Scrambled Eggs - the diary of an aspiring professional cash game grinder

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yes this is better. the slot voucher should be almost as good as cash. (assuming it's your standard freeplay that can be used on any machine) Freeroll sounds good too. I don't remember reading any tournament books but I'm sure there are many out there.

don't know when WS started but I'm guessing it goes on for weeks, I'll be here through Thursday.

Not up on all the poker promos here but I know there are freerolls, people like to keep things quiet for obvious reasons. My freebies come from playing slot/vp machines primarily.

I like the 78 play. I will more often raise with that preflop than any big pairs/Ax
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Ah that's just when I'd be coming in man that's cool though.

Yeah my buddy said Jacks or better and I have to read theory and shit on it. Not sure if I'll feel like going for the vouchers at 3 am so I figure if I get them then read up.
 
Things are going really well, another amazing night that actually should have been much better without some boneheaded mistakes on my part. Still stacking profit makes mistakes that much easier to deal with. Got on a sick run - top set a couple times, had a good but severely tilting player call a big all in by me when he had trips and 99% knew I was boated up. Actually pretty impressed with my demeanor while he sized me up for tells going on 5 minutes there. Demeanor and not giving any information is huge in a spot like this. If it helps anyone if a player is feeling you out in a huge spot and says something like "if I fold, will you show me one card?" or "did you really flop a boat and you've been sitting tight the whole time?" the answer of "I plead the 5th amendment" with a straight and respectful face is perfect. It doesn't get you in trouble with the person whose money you are about to take - as they said in Rounders - NEVER add insult to injury, that shit will come back to haunt you.

What you don't want to do is launch into this:


Or I mean you can if you want, I don't recommend it.

I'm going to shift things up a little bit and start a poker strategy thread for whoever feels like banging around in there. It seems to gather the most conversation.

Enjoy your Monday all.
 
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Christana straight handled me, she posted about some taco bell shit and I said that's great if you prefer heartburn.

She goes all "who the fuck has heartburn at this age?"

Hammered me on that age angle.

She pro.
 
haha

what is she like 18 or 19? i think she's just outta high school
 
I've decided to study card counting while playing poker.

Because

Why the fuck not?
 
To barnes and noble to buy tourney and counting books, talked to an extremely cool guitarist he's funny I'm funny it worked

Come out and find I parked in the wrong spot or not even a spot I guess. The tow truck was literally there as I walked up. $76 ticket but yeah certainly beats a trip to the impound yard.

:fearpanic:

Phew.
 
That was a little too close to losing my car and being STRANDED IN PHILLY.

Eggs needs to be more attentive away from the poker table.

SERIOUSLY.
 
Took a couple days off as 64 hours at spot #5 burnt me the fuck out, hard. I exceeded expectations in every facet possible, which is very satisfying. Really started to feel that burnout though, and yes got drunk again which has to stop. It just does. I know I did it because I was rewarding myself for a job well done on the trip but that shit simply cannot happen at the tables anymore. Three bets, four bets on tight aggro players. Blackjack - and no I don't know how to count yet. Recipe for disaster. Disappointed in myself for that but very thankfully no damage was done.

Headed to another new spot today a little ways out. Not at all in the mood for such a long trip but the action is gonna be absolutely poppin. Not sure one night or two - hotels are expensive (yes I know Renoballs, but I couldn't find anyplace with a free room this weekend). Will decide when I'm there I guess.

I'm going to BEHAVE.

YOU HAVE MY WORD.
 
I would suggest learning everything and keeping an open mind. There's a lot of misinformation out there. Including from people who think they know something. Remember the best plays are those that nobody knows about. If you learn about as many games and plays as possible, you're more likely to recognize a play when one presents itself. And then you can become a good overall gambler.

...if that ever happens stay the fok East of the Mississippi (can't believe I spelled that right on 1st try) :cop:
 
Gotcha, gotcha. Will do.

Yeah man had a long talk with a friend about the dynamics of ripping up the Mississippi casinos. Be it 4 hours away that would have been closest to KOL.

We've all seen My Cousin Vinny.

I prefer not to live it, and I don't think Pesci would be coming to save the day for ol eggerballz.
 
Good luck and yes, BEHAVE, pros have to behave, recs don't have too!
 
Poker is hard

Durr than it was yesterday
 
Oh, boy.

Complicated day yesterday. Things were coasting along until we had our aces cracked twice in very harsh fashion. One was a brutal river that a player made bad but not horrible calls to see. I forget the other one. Then Kings cracked where I KNEW on the flop the guy flopped 2 pair against them (actually that was a great read on my part to see that but NOT great AT ALL to not proceed accordingly). Then went on tilt, calling a $300 all in where I had the over pair Queens with the bigger flush draw against a made flush. Horrible given my position. Calling another all in on a flush and gutter ball draw. Tilt, trying to get even, etc. etc.

The bottom line is finishing down $427 down and an obnoxious $739 in mistakes. We take away the mistakes and we would have been up $312 which sounds humble for a 12 hour session (that's actually almost exactly what I expect to make) but if we combine that with Saturday's winnings we arrive at nut 1 as far as expectations on this trip which would have been sooooo sweet only 2 days in (with 2 to go). Instead we find ourselves very slightly profitable from play ($84 in 23.5 hours on the biggest holiday of the year in an action packed room :facepalm:) and after expenses in the red on the trip.

We realize some things happened mentally. Felt great going in. Got an awesome workout, felt very balanced. The steady grind was going ok but then those two pairs of Aces quickly got cracked and it completely threw us off track. If you can't handle that and not be thrown off track you simply can't be doing this - because the people chasing your hands is EXACTLY what you want over the long term. Definitely went into a trying to get even mode which only made things worse. The more disturbing part is we actually DID get even from grinding then coughed it up all over again. I know why that is too. No, wasn't drunk - only one beer with dinner. It was very late I was a ton of hours in, very mentally weak and faced with what seemed at the time were some questionable opportunities, but that were actually total donk plays. Very mad at myself, but also I still see a ton of opportunity without the mistakes. Saturday mistakes were minimized and it wasn't even a dream session, I just played good balanced poker. Yesterday I was faced with some pretty significant variance where I'd say I played perfectly, for about $400 or so in hands. Variance is going to happen and there's no getting around that. It's how you respond to it that makes you pro or not pro. So yeah $739 in mistakes in one session at 1/2 - NOT pro. Such a shame because such a perfect game for us and that's how we handled it. We'll be missing that action later in the week I can tell you that, and if we don't clean things up very quickly we'll really be regretting not taking advantage of it. As I have said time and time again variance is a necessary evil doing this (and in life), it's how you handle it that determines your outcome.

So, we move on and realize the opportunities are there if we stay on our game. The opportunities are also there for a bunch more mistakes and a complete catastrophe of a trip. Just because you were handed variance one day/week/month doesn't mean you're not going to get it handed to you again. And again. and Again. And if you handle it like a 14 year old being told he has to go to his room with no dinner - like I did, you will crash and burn quicker than you can say aces full, mikey.

Dusting it off and putting in a long one today. I do still feel some tilt but there's a way to shake that off quickly and it's called winning.

Everyone enjoy your Holiday and please be safe and please, please use discretion because life is up here but you comment below and the comments will always become common motivation to promote your show's next episode so your brain knows to keep going even though hope is far from this moment but you and I know it gets better when morning finally rears its head together we're losers, remember the future remember the morning is when night is dead.

:littleboy:
 
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