So much notes on this episode, I'll have to cut it in 2, adding the the second part tomorrow night.
Quitting
"Quitting is the one poker topic that touches our regular lives the most directly and most often."
"It is the demarcation between poker and non-poker."
Toughing it out
- The difference between normal manual labour and poker is that, when you do feel out of your A game, and don't feel up for it, you can still do the work, and get a paycheck at a normal job. In poker, you will lose money.
- Everytime you feel out of your game or damaged, you shouldn't necessarily quit. If you're a professional
"This whole quitting topic is deeply complex because each person is different, and each person is changing all the time."
(Just tossing out wide area of nets)
- Each individual needs to learn to know/feel themself good when they aren't on their A game, and what might bring them close to it, or how to refocus.
From Tommy's book
I have always had very strict policies when it comes to quitting, even when I first started playing poker. Back then I had two main quitting rules that I never broke. I would always quit if I was out of money and nobody would lend me any, and I would always quit if everybody else did.
Taking Breaks
*Very important topic*
- Possible to recharge your engine, back to your A game if it's started to detoriate.
- Usually people take breaks because they want to pee, disturbances, get food so forth
- Really smart to take breaks just to take a break, because you been sitting for too long, you're starting to become flusterd, harder to focus, so forth.
"Walking away is easy. The hard part is standing up."
If you really wanna take on quitting as a skillset, as a new challenge, body of work that you're gonna undertake. The way to do that is thinking of taking a break, as quitting practice, because everytime you're taking a break, you're going away from the table.
(Only practicing the act of walking away in the middle of the table.)
What to do on breaks
*Start thinking of your beaks in a completly different way, you're not taking a break to do anything, you do it to remove yourself from teh game, physically, and mentally, and this takes effort.*
- Doing something that takes your mind off the game
- Just concentrate on the act your doing, on yourself, concentrate on the present tense and what's going on, do the breathing.
- If you play online, It's never smart to play more than 1hour to 1hour30min, take a break, do something, do sit ups, push ups, something.
- The reason why after we've sat down, feel fresh and sharp, playing our A game, then after 1 hour, 2 hours, we just feel, deteriorated, exhausted, flusterd is because we've accumulated mental stuff.
(Like an accumilation of weights, baggage.)
- Take breaks when you feel good. (We have a tendency to take breaks when we feel like shit.) Do it before desperate time.
EVERYTIME YOU TAKE A BREAK, YOU ARE QUITTING
- Have to practice quitting when it's really difficult.
Use the "object of the game" concept to practice quitting.
Quitting "lopping off the C game"
"Lopping off the C-game has such enormous long term effects."
- On your well being, happiness, bankroll, friends, family, so forth.
- We tend not to think in long term, but saving the cash you "waste" end of long session is huge. Lopping off the C game which starts to creep in
"I see quitting as a tool to use toward this higher objective of loppinf off the C game."
"If you want to lop of C-game, you need to trim back the end of your worst sessions."
I was about to go play poker at a local casino. I hadn't slept all that well but I had showered and walked and I had convinced myself that I was good to go. I was at the door, saying goodbye to my wife, when this big yawn opened up on my face.
Wife: "Are you sure you want to go play right now?"
And I'm like, "Yes."
And she said, "Well, of course you know if you are ready or not. I'm just saying, it's never wrong to not play."
It's never wrong to not play.
It's never wrong to not play.
I let those words melt over me for a second. Then I walked to my desk and wrote them down, and stayed home.
I am the master of my fateby DustySwedeDude, January 11
Going to start by posting a poker hand. It's obviously horridly played pf, but except for "fold pf" I'm not sure if I could do anything else, or rather, I have no idea wtf I'm supposed to do after my first reraise. Comments?
Showdown rubixq shows,
Hero shows,
pelleri doesn't show,
MrDonovan doesn't show,
Hero wins $2176.10 USD from main pot
rubixq wins $1072.25 USD from main pot
Hero wins $1702.95 USD from main pot
Hero wins $777.00 USD from main pot
... When you win this one and still finds out that you're under equity the last couple of thousand hands you feel weird .
