ahhhh congrats amigo! Looks like you guys had a time! Weddings are the best, especially when its yours!

I really like that advice, will keep that in mind. And you were exactly right it looks like KK/AA our only calls and AKo is actually a fairly decent mistake.

No worries though, we live and learn.

It was an exhausting blast, I still can't believe it's been 3 weeks! Thanks for the congrats and I'll have to check out your stream one of these days!



Had a nice, chill day since wife is home from work after 2 days off and is still working her way into shape. Still managed a few hours of studying and feel really good about the mindset after getting smacked last 2 days.

Chin up man

Week 6: February 3rd-February 9th: Tourney Troubles

1.) 38.38 hours of Poker Yearly Goal: 156.33/1800

2.) .6 hours of Mental Health Yearly Goal: 4/75

3.) 4.5 hours of Fitness Yearly Goal: 20.57/200


The only struggle this year regarding poker has been tournaments. I bricked every Sunday tournament and have only scraped together 3 min cashes through 3 weeks. Frustration has simmered but overall I'm quite happy with my process this week putting 10 hours off the table (5 for cash, 5 for tournies).

Rome wasn't built in a day and while I'm bleeding profit there I am at least doing well on the cash side to not have it sting very much. Also a $10k DS for tournaments is all together nothing when the avg buyin is probably $300.

As far as that goes, I have not much to report, life is getting back to normal, mundane routine.

Some hands, since it's been awhile:

1.) Fun one, not too sure about anything except river

PartyGaming - $20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $2,910.16
Hero (BB): $3,636.62
UTG: $3,743.39
CO: $2,000.00
BTN: $2,000.00

SB posts SB $10.00, Hero posts BB $20.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $30.00) Hero has K J

fold, CO raises to $46.00, fold, fold, Hero calls $26.00

Flop: ($102.00, 2 players) T 6 7
Hero checks, CO bets $40.00, Hero calls $40.00

Turn: ($182.00, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, CO bets $110.00, Hero raises to $340.00, CO calls $230.00

River: ($862.00, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, CO bets $600.00, Hero calls $600.00

CO shows 7 7 (Straight, Ten High)
(Pre 53%, Flop 95%, Turn 82%)
Hero shows K J (Straight, Jack High)
(Pre 47%, Flop 5%, Turn 18%)
Hero wins $2,057.50


2.) vs reg

PokerStars - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $791.88
CO: $1,194.00
BTN: $506.12
Hero (SB): $873.28

Hero posts SB $2.50, BB posts BB $5.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $7.50) Hero has Q K

fold, fold, Hero raises to $15.00, BB raises to $45.00, Hero calls $30.00

Flop: ($90.00, 2 players) J Q 4
Hero checks, BB bets $44.00, Hero calls $44.00

Turn: ($178.00, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, BB bets $160.80, Hero calls $160.80

River: ($499.60, 2 players) T
Hero checks, BB bets $542.08 and is all-in, Hero calls $542.08

BB shows 8 2 (One Pair, Twos)
(Pre 34%, Flop 37%, Turn 32%)
Hero shows Q K (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 66%, Flop 63%, Turn 68%)
Hero wins $1,581.76


3.) v loose 4b by reg

PartyGaming - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $1,019.82
BTN: $692.20
Hero (SB): $585.73
BB: $423.46
UTG: $398.72

Hero posts SB $2.50, BB posts BB $5.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $7.50) Hero has J J

fold, CO raises to $15.00, fold, Hero raises to $55.00, fold, CO raises to $125.00, Hero calls $70.00

Flop: ($255.00, 2 players) 3 4 2
Hero checks, CO bets $80.00, Hero raises to $460.73 and is all-in, CO calls $380.73

Turn: ($1,176.46, 2 players) Q

River: ($1,176.46, 2 players) 7

CO shows 9 9 (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 18%, Flop 10%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows J J (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 82%, Flop 90%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins $1,173.46


4.) This was v enjoyable

PokerStars - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $500.00
SB: $672.31
Hero (BB): $544.50
UTG: $412.35
MP: $690.12
CO: $506.50

SB posts SB $2.50, Hero posts BB $5.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $7.50) Hero has 4 5

