GL mate..Do you feel the games in Vegas are more beatable then where you played prior to the move? Also, I would check out H pylori as a possible suspect for the stomach pain (which usually comes from eating at buffets). I had an ulcer last year and I ate few saltines a few times a day and mixed a spoonful of baking soda and a cap of ACV in a full glass of water. Chug that down 3 or 4 times a day ( doesn't taste too awful). It really helped me short and long term and has seemed to cure my ulcer relatively quickly. Also, cut down on dairy, as this can be very helpful.

GL i like the games at excalibur personally

Huh

I gotta tell ya, I used to have bad HB problems and prevacid didn't make a dent in it. Omeprazole 20.6 Magnesium worked like a charm for me.

I dodged a spot where most people are getting stacked. I check Q9 in the bb, flop comes AQ9, I lead out for pot into 5 villains, utg calls, btn minraises. I put this guy on 2p+ (maybe AK or J10 but much less likely) so I just dumped it. Villain shows up with AQ, feels good to get off so cheap.

I got to meet Dan_The_Pro and his roommate, cool guys. It was nice to be able to talk a little strategy and about poker in Vegas. I'm looking foward to hanging out again sometime.

I've been pretty lazy with volume, going to try and ramp it up the next 4 days. Venetian is having a grand opening for their poker room on Friday so I'll probably check that out.

I feel there are plenty of good games out here, many that are more profitable than any game at the Oaks. Obviously my results have been somewhat dissappointing since I moved out here, not even beating minimum wage overall. But I see the potential and I know once I tighten up the bolts in my game and run better in the big pots I should be in a very good position.

Everyone has their favorite spot, usually a place where you seem to always be on a heater

Thanks for all the advice on my stomach problems guys, much appreciated.

September

Total hours played- 118
Average hourly winrate- $4
Winnings- $476

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1138.5
Average hourly winrate- $13
Winnings- $14582

Thanks Carl. It was good meeting you too. Its always nice to match a face to an avatar!

I'm still battling laziness, have to start playing longer sessions. My volume for the month is complete ****.

September

Total hours played- 122
Average hourly winrate- $5
Winnings- $561

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1142.5
Average hourly winrate- $13
Winnings- $14667

At least you're back in the black for the month!

Don't worry about volume. 30 hours a week is lots of volume. Concentrate on never playing your C-game. And improving your B-game. Remember one hour of C-game is worth three or four hours of A-game (at least for most people).

Also, while you're back down at 1/2, I wonder if it's a good to to begin experimenting with opening up your game a bit? Since you should (presumably) always know where you're at against these weaker players, shouldn't you be more hands in more positions? In the thread I see you almost always writing about hand history where you have super premium holdings. What about the hands where you open suited connectors in the HJ?

GL! Here's to you crushing in October!

Venetian was ridculously packed on Friday. They had all 59 tables running and super long waitlists, reminicent of wsop traffic.

I got crushed pretty good the last couple days, don't feel I played all that bad but still lost every big pot. I stacked off with queens in straddled pot vs an old guy. I raised to 25 got 2 lp callers and he l/r to 100 with 60 behind. First round at the table so no reads, I felt it was borderline but with the dead money in the pot I decided to go with it and of course ran into aces. I also lost a sick one where a guy 3bet jams 150bb on the turn with AK on 655K, I snap with A5. River K

Specific goals for September-

[]Play 200 hrs (65% complete, fail )

[x]Eat healthy (ate fruit and stuff, still need to cut back on the fast food)

[]Study and plug leaks (didn't read enough, still have way too many leaks)

September was bad month results wise, I lost a little less than a buy in. I didn't really feel that motivated to grind. I also felt off my game on some days.

September Graph



2012 Graph



I'll try and post some hands where I am opening wider from lp.

As for October I'm going to focus on quality over quantity, so no volume target. I'm just going to play for as long as I can while playing my A game.

Also my stomach has been feeling better so I am going to start knocking out some pushups and situps in the morning. It should help get my head clear and relieve some of the stress.

At the beginning of September I said I wanted to donate 1% of my winnings this month to charity, obviously I didn't win ****. I'll make the same pledge this month, in the mean time I am going to find some place where I can volunteer at a soup kitchen or something.

GL in October pg&c!

September

Total hours played- 128.5
Average hourly winrate- -$1
Winnings- -$188

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1149
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $13918

I'd check out www.threesquare.org for volunteer options. GL

No super interesting spots today. I think I played decent. I met another random 2p2er and playing at the same table for awhile. There was one hand where I called a c/minraise with bottom pair, gutshot and bdfd vs a straight forward player. We still had 150bb behind and I was planning on bombing any flush card or if I made trips. Turn bricks and I fold to a 1/3 pot bet.

