the majority of the time you're right, and I agree with your overall point - but there are 100vpip whales who 3bet/fold. when I say I'm not concerned I just mean I have plenty of leaks to worry about

agree w/this, likely would've sized up TT-KK. less inclined to do so with AA vs someone playing horribad postflop


I'd say I'm one of the better ( as in top 50%) regs in the 500 pool, but not among the best. Just hit 150k hands at 500nl with a wr of 6.5bb/100 ev, so I'm not unhappy with my results.

I just hate losing 2k in a day and that just being a normal -4 buyin day. at 200 that same day I won't even lose 1k, and because my wr is almost double I rarely have days like that anyway. So, my worst day usually being ~ -$500 is a lot easier to deal with than ~ -$2k

it's easy to be like, "ok, these are just buyins, the $ doesn't matter"

but then you look at your roll after a 30 BI downswing and realize regrinding that at 200 will be 75 BI or 75kish hands. even through the milder downswings I notice my mental game stays much stronger when I'm down-swinging at 200 compared to 500. so I think it's going to take more time getting used to the swings, and a bigger roll so I don't care so much about the $. when my roll was around 60k the swings didn't affect me nearly as much, so once I'm back around there I'll probably move most of my volume back to 500+ (if not sooner - currently have a 40k roll)


just played 800 hands with an average of 174 hands per hour. **** this update. taking a 21% pay cut right now. at least I won $250

+Rep wasn't lying about all these guys repressing themselves. Guy gets triggered by that avatar to point of being unable to read thread? Lol ok - totally normal behavior

couple hands from earlier


i get no respect

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 96 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
Hero (BB): 360.13 BB
UTG: 56.71 BB (VPIP: 36.23, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 69)
UTG+1: 68.17 BB (VPIP: 25.64, PFR: 10.26, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 40)
MP: 131.07 BB (VPIP: 27.50, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 40)
CO: 97 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
BTN: 141.87 BB (VPIP: 24.32, PFR: 18.92, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 37)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J Q

fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2 BB, fold, Hero calls 1 BB

Flop: (4.5 BB, 2 players) 8 9 K
Hero checks, BTN bets 2.14 BB, Hero raises to 9.56 BB, BTN calls 7.42 BB

Turn: (23.61 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 14.83 BB, BTN calls 14.83 BB

River: (53.26 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 34.45 BB, BTN calls 34.45 BB

Hero mucks J Q (High Card, King)
(Pre 64%, Flop 36%, Turn 14%)
BTN shows 8 T (One Pair, Eights)
(Pre 36%, Flop 64%, Turn 86%)
BTN wins 120.15 BB




the fish special

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 111.87 BB (VPIP: 27.03, PFR: 21.62, 3Bet Preflop: 11.76, Hands: 37)
SB: 41.75 BB (VPIP: 77.78, PFR: 22.22, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 18)
Hero (BB): 110.84 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T J

BTN raises to 2.5 BB, SB raises to 5 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, fold, SB calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (17.5 BB, 2 players) 6 Q 2
SB checks, Hero bets 8.32 BB, fold

Hero mucks T J (High Card, Queen)

Hero wins 24.94 BB

14/35 in the 12k monster stack, $2700 up top. p299 if anyone wants to sweat

also 1/15 in the $100/10k turbo, $2300 up top. p25

took 1st in the 10k, 20th in the 12k. now 2/20 in the $50 6k

took 7th :/ nice to have two ft's today though

this can't be too thin... vs whale. he even gave me the slowroll (or he's a mubsy nit)

iPoker - $5 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (CO): 132.3 BB
BTN: 98.5 BB
UTG: 217.08 BB
SB: 25.08 BB
BB: 126.45 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 4

fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, SB calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 3 players) T Q 9
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 5.34 BB, fold, BB calls 5.34 BB

Turn: (18.19 BB, 2 players) K
BB checks, Hero bets 11.19 BB, BB raises to 22.38 BB, Hero calls 11.19 BB

River: (62.96 BB, 2 players) 3
BB bets 17.77 BB, Hero raises to 102.07 BB, BB calls 78.45 BB

Hero shows 5 4 (Flush, Queen High)
(Pre 37%, Flop 0%, Turn 0%)
BB shows 6 J (Flush, Queen High)
(Pre 63%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 5.85 BB
BB wins 254.8 BB



+1200 in cash games today (1500 hands, 50/50 split between 200/500) for a ~ +4k day overall

closing in on a 500 mtt sample. currently at $100 avg buyin and 73% roi - that's including bricking all 4 $500 mtt's I've fired


thanks for the motivation sb

damn, I must degen too hard when I go to vegas. my Caesars account rep just called to try and get me to book a trip. it's weird though, because they used to email me offers for free rooms at Harrah's and even sometimes Planet Hollywood or Linq, and a couple times I made a trip just because I got the booking for free. gambled quite a bit on those trips, but I never get the free offers anymore. even the rep didn't offer anything, just wanted to see if I wanted to book a trip right now lol

just curious tgiggy, dont have to answer if you dont want, recently saw you upset about the -2k day (omgz 4 buyins), followed by a quick 4k upswing the next day (congrats btw).

