u/SportKooky6356

Grinding live and online MTTs for a few months (small sample Ik, no idc) has rlly rlly made me mad. Like I refuse to idolize anyone who won a bracelet or whatever cause it’s just a bunch of bs. Yes you have to be good, but winning a 1,000+ player pool tourney is just soooo much luck it’s insane. Even live tourneys that start slower just become shove fests when blinds get deep. Running deep just to routinely go card dead or take a suck out just hurt. Who are these people you hear that won 10 mil-20mil online earnings. Are they just binking one lucky tournament or what. Feels literally impossible to make real profit on these. Too many donks to beat.

I just continue to take rlly rlly bad beats on gold late in tourneys. Maybe the websites shit but how do you not throw your monitor through a wall when the guy hits a set on the river after jamming preflop with 33 when he both top 10 in chips in a 150k. Then next hand jam K10 into K7 and boom 7 in the window. Every tournament man wtf

4 year cash grinder. Dabbled a bit in live tourneys this month, fun but too damn slow. What do we think about multitabling online mtts? Possible to make decent money or no

Welp, after the worst month of poker I’ve ever had in May -8k. I said screw it and took some shots at a bigger game and bing bang boom fast forward 3 sessions that 8k is back :) poker sure is fun when you’re allowed to get dealt the winning hand. Don’t do that tho, it was a bad idea but it worked out

So id like to start trying some PlO. Ive tried bomb pots but I’m going to start trying regular PlO. What’s the best hand(s) I want preflop? Also, like plo seems weird preflop cause if I pot AAKK and don’t flop top set it’s rlly hard to continue no?

General advice and specific advice wanted, ty! Are people bluffing much?

I won for the first 3 years playing 20 hours a week. The run appears to be over. Towards the beginning of January I started running like shit and never looked back.

I haven’t flopped trips or had a flush (except for one that was flush over flush the wrong way :) )in 250 hours. How is that even possible. I’ve flopped two pair twice in the span. At this point I think rlly just got lucky those first 3 years cause holy shit I’m winning 10% of my sessions on the year. 500 hours isn’t a lot sure but that is pretty rare on the live felt. I just can’t handle it anymore. The universe is conspiring against me. Back to back sessions some guys opens with AA, I flat with a pocket pair, the guy last to act 3 bets with some garbage, AA 4 bets and they run out the flop and I woulda had top set. The online players will understand this post, I assume most live players will just tell me I suck but oh well, ggs. It’s been 5.5 months of getting ap punched in the face, I’m done

I won for the first 3 years playing 20 hours a week. The run appears to be over. Towards the beginning of January I started running like shit and never looked back.

I haven’t flopped trips or had a flush (except for one that was flush over flush the wrong way :) )in 250 hours. How is that even possible. I’ve flopped two pair twice in the span. At this point I think rlly just got lucky those first 3 years cause holy shit I’m winning 10% of my sessions on the year. 500 hours isn’t a lot sure but that is pretty rare on the live felt. I just can’t handle it anymore. The universe is conspiring against me. Back to back sessions some guys opens with AA, I flat with a pocket pair, the guy last to act 3 bets with some garbage, AA 4 bets and they run out the flop and I woulda had top set. The online players will understand this post, I assume most live players will just tell me I suck but oh well, ggs. It’s been 5.5 months of getting ap punched in the face, I’m done

That’s not a dig, but a genuine question. Like the math is just so bad. Tourneys are so top heavy that you literally have to be top 3, 5 ish to make any real money. Seems very puzzling to me beating out 900 entrants on a 1000 entry tournament just to walk home with double your buy in after two days. What’s the thought process for pros?

On a 500ish hour live downswing. I kept my shit together for the first 350. Rebounded some, managed to get dealt the best hand once or twice which was super cool! Then the ugliest variance of the 500 hit me. Started May 0/13… won 2/30 all ins to start the month it was just a blood blath. Played for almost 4 year very consistently. Ik how the math works, 500 is nothing, but live man it’s just killing me. Am I leaking at this point, yes, am I running insanely below EV on my draws, opponents missing their draws, sets, two pairs, suck outs u name it, also yes. For the love of god tell me someone else can relate to a live swing like this cause ik some of you are out there. For you long term grinders 10years plus how often have you had a 500+ hour downer. My longest before this was 150. I play in soft games, but when I don’t get dealt the best hand for 100 hours and people refuse to fold anything, I’m fucked

I just need someone to tell me they can relate or remind me of the math about how this is possible. I am running bad on a historical level. around 450 hours this year. Play in DFW, January-March I think I ran worse than anyone in my entire metroplex. Out of 100 sessions (3 hour average) I maybe won 15, maybe. I just never got dealt the best hand and then coolers/beats were much higher than normal. April I caught fire and somehow won all of it back… May……………I am 0/13, I’ve won 2/30 all ins!!! Yes, 2/30, lowest equity I had was 25%, the majority of those I was favored. I have just been taking beats on a level that I’ve never seen, it’s every, single, big, hand. It’s been over 10,000 hands which is around the realm of still being normal I believe. Ik everyone’s gonna just call me bad, but what do you want me to do when 5 sessions ago I call a jam correctly on the turn with top pair, lose to gutter on river, stacked. 4 sessions ago I take trips over trips massive kicker stacked. 3 seasons ago aces all in pre to 99. Yesterday Kk vs AA pre. Today I flopped the right end of set over set and lost. wtf am I supposed to do, suppose I just show someone the nuts from now on and beg them to run it twice. At this point I’m angry at the game, this is ridiculous. I’ve tilted money off yes, I’m human. But it’s mostly just been beat after beat with coolers in the mix :( I’ve won my first 3 years playing poker, this year there 0 chance

Trying to understand the following phenomenon. Some of my shorts immediately catch the algorithm, some don’t. But, the ones that don’t within the first 10-20mins I delete and reupload, around the 3rd or 4th time reloading it catches immediately. Any thoughts on that?