Hello and welcome to the arena!

Previous High Stakes thread: *** February 2025 High Stakes Thread ***

We generally post ~200bb+ pots, but if there's an interesting hand/showdown, or if there's not much action feel free to post smaller ones.

Posting hands

How to post CoinPoker hands:

Click on hand #number in replayer.

Copy text and remove ante part of first row in hh:

[code]Poker Hand #72306164: Omaha Pot Limit (200/400 ante 80) 2023/04/12 15:51:58 GMT[/code]

Add - after parenthesis. Line should read:

[code]Poker Hand #7230616

Gobbo other Thread got closed by the mod said it doesn't belong in the House of Blogs, hoping we can have this one without Trooper talk.

This thread is to discuss local professional poker players on their journey. Please refrain from mentioning the local youtube celebrity who plays poker.

Links to their youtube channels

Andrew Neeme
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLTP4Ns...

PokerKraut
https://www.youtube.com/user/Pokerkraut

Tappan
https://www.youtube.com/user/tappanmoore

Playing 2/5 at the Bellagio

Effective stacks of $700. Game is capped at $500 but V & H have been playing for a bit at this table

I consider V to be a generally OK player. Bellagio regular with lots of hours of play in the room and at these stakes.

H generally has a tight profile - I don't play a lot of hands.

PF
V is UTG and opens for $15
Folds to H in CO with QsTs, calls $15
Remaining fold

F - $37
KJ8 rainbow
V checks
H bets $15
V insta-calls

T - $67
KJ8A rainbow
V checks
H bets $50
V insta-calls

R - $167
KJ8AA

Intro,
A memoir of a degen:
I've always loved to gamble, and I have done so since I was a kid. It did not start of very well either, I was buried deep in ''debts'' as a 8 year old when I ran incredibly bad playing rock paper scissors against a friend for Runescape in-game currency (had to grind for two weeks straight killing monsters and collecting loot ffs). This passed on and every game I played had the touch of gambling. I played Habbohotel (a online-community where you could interact and have

Hi all,

For those of you not familiar with my poker blog here, 1/3 Grinding and Bankroll, I started as a drunk tourist player the regs salivated over, playing sporadically for fun. Then life hit me with a baseball bat across the face and I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but not before I had gotten my law license and started practicing criminal and post-conviction law. Poker gave me a way to pass the time and not give up on life, and eventually the hobby turned into a job and I went pro or semi

Hello and welcome to the arena!

Previous High Stakes thread: *** March 2025 High Stakes Thread ***

We generally post ~200bb+ pots, but if there's an interesting hand/showdown, or if there's not much action feel free to post smaller ones.

Posting hands

How to post CoinPoker hands:

Click on hand #number in replayer.

Copy text and remove ante part of first row in hh:

[code]Poker Hand #72306164: Omaha Pot Limit (200/400 ante 80) 2023/04/12 15:51:58 GMT[/code]

Add - after parenthesis. Line should read:

[code]Poker Hand #72306164:

I start this with some pictures:

nl2 -$8792.18 -82 buy ins below EV

nl5 (notice that pt4 shows party poker nl5 as nl4) -$5943.81

nl10 -$773.92 -15 buy ins below EV

Total loss -$15509.91

This is me playing nl2, nl5 and nl10 on party poker for one year.

My history begins somewhere in same period when they started to show WSOP shows in television. I think I have played 12-13 years nows mainly NL2, some amount of NL5 and little bit of NL10 what is the biggest stake i've ever played.

I've read all Sklansk

Intro
What’s up, guys? A while back, I did a DoorDash bankroll challenge, grinding deliveries to build a poker roll. It was going well, but I ended it early when I transitioned from poker to advantage play—mostly slot AP and card counting. That worked out for a while, but then life took a turn when I moved to the Philippines with my fiancee. It was supposed to be a short stay while we waited for her visa, but things didn’t go as planned, and now I’m here for the long haul—with a baby on the way i

The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic failed, and it became a general discussion thread with almost no moderation related posts at all. And those that were posted were so buried in non-mod posts that it became a huge time drain on the mods to sort through them. Then, when off topic posts were deleted posters complained about that.

This led to the closing of the mod discussion thread, replaced by the post report/pm a

Newly opened table, Horseshoe Vegas, 2/3, 8-handed, everyone has ~$500, which is max buy. I've never played vs. anyone here.

