Glad you found my thread!! I try to keep it somewhat entertaining.

It's a smith and Wesson Military Police edition knife, I love it!!

Lol...once I left that table the best player sat down...I'm in the top 10 for 2/5 but haven't played there long enough to justify any top 5 ranking....yet 😎

Do yourself a favor and don't care about being the "top 5" or whatever

I've played many hours in home games and probably 75-100 hours in live casinos. Always done very well playing live but I never really have a roll to try and tackle the live beast. It's more of a thing where I have a few buyins and go to Vegas, Biloxi, LA and play for a bit. I'm very comfortable with it...but I don't know if I want to commit to the commute and day in/out casino life.

I actually love being in casinos and I never touch any other games beyond poker unless i'm donking off free play bucks on a player's card or sign up promo. I like the clean (besides smoke) grandiose atmosphere and I like the action...but I fear it will tire quickly and I don't want that ruining my passion for grinding. Do you experience a diminished desire to be in the casino or are you always content just to play?

I am a little weird...for whatever reason if I enjoy something I can sit there and just do it for hours and hours and hours. Sometimes it seems that the more I do something the more I have to continue doing it. Extremely addictive personality.

I've had a couple times where I didn't completely feel like grinding (usually after a couple of losing sessions lol) and I plan to take a few days off. I have yet to be able to take multiple days off without playing.

I know eventually I more than likely will have a little burn out happen. Nothing a vacation can't fix

But to answer your question I have more of an itch to grind now than I did when I started this thread. I'm sitting in te Chevy dealership right now getting my trucks scheduled maintanence done and man it's driving me crazy that I still have to wait another 3 hours to play tonight's game.

My mom always told me I was number one

Seriously tho...I feed on the competition. I know there's no concrete ranking system I can go by. But to be referred to as the best in the room is huge motivation.

Back when I grinded 180s I literally would check the sharkscope leader board for yearly profit daily. I HAD to be the best at why I did. And that's just me...I was the same way with golf, with Call of Duty (bondido007 on xbox live if anyone wants to get pwned) with car sales (was ranked 86th in the country for VW my first full year of sales). It's just the way I am which has a lot of positives but also some drawbacks as well.

I would argue, with this game in particular, the drawbacks far outweigh the positives.

Focus on making the right decisions and "being the best" will just happen; if you focus on "being the best" all you will ever be is marginally better (for a small period of time) than your mediocre competition.

For sure I completely agree with your second paragraph. Imo being the best doesn't necessarily mean out playing the best...especially with this game. I think it's a purely based on making the best decisions more often than the next guy.

Ranking of live play tho is just completely arbitrary. There's never going to be a list that says I'm number one or anything like that. But being in the discussion is always fun and that is my goal.

You really ought to look into a more gas efficient car if you're going to keep living in Dallas and commuting up to OK for the games. You're bleeding out the nose.

For sure...I'm going to get either a Jetta or a Rabbit once I've got 10k to put towards a new car. It doesn't hurt as much since my backer is taking up half the gas expense...so it's costing less now then if I had a smaller car and I was paying for all of it

Brag tho...truck gets 19mpg average right now

You should grind up in a smart car!

:spoil: they don't RUN UPHILL - this may screw up your image 😎:spoil:

Everyone knows who the top 2/5 player at winstar is (that doesn't play a substantial amount of 5/10) but I didn't even realize anyone kept track of #2 through 10 lol

you reminded me of a book i read. clowns give you money, not the better players that may fold

Been a little while since I've posted a stack

Home game?

Yup

Thanks so much for your encouragement and frequent updates ITT.

I feel the urge to play poker every single day. I like to think that it's the work-hard ethic to reach something bigger and go someplace i never thought possible. Pushing the rock up the eternal mountain.

i think i will set aside a roll for live play. might start with some small tourneys and try and bink something big enough to provide cash game roll.

Boy am I running like balls today. Worst day to run bad I'm at what could be the greatest weekday game I've played. Got all in pre flop for a 1500 pot and a guy binks his set on the river sigh

Bright side I'm stuck 150 ��

Just played one of the craziest hands yet!!

I open for 20 utg with AJdd...get 6 callers lol

Flop is T86dd...I lead for 100, a station calls and a kid sitting on 2500+ makes it 400... It folks around tho me and I shove for 570 total. Station calls. Once the action is complete I announce to the game that I am on a Broadway draw lol

Board runs Kc Qs to give me the nuts.

Station flips over J8... Big stack slow rolls AJss wtf!!!!

also from dallas, checking in on your good work!

this makes me want to stick the the 2/5 more and just get away from 1/2 completely

2/5 is a real life game imo

1/2 is so robotic and boring.

Can't wait to move up to 2/5 and put myself to the test.

Possible road trip to Vegas at the end of the month may be in the works....

Ty Ty

Your gunna get there and kill it...if you are able to grind 1/2 that's going to set you up for 2/5. I've found that there's nothing more important than patience.