No worries. I probably messed it up since I posted with my phone.

Played 7.25 hours and lost $1912 at 5/5, really happy with play and was one of best games ive ever played in.

There were 10-12 very interesting hands so I'll post a few I remember.

The dynamic for this hand is one guy is 2k+ deep, calling every hand and chasing every draw and probably any two pair draw as well.

This player is in blinds for this hand.

I'm not too sure what to do on river tbh.

A player limps (has been taking lots of small stabs in pots recently.. not sure what he's had, one time he was weak.) I raise to $30 with QT in the CO. Called by calling guy and limper.

Flop ($95)

A8J

Checks to me, I bet $60. Both players call. Somewhat expected. Could be ahead of first player's range. Not too sure about other guy just yet, maybe an A, maybe KQ/KT/KJ/QJ/TJ etc.

Turn ($275)

It's a complete brick. Maybe a 5 offsuit.

V1 makes it $120. His smaller bets have been weaker with big bets being nutted. V2 calls though. I don't think we can get either player off any Ace. So I call. We're $600 eff to start the hand, I'm shortest stack.

River ($635)

Q

V1 checks. He could still have a weak ace or a good jack and might not fold it. V2 bets $180. Such a sick spot. I think V1 will fold everything less than top pair if I call or raise. It's still possible I raise and he calls with A7 or something. Problem is, I don't think I have enough to get V2 off a weak ace. The other issue is, my hand easily could be good. I hate math but we probably only need to be good 22% of the time to call. A raise would only be $220 more (it's possible that it was $420 more because at one point I had a $800 stack but don't remember exactly when). At the time I shifted to call mode. His bet could be QJ which is something that would fold to a raise. Even considered Kx even though I block both hands. Then tons of Ace rag combos and other combos mentioned above.

I ended up folding and V1 also folded. Issue with calling also is V1 if never folding any Ace but he might be more likely to bet an ace stronger than $120 on the turn. I'd see him later c/r top pair weak kicker so he may have actually c/r'd an ace but didn't know this at the time.

Hand 2

This hand was very situational. Aggro preflop player opened for $20, V2 from last hand calls, and V1 from last hand called. I'm in BB with A5. I thought I could get original preflop raiser to fold along with V2 and get heads up with V1. I raised to $90. Think I made a mistake and should have gone $110-130. Everyone called haha, plan did not work. Being oop vs V1 probably isn't ideal but still feel like he's passive enough with weaker hands to make it worth it.

Flop ($360) K64

Everyone checked.

Turn Q

The way everyone checked... I really didn't think anyone had a King. Original raiser would have bet it based on my read. It sounds really silly but I thought I rep'd QQ very well here.... and no one seems to have a king. I bet $160 and everyone folded rather quickly.

Hand 3:

Now there's a new player at the table... and he's trying to win every pot. He keeps showing one and saying he had no pair just a draw, and has won lots of pots like this in a short time. With the combination of this player... who we'll call V3 and V1. It's looking good for us, who we're going to call V8.

I raised in early position with ATo to $30. Not a play I typically do but with V3 playing $1k-1.5k deep and V1 with $3k I'm really trying to increase my $500 stack. V3 calls, V1 actually folds (he started playing a bit tighter after reaching a $3.5k+ stack.) One other player calls in the button.

Flop ($95)

646

I lead for $45 and get called by both players.

Turn ($230)

9

Checks through.

River ($230)

9

I check. V3 bets $300, in 3 chips.

Other guy folds. I think for a bit. Raising would only be $200 and get chops to fold. Decided there were well enough combos of missed draws and tossed a chip in.

V3 shows KJo. I show my ATo and scoop a nice $830 pot with A high. Given random bluff combos and needing something like being right 57%~ of the time, I think I well had it and was way ahead.

Hand 4:

I'm stuck for $1200~ at this point. Many small pots not going my way, had to call off $200 vs V3 with top pair in an earlier uninteresting hand.

V4, a new player who I think didn't unstack to $500 from his table change, limped utg for $5. I raised to $30 with AKo. He makes it $85. I call. I think I should be either raising or folding, or calling with plan to jam lots of flops if I think he's going crazy (really didn't think villain was strong here for some reason, despite no history.)

