Because he is smart...would you sacrifice a huge hourly profit to bump up your posts? He could have 3 posts and 99.9% of the people on this forum would welcome it.

Croix, I want to know how many hours you put in per week/month/year. Do you have poker goals? What structure do you use if you indeed do have some type of schedule for playing?

I want to put in 35 - 40 hours a week consistently without getting hit with burnout. My passion for the game over the past 4-5 years since I started playing poker is still as strong now as it was before. For the past two full years i've played part time while going to school to pay the bills and tuition. Now, starting in June, I finally had the chance to log in an average of 35 hours a week. It wasn't that bad, but i'm concerned with the long run and potential burnout that I hear so many people talk about.

Yes.

Chek:

Me, my buddy Alex, and Chek were all staying in a hotel together in Windsor just for a random trip. We were all walking back to the room with me and Alex walking way faster than Chek. We think it would be funny to lock him out for a little and have him beg to get in..he wasn't too happy about this. He starts kicking the door as hard as he can making a ton of noise. Alex thinks it would be way funnier to call security and tell them some crazy guy is outside of our door. They come by and ask him whats going on..all the while I'm trying to let him back in b/c the joke has gone too far. Alex obv won't let me and they escort him down the hall to the security office. I eventually go out and tell them it was a misunderstanding..but still alot of lol's.

Another story was Chek and I driving him his place in Rhode Island to Maine to snowboard late at night. Clearly there was a giant blizzard or something..the normal 4 hour drive takes us 11 hours. I hustled the **** out of him on a bet though which was amazing. I can't think of it right now but will when I talk to him next. We did a 360 at one point pretty much scared the **** out of both of us. He also ran into a snowbank at a gas station trying to be a renegade instead of going through the plowed area. That got us stuck for a solid 1/2 hour in freezing weather. Did embarass myself bigtime snowboarding though.

Vinny stories to come.

I'd prefer not to talk about specific hands but more the general questions everyone has posted so far..if its a pretty interesting hand maybe but nothing like 'I got it in as a flip..could I have played it better...?'

Timing tells factor into my decisions a little bit but I put alot more weight on board texture and their range matching/not matching with it. Also seeing the way a person will play their hands (always cbetting a fixed % of the pot, min reraising preflop, or overbet shoving often) plays a big role in my decision making. Speed can be useful but those things are more important to me.

I will defend OOP to a min raise with a pretty wide range of hands against an unknown first hand. I'm only really dumping hands such as 94o, t2o, 83o. I like playing alot of hands in general because I think I have an edge postflop against most players and seeing these hands cheap plays well with my game. If I know someone is going to cbet every flop then I might tighten up my range OOP to avoid putting myself in a marginal spot..if hes passive then I can expand my options and will call with almost any two.

If I'm playing one of these hyper aggro players and it gets to this point..I'm doing all sorts of different things. Depending a little bit on game flow will change my decisions. For example if my opponent has just won 2-3 pots in a row and I have the button I feel I'll be able to comfortably limp alot without getting shoved on. Most players from my experience will be less likely to make a play after they have won a few pots in a row. If they are super nutso then I'm going to be limping virtually every hand and folding my really bad ones. If I can kind of feel a shove coming no matter what in certain situations, I will limp a hand like KTo and snap call, but that is all based on game flow for me.

I don't take notes..something I really regret not getting into early into my poker career. I do have a pretty solid memory when it comes to a players style but notes would definitely help paint a clearer picture. A few of the warning signals that I'm playing an inferior player other than sharkscope numbers is overbetting, betting the pot in 3x-ed pots, raising more than 4bbs pf, and the ol min reraise. My fish alarm goes off immediately anytime one of these happen and although not always correct, I think is pretty accurate.

Most tilting: Mike..I ****ing hate that Bleeding Love song that I heard 13,829 times in the month out there with him.

Least tilting: Nick..what a good kid.

You would be 2nd or 3rd least tilting I'd say. Jack 2nd most tilting obv 'Ima call you miniwheat'

You are 3x as bad at volleyball than I am at foosball. I used to be good too..so sick.

