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Old 10-24-2004, 03:31 PM
jokerthief jokerthief is offline
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Default Re: Goodbye cruel (poker) world

Here is a radical thought, go back down to the smallest micro-limit and pretend that you are learning how to play for the first time. Go back to the books and spend more time with them. Start with HEP, then go to SSHE, on to HEPAP, finally TOP. If you don't already have Poki Poker or Turbo Texas Holdem get one of those programs and warmup for 30 minutes before you hit up the ring games. Or beat them for 10,000 hands before you step back into the ring.

Start with a .01/.02 limit game and a ultra liberal bankroll, say 600 big bets, and refrain from moving up until you have at least 600 BB of the next level. This will be slow but I bet theraputic. You will be playing limit so the tilt factor will be less costly than NL, thus you will have more time and opportunity to beat it into submission to your will.

You aren't playing for a living so time is a thing you have. Take the pressure off your self, hell your first bankroll will be only $12. Think of the poker wisdom you will have gained from this as you rebound, as I bet you would. No one makes the kind of money you made with out talent. What has happened to you has happened to the best poker players in history. Doyle Brunson and Amarillo Slim admitted going broke a few times in their careers as have many others.

Take your time and refine your skills and you will come out of this process like tempered steel. Who knows, ten years from now you could very well win 15 million taking down the WSOP.

Best Wishes,
jokerthief
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