Flop 834r ($175)

He bets $120, I fold. Gave him benefit of being a new, random player... going against my feel. My read in this spot is that usually.. only old people make this play as strength pre. V seemed 30-40~.

Hand 5:

Happened shortly after hand 4.

V4 makes it $25 utg. Based on few hands I've seen since the AK hand, already regretting my decision. Who knows, he still could have had AA/KK but meh. I flat CO with QT. Random from blinds calls.

3 ways ($80)

Flop: K86

blind checks, V4 bets $40, I call, blind folds.

Turn ($160)

5

V4 bets $125. I think for a little and go all in for $320 more. I'm just not buying his line. Small bet on flop, big bet on turn. V4 tank calls. Sigh. I know he his crap but it's better than my crap. Let's get our heart!

River K ($1050)

He has the ATo this time. Nice call, wp'd. Guess it's pretty easy for call since if I thought he was bluffing I'd just call my strength. Could put him in a tough spot with hands like 44,77,99. Actually I lied early, and if I don't have a flush draw, it's more likely he does and makes more sense to shove strength instead of flatting, kind of win/win when a flush draw folds (even though I'd much rather the latter) or calls in that sort of pot. I could probably shove my entire range here (which is what I was thinking at the time and contradicted in writing.) and be way ahead based on feel.

Snap left after that last hand, just couldn't bring myself to play any more haha.

There was one hand I left out but it was pretty std... was like $1340 pot($210~ contributed from a 3rd player who folded), had top set, V1 caught a better set on turn (money got in on flop)

Don't usually do in depth posts but that was the most interesting NL session I've possibly ever played. I know that hand 2, overall is pretty bad. At the time I also didn't know how much more time I'd get to play with V1 and wanted to maximize play against him.

Didn't have plans today but am feeling a bit better after posting this. Just posted my take of what to do on a downswing in a thread in LLSNL, another thing I don't usually do. Throughout the session yesterday, I still had faith and hope that things would turn around. Unfortunate that they didn't but if I can bring myself to go out today with a fresh mindset, I will. And probably just play PLO unless the same thing happens again. Yesterday was probably a really good day to play PLO since the tournaments weren't geared towards that player pool but I think it's the same way today.

Already 7.25 hours in Feb, well good start compared to my 57 hours in Jan. Let's call it Fearless February cause nothing is about to stop us!


Roll is $6269

Hand 1: Just fold you are not good here enough of the time. Also i dont think V has Ax to often which prob would fold against a jam. More like 2pair or a straight.

Hand 2: Pre is pretty questionable. There are many better hands to squeeze her. Also yeah the sizing is a bit small. As played i prefer a cbet on the flop here you rep a much wider valuerange than you do by better the turn.

Hand 3: Generally you should be folding here. You can make a super exploitive call if you are pretty sure with your read. Although he had KJ i still prefer folding.

Hand 4: Call pre is fine. You could just jam if you dont think he strong here often enough. Also you should prob call once on the flop. You could very well be good and also if hes bluffing hes likely to ripp it on an A or K on the turn.

Hand 5: Why dont you buy his line here? Its pretty credible. Jam is prob fine althoug you should be pretty careful not overbluffing this spot. you pretty much only repp 88 or 66 here why you might raise on the flop sometimes.

. I disagree at people's ability to fold flush draws which is why I would jam value here. Feel plays are feel plays. I was right and he was right. It's just too weak of a hand to call turn with and if he bluffs river I can't call and we don't hit enough to justify calling.

I'm not a nit by the way... especially not in NL and willing to get loose in action games. Thanks for input, these are just my opinions. A player playing style x will have quite the different opinions and ideas than a player playing style z.

Didn't even plan to play today but motivated by writing last post. Day ended up pretty crazy. On the car ride to the casino I decided I'd shoot for $500 profit, then decided that was dumb and shoot for $1500. Why not shoot for the stars?

I started on 1/2 plo, won $400, got lucky in a big pot. Then decided to play the $570 Big O... just had a good feeling about it. That even if I wasn't best big o player that I could suck out my way to a win. Didn't work out that well. But I ran back into 1/2 plo and won lots of money. I think $6-700~. I noticed the players playing 5/5/10 plo looked much different than usual and hopped on to take a shot. I won the first hand, a small pot and just one more hand in 3-4 hours~.