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to $15.00, Hero raises to $45.00, SB raises to $120.00, Hero calls $75.00

Flop: ($240.00, 2 players) A Q 2
SB checks, Hero bets $70.00, SB calls $70.00

Turn: ($380.00, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($380.00, 2 players) T
SB bets $100.00, Hero raises to $354.50 and is all-in, SB calls $254.50

Hero shows 4 5 (Straight, Five High)
(Pre 21%, Flop 16%, Turn 77%)
SB shows A A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 79%, Flop 84%, Turn 23%)
Hero wins $1,086.00


5.) vs reg

PartyGaming - $20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $2,215.89
Hero (BB): $3,237.00
UTG: $3,935.01
MP: $3,675.49
CO: $2,030.00
BTN: $2,317.08

SB posts SB $10.00, Hero posts BB $20.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $30.00) Hero has 5 T

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $50.00, fold, Hero calls $30.00

Flop: ($110.00, 2 players) 7 6 T
Hero checks, BTN bets $30.00, Hero calls $30.00

Turn: ($170.00, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets $124.12, Hero calls $124.12

River: ($418.24, 2 players) J
Hero checks, BTN bets $290.00, Hero calls $290.00

BTN shows K 8 (High Card, King)
(Pre 61%, Flop 32%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows 5 T (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 39%, Flop 68%, Turn 84%)
Hero wins $993.74


6.) vs strong reg, not my favorite spot

PartyGaming - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $2,510.67
SB: $1,318.03
BB: $1,867.00

SB posts SB $5.00, BB posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $15.00) Hero has J J

Hero raises to $25.00, SB raises to $105.00, fold, Hero calls $80.00

Flop: ($220.00, 2 players) 6 2 7
SB bets $185.00, Hero calls $185.00

Turn: ($590.00, 2 players) Q
SB bets $294.00, Hero calls $294.00

River: ($1,178.00, 2 players) T
SB bets $734.03 and is all-in, Hero calls $734.03

SB shows Q T (Two Pair, Queens and Tens)
(Pre 33%, Flop 13%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows J J (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 67%, Flop 87%, Turn 5%)
SB wins $2,644.06


7.) vs reg

PartyGaming - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $1,492.75
Hero (BB): $2,974.91

SB posts SB $5.00, Hero posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $15.00) Hero has 5 6

SB raises to $22.00, Hero calls $12.00

Flop: ($44.00, 2 players) 5 6 J
Hero checks, SB bets $14.35, Hero raises to $56.00, SB calls $41.65

Turn: ($156.00, 2 players) 4
Hero bets $125.00, SB calls $125.00

River: ($406.00, 2 players) Q
Hero bets $304.12, SB calls $304.12

Hero shows 5 6 (Two Pair, Sixes and Fives)
(Pre 45%, Flop 71%, Turn 64%)
SB mucks J 3 (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 55%, Flop 29%, Turn 36%)
Hero wins $1,013.74

gld dude

Gl always appreciated

Week 7: February 10th- February 6th: We're on the board




1.) 35.58 hours of Poker Yearly Goal: 191.91/1800

2.) .25 hours of Mental Health Yearly Goal: 4.25/75

3.) 2.5 hours of Fitness Yearly Goal: 22.57/200

As seen above, we got the monkey off our back and got first tourney win of 2019. Does it matter that it was a tournament with only 19 people? Maybe, but we got to take baby steps

Was a nice feeling to have a winning tourney day after getting buried very quickly for 10k to start the year. Making slow, tangible process and implementing what I've learned is pleasing as well.

Week in Review

Results were solid, but felt like I could of put more time into poker and on my main goals this year. 35 hours isnt bad but it could definitely be higher, and my schedule didn't stay consistent which led to only one (v good tho!) meditation session. I also only worked out twice.

I did do some house work (**** is really coming together) and I spent Valentines day with Vic where I made the universal mistake of not getting her a card. We agreed to no gifts since we're both kinda meh on Valentines day, and I was of the fact that a card counted as a gift. Lol, well we live and learn.

Also battled a bit and did my first ever HU sims after getting thoroughly outplayed in a short match, nothing like a little ass kicking for motivation.

