Started with a $1/$2nl challenge, now we're here.

Hero, what do you think about throwing out maybe 4 to 5 ideas of what the next thing in your life (with or without odds attached to each) so we can speculate or maybe get a bet in?

what's that hourly at?

I still don't understand why you feel that you have to be broke in order to do "the next thing", unless that thing involved fraud. You're allowed to do something else, hell you can do multiple things at the same time, and have money in the bank.

DO NOT spend a quarter of your net worth on a tournament buy-in (or anything else for that matter).

you sound like you've given up. we don't ever give up, remember?

get your **** together, dude. spend some of your cash on (couples?) therapy.

$29 @ 1/3.
We bricked today.

Holy ****, I stopped reading this thread years ago, and just came back to it. Dipping in here and there to see a lot of craziness. There has been an enormous amount of ignorant bullshit spewed about in this thread, but this nugget is particularly obtuse in 2024.

A lot of sarcasm and joking about ITT.

butterfly.
any big tips for 1-2/1-3 live play?

Hit and run.

anything else that you've noticed through over the years?

You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away, know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

Being the best to ever do it is definitely a plus.

@thepleasure. Just play standard, mix in some moves in prime spots, don’t try to play like ur better than everyone else. <-even if u are. ABC will get it done a lot of times. Punish the limps in position. Go after the dead money pots when they present themselves in easier ‘get thru spots’’. Stay out of flip spots. Use ur skill rather than luck. Patience. Stay the course. Sessions will come to 1 or 2 big hands that will make ya or break ya. Play every the best u can play it. Never show. Never tilt. Leave if ur feeling off. Know ur 1/3 opponent.

Poker 10 commandments .

I been in this game for years, it made me a psychopath. There’s rules to this ****. I wrote me a Super System. A step by step booklet for you to get. Your poker game on track. Not ur mom’s basement.

Rule nombre uno. Never let no one know how much dough u hold cause u know. They gonna ask for handshake at the high stakes especially if that player ****ed up and got his ass upstuck.

Number 2 never let them know ur next move. Don’t u know poker players move in simulations and variance? Take it from your table Capn. He done squeezed mashed button at these cats for they plaques and chips.

Number 3 never trust nobody. Your moms will set that trap up, properly show the nuts. Hoodie to the masks up. ****, for that fast play. She will be laying in the parking garage, to light that cig up.

Number 4
Know u heard this before. Never play for rollz or ya gonna go broke.

Number 5
Never hv a home game where rest at. I don’t care if they bring full house, tell em bounce.

Number 6
That make up and credit. Dead it. U think a Maurice Hawkins paying u back? **** forget it.

Number 7
This rule is so underrepped.
Keep your persona and table image completely separated. Tags and lags donÂ’t mix. Like 2 decks and no 6.
Find yourself in serious ****.

Number 8
Never keep no bands on you. Them players that squeeze your chips can hold rags too.

Number 9
Shoulda been number one to a few. If you ain’t getting bricks stay the **** from the room.
If regs think u fishing ain’t trying to listen. They be sitting at your table waiting to start stacking.

Number 10
A strong word called monkey tilt. Strictly stay away and say not for today. If u ainÂ’t got that mindset say hell no. Cuz they gonna want that money; heart, sleep, mind, soul.

If u follow these rules u’ll hv mad money to break up. If not, it gonna be 24 years in make up.

Do you follow these rules yourself? Doesn't seem like you have mad money to break up.

10 Stack Commandments*

My google translate app isn't working.

for those that don't get it:

I see what he did there...Thanks for the clarification Masta

Getting ready to shuffle up and deal for wsop circuit main. $1700 buy n.
If don’t cash; then May most likely will b the first losing month of the year.
Not sure if I can continue here.

damn your edge must be pretty small to have a losing month at live poker

Just a 1/3 player and have had 3000 in T losses.

Busted the main.
Made a big risky play w A3dd @$1k bb. Sitting w 50k (from 30k).
This particular hand was limped by 4 players from a very active table. Sb ($30k) makes it $6k, all limp/called. IÂ’m in co and wanna squeeze. Not sure if I can get thru sb, but hell w it. We shove 50 bigs (but feels like only 30bigs in this play).
Sb calls a JJ and no luck us

Got last 17 bigs in bb after button limps, sb limp, we shove AQ in bb. Sb limp calls AK.

Time to move on.

https://youtu.be/sWd6fNVZ20o?si=EV-Qjb1z...

So you limp from the CO and 3! Jam over the SB who raised 20% of their stack

Looks like 4*6k from the SB and 3 limp callers, 30k from BS, so 54k, 24k for SB to call. He only needs 31% equity and your hand looks like exactly what it is, a weak Ax suited you didn’t want to raise over 3 limpers, or a middling pair. You’re gonna get snapped off here by probably all of his range because he shouldn’t be raising the SB very wide. You’re like 30% against everything at best. Maybe you should just wear a Pat McAfee jersey when you play; people might think you’re being ironic and it might level them into thinking you’re not going to punt your stack.

Yeah I saw 25k in the middle and went for it.
Prob shd hv realized sb wasn’t folding. If can get thru sb then scoop it all.
I’m 33% to win but w the other 18k dead money, just pulled trigger. Still wasn’t optimal and was a mistake.

We came back for a year to update the thread.
Doughboy never returned lol. Not sure if I can go on without him.
We set out 3 goals for 2024 and tackled 2 of 3. (Pickle, 24lbs in 1 month, poker 40k not gonna happen).

It best to quit that part of the challenge, and start to clear our head. We hv been foggy.

Money is dwindling and gonna hv to cut ties here and start the next thing. Didn’t want to, but too far behind pace and the motivation isn’t there.
Nothing more I can off here if not doing the poker challenges.

Thanks for all the gd and bad advice. Love u all.