Turned out the game at one point was one of the most action packed games I've ever played in. Unfortunate that only once I made a big hand. Still won a little and surrendered after playing 10~ hours of poker on the day. No regrets about the shot because I dunno if the game has potential to be any better. No regrets about big o tournament shot because I also saw some pretty wild things going on. Plus only 52 players so it was a good chance to win a trophy.

Didn't quite reach my goal of $1500 but did win 1059.

Roll: 7328

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So after the success in trying to make $1500 yesterday, I decided to shoot for $2000 today. Made some valid reasons why it would be useful to win the money - bills, buying extra stuff/replacing old things, and the challenge. Games were really wild... and I only played on the main game. (1/2 PLO!)

To sum up my session... I got in AKK7 in against AAJK (dunno if he had any suits, didnt really care). Action was I open, 2 calls, then short stack very wide jam, so i re iso figuring no one can continue, I have KK ace blocker yadie da. Flopped 732 turn blank and river... I decided to call for the 7... and a 7 it was. Decided since guy made that work vs me in 88 v KK hand with top set the other day that I could do that too. How often do people post about how good they run? Well look at this guy.

Had a fun hand where I bet $500 into a $800 pot into 2 players with a main pot of $200 (600 on side) with 2nd pair no blockers and got through and scooped. Not going in depth because mostly described by feel (even though I did have lots of logic behind it but screw going far in depth strategy here... just wanna run good for the challenge!)

Ended up $1429 over 8.75 hours. Was weird it turned into two main games and I really wanted to table change to other table but some other guy went before me who wasn't supposed to so I decided I was too tired (only slept 5 hours night before and require 7+ for decent state of being personally) and went home. Would have had to rebuy for $400 even though other guy took his $2.5k~ with him haha. Whatever.

Roll: 8756

Let's start from the beginning of the day. I decided since I saw some guy yesterday with 4k+ stack at other table... why couldn't I do that? So during the car ride to the casino, my goal for the day was +$3500. At 1/2 plo mostly unless I had to shot take 5/5/10.

Get to the cashier and buy $1500. Cashier tells me "hope you double it". Odd thing for them to say so I quickly responded "I'll triple it".

The session could be summed up as: lost a $2700 pot heads up and still won $784. Ran full wrap + flush draw (2 straight flush draw cards) into 3 pair and turned 2 flush draws, one better than mine. Rivered the backdoor flush draw and completed my straight, had the chance to check back but thought too much value in betting based on reads.

So we actually had the chance to come real close to winning 3.5k like the goal was!!!

Ran really good too. Got AKJ9ds in vs AAKK and flopped trip 9's and won for $800~. Thought guy was steaming and called off his shove of I was already committed to unless I thought he had AA only in range. Would love to make this a blog about how to run good at poker and outrun variance, haha.

Just realized that tomorrow is the super bowl and I could care less unless it means a good plo game as well. Sports is something I'm happy to cut off for the most part. I'll still watch ends of games and big games that I enjoy watching but it opens up so much more time to do things. Cut out alcohol 5 months ago and decided it's extremely counter productive and nothing really good comes of it. Working on cutting out cheese and dairy but I LOVE cheese and ice cream. Will be more of cutting down on the intake. All these things help make me a better poker player as a whole.

Decided at 10k roll I would do a vlog of some sort. Technically I surpassed it at one point during session it was probably at 10.5k~ but we don't really count it unless session is over.

Going to spit off a summary of some stats so far:

32 sessions. 255 hours. 8.5k profit. 7.97 hour average session.
21 winning sessions. 250 average session win. 33.48/hr

9540 roll

Game was special today and I could only book a $253 win. Hate to complain over a win but let's put it this way. Multiple people racked 2.5k+ in $400 max plo. One guy racked $4k. Think it took me 3.5 hours to win a pot and it was at the start of the game the most action took place. Ughh haha.

Pre session goal was $3.5k and I think if I ran really good in the game / caught some decent starting hands could have easily won $5k+.

