Forrest Crunk
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"Im not a big fan of the way DN keeps leaving.. "no offense, but some of you are being babies about this.HE PLAYED ALMOST FOUR HOURS! as far as "etiquette" goes, Dreamclown left himself wide open for how he is being treated now; maybe next time he wants a game with someone who has accomplished a lot more than he has, he will show some respect. all that "fish" talk to someone who has won championships is truly stupid and classless, far more so than getting up and leaving after a couple hours of heads-up play.Dreamclown, all you are is a kid with a bankroll... when it's gone, so are you.
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as cowardly as you sitting at the table, but not buying in? over, and over, and over again?you are a true pu$$yJust wondering why Daniel keeps performing cowardly acts?? I think Danny fish realized he cant win long term. What do his followers believe/? -
DON'T BE A MORON
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MORONS MOVE UP LEVELS TO AVOID SUCKOUTSMORONS MOVE UP LEVELS TO AVOID SUCKOUTSMORONS MOVE UP LEVELS TO AVOID SUCKOUTS
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it's just a natural part of growth, and in my opinion 2+2 is a pretty nice standard to go by - i'm a fan of the new strat forums.look on the bright side, at least there will never be an "Ask Dan Druff" forum here.
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wow is this post ever a tall glass of SHUT THE FCUK UP for the OPso let's get this straight, in the last calendar year, DN's got a 1st place finish for $1.8 million, 3 other final tables, two WSOP cashes, and a WPT cash... sure sounds like someone with limited poker skills to me (jackass)http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=181http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=s&n=181There's your "EVCIDENCE!!"Let's pray that you don't teach spelling or poker. -
what limits do you play?
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i'm putting the BB on AKs/QQ...cap the flop, i like the turn raise, if you are re-raised on the turn it is probably time to let it go - i'm checking the river too as with two people along with you at the showdown, one of them likely has been drawing to their flush and hit, and may be relying on you to bet so they can checkraise; but i am not entirely sure about that...interesting though, i would like to see what other people would have to say (especially those who play 10/20 as well)
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i used to play in the dark, but i had trouble seeing my cards - turning the lights on increased my winrate by 1.85743639BB an hour
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i am at 2/4 now for good after taking continual shots at it with 200BBs, probably took me about 3 or 4 times of having to move back down before it stuck. all it did was kind of underscore the necessity for a bankroll of at least 300 BBs, for me it is the only way to remove the 'scared money' factor completely from my game; it's hard to play your best aggressive game when you take a common run-of-the-mill swing and it zaps away 1/3 of your roll. i'd say you are not doing anything majorly wrong, our stats look pretty similar (though my VPIP is a tad lower, around 15), some say the went to SD% could be a little higher, around 31-32, mine hovers between 26-30 and i'm now currently doing 2bb/100 at 22k hands. the more hands you play there, the more comfortable you will be... 2/4 doesn't seem to be that much different than .50/1 other than being more aggressive (at party that is), so table selection plays a bigger part in your game now than it did down there, but if you were beating .50/1 then you should do fine at 2/4; all it takes is a couple good nights in a row to put you there for good. post back when you get to 10k, and post some hands....peace
I really don't want this thread to become about bankroll management. I'm not complaining about anything. I want to make sure that I'm not doing anything majorly wrong. There are many people who would say that it's ok to take shots outside of the 300 BB rule. Regardless of any of that though, I no longer plan on moving up outside of the 300 BB rule, so it's a non-issue. I would appreciate any constructive thoughts though.You have a plan to play outta your limits and complain when you fall back down. I'm confused. -
yeah, admittedly i haven't played 2/4 anywhere else but Party, where it isn't too much different than .50/1 that i've seen, same amount of fish, just more aggressive - as long as the supply of bad players doesn't dry up, i think 3BB/100 at Party 2/4 is attainable...
