What are you on a 12 game downswing? Do you have any long term results at lower levels husng?

Follow. Good luck.

it's more than that for sure but I was really just commenting on the overall challenge since obv you want to stick at each new level you reach to avoid moving down. i realize in turbos, especially these turbos which are closer to hypers, we can go thousands of games deviating.

i don't have an insane amount of games at ~$15 levels but i've played prob tens of thousands of midstakes husngs with decent success.

thank you very much!

Earlier this week I had $150 left on Global and decided to move it to another site to continue the challenge. High rake and the forced use of the new felt (i'll never understand why they abandoned the old software) made me curious for a potentially better situation. It was Global's free money that kicked off the zero deposit challenge so I'm grateful for that but I forsee a higher likelihood of success playing elsewhere. I guess the title of this thread is misleading as hell now but it's still husngs and it's still a $10k challenge.


I want to keep quiet on which site for the time being but the good news is I can post ev graphs and hand histories if I want to now. So far I've mixed $15s and $30s that makeup this graph. I've made ~$20 in rakeback too.


Current Bankroll: $287.50

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I managed to snag back to back 100+ miles weeks on the bike. I'm still behind pace on the annual goal but feeling stoked about riding a lot again.

Don't blame you for moving the roll elsewhere. Global is a very frustrating site imo. High rake, no HH, no rb, softest player pool but inexplicably difficult to win HU matches (take that for what you will).

GL on the new site, stoked to see further progress.

It's kinda ridiculous...it's like high rake hypers with $3 a week in rakeback, haha. Super tough to weather those swings shot-taking. Thanks for the support!

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Got in a modest amount of games today. Just went for all $30s and it went well.


So far on new site kinda running good while running bad. Shot taking hard at $30s and winning which is awesome. Not winning at EV during this time but definitely can't complain.



Challenge Bankroll: $457.16

Why do you play turbos and not hyper turbo?

I've just always liked starting with 75bb or more and having time in a SNG. It's easier for me to get more motivated to play poker with deeper stacks I guess.

Similar day to yesterday volume-wise. A lot of games have been rematches which I always love since reads and exploits develop and gameflow becomes a thing. This kinda stuff is what makes me love turbos and reg speeds. Even though hourly might be sacrificing some EV it's just more fun to me to play these structures so I actually look forward to playing. Especially when it's going well.

This year I've made an effort to change a little bit about what I was doing oop and it seems to be boosting my winrate. Mostly I think I was just raising limps too much oop and I'd just wind up running it in spots that were totally unnecessary.

Anyway with a little rakeback I won just under $100 today. All $30 bi.


Graph since moving over.


Challenge Bankroll: $553.48

Gotten some more volume the last 2 days. Continued just grinding at $30s hoping to stick there for a bit. Had an insane batch of games just now. One of those perfect storm stretches where your bluffs don't get called, you pick off their bluffs just right, you cooler them, they blowup and you're high enough in your range to call and hold...pretty fun stuff. 10 in a row is not impossible but it's a tough streak to achieve. Happy to do it in midstakes instead of the micros! Haha

Last 2 days:


Challenge since since switching:


Challenge Bankroll: $696.44
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Since last Sunday I haven't ridden my bike at all because I've been experiencing some leg pain. As much I'd like to ignore it and just keep pushing on the bike I took a break for a few days and haven't ridden at all. On days that I don't get exercise and obtain the mental benefits of hopping on the bike...my fuse is way shorter. Like I've been tilted (in my main grind) a bit by a breakeven stretch this week. It's just breaking even...albeit in good games...but it's like not even losing. And since I haven't been active I can feel my mindset, which is usually reasonably sharp, kind of ground down to a nub. When I'm racking up miles on the bike and feeling good day to day, I can take a lot of punishment over and over again and usually not even feel it. I'm going to go for a short ride tonight and see how I feel because I hate being emo on the grind.

I might write more often in here about mindset. My attitude during tough stretches is a lot better than some but internally I can still struggle. Though I'm not smashing a mouse or yelling at the screen...I can definitely be sulking like the unluckiest piece of **** that's ever walked the Earth (on the inside). It's obvious why that's a ridiculous thought pattern to get into.

