It seems like my best choice(playing for a living)

[Felting]

Good man.

How are kill games by the way? I've never played one. Do you find that players intentionally go for back to back wins to create a kill pot and are therefore easier to pick off or do people not really care and if they create a kill pot, so be it?

I feel like there will be enough players trying to be the big man who wins two in a row that there could be some pretty soft spots in those games.

Players definitely try to kill it. During a kill hand, play is often tighter and there are more steal attempts since there is already 3.5 big blinds in the pot and a raise makes it 4 big blinds to go.

[Felting]

Killer 10 hour session last night at 500NL. Two giant pots.

1st one:

8 7 vs. A 9
Flop was 9 6 5 . turn was a Q . River K

That was an $1100 pot.

2nd one

3 3 vs. 6 6
board 6 3 Q 3 2

that was an $1800 pot

left up $2320 for the night

[miaowmiaowchowface]

two 9 of spades EH

[lwestatbus]

two 9 of spades EH

Yeah, I noticed that too. Nice session, though.

[Felting]

two 9 of spades EH

that's what i get for posting on 3 hours sleep, it was A rag, believe it was a 4.

Tonight not so good, dropped two buy'ins, so down 1k tonight.

[lwestatbus]

You didn't mention having to take a break during your winning session. I've have needed to change my underwear after that straight flush flop.

[Felting]

That may be my strongest poker skill, another guy at the table asked me how I could look like I was watching paint dry on that flop.

[crack]

It easy to look calm when you are holding the best hand in that spot with no chance of a redraw hardly.

Two bits of advice I would give you. Be prepared for the downswings. It will come and when you playing for a living and you are stuck in a rut it has you questioning your whole entire life. Look at those pots you won, well the quad 3s one. That could so easily not be the turn and you stick it all in.

So be prepared for it. Also don't play over your bankroll, especially if losing whatever you have means you will be out of action. There is a slim chance you can take a short roll and spin it up v quickly in higher juicer games, but probabilitiy dictates you will lose it.

Also, if you are getting staked, be very honest and up front with your backer. Right down a plan if you have to of exactly what the deal is (60/40 with makeup in ur favour is about standard i think) and what you will play on your deal. I mean, if he stakes you for NL Holdem Cash and you enter a tourney because of no running cash games and happen to bink like 10k he may think he is entitled to some of it, even if he isn't. Vice Versa, if you enter a tourney and don't cash and you had nothing in writing you could have an argument where you think the buyin should come out of his pocket because "i would have given you 40% of my winnings" etc etc. Those are examples.

GL.