Agree you shouldn't be doing the degree just for the sake of it and you need to be clear about your career plans....

Great to see you back 6b. I was initially happy to read about your plans for the degree, but now I've been having mixed feelings. I guess it's at RMIT, it looks like a good course that could lead to some decent job opportunities. But I'm worried about whether you'd complete the degree, and whether you'd get a job that used the degree. I was worried that when asked by SpinMeRightRound about your career plans, you replied simply that nothing was predictable, as with Covid etc – I don't like that way of thinking about it at all - I think you should be about 99% sure in your own mind that you'll be working in a job that uses the degree, and pursuing a career of say 10 or 20+ years in a related field, before you enrol for it. You said they'd asked you to write about why you'd complete the degree this time after failing to do so before... what did you write? And what are your true feelings about that?

As an alternative, and as a smaller, more manageable step, how about trying to get a job in say Data Science... beforehand, teach yourself a programming language like Python via free/cheap online courses... then get a low-level job developing those skills further … these days, not having a degree is becoming much more common in many high-skilled tech jobs in many places in the world, maybe in Oz too?

So many harsh comments I was really hoping people would say much nicer and more encouraging things...

It makes sense when they're completely different player pools. For example: 200nl on Stars is very different to $1/$2 NL at your local casino.

So practicing 5nl on this tough site gives me useful skills that I can transfer over to games like 200nl on the apps or $5/$10 NL live. And I get to practice at just a tiny fraction of the cost.

I estimate I played around 50k hands and won about 20bb/100 throughout that sample. Seems like a decent sample to me.

Actually 5nl is the perfect place to learn, because it means I can focus solely on making good decisions without stressing about the money. It also allows me to make those curiosity calls and test out creative plays that I wouldn't have the balls to test out if it was 100nl+.

Thank you! I will.

I've been in plenty of bad situations in the past several years, but this isn't one of them. I'm not at risk of running out of food, going homeless or going busto this year, so everything is fine.

It would be silly of me to constantly stress myself out and pretend that I'm always on the verge of breaking point. That's counterproductive. Now is the time for me to relax, take things slowly, and focus on productive but non-monetary things (like improving my poker skills).

He was a lawyer in Thailand and the story is that he used to spend a lot of money as he earnt it. He was never much of a saver. He would take his kids on overseas trips, go out to nice restaurants and paid for both his kids to go to college overseas. He also owns a condo. So that's why he has no money left now.

My wife feels that she owes him for taking care of her when she was growing up. For example: my wife studied a Bachelor's Degree in America and he paid for it all. So that's why she wants to help out now. It just sucks that she has no income of her own, so her helping out usually means me helping out.

Not very nice...

Those things you're talking about are only for the truly desperate...
- The public healthcare system in Thailand is very poor quality. You need to go to a private hospital if you want them to take care of you and maximise your chances of survival.
- The pension is an insanely small amount. I can't remember the exact number, but I recall it being something like $20/month. You can't live off that.
- There are so many homeless, starving and desperate people in Thailand that a charity isn't going to take care of you if you own your own condo, like my father-in-law does.

In the past, I did have doubts about the cost of his medicine, and I did really consider demanding my wife show me receipts, but I ultimately decided not to, because it would be too rude/invasive for me to ask them for receipts all the time. I figure that an act of generosity shouldn't come with so many strings attached. So I'm just going to trust them that they're spending the money wisely on the things they say they are.

Nah I'm not in an abusive relationship with poker at all. The only reason I'm playing poker right now instead of chess is because I spent a long time thinking and talking to my wife about it, and we both decided that poker is a far more productive use of my time than chess. It was a calm and rational decision to ease back into it, rather than an emotional decision.

And yeah, there's plenty of reasons why my lifestyle is stable. I'm living with my mum, I live in a first world country, I get welfare, I've been successful at poker, etc. We're all very lucky in a variety of different ways, and it would be silly to attribute all of our good fortune to just one specific thing.

Nah my long-term plan is to finish uni then get a full-time job and then move out.

I have no plan to move out before I graduate from uni. Unless something insane happens like I bink 6 figures from a tournament. And that's where the element of flexibility comes in and being able to adapt to changing circumstances, rather than following a rigid plan.

I wrote the numbers down in this thread somewhere, but I think I made roughly $10k USD profit from 100nl cash games and $20k USD profit from tournaments (mainly 2 lucky scores). So I was successful at both.

How's it bizarre? I get way more hands per hour at 5nl rush compared to cash games on the apps, the software is better, the competition is tougher... This just seems way better for improving.

Thank you Fodersneso! See, this is the kind of positive comment I need in this thread. Too much negativity recently.

