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Originally Posted by cAmmAndo
GG Thanks for taking the time for this. It is fitting, given the thorough manner in which you normally reply that a milestone thread would read like the magna carta
Lol! The sole reason for my in depth response for each street is that it's impossible to have a discussion / point out flaws in thinking / etc. with responses like "Call turn". We have to explain why we are in the "Call turn" camp so that others can come along, dissect our line of thought, and tell us why we are out to lunch.
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Originally Posted by cAmmAndo
Def can see the HOC influence. I am interested in your willingness to raise rather large. I genearally am raising between 12 and 15 in my 1/2 game. The thing that stood out to me is table selection. I probably would make my life easier if I did more. And your discipline is huge... LOL at the extent of your tilt being to limp call and chk fold the flop.
My main goal in raising preflop is to thin the field to HU (or 3way at worst). At some of my tables, $15 has a good chance at getting this done. At others, anything less than $30 is going to fail. So whatever works.
Table selection for me is huge, if there's an option. Obviously I'm not switching every other orbit (cuz that will actually add up fairly decently in posting cost). But, yeah, if we're sitting at a tough table and there's a far easier table beside us, and it looks like the tough vs easy players are going to be around for a while, not getting a table change is clearly extremely stupid.
I think allowing myself a tilty preflop play (like a limp of a poorish hand up front, or calling a cheapish raise with a poor hand not exactly knowing how multiway the pot is going to be, etc.) is kinda like sneaking a single cookie or two when on a diet. It's definitely a mistake, but a very small one (at least if I play fairly well postflop), and hopefully it helps get the tiltyness out of our system for a cheap price before we make a huge error and down a whole box of ding dongs.
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Originally Posted by cAmmAndo
Also your table manner is great. As for life outside of poker I couldn't agree more. I actually was laid off a few months ago and decided to take a break and do poker mostly full time for a few months while contemplating a career change.... I have to say it's truly a grind. The casino's the regs, the miserable people and degens... I find it depressing after immersing myself in it. Looking forward to returning to a more recreational approach in terms of time spent in the casino.
I bumped my "1000 hours of 2/4 limit" thread in the Small Stakes Forum (which I posted in 2007) and was shocked to find Jesse8888 as a poster in that thread. At the time, I think he was just some small stakes rec guy like me. Then he took a different path, quitting his lucrative but soul crushing day job to become a full time grinder. I still read his blog religiously (a mandatory read for anyone even considering going pro), and it's very interesting how lives can go. I took the solid-but-soul-crushing-job route (I never had any serious interest in doing any other route, I'm a fairly conservative guy) while keeping poker as merely a hobby. He did the other route, and I believe he's done quite well financially, although you wonder how he is doing mentally after reading the occasional blog post (sometimes he's up, sometimes he's down). I've always thought about what I would do if I lost this job tomorrow, and frankly, I might be tempted to take the exact same route as you (i.e. poker while figuring things out), but I really really hope it never comes to that. Good luck on finding normal employment and returning to poker for a fun hobby.
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