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KadaverBB
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany25657 Posts
October 30 2014 10:13 GMT
#21
Could you recommend some reading for an absolute beginner? I am slightly interested and might check it out
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
October 30 2014 11:07 GMT
#22
On October 30 2014 19:13 KadaverBB wrote:
Could you recommend some reading for an absolute beginner? I am slightly interested and might check it out


Pokerstrategy.com is awesome for beginners.
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
October 30 2014 14:19 GMT
#23
There's an appeal to poker as a game where progress means making money. But there's also the fact that the way you make money is basically by finding a big fish (aka a person with a gambling problem or a person who moved up stakes too fast) and basically abusing them, while contributing nothing to the welfare of others.

There's been some times when a much better player at StarCraft wanted to play bet games with me, and I was like "Why would I ever do that?" Poker seems like the equivalent of that except for some reason people are like "hell yeah I wanna lose $500 playing a game with someone who outclasses me. That's what makes it exciting! And what if my 4pool/low pair bluff works!"
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ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
October 30 2014 14:49 GMT
#24
do not kid yourself by thinking you contribute to anything by playing SC2 Chef though because you are not, poker is really just more "expensive" of a game
Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
October 30 2014 15:02 GMT
#25
its a really hard time to get into poker these days so i hope you're ready to work nonstop for a long long time.

good luck with it all and dont forget to post hh questions @ lp ^_^
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aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
October 30 2014 15:51 GMT
#26
On October 30 2014 10:33 MrBitter wrote:
Carlo! So happy to read this dude. Wish you all the success in poker and life.

Hey Ben I miss the good times when we were all in Germany. Hope you are doing great as you are used to do!

On October 30 2014 12:26 ROOTFayth wrote:
best of luck, you can add me on skype if you want, I don't mind giving advices on hand histories you'd be puzzled about

Oh mate, it's been a long time, and you even got married Sure I'll add you on skype right now

On October 30 2014 19:13 KadaverBB wrote:
Could you recommend some reading for an absolute beginner? I am slightly interested and might check it out

I don't think I am the best person to ask for this. I saw on IveyLeague a very good coach suggested these books:
DUCY by David Sklansky
NLHE Theory And Practice by David Sklansky
Professional NLHE Volume 1 by Matt Flynn
Harrington On Hold'em by Dan Harrington
Fooled By Randomness By Nicholas Taleb
Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller

On October 31 2014 00:02 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
its a really hard time to get into poker these days so i hope you're ready to work nonstop for a long long time.

good luck with it all and dont forget to post hh questions @ lp ^_^

You are absolutely right and I am well aware of this. I am not deluding myself into thinking I am a genius and will perform better than anybody else. I am just willing to bet all my life on this and I will definitely work non stop towards my goal.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
October 31 2014 00:30 GMT
#27
On October 31 2014 00:02 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
its a really hard time to get into poker these days so i hope you're ready to work nonstop for a long long time.

good luck with it all and dont forget to post hh questions @ lp ^_^


Yeah I stopped in 2010 when it became very clear to me that I had better BATNAs (best alternative to negotiated available), the "available" being pokers.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
October 31 2014 07:02 GMT
#28
Fooled by Randomnesss is one of my favorite books of all time and I'm really happy my studies in poker brought me to that. In a lot of ways thats how I branched off into doing esports things too so it had some impact on the course of my life.

Really suggest reading if you're into poker.
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FliceR
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
Austria72 Posts
October 31 2014 07:31 GMT
#29
I wish you best luck, you will need it! But it is definitly possible, i did a race to 100k as well but in two years. First it seamed impossible hard piece of work but i made it. I was 17 at the time i began and mad it slightly after two years of grinding (6days a week cash games and 1 day mtt's). I didn't use any coach or program. I tried to find my own style by playing 6 tabels micro stacks. I grinded a couple of thousands of hands to finaly be positive in my bankroll everyday.

On wich poker site do you play?