I think bd flushes are worth slightly more than fd flushes because they are harder to put someone on and you can get paid off more often.

My bankroll is pretty low right now. This month is do or die for me, If I have another breakeven or losing month I'll have to give poker a break and do something else. I've been pretty good about keeping my expenses low but I need to cut back even more until I have enough to take shots at 2/5 again. I am going to start spending all the food comps I have racked up.

TYVM for the lead, I'll check it out.

October

Total hours played- 5
Average hourly winrate- $16
Winnings- $86

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1154
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $14004

I ran into TBC and we played at the same table for awhile. Cool guy, interesting stories. My session was pretty meh, no huge hands mostly treading water.

October

Total hours played- 10
Average hourly winrate- $10
Winnings- $97

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1159
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $14015

I got in decent hrs today. Only got involved in 2 big pots. One I had kings, raised pf, bet flop, ps jam the turn and fade an oesd. Other hand I raise AK, b/c K high dry flop, c/jam turn and get snap called by tp2k, river Q bink* nh sir. I run gooooood.

I had been buying in for the max at 1/2 games but I guess it's time to start scaling back my buy in sizes.

I took a couple pics outside the V while on a break





October

Total hours played- 19
Average hourly winrate- $4
Winnings- $75

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1168
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $13993

I’ve been thinking a little about how I have set goals in past months and failed to follow through. I think one problem is setting a goal at the beginning of the month and not really thinking about it much until the last week or 2 and then I’m like “Oh **** I guess I better get on this now”. It has been a really bad habit for me.

I think if I break it down into small goals over smaller periods of time and really focus on what I want to achieve, I could be more successful.

So I said I didn't want to set a volume goal but I changed my mind, I want to play 50 hrs by next Saturday. I'm going to stay focused on reaching this goal and I'll reward myself when I hit it by getting a tattoo I've been wanting to get for awhile. I'm going to do this while playing solid on not making any big mistakes.

Here is a hand I played-

I pick up AJ in mp and raise 1 limp to 8, 1 lp caller and limper calls. Effective stacks 167

Flop- J54
ep leads out for 15, I raise to 35, he calls

Turn- 4
checked to me I bet 50 into 93, he c/r jams for 82 more
I don't really hate it, I think he most likely has a fh here but there is a chance he could have A4s, KQ, AJ, KJ, QQ. It is 82 to win 275, I make the crying call hoping I am drawing live. He flips 55, I brick my 2 outs nh sir

I only included 1 combo of AJ and 1 combo of KJ, I didn't even include KQ and I am still commited at this point

Board: 5s 4s 4d Jc
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 28.598% 25.00% 03.60% 132 19.00 { AsJs }
Hand 1: 71.402% 67.80% 03.60% 358 19.00 { QQ, 55-44, AcJd, KcJh }

One of the things that fascinates me about Vegas is the architecture, I figure I'll start taking random shots of the casinos to post

Palazzo, Wynn and Encore



October

Total hours played- 22
Average hourly winrate- $0
Winnings- -$1

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1171
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $13917

gonna be in vegas in a week, would'nt mind meeting up at V for some cards and beers with a legend. Let me know if you're interested. Also, you ever play donkaments just to change things up? I'll likely play a V nightly donkament while im there.

IDK bout legend but, I'm always down to meet up with 2+2ers. I haven't played any tourneys in over a year, don't really have the desire to either. I might try out some PLO at V or Aria to change things up but have to rebuild my roll a little first.

Just drop me a pm when you get out here.

I'm unhappy with how I played a few spots. I stacked off with queens 60bb deep, probably should have 4b/f even though it was vs a 20 something yo... ran into kings. Another hand I flopped an overpair it went bet call, he leads the turn when an overcard came I hesitate then call. He bets 1/2 pot on the river and I just couldn't pull the trigger and look him up. He showed a smaller flopped overpair. One other spot I ****ed up was cbetting 1/2 pot on an A high flop with kings, should have just checked back.

October

Total hours played- 27
Average hourly winrate- -$2
Winnings- -$45

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1176
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $13873

Another tough session today. I got in one spot where I stacked off 50bb with tp2k on a flop with some draws vs the most active guy at the table and ran into mid set. I had to b/f tpgk a few times vs tight old guys.

It is kind of hard to stay motivated to put in time at the tables during this stretch where my results have been so pathetic. I realize it could be worse but it's still difficult for me to rationalize all the time and energy I've put into poker the last few months without much to show for it.

