learning No Limit Holdem - adventure & lifestyle

Very mobile recently, played some NL2 from Stars phone app.

At school teaching:

I remember how good experience it was to see teacher's desktop in school as student, so instead of hiding that data, as I normally would, I left it open (on the board with data projector).
"You use Blender??" a student now asked.
I explained a bit how it suits with other, bigger engines, such as Godot. He continued to talk about how school Wi-Fi is bullying him as he is now trying to download Unity gamedevelopment engine... He switched back to Godot though and looked like he made some nice progress.

I'll probably prepare something about 3-D in Godot soon, but would be quite difficult for them to understand this _process() functions stuff. I was trying to explain Step event in Game Maker today, which does cover that.

Gamedev has gone well, +$52/hour the last 30 hours of live teaching, which has beat my highest poker results in somewhere 2011-2013. I also enjoy talking to these people and as I have my own children, it is a bit more relevant.

There was this debate, right, that "is it possible to enjoy losing". There are many factors to it, right, "are other things well in your life", and, "did you make big mistakes or not". Played 1 hour my best poker, lost 1,5 buy-ins, never felt happier in my life. Because I managed to sort out those other things in life (started to give girlfriend +450€/month instead of +150€/month); and I could now also afford NL2. And made many correct big calls. And I was training mindset deliberately while playing. So, it is definitely possible to enjoy losing, I just experienced that. It also has to do with Bankroll Management, if you play the correct stakes, it doesn't actually hurt those few buy-ins, like, it doesn't screw up your life but adds to it - you learn from the experience more than you lost money, so the stakes and the game that the site offers is actually valuable. Don't play for more that you can afford to lose is the old "warning" we all have heard, so i definitely tried to keep that <4% bankroll is poker bankroll; this is quite sweet.

Sport psychologists, coaches, sport psychologists for online poker players, teachers is very nice advice. They all keep telling the same thing, "don't rush to too much risk", "yeah pull back from that high-stakes poker, gamedev business is very good idea"; "take it really light and easy"... Who wouldn't want to be the superstar of online poker, but is that actually an happy option? And why superstar? Isn't "slight winner at NL5" enough? It is enough probably for many.

Originally posted by taavi1337
There was this debate, right, that "is it possible to enjoy losing". There are many factors to it, right, "are other things well in your life", and, "did you make big mistakes or not". Played 1 hour my best poker, lost 1,5 buy-ins, never felt happier in my life. Because I managed to sort out those other things in life (started to give girlfriend +450€/month instead of +150€/month); and I could now also afford NL2. And made many correct big calls. And I was training mindset deliberately while playing. So, it is definitely possible to enjoy losing, I just experienced that. It also has to do with Bankroll Management, if you play the correct stakes, it doesn't actually hurt those few buy-ins, like, it doesn't screw up your life but adds to it - you learn from the experience more than you lost money, so the stakes and the game that the site offers is actually valuable. Don't play for more that you can afford to lose is the old "warning" we all have heard, so i definitely tried to keep that <4% bankroll is poker bankroll; this is quite sweet.

Sport psychologists, coaches, sport psychologists for online poker players, teachers is very nice advice. They all keep telling the same thing, "don't rush to too much risk", "yeah pull back from that high-stakes poker, gamedev business is very good idea"; "take it really light and easy"... Who wouldn't want to be the superstar of online poker, but is that actually an happy option? And why superstar? Isn't "slight winner at NL5" enough? It is enough probably for many.

I enjoy playing poker. I accept that losing is part of it. In one of his books, Doyle Brunson said something like, "You must want to win, but you must not care if you lose". I think that that sums it up well.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I enjoy playing poker. I accept that losing is part of it. In one of his books, Doyle Brunson said something like, "You must want to win, but you must not care if you lose". I think that that sums it up well.

Sometimes I'm like: "I would love to play poker" but I have so many other obligations (children, kitchen, shopping) that there's simply no time to do that. Then when I finally manage to have the time to play few minutes of online poker, I'm like super happy (for example when I wake up at 6am by accident).

I rarely "play poker". I'm always doing something else as well, and have a table open to keep an eye out for opportunities.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I rarely "play poker". I'm always doing something else as well, and have a table open to keep an eye out for opportunities.

Haha ... I wonder if you could play with voice recognition, then you can walk around in the house and just yell 'Raise one thirthy'.

