didn't even cash in the sunday storm, and i was like 700th in chips when i posted that lol.

so i know this thread hasn't got much feedback, but i'd really like some on this. i don't really have much live experience, but i've been faced with a decision. i have an opportunity to receive a $10k stake for 2/5NL at my local casino. fallsview.

it would be a nice break from online poker, and i'm really considering it. we would be splitting 50/50. would it be safe to assume i'd be +EV playing in this games considering my slight online success? i don't know how 500NL live plays, guessing a few regs, tourists (it's in niagara falls after all) and some young live pros.

i was thinking of maybe adding in the clause of if i lost the 10k, i'd repay 5k? just to be courteous and make me take it very seriously.

do you guys think i should accept this? i have zero experience with staking deals, and very minimal live experience. but i think it would be a good area to explore, and a nice change in atmosphere.

i'd still be playing online of course, as in 2012 i'd like to move up to at least a 400NL reg. i don't really have dreams of playing in the nosebleeds, but i'd really really like to make 100k/year. i don't handle swings very well. playing live on the occasional weekend would be nice. discussing this deal later on tonight with my backer, so help me out here!

sorry for the bump, but left out an important detail.

it's 10 handed (BOOOOO) games run 24/7 and there is a BBJ. AAA1010 or better. there's no rake in the games, except i think $1 from each pot for BBJ however you're required to pay $6/30 minutes. i don't know anything about rake structure, is this good/bad?

so things have been going well, still haven't had a losing session yet since i've reformatted however i'm prepared for the doomswitch anytime now. been flopping a lot of sets, and coolering some regs, always nice i feel like i'm playing well too.

i need to average 793VPP / day everyday from here on out. going to be close lol. i discounted christmas + NYE since i highly doubt i'll be playing on those days, probably not on christmas eve either. 13,485 VPP remaining.



anyways, still interested in some of the staking info and whether or not you guys think i should do it, although seems like i just talk to myself in here but it's all good lol.

offtopic but i went to the gym wearing a fulltilt shirt, and 2 friends picked me up to go grab some food @ the mall right after. some guy stared me down hard and called me a piece of garbage, i just loled hard and kept walking. seems like he was mad

Hi Neil, keep it up man, I'm learning allot from you, did not have time to read it all, but I will.
where from Canada ?

hey, thanks a lot. i live in toronto, ontario. you?

nobody really commented on the staking arrangement, but i've went ahead and accepted it. pretty excited to begin my live "career" in 2012! will probably create a new thread after this one's finished tracking my live + online results.

13,106 VPP remaining. need some big volume soon.

Get going mate you need some 16 hour nit sessions of 24tables of full ring.

Hi Neil, I'm from Montreal, about you deal to okay live. Just make sure the turms, I have seen some nasty fight out there just because the left some terms out.
Ex: how long is the staking for, can you take shoots, etc ....
Besides that my other suggestion would be to play 200nl live with your 5k and build your be up so you can grind the 2-5.
Good luck with that.
Did you start at 2nl ?

@dpereiraf - i won't have any issues with my backer, we've known each other for a very long time and the terms are up to me basically. i started at 5NL in january with a deposit of $500. i understand what you're saying about 1/2 live but i find it so slow / boring. don't care about the money much and it's really nitty. i'd much rather play 2/5.

just finished up an 8hour session playing 12 tables, and i was spewing everywhere. i ran like 5bi above EV and still managed to lose lol. got like 3k VPP though which is awesome. i came 3rd in a $8 180 man turbo, managed to cash for like $150. broke even on the day because of that, but i'm not sure how, i should be stuck ~700 i played terrrible, i don't even feel like reviewing my session it's going to make me vomit. oh well i'm happy i broke even and earned a lot of VPP.

VPP REMAINING: 10,106
BANKROLL: $12,900
FPP: 269,510

Your doing really Good, did you play before ?
the 44 hand:
sick read you add on him, care to share what you where thinking !

@ dpereiraf - yeah sure. my range is basically capped at 1010 here. i don't have any 2's in my range. my hand looks exactly like what it is, and i'd expect his overbet on the turn to work against most people.

it would be a really good value spot to be doing this with a hand like 88+ since i leveled myself into calling here with 44. i really dislike his river bet though, once i call turn i'm definitely going to call river since he doesn't really have any K's in his range and i expect him to be bluffing this river near 100%. i don't feel like he's overbetting turn with AK or KQ, but he showed up with q8 here so my logic could be flawed.

i just really didn't believe him here, he wouldn't play quads like this, or 55 i felt, and i don't think he's good enough to bet 88-JJ OTR even though that K does nothing for my range once i call the turn. tank called and turned out i was right.

if he would have just 3 barreled with 3/4 pot sizing i'd definitely be folding somewhere, turn most likely. hope that sums up what i was thinking, not the best at explaining my logic.



here's all my hands since reformatting my computer. pleased with the results. the big change in the EV line was when i played that horrible session and ran really lucky.

playing in the sunday million tomorrow, hopefully i get to post in here while i'm deep and get a nice rail! if everything continues as planned, my bankroll will be slightly above 20K at the end of the year when i cash my FPP and get the milestone, very happy.

9405 VPP remaining.

meh not really much to update, haven't played like at all. slacking off when i really shouldn't be. 9405 VPP left, i haven't grinded in a while.

on the bright side, i'm in the sunday million currently. 1343/7727. top 7682 get $520 so that's a nice little score at least. i'm playing well, and hopefully continue to do so. my best day ever is $1100 and it would be definitely possible to beat it by doing deep here. i've been playing really aggro near the bubble, people are just timebank folding and i'm building my stack nicely.

i went to the casino yesterday and played 2/5. some lolplay at my table. some guy min checkraised j7o on Q83hh from $15 to $30 and called off a shove which was $150 more. was up against 910h and he held, table laughed pretty hard. broke even was card dead with a huge fish on my left, only played like an hour and a half, and then our shuffler broke and my friends wanted to leave, so we went home.

hopefully i get to update this thread in the next few hours and i'm in the top 1k of the sunday million! i'll give out my SN if i'm in the top 100 for a rail, would probably call some friends over too lol.

just got back from another break, currently 1490 people left. slightly below average stack sitting with 350k. guaranteed $938, shooting for 2 million!

just doubled up KK against QQ!! 764k chips

another double. 1.3million chips, this is nutttsss

612 people left. 2 millionchips

Neil02 = ? GL bro, hopefully c u on teh final table

haha yep that's me, didn't want to expose my SN but it's alright. thanks mike hope so too lol

No problem didnt no, rectified

haha that was quick! appreciate it, tyvm.

you mind pm'ing me your screenname, like to rail

pm sent MilsoN.

currently 356 people left, sitting with 2.99mil chips.

GL i got knocked out in 395th take it down

that sucks. thanks hopefully i do!

Do you mind shooting me a pm too?

gl m8, take it down!