Poker...been trying an experiment..

[MissEve]

Ryan....hey baby! So, are you saying that its not possible to be a winning player online or just that you should expect downswings?

[RyanLanane]

Just to expect and be mentally prepared for the downswings

Ever since Nick got through to me to adjust my stakes... I have been bringing home a teady weekly paycheck from palying.. not much but it will pretty much be making the house payment

More than anything.. from my talks with nick - I think he might have a problem if he dropped $1,000 in a session - not because he can't afford to or it would hurt his bankroll but just mentally... different people can handle different swings.. I can see it bugging the living hell outta Nick if he drops a grand in a session.. Just wanted him to be prepared since at those stakes, it WILL happen eventually lol..

[MissEve]

I hear ya! As they say on twoplustwo, you will have a downswing worse than you could have ever expected. I just go back to Pokertracker and review my games to make sure Im not tilting or leaking. I have about a year and a half of data and I look at my ITM/ROI and prove to myself that I am a winning player. Those stats help me so much when I'm on a downswing.

On a side note.....there has been a lot of discussion on twoplustwo about the killing of the golden goose in poker. There definitely could be some paralells between porn and poker. I wonder if Party Poker can sustain the number of players it has. Do you think the poker craze will die out or will it become even more of a national past time? I am still fascinated when I look up players on Poker Prophecy and see someone playing $100 sit and gos who has played 500 games and only been in the money 20% of the time.

I tend to heckle people and I was heckling someone who lived in the Bay Area who was playing like a moron. I asked him if he had a great silicon valley job and just liked to lose money. He started chatting with me and was actually a really interesting person. He basically said that he has the money and just plays for fun.

That is a hard concept for me to understand but I know its common. Even when I had money coming out of my ass I would have never played $100 a hand blackjack and doubled down on 6 with a 10 showing.

Morgan, if you are reading this.....get ready. You are going to learn how to play poker!