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Assani Fisher said:
Assani Fisher said:
Assani Fisher said:
Pokerstars has a policy to never let you change your username or avatar(actually can change your avatar once, but then never again). In the past I've tried to give them BS excuses for changing my username(I want "Assani Fisher") such as 'it reminds me of an ex-girlfriend' or "It was my dog's name and he passed away" but they never bit. Today I tried to get my avatar changed by claiming "it gives me bad dreams at night" and it worked! So as soon as my new avatar is approved, I should have a new one up! Now to get my username changed.....
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Got the new avatar, now for the username:Hello friends at Pokerstars,

I currently play under the username "jwvdcw." I understand that it is your policy to not allow players to change or modify their usernames. However, I beg of you to make an exception in my case. This name is haunting my soul. Honestly its hard for me to even type it. I simply cannot go on playing under the name of "jwvdcw" as its starting to affect my personal life beyond poker. Please! All I want is to change my username to my real name, which is "Assani Fisher". If you can simply honor this request you will have a customer for life. Thank you for your time.

Assani Fisher
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Their reply:

Hello Assani, The reason we do not permit user ID changes is partially technological and partially psychological, and partially for security. From the database/programming perspective, it is not a trivial change. Your user ID isn't stored in the hands -- just an internal user number. When you request a hand history, it looks up your user ID and inserts it where it should go. It would be a bad thing to have previously requested histories say that "finesse914" was in seat 3 of a particular hand, while the same hand history requested after a user ID change says "angelfins" was in seat 3.

That would cause users who noted the apparent discrepancy to question the accuracy of our database, which we cannot permit. Thus, same-account user ID changes are technologically impossible without extensive changes to the database software.

Some have pointed out that it would be trivial to just avoid all the above and let players close one account to open another. We cannot allow this for security reasons. All of the things that make your account "yours" are lost if you jump to another account. All of your hand histories, your financial transactions, your chat.... everything is left behind and cannot be moved to your new account. For financial security, much of this data is mandatory and cannot be considered dispensable.

Finally, from the psychological side, in face-to-face poker you can remember a person by their appearance, their mannerisms, or their name. Chris Moneymaker will always be recognized as himself when he enters a card room. Online, all those things are gone. The only thing a player has to identify you as an opponent at the table is your user ID, and your image (which we do permit to be changed more easily). It would be unfair to other players to "get to know" your playing style (taking notes, etc), and then permit you to close the account in favor of a different user ID. To keep all players on the same playing field, we limit players to one account per person, and no user ID changes. We wish you the best of luck playing here on PokerStars under your current user ID.

Regards,

Howard

PokerStars Support Team
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So I guess thats its for that. However I did write back: "Who is Chris Moneymaker?"
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Next time you get a new IP address and e-mail address, create a new account.
 
One thing you could do is have your dad (or someone similar that you have 100% trust/faith in) set up an account and play under it. While it sucks that you lose all of your information, they really cannot do anything to prevent this. Just do not do anything stupid like have both accounts in a tournament at the same time, etc.

 
Clayton Gray said:
Assani Fisher said:
GavinGriffin at my table, although I thought he went by another name other than his real name online so maybe its not him....
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It is him. He used to have a different username but got this one when he became an official Pokerstars pro.
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Maybe that is the key: become a PokerStars pro!
 
westyplz said:
One thing you could do is have your dad (or someone similar that you have 100% trust/faith in) set up an account and play under it. While it sucks that you lose all of your information, they really cannot do anything to prevent this. Just do not do anything stupid like have both accounts in a tournament at the same time, etc.
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Or just change ISPs. ETA: you might also not want to fund it from the same accounts either.
 
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damn... i watched from about 30 till the final table... then had to go to bed. insane run at the finaltable. grats!!!

 
culdeus said:
westyplz said:
One thing you could do is have your dad (or someone similar that you have 100% trust/faith in) set up an account and play under it. While it sucks that you lose all of your information, they really cannot do anything to prevent this. Just do not do anything stupid like have both accounts in a tournament at the same time, etc.
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Or just change ISPs. ETA: you might also not want to fund it from the same accounts either.
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I doubt that would work.Don't they have his SSN for tax-reporting? I am sure that a second account with the same SSN would be detected.
 
