Changing tactics : My Live Poker Blog

[d0zer]

Why are you listening to advice from your bustoass friends, while ignoring tons of FTR advice?

[jyms]

Why are you listening to advice from your bustoass friends, while ignoring tons of FTR advice?

Because he's an absolutely addicted gambler not a poker player, and has no plan to follow the advice of people that have got to where he claims to be trying to go. The truth hurts and there is no gamble in the truth. He doesn't really want to be a poker player as evidenced by all the blogs results and the fact that he plays other games with a poker BR. He is just like every other donator we love and why there are sometimes wait lists 10 deep at $50NL and up

[LuckySlevin]

I am addicted to wanting to make it in poker yes, but not to gambling sir.

I do have an addictive personality. Fwiw the friend that offered that advice is a very successful business person and there is a distinct logic to the advice.

i.e. play small, win small, lose small ad infinitum,

or play big, win big - you have life changing money. you no longer need to force the win as your situation has changed, reevaluate.

Having said that I will always do as I see best, I factor in advice from many of the ftr people I admire and esteem into my decisions, but as I have to live with the consequences of my decisions I do ultimately decide according to which route I think is preferable to me

[jyms]

I am addicted to wanting to make it in poker yes, but not to gambling sir.

I do have an addictive personality. Fwiw the friend that offered that advice is a very successful business person and there is a distinct logic to the advice.

Business is not poker.

i.e. play small, win small, lose small ad infinitum,

or play big, win big - you have life changing money. you no longer need to force the win as your situation has changed, reevaluate.

Life changing money goes both ways. Even if your in the top 10% of players in a toruney with 100 players at $1K buy ins you could consevably play over 500 times without winning. Are you prepared for that kind of life changing money?

Having said that I will always do as I see best, I factor in advice from many of the ftr people I admire and esteem into my decisions, but as I have to live with the consequences of my decisions I do ultimately decide according to which route I think is preferable to me

re the bold, can you actually tell me one thing you have learned and follow from any person here or advice you have got by an FTR member? Just one?

[Shotglass]

I am addicted to wanting to make it in poker yes, but not to gambling sir.

Hmm....

Had some ups and downs... but ultimately lost my live bankroll. The main reason for this was tilt and also playing some roullette

Sounds to me like a gambling addict. Let me think about this, I'm playing 36:1 but the house only pays 35:1 -EV.

What I could really do with is an event that I could save for 2-3 months to enter, something with a buyin of about £1,000

The skill level as you approach the final table or two in a tournament of this level will prolly have you wishing that you had taken that 1,000 and dumped it into a poker site and followed some of the advice from people that you claim to admire. You mentioned

life changing money

but in order to get that you either need to be extremely lucky, aka Moneymaker, or extremely skilled. You may recover your BI, but I realy do believe that your time and monies would be better spent elsewhere trying to learn some discipline.