Your going to Beast it. Just remember to fold if im in a hand with u. Ur most likely beat.

good luck fellow ram jammer inc. member. Hope you can accomplish all of your goals and put in work. I hope i dont put to much of a dent in your goals :/ whore

gl man, will be following u. keep it coming.

Time to start calling with ten high...

Haha thanks ridge =). See you at the tables.

Will do and thanks for the GL.

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Horrid session last night to put it plainly. Ran really bad. Had about a 15-20 minutes stretch while 12 tabling where I didn't win a single hand. Lost every flip, every 80/20, every showdown when I flop top/top or better. Was a pretty sick 20 minutes. Had turned off the auto reg feature on TN about half way through. Thankfully break time came about 10 minutes later, I recovered my mindset a bit, and turned auto reg back on after break.

Finished the night down a good bit despite having 6 cashes in 46 games. 1 5th, 1 6th, 1 7th, 3 9th. Sick how bad I was running but whatever, not turning this into a "I run so bad" thread like half of the rest of PG&C.

Last night:


YTD in 90s on FTP:


Will be carting my desktop home this weekend in order to do some review with my backer and perhaps get another set in at some point during the weekend. Don't have HEM in front of me so not going to update monthly stats today.

Best of luck to all on the tables.

I hate to be the buzzkill, but if you are earning money playing poker professionally, you will have to report that income to the state or federal unemployment agency. This will effect your unemployment benefits. If I misunderstood and you are getting severance from your company, please disregard. Just be careful.

Thanks Blake i really appreciate the helpers, hopefully i can put it into some profit tonight!

Yeah, I know all about it. I have a few tricks up my sleeve so that I can continue to collect my full un-employment for at least the first few months. Besides, who says I will actually earn anything? =P

Trick primarily being that I won't be cashing out any profit until I need it. I have cash in the bank that once combined with unemployment will cover my expenses for 7-8 months without a hitch. At the end of that period when my cash reserves run out, I will have to begin withdrawing from my poker account, and will then terminate my un-employment and start declaring my poker income.

Not 100% legit, but until I know I'm profitable consistently, I don't feel bad about it at all.

If I am earning the ~$4000+ per month that I am looking for playing poker within a few months, I will terminate my un-employment and declare my poker earnings on my taxes like a good boy. I have no intention of peeling un-employment out of the system for any longer than I have to.

Cant express how good this brief summary is for learning players. Can I copy/past it with reference in my thread please?

Of course bro. Will save you from having to answer the same questions 10 different times lol.

May want to notate that set mining really goes out the window after 10/20 level in 180s though =).

best of luck. Dunno if you're interested but you should join our 90 man skype group. We have couple of guys from various levels grinding, discussing hands, etc

Let me know if you're interested!

Sure, add BAEVentures on Skype at any time =).

Blake-

What do you think of NL live $1-$2 in casinos...where I live in the Philly area...its usually 300 Max and $60 Minimum

$300 max $60 min is a pretty solid live $1/2 game. If you are a winning online player @ 25NL FR, you could easily crush this game assuming you make the proper adjustments to live play.

Some key things to remember about live play, is analyzing your opponents. I frequently see internet players walk into a game like this and start 3 betting and squeezing left and right and wondering why they drop 5 buy-ins in a session. Instead, if you play this game super standard ABC TAG as if you were playing 2NL online, you will have a crushing winrate (something in the neighborhood of 5-10bb/hour or 30bb/100).

Personally, I find the super ABC TAG style in these games to be incredibly boring and prefer to play a game like $2/5 NL with a $500-1000 cap. I find as long as it's not the lowest level of game in the room (and frequently when it's the highest game) people will think they know what you are doing but actually be clueless a lot of the time. This allows for some creativity and the ability to make some plays, rather than just sit back and nut peddle as I would in a $1/2 environment.

Also, the Live Low-Stakes NL forum here has a few very good posters and is worth checking out. Obviously some very atrocious players/posters/trolls as well.

Any further questions, hollar =).

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I did actually get in a smidge of volume this weekend but it was pretty much a continuation of Thursdays game.

WEEKEND
Botboy141 32 -$3.85 $4 -92% -$123 Super Tilt N/A FullTilt 1/21/2011 1/24/2011 SNG Only

JANUARY
Botboy141 334 $0.84 $3 38% $280 Super Tilt N/A FullTilt Year2011 E90-90 SNG Only

Roughly my stats from the weekend. Pretty much bricking every game. Running into monsters on the bubble, getting cracked left and right etc. All standard variance. I spent some time reviewing my game this weekend (about 2 hours) and found a few minor areas I could use some improvement on.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to getting in another 100-150 games this week and hopefully come back out on top. If not, I have a long time ahead of me in order to grind out the necessary volume to really earn some dough. My last week of work, finding it very hard to stay motivated and really do anything in regards to work lol...

