hey, I played pokers for like 3 years and won every year and most months, supported my family for a while and find myself reducing my volume lately.
ask me anything
03-22-2011 12:20 AM
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2k post!hey, I played pokers for like 3 years and won every year and most months, supported my family for a while and find myself reducing my volume lately. | |
03-22-2011 12:24 AM
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how many 5 year olds could you beat in a fight? | |
03-22-2011 12:24 AM
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Why do u find ur volume reducing? |
03-22-2011 12:32 AM
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Do you want more kids? | |
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03-22-2011 12:50 AM
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Last edited by d0zer; 03-22-2011 at 12:53 AM. | |
03-22-2011 12:57 AM
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what do you do in life besides poker? | |
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03-22-2011 02:12 AM
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favorite strain? | |
03-22-2011 03:49 AM
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this is serious for me, cause i have some problem with self control. | |
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03-22-2011 06:35 AM
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03-22-2011 06:58 AM
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03-22-2011 07:28 AM
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If you met someone who had no knowledge of poker with a sound mind, good discipline and above average intelligence. Who lacked direction/passion in there hobbies/career. Would you ever recommend they strive to become a amateur/professional poker player? | |
03-22-2011 10:38 AM
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It just kinda happened. Last year I paid the bills with poker for the first time, and it sorta transformed from a fun hobby that made some money on the side into a job. I just find my motivation to grind decreasing and my focus turning more towards my career. It wasn't even a conscious decision, just sorta happened. I put 2x more hands in dec 2010 than I have all of 2011 | |
03-22-2011 10:56 AM
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I'm more inclined to hold myself at least somewhat accountable for 50k+ BE runs. There's always bad play in there and if you don't believe that you're lying to yourself about your ability. Negative variance is going to contribute, but it almost always affects people's play as well. | |
03-22-2011 11:36 AM
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03-22-2011 11:44 AM
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I don't know anything about shitty goals like taking an entire year to move from 5NL to 10NL over 120k hands. Microstakes are already so low variance with all the weaktight regs and fish by the bucketful so if you can't handle that variance just quit poker already. | |
03-22-2011 11:52 AM
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Lol. | |
03-22-2011 12:06 PM
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also did my lemonfest invite get lost in the mail ? | |
03-22-2011 12:29 PM
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since when have you ever had a 50k break even stretch? thats what i want to know. | |
03-22-2011 02:03 PM
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Apologies for stinking up your 2000th post with my shitty example. | |
Last edited by daviddem; 03-22-2011 at 02:44 PM.
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03-22-2011 02:42 PM
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How in the cornbread hell did you convince your wife that you could make money at pokers while on Pat leave? | |
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03-22-2011 03:54 PM
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It's a fine example of bad goals people set. I've always taken issue with monetary goals because it's just not something you have tons of control over so you're setting yourself up for failure. As a beginning player, the only thing you should be focused on is learning how to play well. You won't have a refined enough EV eye to even know when spots are slightly +EV, your main focus should be distinguishing between clearly +EV and -EV spots. | |
03-22-2011 04:07 PM
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Lemonfest was canceled. I'll try to convince lemon to have one this year, but it's gunna be tough now that he has a kid. | |
03-22-2011 04:44 PM
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03-22-2011 05:47 PM
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has being black hampered ur relationship with spoonitnow |
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03-22-2011 05:55 PM
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if I see that hillbilly's name mentioned one more time in my well, so help my fuck... | |
03-22-2011 07:46 PM
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^^^spoon can eat a dick | |
03-22-2011 08:04 PM
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who do you think would win a series of hu matches me or you? | |
03-22-2011 08:41 PM
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It'd be the biggest levelfest in the history of levelfests but you'd probably come out on top after you repeatedly 3b CiB any pair for value & snap off my bluff shoves. I will of course refuse to adjust, convincing myself that you're adjusting. | |
03-22-2011 08:43 PM
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quit adding variables to my questions and just answer them. less about how u feel about them or their personalities this is on looks alone | |
03-22-2011 08:44 PM
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Most +ev study methods? |
03-22-2011 08:48 PM
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would you rather eat out a girl with herpes or eat a footlong turd sandwhich. | |
03-22-2011 11:15 PM