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perhaps. i was a psychology major, sometimes we can be prone to overanalysis. maybe i read too deep into it, but the tone of the OP's post struck me as being very similar to how i once was, and identifying that was a big reason i have become more successful at poker.I dont know about the whole needing validation thing.I think it's more of not understanding limit poker.People get upset when others cold call their raises with aces not because they think that others don't "respect" them usually, but because they see it as decreasing their chances of winning the hand - which (because they don't consider the implications of this) they view as a bad thing. These are the same people who, when they become more accustomed to poker buzz words, argue that raising with aces preflop is to isolate.That same mentality leads to poor play. It's essentially the obsession with winning pots, rather than money. Of course on the other end of hte spectrum is being a weak/tight fool and folding to any scare card, any time. -
sorry if it came off harsh - i can only post things like this because of my own brutal self-analysis as i know my own ego problems and respect issues, and it took a similarly harsh post like this for me to get my act together... when it comes down to it, the only difference between us is about 100k hands played and a couple books read, we are both still degenerates who want to make money without contributing anything useful to societyit's impossible for you because you are a degenerate with absolutely no self-control' date=' nor the willingness to learn and use the time-honored methods of bankroll management that will prevent you from going broke. in your head, you believe you are somehow better than those who do, and that you are not entitled to put in the long hours of grinding and learning the correct way to play poker that the rest of us who enjoy "real profits" do. you are similar to some dude on a playground who makes a half-court shot and believes he should just be able to jump straight to the NBA, because at your core you are egotistical and lazy - your ego prevents you from sitting at .50/1 because your raises do not command respect, and respect is something you need to validate yourself, you crave it and feel as if it is something you "deserve". refusing to curb these self-destructive tendencies will cause poker to become a source of anguish in your life, as you will continue on the same pattern and end up spewing away not only your poker bankroll, but you will start dipping into personal funds to chase your losses, leading to ultimate failure.[/quote']wow you have a pretty good idea how i feel.yes, now that i look at it i am a bit egotistical, and definately lazy.my game is probably not even half good as you guys. that is why i post my idiotic mistakes so get some help.and your flame was very thoughtful. not being sarcastic. thanks
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my winrates for the climb from .05/.10 to current day 2/4 are as follows:.05/.10, 28k hands - 6.6BB/100.10/.20, 20k hands - 4.6BB/100.25/.50, 22k hands - 5BB/100.50/1, 51k hands - 2.8BB/100 (it was 1.2BB/100 for the first 20k or so, then i took a week off and re-read SSHE a few times and cut down tables from 4 to 3)1/2, 22k hands - 3BB/1002/4, 25k hands - 1.5BB/100 - still a lot of donkeys at 2/4, yet it is a harder game, gotta keep plugging my leaks! i have had a couple harsh downswings here, and i think as i continue to learn and actually apply what i am learning, instead of allowing the larger money swings to affect my play, i could see myself earning a solid 3BB/100 over time, but who knows, i'm just happy being a winning player at this point, i know there is MUCH for me to improve upon.
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it's impossible for you because you are a degenerate with absolutely no self-control, nor the willingness to learn and use the time-honored methods of bankroll management that will prevent you from going broke. in your head, you believe you are somehow better than those who do, and that you are not entitled to put in the long hours of grinding and learning the correct way to play poker that the rest of us who enjoy "real profits" do. you are similar to some dude on a playground who makes a half-court shot and believes he should just be able to jump straight to the NBA, because at your core you are egotistical and lazy - your ego prevents you from sitting at .50/1 because your raises do not command respect, and respect is something you need to validate yourself, you crave it and feel as if it is something you "deserve". refusing to curb these self-destructive tendencies will cause poker to become a source of anguish in your life, as you will continue on the same pattern and end up spewing away not only your poker bankroll, but you will start dipping into personal funds to chase your losses, leading to ultimate failure.I play at InterPoker and I hate it there!!!!!im just trying to clear my bonus and move to party, paradise, or stars.so far after that 1 hour session at 5/10 i played 1/2 and won 30 BB which was soon lost. and how do you guys afford to follow the 300 BB rule. it really is impossible. im serious. 300 needed to play .50/1 ??? and plus i dont understand how lots of money in your account or not very much money in you account influence the result of your poker game.as long as you have about at least 75 BB in you account and buy in for 25 BB you shuold be fine!how am I or anybody else with limited money in the actual bank suppose to see any good money with 300 BB rule. -
and, Good Luck.In the words of the Amazing Herr Smasharoo, make sure you write us when you go broke. -
was gonna post about my drunken exploits today but saw "30/60" and figured i should just keep my mouth shut
