Poker Mindset Questionnaire Part 2 (Stranded on an island?)

Who would you spend years, possibly life, stranded on an island with?

  • Ginger

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Maryann

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Mrs. Howell

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Gilligan

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Skipper

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Professor

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • Mr. Howell

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    3
StormRaven

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Questionnaire Part 2 (continued from Questionnaire 1):
Below is a continuation of the Poker Mindset Questionnaire with questions that are more geared towards personal preferences and fun facts and theories with questions that are not quite as serious as those asked in the first part. As before, the best question has been saved for last.
Section VI:
19. How did you get started playing poker?
20. Who is/are your favorite poker pro(s) and why?
21. Out of all the poker players you know or watch, be them pro's, family members or friends, who do wish you were more like and why?
22. What trait do you possess that you wish other poker players would emulate?
23. What do you feel are your strengths in poker and why?
24. What do you feel are your weaknesses in poker and why?
25. What goal(s) in poker are you working on that are the most important for you to accomplish?
Section VII:
23. What is your favorite move/play in poker (besides when you win a pot)?
24. What is your favorite starting hand and why?
25. What is your least favorite starting hand and why?
26. What is your biggest pet peeve in poker and why?
27. Thinking of your poker play, ring or mtt's or sng's, be them live or online, what moment is your saddest or the one you are least proud of and why?
28. Thinking of your poker play, ring or mtt's or sng's, be them live or online, what is your proudest/happiest moment and why?
29. What is the best finish you've ever done in a sng or mtt? Please give some details.
30. What is the largest pot you've ever won in a ring game? Please give some details.
Section VIII:
31. What style of poker playing do you feel is the best and why?
32. How has your style changed since you first started playing poker?
33. If you play online poker, do you believe it is ethical or unethical to use a software program to enhance your game, why or why not?
33. a) Do you use any programs, if so which ones?
Section VIIII:
34. Have you ever cheated playing poker? If yes, details?
35. What's the funniest thing that has ever happened to you playing poker?
36. What's the scariest thing that has ever happened to you playing poker?
37. Is there a type of poker player you respect and why or why not?
38. Is there a type of poker player you despise and why or why not?
39. Knowing the ratio of female to male poker players is highly unlikely to be equal in the near future, which gender do you believe to be the more proficient and why?
Section X:
Last but not least, inquiring minds want to know: if you were stranded on an island and could pick only one castaway to spend the rest of your life with, assuming you would not be rescued, who would you pick?
40. Ginger, Maryann, Mrs. Howell, Gilligan, Skipper, The Professor or Mr. Howell and why?
 
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Section VI:
19. How did you get started playing poker?
I was up late one night and couldn't find anything on. The WPT was on and I was like "Really how boring could that be? Watching people play poker, Really?" After about four hours of sitting there enjoying the hell out of myself I was hooked.

20. Who is/are your favorite poker pro(s) and why?
I would have to say Negreanu. He is a good poker player and just seems like a really nice guy. Plus he is fun to watch.

21. Out of all the poker players you know or watch, be them pro's, family members or friends, who do wish you were more like and why?
I guess it would have to be the same guy. Not because of who he is, but on cardplayers database, his life time winnings are $12,284,153. Wow!

22. What trait do you possess that you wish other poker players would emulate?
Thinking about poker away from the poker table.

23. What do you feel are your strengths in poker and why?
I guess that would be my intelligence. I can learn a lot fairly quickly and retain it pretty good. Poker is a game that you never stop learning, so I think that will help me out in the long run.

24. What do you feel are your weaknesses in poker and why?
Easily my temper. I can't tell you how many times I've got pissed. I mean really pissed off.

25. What goal(s) in poker are you working on that are the most important for you to accomplish?
Getting my BR up to $100 so I can move up to 5nl


Section VII:
23. What is your favorite move/play in poker (besides when you win a pot)?
I don't really have any "moves" yet. If I had to choose though, I guess flopping a set and stacking off against someone who thinks he is God's gift to poker.

24. What is your favorite starting hand and why?
Like I said, I don't really have any fancy moves or anything yet, so I'll have to stick with good ol' aces.

25. What is your least favorite starting hand and why?
I can't really think of anything aside from the obviouse crappy hands. 72o, 210o, thats about all I got. Just the hand that is the biggest loser in PT if not those ones.

26. What is your biggest pet peeve in poker and why?
My own stupidity. Doing something I know I shouldn't and not doing the things that I know I should be doing.

