living out of my car in los angeles....

I'll be your Rick...

My last month's results. Only I could get this lucky. I'm not the best poker player, just the luckiest.

very humble man. well done Rick. any stupid MTT idiot playing the mtts results? also all on ignition?

Yesterday I went and played 5/10 at Commerce and won $1250 but got totally owned in the process. So basically the deck hit me in the face but I failed to capitalize on it as much as I should have I think. Please everyone laugh at the absolute ridiculous hand histories.

Nines Full Overplay

Hero UTG ($2195) 99
Villain MAAG BTN (covers) - ?? He's a good player
Villain 2 Young Asian LAG BB

We open to $30 and the good player on the button raises to $105, big blind cold calls and we call.

Flop ($315) 975r

Checks to 3bettor and he bets $150, BB calls and we raise to $600, 3bettor calls and BB folds.

Turn ($1665) 7d

We jam for for $1490 and he thinks for a long time and folds. The reason why I jammed is because I thought he had a big hand like an overpair and I thought the best way to get paid off was to jam. Perhaps I should just be checking with top full there, but I don't hate my play actually. I'm just underestimating my opponents.

Set Over Set Fold Possibly

Hero MP (~3k) AcAs
Young Asian LAG (covers) ?? He's been playing very loose and lost two buy ins right away then started winning it back.
Young Asian LAG opens to $30 we raise to $105 someone else cold calls and the young guy calls too.

Flop ($320) AJ2xcc

We flopped top set with the ace of clubs. Checks to us and we check too which I think is pretty standard.

Turn ($320) 7x

Checks to me and I bet $110, other guy folds and young guy raises to $450. This is where I overplay this hand I think about it and I really don't want to call and let this guy get there with some gutshot and flush draw combo or something and if he has a set or two pair he may call anyways so I jam ~2800 or so. He tanks for a long time and just keeps saying I have aces or jacks so I'm thinking he has 77 and I'll get a call but eventually he folds. He later told me he folded 77 and I told him I had aces. How bad am I? Lol.

Payback Fold

Hero (~3.6k) A2cc
Villain Young Asian LAG (covers) ??

Villain opens to $30 and we call and three other people call.

Flop ($150) K95ccc

We flopped the joint. Villain bets $80 we raise to $240 and he calls.

Turn ($630) 2x

He checks and I play it tricky and check it back.

River ($630) Kx

We hate this river. He checks and I almost just check it back, in hindsight I think I should have actually. In reality I bet $480 and he jams all-in. I show him my hand and fold. He definitely had a boat. He said he had 55 later which I think is too thin even. Whatever.

So that's the story of me winning $1250 but getting totally owned in the process.

I've just been playing the thousandaire maker recently the one that starts at 430. Yes only playing on ignition at the moment and live but I may expand to some other online sites.

Give me my EV back.

Just kidding. But try and run hotter, because why not?

you need to play more perfect poker. you should of bet the turn. then fold river with ace high flush. no check so opponent don't see what u got. Phil hellmuth would of played perfect poker. u need to turn down beautiful women like Phil hellmeth did and he went on to win the main event at the 1989 wsop. no more heater in the van with tatted up chicks.

14 VPIP, 5% 3bet and 40% WWSF

what on earth game are you playing to make this a winning strategy

I think the same thing whenever I see an aggro maniac playing 35/30 and just cleaning up. I think a big clue for my game strategy is the 58% W$SD.

I honestly think my stats are fine for full ring and everyone else is crazy.

aggro maniacs are not cleaning up long-term (unless we have different definitions of "aggro maniac"). playing your stats seems extremely boring even if you're making money. not hating, just an observation!

Winning at showdown is only a portion of the game however, and having a 58 W$SD is a result of being way too strong the entire way down the game tree.

Playing such a tight range preflop and still not winning 60% of the time you see a flop is absurd, what does the redline look like?

Need to know what site this is.

Stats not bad actually, full ring is mostly multiway pots, 40% WWSF is good, 5% 3bet not bad for full ring too, perfect would be in 7-8% range but with 5% he’s still 3betting JJ TT KQs AJs sometimes KJs KTs according position, 14VPIP he’s still playing all pocket pairs, AJo KJo QJo according positions, actually his stats would suit live 1/3 more perfectly, for online full ring i would increase VPIP to 20% and 3bet to 7%

I played 5/10 yesterday and I'm going back to today.

"Straight"

Hero SB ($1465) 76ss
Villain BTN Older Asian guy(covers) ??

Villain opens to $30 and we call, bb folds.

Flop ($60) 863sxs

Flop a pair and flush draw, we check and he bets $40 we check raise to $160 and he calls.