Almost irresponsibly played 10/20 nl for a certain reason but resisted.

Super bowl was actually a pretty awesome game. Happy it was on in background, great finish. Awesome comeback. Anything is possible!

7 days in a row of poker for 57~ hours. Best volume poker week in years. Just gotta keep showing up so we can accelerate this challenge.

Roll: 9793

Looks like you are taking some shots man.....

Not too much. Took one 5/5/10 plo shot the other day and it was well worth. I'm mostly playing games of $400-500 max buy in. 1/2 5 bring in plo or 5/5 NL. Did shot take a 2/5/10 nl but also well worth. No straddle in 5/5 nl so it usually plays small.

Did not play the 10/20 nl. No matter how good it could have been... still not really worth it at this point.

Plus if shots go poorly I'm not going to go too deep into them. Can always move back down. I'm at the point where shot taking 5/10 games is somewhat comfortable it's just not really comfortable unless game is well worth it. I'd lose money in a tough 5/10+ line up right now.

Not too sure about exact bankroll guidelines. Thinking 20-30k is enough to shot take 10/20~ for 1-2 100 bb or less buy ins. Again, only taking it if the spot is good. Way above average game. These stakes are so much different than shot taking something like 2/5 or 5/5 where I can win in any "average" line up. Some really amazing players are playing 10/20 where amazing players at 2/5 would only last there for a few months at the most before being able to move up to 5/10.

At some bankroll I'd like to start learning 40/80 mix for fun. Might wait till 40-50k just to have 10k~ cushion incase I'm spewing in game.

Tournament shots too. I don't regret any tournament as they are a very fun change of pace, make me love playing poker more, and the skill levels are much different from average 2/5 games. If there's one more tournament I'll play it's a $570 escalator or $350 triple stack (would probably not play triple stack unless I buy in really late). Feel like roi would have to be HUGE to make it worth playing a 30k starting stack from level 1.

Plus I want a Remmington Trophy to put with all my teeball trophies. Would look fancy once I buy a house and put it in my dream study room.

Was fun talking about shots for a little bit. But yeah, I'm going to be aggressive with bankroll as possible. My faith in play and game selection is quite strong. Almost feel like you have to be somewhat what some would consider "delusional" to make yourself great at poker.

Chilled out today. Flipped out in the morning since someone ate my sushi but managed to reset self a bit. Important to reset mindset after playing some really insane weekend games and get back to the steady normality of the weekday. Crazy games almost make me feel like a degen.. they excite me so much!

Roll is stagnant!

Nice to see you have a good mindset man. I'm trying to transition into live poker and start my own challenge in a couple of days.

IDK, I feel like I am not myself in front of crazy actions. Not sure if this would make sense but something about consciously risking big scares me even though I have won/lost bigger when I'm taking shots/ degening on tilt.

Start this off with a personal note. I've been furious over small 1/2 losses while shrugging off $3k+ plo losses in the past. It happens. But below is a better take:

This makes tons of sense and surely many people deal with this same issue. Perhaps staying at a comfortable stake for a while just so you can build up a roll so taking shots doesn't kill what you've made. There's no shame in grinding 1/2 or 2/5 for a long period of time... different people have different goals. Some are looking for a steady $20-40/hr~ "job" then look no further.

Regardless if the stakes you play online, I highly recommend 100-500+ hours of 1/2 or 1/3 or 2/3 (smallest game). It takes a bit to learn all the small things about live. Playing the same game as you do online likely won't win you much money (unless you're main game is small stakes full ring on ignition, that plays a lot like live poker or did a few months ago on Bovada).

Tilt can be controlled. Personally, I start to tilt when making a very "trivial" mistake. Like calling two streets in a spot where I'm never good. I'll just get up and take a walk + some deep breaths or just leave if it's out of control and reset myself before the next day. No one is immune to tilt but working on your mental game / mindset can help tenfold+ to reduce it.

Money is just an idea that exists solely on the basis that the majority of people believe in it. It's like a super gift that you can exchange for almost any "gift" or "good". It can always be regained or better yet... created.

