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[knockonwood]

0.5-1 party. I respect your post's Bozlax and I'll post some of my marginal hands. this whole 20000 hand break-even thing is cumbersome though. What is your biggest downswing or break-even stretch?

[bozlax]

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0.5-1 party. I respect your post's Bozlax and I'll post some of my marginal hands. this whole 20000 hand break-even thing is cumbersome though. What is your biggest downswing or break-even stretch?

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*snore* If this is your first 20K hands, be happy playing break-even. Most players are just getting back to break even after about 10-15K, so the fact that you're a little positive is a good sign. My downswings, to the extent I want them to be, are a matter of public forum record, and I'm not going to bother to go through them again, just suffice to say that I, like everyone else, have had some.

As for posting hands, don't. I mean, don't post hands you think are "marginal." If you feel that your game is in such trouble, then you couldn't find marginal in a bathtub if you were allowed to use both hands. Instead, post hands you think you clearly played well, or clearly played badly, and let us critique THOSE. Only a small percentage of your winrate is attributable to marginal situations...clean up the ABC stuff, first.

Oh, and respond in other people's threads. It's much more edumakashunal.

[Stoo_Pot]

I found marginal in my bath tub once.

[nomadtla]

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*snore* If this is your first 20K hands, be happy playing break-even. Most players are just getting back to break even after about 10-15K, so the fact that you're a little positive is a good sign. My downswings, to the extent I want them to be, are a matter of public forum record, and I'm not going to bother to go through them again, just suffice to say that I, like everyone else, have had some.

Only a small percentage of your winrate is attributable to marginal situations...clean up the ABC stuff, first.

Oh, and respond in other people's threads. It's much more edumakashunal.

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UMMM Boz said all that needed to be said. As far as his comment about # of hands I didn't start becomming a winning limit player till about 15K. Though I am just now getting close to being breakeven over my whole "poker Carrrer" because I dumped a ton of money in NL tourneys before I came here and took up limit.

[knockonwood]

there is no reason to be sarcastic. if we were all so incredible we'd be playing HU at ultimate bet 300-600. this is the exact i havent really bothered posting and why this forum has a "pokernerd/should i cold-call AQ? reputation. But, you know what? I might just hang around.

[btspider]

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there is no reason to be sarcastic. if we were all so incredible we'd be playing HU at ultimate bet 300-600. this is the exact i havent really bothered posting and why this forum has a "pokernerd/should i cold-call AQ? reputation. But, you know what? I might just hang around.

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the tough love on this site goes a long way. boz is telling you exactly what the situation is. poker is a game made up of many routine decisions.

beyond hands, double-check your seat/table selection too.

there is no specific advice that you can receive unless it involves a hand. that's just the way it is.

[bozlax]

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there is no reason to be sarcastic. if we were all so incredible we'd be playing HU at ultimate bet 300-600. this is the exact i havent really bothered posting and why this forum has a "pokernerd/should i cold-call AQ? reputation. But, you know what? I might just hang around.

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I actually went into threaded mode to make sure you were responding to me. Not one word of my post was sarcastic.

As for hanging around, don't feel the need to do us any favors. (Still not being sarcastic.)

[Bubbles]

It's pretty clear that you're not looking for advice. Your game is flawless, you don't have any leaks, and you're the unluckiest man on the planet. We got it. May I suggest BBV?

[nomadtla]

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It's pretty clear that you're not looking for advice. Your game is flawless, you don't have any leaks, and you're the unluckiest man on the planet. We got it. May I suggest BBV?

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Now that might be sarcasm [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[knockonwood]

bubbles, go and watch trailor park boys again. I'm not looking for a dime bag.