Slevins: One day at a time

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

Thanks airles, but until I have a decent size bankroll I'm not going to be following the suggested bankroll guidelines, if I get to the stage where I have 2k online I'll start following a decent BR system, until then - I'm just going to play recreationally with the focus being on enjoyment. Playing whatever stakes my free cash allows me to play. I've officialy resigned from the penny grind.

nothing wrong with this. although practicing some form of BR management would make recreational poker more enjoyable as well. At least I'd think it would.

WAT.

do you seriously think you can play the odd live game here and there and read a book or two and then jump straight into 50NL+ online games and be a winning player?

part of microstakes is working on not only your poker playing but your discipline as well. which ldo, you clearly have none of. whats to stop you donking your roll away at $200 DoNs once you have more money online? Nothing - because you just havnt got it in you to go about this the tried and tested way, and as a result you'll be incredibly short of online experience (in terms of both playing and more importantly in your case dealing with variance) and I cant help but think this is just going to turn into yet another slevin trainwreck.

but w/e - you havnt listened in the past and we've all been right. and you wont listen this time. just felt i should do my bit to try and prevent you from simply proving us right yet again.

gl man.

Originally Posted by sil693

WAT.

do you seriously think you can play the odd live game here and there and read a book or two and then jump straight into 50NL+ online games and be a winning player?

part of microstakes is working on not only your poker playing but your discipline as well. which ldo, you clearly have none of. whats to stop you donking your roll away at $200 DoNs once you have more money online? Nothing - because you just havnt got it in you to go about this the tried and tested way, and as a result you'll be incredibly short of online experience (in terms of both playing and more importantly in your case dealing with variance) and I cant help but think this is just going to turn into yet another slevin trainwreck.

but w/e - you havnt listened in the past and we've all been right. and you wont listen this time. just felt i should do my bit to try and prevent you from simply proving us right yet again.

gl man.

1 year and 4 months grinding $5.50 S&G's and the occasional $11.00 ones. I'm at just about $1800. I play over rolled just to keep gaining experience so when I do move up I am ready and have the BR AND the experience to do it. You play on a $2000 BR even following guidelines you will be seriously over matched and it will just be a march in reverse back down to the penny stakes. I would rather START there then FINISH there.

Just a few observations. You'll take them as criticisms but that's because you won't like what is being observed.

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

the guy that went on to win it said I deserved to cash for the way I played which was nice.

From your very first post at FTR, you have gone out of your way to put in some comment about you playing well. Every one of your bust outs was due to a cooler or a suckout (even here with J9 vs AT) and people always comment how you deserve better.

Months ago Deanglow pointed out that you hijack other threads to make such comments. All in all you seem at pain to point out you're a really good player and luck is the only reason you're not a millionaire.

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

I've been reading a fair bit of Skalansky on Poker.....before I move on to the Theory of Poker.....I'm really looking forward to reading the Mathematics of Poker it looks nice and deep so I'm going to make sure I assimilate everything in that properly.

All this suggests you're serious about poker but you admit you can't stick to BRM, you find grinding boring and that you're playing "for fun" - ie: big buy in affairs with the chance to get rich quick.

Originally Posted by LuckySlevin

I'm no longer going to be grinding an online bankroll out, not until I have about 2,000 to invest in my bankroll.

You have admitted to being a degen and unable to grind or stick to BRM yet you state here that once you score big and land 2k you will suddenly play seriously. If you are addicted to the big score now - and if you cannot face the monotonous grind - then you will have no chance of slowing down if you luckbox your way to $2k. Instead you will dream of turning that 2k into 20k but playing in even bigger tourneys now that you have a bigger BR.

If you want the thrills of $50+ buy in events on a $200 roll then great but as Deanglow said - be honest with yourself and be honest with us.

As said, just observations. Take them as you see fit.

I sense a slevin "revelation" coming on...

slevin operation threads are the nuts, he is the WWF of FTR

Damn Slevin. I thought that once you said you were just playing poker for fun that everyone would cut you some slack. I guess not. LOL

Thunder - go get a crush on someone else, I thought we sorted this out ages ago?

Everyone else - cheers! Nice reading your comments

I really don't know why so many people are getting their panties in a bunch in this thread. You are obviously playing for recreational enjoyment, and not everyone's goal is to grind out poker profits. As long as you aren't deluding yourself into thinking this is the way to long-term profits, then enjoy yourself.

It's been a few days but not much has happened in the world of slevin poker, I continued to play outside of BRM guidelines and continue to plunge a few more dollars down the fish hole. I have taken out a subscription to sharkscope though at long last and can honestly say I'm finding it almost as enjoyable as poker!

I've got into the habbit of scoping the tables I play on and was surprised to find that generally only 4/10 players are + profit (this is on 20-50 double or nothing tables, but looking at the entire sample). And further only about 2 are significantly in profit +1k.

One guy I scoped yesterday was 8k in profit, I was intrigued that's a nice round number of profit. I exported his entire history and found he'd played 8000 games so averaged just $1 profit per game. Such a slow grind but hey Rome wasn't built in a day. I'm thinking of having another stab at buillding some profits from poker instead of just playing randomly online soon.

Also dusk till dawn is on Muzzard is going to post for anyone else that fancies it nearer the time. Should be alot of fun.

My general poker goals at the moment are to have a 20k bankroll by the time I'm 30 (two and a half years time). I think I may need to move away from the Double or Nothings though and back to some SNGs I think they are the most profitable type of game for me at the moment.

Oh slevin...it seems that you'll never change.

DEGEN 4 LYFE

My general poker goals at the moment are to have a 20k bankroll by the time I'm 30 (two and a half years time).

Level?




you are really 16.

Poker is going well at the moment, I've got back into a grinding mentality and it's going well enough. I've been putting a lot of effort into my poker the last few days and it's starting to pay off.

Milestone! =) I have finally got rid of the 'fish' symbol next to my name on sharkscope, ldo. Now I just need to stay disciplined.



The filter is the $1 sng's I've been playing since I decided to play within a decent bankroll. TOP has really helped me to understand the importance of playing within a bankroll. I had never realised before the principle of expectation, i.e. that if you make a good play and get sucked out on you gain. Full stop. It doesn't matter what happens in the actual hand. I kind of knew this but had never understood it as intuitively as I do now thanks to TOP.

Well rest of the week will be spent grinding $1 sngs... I think I'm going to work with a 100 buyin rule for now, as I play 18, 27, 45 and 90 man SNGs.

Really nice not to be a fish anymore on sharkscope, silly I know, but that symbol kind of bugged me! I just need to make sure it stays that way!

i'll be up for poker in Nott. Make sure a seperate thread is posted nearer the time.

and GL again and all that Slev. Do it one time.

Thanks mate yeah for sure hopefully this time.

That's great you can make Nottingham sounds like it's going to be a good night. There's already a thread btw!

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ad-t83679.html

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