Unlucky with 'the shot' Just a suggestion, why not do it 'live' next time? You're comfortable in that enviroment and will have better fundamentals than many in the game.
Pat Unlucky with 'the shot' Just a suggestion, why not do it 'live' next time? You're comfortable in that enviroment and will have better fundamentals than many in the game. Dym graph is a bit special for the last month! Jac Posted by Jac35
Wise words as always Jac. It's definitely something I'll give a little thought, seeing as my expected edge would be considerably larger. DYM wise this month has been special. Hope the game has been treating you well.
Great read as always Pat. Keep them coming Dont know what I laughed at more the bluff-fishspewmonkey comment or you comparing yourself to the dalai Lama lol Posted by JockBMW
Appreciate it Pete, means a lot. You do make me laugh..
Great read Pat. As always. Unlucky at the shot but that's why is called a shot. Maybe go in your way maybe not. You have a good game so don't worry. You will ge there next time. Just focus in rebuilding you bankroll now. Good luck with it. Posted by GreekWay
Thank you George. You're exactly right, it's called a shot for a reason!
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Since the disaster that was last Thursday, I've been working on rebuilding my roll. For once the DYMs actually obliged to it. Do you ever find that when you feel you need the results in Poker the most, that they evade you? (Obviously it has a lot to do with psychology and our selective memory), but nonetheless it still feels that way.
Results for the last 7 days:
So for the last week I've been rebuilding. I've felt that the games are good, and as a result 90% of my games are £11 buy ins or above. Yesterday was fairly interesting. I felt confident enough with my bankroll to play a few £22 DYMs. The first session didn't go too great, and I lost 3/4 of the £22 DYMs I played. When I was finishing up my session I had two DYMs left - a £22 and an £11. I know I lost the £22 and won the £11, but my memory was hazy on which order. So I went to the gym, came back and when I loaded up my next session. I started to get results. As previously mentioned, Sky is offering Priority members the chance to earn a DYM hot streak bonus. If you win 10 DYMs of £11 buy in or above, you earn your buy-ins back, minus the rake. I started to count how many I'd won in a row. I got to 9 for that session before I lost a game. Now I was in a dilemma. I wasn't sure whether I'd won the £11 and then lost the £22 DYM in the previous session, thus costing me the streak.
I phoned up Priority and asked them to check to see if I'd hit the streak, they were very helpful and said they'd ring me back in the next few minutes. After 15 minutes I went for a shower, and asked my Poker playing housemate to answer the phone for me if it rang. I came out, and he said that they'd rang, and unfortunately I hadn't hit the streak. All I could mutter was the word 'brilliant.........................'
He then started to laugh, admitted that I had hit the streak bonus and that it'd be credited within a couple of minutes. Just like that, a chunky bonus was credit into my account for the second time in a month. I know all too well that in Poker, things can change in the blink of an eye. It just takes that one moment of letting your emotions get the better of you for everything to crumble.
"He then started to laugh, admitted that I had hit the streak bonus and that it'd be credited within a couple of minutes. Just like that, a chunky bonus was credit into my account for the second time in a month. "
" He then started to laugh, admitted that I had hit the streak bonus and that it'd be credited within a couple of minutes. Just like that, a chunky bonus was credit into my account for the second time in a month. " N1 Pat Posted by Glenelg
Thanks Glen. I admire your decication to the thread, you've been in it through thick and thin.
Quick note to say that I'm writing a fairly deep blog post today about happiness. I have Uni for a few hours, but it will hopefully be finished by this evening. Hopefully I'll be able to make it motivational, as opposed to just deep.
This is going to be a fairly in-depth post about my experiences with searching for happiness. By no means does it mean that everything here is right or that you'll even agree with a single word I say. All I can ask is that you read it with an open mind, and most importantly an open heart. If you think I'm talking a load of s***, that's completely fine - At the end of the day, we learn the most from our differences, not from our similarities.
"This is your life. Do what you love and do it often. If you don't like something, change it"
This is your life - Learn to love it
In my relatively short life, I feel that I've been truly blessed. I've had support from a loving family, made great relationships with others and travelled all over the world. I've attended good schools, achieved good exam results. I've held notable positions on successful sports teams. I've been fortunate enough to have had food on my plate, financial backing and shelter over my head from the day I was born. Shockingly all of this and had you asked me a year ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago, if I was genuinely happy - I'd have looked you in the eye and said no.
After giving it endless though, I believe that it all boils down to the fact that I wasn't happy with myself. I firmly believe that if you don't accept yourself and who you are, you won't truly be happy with others, your surroundings or even your life - No matter how great it seems on the outside to your peers. I previously walked around as if I had a chip on my shoulder and felt as though the world owed me something.
So what's the major difference between now, and then? The truth is that gradually over time, I have come to accept that like everyone else, I have my faults and I have bad days. At some point, I'll do or say something stupid or uncharacteristic. I'll be off with others. However, my greatest breakthrough came with gradually forgiving myself for these mistakes. I believe that if you get too caught up in the past, it will drag you down in the future.
Once I realised that I make mistakes. I truly realised that others inevitably will too. "Forgiveness is giving up being a victim. It turns 'poor me' into 'free me'. Happiness dwells in a loving heart and a healed past." By no means does this mean that I'm glad bad things have happened to me in my past. However, being able to accept such things, and move on from them has taken a heavy burden off my shoulders.
