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Can't believe this has reached page 3 already lol. Slev, you've gotta be the most popular poster here. Congrats on the run good. Now don't donk the roll.

I'm with Carroters here. Finally a reality check which will probably be ignored. You are addicted to the rush of winning and lack good self-discipline. Even the basic core of this thread, make 3k a month, is pretty fundamentally flawed.

I see a lot of good poker players posting in this thread who are offering good advice. If you continue down the path you are going, you are going to end up blowing the roll, blowing any money you have in the bank and stuck in the same cycle you are currently in.

Best of luck mate. I hope you listen to some of the home truths in this thread.

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

I do believe that coaching sites have value but I believe it's far exceeded by the value a thinking player gets from analysing his own play on and off the table.

Posting a decent analysis of a hand with ranges, number of combos, calling %s etc. would be a great start. Why don't you jot down some hands from the casino into a notebook and post your analysis in the thread?

Originally Posted by Carroters

I think it's pretty obvious he is very confident in the success of his plan as it is right now.

he's already "made it" and to be honest he "can't see himself ever turning back now".

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

My game is solid but always room to improve. I haven't ran good to be honest I'm running about average, have lost my fair share of pots over the past week or two I should have won that's for sure.

BULL S#$T!!!!!!
I'm not sure exactly how many hands you've played, but I'd bet that Phil Ivey couldn't sustain the winrate you've experienced over this very small sample. It's great to be confident, but come on, you're being delusional. If you win at 15BB/100 at 200nl live, playing 35 hands per hour you're looking at roughly 20 bucks an hour if you're very good (your goal was 17). you've made about 3k in 5 days, that should have taken you 150 hours. So if you played 150 hours you would be at expectation, if you played less, then you ran good, not AVERAGE!!!

Let's see, 5 days times 24 hours in a day is 120 hours. . . . . . . . So you're trying to tell me you've been in the casino 24 hours a day for the last 5 days, no sleeping, no bathroom breaks, eating at the table, AND they let you 2 table for 30 hours????

I mean come on man, its fun to hear how well you've run, but for some reason that quote got me a little fired up, you're being ridiculous. Do the math.

If you are in fact still confident about all this, are you willing to discuss any prop bets against you sustaining this winrate?

we'll see when i'm playing 1knl and the haters out there are still grinding the micros, a?

@ Nakamura, this blog isn't about me 'proving' myself to readers, it's about me sharing my journey. I feel no need to post 'detailed analysis' of my hands, If i ever find myself in a spot where I am unsure what I should do that is when i'll post, I'm not posting hand analysis for the sake of posting it, to be honest I'd probabally get a better analysis from a random in the cardroom than I would you haters.

The people with lives, that don't have such cynical and depressing outlooks are the guys and gals i'm looking to engage with here, dozer,griffey, bikes, courtibee, fulsky, stargrinder, mrhappy et al. I can't stand negativity, never could and never will. Life is too precious, so by all means haters read if you want, but your negativity will be reflected back at you, and will do no harm to this operation!

fwiw that's a serious point. You only ever harm yourself with base or negative thinking, so I do hope you realise this someday and start leading a healthy positive life. Gl at the tables to one and all!

seriously guys, slevin has a job with disposable income. stop being such a buzz kill and let the man have his fun

i think the intention behind most, if not all, of the posts from so-called "haters" are people giving you their honest opinion about the feasibility of your goals and trying to prepare you for the harsh reality which is trying to make a living playing 200nl and only being dealt anywhere between 20-30 hands per hour. it's all too easy to run like god over a hugely insignificant sample and become complacent in your poker ability (which, i guarantee, is currently sub-par for sustaining the winrate you are aiming for), and eventually burn out as the long-term EV of your game becomes more clear. i did it two years ago when i made ~4k in a month playing live 500nl on a 5k bankroll running like god on PCP. i quickly woke up a month later when i lost 2.5k in 16 hours of play, while getting my money in far better on average than i did in the first month when i won 4k. i admire your positive outlook. i honestly do. but it seems to be blinding you and giving you some delusional sense of confidence and complacency in your game which is completely counter-productive to the achievement of your goals.

btw you saying "i feel no need to do detailed analysis of my hands" is basically tantamount to you saying "i don't need to improve at poker in order to achieve my goals. i'm already good enough"

Originally Posted by rpm

you saying "i don't need to improve at poker in order to achieve my goals. i'm already good enough"

[x] results confirm

Originally Posted by bikes

seriously guys, slevin has a job with disposable income. stop being such a buzz kill and let the man have his fun

+1

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

we'll see when i'm playing 1knl and the haters out there are still grinding the micros, a?