We create our own condition related to money. For example, if all you think you're good enough to do is making a "minimum" salary to get by for the year, then this is almost certainly what you will have. If you don't have the belief that you can create a situation where you can make all the money that satisfies your needs and wants then you also won't have it. Dream big and reach for the sky. There's no shame in setting a goal too high and not reaching it. It's MUCH better than setting a small goal that's EASILY attainable. What's even the point?

Suppose you could counter argument the above statement that you can build momentum and confidence by setting a bunch of "easy" goals. Depends on where one is at in terms of confidence mostly.

I believe that anything is possible and that no limitations exist. If someone asked me if it's possible to for example, levitate or fly or bend a spoon with the mind... I believe there's a way. Even though I don't know how to do it myself or haven't seen anyone else do it, I'm sure there's a way. Every day I think about things and ask myself.. is it possible, then believe it is and try it. My confidence level is high so big goals are almost necessary.

So my goal for today is a +$4k session. It's even different than things I mentioned above because I've never seen them done in real life. But I've seen multiple guys win $4k+ at 1/2 plo. So this is going to likely be the goal until it happens. And it will!

Good vibes to all! If you're at the commerce in the next week and a half, shoot me a message and let's meet up. Or find the guy with the most naturally "unkept" facial hair and longish black hair. Or wait till I make that vlog then my identity will be revealed.

PS: My personal recommendation is to not do anything that feels like a "shot" until you exude confidence in it.

Reached the $10k mark!

Mixed in some 5/5/10 plo, even had to hit an run it at one point. Would have loved to jump over there near the end of my session but I didn't feel right. Not really willing to talk about it because trying to visualize it away. Don't have the time to be ill as well... just was a few weeks ago. Played mostly 1/2 plo and booked a nice win for yesterday.

8.4 hours, +$704.

After a near twelve hour slumber I'm questioning whether to go out and grind. On one hand, it should be a great day as people bust out of a tournament that should get a pretty big field.

Going to write a bit on game selection. Is it important or should we just try to outluck other good players?

Of course game selection is important. If you go to the casino and sit at the same seat, at the same table the entire session, surely it's costing you potential profits! The easiest thing to look for is simply how many people are going to the flop?

I'd say in NL generally speaking, 3-4+ is a good amount for an interesting game. In PLO it's more 4-6~. Think there's a lot of decent-good players out there who simply play "too" many hands. Their intent is probably to just have fun or play more hands trying to run up tons of money. Don't really care if the majority is limping or the dynamic is raise and multiple callers. The first situation will be less variant on average and allow for deeper play.

Another thing to think about, though sort of gross... is that one player can make a game. One player could be playing such a style and reloading so much that 8 good players could still make fairly nice profit. People that reload in general are key too. They're much more likely to be tilted and gambling it up to try to recover their losses. A mindset a pro is mostly unfazed by.

How many casinos are in your area? For example, if you play 1/2, 1/3, or 2/5 in Vegas you can literally casino hop until you find a game that's worth playing. Suppose it could be a time investment but why bother playing a game with old nits shortstacking n Bellagio when somewhere there's a more profitable game in one of the 10+ other casinos in walking distance.

But maybe there's only one 2/5 game that runs at your casino. What do you do when it's of poor quality? You could use the time to improve your game so any 2/5 game is profitable for you. Or play 1/2 or 1/3 if there's an above average game. A good 1/2 game is possibly the least variant game out there . Remember, win rates don't really exist. Games are so different from each other that saying something like "best I can make at 1/2 is $20/hr so screw it" is far off. There's no limit to win rate. What if some guy comes into your game shoving every single hand preflop for $5k-$10k total? This game is not a $20/hr 1/2 game. In fact, even if you're playing 5/10... you should probably try to get into this game. And have heard stories from reliable sources about 1/3 games where a guy is stuck $18k~ over a couple days.

But what if we could just be really lucky and win even if we're a dog in the lineup? What a dream. My Grandpa would always say "it's better to be lucky than good". To one extreme of the spectrum, if you're always "lucky", you will do very well in poker. You'll do very well in anything to be honest. This is something many players often overlook. While they're complaining about their insane downswing there's a few grinders out there who could care less about downswings. They focus their energy on playing poker and winning. I know it sounds farfetched but why not? Perhaps this is why so many young kids had so much success in poker... the younger you are, the more in tune with a magnificent imagination. Imagine a world where anything is possible if you'd like it so. One of my beliefs is that many people are very disconnected with their imagination.

