Better do her a favour and stack him too, don't wanna keep her waiting!

You know I was thinking the same damn thing... Except my target has recently changed to this....



MAWW who is arguably as clueless as the girl from earlier. She's here for another 1-1.5hours apparently, so I would like very much to stack her deep!

What tilts me most about this casino is the hand rate. I currently have the slowest dealer in the whole casino and to make it worse , he was just about to be replaced by one of the fastest, but she went to another table by mistake and so I'm stuck with this drooler for another 30 minutes of 10 hands per hour. Such a joke. MAWW currently taking my money, this isn't how it's supposed to be!

You can't phone in beforehand?

GcluelesslistnoobG


Lol.

I played with a noob my last session out, which is very very very rare in my reg-infested room. Literally his first time playing, so I was the friendly guy helping him all out with the nuances of playing live pokrs.

His bust out hand the board reads TT997r and the reg who is driving the action is clearly wondering what bet size he has to make to get paid off on this board and settles on like a smallish 1/2 PSB. Noob shoves and is happily snap called and fastrolled. As dealer is pushing the pot to the reg the noob quizzically points to his tabled hand and says, "um, I have J8, I made my straight?". I console him by telling him the other player has a fullhouse and he was simply very unlucky / nothing you can do there.

Regarding the poker hands: I don't play nosebleed stakes above 1/3 NL, so I won't comment. The only thing I'll say is that a raise ain't an "iso" if it goes ~4ways to the flop (I think this is something to consider strategy-wise, imo, although others may disagree).

Gdon'tthinkwe'llbeseeinghimagainanytimesoonG

Unfortunately not at this casino!



lmao, absolutely love when you're the beneficiary of these donations. Although oh so often it seems the beginner's luck sucks out on you and puts you into ultraviolet supertilt mode. But I was glad to make money off the fish tonight that's for sure!

Daily Review - Wed 30/08/17

Hours Played: 5.5
Profit: $745
Notes: Really happy to have got the 5.5 hours in today. Would have been happy with 3 hours but there was a particular mark on the table that kept me there a few hours longer than planned. Casino was the best it's been in ages tonight. Super bad players on all three tables. It was awesome. Only waited for like 45 mins before getting sat which was nice. Ran okay as well and just put myself in good spots vs the fish. Was extremely tight pre-flop, folding a lot of good hands and being of the mindset, "there's better spots" even if it means giving up on some small EV.

BTW the image above of the MAWW was where 70% of my profit came from. It was pretty pure: identify the spot, and be relentless in attacking them. The moment she up and left, I also did and our table broke lmao. "Like a leopard praying on paraplegic hoofstock" - I like that one, write that one down... Anyway, great to see our edge manifesting in so many spots of late - week one of this endeavour I didn't see it at all. But lately, it's becoming very apparent just how horrendous most people are at this game.

Full Results & Graph: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM

I'll now look to write some stuff about the financial planning I was doing earlier.

Financial Tracking - Knuckling Down on Spendings!

I want to get into a habit of spending a certain amount each week. This will make saving easier, dealing with swings easier, and will generally be a wise financial move for me. So first thing I did was make a comprehensive list of all my expenses, monthly, years, and fortnightly as well as weekly, and then I amalgamated them all into weekly numbers. Below is what I got.

Phone: $2 per week
Rent + Internet: $280 per week
Electricity: $15 per week
Gym: $15.95 per week
Domain: $0.25 per week
Hosting: $1.95 per week
Groceries: $75 per week
Cheat meal: $25 per week
Coffee: $35 per week
Misc household items: $25 per week
Gifts: $5.85 per week
Clothing: $15 per week
Emergency: $20 per week

That's a grand total of $515.95 per week. However, of course, this excludes any room for a social life, etc. I think it's important to have a social life, especially if working long hours. So I've decided to allocate $50 per week to a "social life" fund, if you will. This will be strictly for partying/going out and can't be spent on an extra cheat meal or coffee or anything - the exception being if I'm on a date with a pretty young thang and we need food etc. If I don't spend the $50 in any given week, it rolls over til the following week. For instance, if I have a big event at the end of the month, I can abstain say $30 per week from my social fund to enable me to spend $140 in the last week. I will try to be fairly strict on this or at least keep a very close eye on it and adjust over time.