Jeez you got 3 buyins already what you waiting for?

@ Nakamura, this blog isn't about me 'proving' myself to readers, it's about me sharing my journey. I feel no need to post 'detailed analysis' of my hands, If i ever find myself in a spot where I am unsure what I should do that is when i'll post, I'm not posting hand analysis for the sake of posting it, to be honest I'd probabally get a better analysis from a random in the cardroom than I would you haters.

I guess this is where a lot of opinion diverges. You see people who disagree with you as people who hate what you are doing. Sure we disagree with your approach , but we don't want to see you fail. Right at the start yoiu put that you were planning on 10% technical skill. Why not actually debate hands and see what other people think about the way you played them. Talking through a hand will help everyone learn. When we disagree with a way you play a hand its NOT to make you look bad and put you down, its to try and help you play better and therefore more likely to achieve your goals.

Sure dismiss my analysis all you want , I ain't no great shakes at poker, I know that and accept it . But when you say carroters doesn't know what he's talking about you really should step back and question your mentality.He does know what he's talking about poker wise.

The people with lives, that don't have such cynical and depressing outlooks are the guys and gals i'm looking to engage with here, dozer,griffey, bikes, courtibee, fulsky, stargrinder, mrhappy et al. I can't stand negativity, never could and never will.

This is why you continually fail. You have total belief that you are right and that everyone else is wrong. Anyone with a different opinion to you is negative and wrong. You fail to see that those giving you contrary advice to your opinion are trying to help you .

Life is too precious, so by all means haters read if you want, but your negativity will be reflected back at you, and will do no harm to this operation!

fwiw that's a serious point. You only ever harm yourself with base or negative thinking, so I do hope you realise this someday and start leading a healthy positive life. Gl at the tables to one and all!

Hopefully , one day you will realise that we are not laughing at you like some of your "supporters" but trying to help you.

I bet Stu ungar had to put up with comments like this all throughout his career.

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

to be honest I'd probabally get a better analysis from a random in the cardroom than I would you haters.

from the same people you are going to be beating for 3k/month? i wouldn't bother. they sound bad.

I think it's fairly obvious to most people that you either don't want to post hands because you're not confident they are played well, or you just don't know/have the inclination to analyse a hand properly. I see coaches and consistent winners at the cash game posting in this thread that would definitely help you to analyse hands correctly and improve your game.

Peer review is super-standard for even the best players as different viewpoints open our minds to alternative or perhaps even better ways of playing hands.

Update please?

I've given up trying to help and will follow for entertainment. What's going on man? You played these last few days?

Originally Posted by Carroters

Update please?

I've given up trying to help and will follow for entertainment. What's going on man? You played these last few days?

Originally Posted by Carroters

I've given up trying to help and will follow for entertainment.

That's pretty immoral and moronic of you

This place needs it's daily dose of Slevin.

Hmmm, 3 days and no posts. I hope he's okay.

Originally Posted by Shotglass

Hmmm, 3 days and no posts. I hope he's okay.

probably busto, this is his usual modus operandi

Actually, his modus operandi is to get cocky during a small heater and move up under rolled and go busto. Same result

I think of this episode when I read this blog.

Pt1 - YouTube - The Sopranos - The Story of David "Davey" Scatino (part 1)
Pt2 - YouTube - The Sopranos - The Story of David "Davey" Scatino (part 2)

Keep it up slevin'!

It's hard to follow the progress with so many nonsense hater posts in here haha. Wish we could filter by 'hater' vs 'non-hater'

Comon guys, even Dan Negrano and Stu Unger have taken shots. The best way to learn is from making your own mistakes.
If he said he was quitting his job to be a pro I would tell the man otherwise..
But he has a dream...and he is gonna try. And noone can ever take that away from him.

