Cool to hear you thoughts on that hand.
What about the other hands?

Typically this happend (multiple times in one session)

Me: "Watch out paist, i have AA, just fold your bb"
Paist: *I can not let him steal my blind i must do something* presses POT + then some and clicks raise
Me: "I have AA and i'm going to shove now for value"
Paisting: *I have 14 bb invested, I must stack off K9o now* clicks call.

Loses and proceeds to open shove any 2 for 100+ hands in a row.

As opposed to over-estimating 7 high wow how fishy

I can relate to some of the bullshit Paisting does, e.g. open-shoving ATC or 3-betting garbage to show that people "can´t push him around" or that he´s "smarter than them". I know it´s borderline ******ed and is burning money, but I still can relate to it.

What I don´t get is the stuff 6betpot desribes. I mean, K9o is bad enough, but the exact same thing (minus the info in chat) happened when he had 94o and 83cc. I raise, he reraises, I shove and he still calls it off. I just don´t get it. Why would a guy who thinks of himself as a genius who is just running bad makes horrendous calls that are out there for everyone to see?

On a side note, I sat on his tables today and did some open-shoving and Paisting lectured me on how I shouldn´t do that and how he would only enjoy beating me if I was playing my best lol. Some of the stuff that you see in Paisting´s games is just unreal, like people calling off flop CRAIs on King high flops with AQcc no draws etc. It should be impossible to lose in this game if you play a somewhat decent game, but Paisting manages to be the biggest whale of them all.

Rattled through the entire thread, has to be the biggest mind **** I’ve ever come across

Won’t even bother attempting to address OP, clearly that’s a waste of oxygen

I doubt I will ever understand this. How can such degeneracy at the same time be linked with such discipline. I can only guess that OP has become addicted to the all in process in the same way that people become addicted to pulling a slot machine lever. There does seem to be some deep seated masochism involved as well. He’s done a good job of convincing himself he’s a worthless piece of ****

I showed my friend this thread and his theory is this guy is a bot written by a computer science prodigy, where he tried to develop a player with his own personality, things got weird fast and he’s decided to just roll with it to see how the psyche developed. About as believable as anything else at this point

paysting why don't you answer the questions of the interview? maybe you are on lifetilt and this affects your mindset.

First rule and skill of a pokerplayer is the mindset. when you have personal problems don't play cards.

are you sitting on a wheelchair or do you have aids?

damn i could be psychiatrist.....hrhrhrhrhrr

Paisting should hit up Joey Ingram.
I bet he would do a podcast with you.
Would be fascinating.

I picture Paisting as more socially awkward than cumicon.

I chatted a little with Paisting while donating on his tables (In one hand, I managed to 3-bet/call it off with 62o vs Paisting just to see what he was doing this with lol. Paisting 4-bet jammed 99 which I´m guessing has to be a huge losing shove in his games).

I suggested he might contact Guy Laliberte with a coaching request so as to become a better Poker player. Paisting´s reponse: "Guy Laliberte is actually a good Poker player. He only lost because he was sitting with the best in the world. He could easily beat NL500."

(No, I´m not making this up)

To be fair, back when Guy was playing (2006-2008), he might well have been able to beat NL400/NL600 (don't think NL500 was around then).

Lmfao awesome idea we heared enough highstakes pros we want Paisting the GLOAT on the Pod explaining us how to punish nl2 whales

Haha +1, would be great.

Last month was total disaster. Hand volume was high but so was losings too.
One thing that annoys me most is that after couple of winning sessions like 2-4 dollars up comes session where you first lose AA to KK and then 3 flips in row and all losing. Then you look results and after hours and hours playing those little winninsg you had are gone in 12 minutes. 10 dollars down and you know you can't make this session break even.

"Well I had a $2-$4 win once or twice but then I lost AA and KK so here's my -$1.9k graph."

Playing ~2.3x the hands as February and losing nearly 4x as much. That's impressive! Congrats on the month.

Paisting in the nicest possible way you might be the most ******ed poker player I've ever seen. Why do you still play? You clearly are one of the biggest losing players in terms of bb/100 and you have been for 10+ years by all accounts.

Just ****ing give up man.

Paisting do 888 email you your personal stats movie every week? If so, fancy sharing it on here?

paisting making it rain coins down upon his opponents

I like how nobody is focusing on the real problem, which is that we're 60 buy-ins below EV for the month. Stick in there OP, it'll turn around!

what if OP is just laundering money, and creating this thread to legitimize it
like punting here and there to random players to keep up appearances, but primarily to organized crime held 888 accounts

at least we know from the graph the finnish gov. gave a little extra money in march because of corona virus.

Please in god´s name quit Poker. If you can´t quit Poker, would you please quit 5-tabling? If you can´t quit 5-tabling, would you please quit 5-tabling for 25 hours per week? This is just insane. Have you thought about closing your 888 account permanently or temporarily? You know it´s possible to do that, right? You should definitely do it if you really think that 888 is rigged against you. It would only be reasonable. You could move to a legit site like Pokerstars which offers all sorts of tools for responsible gaming. You can limit your tables stakes, set a daily/weekly/monthly deposit limit etc etc. If, say in April, you don´t want to lose more than $100 playing Poker on Pokerstars, you can set up at deposit limit of $100 and that´s it. A monthly deposit cannot be revoked until the full month has actually passed (as a matter of fact, 888 actually offers very similar tools, just in case you haven´t noticed)

I´ve been in similar spots before, but what I just cannot comprehend is the slow and constant bleeding/punishment. Back in the day, if I had $500 to blow in a month, I would sit at the highest stakes possible, try do spin it up or bust and be done for the month if the money was lost (some of the time, I was actually happy when the money was lost because that meant that I wouldn´t gamble for the rest of the month). What´s even the point of multi-tabling NL2? The best possible outcome would be winning money at an hourly rate that makes every employee at McDonald´s laugh at you.

Also, confirmed:


Judging by your graph, it seems like I´m the only player who actually lost money to you, so this made me chuckle as well.

You left out the crucial thing, i.e. what you do when that thought sinks in. Once you realize that you can´t make this session break even, you do everything you can to makes this the worst possible losing session, i.e. shoving every hand pre-flop. Give the things that you do, you will NEVER win at this game and, again, it wouldn´t even begin to matter IF you were actually winning at NL2. You would have to live in Russia or Bulgaria for those stakes to matter to you, but at least you´re making some clowns from those countries very, very happy.

I hope that graph is an april fools joke.. sadly i think this is legit. Almost -1000 buy ins for month .

Paisting do you have any poker friends who are winning players? Do you have any irl friends? I plead with you to seek counselling/ help from someone you can trust.

This what your doing is insanity. Its not good for your mental health/ finances. Ive been in spots chasing losses in past n i can relate in some strange sadistic way but you need to realise things wont change unless you change.

Mods please think about closing this thread. Its hin self harming himself repeatedly. I am worried for his wellbeing.

Paisting if u need someone to talk too pm me. If u have skype i can add you and possibly give u a call just to talk.

All the best . Jamie

Have you considered folding every hand you're dealt? You'd lose quite a bit less.

hed prolly play higher stakes then. Who tf needs to launder $7k