That is, however, not a fair representation of how I've been running the last few days, lol.
So I was to my first BJJ class today. It was really fun and I'll try to go as much as possible. The instructor talked a bit about how you should only compete against yourself, how talent just made things go faster but you can succeed without it and how pride just hurt you. Now a few years ago I would've regarded that as stupid, but he has a point. Yea sure talented people have it easier, so fucking what?
I'm fairly smart but other then that I don't have much in the way of talents. I'm not in good shape and never where, I never did very good in sports and I can't learn languages for shit. I've got some anti-social streaks and my skills in dancing is comparable to a wolf's table manners. Non existing. My skin is pale and except for my natural hair colour there's not much in the way of attractive facial features. I can't grow a decent beard to save my life. Although noting I'm ashamed of either my penis is not big enough to impress anything except possibly fairly inexperienced girls and Asians. Overall I feel that if I'll ever be something of importance or greatness it'll mostly be due to my own hard work. Or possibly just dumb luck. I hadn't thought of it like that before, but it kinda feels good.
Also, since rednalluk doesn't seem to blog I feel that I can post this youtube link he msged me a couple of days ago:
I'm leaving to Asia on Friday and need to DL as much cool new music as possible before then. Please help by posting youtube videos of awesome songs. Here are a few songs I've been listening to lately and wanna have more similar to it:
Classic:
Tight:
Thanks to Milkman:
BEP always good:
I have no idea how to classify this music. I always call it techno but I know that real techno heads often disagree. Maybe it's house. I dunno. But whatever type of music it is, I dig and am trying to find more like it. Suggestions please!
As i was grinding 8 tables on 50NL and 100NL the other day I realized something, i was bored of Holdem. This isnt the bored of hold em you hear from big winners who say they have solved the game and are no longer challenged. I am no where close to conquering this game, im just not interested in it anymore. I have no passion for it and no yearning for learning. I realized this was causing me to play bad, i actually developed some serious FPS from being bored and started spewing money. So, what am i gonna do? Well, all my New years goals are out the window. 2 days ago I cashed out my full tilt roll which stood at 2800 after some runbad recently. I have rakeback coming this week which ill use to finish off my year end bonus, I also bought a ton of products from the FTP store like clothes and random shit.
I've decided to start a little project to fire up my passion for poker. Im starting with a new site, and a new(sort of) game. I deposited 500 on pokerstarts and plan to grind 25PLO and work my way up. I really enjoy PLO and it satisfy my needs as an action junkie. I have never really had an issue with tilt so variance shouldnt bother me. Im the kid who spazzes in the chat to give the appearance of tilt, but never changes my game. I look forward to this challenge and for the first time in a while im truly excited. I plan to grind up to at least 1500 before I move to 50PLO, but well see how the games go. Im actually a decent PLO player, i hand read suprisingly well and have a good understanding of what I want to do in the game. I have a snowboard trip coming up this wednesday thru friday and after that I will probably get started. The only thing I have to do is purchase the HEM for PLO. If anyone isnt using their extra version let me know u can save me some money. Besides PLO I will play some small buying MTT's randomly, which is part of the reason I moved to PS. Maybe ill even get lucky and ship one.
Well as seems to be the trend with me, I haven't blogged in around 7 months. This s mostly due to the lack of hands I've managed to put in within this time.
Well since my last blog have managed to grind my roll up to $400... very very slow progress. However at least i am starting to feel more confident about my game especially since Mayzerg is coaching me.
Plan on playing a lot more, hopefully study will not get in the way
anyone's hud not showin up for ps as of today? I installed the latest one which is 1.10 07 and my hud is not showing up. and yes, my auto import folders are corrected. anyone else also having problems with their HUD?