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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Can you please teach me how to do this? I'm always the one who's a huge favorite losing in situations like this.congrats on the nice win
 
Otis said:
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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What are the total odds of winning all three of these hands, along with the others where you were a big dog down the stretch?
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100% chance last night.
 
Skippy the one eyed Beagle said:
culdeus said:
westyplz said:
One thing you could do is have your dad (or someone similar that you have 100% trust/faith in) set up an account and play under it. While it sucks that you lose all of your information, they really cannot do anything to prevent this. Just do not do anything stupid like have both accounts in a tournament at the same time, etc.
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Or just change ISPs. ETA: you might also not want to fund it from the same accounts either.
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I doubt that would work.Don't they have his SSN for tax-reporting? I am sure that a second account with the same SSN would be detected.
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Pokerstars doesn't need a SSN as they don't report anything.
 
Clayton Gray said:
Skippy the one eyed Beagle said:
culdeus said:
westyplz said:
One thing you could do is have your dad (or someone similar that you have 100% trust/faith in) set up an account and play under it. While it sucks that you lose all of your information, they really cannot do anything to prevent this. Just do not do anything stupid like have both accounts in a tournament at the same time, etc.
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Or just change ISPs. ETA: you might also not want to fund it from the same accounts either.
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I doubt that would work.Don't they have his SSN for tax-reporting? I am sure that a second account with the same SSN would be detected.
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Pokerstars doesn't need a SSN as they don't report anything.
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ahh, in that case. please ignore me.
 
nice win.. brings up one of the things about poker I hate the most though..

to min a multi-table poker tournament, you need a LOT of luck

you can do a lot of things skillfully and correct..

but here's a list of things that have had to happen every time I placed high in an MTT, and I'm sure Assani can relate:

you'll have to deliver at LEAST 1-2 statistical bad beats..

must be on the plus side of coinflips. probably by a decent margin

cannot get bad beated yourself at a critical moment

can't get cold decked at the wrong time.. must be running better than average on cards.

can't get "scenario'd" out.. meaning set over set, or KK running into AA preflop, or getting flushed out when you have a great hand and someone is pushing the envelope with a draw.. or pushing when shortstacked and running into a monster.. etc. etc.

or get simply outplayed on very many hands..

it's tough.. and to win one really takes luck.

 
Dentist said:
nice win.. brings up one of the things about poker I hate the most though..

to min a multi-table poker tournament, you need a LOT of luck

you can do a lot of things skillfully and correct..

but here's a list of things that have had to happen every time I placed high in an MTT, and I'm sure Assani can relate:

you'll have to deliver at LEAST 1-2 statistical bad beats..

must be on the plus side of coinflips. probably by a decent margin

cannot get bad beated yourself at a critical moment

can't get cold decked at the wrong time.. must be running better than average on cards.

can't get "scenario'd" out.. meaning set over set, or KK running into AA preflop, or getting flushed out when you have a great hand and someone is pushing the envelope with a draw.. or pushing when shortstacked and running into a monster.. etc. etc.

or get simply outplayed on very many hands..

it's tough.. and to win one really takes luck.
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:goodposting:
 
Reason number 2,145,892 why I could never do what Assani does: My first thoughts after reading that he just won $45k was "coke, strippers, and threesome." (notwithstanding that I've never done coke, strippers scare me, and I'd definitely pull a muscle trying to pull something fancy).

 
Otis said:
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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What are the total odds of winning all three of these hands, along with the others where you were a big dog down the stretch?
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TQ/TK hand was actually after a flop when it came ten high, so that was about 18.4%A8s was about 32.1%JJ was about 18.5%.184 x .321 x .185 = .0109 = 1.09%
 
Unlucky said:
Congrats on the big haul. Seems like you're crushing it. How's the money management going? Any psychological struggles to not move up too fast or spend a big chunk of change?
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I've jumped into a few $25/50 PLO games online which were probably too high for me, but I would always drop right back down if I lost a buy in- I don't really mind "taking a shot" like that from time to time. The only other real "mistake" I made was during the Wynn Classic they had $20/40 NLHE going and I played in that when it was a pretty damn tough game instead of the much softer $10/20 running....at my "home casino" it is very tempting for me to always be playing in the biggest game running. Otherwise though, I've been pretty good about everything, especially tournaments.
 
