1/3 Grinding and Bankroll

Booked another quick win after hearing prep, ran well at hold em but lost at plo. KTss KJ27ss beat 53ss all in ott and AA 4! pre got no action after the 3! and cold call but $400 without a flop is great. $15,000 month already!

Two hearings today and a tough judge and both bad facts. I already know how this is likely to turn out. Oh well.

Started rocky at 5/T/25 after losing both hearings as expected, ran QQ into AA $1500 eff. and AQo into KK btn v straddle $1200 eff. Lost at plo too with AKKds running into AA. Entered a 2-7td tourney that was running and ran really well and cashed chopped 5 ways for $1,000 each off a $200 buy in. (Made a lot of 7s.) The judge was somewhat rude at the hearing and while I was the bad guy in their eyes because these clients were pretty sick and I was asking for their release it was uncalled for. Just doing my job just like her.

Taking it easy this morning after working over the weekend and a busy hearing day yesterday. Gotta recharge. At least I donned my new clothes which I treated myself to (a rarity) after a hard couple weeks at work and very good poker results.

Did a lot of work on an appeal then hit the tables, ran bad in the beginning losing AK to JT but bounced back at plo where I won a nice multi-way pot with a wrap against top set. Ended up about breaking even.

Wrapped up my appeal briefing today, I got good response from a teammate on it who said I should be making more than the big firm lawyer assigned to the other side. Looking at this past year, I am very happy to have made the move to semi-pro again, my work is fulfilling even if hard and stressful at times. And I'm good at it! My whole team thinks I am "amazing," to quote one of them, and that makes me quite proud. My personal history with mental illness has given me more passion and enthusiasm for the work and that shows in my results, having gotten a lot of them out of the hospital.

Poker has kept going surprisingly well, this year I am almost at $100,000 profit already. And that is despite being ousted from the big 10/10/50 plo5 game earlier this year. (They do not want me playing if I have to quit a session early for work responsibilities the next day.) My 5/10 results have improved over last year due to some good strat adjustments I've made and buying in deeper, an plo is even a little better too. Obviously playing less this year has improved my quality of time on the felt.

I am also seeing progress in my mixed results. I have realized that the big mixed game is unforgiving and even one mistake is expensive. So I am hyper vigilant and tuned in at all times and my losses there are steadily lessening.

How will this wild journey keep unfolding? Time will tell. I need to stay healthy and keep doing good while doing well.

Well the next day of the journey didn’t go great, I was sun running in the beginning of my mix session with a 76432 in 2-7 dramaha scooping but then lost a huge pot with a 5 dugi in Badacey after making some “weird” drawing decisions to quote the game organizer. Also lost a capped pot with A7653ds in big o giving some action four ways after I opened. Won AA632ss in big o all in three ways and won a 2-7td hand with 86532 (drew the 5) in a 3! pot. Lost Q7632ss in 2-7 dramaha on K45ss versus a d2 and got scooped after I stood pat. I probably had over 70% equity overall on the flop but he drew perfectly and turned trips and a 9 low. I ran the numbers and the Q was a 70% favorite with my low blockers against his two card draw. (If I had broken and drawn 1 my equity would decrease slightly.)

Felt sorta deflated after this session tbh given how well it started and my overall progress. If I’m being honest with myself I got into trouble playing so so but not great hands like 2346 in Badacey and A7653 in big o. If I just cut those out I would have had a profitable session. I also made drawing mistakes with the Badacey hand and probably should have 3! if I was going to play it. Tight is right. So is aggression!

Started rocky at plo but made a stellar come back and profited several hundred. As expected I’ll be covering more often for my fired colleague but at least now I have advance notice. Slow Friday, just some research to do and getting ready for a beautiful weekend. Thankfully I do not have to cover for Monday hearings this weekend so I can rest and relax.

Lol. I am pretty sure he knows what he's doing.

Java, at least that post brought me back to the beginning and made me chuckle. How far I’ve come.

Yesterdsy was tough, lost most of the night playing fine for the most part. Then at the very end of my session I get dsKKT74 and win a four way big all in for a $3k pot to get completely unstuck. Had other good spots at 5/5 but didn’t hold sadly. DsAA733 versus a rundown, KQJT9 on T62K versus AA nfd for a dry side pot.