Getting tired of making over $16 an hour playing 5c/10c and then immediately getting facewrecked every time I play nl25. Let me know your availability, pricing, and ptr/grahps.
short review of my most recently watched dlsby whamm!, January 11
just so that you guys dont dl crap, and might like some of what i liked watching.
*black sheep - hmm not funny at all
*dread - not scary
*the road - really dragging
*sons of anarchy - season 1 and 2, so good i watched 26 episodes nonstop
*vengeance - here's a summary
story abt a father who hires assassins to avenge his daugther and grandson's murder, only to find out that the guys he hires regularly does hits for the mob boss he wants dead, but as usual, the three become friends with him and tells him , " it's ok, don't worry, you're OUR boss now"
zziiiiing! foreign actors in a hk cinema action movie, slow but, really nice imo
*the messenger - really boring shit, dont dl
*smokin aces 2 - gay
*armored - kinda ok while playing
*diagnosis death - not funny
*big white bubble butts 4 and 6 - i came. 'really love bubble butts lol
any recommendations for some hidden straight-to-dvd gems would be appreciated, im waiting for the screener for "rec 2", sequel to "rec".
kawelljd and mssoftware for example ? They've been spewing like crazy, met both of them on nl5... oO
When you check the ptr it says they already lost like 12k... My only guess would be either they're some rich ppl that played wayyy to high on their limit or they just won a big donkament and wanted to taste the upper levels...
Submitted by : RaiZ
PokerStars Game #37984798810: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2010/01/11 3:07:07 ET
Table Nasl 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($6.28 in chips)
Seat 2: mssoftware ($10.23 in chips)
Seat 3: RentBin.ca ($11.99 in chips)
Seat 4: symik23 ($10.31 in chips)
Seat 5: CHOPPERTOWN ($5 in chips)
Seat 6: CrossAir ($15.59 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.02
mssoftware: posts big blind $0.05
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
RentBin.ca: folds
symik23: folds
CHOPPERTOWN: folds
CrossAir: folds
Hero: raises $0.15 to $0.20
mssoftware: calls $0.15
Hero: bets $0.40
mssoftware: raises $0.90 to $1.30
Hero: raises $4.78 to $6.08 and is all-in
mssoftware: calls $4.78
River (Pot : $12.56)
Showdown Hero: shows (a full house, Threes full of Nines)
mssoftware: mucks hand
Hero collected $11.96 from pot
Summary Total pot $12.56 | Rake $0.60
Board
Seat 1: Hero (small blind) showed and won ($11.96) with a full house, Threes full of Nines
Seat 2: mssoftware (big blind) mucked
Seat 3: RentBin.ca folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: symik23 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: CHOPPERTOWN folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: CrossAir (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
I am gonna keep this blog going so I can also get in that bloggers freeroll tourney... updates on this little win 100 buyins at NL2 before moving up "challenge" of mine are as follows...at around 14k hands in, made about 44 buy ins, 4-5 days in (i forget) and just still grinding. My last 2k hands were the roughest so far meaning just stupid all in pots vs idiots resulting in a suckout or bad call by me with TPTK vs a flopped set or something. Anyways...I go back to college soon, I go to Franklin and Marshall College out in Pennsylvania and I can't wait. It is not easy living with my parents and I could really use a break from working at the bs supermarket I work at. That is all for now gonna log some more hands.
I am gonna keep this blog going so I can also get in that bloggers freeroll tourney... updates on this little win 100 buyins at NL2 before moving up "challenge" of mine are as follows...at around 14k hands in, made about 44 buy ins, 4-5 days in (i forget) and just still grinding. My last 2k hands were the roughest so far meaning just stupid all in pots vs idiots resulting in a suckout or bad call by me with TPTK vs a flopped set or something. Anyways...I go back to college soon, I go to Franklin and Marshall College out in Pennsylvania and I can't wait. It is not easy living with my parents and I could really use a break from working at the bs supermarket I work at. That is all for now gonna log some more hands.
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