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DJC..an open letter

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  1. Wachovia Wachovia is offline

    Chapin, SC
    United States

    Posts: 508
    Joined: Jan 05

    May 30th, 2005 (5/30/2005 5:41pm)

    First let me say thank you for the kind words in your post. I look at my ranking on pocketfives as a responsibility. That dictates my actions in sooooo many situations. I am an emotional person, yet I have curbed my reactions to stupid players because of my ranking here. I know that I'm not as good as what I'm ranked. I know that I am not half the player that Bax, Br, Gator and NSXT are. However, because I've been honored with being ranked here I feel that I have a responsibility to represent this site in a professional manner when at all possible. With that being said, I know EXACTLY how you feel. I went through 2 months of the most amazing bad beats I have ever experienced. As a matter of fact, this past weekend was a microcosm of those two months. I have AA a guy raises 4x the blind the cutoff calls and I raise 10x the blind which was 200-400 and only the cutoff calls. The flop is K48. The cuttoff goes all in and I call. He shows K10 and a 10 hits on the river. That is an example of how I got knocked out of 10 of the 11 tourneys I played this weekend, which includes today. So I cashed once this weekend. Online poker is full of land mines.

    I can't tell you that it will get better soon. The fact of the matter is that luck plays a huge role in online poker. The amount of players you come across is much larger than live. The amount of information is far less online. This is a very difficult way to make consistent money. I have said to my wife and kids on many occassions that if I had just average luck I'd be a millionaire from online poker. Good solid play, over the long haul, will make you money. However, you will lose far more online because of the luck factor. My goal is and has been to cash in 10% of the tourneys I enter. When I cash I hope to make the final table 30% of the time. When I make a final table I hope to win 30% of the time. That means that the VAST majority of the time I am going to lose money. Simple math will show you that over the long haul, though, if I accomplish those goals I will make a good deal of money. From Jan through today I am up in the mid 5 figures. While those aren't incredible numbers, they are given to illustrate a point...I'm no better than you are. Over the long haul you will do as well or better. I have no doubt about that.

    The medicine that you need is a break to clear your mind and your thoughts of all the bad beats. Go play some more live stuff and make some money. Then you'll be ready to come back with a different perspective and understanding. Knowing you're going to get bad beat out of tourneys. Knowing it's going to happen more than you make money. Yet also knowing that when you do cash, you will make enough to more than compensate for the loses.

    You'll be back. Not because you're addicted. Not because of peer pressure. You'll be back because you're good enough to make money doing it. When that time comes, I'll look forward to seeing you at my table and having a good laugh together.
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  2. DJCBoston DJCBoston is offline

    Lowell, MA
    United States

    Posts: 1,211
    Joined: Jan 05

    May 30th, 2005 (5/30/2005 6:03pm) in reply to Wachovia

    Wacho, I wouldn't sell yourself short as a player. I certainly think your ranking here is very much deserved and you are in the class of the guys you mentioned. 5 months, up mid 5 figures? Ask all the ranked players to give their figures and I am willing to bet that you are top 5 in that department. I feel I am definitely good enough to do it, make money, and make alot of it. Right now though I am just so down it's hard to even comprehend. I took about 5 weeks off recently and came back to the same ole' same ole'. Thought it might work because the first day back I won a UB tourney for $2500 (not alot but a nice take on a $100 investment.) I was happy and my confidence was back. Since that day....wham! Nothing but ugly. Right back to the crapper for me. Gonna get my live game licking for real and if I can build a roll large enough to play scared free online poker I'll be back. I actually was offered a backing deal from a local businessman to play live. If he only knew how bad I've been running here I'm sure he would renig! Gonna see how that plays out. I think I'll hit Foxwoods and bang out the 5-5 NL game and try my luck at some WPT sats to get his confidence. I played a tourney he ran last week and he watched me make some crazy folds and nice instinctive plays which he questioneed at the time but after seeing me go from 8th in chips at the FT to winnning it by playing patient and aggressive he was impressed. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise. If I spend more time focusing on the live game and less online it may just payoff in the longrun??? Who knows. I won a trip to Vegas a while back by busting Raymer in a local tourney so we may take a ride and see what happens there. Hopefully I can get back to old form.

    Thanks for taking the time to give a shit. You don't know me and don't have to care. That says alot about the type of person you are. Good luck bro!
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