there are many people on this site who have information i need and want to read. there are fewer people willing to share that information, and there is only a handful who can put it across in a way that is not "condescending, patronising, elitist and painful to read" you sir are, are one of the handful!! great read, phil
Tommy, Do you play poker as a pro, or do you teach full time or freelance or something else.... Just wondering........... curious..... All da best Posted by rancid
Teach full time but I've been a little unwell this week so I've been grinding and posting during the day. Poker is just a fun sideline for me
there are many people on this site who have information i need and want to read. there are fewer people willing to share that information, and there is only a handful who can put it across in a way that is not "condescending, patronising, elitist and painful to read" you sir are, are one of the handful!! great read, phil Posted by pod1
First and foremost you should be playing for fun. If it's no fun anymore, stop.
Tommy the above sums up poker for me,i have written something pretty similar in my profile.I am enjoying your mix of poker and life and look forward to reading more.
Hi Interesting Diary, just wondering what's your way of withdrawing your profits since you play quite high volume. Do you just have a set bankroll eg £5000 and anything above that after the week/month you withdraw?
Also if you do use this method what do you do if you have a big downswings just drop down the levels or deposit and continue as normal. Always interested in this to compare to myself as I just seem to withdraw after each session in fear of losing the money later.
First and foremost you should be playing for fun. If it's no fun anymore, stop. Tommy the above sums up poker for me,i have written something pretty similar in my profile.I am enjoying your mix of poker and life and look forward to reading more. Posted by Spikelad
Cheers Spikelad, I honestly do appreciate all feedback, both encouraging and constructive.
Hi Interesting Diary, just wondering what's your way of withdrawing your profits since you play quite high volume. Do you just have a set bankroll eg £5000 and anything above that after the week/month you withdraw? Also if you do use this method what do you do if you have a big downswings just drop down the levels or deposit and continue as normal. Always interested in this to compare to myself as I just seem to withdraw after each session in fear of losing the money later. Thanks Ryan Posted by Knowles001
Hey Ryan
I take out money when I want to treat myself, invest some in savings, or if the GF has convinced me to buy her some Ugg Boots. I'm a recreational player so I don't have a set bankroll, I just take money out as and when I need/want it.
I don't deposit on a downswing, I drop down. I've tinkered with my BRM so much over the years, and I expect this to continue through the years to be honest. I generally move into a level if and when I make it to 60 buyins for that level (I say move into rather than move up, I don't stop playing the levels I am already beating until I'm very comfortable higher and regularly beating those games, you can't forget about your base otherwise a downswing will really hurt you). I have to drop down if I drop to 40 buyins.
I've never understood people not using a range like this. Some people will say 'you need a bankroll of 50 buyins for a level' but to my mind that says you have to drop down if you lose your first one. When giving advice no one really ever sets move up, move down limits together, then again maybe I'm missing something.
So yeah, I'd advise a 60/40 rule but I'm not a pro, I'm a recreational player. If I was a pro I would tighten this right up.
Never be scared about losing money later on, mainly because you will. You'll lose plenty of hands and have plenty of losing sessions, I know I do. No point being scared.
Hi Tommy you mentioned on the thread I started about Negraneaus video blog that you had talked about it on your diary. Daniel's comments about a guy with a baseball bat were a bit too strong but he has stood by them and like he says if it's going to happen it will. With regards to you saying he has painted himself into a corner with his comments about Lederer and Ferguson suggests that it has backfired on him, but I don't think it has. Daniel has such high standards and principles that he would never dream of playing with these two again so I don't think he will look at it like that at all. Personally I can't see the situation arising as I think both Lederer and Ferguson will disappear from our TV screens. With regard to Lederer's silence since Black Friday he's absolutely spot on and asking what thousands of players want answers to. BTW you diary looks very interesting and a bit different from the standard "This is what I won or lost today". i#ll give it a full read when I have time.
excellent scribing tommy, i'll be tuning in daily! best high & worst low on the tables if you don't mind pls Posted by yoyo
Cheers Julian
You and Ryan, the previous poster, have really prompted quite a personal story. I was going to wait a while to introduce this one but I guess now is as good a time as any.
Worst moment.