Yeah online poker is like the only game where it is crucial to give your max or you fail hard and waste your money. Like, nothing would happen, if you do gamedev and listen to music at the same time, you wouldn't lose money or clients right away (well, you would actually, as the game would be worse). But here in online poker we can buy those lessons.

For me, when I do other stuff while playing, such as pulling up business charts or pulling up business charts; this usually means a sign of completion and laughter, such as: I did well enough already today, time to do those other tasks and quit the session.

Quite lucky to have the gamedev workshops for kids in schools; this is basically equal to +5bb/100 at NL400; but I managed to get this gaming income faster than in online poker, girlfriend asked if I could do that again in poker, but in poker the best I could get was like +15€/month; because as I also need to take care of our two kids, so I cannot really play NL50+ 3+ hours/day, I simply don't have the energy or skills for that yet. Also FLHE is pretty dead and coaches don't recommend the government-blocked 888 ; also it could be reg-filled (I last played flhe seriously on 888 in 2013), and - it is good and exciting to learn a new game - NLHE. Could be profitable in the future to have good NLHE skills, let's say, a good NL10 game gets going, I have better edge if I have practiced a lot of NL2 to NL5.

Also with gamedev workshops it is good that you cannot lose money while working.

Managed to stabilize myself on NL2; it tried to throw me back, again -2BI at beginning of session, but then could end the session +1BI up. First time in grindmode at NL cashgame, experiencing a breakthrough after reading "Poker Therapy" - it isn't about the past results, it is about your thoughts in the current hand. Would be nice to stay at NL2+; managed to do it this time

First Godot lesson super well received, two kids called it "amazing", and "best class ever"; so far, for 3 months, we had only done 2-D games in Game Maker; but one boy asked about 3-D development last time, so I made this Godot introductory class. Kids were like really amazed and wanted to do everything, some things I didn't remember about that engine, and I haven't made a single full 3-D game ever; but now I really want to move to teacher and coach instead of that much solo successful video game creator... (helping others to succeed instead of always trying to succeed myself in video game development).

That's amazing to hear that the kids were amazed. Helping others is never a bad idea and you might get some happiness too from it.

Originally posted by MichaelCheckson
That's amazing to hear that the kids were amazed. Helping others is never a bad idea and you might get some happiness too from it.

Yes when we compare the markets, gaming market is like full of really good games that thousands of companies just put there and move on to make more games, so if I don't have a strong desire to compete there with my own game, I better focus on what matters to me. -> Find a better reason to run the business. -> Client wants to compete with own game on gaming market -> I solve that problem for client as teacher and coach (better reason found to run the business).

Some fan art to all the casino managers out there!

DeerPoker in the making (a free fan-art game)

Originally posted by taavi1337
Some fan art to all the casino managers out there!

DeerPoker in the making (a free fan-art game)

nice!

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by taavi1337
Some fan art to all the casino managers out there!

DeerPoker in the making (a free fan-art game)

nice!

I remember when I went to psychiatrist myself cause of experiencing strong psychosis, psychiatrist asked: "Why are you looking at the door all the time, as if afraid?" ##£^&&# these pros remove quite big things ♦

"Is the door closed?" Lol

A bit tired but really proud of the poker results. More than twice €/hourly in poker than in 2024.

2026 goals:

♦️Stay at NL2+
♦️Poker bankroll <4% of total bankroll; => try to increase total bankroll to >500€
♦️Study more seriously. Go deep into coaching videos. Try to buy or get Silver status on PokerStrategy.

PokerStars $0.48 BI FLHE finally affordable, also Betsafe throwing in some nice 1€ real tickets; bringing the poker month back to profit.

Gamedev workshops looks like the boom didn't rebloat; 4 months of +480€; +480€; +450€ and ~+390€ (December) profit. (avg +49€/hour)

Any info on this PokerStars rewards program ? If you play cashgame hands in a day, you get $0.50 3man SnG ticket. Who wins that, gets $1 worth 16man ticket, where 4th gets $1.36; 2nd to 3rd gets $1.50 tourney satellite ticket and 1st gets $11 satellite ticket. Those $1.50 satellite tickets sometimes you also get from those $0.50 3mans. The only way I have ever won anything from this rewards program is launching 4th in the 16man. Yeah it does practice tourney skills but other than that I better play on other sites which have better chances of winning. Which I told them when they asked why I left.