1) i think the climate for online poker is gradually improving compared to where we were a few years ago. traffic is steadily growing on every site. since fundamentalists no longer run america, and people are going to play poker and gamble online if that's what they want to do, the government will have to wake up and not let our rights be infringed upon. i'm not too worried about the UIGEA, it seems unenforceable to me.

as for O8, i don't see it becoming widely popular or anything without some exposure on tv. i see a lot of new faces popping in and out of the tables, though, which is encouraging. i hold the opinion that if you want the games to grow, you need to start them. it pisses me off when i see some reg sitting HU, i join the game, and they immediately sit out. people aren't going to sit in a game where no one is playing, i don't get why these regs are bumhunting at a full ring table.

2) i intend to, it's just a matter of me finding the motivation and being willing to move down stakes to learn the game. the ceiling for plo8 is very low in comparison, since the games die at the 5/10 level, and even that game is hit or miss. i earn a really nice living playing small and midstakes plo8 but if i ever want to be a balla balla millionaire ill have to switch over.

3) wont answer

"limp called a huge raise pre w/ 22QQ"

man, i highly doubt it. ive been in college and haven't had a real job since 2006. the idea of using an alarm clock to wake up, not enjoying my occupation, living in a middle class death trap, just makes me feel gross. im pretty much sabotaging myself of ever having a normal career with this huge gap in my employment history, but that's something i hopefully won't have to worry about down the road.

ub has surprisingly decent traffic. cake's dying imo, which is sad, the site used to be my stomping grounds.

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im pretty sure in pot limit games the dealer can tell you how much is in the pot, unlike nlhe for example. i dunno though since i play live like 3x a year.

You can just say "pot" and the dealer will announce how much it is. At times, if not paying attention, i've found myself surprised at how large "pot" really is...

Shaq, dude, this is fairly optimistic assumption of where poker can take you. good luck and stack that loot..

yea I was just kinda making fun of the fact that I think most of us plo8 players only play that game online and have the luxury of not having to think about that. I know for me I would need alot of help from the dealer

You are given $1000 and have to turn it into $5k in 24 hours. If you fail you must work a 70 hour week in a job you hate for a month. How do you go about it to achieve success most often? Doesn't have to be playing poker, but can't get a loan from a friend etc

Best hand you ever played/worst hand you ever played?

If you had to move from online to live because of uigea or something what do you think you would do? where do you think you would end up? What game would you focus on?

Whats the closest youve come to death?

Whats the craziest thing youve ever done?

Have you ever been arrested?

Bonus prize if all 3 of these can be answered by the same wild event ;-)

1) Play 3 tables of 1/2 until I have 2K
2) Move up to 2/4 3/6 until I have about 3k
3) Play 5/10 for the rest. Pray I run good.

I don't think I'd ever move to live because of the uigea.. I'd probably just go to Canada or Europe.

I don't think I've ever come "really" close to dying or anything.. most of my near death experiences were likely due to alcohol poisoning. One time I was driving on a rural highway in Indiana right after a snow storm, and I hit a big patch of snow and my car did a complete 180 with a semi coming towards me in oncoming traffic. I obv used my mad stunt driving skillz to avoid a collision.

Craziest thing - Man I'm a pretty risk averse person so I don't have a lot of crazy experiences. Back in high school, during the height of "Jackass," my friends and I would go around and make videos of us doing stupid ****. One time we found a frozen dead deer and put a leash on it. This thing was gross, it looks like some resident evil ****. Anyway my friends were hiding in the trees videotaping while I took this dead frozen deer and flagged down cars, frantically asking "can you please help me, someone hit my dog." This prank went well until I flagged down an undercover police car. That was a fun situation to explain to my parents.

We also used to put up signs on the Taco Bell drive thru window, that said "intercom not working, please pull forward to order" "tell a racist joke and get free cinnatwists" "honk 10 times for our 10th anniversary and get a free grande meal." I'm pretty sure we nearly drove that Taco Bell out of business.

