After more runbad in omaha (not thanks to playing trash hands this time...!), capped off the day bumhunting players with high VPIPs in hold 'em and ended up making about $200 there (nut flush against straight and nut flush against second nut flush). Actually made a little money today even after a bad showing at omaha (lost a couple AI pre: AA v. AA, QJTT9ds v. bad AK-high, AA lost v. KK in 4! pot, and ran top two plus AA plus nfd into top set; thankfully V was relatively short). Was nice to get back to hold 'em for a change, I gotta say.

Twitch streaming hold 'em and PLO5 now.

Up some today as well, almost all due to PLO. No really big hands to speak of, just several smaller ones, most involving some sort of ds AA holding up. The little hold 'em I played was entirely uneventful. 3! and folded AKo to a big 4! once. That's pretty much it.

Flopped a royal today in 5-card, second one ever (and both clubs). Never had a royal my entire life and suddenly I have TWO? Luckbox!

Unfortunately, the royal did not help me make much today. #saddumbo

Happily, I am almost done with my brief! Do you think a young dude would really feel afraid of physical harm when a 62-year-old with a bad knee tells him, "I'll punch you in your mother****ing face!" after they got into a traffic argument?

Me neither.

What?? Road rage is one of the scariest, most primal spots we have in normal life. Age matters little to me (I'm in my 30's) compared to crazy people controlling a car and God knows what kind of weapons present. But I'm sure I'm missing context.

Your lawyer job still allowing you to work?

Marsh

Yeah but he didn't threaten him with a weapon, he threatened to punch him in the face meaning there is an almost zero percent chance of a weapon being involved. Still pretty stupid to get involved in a road rage incident but sometimes the other guy is a nutcase. One guy pulled up to me and started yelling at me at an offramp because I was driving like 55 on the freeway. His teenage son was yelling at me too and his daughter was trying to get them to stop in the back. I literally did nothing wrong or intentional to make them mad they just became irate because I was driving slow while exiting an offramp in my shitty 91 corolla. Guy was a crazy armo though so he probably had a gun in the car. Didn't stop me from yelling back at them though.

Another time a big rig wouldn't let me merge on a freeway, so I ended up getting in front of him and driving extra slow and leaving a really big gap in front of me. He swung into the next lane drove around me and stopped his big rig on the freeway blocking the right two lanes and got out of his rig trying to confront me. He was like 50 feet away and walking toward my van.
Well I kept yelling at him telling him to move or I was going to hit him. He didn't move so I stepped on the gas and he didn't get out of the way in time and I smacked him with my van mirror. I looked behind me and he was still standing up but I hope I smashed his face up pretty good. Eff that guy.

So what happened with your traffic argument DT?

Yes, still working, same part-time gig. Most work done electronically, some via snail mail, and in-court appearances are rare for most. Only oral arguments require appearances, and the Court postponed those. Not a whole lot affected by the outbreak, for me anyway.

Full story: they got into it over a parking spot, then my client drove away and was stopped at a red light up the block when he saw the other dude (who had since parked and exited his own car) running up and around my client's car in the street shouting out his plate numbers angrily with his cell phone out. Client got out and told him to get away and then uttered the threat. Dude responded "I wish you would!" (i.e., punch him in the face).

Dude didn't seem afraid to me (plus he testified he wasn't), and the impact of the threat on the ordinary listener is an element of the offense. I'm arguing self-defense, people wouldn't be afraid given the age differences and circumstances, and plus the dude was asking for it, amirite? #legal_arguments

You mean my traffic camera ticket? I won the appeal. No $200 fine plus $200 late fee for me.

This is what I meant.

Oh, like I said, I haven't submitted the brief yet, but it's almost done. I'm optimistic but these things are hard to win.

I was terminated effective immediately this morning from my gig as a temp writer for a poker training site I'd never heard of until recently. I just couldn't cut it. They went with someone else who was a better fit.

Needless to say, I'm devastated.

He offered to pay me the $21.00 for the article I did write but I politely declined. I am actually pretty happy with this result because they wanted me to copy the cookie and terms of service policies from other reputable poker training sites in order to use for their site too, which I did not want to do at all. And the videos all started with "this is X for Y site [not their site]." Apparently the speaker in the videos did some work for that site and is now with them?

Would have been a good learning experience to watch more of the training videos for free but probably not worth it given all the above. At least I learned a little about showdown value bluffing.

Sounds like a bunch of lazy "pros" who binked a tourney once and are trying to cash in on that clout to get a form of income other than grinding 2/5 for 5 bigs an hour.

Lol, quite possible...! Whatever the story, ending our brief relationship was for the best.

It's nice to run bad today and be stuck only $30.

What are you grateful for these days?

Edit: $50. Lost AA v. AA AI pre and flopped a set; he rivered a gutter.

Not playing as much on PPPoker the past couple days - had to focus on finishing up that brief, plus running below EV. Better to lighten the volume. The brief is done and I am quite happy with it.

Been reflecting lately and this pesky virus has taught me a few things.

One is who my best friends are. They are the ones spending time with me as we get through this together. I am sure they'll be the ones who are there for me for whatever lies ahead as well. That's very reassuring. I've gone through a few phases in my life when I was socially reclusive and I can say without hesitation that good friends and company make life more enjoyable.

Another is that my parents are older than they once were. Many would consider them to be, just, "old." According to my mom, the younger generations are referring to the virus as the "boomer buster," implying that it will take care of many older people who these younger folks think are taking up too much space in the workforce. The virus has forced me to confront the harsh reality that mom and dad are increasingly vulnerable. Cherish your time with your loved ones!

