Paisting - Go play on Pokerstars. Their cash out feature will ensure that the best hand wins the majority of the pot, you just have to pay 1% more rake!

Delusional

Funny, I actually got basically everyone to say that lol Truthfully, I don't give a **** about Paisting or where he plays. Well actually,

Paisting, switch to Blitz on ACR, you'll get rakeback and imagine how many hands you can open shove or 3bet shove playing fast fold. You'll have to play higher limits to do this but with the speed of the game and playing higher stake you could make that $100k+ back so much faster! Obviously, you should use the same screen name for meta-game reasons.

To be fair, I only posted that for the lolz and because you just know that Paisting won't do it anyway.

Still think Party is a much better option, given that there will be very little if any value at all to insure by cashing out and all he´s got going for him is big volume and a lot of rake paid due to his style of play. So yeah, losing his ass on the table and getting say 50% of his losses back is the best he can ever hope for, and Party would provide exactly that.

A true gambling sucktard would've moved up to serious stakes long ago...
Paisting does it for the fame of this thread I'm sure of it.

Everyone who plays midstakes+ are facing much bigger losers on daily basis (not in bb/100 though).
When I was playing HU cash back in the day (yes, that was a thing) I felt the ethical block really heavily.
Pretty much everyone that would open sit a table there was bound to have mental issues.

With Paisting I do not have this feeling at all. He's from a developed country, the 20k spread over a couple years is most likely pennies.
I can hardly blame anyone that wants to sit at the tables.

PS: Achmeds reasoning of 'Otherwise someone else would take his money' is complete BS of course.

The 20k was from like 1 year and he's been at it for over a decade. It's probably over 6 figures and he's stated in the thread that he is not well off (1 meal a day, fast loans in case of unexpected expenses, hopes to one day have a car)

He does it because he actually believes his strategy is correct. Hes usually not open shoving, it's much more common for him to 3b shove if he's annoyed at you taking his blinds as 'punishment'. Iirc someone said they started open shoving every hand when on his table and he left. He thinks facing shoves is actually annoying for whatever reason (I'd speculate that it's because there is no longer postflop play, the result is just up to variance). He seems to think other people share his feels when facing a shove so it's super obvious adjustment to just jam on people he thinks are stealing too wide

Awaiting Paisting to ignore the above posts and show us a bunch of bad beats

Let's not forget Stars 2NL rake is 30% lower than on any other site. Paisting would save thousands per year just switching to Stars. He'd also vastly improve his winrate since he'd never get sucked out on when all-in due to the insurance feature, resulting in far less tilt.

He's been doing this for the last 12 years or so. Certainly the last 10 years. He's lost approximately $2k a month for that whole time. His losses are in the $200k-$300k region, not $20k.

How is that?
Does it mean I do something special to make him lose money at a faster rate? I think that's very hard in a preflop shove fest.

Judging by some of his monthly graphs, he could easily lose 20k in a year if he had access to so much money. He's played for 15 years now and he sat a higher tables in the process (NL4, NL5, NL10). The guy who did the write-up included stories about how people would mock Paisting for his colossal losses as documented on Pokertableratings, and this site has been dead for at least 5 years now. I would be surprised to hear he hasn´t lost at least $100k so far (which again wouldn't be super horrible for a guy who makes $100k per year, but Paisting clearly doesn't fall into that category).

On a side note, I haven't seen Paisting on 888 for a few days now. I wonder whether he's finally come to his senses (haha good one, I know) and quit/ moved to a different site or whether he's just full blown busto. The second option obviously seems way more likely and my guess is he will show up again on Friday when money hits his account.

yeah 99% he's just low on funds and waiting for the welfare money to hit

Just a couple of thoughts from a lurker:

1. Does anyone think it's strange how articulate the thread title is?

Paisting clearly has some sort of disability and proven he cannot make intelligible sentences, but the title is strangely concise and well written.

2. The fact that so many new comers read this whole thread, then proceed to give Paisting advice is one of the funniest elements of the whole thing. How can anyone ready thousands of posts of advice which are ignored, then do the exact same thing?

3. People who berate 6bet/achmed/ty_paisting or think that this thread is immoral or not one of the funniest things on the internet, are softer than the games paisting plays in.

I used to work with people suffering from various kind of mental illness, and Paisting has a lot in common with some of them. I'm not actually a psychologist, and of course it's impossible to diagnose someone over the Internet, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he's actually a paranoid schizophrenic. The complete detachment from reality and the absolute conviction that there is some kind of conspiracy against him would support this idea. And he almost certainly has narcissistic personality disorder, concurrent with his gambling addiction and whatever is causing his psychosis.

Paisting, if you are reading this, please seek medical help. Your behavior is not healthy and I promise that you can be so much happier in the future than you are now. I'm not trying to offend you by saying this; I speak from experience and I only want the best for you.

In the very next post too...

It's because they don't actually read the thread, they just base an opinion on the thread title and/or a few random posts.

Paisting is mentally ill - he should not be allowed to use one single dollar without allowance of an administrator

Why do you of all people constantly refer to mental sickness? Is this some kind of projection on your part?

Not the only one who writes this (If you can read) - but in every case this is the truth...

long time follower of this thread mate keep up the good work and ignore the trolls you will get there eventually .

you are an inspiration.

i guess because OP is for sure mentally ill. it's a Charlie Zelenoff-type delusion about his own abilities. and I 100% agree with the statement he shouldn't be able to use money without some sane person's allowance.

You dont have to be a master brain to see that paisting has a serious mental sickness.

But keep on with your simple life...

Answered a question and then answered it again 3 hours later. Do you cry yourself to sleep thinking of that time Paisting insulted or threatened you?

love you too!

How old are you and where do you live?