Turn ($380) 5x

More outs. We bet $260 and he calls.

River ($900) 9x

We get there. We jam all-in $1015 and he thinks for a while and calls. I say "straight" as I flip over my hand and he throws his cards across the table angrily. Got eeeem!!!

Quads

Hero CO (covers) 99
Villain Older Guy (~$900) Q6dd

Villain opens to $30 and we call, button calls everyone else folds.

Flop ($100) Q99r

Checks to button who bets $40, villain calls and we call.

Turn ($220) Td

Villain bets $100, we call button folds.

River ($420) Qx

Villain bets $200, we think for 30 seconds or so and jam for about $700 effective or so and he says I guess we chop or something like that as he calls and I show my hand and say quads. Villain is a bit mad and other players at the table are impressed with the quads.

I'm sure if someone is extremely sharp they can play something like 35/30 and still be a winning player. It would be difficult and it would require countering people who make too big of an adjustment but I think it's doable. Would get shredded by a bunch of GTO bots but in a real game aggro maniacs with the right amount of restraint can be winners.

I'm sorry I like to play strong hands. I thought that's how you win at poker. I think everyone criticizing my stats should show their stats so I can criticize your W$SD. That's how you win at poker. You win more showdowns you win more money. Fold the loser hands with little investment. Put big money in with hands you win. That's how winning is done.

Redline goes down. What is this obsession everyone has with redline? The redline is supposed to go down, that's normal. You win money from the blue line being much bigger than the red line but it's always red line down blue line up. My blue line is strong because I get paid. I don't get greedy and try to oversell my hands. I know when to bet small as a value bet and when to jam. My red line is down because I'm not bluffing that much. If I'm in the hand it's cause I got a good hand I want to get to showdown with.

Site is ignition.

Yeah you get it buddy. I'm getting after it. I'm an old school live reg, I don't know what a solver range looks like but I feel like my range is pretty damn good.

The way i look at redline is like losing rate per 100 hand considering blinds and antes, if we take 9max live game, we post 1.5BB blinds per 9 hand, thats 16.6BB per 100 hand, this is lowest it can get, in such tables redline losing rate is so damn low that we don't even need to care about it, i think it will be close to breakeven anyway, also bet/raise sizings are so big in general + multiway pots it's not great idea to sweat for redline, just aim for pure value, why GG has no 9max without antes? maybe because to avoid such nitty behavior like yours, if you play GG 9max antes where every player posts 0.5BB per hand thats like we're losing 66.66BB per 100 hand in redline, here you may get crushed hard if you play with your style, so my conclusion is that in an environment where you play your style suits perfectly well that's why you're winning but I'm sure you can do a lot better in some spots, sometimes to bluff with good blockers vs right opponents etc i believe in live full ring 45BB per 100 hand can be achieved

Redline is all the hands we don't have a showdown in. So all the times we fold+all the times we win when everyone else folds. I fold a lot. Blinds I don't defend as much as others, I'm open season for blind thieves. I fold to a 3bet probably more than most also. There's another loss of 2.5bb quite often. Then we have all the times I win when everyone else folds. That doesn't happen very much. I'm not bluffing very often. So there's not much from that. And if I'm betting for value it's often bets that my opponents shouldn't call but that they often end up doing because I'm good at putting them on hands and making milky targeting bets. I just get to showdown more often when I have a good hand. So then we compare that to our blue line. All the times we get to showdown. Well like I said I'm not bluffing that often so I usually am betting with what I think is the best hand. So that's why my W$SD is near 60% or whatever it is. And I'm value betting amounts to get called and not being too greedy with my bets. So when I do have a showdown I'm making way more money than I'm losing. And I'm folding with losing hands (and some winning hands) vs my opponents before getting to showdown far more often than they are. That's winning poker. Redline goes down, blue line goes up more than redline goes down, that's the winning formula.

Won $415 yesterday. If I can remember any hands I'll post them later I'm going back again right now. Happy Easter!

what's the bankroll at now?

Let me answer indirectly by saying that I have a full time job now. I work in a warehouse doing warehouse stuff. The other people at my job are cool which is nice. So yeah my bankroll is essentially unlimited.

any 10k live MTTs you going to play? WSOP MAIN? If you play and win the main would you still work at the warehouse potentially buying it?

Probably not I'm sick of tournaments. I'm not going to win the main event I'm going to play cash games and get to high stakes.

what are the high stakes cash games near you? Will you go to Vegas, Europe and Asia for the Big Cash games?

I'm the best satellite player ever.

Probably stick to LA.

How should I have played this hand differently?