I've been on Sky Poker for a while, pretty much since it started. Wasn't a great player when it began, I donked around on a few sites, made a little and had a laugh. All was good. As I have alluded to before one of my major leaks was the Blackjack table. On a bad day most of the profits I made on the poker table over the period of weeks would get swallowed up on a blackjack table in a period of minutes. Wasn't anything tragic, this was all profit and I'm not a pro so I wasn't going hungry. After doing this a number of times I finally kicked blackjack. I just couldn't bear to have that feeling of self annoyance again, plus the lovely way the SkyPoker emails would be sent with an old balance on from time to time. I can't tell you how many times i shouted at a SkyPoker email "I DON'T HAVE THAT ANYMORE!!!!!"
I saw sense and self excluded from any casino site connected to any poker site. Now the balance was just poker. Going to be great right? Well it was for a while, I spun a couple of hundred quid up into a few thousand in a couple of months, mainly through DYMs and some low level cash, particularly PLO. Life was good. Then i had a downswing.
We're in August 2010, life's good, playing great, running well, I'm planning to use some of this new found wealth to treat my family to some extra special presents this Christmas. Just spin a little more and we'll be in for a cracking crimbo. Now jump to December 2010, it's a wet Saturday morning and I've just bubbled for what must be the 100th time out of 150 DYMs. I had to go back to DYMs because the juicy PLO games that helped me build my roll dried up, I was running bad in the NLHE cash games and a MTT bink seemed a million miles away as I always lost 'that flip.' I click show balance on the website and it says £63.19. There it is. Thousands spun down to this in just a few months. And no Blackjack to blame this time, not played a hand of it. This is all poker. Blackjack always felt like someone else was playing. This was all me. The loss was all me. I'd already had my C4Ps that month, without that I would already be bust. I was a losing player.
I took myself into the bathroom and literally had a good long hard look at myself in the mirror. I must have stood there for five minutes, glaring at a person I despised right now, and who I pitied. I made a decision. I'm not going to reload. Ever. If I'm not good enough, then I'm just not good enough. It'll be freerolls, birthday bonus cash, come back cash, having a laugh on the forum from now on. When, not if, but when I bust the last dregs of my once very nice roll then that's it for me on SkyPoker. Probably that's it for me and poker. I had withdrawn most of the rest of my balances to pay some bills.
I wandered back into the lounge, registered for two £22 DYMs and rolled the dice on last time.
1) Who would be your choice for the new England manager? If the answer is Harry, which I suspect it will be, 2nd choice?
2) What would your starting 11 for the first Euro2012 game be if you had to pick it right now? (assume everyone is fit, but obv suspensions still apply)
3) Do you play/follow any other sports?
4) If you were set a challenge to eat as many bigmacs as you could in a 3 hour period, and were paid £1,000 for each one, how much do you think you would be able to make?
Hi Tommy you mentioned on the thread I started about Negraneaus video blog that you had talked about it on your diary. Daniel's comments about a guy with a baseball bat were a bit too strong but he has stood by them and like he says if it's going to happen it will. With regards to you saying he has painted himself into a corner with his comments about Lederer and Ferguson suggests that it has backfired on him, but I don't think it has. Daniel has such high standards and principles that he would never dream of playing with these two again so I don't think he will look at it like that at all.Personally I can't see the situation arising as I think both Lederer and Ferguson will disappear from our TV screens. With regard to Lederer's silence since Black Friday he's absolutely spot on and asking what thousands of players want answers to. BTW you diary looks very interesting and a bit different from the standard "This is what I won or lost today". i#ll give it a full read when I have time. Posted by FlyingDagg
I haven't said it has backfired yet, but we don't know what poker in the future will look like. Ferguson is not as tainted by this as Lederer. I can easily see a huge new American start up poker room (after the Internet Gaming Act is repealed) signing him up. I can also see such a start up throwing money at promotion and marketing, which may include a TV show. There is a chance that Daniel would be invited on a Poker After Dark type show which will feature Ferguson. Do you think he would, should or could go on it?
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : I wandered back into the lounge, registered for two £22 DYMs and rolled the dice on last time. Best moment Every day since. Posted by TommyD
Comments
Do you play poker as a pro, or do you teach full time or freelance or something else....
