Now nearing 10 buyins. Dude calls a big raise on 852 one club with Ac4c then snap calls off my last 384 into 600 on a Tc turn and rivers a club. I played the flop so beautifully too, blasting out a LAGs better range to iso the fish with a postflop squeeze.

God seat in effect rebought 1K. The downswing ends today.

Awesome thread, have read through it over the last few days. Nice progression and alot of work put into your writeups, well done.

Just came to say that you inspired me to dig up my 2+2 account and post here. Good luck.

the drought will be over soon buddy. we'll crush together later this month

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Snapbacks? No way. Fitted only!

Lol dork

Go buy another pot leaf hat kid.

Well maybe you should wear one too because two nights ago I got my whole stack in on 5233A with A4 vs AK

lmaooo.

im more of a camper hat guy. preferably supreme brand

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This right here.

I'm at 11 buyins can you turn off the doomswitch please? Thanks.

Stop keeping count like that and grind on the best you can or take a short break if needed. You got this.

Posted that after my session... Quit when my table wasn't very good and I only had another 1.5 hours free anyway.

You recently posted you were at 13bb/hr since July 5, which is right around the start of our prop bet... I'm at 16.9bb/hr now in 286 hours.

Thanks! Appreciate it.

Thanks, good to hear!

Thanks... and turn that signature off, Dora.

That's without adjusting for tips and time away from the table

Tips don't make up the difference... Breaks I guess could - but aren't you tracking them in the app?

I count any time away from the table in my WR for my own purposes unless I'm taking 30+ minutes to eat. For the purposes of our bet, I'm also counting the time I specifically spend at the table

So I "clock in" when i get myself on the list and don't "clock out" until I rack up my chips

October 8 – “Money is the motivation, facing the avenue, back touching the wall.”

I got back at it at Parx today, feeling really fired up and ready to dig out of the downswing, but immediately ran into a lot of adversity.

Hand No. 1

UTG raises to $20 and gets two calls, including a huge whale who’s playing probably 85% of his hands preflop and not folding any piece. We’re about $600 effective. I call with 78 on the button and we go five ways to the flop.

Flop ($95): 852

Two checks and a LAG bets $65. The whale calls. At this point I can eliminate a lot of hands from the whale’s range. He does not have an overpair, and is very unlikely to have two pair or better, as he’d have gotten aggressive. I think he’d raise some of his big 8x hands, at least sometimes. So it leaves draws, 8x, 5x, 2x, 66-77, 33-44. The LAG is probably ahead of my range, but he will fold out a lot of it to a raise since he’s getting squeezed and he knows I can’t be bluffing the whale.

I make it $215. It folds around to the LAG and he tanks and folds. The whale calls in about 15 seconds.

Turn ($590): T

He checks, I move all in for $384 and he snap calls.

River ($1,358): 2

I show my hand and he flips over A4. “Wow, nice hand!” I say as genuinely as I can muster. He thanks me.

Unfortunately he picks this time to flip the switch on whale mode off and try to play some form of halfway decent poker, at least with his preflop range.

Hand No. 2

The LAG from the last hand raises to $20 and I call with 9T on the button and the blinds come along.

Flop ($74): AT9

It checks to the lag, who bets $60. I raise to $210, to mimic the sizing of the prior hand when I was raising him pretty light. It folds to him and he thinks for about 30 seconds and ships it. We started about $950 deep so it’s about $740 more. I figure given the dynamic he could have AK, all the hands that beat me, AQ and AJ of diamonds, and KQ/QJ of diamonds. Against that range I’m 41% and putting in about 37% of the pot, so it’s a call but not by much. There’s also a chance he’s going to show up occasionally with AQ/AJ given the prior hand, or that I’m off on that and he’s never doing this with one pair without the draw, in which case I don’t fare well against his range.

At any rate, basically a cooler. At this point I’m stuck $1,700, but I have the God seat on the whale and don’t realize he’s altered his play much, so I rebuy for $1,000.

Hand No. 3

An EP player raises to $25, the whale calls on the button and I look down at JJ in the SB and make it $100. The BB calls, the PFR calls, the whale calls.