6-bet just fyi- 100nl+ in Oct. on the apps is 100% tougher than 5nl anywhere. AINEC

you were playing that several months ago. Less weaker players, more grinders overtime. That's just how it works.

would not recommend if under-rolled. It's not difficult at all, but not soft enough to grind with a $6k life roll.

imo

glgl

I think your life situation is ok re. living at home to save rent – your Mum, you and your wife are all happy with it.

I think it's ok to send the in-laws money – you're doing a generous thing, which is ok so long as the amounts are reasonable and you can afford them. Even if these people weren't family, the idea of Person A giving money/help/resources to Person B, when Person B needs it more, especially in relation to health/medicine, is fine to me in principle. It becomes bad if Person B is scamming, but I don't think your in-laws are scamming you from what you say – and the jobs situation in Thailand does seem truly grim at the moment.

I'm glad you are studying poker – I think this is a major step forward in your 'poker mindset'... and it's fine to do it at 2NL/5NL IMHO. The standard of play at these levels will be similar or better than in $2-5 live at your casino I think. I play 2NL/5NL myself on Stars as practice for 200NL live. Gaining skills to consistently win well at $2-5 live, is a good goal to have, and 2NL/5NL is ideal for that.

$100nl players won't have even close to the same ranges as $5nl players which makes these "curiosity calls and creative plays" absolutely worthless. I think you're afraid that you're not a winner at $100. Of course I don't expect you to agree because you're a CRUSHER(!!!).

You really can't be delusional enough to not see that Foder's been trolling you for a very long time now...right?

As usual you have no idea what you are talking about.


Right, because her 'asking' her unemployed husband to support her family over seas is not rude right?

You're married, pushing 30, living at home with your mom. You have no job and are living off the charity of the government and your mother. You don't have a stable lifestyle and 6k isn't decent savings. You have no plans to improve your unsustainable situation. People are just being real with you. You are living in a fantasy world.

As I thought. This

shows that this

was a lie. Right? Because if you were "all about making the most +ev decisions" you'd never move out of your mom's house, eating your mom's food, and driving your mom's car. You only said that because you're the guy who feels compelled to say something to EVERYTHING. You can never say "I don't know", or look into anything, or concede any point, no matter how small. You can't even think things through. You feel like if you don't have an instant response to everything you've lost and then you feel like you have to back those snap decisions up endlessly.

Remember when you said you were going to rent a car to drive Uber and it was clearly a random thought you had to "beat the system" and you hadn't thought about it or planned it out and every single person told you it was a horrible idea but you put your head down and said "No, it's brilliant, I'll be rich in no time!" and then you lost a bunch of money from it to the point where you were stealing gas and then stopped doing it and pretended like you independently came to the decision that it wasn't worth it?

You need to go to a psychologist, maybe a team of them, and work through your issues. You'll never find comfort until you do. Pretend like it's an idea you thought of if you have to.

It’s ****ing Groundhog Day ITT.

See you next year when it’s SSDD.

"I constantly make the -EV decision of wasting money getting UberEats because I don't want cook or get food." Paraphrased, of course.

You don't get it though. If 6bet cooked that would be an hour he can't play 5nl. And at 20bb/100 he's making $1/hour at 5nl, so that $20 uber eats is actually only $19. And cooking food would have cost $3 anyway. So really he's only paying $16 for the uber eats, which is easily worth it in the life ev it provides.


Plus op has $6,000. That's 300 uber eats orders if he keeps them to an average of $20. I'm not a math whiz but that's at least a year worth of food right there, and OP doesn't even have to pay rent. He's set for a while with that nest egg

I just want to clear this up, once and for all: I never stole gas.

I was contemplating borrowing petrol. I had an empty tank and I knew that the money was going to hit my bank account in the evening, so my plan was to fill up my tank with petrol, work for a few hours, then return to the petrol station in the evening and pay them back for it.

Borrowing is not stealing.

And btw, I didn't even end up doing that. I ended up taking the day off work completely and just playing online games at home until my pay came.

LOL

You could not borrow $30 from anyone to fill your tank?

LOL, you cant be serious right? Right? Borrowing gas from a gas station, like its some form of bank lmao.

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"I wasn't stealing gas. I was just taking it without purchasing it."

Total mass destruction. Wow.

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what the actual ****?

I'm glad you're back OP!

the whole borrowing gas thing is pretty funny, you can’t just take stuff without paying and thinking in your head you’ll pay back so its not stealing, that is not how it works

No shop is going to let you borrow anything. You have to pay upfront for it or you can't have it.

And to borrow something means you give it back. You're not giving the gas back, are you? You're using it in your car and once it's used, it's gone.

Dude....hilarious.

Have you considered borrowing the crabmeat? Just for a while I mean..just to get over the tough times

Best FAN confirmed.

So 6bet is one of those guys that thinks he’s right and everyone else is wrong.

That about sum it up?