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PokerGuru - 21.02.2006, 00:48
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5:53 PM 2/20/2006
Hey Crushers! MAKE $$$$$$ THIS EASY WAY!
Hiya Crushers! Thaw your feet out here by the fire and listen to some sweet things from your old guru. Hardly a handful of us haven't been shoveling in the snowing for a while now, huh?
Im gonna start with a short little story that I'm still laughing over. I heard it on the phone just minutes ago from a friend who swears it's true. But it seems too sweet to me.
One of our other friends who is a poker pro happens to be a woman. A woman who makes us shiver in our boots to have to play against. I'll change her name to Julie here to protect the guilty.
Seems Julie was becoming concerned about disturbing her husband's sleep when she came in from playing poker at night.
So one night she decided to let the guy rest. She sneaked quietly in and closed the front door real gently. Then she took off her shoes and undressed completely, right there in the living room. She tippy-toed into their bedroom with nothing but her purse hanging from her wrist.
She went to all that trouble, but it didn't work. Her husband turned over, raised up in bed, snapped on the light, and looking at her declared, "Oh, no, Julie! Did you lose it ALL?"
Funny to me, whether true or not. Poker players can tell them almost as big as fishermen.
Speaking of my friends, I'll be mentioning a well-known name in the world of the game from time to time. Just to get you familiar with some of the people you might be playing against someday. OR......and get this!......you might be playing against right now! Online.
We took a survey a few weeks back and the results showed that a third of poker professionals play online as well as at the brick and mortar places. Which I interpret as meaning that more like TWO-thirds do. I will freely admit that I love to play in the comfort of my own home. Where I don't even have to mind my manners!
We play at the same sites you do, usually under corny nicknames, but not to worry. As many people who play, worldwide, from their computers, we are like very few needles in a field of haystacks. Why, you might even have beaten ME! And more than once! But I wouldn't keep doing it if I weren't finding it profitable. I wonder how many of my cohorts are as honest as I am about reporting their earnings to the Income Tax people? Chuckle, chuckle.
And I wonder how many of you knew YOU could become a pro without ever leaving home! But I sure would advise you to stick to the very low limit tables and keep extremely good records until you have been winning pretty CONSISTENTLY for awhile. Get yourself a great big notebook and keep track of every dime. Every penny. That notebook will tell you when it is time to move on up! Keep a seperate notebook for taking notes as you study and learn the game. We all keep learning!
I will just briefly toss out the name of Annie Duke to you this evening. You can play against her, usually using her own name, almost anytime. She is also affilliated with one of the internet sites, but I'm not sure it would be fair for me to print that site's name here. One of you, however, who knows or finds out, could post it right here. Nothing wrong with that.
Annie makes us do some shivering in our boots. And she came up through the ranks fast! Learned to play from her brother and now she's whipping his butt quite regularly. She manages to make big money and raise a family too!
Well, so as not to belie my title this week, I'd better mention an idea that crossed my mind. I noticed, while over at big sister's, Casino-Crush, that it's very, very hard to get to the top ten where the money is in the Games Points contest. So I got to thinking.
Now you know, you can access the very same games from this Poker-Crush site here, and using the very same nickname. That is, if you are a member here. And for the sake of our unregistered guests, I'll remind you that registration is free. And as soon as you are registered, you are a full-fledged member, a real CRUSHER. No spam comes from either Crush site to your email, either.
Now my idea is this: (and it will be up to YOU to convince Mr. Geno and DrCrush by posting right here in my corner the request for them to do it); (By golly, I'm gonna get some posts one way or the other!) My idea is that it could be those who come in at places #11 - #25 who would be eligible for a couple of prizes as well. Cash prizes. You would have to exchange PC points for them and therefore wouldn't even lose any of your CC points! Besides, we all should know that PC points are gonna be as valuable as CC points as soon as Mr. Geno gives the word!
So you all should get a head start collecting them by getting in on the ground floor here NOW while the competition is not yet that great!
