nice thread dizzy. glad i came across it while at work.

you know we're in similar boats - working full-time, did well in poker (although you def crushed harder than me).

i also went on a pretty bad downswing, and opted to put poker on the side to focus on grad school + work.

i've found that after taking a long break from poker, i really dont enjoy the game as much. or maybe its not the game (although i think i enjoy the game a little less) but its more so that i just hate being at the casino. im sure people's experiences will differ, but going back to the casino, sitting there and watching how all these people around me are either: addicted gamblers/degens, put their hope into making a ton of money from this game, or are pros just preying on the former 2.

i think ive been a lot happier not spending so many hours in the casino every week.

good luck with life my man.

+1,000,000,000,000,000

Nice post jc - you always seemed like a very level-headed kid and someone I would get along with very well.

My poker volume has been at an all time low recently, but all for good reasons. I actually played a couple short sessions since my last post (including a drunk 1/3 session with Johnnybuz lol) but just haven't had the time to get to the casino/update the thread like I used to.

I still love the game of poker and plan to keep playing for the foreseeable future, but definitely won't be putting in volume like I used to. I agree it has been refreshing to be more focused on other things in life but I think balancing work/poker/life is something I've always done a good job with.

Appreciate the kind words & best of luck to you as well!

Dang you guys must be unlucky... I stop updating the thread every session and this happens:

https://imgur.com/a/86Jvw6A

Played in a truly special T/25 game tonight that got me over the hump. Thanks for the few of those who tuned in and sorry I gave up on updates at the end. Figured I'd at least officially close out the thread.

#unstuck(fornow)

Congrats getting unstuck but it’s a shame to see you closing off the thread. You seem to have a pretty nice balance struck so it was always a nice read.

Gl

@Dizzy give us some fun HH from this wild 10/25 game. i've never played 10/25 (only 5/10 games that were straddling to 20 for some time) so interested to see what a wild 10/25 game might look like

its pretty funny. i posted this in the winrate thread in LLSNL but i also got unstuck recently from a big down swing. part of it was playing in great games - for example scooping a 1200bb pot because some drunk guy open shipped into me when i flopped trips in a 3-bet, 4-way pot. the other 2 players also called all-in.

winrates and poker are a weird, mysterious thing.

ty for the kind words wj - glad you enjoyed the thread. maybe I will still post every once-in-awhile but keeping up with the thread from a session-by-session results standpoint is way too time consuming.

This was the first time I've played T/25 as well; it only goes on rare occasions at my casino & the other few times it has ran while I was there the game looked pretty bad so I didn't sit. However there has been one very large action player who has been coming around recently so the game has apparently been running more frequently.

I was up slightly in a pretty good T/T game when he showed up but we instantly got the T/25 game started. The game ended up being amazing; with 3 total action players sitting with the rest of the game being regs/pros (some better than others lol but nothing really to worry about).

I ended up winning 1 ~large hand vs each of the action players and luckily didn't lose any big ones. None are too exciting though tbh I was never really in any tough spots:

h1: T/25/50; I open QQ 150 in EP; 2 of the VIPs call in the blinds.
($500) Flop: J75r; x x I bet 250; SB (guy the game is built around) throws in a stack of blacks raising to $1K; BB folds; I call
($2,500) Turn: 5; he jams ~1800; I snap
($6,100) River: brick - he doesn't show right away so I fastroll and MHIG

h2: LP action player #2 limps, SB folds, I raise QhQx 125 in BB; limper calls
($275) Flop: 822r; I bet 100; he calls
($475) Turn: 6hh; I bet 250; he calls
($975) River: Thhh; I bet 500; he calls and MHIG

h3: Action player #2 opens 75 in EP; I call T8cc on the BTN; SB (action guy #3) 3b to 250; PFR calls and I call
($775) Flop T53ss SB bets 450; EP folds; I call
($1,675) Turn 5o check check
($1,675) River 6o he bets 600 I snap and we are good vs J8hh


So yeah nothing really that crazy but I'll take the easy ones especially when playing up in stakes. The game started pretty late and I was seriously considering if I'd have to call out of work the next day to stay or not. At 2am 2/3 of the guys I wanted to play with racked up so I called it then as well. Really really fun game; all of the guys were awesome / we had a blast. &Winning is always nice as well

Funny story:
The main villain always brings his wife with him to the casino and neither of them ever give a **** no matter what happens - like he will show her his hand most of the time when he has a decision and they will just laugh/shrug it off whenever he has to fold/gets caught bluffing/loses a big pot. So later in the session he has to go to the bathroom and he asked if she can play his stack while he is gone. Ofc we are all like yeah man of course she can and start joking about how she's gonna crush all of us/this is probably a huge hustle. He's not gone long so she only gets dealt in like 1 hand and just folds but one of the regs sitting next to her gives her ~10 pumpkins to add to her stack before he gets back to pretend like she won heaps while he is gone lol. Dude gets back from the bathroom and is like ****! let her keep playing!! and we all have a good laugh lol.


& yes winrates/poker/heaters/downswings are very weird. My results always tend to be pretty streaky - definitely a mental component to that.

EZ game. That was softer than the 2/5 there.

I don’t think results in live poker are that big of a mystery though. Live poker and especially full ring is mostly just variance.

Favorable card distributions, being involved in big pots, running good/bad in big pots is pretty much entirely responsible for your results.

Variance surely plays a large part, especially in the short term. I personally think there is much more to long-term live poker success than variance, but you are entitled to your own opinion on the matter.

and yeah the game was very good - feel free to hop in next time

What’s your hourly your last 3 sessions?

Why can’t you sustain that?

Well done mate.