Rake is for suckers

You need to host the image somewhere on the internet, like tinypic.com, or some such. 2+2 can't see in to your home computer.

Yes

Thanks Garick
Not sure what other info would be interesting on it BIP

If you're Mr. Glass maybe benefits are worth $20K. Most years you're not going to use any of it and it'll cost you.

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Very nice. Your poker story? [play for fun? been playing for years? When did you start tracking and why?, etc]

A lot of context to add - please share what got you into tracking results. Thanks for posting

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I had to zoom way in, but I see it now

Started online in 2006 when I was 18, made a few grand before Bush ended that fun.
I was an arrogant douche, just figuring I'm smarter than the field, so I'll crush em.
Once I turned 21, I would play randomly for a few years as a BE rec guy, again thinking, I'll win, I'm smarter than these guys... One time I asked a guy, "Are you calculating odds or something??" Lol, I didn't even know the simplest things, like hand odds, pot odds, bet sizing, positional strength, didn't know how to value hand pre or post. I think the field was just so damn soft for the first few years after the Moneymaker WSOP that no matter how bad I was, I still BE. I quit for 4 years because I had no opportunity to play and went to school again for engineering.

The 250 hours I've posted here is me getting back into the game, but giving it the respect it deserves. I got drunk 5 months ago with a friend on a cruise after I quit my job and sat at the poker table... I've had the itch ever since. Spent 4 days reading everything I could, and downloaded the app "InstaPoker" and bought a few hand packs... Sounds ridiculous, but that thing is great for people needing somewhere to start. After that, its all been poker 2 + 2, adding new weapons every week from reading articles, and live experience. Looking for any reason to believe I'm not on some crazy heater..

I don't think I am really. I get crushed all the time by my opponents Hail Mary gutter balls, and priced out FD. I've been rivered more times than I can count. I remember every time I sucked out on a guy (I consider this, not having the necessary odds / reasonable IO to make a call). I don't consider winning pots when I'm the dog a win. It puts me on Tilt more than a bad beat. I do know, however, that I am getting insanely lucky when I have KK and my opponent has AA... I'm 50-50 in that situation. So that'll get me soon enough.

I was a fish long enough to know how good I am, and good enough to know I'm not that good. To paraphrase Dan Bilzerian, "I'm not that good, everyone else just sucks!"

I'm tracking results because I quit my job and figure I'll chase the dream and go after that bucket list while I have the chance. I was in Oil & Gas... so until the oil price pops back up...Poker it is. I needed to know if poker was something I could use to supplement my savings while I live the life and secretly hope oil stays depressed for a while.

Hours 140-200 were trying... I could not win to save my life, tilted, got impatient, and most importantly was arrogant. I like the trend of the past 50 hours.

Bush didn't do **** to kill online poker. Blame congress.

With only 250 hours, I'm still going to go with "heater". That sample size is still very small. Yes, you might be a solid winner, but your results aren't enough yet.

I am always surprised to see this opinion constantly cycled through here. I am by no means some amazing wizard and I manage a 10bb/hr playing in my local 1/2 games(1700hrs since last Sept). I personally know of at least 2 other people who are beating it similarly as well (study group) and none of us cheat on our tracking apps.

Of course no one is beating 2nl for more than 20bb/100, but at 2nl there aren't many people who can't be bothered to open a poker book. I know of dozens of live rec regs (fish) who brag openly about never reading a poker book and happily 3b shove 200bbs with AA because they 'don't want to get drawn out on'.

Quite simply, the live games have enough overall bad players that the fish never have to worry about improving. They sit and trade $$ every night and then complain about other regs pulling "donkey plays" vs them and then do the exact same move in the same session. There arent mass multitablers and HUDs taking advantage of every single mistake they make and because of the pace of game, they lose MUCH slower than they would online.

According to 538, there are over 1500 people in the USA named "Seven." I really doubt the amount of people crushing live in NA is 1/3 of the amount of people with the first name "Seven."

Hey, that's my name.

Are you part of the one third? Or is your name actually soda or isosceles?

I'll post mine if somebody can tell me how to post pics and graphs? Then you can all see my struggles above 2/4

Maybe I can send data to you

@ feel wrath

Lol fish

Lol Baltimore

Seems a little scary to me

Here's the plot of the data you sent.

Wow dude, graphic image like that needs to have NSFW and spoiler tags around it...

Is there a thread in this forum where giant red clown shoes aren't the standard?

1/2 in an easy room w deep stacks, fine. I'll pay that. But $20/hr w the variance isn't worth talking about for me. I'll admit, it is pretty amazing still that this can be done if what you're saying is true.

If it can be done at 2/4+, I'll eat my shoe.

What the hell is .01/.02 ??!!?? Seriously?? Is that even considered poker????
I played with fake money back in the day on party poker, I made a mirrion dorrars.

Did you not read the earlier posts? It is being done. Just because you're not good enough doesn't mean nobody else is

Oops

FFS! Start eating. I just quoted PayForMySchool's 2.5K hours at 2/5 with results over 10BB/hr last night. Did you skip over that post because it didn't fit your prejudices?