I can recall being in my teenage years and watching poker on tv thinking... I can do this, I can be there and play at a high level. Was already winning against my friends and winning online. Felt so unstoppable back then, like I could do anything. Those feelings I had then are back. One of my favorite things to do when struggling is think of what I did during a time of great success. Whether it was daily exercise, a different diet, surrounding myself with other ambitious poker players, motivational videos, be away from home, and the list goes on. Remembering the love for poker then also helps the love for poker now.

Roll: 10497

I know vlog is incoming but still must figure out how to do it. Been using a laptop I bought 10 years ago so hopefully my phone can make it work.

Hey OP, are you still playing in LA? Where do you usually play at? Like I said, I'm planning to start grind live poker seriously very very soon and I just don't know where to play? The LLSNL scene seems pretty nasty with the short buy-in and high rake, I heard the bike's 2/3 is the lowest potentially deep game you can find without going too far but it's usually a terrible game with short stacker and nits. Any thoughts?

I am in LA still but don't really know the answer to this. My friends always told me don't go to LA to play unless you can play $500 buy in games~ because of weird rake structures in smaller games. My best idea for staying in LA is only playing games of very good quality. In these kind of games, pots are constantly above $50 and many people are much deeper than the buy in. There's so many casinos in the LA area so explore them all.

My personal recommendation would be to go to Vegas until you can play 5/5. No idea if you would be able to do this though. Vegas is the nuts for game selection and some places even take just $4 rake 10%. No rake before the flop.

Yesterday was quite strange. Felt a bit off and ended up sleeping 12~ hours with a 2 hour nap before session. Managed to get in 4.4 hours before I broke the game because obviously I'm the biggest spot in the game. Managed to book a $374 win.

Sleep and poker. Personally, I feel it's essential to grab at least 6-7 hours of sleep every night. Poker is very mentally draining and I've never had a good poker experience after a bad night's sleep. Having a room in the casino would be so +ev because you could take naps. My current stamina takes a toll 6-7 hours into session where I start trying to just play really solid because I'm a bit drained from using so much mental capacity. Would be so gto to be able to play 6 hours, 1.5-2 hour nap, then get to come back on a feeder and play a few more hours. Only downside is it's really hard to live in a hotel room for a long period of time.

Also said early bragging about my 57 hour week that I didn't remember last time I played so much poker in a week. Well at the start of the challenge I had a 59 hour week haha.


Roll: 10,871

Congrats on the 10k mark. As for the 500 buy in games, I think I would start in those games and see what happens perhaps make adjustments once I get lower than 10bi or something.

Thursday I took some pretty big shots in 5/5/10 plo. Ended up -$3k. Had a $200 loss and was about to get up, just playing till blinds. Ended up getting AA in against AK86 or something and lost. Then decided to stay because table seemed alright after seeing that.

Don't remember the exact stakes but I've heard stories about how Phil Ivey would grind up at a smaller stake for 5-6 months then take a big shot in a much bigger game when he was coming up. Pretty sure he failed a few times too.

Haven't really been able to play in my current state of mind. I'd just been thinking about how one year~ ago I had to offer to pay for my friends at the movies because I didn't have the cash to purchase my own ticket. Thought about how grateful I was to be out of that place. This was before the session. Think it's a poor way of thinking, to even acknowledge these types of things. It paints a place of scarcity that is no longer apart of me yet my mind brought it up. Shouldn't really think about these things when being in a place of abundance where I've been the past few weeks-months.

After the loss, I started thinking about how much harder it would be to pay for certain things and had a mini freak out about money. It's so silly. Money is silly. The more you think about how it holds you back, the less likely you are to be abundant with it.

I'm glad I didn't grind the past two days because with the combination of the two mindset leaks mentioned above... things would have been rough.

Time to think ahead and know money is created. Every lesson learned makes me stronger. Back to the land where all my wildest dreams will come true. I'm going to have that $4k+ 1/2 plo session and this challenge shall be ours!

