At 20/40 when you bet the dry flop with top pear you will still get action from hands you want action from because on average everyone is stupid. In 40/80 when you bet the drop flop with top pear you will only get action from hands you don't want it from (or that are planning to semi bluff you at some point) because most players who have risen to that level are at least capable of not just calling one or two bets hopelessly then folding later in the hand.

It takes the top spot because it's always available so I usually end up drinking it, and, and this is an extremely well kept secret, it's actually quite low on the beer calorie spectrum.

I am 100% in favor of playing and betting on ping pong.

I don't have a good answer for this, but I remember setting goals of playing 10 hours a week when I was playing 6/12. Towards the end I was probably playing twice that, maybe even more. Realize that I only worked at Oracle for 38 months, and that for the first 25 I honestly didn't play that much poker because I lived in San Francisco proper. I can't imagine the number is above 600.

For recreational players (with no plans on ever being a pro) my advice is to quit when you feel you're tilting. You're supposed to have fun and you're supposed to make money; if you recognize that you're on tilt, neither of those is likely to happen. If you aspire to make a living out of poker you need to be active in discerning what puts YOU personally on tilt and working to avoid those situations or mitigate the effects. For me it's making a mistake; that really really tilts me, and when I do it I have to work hard to put the hand behind me (I think I alluded to this earlier). So my advice is to be very introspective and analyze your emotions, figure out what sets you off, then talk to other players and find ones who had a similar problem and ask how they fixed it.

Single greatest weakness is that they are too passive, which allows me to make extremely exploitable folds (which they do not exploit).

Poker is the wrong decision for me financially and there really is no way around it at this point. I could make more money, both in the short term and likely long term, doing something else. Danielle supports me because I still believe that I can be happier playing poker full time than doing anything else. But it's not all about the money. At this point it's about...accomplishing something hard.

Thanks for the well wishes

Assuming this is just videos the list is pretty short:

1. BBB
2. Death Donkey
3. MikeL

Putting anyone else on it would be unfair to these three.

The most annoying thing people do in my opinion is berating the fish for things they do anyway. Saying things like "nice call. nice call with a gut shot there" and then turning to your neighbor and acting like you've suddenly walked into a private office where no one else can hear you "did you see that? he called me all the way with just a gut shot" when you just did the exact same thing 8 minutes ago is just so amazingly annoying. I'm thinking of this guy specifically.

I'm hesitant to say I'll ever be content, but a start right now would "having a firm belief that I am a long term solid winner in the commerce 40/80"

Damn.. too bad I sold my SNES at my last yard sale. Def gonna kick your ass in wii next time you are up this way tho! lol

A topic I was discussing w/ someone else recently was a comparison between the current Bay props and the recently removed GC props that now flood the Bay games daily. Can you share your input into this matter?

This has to be close. However once at Garden City on my prop shift a customer asked a dealer to go outside and the dealer actually stood up and took a step.

OK guys it's past my bedtime...I'll pick up in the morning and hopefully my alltime most amazing angleshoot story will just come to me because right now I'm blanking....keep 'em coming.

BTW, 2 of the beers on your list are not like the others (any more than one way)..lol

Also.. if you were the coach of our softball team instead of, well coach , what would our batting order look like and why?

How did you get started at poker?

I played in the 20 game at the Commerce last Wed the 23rd and the 20 at Hawaiian Gardens on Friday the 25th. Any chance I played with you?

Oops, I guess not if you actually went north as indicated in your blog.

Hey Jesse, I'm an ex web dev turned aspiring pro... Just wanted to say I follow your blog and wish you all the best. Thanks for everything.

I am an idiot and did not read the thread before posting my first question. Disregard it, I suck *****.

1. How did you meet Captain R? At the tables, on 2p2, or outside of poker? Because of or in spite of pwnage?

2. How did the AJs 15/30 compare with the Bay 20/40? Was there collusion going on at AJs?

3. What was / is your best stroke at swimming? Best times for a 100 m at that stroke?

4. What's the thing you're proudest of in your life? The most ashamed of?

Congrats on your Well Jesse. Enjoy your posts and blog.
Lot's of talk on you taking on the 40 but what about longer term goals, poker and life?
Where do you want to be in 5 years, 10 years, 25 years? What are the biggest steps you see needing to take to get there? Obv attaining LeoDoc level of ballerismo is the 25 but the others?
Peace.

Grats on your well Jesse!

Do you plan on having kids someday? in 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? Never?

How come things you have no control over set you off so much (e.g. LA traffic)?

Why haven't you played much HUHU?

One of the things of live poker is that after playing for 2-3 days in a row for extended times, I would begin to loathe the people sitting with me at the table and it didn't become fun. Any advice how to go to the live tables day in day out without going crazy about seeing and playing with the same despicable people? Or maybe I'm just anti-social in general? ;-)

Describe Bellatrix' game (whatever you've seen online)!

Which power would you rather have:

[ ] The ability to see your opponents' hole cards for one week (on-line and live, any limits and nl and fl); or

[ ] A one hour session today on the internet that exists on March 4, 2012.