Turkey Talk: November Low Content Thread

[gobbledygeek]

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So, I just joined the 1K BB DS club. How many other regular posters here are members of this illustrious group?

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Yuck! Is that a $1000 downswing or a 1000 BB downswing?

I'm currently working my way out of a 250 BB downswing ($1000 at live 2/4). I started out of the gate at live 2/4 with a 300 BB downswing, that's still my worst.

[Frond]

So my wife gets it. I knew she did but last night it was confirmed by a short phone conversation she had with my Mom. It went somethng like this.

(Mom)"Sounds like Tom is pretty lucky with the poker"

(My Wife)"Well, there is luck involved but Tom knows how to play, when to play and there is also skill and a lot of decisions involved when you play poker. He plays smart and works on it a lot as well"

Me=Internal Fist pumps galore

I spoke with her afterwards and told her how glad I was that she really gets it and also how I am not putting our reg assets at risk at all and how I keep my poker $ completely seperate. She gets that also.

Royal Flush

[jesse8888]

That's awesome, Frond. Congrats! I found that the single easiest way to make my girlfriend understand was to make it clear to her how much time I spent studying and working on it instead of just playing. That and consistently winning of course [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] NH, sir, NH.

[Frond]

Thanks Jesse. Appreciate it man.

I am lucky with my wife. One other thing that helped was that late last year I took her to a joint down here called Pechanga Casino and sat her down in a 2/4 LHE game. It was her very first time playing but I sat down and went over a few basic things with her at home beforehand. She was one of the best players at the table even though it was her first time!!! But she got to see firsthand just how bad some players are. Even though it was only 2/4 she wuickly got the idea. She is also a pretty fair BJ player. I used to play a lot of BJ but once I started playing live Pokah that stopped.

[jesse8888]

My girlfriend plays Omaha 8, and actually has cashed in more live multi-table tournaments (1) than I have (0). Also, she played in the 5/10 full kill O8 game at the Borg (or was it the Taj?) before I had ever played a limit hand above 9/18. Hmmmm.....

[Frond]

So she is your poker coach then? Nyice! That must be cool to have a poker playing chica.

[jesse8888]

Calling her a coach would be quite a bit of a stretch. More like an enabler.....its also pretty cool to be able to talk to someone about hands when you get home [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The last time I played with her at the same table, (3/6 limit holdem), I won 220 dollars in 90 minutes. I like to think she's good luck in that regard....pity she was in both pots where I flopped a set though....