But how much did you lose?

Live poker is also very much a people game. Just out of curiosity, op, how skilled are you at interpreting social cues from others?

I've been winning my entire poker life. From day one. First $5 live tournament I ever played in, I got 2nd. I won $10. Never looked back(lol). I've never been in the red. Not even for a year. Poker was very easy to win when I started though.

I'd have to say, honestly, very very good. I've read several books on body language and limbic reactions. I rarely speak or break my train of thought at the table.

I'll give you a secret: after you've sat at the table for a while and everybody gets settled in and is more relaxed, notice their hands. It's the cluster of reactions from their shoulder, all the way down to the fingers. You can very clearly see who will fold preflop in advance. So when you have A5s in MP, with five players behind you at a full-ring cash game, you see that three people are clearly folding behind, so you now have A5s with only two people behind you. It happens a great deal of the time. You might have to hesitate sometimes to draw the reaction, though.

That's just one thing though. There's much more. I'm hawking you the whole time. When you aren't looking at me, I'm looking at you. I'm watching who is watching me at all times. I have excellent peripherals for a man. I feel like minors edges such as this are what adds up to greater understanding of predicting action.

I'm a silently-rude person at the table. I have headphones in with no music(25% of the time there is music), just so people don't even try to talk to me. I barely speak and don't ever show my hand. I muck straight-flushes and quads all day long. I have no emotional attachment to money or remorse for making you go broke. This is part of the game to me. I aim to be inhumanely ruthless at the table.

Also, like I posted last night, I've had about thirty jobs. I have moved about twenty times. I know how to adapt to people and places. When I'm interviewed for a job, the interviewer is usually way more nervous than me, and this puts me in control of the interview. I'm pretty good at meeting women too. Assessing whether or not they want to engage in a sexual relationship is pretty easy. Some girls, I swear, will not stop staring at me when I'm not looking. I know they are looking, so I have to walk around or act like I'm occupied with something else, or I will catch her staring. This happens all the time. It's awkward when you catch her too. Especially when you catch her staring multiple times. They are looking when you are not looking. When your body is pointed in a direction that makes it hard for your head to turn fast enough to catch her staring, is when she is staring. And she doesn't have to turn her head as much to stare, because women genetically have wider peripherals. On the other hand, men generally don't have wide peripherals and have to turn their entire head to look or stare.

I am really into body language. Interesting stuff.

I don't know who that is. Why should I meet Gari?

Cuz Gary is your friend

OP is a tool
seemingly good at the maths
I guess that adds up

What style do you play with? What pro do you emulate, and what stakes do you think you will get to in a couple years?

I adapt to the table and make the best decision every hand. I'd say I take the time to figure out what your betting discrepancies are, and apply a strategy against that. I find out if you're adding up the pot and what your bet-to-pot ratio generally is. I play against you. Whatever "style" that may be. I find out what's wrong with your math and try to take you down that way.

I've studied many pros. I've watched a few pros play for countless hours. Over a hundred hours of a few pros I'm estimating. I don't emulate anyone. I admire the play of some pros, but others are not true professionals. Come-from-nothing pros are who I watch. Not just how they play, but how they built their rolls. Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius are who I took the hardest look at. I'd say Patrik Antonius is a more stable player. I don't emulate how they play, though. What I have based my play and fundamentals on is my original thought. Maybe it could be said that I try to emulate the stoicism of both Phil and Patrik. I always have wondered if someone has approached the game as I have.

In 2-3 years, as high as I can go. I don't see how I couldn't crush certain players in the bigger games($10-20, $20-40). The sharks will be better but the fish become whales. I hope to be able to travel in 2-3 years and play around the world. I have family all over Canada, a few in Europe, Michigan, and Florida. I'll be stationed in Vegas(hopefully) and can travel to these places for free. That's what I plan on doing, regardless of the stakes.

Wow. OP is pretty impressive. OP has never had a losing year. Heck, he has never had a losing session. OP is always watching you, and knows when you are watching him. When OP goes to dolphin watching, dolphins watch HIM. Women want to be with OP, and men want to be him. OP doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, it's Dos Equis

I've never drank a beer or alcoholic beverage at the table. Never had a losing year, true. You're a scumbag with no life, also true.

OPs read is wrong, and OPs ad hominem attack shows severe defensiveness and hostility. Which is odd, for such an accomplished and supremely skilled individual.

OP post a picture of you to at least give us a chance, preferably with some chip porn. You'll probably find players will want to chat strategy if they recognise you from here so its +EV.