Upcoming Week

Taking tomorrow off for a date night and life stuff (getting started at taxes) but rest of the week back to work. I'm leaning towards heading up to PA and playing the $1100 and also playing some online poker there as well.


Hands of the week:

1.) vs good reg, felt very close between call and raise but when in doubt took the nittier route

PartyGaming - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 145.42 BB
SB: 125.45 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 5

SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, SB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5 BB, 2 players) 6 8 5
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (5 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 3.71 BB, Hero calls 3.71 BB

River: (12.42 BB, 2 players) K
SB bets 12.37 BB, Hero calls 12.37 BB

SB shows K 7 (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 59%, Flop 31%, Turn 18%)
Hero shows 8 5 (Two Pair, Eights and Fives)
(Pre 41%, Flop 69%, Turn 82%)
Hero wins 37.12 BB



2.) Bluffing into it

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (CO): 100 BB
BTN: 168.32 BB
SB: 132.67 BB
BB: 209.65 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 3

Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, BB raises to 13 BB, Hero calls 10 BB

Flop: (26.5 BB, 2 players) 2 Q 4
BB bets 7.89 BB, Hero calls 7.89 BB

Turn: (42.28 BB, 2 players) 4
BB checks, Hero bets 16 BB, BB calls 16 BB

River: (74.28 BB, 2 players) 8
BB checks, Hero bets 63.11 BB and is all-in, BB calls 63.11 BB

Hero shows A 3 (One Pair, Fours)
(Pre 57%, Flop 29%, Turn 11%)
BB shows K Q (Flush, King High)
(Pre 43%, Flop 71%, Turn 89%)
BB wins 200.3 BB


3.) Wrecked

PartyGaming - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 363.89 BB
Hero (SB): 100.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 J

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5 BB, 2 players) 9 K 5
BB checks, Hero bets 1.63 BB, BB calls 1.63 BB

Turn: (8.27 BB, 2 players) 8
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (8.27 BB, 2 players) T
BB bets 3 BB, Hero raises to 21.4 BB, BB calls 18.4 BB

Hero shows 8 J (One Pair, Eights)
(Pre 43%, Flop 6%, Turn 11%)
BB shows K 3 (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 57%, Flop 94%, Turn 89%)
BB wins 51.02 BB


4.) Close one, always feels good to be right

PartyGaming - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 116.35 BB
Hero (MP): 153.78 BB
CO: 101 BB
BTN: 215.63 BB
SB: 35.16 BB
BB: 112.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q

fold, Hero raises to 2.2 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.2 BB

Flop: (4.9 BB, 2 players) 9 J 2
BB checks, Hero bets 1.53 BB, BB calls 1.53 BB

Turn: (7.95 BB, 2 players) Q
BB checks, Hero bets 6 BB, BB raises to 22.51 BB, Hero calls 16.51 BB

River: (52.96 BB, 2 players) 3
BB bets 86.17 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 86.17 BB

BB shows T T (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 56%, Flop 68%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows K Q (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 44%, Flop 32%, Turn 84%)
Hero wins 224.7 BB


5.) v annoying hand vs reg. I actually have no idea what's best as far as river line. Suggestions welcome
PartyGaming - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 109.1 BB
BTN: 238.85 BB
Hero (SB): 160.53 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 110.15 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A Q

fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.8 BB, Hero raises to 11 BB, fold, BTN raises to 27 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

Flop: (55 BB, 2 players) Q 5 5
Hero checks, BTN bets 13 BB, Hero calls 13 BB

Turn: (81 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (81 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 55.6 BB, BTN raises to 198.85 BB and is all-in, fold

BTN wins 334.85 BB


6.) little spice

PartyGaming - $20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 102.79 BB
MP: 203.12 BB
CO: 100 BB
BTN: 192.2 BB
SB: 100 BB
Hero (BB): 118.46 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A T

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.2 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.2 BB

Flop: (4.9 BB, 2 players) 4 K 9
Hero checks, CO bets 1.5 BB, Hero raises to 6 BB, CO calls 4.5 BB

Turn: (16.9 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 15 BB, CO calls 15 BB

River: (46.9 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero bets 95.26 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 141.93 BB


Gl to all on the grind

gz on your first ship of 2020!

