a small winner if Beckham doesn’t go down.
Gd call @Doughboy on blue!!! Ur not allowed to b funny and right. Lol

SPORTS BETS 2022 STATS
wk 1)
Money Wagered: $2k
Overall Record: 4-1 (2-0 parlays, 2-1 straight)
Overall Profits: +672.14
Xlm .29 $990k

wk 2)
No Bets:
xlm .25 (our avg .29) $870k equity(-$110k)
+672.14

wk 3)
No Bets:
Xlm .26 $889k (-$90k)
+672.14

wk 4)
No bets:
Xlm .20 $700k (-$290k)
+672.14

Wk 5).
No bets:
Xlm .18. (our new avg .28) $650k (-$340k)
+672.14 in this sports bet challenge.

Wk 6 2/6/22
Xlm .22 (our new avg .276) $828k (-$222k)
Money Wagered $1k
0-3 on parlays, 2-0 straight.
-$236.36 wk 6

Wk 7 2/13
Xlm .209 $793k (-$258k)
Money wagered 1k
2-3 straight
-$232.07

OVERALL:
$4k wagered 5%roi
+$203.71. (2-3 parlays, 6-4 straight)

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. Nearly 200,000 coins of MANA.
•Rest of monies downsized to a 130k flip home
• will the flip be a flop? FLIP!!!
*sold flip (9/10/21) Made $21k in a 3 month flip.
Goal after the flip…pile more MANA, get back on the poker grind, and buy the rest of these sports cards rookies we need.
*Our MANA investment paid off handsomely. Made a MILLION DOLLARS!
*2021 Pokers started early in the year playing a over-raked, 5 handed Covid regulated game. Mid summer restrictions loosened up and the games started to look really gd.
Busted Main Event. Played poker horrible when it mattered the most.

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

Accomplished getting all these psa rookie cards, EXCEPT Michael Phelps. <-never found a decent deal.

2022
•Let our 1 million $ mana profits ride on xlm the whole year (on Voyager app).
-We currently own 3.5million coins on Jan 1st.
We can add or w/d money $, BUT must hold at least 3 million xlm coins at all times throughout 2022.
-voyager pic updates every month.

•Can we beat Sports Betting?
-place 5 bets a week.
-$1k - $2k total each week ($100min-$1kmax on single bets) * place $1k weekly bets when xlm is under .25, and $2k weekly above .25.
-keep a running track of: overall record, roi, total $ wagered, and a current +/- $ amount.
-each bet will b mentioned here (or pictured) prior to game. #fulltransparency

•Play 5 sessions of 25/50nl, and at least one stream of 50/100nl game.
-keep stats only on these sessions. Can we book a solid overall W?

nice recap, can't help but wonder where you'd be if you stayed the course from 2014

Why hold XLM?? Thought you'd be better off holding a coin like FTM or even some of the big chains??

Be careful holding during 2022 as we are on the verge of a recession lol.

glgl. Well done on all your goals too

Ray how do you like the Voyager app? I've never used it before, but am thinking about it.

More condensed thread cliff notes:

Hahaha I saw that commercial during the AFCG and thought immediately of Rayz but forgot to mention it

Set or trappy AA blocking AK putting Ray exactly on KK. It’s just a weird hand because of the weird bet sizing by hero.

Ty man.
Feel xlm undervalued and love these type of charts. Recession doesn’t scare me. Feel it’s gonna b a big year for crypto.

No complaints. The w/d and deposits have 25k and 10k limits, but that’s cool. Transfers linked up to bank acct. no issues. Two step authentication . User friendly. Kickbacks apr% on certain coins.

Got it. Appreciate it man.

I hope you haven't been betting on Indiana lately… I was able to make some money on the Northwestern game when the suspended player news hit Twitter before the lines moved. Only time I’ve been happy to be an IU fan for a few weeks.

Some big cash games should be running in Cherokee, NC during the circuit stop this week. Any thought about traveling for cash or taking a shot at the main? Normally ~350k up top

No prob @cjack3

No plans for Cherokee. All spare cash has been going into xlm. I did hv that event circled on my calendar couple months ago, but things hv change. Haven’t really been in the mood to do much of anything.

Nice work on Northwestern game man. IU has a must win to get in tomorrow night. I think they can get it done if the right team shows up.

Sunday starts a new week.
Wk 8.
Bet 1 of 5.
Bet $300 of $1k.

Going w the momentum play here. Rutgers running hotter than this grill I got going. It’s 60d here and feels like a heat wave. Of course, we grilling out.
Fire it up.
Put some respect on these Rutgers. How they gonna do them like that after beating 4 top 20 teams in their last four games?
13points. I’ll take em.

Purdue by a little

Got em

Nice.

I tried to get them and it moved right after tip to +11.5. Said **** it. Lost by 12 lmao.

@trob888 and @tswpoker1 thanks. Wasn’t really feeling this one until the last possession. We’ll take it.

Rutgers against the spread win for
1-0 this week. +$272
4 bets to go and $700 of $1k left.
Will be placing these next 3 bets regardless of line or price. Those are:
Thursday
Maryland @ IU. Taking IU ml
Suns @ OKC. Taking OKC points

Friday
Clippers @ LA. Taking Lakers ml.

Saturday
We will find our last bet of the week.
Provide overall updates on the week and the year.

bs it's better to bet early than later, the closing line is usually the most accurate and thus the hardest to beat

see how you got +13 but by tipoff it was +11.5 and total ended up being 12

I always def try to jump on early unless there is a questionable player. I was kind of shocked Rutgers was getting this many points after winning 4 straight against top 25 opponents. Glad they squeezed out the cover for most lol.

That's the BS I know and love. Last bet you see first hand why line and price matters. So what's the next thing you do? Taking these regardless of line or price.

IU coming off a tough tough double digit (still not sure how) loss to Ohio State in OT.

Hopefully they will be -2.5 or worse by the time the odds come out, but I think they may be closer to -4/-5.

ML may be closer to -175/-200.

selling xlm below .17 to pay last years taxes is going to be painful. maybe BS can apply for a hardship extension.