what is ridiculous about the heads up challenge is that you refuse to accept a capped number of hands, when the whole point is to prove who is more skilled, if you only play 100 hands anyone can get a good run of cards. or saying you can opt out whenever u feel like it makes no sense. play a real headsup match or stop challenging people to them. props to rickroll and omaha for calling it how it is..... and btw op i have been punched in the face and have the scars on my knuckles from knocking peoples teeth and braces ouy, doesnt make you hard by any means.

i share a 2 bedroom apartment with my friend from high school and college its $1000/month with utilities.

quit my job in november driving a bus making $13/hr and only had 1k. been going to the casino 5 days a week 4 hours avg which is weak but whatever im a pothead. 42 sessions 30 wins 12 losses paid januarys and decembers rent with poker and ive got about 3k liferoll atm. which is way ahead of where i would be driving a bus and making $1600/month. also i got business cards flyers and a website made for my tutoring so i feel good about the way things are going. plus i feel free. the value of that is priceless =D. lets hope the absurd rungood continues.

also i have money(not much), friends, and family for sure. Why you such a jerk lol?? Where is your family? I live in the same state as my mother, grandma, uncle, and cousin and I see them all the time. I don't think I I would want to live away from them. But your living in China, I assume without any family so maybe you shouldn't be on here insulting me and saying I have no family. Maybe you should call your mom or something. Worry about your own problems.

I am not living in my car, I have a sick apartment. Walking distance to some bars. Cool location. Read the whole thread buddy you're ranting at a figment of your imagination.

what you guys don't understand is that the reason i dont want to accept a capped number of hands or something is because then i would have to make the stakes too low to matter. obv the stakes wont matter to rickroll but the stakes should be painful to somebody in the match at least. ill take the pain. im just trying to be realistic.

but if you would prefer i would agree to play 1MM hands at .01/.02 and i will make a side bet of $100 that we will both be down or I will be a winner. Almost certain we would both be down.

lol

these are getting better =P

fysn

Lol family, lol Poker

This thread is a joke

what happened to this thread?

Scarfie its up to you to make it epic again

happy new year!

ok so ive been on the downslide the last 5 sessions or so ive lost about 2k. and now ive got about 500 left for poker. time to get the tent ready.

there is a silver lining here. losing has got me so pissed off at myself that in a moment of clarity and resolve i ripped up my weed recommendation a few days ago. been a few days since i smoked any weed and it has been really hard for me. i feel nauseated and have no appetite though im still hungry if that makes any sense. the other night i couldn't sleep i just laid there for 10 hours feeling tired. and the next night i might have gotten a few hours sleep but i would wake up drenched in sweat and freezing my balls off. not fun at all. i also feel very listless. i dont want to do anything really. least of all play poker. hopefully i get through this quickly. i feel good about my future though better to lose that money and quit pot now than any other way things could have turned out. btw i would vaporize like 1-2 grams a day in my volcano which explains my severe withdrawal symptoms. also not really sustainable for someone with a variable income. sometimes negative.

im such a pothead that when i applied for my bus driving job last year, instead of quitting weed for 10 days or so, i just bought a fake urine kit from a head shop. i was so damn nervous using that thing at the doctors office. you put it against your waist and put a heating pad on the other side to get it to body temperature. i can remember the stoner at the pot shop warning me to be careful when releasing the valve to do it slowly and deliberately or it will make a loud click. well releasing i did that but i just clicked it back to close it and it made a distinctly loud click. im pretty sure the nurse outside heard and i felt like she was looking at me suspiciously but didnt say anything. so i thought it was over and i made it out of there clean...... nope... i still had to have a physical by the doctor.

know where this is going??? yup. so im sitting in the doctors room waiting. nervous af. so the doctor comes in does all the normal physical stuff and then he asks me to take my pants off for a hernia check. oh crap. i hesitate pull my pants down slightly and he says its ok just pull your pants and underwear all the way down. so i pull everything down and i have this fake urine kit tucked inside my underwear. if the doctor glances down at all hes going to see my kit. he does the hernia check and tells me to pull my pants up which i do and now this fake kit is uncomfortably lodged in my underwear but whatever right? im panicking thinking im screwed he saw it hes going to tell somebody and then i start to calm down and reason that if he saw it he most likely would confront me by simply asking "whats that?" well, i made it out clean and passed the test so in case anyone was wondering fake piss works.

i only wish i had quit a couple of months ago. wish i had the $600 or so i probably spent on weed in the last 2 months. and the money i gave away playing poker stoned and making mistakes. if i wasn't a pothead i think id be a millionaire or at least not broke and about to be homeless. ive spent tens of thousands of dollars on weed instead of poker. ive made a bunch of mistakes playing poker because of weed. the money ive spent, the money lost, and the oppurtunity cost of not being able to play poker all adds up to a ton of money. oh well, i have to move forward from here and change things now. whats done is done. i dont want to be 10 years in the future wishing i had made things work right now!!!

excelsior!!!!

