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Pastimes : Gamblers--can you make a living? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (95)	12/12/2011 8:39:02 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 113

You ask good questions and have a great attitude! I had not played for awhile in live games and was not sure how I would do. But in 2007 I flew to Eugene Oregon and rented an SUV and bought a bike to put in the back. I ride every day. I drove up to Auburn Washington and the Muckelshoot casino and started to play no limit (well $500 state limit). They have a $3/5 and $5/10 blind game. All they had was no limit some too small limit and an occasional $50/$100 limit. I was playing in the biggest game $5/$10 blind, but I was only breaking even winning one day and losing the next and never really feeling confident. I phoned up my scientist daughter complaining. She said: dad you can always drop down in level. So the next day I got into the $3/$5 game. I looked around at the table and realized I could beat everone at the table. So I got up and left. The next day I drove up to Diamond Lil's in Redmond (the main $20/$40 games in Seatttle area) and sat down to a game I knew. I was on table 2 and played and won every day for a week. Between $300 and $2,000 a night. I noticed every time they asked anyone to move to table #1 they declined, so I had been declining too. Where the pros and dealers were with huge stacks of chips. After a week I got in late one day and was put in the 3rd game. It was a bunch of rocks. I could beat the game but I would have died of boredom. so when they asked if I wanted to move to table #2, I said yes. The minute I sat down they asked if I wanted to go to table #1. I was in one of those moods and had been winning every day and so I said to myself: "lets see how good these guys are" and said yes. I had about a rack $500 of $5 chips and sat down. I sat back and waited for a hand sizing up everyones play. Then I started to see them make fundamental mistakes e.g. drawing to a small pair on 4th street. I won that night and played at the first table after that. I won 14 days in a row and then got in my car and drove to the Oaks in Oakland California. I won 14 days in a row down there and played a lot fo $30/$60 there. But then I lost 3 in a row----TIRED! I think after 5 hours and 14 days the mind needs a rest. I liked Auburn, as the hotel is on a bike path that goes all the way to Seattle along the train tracks and through backyards. An asphalt bike path with lawn and blackberry bushes on the sides. Little bunny rabbits come out at night to nibble the grass. Very cute-lol!! They planted lots of trees with food for wildlife. I like ot see the wildlife. I would play in the day and ride my bike in the evenings. Old people like me, play as well as kids during the day, but not at night. I would get back ot my hotel and get on my bike. I had a place I went to get stonded. I love to ride stoned-lol. I never lost another game that winter. <<Well, we all have bad runs but you seem to have found a way to not fall off the plank or not fall too far, in any event. So how confident are you? Let us say you are going on the road for 2 months for mainly 20/40. What kind of a stake (I won't say "gambling" stake) would you think sufficient? Or would you just tap into your main resources as needed? Five hours is not much time when the cards are not running or you're not getting their money into the pot when you would like. How often do you find yourself breaking even or with a negligible variance either way?? I'm just reminded of another important quality in successful poker. How much you don't lose in a hand is part of your winnings. Many can never stop bleeding 20 dollar bills away at the turn or river and I have been guilty of that myself. But I think most of my mistakes are known to me now and I know when I am choosing to play badly as strange as that sounds...