For value from worse hands that are going to pot control turn. Obviously not standard vs all regs.

Thanks. I have a problem with almost no aggression and stuff, so will try a bit lighter ones for value Good luck.

Do you have a set routine throughout the day?

Well if you have almost no aggression, then it is probably not a good idea to go razor thin for value with your c/r. Best to first add some (semi) bluff c/r first, otherwise you will just vtown yourself.

Not quite a set routine, but start a session ~1 hour after waking up, never play more than 2h15 in a session, have a minimum of 30min break between sessions and a maximum of 7h30 of play in the day.

U should have said that earlier

Hi xela, what did you do in the IB and what made you not find something else within banking when your job finished? A bit off topic I know, hope you don't mind me asking...just curious because with a math PhD I would assume you doing quant work or something as opposed to back office which I would have thought would have been harder to walk away from.

Derivatives Trading would have been best for me I guess but I ended up in Derivatives Sales by some coincidence and was so happy to get anywhere into banking that I was not so picky. I guess I could have changed later on, but then sales has some advantages too.

As to not looking for something else, there are a few reasons for that. Firstly banking is not what it used to be, salaries are way down and jobs matching my seniority are far and few between (even going down in the salary). Secondly I was a bit bored with it and I never actually enjoyed doing it (I would even go as far to say that 99% of people in investment banking don't enjoy what they are doing but only do it for the money or for knowing any better). Thirdly I made enough money in my career to live for the rest of my life from my saving. Well not live a millionaire's lifestyle but a modest life without a family to support. This financial security gave me courage to try something new that I might enjoy. So this is what I have done and have not regretted it even for one day so far.

Since the last update I had a couple of really good days and reached 50k at some point.

Then on Monday I started really running like aids. Not really complaining as I have been running really well this month for the most part. What was really disappointing though was the way I reacted to it, which was by playing really poorly, ie. stationy and way to aggressive in some spots with medium strength hands. I just still find it super hard to stay focus and make tough folds in those sessions where people 3b me to death, raise every second cbet or shove over my triple barrel.

Yesterday I only played half day, still ran pretty bad but managed to play A-/B+ game which resulted in a b/e day (but $1.5k under EV). Took today off to get my focus back. Still very good month obviously:

good stuff, gl!
in b4 epic thread

Sicko, glad to see my best bud crushing the $$$. Keep it up mate best month ever, yeah buddy!!

I thought coopah was your best buddy

That's a nice month, what is your $/hr this month?

I have several best buddies

And there all better than me

$317.70/hour

That is not good enough Mike, time to make up your mind once and for all and decide

Well ur the one i talk to the most and one of the few i met irl soooooooooooooo i guess it's you hah mwah

WINNNNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Had my first stack off for 100bb at NL2k today (vs one of the top high stakes regs):



Still had an ok day and made $2.4k and for a change ran a lot under under EV (not complaining!). Twice I have been above $50k, but fell back below:

in before xela at nosebleeds

Wow, nice graphs.

GL!

Had my second stack off at $2knl today, again with KK:



Also I think that the villain's (a reg believe it or not) play was pretty horrible but maybe he is just on a different level

However, this was at the start of the day and after I went on some incredible heater and ended up having the best day ever at $9.8 and $11.7 in EV. Had to stop then actuallly as was getting winner's tilt.

Here is the updated graph for the month:

Here are few hands from today.

Vs reg, pretty stand probably on my part:




This is vs the most famous high stakes recreational player who's name rhymes on snout. Bless him:




Followed a few minutes later by this hand, also vs him:



This hand vs reg is a bit on the spewy side but I had some read on him so I think it is borderline ok:



This is a kind of interesting hand vs reg. Thought it is a pretty cool line to take OTT because I was repping so thin (have very few 5x in my range) so was hoping to level him into a call. Luckily for me it work and I cannot blame him for calling:



In the next hand BTN is quite a nitty 3b reg and MP3 was a 60% vpip whale. This is super interesting hand as I was completely lost OTT. Once reg called flop I felt he has AK/AA a lot and given he does not 3b much not so many draws. I was actually planning to c/f if he jammed turn (though not sure if good) but when he called the tiny bet I obviously called too. When he folded river I felt confident to c/r vs whale for value. Not sure if my analysis of his range was any good but in any case think he most likely had a FD here, maybe JJ-QQ.

Actually forgot to take myself off a waitlist and when I landed on the table straight in the big blind I decided to play one more orbit for the day and managed to lose a stack at 1knl with AQo vs AKo in Bu vs CO. Good bye $9.8k day

very sick progress glgl.

Quarter of a billion challenge is more appropriate

dope thread.