1st and 2nd hands, I'm in blinds and fold out to small bets. Small pots get taken down post flop.

3rd hand, I bet $15 from But with TJsu, blinds + a limber fold.

4th hand, I bet $15 from CO, and again, I scoop the blinds and a limber. The table is playing tight.

5th hand, V1, middle-aged black woman (MABW) who hasn't played a hand limps from UTG+1. All folds to me, and I

Bunch of hands out there, as play was pretty bad before the mid 2010s.

But two hands in particular are hilarious.

2007 final table: Lee Childs with QQ open raises to 720K. Jerry Yang with JJ 3-bets to 2.5M. Childs flat calls. Flop is 742 with two clubs. Childs bets 3M and Yang pushes all-in. After agonizing and talking to his dad on the rails (WTF), he folds.

2008 final table: Dennis Phillips limps in early position to 300K with AK offsuit (LOL). Ivan Demidov with AQ suited raises to 1.025M. Phill

It's been about 9.5 years and 350K posts of epicness, but "It Lives, It Lives" can live no more. The OG LLSNL Chat Thread got too big for the servers to handle and had to be retired.

You can take that trip down memory lane here.

Now it is time for a new chat thread, and new epicness.

Just a general question to see if anyone has done this. I've been playing in my room for awhile and developed a reputation as one of the more aggressive players, I often take the higher variance lines, check-raising, re-shoving, walking near the border of punt-city in some cases. I absolutely print when I have it. This roller coaster has given me about 9BB/hr over 1000 hours. I'm wondering if I should try to convert to a GG type weak-tight game. Limp basically all my hands, and try to stack peop

I woke up in the middle of choking to death again; though to be accurate, it was towards the end of the process--woke up right away in a white hot panic with black spots of permanent unconsciousness swooping in across both sides of my vision.

Calm yourself, was the first important step. My lungs were soaked, steeped in the things that belonged only in my stomach, and locked up tight. My air passage was blocked and burning with bile and hydrochloric acid. No, I don't have asthma. I have a drinking

Hello All,

This is a simple thread. Make 100k profit from mtt's. I got laid off from my job a couple of months ago and have returned to the online felt to make some money. I used to play full time ~10 years ago in Europe but moved to NYC 7 years ago for real life work. The last 6 weeks or so have been a lot of fun! I just realized how much I missed the freedom of living life as a poker player. Sure it can be stressful at times, but that all depends on your own personal preparation and outlook on

Greetings Everyone,

Plan is simple but hard to achieve 10k€ in the bank+bankroll and ~+2k$ income/monthly from poker.

After unexpected success in my first blog, where I succeed in making 1k$ profit in a month playing 25nl.
Wanted to continue keep myself accountable and have a good place for reflection.

In this blog I will be posting:
-Weekly updates (Result Graph,Sessions,RB,Interesting HH)
-Weekly goals and plans (upfront)
-Monthly updates
-Monthly goals and plans (upfront)

About me, I'm 26 year old ma

1/3 NLHE 9 handed

Game is the best on offer in our quiet room tonight. We have a few loose passives, a couple nits, but two of the LPs are deep so we're sticking around.

V1 - I think I've seen him in the room but never played with him. MAWG that straddles his button and always raises it when limped to him. At first I thought he might be competent but then he started limping and limp calling a lot, opening some hands sure, but definitely loose passive. Called with A8o for 20$ pre out of the SB when

I'm going to keep this intro short because I don't want to be about words, I want to be about action. So just watch me grow over time

I've played professionally before in Vegas, mostly in the 1/3 streets, and enjoyed it a lot, met a lot of people and loved the lifestyle.

Corporate America made me an offer I couldn't refuse and did that for a few years. But now I'm back in Vegas and trying to grow my own business and be self-employed for the rest of my life - never going to report to a boss again.

Hi all,

First post in this specific forum. Normally post in NL Strategy. Hoping for some feedback about bankroll management.

I started playing 4-5 times a week at MGM National Harbor in March after a few months off. Previously I had been playing at MD Live and lost most of what I had won (around $1,200). Anyway, I took $200 to the casino and tried my luck. No bankroll to start really.

I had a great March (+$3,000) but a terrible April (-$3,000) after trying 2/5 and losing $1k and a horrific 24-hour