I've read the book (3 times actually) and both you and you wife talk about how to tell others what you do for a living, my question is how and when did you tell your wife's parents? What was their initial reaction to their little girl marrying a professional "gambler"?
The PoolBoy said:
The best point I can make is that I feel that cash games have more money in it and less variance. For those reasons I play cash games. I have a chapter about this in my book, Treat Your Poker Like A Business http://www.dustyschmidt.net
bubonicplay said:
#318
1. Sticking with my "copout" answer 🙂
2. The number of potential pros will be consistent with what the market will bear I believe.
11. I trust the owner of http://www.Dragthebar.com Hunter Bick, who only hires coaches whose results can be verified by PTR ratings. The other sites are rolling the dice expecting their members to simply trust that someone is a winning player with no actual proof. The problem for many of the sites coaches is that they can't beat the games either and verifying the results only makes them look worse.
12. I think they are. I do transfers all the time but will never transfer first except to great friends.
13. Sounds good to me!
14. I don't have an account on UB and have no desire to create one.
15. Spend it with my family and maybe play a round of golf or two.
16. Well. probably 51/49 given that I would just buy insurance and take an immediate profit!! In the spirit of your question though, knowing that I would probably have 9 million people willing to stake me if I went bust, I would probably say I would do it if it was 95/5. I can understand the argument that says you should take it at a much worse rate, but I am probably pretty conservative.
17. Not much. 55/45 I would flip someone for $5,000 maybe. I may not even want to do that unless we were flipping like 1,000 times.
18. Apple
19. chocolate
20. Golf for sure because I make lots of moniez playing poker 🙂
21. I admire him for most of the same things. I will still root for him for sure. But I will no longer hope that I have a son that turns out like Tiger or any grand visions like that. I used to think that Tiger truly was an incredibly special person, but now it seems like the whole things was a facade.
jaymfc said:
1. I would try both and see what works. And I know this sounds like a shameless plug but I really do think you should read my book. When I wrote it I was only hoping that people would enjoy the book and get something out of it, but the responses I have gotten have been so positive that I feel confident in saying that I can be certain you will not regret your purchase. The book has been highly well received and I have had tons of people write me telling me they have started making tons of money since they read my book. Give it a shot http://www.dustyschmidt.net
I think personal coaching can be a great thing as well, but finding a coach you connect with can be tough. And typically you will be paying at least $100 for any decent poker coach so I would be really shocked if you would find 20 something minutes with a poker coach (which would cost you about $40) more valuable than my entire 204 page book (which is also $40).
2. I have played with him online, but that is about it.
3. Well if they went off of looks you wouldn't want to learn anything from me lol.
Handicap in golf is about a +3
Received the book / Some Feedback, please
Hi Dusty, I received the book today I will start to read tonight, it was fast, even faster than Amazon! I am from Portugal and I waited no more than 2 weeks.
This is my 3rd post and I did not have any feedback from you, hope you can make some comment on my last post (this one).
I am a SNG player, I play following the 100 buy in rule and I play micro stakes for now as a hobby (I have a family and a full time job during the day). When I started playing poker I was a losing player, and I lost about $110. On the last 3 months I begin to study teh game and my game improved a lot and I increased my bankroll in more than 60%. I made a promise to myself to never ever deposit again and my last deposit was on last summer.
If you check my data on sharkscope, my nick is "lmagalhaes" and I play on Pokerstars, you can see that I made a big recovery on my "debt" and I am almost break even.
Your book comes in a better time because I am right now facing a downswing (6 games in a row without cashing), I am getting some bad beats along the way.
Anyway, thanks Dusty I will read your book and I hope one day can write or talk to you personal to say that your book changed my life and my game. I hope in that day I have my financial freedom.
Cheers.
Hi Dusty, I received the book today I will start to read tonight, it was fast, even faster than Amazon! I am from Portugal and I waited no more than 2 weeks.
This is my 3rd post and I did not have any feedback from you, hope you can make some comment on my last post (this one).
I am a SNG player, I play following the 100 buy in rule and I play micro stakes for now as a hobby (I have a family and a full time job during the day). When I started playing poker I was a losing player, and I lost about $110. On the last 3 months I begin to study teh game and my game improved a lot and I increased my bankroll in more than 60%. I made a promise to myself to never ever deposit again and my last deposit was on last summer.
