I meant it as a suggestion rather than an accusation. It would bring clarity to the merry-go-round of why he debates in this way. Admittedly I stopped reading his posts long ago because they are all fundamentally identical, so there's not much need.
He does project relentlessly, and that's a tell tale sign, which is what put me on that train of thought.
we really should be trying to assess peoples mental health/ diagnose or specuilate on these forums. I doubt you could do so but I am not qualified or skilled enough for sure if it can or cannot be done based on what people type here.
Thing is if your wrong its wrong for you to assert so and if your right its not really fair to expose peoples mental health that is a sensitive area and many people would prefer to keep that private.
Also with responsible gambling as far as I understand people could potentially be banned for having mental health issues/conditions. Which would really not be great for them.
I seem to remember you were rambling on in your posts and your state of mind was in question. Pot Kettle true colours live let live.... Silver Backs hic!
I seem to remember you were rambling on in your posts and your state of mind was in question. Pot Kettle true colours live let live.... Silver Backs hic!
i have had a few drunk posts how is that relevent.
Incidentally, TheWaddy has been calling me some sort of alcoholic or MrStella or something along those lines for a long time now. A low blow and about as childish as it gets.
In regards to mental health, I did not bring it up as a retort. I brought it up based on what I had thought I was noticing, with all due respect to all parties, not that he has earned any. He is a fellow human nonetheless.
If it hits a nerve, it's for the best. If it doesn't hit a nerve then we all plod on regardless. The virtue signalers will show up either way.
I think if you are allowed to diagnose my mental health in an open forum, just from my opinions on poker... with major doubts that you are qualified in that field... then ive earned the right to sarcastically call you Dr Stella Artois....
.... even EssexPhil (and fair play to him that he doesnt feel the need to just go along with things, or say black is white, just because it is me... as i do with him at times) can see that your claims to it being 'not having a dig' is at best, insincere.
In fact i would say it would be about as sincere as Rabdeniro claiming his post of 'mentalist' in capital letters was 'not a dig'.....
I'm not going to play this merry-go-round that leads to absolutely nowhere with you.
I was being sincere. I gain nothing from belittling you. If anything I felt bad about it.
Have someone who really knows you very very well go through an NPD check list or questionnaire and see what they think. They need to answer the questions without your interference where possible. Also, they need to have voted remain and have a brain or it's null and void.
Again, this is not to belittle anyone. It's all positive stuff if you can see it that way.
You will just have to hope that PG Tips doesnt get so popular, that your brand is no longer seen as a viable prospect to sell anymore....
Because you have spread the word that although you dont like PG Tips, it is 100% the real deal.....
Tastes change, which can be unfortunate for many. It would have sucked to spend a lot of time working on your LHE or stud game pre-Moneymaker, only for NLHE to dominate soon after. As long as there's a market though, somebody will provide it.
I would never say Spins are the real deal. They aren't for me in the same way the games I like to play are not for everybody else. I agree that the players have ruined some games for themselves and others though. HU became predatory in all forms and many sites no longer offer it. When they have tried to solve problems, player volumes rapidly decrease. Phil Galfond's attemot to build a site for the players partly failed because regs didn't want to play other regs (and for good reasons). Those sites that manage to draw in rec players that deposit more effectively than their competition win.
Tastes did not change when it came to poker, it was the sites that changed. Nor did it 'go out of fashion' as claimed by DoubleMe.
There was one reason and one reason alone and only me ever mentions it! The American market disappeared overnight. which was huge. Otherwise known as Black Friday.
How could sites replace that revenue? None of you will consider the board meetings that followed and seem to think they just shrugged their shoulders and just let things play out and whatever will be will be.
Of course no successful business operates this way.
So there were not enough poker players to feed their greed of the money previously made. So in came the casino, the slots. And then to draw those thrill seeking, out and out gamblers into the poker, we had the silly thrill versions of poker.... spin and go and temptations of a million win, all in every hand, 1 min blind levels... just thrill gambling games, with virtually no 'poker' involved. Exit Victoria Coren from Pokerstars.
As these players had little to no experience of poker and also little interest of learning it either... otherwise they would have already been playing.... we had the magic decks brought in... twists and turns of lead changes, plenty of flopped trips beaten on the river by a flush etc... thats what these players like and are here for, just the thrill of gambling. These players would soon get bored of an ace high win, whilst getting dealt 8 3 for hands on end.
This is why poker players at the WSOP shook their heads at the standard of online qualifiers, always talked about at the table.... afterall the online qualifiers did not understand why their moves were not winning in the real world, when they did online. Why would they?
So it wasnt poker going out of fashion, or tastes changing... it was poker sites being overtaken by a non poker playing clientele. The way sites wanted.
So when decent players in the real world, insist on defending online poker in its present form, this is the result. You may be aggresive towards me for some bizarre reason for saying this, but if you dont recognise/acknowledge the chain of events above, then i dont understand that as its as plain as plain can be.
You talk about it like this is the irrefutable evidence required to prove why you play £1 games now. You are fighting so hard to prove to yourself subconsciously that you are still a good player.
You can't have this discussion with a person like you and your state of mind because it's more about capitalism and economics than about casual poker players, particularly because when Black Friday happened poker was a completely new niche in that industry, and it's a whole lot deeper than that, but of course you've got it all figured out.
You do not know why these things really happen, whether or not statements you make are true or not, so it's pointless to keep speculating and moaning in every post you make. You play £1 games. Either study more and run good or stop moaning and letting it get to you.