Just wondering...........
curious.....
All da best
Tommy the above sums up poker for me,i have written something pretty similar in my profile.I am enjoying your mix of poker and life and look forward to reading more.
I take out money when I want to treat myself, invest some in savings, or if the GF has convinced me to buy her some Ugg Boots. I'm a recreational player so I don't have a set bankroll, I just take money out as and when I need/want it.
I don't deposit on a downswing, I drop down. I've tinkered with my BRM so much over the years, and I expect this to continue through the years to be honest. I generally move into a level if and when I make it to 60 buyins for that level (I say move into rather than move up, I don't stop playing the levels I am already beating until I'm very comfortable higher and regularly beating those games, you can't forget about your base otherwise a downswing will really hurt you). I have to drop down if I drop to 40 buyins.
I've never understood people not using a range like this. Some people will say 'you need a bankroll of 50 buyins for a level' but to my mind that says you have to drop down if you lose your first one. When giving advice no one really ever sets move up, move down limits together, then again maybe I'm missing something.
So yeah, I'd advise a 60/40 rule but I'm not a pro, I'm a recreational player. If I was a pro I would tighten this right up.
Never be scared about losing money later on, mainly because you will. You'll lose plenty of hands and have plenty of losing sessions, I know I do. No point being scared.
With regard to Lederer's silence since Black Friday he's absolutely spot on and asking what thousands of players want answers to.
BTW you diary looks very interesting and a bit different from the standard "This is what I won or lost today". i#ll give it a full read when I have time.
You and Ryan, the previous poster, have really prompted quite a personal story. I was going to wait a while to introduce this one but I guess now is as good a time as any.
Worst moment.
I've been on Sky Poker for a while, pretty much since it started. Wasn't a great player when it began, I donked around on a few sites, made a little and had a laugh. All was good. As I have alluded to before one of my major leaks was the Blackjack table. On a bad day most of the profits I made on the poker table over the period of weeks would get swallowed up on a blackjack table in a period of minutes. Wasn't anything tragic, this was all profit and I'm not a pro so I wasn't going hungry. After doing this a number of times I finally kicked blackjack. I just couldn't bear to have that feeling of self annoyance again, plus the lovely way the SkyPoker emails would be sent with an old balance on from time to time. I can't tell you how many times i shouted at a SkyPoker email "I DON'T HAVE THAT ANYMORE!!!!!"
I saw sense and self excluded from any casino site connected to any poker site. Now the balance was just poker. Going to be great right? Well it was for a while, I spun a couple of hundred quid up into a few thousand in a couple of months, mainly through DYMs and some low level cash, particularly PLO. Life was good. Then i had a downswing.
We're in August 2010, life's good, playing great, running well, I'm planning to use some of this new found wealth to treat my family to some extra special presents this Christmas. Just spin a little more and we'll be in for a cracking crimbo. Now jump to December 2010, it's a wet Saturday morning and I've just bubbled for what must be the 100th time out of 150 DYMs. I had to go back to DYMs because the juicy PLO games that helped me build my roll dried up, I was running bad in the NLHE cash games and a MTT bink seemed a million miles away as I always lost 'that flip.' I click show balance on the website and it says £63.19. There it is. Thousands spun down to this in just a few months. And no Blackjack to blame this time, not played a hand of it. This is all poker. Blackjack always felt like someone else was playing. This was all me. The loss was all me. I'd already had my C4Ps that month, without that I would already be bust. I was a losing player.
I took myself into the bathroom and literally had a good long hard look at myself in the mirror. I must have stood there for five minutes, glaring at a person I despised right now, and who I pitied. I made a decision. I'm not going to reload. Ever. If I'm not good enough, then I'm just not good enough. It'll be freerolls, birthday bonus cash, come back cash, having a laugh on the forum from now on. When, not if, but when I bust the last dregs of my once very nice roll then that's it for me on SkyPoker. Probably that's it for me and poker. I had withdrawn most of the rest of my balances to pay some bills.
I wandered back into the lounge, registered for two £22 DYMs and rolled the dice on last time.
Best moment
Every day since.
Love the look in the mirror bit, don't we all do that after a bad stooopid session )
Seriously, I love cheese that would be declared a health hazard.