400nl shot take update:




Results look good so far, but full disclosure, I'm not very pleased w/ my play at this stake so far - too much avoidable spew. And I'm def running good. I've also started mixing in some 600nl. Things seem to be clicking nicely this year but I may also just be sun-running; most likely a combination of both.

My game is still v far from where I want it to be but every day I wake up with the intent to learn something new and be better than the day before. A poker friend once told me that we all suck at poker due to the complexity of the game, it's just a matter of sucking less tomorrow and that's the approach I try to take and my mentality waking up each day

And so we wrap up June and wishing you all a solid July. I might go back to Vegas this weekend to party w/ my bros who are still there. If so, shots will be at a max and hands will at a min but YOLO

Tough spot here. Not really a fan of how I played the hand turn+river specifically. But could be ok? What do you guys think? villain was 24/16 reggish through 40 hands

Not on 2+2 as much anymore so just found this thread. Subbed. I'm sure we've played a few hands together GL, OP!

river is a check AP imo, then again not a fan of turn check

I like betting small and calling a shove as played, villain basically never has 2pr+ when he x back turn and has several 1pr hands to turn into a bluff vs ur capped/weak range

Also not a fan of b flop x turn

What's goodie fellas? Since June 1st I have been on quite the live poker binge and have largely been neglecting online, but decided to fix that a bit and have been back the past couple days. I also purchased Snowie last week and so far it's been a terrific tool.

I got the Snowie app (part of HM2) and I like using it to review hands after a session. I understand the downside that it is assuming our opponents are GTO which might be way off (i.e. their range construction) and also the best play vs a fish might be completely different from the most "GTO" play vs a GTO opponent. That being saiiiiid... it's great to get another look/suggestion in a lot of these spots and especially to see the "blunders." Insane room for improvement in my game, feel like I'm learning stuff every single day still and this might go a long way in that.

Will be updating more now that I am back to the online. Also, on a personal note I am going to visit South Florida for a month in 2 weeks. Staying with a buddy who grinds live for a living. Super excited for that trip

What a night. Grinded online for 6 hours and at the high point I was up $4k (500NL) then had 2 really rough hands and finished up $2.5k. Hands below. I think, I think they are fine ap, but wanted to get some feedback.

The first is vs a whale who was 48/20 with 29% fold to 3bet. He was capable of making moves but his huge, committing raises so far he had had it. 211 hand sample size which is quite a lot for Ignition. My plan here was def b/f ap which I liked over x/x turn

Second hand was vs a reg. 21/18 with 12% 3bet and rst of stats were relatively standard as far as 57 hand sample sizes go for regs. I bet right into the flush here but I just expect this villain to be cbetting his ss on the flop and wasn't worried about the flush. Now that I am taking a second look at this I think I everything ap up til the river, where I like going half pot instead of full pot and almost force his AA & KK to call which is what I thought he was repping.

On a sidenote, feels ****in great to be back online. I have only 25k hands total(!) since June 1st (Vegas trip) on Ignition and 500nl just feels like an entirely different card game from $5/$5 live. With the much higher difficulty level and way more hands/hr, I'm way more mentally stimulated and put in infinitely more tough spots in the same period of time, which in some sick way, I really like.

UPDATE:
On the year I am at 7 ev bb/100 through 32k hands at 400nl/500nl/600nl*, which I started shot-taking in April. I have so much to go in my development but I do feel confident, given the player pool skillset, that I can put up a 6+ bb/100 wr through the next 68k hands (100k total mark). If I can hit that mark, I'll take some stabs at 1knl which has been nothing but a daydream for the past 3 years. 5 months left in the year fellas. Let's finish strong and good luck to you all!


*for those who aren't ignition regs, the stakes above 200nl used to be 400nl and 600nl but a couple months ago Ignition decided to combine those two into 500nl. Thus, my shot-taking above 200nl consists of all 3

h1. Why did you make it 2.5x over a limper? I assume misclick. Postflop I think its fine. Very exploit fold but vs whale pretty sure he always has JJ/TT. If he plays QQ/kk like this then it becomes terrible for us.. not sure about that though

h2. Cbet smaller with range, I like turn bet sizing. River is a x or bet smaller imo. jam more polarized than sets. unless you have a read on villain

thoughts on this hand guys? I think one of the main decision points is where we should be x/r flop or not. If we flat like I did, turn seems fine - should we be calling river? Villain had reg-ish stats through 30 hands, nothing that had stood out yet

In, glgl on the grind. All for the daily/weekly/monthly graphs and hands.

h2 - yeah think we both agree on betting smaller on river for sure

OK guise I'm back what's up what's everybody been up to

not much, u?

ok **** it, 1.5 years later I'll update my thread.

August/Sept 2017
2017 ended up with an interesting finish. When I was last updating this thread - August/Sept 2017 - I was in Miami and Hurricane Irma was about to strike. Since everybody was trying to leave, domestic flights were 5x normal prices (flight to LA was $1k when the flight to Miami had been $200). I said **** that and started clicking random cities, and since Bogota starts with a B, it was one of the first in the drop-down. Flight price? $216. And just like that, I was off to Colombia two days later.

