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May 29, 2004
New Haters!
I seem to have a new hater! He left some poorly reasoned (and poorly written) comments on my blog and I am bored so I will respond. Here we go:
I'm glad I decided to check this website out it is really good for a laugh. My assessment of the guy running this site is that he has a very shallow ego.
Good assessment there Sigmund. Much like the rest of your comments it is baseless and unqualified.
After reading many of his posts a couple days ago its obvious that he can't take and criticism he must have been someone who took alot of criticism in his high school days. He can't take it from his family even when they don't know what they're talking about because they don't play poker. You would think that would be enough for him to blow it off. He didn't reason with them or take measures to ease their mind such as investing his money. Instead he just calls them idiots like he does everyone else and talks about leaving his girlfriend to go to vegas.
First of all I never said my family was unsupportive. It was my girlfriend’s family, and I didn't call them idiots. In fact I even said I understood their point of view. Since they are people close to me I choose not to blow them off as you say. However I don’t reason with other people about my choice of careers, and how much money I invest is my own business, not theirs. I do invest my money (though that isn’t helping at all this year) but that is not the topic of the blog.
The topic of the blog is playing poker for a living. I would be untrue to my readers if I simply ignored this aspect of the job. So I wrote an article about it, because that is what I do. Also I was only thinking of temporarily moving away from my girlfriend, not leaving her. She would ideally come out a year after when she gets her national board certification. I certainly do not want to live in LV all my life, as it is no place to raise a family. Not that any of this is relevant anyway.
Then he starts pondering throwing away 10,000 on an entry fee instead of building up.
It is hardly throwing it away, especially considering I would be better than at least 90% of the field. Though instead I chose to conserve my bankroll, which is probably wise in the long run. It is still hard to not play in the WSOP when you want to be a top player.
He'll stay at the 5/10 level his whole life that much is clear. He's taken very few chances at higher levels and gotten worked each time. Now he is already going back down to the 5/10 level because its safer. Its because he can't beat the 15/30 games with regularity. If you can't do that and you're unwilling to stretch yourself how in god's name how are you going to get into really big games??
This is perhaps the most baseless point of your entire comment. When I play in casinos I play $30/$60 or above and have done well at it, which I mention in my articles. Until just recently I haven’t played anything lower than $10/$20 6 max in about 6 months, and if you read my recent articles you would know why I now play $5/$10. I am trying to see if I can profitably play 2 tables at a time, and so far it seems that I can. I never moved up and “got worked”, I moved up and made quite a bit more than I did at lower levels for a few months, which you would know if you had even the reading comprehension of a fifth grader. After that I began focusing mainly on tournaments and have had a few protracted even streaks, but nothing out of the ordinary. You apparently read every one of my posts and somehow didn't understand any of them.
How is this jump going to occur?? My guess is he'll end up like the guy who beat him in the World Series event Mike Laing. If he gets really lucky he'll do what Mike did in his career. He'll probably just end up as the end result.
“He'll probably just end up as the end result” doesn’t even make sense Captain Redundancy. Your writing skills are as poor as your reading comprehension. I’m not sure what you are trying to say here, but if it is that I will be a broke alcoholic my entire life all I have to say is good diagnosis again there Freud. I have more money to my name after one year of playing poker than Mike Laing has after many I am sure. I have played professionally for one year, made over $100k at it, and have never had to ask for backers. I think career wise I am far ahead of Mike.
Is this the part where I'm suppose to challenge you to a game??? I'm on party and ultimatebet. Name is magicman on ultimatebet and
EmpireMaker on party. If you want to sit down at the table I'm at fine. It would be fun to see a pro.
Gee, I can sit in your game. Great challenge there, idiot. If you want to play me heads up on Party feel free to add me to your buddy list, otherwise don’t waste my time. You will get to enjoy seeing a real pro for about a half hour, until you are broke.
If you want to play people for $15/30 heads up so much why do you challenge people from the $5/10 tables. Why don't you just go to the $15/30 tables and sit down at the open ones or the ones with 1 or 2 people. They will play heads up. Does it have to be someone that doesn't usually play for that much. Or do you think you'll lose if you play someone better??
Well I don’t go to $5/$10 tables looking to play heads up, but should I get someone to do it so much the better. I don’t simply go to 1 handed tables because they fill up within minutes. I mostly prefer to play poker one on one, or at least short handed and there is nothing worse than getting in heads up mode and having the table fill up on you. Switching gears that quickly is hard to do, so I simply avoid it whenever possible.
The only reason I even fund my Paradise account is their heads up action, but it is hard to get a game above $3/$6 there. You can often play $10/$20 against one of two or three people, but they are so good that it isn’t worth the time. I don't play to prove something, I play to win money. So it is a much better idea to just draw people I know to be suckers into playing me $15/$30 on Party.
I have found people to play heads up in tournaments and at $10/$20 and $15/$30 games, but never actually at $5/$10 yet. I don’t suspect I ever will find anyone at $5/$10 who will play $15/$30 heads up, and that is perfectly fine by me. And as for playing someone better, feel free to email me and arrange a time.
Also I have gotten a serious question from a reader:
Seriously though, not trying to knock anybody, it seems from your posts that you're playing pretty decent limits and making good bank - do you plan to step up to $30-$60, or $80-$160? I didn't even know they offered limits that high online, I don't have anywhere near the bank or skill so I just scroll right past that part of the lobby.
They offer $30/$60 on Party, but only 2 tables at a time which are perpetually full. Believe me I will throw a party and invite everyone I know the day they remove the limit from the number of tables, since I will finally be able to play short handed $30/$60.
Also both PokerStars and UB have $30/$60, and now that Party has no more interest payment there is no reason for me not to move a good chunk into my Stars account and start running them. My plan is to spend the rest of this month and June working on my $5/$10 experiment. If I find playing 2 tables to be reasonably more profitable than one was (and this will require some guessing since the trail is too short to be very accurate) I will move up to playing 2 $10/$20s for a few months. If I find that I don’t like playing 2 tables I will move to playing 1 $15/$30 6 max instead. The only annoying thing about that is the fact that Party only has 3 $15/$30 6 max tables so I will have to spend time on wait lists.
Also yes, there are $80/$160 games on UB, and $100/$200 games on Stars. I hope to be playing them by the start of next year, mainly on Stars. The games appear to range from very good to very bad, but I only know from what little time I have spent observing,
Posted by themaroon at May 29, 2004 7:45 AM
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