DreamKrusherJay

Hey Emty! There aren't comments available on it, but I just wanted to thank you for the awesome work you've done on the FTGU PLO course! I started it within the last 48 hours, and have already had it pay dividends at the table.

I just wanted to send you a personal thank you! Going to cut this short so those with comments on this video shine through. :) GREAT JOB, THANK YOU, SIR! <3

Not too many hands tonight since I posted the graph, but a VERY positive session, and I can definitely feel my EV rising, as I was thinking of/using multiple things that Emty teaches in his course.

After 10,507 hands, we are now running at +26.40 BB/100 over the sample. (I created a new database when I began the prop bet bankroll challenge with my friend.) I had never played PLO seriously, and certainly not as my main game, before this sample began.

I'm going to be working very hard on Emty's course, and continuing to invest in myself and building and improving my game.

I had finished last evening on a bit of a downswing, and it continued until early in this session, but I felt I did a very good job of losing the minimum on the pots I lost, and then I did a really good job extracting this evening once the run-good tables had turned!

Our BB/100 went up nearly a full 7 BB/100 during this quality session. I'm deciding if I'm going to restart my stream tomorrow, or wait a few more days, but I'm definitely excited to stream, and I am definitely looking forward to getting back at it tomorrow. I've never been more excited about poker in my life, even pre-Black Friday. We'll have several hours of study tomorrow, and then hopefully another great session!

I hope all of you have a pleasant evening, and we'll see you tomorrow! (Post edited solely for grammatical reasons!)

I'm more than willing to join up and participate, and I already have a Discord as well, but I see hargunaney has already offered his up.

Please feel free to IM me, or e-mail me at [email protected] -- I currently play PLO50 and PLO100 on PokerStars Michigan, game selecting between the two levels.

I'm currently in the process of doing Thomas Emter's "From the Ground Up - PLO" here on site, and I've also completed Dylan Weisman's "PLO Launchpad" on Upswing, so I've received a lot of recent coaching and feel I can be a good addition to your group!

I'm 42 years old, as well, so a mature player who won't go crazy on you gents. :D

Thanks!

Thanks very much, Phil Galfond, and thank you very much, Demondoink!

I see I can post a graph on here, I had overlooked the "Image" button in the mini-editor here. :) I will definitely keep track and update on my progress, and I will let everyone know when I am returning full-time to the stream, as well. I've pretty much got everything setup how I wanted, I just wanted to get more well-versed in the metagame so I didn't embarrass myself on stream. :) My channel is at https://twitch.tv/dreamkrusherjay -- If it isn't allowed to post my channel link here, please forgive me, but I assumed it would be OK in a personal thread!

This is the first 10,250 hands since I started my bankroll challenge and bet with my friend, and the true beginning of my PLO career, as while I played it before, it wasn't "seriously" and at those times I'd never thought I would convert it to be my main game.

We have run 19.68 BB/100 to start my journey, and long may it continue. Here's the graph, and I'll continue to update the thread with my graphs and more poker talk into the future!

Thanks again for making a guy feel welcome!

Thank you HeavyMask and a Thank You and a "Wow, that's awesome" that you commented on my post, Phil Galfond!

I am so very sorry to hear about the passing of your father. :( I was extremely lucky to have had my father for the time I did, as you are yours, and even though they are now gone, we both have memories that will last us a lifetime. I won't tell you it ever feels better, because that's bullshit and I won't lie to you, but we definitely get better at dealing with it the further we go in life, remembering the amazing times we had with them. You definitely have an open inbox over this way if ever you feel the need to talk to someone who understands, but isn't in your day-to-day life. That helped me a lot even as I got into my twenties, because I was angry over what took my father from us, and honestly always will be.

Your advice is fantastic advice, as the games certainly are exponentially harder than in 2011! I've definitely got tempered expectations, and we're just going to take things one day at a time, but especially since we found our way to Run It Once, the wife and I are both very excited at what poker holds for us in the future. TOO MANY players who have found success in the game in the past assume that they have "made it" and think they no longer have to study or keep trying to learn and improve. I definitely know that is not the case, and I added From the Ground Up - MTT to the products I've purchased in the past few days onto my account. Mostly for my wife, but I'll definitely be using it as well. :)

Even before reading your comment, I'd already felt like I found a community where the fact that we spent money was valued, and one where we felt welcome. Customer service is a lost art in this world, but you've got no worries about that with your team. Give whoever runs your Twitter extra ice cream this week, as they're quite an asset. :D

I actually follow your lovely wife on Twitter as well, and she has definitely become a KRUSHER like you, I've noticed. :) (I actually had to hit the follow button, I had went to show my wife that you had an awesome poker player as a wife as well, and noticed I hadn't actually followed her yet, I had just noticed her account in conversation with another player the other day! She's got another follower now!) :) I told Krystal (my wife) that she has poker goals now, her endboss goal is to get to 100/200 PLO like Farah. :)

My wife had known about my poker past and the success I'd had, which while it pales next to yours, was definitely very important in my life and who I am today... and it felt truly amazing to be able to back up the history lesson with actual poker, but NEVER in my WILDEST DREAMS did I ever think Krystal would take up poker. She dislikes gambling, but luckily, she had seen Rounders enough even before I came into the picture to know that "poker isn't gambling, and I'm not that wet blanket Gretchen Mol!" :D

With Run It Once, she's even more positive and excited about how far SHE can potentially go in the game, and she was massively excited when she heard I was purchasing the FTGU MTT course. For someone that wants to avoid reading if possible, due to her dyslexia, she said it is a godsend for her, and she can't wait to get into the content and accelerate her learning curve! Thanks again for having put together such an amazing team, and being a training site that handles so many different poker formats. I came for PLO, we're staying because there's no reason to ever leave. ;)

Sorry for the novel, but it isn't every day you get a letter from one of your idols, so I wanted to make sure I responded to the very kind letter you wrote, especially the part about your beloved father. Definitely feel free to message anytime, you've got a friend with a friendly ear over here anytime you might wish it!

I wish you and your lovely wife a great evening, and thanks again for everything!

My wife did an amazing job tonight, as she nearly shipped a $15 Bounty Builder on Stars Michigan, finishing 2nd out of 167 entrants (249 total entries) for $322.89. She won another $25.82 in bounties, and she was only in for the initial buyin of $15, for around a $333 profit!

I've treaded water this evening, right around our peak for the last 9,500 hands. I've been extremely card-dead, but I've been able to minimize my losses in several spots that were great (multiple times I saw the hands against other all-in players and made the right laydown.)

The wife is really starting to roll, I think I'm going to get her the From the Ground Up - MTT version, as with her dyslexia and hatred of math, she loves video or audio-book learning. I figured out a way for her to have the poker books she reads come through as audio books -- her first book was Kill Everyone, and she's almost completely finished with it, but I have quite the library.

I am honestly more excited about my wife becoming a krusher than I am my own further education and play. I didn't expect her to take this journey with me, and it has truly been awesome.

I hope I added onto my thread in the correct way! I'm still maintaining a 22.80 bb/100 over my last 9,523, so tonight has been great so far. About to finish my night with a video of From the Ground Up - PLO, and call it a night!