27. Thinking of your poker play, ring or mtt's or sng's, be them live or online, what moment is your saddest or the one you are least proud of and why?
That would have to be the first time I pissed away my starting bank roll. It was the first time that I'd played poker and I just tilted it all away. There isn't a specific thing that I can remember. I just made stupid moves and losted my money.

28. Thinking of your poker play, ring or mtt's or sng's, be them live or online, what is your proudest/happiest moment and why?
There isn't one specific time I have in mind, just now. I have been playing really good lately and have been playing how I know I should play. My winrate is huge right now and I've almost reached my $100 mark. When I reach that, that will become my new happiest moment.

29. What is the best finish you've ever done in a sng or mtt? Please give some details.
I don't have the exact details on hand, but I finished around 216 in a $2 MTT. I think there was about 6000 people in. I got real lucky in the beginning and doubled up on some really good hands a couple times. I road that rush for a good long while and was doing great. I took one really bad beat. A short stake pushed AI preflop and I called with QQ. He turned over either Ax or Kx and caught his two pair on the flop. That knocked me down a good bit. My stack started to get really low <10M. I pushed with Axs and missed. I think I got like twice my buyin back, or a little less. That was pretty cool, considering I suck at tournaments.

30. What is the largest pot you've ever won in a ring game? Please give some details.
I sat down at a crazy four handed table where just about everyone was getting it all in by the turn. It was a little after I'd restarted my PT database because my computer crashed. I hadn't had AA in about 450 hands. The poker gods decide to shine down on me that night. I picked 'em up about my 5th hand at this table. I had a raise and a re-raise ahead of me. I shoved and got called by 3 of the people there. The total pot was around 20 bucks. That was a great night.

Section VIII:
31. What style of poker playing do you feel is the best and why?
In general I would have to say LAG. I don't just mean the idiot down the road who is crazy. A really good LAG I think would be the hardest to play, hardest to master, and the most profitable. For me however, I need to play a Tight aggressive game, borderline nit.

32. How has your style changed since you first started playing poker?
I have tightened up alot and become alot more positionally aware. I have (atleast somewhat) gotten my tilting undercontrol

33. If you play online poker, do you believe it is ethical or unethical to use a software program to enhance your game, why or why not?
I don't think so at all. There isn't any cheating involved with software. It simply keeps track of all the data that would be available to people any way. If this software some how showed people what others cards were or in some other way cheated, then yes.

33. a) Do you use any programs, if so which ones?
I use Pokertracker and pokerstove. If there are any other great ones out there that I'm missing I'd love to hear about them.

Section VIIII:
34. Have you ever cheated playing poker? If yes, details?
Nope. The people I play against I don't have to cheat to win.

35. What's the funniest thing that has ever happened to you playing poker?
I think it is hilarous when I knock out one of the idiots at the table who thinks he knows everything and is gods gift to poker. It is so damned funny.

36. What's the scariest thing that has ever happened to you playing poker?
I haven't really had anything scary happen yet.

37. Is there a type of poker player you respect and why or why not?
A good one who can keep their cool. If you are good at poker, I'll give you all the kudos in the world. It is one tough game, and takes alot to be good at.

38. Is there a type of poker player you despise and why or why not?
Bad ones who think they are really good. I love when they are at my table (they are usually pretty easy to beat) but hate them as people.

39. Knowing the ratio of female to male poker players is highly unlikely to be equal in the near future, which gender do you believe to be the more proficient and why?
I don't really think one gender is inherintly better at poker then the other. I think each brings different things to the table and are better at certain things. I don't ever think there will be any super amazing women at poker only for the simple fact that they are highly out numbered and the odds are just more in the guys favor.

Section X:
Last but not least, inquiring minds want to know: if you were stranded on an island and could pick only one castaway to spend the rest of your life with, assuming you would not be rescued, who would you pick?
40. Ginger, Maryann, Mrs. Howell, Gilligan, Skipper, The Professor or Mr. Howell and why?
Maryann, just like in the last survey thing, I'm very dirty :D


All my answers are up in the top. I hope everyone enjoys.
 
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Maryann now or as she was in the 60's? Cuz if it's as she was back then I'm all over that. As for the rest of it, that's a lot of reading. I get distracted reading the directions on the back of the Hamburger Helper box.
 
