Hi Everyone,
A couple a quick goals I'll be writing about in this thread.
1. Winning 35k in 2023. As long as I get the hours in and the run bad doesn't make any extended appearances we should smash this. I do have a full time job, but a couple of long sessions per week should get us there. I'll be playing both NL and PLO, whatever is the juiciest.

2. I'll also be doing a weight loss & health challenge so I'll have a few extra things to write about and well as some existential topics since my mind always goes there.

I made my come back after an extended absence from the felt this July. I'll post my giraffe below so you can see how it's went so far.

I should get a couple primer sessions in yet this week so we won't have long to wait for some hands. Hopefully we can put some lipstick on this pig they are calling December.

Welcome aboard. Questions? Just ask

Goodluck. I'm in

Frist hand of any note

1/2 plo

We are delt JdTs8c7d utg+1 with $500 behind
Utg calls the $5
I think raising here in some games is fine, this is probably one of them as it's fairly calm preflop.
We call.
Utg+2 $25!
5 ways to a flop TdTc6d
Checks to us, we $50

1 caller
Middle aged white dude with glasses, tightish probably. He has 250 behind, I plan on smashing any turn J or lower.

River
Qs

I check, villain quickly bets $150.
I snap fold
He flashes us 66

900 effective
1/2 plo still

Utg $15
4 callers
We call in the sb with 5443 double suited black. To loose?

Flop $90
Ks6c4d
Check to preflop raiser $80

I figure range for this bloke is AA, Kk and AKx hands. Not fist pumping just yet but we have the open ender if we are coolered. Not looking to slow play this oop.

We make it 300
Good news he just calls.
Better news turn is 7d
We jam the remaining 585

Villain gets sad face and calls.
River is 6h
We get shown kings full.

So we come out of the last session of the year continuing the down swing with a 2 day 20.4hr two part session loss of $301. The games were damn good until late yesterday afternoon which prompted a slightly earlier exit.

We dug out of a first day $1173 hole with a $41 win waiting at 1/3nl before moving to 1/2 plo and taking an additional $1462 win. We try to press it up at 5/5 plo but could not get anything going.

We will take nye off and be back at it tomorrow, planning another 2 day session.

Also practicing some intermittent fasting. Broke a 31.5hr fast last night with some brisket at the casino. We are preparing for a 72hr fast next weekend.

Starting the new year off right
First big hand of the day/year

5/5 plo
I haz 960ish
The whole table covers me.
Me AAJ4 hearts

There is a $20 utg straddle 2 calls to me in mp, I call, 3ish more calls, guy in the straddle $100
1 caller
Me $535
Guy on my left cold calls, straddler and the guy I squeezed both call

We flop Broadway, and there is a club draw.

Checks to me I jam the remainder. Only utg calls.
8 ott, 5c otr
Mhig

We take down $2900

We are Stuck about $1900 at this point.
5/5 plo
I have 950

We straddle to $10 otb.
Family calls to CO who $65
We call with QdTdTc9s

Flop Qh5d6c
Checks thru

Turn Ts
Ep jams for $150, 3 callers
We $885!

Called by the preflop raiser who covers us.

River
4h

Mhig

We end up losing 1590 in the 11.5hr session. The hand above was the only hand of note other than the difference maker where we end up getting 6 outed in a 2k pot. Back at it today hoping to erase yesterday's decent into darkness.

I'm currently about 36hrs into my 72hr fast. A few hunger pangs at the table last night but not bad. This morning I'm not even hungry. The second day usually gets rough though. When it gets bad, apple cider vinegar or bullet proof coffee are your friends.

Getting it turned around in the right direction here today.

We play 2/5 for about 3hrs and win 50 bucks or so. The game is just ok so when the 1/2 plo opens, we move over.

We lose 300 in the first orbit, add back on and run it up to 1950.
We are in the co with 9955 diamonds
Hj makes it 25, I call as does the button. Sb 3!
To 110.

