Thank you, Mr. Kelly.

It's not exactly a threadjack. Lawdude apparently just hasn't read the thread.

Almost everyone overestimates their abilities and underestimates the risk when they first start. That's not a reason to avoid trying.

I'm sure if lawdude could have looked into a crystal ball in 2008 and saw this thread, he'd gloat. On the contrary, this is an awesome example of someone overestimating, then underestimating, then correctly estimating his abilities.

I am learning ton about not only my abilities and skills but also my desires needs wants and goals. Turns out most of the **** I was doing in life wasn't at all because I wanted to be doing it.

Billy Hamilton awesomeness or Pirates incompetence?

Billy Hamilton bunt

Pirates are gonna. Well. Maybe be in it for the wildcard

Hey, I am looking for a poker prop job, and I saw you posting about props. Can you help me? Thanks.

I know this goes against everything you said, but I would still like to try. Your PMs are full, so I am putting this here.

fuark send a PM to jeese, his typographical error-inspired alter-ego.

Yeah PM this account?

I mean this one.

Also...I have defined champion:

champion: When you have succeeded, but it is unclear if your efforts were super bad ass or insanely stupid what you have actually become is champion.

So if you limp pre with aces OTB, check the A96r flop, call a bet on the 2 turn, and raise/4!/6!/8!/10!/call the 2 river to be shown 22, you are not champion?

Correct

PM sent.

So supreme champion is that plus tomatoes and sour cream?

The elusive double-play walk. What's the opposite of champion?

http://m.mlb.com/video/v34947937

The pirates are the closest to opposite that exists.

Replied

Something like that

Just skimmed through the well. Very good and planning in going through it entirely later.

Thanks for that

Anyways, I am an amateur player that used to play in the 20 game and take shots in the 40 when running good and you were one of the players that always confused me a little because you played very well and had the disposition of a professional player but you jumped around limits a lot (20 to 100 and everything in between), which is more a sign of an amateur player.

Still can't believe you once lost in a 100 and played several hours after in a 25 with no chance of getting even. I couldn't do it and I bet most of other people couldn't either.

I firmly belive my table, seat, casino, and stake selection along with my ability to grind hours regardless of the day's current results (never lock wins, the above example, etc) are the main things that separated me from pros who didn't make it.

8:00

Sklansky said "life is one long session".

Poker is a lot like Buddhism. It's a long exercise is learning how to let go of the things you really care about. And session results, leaving the casino a "winner", etc., is one of those things you have to let go.

Consider the following two players, who both play 24 hours of poker:

Player 1's session results:
3 hours, win $550
4 hours, win $350
11 hours, lose $900 (continued playing through the night trying to win it back)
6 hours, win $100 (was down $1000 in the session)

Player 2's sesson results:
8 hours, lose $1400
8 hours, win $1900
8 hours, lose $150

Player 2 had a better result, correct? And yet, most players play like player 1. They leave their winning sessions, and stay in their losing sessions trying to get unstuck. That doesn't matter.

You have a winrate, or a loss rate, it's A dollars an hour. (In actuality, of course, it varies depending on game conditions, but I'm simplifying to make the point.) If you play B number of hours, on average, you will win or lose AxB dollars. Of course, you won't win or lose AxB dollars every session, because of variance. But over time, that's what you will win or lose.

Thus, artificially limiting the the length of your sessions when you are winning, or artificially extending their length when you are down, at best has no effect on how much you will win or lose. Over time, you will still win or lose the same amount. It is just that instead of accomplishing that through a mixture of winning sessions of various amounts, losing sessions of various amounts, and break-even sessions, you will do it through a mixture of short winning sessions, long sessions where you lose money and then win some or all of it back, and long sessions where you lose big.

And that's at best. At worst-- well, do we play our best poker at the end of those long losing sessions? Do we make perfect judgments? And further, sometimes, you will be losing in a game because it's not a great game, or maybe it was great when you got to the cardroom but it's terrible now. And, of course, locking up a win sometimes means leaving a great game.

you can't make it to the long term without getting through the short term first

Amateur players or very good pros.

Declaring yourself to be an XX limit player and never playing higher or lower is usually a sign of ego problems or confidence problems, either of which pretty much doom you as a pro.

When does the new blog start?

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