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How bad is this fold?
Poker Stars, $6.71 Buy-in (15/30 blinds, 3 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #13692652 Hero (SB): 502 (16.7 bb) BB: 100 (3.3 bb) MP: 1,412 (47.1 bb) CO: 504 (16.8 bb) BTN: 482 (16.1 bb) Preflop: Hero is SB with J:heart: 7:club: 3 folds, Hero raises to 499 and is all-in, BB folds Spoiler:
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Re: 10,000th Post: SNE 2012, Jdawg91 Style (+ more!)
depends on what he had.
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Re: 10,000th Post: SNE 2012, Jdawg91 Style (+ more!)
- How you keep yourself motivated to play 6+ hours in a day
- How you decided to forgo education in order to play poker - How to correctly study - How hard it is to be away from friends and family Stuff like that really would be good for a blog. Especially if players are aspiring to also become professional poker players. I'm not, I personally would like to contribute to society, but others would be interested in this kind of thing. Also, maybe along the lines of plans you may make if you don't make it or if the player pools dry up too much to be profitable, etc. |
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I dont know how much they pay you but i think 8-10x whatever the price is now dont worth the money to make sup turbos videos
Article suggestion: How you handle the ups and downs of poker?How you encourage yourself playing when you are loosing massive amount of $? |
Re: 10,000th Post: SNE 2012, Jdawg91 Style (+ more!)
Definitely a "lifestyle" article on the life-aments of a young expat poker player. Whatever tone it takes. Could probably be a popular monthly thing and would help you continue to build a positive/likeable brand with a wider audience (which this thread seems to have done a good job of). Even if you don't get paid much to write it, it can lead to bigger $$ down the line in other things which it sounds like you have an eye towards.
Either that or make intentionally bad strategy videos. ;) |
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I vote for vids that are half decent strat and half subtle trolling.
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If you think your job as a professional poker player contributes to society, you're kidding yourself. That doesn't mean you aren't able to find other ways, but do you? I'm not try to insult any pros here, I'm genuinely interested. I'm sure many do. Maybe that could be a topic for an article.
Anybody who is able to make a living playing poker obviously has the talent to excel in other vocations that help his fellow man. Society as a whole may be missing out on something great each time a genius decides to dedicate himself to a game. What if Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Einstein had become obsessed with poker when they were teenagers? |
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People have a highly inflated sense of self if they believe most jobs really contribute to society in any meaningful way.
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I would argue that poker pros offer the same types of services that most retail jobs offer in terms of contribution to society.
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Poker pretty much follows the model of many other types of business, esp. markets and exchanges. I always thought Gordon Gecko's quote from Wall Street held true for poker: Gordon Gekko: It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. If poker serves no purpose as a vocation, how would you classify daredevils? Those in the performing arts? Extreme athletes? Athletes in general? etc. etc. |
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Professional poker players help provide entertainment to other pro/recreational players. They (should) pay taxes if it's required. They also have the opportunity to donate their money or time to charity or a worthy cause. You don't have to have a job to contribute to society. |
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f society
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Giving someone a job so that a person can support his/her family is more contributing to society than 95%+ of people do. |
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I'm not hating. I recognize that being good enough at poker to play professionally requires a lot of work, and I do consider it a job. But it doesn't contribute to society so if you are a pro and think you do contribute to society, tell me how. I'm sure some of you do. Again, sorry for the hijack, Josh, but I had to respond to people who are just wrong. |
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Wow that comment started a winfall. To clarify, I do not think poker players contribute to society. At the same token, I also feel most businessmen, accountants, athletes, wall street gurus, economists, etc do not contribute either. Policemen, firemen, teachers, doctors, honest politicians, farmers, people like that contribute to society.
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meh
If you want to "do good", playing poker either recreationally or professionally should not limit you. |
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Yank, you're a genius. Truly. Truly you are, sir, and you have put us all in our place with your razor observations, which aren't the least bit inaccurate or distorted, and your intellectual acumen, which isn't the least bit laughable. At all.
I believe you truly are a worldly man, if that's what incontinent means anymore .... That being said, I vote to end this avenue of discussion - would love another update from OP. How's it going down in ol' Mejico, Sir veza? More graphs, I say! |
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Will read and respond to everything tomorrow, getting ready to head out to a club to play some pool, pound some brews and look at some titties with a couple rosa bro's!
Ran hot again today, hopefully keep it goingggg! I did read above "More graphs, I say!" so graphs there will be :D Day: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1479/mergeday.png Month to date: http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6469/mergemonth.png Since returning to Merge, June 22nd: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/1339/mergeoverall.png LB: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6457/mergelb.png |
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are you staked for merge stuff?
going on your own soon? |
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This is interesting to me because I recently had the same value discussion with my economist fiancée. I think the mistake was using such emotive language - "not contributing to society" isn't true, but "not a productive job" is (as has been compared to stockbroking et al). Whether it bothers you that you're productive economically is entirely up to you but the argument that it provides someone else with a job is interesting and something I hadn't considered :)
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