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Renter to Real Estate; To Midstakes and Beyond [PLO]

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8yr ago

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I am on a journey. This journey has a fixed beginning and a clear ending. There are checkpoints at which point I c

25 October 2017 at 02:50 PM
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OVERSTIMULATED
1yr ago

Well I just had a hell of a day. 25/50 online has always been the stake that I only play a few hands of because it's the lowest stake that the top top players play. I battled for hours today and won 27k across mostly 10/20 and 25/50 while running below EV. This was kind of like taking a weight off my shoulders of some mental block that these stakes were off limits to me. After playing bigger live over the past two years and coming back to play with these guys online I felt very comfortable with the $$ and got to execute my strategy without (much) stress. I'm proud of what I just did. The 2k reg that holds the lobby and I think is really truly solid quit me after I owned him in a few hands.

Highlight of my day was definitely this hand:

Hand History driven straight to this forum with DriveHUD 2 Poker HUD and Database Software

PL 5 Card Omaha 50.00(BB)
HERO ($21799.13)
BB ($2691.53)
BTN ($5734.84)

Dealt to Hero: T♠ 4♦ J♣ 5♣ J♦

BTN Folds, HERO Raises To $150, BB Calls $100

Hero SPR on Flop: [8.47 effective]
Flop ($300): 2♣ 4♥ T♥
HERO Bets $220.50 (Rem. Stack: $21428.63), BB Calls $220.50 (Rem. Stack: $2321.03)

Turn ($741): 2♣ 4♥ T♥ 2♦
HERO Checks, BB Bets $555.75 (Rem. Stack: $1765.28), HERO Calls $555.75 (Rem. Stack: $20872.88)

River ($1852.50): 2♣ 4♥ T♥ 2♦ A♣
HERO Checks, BB Bets $1765.28 (allin), HERO Calls $1765.28 (Rem. Stack: $19107.60)

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BB shows: T♦ 6♥ 9♦ 4♠ 8♦

HERO wins: $5381.31
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Cashing out a 575BB stack or something like that at 25/50 is a great feeling. I think that's the biggest stack I've had at that stake before, which is funny considering I've played a number of six figure pots live. Today was a day for growth as a player. Feels great...

OVERSTIMULATED
1yr ago

Checked out a clubgg game with an obscenely good rb setup. It's hard to tell if these spots are net +ev or not. I was paying ~7.6bb/100 in rake for the primary stake. Ended up losing a few RIT flips and the operator wasn't responsive for reloads so I decided to just settle and move on. It's such an underrated feature of actual poker clients to have instant cashier movements , although while I say that I am still waiting on coin poker to credit my account two days later so.. I also think post-credit/settling/ghosting/collusion risks AND rake, that it isn't a net profitable spot to play on these games. I do know some people that have done extremely well and some that exist entirely in that ecosystem, it's hard to imagine anything outside of being the owner or a prop with good visibility into the player pool, personal connection to the owner, and a maxed out rb deal that these games are worth putting time into, all things considered.

I still have ~70k owed to me from sessions at a private game a few weeks ago so I'm hoping for that stuff to get settled according to what I've been told. Going to a casino and winning chips that can be converted to cash instantly with no default risk is so much better than private setups, but the games are so much less liquid and much tougher.

I have this internal debate like once a year and it's hard for me to settle on how or where to play as a result. If I only play in public games it means I have to compete online in modern tough fields, which I'm not sure I really have the energy or drive for (on an amount of energy per hourly earned basis) anymore. If I only play live then my total hours/year will be somewhat low.

I'm still looking for what I'll do next work-wise outside of poker and have a full schedule of classes jan-march which will prevent me from playing live at nights. So that's why I was looking into this private club setup but I don't think it's the answer.

Reg battling on ACR & coin poker really is the only solution for my geography outside of camping out at the WSOP during June I think. It's funny that I am so bearish on poker as an endeavor despite winning absolute heaps this year. It's ridiculously frustrating dealing with people that don't have the same etiquette/ethics as yourself in private game environments, getting told about payment plans and having to remind them feeling like the bad guy while doing so. Or playing on ACR and having russian scumbags stand up and switch seats to sit to your left. Hearing infinite stories about allin ev-obfuscated collusion, or having someone years later brag to my face about having cheated me online without realizing it.

I love the game and drill solver outputs anytime i'm bored but man are there so many pitfalls for aspiring pros to avoid if they want to make north of 100k/year. As one of my friends says, winning in 2024 isn't the hard part. Getting paid is. I'm so grateful for this game but holy cow does any time I come back to it for a prolonged period of time do I get a bad taste in my mouth....