What advice can you give the next up and coming player from Taiwan?

Aren't you the guy who was under pressure to quit poker from his family....how did that work out?

How important was the summer in Vegas to your game? This seems to be a common thread with a lot of the big name pros early in their careers. I don't really have any poker playing friends and I think it's putting me at a pretty big disadvantage not having that.

 

Originally Posted by Nothingmaker

, bro!

lol

Have you ever run through a cornfield backwards?

How much of a joke is TheMaven for charging 5k for something all of us would happily do for free?

Over/under how long it takes for the expected q to show up...

First advice: Quote the question you are answering because most people will just scroll until they see you have posted and it will be hard to scroll back up to see what question you are answering.

Second a question: do you still get anxious when you are deep in a tournament? Like when there are 3 tables left or so. does this ever affect your play if you do? Like getting too aggressive wanting to speed things up, etc. etc.

 

Originally Posted by boris64

 

Originally Posted by Nothingmaker

, bro!

lol

kill yourself

 

Originally Posted by TwystedPair

How important was the summer in Vegas to your game? This seems to be a common thread with a lot of the big name pros early in their careers. I don't really have any poker playing friends and I think it's putting me at a pretty big disadvantage not having that.

Absolutely essential. Nothing is more important in any profession than to have friends that you can discuss hands with and receive advice. People you can blow off steam too and share heartache and success. If Kevin had never invited me out, I wouldn't be where I'm at now. I can pretty much guarantee that.

I learned a shit load in Vegas. I learned was the idea of "leverage" when you have a big stack to put pressure on opponents with a big stack as well (over 30 bbs deep). Putting pressure against guys in position and force them to either over ship all in or fold there hand is very profitable deep in no limit mtts.

We never discussed concepts like concepts. I just watched everyone's hold cards I could see and tried to grab any piece of info I could find.

 

Originally Posted by wildman75

how sick to your stomach were you about an hour after we both folded KK at PCA this year and realized that crazy euro was infact a crazy euro and not a nit like originally thought.

I wanted to puke my guts out. But not as badly as I wanted to puke when Benham Patros shipped k9 off against my aa on the 642 board after we had hung out together all the day before and the board runs out 642-3-5. Not sure if you were at the tbale when that happened.

Then he flops top pair and busts my AA to knock me out 2 hours later. sigh..

EDIT: That euro hadn't palyed a hand all day and then proceeded to play EVERY hand after that. Ur flat was so strong I coudln't even raise. PUKE.

 

Originally Posted by the_snail03

Aren't you the guy who was under pressure to quit poker from his family....how did that work out?

My family was iffy with it for a long time, but they know better than to tell me I can't do something as they know I'm quite stubborn. They supported me.

Needless to say now, their tune is completely positive with it.

 

Originally Posted by pokerbrat13

Absolutely essential. Nothing is more important in any profession than to have friends that you can discuss hands with and receive advice. People you can blow off steam too and share heartache and success. If Kevin had never invited me out, I wouldn't be where I'm at now. I can pretty much guarantee that.

I learned a shit load in Vegas. I learned was the idea of "leverage" when you have a big stack to put pressure on opponents with a big stack as well (over 30 bbs deep). Putting pressure against guys in position and force them to either over ship all in or fold there hand is very profitable deep in no limit mtts.

We never discussed concepts like concepts. I just watched everyone's hold cards I could see and tried to grab any piece of info I could find.

I figured as much. If I've learned anything from P5s over the years, its just how important this is. I've joined a few groups of players with the hopes of developing some friendships, but they always seem to fizzle out. I am at a point in my game that I feel it's essential to have people to talk to about situations and hands for me to be able to progress.

Thanks for the great answer and congrats on the success. GL in the future.

 

Originally Posted by pokerpoker69

Im pretty sure you're the guy who chopped the sunday mill and your gf broke up with you :-/ Where is she now? Are your parents more understanding now too?
Also, I remember a thread you posted a long time ago about poker and "being a kid". Do you still regret not having a social life and not doing "kid" things when you were younger?

Congrats with everything and GL in the future.

Yep. that was me. We are still good friends. She's actually one of biggest supporters back home now. My parents are more than understanding, they support me now 200%. My success has allowed me to help out my family financially.

I was kind of a loner kid for the first 20 years of my life. People liked me but I mostly kept to myself. I had a lot of issues with depression and what not. I feel like I've gotten over most of it, but I still struggle with it every now and then. I missed out on a lot of standard growing up experiences because of it and it still hurts to think about. But can't change the past, can only look to the future. I do regret it, but I do my best to sustain a positive attitude.

Money is great, but it is what it is. In the last few months I've drastically changed my lifestyle to accompany a very active social life. My life has improved and my game has improved as a result.

I highly recommend anyone who feels too degen to go out most of the time to force yourself to the bar. Even if you don't enjoy it, you'll enjoy your time in front of the computer more when they return.

What adjustments have you made in your tournament game that has given you consistent success in the biggest rebuy turneys, what things are you doing differently then other people? Obviously you have to play these tournaments differently then any of the other ones, What things do you notice that you adjust specifically for the big rebuys where your very deep the whole time with good players. I kinda thought recently that you had slowed downnn a whollle lot and seemed to be flying under the radar and picking sick spots? Is this true or am i just oblivious?

Any thoughts on my game would be appreciated: TOUGH CRITICISM PLEASE!

gl man.

congrats on all the success dude, i know i've played with you in some mtt's b4...and i recall your g/f/family/sunday mil story, glad to hear everything has worked out well...but my question is, when will i FT the sunday mil?