****December Destruction Chat****

Jagsti said:

Oh f'kin superb!!!!!

Household chores are definitely meant for girls...... Just been hoovering up the living room, and accidently hoovered up my laptop lead ffs!

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lolololol

On a duller note, i lost 30 quid to a mate in a tense game of anagrammatic earlier

nvm, im just a tool

email them again, they should have sent it to you by now. check your spam thing too.

eNTy said:

I want to punch someone in the face.
I can't win ffs !!! Sorry vanq, graph.

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im serious, stop

I'm so bored with not playing. I can only watch so many videos on youtube and look over CC for so long before it gets tiresome.

I feel like re-depositing and playing again, but I'm not 100% sure if I should. I really want to start playing again but a part of me expects myself not to do well. I'm sure I can do well, but past negative results have me thinking other wise. On top of that, I really don't know what to play. I have no confidence in my game anymore. I really want to do well in an MTT just once, for personal satisfaction-it's something I've been wanting to accomplish ever since I started playing. Its the feeling of being victorious, knowing that I've actually accomplished something, that I was good enough. I hate to admit, I sometimes get jealous of CC MTT winners. Of course, I'm happy for them and it's not about the money or anything. I just want that feeling of accomplishment and I don't feel like I've reached it yet. I worry I never will and I wonder if it would be worth it to even continue trying.

Of course, I could just drop MTTs and just focus on SNGs and Ring Games, which I have a bit of confidence I can do well in. Its just, doing well in these don't give me the same level as satisfaction I'm looking for. Hell, I don't even know if I do 'well' in these either, maybe I'm fooling myself into thinking I do.

In a nutshell: I want to be an accomplished member, both on the forums and at the tables. Im sure I've established myself as a member...hopefully. I don't know, I might have to work on that. As a player, though, I don't feel I have. I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone except to myself. Of course, being an accomplished player would aslo help with me being an accomplished member. I sometimes feel silly giving advice relating to poker when I don't have the results to back it up.

So...I'm not sure if I should continue playing or just give it up.

just deposit a realistic amount (like $200) if u can, and then play like 2-4 tables of 10nl full ring, and try to make each decision the best it can be

vanquish said:

just deposit a realistic amount (like $200) if u can, and then play like 2-4 tables of 10nl full ring, and try to make each decision the best it can be

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I know what to/what I should do. Its just my lack of confidence and the fear of being disappointed/disappointing myself again that is holding me back.

Philthy would need a BR of approximately $1.4 million to feel comfortable at 10nl!

Not really.

Maybe a BR of $300-$500.

philthy said:

Not really.

Maybe a BR of $300-$500.

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Philthy - on a more positive note, one of your posts on CC got a link in a 2+2 thread today

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/39/small-stakes-pl-nl/88-line-check-yeti-theorem-361777/

Trying to make MTT's pay is always gonna be a hard slog imo. Yes there are some who do really well, but look at Rex even he has redirected his attentions to cash games now. Yes he will still play MTT's, but I think Rex has a special type of temperament to deal with the variance in them.

Philthy, listen to Vanq, have a break. Then start looking at honing in on your cash games skills, and for the love of god, practice BRM. Don't let yourself go busto, ever!

Oh wow...I'm surprised they found it.

Jagsti said:

Philthy, listen to Vanq, have a break. Then start looking at honing in on your cash games skills, and for the love of god, practice BRM. Don't let yourself go busto, ever!

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I always listen to Vanq, I've been on break, and my busto wasn't that bad since I cashed out about a lot of my previous BR for personal reasons. Of course, I do tilt-spew sometimes...

Jagsti said:

Trying to make MTT's pay is always gonna be a hard slog imo. Yes there are some who do really well, but look at Rex even he has redirected his attentions to cash games now. Yes he will still play MTT's, but I think Rex has a special type of temperament to deal with the variance in them.

Philthy, listen to Vanq, have a break. Then start looking at honing in on your cash games skills, and for the love of god, practice BRM. Don't let yourself go busto, ever!

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That's just wrong.

WVHillbilly said:

That's just wrong.

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Your cruel

Philthy, I've played with you a few times now while donking it at the 2NL tables on stars, and I can comfortably say you have the skills to crush that level, as well as the next couple.

I'd say (like everyone else), take a break until you are thinking clearly when it comes to poker. If you aren't in the right state of mind, it's easy to spew off tons of money. The other thing I would suggest, is that when you come back, stick to ABC poker at 2, 5 and 10NL on stars. I've seen you get a little bit of FPS when we've played together, and at the micro stakes, this just isn't warranted.

But again, just take a break until you get your confidence back. You will be crushing the tables once you feel up to playing.

I canceled my trial as other stuff is keeping me busy, but when it was still going I found that the unconventional wisdom series was awesome, and I also really liked BalugaWhale. He explains himself very well and is really clear about everything. Don't know much outside of both of those.

Thanks for the link btw.

Coaching time! Yay!

Just found out there was an update for HEM (it would be nice if they sent an e-mail or something). The thread about the release on their forum has a lot of people having problems, has anyone here had any issues when installing it? I only have time to play an hour or two every other night or so (married, kids, etc), and don't want to waste a night re-installing postsql and re-optimizing or something.

if you're talking about 1.07 it's working fine for me. There's also a new beta that I haven't tried, maybe that's the one with all the issues.

Very swingy session tonight, got a total fish on my right, it goes me lose a stack, and him donk it to a nit, rinse repeat.

Poker is easy when you hit sets 23% of the times you play pp. I guess FTP rewards me for not playing poker for two weeks?

This is all 50nl, but i'm really rolled for 100nl now. i'll give it a shot tomorrow i think.

Belgo, are you playing 6-max or FR now?

Yey they listened to me, and I'm sure many others with the same suggestion.

Biggish session today, I should really be putting in this volume on weekends

I really enjoyed today even though I only made FPP's.