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I'll play as long as I am above $5k for overall money or I just get sick of it. The situation has been either playing on the weekends sitting around with a bunch of shelter dudes which is deeply depressing so that has had me very inclined to play as much as possible on weekends.

I don't really do a stop loss because over the course of time I win (when I used to track it), so it's never come up.

Just reached out to another room in that area for $510/mth with a TV, could be a much better fit.
 
Vegas Dave
Official vote: No/Wait. Save up. And if you have a run of bad luck playing cards, you don't have to stress about chasing for rent or whatever.
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Gotcha.

Thank you for chiming in man.

That's 3-0 wait and I'm starting to feel that way too....unless I hear from the $510 place.

Unless it's in the hood or a shit hole that's an awesome price.
 
stevek
Gotcha.

Thank you for chiming in man.

That's 3-0 wait and I'm starting to feel that way too....unless I hear from the $510 place.

Unless it's in the hood or a shit hole that's an awesome price.
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Yeah cheaper place sounds good! You definitely deserve your own spot, and should go for it if you feel confident the job situation is stable!
 
Vegas Dave
I'm glad you are tracking it again. Just keep doing so honestly and accurately and that'll be perfect 👍
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Agreed, definitely man.

I know the past couple months weren't good and I should've been tracking it.

That hand would've made up for those months and then some (I think).....can't wait to get that time machine up and running, lol.
 
That's three votes for stay, two for take the room.

I got a stream of text messages starting at 2:21 am:

Hello Steve
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Dom u need a room?
?

I think that could be the $510/mth guy. Let's hope he's more legible today.

I'm holding off on the $3k down $900/mth room, too much.

Let's see what happens w the cheaper room.

:popcorn
 
stevek
That's three votes for stay, two for take the room.

I got a stream of text messages starting at 2:21 am:

Hello Steve
??
?
Dom u need a room?
?

I think that could be the $510/mth guy. Let's hope he's more legible today.

I'm holding off on the $3k down $900/mth room, too much.

Let's see what happens w the cheaper room.

:popcorn
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Don’t you think early morning texts might be a red flag?
Pay for the more expensive place,you can save money by eating proper food
 
I appreciate your input man but that was just too much money for a small room in an apt with just a bed and a closet for that much per month and that much upfront.

Those guys are all over craigslist with lower prices than they actually charge, bait and switch artists.

But yeah the cheap one sent me those odd 2 am texts then disappeared. Not sure what that was all about.
 
Anyway I'll be keeping my living arrangement info from now on in the other legendary Steve thread. I really appreciate everyone chiming in. For now as much as it sucks staying where I'm at but based on a few things (poker, areas I want to live in being expensive, blow, meth, alcohol and hookers to name a few) I feel comfortable moving when I'm over $10k post moving expenses, so we'll go from there. That is doable in a week or so with a cheaper place.

As we get farther away from the mucked quads I know to watch myself and not to let that idiot mistake tilt me which I can do, as much as throwing away that amount of money makes me sick. No one hand that I win is going to compare to that amount of money anytime soon. I've won as much as $25k in one night online, but that would've been my biggest live session to date, in all of my years of playing. As a result I'm much less excited to play than I was before, and only time will make that better, though it'll always it'll always be there as a wtf memory. It's not starting out in a session that it hits a guy like me, it's hours in as we're grinding it out. You start to think fuck it, let's take some shots. No. You can't go back in time and change things, it's about how you respond to shitty things that happen in life that matters.

Still in poker or in life to me bad luck is one thing and can suck but fuck ups piss me off far worse, so yeah I've been really pissed off about that shit.

But what else can we do but move on and see what we can do this weekend, while keeping in mind that unlike in the past we have stable income, a decent bankroll, are sober, and can even afford to pursue a decent place and still play the game I love.

I'll be keeping this thread more on track and more discussing spots, poker theory, etc. from here on out.

Thanks again for chiming in.

Run good, crew.

And don't throw away your winners.


:cheers:
 
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Just for some perspective, Stevey...

If you hadn't have mucked the quads, you'd have had that huge win, which would have been awesome... but based purely on luck.

That was a spot where you got all your chips in way behind drawing dead to one out. But you'd have been up thousands, riding high, and probably started playing more recklessly and feeling more invincible despite only having won thanks to a 4% moonshot coming in.

IF you play much more disciplined and much more focused moving forward because of that screwup, in the long-run you may actually wind up being a better poker player and making more money than you would have in the scenario where you felt like you were "doing everything right" up thousands. So try to frame it as a good thing, maybe it will be.
 
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