What's your playing schedule like? Did you ever find yourself struggling to put in the hours, even (or especially) after your hourly rate was a really significant amount to you?

Also, not to be nitpicky, but can you use the quote button?

post #33 = epic

What is the thing you are most proud of so far?

a) poker related
b) non poker related

livb112, thank you for doing this.

I remember when I started playing poker, and was playing 1/2 6m on FTP, you were super annoying to be at the same table with, I used to avoid sitting at your table, but you always followed me around, so I would just quit sessions. You were super aggro, and I had no effing idea how to play against people like that.

I'm glad to see one of us has succeeded massively at poker, and keep up the great work.

-Respect-

Oh one more question... How come the IQ prop bet with stevesbets never happened? Re-initiate it imo, he was ready to spot you points.

Hi Olivier,

Have you ever gotten coaching (hu or otherwise)? If so, from whom, how was the experience, and what was a major thing you took away from it?

On a similar note, do you coach or would you ever consider coaching?

Sick thread. Thanks

What do you spend your FTP points on? You must have earned like 6million of them

Are you worried about the future of online poker in the United States? Not sure if you live in the US or not, but either way it will affect everyone no matter what happens. If legalization occurs=more fish. If not and online poker goes down the sh**er in the US, hu pros in other countries will lose a largeee player pool. So what are your thoughts about what may happen?

Your question about tilt seems to assume that some qualities r positives and some r negatives and we r simply a sum of our individual qualities...that I could somehow juse subtract tilt out of my game and still be the exact same player just minus that deficit. I think its more complicated than that, however. I've dedicated a lot of time and effort to learning poker and in particular HU SNGs. I am an extremely competitive, passionate and intense person. The same qualities that lead me to play tilt r the ones that motivate me to compete in the first place. If I make up for my tilt in any emotional way, its by being competitive and motivated to win. From a strategic standpoint, its pretty easy to take advantage of having a tilting image. I definetly fool myself sometimes, but I've learned to use it to my advantage and my when I'm mildly tilting I actually play better against some styles...

I'm pumped about reading Indy's first post in this thread, where he will somehow claim credit or close friendship.

Ive never gotten coaching. I do coach a little bit. Interested people can PM me. Its 500/hr.

it's just like that one star trek where the transporter splits captain kirk into two people. one person is all his good qualities and the other person is all his bad qualities. the good captain kirk is weak and lame. he needs his bad half.

well, let's compare drunk Steve vs. sober Steve

sober Steve has better reasoning abitilies. He can make math **** gogogo on the fly and he's a winning player who tends to doubt his reads because he's a little BITCH sometimes.

drunk Steve (who is posting now) will STOP BEING A BITCH and make these "gut" reads (which are more often right than not). Drunk Steve, though, can't do the math an make the reads quite as well as sober Steve. Too bad sober Stve can collect the info but not use it because he SUCKS.

in other words, tilting livb has new strengths and new weaknesses that normal livb does not have. Except, unlike me, both tilt livb and normal livb can smack the **** out of EVERYONE ( with different styles).

How did you manage to grind out 36,000+ games single tabling?!

I don't really have much of a set schedule. I play when I have time and yes I definetly have trouble putting in the hours, I always think I could have played more but I honestly don't think in terms of hourly rate. I think on a month by month basis and try to average about 800-1k games a month and 80-100 dollars a game.

Did you build your roll via grinding or did you hit a MTT?

What kind of time difference/limit from when you became seriously competitive and when you went pro?

I've been playing about 3 years....36k games is just 1k games a month for 3 years.... I've just never taken more than 2-3 days off in the last 3 years. I don't even feel like I play that much right now. 2 years ago I was playing all the time. Now I play about 40 hours a week....I grew up in a house where both my parents worked 50 hr weeks for 30 years and my brother and most of my friends work more than that now. I'm confident that when I move on from poker and find something else I'm equally passionate about, I'll look back on the time in my life when I was working 40 hr weeks from the comfort of my own home and consider them the good old days lifestyle-wise - I can't stand wasting time, I have an almost compulsive need to feel productive.

when you tilt, do you stay at the same level or do you move down? i feel that when i rechallenge someone after i lost a game and they're a total donk, they adjust to my playing style and it just gets harder for me to play them when they're overbetting the pot when it looks clearly like a steal. i just feel that when i rechallenge a total donk and overlyaggressive player, i end up tilting the most because i know i should be beating them but somehow i end up getting tighter and tighter because of their overbets. i guess for me rechallenging a total donk is -EV sine i tilt hard against these people by making marginal calls where it really is a coin flip since they grinded me down a small stack.

Interesting. It seems like you're not magical at all, but rather one of the best players around because you're truly dedicated. Do you really see yourself quitting completely at some point? What is there that you would rather devote yourself to?

hi livb good thread

do you think game selection stunts poker growth?

HI livb, thanks for doing this.

You say you've never had coaching and I don't know that you post on other forums, but you appear to have built your game up completely on your own personal experiences. Obviously you have put in a lot of work into this.

Do you have any set routines that helped you improve? Do you do anything away from the table, or can you mention any habits that would help someone improve their game and get better?

hahaha this needs more love and more people calling sejje an *******

-Favourite place to holiday or you would like to go to, would you ever play poker whilst on vacation?

-Favourite pastime outside of poker

-What car do you drive

-Any tips on how you seperate your poker life from your real life and generally avoiding the obsession that poker can become.

Very cool thread. I love reading about successful players! It makes us all strive a little harder.

I remember playing with you quite a bit at 2/4 6max on FTP, was that 3 years ago already? damn, anyways funny story is I used to talk to this interesting character on AIM with the aim name MRUNDERROLLED I think or something like that, do u know/remember him? And I remember him proposing me some deal where I would be helping him stake u (or partial stake) at some HU sngos, like 220s or something. Anyways I guess i'm not asking much of a poker related question I just have always thought of that whenever I see you mentioned all over the place.