I didnt go bust playing $3 sit n gos, I just lost the money I had on this site.
your not a real poker player until youve gone bust at least once ;-)

Ok so i recently played some $3.30 and $5.50 SNG's had a major run bad, and bankroll went busto

I didnt go bust playing $3 sit n gos

I cant believe people are taking this horsesh1t seriously.

[x] Highstacks thread (nap)

your not going to take the bet, or you would of snap called by now.
you dont even need to admit your a bit of douche and might be wrong, I already know how your feeling.
So do us both a favour, F*ck off from my thread, and find someone else to annoy.

7 days from now, the evidence will be posted, and I hope your green with envy.

PS samaritans are there for you. 08457 909090

How the fk am I taking things out of context, when I've directly quoted you ? Why would I envy someone playing 6 pence sit n go's for 160 hours ?

You start the thread saying your bankroll went busto playing low stakes STTS.

You then state you are in profit playing poker to the tune of 100k.

Finally you state you didnt lose your bankroll, you just lost a few quid you had lying around in a Bf account.

So that's 3 completely contradictory statements. When I point this out you start going on about tournaments in Vegas, which have no bearing whatsoever on your initial statement.

I'm 100% happy to put up $1000 and play some poker against you, but I ain't doing anything until you post your BF user name.

I said you couldnt make this sh1t up.



That actually implies you are telling the truth i.e it isnt something you could have made up.

I haven't asked for your life history, it isn't something I'm remotely interested in. You either post your username or we all lose interest.

As for your money, if you stay on this site long enough playing STT's it's something I'm going to end up getting anyway.

I'm not angry, and my first 2 comments on this thread were well intentioned advice for anyone who had gone bust playing low stakes but was still wanting to play stts for a living. My good friend gnasher said something very similar, though much more succinctly. In fact almost all of the advice on this thread posted by long term winning players was related like mine to bankroll management.

You then completely changed tack, stating you were 100k in profit, didnt need to use bankroll management,boasted about your achievements, and told me to jog on. You also said you had blocked me, clearly you haven't.

You have said yourself you dont intend to use BRM and that you dont need it, but have then said you are great at maths so should be able to make a living playing poker. I'm not aware of anyone at the top level of the game who doesn't stress the importance of BRM, but hey you are so good you dont need it.

As for not caring about my opinion, at one point you were making 3 posts for every one of mine, all directed at me, so clearly you care a lot more about my opinion than I do about yours.

As for the anger....most of my comments have ended with a . Players like me need players like you.

I dont think I've "ripped into him" at all. In terms of actual abuse, if anything I've been on the receiving end.

I haven't said anything to him I wouldn't say to a friend or someone I was coaching.

The original premise is hopelessly flawed. As gnash points out it will be very difficult/nigh on impossible to achieve within the timeframe, and as I, and others have pointed out, $100 is almost certainly insufficent to bankroll another stab at 3/5.

When the OP talks about making a living from playing Stts, I suggested a minimum bankroll of $800 and having to play at least 10$ games to get anywhere near the $4500 a month he says he earns.

When I started out I was lucky enough to have people tell me in very blunt terms what was and was not achievable. One of the best bits of advice I was given when starting out was that freerolls were a complete waste of time. I also learnt a lot from people on this forum ripping my hand histories to shreds and calling me a clueless peasant stakes player.They may have been unrelentingly condescending about low stakes games and how I was playing, but the bottom line was that they were right 99% of the time, because at some point they had been there themselves. 

Personally I preferred the days when the forum was full of sarcasm and vitriol,at least the people spouting it had a clue what they were talking about.If the OP had posted this stuff about being 100k in profit and not needing bankroll management at all on here 4 or 5 years ago he would have been crucified.

And some of the best advice I've ever been given on this forum was from people unintentionally critcising my play. There are a lot better forums out there for advice but it's been this forum where I've had my most insightful moments.

charly you will no doubt be gutted to learn that Thrappers has survived day one at Star City, and has just taken his seat for Day 2.

On the upside he is short stacked.

I have no money on the site and the reason why I don't play here. I do have enough to play these 11 cents games but in all honesty I can't be arsed or motivated to play them. There was a time when I'd have grinded up a bankroll from freerolls but now these peasent stakes don't interest me. I could always deposit £50 and play $5.50 or $11 games and redeposit if I need to should I go busto but I'm happy elsewhere playing $7 STT's at a healthy ROI.

I can't understand the motivation of the original poster. Money talks imo. I've the bankroll to play $15 games singly but I sensible bankroll and multi table 6 to 10 tables at $3.50 and $7 games. There was a time when an 11 cent game meant something to me. I used to grind freerolls into $100 and then lift out and start again.

Someone once told me a great piece of bankroll sense on this forum and it's stuck, if you can beat a certain level then you shouldn't be playing stakes that will restrict you. Keep a certain amount in your bankroll so you can stay at that level and not move down.

While I have decent bankroll sense, I've always been too restrictive. I was doing it the wrong way around.

To the original poster, play at stakes where the money means something to you and you know you can beat. There's nothing wrong with being a freeroll ****, I was once one myself and Chip is wrong when he says stay away from them. They are a great way to learn and you can build a decent bankroll from scratch but the OP says he's experienced, has money behind him and can afford a $1k deposit to play $10 games where I think he should be at.

I learnt loads from Mavis, bumped into him in a 50$ D2N on Stars about 18 months ago. Still making the game pay I believe.

I rather hoped Chillin would be shacked up with some EMO chick by now and knocking out lil Chillins.

As for the sh1t-stirrer general, his footie team doing a lot better than Highstacks lot.

Thing was in the old days people on here just said what they thought and weren't worried about the consequences. Okay it led to a few calls to the police, but at least it was entertaining and informative.If you popped your head over the parapet and said you were a five dollar stt player you were labelled a peasant and a tramp and told to go and work in Macdonalds. I certainly dont ever recall saying to punterz " Oh thats a horrible, mean thing to say " you just laughed it off and got on with it.

Chillin took a lot of flak on here, he also got some respect for giving a bit back, and was lucky that Dubai kind of took him under his wing.

God knows when we all got so precious on here, and stopped taking the p1ss out of ourselves and each other. Simply suggesting someone go and get a job and build a bankroll sets people away onto their high horses in search of the moral high ground.Waht the Florida Four would make of it all I can only imagine.

I started 5 years ago with £500 in my bankroll, money I'd grafted for doing overtime in the **** job I was in at the time.

As has been said, the money meant something to me back then, so while I was prepared to lose it, I deffo wasn't going to do so without giving it a good shot.

Started off playing $5 stts, got the roll up to a grand, moved up to 10$, then 20$, then $25. Highest I went was $60 but had a power cut one night and lost 5 buy ins, then another one a few days later and lost another 4. Decided I didnt like losing the best part of 400 quid due to the incompetence of NEDL, and moved backdown a couple of levels.

I consider myself a recreational player, never had any desire to play poker for a living, think I would hate it. It's something I do in my spare time.

I'm about £30 grand in front over the five years,which is tax free income, and as I play at a level I know I can beat, I expect to carry on making profit for as long as I choose to play.

I dont claim to be a great player, but I don't need to be, I just need to be better than the people I'm playing against. It baffles me when people say they cant make the game pay, but then they show me their Scope graphs or hand histories and it becomes pretty apparent why they keep going bust.