sounds like a real scumbag thing to do

I sent you private message about the game.
Sorry i harrashed you, but here not was scam.

https://imgur.com/a/P4VJUMu
https://imgur.com/a/0ehRWPO

i didnt allege that it was a scam. i'm not interested in getting an unfair edge from data mined hands

Oh yeah **** him

the whale of all whales was sitting 50/100... the degen in me is sooo strong lately lmao. was a little up and down, but ended up winning a little over 1k over 40 min or so. whale bet/checked/bet on J99J7 and I made super easy A high call down for my second biggest pot, ~$2400. (he showed 86o). biggest pot I squeezed KQs bb vs cutoff open/whale otb flat. only reg called the 3bet which sucked but I flopped top two and took it down on a monotone flop

also won 2 buyins at 1knl. lost 4 buyins at 500nl but broke even on EV (lost AA vs KK and a couple other ridiculous ones, who cares tho haha), so I'm super happy with the day overall. vamanoooooooos

be careful man

i am. i could bust my whole roll on that site and be more than fine. that roll is ran up from 2-3k, and I don't have a way to quickly deposit so I have to wait a couple days if I busto anyway

Perfect. Run it up to a milly!
-)

yeee. first 25/50 yesterday, first 50/100 today, first 100/200 tomorrow?

All the best in your shots !
Which sites do you play besides N8? iPoker is your main, right?

playing some 1kplo and this fish just called my pot shove ott with a Q high fd and open ended straight draw. I had middle set and a gutter. was slightly annoyed but then I checked and he had 40% equity lol. tho he was up against best case scenario, usually I have better fd's/straight draws to go with a hand

Seems like the degen has caught hold of you very bard

it has I gotta take it easy though. I think it comes from feeling pretty ok about my financial situation for the first time ever. when I first started playing poker full time I had ~6k to my name and was a downswing away from bustoville. being overrolled for 500nl now feels ****ing awesome

meh, as long as you're smart about it and don't have a ton of financial responsibility outside of yourself (spouse kids whatever), controlled shots are good

Not sure if you want advice about stuff like this as ultimately how we approach finances/poker as a career is a very personal thing. I think it's good to be honest though about the tough aspects and the significant landmines scattered about. You are still very early into the start of a successful poker career and you don't want to end up being one of those people that have some talent but end up tripping themselves up at some point. I think you should be careful about feeling TOO safe with your current roll and being overly risky as a result. Even playing only 500nl there will def be some 15-20k swing in there at some point and throwing in some 1knl/5knl obv will magnify that swing potential even more even if being disciplined about the shot taking. Imo the people who are able to succeed long term over years in this game are the ones who have a plan and protect themselves against the inevitable tough times. Tough part that people don't think about til it's happening also is that during these long losing/breakeven stretches you also have life expenses draining funds as well. Things can compound in a bad way more quickly than most realize. Throw in the uncertainty of how the online poker climate can change quickly and I think it's insanely more important these days vs even a few years ago to be weary of putting yourself in difficult situations. Glgl.

tl;dr do what's right for you but just don't underestimate certain aspects of poker. A lot of players with potential have ended up sabotaging themselves.

Good post

Thanks for taking the time to write this out. I love getting advice from people with more experience/knowledge than me, so I really appreciate it. I agree 100% with all of that. I've had pretty good discipline so far about only shot taking good games at good times for me, not moving up to make up losses etc. but I gotta keep in mind that no matter how much money I make these same principles have to apply or I'm at great risk of losing it all. I'd be hurting if I got stacked at 5knl then immediately hit a 20-30 bi downswing at 500 - the bankroll/liferoll would still be plenty to grind 200-500 and have 6-12 months paid for, but I would def be stressing a lot more in that spot than I am now.

