Rob,

When you get tired of Commerce 5/10 fish trying to light money on fire and give you late XMAS presents with their ridiculous holdings, you should stop by Orange County to say hi. OC is much nicer than LA anyways.

I've been following this for a while and I appreciate that you always tell it like it is. Guys like you who have given so much wisdom to the poker community inspired me to make my own thread and pass the knowledge on and help other pros and aspiring pros "get it" before they otherwise would. Beers are on me if we ever meet. Cheers.

Feedback on this post 4 years later?

Sorry I didn't answer anything for a little while. I've been in LA and not really on the computer.

Be honest with your parents, your friends, family and most importantly yourself. Think about the big picture of your life and decide whether poker fits best as a career, a profitable side hobby or not at all. All 3 of those are fine choices.

When it comes out next week

I'm home now. They tried their best but this trip had a pretty large amount of runbad. Lost 2 AIPF with AA in a matter of 15 mins and decided that was enough Commerce for me. You're lucky you get to play in those games though.

Appreciate it. Poker is an interesting activity full of colorful characters.

Wow. Bankroll $3002. Glad I included that 2$. Today I lost 4k in 20 minutes. Oh how times have changed.

Ultimately the whole bankroll management thing is dependant on your own situation.

Specifically to me speaking, if you gave me 3k to my name (liferoll, not just poker money), I would feel completely comfortable playing 500max 2/5 at Foxwoods or Bellagio. Of course it's possible I lose 3k, but I feel like that would be quite the downswing that I don't think I'd experience very often.

I understand this is almost completely contradictory to what most on this forum say and I'm a very special little flower, but I think people are wayyyy too nitty with their bankroll management.

The problem people have is that they lack the ability to move down when the game isn't good or they aren't playing their best. That's when your bankroll takes real hits. You can definitely take a shot if you have the ability to move down, a lot of people want to label themselves a "2/5 player" "5/10" player etc.

It's a bad way to think and an even worse way to operate.

I can't give you a specific number because it's too unique of a situation. I can tell you my number is about 3k to play 2/5 500max. I'd feel completely fine with that. If I lost 1500 I would play 1/2.

Be calculatedly aggressive. Play the best game you can afford to lose in is the best advice I can give here.

Don't go to bed a 1/2 player and wake up a 2/5 player. Play your game and when the bigger game looks worth playing and your confidence is fine, play it then. Don't play bigger just for the sake of playing bigger.

I have just finished reading the first 20 pages of this thread and I will continue to read tommorow. Inspiring, and very smooth read. Awesome thread, thank you for this OP.

Hey guys, just thought you might like to know I published a book - all the details are in my profile

LOL @ mods deleting those posts...

It's fine, unfortunate, but rules are rules

I'm fine with the compromise, more than reasonable.

somebody make me a new avatar though

so.. i bought it.. but its only available on iphone.. not regular kindle?

I got it on kindle and Amazon asks which kindle device to send it to.

when it asked me which device, the only option was iphone. the other options weren't able to be highlited/chosen. oh well. ill read it on my phone.

you have to register your kindle to amazon, your kindle should be an option in the drop down after doing that

Also, if you guys have questions like this... please PM or tweet me @robbyrobbb

I'll probably respond on twitter a little quicker.

I've had some of my posts (and other peoples posts) deleted so I don't really want to push it with the mods. Can answer questions/troubleshoot no problem, just don't post here as advertising isn't permitted.

Thanks

Tried to buy it to read it - failed. Amazon makes it nearly impossible to order and read. It says you need kindle unlimited and in the most basic business failure, that "kindle unlimited" notice doesn't provide a link to order the service. Surprising from an ecommerce powerhouse..

I gave up easy.

You either buy it for $4.99 or if you have Kindle Unlimited or if you order it then it's Free. KU is $10/month for 1000's of books to read.

They offered me a free month of kindle unlimited but my trial ended the 26th. Was happy to pay for the book as thanks for the entertaining thread over the years.

Good quick read. I think it is something that will stand the test of time and is worth having in your poker library.

Rob,

If you post the announcement in "Books and Publications" it looks to me like there is more leeway to talk about the book and answer questions (based on other threads in the forum).

But I suppose you could check with the mods over there to see what's permissable.

If you cross post in the "Books

Hey Rob,
Confirmed problem downloading your book to a normal kindle. I buy tons of kindle books for my old 1st generation kindle -- never had a problem. Your book won't download to anything but iPhone or iPad.

BTW - I am one reg who is playing at RR now - as V is as you describe. I think a lot of us have scattered around the city.

Sorry guys, it's not kindle friendly for some reason. I can only assume it's something to do with my formatting of the book.

V slipped up a little bit, but I hear they're going to reopen a high stakes section (for 5/10, lol) which should help them improve a lot of the problems I listed.

Yes, I have downloaded a ton on kindle books and very few are formatted like yours.
I have a few non poker books I put on Kindle and I used free trial of Scrivener and it works great and formats great. You would need to google a tutorial on how to do it.

thanks, will look into that for the next one

Where's the list?

New RobFarha podcast coming out on crush live poker today, say what?

http://www.crushlivepoker.com/podcas...lf-for-success

Yes. I'll be making podcasts for CLP in 2016.

This first podcast is out there for free, if any of you guys don't have CLP memberships, I can get you a free month if you message me here or on twitter @robbyrobbb

As I'll talk about in next weeks episode, I'm not one that's really shy about calling out things that I don't like in the poker world. I don't endorse or get involved with things I don't view as legit.

Bart Hanson and CLP (although they went by a different website name back then) were absolutely vital to my transition and development as a live poker professional. It really is a great website and you can find posts of me endorsing it 3 or 4 years ago, well before I contacted Bart to get this podcast idea started. I wouldn't have had interest in podcasting or writing with a site that I didn't enjoy myself and I have turned down similar offers in the past for that reason.

I'm excited to keep this going into 2016, like I said, if you guys want a free month for the website, let me know.

Thanks.