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hey. i started with SSHE and played the UB, Prima and Stars .05/.10 for about 30,000 hands, ended up beating it for around 6BB/100 - just like econ said, don't expect to win that much at higher levels at first, i thought i sucked when i moved up because i dipped to around 1.5-2BB/100, thought i was playing bad and started pushing a bunch of hands that i shouldn't have and ended up going on a nasty tilted downswing. just know that you are headed in the right direction by reading and applying the knowledge in that book, and anything around 2/BB an hour is a great start, though we all have leaks that we need to be aware of and constantly trying to plug. at Party, tables with averages of +50 are kind of rare nowadays and quickly get filled up with better players who are hunting for good tables themselves - for the closest possible equate to .50/1 at Party, i would play the Stars .05/.10 tables for awhile, they are very similar in quality of players. as far as i'm concerned in terms of my own long-term success, any table with a VPIP of over 28 (pfr%: 6 or lower) is a good table, i'll even stick around at a 24 VPIP table if the pfr% is low enough (anywhere from 0 to 3, nice and passive) this may or may not work for everyone's preference, but i find the best results for myself at tables like these.... just remember to have at least $250 before giving Party .50/1 a shot, $300 being the safest route as far as bankroll management goes. good luck to ya!Someone was just telling me that party is way easier to beat than UB, any truth to UB being a relatively difficult site ? I dont find it too bad but havent tried anywhere else... -
i think his advice could have addressed the tilt issue, but i think he was right on about switching sites. i was a consistent winner for about 8 months, recently i endured a 20k hand stretch where i had a 200BB downswing at 2/4, dropped down to 1/2 and continued with a 150 BB downswing there, then down to .50/1 where i dropped about 150 BB until i had almost had enough of poker completely - after this beating (550 BB total), i withdrew from the site i was playing and deposited to another site with 300 BB to play .50/1 and immediately began to swing back upwards, now i am comfortably back at 2/4 where i had started - i'm sure i started to semi-tilt somewhere in there but i always stopped before too much damage could be done, and i approached the game every day playing the solid game that i had been taught, the cards just weren't falling my way. it was horrifying though, i never thought a stretch like that was possible, but i am a much better player now for having experienced it. i recently read on another forum (4) that a consistent, Sklansky/Miller-esque player can expect a swing of 250 or more at least once a year, it is an inevitability; that's kind of hard for me to grasp, but i wonder how often one could expect a downswing of 400 BB or more factoring in solid play, and at least 15k hands played per month - maybe once every 3-4 years?
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of course it isn't.P.S. Marshmallow iced coffee isn't as flavorful as hazelnut.
i used to run a monte carlocurious as to how you calculated this. did you run a monte carlo?
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just be glad i'm not a mod here, or in a fit of Hebrew rage i might have dropped the Star Of David on your ass and took away your avatar and quotes, how would you have liked that huh? huh???
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i don't think that you go around saying it because you hate Jewish people, you are just carelessly insensitive to how people feel when they see it being used. how about just not saying it anymore period? so we can let this post sink to oblivion already for God's sakeSo funny, read some of my other posts. You guys read one damn post and assume I go around slamming on everyone regardless of their race, religion or whatever. -
heheh it seems like this is something you are really convicted about, so i'll let you have your "Jew" ok? as far as twisting it around, you are the one with paragraph-long dissertations about why you should be able to use the word, and all i did was tell you how i felt, but it looks like you are reaching for something so that you can be a part of this argument so how about this: that you could become a little less ignorant about this manner, i'd actually go ask a few people who are Jewish if i were you what they think about being described as a Jew, and you'll likely get the same answer i just gave you - maybe a real live person telling you that to your face will help it sink in a little bit more.I wasn't talking about Jewnied or Jewmiliated...those can be taken as either funny, stupid, or offensive. I, for one, just chuckled at the sheer absurdity of the words. My comment was directed more towards the fact that you seem to be twisting this into your opinion that the word Jew is derogatory and/or some sort of religious slur. I can think of several derogatory terms for members of the Jewish faith that have been deemed very socially unacceptable, and that I would never use in a public forum (or in many private conversations). Jew has never been on that list.I still assert that Jew is another form of descriptor. Example: You can say "I am Christian" or "I am a Christian". They both use the same form of the word Christian. But if you are Jewish, you can say either "I am Jewish" or "I am a Jew". I do not see any difference in the word Jewish and Jew in those two uses. However, if someone says "Stop being such a Jew", then it is probably being used as a slur...but "Stop being so Jewish" is the same thing while using the word Jewish that you seem to deem non-derogatory. -
i personally am not too offended when i hear people refer to Hebrews as Jews, but i know a lot of people who don't like it, my parents, grandparents, friends - it's disrespectful in the same way that the word "Jap" is disrespectful to Japanese people. what makes me angry is when people run around saying things like "Jewmiliated" or "Jewnied", like the OP has been doing the last couple weeks, trying to be funny - what exactly do words like that convey? respect for people who are Jewish, or is there a negative connotation attached to it? when you catch a bad beat on a poker site, why is that being Jewnied? or Jewmiliated? it's just a stupid ass thing to say IMO.What "slur" exactly are you talking about? I was honestly not aware that Jew was a slur. It is simply a descriptor like Christian or Protestant. This is like African Americans getting censored off if someone describes them as black. It's not a slur, they are trying to distinguish you from somebody else. I can see someone taking offense to the term "Jewed out of something" because it enforces a stereotype of Jews being cheap. But the word Jew should not be viewed as a slur when used as an adjective.
i don't like daniel
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the rotation of the earth has ceased while its people stand collectively in awe of such an amazing and truly insightful post, Daniel must surely change his ways in the face of such blistering criticisms