Never been arrested.

I once blew my entire bodog bankroll at their stupid online roulette tables, obv black out drunk on skol vodka. Ahh college.

Last summer I threw my buddy's stool threw his screen door cuz I had the under in some WNBA game and one of the amazons hit some miracle half court shot to send the game into OT. His girlfriends' friends could not understand why I was so upset about a WNBA game.

If you had to choose between:

Smart or good looking

Light beer or IPA

Jaywalk or cross at the light

which would it be, and also,

If you had the choice to give up playing cards and doing something else (and assuming this were a magical choice, and you would be given the ability to be good at whatever you chose) what would you give up cards for?

I enjoy your posts, thanks for sharing.

Regards

Gar

1.Favourite place in the world?

2.Place you want to see before you die?

Great story. LMAO.

I don't really remember details of hands I play, but I'm always happy with myself when I throw in a check raise on the river when I know I've got someone quartered, or when I fold to a check raise when I know some nitty reg has me quartered.

Smart AND good looking. A Michelle Malkin type. (just kidding, for some reason i always end up dating girls that look like lisa loeb though)

I pretty much only drink cheap light beer, when I'm drinking beer. I've tried to become a beer snob but high brow beers are way too filling, and i'm usually only drinking beer with the intent of getting wasted. Liquor is another story altogether though, I will only drink top shelf. My last ballin liquor purchase was this:



Jaywalking, I don't know anyone who's gone to school that ever pays attention to cross lights.

If I could give up cards and do whatever I wanted to do, I'd probably be an astronaut or a nature filmmaker or something, someone that gets to see all corners of the world. I just watched the Disney Earth documentary on Blu Ray and just kept thinking "holy **** it would be awesome to see this stuff in real life."

It's a tie between Allen Fieldhouse and Wrigley Field. To get an idea of the atmosphere inside Allen Fieldhouse, watch this vid. And there's something about walking up the concourse at Wrigley field and seeing the ivy for the first time in the summer that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside (besides all the whiskey i've smuggled into the park in a flask tied to my leg).

Before I die, I want to smoke a blunt on top of a mountain or something.

the 'happy' toward the folding to the c/r by the nitty reg...is it tempered because you bet rather than checked behind??

just curious. my impression is that you have a personality that is suited to poker, do you agree? do you work on 'psychological' aspects of your game?

not really, i don't see the point of checking behind the nut low in a heads up pot, esp against a nit who can get blown off a hand. bet/calling your stack off against a nit can just be spew sometimes however.

i work very diligently on my psychological approach to poker. the ability to keep your emotions in check and having the self-awareness of your own state of mind are the most important skillsets for a professional. if you can identify when you are beginning to tilt, you also have the ability stop yourself from tilting. i have a membership to all the poker training sites, which might sound stupid because i play plo8 exclusively and theres almost no content on this game out there, but i'm a member for their psychological videos. jered tendler's series on cardrunners and tommy angelo's series on deucescracked are the best, especially tommy angelo's.

the best piece of anti-tilting advice i've heard in these series' is to just remove yourself from the moment. when we tilt, we have a 1-track mind which says "i'm pissed off, i'm gonna raise this *******, i'm gonna shove this flop, etc." we're completely lost in our own anger, and we don't have the self-awareness to realize it (even if we do, many of us ignore it). the easiest way to stop yourself from tilting is to just get up from the computer, get away from the moment, and just go do something else, even for 5 minutes. you'll come back to the tables feeling refreshed and playing much closer to your A game than you were before. if you're not sure that you'll remember to get up from the computer, put a post-it note on your monitor.

Not hard to accomplish.

Depends upon the mountain.

I think nature is a little bit like poker, it looks easy on TV. It takes years of filming and waiting to get all those beautiful shots. So going out to experience nature can be like TV poker, often the real experience isn't very similar to what you saw on TV.