October

Total hours played- 31
Average hourly winrate- -$3
Winnings- -$96

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1180
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $13822

Things will turn around bud. Dont let the results bring you down. Maybe find a new hobby to bring you satisfaction and cut down the poker hours a little bit so you dont burn yourself out. Once you start to run good again and see positive results you will be more willing and happy to up the hours again.

For me I picked up bass fishing, I always enjoyed fishing when I was younger but never took it as seriously as I do now in hopes of getting into tournament fishing in the future. I find great satisfaction in finding what I need to get a bite in various conditions. I find fishing in the morning or early afternoon comming home relaxing and going to play poker prime time in the evenings has greatly improved my mentality on the felt.

I'd play Plo at Venetian imo arias 1/3 plays pretty big and the players are pretty Omaha aware most of them play 2/5 and 5/10 plo going through 5-6 max buy ins in that game is common lol or at least for me it is. Maybe I've played on wrong days idk. But Venetian plo seems to have less fulltime grinders

Ive gone through the similar thing moving here in august I had a great start and things were looking awesome. September started off good then I went on a 9-10 session losing streak kk allin pf losing 3 times. Getting stacked when I flop over pair to fd the whole nine yards. I just try to positive this months gone better taking little profit some days being in 1100 in 2/5 getting it back recycling for me the best thing was starting to book sessions and always looking for spots to make thin value and take hands away. I respect the time and the grind you put in I know its not easy losing at something that is your job. Download Bart Hansen pod cast I've listened to thoughs well I grind makes defference to me. Well anytime u wanna go over hands or hang let me know Dan has your number I can get it from him. Keep your head up man. GL this month -Devin Ps sorry for long drawn out post my writings ****

I played decent today. Biggest pot I was involved in I flopped 2p from the bb in a limped pot and b/3bet got it in vs a lady who snuck in with aces in lp and held up.

You are right, I probably should find more stuff to take my mind off of poker when I'm not playing. I spend some free time playing guitar and painting. I also like trying to pick up chicks. My social life has been kind of lame, a lot of room for improvement there. I think I can make some more friends by going to random meetup.com events.

I am also working out again every morning which really helps get my blood flowing and makes my mood better naturally.

Hey thanks for the comments Devin.

Yeah I know PLO is notoriously swingy, I'm nowhere near rolled even for 1/2 so that will be something to try in the future. Not to mention I don't have much FR PLO experience, mostly just played HU/ SH matches vs my buddies back in the day.

I know the best thing I can do is keep a positive mindset. I'm sure every poker player can relate to have periods of loses. Bart Hanson's podcasts are good, I used to listen to the duecescracked ones all the time.

October

Total hours played- 34
Average hourly winrate- $4
Winnings- $131

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1182
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $14049

I'm a huge fan of having something else to change things up. I play 2-3 tournies per month and I also coach 4-5 days a month.

There have been a few times where I was running horrible and then I bink a donkament for $4k - $8k and it helps rlpull me out of my downswing.

Anyways OP, GL

I'm not that happy with my play today. I had a headache for most of the session.

There were some thunderstorms passing through here the last couple days. It has really cooled down temperature wise since mid summer.

Here are a couple thin spots-

I pick up 99 in lp, loose villain in mp has opened for 12, I 3bet to 30. folds back to villain who calls. effective stacks 70

Flop- QJJ
he checks I shove for 70 into 60, he calls with QJ I'm draw virtually dead gg

I pick up AQ in mp, same villain from last hand opened utg for 12, I 3bet to 30, folds back to villain who calls. effective stacks 70

Flop-K108
he checks I jam for 70 into 60, he calls with AK, board bricks out nh sir

Here are couple pics of the Sands Poker Room on the "grand reopening" day, all 59 tables running with ridiculously long lists for 1/2 and 2/5 nl





Playing nothing but cash is a little monotonous. I've thought about getting into coaching myself, I would like to be able to help others. But the way things have been going the last few months I think I am the one who needs to get a coach.

October

Total hours played- 40.5
Average hourly winrate- -$1
Winnings- -$57

2012 YTD

Total hours played- 1189.5
Average hourly winrate- $12
Winnings- $13861

Who flipped the doomswitch on you? Keep grinding, you will turn it around.

Are your opponents playing $100 stacks or are you short in these hands?

QJ calling 30 percent of his stack pre is horribad. If I had AK and $100 and you 3-bet me we'd be all-in preflop. At least I would, you might find a fold and I cost myself $70.

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