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It has been a sparse few months of PROFITPOKER, due to many employment adjustments along Lake erie's southern shore, requiring my time...

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"the more things change, the more they stay the same" surely mirrors the poker play from yesterday's tables.

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I enter the "poker room" which had three tables of 10/20 KILL going, while a daily tournament was about 1/2 finished.

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Already, the smoke would make one cough upon walking to the sign-up list.

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Since this is not a public casino, there are NO RULES on many actions.

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There are local police hired off duty for security at $25 an hour.

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I see one of my MARKS, and enter play at that table. sadly, ha, this mark is ever aware I see a TARGET on his head.

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After only one hand where I beat him, by a better kicker, he makes a table change.

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I thanked him for his DONATION, and I will see him later. We are freinds, so this was taken with a laugh.

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A point of this day at the tables, is players have that psychological make-up, of which, only by well thoughout manuevers of play, a leopard does not change their spots.

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A No Limit game started around 4 pm. my mark was signed up for this table, from which he took about $5,000 profit home the night before.

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Now, since we have been guided b John Patrick to mold our TOTAL gambling package, charting the no limit table is a MUST.

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As we all know, there are better tables than others to choose to do battle.

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This no limit table was not too different from many of the higher limit games, because, as noted , a leopard does not change it's spots, and their are only a few hundred poker players of distinction in the quad state area.

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Preflop, one could expect at least $50 to be the price of staying in the hand.

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The flop could be another $300, with the turn another $500.

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The river is all action, with no holds barred.

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These players live for the action.

Now my "mark" is an international poker tournament player, and he has more $$$ than most.

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this is a weapon he is greatly skilled in aapplying, knowing what it takes to get players to fold, without over betting and risking too much.

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In poker 101, one learns of players who constantly bet ALL-IN, because they do not have the skill nor aquired knowledge to deduce the correct betting amount. for that particular hand, positon, and player.

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.Now, back to John's instructional life we use for our example.

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After grinding out our day's pay, at various levels, would one enter a game where the amounts are greatly more than one uses to aquire one's bankroll?

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WHY?

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That is exactly what John asked me a year or two ago, when I mentioned going up in limits.

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What is it one wishes to achieve?

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Would more money of a higher limit change one's life?

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Is the risk worth the reward?

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Is the psychological stress of the bankroll swings so detrimental to the mind, one would want to quit all together?

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I passed on this particular no limit game. I have NO EGO, but but again, what was my goal when I left for the piokerr room?

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Not socializing...

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Not to be praised for outplaying a hand...

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TO MAKE A DAY"S PAY, while protecting a bankroll!!!!!!!!!!!

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On the limit table I was at, in four hours, my PAY was just over $200, and I headed home.

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Also, that evening there was a home  No Limit tournament of ten players I was invited to.

It was $2,500 buy-in

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I would be almost the same players who were at the No limit table I just discused.

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No Thanks...

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Being disciplined is a good feeling, especially on the way back home...

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NOT BEING DISCIPLINED eats at my being for a week and MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This leopard was trained at the 'PATRICK SCHOOL OF DISCILPINE',

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and the spots will not change!

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How "lucky"  (I hate that word) to have learned the RIGHT gambling life...

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Rick K

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Thanks for the input, John.

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The more Gambling Profits are relied upon, every single warning and instruction you've laid out on the stone tablets replays in one's  mind

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as

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..................            'GUIDELINES TO SUCCEED'            .....................

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This is traveling to a remote,

secluded island to hook up with Pamela Anderson, ( Dolly Parton 4 you John )

 only to find one's boat's  engine is cooked, and you are at the wrong island, all alone... stranded.

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The tanget of a gambler's life is a lone wolf for sure, as it pertains to BANKROLL.

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Sustaining, Building, and utilizing...

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Lately, the area Poker games are not the best opportunities to do battle..

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.One of a POKER player's make-up to PROFITS, consists of CONTROL

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Control the poker table

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Control one's descision making

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Control one's emotions

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Control WHICH game to enter

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Control when NOT to  enter a table

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The latter has resulted in a stretch of NO poker play for a week.

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Since my location is not in the vicinity of a stretch of casinos, there may be  ten tables available here and there in a hundred mile radius, with another 20 or so another hundred miles away.

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I remember John mentionuing he has traveled to AC, and after  charting the casino, He returned home without a bet.

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That has been what transpired this past week.

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Control of one's bankroll.

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Which brings me to the point ( finally ) .

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In the scope of using  Gambling Profits to sustain my meager lifestyle (!)

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Without income for a week shows the BIG difference from the "day Job".

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BUT, since it is NEVER CORRECT  to make the wrong "move" ( bet ).

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Not playing where conditons are not conducive to Profit takling is actually a plus.

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If I did so, from my evaluations, my bankroll would be even less.

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LIMITING LOSSES

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Living off of gambling, I find doing whatever it takes to NOT make mistakes.

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As "funny" as it sounds, it has meant not entering the arena that day.

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Brutal, perhaps best describes the day of accomplishment, then do it all over again the next day.....

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Rick K

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hey Br.

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Sports betting, as you  do quite well, is something i will not be aquring in the near future.

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However, some of your questions, were extracted from my post of what I truely was eluding to.

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Your are extremely perceptive!!!!

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1) Other Gambling venues?

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Yes, I have changed my home office ( spare bedroom )  back into

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"TREND CENTRAL" where I CHART stocks and have restarted that avenue again.

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 Interesting enough, from your question, I have planned a casino run this week, to hit the craps and roulette tables where advantageous a  TREND.

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2) How long NOT to play.

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As stated, NOT playing in  an unfavorable situation to obtain PROFIT is a must. for me. I label that under DISCIPLINE.

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For me, there cannot be any  wateredown compromising on this stand.

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Those "etched in stone tablets" laws of PROFITABILITY are unwavering.

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In the earlier years, any compromising ended in such a STUPID feeling all the ay back home with my tail between my legs.

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As Bones has stated, "be a better player today than I was yesterday".

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Again, going back and adding craps and roulette, ( Bac not offered in 2 1/5 hour drive) will bring back more avunues to catch a TREND.

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3) Lead to lost confidence

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No way, actually, this cements one's confidence in being DISCIPLINED

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4) Relocation

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This will be looked at down the road, but not at this time.

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You are VERY in tune to just where people are at, as you read their posts.

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BR.

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Pehaps a quality poker player is your future?

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Rick K

Hey there group. Rick K, I've noticed that you've been doing very good at hold'em poker and especially in cash game tournaments, and I wish you best of luck with WSOP.

Brennan, keep up the solid work with sports betting. I have John's book on sports betting now, so I'm starting to get the hang of it better.

John Partick, thanks for helping my friends, myself and coworkers who gamble and keeping them from not being total idiots with their bankrolls and money management. I'm starting to get through to them on knowledge of the game.

Good luck with WSOP John and I hope you will take a shot at the Stud Hi/Lo bracelet. I think you're capable of a 10% cut, you've played for so long and that experience does make a difference in a 10% cut tournament.

James Fritz