Beautiful weather today, enjoying caramel latte on the sunny couch now after sleeping in. When the action player busted the KK hand he said “he did it” as he left. Referring to me I assume. That was pretty funny.

It's good to get back in touch with where you started. It indeed has to been an amazing journey up the stakes to unquestioned success at the high stakes games.

High stakes plo5 sure, 5/10/25 ok. Higher nlhe, my few sessions have not gone great, lots of short stacking high variance spots. and big mix I am still improving but not quite there yet.

Last night did really well at 5/10/25 but not as well at plo, my good hands got cracked by a whale who likes to jam pre. And a big straight flush blocker bluff did not get through at plo. Granted I misplayed it a couple ways but at least I got a respectful tank call on the river.

Couch bumming on a Sunday, lates music and sun. Good times.

Sunday session was a delight, I ran pure in all ins against the table spots over and over again. AJ975ds ATT94, AJJ93ds, all winners. Ended up profiting close to $7,000 in 3 hours. Brought me back to my full time playing days. Funny that my best hand lost, AAQJ9ds.

I undid a lot of the losses over the past several sessions and I’m back on track to a super monthly nut.

I spent a little time dealing out hands for the mix too just to see how equities stack up.

Ran bad at plo but won most of it back at 20/40/straddle mix running well at dramaha 2-7 and drama dugi. My A23r in badugi made a 9 and held as well.

Swingy session but about to book a good $2k or so win. Somehow none of my clients today will have a hearing tomorrow. It was a rocky start with my records access being deactivated at one hospital unexpectedly but it worked out with the help of a colleague. Going to try to get to bed early as I didn’t get as much sleep as I would like yesterday.

One of my colleagues said some very nice things about me and said I have a special mind and our office is lucky to have me. I was so happy to get some really nice professional feedback.

Do you always lie?

Slept ok. Some anxiety kept me awake…what if a client wants a hearing at the last minute? I need to relax more, like my other superior said I can handle anything that’s thrown my way because I’m so talented and passionate. It’s a very unlikely scenario anyway.
Franz,
The truth is I’m a fraud. I’m not a lawyer or a poker player who earns a sizeable living playing. I just make it up to stoke my ego and feel important. Thousands of posts in. I waste my time online every day for several years to fabricate apocryphal tales that never happened. It’s impossible to have a mental health issue and be a successful mental health lawyer and poker player anyway. Maybe in movies. Thank you for exposing me Franz! Maybe you can start your own blog one day and we can read about how interesting your fake life is too. 😀

Instant ban, I hope!

obviously a straight male living in a small apartment, smokes ciagrettes and watches tv in his white underpants all day collecting welfare.

how much u net from poker this month?

lol! Around $20k so far. It’s been a good month. 😀 my underwear is not white.

Last night I wasn’t invited to the big mix bday game which felt wrong somehow. But it gave me a chance to run it up at plo in a topsy-turvy session where I got one outted twice and ran bad in another big pot against the table fun player. AQT73ds v KK334. A high flop T turn 4 river gave him trips in a 4! $4,000 pot. Later got dealt AAQQT and flopped top set in a 3! pot against him and he flopped two pair nfd and I scooped. That hand propelled me up over $2k and it was time to get some sleep so I played another orbit and left.

Plo was sorta slow last night so I mixed it up and jumped into 5/10/25 where I scooped QQ v. AA running it twice, very lucky. Also made boat over boat in limped pot in bb with 85o versus 22 25586hhh runout. Also bluffed it off at 2/5 but immediately got the double with AA and won $500 high hand too for aces full.

Made a stellar comeback from the bruising session the other day, making $10,000 on the day. Ran very pure AKs>JJ on two run outs, flopped a few sets too. Even got a seat at 25/50 hold ‘em before the game broke and won KThh to T7 on QT72hh9h crai river and got paid. At this point my winrate at hold em is higher than my plo winrate by enough that it makes more sense to grind 5/10/25 more moving forward and only playing plo when the hold em game is very poor quality.

Graph this year for 1/2 and 5/5 plo and 5/10/25 hold em: pretty good!

All games and stakes this year:

For high stakes games this year (not as good):

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