Ignition Hand #5154946355: HOLDEM Tournament #74732004 TBL#14, Normal- Level 38 (100000/200000) - 2025-04-26 14:07:37
Seat 95: Small Blind [ME] (1,508,720 in chips)
Seat 56: Big Blind (8,907,314 in chips)
Seat 47: Dealer (583,856 in chips)
Dealer : Set dealer [9]
Small Blind [ME] : Ante chip 40000
Big Blind : Ante chip 40000
Dealer : Ante chip 40000
Small Blind [ME] : Small blind 100000
Big Blind : Big blind 200000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Small Blind [ME] : Card dealt to a spot [Js Jh]
Big Blind : Card dealt to a spot [Qd Qs]
Dealer : Card dealt to a spot [As 4d]
Dealer : Raises 400000 to 400000
Small Blind [ME] : All-in(raise) 1368720 to 1468720
Big Blind : All-in(raise) 8667314 to 8867314
Dealer : Folds
Big Blind : Return uncalled portion of bet 7398594
*** FLOP *** [8s 6s 4h]
*** TURN *** [8s 6s 4h] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [8s 6s 4h 9d] [2d]
Small Blind [ME] : Showdown [Js Jh 9d 8s 6s] (One pair)
Big Blind : Showdown [Qs Qd 9d 8s 6s] (One pair)
Big Blind : Hand Result 3457440
Big Blind : BOUNTY PRIZE [$19]
Small Blind [ME] : Ranking 3
Small Blind [ME] : Prize Cash [$707.16]
Small Blind [ME] : Stand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(3457440)
Board [8s 6s 4h 9d 2d]
Seat+95: Small Blind lose with One pair [Js Jh-Js Jh 9d 8s 6s]
Seat 56:Big Blind 3457440 with One pair [Qd Qs-Qs Qd 9d 8s 6s] BOUNTY awarded:$19
Seat+47: Dealer Folded on the FLOP

Some people absolutely stink at the casino. Like literally body odor stink. Something about smelling another man's body odor triggers some reptilian part of my brain to fight. Like it makes me angry. The Spanish guy took off his sweatshirt and started propping up his elbow on the table. How should I deal with this? Politely whisper to him that he needs some deodorant? Loudly embarrass him? Buy deodorant from the gift shop and give it to him? He's a nice enough guy so I didn't really want to say anything. Thank god he put his sweatshirt back on after a while. It's really not that complicated guys, wear deodorant or wear long sleeves. Don't wear open toed shoes. Jesus Christ.

Then I changed tables and got seated with another Euro who didn't smell at all or at least not so bad that I could smell him across the table, one Mr. Gary Blackwood. Cool guy as usual. I imagine he and I will be running into each other at poker tables for the next 30+ years. We didn't really play back at each other at all. I think we both respect each other's games maybe? Or he just views me as a nit lol.

I won $1700 last night mostly the result of a big flip AK>QQ all in preflop. There was a fun player directly to my left everyone seemed to be targeting. He was almost completely inelastic and VPIPing most hands. I noticed the table adjusted and started opening to 50 or 60 if he had limped already. It's interesting how dynamics change when shifts start taking place. Now people are opening bigger, but are they tightening up also like they should? Always thinking, that's how we stay ahead of these guys. However, when you make adjustments to exploit you open yourself to being attacked by GTO. Like if this guy limps in you could profitably raise ATos in the cutoff vs him if everyone else plays along and plays like you have a GTO $60 raise here instead of an exploit. So now if I'm still to act I have to decide how to play against this right. And the inelastic guy who limped was limp calling 3bets. So basically I just decided I wasn't going to change my game very much except that I would cut out all the speculative suited connector type hands like 65ss. You don't want to be raising a hand like that vs a player who's calling every suited hand he sees he's going to have tons of five's and sixes that have you dominated, and all the higher spades aren't folding. It's just a reverse implied disaster to play those hands deep vs a vpiping whale. You really only want to make a straight and even then that can always be beat. So vs a guy who's playing any two basically we need to play big cards and pairs big and medium suited connected hands with nut potential like T9s JTs, A6s, etc. Hands that can stack him on the right board.

To be a good poker player you not only have to see the right answer you need to have the courage to act on that decision.

u thinking about gay4pay? LA is the home of the adult film industry. has to be better pay than warehouse job

Rick could not cut it as a rent boy seeing as how a few smelly degenerates at the poker table get his panties all bunched up. Imagine how twisted he would become faced with a rancid schmegma caked schlong and frumunda glazed nuts, he'd go postal over the lack of hygiene, sure there would be a demand for him twinks are always in high demand