my mind drifted as i posted in the recent Atlantic City thread and i've decided to go all out and let P5s know any and every, and likely more than they care to know about me. i do believe i can play with the best that online has to offer but have never played their game so I lay no claim to being the best. I do claim that I am the best low stake live full ring nlhe cash game player around. Obv. these games are easy to beat but the profit margin i make at these games is astounding. Thats were I've made the most money, thats my niche although i can play nearly every variaton of poker including tourneys and shorthanded/HU very well.

If anyone cares to comment feel free. I'm feeling so good nothing will upset me right now. Be critical of my stats if you wish. I would suggest you ask me questions about fun or interesting things that happened at the table or some of the dumbest things i've done to stay with a bankroll since I was almost always playing above my roll. Also suggest you make the questions as direct as possible as I have 100 answers for 'what's something crazy you heard someone say at a poker table'.

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cliff notes: i've played 10,000 hours of live poker at stakes $2/$5 and lower with likely 6 figures in profit (don't keep stats, lazy me) i've seen some things and went broke several times. The last few thousands of hours have gone very well and today i'm sitting in my apartment near the beach on st. croix, virgin islands with little stress and nothing to do. i'll answer any questions, anything you want to ask?

"When i say i run the best at Trop i dont mean i get lucky, i make the most money there by taking it. I probably have the most luck at Caesar's. The staff at Trop, I'm sure, remember me. I played there about 50-60 hours a week from mid Jan to end of March and am still living off that change. I was the one who would be in the room for sometimes 24hrs straight if the game was that good. I would buy-in for one bill maybe two and be sitting with $500+ in front of me and several times leaving with 1K+ profit. Believe me when i tell you Tropicana is where you should be, even the regulars aren't that good. I've raped 1/2 (mostly, also 2/5 and minimal 5/10) games up and down the east coast) yes i'm bragging but 95% of the time i am the best cashgame player i have ever played against. (working on the 1% tilt and the 4% spaced out not playing attention)

Take my advice for whatever, i know my stars scores are micro staus with decent but not spectacular results, but someone could match my life online volume in 3 days. I have, however, spent 10k hours at live poker tables and over the past year, thx in part to P5s, have plugged a few leaks to were I'm money at the table, leaving with a profit more than 9 out of 10 sessions. I light up when people post questions about live hands or ACpoker or MIApoker and always post a response because this is what i know.

I never came from money, shoot still don't have money, even though i did 3 years of college at a very respectable institute, i am not very employable. I play live poker to eat, literally. Years ago when i was still finding my game i used to go to AC with $200 in my pocket and play until i was broke or could no longer stay awake. I would manytimes get back on a bus home to Baltimore and jump right back on a bus to go back to AC to avoid a weekend hotel rate. Spent easily 100 hours sleeping on greyhound buses on AC trips. I've quit and asked for less hours at several jobs when teh pokah run goots were blasting.

hmmm, guess i kind of turned this into a well of sorts, maybe i'll start a well..... hmmm
it probably won't be educational but i have many entertaining stories from being at live tables so much. I'm all for self depricating(sp) humor so i wouldn't keep back any damaging details. And i do like attention and know i am underestimated online. Worst it could be is a thread that never gets bumped, even if it becomes a flame gang bang that still will bring me some laughs..... i'll wait until 4:20 est to decide."

always thought i had enough stories to write a book, even have the perfect tittle. i'm lazy and don't know how much of an author i am, so let's give this a try

no holds barred, i'll answer any and every actual question

 

Originally Posted by driftdc5

this cant be real

Just believe.

What was the worst beat you have taken(largest pot) and did it make you cry when you went home?

playing a 4/5 hour session of life cash bores me to death.

do you hate your life?

 

Originally Posted by pokerchief29

Ive always thought of you as a microgenius. how many adderol did you take before you thought of doing this.

man vs wild or survivorman?

pretend its 4:20 in the afternoon. weed or sex?

never adderol
man vs wild
if id had her before and its one or the other for the rest of the evening... weed

What do you think of andressoprano's game?