That would make winning cash prizes for the Games Contest MUCH EASIER! But remember. You, NOT I, will have to be the ones to convince Geno to do this, by posting a request to him right here. And who will BE THE ONE brave enough to bring the idea to his attention?
DrCrush, I'll bet, would be willing to award the first few posts here some PC points to start your stack growing!
And next week, I'll tell you about another idea I had to make those stacks of PC points grow real fast!
I'll see you here next week with that idea AND A LOT MORE. I'm getting warmed up to this PokerGuru position now. I love the idea of helping you out in lots of different ways. JUST WAIT TIL I GET HOT!
Until then, I'm always proud to be your
PokerGuru
win4maw - 21.02.2006, 01:51
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Most interesting O' Great Poker Guru. I agree with you on the exchange and am sure that the doc and Geno will probably agree too. They are so kind and helpful to us all just like you. All I need now is some confidence!!! Do you give that too??? LOL
win4maw/winnie
Anonymous - 21.02.2006, 03:35
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Hi There Guru!! and Great idea!!. I am sure we can work something out with a game points contest here at PokerCrush for our members to enjoy..
You can be sure Crushadmin and myself will put our heads together and work out a nice little monthly contest for you all to enjoy..
Stay tuned all and for those who wish to add in some other great ideas there will be 500 PC points for your idea awarded..
DrCrush
liquidsoap - 23.02.2006, 02:44
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hello, poker guru first time i have made a post here in a while, i am going to let the forum get a little bigger....
currently i am up roughly 6 or 7 k on poker, but am down about that on slots(sigh)
id be interested to see what site you play on and your allias there pm me it if youd like, i avid by liquidsoap on pstars and party
muck-a-duck on pokerroom
and muck-a-duck777 on ub(which is where annie duke plays, and her allias is currently her name...
supposivley
by the way, i most likely havent played with you as i usually play omaha hi lo cash games, if you play those then i probally play with you quite abit :p
notLOL - 24.02.2006, 22:26
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hey hey now you may be scaring me Guru!!!! just kiddding though strange just last night i was going to post in suggestion area, that it sure would be nice to have some more of the games which CC has....so you have taken the thought another step, thank you....i think it would be great (if im understanding you correctly) to be included in the month long competition. and of course PC points are going to be just as valuable given time im sure, just valuable when using them here. big smiles.
Great post!!!! i got this feelin PC is gettin ready to ummmmm.......Be the Poker Crush Rush of wooo woooo many Poker players ......love that Crush Rush.
royalblush - 27.02.2006, 02:22
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notLOL ~
Just wanted to say -- I really loved that post of yours!!!
royalblush
royalblush - 27.02.2006, 02:28
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Dear Guru of ours ~
Thanks for all the tips in your articles! I, too, have a feeling that Poker=Crush is about to take off like a rocket out of ____!!!
As we all are the first members at this time, I agree that we should get a head start on building up our PC points before a whole mob of competitors get here!
Thanks again. We DO APPRECIATE YOU, altho I guess we should tell you so once in awhile! lol
royalblush
notLOL - 28.02.2006, 14:08
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thank you royalblush, i must say you do keep me going, and a big boost to my confidence. thanks again.
royalblush - 01.03.2006, 11:14
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Dear friend notLOL ~
It is definitely MY pleasure and my honor anytime I can say anything that might be of some kind of help to you.
On the other side of the coin -- you help me out by always giving me something interesting to read AND THINK ABOUT in your posts.
You are a most interesting person. Complex. And obviously intelligent.
Sooooo -- the thanks travel both ways!
royalblush
notLOL - 01.03.2006, 20:40
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royalblush,
you have made me cry, and why is , here at home i am misunderstood allllll the time, and therefore am called stupid. so thanks again my friend. youve again made my day.
thanks from my heart.
HEY GENO what about getting some more of the games over here which CC has.
like bones, alchemy, and im sure many more. big please!!!
royalblush - 05.03.2006, 00:08
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Dear notLOL ~
What a character you are!!!
Do you always go immediately from crying with gentle appreciation to yelling with assertive demand "HEY! YOU! HOW ABOUT SOME (fill in the blank) OVER HERE?!"