5 ways to the flop
8d5s2h

Sb bets his remaining 300ish, a short stack calls.
The Hj who covers me pots it.
We aren't all that happy about it, but we rip it all in.

We end up raking in a very nice pot of 4400

This one will naw at me
Effective stacks $725

We over limp in mp with KJJ9r
Bb makes it 20
5ways to the flop

QcTh9c
We lead 100
Sb check raises 400
We smooth call planning to fold to a club

Turn Qd
Sb bets 305

We make the crying call
He shows QT

We end up with +1300 over the two day session which is an excellent result being -1590 after the first day.

Currently I am about 60 hours fasted and to be honest it hasn't been really all that difficult. There have been some hunger pangs and I did have a bullet proof tea last night, but more as a preventative measure rather than a code red.

I assume it will get ruff at some point today but I may go until tomorrow morning and make it a cool 80hrs.

The struggle was real this weekend...we come out of the two day session -3295

5/5 plo
Effective stack 2750

We straddle otb $10
We look down AA53 spades
Few calls, table maniac $75
2 cold callers
I make it $150
Maniac clicks it back 300
Everyone folds
I make it $1100
He calls.

Flop Jc9d7c
He checks to me.
I shrug and shove
He snap calls with a flopped straight.

Still up for January but a no more of those please.

We be struggling with this break even stretch. Quick look at our app and we are just over 4.50 an hour for nearly the last 200hrs. I feel like I'm heads up with variance at this point instead of the players.
We do take in 965 this weekend.
I'm studying, which actually is kind of difficult for full ring live plo. All I can do is get better and wait for my turn.

This is one stack I punted this weekend.

Guy I've never seen before sits.
Super aggro younger guy.
20mins he has been raising and 3betting pre and punted 2 or three stacks.

We are delt AQQJ nut clubs as we straddle 10 otb.

A few calls and mp makes it 60. Villain 240! In the co. Hj folds.
I'm thinking I'm way ahead of his range don't really wanna call a third of my stack pre. I decide to ship it.
Sb can't get his 1k stack in quick enough with A245 ds black .
We are 5 ways to the flop which obv some random QJ83 hand wins with 3s full of 8s

So think I gotta chill on my preflop aggression as no one is folding for any amount pre in these games.

are you working on losing weight yet? I am 43, male, weight problems and health issues b/c of it

Hey Preki,
Sorry for the late reply, I'm not getting notifications from this app for some reason even tho they are on, ill hafta get that sorted somehow.

Yes so I have Started working on losing weight. I started the day after Xmas at 252 and have made it down to 240. It has been fairly slow ramp up toward maximum effort.

I have removed all sugar added items for the most part. Last week I struggled making the best choices in socially pressured situations and eating too close to bed time. I plan on correcting those this week.

I will say I've held multiple training and health coaching certifications in my time with the latest being a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner, feel free to chime in or ask questions, ill make sure to update on the weight loss progress here too. I hope you hop on board and lose some with me.

Lol
So after my speech in my last plo post about turning pfr aggression down, we get to the casino this morning and after a short uneventful stint at a couple NL tables we are seated at 1/2 plo.

3rd hand in, btn is straddled to $10 and we are delt KK97 diamonds in the CO.
Whole table calls to me and I 80!
4 calls to omc in mp who jams for $225.

Not a fan of any of my options here, attempt to isolate the guy that has me dominated or call half my stack and invite the rest of the table. I bought in for 506 and cover everyone except the button.

I ship it. Only one guy folds. We are 6 ways all in.
K in the window and we hold on the 4 to a straight board. $1900 pot gets pushed to us.

Ty. I know better but have bad habits. Especially while drinking or out and about working making deliveries

We have moved to 5/5 booking +1500 at the 1/2.

We have 750 and delt JJ98 clubs otb and miss our straddle, table covers me.
CO to $25!
We call and are 5ways to the flop
QT9 rainbow.