Inaccurate assessment of me.

Funny you say that. I don't really want anybody knowing who I am. I don't want people to know what I'm thinking. James McCabe isn't my name. I made a separate email just to sign up on this forum to be extra-anonymous. I don't need to prove anything to anyone either. It's up to someone to recognize what I'm actually doing at the table. If they want to back me, then excellent. Unless you are backing me, you shouldn't know who I am. I don't want anybody to ever know where my brain is at. I'll get to where I'm going .

I tried to discuss my strategy with a few close friends several years ago. They didn't quite understand and didn't think it was really possible for me to do mental math as such. I stopped telling people in general because I was afraid someone might emulate me, as big-headed as that may sound. I don't think many people can exactly see what I'm seeing. I just saw I could do the math in my head after a few years. Then I pursued trying to master the mental math odds and real-time mental math problems. It tool a long while for me to be confident in my math. I had to read math books to get my basics up to par. Also, so I could check my math without discussing it with anyone. I don't talk about strategy with anybody. I feel the math strategy is the optimal one, and keeping to myself is a better strategy for the long run. It's a cash game I play, not tournaments. Maybe one day when I have trouble beating the game I was discuss strategy. But to me, it's just math I'm doing in a hand-by-hand scenario(cash game), against people who can't do math in real-time(nearly everybody in live low-limit). Mental math is my strategy. I've read poker books, and I don't see any optimal strategy besides that one person has more experience than the other. I try to beat everybody, and I've succeeded at it at the limit I play. I find everybody to have a weak cash game. I'm serious too. I'll just have to wait until higher limits to find better players. Even the high-limit players that are at my table, waiting for their seat, get beat down generally worse than the players who are playing at my limit.

OP is gud at the maths.
U other losers, not so much.

STFU OP - BBV

Sure, I'll listen to you, who speaks on behalf of everybody. If I were to listen to the majority at any point in my life, I wouldn't be where I am today. I'd probably end up like Colin Piddle posting hateful things to people. And that would be a shame. A darn shame it would be.

This is why OP is winner in poker and life ! Give that guy a medal

I'm sorry your thread is a joke and that everyone else thinks so. Notice that warm deck, chuck bass, suited justice i.e. people that post good threads don't get trolled/hate. Its because they're good threads. This thread isn't.

OP seems to be a variant of this guy

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...-primo-698275/

Only that other guy would likely be the loud douche outside the internet, while this one is a person nobody ever notices, and the internet allows him to have a voice for a change. At least Elwood embraced the troll routine from the start. This guy kind of stumbled into it when reality smacked him after his amusing OP that only he took seriously.

Carry on posting OP, and the best part is you can claim whatever you like and nobody will really care if it is actually true or not, so try to have more fun with that given your role as a court jester in your thread.

All the best.

Unless you are trying what I'm doing, then why even comment? The sole purpose is to see if someone else is taking the same approach as me without exposing myself.

Stop giving this thread exposure and stop commenting on it if you want it to go away. If you wouldn't say these things to me in person, then you shouldn't say it on the Internet.

You posted in BBV, not the poker goals forum, and all your OP and subsequent posts demonstrated so far is arrogance (without anything to really back it), and a lack of awareness of how you are perceived when you communicate. You also seem to live the life of a hobo, which never helps when you do a genuine brag post about yourself looking for others to cheer. If you structured your applaud thyself blog OP with less arrogance and more humility, and you did it in the proper forum (ie: not this one) - you would have received appropriate replies. As played, your thread in BBV will always be a trainwreck, and your feet stomping routine when others choose to laugh at you instead of play with you cements your place in this forum. That is on you and your lack of awareness of how you would be perceived (even though this forum is hardly subtle).

Anyway, ignoring your unjustified inflated belief of yourself, you have somewhat of a plan, and that is not overly common in this industry. Is it a realistic and practical plan? Probably not as much as you would think, and if you speak to people in a proper way in the proper forum you will get help in that regard. If you choose to stay here then you will continue to be treated as you have been. Only you were surprised at that. In the end, no difference to me.

All the best.

Im starting to believe that OP might be trollin us all...

Nah, he posted a similar type of brag in the live low stakes NL forum

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...49/?highlight=


which got locked.


That is not a forum people go to to troll others. He is what he presents himself to be, and there are plenty of people just like him in the world. Don't confuse his genuine lack of self awareness with trolling.