You crack me up and often make me laugh when, believe it or not, I am very prone to depression.
And incidently, I'm sure Geno knows you well enough to know that it was really truly a polite request and not a demand. But I just couldn't resist the temptation to make you read your own words again. And........you cannot stop yourself from doing just that! LMAO
Again, thank you for the laughs, my friend. Almost as much as I thank you for the tears.
royalblush
notLOL - 05.03.2006, 10:18
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well i reread it and reread it and reread it and still feel the same....i really didnt mean it to be a demand of rudeness....though just like serious wishful hoping the words are seen sooooon.
yes my dear royalblush, i guess i may be sensibly unsensible upruptly remembering, or remembering i didnt remember after the rememberance was already a rememberance....did i tell you i dont mean to be so babble confusing, anywho....i read it and can see where i may have walked away from my computer while typing that post and came back and was a lil frazzled. for sure i can see the woo woooo wow slowdown....all the whiles i was really slow....just looked like i shouldve done a preview...eh?
this post had many backspacing episodes, and im not going to preview before hitting submit ....i have to walk the dog......its a good thing to laugh and crying cleanses....
is that a word?
sunspun - 22.03.2006, 10:31
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Cleanses - yes, absolutely a word.
Now, as for the Guru's suggestion, or rather his suggestion that we make a suggestion, may I suggest that we do what he suggested we suggest!
Great idea!
No secret that I really like playing the games here and over there too, and I , ahem, don't plan to have any trouble making the top 10, but it still sounds like a great idea to me (to me and my ever-so-humble self!)
Thanks for bringing it up, PokerGuru, and to the rest of us for seconding, thirding, fourthing, etceteraing the idea!
(and by the way...)
etceteraing - no, absolutely not a word!
But that's ok too.
sunspun
PokerGuru - 22.03.2006, 13:50
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Dear Crusher sunspun,
I do believe you were really spun directly from the sun with that bright and open-minded, easy-going attitude of yours!
Just wanted to let you know......that you and I seem to be on the same page in our thinking......which must be a good thing since I get so much enjoyment reading your thoughtful posts.
Incidently, I agree with all you set forth in this post. Next page??????
LOL, my friend,
Your PokerGuru
notLOL - 22.03.2006, 19:18
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ok so we are all on agreeance...nother made up word possibly , though we agree....so how about bones and alchemy...just thought id make a reminder.
nice to see you PokerGuru.
sunspun - 23.03.2006, 01:58
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notLOL,
That reminds me of something that happened on some awards show a few years ago when someone used the word "agreeance" in his speech and unwittingly created a little more publicity for himself.
I think it was Fred Durst at the Grammy's - remember anything about that?
Certain columnnists/reviewers/people like that tried to make fun of him for using the word, but I just grabbed a quote on this from elsewhere that gives this story a nice little conclusion:
"I was reading all the hoopla about Limp Bizkit leader Fred Durst's use of the word 'agreeance' in his anti-war speech during the Grammys. I've read everything from those calling him a blithering idiot to re-naming him 'Fred Dunce'. All saying that they agreed that 'agreeance' wasn't a word. But apparently, they were the ones who didn't know what they were talking about. 'Agreeance' is in the Oxford English Dictionary and Mr. Durst used it properly. You won't hear it much anymore in the US, but it's still a valid word. And ask any Aussie - it's used more in Australia nowadays than elsewhere in the world."
So there ya go - so yep, we can all be in agreeance - it's official!
now someone is forcing me to pry myself off the computer for the moment grumble grumble grumble !#!@#!
haha jk
sunspun
Anonymous - 23.03.2006, 17:36
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I am in agreeance...
and I knew it was a word...how can journalists not...lol...gee whiz..
DrC
PokerGuru - 24.03.2006, 00:43
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Dear notLOL,
Good for you! For not re-reading what you wrote when it was obviously exactly the way you felt and the way you were thinking at the time!