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re: studying, it depends a lot on the individual, but I think posting hands with your thought processes helps a lot, as well as sweats but only if you're thinking aloud and having your approach to the game critiqued. | |
03-22-2011 11:49 PM
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More exciting Olympics or World Cup? |
03-23-2011 12:19 AM
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03-23-2011 12:25 AM
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Do you have any background noise while grinding. Music T.V. Movies Web surfing (you tube & porn)? |
03-23-2011 05:08 AM
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How do you stay focused while grinding? | |
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03-23-2011 09:14 AM
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I never have anything overtly distracting like TV or movies or youtube. These are all bad. Even some music I find too distracting. I find some forms of more ambient, atmospheric kind of music blends well in the background, but I eventually settled on classical. Bach mostly. | |
03-23-2011 09:21 AM
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03-23-2011 10:31 AM
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03-23-2011 11:17 AM
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Last edited by unclesteve; 03-23-2011 at 11:21 AM. | |
03-23-2011 11:20 AM
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You seem very focused on getting input from other players, and some of their input may not be that valuable, the 2p2micro forum for example is filled with crap, and if your a newb it can be pretty hard to discern the crap from the legit strategy. |
03-23-2011 11:37 AM
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This is one of the hardest things to do as a poker player. Humans are hardwired to be results-oriented. To revel in our victories and suffer from our failures. These mechanisms are there much like pain receptors, to reinforce awesomeness and discourage the suck. | |
03-23-2011 11:49 AM
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Yeah as a noob you have to learn who to trust and that only comes with some experience. There's no shortage of bad poker advice out there, and as such you have to learn to weigh advice properly. When I ask for opinions on hands, there's a handful of people I really trust, and the rest I take with a grain of salt. I don't totally dismiss advice (except from a few people maybe), but I'm cautious about working in advice into my game from just anybody. As a noob you can look for consensus -- even though that too can be error-prone. It's better than nothing. | |
03-23-2011 12:36 PM
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my F3B is too high, like 80%, how do I start finding spots to start calling more 3bets? |
03-23-2011 01:21 PM
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Does it dishearten you that the Carrot Man crushes your regular game? | |
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03-23-2011 01:54 PM
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03-23-2011 05:48 PM
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What was the hardest thing for you about playing poker full time? |
03-23-2011 06:48 PM
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there's no reason you can't beat the games you're playing and a couple levels above with that F3B %, but as you move higher you're going to have to start picking on more and more regs. When you first open up, start by trying to pick out the regs who are going to play the most transparently & learn how to punish them. | |
03-23-2011 08:27 PM
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What's the most tilting question I could ask in this thread, for bikes I mean? | |
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03-23-2011 08:39 PM
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My note taking skills suck. I know it's partially caused by lack of discipline but I think that's due to not understanding which aspects of a villains tendencies I should be focusing on. What do you think are the most important things to focus on when taking notes? | |
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03-23-2011 08:53 PM
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probably some donkfish question, something about big boobs, or ultra-conservative BRM... | |
03-23-2011 11:32 PM
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Why do people say something like 984tt or 984 2t instead of just 984t like we do 984r? Similarly we could have 984m. | |
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03-24-2011 08:53 AM
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An ambitious player who has alot of time on their hands has blown through 10nl and 25nl in 50k hands, has just started grinding 50nl and feels it's a step up. |
03-24-2011 10:47 AM
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03-24-2011 05:02 PM
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BANNED
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what does this mean? § |
03-26-2011 04:37 AM
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why would you consider RIMJOB before GOOGLEJOB? | |
03-26-2011 12:21 PM
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03-26-2011 01:04 PM
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BANNED
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you win yr awesome |
03-27-2011 07:01 PM
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03-27-2011 07:30 PM
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Allowing bad laggggs to poison my brain with tales of money-hating spew has cost me way too much manies | |
03-27-2011 07:39 PM
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03-27-2011 07:45 PM
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03-27-2011 08:27 PM
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03-27-2011 08:32 PM
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03-27-2011 09:11 PM
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what are ur thoughts and predictions on legislation and legality of online gamblings? |
03-29-2011 12:21 AM
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03-29-2011 12:25 AM
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