Cashing out is so fucking awesome, I love it, keep a comfort level and just gimme that money on top!
So I got 3 checks from stars in the last 3 days for 4600+, i decided to cash out another $235 before I go to Vegas (its going to take 5 business days for the $4000 check to process anyways, so this shouldn't send anything back or behind, and its gonna be like $275-$350 for me to drive to Vegas)
I'm driving from PA to Las Vegas, and looking to stop at all the good casinos (for poker) across the USA, on the way, its a 3 day straight trip to Vegas, but I don't care if it takes me a month to get there, if I'm having fun in certain cities or winning big in certain casino's, i'll most likely stay at those places for a few days to a week each. I think im taking 80W or 70W or smthing, i'm not sure, still gotta mapquest it.
If you know of any good casinos (or know any websites that have info on ppl who have done this) or wanna meet up during my trip across the USA n get drunk one night or go to a casino n pwn some 1/2, then send me a PM or comment here
(I'm going for the first time, going alone but w/e, maybe its best this way since I want to stay and live there more than anywhere else in the USA) - what can I say, I'm a city boy
hrm, life has been great, I don't feel a need to grind 24/7 anymore, and for the most part, I only grind when I want to, instead of from the second I wake up to the second I go to sleep (most days), my reads and play is much strong because of this, and although I am timing my sessions, a lot of the time I am up when the 90 mins goes off and still feel like playing (although if I'm down, the session is terminated and a stoppage is put in effect to analyze my play)
hrm, Quoc04 seems to be a very cool guy, happy to be staying with him, my first night in Vegas i'll probably get a hotel n go out n have a blast, then go to Quoc's the next day and get comfortable and keep my stuff safe for two weeks (if I have 6k+ after 2 weeks of arrival, I'm going to stay 1 more month, if I pull atleast 2.5k profit from live in that month I'm going to stay for sure (ill be grinding online as well - pretty far from NL200, although I feel like a NL200 player playing NL100 ATM) - maybe this is ego, but I tend to play better than the vast majority of all NL100 players, and read there lines very well for the most part.
I'm gonna play more online sometime soon, had a bad feeling about yesterday, so i bet my roommate $2 i could go til this morning without playing, victory is mine. :-)
I'm almost debt free, gonna grind a lot this weekend and prob some tonight and Friday, then go MTT nutz o n sat / sun (Saturday to warm up mtt mind Sunday to dominate, hopefully I dominate an mtt on Saturday, I usually play more creative day 1 of tournament and more solid day 2 of tournaments - in consecutive days)
Ok, Just got really high, no reason to play in this state of mind, I'll be on later LP
I've been putting in a lot more sessions I had expected, and have been accumulating a ton of fpp "im going to use to earn T$ in the 5400 fpp satellites to play on Sundays and have some weeks w/ no makeup)
I'm also doing fairly well, here my NL100 graph today and since I started at NL100
Leaving for Las Vegas on the 18th it seems, going to go get all my stuff for the trip this week
I'm loving NL100
I'm learning a ton and still winning a lot, its great, I'll continue to do my best
After my recent cash out, I had a nice winning day today and now have a nice roll for nl100 again. (Under the $5k starting mark but over what I would go down to Nl50 at, and I'm very confident I will win at NL100 6max, and want to put more hands in there before I go to Las Vegas)
I'm leaving for Las Vegas on March 17-March 20, not sure the exact date yet
I'm going to drive, in hopes that I don't have to come back, but if I do, then no worries.
An LP'er named Quocy04 offered to put me up for lessons, he's also a poker dealer, he said hes a winning player that has some tilt issues, so I should be able to straighten him out. I told him in return, I'll stay 2 weeks, if I want to stay in Vegas then I'll get my own place (if im up more than 1k I'll prob stay tbh, I need a good nightlife and live pokerz *online poker makes my eyes burn, forcing me to play smaller sessions now, or struggle to finish long sessions (sometimes mtt days)
So you'll be seeing me on the LP til around the 18th, then I'm driving across the states from Pennsylvania to Las Vegas, planning to stop at almost every casino on the way (as long as its around 5pm - 12am)
I'll be llowing myself to play poker with 10% of my live roll any night.
I'll have between $4400-$5500 when I leave the door for vegas.