I think we miss a lot of masterpiece bits of good philosophy just because too many people are too resistant to openly being themselves.....no more, no less...... So they go back and reread their original thoughts.....which too often leads to their covering themselves up to prevent, God forbid, that they should stand out as being a little or a lot different from the maddening crowd.....and so as a result WE ALL LOSE by not hearing what it was that inspired the post in the first place!
What if every fine artist had gone back and repainted all our favorite masterpieces? Makes one think, does it not?
I will not reread whatever I just wrote before hitting SUBMIT!
PokerGuru
PokerGuru - 24.03.2006, 00:59
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PLEASE ALSO READ MY POST ABOVE THIS ONE TO notLOL.
Dear Crusher Sunspun,
Why be humble? is my question to you. As was said by someone before, "If you've got it, flaunt it!"
And you, sweetheart, are one gal who absolutely has it.....so flaunt away to your heart's content! It will give us all a treat!
By the way, I. too, love playing computer games. Just wish I had an extra hour or two in each day.
PokerGuru
PokerGuru - 24.03.2006, 01:09
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PLEASE ALSO READ MY 2 POSTS ABOVE THIS ONE. THANKS!
Dear Crusher NotLOL,
ALWAYS good to see you, too, friend!
That was just a thought I had. So decided to make it a written thought.
Maybe in a few thousand years, if anthropologists are still around, they will dig up this old computer and its pages and no matter how simple the machine may seem to them, the thought will never be ancient!
PokerGuru
PokerGuru - 24.03.2006, 01:19
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PLEASE READ MY 3 POSTS ABOVE THIS ONE, ALSO. THANKS!
Now it is definitely official! Straight from theDrCrush's mouth! (Beats the horse's any old day!)
Glad you are in agreeance with the rest of the best of us, Doctor .....the best who posted and the best who felt it had already been said!
The Doctor, as usual, has the last word. That makes it foolproof enough for me!
Later, to you all.....
PokerGuru
TammyNC - 24.03.2006, 01:49
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I had such a wonderful time reading all the posts thus far of this thread. You are all so bright, cheerful and fun people!
I can't help but blush at the exciting and experienced "company I'm keeping" here. Thanks for letting me be a part. I definitely look foward to our Guruness's future posts, stories, anecdotes, ideas, tips, advice and lessons. And I look foward to all of the ideas and warmth that flow thru this wonderful group of people!
I agree that we might be missing a few games but I have to say, that we have games they do NOT, lol. I love slots, and slots and more slots. I can spin slots in my sleep. I once was in a online slot marathon, that lasted 17 hours, and finished 2nd. I had to find special games for my old SNES so I could play slots, lol. And I run a new search engine at least once a week to see if there are any new free slots, I don't know about, lol. OK, I guess we've established that Tammy has a wee obsession w/ slots. So, if you add more games, add more slots. As you can see, I've already had a mad affair with one of the slot machine here and shamefully took all the coins, and am sitting pretty in gpts, rofl. But seriously, I think this site, and the contests and the suggestion boxes are fantastic, and the people make it outstanding! I would beg, beseech and bawl, to get the non working games fixied... pleeezeeeeeee... LOL. I would also suggest, where I have suggested in another post, that a multiplayer poker game be found and we compete for prizes, points, or whatever...especially, PC pts....... lol... in tournaments! I saw the contest over there===>>> where they have elected a particular game of the month to award prizes for. I would suggest that an elected game for pts prizes here would be wonderful... and since this is Poker-Crush... it should be one of the poker games, or even a new one. Another idea would be to have a Cashed Champ of the Month, where verifiable cash wins in freerolls could be rewarded with PC pts or otherwise to the top casher of the month. I think my overall suggestions would include monthly contests to acquire PC points, a multiplayer poker game, and more SLOTSSSSSSSS... hehehe.
I have to say, after reading about how many pokerpros are in our unbeknownst midst... I'm terrified, LOL. And THRILLED. I often wonder, what the other people at my table do for a living. And I see those, that are such "cool" cats, and wonder... who they are... as they stack the chips... and boot us out, one at a time, lol. I watch the players, and learn from them, not just learn what they might do during our game, but learn what they do, period, and take what I find valuable w/ me. Every game is an experience in itself... and I find every day, I look foward to the next "game", even more.