I originally posted that I feel great about my financial situation, but I changed that to "pretty ok" immediately after because tbh I worry about all that stuff a lot still. I'm nowhere near the point where I can live several years off my savings - which is where I'd like to ASAP so if something catastrophic happens to online poker I'm not ****ting myself looking for something else. Though that fear also drives me to shot take more aggressively too. I'm sure the guys crushing 10/20 fullring on stars for 200k+/year playing 12/9/2 never thought the gravy train would end either

2/4 fullring* lol

stop it hurts

have literally 0 financial responsibilities. not even a car payment. rent is even paid in full for a couple more months. so yeah, losing a chunk of the roll in a super soft game wouldn't hurt even if it wouldn't be fun.

internet is down today so no degenning taking 2-3 minutes to get pages to load using hotspot. moments like these I realize how much time I spend using something that requires internet haha

No prob glad it's at all helpful. Also everyone has to do what's right for them so ultimately we each make the choices we make and live with whatever comes from that. For me personally being freshly 30/married/wanting a family in the not so crazy distant future stability is obv important. I'm sure you have your own set of goals for how you see your life going and it's good to think about that and then work backwards from there to figure out the best way to get there.

Yeah I mean I think the dream for almost everyone should be to be financially independent (aka you don't have to stop working but you could if you wanted to) as early in life as possible. Life is so much better when you have choices and financial stability helps allow for having those choices. I think the most incredible part of poker as a profession is the flexibility/choice we have on a day to day basis. I'll hopefully get to spend a lot of time with a future child as they are growing up that I may not have otherwise gotten to because of the flexibility of poker.

For sure many don't think about the gravy train ending. And I think it's natural to get in our own way as well due to the emotions that come with making/losing money from an activity with a lot of variance/gamble built in. It's like that great quote from Mike Tyson I believe, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".

interestingly, I had way more of an idea of where I saw my life going/where I wanted to be 6 years ago (when I graduated HS) than I do now. tbh my whole life I wanted to become a politician. I was on the debate team etc. but I pretty quickly became disillusioned by the idea of becoming involved with a group of such degenerates

definite +1 to all of that

great quote. reminds of an old coach I had, Frank Allocco. he always emphasized how important it is to form good habits in everything we do, because no matter how good our intentions might be, adversity will always take us back to our habits.

whether it's basketball or something else in life, it's easy to do the right thing when things are easy for you. But when things get difficult, everyone, every single person, reverts back to the habits that they've formed, good or bad. in the first quarter of the game it's easy to get low and box your man out for the rebound. in the 4th quarter, after you're tired and bruised, are you still going to box out every possession, when most of the time no one will notice whether you do or not? Only if you formed good habits in practice


so my internet is out until monday, which means I'm gunna go to up to la tomorrow for some live action to get my degen fix in then off to nola on wednesday

10knl wtf very strong heart

Hahaha I wanted to be a politician in high school too. Who would vote for us now?

haha tbh I don't think I'll be sitting 10knl again for a while. was feeling a bit reckless this week, but it went well and I spun up a bit of a roll on natural8, so I'll go back to grinding 1knl semi-comfortably

I could run on legalizing poker. that's sure to get me a lot of votes from the massive % of the population who both plays poker and votes in elections


welp, I booked my hotel last night for saturday - wednesday, but I woke up feeling like death today. won't get too graphic, but my body didn't know which way it wanted to get whatever poison I consumed out of me. ended up coming out every way. super fun morning. after ~2 hours of that I managed to smoke enough weed knock to myself out, now I just have some minor (in comparison) cramps. as well as bite marks on my arm from trying to distract myself from the original stomach cramps. they were some of the worst I've ever experienced.

not sure what made me sick. I didn't eat anything weird yesterday (actually didn't eat much at all, was throwing up mostly stomach bile which is 100x worse than if I had something in there) and I didn't go out to eat... but I did run out of bottled water and I was lazy enough to drink (supposedly filtered) tap water.. idk if that's what got me though because from what I've heard I would still be hurting all day/into tomorrow. I have a terrible stomach/digestive system so who knows, I'm just glad I feel 90% better.

buuuut I don't really wanna drive 3+ hours and wait at the border right now, and crossing into the US on a sunday is 3+ hour waits, so I'm gunna go monday. playing all day monday/tuesday then flying to nola wednesday


also we were able to bribe the internet company to come out here today so I can at least grind this weekend if I'm feeling good