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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
I am playing casually, but I don't like to lose and continue to work on my game. I am netting better results live, but my results online have been going backwards for two years.
The games are totally different.
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
Poker is poker.
Again, do not take this the wrong way as I am not trying to insult you, but I cannot begin to tell you how much this shows that you have no idea what you are talking about with regard to online poker.
Poker is not poker other than having the same name. The games are totally different.
Some of the best players for the Omaha DoNs when I was playing those are people I would not stake for 1/2 cent Omaha either live or online. They had no actual poker skill, but they learned and understood how to play a specific format online as if they were a bot.
They would get destroyed at live games. They would get destroyed in most online games, but they found something they could systemically grind and made a good amount while those games lasted.
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
If you spend an hour setting a couple of players up to get them all in and they finally get their entire stack in way behind, I expect to win most of those. This is not happening. Quite the opposite according to my recollection and my hand histories. I am beyond running bad.
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
That was a three dollar rebuy. That will get me a BK triple stack. I am not mad about the money, I am tired of seeing this scenario like a broken record.
You do not play enough to be in the long term, and if you used database programs you could prove or disprove what you are selectively remembering. If you won that JJ hand and lost with some other bad beat later on all you would remember is the bad beat.
Yesterday in the Omaha 8 rebuy MTT I played for over 7 hours then lost to a solid player on the final table when he misclicked pre-flop and then got fairly lucky (he was just over a 2-1 underdog which is hard to do in that game pre-flop). Instead of being one of the chip leaders with 6 left I was instead crippled with 7 left. **** happens. Get over it.
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
I have not uninstalled Pokerstars yet because I have a home game group there and I like Josem, the customer service team and the site. I am going to play on Stars casually for a small amount of money to keep tracking more hand histories and to see if things turn around. If I am improving as a player and continuing to see even better results live in the next couple of years, and don't see the same online at Stars, it will be time to send Stars to the recycle bin also.
Play online for fun and casually with money that means nothing to you and you will enjoy it. I cannot even begin to tell you how unprepared you are to grind online at this time, and I have the experience in evaluating thousands of players at this time so I really know what I am talking about and I am not being arrogant for the sake of being arrogant as I do at times to some riggies and OCD shills.
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
Again, I am not trying to insult you, quite the opposite. You are a smart guy with a way to beat online poker for reasonable amount of money. That is something to be proud of. You put yourself out there without any reservation and I respect that.
Ironically, my play is what I call "casual grinding" now which has some benefits as being a casual grinder means one can whine about losing and can trash talk in the chat and all sorts of other activities. When I was seriously grinding I would play about eight times my current volume and would have chat off and would not even notice or care about the all ins I would lose, I would simply open another tournament.
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
I have been through plenty of variance live. I have been playing live 2 nights and one full weekend day a week for more than 8 years. This includes Week long Vegas trips yearly where all I do is play and sleep.
Your advice is good, but it may not be for the reason you think it is though. No insult or sarcasm intended here seriously.
This is not me in trash talk or messing with riggies or OCD shill mode. This is me in my business mode in between looking over some solid stake apps and ones that were the following:
playingHistory:
Ive played for 4 years now, mostly live cash games, got into sit n gos because I believe theyre the best way to start out winning money when you start with a very low bankroll. Ive gone bust twice online because of my ego, someone, I challenge someone to a nlh hu cash game with my whole bankroll and lose because I was steaming, I have controlled that though and plan to disable the chat so that wont happen again. I truly believe I have talent for the game and know quite a bit from experience and reading.
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from the 2 plus 2 forums (thanks 2+2...)
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because my mother already gave me 50 dollars in her credit card, i lost it because of bad bankroll management and she wont give me another penny for poker.
Many applicants are not an easy yes or as in the case above a fairly easy no, rather they are ones which require assessing whether the player is mentally ready and has the skills to do poker as a long term career, and Donko for now you simply do not have the emotional fortitude to do that online and it is not even close.
Again, this is in no way a put down, because online poker as a job is not for everyone (just like any other job), but the way you talk about the activity is the way a rank amateur talks about any activity without understanding the complexity of what it takes to succeed at it. That is in part why those that have "it" can succeed, because much of their competition will never understand what "it" ever is.
You have a thing going live that you enjoy so use that as the foundation for creating a proper poker business plan, and have online poker as a fun "screwing around" aspect of it both for money and time, and if you do that then you will no longer get upset when your fancy JJ play fails. Instead you will actually have fun with the online stuff (without worrying about whether you are up or down a few cheeseburgers), while maintaining your focus on the live games.
If you have time then work a gimmick in here because all of the other gimmicks have totally sucked.
Back to the applications, so that is it for me tonight.
Best of luck.