I grind 1/2 and 2/5 NL live a fair bit myself but find that paying attention all the time is a tough thing to do. Is there anything specifically you do to stay focused?

 

Originally Posted by Iplaythabored

what did u do with said six figures?

basically spent it on living expenses and not getting a job for the first several years, lived in a lot of hotels

currently i am helping my sister in a situation and haven't played much in the last 2 months.

more bad beat stories please.

 

Originally Posted by y0y0y0y0y083

"Years ago when i was still finding my game i used to go to AC with $200 in my pocket and play until i was broke or could no longer stay awake."

1. ^^^^ How many times have you hit the bottom "broke", and rebounded, and when was the last time it happened?

2. Choose one right now (the moment you answer the question obv. lol)
a.) Continue to sit at the beach stress free, looking at the ocean enjoying the breeze.
OR
b.) GO play some cards, and make some $$$$. "Grind"

3. If you had to give someone, one important piece of advice, what would it be? (could be poker related, or life in general).

initialy dozens of times, at first i would just get my paycheck and play with whatever i had after covering bare expenses. at a time i had a relationship with a labor ready in baltimore and they'd see me once or twice a month for a few days or week until i had a few buy ins to return to AC. The last time it happened was summer of '07, my mother encouraged me to return to the islands, she isn't a poker fan, so I went to AC and put my entire roll on the table playing 5/10. obv went broke so i came back to my mothers house at 29, given its a large 3 bedroom with plenty land.

if it wasnt for my older sister who is 38 and pregnant for the first time I would have never returned, always rather be grinding, little to no opp. here.

go after what you dream about, you have a better chance at a happy life.
poker related, better to be the bettor

 

Originally Posted by Gags30

how many more terrible Wells do you think will be made before the good players that people actually care about and you can actually learn from just stop making them?

too harsh imo

 

Originally Posted by Gags30

how many more terrible Wells do you think will be made before the good players that people actually care about and you can actually learn from just stop making them?

i respect the little i know about your game and will still put a large part of my roll with you on a full ring cash table. i've never played you and don't claim to be able to beat you at your game, i don't know, i do claim to be able to beat you at my game. live cash, stakes don't scare me.

what may I ask is my well taking away from someone else's? I'm just another thread, could mean nothing to you could mean loads to someone else.

i know i've made some posts that i resent but I am good and can teach many people many things, but i can teach the narrow minded nothing. feel free to search and bash me personally however you want but i make alot of money.

...

 

Originally Posted by paidchex

 

Originally Posted by thedylan

why did you make this thread?

cause i think i'm better or as good at this game as anyone who plays it and i want you to know that

your just a cocky idiot. You can beat 1/2 congrats.

 

Originally Posted by njo1987

1) most money won/lost in a trip to AC or where ever u choose to play that day?
2) same question, but online
3)how did you start playing the game?

i've lived in AC for as much as 3 months straight (last time Jan to March obv) but in one "trip" was almost 4 grand from a saturday morning to a tuesday morning. it was actually included the bad beat i mentioned. The next trip i made wasn't for almost 2 months. Things went well I played at Trop most, chopped a tourney 9ways when i had only 3bbs for almost 1 grand but also played cash there and at Casaers and Bally's. The sick beat I put on the guy happened during that runI did similar feats other times but that was probably the most in a short trip. Also was the only time I payed for a hooker, I bought 3 at once, lolz and then went back to playing after.

online my biggest score was shipping a 6max $5 for about $1400

i was living off my stripper girlfriend at the time when the WPT first came on TV, watched every second of poker i could find on TV and i was hope almost all day every day. The first time I saw Moneymaker I was playing .50/1 LHE in a house game i found on homepokergames.com or something. I won the first hand I played to the river by rivering the straight after flopping openender. The villian said "lets see if the new guy has the straight before calling" i knew then i would play poker for the rest of my life. I've done everything i could since to spend as much time on learning poker as I could.