Very excited about this, awesome that Quocy is putting me up, especially because hes a dealer and hes been in vegas over a year (he sleeps in the livingroom *i do this like 5/7 days of the week myself as well here lol*, so I get the bedroom
I'll bring my laptop, continue grinding at some hotels (hopefully, I don't have wireless so I think that I won't be able to grind online for the whole trip) and when I get setup in vegas I'll prob grind online tue wed thu and play live fri - mon with random days off when they're needed
CrownRoyal, stop bringing so much negativity to everything.
Play your game, do your best, I wish you luck.
I'm up over 20k in live poker in very limited sessions (mostly at Salamanca casino in Salamanca NY, I've wanted to go to Las Vegas for over a year now, and I have nothing else going on in my life, and I wanna go out to some fun clubs in vegas (here we only have small bars, where we can get shitfaced, but theres never a tiesto or paul van dyke showing up here, or tool, or great headline bands that host amazing shows.
Its time to go to Vegas.
I'll grind 1/2 during the daytime and nighttime of most weeks (some 2/5 if I win $500 at 1/2 and feel like freerolling 2/5, but if I lose that bi on 2/5 I will move back down to 1/2. (Also wanna play atleast once deep at the wynn with like $600-1.2k on the table or something ridiculous and just steamroll the table into submission (u know how we rollz), and I wanna know where the fishiest casinos are as well, although I'm sure I'll pick them out)
I moved to my current town 10 months ago, and don't know many people, and hardly ever get to go do anything fun.
I don't mind cashing out 3-4k and leaving myself a Nl25-50 bankroll online and going to vegas.
I for one, have learned to not believe in ever "taking shots", I wasted a year of my life on this, but tbh, there comes a time when its time to go out there and see what I got, and do what I gotta do. I can start at 1/2, I have no responsibilities holding me down here, and my roommate told me that I only have to pay him $200 a month when I'm not here.
For live play, 20bi is more than enough, and if I run and play well, I'll move up every 20 bi, (10k for 2/5, 20k for 5/10, 40k for 10/20, 100k for 25/50 etc)
Theres a hotel at the end of the Vegas strip for $29.99 a night, the hotels actually really nice (was recommended to me by a millionaire), I know this isn't balla, and I don't give a shit, its suitable for what I'm going with and is less than 1/7 of a bi a night. (1 bi a week to stay there is pretty sick)
Who knows, I could win a lot in Vegas, and if I lose, then who gives a shit, I still have a roll to play on, and if I'm break even, I'll probably stay and keep playing.
Don't you guys ever just wanna go do something spontaneously?
Hey, wish me luck, you know I'd wish everyone of you luck.
Cashing out $3,922 now, ontop of my last cashouts of $650, $155, $92, $155, that adds up to $4,927 for the trip. (I'm driving so I don't have to take a taxi everywhere...although that may not be the best idea, its great because I only have to spend $30 on a hotel room instead of $100-$300, and I would love to stay in vegas for a long while)
I'll still be grinding online at NL50 6m / NL50 HU and some MTT's that I'm staked for, I also have a lot of FPP saved up that I'm going to use for tournament days.
Alright, so I wanna live somewhere thats a tropical climate, has a good nightlife and isn't ultra expensive (can live off of $1k - $2k a month), preferably in the states, although southeast asia is sounding very tempting right about now.
So I played alot of mtt today (some on stakes, some not) and only made one FT in the $22 deepstacked (had 300x bb, everyone else 90-150x bb) where I made a semi-misread (put villain on 88-JJ when he had QQ and he called my 3rd barrel (i had AK)
Lost $450-$600 playing mtt's today of my own $, was a lil pissed about that
During the FT I made a side bet with python i would win the tourney, so i lost 250 for that, so only won a few $100 or so in the tournament
But as determined as I was, I played a small cash session waiting for my roommate to finish his session (hes gsr_01_integ) a $6-12 45-180 man sng player (very good all around player)
I played close to my absolute best, and ran fairly well too
Sick session? Check it out /brag
Cashed out $150 more (about $1100 in the past few weeks, first time i've been cashing out money from poker in a long long time, and it feels so good, more motivation as well :-)
GL LP, I'm out 4 the night
Ryan (DReaMe)zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Ok guys, now that I am sufficiently rolled for NL100 ($5800 after paying 1k in debts and a $150 cash out for my self *800 cashed out this month*)
I'm now going to play NL100 6max during the weeks, and play MTT's on stakes during the weekends at 50/50 (around 1k for sundays and I will most likely play with my own money on saturdays)
I'll be allowing myself to play sessions of Heads up now as well, as long as I have 100+ buy-ins for the heads up limit then I will allow myself to play it if its the weekend or if I believe I have a strong edge.
