Quote Originally Posted by LuckyLloyd

This is, 100% without a doubt, the most baffling aspect of live poker for me. There are regulars in town who are doing the exact same thing they did two years ago when I started. And I sometimes wonder whether anyone would ever improve if there was a holy law against discussing hands and strategy at the tables. I truly believe that the only reason longtime losers make an effort to change is when they get berated after sucking out or something.
i guess there's a few factors that contribute to it (just a warning this is in not in any way insightful but w/e), they don't analyse anything they do, they call for their draw miss and put it down to being unlucky, moan for a bit and then move on to the next hand without thinking about whether what they did was correct.

the great thing about poker is that you can do the wrong thing and still win (in the short term only obv, which is possibly months live) so you have people like the chief playing fundamentally unsound poker but winning due to running hot and since obv. winning=doing the right thing, plus the fact remember all the times they hit, and not the times they miss, it adds up to these people not realising they're so bad.

plus at 25hands per hour they just don't notice i guess.



Ultimately, if you play live cash for any extended period of time you see people and things that will just make you sad. You go in the emporium these days and you see the likes of the Chief or Norman now broke (and clearly depressed) essentially because they never bothered to change. The thoughts of ending up like that make me shudder.
yeah, playing live is pretty grim for so many reasons, i could never do that for any extended period of time again.

SO STICK WITH A FEW HOURS OF ONLINE; BALANCED LIFESTYLE; AND RUN GOOD + MAKE LOTS OF MONEY PLZ GOGOGOGO!!
heh, my friend rang me up the other day in the morning and invited me out on a all day/all night session (explains the lack of hands!), and my first thought was "hmmm, but i really wanna play some more 200nl", which is probably a bit unhealthy, so i went out and did some drugs and alcohol and it was all good.

I've actually cut down on the time i spend on poker+poker related activities and feel alot better for it and am probably playing better as a result too. it's pretty cool to play for less than 2hours make $300 and then fuck around for the next 48 hours with some equally uncommitted friends. it's great.