Regardless, off to work I go, just can't wait til Monday when I can start getting on the grind for real.

Good luck on the felt to everybody. Look for an update in the coming day or two as I get some more volume in on 90's.

Got in a short session tonight of only 23 games. Started off pretty standard ugly, unable to win flips etc etc. Wound up running fairly well towards the end of my session though finishing +$140ish on the night.

Year 2011


Almost back in the black in $6.50 90's now after running horrible off the start. Think I had only cashed one of my first 60 or so until I managed to final table my last three games tonight. Unfortunately busted 8th, 8th and 3rd, but better than previous results for sure.

Until next time, run good for me =).

Hi again Blake could i ask a question regarding the stake you are with and how maybe someone like me applies for stake/coaching , thanks in advance and keep up the great thread!

GL sir.

Rather not give out too many details in here about my particular arrangement but the staking forum should have all the information you need. Generally, in order to obtain a stake for low stakes/micro mtt/sng stuff, all you need is a winning track history or motivation to learn. There are literally dozens of backers looking for just about anyone to grind micro/small stake mttsng's for them at the moment. Check out that link, browse the stickies and go from there.

TY TY

Good luck Blake, you one of the better posters in theses forums. I wish you great success!

Thanks bud =).

Tonight was pretty standard. Managed to ship a $3.30 but continued to get rofl pwnt by variance in the $6.50's. Pic's below. I am way below EV in $6.50's but trying to make myself stop looking at the EV graphs and data. Focusing instead on the fact that I know I am making the correct decisions. In time, the results will come.

So...I called in "sick" for work yesterday, as I really just didn't feel like dragging my ass out of bed and really have zero motivation considering I'm done with this crap on Friday. Woke up around noon, fired up FTP, and started loading games. Loaded until about 6:30 PM 14 tabling the entire time.

Unfortunately, I did not turn a profit on the day even though I managed to ship my first $6.50 90 man. Didn't run too horribly on the day after the first 30 or so games, but unfortunately was bubble busting like it was going out of style. I managed 5 cashes on the day, but took 10th-18th on 16 occassions. A few of these were some mis-plays (one where I was 2nd in chips with 10 to go and busted to the big stack who was playing super aggro).

Anyways, pics below as well as the one hand that I mis-played.

Villain was running 32/26 on this table over the last ~40 or so hands. He had 3 bet shoved EVERY time I had opened the SB. I had opened the SB every time it had folded to me for roughly 2.5x to 2.2x. Regardless, and not being results oriented, I still think this is a fold. Even if his re-ship range is like 36%, this is still a fold due to ICM I believe. While if I call and win this hand that is likely a 60/40 or 65/35, I'm about 80% to take down top 3, if I call and lose, I lose all of my current equity which is probably a top 5 slot.

I will definitely be reviewing a bunch more of my bubble spots this weekend to make sure that I am properly taking ICM into consideration and not just operating from a cEV stand point. As it is in the below hand, I think I pretty clearly ran into near the top of villains range.

Full Tilt Poker $6 + $0.50 KO No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t800/t1600 Blinds + t200 - 5 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter By DeucesCracked Poker Videos

UTG: t14973 M = 4.40
CO: t21448 M = 6.31
BTN: t22067 M = 6.49
Hero (SB): t44139 M = 12.98
BB: t48670 M = 14.31

Pre Flop: (t3400) Hero is SB with 9 9
3 folds, Hero raises to t3800, BB raises to t48470 all in, Hero calls t40139 all in

Flop: (t88878) 3 3 A (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t88878) 3 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t88878) T (2 players - 2 are all in)





Anyways, I'm back at work for today but should be on the grind again this evening. Likely that after this evening I won't get any play in again until Sunday night.

Best of luck on the felt to all.

A tough day u can turn that around no problem Blake. You must be very excited at the prospect of your last day at work tomorrow? Good luck with your targets!

Blake-

Thanks for the tip. I know it is important to take a stand against a super aggro...but I wonder if there was a better spot. You had a big stack...when I feel that way...I try to figure out other reasons to make the play...

What's a normal downswing for you? I've been grinding these occasionally, and I think I get tilted too easily.

Best of luck man.

ah the 99 hand, tough one

imo pf shove by you would likely be spew - what do we think of just completing against this particular villain? call/call a reasonable raise (and reassess flop, albeit ew oop - do we have any reads on villain's postflop habits?) or limp/fold to a shove?

I think unless we're limping monsters here a bunch it certainly wouldn't be a great line but I only mention it as an alternative because straight up giving him a walk seems so gross, even if he's lag/tricky

anywho, gogogo