Please ignore me this evening

You`ll regret it in the morning. Drink solves nothing, just makes things worse. Drink should be a social pastime, having a drink, a laugh and a joke with friends. Drinking for the sake of getting drunk is stupid. No offence intended, just a bit of advice.

Well just have a couple of cans or glasses of wine or whatever it is you like.

You can still enjoy your evening without getting smashed out your head

Not got any friends left mac & even if I did go out I wouldn't get any dinner

I've known thousands of people in my time Diva , used to be a popular lad in my old town , but they all do you wrong in the end , the bigger person you are they all want a piece of you in one way or another , even family grind you down , maybe I like just getting drunk on my own , but it's a no win situation

However, no man`s an island

Funny you say that mac as I'm currently listening to Ben Howards album & as I read it blasted it out , class

you too mate , take care !


even my Beef looks off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcvsNro1lbM

No mate ... only PG Tips

I'm considering quitting end of the year maybe make supernova  just to pay bills but there's no future in poker any longer unless you're an absolute world beater


Considering going pro gambler on here instead

I do but generally only play MTTs when I do so. I certainly don't do my daily grind when boozing.

Just reading 2P2 this afternoon and my thinking is also changing about the game. Margins are being squeezed year after year. I can understand how your struggling as players are becoming better but also poker sites are trying to make those margins tighter. Those Spin and Goes are ruining it for Sit and Go players as all the fish are migrating to them. I don't play Stars much but I completed the Mission Week the other day and broke even at $1.50 6 Max STTs. Every table had 4 regs and I'd say long term it would be hard to make any sort of a profit even at these stakes without table selecting.

I'd reckon some time in the future, even the peasant stakes STTs will become unbeatable, cash tables will be full of unbeatable bots and only MTTs and other non standard games like Stud (where you can't use a HUD) will you be able to churn over any sort of a profit.

I still love the game, I make decent pocket money from it but it would be hard to go pro in the current climate.

Players aren't better though , the very top players are terrible , but definitely not weak so they will beat out the weaker players , but I'm not one of them .

If I showed you all my bad beats for the day you wouldn't really believe it , and this is every day , every week , 365 days of the year , now I Fully understand variance unlike some , but this borders on criminality .

Hope you are OK McM, the loose cannons on line make it tough when they play rubbish and don't understand the percentages. My Ma is in intensive care again, I don't think she'll get out of this time

^^ sorry to hear that Slippy

Hey Slippy
I'm very sorry to hear that , I read a few months back she wasn't well , but was in too bad of a state myself at the time to take it all in & reply to you , as with your offer of a phone call which I still appreciate & would be happy for a quick chat whenever you feel like it as I consider you a good friend

but maybe it's for the best

Keep your chin up mate , any Nfl bets this evening ?

Fair play to you Fox , I find getting completely smashed kinda resets my clock , I can be normal again Monday ermmm Afternoon

Call me anytime McM, just not in a good place right now mate. Ma said to me she wants to die. I just burst into tears which didn't really help matters a great deal.

You can be the 10th best player in the World and lose money if you keep going up against the other 9 players. The game HAS developed, just look at the amount of training sites, Youtube videos, free and chargeable material. There's even specialised forums that target things like Sit and Go's and push/ fold charts that most of the ABC regs are using. Things you were doing right 5 years ago, most of the regs have caught on to so you have to stay 1 step ahead.

Remember it's all an economy, the bad players feed better players who in turn feed better players ect all the way up. At micro stakes it used to be 10% rake but over the past couple of years, most sites have increased that to 20%. That is a HUUUUUGE difference and stops many winning players without the rake into losing players, in turn it stops feeding further up the food chain. Most players nowadays are not rich fish, they are players that can beat the 20% rake and have the ability to move up.

One other point, on Betfair (Pokerchamps) we didn't realise how soft it was in compared to other sites like Full Tilt and Pokerstars. There were a lot of average players, me included, that had it really easy on here and could easily make a profit. I certainly noticed I couldn't make the same profits when we first moved to Ongaming and it was only 1 decent MTT win that made me any sort of money (which was a Betfair only MTT funnily enough.) Back then I couldn't even work out my pot odds but it didn't matter, players were so bad. I've found things a lot easier on I-Poker but that's because most of the skins are tied to gambling sites like Betfair. My game has also improved, I haven't stayed static, I've used a few of those training sites and watched Youtube videos. If I can find those useful videos then so can my opponents, it's a never ending game of learning.

Many were only decent on here because all of the players were so bad. In hindsight, I think very few of us were any good, average at best but the majority of the players were so bad and full of gamblers it was hard not to make a profit simply by playing a tight aggressive Sit and Go game.

I'm also self taught and have never used a push/ fold chart (although I have seen a few) but I've also delved into my own game and had a few hand histories analysed by other players. I've also participated on other training forums where I feel you can learn a lot by participating. Some of my biggest AHA moments have been by inadvertently posting something wrong and being ridiculed. I think my game has improved massively over the past few years even though my ROI has dropped from 30% on Pokerchamps to around 8% - 12% on all sites now.

I think low/ mid stakes are still beatable but there will become a point where it won't be. I target certain promotions for added money and overlays, I think that's a way to keep making a profit in this game.

Moonbeam, can you go back to when you first started playing poker and how it changed your life and to where you are now.

Cheers.

How much money did you start off with?