lol i have no idea if broken is a winner, but even if he is, there is no way he should play poker professionally if he has an engineer degree from any reputable college. His $$ expectation is way higher w the degree, especially in the US.

even outside. Could go live like a king in any upcoming country on a massive expat package.

plus you can play poker on the side, can't really be an engineer on the side

I was running hot, but I was also running very bad few months ago. Obviously I'm not a poker pro. I can't get in the required volume with my current life set up + limited to 4 tables on Bovada. However, becoming a poker pro is definitely something I could do with enough hard work and determination.

Pretty confident I'm a winner, my EV bb/100 over 200k+ hands and multiple stakes is over 7.00. I also agree that having an engineering degree and being in US is >>> trying to live off poker atm.

Lol, yep.

my apologies for being slightly above EV the past 850k hands since black friday

-jpatche

The only reason it deviated that much is because of omaha, this is just holdem:

You just look around for your name jpatche or something??

Played 1 table for about 2hrs while I watched a movie in bed again. 5th hand or so of the session got JJ in SB, CO opens 3x, btn raises 9x, i 4bet to 25x and bb resquezes to 45x, co/btn fold. I gii and bb has qq. **** spot there, got into a couple of good spots like flopping the nuts but no value

-$100

BR: $5,331

You can but if you are anything like me then you won't get good at poker when you do that, which might not be an issue but worth thinking about.

Dynamic with villain(s)? Or is it standard to call a jam with JJ after cold 4betting? I usually cold 4 to like 19.5bbs there and fold to a jam.

It came up on my stream chat.

This isn't even what happened I typed it out wrong. I would flat the 3b with JJ in SB a lot.

It was co open 3x, btn flat 3x, i squeeze to 14x and bb 4bets to like 40bb and then I gii

Played for 2 hrs at 200nl 4-tabling, then lost a bit and took a short break and switched to 100nl where I 4-tabled 100nl for about an hour. Calling it a night. Had plans to play a lot today, but nothing was going my way. Coolered a few times. When I switched to 100nl it was cooler after cooler, sucked. Still made a few mistakes today that I'm not proud of, but even with 0 mistakes I'd be down >$500 today.

-$740 (-350 at 200nl, -390 at 100nl)

BR: $4,591

Damn man sucks to hear.

Played almost 3hrs at 4-tabling 100nl. Played good, nothing too interesting.

-$60

BR: $4,534

1hr sess, 4-tabling 100nl. Played good.

+$509

BR: $5,043

2 hrs, 4-tabling 100nl but this time I did two reg tables and two zone tables. Nothing itneresting happened aside from a guy open jamming $100 with AA when I had KK, sucked.

-$90

BR: $4,951

Ignore the above post, I guess I hadn't had all the money off the table yet, lol

+120

BR: $5,162

:P

4-tabled same thing, 1.5hrs. Coolered few times for staxxxx.

-$500

BR: $4,677

4-tabled 100nl reg tables. 1.5h

+$100

BR: $4,772

The Swongs

Just a tip, you shouldnt look at your BR after every session, nothing good comes from it and there is a lot of negatives that can come from doing it

I highly disagree with this, especially for someone with a PG&C thread or looking to move up. BR updates are what keep people looking at the thread. If you just say "I played good this session, made good decisions, had a couple of coolers" and left it at that, nobody would bother to check the thread out. Also, you wouldn't know when you could move up. It's good to know where your BR is at.

If you're a Stars 100nl RB pro not beating the games but playing 10 hours a day, then yeah, it's bad to look at your BR. You get discouraged by how much you're losing (which is inevitable) and start to play less and less.

EDIT: Also, if you try to be a robot and take all emotion out of the game, then you lose your edge and the game doesn't become fun anymore. It's simply human nature to look at a BR after a session.

lol firstly OP shouldnt do anything to appease his followers in PGC, his goal should be to make as much money as possible. I havent looked at my BR in approx 2 weeks, if you asked me to guess how much i am up i can prob be in the correct range +-25% (meh now that i am thinking about it, its prob closer to 50-60%), so i know generally where i am at, its not difficult. Also your logic is awful, its human nature to get upset/get mad when you lose money, does that mean tilting is fine as well? You want to avoid situations that hinder your progress, and looking at your results every session is something that is avoidable. There is no one that knowingly drops 10bi's in a session and plays their best in the next session. I will know that i am down but its much easier to put it out of your mind when you didnt just PT4 graph the session and see the line go straight down to $1445 or w/e it is.

Everybody has some form of tilt. Everybody. Some are subtle, such as calling a spot where you'd normally raise or folding a hand you'd normally defend with. Some are massive, such as going on insane monkey tilt and jumping to 1000nl. The best a person can do is limit their tilt. Michael Jordan had off games. Tom Brady has off games. The manager down at your local starbucks has off shifts. These are all tilt, just in different aspects of life. If you don't have any sort of tilt, then you are a robot and you probably won't have fun playing the game; it'll seem more like a mundane 9-5 job.

I can also say that OP didn't look at his PT4 from his last session because that's impossible to do on the site that he plays on. Also from the same site, it's impossible to not look at your BR because you have to manually top off your stack. That shows you your BR every time you do it.

I personally witnessed one of his sessions last night. I can verify that he played fine despite being down a few buy-ins. His thought process didn't change; he ran into a few really gross spots (ie, TPTK in a 3bet pot, x/r on QT4 flop, turn is a 4 and villain shows up with 42).