Re: Quite possibly quitting poker forever
 

TWP
I think you play very good, and you won't have any problem in rebuilding at 2/4 and 3/6.
Maybe at higher levels I guess (please just take it as my thought, I mean no offence) Stars is very tough and lots of good regs can adjust to your style, so you should mix it up a bit.

But no way you can't beat 2/4 and 3/6 donkeys; just put the necessary hands in; it sucks to rebuild in 3 months what you lost in a week, but I'm doing it right now just like you, so I clearly understand what you said about those idiots.
You' ll be back soon at higher levels for sure, but if you choose to try another job, I don't know what to say cause I've never been a fulltime pro and probably I'll never be; I just can tell you that (as you stated in other threads) there are lots of cool jobs to do out there, I guess you're young enough to try.
GL

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Thanks, man. I was never really pro. I was always a management consultant, and I'm going back to that on Friday. I just took three months off to relax for vacation. Take it easy, dude.

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If you're unwilling to move down stakes when running bad/poorly or change something about your game, then you deserve to lose it all then.

PS: Those beats, were not all that bad, those are a daily occurrence for many of us at all ranges of stakes, deal with it, it's poker and you should know that.

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ty, sir

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Uhhh...

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Pre-flop: (4 players) TWP is BB with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">Button raises to $21</font>, SB folds, <font color="#cc0000">TWP raises to $63</font>, Button calls.

Flop: 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($129, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">TWP bets $93</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Button raises all-in $534</font>, TWP calls.

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No TY on coaching.

Flop: 3 A 7 ($129, 2 players)
TWP bets $93, Button raises all-in $534, TWP calls.

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Re: Quite possibly quitting poker forever
 

my suggestion...withdraw a few thousand from your account and go on a nice cruise for a week or two or something...

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What do you think of villain in hand 6?

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He shouldn't call reraises with ATo even if he CAN stack KK when he flops an ace.

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lolol

I think the correct answer was "villain leveled the [censored] out of me"

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I don't get it. TWP, where are the bad beats?

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Chill man, the KK hand and half the hands below it were not played well by you. You're right about the stacking yourself part, though

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Guys I guess you shouldn't berate someone watching barely some HHs...
You don't know the flow, the infos and the table history that led TWP to those light calls.
Basically he's proved he's not a donk in the past, so maybe he could have been tilting, but he clearly has skills and deserves credit.

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i didnt read the whole thread, but u think and play quite well from what i have read (havent played against u much i dont think). u also dont suck at life like so many people, so i hope u run better soon. [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

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Are you still trying to talk people into calling your AA pushes?

You need to cut that [censored] out.

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I want comments. So I can tell people to STFU.

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LOL

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What do you think of villain in hand 6?

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He shouldn't call reraises with ATo even if he CAN stack KK when he flops an ace.

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WRONG

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seriously dude most of these are not beats. the first 2 are legit beats, T3 vs T4 was a beat, but none of the others really count.


QQ vs As4s: he had 12 outs on the flop; if you're calling this a bad beat then i can rattle off 2 dozen from the past week. and i get dealt 25 hands/hour.

AhTh vs Ad4d: the obvious draw hit, you can find a fold.

TT vs A2: he flopped a wheel, you got your money in drawing nearly dead.

KK vs ATo: ugly. your flop call was too...what's the word i'm looking for...aggressive.

77 vs 99: he was never behind.

JT vs KJ: he was never behind.

42s vs Q9o: again, he was never behind. i notice a trend here...

99 vs 9h5h: semi-beat. his preflop call was terrible but on the flop he's not much of a dog.

77 vs AQo: you got beat by another flush draw. oh no you run so bad.


recap: villains hit a few flushes on you, the rest you got money in bad. where are the 5-, 4- and 3-outers? if you choose to believe your downswing is due to running bad rather than playing bad, then you SHOULD quit poker forever.

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Mike,

I'm under no illusions about how I've been playing. But if you think maniacs constantly flopping straights, NFD, and TP+FD in raised and reraised pots against your overpairs when they are consistently dominated and then never missing their draws is not running bad, maybe YOU need to rethink things.

- TWP

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maybe YOU need to rethink [b]your Loc:

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Mike,

I'm under no illusions about how I've been playing. But if you think maniacs constantly flopping straights, NFD, and TP+FD in raised and reraised pots against your overpairs when they are consistently dominated and then never missing their draws is not running bad, maybe YOU need to rethink things.

- TWP

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QFT

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i want to kill myself after reading this

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TWP, sorry to hear about this. I respect your play even though we have disagreed on a few hands before. Like other have said I've been in your shoes before. I'm currently just getting out of a 100K break even stretch. It makes it so much harder when there are threads in MSNL where everyone says they always run at 5 ptbb/100. My advice is to stick in there and maybe even move down to 1/2 NL for a short time; atleast to get your confidence back.

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TWP how much do you charge for coaching?