Rosarito Life - Zooming to $50k in 6 months

I canÂ’t complain much, I ran pure to get that chip stack. And lucky that the aipf hands were vs short stacks

definitely sounds like you're in a good mental state

gogogogo, the kitties need caviar!

Good luck and trust your gut. Don't be afraid to do something out of the box if it feels right.

Thanks. IÂ’m definitely not afraid to bluff for stacks especially in a tourney like the main.

ItÂ’s a bust though. One of the first hands of the day I got snapped down 3 streets by JJ in a single raised pot on A548T. Went from 240k to 180k. Then just ran horrendously.

Had about 100k chips when I flopped a set of 3Â’s on J63 four ways. 3 way to the turn T bringing in a second flush draw, I bet and get raised and then reraised behind. Laid it down and they had 66 and TT. ThatÂ’s why you donÂ’t play low pocket pairs lol. Still had 50kish but busted when I jammed KQ into a raise and a call. Raiser folded but the caller flatted QQ lol gg

CanÂ’t wait for next year. I canÂ’t even begin to describe how soft it is.

And hey, I get to say I busted Huck Seed. He cold called a raise with 76s, I 3bet AK and the raiser folded. Huck backjams 100bb into my 10bb 3bet and I hold. Ya know, stuff thatÂ’s standard in a 10k XD

Kitties wonÂ’t be eating caviar until next year :(

Haha thank you for the updates gigs this is great news... don't be a stranger i.e. cat pics

I just read the entire thing over the past three days and decided to make an account to comment. What a crazy read! The highs and lows of poker/life. The first 50-60 pages were so good, where you were figuring things out and had people being positive/supportive. It's a shame how it went a bit downhill with trolls/negative people.

Your swings seem absolutely brutal, even with so many posters saying bigger downswings are standard. The crypto part really hit home for me. I was 'trading' crypto in 2017 and ended up losing my liferoll in the process. I hadnÂ’t thought about it for years until the market hit $100k recently.... hurts to think about. These days, I'm a complete nit and just invest in indexes.

HowÂ’s life back in the US? Did your partner manage to get their visa sorted?

It would be awesome if you could share a 2024 recap if you're still playing poker

Thanks guys, I'm glad to see people still enjoying the thread.

Life is good. My boyfriend got his visa and we're enjoying life together in the US. It's great to be back. Never thought I would miss living in California so much but there is nothing better.

Poker is still going well. Feel like I'm at a point where I don't even think about poker when I'm not playing which is nice. I've never really studied but I used to constantly think about different spots/exploits/etc when off the felt. I still occasionally pick up something new or want to think deeply about a spot but it's rarer and rarer. Less stress, but the game also feels less and less interesting from an intellectual perspective. An unavoidable reality of playing the same game for almost a decade.

I've been mixing a decent amount of live $5/$10 lately. the hourly is great (was $200/hr for a while but has settled to ~$120) and it's usually a very fun/social table. But it sucks that getting into a $10/$25 game or higher here in norcal is all about who you know (or be wiling to wait until the whales bust and play 6 handed with regs at 2am) The politics of live poker (and dealing with awful human beings - almost exclusively misregs) discourage me from playing live with any kind of consistency. Also, variance sucks.

So I've been grinding a lot of 100-500nl online still. Similar hourly, 100x more difficult, but also much more fun. Was mixing into 5knl/10knl occasionally before those went private but that's probably for the best for me. I would hop into 1knl/2knl but getting a seat is damn near impossible without scripting or reg battling in super high rake environments. Weirdly enough at 5knl it was always easy to get a seat before the table filled but there is much more competition for seats at the lower stakes

I've had a few real close runs at big money in some large field mtt's but haven't quite brought it home yet. This year was probably the year with my most cashes over 10k and definitely my most profitable year ever playing poker so things keep going in the right direction. When I started playing back in 2016 I never would have imagined the games would still be soft today.

Don't get me wrong, the level of competition I face today is leagues better than what I faced on bodog 8 years ago. Most regs at 200nl didn't know you could cbet smaller than half pot or overbet back then. Though to this day most 200nl regs don't overbet, ever. A lot of weird 1/5, 1/4, 1/4 pot lines that I never used to see but that are not very effective regardless. Different player pools play so wildly differently that oftentimes the hardest part of being a pro is remembering the specific playstyles/exploits that work in the pool you're currently playing.

Anyway, I'm just rambling at this point. Haven't really had the time or motivation to update here but I'm always down to answer any questions. Been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do after poker. Or alongside poker with poker still being my main source of income. I feel like I need to be doing more. Poker is great to pay the bills and it's a lot of fun still most of the time but it feels empty. I don't get any fulfillment out of it. I've been at the ceiling of my potential for a while now and I just don't love the game enough (or have the financial motivations I guess) to break through it and into the real upper echelons. But I want to challenge myself still, learn new things and solve complex problems. I just don't really want to do it in the poker world.