This addresses my three most profitable areas of poker, with very little risk. 6max during most times, hu mostly on fridays and saturdays when its weakest, and mtt's sundays when the overlays are the largest and a few others during the week.
My next goal is to reach 12k+ (nl200 roll) , I'm allowing myself to cashout whenever I want to now as well.
Overall, I'm aiming for
2+bb at 6max (16-max tabling)
4+bb at HU (2-8 tabling)
$0-$10M/day MTT (1-20 tabling)
I love all ya, appreciate your support, and I'm sure some of you will "think" allowing myself to play hu is a degen move or whatever, which is not the case. I am extremely profitable HU, I just never understood bankroll management years ago when I allowed myself to play it. I also chased loses like a motherfucker and I didn't time my cashgame sesions like I do now. I will always have 100+ bi for MTT and Heads Up. If I don't, then I will send anyone $100 cash money who would spot me on any of those tables.
This is how I'm going to play, I'm 100% confident that I will do my best and succeed, and these are my best game choices.
NL100 6max
NL50 HU
MTTs that I have 100bi for
Sunday staked tournaments
So I ran MTT sunday today and got 2nd in the 3rebuy yet again, this time i lost AQ vs K9 then lost another stupid hand, tp vs bottom pair he calls allin and i woulda been monsterous CL but he hit 2 pair on turn FML
so i win 7500 in it today but had around 2500 invested in MTTs today so +5k score
BR $15600
Ok, I never told anyone but a good friend of mine staked me back when I was starting NL25 at 50/50 til 15k, so when I had $15,600, I sent him $7500 +1k investment ($8,500) which left me with $6901. I paid $891 in past debts (sry it took so long naz ($100), Artanis ($200) doomer ($180 left from like a year ago) and a couple other LPers) (still have a couple debts left which will be being paid as I continue grinding, I'm hoping to get a nice base 10k roll again before I pay the rest of my debts unless one of those couple guys needs it immediately)
Now I Have $6,010 n change for Nl100 to start on my own. It took me around 35-40 days to hit the 15k plateau but I finally did it! Woot!
Now I'm on my own, I'm getting close to supernova for sick bonuses as well, WOot! Platinumstar + NL100 is so sick!
I'm going to continue to grind NL100 3-5 days a week and play MTT's 1-3 days a week, and take a day off once or twice a week. I'm going to stay at NL100 til $12,000. If I downswing, I'll go to NL50 at $3,500.
So there it is guys, I've been on a sick MTT tear, and without the coaching and support of LP and jlost88 (lostaccount) and whamm! and gsr_01_integ and so many others I don't know if I could have ever done this, so thx a million guys, as well as the rest of LP and the killer support you've shown in my 4 straight days of winning atleast 1k in MTT's :-)
Ok, I'm off for the night
btw - forgot to mention that my staker for this is going to stake me for some WSOP this summer most likely :-) He made $9500 in the deal overall which turned out to be a sound investment, and now I have all I ever wanted, discipline and I'm a NL100 player, and truly believe I can and will be a NL100 reg for a good long while. (12k or 20bi and 25k hands)
man im runnin hot at MTT's, <3 them when u run good -.-
I was 1/40 in the 20rebuy too, then got high and blew up, FML, no more smoking while playing! (actually made some really strong plays but misread my opponents)
Just gonna smoke 1-2 in the morning and smoke 2 at night for now on and grind during the day, that way i can get high n play everyday without them interfering with each other ;-)
By the way, this is the first time my online rolls been 10k from grinding legit, which is why I made this post, just felt so good I had to share it and brag a little, I've been working soooooooo hard to get to become a nl100 reg, now i have a nice roll for it and i can go to work everyday at nl100 with no stress, its so great
I've put two sessions in at The Hundo so far, both going very well, I'm playing very well and cut down on my 3b % and 3b calling % which has drastically improved my winrate
In the graph you can tell I've addressed many issues I was having, and stopped bluffing so much, and only bluff the best spots possible now
im also switching gears a lot now during play, 95% TAG, 5% lag or so. Sometimes no lag, depending on the table(s)
Stats and Graph of NL100 up to date
Taking the rest of the night off, some beers n a couple J's sounds good
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