$20 -> $1000

Originally Posted by bjsaust

I can't say I'm a big fan of this new straight up gambling mixed with poker for rewards I'm seeing. On ACR, every time I close the table it tells me how much I'm either up or down, then offers to flip to double or nothing. I guess some people enjoy it, but I didn't sit down and concentrate on trying to play good poker for x amount of time to close it out by flipping a coin for my results. Loot boxes for your rewards sounds terrible.

Hope things are going well. I turned things around pretty quickly and about 9 buyins up over just under 1k hands, but running well above EV (mostly just hands holding up really). I'm only 2 tabling and trying to relearn poker slowly.

Yeah it sucks but seemingly is good for the player base. What rec wants to know they can earn 20% of the rake back if they play x amount when instead you can seemingly get chances to win huge money just playing poker!

Since I started playing again

2nlz, +$46.04 over 26k hands (EV +$25.59)
5nlz, +$3.16 over 12k hands (EV -$15.58)

Since this blog started

2nlz, +$40.88 over 14k hands (EV +$29.37)
5nlz, -$29.39 over 3k hands (EV -$32.46)

So basically I pissed a load of money away with my 5nlz shot since I started this challenge even though I was beating it prior which was through a lot of awful play in those 3k hands so it's deserved.

Roll is sitting at $38.43 and I'll probably start mixing in a table of 5nl at around $40.

It's quite funny to me that I'm running so much above EV (although fairly meh in spots) when the money is irrelevant to me but when I played years ago and it did matter I ran hundreds of dollars below EV at 10nl and below.