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Originally Posted by Majestical
With the added pressure of a wife & two kids, how do you separate yourself from the money being important while at the tables in order to play your best game?
It really seems like a stupid mental block for me so I'm curious of your thought processes since you're playing to support your family.
So my company went under/I got laid off about one week before we were set to move into a new house—worst timing ever (or so it seemed at the time; as in all things, I see now it was part of God’s plan, for if I had gotten the axe two weeks later, we’d be living in a much more expensive house on just one income and living in a city with no support system, no friends, etc. So it wound up being great timing!)
Anyway, when the sale fell apart, we got our Earnest Money back, and THAT was my bankroll.
At the start I assumed I would be a break-even or (possibly) slightly winning player, and was just treating poker as something to do doing 9 to 5 while I was between jobs. (I assumed I would only be out of work for a couple weeks, a month at most. Not…4 months.)
When I discovered that the games were waaay softer than I ever imagined, and that I was actually crushing them, well, THAT’S when I started entertaining the possibility of treating poker as an actual job, and THAT’S when it became miserable to me.
But even though the money I make goes into our joint account to pay for the mortgage and groceries and etc, I’m still able to treat the chips as just a system of keeping score. It’s the biggest reason why I win—I bluff so much, my profit is all redline.
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Do you study at all? If so, what do you find the best for beating 1/3 confidently?
I'm an avid listener to CLP, sub to several vloggers & read the live strategy forum here regularly.
I don’t really study. It sounds like I do the same as you do: I read Upswing, I watch the YouTube “play and explain” videos, etc. I very strongly believe that I am *not* great at poker: I’m merely an above average player who happens to have found a casino where almost every player is incredibly bad. If I played NL50 online I am absolutely certain I would lose money.