God you're so full of shi.t That is exactly what it means.

I think you're not distinguishing the difference between "could" and "want to". For me, I could keep playing 25nl zoom and maintain a winrate of at least 5bb/100 (my winrate for the last 100k hands has been 7bb/100). I could spend many hours each day getting better at the tables and continue to move up stakes.

But I don't want to do this. I want to put all my energy, time and motivation into music and songwriting because I think this could bring a much bigger return than poker if it works out for me. I feel this is a great life decision for me to make, and I find it amusing and bizarre that you're still disputing that. Timstone, Sect7G and others have agreed this was a good decision to make, perhaps one of the best I've ever made.

Of course it was a good decision, if you can't deal with flipping for the cost of a decent dinner then there is no way you should be dedicating your time to poker. I don't dispute that.

I just find it amusing that for all the **** you talked about how beatable high stakes was and how you had a 5 year plan to be playing the biggest games in the world you didn't even make it out of micros before the stress of playing so high got to you.

Maybe playing poker was a mistake in the first place if you're in that kind of financial situation. But you're probably exaggerating again.

You know what that's called? It's a type of language feature called a hyperbole - "an extreme exaggeration used to make a point". Metaphors aren't meant to be taken literally, and neither are hyperboles. I was obviously exaggerating my potential in poker quite a bit, as it also depends on how you define "high stakes". For me in my living environment, 100nl is essentially high stakes.

You're missing the point. It's not that I can't afford to pay rent if I lose a buy-in at 50nl, since I obviously have plenty money behind in the bank and also in my poker roll to cover it. It's more the fact that the money amounts are big and meaningful enough so that it hurts mentally when I lose a big pot, as I'll start comparing the money to real life items of similar value, such as a week's rent.

Jump before your pushed scenario.

You gotta give it to him. He is by far the most creative moron this forum has ever seen. Not just the fact that he has mental breakdowns on a regular basis and how apparently this statistician who's specialized in variance is affected by 25 burger swings, but the idea that 100nl is HIGH STAKES.

Honest to god, I laughed at that one. Probably the first post of his I genuinely enjoyed.

But good to see you go, you won't make it in music either. But I admire the effort.

You're forgetting psychologist dave

That's not for you to judge; you've only scratched the surface of my music works, you haven't heard any of my electronic production skills in action nor my multi-instrumental works, and you probably aren't exactly a qualified music critic. All the people I've interacted with who are highly qualified and experienced in music have praised my work (sometimes in the form of a large monetary award and first prize in a national competition) and some think I could go far - but time will tell I guess. Maybe it'll be a flop; maybe I'll become the next Calvin Harris - who knows?

Dont become like Calvin Harris, that dude soberly entered himself into a sexless ltr with a complete horse.

Hopefully you will post less as well. Bye.

What a douche

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I am bulletproof

start nl25 pretty good, and then for the weekend some strange happened .. hope less tilt, and less bad beat

**** off

You are obviously deeply hurt inside, and this pain you're going through is causing you to lash out at people for no apparent justifiable reason. My suggestion would be to seek psychological help rather than taking out your emotional pain on other people. You may feel anxious at first, but ultimately you will feel much, much better - trust me. There is no substitute for professional treatment

**** off

But seriously Tom, if you've stopped playing poker I think it would be best for everyone if you stopped posting here as well.

Hey I'm naturally quite a perceptive person, which is why I've picked up on the fact that you are suffering inside - and it's quite obvious to me. And yes, I know the whole Psychologist Dave thing turned out to be a sham, but I do nonetheless have some "psychological instincts" about things and they usually turn out to be right.

So now it's up to you to decide, are you going to continue to remain in denial about your psychological pain, or is now the time to take that first big step forward to see someone professionally trained to help out people like you? Think about it at least.

**** off ****

And yet somehow you fail to see why people have such a low opinion of you on here ?

You have tried so desperately hard to be liked on here and somehow completely failed in spectacular fashion.

Go away ... learn from this and try not to fek up other areas of your life in a similar way.

nah not a douche, just a narcissist that probably strums himself off looking into a mirror.

Well there's a lot to admire about me; hard to deny

Not much to admire about quitters; hard to deny...

I've not quit, I've just transitioned to brighter, more promising and more lucrative places where the sky's the limit...