LA, why do you post how much money you make? Just curious.

Can you post a pic or give some details? I made a thread asking for suggestions for mice/ trackballs that would reduce wrist problems cuz I have frequently have pain and still havent made a decision what to get yet but will soon. Any recomendations would be awesome seeming how you have pretty much solved this problem.

I use a Microsoft Egronomis 4000 and a Microsoft wireless laser mouse 5000. I put a pillow beneath my left elbow on the desk and a pillow on my right arm chair that supports my elbow while clicking. I also wear sunglasses while I play and that helps my eyes immensely. Hope this helps.

How much do you think it would cost for someone to design a hyperbaric ergo-bubble for you to play in (complete with self contained relief bottle ldo), and do you think it would be +EV?

LOL i dont think you will ever be off the hook for the piss botle leatherass

Mostly just for entertainemnt value. A lot of people tell me they are curious as to how it is going so I just try and accomodate everyone as much as possible.

LOL. It would probably cost a lot and since a simple bottle does the trick, I guess you could say that going to elborate lenghs would be a waste of money...lol. Can't believe I'm offering a serious answer to this

Probably not. Lots of people got a good laugh out of this so I suppose it is all worth it..hahaha

Here is my favorite story about pissing in a bottle which was told by a member at Stoxpoker in the correspoding thread where I let the cat out of the bag that I pee in a bottle while playing.....enjoy:

"This is not at all shocking. I've been doing this since around the same time. I have some advice..make sure the mouth of the bottle is of adequate...err... width.

Here's my embarrassing, disgusting, and painful pee bottle story. If you have any standards for public discourse, cease reading right now. I, however, do not.

Three years ago. I'm in the middle of a massive multitabling short-stacking session and I can't wait any longer--I've got to go, bad. I have a pretty active bladder so sometimes I require two or three bottles. So I'm on my third last-resort bottle, an Aquafina water bottle--pretty narrow opening, even for the least endowed of us. I hurriedly get out my bottle. I don't know how to describe what happened without being graphic. The head of my penis was right up against the opening of the bottle, such that a seal was created while I peed. Well, those of you are familiar with Archimedes might guess where this is going.

As the pee was going into the bottle, obviously the air needed some place to go, and since I had effectively sealed the bottle with my willy, the air followed the path of least resistance...right up my pee-hole! I felt my bladder begin to inflate! F*&king OUCH! Instinctively, I pulled the bottle away from my penis, and I experienced what can only be described as an explosive urine fart--all over my keyboard, monitor, desk, and everything else in a 3 foot shot.

That moment, I stopped drinking Aquafina and switched to Gatorade. And I stopped shortstacking too, just to be sure."

I think Cottonseed has a picture of me playing that he said he was going to post in an upcoming blog. Hopefully he will post that pic soon.

that would be awesome!! could you update this to let us know, I know there are many of us that are trying to get a more natural feeling setup.

Thank you leatherass for this thread. I found it very inspiring.

I hope I didn't miss the boat with my question:

I understand you played (and owned) 1/2 just about a year ago. I'm playing 1/2 right now and I'm having a lot of trouble with 3betting. You said you played a 34/30/10 style in the prime of your 1/2 days. You must have had a lot of people 3bet you both in position and out of position. What did you look for you your opponents to decide how to fight back vs. them when you're ip and oop? What were your 3bet frequencies?

Could you give us a general outline of how you approached 3betting?

What did you focus on to improve your 3bet game? It's an important part of the game imo (right?).

Thanks for doing that. It's motivating & inspirational.

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earlier on you said "stars over ftp and it aint even close"

why? you think the 6max games are softer on stars? or is this a matter of software preference?

The main thing I was referring to was their customer service and reliability. Now that being said Tilt has impressed me quite a bit and since I made that comment and I think they are a pretty damn good comapny too. You really can't go wrong with either.

what made you decide on 10 tables? why not try 11 or 12 or 14 or whatever

this

Leatherass,

Thanks for doing this. I stoped by the Stox booth a few times at the WSOP hoping to meet u but u musta been 10 tabling somewhere. Anyway,

Do you ever plan on posting a 8-10 tabling 5/10 vid on the site? I would really like to see that. You seem to be the only one who still advocates playing many tables at higher stakes and still wins tons.

What do you do if u feel like you're slipping off your A game. Do you generally just try and play through? How often do you close all your tables and rest a bit?

How do you readjust to the regs adjustments to your game? What % of the regs do you think hardly change their game against you at all and what % are constantly changing their style? How much do you value game flow on individual tables when making decisions? if you do value it how do you keep track while playing a ton of tables?

I don't think that people 3 bet very light at 1/2. At least relative to 10/20 and up that is. For the most part you can just lay down your hand preflop when you get 3 bet at 1/2. If someone is getting out of line then just 4 bet them back (and fold to a shove) or even outright shove preflop with hands like pocket pairs and ace x where you generally have some pretty decent equity versus their calling range. I think the best thing to do is to watch my videos on Stox or our other NL coaches because we talk about this type of stuff in pretty much all of our videos.

Due to Camtasia (recording software) limitations I can not make a video showing more than 4 tables at once.

I don't really play less than my A game very often thanks to my mental game coach Jared Tendler who is our Stoxpoker mental game guru. When I do find myself a little tilted, which has become somewhat rare these days, I just get off the tables and take some time away to cool off and then coem back later.

I think that most of the 10/20 and up regs do a pretty darn good job of adjusting their game to their opponents. 5/10 is a little more hit or miss when it comes to this but overall they do a pretty decent job.

I think that game flow is very important and often times it plays a huge role in my decisions at the table. I honestly can't tell you how I do it because I have no idea. To play the stakes I play and play as many tables as I play at once and have such a high WR makes me a bit of a freak of nature I suppose. Lots of people could probably win some at 10/20 and up, but to do it while playing 10 tables for hours and hours at a time I think is something that really can not be explained. I don't know of anyone else that does it and maybe I just have some sort of weird ability to hyper focus. I did see a brain dr. (not sure what they are called) and he told me I have hyper focus ADD. So maybe that explains it. Not sure though really.

11 is my max right now. 12 is doable but gets dicey. I am getting a new 30" monitor put in tomorrow that may allow me to get to 12 comfortably, but with my current set up of 3 21" monitors, 10-11 is where I max out.

Hey LA thank you for doing this,

I find the new Jared Tentler videos very interesting. Could you give us an example of how you apply his ideas in practice? Especially concerning tilt control and playing your A game, please be as specific about your methods as you possibly can.

Thank you again.

dusty did a session video within the last 25 or so where he walks through his "pre-shot routine" for poker...that incorporates much of his work with jared.

There is really no way I can do it justice here on a forum post. Your best bet is to watch the video that stoxtrader was talking about in the above post. An even better bet is to watch Jared's videos. I showed how I applied his teaching in my video but in his videos he actually teaches the whole thing.

I'm not sure if this is already asked, I checked a lot of pages but can't check them all...

Why do you mix a few full ring tables in your cash sessions. Is it because there are a few fishy FR cash ones available for you, is it cause there aren't enough good 6-max tables available or another reason?

Also... How do you change your style for FR.