idk about the stats, but Donuts was the first time I saw music (well, the first time was Toccata, but you know).

I'd love to see a new update from the OP. How are you doing these days, my friend?

omfg

fish on a heater

wow, will you reply if i pm some ?

Like your centered view of the world OP , Really hope you keep posting..

Also I have to add this, Its such a sick thread to read, Such an amazing service for OP to actually bother to write anything to us plebeians about how to approach this game, Then you get all these jealous trolls accusing OP of stuff, or just plain making the thread slightly less enjoyable to read..

OP, Well played. Hope I can learn from you somehow by reading this and thinking about the game with a different view point...

Thanks

OP you're a ****ing beast. I can just imagine you in a god-like relaxed posture, meditating your way through your poker sessions..

Thanks for this thread. Its been an eye opener!

bump

yeah, how things are going nowadays ?

Bump, do you still play poker?

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any update? i remeber reading this thread from the start, very impressive and im sure you have kept up/ are still ahead of the curve

I'm wondering how do you read hands/people without using a hud? how can you pay attention to people's tendencies when you are playing so many tables at once?

Don't know if i'm asking the right question, i guess the real question is, what kind of things do you pay attention to when you are multi tabling without a hud.

Any idea will be welcome.

Why dont u start a topic of this in beginners questions instead of bumping a ancient thread fool

dude was playin hudless in 08 n was prob not even playin that many tables...

dude was playing a few tables and just looking for how they play, what they doings, what they doing the doings with, why they doing what they doing the doings with etc

awesome advice op

Thanks for the advice, I posted a post there.
I posted here because i thought I'd get better opinion here, cos high stake players usually dont go to beginners forum.

can't believe i read this thread from the beggining till now, and was curious to know how op was doing, been that long already?

Haha, this thread brings back some memories, I was 26 when I made this thread and I am 30 and married now.

Things have gone ok I think, at least pokerwise for sure. Certainly much better than I would have hoped for back in 2008. I still post on 2+2 now and then but a bit less. I still play professionally and I think I will for another couple of years at least. I´m sorting out a site / blog thats gonna do free vids soon too get some more interaction /feedback and get to be a bit more creative and have more fun, as professionally the lonely / monotonous aspects of the job are getting to me more and more (unfortunately). Mindfulness is still a large part of my life albeit not as intensely as it was in 2008, and I still feel it´s the best tool / idea any of the major religions or philosophies have given us so far. I´m still trying to cope with stress in poker and life and trying to become as content as I can be with what I have around me. Doing that is way harder than winning > 1 dollar / hand at poker I´ve found, pretty big lesson for me.

Some up-to-date graphs before swithching to pt4 a couple of months back:

Dollars:



Blinds:



Ps. **** me has Photobucket changed in a couple of years, so much smoother.

Wish that was me but this is not true, this isn´t the view one should have of mindfulness, its not realistic. Mindfulness is a tool that can be used in your everyday life for a ton of things like stress, concentration, ethical decisions and even making money by playing poker. That is also the view that´s going to get more and more people, especially young ones, to explore it further.

wow you made a million and amazing red line! and your married too and your in your thirties beating up young kids online! haha look forward to your videos man can't wait to see them

is this all NLHE? or your mixing up some PLO? which game you enjoy more?

Sites?
Stakes?
Hud?
What happened at ~700k hands at graph that you redline started rising?
Graph with wr?

at least you proved to us a million dollars does not buy you happiness... is your social life being affected or something?

A ton, but mostly Ipoker.
All of them over 3/6. Get nervous when wales have been sat at 200/400 but still play and shortstack.
Yes, definitely these days.
I dont know, but something def happened, I actually remember this and have been discussing this w a couple of other people.
The WR graph is below.

Money increases comfort levels, not happiness levels, so as long as your happiness isn´t being affected by a discomfort in your life then money has no bearing on happiness. Thats why all these studies show that making money past 40-50 k / year doesnt impact peoples overall happiness in any significant manner. But it´s individual I guess, and you need to ask yourself how important comfort is to your overall happiness.

On the social thing, well, neglecting friends and social life hasn´t been something I´ve ever even thought about before. Comes with age I guess when you stop taking things for granted as much maybe? It´s really each to their own. Recently moved to inner city Stockholm and now all of a sudden there is so much social activity my volume is being affected, so need to find that stimulation in as many ways as I can really.

Sick.

Please do videos.