Old Men Can't Play

Overall Results

Cash Game
NL2 [6max] ZOOM | 3.079 hands | +$23.19
PLO2 [6max] ZOOM | 3.053 hands | +$18.80

GL - can reveal that some of us are just a tad older than You, so no worries.

Thanks for reading and thanks for your comment. That makes me feel a little better

I guess you are as old as you feel, but that's easier said than done.

Maybe let's call it "wiser", not "older"

Indeed, I can confirm that there are quite a few people in this community who are older than you.
(I'm not one of them, I'm 31.)

"Architect personality type" would be INTJ, right? I'm ISFP, so I'm pretty sure your personality is more suited to poker than mine.

I used to love F1 racing back in the 90's and early 2K's, when Schumacher had those epic duels with Damon Hill, and later Villeneuve and Häkkinen, but I've kinda gotten out of it after that. In fact, I hardly follow professional sports all that much at all anymore, even though I'm still a lot into doing sports. Of course, my usually busy schedule of organized sports has been put on halt during the quarantine too, but at least you've reminded me that I should get back into the non-organized ones like running, which I have been neglecting as well during these times.

Unfortunately, I won't be much help as a poker mentor, since I have moved on from Hold'em and Omaha to other poker versions, so I can only wish you best of luck.

As one of the senior citizens here, I offer the following in rebuttal...

Great to have you back and I'll be following your blog...

Best of luck :gl:,
VS

Originally posted by Harrier88
Indeed, I can confirm that there are quite a few people in this community who are older than you.
(I'm not one of them, I'm 31.)

"Architect personality type" would be INTJ, right? I'm ISFP, so I'm pretty sure your personality is more suited to poker than mine.

I used to love F1 racing back in the 90's and early 2K's, when Schumacher had those epic duels with Damon Hill, and later Villeneuve and Häkkinen, but I've kinda gotten out of it after that. In fact, I hardly follow professional sports all that much at all anymore, even though I'm still a lot into doing sports. Of course, my usually busy schedule of organized sports has been put on halt during the quarantine too, but at least you've reminded me that I should get back into the non-organized ones like running, which I have been neglecting as well during these times.

Unfortunately, I won't be much help as a poker mentor, since I have moved on from Hold'em and Omaha to other poker versions, so I can only wish you best of luck.

Oh wow, thank you so much for reading and commenting. Haha, alright, the Adventurer type it is That's awesome mate. I guess, we are one of the most different personality types of all of them, but neverless I always admire the lifestyle of the Explorers and wish I would be more like them. Everything has it's advantages and disadvantages

Nice to hear, that you watched F1 in the 90s. I guess the 80s and 90s were the heydays of F1, but I think they are going back in a right direction now - of course, very slowly I watched F1 from the early 90s on. Senna was my childhood hero. Good old times Still remember various races from that time. The last 10 years, I don't remember anything

Regarding poker, what games do you play? The last years of my poker life I almost exclusively played Mixed Games on Stars. In my opinion, that's the ultimate pinnacle of poker, to be able to play all the games well.
In the last couple of years, I also played in a very funny home game were we played all kinds of stupid variants great fun We've made our own plaques and played Dealers Choice in the end.

I'm going to look for some pictures of that, maybe there is something I can share

Have a nice evening Harrier. Cheers

@VorpalF2F

Man Thank you so much for that clip. I forgot about that one for a couple of years.

Probably the best poker clip of all time together with the famous Hellmuth "Northern Europe" or Tony G "On your Bike" clips
I especially love it because you clearly see that he did that on purpose and not because he is and old man who doesn't get it. He really wants it to look like he almost folds, so good :f_biggrin::f_biggrin:

All time classic, love it

Now I have to find the Tony G and Phil Hellmuth clips.
I'm pretty sure I recognize "on your bike" though, so I probably saw that one before.

There you go :f_biggrin::f_love:

ab Minute 4 ca.

Cheers

Originally posted by PostflopWizard
Probably the best poker clip of all time together with the famous Hellmuth "Northern Europe" or Tony G "On your Bike" clips
I think my personal all-time favorite is still Phil Hellmuth's "run it four times" backfiring on him:

Originally posted by PostflopWizard
Regarding poker, what games do you play? The last years of my poker life I almost exclusively played Mixed Games on Stars. In my opinion, that's the ultimate pinnacle of poker, to be able to play all the games well.
In the last couple of years, I also played in a very funny home game were we played all kinds of stupid variants great fun We've made our own plaques and played Dealers Choice in the end.

Funny that you mention mixed games, because that's exactly what I'm playing right now. Currently it's Badugi, Five Card Draw and 2-7 Triple Draw, exclusively tournaments at the moment. I started a blog about it just the other day, feel free to check it out if you want to follow along and/or if you like cocktails.

omg, that clip is soo good.

I like especially two parts. The one where Phil Hellmuth says "You know what Phil Laak..." (love it that he uses his full name :f_biggrin:) and then the one where Tony G says to Phil Hellmuth "But... the hand... you are a professional..." :f_biggrin::f_biggrin:

Thanks for sharing your blog, I will definitely come by.

I just think the face Phil makes after the last two deals is priceless.

Alrighty then... let's do a first Poker update since the start of the blog.

This week I played 3k hands each NL2 and PLO2. Running pretty well, but I also think the player pool is super weak. Out of 12 sessions I won in 10 of them. I'm pretty sure I can manage a winrate of 20bb+/100 hands and then move up to NL5/PLO5 as soon as I have the roll for that. Then, there will of course be some major differences in skill and I forecast a big skill jump from NL2 to NL5 for example.

Anyhow, here are the results of week 1:
NL2 | 3.079 hands | +$23.19
PLO2 | 3.053 hands | +$18.80

I will update the cumulative results in the 2nd post of the first site every week to have a good overview.

I will also look at some hands and post them in the hand discussion forum with a link here as well.

Two questions for the readers:

1. What topic/video/"thing" would you suggest to start the learning process in my case after a lot of years not playing?
(I like to learn very structured and systematically and have no issue to start at the very bottom or with the basics, just have no clue where to start).

2. When would you suggest moving up to NL5/PLO5, how many stacks would you like to have for those limits?
(I like to be conservative with my bankroll management, I easily get tilted when I loose a big chunk of my roll).

Thank you very much for reading and especially for your suggestions.

cheers

Originally posted by PostflopWizard
What topic/video/"thing" would you suggest to start the learning process in my case after a lot of years not playing?
(I like to learn very structured and systematically and have no issue to start at the very bottom or with the basics, just have no clue where to start).

I assume you're familiar with the No Limit Hold'em lessons overview on here? If not, that should be a good place to start. You may eventually need Gold status, but there's plenty of stuff below that too.

Originally posted by PostflopWizard
When would you suggest moving up to NL5/PLO5, how many stacks would you like to have for those limits?
(I like to be conservative with my bankroll management, I easily get tilted when I loose a big chunk of my roll).

The short answer is: Whenever you feel comfortable.

The old advice was 25 buy-ins, I believe, with 10 buy-ins being considered loose and 50 buy-ins being considered conservative. Times may have changed. I think 50 buy-ins are definitely appropriate but you could pick something lower than that, if you prefer. For Hold'em, at least. PLO may require some more careful management, maybe 50-100 buy-ins.

But yeah, pick whatever amount you're comfortable with.