Cumicon & I will be podcasting at 6 pm EST tomorrow night. If you guys want anything asked or discussed drop it in here

-why now to hang up his disco shoes? Hit some financial endpoint?
-how much did you enjoy playing as the years went on?
-which players is he down/up the most buy ins to/on, and how many?
-how many 5 year olds?
-the obvious what he plans to do next

Atta boy Joey. Will be tuned in!

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Thanks for all the kind words everyone. I assume many of the questions asked here will get covered on the podcast, if not I can answer them here after.

Which reg-battle did you enjoy the most?

Also, congrats on ending your career on a high, which some people itt seem to undervalue.

- obv powerrankings

- did he purely improve/maintain his game through playing? talking poker w friendly regs? watching other top regs play?

- nl winrates vs plo winrates: does he think this kind of winrate could be achieved in hunl? did he mainly bumhunt or play pretty much anyone? (i think i've seen him play a lot vs good hs regs as well which makes his winrate that much more insane)

- what was his lifestyle like putting so much into poker over the years?

- Cumicon vs Ben86, endless hu match, rough estimate of who would win at what ev winrate?

- Does he think anyone made more $ in PLO last 5 years?

- Would love some more in depth talk about his playstyle, anything he views a lot differently than other highstakes regs do?

- Was there ever a rough stretch in these past 5 years or was it just as smoothly as the graph seems to indicate? (i realize even without big downers, it's a grueling grind putting in that many hours opensitting etc, just talking plo variance wise)

- How tough was it putting in all those hours/not getting action etc..?

Thanks Joey, will be an all time classic I'm sure

- Study/grind ratio for cum
- How did he improve his game without study
- Is grind more important than study?
- Some question about his study :P

did he make more money off bitcoin than poker to be quitting poker now?

when he says he put almost no work in off the table studying does he think it's possible for someone in 2017 to do even a fraction as well as he did without studying (albeit HU is close to dead)

how long has he been waiting/planning for this moment to drop a big brag graph on forums

his IRL as a grinder / age , does he have a gf or wife and how has balancing poker pro + that been? if nothing is he excited to start building a life outside of poker/money

grats on all the success / ty for sharing your graph and gl in future

lol he made a video right away on it, with the CAPS LOCK $ amount.

content creation babyyyy

Q1: What made you choose to play PLO and not NLHE?
Q2: Did you ever study hardcore in memorising situations through solvers + softwares etc?
Q3: Tips you would give players who aspire to be as successful at the game?

What r ur thoughts about Galfond?

What about the spin&go?

Do u think is possible to have huge winnings at poker while having a balanced life?

Wanna join my poker study group? I might let u lead it

Also what does cumicon mean how did you come up with that name
all i can read is 'cum-icon' aka perhaps a GTO level porn name

Some questions for Joey to ask:

-Why exclusively HUPLO over 6m PLO?
-Biggest aha moments in HUPLO?
-Best resources to learn HUPLO?
-How did/do you handle downswings?
-What drove your sick work ethic to play so many hands? Was there a $ figure in mind that once hit, you'd quit?
-Why are you not intending to coach?
-Do you think poker is best enjoyed as a hobby with a 9-5 job, or as a full-time profession?

Getting that at the top of this page was some gto posting

can you ask him after playing so much HU, how many buyins downswing does he consider “standard” for a winning player who doesn’t game select? Like should a winning player be hitting 20 or 30 buyin downswings if they’re NOT tilting? If stakes matter, ask him 5/10 through 10/20.

Let's hope so

lol it's a weird weird world that's 1000x easier than PLO, capitalization= GTO somehow

What differentiates the top 10, top 100, and top 1000 HU PLO players?

What are some common leaks of players at each level?

How does he play differently from the other top regs?

How would he describe his approach to poker?

What sort of approach to improving would you suggest to someone who is playing low stakes HU PLO and wants to get to the mid and high stakes?

Does quitting have to do anything with the introduction of solvers to plo and how the landscape will change for HU plo and plo in general within the next few months?

- Thoughts on Isildur
- Thoughts on Bitcoin and crypto currencies in general
- Happiest moments in life, biggest regrets
- Plans for the future

Thanks a lot for sharing all this Cumicon and thanks to Joey having him on his podcast!

I thought 2+2 had smart people? Not one assumes or thinks this is just not real?
I remember i saw a documentary about the UB superuser scandal and in it talked about ths guy, who played a losing style of play over and over everynight and somehow managed to win a ridiculous amount of money. They said the guy ran several deviations over or something. They compared that guy to winning the lottery like 9 times in a row or something those were the odds.

King of like this cumicon guy, played 90% of his hands? over 1.3million hands? NEVER in his life had a real downswing? Are you kidding me. In the most action packed game of all time this guy NEVER lost over THAT many hands? I have 20 buy in swings every couple hours playing 6 tables, i consistantly win and lose 30 buy ins daily. For this cumicon guy to never go thru this means hes just a giant luckbox.

Id like to see his setup, at worst he probably has a computer telling him what to do. In my opinion theres a good chance he was a superuser and saw cards in real time. People who play that many hands always lose in the longrun, and he shows us a winstreak like this? so phoney

Cumicon, would you be willing to livestream a polygraph to prove you did this all the honest way and make me feel like a jackass? Only way Id ever believe it was done right.

Hi cumicon, you opened my mood for PLO by posting your results :P . I'm amazed of your zoom winrate. It's HU zoom or 6 max?

Tips for super splashy games where people play 50%+ VPIP and 3bet (15-30%) a tonne 6handed. Completely new to PLO but trying to learn because I have some juicy games nearby Ive just been staying as a nit

Got a question for cumi-if you have to start ftom scratch and play 0.10/0.25 cents,hu or 6 max plo,which site would you choose and how many buy ins do you think are enough?Thanks for the podcast,Joey