Checks to us
We $100
BB calls, every one else folds.

Turn
QT92 still rainbow.
BB checks, we $225

River
6h
BB checks
We ship the rest of our stack.
Bb folds

Our luck has turned here at the 5/5 and not in a good way.
We bet the flop on a J hi board and get one caller.
We turn a set of Ks with JKKx in our hand, we are able to cr all in but can hold vs the dry wrap as a 2:1 fav.

We rebuy and are 800 effective when we straddle otb and are delt AQJJ nut clubs. A few calls and we $55.

3 callers
Flop
AsQc4h
Checks to us, we $180
2 callers

Turn
2s
Checks to us

This brings the wheel obv, but it's unlikely and idt we can give a free card with the back door spade draw showing up. So we ship it.

Cut off snap calls with Q853r and the board bricks out.

Pretty ruff 5/5 session yesterday. I feel like played well, there were not any tough decisions for the most part, just brutal variance, it's how these last two months have gone.

Idt I've ever run as poorly in a live session as I did in 5/5 yesterday. That being said the over all result wasn't terrible as we get into the game for 5k and a slight com we back near the end we get out for 2k. Our 1/2 winnings plus the lil comeback at the end mitigate the carnage.

After a quick nap are back at 1/2 plo this morning as a game ran thru the night and we get a courtesy double up on the 4th hand plus some as AAxx holds.

Fun one here 1/2 plo
530 effective

We in the co with T997 spades
Bunch of calls to us we raise to 15

7ways to the flop
9c3d2s

Mp leads for 35
We 105!
2 cold callers and the bettor calls as well

4ways to a turn
7d
I ship the remaining 410

2 callers

River
8c

Mhig

So I did fast from Saturday morning until late Sunday afternoon once I finished my session and grabbed some Korean food at the casino. We haven't really moved the scale since our initial 12lb loss. So we need to take measures.

This week's adjustment was making better decisions in socially pressured situations.

Next week's adjustment, which I think will be a big one, is adjusting our feeding window.

Currently on most days our feeding window doesn't start until we get home in the afternoons. The problem with this is I end up eating too close to our sleeping window. This is a bad for several reasons.

So as I result I'm going to make my feeding window each day during lunch time. This will also work much better when the weather breaks next month and we start training for a back country archery elk hunt this fall. Enabling us to just get to working out after we get home instead of having to jam the work out, meal prep and eating into such a small window as the clock ticks toward bedtime.

I'm also doing a 3 day fast each month to get this moving in the right direction, that will take place on one of the latter weekends this month.

So after this past weekends blood bath at 5/5 and fail at the first month of this challenge, I want to take some measures to try to mitigate variance.

I'm going to take a break from the 5/5 to get some run good going and some confidence back.

I had shot taken at the 5/5 last year and it went pretty well. I want to take a different approach when I return tho.

In this game 90% of hands are straddled and usually to $20, this puts us in the position of short stacking most of the time and instead of having a pre & post flop edge, it removes most of our post flop edge. So upon my return I want to be buying in deeper so we have many more deep stack situations.

A fine welcome back as we dust off a couple buy ins playing 2/5nl in the 3rd and 12th hands of the session.
AA cracked then we gii otf with A7cc vs Q9cc on a Kd4c5c board and cannot dodge the 9h otr.

But I digress, today is pot stealing day, as we will be working on picking up plo pots that don't belong to us.
Got 1 in already

1/2plo

2 limps to us in the bb
We haz Jh9h4d3d and complete.
Flop
987r
We 15
Mp calls

Turn 2s no FDs available
We 45
Mp calls

River K
We 75
MP folds 2nd nuts

450 effective table is passive pre
We are utg AcKsTs4h
We call the $10 btn straddle
5 ways to the flop

QcJh7c
We check
Utg+2 bets 40
4 ways to the turn

8d
Checks thru

River
Tc

We lead 200
Lots of tanking but they all fold