Assani Fisher said:
Otis said:
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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What are the total odds of winning all three of these hands, along with the others where you were a big dog down the stretch?
Click to expand...
TQ/TK hand was actually after a flop when it came ten high, so that was about 18.4%A8s was about 32.1%JJ was about 18.5%.184 x .321 x .185 = .0109 = 1.09%
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wow... you'll have to appreciate these good times and remember this post when you get to your next final table and get two-outed out of thousands...You have to focus on the positive results so often in poker because so many bad things happen to even the best of players..If you're thinking about starting the life of a tournament poker player... remember that even the BEST players only cash 14-18% of the time, and make the final table about 4-5% of the time.If you win 1 of 100 tournies, you're doing pretty good.
 
Clayton Gray said:
Next time you get a new IP address and e-mail address, create a new account.
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westyplz said:
One thing you could do is have your dad (or someone similar that you have 100% trust/faith in) set up an account and play under it. While it sucks that you lose all of your information, they really cannot do anything to prevent this. Just do not do anything stupid like have both accounts in a tournament at the same time, etc.
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culdeus said:
Or just change ISPs. ETA: you might also not want to fund it from the same accounts either.
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The problem with this is that I'm too well known to ever do this without a lot of people knowning. As I mentioned earlier, pokerstars reps read twoplustwo too. Its just not worth risking my source of income(as well as my reputation as I'd obviously be accused of multiaccounting) in order to change my name.
Skippy the one eyed Beagle said:
I doubt that would work.Don't they have his SSN for tax-reporting? I am sure that a second account with the same SSN would be detected.
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Nah, I don't think they have my SSN. They couldn't care less about whether or not I report taxes, and since they're non-U.S. based they aren't required to do anything of the sort.
MrPhoenix said:
Maybe that is the key: become a PokerStars pro!
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:unsure:
 
newteech said:
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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Can you please teach me how to do this? I'm always the one who's a huge favorite losing in situations like this.congrats on the nice win
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Its just sample size....play a few thousand tourneys and you'll see it happen both ways a ton of times.
 
Hello Assani,

Thank you for your email.

Chris Moneymaker is the WSOP champion of 2003, netting $2,500,000 ... He is a team PokerStars member and you can play against him on our site from time to time.

You can read more about Chris Moneymaker here: http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/chris-moneymaker/

I hope this answers your question. If you should have any further questions, please don't hesitate to write us again. We are always happy to help you in any way we can.

Regards,

FredrikS

PokerStars Support Team

 
Dentist said:
Assani Fisher said:
Otis said:
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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What are the total odds of winning all three of these hands, along with the others where you were a big dog down the stretch?
Click to expand...
TQ/TK hand was actually after a flop when it came ten high, so that was about 18.4%A8s was about 32.1%JJ was about 18.5%.184 x .321 x .185 = .0109 = 1.09%
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wow... you'll have to appreciate these good times and remember this post when you get to your next final table and get two-outed out of thousands...You have to focus on the positive results so often in poker because so many bad things happen to even the best of players..If you're thinking about starting the life of a tournament poker player... remember that even the BEST players only cash 14-18% of the time, and make the final table about 4-5% of the time.If you win 1 of 100 tournies, you're doing pretty good.
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very much agreed. Although the nice thing about tourneys is that since theres a set amount you can lose(the buy in) going on tilt during those bad times doesn't nearly affect you as much as cash games would.
 
Assani Fisher said:
Steeler said:
Great job... would you mind sharing the HH for this tourney as well?
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sure, will send them an email
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Dear friends at Pokerstars,Last night I won the $109+rebuys tournament. I have three requests:1. Can you please send me the hand histories from this tournament?2. Can you please send me a personal congratulations in the mail?3. Can I be a pokerstars pro and get a bunch of free money from you guys?Regards,AssaniFuture PokerStars Pro
 
According to OPR, over the past 120 days I am now up to #50 out of 476,388 PokerStars players and #69 out of 896,531 players across all sites

:shrug: :unsure: :bag:

 
Off to play the Caesars $550 satellite to their WSOP Circuit ME, which is tomorrow. About 1 out of every 10 gets a seat, so hopefully I can win one...

