My professional career so far

Here are some numbers starting from last May, which is when I graduated from LMU.

From May 09 to today July 9th, my current profit is $131,033.27. This includes expenses and profits/losses from backing and other gambling. That's 14.25 months, which is an avg monthly profit of $9,036.77.

In 1,068 hours of recorded live play since October 09, I have won $127,664. That is about $118/hr. This is also spread out across a variety of stakes from as low as $0.25/$0.50 to as high as $50/$100. However, having sold action out in many of the higher stakes games, my own personal profit is not that high.

I have played 52 tournaments live since October 09. I have a net profit of only $3,082. That is pretty meager. I need to improve my skill level in tournaments or it's simply not worth playing. To be fair a lot of those losses were incurred this summer during the WSOP, where I was on a pretty big downswing. I cashed in 8 of the 52 tournaments for an 15% in the money rate. However, since it's from October on, it doesn't include last year's WSOP, where I had my big cash.

My online results are more complicated due to sheer volume. To sum it up, since May last year, I'm down in online tournaments, and probably around break even in online cash games, although the exact number is unknown.

I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce

The end of the WSOP

Busted the main event today. Was grinding for a while, but I couldn't ever get any easy chips. I had won them all the hard way and then they went all down the drain when I had to fold JJ on an ace high board in a 3bet pot, then had a guy backdoor a straight against me.

Altogether I played 22 WSOP events. I have two cashes both in PLO. My total tournament net is -$17,378.

I won $2,782 in cash games while in vegas.

I'm down $10,114 backing people while in Vegas. $3,000 was backing Kevin in a 50-100 PLO game and $5,500 was my share of John's main event action.

I'm $1,885 playing blackjack. Also got barred from playing at South Point Casino.

Overall the trip cost me, $26,595. Sucks.

I'm debating playing the Venetian $5k on Monday. I've heard it's a good tournament, but I honestly don't know if I want to play it. Busting the main event was so emotionally draining. We'll see. I kinda just want to get back to playing cash games in LA.

I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce

It's the greatest tournament in the world!

day 1 of the WSOP main event

Started with 30k at 50/100

ended with 23.5k at 200/400/25

Fourth hand of the day I get 77, raise to 300, and the BTN calls. The flop is KK7r, I bet 475 and get called. Turn is a 3. I check going for a c/r vs Kx and wanting to avoid blowing a hand like 99 off the hand. He checks behind. The river is a J. I bet 1125, and he raises about 2400 more. I'm not happy but I'm also not about to fold a full house early on day 1 without rock solid reads. I call, he has JJ.

I 3barrel a guy a few hands later and find out he turned a set. First round of blinds down to 16k, and ran into two sets. Not good.

I spent most of the day slowly grinding back up. I got up to 35k several times, but then lost big pots to get back down. I had to fold JJ to a 3barrel on a 7 high board. Then I made two pair with QT on a QT99 board and he had 89. To end the day I got AKo AIPF vs 88 and lost that flip.

The big pots I won were QQ vs A7s on Ts2s3c flop, and one pot where I made a big bluff with 95o. I also busted a shorty when he called my reraise with KQo. Bad, especially when the board comes out Queen high and I have KK. I did hit two more sets that day with KK and JJ but won small pots with both.

Nothing special to note. My table was bad, but I was unable to capitalize. I didn't flop pairs much. Pretty sure the odds of flopping a pair are about 9:1 against. I'm not a math player though. :)

Hopefully I run better day 2. Good thing the structure in the main event is amazing.

I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce

June Monthly Report and WSOP updates

June

Cash Games

Live $38,782.00
Online ($509.25)

Tournaments

Live ($12,704.68)
Online ($824.83)

Poker $24,743.24

Staking ($3,534.00)

Other Gambling $825.00
Month's Expenses $0.00
Net on month $22,034.24

I started winning in blackjack again. I'm still stuck overall though. On the bright side I got a confirmation that I'm counting correctly. I got barred from playing at South Point Casino. I'm actually kind of proud. That's a milestone in every counter's career.

I've played 20 WSOP events so far. I have 2 cashes, $3,800 for the $1500 PLO, and $9800 for a 19th place finish in the $2500 PLO. Overall I'm down though. Been running pretty bad in tourneys.

Last weekend, the Hustler Casino told me I was a finalist in their $100k drawing and that I had a 1/100 shot to win a hundred grand. When I drove back and arrived, they told me actually I was 1 of 100 people to enter a 4 digit passcode. And if THAT matched, then I won the 100k. So basically my EV was only like $10. Hardly worth driving back to LA for. I decided to go to Malibu after the drawing, which wasn't a total waste. I won a Snuggie.

I ended up having a killer session at Malibu. I played for 20 hours and ended up winning $36k. I deposited some of my winnings, took some back to Vegas, and the game actually couldn't pay me that day cause everyone was on markers. The guys running the game actually flew out to Vegas to pay me my winnings. That's pretty good service right there.

I'm really looking forward to the main event. I feel a little rusty in NLHE, so I'm playing online as practice. I feel like I'm due to make a big run, and I'm hoping it's in the main event. But I need to practice hard, so I can make the most of any good luck I might receive. Wish me luck.

I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce