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06-08-2018 , 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bet me
I've met up with several 2p2 posters irl who can confirm at least some of the events and hand histories in this thread, but obviously they can't confirm the things they didn't see, like the nights out with my girlfriend, so you'll just have to take my word for that.

But anyway, I quit my session really early today. Only played 40 mins and won $614 in that time at 2/5 NL. There were 3 main reasons for me quitting:

1) Tired/hungover - Just not in the mood to play a long session right now.

2) Tough table - I don't come to the casino on a Friday night to sit on a poker table full of TAG regs. There wasn't a single whale on the table. No one was drinking. Everyone was serious. Just not a table you're going to make a whole lot of money on.

3) Bankroll considerations - it hit me suddenly that I've got over $1k on the table and I'd feel pretty bad if I lost it all, so I cashed out and booked a win.

I'll show you one other hand I played:

9-handed, $500 effective with MP but $1000 effective with everyone else.

UTG opens $15
UTG+1 calls $15
MP 3bets $55
Hero 4bets $140 CO with Ac Ks
MP calls $140

Flop ($302, HU) is Kc Jc 6d
(Villain has $360 behind)

Villain checks
Hero Cbets $80
Villain tank folds

I think I can play A3s, A4s, A5s and AQs the same way.

So I got my final pay from work, but they tried to Jew me out of my annual leave. My former workplace is infamous for underpaying their workers, so I'm not really surprised they did this. I'll have to have a word with them sometime in the next few days to get this sorted. Until then, I'll hold off posting my finances/bankroll.

Going to just chill at home tonight on the laptop, maybe watch some poker videos on YouTube or random stuff on netflix. I've always got tomorrow night to get in a good session at either 1/3 NL or 2/5 NL, depending on which one I'm in the mood to play. I should probably stick to 1/3 NL, although boredom is a pretty big factor. I find that I enjoy playing 2/5 a lot more, and the whole reason I'm playing poker as a career is for my own enjoyment, so it actually does make some sense for me to take these risky shots.
Lol.

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Originally Posted by DianeAbbott
OP would put in $140 (~5% of his BR?) with A4s as a cold 4b, nice.
Don't forget A3s and A5s. OP going broke fast.

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Originally Posted by Lordkjun
It's not disrespectful, he capitalized "Jew."

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Lol. I literally can't stop laughing at this comment.
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06-08-2018 , 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bet me
What did I type that was wrong/surprising?
The word Jew used in that context is going to be offensive to Jewish people bro. Can you not see that? Do they not have Jews in Australia? I'm guessing you've never actually met a Jew or been friends with one? Just say 'woops' and don't use the Jew word like that again where it might offend.

It's funny that you used the word Jew like that though.
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06-08-2018 , 02:20 PM
You know the fact that op is still around with his skill level and his discipline and his general disregard to succeed is actually a decent brag.

Wp op.
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06-08-2018 , 02:21 PM
I recently saw a documentary about a young man who was really really good at math. However, he was from the wrong side of town and he and his friends did not value a traditional education. He worked as a janitor at MIT. He would solve very difficult problems in minutes and wow both the staff and students alike. I saw him in another documentary about gambling. He had a natural gift. He was tight but aggressive. He had his ups and his downs but he finally beat the game and rolled up a stake and took it to vegas. This sounds eerily similar to our hero

jus sayin
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06-08-2018 , 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Kelvis
Lol, Kelvis for president.
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06-08-2018 , 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by squid face
I recently saw a documentary about a young man who was really really good at math. However, he was from the wrong side of town and he and his friends did not value a traditional education. He worked as a janitor at MIT. He would solve very difficult problems in minutes and wow both the staff and students alike. I saw him in another documentary about gambling. He had a natural gift. He was tight but aggressive. He had his ups and his downs but he finally beat the game and rolled up a stake and took it to vegas. This sounds eerily similar to our hero

jus sayin
Lol this sounds exactly like Matt Damon from the movies Good Will Hunting and Rounders.

Okay I'll try not to make any Jew/Nazi references from now on. Sorry if I offended anyone.
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06-08-2018 , 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bet me
Lol this sounds exactly like Matt Damon from the movies Good Will Hunting and Rounders.
No fooling you.
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06-08-2018 , 02:38 PM
OP’s impending implosion just became a lot more satisfying. Excited for ya to lose it all idiot.
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06-08-2018 , 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by squid face
I recently saw a documentary about a young man who was really really good at math. However, he was from the wrong side of town and he and his friends did not value a traditional education. He worked as a janitor at MIT. He would solve very difficult problems in minutes and wow both the staff and students alike. I saw him in another documentary about gambling. He had a natural gift. He was tight but aggressive. He had his ups and his downs but he finally beat the game and rolled up a stake and took it to vegas. This sounds eerily similar to our hero

jus sayin
Hear that, OP? You're gonna go into space! Hope you like potatoes!
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06-08-2018 , 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bet me
Lol this sounds exactly like Matt Damon from the movies Good Will Hunting and Rounders.

Okay I'll try not to make any Jew/Nazi references from now on. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Let me just head you off at the pass and suggest you also don't use the word gyp as it is a pejorative for gypsy people.