So we're now looking at about $565.95 per week which is something I think I can stick to long-term. This equates to about $2,425.50 per month. Poker-wise, if we're something like 7bb/hr, we expect to make maybe $1,200 a week on EV. So EV we should be saving $634.05 per week - but of course, we cannot rely on this income to pay for any of our expenses, not atm anyway, due to the volatility of the game.

I've decided to create a spreadsheet to keep track of these expenses and to keep myself accountable. Will see if this figure is doable for a few weeks and then adjust if necessary.

I wanna shout out Jake, the one and only Parsons Grinder, for sending me his spreadsheet for inspiration. Ended up going for something a littttttle simpler but we'll see how it goes anyway. Will begin tracking all of this stuff once the new work week starts on Friday. So one day left in this week, then the tracking begins. Will try to use card for all payments - much easier than using cash because you can EZily keep track of **** via bank statements.

This is pretty poor etiquette IMO. If a recreational player begins to see this over again over time, I think it can hurt their chances of returning. Thus, decreasing your own hourly/expected income.

Nobody likes to feel embarrassed. At least try to keep the game going for a bit longer, at least till they are out of sight for sure.

That and you should definitely not be taking pics of anyone

She'd walked out of the poker room before I left. All the other players had the same idea anyway and It was 4 handed by that point so we more or less agreed there wasn't much point playing. Tbf though, I couldn't care less if she didn't rock up to the game again. She wasn't embarassed and we were all very polite to her.

Gotcha, makes sense.

Let's keep the heater going

How does your casino do drinks? $35/week for coffee seems fairly steep. Also the $75 for groceries. My girlfriend and I split groceries every week and i wind up spending a max of 240/month. There may be ways you can look into cutting down some of those expenses for now while you're still building the BR.

Most of costs seem standard but 35 a week for coffee seems like an absolute punt idk

Drinks are full price here. $75 a week on groceries, a few months ago, would have been far too little but now I think since I'm fasting, it'll be quite generous. I don't expect to spend the full $75 each week but have given myself some wriggle room there. Imagine it'll end up being closer to $50.

That's just one large coffee a day. Can easily pay north of $5 per cup depending on where you go here!

being a life nit is pretty necessary when your starting out, especially during downswings
I would just get by spending bare minimum for first few months until you have some money saved up (does $500 of Ethereum count as bare minimum??)
Also what was result of hands from yesterday?

Hey man,

Yeah agreed. And I think to an extent I am being a life not - obv the place I'm staying at it was more expensive than it needs to be but I think $50 a week for partying is faaaairly minimal. I could go full monk abstinence mode, live in a ****hole and spend absolutely nothing each week, but I'd rather a slightly higher risk of ruin than that lifestyle.

Just at the gym rn will post hand results up shortly.

On a more positive note though, I've just made my first cash deposit at the bank. Thought it would be about $4500 but the teller told me $5500 so that was pretty cool. I also just remembered I deposited $1200 in Bitcoins a few weeks back and checked it today and it's at $1400 which is cool! Allnall this brings my networth back up to the $20k mark which is a huge weight off my chest. Time now to make some actual northward progress!

Updated hands W results.

And of course I could be oblivious to the grocery prices in Australia as well

If you can, I'd just invest in a decent coffeemaker (about $40 for ground coffee makers - never get a Keurig!), some creamer, a few bags of coffee, and a nice traveling mug that keeps the coffee hot. It'll start out at spending $80 or so, but if done right you'll have almost a month of coffee and only need to spend ~$10/week on grounds and creamer, with the additional benefit of having more coffee.

Yeah that's definitely the +EV route. However, there's something simply pure about going to a cafe and enjoying a barista made coffee while you read a book... For me coffee isn't so much about the high or the taste, but more the serenity you get by being at a cool cafe with a professionally made brew. Ya dig?

Not that it's a huuuuge deal, but somewhat not cool to snag a photo of the rec player and post without obscuring faces. Sorry for the pc patrol! Enjoying lurking the thread. Carry along

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, chip porn...






Tonight we booked our biggest win of the thread! And biggest live cash in my life I think as well!

