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futuredoc and octaveshift nailed it, those are the only two relevant points to be made IMO.

OP - lol you crack me up. You come here admitting you can't beat penny ante poker, and then look to battle everyone that laughs at you and start throwing out crap like your salary and individually arguing and flaming everyone who responds. Of course no one wants to give you good replies, you just want to argue and be a prick! I mean, what do you expect when you act like this?

Also - lol live poker, dude can beat 2/5 live and can't beat .01/.02 online.

Edit: obv anyone can beat the micros. If you can't beat em, you're just not playing them right. Obv a typical 10/20 gameplan isn't optimal for .01/.02. Just play <10% VPIP and make huge stupid bets and get paid, or play 100/0 and when you flop big get wild. Never ever ever bluff (or semibluff!)

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For the last time, the only reason money outside of poker was even brought in to this thread was to clarify the point that the game to me is not about money - it's about the challenge/enjoyment I get from beating my oppenents (or losing to them and figuring out why). I even stated before I mentioned what I make that I didn't want this to be a dick measuring contest about who makes what. I just wanted to make it clear that I enjoy poker as a GAME, and the money at these stakes is trivial.

I don't come here to pick fights - I come here (like most occasional posters and lurkers) to try to learn from more skilled players who I know are better than me and can offer sincere answers and opinions to questions asked.

If you read the post, the only person I really flamed was the helpful guy whose advice was "you'll be broke soon- seriously." Very insightful and informative. I agreed with a lot of the legitimate answers, and even apologized (some even personally outside of the thread) to anyone I could have come across as a prick to (or who could have construed my response as dickish).

Obviously I'm aware I have a leak in my game that kills me in penny ante games. If I cared about getting laughed at about it I wouldn't have made the title of my thread "I can't beat penny games!". The original purpose of the thread was simply to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. I got legitimate answers from some people (and a few helpful PMs from people who apparently didn't want the rest of you to know they were responding to me seriously), so I thank them for that. It just boggles my mind that so many of the people on here (who obviously had to develop their skills over the years) feel the need to just trash on everybody who asks a "stupid" question or asks if anybody else is having a similar experience. I could have sworn this site was intended to be a community and not a clique.


MODS - if you feel inclined, please feel free to just remove the thread and I'll return to lurking.