Once I began to find happiness within self-acceptance, I stopped searching for the biggest thrills or the greatest highs. I began to find true joy in the simplest things in life. For the first time in my life I became truly grateful for the luxuries in my life, a roof over my head, food on the table - perhaps most importantly, my relationship with family and others. "Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them."
To put this into materialistic terms, although a well paid job is something I aim for, it's by no means my main goal in life. If I had the choice between a high-flying successful career, that by the age of 40 didn't make me happy, and a minimum wage job that did - I'd snap decide the latter. At the end of the day, from my own experience, you can't buy relationships with others, you can't buy happiness and you definitely can't buy self-acceptance. Although I believe money may make it easier to be happy in life, it's only a small factor in the mix that is happiness.
This summary I found concludes everything I believe in almost perfectly:
"In life, much as in Poker, we are constantly getting dealt a fresh hand. What has come before and what is yet to come is irrelevant, except in the way it informs our current decision - which we should always strive to make to the very best of our abilities. Try to make the best decision, at every chance, at the Poker table and in life. And moreover, be as happy as you can in the now, don't fret about the future or dwell on the past with regret, savour and be as present as possible for every precious, miraculous moment in this fleeting life"
Thank you for taking the time for reading my post. A few of the ideas were helped to be put onto paper thanks to a couple very helpful and insightful pages I've previously stumbled across:
Excellent post and well written as always. I haven't posted much on this thread tbh but I always read and love how honest and open you are when you write.
Sometimes you forget the important things in life and concentrate on less meaningful things. I found this out the hard way last year i wont bore you with the details but i was in a bad place and it wasnt untill i started looking at myself and people who mean the most to me that i could grow and become happy with myself.
Anyway how you been mate? i havent posted for a while hope your ok, i can see your running well.
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I admire both the sentiment and your "cajones".
You'll get there Kid.
GL
Unlucky with 'the shot'
Just a suggestion, why not do it 'live' next time?
You're comfortable in that enviroment and will have better fundamentals than many in the game.
Dym graph is a bit special for the last month!
Jac
gl
This is going to be a fairly in-depth post about my experiences with searching for happiness. By no means does it mean that everything here is right or that you'll even agree with a single word I say. All I can ask is that you read it with an open mind, and most importantly an open heart. If you think I'm talking a load of s***, that's completely fine - At the end of the day, we learn the most from our differences, not from our similarities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
"This is your life. Do what you love and do it often. If you don't like something, change it"
This is your life - Learn to love it
In my relatively short life, I feel that I've been truly blessed. I've had support from a loving family, made great relationships with others and travelled all over the world. I've attended good schools, achieved good exam results. I've held notable positions on successful sports teams. I've been fortunate enough to have had food on my plate, financial backing and shelter over my head from the day I was born. Shockingly all of this and had you asked me a year ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago, if I was genuinely happy - I'd have looked you in the eye and said no.
After giving it endless though, I believe that it all boils down to the fact that I wasn't happy with myself. I firmly believe that if you don't accept yourself and who you are, you won't truly be happy with others, your surroundings or even your life - No matter how great it seems on the outside to your peers. I previously walked around as if I had a chip on my shoulder and felt as though the world owed me something.
So what's the major difference between now, and then? The truth is that gradually over time, I have come to accept that like everyone else, I have my faults and I have bad days. At some point, I'll do or say something stupid or uncharacteristic. I'll be off with others. However, my greatest breakthrough came with gradually forgiving myself for these mistakes. I believe that if you get too caught up in the past, it will drag you down in the future.
Once I realised that I make mistakes. I truly realised that others inevitably will too. "Forgiveness is giving up being a victim. It turns 'poor me' into 'free me'. Happiness dwells in a loving heart and a healed past." By no means does this mean that I'm glad bad things have happened to me in my past. However, being able to accept such things, and move on from them has taken a heavy burden off my shoulders.
Once I began to find happiness within self-acceptance, I stopped searching for the biggest thrills or the greatest highs. I began to find true joy in the simplest things in life. For the first time in my life I became truly grateful for the luxuries in my life, a roof over my head, food on the table - perhaps most importantly, my relationship with family and others. "Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them."
To put this into materialistic terms, although a well paid job is something I aim for, it's by no means my main goal in life. If I had the choice between a high-flying successful career, that by the age of 40 didn't make me happy, and a minimum wage job that did - I'd snap decide the latter. At the end of the day, from my own experience, you can't buy relationships with others, you can't buy happiness and you definitely can't buy self-acceptance. Although I believe money may make it easier to be happy in life, it's only a small factor in the mix that is happiness.
This summary I found concludes everything I believe in almost perfectly:
"In life, much as in Poker, we are constantly getting dealt a fresh hand. What has come before and what is yet to come is irrelevant, except in the way it informs our current decision - which we should always strive to make to the very best of our abilities. Try to make the best decision, at every chance, at the Poker table and in life. And moreover, be as happy as you can in the now, don't fret about the future or dwell on the past with regret, savour and be as present as possible for every precious, miraculous moment in this fleeting life"
Thank you for taking the time for reading my post. A few of the ideas were helped to be put onto paper thanks to a couple very helpful and insightful pages I've previously stumbled across:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/38/small-stakes-pl-omaha/1500th-post-poker-life-extremely-tl-dr-1069907/
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/8-steps-to-true-happiness/
Any comments and opinions are appreciated.
All the best.
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Patwalshh
Excellent post and well written as always. I haven't posted much on this thread tbh but I always read and love how honest and open you are when you write.
This is def one of the best threads on the forum