Not great volume since the last update. Just grinding $30s. I expect a skill jump from $30 to $60 so I probably won't be as brazen with the bankroll moving into that territory. I'm thinking once we get the br to $1200 or so I'll mix them in and abort if we lose 5 buyins or more.


Here's the whole graph without the ~$150 we won on Global (no pt4 support on Global). Making a little rakeback also. Earned something like $70 in rb on top of profits.


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In other news I've decided to take an extended break from drinking alcohol. I want to achieve some goals and I feel like even occasional drinking is wasting valuable hours, brainpower, energy, etc. Not sure how long I'm gonna go with this but already seeing benefits in many facets of daily life so not planning to give in for a while. I don't need an app to tell me not to drink but I will say it's nice to have some accountability in the form of statistics if you like that kind of thing.


I'm getting closer to being on pace for my annual cycling mileage goal but I'm not there yet. We've been blessed by a less than scorching Texas August so I'm happy to be able to get miles at all. Generally August in Austin makes exercise outdoors difficult and dangerous.


Here's a pic from a mid-afternoon ride the other day. This is taken from the Montoplis Bridge which spans over the Colorado River, the main river that runs through the city. This is a few miles east of downtown.

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Challenge Bankroll: $861.72

Updated too soon today. Ran really well - won 8 in a row.


Hit a major challenge milestone today.

Challenge Bankroll: $1,023

NGL it feels great to try a challenge like this and go from $0 < $1k. I wouldn't say I've worked super hard in terms of grind hours or anything but I definitely stayed consistent with getting sessions in...even if they were small ones. Onward.

I haven't been getting much volume but it's continuing to go well. Here's the graphed games total:



Challenge Bankroll: $1,432.92

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As far as health stuff I've stayed off the drinking. Continuing to feel good there.



Last week I biked more miles in a single week than I ever have. I'm 66 miles behind pace for annual mileage goal at this point.



Here's a photo of a bridge I ride over all the time. It's only a couple miles from my house and spans over Barton Creek which, in this part, struggles to continually flow this time of year.

Getting volume when I can. Ran bad all-in in some $60s but still got ~$1k as a bankroll. I don't think I'll permanently move back to only $30s unless I hit br $600 or something. The games are good.


Challenge Bankroll: $989.24
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I got my mountain bike back in commission and installed a rack and some Ortleib bike bags. I'd like to get into more long distance riding. My longest ride ever is a 100KM (62 miles). When it cools down I want to conquer my first overnight bike trip.

Here's my Marin Pine Mountain with the new rack and bags.


I left my house yesterday to go work on music with my metal band, Expander. I can take 2 routes to rehearsal. The first is all road and the other is about 70/30 road/trail. I took the trail route yesterday. It was fun as hell to ride single track through some tall grass for the first time in a while. I was really hoping I wouldn't run over a snake or something sketchy because it's pretty isolated and overgrown in places.




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I've continued to stay off alcohol. 5 weeks off the sauce. That feels really good. Its going to a be a will-power test next month because Expander is headlining a metal fest at a brewery in Denver on Sept, 11 (assuming covid doesn't cancel it) which is why we're rehearsing. Really looking forward to the opportunity to fly to Denver and play this gig if all goes down.



The following weekend on Sept, 16, we're also supposed to play a show in Austin. Check out this sweet flyer our drummer made for the gig.

Been a little while since the last update. Been playing as high as $100s on occasion. Here's the graph:


Challenge Bankroll: $2,534.52

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I've been quiet because my partner and I had to put down one of our dogs last week. Flick was our black pug and we rescued him when we moved to Austin in 2015. He was found hiding beneath a parked car somewhere in San Antonio. He had mange and was terrified of human men for a while. When he first came to us he would cower anytime I leaned in to pick him up or give him attention. It seemed painfully obvious he was abused by a male human earlier in his life.

