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sitting in front of a screen and knowing i might be playing poker against a 50 year old fart wouldve had me licking my chops 20 years ago
40+ in my book meant insta donk. no questions asked
and now here i am
almost 50
coming back to online poker after 6 years away
completely different life now. family. businesses. responsibilities. all the shit i didnt have to think about when poker was basically my entire existence
have i lost my mind
midlife crisis
very possible
since i started posting on here ive had a lot of younger players ask me some version of the same thing
is online poker still a viable path
is it still beatable
is there any dream left in it
solvers. ai. rta. everyone getting better
i honestly had no idea
so i stayed away from giving anyone an answer
im 48 now and somehow feel better than i ever have
and im going after the same thing i always did
becoming one of the best heads up players in the game
sitting the high stakes tables
keeping them
and fighting for them when i have to
against players younger than me and probably better prepared than me
i have absolutely no idea if i can pull this off
but thats kind of the point
because if a 48 year old dinosaur who hasnt played in almost 6 years can come back and still become one of the big dogs in online poker
then maybe the dream is still alive
enjoy the ride
or my public embarrassment
TableSelection retweeted
No more fucking around. Demon arc starts now. 🦝
My first challenge on here.
Not a bankroll challenge.
Not a winrate challenge.
A STUDY challenge.
100,000 preflop hands in 30 days.
90% correct. Max 0.5% pot loss. Every spot.
I start at 86%.
45+ hour job. A life outside poker.
Doesn’t matter. Set the goal so big it scares you. Even if I miss, I end up miles ahead of where “realistic” would have taken me.
Every day: one hand I got wrong. You guess first.
Hold me to it. Which spot would you drill first?
today marks 1 month of my little self challenge to get back to the top of the heads up food chain
after the initial boom and bust, we're pretty much on track
all hands played heads up on coinpoker. mostly 10/20 and 25/50, with some 5/10 and 50/100
back up around $30k. but on coin you really have to factor in rewards and bonuses. they're a huge part of the deal. with those we're at $53k (blue line), or around $60k adjusted for all-in ev
also switched to @Hand2Note for tracking. works on mac, supports plo4 and plo5, and even tracks rakeback and bonuses as you can see
fuck you windows
unfortunately most of the biggest losses came at 50/100, the highest stakes i played
but oh well
i guess theres one thing left to say
GucciNike 👀
vips game of choice lately seems to be 5 card plo
hard to fathom. the great illusion of an action game
sure, preflop gets looser
but postflop everyone is scared shitless of the supernuts
stick to 4 cards
friends,
whoever told you they never tilt is lying to you
everyone, everyone tilts. even the very top of the food chain
they just get out of it faster
yours truly
ts
if only i'd done this during my poker and trading days
probably would have retired my entire bloodline by now
#PlusEVDecisions
TableSelection retweeted
UPDATED video sent from my dad of #Nortefire
Very scary stuff. Praying for everyone.