I think my balance, withdrawals and just one deposit of £20 in 4yrs or so of returning to the site, kind of say im in the 'good player' ball park..... or at least suggests i know poker well enough to have a opinion of value.
I have just put up a catalogue of events that are undeniably true;
Online poker starts Normal poker, normal bad beats ratio Black friday American market goes, so has to be a change to replace revenue Sites introduce casino/slots Poker games appear, that are just poker in hand rankings, but are thrill games Vicky Coren leaves Pokerstars as does not want to be the face of such rubbish Poker sites clientele changes to mainly thrill seekers. overspill from casino Normal sng have no players at tables, as poker players have left
I have left out the speculative bits (although pretty obvious), so the above chain is now fact. If there is something there that is untrue, your welcome to say!
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He does project relentlessly, and that's a tell tale sign, which is what put me on that train of thought.
Then why not answer it.....he has conducted himself eloquently throughout ....pg
Thing is if your wrong its wrong for you to assert so and if your right its not really fair to expose peoples mental health that is a sensitive area and many people would prefer to keep that private.
Also with responsible gambling as far as I understand people could potentially be banned for having mental health issues/conditions. Which would really not be great for them.
In regards to mental health, I did not bring it up as a retort. I brought it up based on what I had thought I was noticing, with all due respect to all parties, not that he has earned any. He is a fellow human nonetheless.
If it hits a nerve, it's for the best. If it doesn't hit a nerve then we all plod on regardless. The virtue signalers will show up either way.
.... even EssexPhil (and fair play to him that he doesnt feel the need to just go along with things, or say black is white, just because it is me... as i do with him at times) can see that your claims to it being 'not having a dig' is at best, insincere.
In fact i would say it would be about as sincere as Rabdeniro claiming his post of 'mentalist' in capital letters was 'not a dig'.....
I was being sincere. I gain nothing from belittling you. If anything I felt bad about it.
Have someone who really knows you very very well go through an NPD check list or questionnaire and see what they think. They need to answer the questions without your interference where possible. Also, they need to have voted remain and have a brain or it's null and void.
Again, this is not to belittle anyone. It's all positive stuff if you can see it that way.
I would never say Spins are the real deal. They aren't for me in the same way the games I like to play are not for everybody else. I agree that the players have ruined some games for themselves and others though. HU became predatory in all forms and many sites no longer offer it. When they have tried to solve problems, player volumes rapidly decrease. Phil Galfond's attemot to build a site for the players partly failed because regs didn't want to play other regs (and for good reasons). Those sites that manage to draw in rec players that deposit more effectively than their competition win.
There was one reason and one reason alone and only me ever mentions it! The American market disappeared overnight. which was huge. Otherwise known as Black Friday.
How could sites replace that revenue? None of you will consider the board meetings that followed and seem to think they just shrugged their shoulders and just let things play out and whatever will be will be.
Of course no successful business operates this way.
So there were not enough poker players to feed their greed of the money previously made. So in came the casino, the slots. And then to draw those thrill seeking, out and out gamblers into the poker, we had the silly thrill versions of poker.... spin and go and temptations of a million win, all in every hand, 1 min blind levels... just thrill gambling games, with virtually no 'poker' involved. Exit Victoria Coren from Pokerstars.
As these players had little to no experience of poker and also little interest of learning it either... otherwise they would have already been playing.... we had the magic decks brought in... twists and turns of lead changes, plenty of flopped trips beaten on the river by a flush etc... thats what these players like and are here for, just the thrill of gambling. These players would soon get bored of an ace high win, whilst getting dealt 8 3 for hands on end.
This is why poker players at the WSOP shook their heads at the standard of online qualifiers, always talked about at the table.... afterall the online qualifiers did not understand why their moves were not winning in the real world, when they did online. Why would they?
So it wasnt poker going out of fashion, or tastes changing... it was poker sites being overtaken by a non poker playing clientele. The way sites wanted.
So when decent players in the real world, insist on defending online poker in its present form, this is the result. You may be aggresive towards me for some bizarre reason for saying this, but if you dont recognise/acknowledge the chain of events above, then i dont understand that as its as plain as plain can be.
You can't be such a zealot when you don't actually have any substance other than anecdotal.
You talk about it like this is the irrefutable evidence required to prove why you play £1 games now. You are fighting so hard to prove to yourself subconsciously that you are still a good player.
You can't have this discussion with a person like you and your state of mind because it's more about capitalism and economics than about casual poker players, particularly because when Black Friday happened poker was a completely new niche in that industry, and it's a whole lot deeper than that, but of course you've got it all figured out.
You do not know why these things really happen, whether or not statements you make are true or not, so it's pointless to keep speculating and moaning in every post you make. You play £1 games. Either study more and run good or stop moaning and letting it get to you.
I have just put up a catalogue of events that are undeniably true;
Online poker starts Normal poker, normal bad beats ratio
Black friday
American market goes, so has to be a change to replace revenue
Sites introduce casino/slots
Poker games appear, that are just poker in hand rankings, but are thrill games
Vicky Coren leaves Pokerstars as does not want to be the face of such rubbish
Poker sites clientele changes to mainly thrill seekers. overspill from casino
Normal sng have no players at tables, as poker players have left
I have left out the speculative bits (although pretty obvious), so the above chain is now fact. If there is something there that is untrue, your welcome to say!