Need Some Actual Advice Here

[tiger_hall]

i would stay away from poker... players who do well at poker are not the one's crying but the ones who are able to control their emotions and keep their game at 100%..

[Praxising]

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i would stay away from poker... players who do well at poker are not the one's crying but the ones who are able to control their emotions and keep their game at 100%..

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What is all this focus on the crying? Matesow did it quite publicly, it's just a stress reaction complicated by hormones right now. "Control their emotions?" The guy with the most WSOP bracelets is infamous for lack of emotional control. For the luvva mike, none of us had much control at this age - he'll be fine -

And NO ONE is "keeping thier game at 100%." No......one. One of the things Greenstein said that really helped me stop being so hard on myself, was that he makes about 20 mistakes in his game per session. What we hope we learn is to recognize when we are playing at less-than-optimum and back away or regroup. That takes time and experience which the OP can't get unless he plays, studies and evolves.

The getting laid advice was good, too. Uh- recommend not crying during that, tho.' [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[trangers]

Crying over $1 SNG != Crying at WSOP

[Curse]

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great idea but I sent you a PM with mine

[revots33]

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Do I quit forever because I can not handle it?

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Yes

[Milo]

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Do I quit forever because I can not handle it?

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Yes

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Yes.

[Praxising]

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I will preface this by saying that I am not a minor, but can't buy lottery tickets (get it?.)

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OK. First. Yes, you are a minor. You need to look that up. Second, there's nothing wrong with you. Or at least nothing that a few years won't cure.

I'm going to tell you something that will sound counterintuitive, but is true: no one who wants to win money can be a successful poker player. See, money is not the goal, it's just a by-product of making good choices.

Life is just a series of choices. A kind of binary system.

Hey, you ever read Howard Lederer's story about hanging around a NYC poker room as a older teen-ager - he'd do odd jobs, run to the deli, clean up, get enough to sit in a game, go broke, do it again. Over and over.

Leave the money alone, I advise. Go to the library for the books. Learn your craft a little. Stop trying to win. Give yourself a break. You picked up the weight of the world and all you were supposed to carry was yourself.

You'll be ok.



-prax- "Patience is genius."

[Al Mirpuri]

Just normal variance. You are seriously under bankrolled. Stop crying. Concentrate on getting laid for the first time.

[Albert Moulton]

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1. I have $52, do I withdraw that and just take a break till I get $60 for rakeback in 2 weeks?

2. Do I quit forever because I can not handle it?

3. Play 10NL with $5 BIs like I had done previously?

4. Withdraw the money and rakeback money and get new video game system instead of Poker?

5. One last thing. I have nothing to do besides tennis, house work and a job 1 or 2 days a week (which is boring as hell.)

6. I do not like hanging out with the kids I do AT school OUTSIDE of school because I do not like drugs/alcohol because again I would feel like I let my parents down.

7. Keep my boredom in mind, because that is what helped lead me to my current state.


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1. Withdraw your money. Close your accounts. Don't play any games for money on line until and unless you don't have to say things like, "I asked my parents if..." Moreover, even if you were an emancipated minor bent on internet gambling, inadequate bankroll management is a master plan for bankrupcy. When and if you play, keep at least 10 (and preferably 20) times the buyin for the level you're playing for ring games.

2. No. But you need to quit while you live at home, go to school, and don't have enough of a bankroll on your own to fund the level you want to play. Wait at least until college.

3. No. You're too immature from the information in the OP to be playing online for money. Grow up a little. Get a job and an apartment. Or, better than that, go to college.

4. Sounds good. Or buy chips and a card table so you can set up some ring games and tourneys for your friends that prefer cards to drugs and alcohol. Play a ton of low stakes games with friends. Make it HORSE and have fun. But stay off the computer poker sites. At least live, you'll have some interaction with others. You sound like you can use it. But keep the stakes low.

5-7. Find some friends who don't do drugs and alcohol. Maybe a girlfiend. Get out of your own head.