MAHASAJAN on coinpoker, if you’re reading this, i appreciate you. what a class act
i sit at high stakes hu tables, obv leave them unattended often. because… ummm. im a moron
the other day MAHASAJAN sits and posts while im away. i time out, lose the blind. have no idea any of this even happened
then i get an email from coin saying he sent the money back
20 years ago this would've been considered a mental illness
times have changed
player gets grimmed for 1 big blind
posts about it on twitter
other guy goes yea my bad let me send it back
bb returned. everyone friends again
mindblowing
back then it was the absolute wild west
that shit would have been laughed out of the lobby
andrew feldman. british guy. the true godfather of bumhunting
the euro sites had these high stakes hu sitngos. 10k. 20k. real money
and for some insane reason, if a player disconnected while sitting there waiting, the lobby would show it
so you could see a crusher sitting a 20k hu sng
disconnected
click his table
game starts
nothing he can do
and then just blind him out
the special thing about our pal andy was that he would do this repeatedly to the same regs he shared lobbies and tables with every day
zero shame
"see you tomorrow buddy"
and yes, i have my own andy story
because of that feature i mostly stayed away from the hu sngs
but sometimes a whale had been playing them recently, so you sat. waited. hoped
one of those days i sat the tables in the morning and started the wait
nothing was happening
so naturally i decided to use the downtime for some serious self improvement
took a nap on the couch
wake up to my phone going fucking nuts
buddy from finland calling me over and over
dude. youre getting blinded into oblivion by haags
fuck my life
internet is down
i run to the neighbors. get online
sure enough theres andy
and i kid you not, this son of a bitch is clicking raise on the button at the speed of light trying to finish the job and get the fuck out
finally i can defend my bb
problem is stacks are something like 1k to 19k by now
first hand back we get it in
double
lets motherfucking go
still a long way back
somehow the deck cooperates and eventually were basically even again
and now you could feel it
timings. sizings. everything
andy is on life tilt
he was so fucking close
20k was almost sitting nicely in his piggybank
but not so fast jose
last hand i still remember
i get A♠J♠
flop J♥6♠5♠. top pair. nut flush draw
i bet
he rips it in almost immediately
beautiful
only one thing left to do
slowroll this fucker into the earth
so i tank
timebank
tank some more
right before i hit call i type
gg bro. wanna play again?
feeling orgasmic
call
andy turns over 55
set
scoops the 20k and disappears
and he didnt even say gg
TableSelection retweeted
Is @ClearTradeoffs's interview the most popular piece I've ever written?!
I don't know, but at 402 readers within a day I am feeling so proud of what he and I created together.
I'm going to bed tonight dancing on a cloud of rainbows.
Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/roguer…
TableSelection retweeted
there’s an epidemic of poker player turned crypto guy on here trying so hard to sound cutting edge. every tweet is overly technical, complex, desperate to signal “i’m ahead of the curve.”
brother you came from poker and crypto. the two most scammy looking professions to the naked eye. just chill and be yourself.
an hour ago i was some sort of ai larp
now im a real high stakes poker player who writes ai slop
we're making progress
TableSelection retweeted
Check out @ClearTradeoffs's interview, because it is POPPIN' off and you don't want to miss out.
open.substack.com/pub/roguer…
Thank you for liking, bookmarking, quote & retweeting it, and following TS and myself.
What can't two storytellers with a passion for poker accomplish?
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks.
Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview:
substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
Two of the nicest humans in poker had a chat ☺️
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks.
Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview:
substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
TableSelection retweeted
Nice read.
Well thought out questions.
Good answers.
Exactly what I expected. Excellent work!
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks.
Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview:
substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
someone thought interviewing cookie monster was a good idea
enjoy
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks.
Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview:
substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
a few of you asked where the tip came from
my dads best friend
to this day, whenever the subject comes up, my dad says:
“youre welcome. you have $2m worth of land instead of zero. you wouldve lost it all gambling anyway”
20 years ago i made $1m playing online poker
well, technically i'd made a million before. lost it in 3 days. but thats another story
this was the first one i actually got to keep
and i was determined not to blow it
someone close to me tipped me off about a piece of foreign land that was supposedly close to getting zoning approval. once that came through, the value was meant to 4x
i knew absolutely nothing about investing. did basically no research
so naturally i yolo'd the entire $1m into it
fast forward 20 years
still no zoning. land worth around $2m on paper
meanwhile the s&p roughly 8x'd over the same period
lesson in there
20 years ago i made $1m playing online poker
well, technically i'd made a million before. lost it in 3 days. but thats another story
this was the first one i actually got to keep
and i was determined not to blow it
someone close to me tipped me off about a piece of foreign land that was supposedly close to getting zoning approval. once that came through, the value was meant to 4x
i knew absolutely nothing about investing. did basically no research
so naturally i yolo'd the entire $1m into it
fast forward 20 years
still no zoning. land worth around $2m on paper
meanwhile the s&p roughly 8x'd over the same period
lesson in there












