Besides the tendency of live players to station, you also have one of the nut worst combos to bluff blocking missed spades and missed JT, T7 while not blocking any pairs or straights. The turn sizing is also too big - after flop goes check-check and turn comes a brick your range will be somewhat capped and you won’t have enough straights in your range to support many big bets. Also, when you’re multi-way solvers tend to size down a bit.

Thanks for the feedback. I think I tend to not give calling stations credit for thinking about my line in these spots and perceive them as playing their hand strength, which in other spots might be more applicable, but not this one.


Yes absolutely, the TT is terrible to have here let alone the fd. So obvious in hindsight. I'm convinced my mental game was off because of other things going on off the felt after talking about this session with a couple of other players.

November was a red month. I attribute this to much lower volume than usual and not taking the game as serious recently.

Took yesterday and today off from work to get my mind right. Even though I'm initiating the breakup I'm going through and excited for the future and potential plans that have emerged, it is evident this is taking a toll on me mentally which makes me feel ridiculous. Haven't played a session in a week, but I did get the PLO Battle Plan course from Bart Hanson's Crush Live Poker and have been reviewing it throughout the week. He had content I largely ignored because it is nearly all for hold'em, but I felt it was pretty mandatory I review some PLO training that is directly applicable to live games.

Still dabbling a bit in the small PPPoker club I'm in. Played 6 card last night and was reviewing 6 card hands in the Omaha strategy forum while playing. Fun hand at the end of the night HU, me and this player have lots of history in the club. Raise, 3b, call pre. I lead flop, he calls. I check turn, and he pots. I didn't even really think he had any clubs at all based on our history when he does this. In spots like these where my range is capped, he has purely played against my range in the past, showing aggression on turns that change the nuts then revealing air. Look at me talking as if I had any clue what I was doing. Anyway, check check river, and I'm good.





After a week of live PLO training, and chatting with other Houston PLO players, I'm heading to Legends this afternoon with confidence and focus - not that the deck or anyone at my tables will give a damn. Let's have a good December! Vegas in 12 days. Will update on this session later.

Had a 14 hour session at Legends on Saturday, the longest in the history of the blog. I took a shot at $1/$3/$6 after avoiding it since first heading to Legends back in February as I was feeling confident in my ability to focus and withstand the higher variance. The $1/$3/$6 game has some poker pros that I respect typically but also has plenty of players seeing tons of flops like the $1/$3 here. Hand example I saw:

There is what I'll call a fairly mandatory button straddle of $15. blinds limp, UTG+1 limps, UTG+2 makes it $90, folds to the button who just calls, the blinds each call, and now UTG+1 pots to $550, UTG+2 shoves for $500, button cold calls $550 with $300ish more behind, the blinds each fold. $1700 pot heading to a flop of QT3. UTG+1 looks disgusted but sticks his remaining stack in putting the button all in, and the button snap calls. The board runs out QT38Q and the button turns over QT77. No one else reveals their hand. The button - dealer and floor at Legends who also plays in the games - starts repeatedly saying "Donkey, donkey! Ship it to the donkey." He and UTG+1 bicker for a bit about his preflop call.

I was largely card dead and did a lot of folding. My biggest hand was AJT6ds with nut spades and J high hearts. With about $1100 behind, I call a $75 raise in late position and go to a flop 5 ways. Flop comes AJ7hss. It checks to me and I lead for $200, a little under half pot. The small blind, UTG+1 from the last hand that limp-reraised preflop, now pots it to put me all in. I snap call. Board runs out AJ744, no completed flush, and he throws his cards away. Not much makes sense for him to have aside from a broadway wrap and perhaps with a lower flush draw or bdfd on top of that.

We finished up at Legends in the green, +$600. I was in the parking lot in my car with a friend of mine at around 5 AM on Sunday morning after the lengthy session. Across the street from Legends is a commercial strip of businesses, one of which has a sign that reads "SPA MAGIC" that was very lively for the time of day. Based on my brief observation, Spa Magic is clearly a front for a gay-friendly after hours bar or nightclub. If any friends of the blog visit, perhaps we'll go check it out together! Seems like the place you'd want to take a friend or your family.

Going to head to Spring this week for a session or two. Will update here!

Full live results from 7/19/22 - 12/31/23:



It has become increasingly obvious that I am not motivated to write about my live poker. Although I plan to keep grinding the lucrative Texas games, my focus has shifted a bit.

With the GGPoker and WPN Botfarm scandal at the forefront of the poker community, there's a lot of talk about online poker being dead at every stake. I downloaded Hand2Note and deposited on WPN on 1/4. My goal is to get enough of a sample size at PLO10-PLO25 to prove that these stakes are still clearly beatable. I firmly believe that they are after 1K hands at PLO10. I'm thinking about making a post after 25K hands just to provide an instance where a human is beating the small stakes. Not that I feel I'd be breaking any new ground; I just feel that the consensus among many is that a player with little online cash game experience will be owned by bots, and so far that isn't the case for me (with my admittedly small sample).

The past year and a half has been the most fun I've had playing poker in a decade. My interest in this game peaked when I was a part of ImAWhale in 2018, and it slowly dwindled to an all-time low after WSOP 2022 as mentioned in my first vlog. Pot-limit omaha and my success in the live games completely reinvigorated my interest in working hard on my poker. With motivation to improve at a high again now, I want to go against the grain and show people that online games are beatable. This will be a greater challenge than beating the live games, but it is what motivates me right now, and so I will grind them.


If I bink a tourney or something, I may pop an update here, but don't anticipate updates. Thanks for reading and GL all.

How are you finding the WPN games? I play ignition at those stakes. Games fishy


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Dude breaks up with his gf, suggest going to a gay bar then says he’s grinding online low stakes and no longer updating the thread?

Is he okay like mentally

Golden, my brother! Still grinding $1/$3 PLO. This thread began when I just had $5K in the roll. Just shy of $40,000 now. Just got back from Vegas yesterday from my Super Bowl trip. Still haven't visited Spa Magic, but by God is it tempting. Wear your best dress if you ever come down to Houston and we'll go together.

Hustle in the morning
Grind all nite
That's how u do Vegas rite