A third is that I'm a boss. I'm handling this well enough, finding replacements (online poker, for example), reassuring other people who are reaching out to me and sharing their feelings and anxieties. It feels good to be there for others just as they are there for me. I mean, I wrote a goddamn poker strat guide, my beard is killer (just trimmed and shaped it - it's grown out nicely), I'm exercising daily, I invested in the market, I'm still crushing micros despite the recent runbad, and I remain optimistic that we'll get through this challenge too, just as we've overcome countless others as a society.

Finally, when we're threatened as a species, we muster our resources to fight back. Humans are gifted with powerful intelligence - some much more than others - and using that brain power have accumulated knowledge and wisdom over generations to make good decisions in times of crisis that ensure our survival. I am proud of the collective efforts we've made to slow the spread or "flatten the curve," a concept we would not have were it not for the work of epidemiologists who have studied the spread of disease for decades. (Disclaimer: dad's an epidemiologist.)

Part of me wishes this virus was not microscopic so I could literally kick its ass. Instead I'll do the next best thing and stay home.

Good post DT

Stay safe and say thanks to your dad for us.

Thanks! Yeah I might be just a little proud of him right now. Stay safe.

PS: I probably already got it several weeks ago and just didn't realize it was coronavirus. #survivor.

Streaming hold 'em micros now. twitch.tv/dumbostrunk

Today was uneventful roll-building day at hold 'em micros. Ended up making a couple buy-ins. Two AA hands with somewhat different outcomes:

Unknown raises MP1 0.40, I 3! AcAh SB 1.51, calls. HU.

Flop (3.32): 9-9c-6c. X/1.60/c.

Turn (6.52): 7. X/4.20/c.

River (14.92): 2c. X/jam 14/c. V: 97ss. I lose.

Different unknown raises EP, hero 3! AsAd, V calls. HU.

Flop (3.00): Js-8-8s. X/1/c.

Turn (5.00): Tc. X/$3.50/c.

River: (12): 6s. X/10/c. V shows KQo. I win.

So March numbers were low as expected due to moving to online micros less than halfway through the month. 224 hours, 7.24 bb/hr., $1,740 profit.

Omaha overall lifetime online and live is just under 4bb/hr. over 1,000 hours so far. Micros this month was 10-20 bb/hr. (depending on whether you count bb as .4 or .2 - I played both) over lol small 115 hour sample. Live is more like 4 bb/hr. Can't complain! Gonna subscribe to RIO I think this month for their PLO courses to get that winrate higher.

Streaming hold 'em and PLO5.

http://twitch.tv/dumbostrunk

Ran AK into AA in a straddled pot today (damn straddled pots - you are the bane of my existence!). For around 50bb I don't think I can do much else. M1 open limps, hero in SB 2.40, straddler folds, MP1 l/rr 8, I jam $18 or so. We run it twice and I lose both as expected.

Another hand I 3! AKo, BTN cold calls, pfr folds. HU. 3-2-2. X/x. Turn: 4. X/x. River: 9. I value bet 1.35 into 4.50, he raises to 3.75, I eventually call and MHIG v. QJo. As played he has like zero value here except 33/22. I don't think he's good enough to raise 9x.

Ran pretty poorly today aside from the AK/AA. Lost with top pair twice as 70/30 or 65/35 favorite, and ran cold in PLO - hardly got any hands, couldn't connect when I did. Lost about $50 overall. That's pretty much it.

Spent most of the day figuring out how to help my detained client get out ASAP. He has asthma and the jail has dozens of COVID-19 cases and is utterly failing to take adequate measures to prevent the spread. There's a lawsuit against the jail pending already. He got time served on his underlying case, but that triggered a parole violation for which he received ten months.

Underlying case: client held while cops investigating something else, they hold him, let him outside to take a smoke, an hour plus in to the hold he asks to piss, they say no, he asks repeatedly again, he has a weak bladder due to appendix removal, they say when detective leaves apartment he can go in to pee. Detective leaves, he asks again, they say no. He asks to piss outside instead. "No." "It hurts," he says. He tries to leave to piss outside, officer gets in his way. He says, "**** do you want me to piss on you?" and pisses inside the apartment, getting some on cop's pants as he turned around to piss in the corner inside. Arrested for assault on cop for the piss on pants and indecent exposure. Now serving ten months on parole violation with COVID-19 flooding jail and he has asthma. Da *** tyranny is this?

This has me all riled up.

Lost $25 tonight after all this with AA+nfd in 3! pot multiway (of course), GII spr 1.25 against middle set and lose the one runout. Earlier this same bag GII with me with his (non-nut) fd and AA against my top set and was willing to run it twice, of course, and of course we chopped that one.

No justice in life or poker these days it seems. At least I'm fighting for my client and $25 won't make a dent in the roll anyway.

I can only imagine being the cop in that scenario.

"Yeah, okay buddy, you have a 'weak bladder', like I haven't heard that one be- WHAT IN THE GODDAMN?!"

If your out on parole you don't exactly have the same 4th amendment rights as average citizens. If I were a cop I wouldn't want to let a parolee that's detained an opportunity to use the restroom and destroy evidence or whatnot. If I were a detained parolee I sure as hell wouldn't whip my dick out and try to take a piss in the corner of a room, that's ******ed. If you have to go, piss your pants, that's not illegal. Also if I had to piss inside I'd rather piss on my clothes rather than ruin the walls/carpet whatever else.

Anyway, you sound like a good lawyer and I like your indignation at the way your client was treated. Even if I don't necessarily feel the same way, I would want my lawyer to be as riled up as you are if I was that guy. And yeah doesn't seem like he should be locked up for being an idiot. Give em hell DT!