Ill be playing the 1100 at parx see u there man also saw u on pokerstars nj too i said hi but u didnt respond

Now I finally understand the username. You truly are sick BB.

Thanks, havent had a lot of them so gotta savor them even if they're small

Not on purpose! I probably just didn't see it; what's your sn?

haha ty ty. I get asked a lot what my sn is so just to share with all of you. I've had the username since I was 7, was a big basketball fan, it has nothing to do with poker or big blinds

a240sx, theres like no traffic on there 50nl+ even in NJ overall i dont play much cash on there anymore moving out of nj for school anyways, PA has like 8 tables of 200nl going daily

Lmk if u decide to stopby parx we shud get a beverage i saw a uncapped 10/25going there few days ago cud be good for u unless u play plo as well haha

Ah were we playing PLO? I usually rarely mix it in, so probs why I wasn't paying attention.

Yeah, I will be heading to Parx so for sure! But nope sticking to the tournament and the NL cash.

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We had our first real tournament sweat of the year with this one. I am really pleased how I played the F2T of this one, really took some +EV chip spots once the bubble broke and I was broke that I just would never take prior to working on my game and then also made held back on some shoves that are certainly making chips but would most certainly be an ICM mistake.

Am I making mistakes? Oh I'm making an absolute f*ck ton but mentally it's much easier for me to process since there's a lot I don't know (yet) about this format. When you don't have a set strategy in a lot of spots you're going to make more mistakes...regardless if it's a tourney, cash or SNG.

On the flip side, mentally I feel just OK about this despite being pleased with how I played. $8k is my 2nd biggest online score ever and tbh $52k is nice but not gonna change my life. Feels kinda sick to only be truly happy when you ship these ones.

Also not surprising that 75% of my cashes this year is in these 6 max tournies where I'm just much more comfortable overall.

Cash Grind

Also going pretty well, solidly rolled for 2k and I even jumped into 5k last night when one spot jumped in. I figured I could get away with it even though the poker roll is a little precarious for it.


Parx 1100

Going to play this Friday and looking to sell a small piece of action. PM here or on my Twitter.

https://twitter.com/JPaw23

damn didnt manage to get any action, sold out so fast! glgl OP

8k cash

for the sake of the rest of us, try not to make coming to PA a regular occurence

fwiw, the games on stars PA have been very good...errrr, i mean, they're horrible, stay in New Jersey

congrats on the tournament scores!

I pmed u my good man.

In regards to MTT/Final table play im quite new to MTT's as well but ICM is crucial once you hit the final table where you need to know what the nash equil strat is factoring in ICM you can run it in pio, but risk premiums between 2 big stacks especially get tricky and usually as the PFR you can be more aggressive in this spot though not rlly

Sorry, it did get scooped up quicker than I thought !

Well I'll be very forthcoming as far as tourney results, before the 4.5k win and 7k cash I was down about 14.5k for the year in tourneys. Ater the binks, I'm down about 6k still. Firing these 500's and even a few 1ks a month skyrockets the buyins!

Always fun to battle new players though! Perhaps I should not use 'bbissick' as my sn on this one though

Yeah for sure ICM is something I've always been aware of but not something I've ever studied, so it's just another thing to start working on

Finds the 8k in his side table years later.

he uses bricks of $100's to wipe his ass these days

GL man didn't make it to day 2, i saw greg ramer though that was cool i guess.

MTT's are sooo much different to me like for instance 30-50bb deep vs a 3! from BUvsCO you call as wide as ATo all the offsuit broads a shtload of suited connectors and suited kx, lol.

Yeah had no dice on me either, Raymer was table next to me and I actually had DFS extraordinaire Adam Levithan next to me, also got to play against Mckeehen for the first time.

Oh wtf mckeehen was there too, aw man i wudve thought u make it i did cash the 500 though i love the small fields thought i wudve done well but still a cash game player at heart

Just played a hand with greg raymer in 560bounty buvsbb had ATo 20bb deep AJ3r i bet 1/4 turn is Ar, i x, river is 6r, what sizing do u use here. Idk how bad this x ott is i didnt know if he was gonna call 3 streets with a jack or maybe go crazy and bluff the river too much

Get your own pgc ffs

First time reading the thread, glad I've got a load of pages to go through, gl!