lifechanging experience

Hi everyone. What is the most important thing you ever changed on your game that affected you negative the most and what was the most revealing experience that altered you as a player and put you on the winning mode once and for all.

Hmmmm nothing, i've won right from the start! But maybe that's the problem. I went into 2nl playing fit and fold in my mind and my natural talent with probability and counting general odds allowed me to not be suckered in by trouble hands like the weak broadways. So I started off as a nit and not lost a huge chunk of my bankroll since starting at all.

Though I think this is the problem, I take life too safe.

Life changing experience (then you talk about poker), I just found that funny...


Well as far as life goes, I've seen some stuff that I'm not to fond of personally, someone I met (She was cousins with a acquaintance of mine), and long story short (she had one of those personality issues, where she thought she had like 5 alter personalities)...She had asked for a favor I said "Nope" and she jumped from a 24 story building (I kid you not), it was like 5 minutes after she had asked for this favour (yeah left out one important detail in the story), she told me "If you don't I'll kill myself", and like an ass I started laughing and said "Do it", and then 5 minutes later she was done...Seeing her brains splashed (Cuz I ran down and had to see it with my own eyes), and that liquid that she was leaking+her lifeless eyes, and hearing about it 1st hand with the people she was with (What had actually happened and how), that made me actually become a more calm person in general, not drink, do anything besides really stay home and just think more about life in general, and be more content with it (Mind you I think less and less about it now, but when it happened, I actually kept hearing her last words and my dumb reply, wishing I really didn't say it)...

As for poker, personally whenever I hear such and such won the "Sunday Million", or this player won this MTT, or even the CC players that are crushing the MTT fields for the big cash paydays, they make me want to change my game style up and try to mimic there styles so I can become a winning MTT grinder

nidal55 said:

Hi everyone. What is the most important thing you ever changed on your game that affected you negative the most and what was the most revealing experience that altered you as a player and put you on the winning mode once and for all.

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realising that i suck no matter how much im winning and that i can always get better

It's somewhat subjective as to how much is life-changing. For some people, a few thousand in a year might be life-changing money. For others, the same amount would be nice but not particularly significant - live-enhancing might be a more accurate description. And for some, it would have little or no real meaning.

Gave up continually trying to 'make the big score' on the MTT's and learned how to play cash games. Worked up to 20/40 limit and realized that a $420 pot is as good as many $5 MTT's I was attempting--which took me 1 minute to win as opposed to spending 4 hours on the MTT.

Then...not realizing quickly enough that players became more sophisticated and learned the game which caused my game to suffer because I did not adjust. Which has killed my BR.

That and sharing your BR with the wife. She doesn't understand BR management (you won before, just build it back up! doesn't always play out when you hit a down swing) and siphoning off too much will hurt.

I had 2 moments when I suddenly made big leaps in skill. They were both essentially the same reason: I was desperately broke!!

I couldn't find a job back in 2007. I heard that I could win money and gift certificates at some local bars by winning or coming in 2nd in poker tournaments. At that point I had only played once, and actually won (luck, I'm sure). I went to the bar to play and got crushed. The very next day I bought about $10 in used poker books. I was eating free 2-3 nights a week and winning small $25 buy in cash games pretty consistently within a few weeks.

I had a similar experience with online poker in Jan 2010. I was broke, jobless and going to college full time. I got a small amount of money as a gift and put $10 on Full Tilt in hopes of winning a couple hundred dollars to help pay for food in January. I kept hitting the $70 mark and almost going broke. When I dropped to $2 I decided I was not putting any more money in. Either I started winning consistently or I was done playing. I won a about $10 in free rolls, and moved to cash games. Next thing I knew I was seriously thinking about 3-tabling $50nl Rush for a living.

The worst thing that happened to my poker play? ... ... Black Friday! ... ... ...
2 weeks later every cash game I know about shuts down because the cops went crazy busting them. The bars even stopped having freerolls.

I think I'm still on tilt.

That and sharing your BR with the wife. She doesn't understand BR management (you won before, just build it back up! doesn't always play out when you hit a down swing) and siphoning off too much will hurt.

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Is your wife good? I share a little of my roll here and there with my partner. Its not the best thing because I try to tell her what to do. At tourneys she's pretty good but at cash....... I mean Im not good but I know a bit. Watching her play zoom poker makes me pull my hair out.

black friday was a life changing experience or should I say a non life changing experience since I played my way into a wsop tourny that I couldn't play in when the time came on PS still looking for a site that I like

Negative: fancy play syndrome...over confidence...thinking I'll outplay him...too wide a range...
Positive: conscious play...whittling my opponents range down based on every new bet, street, timing tell etc.