Just here to watch the journey to busto town. Is there any possible way you'll update us when your wife leaves you?

Of course.

It's ironic that he could simply not click the 2+2 link in his favourites or simply not post, and not a single one of those people would have any say in his life

What field of psychology if you don't mind my asking? Do you work with clients?

It would be very unusual for any professional working in a therapeutic capacity to dictate to a client how they are supposed to find fulfillment based on their own worldview. It would be even more unusual to do so on an internet forum when it regards some person they have never met.

I'm not saying that I think you are completely wrong. I'm sure there are plenty of of unhappy poker players out there, but there are probably more than a few who are fairly balanced and content.

yup. exactly.

In a professional setting it would be quite unusual but on a forum I think you should be blunt and not care as he will never be your patient. What ethical issues do you see wrong here?

6b is nothing more than a man child whom’s mother has been his fall back plan. He is quite the read though if you like watching people ruin their own lives over time and live in a delusional world.

Maybe we need help.

The best way to do this is to buy a HUD. About the same cost as the game weapons you bought which you're done with already.

Next best thing is to take a look at the database of someone you know for an hour or so and take notes. It is easy to find out what % of each situation of what people are doing. Most helpful in pf and flop situation. A friend should let you see it for free. If not, it won't cost much and you'll know they aren't a friend.

This illustrates one of the bigger leaks you have. You judge the value of the play solely based on whether you won or lost. There is a strong correlation between how much you won in a session and how you rated you played. Most poker players suffer from the same leak. It is the reason in the LLSNL forum we actively discourage posting the results, even in a spoiler. Poker is one of the few activities where making the right decision can result in a negative result. Doesn't make it wrong. Although a 4 bet range for most players crushes QQ.

Casinos are built on people who believe they were due a win. However that is a minor leak. Unfortunately after 3 years of your posts, I have no hope that you'll develop the discipline to overcome the first one, let alone your other leaks.

You lost most of the $2.6k in one day at 200nl and you lost all of the $4k in a stupid game where you were flipping for $1k and quintuple straddling so it almost feels like an insult to the rest of us grinders that this is what you consider a downswing and somehow you believe you're "due" a win as a result?

If I were a wealthy man I would prop bet you to play 10k hyper-turbo SNGs just so you can go through the pain of a real downswing.

Exactly. Downswing, rofl.

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"dictate"...buy a dictionary and explore "context" ffs

+1

This type of insightful character development screen writing will work for a dramatic series. However, our hero is an actor who's character has no meaningful development or follows any kind of arc. Our male lead has made it abundantly clear as to what he wants. He is the zany wild card. Lets focus on obscenely poor decision making and zero self awareness. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

OP, get it through your head -- you are not due anything in poker!!! You are not due a win no matter how much you've lost.

Fix the goddamn mentality and you won't need to spend another $ on HUDs, solvers, coaches, training, and whatnot. All of these things are helpful to someone who has the first under control -- you don't!

This is the main thing. He pissed away most of the bankroll at NL200 and a 5/10 (effective) PLO home game. Any "downswing" that has occurred at his main game has been very small and would've only been a small blip had he been grinding away at NL100 this entire time like he should be doing.

I would suggest grinding away a couple hundred hours at NL100 with strong results and a healthy bankroll and liferoll before thinking about anything higher, but then, his mental game is so weak that he would freak out again when he inevitably drops a couple buyins at NL200. So maybe the best course of action is just grind and grind for awhile to get himself to a healthier financial position, then work hard on the mental game.

Yeah poker is rewarding. Especially playing in live mtts the only form of poker i play.

You did well in online mtt's op. Why not move to live mtt's and just play chess until the casino re-opens?

6bet

I am a Psychologist.

Stop being such a wussie. Your search for fulfillment will never be satisfied with playing so little. Use your strengths toward a rewarding goal like pushing through that downswing and shotting NL200 by the end of the month.

Hope this helps.

If you really think about it, playing 1knl could be a "win-win situation" as well.

If you think OP can't derive any fulfillment through his career or work, where do you think he should derive fulfillment from?

Well this will become obvious to anyone that stays in the game long enough at a professional level. But this thread is a yolo adventure with not much thought behind it, and frankly, quite the fun ride Besides, this will go beyond both OP's (who should just think about starting to work on his mental game) and most posters's perspective on success in poker (and most will push back against it). Loved DGAF's thread for this precise subject though

You can tell this is 6b posting on an alt account because the naive know it all 20 year old attitude and the dog**** metaphors that look like "facts and logic" to prove a point.

From posting hand histories on this thread.

If I'm going to work 40hrs/wk to make $50k/yr I'd rather be a truck driver or Realtor or something.

Fortunately, OP will never work 40 hours a week or make $50k in a year.

Mental work isn't important for 6b? He actually (mostly through sheer mtt luck) made 5 figs on some shady pokersite but dumped 50% of it on any possibility anyone could piss away money. 150$ ubereats, diabloitems, 1k flips etc. It's funny to say that the money would have been way better spend by some thais

I advised OP weeks ago to get RIO's Mental Course but he responded that online learning isn't his thing :3 whatchagonnado?

This. There's a world where 6b works 40h counting books or whatever people do with a business degree then he flips for 1k in his spare time. I wonder which of them is happier.

Laughed at this one. Where does his week go? He woke up early to be productive, found out studying was hard and played 2 hours of poker. Where did the other 12 hours of daylight end up???