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Originally Posted by matzah_ball
OP’s impending implosion just became a lot more satisfying. Excited for ya to lose it all idiot.
Jew. =þ

Not trying to defend OPs casual antisemitism but I honestly don't think he realized how offensive or even that his remark was offensive and he probably is from a very non diverse background and is young and that's how his friends talk.

OP should read this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism

Last edited by Rich Checkmaker; 06-08-2018 at 03:13 PM.
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06-08-2018 , 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bet me
Lol this sounds exactly like Matt Damon from the movies Good Will Hunting and Rounders.
no ****, sherlock!
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06-08-2018 , 03:59 PM
Just pure gold!!

Thanks for the read OP and everyone that has contributed. I have been a degen in the past and have relived some memories while reading this. Please dont stop this anytime soon!
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06-08-2018 , 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bet me
[B][U]The mate never ends up showing, which is fine, as I'm happy to just have food and drinks and conversation with my girlfriend. We get progressively drunk and I convince her to join this $30 MTT with me. Pub poker is great because there's no rake and the players are beyond awful, but you have to deal the cards yourself.

So I'm sitting at this table next to my girlfriend, who hardly understands the rules of the game, and I'm trying to teach her the game whilst also not actually seeing her cards or telling her what to do. I'm just presenting her her options and saying things like "you can fold, call 1000 chips or raise. If you don't have a strong hand then just fold." But people are getting really mad at me and accusing me of coaching her. She manages to cooler some fish by just x/calling 3 streets with a boat when the fish has a weaker boat, then this Indian guy gets kind of mad and accuses her of pulling a hustle. He says that she's just faking it and that she secretly knows how to play well (LOL). He spends the next 20 mins ranting on about how some guys come here and pretend to act stupid to pull a hustle and basically accuses my girlfriend of that. So I'm already kind of mad at him..
What a crazy coincidence that Rounders plagiarized your future life 21 years in the past.

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Originally Posted by 6bet me
My brain thinks in a very mathematical way, so I can remember a lot of hand histories even when super drunk.

One time in high school when I was at an 18th birthday party, I had about 12 standard drinks in 2hrs, was almost at the stage of vomiting, and yet people were giving me Calculus problems and I was solving integrals in my head and getting them correct.
You must be wikkid smahhht. The similarities between a down on his luck pizza delivery boy and a gifted but troubled janitor are uncanny.

Let me guess how this story ends:

You spend your last $5000 and buy a koala, kangaroo, dingo and wombat and start a “zoo” and complete your transformation into the living, breathing embodiment of Matt Damon’s fictional characters.

This is all around superb trolling.
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06-08-2018 , 04:50 PM
Lol, I didn't even catch the references.

Thought it definitely went too over-the-top with the SWP and J comments (it's not impolite if you abbreviate them, lol).

Well played, I guess? But how do you get guys like Feely on board?

Goldmanwhodoesn'tknowwhatthehellisgoingon,goddamin terwebzG
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06-08-2018 , 05:18 PM
so is this whole thing a troll or not? the movie references have now made me think it is a troll, but at the same time people are saying they know people irl who have seen OP do this stuff. i'm not sure what to believe anymore.
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06-08-2018 , 05:23 PM
What are you dummies talking about? It's not a troll. Op's girlfriend isn't John Malkovich. Like are you kidding me with this troll accusation, it honestly goes to show who's smart and who's not. Those who think it's trolling are dumb af. You probably also hear Yanny and see a white and gold dress. Your perception sucks. You probably have a creative brain that sees patterns that aren't there.

So it's all a troll because OP's girlfriend slowplayed a full house vs another full house just like Mike McD with A9 vs Teddys AA on A99 board? Gtfo. I've seen Rounders a hundred times like everybody else and I didn't make that connection. That's stupid.
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06-08-2018 , 05:29 PM
At least we got rid of all da fakking strat in my club.
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06-08-2018 , 05:42 PM
.wrongthread
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06-08-2018 , 05:45 PM
Shh no more strat, only trainwreck now.
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06-08-2018 , 05:50 PM
OP:

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06-08-2018 , 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by WereBeer
Shh no more strat, only trainwreck now.
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06-08-2018 , 06:49 PM
Gimme Jimmies remain rustled pls
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06-08-2018 , 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by SpinMeRightRound
Nice
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06-08-2018 , 09:09 PM
If nothing else, I give 6betme credit for surviving a 64 page beat down from half the 2+2 community. This is Germany vs Brazil 2014 level savagery.

As for the content I don’t know exactly what to say. I feel like you are probably capable of playing solid winning poker, you certainly aren’t scared of the swings or pulling the trigger in high risk spots, but there is just way too much spew and insane BRM in here. Playing 5/5/10, blind shoving utg, you know that’s just bad...

I think if you want to make it long term you got to get your **** together outside of poker and focus on your mental game. This can’t be something you get around too eventually, it has to start right now.

This goes double given the stakes you are playing. When you have a bad day and lose 25% of your roll, you are going to need to have the mental strength to push through.

Last edited by Badreg2017; 06-08-2018 at 09:16 PM.
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06-09-2018 , 12:41 AM
OP, glad to see you have done well in recent sessions. Keep up the good work.
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