If you check my data on sharkscope, my nick is "lmagalhaes" and I play on Pokerstars, you can see that I made a big recovery on my "debt" and I am almost break even.
Your book comes in a better time because I am right now facing a downswing (6 games in a row without cashing), I am getting some bad beats along the way.
Anyway, thanks Dusty I will read your book and I hope one day can write or talk to you personal to say that your book changed my life and my game. I hope in that day I have my financial freedom.
Cheers.
lmagalhaes said:
#335
Perfect timing! I wrote a blog a few minutes ago that I think will be of some help to you.
http://www.dustyschmidt.net/2010/02/everyone-runs-like-garbage-from-time-to-time/
I have been following this thread, but not yet posted any questions.
First off, as many have already said, kudos to you for taking your time to do this. It is also a definite good business move, as I am ordering your "Treat your Poker Like a Business"....
Which brings me to my questions:
1.) Which Books/Websites/Blogs do you recommend, and in what order to be consumed IYO? I have Harrington on Hold'em 1+2, Sit and Go Strategy by Moshman, and have ordered "Hold'em Poker: A completes guide to playing the game" by Sklansky. I played micro stake ring, but am starting to re-evaluate my whole approach, and at the moment playing only low buy-in SnGs. I am doing a month-to-month plan, wont go into details, but, as well as with help here at CC, am using guide lines from the above mentioned books (with Moshman being my book-Guru at the moment) but will read and re-read and apply all I absorb. My playing time/Study time is respectively 25%/75% at the moment, a big change for me.
2.) As I am a relative beginner, I realize micro stakes are my only realistic option. How do I best decide when to play and apply new concepts, as opposed to continue reading/studying more? Is this a question that can be answered?
3.) How do I measure bad play as opposed to variance so I know when I am playing correctly? I post some hands but have not posted a lot here in HA. Software??? (Freeware..... poor musician thing......)
4.) Is it worth playing play money games to improve or are the differences in real/play money to great to reap strategy benefits from play money?
5.) Is there any websites/blogs/books (maybe your book that I will get would be your answer here?🙂 that will help me learn how to graph my progress so I will know better when to take the next step in terms of my skill/ability as opposed to just advancing according to BR, (or is THE way?) as well as helping me determine which game is my strongest one - SnG, Rings MTT etc. and if and when I should move on to a new game?
6.) Have you ever had a more awesome experience in you life then the birth and growth of your daughter????? Mine is 7 1/2 and brings me joy greater everyday, no matter what else is happening in my life!! OK, my wife is cool too, but, man, that little girl🙂.....
First off, as many have already said, kudos to you for taking your time to do this. It is also a definite good business move, as I am ordering your "Treat your Poker Like a Business"....
Which brings me to my questions:
1.) Which Books/Websites/Blogs do you recommend, and in what order to be consumed IYO? I have Harrington on Hold'em 1+2, Sit and Go Strategy by Moshman, and have ordered "Hold'em Poker: A completes guide to playing the game" by Sklansky. I played micro stake ring, but am starting to re-evaluate my whole approach, and at the moment playing only low buy-in SnGs. I am doing a month-to-month plan, wont go into details, but, as well as with help here at CC, am using guide lines from the above mentioned books (with Moshman being my book-Guru at the moment) but will read and re-read and apply all I absorb. My playing time/Study time is respectively 25%/75% at the moment, a big change for me.
2.) As I am a relative beginner, I realize micro stakes are my only realistic option. How do I best decide when to play and apply new concepts, as opposed to continue reading/studying more? Is this a question that can be answered?
3.) How do I measure bad play as opposed to variance so I know when I am playing correctly? I post some hands but have not posted a lot here in HA. Software??? (Freeware..... poor musician thing......)
4.) Is it worth playing play money games to improve or are the differences in real/play money to great to reap strategy benefits from play money?
5.) Is there any websites/blogs/books (maybe your book that I will get would be your answer here?🙂 that will help me learn how to graph my progress so I will know better when to take the next step in terms of my skill/ability as opposed to just advancing according to BR, (or is THE way?) as well as helping me determine which game is my strongest one - SnG, Rings MTT etc. and if and when I should move on to a new game?