 
Assani Fisher said:
Assani Fisher said:
Steeler said:
Great job... would you mind sharing the HH for this tourney as well?
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sure, will send them an email
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Dear friends at Pokerstars,Last night I won the $109+rebuys tournament. I have three requests:

1. Can you please send me the hand histories from this tournament?

2. Can you please send me a personal congratulations in the mail?

3. Can I be a pokerstars pro and get a bunch of free money from you guys?

Regards,

Assani

Future PokerStars Pro
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:confused:
 
Assani Fisher said:
Assani Fisher said:
Assani Fisher said:
Pokerstars has a policy to never let you change your username or avatar(actually can change your avatar once, but then never again). In the past I've tried to give them BS excuses for changing my username(I want "Assani Fisher") such as 'it reminds me of an ex-girlfriend' or "It was my dog's name and he passed away" but they never bit. Today I tried to get my avatar changed by claiming "it gives me bad dreams at night" and it worked! So as soon as my new avatar is approved, I should have a new one up! Now to get my username changed.....
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Got the new avatar, now for the username:Hello friends at Pokerstars,

I currently play under the username "jwvdcw." I understand that it is your policy to not allow players to change or modify their usernames. However, I beg of you to make an exception in my case. This name is haunting my soul. Honestly its hard for me to even type it. I simply cannot go on playing under the name of "jwvdcw" as its starting to affect my personal life beyond poker. Please! All I want is to change my username to my real name, which is "Assani Fisher". If you can simply honor this request you will have a customer for life. Thank you for your time.

Assani Fisher
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Their reply:

Hello Assani, The reason we do not permit user ID changes is partially technological and partially psychological, and partially for security. From the database/programming perspective, it is not a trivial change. Your user ID isn't stored in the hands -- just an internal user number. When you request a hand history, it looks up your user ID and inserts it where it should go. It would be a bad thing to have previously requested histories say that "finesse914" was in seat 3 of a particular hand, while the same hand history requested after a user ID change says "angelfins" was in seat 3.

That would cause users who noted the apparent discrepancy to question the accuracy of our database, which we cannot permit. Thus, same-account user ID changes are technologically impossible without extensive changes to the database software.

Some have pointed out that it would be trivial to just avoid all the above and let players close one account to open another. We cannot allow this for security reasons. All of the things that make your account "yours" are lost if you jump to another account. All of your hand histories, your financial transactions, your chat.... everything is left behind and cannot be moved to your new account. For financial security, much of this data is mandatory and cannot be considered dispensable.

Finally, from the psychological side, in face-to-face poker you can remember a person by their appearance, their mannerisms, or their name. Chris Moneymaker will always be recognized as himself when he enters a card room. Online, all those things are gone. The only thing a player has to identify you as an opponent at the table is your user ID, and your image (which we do permit to be changed more easily). It would be unfair to other players to "get to know" your playing style (taking notes, etc), and then permit you to close the account in favor of a different user ID. To keep all players on the same playing field, we limit players to one account per person, and no user ID changes. We wish you the best of luck playing here on PokerStars under your current user ID.

Regards,

Howard

PokerStars Support Team
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So I guess thats its for that. However I did write back: "Who is Chris Moneymaker?"
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They forced me to change my user name a couple of years ago. I had Sinn Fein for about 2 years, when they got some complaints from some players about the name being offensive. I changed it, but then stopped playing. I just picked it up again recently, and set up a completely new account - i.e. new e-mail and IP. Not to mention that I am not playing at the levels where players routinely take notes. :)
 
Assani Fisher said:
Otis said:
Assani Fisher said:
Ran insanely well at the final table(TQ>TK, JJ>KK, and A8s>TT).
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What are the total odds of winning all three of these hands, along with the others where you were a big dog down the stretch?
Click to expand...
TQ/TK hand was actually after a flop when it came ten high, so that was about 18.4%A8s was about 32.1%JJ was about 18.5%.184 x .321 x .185 = .0109 = 1.09%
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And that's just these three hands. Doesn't count some of the big beats you had to deliver to even get to the final table.Bottom line: I agree 100% with Dentist about that being one of the things I hate about large poker tournies. It really is such a tremendous crapshoot, and although skill is important (and shakes out to profit over the long haul), it's luck that seems to dominate any given tourney.With that said, love seeing Assani take down these big ones. Keep it going...
 
