Reading this thread makes me really happy I chose to join Stoxpoker and not Cardrunners. Great month, Dusty!

QFT

apparently it's easier to criticize... my stoxpoker decision was easy... acer comes across badly here... CR as a whole shouldn't be criticized tho...

Dusty is table selection really a huge part of your game when you are getting in 150k hands a month? It seems like you must be playing at less than ideal tables a fair amount just to get that many hands in.

wow leatherass > lolotrickedu

I do what I can, but you are right in that I am often sitting in a table or two or three that isn't that good. A lot of people think that my high WR is attributable to good game selection, but at the same time that I will admit my game selection is strong, I am also ten tabling which is definitely a WR killer.

I game select well only in that I won't sit if everyone is a pro or the only spot is like 1/3 stacked and I would be OOP on him. Sadly, the games are very tough at 10/20 and up. Even the spots are often not really that terrible. If there is a player that has at least 1/2 a buy in at 10/20 or 25/50 and he isn't a pro, I will generally sit. So if that makes me a game selection nit then so be it. I just feel like I have better things to do with my time than pass money around with a bunch of other pros and pay rake while I do it. I have no idea why people do this. I often hear from them that the reason is that they want to play against the best to improve their game. I have played tens of thousands of hands with most of the best players in the world and have learned from them, but I just make sure a fish is there. You don't have to play only against the best to challenge yourself against the best. Anyway, that's my little rant on that.

Frankly, I have no idea how you're going to try and play the ME without having a meltdown over being dealt 25 hands an hour

LA, how many hands/hour do you get?

I thought it was about 900 hands.

I want to see a prop bet if Ace can gargle leatherass piss for 20 minutes

ouch!

what if doing so could make you run that well over the long haul???

Nice post Good2CU.

Also, since when did game selection become a bad thing? I must have missed something.

alcohol my friend. And lots of it

I don't really mean to criticize Cardrunners as a whole. But, LA is doing a much better job of properly representing Stox than Ace is doing for CR. I'd rather spend money with a company with friendly empoyees/instructors than abrasive, arrogant ones. It doesn't matter if I'm buying poker instruction or anything else. Ace comes off bad here and makes CR look bad by association.

I didn't know Ace was an instructor at CR. What's his real name?

"It just reads like immaturity to me. In a few years many of the guys who bag on you today will probably email you privately and apologize." Ed Miller on stoxpoker. I tend to believe that this guy know what he's talking about, for one reason or another. LOL

nice job leatherass, you are not the spot when i sit at the table for sure

[ ] Ace & CR

[x] Dusty & Stoxpoker

[ ] Ace takes LA up on bet

link? I tried to find it but couldnt...

I stand corrected. He apparantly is only a blogger there. I've seen him post a few times in the cardrunners forum and assumed his screenname meant more of an association than it does.

I have posted so many different screen shots in this thread and I am about to leave to go to Stoxtrader's house for a week, so I thought that since I won't have access to my computer for awhile, I would just post the total screen shot for the last 12 months ish. I used to be somewhat guarded of all the numbers and whatever, but everyone I play against knows me by now so I don't think it will hurt me. Also note that about 500k of these hands at at 3/6 and below. Anyway here it is....

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Here is the graph. As you can see there is a lot of funky variance in there. Crazy stuff.


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I tried to get as many of my main games as possible in the PT screenshot, but it doesn't let you display all 45 levels...lol.

+1

try grinding .5/1. seriously $1k is a lot to most people. I'd honestly be very satisfied making $250k/yr at 5/10 and i'm sure 90% or more of the population would be too.

and LA made over a mil in 12 months. i'd say 99.9% of people would be just fine with that.

it just so happens that hes not gonna 'try grinding .5/1'... ducy?

LOL, OMFG this had me cracking up for a while.

Ive always just thought of Ace as a CR member and not a CR pro. Hes never made a vid so no reason to see him as anything other than just a member imo.