6.) Have you ever had a more awesome experience in you life then the birth and growth of your daughter????? Mine is 7 1/2 and brings me joy greater everyday, no matter what else is happening in my life!! OK, my wife is cool too, but, man, that little girl🙂.....
fletchdad said:
I hope you enjoy the book! Thanks so much for the support.
1. I think your best options by far are books and poker training sites like the one I work for called http://www.dragthebar.com I don't see you getting a ton of value out of blogs, but there are some that are definitely worthwhile reads. Believe it or not, but I have kept a very active blog up for over 3 years now. I enjoy doing it and I think from time to time I give some good advice in there. It is at my book website, Cardplayer.com and dragthebar.com
I suppose that you are best off reading a few blogs. Daniel Negranu's is generally pretty good I think.
2. I think you should almost always be playing. I think reading stuff is great, but put into play right away. I would never advocate someone simply studying poker for a week and not playing. I think you want to spend no more than 20% of your time studying and less and less as you improve. There is no substitute for experience in this game.
3. I go by feel. If I fell like I am running like shit, then I probably am. If I feel like I am running decent and get in a lot of tough spots, I probably need to do some home work on that stuff because I am getting outplayed.
4. Play money is a complete waste of time. I tell anyone looking to learn poker to just deposit $20 on Poker Stars and play some 1/2 cent. Play money is not realistic. In fact, it makes no sense to begin with. You play poker to gamble money. If you take away money, then you don't have a game in my opinion. There has to be a consequence to your actions or it isn't poker in my mind.
5. My publishing company, Imagine Media, has a book coming out soon that will help you with all this stuff. We haven't officially announced what it is going to be yet, but keep your eyes peeled for an announcement relatively soon. It is going to knock the socks off of the secrets pros use that will be a game changer for the amateur player who is unsure of how to go about the online game.
6. No there really isn't. There have been tons of times this year I will say, "Allright, I'm going to start poker at 1PM and then by 3PM I realize that I have just been hanging out with her trying to get her to giggle 🙂 She's definitely the best. Sorry Leatherwife 🙂
Just went to the pokercast site to listen to it as I do everyweek and the show description mentions a feud between you and Aaron AE Jones. What are your thoughts on the pokercast? I'm sure they are on Aaron's side as leggo poker is a sponsor. I hope they don't sling mud at you.
Okay, finally my turn to ask Dusty some questions ...
1. I hear you are going through a terrible downswing. I have a sure-fire good luck charm I can send you. Are you willing to be my friend to get it?
2. In light of question #1, how superstitious are you?
3. Why are even some of the best athletes or poker players superstitious?
4. What do these eight letters stand for? (WDTELSF)
5. You mentored Matt Bolt to the mid and high stakes games. Have you, or would you consider again, mentoring someone else in similar fashion?
6. Do you ever care about promotions at PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker? If there are any that you do care about, what are they?
1. I hear you are going through a terrible downswing. I have a sure-fire good luck charm I can send you. Are you willing to be my friend to get it?
2. In light of question #1, how superstitious are you?
3. Why are even some of the best athletes or poker players superstitious?
4. What do these eight letters stand for? (WDTELSF)
5. You mentored Matt Bolt to the mid and high stakes games. Have you, or would you consider again, mentoring someone else in similar fashion?
6. Do you ever care about promotions at PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker? If there are any that you do care about, what are they?
Yeah I've watched this going on for awhile, and it was addressed recently in Dusty's blog. From my perspective, and this is solely my opinion as a spectator to the whole debacle who didn't know much of Dusty until he started posting here, AEJones has always been out of line with this. And he's really coming off as quite the hypocrite lately. From his comments about how many hands an internet pro plays in a month, it has become pretty clear he didn't know what he was talking about. To wit, he's always bashed Dusty about being a "bumhunter" (which I don't understand -- isn't this what all poker players do?), but now has hired his very own "bumhunter" who he claims can't be a bumhunter because you "can't bumhunt playing 50K hands a month" like his guy does. Dusty plays 3-4x that much in a month, yet Dusty has always been one of those dirty bumhunters. Wat?JoeShowdown said:
I've only been reading on here, or posts from fulltilts pros is that good???Leatherass said:
I don't tend to read that much, but i have picked up a-lot from just playing..
I did read your blog "Garbage from time to time" and thats how it's been going for me... 😎
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