WOW. I just read the first 32 pages of this journal. What a torture this carreer has been. I cant believe I have dedicated so many hours to a game to feel so clueless about.

I lost three stacks today limp pushing AK vs 44, QQ (hit quads0 and KT flopping a 10.

It is high variance play but as you can see good +EV overall at these stakes.

Your HU EV's here are:
45%
43%
75%

And those ignore any dead money from folks who your push folds out - so the real EVs would be even better depending on dead money.

Even without the dead money, and assuming 100x big blind stacks you can expect to end up 26 big blinds after these three hands - or 13 PTBB's over all or 4.3PTBB/hand.

The correct EV will of course be even higher.

Alex, I was 1/2 kidding about the sets. You're clearly on a cooler (which is just part and parcel of every poker player's life - take a look at the other journals here), and if it's affecting your happiness to the extent you say, then you're probably right to think about calling it a day.

Satrday April 7th.

Today was good. I played 2230 hands and made $123 on the tables and cleared $36 in bonuses, plus about 8 in rakeback in poker plex for a total $164 for the day, which is very good.

Right now I am playing inOngame and the games look really juicy. If it wasnt the effect on the holidays I might sta there for a while. Also, there are plenty of games to choose. The only problem i am having there is that PAhUd is not working 100%. It detects the tables but sometmes it doesnt display any stats. Also, as usual, there are differences in the amount I made and the amount of PT. That is one of the reasonsI left ongame long time ago.

Anyways, tommorrow I will try to play as many hands as today and cleared another bit of the $100 bonus I am clearing there.

SO far I have played more than 13K hands in the months. I am in my way to play more than 60K hands and clear a lot in bonuses.

i almost forgetto mention that most ofthose hands were in FR games. Idid play some SH in the cryptos and made $10 there, after losing two stacks in two set over set situations. TITE.

I ran very well in Ongame, I limped/pushed AK and won vs. QQ, also limped/pshed KK and flopped a K to beat AA. Then I reraised practically all of a shortstack with QQ and AK came along, but the shortie wasnt covered by my raised and he pushed, then i pushed and another guy came along with Ak and flop was KKQ and Idoubed up too. The shortie had AA too.

Then I stacked off when I raised AJ in LP anfd got one caller. Flop was A3x and I bet almost full pot. Vilain called. Turn was another A and I checked fearing being outkicked. I find myself on this situation a lot, and take a pasive approach knowing that I will call a push, dontknow why i dont push myself...anyways, he bet almost ull pot and I called. Rivere was brick and i checked again and called his push. He had 33. I really had tolay that down.

I think I totally misplayed it.

I suck goot. MEH. I take $164 in a day. oNLY AT ~5PTBB/100.

PS: North, as i told you, i am done studying and analizing this game. I am done with this game. I am bonuswhoring to make some money and that is it. I just hope to stay playing the wayI am/have been for the past few month and running the same way guarantees almost $2K/month. Prolly by August I can stop playing for a living. I also have a job offer for about those 2K/month that I will take.There are a few things to define before i start and the road that we will be making is in the last stages of design/state approvals. I cant wait to quit.

gg alex

lol who is gonna be the new alexmr?

::finger to nose::

I have found a few horrid things in my PTDB. Not only 1.01ptbb/100 in 90k hands but some other things. I was showing and cousin and they came to my attention.

More news later when it's not 4:10AM here.