Sept - Nov 2017:
I could write a book on how amazing my Colombia experience was, but I'll spare you guys with the cliff notes: things cost ~1/4th to ~1/5th price and you have never seen so many hot babes in your life. Maybe I was the brokest baller you have ever seen, but I was ballin nothetheless. I loved it so much my plan was to stay and live there and grind online. But nothing ever works out that easy right? I was grinding mostly Pokermaster at the time and running like pure aids on it and then in late November, Colombia govt decided to ban Bodog. POOF - bye bye backup plan. Colombia had banned pokerstars a few months earlier so RIP dreams of grinding online poker there. I spent 3 days moping in bed depressed and bought a flight back to LA.

Dec 2017
For the first time in my life, I was going to give "live poker" a real shot. I started off on a -5k run at 5/5 $500 cap in LA during the first week. Horrible runbad. This was devastating and my bankroll was under a lot of pressure. I was super stressed but had no choice but to keep grinding it out. At the tail end of that streak, I lost a 1.5k pot to a 2 outer vs a donk at Commerce who celebrated it wildy. Right after that hand I stepped outside and called a poker friend and we spoke for about an hour. At that low point that call gave me a big boost in self-reassurance that I deserately needed. I walked back in just as I was about to get picked up. I ended up winning 1.8k shortly after and went on a 13k upswing over the next few weeks to finish December at +$8k net.

2018
The year I turned into a "live pro." At least 80% of my poker playing was live. I crushed. Started the year off in $500 cap 5/5 and finished the year comfortably playing 10/20. I finally made the kind of money playing poker that I had dreamed of when I first walked into commerce in 2013. My only regret was that I hadn't played much online and I hardly worked on my game. I had always taken so much pride in being an online guy and even took offense to casually being referred to as a "live grinder" several times.


Lilu7 2019

"Don't Call Me a Live Player"
I am going to pay over 10k hands online every month. My goal is 15k/mo and 180k on the year. I still need to prove that I am a winner at 500nl/1knl through over a 100k sample size and I am going to devote myself to that goal this year

Harder Better Faster Stronger
I hardly studied in 2018. That's over. I am going to study more than I have ever before in my life. To anybody who is going to be in my games this year, I have one simple message - I am going to outwork you



Lilu7 2.0 is in the house

the start to the month online has a little bit of everything..
BBV?


Best Online Session (500nl & 1knl)





Longest Online Session (500nl)





Worst Online Session (2knl shot take hell)

literally had this thread open for the last 5 months finally u update

u have any pictures of the colombian girls btw?

sounds sick?

i might go to eastern europe to find a cute eastern european wife?? dno

Lmao Colombia is the ****in nuts. pics got lost along with my phone one very drunken night last year

Nice update!! What was your hourly in the live games (depending on the stakes)? Keep crushing!

I played across so many diff stakes live last year + the LOLsamplesizes of live that it's incredibly hard to gauge what my hourly is per stake.

There's hours of 5/5 500 cap mixed with hours of 10/25 uncapped and everything in between including crazy LA home games

Haha fun thread. Will be following since 2.0, gl!

👍🏽

in other words:

Ok, so I wanted to do an update every 20k hands and finally hit the mark this year. Volume online has been pretty ****ty through these 3.5 months on the year so far - less than half of where I wanted to be at this point for online hands. However, that's because I've played way more live - I have over 400 hours of live poker ytd. Moving forward on the year I am going to try to and bring my 80:20 livenline ratio closer to 60:40.

Results overall for both live and online have been stellar ytd, pacing to do better than last year. On an hourly basis, I'm actually doing better online by a lot but the sample size is lolsmall so I am not reading into it much beyond it is what it is. I have def run very hot online but I also feel that I made some huge changes to my game since December with how I approach constructing my ranges and a conscious effort to fix a long-standing error of calling too far down in my range. From a strategy perspective, I've really improved a lot with regards to theory and sizing. I'm pleased with my play so far but obviously we won't have a decent idea until I hit the 100k hands mark on the year. However, these 20k hand snippets provide nice small windows and are decent sample sizes to reflect on with regards to self-assessing quality of play, tilt, etc.

Study wise I have way under-performed. I'm pretty disappointed with myself here. The reasons are, I'm sure universal, but inexcusable:

• playing is more fun that studying and so I opt for that first
• I focus too much on the immediate $ return per time. Obv if I study instead of play 4 hours today, I am losing out on 4* my hourly, but that's really a stupid way to approach poker as a living and so I am gonna fix this moving forward

I will re-mediate the study slacking by setting aside one or 2 specific days and study 2-3 hours each of those days which will be around 20 hours a month total. I am going to treat this window of time as though it were a job or class I have to clock in for - nothing else will be scheduled on these days/times period.

With that being said....

Now onto teh live pokars... live has been a complete blast this year. My living situation in LA came to an end at the end of 2018 and I decided to use my newfound freedom to travel the states playing cards and experiencing new things. Since Dec I have visited and played in: South Florida, Texas, Oregon, Las Vegas, and alll over California.

I have played 2/5, 5/10, & some 10/20 when available. While the numbers are good on the year, I've ran like dog **** the last 200 hours and won a modest amount over that span relative to what my overall hourly at these stakes have been the past year and a half. That's the beautiful thing with live poker though, even though I've ran bad the hourly is still objectively nice and I still to this day have not had a losing month in live poker... 16 months and counting. Try ****ing saying that when grinding online...

Right now I am playing in LA for the first time in 5 months until I decide my next move. Also recently signed up for gym again, 24 Hour Fitness since it seems to be in most major cities. Been getting back in that groove again. Fitness and meditation are two components that I think are really vital to mental game.

If any of you guys know of some great games I should check out, drop me a PM!