Sunday 19 February 2012

RaNT: JUST FUCKING DO IT


I love this entry. Credit to: citizenwind’s Blog on www.CardRunners.com– December 18 2009
Some people don’t make it at poker. Who knows why. Tilt? Neurosis? Lack of ingenuity? Mathematical phobia? Inability to calculate? To apply common sense? No. This isn’t the case. There are smart, talented players who are not making it. Some of my students are clearly smarter and more naturally talented than I am, but are huge losers. But why? Why are people not beating 100nl? Or 200nl? It seriously requires common sense and a basic understanding. Not hard. You want a hard game? Learn chess. The amount of memorization and calculation requires for chess is totally mind-boggling compared to enumerative analysis. I bet if chess players played poker, they’d shit on people all the time. Like crawl up on their chests and take dumps on them. Poker isn’t that hard. It’s not even as hard as say, Street Fighter. You want to talk about leveling? Wait until Blanka is chewing on your face for the third tick throw in a row. Yeah, I’m a nerd, wanna fight about it?
If you’re hoping to go pro at 50-100nl, but you’re failing at it, stop failing. Do whatever it takes. Get coaching. Read. Study ferociously. Watch a video and force yourself to leave the session with 4-6 pages of notes. Don’t know something? Then go find the answer. Ask. Post in forums. There are 10k CR members and maybe two dozen regulars posters in each forum. Surely there are more full-time grinders than that.
Look. You could make six-figures in 2010. I came from a broke family. 100k is an outrageous amount of money. 250k is unimaginable. We’re talking about life-changing amounts of dough. You could make this. Easily. If you’re into material things, next year you could be driving an Audi and have a lot of TVs. You could pop bottles and do other rapper-ly activites. If you’re just into living free (aka hippie), you could have an extremely high paying job and unlimited freedom. I’ve never had a 9-5 and never will, all because I decided to spend a year really learning how to play some fucking poker.
Stop dicking around. Stop being a tilting monkey. Four year olds throw tantrums. You’re an adult. Get over it. If you don’t know the math, learn it right now and don’t step onto a table until you know it back and forth. Buckle down. Play less tables. Turn off the TV. Don’t watch videos in the background while you play, make it part of your daily routine to watch a Myth or CTS video and take a notes on all the plays and thoughts that you would not have emulated. Take notes. WHATEVER IT TAKES. In one year, you’ll look back at the moment you decided to take it really, really seriously and realized that it was way easier than you thought.

1 comment:

  1. I was actually looking for this post of mine, thanks!

    -Alvin / citizenwind

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