Dentist said:
nice win.. brings up one of the things about poker I hate the most though..to min a multi-table poker tournament, you need a LOT of luckyou can do a lot of things skillfully and correct..but here's a list of things that have had to happen every time I placed high in an MTT, and I'm sure Assani can relate:you'll have to deliver at LEAST 1-2 statistical bad beats..must be on the plus side of coinflips. probably by a decent margincannot get bad beated yourself at a critical momentcan't get cold decked at the wrong time.. must be running better than average on cards.can't get "scenario'd" out.. meaning set over set, or KK running into AA preflop, or getting flushed out when you have a great hand and someone is pushing the envelope with a draw.. or pushing when shortstacked and running into a monster.. etc. etc.or get simply outplayed on very many hands..it's tough.. and to win one really takes luck.
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:blackdot:
 
Assani Fisher said:
Hello Assani,

Thank you for your email.

Chris Moneymaker is the WSOP champion of 2003, netting $2,500,000 ... He is a team PokerStars member and you can play against him on our site from time to time.

You can read more about Chris Moneymaker here: http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/chris-moneymaker/

I hope this answers your question. If you should have any further questions, please don't hesitate to write us again. We are always happy to help you in any way we can.

Regards,

FredrikS

PokerStars Support Team
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:lmao:
 
Wanna stake me? :lmao:

Congrats on the huge win, Assani. :bow: :whoosh:

What would you credit to being the biggest factors of your success? I'm not talking about this particular tourney, but as a winning poker player overall. Being a student of the game (reading books, articles, blogging results, etc)? Your experience level? Insane mathematical and/or memorization abilities? Keen logic and reasoning? Insanely lucky, lol? Combination of these or other attributes?

 
Jimboozie said:
Wanna stake me? :lmao: Congrats on the huge win, Assani. :shock: :thumbup: What would you credit to being the biggest factors of your success? I'm not talking about this particular tourney, but as a winning poker player overall. Being a student of the game (reading books, articles, blogging results, etc)? Your experience level? Insane mathematical and/or memorization abilities? Keen logic and reasoning? Insanely lucky, lol? Combination of these or other attributes?
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This is a good question, and I look forward to Assani's reply.I wonder how much ongoing studying he does on the game. I know he spends some time over at 2+2... but do you flip back through harrington books, or theory of poker every now and then... how often do you buy a new poker book when it comes out to keep up with the latest "trends" in advice, etc.Clayton and I were talking about this the other day.. back when poker was really big in like 2004-2005, I read probably 20 poker books, read a lot of 2+2 message boards, participated heavily in the poker discussions on Case Ace Poker (a FBG offshoot message board), and would constantly talk "hand problems" with bostonfred, cc_gray, tmc94, etc.. there were a lot of yahoo IM "sweat" sessions were we discussed advice..Since that time, other than reading Harrington 1, 2, 3.. i've done nothing. However, I still find that using the same playbook I came up with 4 years ago will be successful for me at the lower limits.. that's the real difference.. i've just never "moved up".I think to really maximize your poker ability.. at some point you have to have the weird combination of "good bankroll management" but also "not giving a #### about money" This especially is true for cash games.I've never been able to do that... I came close once when I was crushing low limit tourneys in 2004 and had a healthy 5 figures online at all times... then i used a bunch of that money to buy a house and without a big bankroll I've never had the chance to move up.One thing you must note if you are aspiring player reading this blog is that a lot of the plays Assani makes and stuff he does is great for the high level games.. but there is a definite strategy adjustment in the lower games where you should start out.Even some of the advice in the Harrington books isn't good for Low Limit Tourneys.Clayton and I have also discussed the need for a "low limit tournament book".. although Harrington 1 is a good primer I suppose... just not much in the post flop play department.
 
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