So, you're saying that smoking weed and playing poker is not GTO?

Lies always folding.

Poker + trees is gto. Just gotta be a champ at poker and trees and not a chump.

RC,

Get it fixed. Do you really think trees are your problem ?

smoking $10-$15 daily and trying to play low stakes for a living def not GTO =D.

lol yeah i do.

just got ~4 hours of sleep and wake up drenched in sweat shivering tired af but cant go back to sleep . normally i sleep about 9-10 hours. probably cuz i smoke so much pot.

takes a big man to start narrowing down his leaks.

BIG MAN

Big leaky man sweating in multiple ways

=D

thanks for the lulz. i woke up this morning after about 4 hours of sleep damp but not drenched, so getting better. btw when i was saying drenched before that was not in any way an exaggeration.


i just deposited $120 worth of bitcoin onto ignition!!! i had to read and check a bunch of stuff over and over to make sure i knew what i was doing but i figured it out. pretty easy and the transaction was instant. im in the future!!! i need to start grinding poker hardcore, starting tomorrow. i may stream on twitch. gonna short stack 50nl. in a table where everyone else has 100bb they will be spotting me an edge. im going to wait until friday to play at commerce since i only have a few buyins left for the $200 game and I want to maximize my potential.

https://clips.twitch.tv/geersart/Blo...amanderHeyGuys

lol i was watching this guy paint on twitch and i suggested to put more detail into the dogs butthole....

i had a very strange dream last night. i went to outer space and met a space alien that looked exactly like george clooney. and he played some weird sort of space guitar shaped like a square that he stroked with a wand. it played other instrumental music too. very strange. later on in my dream i was on a quest to find and smoke some weed which i did. apparently thats fairly common after quitting weed. and at some point i became aware that i was dreaming and i kept waking up and going right back to sleep to the same point in my dream. very lucid and vivid and dreams since quitting the ganja.

marijuana destroys your dreams. when you smoke weed you dont have dreams any more or at least cant remember them. metaphor??

its fine to smoke and play and proly is GTO but when you abuse it the high becomes stale and you dont get the same buzz as you used to.

I only smoke like 2 - 3 times a week now and its much better than every day, i get much more high and enjoy it waaay better.

Smoked daily for years then lost interest then started actively not enjoying it so one day when I ran out just decided I didn't feel like getting more nor smoking when friends smoked. Now when offered it I rarely accept. I miss it for poker though, lets me better ignore $ on the line and look at doing the correct play.

Had the same very vivid dreams and dream a lot more in general again since. Think you may be confusing lucid with vivid though.

Very confused by your sweats, think that's either psychological or something else entirely. Know a lot of pot heads, used to live in Colorado, never heard of this in my life. Maybe it's the HIV?

I fly to the states a few times of year to visit family, that comment was specifically that I couldn't imagine any point in my life where I'd be sleeping out of a car rather than crashing with friends and family until I righted the ship. A little surprised you didn't already know this due to your profile stalking, in the china thread I very much so championed nobody should work for less than $$$ so they can fly home often for things like birth of niece etc.

I was trying to be helpful in a very snarky way, honestly man as a former grinder myself I've met dozens of kids that fit your profile to a T and it never ends well. If sleeping in car or not having rolls for many buyins doesn't bring real life warning bells up then how bout some straight poker talk.

The biggest poker related red flag I see is you count wins and losses by sessions as if that meant something. This is a bb/hour metric and will never be anything but. Looking at it by session let's you trick yourself into saying you're a good player without acknowledging your winrate is not good enough to be a pro. It also allows for grey area accounting methodology where you can write off losses as nothing but bad beats, ignore them or even book em as wins in your head and not acknowledge they are indeed part of the game and reality, i.e. need to be formally acknowledged in your win rate.