I apologize for my ramblings... and if I meandered off topic... and say again, how glad I am to be here, and I look foward to getting to know you all more.
royalblush - 24.03.2006, 23:08
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Well now --TammyNC ~
As one of the first members of Poker-Crush to go all out trying to gain new members enough to make sure we could succeed and more as a site -- (I'm sure I even aggravated a few at my second favorite site, Casino-Crush, by constantly imploring them to come over and sign up) -- I am so VERY HAPPY to see that now there are others SUCH AS YOU! to join my campaign and make sure we succeed come hell or high water!!!
I, too, have enjoyed so much reading all the posts in this thread (and in most of the other threads) and for the mvery same reasons you mentioned! So I am pleased to discover that as far as I can tell at this point, we have formed a little flock of birds of a feather, all sticking together, eager to hear one another's every word, and constituting a very unusual little subculture of our own, always open to more of the same.
By the way, Poker Crushers, if you don't know if you are the same, if the thought that you might want to be has even crossed your mind -- YOU ALREADY ARE!!!!! LMAO with happiness and plain old GLEE!
This rambling probably doesn't make a bit of sense, but it doesn't matter -- because those who care enough to stick thru reading it, will understand completely what I am saying!!! And that is beyond wonderful!
Love you all -- and can't wait to see where this adventure will ultimately take us!
I, for one, am quite willing to let our marvelous Poker Guru lead us on our way to wherever he thinks we should go next!!!
royalblush
TammyNC - 25.03.2006, 03:19
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RoyalBlush... thanks so much for the warm welcome I've recieved from you and the other Crushers, and for the replies to my various posts. I'm glad to share this neat forum w/ my friends, and have bugged many of them already to come visit, stay awhile, pull up a chair at a slot machine, or read the informative and entertaining threads. I hope that I can add something here, to this already wonderful site... and that I might find my way into the "flock" lol. Thanks again, to you and everyone, and I look foward to the next postings from all of you, and from our Dear Guru. Happy Gaming!
notLOL - 25.03.2006, 21:17
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wellll now, seems my freeroll addiction, oh that sounds soooo um...needing....well i guess that word fits here, i try to avoid addictions i have the cigarette addiction so i figured that one was plenty, yet seems ill wake up in the middle of the night to try and register for a freeroll...lol...alarm set...time frames get me alot of the time, missing it by 8 hours or something crazy. CrazyHorse has been very informative and helpful as far as helping me figure out the time thing and freeroll info. so thank you CrazyHorse just in case i havent said it before.
Now back on topic....
A BIG WARM HAPPY CRUSHER WELCOME TO TAMMYNC and ALL THE NEW AND OLD CRUSHERS...he hehe BIG SMILES!!!!!
TammyNC I am so glad you have been enlightened to the warm and kind Crusher way, none the less though all the more, Crushers experience profit whether it be $ or friendships which is a term i do not use lightly. So Id like to say Welcome and keep up with your posting...(purple lounge freeroll info was seriously appreciated
).
Sunspun thank you for the back up with the agreeance word, just to let you know you settled an ongoing discussion here at my home....ha ha my guy is always tellin me its not a word...he is super book smart, thats why i originally got with him, oops did i say that....yes i did. bigger smiles! finally i knew something to teach him....other than poker. lol
Royalblush.... i want to say thanks for the extra attention to Poker Crush!!!
PokerGuru....you have been a busy poster....wow...so nice to see, and thank you for your much appreciated posts!!!! always enjoy reading them , keep up the great job.....
Dr. you are appreciated as welll ....big smiles.
Quote: › Good for you! For not re-reading what you wrote when it was obviously exactly the way you felt and the way you were thinking at the time!
I think we miss a lot of masterpiece bits of good philosophy just because too many people are too resistant to openly being themselves.....no more, no less...... So they go back and reread their original thoughts.....which too often leads to their covering themselves up to prevent, God forbid, that they should stand out as being a little or a lot different from the maddening crowd.....and so as a result WE ALL LOSE by not hearing what it was that inspired the post in the first place!
