Alone in the Dark - The poker musings of an also ran

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I feel like Herbert O. Yardley.

if you felt like Herbert K. Jason then you might wanna start panicing. enjoying this thread (mainly coz i can understand it and empathise [coz = because])

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I feel like Herbert O. Yardley.

if you felt like Herbert K. Jason then you might wanna start panicing. enjoying this thread (mainly coz i can understand it and empathise [coz = because])

You're an idiot Jason. I'm laughing my tits off here. 

[Woodsey]

Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

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Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

Did you enjoy it - will you do it again?

[GreekStein]

Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

Nothing wrong with shot taking. You prob don't think twice if you run good and end up on $5k. As long as you didn't go broke and still have enough to grind back which you do, easily it's ok. Shot taking is good when you're running good.

[Karabiner]

Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

Nothing wrong with shot taking. You prob don't think twice if you run good and end up on $5k. As long as you didn't go broke and still have enough to grind back which you do, easily it's ok. Shot taking is good when you're running good.

I would agree with that with this caveat:

Shot-taking is okay with a certain %age of your roll as long as you have the ability/discipline to stop, as going busto taking shots at higher limits has been the ruin of many a poor boy who couldn't.

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Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

Nothing wrong with shot taking. You prob don't think twice if you run good and end up on $5k. As long as you didn't go broke and still have enough to grind back which you do, easily it's ok. Shot taking is good when you're running good.

I would agree with that with this caveat:

Shot-taking is okay with a certain %age of your roll as long as you have the ability/discipline to stop, as going busto taking shots at higher limits has been the ruin of many a poor boy who couldn't.

Semi autobiographical - lessons learned and all that Ralph?

[Woodsey]

Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

Did you enjoy it - will you do it again?

For sure, if I'm watching telly I've often got a game of some description running in the background anyway. The plan was to get to 3.5k and then withdraw 3k for my august holiday and then start again from $500. I fully expected it to take a couple of months more actually, but I obv ran good and binked a bit in the rush tourneys to help.

[Woodsey]

Massive sigh, I've patiently been building up a roll on tilt over the last month or so. Got $200 into about 2.5k by most following proper BR rules apart from in the early stages. Had a bottle of wine last night and jumped on 2/4 PLO, GG 1.5k  

Can I ask what stakes / games you were playing?

Started off on .5/.10 Rush PLO, grinded the shit out of that for a few weeks and with rake back etc got it up to just over a grand. The last couple of weeks I've been playing .10/.25 Rush PLO and $10 Rush tourneys and had it to a peak of nearly 2.5 k.

Nothing wrong with shot taking. You prob don't think twice if you run good and end up on $5k. As long as you didn't go broke and still have enough to grind back which you do, easily it's ok. Shot taking is good when you're running good.

I would agree with that with this caveat:

Shot-taking is okay with a certain %age of your roll as long as you have the ability/discipline to stop, as going busto taking shots at higher limits has been the ruin of many a poor boy who couldn't.

This is the issue. If I'm playing after I've had a few there often isn't a stop button, I'd normally say $500 max or whatever for a shot and then stop, but after a bottle of wine I start chasing and gambling which is a recipe for disaster obv 

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I have a little list of people that I have met through poker that I admire. (In a strictly hetro, punch each other on the shoulder sort of way of course).

Woodsey is one such. More on this later.

[GreekStein]

I've often been able to build a big bankroll fairly quickly. In fact it took me about 4-8 weeks to build up an almost $30k roll after I got back from Vegas last year, when I had about $2k to start with at most. This was mostly due to a bit of grinding and a lot of good shot taking. I'd shot take in decent bigger games, usually win and quit if I did one buy in, max two. The roll increased loads until I shot took when tilted and didn't stop til I went broke.

Basically shot taking is very +EV if done properly.

[Karabiner]

Basically shot taking is very +EV if done properly.

I would also say that it is much better suited to the more technical game of PLO than HE.

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Basically shot taking is very +EV if done properly.

I would also say that it is much better suited to the more technical game of PLO than HE.

"The Science of Shot Taking". There's a good article there somewhere.

[GreekStein]

I have a little list of people that I have met through poker that I admire. (In a strictly hetro, punch each other on the shoulder sort of way of course).

Woodsey is one such. More on this later.

When are you gonna write the one about me?

lol!

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I have a little list of people that I have met through poker that I admire. (In a strictly hetro, punch each other on the shoulder sort of way of course).

Woodsey is one such. More on this later.

When are you gonna write the one about me?

lol!

Wouldn't want to plagiarise....