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The video I made for the leggo contest can be found on the member contributions forum here Feel free to leave comments here or in the forum. My play itself isn’t all that interesting, I mostly just play pretty straightforward and nitty. This was my 2nd try(1st time I recorded & a decent number of interesting spots/bets came up but couldn’t figure out how to record audio after the fact and was overall just tired of dealing w/ something I wasn’t getting paid to do) but the first couple minutes is kinda cool imo.

This month has been going pretty well pokerwise. I’ve really gotten back to my roots as a “low limit grinder” and I’ve already played 25k hands and 52 hours of poker for +$7k(+$8k with rakeback) all at 2/4. Shoutout to Jason who I spoke with briefly a couple weeks ago who really got me motivated. I’ve been adhering to a pretty strict schedule as follows:

9:30ish wake up eat breakfast
10:15-noon play
noon-1 break, eat, shower, take dog out
1-3 play
3-4 break, watch tv
4-6 play

I take Sundays and one weekday off to relax/do whatever and I’m really liking this so far. I could definitely play more, for example alot of times I will wake up late & not hit the tables til 11 or so, and I could also play another 2 hour session in the evening like Jason does but so far I think this is a pretty good amount for me. Some other benefits of this schedule and stakes

-stress level is wayyyy down: the majority of my days are small losers or big winners and even on days when I “lose big” its like $2k which is way easier to swallow than the -$5k daily swings you have to deal with at 5/10+

-chances of me having a losing/breakeven month doing this is super super small

-overall daily happiness has gone way up – poker is just way less stressing of a job when you are grinding out small profits over large amounts of hands/hours than trying to always play your A game & squeeze out every single +EV play in 30k hand months of 4 tabling. Monthly variance goes way down and so does tilt because running bad is way harder to do over a larger hand/hour sample. Basically I’d rather just play my B game 6 tabling 2/4 than always trying to play my A game that can turn into D game after a few run bads at 5/10.

-rakeback is NIIIIIIICE

Favorite hand of the month so far

Least favorite hand of the month so far

Quick note about my topset/AAA hand from last post. I definitely misplayed it and the turn is a bet 100% of the time. His quick call on flop told me he had some weak showdown and people just don’t turn this into a bluff all that often so I need to be betting, how much I’m not really sure tho.

Random poker link I found that has helped me out in some spots
how often?