Daily Review - Thur 31/08

Hours Played: 8.5
Profit: $2,275

Notes: What can I say, feels great for the heat to continue and continue it did into tonight's big W. I have some cool hands to run through, so let's get into them!

Hand 1

Vs the biggest spazz in Brisbane, the guy who is like 5+ buyins above EV vs me... He's opening any two at this stage.

Spazz opens $25, hero calls w AJo, one other call.

Flop $75: J97dd
Hero calls a $45 cbet, one fold.
Turn $165: 6ddhh
Check, hero bets $110, call.
River $385: 8o
Villain donk jams $235, I'm not in love with it but it's 100% definitely a snapcall vs this guy, I call, and he shows me T4o. Standard turn xc with the gutshot, guy runs pure... :')

Hand 2

Spazz guy BTN straddles to $5, hero calls in SB with 99, BB raises to $40, one call in CO, BTN calls, hero calls.

Flop $160: 89Tss
Hero checks, BB bets $50, fold, BTN calls, Hero raises to $200, BB folds, Spazz OTB jams for like $450 total or something, hero calls.
THIS DUDE SHOWS J7cc FOR THE FLOPPED JOINT!?!??!?! I remark about how incredibly pure this guy runs. It's no joke. Anyway, we run the turn and river 3 times, and I win two of three, which ofc is nice.

Hand 3

Same spazz OTB open jams $1,000, Hero in SB looks down at QQ, calls with a $750 stack, we run it thrice, and scoop vs JJ. Talk about timing. :') Didn't want to go to the bathroom to piss while this player was at the table, glad I didn't. Kinda a sick cooler really although he prob shouldn't be stacking off that deep with JJ lol.

Hand 4

Very next hand we see 78dd, flop a flush, and stack the spazz for his remaining $250. Nice.

Hand 5

EP opens to $10, CO 3b to $25 (he's generally pretty wide here), SB calls, hero calls in BB with AQo, EP calls.
Flop $100: AA7r
Checks through.
Turn $100: 9o
Check, hero bets $50, fold fold, SB raises to $100, hero calls.
River $300: To
V bets $190, hero ???

To me this absolutely reeks of an extremely strong hand. Like 77, 99, A7s, maybe A9s. On the river if we call, we're basically just praying he does this with AJo. He has no AK, ATo now beats us, really we're not beating much at all, so I decide to make the disciplined lay down.

Hand 6

I limp 89 UTG, few more limpers, BB makes it $26, I call (optimistic but I'm running good right?), two more calls.
Flop $100: J32ss
BB cbets $70, hero calls, rest folds.
Turn $240: To
BB checks, hero now has a 15 outer. We bet $150, villain calls.
River $540: Qo
BB checks, hero has the effective nuts and looks like a busted draw, we value bet $350, he calls and says he had AA. We scoop $1,240.

Full Results & Graph: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM

Yeh I didn't think it was a big deal lol but guess I won't do it again!

niiiiccccceeeee

tell us more about villain in AQ hand...you say he is wide...wide as in aggro, his 3bet size looks fishy...could he spaz any trip aces? Or is he decent ish? Overplaying trips is pretty common...even online...even seen it on reg pgcs

Weekly Review Fri 25/08 - Thurs 31/08

Hours Played: 43.4
Profit: $5,577

Notes: What a week! Six from six winnings sessions! Over 40 hours volume! Feels pretty awesome to run good finally. Bit of a tear at the moment and hoping I can keep that trend going for the full month. Super results-oriented and just plain BAD to say at this point, but a $10k month is not impossible at this stage! We did really well this week at finding and honing in on really bad players and printing money vs them. We were also extremely tight overall and my pre-flop game has gotten much better and more disciplined.

In terms of micro-goals for next week, I guess we'll set the following:

[ ] - Track all finances using new spreadsheet
[ ] - Meditate every ***** day
[ ] - Gym 5+ times

Other than that, if I can keep playing my game and stay disciplined, that's all I can do!

Full Results & Graph: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM

Ty ty! The guy who made it $25 wasn't villain. Villain was SB here so he just cold called the $25 open. I'd not seen much from villain yet tbh. I think he got caught bluffing once but was playing fairly generic up until this point.