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Originally Posted by KingHubbard
...I have another problem. Every time I get good at something, I mean good enough where it becomes second nature, I get bored with it and move on to something new and challenging, something I would probably fail at in the beginning.
My elementary school teacher used to tell me "only boring people get bored". There is a fair amount of truth to that tbh
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Originally Posted by KingHubbard
...I have another problem. Every time I get good at something, I mean good enough where it becomes second nature, I get bored with it and move on to something new and challenging, something I would probably fail at in the beginning. Same with poker, if I just crushed every game I played, I would get bored with it and move on.
KH, you are so screwed. Becoming a winning poker player requires a lot of determination and focus and those seem to be traits you are lacking man...
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Originally Posted by KingHubbard
..It's a weird habit and a sure-fire way to have little to no success at anything particular thing. I mean everyone should specialize in something and not be a jack of all trades unless you're a carpenter. So I'm moderately good at a lot of things but I'm not great at anything because I've never allowed myself to get there or just lost interest after surpassing the intermediate-advanced level of something.
Not trying to be a dick, but you seem to be under the impression that you actually have to like something in order to do it.
That is the way a child thinks
Adults do what they need to do in order to live and provide for their family. My parents didn't work 4 jobs between themselves because they liked it, they did it to put food on the table, a roof over our heads, and pay their kids schooling.
I get the sense that you are a perpectual man-child.
If poker is just your flavor of the month you are so screwed man I don't even know where to begin.
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Originally Posted by KingHubbard
I may go tomorrow during splash the pot and take about $100 because those pots are always $400-$700. Think I can risk $100 to try and win one of those.
I was also thinking of playing limit during the 2 Aces Cracked days. Just sit and wait, maybe they'll get cracked, maybe they won't and maybe I won't get any the whole day. I'm not risking much there anyway.
The fact that you want to take $100 to the casino tomorrow for a short buy despite all the advice in this thread is just all kinds of bad.
BTW, you are risking a lot, you are risking 15% of your roll for a fish promotion.
If you were a pro, you would be able to calculate what the promotion would need to be in relation to your hourly rate to be worth it playing in a limit game.
Its all about having the proper "pro" mindset and I'm sorry you just don't have it.
Someone posted a question in the Poker Theory section about how big does the Bad Beat Jackpot have to be in order to justify playing a lower limit game chasing the jackpot. Read that thread, I calculate what the jackpot would have to be to be "worth it" and it all goes back to having the proper mindset about this whole poker thing....
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Originally Posted by KingHubbard
***Also let me clear up something. I'm not broke and never said I was. This $700 is the last of my poker bankroll. I have gigs teaching, writing blogs and doing freelance work. My wife and I also have a life-roll saved up, it's not much but we're not broke. If I need some money aside from poker, all I have to do is do a couple teaching lessons although they only pay about $350 per lesson, it's still an option and I'm allowed to do 3 per month.
Okay, so 3 x 350 = $1,050/month
Finding a part time job somewhere = $500/month
grinding micros online part time = $100/month
Study poker 10 - 15 hrs a week
Income = $1650/month x 6 months = $8,100
take the money and give this another shot in Sep/Oct time frame.
Do well, grind to $12K by February 2013, transition to 2/5nl, grind to $20K by May of 2013 and congratulations, you are an official poker "pro"
Or you can
eat your seed corn and bleed the rest of your bankroll away over the next couple of days/weeks (I still doubt you are a winning player)
Scrape another $300 - $400 together over the next month, take another shot, tread water for a month then bust out, scrape another $400 together over a month, take another shot, tread water for a month and bust out, rinse and repeat all the way till Apr 2013, lose a year of your life and be back where you started...
The choice is yours I guess.
but I get the sense you are one of those that have to learn the hard way.
best of luck to you.
Unfortunately, I've seen this movie many times and know how it ends