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#101
06-24-2006, 08:52 AM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
I'm in stage 7 for like 6mths of which 3.5 of those months i haven't even been playing poker. I started playing 1 table and got in 20hours one week, 3 weeks later it's back to about 8hrs this week.
Luckily I have a real job coming through and I'm absolutely over the moon. 
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#102
06-24-2006, 09:24 AM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
The counter-argument to the opportunity cost one is that as marginal income increases marginal utility decreases.
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#103
06-24-2006, 09:59 AM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
You guys really should really reflect on all your beliefs and thoughts and everything.
You are basically working your asses off, worrying, suffering, etc, to make as much money as possible as fast as possible with the reason: early retirement, so that you don't have to worry about money anymore. You worry about making a lot of money, because if you had a lot of money you wouldn't have to worry about it. WHEEEEEEEE! Money has no magic intrinsic value. Money does not make you happy. That should be taught in kindergarten.
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#104
06-24-2006, 10:07 AM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
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I have more money collecting dust in my Party account than the average American makes in three years. Woe is me! [/ QUOTE ] You don't actually have it all in your Party account, do you?
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#105
06-24-2006, 12:12 PM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
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Inflation. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] 1.2 million in the bank, you're probably making at least 6% on it through investments/whatnot (6% after taxes), keep half of that in there so that your egg scales with inflation, that leaves you around 40k to spend as you please a year, + poker money on the side. And no mortgage. [/ QUOTE ] Reading is fun.
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#106
06-24-2006, 12:49 PM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I mean, when I drop 85 bets in the first 200 hands I play in a day, I quit cause I'm not enjoying myself and my image sucks [/ QUOTE ] I realize who I'm talking to here... but I stick around on these days because now that my image sucks, I KNOW I'm getting paid off when the cards actually come around and I make a friggin' hand... [/ QUOTE ] Perhaps a difference in style and who we're often playing against makes the difference in what image we want. I often play heads-up and lots of 3 handed to 5 handed and I play pretty darn loose and decently aggressive (but not like aggression rating wise, i'm only like 1.7 aggression on pt) and as I'm sure you know, you don't have stuff more often than you have stuff, so I want those pots and I want that bluffing equity and I want people to be scared of putting bets in, not "oh he is really weak why don't i just try a river raise here". It really makes a big big deal in very short play. When I'm running hot I play very long sessions often because the players I'm playing with are losing and in a worse mental state than usual and I'm sure it really gives me a much bigger edge as they just play much more defensively and then put in aggression in the wrong spots cause they're frustrated. [/ QUOTE ] My avg players is 4.1 and Im 46/32/2 over this sample. My numbers are skewed towards HU/3h, also, I'm in a virtually rakefree environment, so as of this month where these numbers come from, I'm defending the *#)@ out of my blinds (with good success thusfar). My default game is 50/100, though yours may be double or more those stakes heh. So how much does our situation differ?
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#107
06-24-2006, 10:59 PM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
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You guys really should really reflect on all your beliefs and thoughts and everything. You are basically working your asses off, worrying, suffering, etc, to make as much money as possible as fast as possible with the reason: early retirement, so that you don't have to worry about money anymore. You worry about making a lot of money, because if you had a lot of money you wouldn't have to worry about it. WHEEEEEEEE! Money has no magic intrinsic value. Money does not make you happy. That should be taught in kindergarten. [/ QUOTE ] That's just something poor people say. Kind of like "beauty is on the inside" is something ugly people say.
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#108
06-24-2006, 11:07 PM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
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there is also an alternate stage 6 where you dislike poker immensely and play only the minimum hours to keep yourself alive and therefore wind up playing the same stakes for 3 years and spend the rest of your time on oot. [/ QUOTE ] This is me except without stage 4 happening and replace 3 years with 4 months and OOT with BBV.
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#110
06-25-2006, 12:11 AM
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Re: my version of ray zee\'s \"the different stages in a player\'s life\"
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there is also an alternate stage 6 where you dislike poker immensely and play only the minimum hours to keep yourself alive and therefore wind up playing the same stakes for 3 years and spend the rest of your time on oot. [/ QUOTE ] This is me, but I'm going to try to break out of it. I've even considered <gasp> getting a job.
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