Originally Posted by rpm

he's already "made it" and to be honest he "can't see himself ever turning back now".

lol

Originally Posted by d0zer

That's pretty immoral and moronic of you

lolol

On a personal note, I'd like nothing better than to see Slevin do well in the long run, but it has to be earned. The problem is he won't listen to shit, which leads to a situation where he can never earn it.

on the other hand though, he does have the power of positive thinking. mike the mouf would approov

Yeah well, Matusow knows poker.

update demanded!

7 days no post, no update necessary. Tune in in 3 months for the start of another OP thread.

Originally Posted by Muzzard

so i figured out which casino slevin was degening and i finally made it down there late last week. He wasn't hard to spot, he was wearing a nice watch. Anyway, long story short and now i have all his money plus his watch.

fyp

Originally Posted by jyms

7 days no post, no update necessary. Tune in in 3 months for the start of another OP thread.

I really hope that he's just waiting to get some extra $$$ from his day-job to replenish his BR and get back to it, but after reading your post and checking his history here....Holy F**K!... that's a shit load of ops.

Yea, ya think. Here they are in case others don't really understand some of the responses in this thread or know how to search.

Well... that is pretty impressive!

well you know what they say 12th times a charm

I'll go ahead and write the post for him, and he can just quote to confirm.

So, I just got off work about a week ago and I had the itch to play poker. So I grabbed my 3k roll went to the store, bought my robusto ass a hundred dollar pair of kicks and then went to the casino with 2.9k in hand to show these people how to play poker. I sat down with 200, ran it up to bout tree fiddy then went on a terrible run. I limped in with 48o from UTG, UTG+1 raised to 15, it got folded around to me, so I called. Flop Came A48, I bet 30, he raised to 60, so I shoved my tree fiddy in, this donk calls and shows me pocket aces and I'm just steaming at this point. So I tell all these fools that I'm too great a player for their game anyway. I move up to the 2/5 game lost another 500 there. Then finally decided I was just playing too far beneath my expertise this whole time, so I jumped in this juicy 10/20 game with the rest of my roll. I knew I was finally in the right place when the table even added another seat for me, finally I was getting the respect I deserve for being such a great player. I ended up losing the rest of my roll there. I don't want to post the hand here cuz you winning micro-midstakes guys in this thread wouldn't have a clue how to give me advice on my game, cuz its already solid. If I could have just ran average in that 10/20 game I'd have ran it up to 100k in about 2 hours, cuz those monkeys play terrible. Anyway next week I'm gonna try again, and I still don't want anybody's warnings or advice, in a couple weeks I'll have "made it" and you guys will still be playing small stakes.

It is better to try and fail 100x then to never try at all. Sure he doesn't listen, but that's who he is. Maybe one day he will, at least that one day can come for him, since he keeps on trying....

^^^ True.
You only fail when you quit trying.

Edit: So keep tryin Slev. The hell with it, man. All that matters is that you're enjoying it.

I have a feeling this will all end with Slevin binking the WSOP Main Event.

Originally Posted by daven

Originally Posted by Muzzard
so i figured out which casino slevin was degening and i finally made it down there late last week. He wasn't hard to spot, he was wearing a nice watch. Anyway, long story short and now i have all his money plus his watch.

fyp

hmmmm , was reading courtie's blog and theres mention of a trip overseas on mar 21 in one place and when i get back from the UK in another place. Did courtie arrange a trip to try and win some money off a huge whale at the london poker tables?

You could even give him his T shirt while you're over here. And then win it off him .

posting in this thread to show my love for slevin. PLZ COME BACK!

^^^^^

Originally Posted by LkySlevinsNo1Fan

posting in this thread to show my love for slevin. PLZ COME BACK!

Yea right. Slevins #1 fan is Slevin, you imposter.

Originally Posted by Keith_MM

hmmmm , was reading courtie's blog and theres mention of a trip overseas on mar 21 in one place and when i get back from the UK in another place. Did courtie arrange a trip to try and win some money off a huge whale at the london poker tables?

You could even give him his T shirt while you're over here. And then win it off him .

lol good idea, I'll bring the T shirt with me.

Originally Posted by PlayToWin

Yea right. Slevins #1 fan is Slevin, you imposter.

confirmed not lkyslev1n

Originally Posted by LkySlevinsNo1Fan

confirmed not lkyslev1n

priceless expression bottom right corner.

I bet it's Muzzard!

inb4 luckyslev1n the musical