Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
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Its never a nice feeling when you go bust but i like your outlook on this and i hope you can make your bankroll grow when you start back playing again. Its always nice to take a few days away and then come back all guns blazing
Joined: May '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 58 (M)
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It's ok really. The way I look at is I've played almost three years of poker for £40. That's pretty good value if you think of it as entertainment rather than a money making attempt.
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
Age: 52 (M)
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Thats not funny, but perhaps it can be given you new motivation to rebuild a bankroll. With a little challenge from zero to X in combination with a no dep. bonus and with some freerolls you can build a roll without risk and you can use your experience from the last years. GL!
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
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If it is any consolation, if you graph your winnings/losses over this period and exclude rake from the losses, you're probably actually a winning player.. Meaning you're better than the average, you're probably just falling slightly short of beating the rake..
Further to this, I would wager that over the last three years, rake/fees have in general risen, whereas bonuses, rakeback, etc... has declined.. As such, it's quite possible you've still actually improved as a player, even though you've run through to zero, simply because the cost of playing has increased and the benefits of playing have decreased.
Joined: Sep '13
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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gl zero, yea its never fun to go busto but at the same time some people use it as motivation to become even better player, you know, not to go busto next time around
still when you think about it, 3 years of rage over bad beats, erm i mean 3 years of entertainment, for just 40 pounds, its a sweet deal isnt it
Joined: May '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 58 (M)
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Just a very long downswing playing mostly on stars and Party. I did the right things started playing lower limits, reverting to DoN's and STT's but it just didn't end before the bankroll did.
------------ Just found 87c hiding in my Winner account. All is not lost, all I have to do now is spin it up to $100 and I'll be back on track.
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Posted by zeroster: Just a very long downswing playing mostly on stars and Party. I did the right things started playing lower limits, reverting to DoN's and STT's but it just didn't end before the bankroll did.
------------ Just found 87c hiding in my W!nner account. All is not lost, all I have to do now is spin it up to $100 and I'll be back on track.
Joined: Nov '12
Location: Canada
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 4675
Posted by zeroster: Well it was probably going to happen eventually but for the first time in almost three years I now have a balance of $0.
Regroup, rethink, wait for payday and start again.
G'day mate
Well if you need it I can ship you a few bucks on either PartyPoker or PokerStars just let me know if you want it or not. I do not remember you account login name on the sites so you need to let me know. best wishes be cool
Joined: May '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 58 (M)
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That's a really nice gesture Ronin, thanks. I'd rather it was a loan and not a gift though. Although it is 3 weeks until payday so you may have to wait that long. My name on Stars is grucas.
Joined: Nov '12
Location: Canada
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 4675
G'day mate, No worries. Sorry it was not more, I only had $10 on my PStars account until my next deposit. I got most of my money on Party right now. Hope it is lucky for you. be cool
Joined: Nov '12
Location: Canada
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G'day mate
The money has arrived in my account already. You do realize that I did not even care about getting it back at all. I was just trying to help out a fellow mobster who I know would do the same for others. If you need the money back for your bankroll just ask mate. Wishing you every success. be cool
Joined: May '11
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted by RoninHarper: You do realize that I did not even care about getting it back at all.
Yeah I realize that Ronin but it's important to me to pay it back as soon as I can.
Long time ago I screwed a lot of people over with my, then, bad attitude to debt. It felt sh1t and I never won't to go there again. So now all my debts are always paid ASAP.
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 10090
well that was a nice reading bout some mobbits who pissed onto the forum rule "#i have no idea what" and showed that there are really great examples of trust and happy-endings in this forum. you are the best Ronin, you're not too bad either zeroster (although that cannot be said about your poker skills )
yours truly transfer master Peter from sunny Bulgaria
Joined: Nov '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 67 (M)
Posts: 3361
nice one Ronin mate, You see there are still some good mobsters in here who are willing to help out other mobsters,i'm still shocked by whet peter did but actions like Ronins make up for a lot of the bad chit that goes on.
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