A lot of this hand has to do with my image, without giving a 40 minute explanation. This is the first time this villain has called me this light or even close to it. Villain made a good read and wasn’t wrong. I think jamming turn would have been interesting and obviously folding pre was on the table,but we went for a move and got caught. Well played by villian.

I've had the same thing in online cash a couple of times (ok, more than that), however rarely and I still think most of ATs caller downs are clueless fish. That's a very ballsy and bold call by the villain, especially if he's not a clueless fish.

You ever try to bluff but you just keep going turn or rivering nutted hands. Today was that day.

+1999

7,174/50,000

Will see if I play tonight no promises.

just round up a dollar.

Lost tonight ill comment more on it tomorrow for now sleep

-508

6,666/50,000

Please change your first goal to "get a new phone". Haircuts are overrated.
Please separate your 2/5 results from the other stuff.

Phones are overrated.

Ill separate it going forward, ill add up previous days this weekend. As for today apparently we know how to get lucky in PLO.

+1481

8,147/50,000

I will be playing tonight. hopefully it goes well

Sometimes you play good sometimes you play bad and sometimes you play so bad you leave the casino in an hour.

-852

7,295/50,000

Or is your style just so high variance that sometimes playing good looks like youre playing bad but you just ran into several big hands in succession?

While My style can be high variance, I was just not happy with decisions I made tonight. Also my reads were terrible I’m expecting a player to table 1 of 12 different hands and then he tables something different completely. Instead of adjusting my read and continuing to play I just racked up and came home to lick my wounds.

We won on a Saturday night wooohoooooooooooo. Time for drinks.

+1097

8,392/50,000

This was the only hand I found particularly interesting.

Limps 4 way to hero in BB with KQ

I think this spot can be interesting because it really depends on where each villain is seated, and how each villains calling range changes with each bet size.
So I’m running all the options through my head calling, making it 10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45 or 50. As long as the table is weak enough I honestly think every choice is available.

I chose 35 I think I have a few players in early position who will pay to play and that should still be enough to detract some of the tighter players.


Villain 1 UTG +1 (500) calls, we expect a wide range

Villain 2 in CO (700) calls, we actually expect him to be tighter then villian 1

Flop (120) QJ7

We lead 60 this was to small it should have been bigger I think 85.

Both villains call.

Turn 6 (300)

And this is where I’m interested in others opinions I think the 2 best options are leading 175 or checking with the intention to check raise. We think we’re ahead.

To be clear we think villain 2 has a draw and will check and take the free card. But villain 1 has all the options on the table.

Got hit and run today, it tilted me so I left.

-291

8,101/50,000

Phones are not overrated, they are an essential to everyday life. Even if you only have like a $6k bankroll you should buy a $850 phone.

I'm finding this hard to believe.

The whole thing is honestly tough to believe, who in there right mind would hit in run me? Also I don’t tilt, this story is starting to sound fishy. Wait, there is no way I lost a session, whole thing must be made up.

Since May 10th we have 40 hours logged at 2/5 for a grand total of -1673
I round all my time to the nearest hour so that number isn’t exact but it’s close.
And I would say we were running good, can’t wait to see what happens when we run bad.

Ive never seen you tilt. If you really were on tilt and got up and left, then kudos to you. Most people either cant admit they are on tilt or they know it and keep playing anyway.

you ever make a play because you think you've developed an image. only to have the whole table call you down.

+53

8,154/50,000


This was an interesting hand. i don't remember stacks lets assume 1700 effective?

Villain 1 open 35 Middle Position hes pretty loose, someone we want to play with

Hero button 106 pretty much premium calls 35

Villain 2 Big Blind makes it 125 - good player

Villain 1 folds

Hero calls - cause you know ultra premium

Flop 998 (290)

Villain 2 Bets 150

Hero Raises 300 - I've only used this sizing once ever and it was the nuts and villain 2 commented on it, also it was a similar textured board. so I think sometimes he folds. Even if he doesn't fold, sizing is set up super awkwardly if he doesn't jam.

villain 2 calls

Turn 9985 (890)

Villain 2 Checks

I ultimately decide to check

river 5

he checks, I give up, he shows A3

Definitely a fun hand, would play again

Nice little win 2/5

+252

8,406/50,000

I occasionally will ask myself “is anyone adjusting to me?” And it’s funny how some players will snap adjust and others just won’t. I think players are more likely to adjust to nits then to properly adjust to looser players. Anyway, just an observation.

Can’t wait to play tomorrow.

Welp not much to say some bad play some bad luck.

-4700

3,706/50,000

But you know what I love to do after a terrible session, PLAY MORE POKER

Ok so I said I like to play poker after a big losing session and I did we’ve had three 2/5 sessions. They were fun, we had a

-787

+481

+1282

Putting us at

4,682/50,000


I want to pose a question before I reflect on my opinion. Imagine 2 different poker tables 1 has all phill hellmuths and the other all has Chris Ferguson’s. Not from a skill perspective just from a demeanor stand point, so at Phil’s table you can expect berating and blow ups ,a lot of negative emotion and at Chris’s table you can expect stoic faces and utter silence. Do you think the average poker player would prefer a table of silence or of berating and yelling?

Ill take the Chris Ferguson table anytime. You may be able to make an argument that people make more mistakes when there are more emotions involved and everyone is worked up, but Im not going to say that I wont make more mistakes also.

Id much rather just have a calm quiet table than a manic, loud, arguing table.

I promise to update this I have to add up all the sessions I think we are down another 2kish at the exact moment, I’ll add it up this weekend. Tomorrow I have a tournament to play. the casino was kind of dead and they had a satelite with 5 seats guaranteed it looked like they weren’t going to to meet the guarantee so i signed up anyway, we got a seat. I won’t be counting the entry or the prize towards my total, only cash games.

We are down because of plo. For the first time I think ever? I was allowed to play in a game that was so good but to big for me =( we were playing 5/10 mix plo and no limit and this particular bust and normally we play 1000-3000 but a player convinced us to up it to a 5k buyin. Needless to say the table would ever deny an action player. But the game simply got too big for me. Everyone was straddling and I was simply out of my comfort Zone. So for the first time in a long time I left the best game in the casino to go to worse game =(

Crappy feeling.


I’ll get back to my opinion on the he’ll Hellmuth vs Ferguson table I’m not sure what my opini9n is yet. Sorry for any typos been drinking. Probably going to be late to the tourney tomorrow o well.

Side note… = pro question of the day what is the hardest hardest street preflop, flop, turn or river?


Also holy crap it’s 6 am I need to get some sleep.

It's the most annoying thing ever when people replace "I" with "we".