Roll:7871

Edit/PS: Moon was either full or really close to it that night. Seems to have haunted me a few times now haha. Should change the way I think about full moons.

Stay positive. You have to lose sometimes. You lost only 3 buyins and it sounds like you played good. Super standard. Losing is hard for sure, it's a good thing to feel bad! We are human after all. Being emotionless about it isn't exactly better. You care, that's what matters.

Was actually just 2 as I went a little wild and max bought. Played one 6 hr session the other day and lost $82.

After that session I had a cough so bad was confused what was going on.

Going to stick to smaller games and move location soon. Just realized I've really let physical body slip a bit over the past month and shall start getting active.


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Played a 5.5 hour session off no sleep and feel like I played one of my best sessions in terms of play. Didn't book a place to stay since I wasn't sure between Vegas or Phoenix but went with Vegas since I can play a circuit event or two.

Started off trying to get into a 20/40 mix game but a seat didn't open up in 1.5 hour~ so decided to spend rest of night playing plo. I lose a stupid amount of money playing "too loose" hands from the blinds. Game was about to break so I put in $15 in the BB with QT94 one suit in hopes of hitting a gin.

Flopped J85r ofc, led pot, got repot by guy who it was his last hand. (60 into 60 to 300, as another guy flatted the 60 and folded.)

Turn K so at least we maintain our flop equity with 1 card to come. Ran it once because it's natural. Not sure how good I run at running twice. River brick he had JJ. Was fun at least, haven't been getting into too many huge wrap spots. (Called off 450 into 720 on turn)

Feel quite refreshed being in a new location. Even feeling better. Almost think value in competent, fast dealers, with very comfortable chairs, and being a smaller room trumps commerce even if the games are better there on avg. Atmosphere is much better in Vegas as people are usually on vacation and having fun where vibe is so degen at Commerce.

One tournament I want to play is a 365 nl/plo 6 max. Sounds fun.

-$875

roll:6914

Played some 1/2 plo at the Wynn. Didn't win an all in but a few small pots.

To describe the game, I got in KKJ6hh on 75Thh against 7362hh for stacks. Board ran out 72.

Missed one easy bluff river spot that would have picked up a small pot. Only thing that really bothered me during session.

-1876 over 6~ hours.

Time to create and increase the bankroll.

roll: 5038

Hey guys. Played a little yesterday. Won $1105 over 6.5 hours. Felt really great to win. $1250 of it came over 1 hour in a very surprising way in a 6 handed game. Then proceeded to wait 3+ hours to get in game after that one broke. What a pain!

Plans are possibly to play the tournament today but we'll see. Could be value in getting to cash game early and avoiding big wait.

roll: $6143

Good luck op! This is going to be a total grind!

Hey guys,

In that tournament, ended up playing a very short stack for 3 hours, built a above average stack all of a sudden up to 75k~ then lost 3 hands and finished one table away from the money or so. Could not believe the skill level during plo rounds.

We also had a -$1k plo session and a -$600 1/3 nl session so I think roll ended around $4,1k.

Wanted to talk about something else today. I'm ending this challenge. My life goals are new and don't really rely on making $100k playing poker. Have 1-3 businesses ideas that I've much more passion for than poker. Start up for all is less than $5k so the plan is to play short sessions once in a while just to keep bringing in money.

Also, I'd like to learn to disassociate with the time and amounts of money I win. They're both irrelevant and at worst get in my head and mess with me. Would like to just use poker as a story to be able to do things I want and be able to explore business ideas.

I'm also considering the idea of creating a poker vlog that would be updated likely 1-2 times a week at best. It would provide quite a bit of 1/2 - 2/5 live knowledge and would have nothing to do with results. Not really sure if any vlogs discuss these limits as they are incredibly different than 5/10+. If anyone's interested in this pm me and I'll exchange info if it happens.

Thank you so much to all who supported. You guys were great and kept me going at time that were rough. I still fully believe that this challenge is doable and that anyone with a decent poker mind can do this.

The challenge no longer fits in with my desires in life but like I said, I may do something strategy related to 1/2 + 2/5 live in the form of a vlog as I will continue to play, just not as much.