I don't study but keep losing lol

Haha, OP hit the nail on the head. I was thinking the exact same thing this weekend. The thing a lot of you 'winners' forget is that even after subtracting his deposits from his pay checks, he probably makes twice what the average 'pro' makes.

Moral of the story is a lot of losers at this game are winners in life and lots of winners in this game are losers in life.

Yep. Theres so many people who put in alot of work at poker to make 20-50k a year when they couldve made a ton more in the real world + BENEFITS if they put in the same amount of work. That doesnt matter though because they get to work at home and be their own boss lol. When online poker dries up and they are 35 with a decade+ gap in their resume and no job prospects then reality will hit them...

And im a winner in the games i play online, im not a mad loser, just a winning realist!!!!

Maybe the worst advice i have ever seen on 2p2 which is quite the achievement lol

OP i feel you. I think you expressed general feeling of a lot of members of poker community. Dont worry about idiots itt berating you, they are most likely fish themselves. Winning player would not waste their time with such idiotic and useless posts.

I have a similar story to yours. I deposit every now and then, but I was lucky enough to hit some mtt scores so Im pretty much breakeven. I play like 3-4 times a week...after work so im usualy quite tired, drinking beer and getting stoned...so my play is not optimal, but its decent. Im just looking for a bit of fun and adrenaline. I dont really want to invest too much time into studying, its not my job, its a hobby. I have read some books and had a pro friend helping with advice.

My problem is the games are not as fun as they used to be (subjectivly)so I tend to play less and less. Another fact that pulls me away from the tables are the crazy suckouts that ruin my deep runs almost every time. The problem is low volume makes it hard to beat the variance and all the stupid crazy russians and god knows how many bots make rec players life really hard. I usualy play 2 mtts per evening and if you keep getting sucked out of them all the time, it gets very old very fast. Last time I got deep a guy with K2 off called mypreflop 4bet all in with AA for 60BB and got a flush with the duce....yes he was russian....i tried to talk to the guy asking what he was thinking...no respons. No sane person could call that. was he a bot? I dunno, but i know **** like this makes me wanna quit. I was making a statistics last month and I lost 79% of all hands where I was 60%+ favourite. go figure. I keep playing bc I have some winnings on my account, but i know for sure I wont deposit if i lose it all. not on pokerstats anyway. I play live regulary and it seems much better. I play less hands and its less comfortable, but imho I think hands tend to hold much more often, at least in my case and there are no russian idiots and bots

I dutifully suggest moving up in stakes, that way your raises get respect.

"a REAL mother****in winning REALIST"
Ok, I think I got it.

So we should make the exchange rate more favorable, or somehow keep his opponents from hitting their outs? Maybe force players to pass a skills test before they're allowed to play against the OP in micro-turbos? Because the crux of the issue here is that the OP is losing (to "idiots"), not PS's investment partners or whatever.

If somebody loses consistently year after year, eventually no amount of good-time happy-chat will keep it being fun or even tolerable. Live, at least you can buy him a drink.

The climate really is awful for online poker tho. Has it ever been worse?

OP, if you want to win but not put in much work at it then play at a level you can beat. At one time for me that was the $0.10 360 man, maybe the same for you or even play money.

On the other hand, if you want to have a drink and a bit of a gamble with poker at home without going to a live venue then just make a budget for it. The luck always evens out in the end - but if the level is high enough for it to feel like real gambling for an Aussie builder then it will also be high enough for someone to play it seriously and in the long run you will lose to that person. But as I said, make sure you budget for it.

The only other thing I would say is it's usually best to have lots of different activities and do them a bit rather than go full on with one activity. Just play once a month.

Oh and don't play on stars. Your money will go further (i.e. you can play higher with the same dollar loss rate or play the same level with a lower dollar loss rate) somewhere else.

And there's nothing to flame. Plenty of us never do forms of gambling that are -EV for us personally.

This is really a problem with Stars payout structure. First they pay to many places and then the payouts are really top heavy. They should copy Full Tilts payout structure instead. But skip only raising the blinds every two hours...

If you come back give the 180 man sng's a go, if you haven't already. You don't have to run like Jesus to win them but still get a nice sum of cash if you do win.

LOL +1

You should be ashamed of yourself

dude are you like new to the world?

Everyone knows online slots is where its at.

Everyone but you. By the time you get around to trying it out, the slot boom will be over.

Is it Summertime in Australia now? Sometimes it can maybe be easier to find other things to do when it's warm and sunny until really late - and then when Winter hits ... about all that's left is poker lol ...


Money sure doesn't go as far as it used to with some things now that the US$ is so high - just paid C$1.75 for a tomato the other day! ( <- ) Guess if games are one of those things that's been affected by the exchange rates, maybe setting up like a budget or something might be a way for you to make sure your deposits last as long as they did before? Guess the planning and stuff might take a bit of getting used to, but with $150/week to splash around, hopefully there'll still be lots of fun stuff for you to play?


Just thought maybe that might be an option, gl!

You could always get "passwordgothacked" to coach you. He comments on every thread but has yet to post a winning hand of poker.

He is 34 years old and has played poker for 16 or 17 years. He can't remember which.

He berates posters, but has nothing of any import to say.

Yeah, he's the guy you need to become a winner.

Well said.

Your moaning at him for insulting and isolate fish?

Seems like he saying he is a fish, fish do moan about getting beat to 3 outters

What you want you should welcome him not say he thinks he is entitled

Thats were the money comes from players who think there entitled for there ak to hold against aq.

Lol at you thinking any differently.

oh****son. laughed my ass off on that one

Move to the US, then you don't have to worry about online poker (for the most part). Plenty of great live poker though. Just move 10 minutes from a descent casino and play 2-3 hours a night of live 1/2 or 2/5. Much more fun AND you can actually interact and have real conversations with real people face to face. Free beer and a vape on the smoking deck and your all set! GL

Bro, it's time to take a walk outside and get some fresh air. All the youporn and jokerstars you been grinding non-stop is starting to fry your brain.

Bring Back the Biff

Wrong. People do quit poker. It's not crack. Why else you think poker economy is _shrinking_? There's less players playing.

And if he did the self-ban then that's it. At least for stars he's out for good and the way online poker is pretty much same as poker is good as well.

So no insulting players makes no sense. Especially if they are worse than you. Better to be silent. You are only creating negativity which will have no positive result but could lead to negative.

EV is very much -. Are you poker player or gambler?

Tomatoes are back down to C$1, whew! But just paid C$1.50 for an ear of corn - guess that's my little treat for when the weather gets not so nice out

Hey op, just thought of something I've been doing when there's enough time left to play a full regular speed tourney - have been late registering a lot of them, if we still get maybe like a 20bb-30bb stack? Then it doesn't take so long to reach ITM ... if I don't wind up busting out first lol They're not as slow once the antes have kicked in ...