Best of luck
Peter
@peterflicer hit me up on Twitter ;)
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
October 31 2014 09:13 GMT
#30
This isn't a cloud blog you are an imposter


That said, if you are the real cloud, i wish you luck and im glad you found something to do. I wish you well on the journey to 100k!
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lantz
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States762 Posts
October 31 2014 16:06 GMT
#31
While I understand poker is fun and can make money, Have you thought about a back up plan for the possibility it doesn't work out?

Personally, I enjoy poker, but I think the opportunity cost and risks are high and maybe education would be a better way to earn 100k

Whatever you decide, gl and hf !
aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
October 31 2014 18:08 GMT
#32
On November 01 2014 01:06 lantz wrote:
While I understand poker is fun and can make money, Have you thought about a back up plan for the possibility it doesn't work out?

Personally, I enjoy poker, but I think the opportunity cost and risks are high and maybe education would be a better way to earn 100k

Whatever you decide, gl and hf !

No offense, but people who think education is the solid way to go to earn money need to be brought back to the real world.
Nothing is better than anything else, all that matters is that you enjoy it and that you do it well.
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Daumen
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany1073 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-31 19:16:19
October 31 2014 19:15 GMT
#33
finally hearing about ClouD again makes me so happy ;D

I still vividly remember how you explained what "Limoncello" is on TakeTV and how often you were coaching Take and had to drink everytime he lost (or won?!, anyways, awesome drinking game).

are you still working on your other project?
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
October 31 2014 19:41 GMT
#34
On October 30 2014 23:49 ROOTFayth wrote:
do not kid yourself by thinking you contribute to anything by playing SC2 Chef though because you are not, poker is really just more "expensive" of a game

I don't play SC2.

Poker is also basically free (not counting time spent) if you manage your bank-roll properly and get one of those online poker promotional offers for starting. But obviously the people you really want to play with to make money off are also people who are feeding money into the system because they have a problem, and you enable that problem by playing with them. You can say they have a problem with or without me, or think of it as natural selection / stupid tax, but I think it's worth giving thought to whether you really feel that way or you're dismissing it because it's convenient.

I have a job that does contribute to the welfare of others that I do when I am not entertaining myself. The most you can say for full-time poker is that some poker players play on TV some of the time, and it's a fine thing to entertain others, but I don't know if that outweighs the social costs. For people who aren't playing on TV, they produce nothing, which is kinda parasitic. At best you can imagine you're taking money from rich people and distributing it elsewhere, which is pretty wishful thinking.
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ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-31 20:29:57
October 31 2014 20:27 GMT
#35
yeah it's kind of a void point since we could be saying that about soooo many jobs
also I meant poker was more expensive for the recreational players who are feeding the professionals obviously, just like some average SC players are sinking a ton of time into the game to achieve virtually nothing besides entertaining themselves (same thing as poker for rec players)
aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-31 20:49:51
October 31 2014 20:48 GMT
#36
Most jobs do not provide value to humanity, and many of them actually destroy people's health (which is obviously more important than expendable money on poker), so I don't really get the hate on poker when, for example, the food industry is killing millions of people every year and the entertainment industry is turning kids into retarded puppets. Nobody is forced to do anything, and by the way if you hate people wasting their money then you should be even angrier about the guys donating on twitchtv.
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lantz
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States762 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-31 22:02:55
October 31 2014 21:56 GMT
#37
Gl !
aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
November 01 2014 01:17 GMT
#38
On November 01 2014 04:15 Daumen wrote:
finally hearing about ClouD again makes me so happy ;D

I still vividly remember how you explained what "Limoncello" is on TakeTV and how often you were coaching Take and had to drink everytime he lost (or won?!, anyways, awesome drinking game).

are you still working on your other project?


My other project is completed since a long time. Right now I moved to newer endeavours involving whole body change.



Don't have weird ideas, I just meant diet and gym
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Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
November 01 2014 08:26 GMT
#39
I provide value to humanity on a daily basis.
sephiria
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
106 Posts
November 01 2014 17:08 GMT
#40
Wait... there is a liquidpoker forum? Cloud, you just changed my life. Thank you.
I also recently got into poker again but I suck. I hope you'll continue to post occasionaly, I am extremely interested. A friend of mine makes about 1k a month and I am trying to get to a point where I make more than 0.3-0.5$ an hour (with no success).
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