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05-17-2009 , 08:08 PM
Are there any winning players older than the camel?
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05-17-2009 , 08:14 PM
My question is if you have AQo and you put your opponent on 77+, J10, A10-AK, or 29s and the flop comes rainbow... what are the odds that people are going to keep congratulating you on the baby when your wife isn't pregnant?
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05-17-2009 , 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by PrimordialAA
haha the baby was a sham, really, I WISH I was having a baby, nothing would make me happier atm, but it's not the case , marriage is for real tho!
Shouldn't have skim read your well.. apologies (sure you'll be working on the baby thing soon enough tho!)
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05-17-2009 , 08:16 PM
congrats on your baby primo!
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05-17-2009 , 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by DntCaltACmBk
My question is if you have AQo and you put your opponent on 77+, J10, A10-AK, or 29s and the flop comes rainbow... what are the odds that people are going to keep congratulating you on the baby when your wife isn't pregnant?
Close to 100%
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05-17-2009 , 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by another_rack
Are there any winning players older than the camel?
Ray Rahme.... hahahahahaha jk (he's not a winning player ;p;p)


ok seriously, I promise later tonight i'll get back to actual questions in the thread ;p
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05-17-2009 , 08:26 PM
Primo:


I lived in Budapest during 2008. Close to Oktogon on Andrassy. Where did you live? You speak magyar?
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05-17-2009 , 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by KexChoklad123
Primo:


I lived in Budapest during 2008. Close to Oktogon on Andrassy. Where did you live? You speak magyar?
sickkk, I DONT speak much now since I left, I lived on Kiraly Utca, like RIGHt past the KFC on the right hand side (door past the strip club), so literally 1 stop over from u
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05-17-2009 , 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by PrimordialAA
sickkk, I DONT speak much now since I left, I lived on Kiraly Utca, like RIGHt past the KFC on the right hand side (door past the strip club), so literally 1 stop over from u
Cool, I know where you lived I lived on Lovag utca, between McDonalds/Burger King and West End City Centre. Bp is a sick place
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05-17-2009 , 09:12 PM
First off let me say you seem to be a classy individual for being at such a young age and the money you make. I also really enjoy the videos you make for the sites you are on, and thank you for that.

1st question: You mention your first "ah-ha" moment was in Vegas talking with your roommates and they opened your eyes on board texture, etc. Can you expand on this on a bit of specifics? Doesn't have to be too long.

2nd question: You seem pretty good at many things you try to accomplish Magic, Quake, Poker etc. You think poker was easier for you cause your naturally talented in most things you do?

Probably a few more after High Stake Poker here.
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05-17-2009 , 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Sanokun
1) Which poker software/site do you use and like?


Pokerstars, almost 100%, much prefer it to other current software


2) Does it ever worry you that poker will become unprofitable in the future and you'll have to go out and find a job without a college degree and have to support a mortgage, wife, and baby?

Nope, not one bit
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05-17-2009 , 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by TakeHerOnACruise
- Do you make financial plans and investments with a view that poker may not be profitable within a few years


Have always wanted to, but currently have not, my goals in order now are house -> family -> invest / open some sort of business for a side income outside of poker


- Do you have any plans to go back to college or go for the first time at all? If so what subjects would you like to study? (apologies if you've been or graduated)


I might finish my last year of my Computer Science degree at some point, but at the current time I don't have any plans to do so


- How do you find it telling people you are a professional poker player? Do you think that being a pro has had a negative impact on the way someone has viewed you or the outcome of any relationship/situation where being a pro could have possibly had such an influence.


I have found it to be relatively easy and don't think telling anybody has really changed much as long as I have time to explain some common misconceptions about it, etc.

However one of my uncles is VERY against it and kind of just thinks i'm some crazy degenerate and will go bust at any second even tho the rest of my family / relatives are super cool and understanding about it. So I know how that side of it can be



- Where would you start teaching someone who is completely new to poker with a view to becoming a winning small stakes hu sng player? (really need help with this one)


Yea, I have done this on multiple accounts with family members / friends


- If things went tits up with your partner do you think that would be enough to stop you from playing poker? If not what sort of temporary or long term effects do you anticipate such an unfortunate event would have on your poker playing ability?