I'm 24 and it was for $550k..had traded 5% each with Iftarii and Premier though. It was just a nice tourney run dished 2 beats won 2 flips and was playing pretty solid other than that accumulating chips steadily. I never really felt too too down on myself other than directly after I lost that 100k. I was just playing above my head and knew I could beat lower stakes and was a decent player..just hurt to move down to 50x the stakes I was playing and have to grind. But as stated in an earlier post, I love the grind!

Remember all of the things you did right to develop your bankroll. Remember that we can't control what happens when the money is in, only before it does. Remember when we take bad beats that we are doing something right and eventually the math will work out in our favor. Remember that we are playing a game for money and that we are good at that game and have alot of luxuries that we couldn't normally. Remember we feed off of those that tilt and lose a TON of value when we do ourselves. Last but not least..remember the titans..what a movie.

Oh its a lock they are the best..super bowl count? The Eagles are good jsut a little too inconsistent and although I like McNabb and Westbrook alot, I just hate Philly. I think it was my freshamn year when I met their fans..huge douches 'I hate Pittsburgh so bad..this city is terrible'..ok kids..then gtfo.

Leftwich was good in that 4th quarter he came in..but I wouldn't trust him in a pressure packed game without much regular season experience.

Clearly the Steelers 24-21..not a doubt in my mind.

Are you secretly in love with Hayden Panettiere?

After that 2k that Vinny gave me I made sure I had at least 100 BI for the level I was playing (asdie for only having 20 to start). I still play way overrolled for the stakes I play now and have no problem doing so. I would recommend setting a lofty goal for yourself on a number of buyins to attain before you move up. You don't want to lose 10-20 buyins when moving up right away and be shellshocked from it and get gunshy. You want to always be confident and comfortable and that you belong at the stakes you play..and what better way to do that than be rolled deep.

Slaughterhouse Five..love Vonnegut

Shawshank Redemption..love Brooks

I love putting in those super sick grinding weeks..but I think you have to be careful about it. Maintaining a good balance between social life and grinding is crucial. I probably aim for like 40/week..and have had that+ some, but mostly I'd say I average 20-30 hrs/week. I sleep a ridiculous amount in comparison to anyone I know so that definitely affects things. I'm also concerned about long term burnout..but i know I don't want to play forever so I'm going to try and give poker all I've got the next 2-3 years and then put it on the backburner.

She was a cute kid in that I must say..but the friendship of Gerry and Julius..just epic!

True story I do tear up during the end of that movie..I'm a bitch.

Vinny 'stop and drop' Sokalski...... lol

I got a question for you, when are you going to lose the cav?
over under on months to me shooting sub 90?
percentage that toontownhustler is homosexual?

PS, please win me some more money in every way possible

Why do you post so rarely on 2p2?

I noticed u mentioned remember the titans. There are 3 things I (and AoN) refer to when running bad, which do you think is the better.??

- Al Pacino in Any given Sunday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk
- Rocky speech to his son - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASVzkrEKgs
- Braveheart to his troops - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ph84kuoypw

lol.

1. I dont know, I'm considering actually buying something nice for myself..but I will probably delay it for another year. Spur of the moment is my only shot of getting it soon.

2. 105 today..90 and under 2.5 years away. The truth hurts.

3. Homesexual - 4% Bisexual - 94%


At the rate of betting lately you'll be felted by September

I just got the itch to post and try being clever/occasionally helping some people. Mostly just to be clever, though.

Pacino speech is great.

Rocky mehh..thinking of that little kid at the end of 4 just tilts me..the way he mouths 'I love you'..what a joke!

Braveheart..what can I say. Favorite part of that movie is the 'hooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllddddd ddddddddddddddd' scene.

But if you were running bad and could only watch one to get you pumped to go again which would you choose???

OR would there be an alternate?

oops..didn't even see the question.

I'd choose Braveheart..but this is my submission:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4GEUkgq1U

Say FTP and Stars merged, so all the high stakes regulars are competing for fish.

You get to pick 5 players and those 5 players can never sit you from now on... who are those players and why?