That and playing 1/2 as a pro is lolz when higher stakes have same skill. In general you just lack focus, playing on acr micros then switching to live, now trying out ignition. That $120 there will just go poof as nl50 will be way tougher than 1/2 game at casino nor will be rolled deep enough to do anything other than eventual tilt bust. Talking about not being able to play 1/2 then shipping off 60bb for online underolling is highly symptomatic of someone without a clear goal in sight. Was trying to be helpful, I am not alone in saying a wake up call would do you some good.

Looks like I'll be out here until at least February, happy to schedule a pokerstars heads up game on play money and even willing to talk over the hands I think you misplayed when it's over. If you're going to keep banging your head against the wall like this at least let someone like me put apply some foam padding.

Night sweats after quitting heavy marijuana use is extremely common.

What about night sweets though?

really, never experienced nor ever heard of it myself - did a google search and apparently that's the real deal - pretty shocked never heard about this before as basically everyone i knew smoked heavily every day for years and the majority have all stopped by now - weed gets old while alcohol is immortal

also apologies in advance for lucid/vivid didn't see the part where he mentioned he was aware he was dreaming, I must admit to tend to skim OP's remarks a bit

well im getting the tent ready. i applied to some jobs online. i may have to sell my car to pay for feb rent.

i lost 500 yesterday at the casino and it was painful. this hand pretty much sums up the experience. maniac raises to 20 from middle position and the button calls, i have QQ in the sb and raise to 60(180 starting stack both players cover me), the maniac folds and the button calls. Flop KJ9dd. I shove 120 all-in and the button snap calls me. He has QTos. FML!!!! lol. I took it well, after the guy gets up to the bathroom the guy on my left says how bad that was and when the guy comes back he apologizes for the bad beat. i simply respond "thats poker". no biggie.

yeah problem is once i start smoking again im going to want to smoke multiple times a day. i wish i could just smoke once a week or so. but not smoking at all>smoking 5 times a day.

i could have stayed with my mom or friends, i just didn't want to ask anyone for help. im very independent minded and view life as an adventure so really sleeping in my tent wasn't even depressing or anything. no big deal.

http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

yeah i should focus more on my hourly rate thats good advice. im writing down how much i win/lose, time played, and grading my play. ill figure it out later and post my hourly. i play $3-5 $200 buy-in at casino not 1-2. and my roll on ignition is not certain to go poof. ive made low five figures on bovada always starting with a tiny roll and running it up. i would move up to 100nl once my roll is 2500(1-2 5k, 2-4, 10k) and i was a winner at each of these stakes, id like to get back to 2-4,3-6 and stay there for a while, we'll see. just no point starting playing anything less than 50nl imo. i will start out shortstacking 50nl which will give me an advantage at a table with mostly full stacks and force me to play tight/correct. also it will reduce the chance i go bust.

down to play some heads-up and get some practice in. and ill help you out and talk over the hands i think you misplayed too =þ.

im the only one of my friends who gets nightsweats when i quit smoking weed. also smoking weed kills my sex drive which my friends dont seem to notice in themselves. i think smoking weed lowers testosterone which might explain both of those.

yeah qualifying lucid by putting very in front of it is confusing and not actually what i meant. though my lucid dreams do have varying degrees of lucidity. sometimes im vaguely aware that im dreaming other times i have full control over what im doing and the scenario im in. ive had superpowers like telekinesis, teleportation and superman flight down to flapping my arms like a bird flight. sometimes i get a running start and jump only to end up falling flat on my face. also i float around in my dreams a lot (nearly all my dreams actually) like hovering a few feet above the ground

one dream i was trapped in a steel cage and realized it didnt make sense and i must be dreaming. i pulled a lightsaber from out of nowhere, cut a hole in the top of the cage and flew out and around having adventures.

i won $150 online on ignition today, so im still in the game for now

up $140 today at ignition. i aint dead yet mofos!!! if i go super hard i may be able to cover feb rent. its hilarious how bad everyone is. i make 5x opens and c-bet take it down a ridiculous % of the time. i shoved over the top of a 3x open with QQ because i was afraid i was going to lose connection(reconnecting attempt 1 of 32) and didnt want to make a normal 3 bet get disconnected and i got called by a 30bb stack with 98hh. lol. everything is so crystal clear to me i should have quit weed a long time ago!

gl! make sure you get a tent that has internet / power for the pokers