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Old 12-22-2005, 07:15 PM
RED_RAIN RED_RAIN is offline
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Default Re: Seems like you guys spend more time talking about money than poker

Without reading your post or responses.

You say poker players talk about money. What else is there going to playing poker at a serious level?
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Old 12-22-2005, 07:19 PM
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Just a bit of advice, isn't there a famous saying about not counting your chickens before they hatch?

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yea but see we're counting our chickens after they've hatched

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Chickens??? We're supposed to have chickens???
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Old 12-22-2005, 08:11 PM
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Default Re: Seems like you guys spend more time talking about money than poker

thundercat32,

you responded with a lot of energy and thought, plus you are named after the thundercats and i appreciate that. i don't remember the thundercats names but my favorite one was the short blue guy with a bald head. he was like the engineer i think, and did a lot of behind the scenes strategy, even though lion-o got all the credit. and also when the time came the blue guy could handle himself on the front line, with those giant spikes on his shoulders.

but you're right we should always as poker players be motivated for bigger and better things. this site is useful for doing so, but this site is also useful i feel for allowing players to share and compare their winnings and to ask questions about things like real estate and taxes, which in a sense is just counting our money as you say, but it's an indirect way of talking about money and successes, so poker players enjoy conversing about such seemingly boring topics as united states tax law. what i'm saying is, i enjoy watching my bankroll grow and i like wondering about the possible real world implications of having more money in my pocket, and if a poker player can't get happy counting the money he just won sitting there doing nothing, then this game wouldn't be nearly so enjoyable and eventually we'd wear ourselves out worrying about improvement all day.
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Old 12-22-2005, 08:37 PM
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Default Re: Seems like you guys spend more time talking about money than poker

what does anyone owe you?
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Old 12-22-2005, 08:41 PM
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Default Re: Seems like you guys spend more time talking about money than poker

I caught TC maybe 5 or 6 times. Without fail, it was
the episode where the chick tiger ran through a cave
at like the speed of light to avoid aging or something.

Did they actually have more than this episode?

I think about things like this WAY more than taxes...

-ZEN
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Old 12-22-2005, 08:47 PM
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I caught TC maybe 5 or 6 times. Without fail, it was
the episode where the chick tiger ran through a cave
at like the speed of light to avoid aging or something.

Did they actually have more than this episode?

I think about things like this WAY more than taxes...

-ZEN

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Tiger? She's a cheetah, man. That's how she can run the speed of light. Cheetara
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Old 12-22-2005, 09:10 PM
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Cheetara

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NOW I remember!! I love those, they make my
hands orange though...

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Old 12-22-2005, 10:28 PM
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I appreciate everyone's feedback, First of let me say there are so many tabs on the left side of this website (35 or so) that it's hard to nail down exactly which one I should post in, I guess I'll try the Small stakes no limit and pot limit forum from now on.

Secondly, in response to Dankhank's post My Quote "isn't there a famous saying about counting your chickens before they hatch?" DankHank "Yea, but we are counting our chickens after they hatched" Oh really? I guess that depends on your goals as a poker player, DankHank have I seen you on ESPN playing poker, or on the travel channel playing poker on the WPT or on Poker Superstars, or Ultimate Poker Challenge? I don't remember hearing your name when I've been watching those events. Maybe you have a comfortable living playing online and maybe that's nice for you, but that's not my goal

My goal is to play in the big events, and I don't think I'm going to get there by once I've gained a comfortable living from playing poker sitting back and counting up all my money, patting myself on the back, talking about TAXES????? Who gives a bleep!, just play poker, do you think that when Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, or any poker pro got to the point you are at now, they started thiking about taxes and asking questions like, can you really make $100,000 a year online playing poker? I know they didn't, they got to playing poker all they could and learning more and more and talking about POKER (not money) and the money took care of itself, That's my only point. So if you are comfortable at $100,000 good for you. But for others like I mentioned I'm sure they were not comfortable they probably went bust a few times with that money trying to make more and play higher stakes and get BETTER, and eventually they did. And you won't get there by patting yourself on the back so much for being a winning player. Okay so you win, on what level???

I'm coming here to learn all I can to be a winning player, be a GREAT player, in 2 years I want to be in the WSOP (2007), in 5 years I want to make the money and after that who knows, but I know I will never stop feeling like I have more to learn and I won't stop to spend the majority of my time counting money, I don't do that when I leave the Casino, I don't worry about money I worry about poker, I think maybe you should too

As for the Questions I asked, yes you all did do a fantastic job of answering them, I apologize at the time of my post I had not seen those responses so I was frustrated a bit. I got some different answers, but that's good gives me more to think about and chew. Thank you all for responding. And also I didn't mean to be confrontial, I was so I apologize I meant maybe to give you guys a kick in the pants, get a little motivated and thirsty again, I'll admit it I suck right now, I'd even classify myself as a fish still.

Last night I left Winstar with $220 profit, but that could have easily been $220 loss. But I did alot of things you're suppose to do right playing poker. I stole the blinds from position several times, I reraised all in on a semi-bluff and got a guy to fold Kings (which were an overpair to the board, J,9,8) I made a reraise and than folded when i noticed the guy's hands who reraised me all in were shaking like a wet dog, he turned over Aces (and he had Aces 3 of the last 6 hands, I think he got some kind of pleasure showing them) I did other things right, mostly played well excepts for two bad calls. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back I suck. I'm down $1,200 from when I started playing poker 7 months ago, but I'm getting better and I play 30-40 hours week whenever I can, whenever I'm not at work. And if you get too comfortable and too lazy counting your money, I'll surpass you, Good luck ya'll

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i will give you 100:1 on any amount of money up to 500, 50:1 on anything up to 1K that you will not make the money in the wsop me anytime in the next five years. Have fun at the wynnstar.

peace

john nickle
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Old 12-22-2005, 10:28 PM
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Just a bit of advice, isn't there a famous saying about not counting your chickens before they hatch?

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yea but see we're counting our chickens after they've hatched

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Chickens??? We're supposed to have chickens???

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Good Lord Man!! Didn't you get the memo!?
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Old 12-22-2005, 10:52 PM
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Thank god. I was beginning to wonder if anybody was gonna say it.
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