I'm really not sure, it def. wouldn't stop me long term, but I might take a good long break or spend an extended time of super low volume, can't really say though


- What sort of range are you calling a min raise with in 10/20 vs an unknown at stakes $50 and below. Why?


most suited cards, T9o+, decent aces, J9o+, etc., but as their frequency changes this obv changes


- Any software other than SNG wizard, popop replayer and pokerstove that you would reccomend for someone looking to improve on their game?


None really, I don't use anything else, but I've heard Tournament Manager and Hold'em Manager can both be useful


- How do you setup before a session, how do you prepare?


I generally wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, start the comp, check my email and 2p2 and HUSNG.com, load up stars / AIM / MSN / Skype and open up some tables and go... pretty simple overall


- How would you say is the best way to improve at HU SNG?


2p2, vids, HH reviews, chatting with people about poker all help you start to get the right mentality, and then you just need to think about it as deeply as you possibly can on decisions and adaptions, I think just not auto-piloting and TRULY thinking about your opp / ranges / adaptions / etc., is going to make you improve the most the fastest


- The best fold or call you've ever made

No idea... I made some pretty sick ones in that 3k live tourney in San Remo, but nothing I remember really =/, sry
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05-17-2009 , 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Freakg
Whats your favorite hand?


Always liked 97dd


Whats wrong with me if i am 18% roi on the 10-11s over 147 hu and -8% roi on the 20-22s over 144 hu? Is just variance? Is due to a small sample size? I dont think is scared money cause i played both with over 50 buyins


Nothing, super small samples in both of them, the skill diff. over those levels should not be even CLOSE to such a big difference of skill


Best advice in how to handle the mental side of husng? and poker in general?

Truly understand the relevance of variance and sample sizes, there shouldn't be so much mental strain if you keep your ego in check
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05-17-2009 , 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by lenasrokas
1. your favorite movies top5?


omfg I have no clue, im a HUGE movie fan but I have no clue what I could put as my top 5, Shawshank Redemption is a great movie and could be near my top though


2. your favorite music style/favorite band and favorite song?

Again, HUGE music fan, I go to a ton of concerts and like everything but Country (even tho I don't listen to that much Jazz/Blues I don't mind it), my favorite style is Rock, and my favorite band has always been Tool but I listen to a SUPER wide variety of music

3. your favorite book?


Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series
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05-17-2009 , 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DntCaltACmBk
My question is if you have AQo and you put your opponent on 77+, J10, A10-AK, or 29s and the flop comes rainbow... what are the odds that people are going to keep congratulating you on the baby when your wife isn't pregnant?
rofl obv 100%, and it's not even close
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05-17-2009 , 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by KexChoklad123
Cool, I know where you lived I lived on Lovag utca, between McDonalds/Burger King and West End City Centre. Bp is a sick place
yea bp is awsome dude, can't wait to go back
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05-17-2009 , 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by PrimordialAA
yea bp is awsome dude, can't wait to go back
You go for EPT or Bp Open? Or only for the girls
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05-17-2009 , 10:37 PM
one time you said you would sit next to people on a plane and tell them you play poker for a living, and by the end of the flight they would often change their minds about the stigma of poker. i was curious what kinds of things you said to them?

also, do you tell people about how much money you gamble? like gambling 10k in a day isn't even that abnormal. sometimes i want to tell people about my day, but i feel weird talking about that kind of money. and i think people get the wrong idea. like people might think something like "oh he played poker for 10k today. he must have an extra 10k to play with" or "he played poker for 10k. he must be some kind of addict or something."
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05-17-2009 , 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by r1tony
First off let me say you seem to be a classy individual for being at such a young age and the money you make. I also really enjoy the videos you make for the sites you are on, and thank you for that.

1st question: You mention your first "ah-ha" moment was in Vegas talking with your roommates and they opened your eyes on board texture, etc. Can you expand on this on a bit of specifics? Doesn't have to be too long.


We did a bunch of exercises where we would play each other HU (me and cwar) and show each other our hands after every single hand... so it turned the whole exercise into a huge leveling war, and I was just doing std. donk cbetting like 100% and cwar was just stomping me at first, and he explained the basic concept, of how even a small ck/raise on K 7 2 board basically forced me to either have a hand or not, or risk a huge % of my stack to play back at it, and I had always been pretty natural and hand reading in general, but just basic board-textures, when peoples ranges are super polar, etc., is stuff that I was just not thinking deeply about enough at all, although it seems pretty simple, it opened my eyes alot


2nd question: You seem pretty good at many things you try to accomplish Magic, Quake, Poker etc. You think poker was easier for you cause your naturally talented in most things you do?