Flop ($394): JT6

I bet $230, the BB jams about $700 and it folds to me and I snap call.

Turn ($1800ish): 8

River ($1800ish): 5

I’m good against KK, fading his backdoor hearts.

Hand No. 4

A loose player UTG limps and the whale in the SB completes. I make it $35 from the BB with AQ. Both call.

Flop ($99): 576

Whale checks, I bet $65, UTG calls, whale folds.

Turn ($229): 9

I bet $125, UTG calls.

River ($479): A

I bet $275, he calls pretty quickly and MHIG obviously. I was hoping to induce a raise from a flush/straight on the turn, but I think in hindsight I should have bet like 185/475. We were about $1,800 deep, so the money was only going in if he raised me.

At this point I’m in the game for $2,700 but sitting on $2,200, so I’m feeling really good and I’ve fought my way back.

Hand No. 5

The whale has left and I’ve now seat changed. I haven’t raised a hand in 2-3 orbits. A TAG player limps and a fish limps and I pop it to $30 in the CO with J9. I’m happy to iso either one of them, really. I’m ahead of the fish’s range and he’s easy to read postflop, and the TAG I can be +EV against postflop.

The TAG calls, the fish folds.

Flop ($66): 993

He checks, I bet $35, he calls.

Turn ($136): K

He checks, with about $400 behind. I bet $80 (should probably be a little more), and he raises to $175. I shove and he snaps with 33 for $423. Sucks that I ran into the absolute top of his range when really only A9s and 33 beat me and he can definitely have 9T, 89, and flush draws or a hand like KQ.

River ($982): Not a J, 9, or K.

Biggest Spew Ever

The very next hand, I flop a set of 3s and go pot/pot/2x pot and the villain tanks and folds on the river. The next hand I raise 99, get two calls, cbet and take it down. The very next hand, a LAG opens to $20 and gets a call and I make it $80 with JJ. My image at this point is obviously tilted, because they don’t know I have had hands three times in a row.

A fish on my left who way overvalues his hands makes it $210. The PFR calls and the short stack in the middle shoves $81. I tank and call.

Flop ($522): T95

I check, he moves all-in for $424, and I tank and call. The board runs out club-club, and he has QQ no club and slow rolls me as if he has no pair no club.

I actually screwed up my math preflop and should have folded to the 4bet. I was only getting about 6.25 to 1, and needed 8 to 1 to set mine, which was my plan. Then on the flop I just went into, they can’t always have a better hand than me when I pick something up, not every single time, mode and called it off.

I think this may be my worst played hand this year.

Of course, about 5 hands later, I flop top two and lead out and get raised, then ship it in with a big overbet and get snapped by… top two. So we chop. I thought the image might get me a massive pot, but no such luck. When my blind came around, I racked up and left because of the JJ hand.

Results: -$1,620 in 5 hours, 57 minutes ($17 in tips)

The downswing is now at $5,500 or 11 buyins. I'm going into hardcore grinding mode at the Borgata this weekend. No Noodles of the World, no buffet, no Metropolitan cafe. No long breaks, no trips to the boardwalk. I play poker, I eat quick food from the cafeteria, I sleep. Grinding hours will get me through this.

If the JJ hand is the worst hand you have played all year I would say your fine. I have a feeling this will turn around within the next couple of weeks.

I've probably had hand histories that would look worse, but it's the first time I've known I couldn't be good and put a lot of money in the pot anyway, for an illogical reason. "They can't always have it," is crap. I'm better than that.

Thanks, though - I appreciate the kind words. I hope this turns around a lot sooner than a couple of weeks, though.

A fish on my left who way overvalues his hands makes it $210.

Since that is what you say about your opponent, I think you are being too hard on yourself.

I agree with above that if it's the worst hand you've played all year you have had a great year.

Thanks Ibelieve. I still just don't think he's FOUR betting me with worse, except maybe AK, and unless he's bombing ALL of his AK on this flop and not just the AcKc, I can't be calling.

1 hour and 15 minutes left in this morning shift, then two more and it's over! Can't wait til Tuesday!

Jobs are for yellabellies!