His loving and sweet nature led him to fully trust me very quickly (he trusted Steph instantly) and we were inseparable. All of our domestic traveling we would take by car so we could take the dogs. We drove to WSOP several years, Palm Springs, The Grand Canyon, Florida, Colorado...all with the dogs.
He was by our side consistently for 6 years.

Despite his aging body (his age was unknown but the vet est. him to be 15-17 this year) he managed quite well until the very end. The decline happened so fast. Two weeks ago he was able to take short walks and was eating and drinking just fine. Last week, he no longer wanted to walk on his own or get out of bed. He then declined his first meal for the first time ever in his life with us. He was never a loud barking dog but last week began vocalizing and crying out from his dog bed. The weight of his condition crushed us. Selfishly I wanted to try anything to keep him around for more time but ultimately knew what we had to do. We loved him too much. We could not let him suffer. Saying goodbye to him was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Even though we've been emotionally obliterated this last week in his absence, we've tried to remember we did the right thing. We've focused on our other pug to help keep her active and engaged and try the best we can to keep her above depression. Each day gets incrementally less painful but there is a massive void in our hearts and our home. Today was the first day I was able to go through some old photos. I never understood the pain of loss quite like I feel like I do now. I heard a quote that the pain of grief is the price we pay for love. That resonates entirely with me now.

Rest in peace, Flick.

I took some time off to take a road trip to California for 3 weeks. However I've been sitting games for the challenge when I can and it's been going well. I'm mixing stakes between $30 and $100 and mostly getting action at the lower stakes. Running well currently in the bigger games. Here's the graph so far.



Challenge Bankroll: $4,755.29

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I've been trying to a chase down the annual bike mileage goal, which is 4,000 miles. I'm still behind pace but if I ride 100 miles per week the rest of the year I should be able to hit it.


The weather in Austin has finally cooled off and doing anything outdoors has become infinitely more enjoyable. Our late summer is downright oppressive. Even though I'm not a fan of "shorter" days I'll trade that for better temperatures. Here's yesterdays ride:

I had the longest non-reg rematch stretch of my husng poker career two nights ago. Someone rematched in $100s for 40+ games and they were going absolutely bonkers. I started out getting coolered and couldn't make hands and then a switch flipped. I kept making decent pairs and hands and they kept running it in spots where I could call down. This player would also call me down light on rivers and also would call incredibly light with 10bb or less to aipf. Here's how the session went:



This was a massive boost to the challenge:



Challenge Bankroll: $6,189.01

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In other awesome news, one of my great friends, Dillon Ott, has 1.3 million chips in the Main Event right now. There are about 770 left and they have been in the money since last night. Sweating for twin final table power - his brother Dan got 2nd in the main in 2017. Dillon is an excellent player and is one of the most "due" people I know for a deep run.

Dillon is on the feature table C for tonight's coverage of The Main Event. He just texted me this picture while on break.



There are 243 players left going into bb24k. Rooting so hard for my friend! Let's goooo Dillon!!

Pretty cool to sweat Dillon on PokerGo. He's in the 5 seat here.

Happy New Year, everyone! 2021 was a solid year and we got a bulk of this profit challenge cleared!


Challenge Bankroll: $6,781


I didn't update about WSOP since my last post but Dillon took 182nd and cashed for $44,200. It was a fun sweat. I found this year's ME final table to be one of the most enjoyable maybe since I started playing poker. Hopefully televised poker coverage comes back around and finds the balance between gambly/rec fun and strategy based coverage.

2021 Fitness Goal
I was 100 or so miles behind pace at the beginning of December for my 4,000 mile year challenge on the bike. I decided to take a few weeks off poker and went to Florida to be with family for the holidays. I brought my bike along and rode almost everyday - some days in the rain. After a 27 mile final ride on New Year's Eve Day I crossed 4k miles. In the final 2 days I ran so badly and got 3 flats along the way and had some other mechanical issues which led to me having my backup bike delivered to me halfway through the final ride.

Here's the year recap:



Off the Piss
I've been feeling so good since I quit drinking. This is the longest I've gone without alcohol since I was 17 years old. It felt nice to kick off 2022 without a hangover.