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A serious thread about online poker

Not sure whether it's been mentioned already (don't have the energy to cruise through 25 pages of strategy to try find it), but does anyone play with drugs to help them play? I'm thinking speed, meth, even coke?

I've played a bit with speed, and the difference was phenomenal. There was no tilt, which is usually a bit of a problem for me. Still, don't really want to have to use it, so don't do it often.

Also, hilariously, I once played a $1 sit and go on lsd, just to see what it was like. My god, the euphoria of winning the most certain hands, let alone the coin tosses - incredible!
 
Not sure whether it's been mentioned already (don't have the energy to cruise through 25 pages of strategy to try find it), but does anyone play with drugs to help them play? I'm thinking speed, meth, even coke?

I've played a bit with speed, and the difference was phenomenal. There was no tilt, which is usually a bit of a problem for me. Still, don't really want to have to use it, so don't do it often.

Also, hilariously, I once played a $1 sit and go on lsd, just to see what it was like. My god, the euphoria of winning the most certain hands, let alone the coin tosses - incredible!

I would not want to play on speed. That would be terrible. Bad beats would make me get violent and smash things. I certainly would not play for any significant stakes on lSD or ecstasy or anything like that.

But, opiates and benzos help me immensely.
 
Just in the sense that there is more distance between you and the game? I can see how that would work. Mike Matasow, I once read, attributes a lot of his getting to his first WSOP final table to crystal meth. Said tells became ten a penny when concentrating like that.

And no, no high stakes on LSD, thank you very much!
 
my room mate came home super tired last night and started a 6-seat sit-n-go. 1500-chip stacks meant 9000 chips were in play.

i walked into the living room to see him asleep on the sofa with his laptop on the coffee table. i woke him up and told him he should go to bed. he asked me to finish the game for him.

he had 77 chips left. the two remaining players were about even at just over 4400 each - i was outchipped 115 to 1.

i won it :)

alasdair
 
my room mate came home super tired last night and started a 6-seat sit-n-go. 1500-chip stacks meant 9000 chips were in play.

i walked into the living room to see him asleep on the sofa with his laptop on the coffee table. i woke him up and told him he should go to bed. he asked me to finish the game for him.

he had 77 chips left. the two remaining players were about even at just over 4400 each - i was outchipped 115 to 1.

i won it :)

alasdair

Picture or gtfo
 
Poker is so frustrating.

After months of not breaking through in the large field multis, tonight I made it to a final table of an event with 3000+ people, and then a short time later, I made it to the final 3 tables of a 2200 person event.

Both ended in disappointment, as usual. First prize in each was over $10,000. I ended up with $1000 total.

And before anyone says, "Hey, shut up, $1,000 is still pretty good, keep in mind that the months of NOT making it that fat cost me around $1000.

It's all about putting in the volume.
 
Finally things are going my way. Thanks to a couple of "big" scores, I am +$3800 in the last two Weeks. Not bad for 74 hours of work. I managed to get in 452 games in those 72 hours, which pleases me. With volume comes results.
 
^ I make more than that working, and I work 37.5 hours a week... that's 75 hours across 2 weeks ( I good mathz).

If that's as good as it gets I'll stick to regular life methinks. I mean that, and also I am notoriously crap at all forms of gambling

Many people make more than that. But for someone without a diploma, this is pretty good. Also, I have no boss, i make my own hours, I work in my home with my music playing and my kitchen nearby, I don't have to interact with annoying coworkers, and I have no commute.

Also, the potential for big scores is there.

For example. a few nights ago I placed 8th out of 3000 players in a $26 tournament. 8th paid me $900. 1st was twelve THOUSAND. And 2nd - 7th paid pretty well too.

I took a tough loss to finish 8th. It could have easily been a huge score, and my getting to that spot regularly, eventually some of them will be. Crank out two of those per year, and there's an extra $20,000.
 
Do you think you can train up to be good? Or if I am just a crap gambler, is it likely that elements of my crapness will always shine through. How much natural talent do you need? In your opinion of course

Natural talent is very important. But any reasonably smart person can train up to be a very good player. In poker, you need to be in the top 1/10th of the top 1% to make any real money. And that isn't easy.
 
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Finally got some free time and a break from classes/college life... on thanksgiving break. Haven't played in probably a good month, but gonna try and grind all this week.

Played a few 1.20 SnGs last night just to warm up... feeling a bit rusty though, but in time I think I can get back to where I was. Good to see that things have turned around for you Fjones. Hopefully I can make a little bit of money this week too.
 
Are you playing cash games !?

I am carving up the SNGs on Full tilt. $3800 or so this month in limited play. It is nice to finally get my game in order.
 
Yeah, I play 8-10 25nl 6 max, and on bad days, I play 5 nl25 6 max fast table and 5 nl10 6 max fast table.

I am up to 33,000 hands in just a little over 2 weeks, and things suck. If I could keep playing and NEVER get it all in pre flop I would be a big winner. Instead I lose 80$ hands with AA and a 88$ hand today with AK on a 10 J Q board agaisnt KK. Things are really going bad, I did a total overhaul of my C-game watched a friend play 10K hands playing 3/6 and tried to play like that, just a tad be less aggro, and nothing seems to go right.

I would love to go back to the 180s, but I get home at like midnight from work now, so its a no go.

I feel like I am back to square 1. I am playing the best poker of my life and varience is the only thing kicking my ass right now. It really, REALLY hurts, especially with all the volume and dedication I am putting in, i am just getting laughed at in my face for the most part.

GL on FTP, my friend is really moving over towards FTP to play the multi table SNGS and says those double stack 45 and 90 man MT sngs are a great Idea, do you play those jones?

That's almost all I play. Tell him not to. They are shark infested ;)
 
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I don't know if you're close enough to one, but if you have the opportunity i would highly, HIGHLY recommend playing in a B&M casino instead of online.

I played 'professionally' (i.e. i didn't have another source of income) for a year by taking trips to the B&M a few times per week. You can sit in with $200, double up and bounce for the day within 2 hours (sometimes less than one dealer change). Online is for...well online is not as enjoyable or lucrative i'll say. IMHO 'poker' is not when you are running 10 tables and 4 programs telling you how to play your cards. Even if you have a chance just to play in a local home game (of decent stakes) i think you'll greatly prefer it, and at least enjoy breaking up the monotony.

Good Luck!
 
I don't know if you're close enough to one, but if you have the opportunity i would highly, HIGHLY recommend playing in a B&M casino instead of online.
i could not agree more. however, this thread is specifically about online poker.

i will say that i prefer casino play and it has helped my online game. the reverse is also true.

alasdair
 
I don't know if you're close enough to one, but if you have the opportunity i would highly, HIGHLY recommend playing in a B&M casino instead of online.

I played 'professionally' (i.e. i didn't have another source of income) for a year by taking trips to the B&M a few times per week. You can sit in with $200, double up and bounce for the day within 2 hours (sometimes less than one dealer change). Online is for...well online is not as enjoyable or lucrative i'll say. IMHO 'poker' is not when you are running 10 tables and 4 programs telling you how to play your cards. Even if you have a chance just to play in a local home game (of decent stakes) i think you'll greatly prefer it, and at least enjoy breaking up the monotony.

Good Luck!

SURE! This is a good plan. I recommend everyone try it, because it really is that simple. You'll never go card dead, get coolered, or otherwise lose a buy in or two. Just show up, sit for 2 hours (which amounts to around 50 hands or so), and you'll double up!

/ sarcasm
 
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