Yes, you're right. I hit a really bad downswing (proportional to my BR) recently and was very surprised at how much it affected me psychologically, so I'm probably more emotionally involved in the subject than I should be; sorry for overreacting.

I think that when you've been as high as Lars has, playing 10/20 on euro sites is similar to a UFC champion going back to beating up 6th grade bullies.

The way I felt when it happened to me was that something had broken in my brain, chemically speaking, just as you would rip a muscle or tendon/ligament.
I think some of these psychological shocks can be so harsh on the psyche that you never fully recover from the trauma and are always more fragile afterwards than you were before it happened, just as you'd never fully recover from an extremely bad ligament/tendon rupture, etc...

I think that because the brain is a lot less tangible from most people's perspectives, they don't think of it this way, but I think there's actually no difference in how harshly either can be damaged in terms of traumatic impact.

Because it's something that's now happened to me, albeit on a smaller scale, this type of phenomenon is much more integrated in my perception of the game.
As such, I truly feel bad for guys like Lars, who clearly got hurt beyond what he could handle at that level of competition.
On the other hand, I understand better the incredible level of resilience of someone like Blom, who's borderline not human in that respect.

It's just how poker game has changed, a lot of old nosebleed regs are now playing midstakes or lower highstakes. It is probably very tough mentally, but I'm sure they all are intelligent guys so (most of them) can probably somehow rationalize that and realize that even crushing 10/20 games means they make like top 0.1 percentile income.

For example ex_noose/WaterIntoWine who was crushing Party/Prima days winning millions was recently looking for a stake to play mid/highstakes PLO (25/50 and lower)... (he didn't actually lose his money playing poker, just sportbetting etc)

Sure, but I was talking about a different point in time, during which he had plenty of opportunities to come back, so the whole Monaco thing is irrelevant to what I was saying, which is what I felt ok pointing to since you were directly replying to my post.

Also, the whole Monaco thing is still irrelevant, given how PA lives in Monaco, Gus lives in Monaco, etc...and how anyone with half a brain can easily get around the problem (VPN's, etc...)
If .50/1 grinders can do it, Sami can do it.

So Isildur up quite a bit, isn't this usually the part where his nemesis turns up?

From a Finnish blog

Probably no need to translate. 89M HKD is 11,4M USD$

Isils high variance style is dangerous to play against...palmer will be back on the tables today most likely...did isil retire from hsnl?

sick sick

would be f sick to know how much is durr up overall from macao

Really great to see Matt Hawrilenko back at the top of the winning board wish he goes back to limit holdem and takes down the german holy trinity

Scott Palmer
last 2days lost around 1.1m on stars ran abt 700k under ev and missed in every 4bet pot and ran into the top part of everyones range
1 hour 42 minutes ago

http://twitter.com/urnotindanger2

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Wow that's the sickest HSDB live page I've seen since '09.

Isildur up $1.03m
Galfond up $470k
Blopp up $430k
gavz up $372k
urubu up $3.2k

pretty impressive for the 2p2'ers

Palmer down 1.2m
Gus Hansen who was down $300k crushes southside1 for $256k

When does Blom turn 21? I just want him to keep some money around to play the live TV cash games.

Okay so when I went to bed Isildur had about 30k or something left on the tables, I get up this morning and he's +495k on HSDB.


Ummm wat just happened

He's 21 in autumn this year. Late september I think.

I think he turns 21 some time later in the fall.

Would be amazing seeing him tangle with Durrrr especially, but are there any televised cash games where both ftp and stars pros are invited nowadays?

i was in monaco when ft.fr 1st appeared and there was a lot of confusion. their support made it clear that i can have both ft.com and ft.fr accounts at the same time

Originally Posted by rakebackhero
So are you guys saying that isildur1 only had 6k$ left in his account and had it one one 100/200 PLO table and now has 700k spread? or did I misunderstand?
Originally Posted by DontGoAway
Sorry for asking again, but I don't know if I get it right:

So after winning 620k from urnot playing 300/900, they played again PLO HU 100/200. I railed to the point where Isildur was stuck 420k and left, but came back some minutes later to play with his last 35k or so. Then I g2g. What happenend since then?


Answer: They played 2 tables at first and then Viktor won some back so they could 4 table, they even went 6 tables but then urnot felted isi till he only had 6k left on 1 table. From that point on blom never looked back. Ran the 6k up to 105k in less than 30mins and then they started multitabling with isildur on a heater and winning back all losses from previous hs and he is in the black as we speak. That's pretty much the cliffs.



The above was when Isi was up 50k (he started stuck 450 then won 500k).

The session ended hs later with isildur having close to a million in his account.

And no I am not full of it, he did ran 6k up to a million in 8-9hs. He is the king for a reason

wow just wow! when I left Isil was being felted by urnot and it was getting pretty hard to watch. I was pretty sure Isildur was gonna end up -800k for the day or something.

crazy 24hrs thats for sure

Mother of god. I want to see him run it up into MOAR, hope he doesn't degen it off again.

any cliffs on yesterdays action?
I left when Isi was down like 400k to urnotindangr at 100/200...
think they started fresh tables, what happened?

amen !


the King is back ! Long live the King !

From the February High Stakes Thread:

are you even serious? you have eyes don't you, the cliffs are even on the same page as your post !

xD Biggest fluke/read of my life

I wrote that when he lost a 60k pot and I thought he went busto, then I saw he had 6k left, did the edit and 8hs later I am happy it came trough

Are we proud to include isildur to the 2p2'ers now? He does have like two posts...