I definently think it helped me, I was pretty good at poker very qucikly, but all of the things you listed are things I loved alot and were something I spent a ton of time on just because I enjoyed it, and that has hindered me a TONNNN in poker before I went pro at had to take it much more seriously, because a ton of times I would play poker to be profitable, and good, and make $$$, but after that, when I was bored Poker was my entertainment, again, distressed, in a bad mood, or whatever and would still play, I could never treat it strictly as a job, and it's cost me more $$$ than I could ever possibly count (not to mention how long it held me back from moving up in stakes and the equity it cost me there)


Probably a few more after High Stake Poker here.
lemme know when you have more, or if u need any clarifications
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05-17-2009 , 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by KexChoklad123
You go for EPT or Bp Open? Or only for the girls
haha, I was there to study at first, lived there for like 9 months, and then stayed a second semester just for my gf and just hung out and played poker and enoyed the city, w000t @ tropicana / Las Vegas casinos... LOLOL ;p, that PL game is the nuts ;p;p
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05-17-2009 , 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
one time you said you would sit next to people on a plane and tell them you play poker for a living, and by the end of the flight they would often change their minds about the stigma of poker. i was curious what kinds of things you said to them?

also, do you tell people about how much money you gamble? like gambling 10k in a day isn't even that abnormal. sometimes i want to tell people about my day, but i feel weird talking about that kind of money. and i think people get the wrong idea. like people might think something like "oh he played poker for 10k today. he must have an extra 10k to play with" or "he played poker for 10k. he must be some kind of addict or something."
I typically just talk about it in terms people can understand, I say Poker the way we play it isn't really a gamble, you establish a 'ROI or Return On Investment' and generally after 1,000 games you have a pretty good idea of what your ROI will be over a long term, i've played over 20,000 games so my ROI is basically a certainty (within reason), meaning if I have a 10% ROI, every time I risk $200 I make $20 from that, I typically play 20-30 games a day at X limit, so over the long run, I would make $X (I don't always say the limits I play, I typically use $100s for easy math), but sometimes they ask and i'm obv fine with it to tell them exact figures, but just basic stuff like that, I try to make them see it in a term of investment kind of, once we find out our ROI it's just playing X games = $XXX in the long run, etc., and I find people understand this pretty easily
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05-17-2009 , 11:25 PM
What if you're a steak jumping degen like Filthy?
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05-17-2009 , 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by PrimordialAA
haha, I was there to study at first, lived there for like 9 months, and then stayed a second semester just for my gf and just hung out and played poker and enoyed the city, w000t @ tropicana / Las Vegas casinos... LOLOL ;p, that PL game is the nuts ;p;p
Your girlfriend is from Bp? Hungarian girls are very nice. I have so many nice memories from Rudas Romkert

As far as I know, all cashgames now are in the clubs. Tropicana never has any games and Las Vegas runs one table, daytime only, Mon-Fri with 50 000 forint buy in, texas hold em. I got very disappointed in the casinos there.

There is an internet cafe 10m around the corner from Burger King on Andrassy, I think they will never forget me. Ask them about the english speaking swede who came there every day in Nov 2008. My internet didnt work in my flat. That month was all about destroying 5-10 while eating Aranygaluska and when I got sick of it I went girlhunting in the clubs. I think every man needs to experience Bp girls at least once That month is still my biggest winning streak ever, those were the days
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05-17-2009 , 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by KexChoklad123
Your girlfriend is from Bp? Hungarian girls are very nice. I have so many nice memories from Rudas Romkert

As far as I know, all cashgames now are in the clubs. Tropicana never has any games and Las Vegas runs one table, daytime only, Mon-Fri with 50 000 forint buy in, texas hold em. I got very disappointed in the casinos there.

There is an internet cafe 10m around the corner from Burger King on Andrassy, I think they will never forget me. Ask them about the english speaking swede who came there every day in Nov 2008. My internet didnt work in my flat. That month was all about destroying 5-10 while eating Aranygaluska and when I got sick of it I went girlhunting in the clubs. I think every man needs to experience Bp girls at least once That month is still my biggest winning streak ever, those were the days

nah she is french but was also studying there , Budapest is truly a great place dude, such a cool city to live in, I really would love to go back for a couple months , i'll never forget my time there
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05-17-2009 , 11:39 PM
I miss those long escalators out of the subway in BP, especially behind the girls with the short shorts in summer.
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