1.) whats your biggest losing day?
2.) most buyin downswing you've had in cash?

1. biggest losing day was -16k (in one pot at 10knl)
2. -30 buyins at 500nl (think it was around -12 buyins ev)

idk when/if I'll be able to look at $2000 as just 4 buyins. 3 years ago I barely had $2000 total to my name

should say that excluding that one 16k hand, my worst losing day is around 4-5k. my worst losing session is -$2924.38 over 2,875 hands at 200-1knl. 2nd/3rd were similar amounts. I've surprisingly only had 10 sessions where I lost $2k+. shortest session where I lost over 2k was 276 hands.

my biggest winning session was $8,864 over 2,422 hands at 500/1knl (10 BI and 3 BI). 2nd is +$5050 and 3rd +$4100. I've had 17 sessions where I won $2k+ and 11 $3k+ sessions. shortest session where I won over 2k was 745 hands.

so I guess I should stop being a ***** and just play 500

curious what ppl's thought are on this:

whale stacks off light pre:

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 22.44 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)
SB: 66.5 BB (VPIP: 63.64, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
Hero (BB): 117.44 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A K

fold, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero raises to 4 BB, SB raises to 7 BB, Hero raises to 17 BB, SB raises to 66.5 BB, Hero calls 49.5 BB

Flop: (133 BB, 2 players) Q J 3

Turn: (133 BB, 2 players) 2

River: (133 BB, 2 players) 4

SB shows A T (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 31%, Flop 15%, Turn 7%)
Hero shows A K (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 69%, Flop 85%, Turn 93%)
Hero wins 132 BB


then by some miracle he rebuys full. couple hands later:


iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 73.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
BTN: 98.5 BB (VPIP: 69.23, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 14)
Hero (SB): 185.74 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A

BTN calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 4.5 BB, fold, BTN raises to 8 BB, Hero ?

Raise, I'm def down to get it in pre. Sounds like he had it

i raise to 30bb and gii lol

ez flat

like, you're not even a favorite vs a pretty wide range of 77+,AJo+,ATs+,A5s, which btw is a pretty questionable assessment to begin with. stack size is also full now so his get-it-in range is almost undoubtedly tighter than it was in the first hand

god i ****ing hate connector flight delays

thx for the replies guys, will post my thoughts and results later

have a $200 parlay to win $1527 on la clippers to win the first half tonight and under 119 points in the first half

gl degen

only during nba playoffs. besides that I don't degen. except for 3 times a year in the pits in vegas. and sometimes in tahoe.

Can't believe I agree with brokenstars.

Lol at flat

I mean you can say that his range his tighter because he is full stacked but that is just an assumption. One could also say he just got stacked and he is tilted and his range is much wider. All I know is we have AQs and that is a pretty good hand vs a guy who literally just stacked off AT.

clear play is to sit out next BB and jump in the 200nl games.

can't believe I agree with sb

+rep, I gotta plug that into equilab myself because I'm shocked we aren't a favorite vs that range tbh. tho I'm definitely putting KQs in there, probably makes a pretty big diff especially if I include half of KQo. don't think that range is unreasonable vs a (potentially) tilted whale

broken, I agree I should've sized up. was trying to induce. I think I like 26 bb

thanks for the replies guys, always interesting

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 73.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
BTN: 98.5 BB (VPIP: 69.23, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 14)
Hero (SB): 185.74 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A

BTN calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 4.5 BB, fold, BTN raises to 8 BB, Hero raises to 21 BB, BTN raises to 98.5 BB, Hero calls 77.5 BB

Flop: (198 BB, 2 players) 2 K 2

Turn: (198 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (198 BB, 2 players) 3

BTN shows A K (Two Pair, Kings and Twos)
(Pre 71%, Flop 66%, Turn 80%)
Hero mucks Q A (One Pair, Twos)
(Pre 29%, Flop 34%, Turn 20%)
BTN wins 197 BB

finally binking some rivers

iPoker - $2 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 102.5 BB
UTG: 82.76 BB (VPIP: 45.00, PFR: 15.00, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 24)
CO: 101.5 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
BTN: 48.1 BB (VPIP: 36.36, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
SB: 47.35 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J Q

fold, CO raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 3 Q 8
Hero checks, CO bets 4.63 BB, Hero calls 4.63 BB

Turn: (15.76 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, CO bets 7.49 BB, Hero calls 7.49 BB

River: (30.74 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets 14.62 BB, Hero raises to 87.38 BB, fold

Hero mucks J Q (One Pair, Queens)

Hero wins 131.24 BB

thats quite an assumption to make with a 10 hand sample. i'm in these streets w u everyday fwiw

rekt

plug in that equilab yet homie?

kinda gotta play the pool when most of these guys don't stick around for 100 hands.

don't want to open equilab while grinding