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19. My parents. I come from a long line of drunken Pollocks & Irishmen!
20. Daniel Negreanu (great player, great attitude, handsome) Phil Ivey (Great player, fearless, hard to read, that stare!) Annie Duke (Great player, wonderful female role model, aggressive, strong independent woman) Tom Dwan (He's so crazy and fearless, can't ever get a read on him and he's just very good)
21. I wish had Annie Dukes skills, Tom Dwans ability to not let his opps get a read on him, my Grandpa's aggressiveness (he was a semi-pro, very aggressive), Phil Iveys stare and Daniels great attitude, even most of the time during bad beats.
22. Logic. I despise playing with over emotional players who don't have the ability to think logically. Of course these players tend to be the most profitable for me!
23. Open-mindedness. I can look at a play I did and admit I screwed up and try hard to fix any leaks.
24. Folding too often to raises in the blinds. Not trying to re-steal often enough for starters. Bad brm.
25. The ones listed above.

(ooops, numbered incorrectly in the questionnaire!)
Section VII - 23 - Successful bluffing!
24 - 99. I play them like AA and tend to get more sets with this hand than any other ppr.
25. 24 os. I rarely ever play this hand, you have to have just the right kind of board to win with this hand most of the time (unless you have a nit in the blinds)
26. Whiners & time consumers! Don't want to hear ya whine and for the love of all that is sacred in the poker world - make a decision already! Don't hold the game up over and over again making others wait! It's just rude and inconsiderate!
27. Bluffing a senior citizen off of the best hand in a live tourney. He was recently widowed, took up poker to pass time, meet people and have some fun in his life before he died. We were 3 handed at the ft and he respected my raise, made a statement about how he was proud to see a woman at the ft and one that was doing so well and folded top pair to my bluff. This left him short stacked and he was knocked out. His daughter came over to me later and said her dad had said some nice and respectful things about me and wanted to thank me for being so nice and respectful to him. Told me her mother passed away a few months back and he had terminal cancer and this was the first time in months he had truly smiled. She said he had never taken 1st in a tourney and thought this was his moment to finally do so before it was too late. Awwww, man, I know you're not supposed to feel bad, but if I had known, I might have talked to the other guy with us who was a regular and did things differently. I don't believe in soft playing, not even to family and friends, but this goes beyond that. It's not like it was a large tourney or a large payout. A dying man would have had a great and proud memory to take him to his final resting place with. Okay okay, I'm a female and a softie, so what of it?
28. When I won first place in the Men Vs. Women tournament for the state of Michigan a few years back. I've taken first in other tourneys, but that one meant a lot to me.
29. In the PS $11 mtt 6 handed, avg chip stack was over 100k and I took a bad beat that put me down to 55 chips. I was all in 5 times in a row, first 3 times I had no choice because of antes & blinds, came back to take 1st place. Chip N a Chair!
30. $1800 at a $2/$5 game. A bunch of rich gamblers decided to go all in pf, I was bb with AA :)

31. TAG. It's been proven time and time again by the pros and many others to be the most profitable.
32. A lot! I used to be a scared nit, now I embrace aggression and bluffs!
33. Ethical - if they are the approved ones at the poker sites. They enhance your game, give real time stats and info on your opps and are important part of a poker players arsenal.
33 a - Yes, HEM.

34. Yes. My husband and I wanted our son and his friend to finish up the yard work. So while on a break, we were playing poker with them (they were 15 at the time) and my husband distracted them while I stacked the deck (took me nearly 5 minutes because I don't know how to do it). We had a bet going on which "team" would win - the other finished the yard work. We won. :)
35. A women at the casino who was very well known for wearing very risque clothing and no bra (who dangled everything all the time in order to win pots) stood up to brag to our table about a big pot she had just won and she was bending over, doing all the distraction techniques she normally did and when she finished she shot her arms up in the air and one of her boobs, completely bare, came flying out of her little top and stayed there until someone finally told her she was exposed!
36. A drunk man stalked me, followed me out to the parking lot, tried to follow me home and I had to drive back into the valet area to get security to hold him. He followed me right back around into the valet area too and tried to deny it.
37. Yes. Those who are good without being egotistical, they are logical without being over -emotional and are friendly and are always striving to be better.
38. Over-emotional whiners who just gamble and don't know how to play or try to improve.
39. Females of course! LOL! The serious female poker players have a lot more patience in general, a good balance of aggression and don't let their other "brain" do the thinking for them! :p
40. I think I'll have to go with the Professor. He's got the best body, is the most intelligent, hard working and would probably be the best chance of surviving on the island or finding a way off of it.
 
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