Re: Ribbit\'s Edits
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My problem is you claiming winning 2 coin flips clearly shows you being superior, when in reality the reason you gamble so much when you know you're flipping at BEST is the reason you went bust.
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Umm no, you have posted on a number of occasions a picture of you with a large stack sitting at a table with me where I have just over 1 BI as though you had somehow won all that money from me, when in reality I believe you won one or two pots from me at that table and both were around 200BB total.
I was simply showing this was not the case and I am actually up against you over the small amount of hands we played last year.
I gamble to tilt players that steam badly (your AA push in the first hand is awful).
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Your propensity to shove flush draws like they are the nuts leads to an overaggressive nature that causes tilt and the later chasing of losses.
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Again you must be talking about yourself cause you certainly are not describing me. I had much more than a flush draw in that first hand and I only push flush draws in +EV situations where I expect fold equity or an all in situation where I am in nice shape.
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A play in a hand is not always considering the bigger picture, which is that of not going BUSTO.
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Lol. See once again I must point out the difference between you and I is that I am open and honest about my faults while engage in a lot of shottaking while pretending to yourself and everyone else you actually have a roll. You posted a hand earlier today where you were play 10/20 on party. Suddenly you have 80K to be properly bankrolled for that game where a couple weeks ago you could only play 1/2?
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Many factors can cause someone going bust, whether it be because they are bad, they play underbankrolled, they are unlucky, they move up too quickly, they don't sit in the easy games etc.
You're style of play when taken in a vacuum is fine, but to suggest to a lot of omaha players as being a wise choice is just wrong, as you yourself found out.
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Yeah see here's the thing... I post very little about *my* style of play for two reasons:
a) It's very high variance and most people are looking for less variance in their play.
b) I don't need to educate my opponents on how to play against me.
So generally I only post in threads where there is something missing from answers people are given and then I try to tie it in to fundamentals that I feel the OP may be missing from their game. When someone asks me if they should push the NFD in a mutliway pot where they are certain they are going to get enough callers to justify it then of course I am going to say 'Hell yeah'.
I rarely if ever post hands that I personally played unless it's in the low content thread for fun or if I feel I have a leak that I need to work out. Even then I have a few friends that I share a mutual respect with whose opinions I trust more than the average message board poster.
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Unless you're a robot, it will cause tilt and your bankroll found that out.
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I have tilted twice in my poker career. Once when I was running really poorly and followed a fish 4 levels above where I was bankrolled for and got colddecked at every opportunity and had to redeposit, and the other time when I was running really hot at UB and chose to sit down at 50/100 and lost a monster pot in a really really gross situation. Both times I reacted badly to some really poor luck and kept playing instead of walking away for the day and resuming another day at lower stakes. There have been situations where I asked for people to back me (I never ever posted on this forum asking for backers; I once asked how staking agreements go) and all were related to unforseen circumstances. Two close family members died in a four month period in which I also ran extremely bad and Party abruptly terminated my rakeback, so I had to ask a friend to take a piece of my action for a while so I didn't have to move down in stakes until I started running well again.
Neither of these times did my 'tilt' cause me to play badly. I made poor BR choices that I definitely regret but I have learned from them and have moved on. I'm not playing 2/4 or higher because there are more people that play a similar style to me and SD goes way up, so I am currently happy grinding it out at 1/2 (and lower) on a bunch of different sites until I am overrolled for 2/4.
I have lived quite well off poker as my sole income for over a year. There have been thin times and fat times but I wouldn't change it for anything.
Now for the real question: Why did you feel the need to edit those two hands you posted?
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