What if every fine artist had gone back and repainted all our favorite masterpieces? Makes one think, does it not?
thanks for the back up there, well done, i feel lots better and very well typed out...made lots of sense....
valeria - 26.03.2006, 19:25
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Hey all!!! It is good to seee familiar faces and meet new ones
*waving at Guru* I will have to allot some PC time too I can see besides CC time!
CrazyHorse - 30.03.2006, 15:06
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Wll I can mention this female player Annie Duke and she plays at Ultimate Bet with her real name as do most other pros at these better poker sites As you know UB runs tourneys with say 5 pros using their real names for as little as a $10 buyin. Then they place bounties on these pros heads if you knock one out to make it more attractive. Now I am from the Phila area and not far from Atlantic City. So for me it is about an hours drive to there. So I am going to try and take my game to the next level. I prefer to play live versus online but like all of us online is so convenient cause you do not have to leave the comfort of your house and lol these gas prices. The WPT Bootcamp runs 2 day lessons from pros down there and right now they are being offered at the Borgota a beautiful casino there. I have the basics play a descent game but as in everything in life there is always more to learn and what better way then getting the tips from the pros. Whatever I do I know I can always be better and this means being open minded and listening to advice from the right people. Now I assure you there are players online that think they got this game all down. Personally even though I have won some money I have been playing for quite awhile and I know I should have more and more $$$ is what I want so for me my friends it is time for some poker lessons to make my game better. I have read articles from people who have done just this and can tell you how much their game has improved and are actually starting to rake in some good money. CrazYhorse
If you can not round third base then you may as well struck out !!!
PokerGuru - 06.04.2006, 15:05
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Dear Crazy Horse,
I am so happy to see you joining our thread here! The thread that might go on forever! Altho I hope we can switch it over to a new forum that has just been created here at Poker-Crush......and that is POKERGURU's TIPS AND STRATEGIES (Getting down to the nitty-gritty) or something close to that......where we can all talk back and forth to our heart's content and very freely!
I always enjoy reading your posts. You are a very modest young man. I say that because your poker game is much better than just "decent". I know that for a fact because, as you also know, we can watch poker games as observers at these online sites. And I must admit to you that I have at times picked you out specifically to watch for a sort of complex reason.
I would like to tell you publicly here that I admire how you took it like a real man when I dished out what you might call a TOUGH LOVE lesson to you a good while back. That is why I observed you.
I figured that after you got over being angry at me, if you ever did, that then you would give some real thought to what I had said and my greatest hope was that it would improve your game even more. I actually prayed that it wouldn't backfire on me, because "tough love" teaching is a very risky thing.......so few can handle it.
But you, my man, handled it! And I am so very happy to tell you now that my observations of your playing have proven to me that you really have been working on it and it really is helping your game! AMEN! AMEN!
The others probably don't know what I dished out to you, and I think you deserve for me to let it be known how you responded, which proves you are well on your way to making it as a pro yourself, Crazy Horse!
I am, of course, speaking of your attempt to conquer your anger over bad beats by way of little fish catching river cards. That anger was hurting your playing so much more than you realized, but it was easy for me to see. That is why I decided, knowing your serious potential, that I could make the attempt to help in the not-nice way I did (the only wy I thought would let it sink in deep enough to you for you to see it as easily, too.)
I can now see so clearly that you are responding to the little snips in a very different way.......flicking them off of you like you would a small bug.......and not letting it affect your playing NEARLY as much as it used to!
So here's to you, my friend! You are going to be (and in many ways already are) a helluva challenger to ANY pro!
And that closes this episode in your worthy quest. Congratulations! I am going to have to develope some type of special award to offer rarely!
Truly proud of you,
YOUR PokerGuru
sunspun - 01.05.2006, 01:30
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Wow CrazyHorse, after reading all that, I still don't know what happened, but whatever it was, it sounds like it was good for you!
I think the Guru's gonna be good for all of us, don't you?
sunspun
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