TILT Questionnaire
1) What is your poker pseudonym (if any)?
Talking Poker, Rogue23, Troll Pie
2) What first got you into the game of poker and how long have you played?
There has always been something about a deck of cards that I found myself attracted to. This goes back as far as I can remember. To this day, my favorite magic tricks are card tricks - I love watching what people can do with an ordinary deck of cards.
I always loved playing games as a kid, but card games were my favorite. I don't remember when I first started playing poker, but it was as a kid. I was introduced to Texas Hold'em in the late 90s and took to it right away. I bought a book and read it cover to cover. When Rounders came out, I was hooked.
I didn't start playing online until early 2003 when bdawg31 informed me that you could play poker online - for real money! I made a $100 deposit and never looked back.
3) How often do you play online / live on a weekly basis?
I play online pretty much every day during the week, and some weekends too, probably about 25 days a month on average. I play live rarely these days. I enjoy playing live, but the game moves so slowly that it bores me, and I can't help but keep thinking about how much more money I could be making per hour by playing online. I absolutely love to play in big tourneys though (WSOP, WPT).
4) Why do you play the game so much / so little? What are its attractions?
I like the game and I love money.
5) What (if any) do you consider the downfalls and drawbacks of poker (i.e. possible negative effects on relationships, sleep, work)?
There certainly can be drawbacks of poker... there don't HAVE to be, but there can be. I do a pretty good job of keeping my priorities straight (ie, not putting poker ahead of more important things, like friends, family, etc.), but there are definitely times where I opt to play instead of doing something else. Most of the people in my life are supportive of this, but there are still times when it takes it's toll - especially if I leave home for an extended period of time to play in a live event (ie, WSOP). Oh, and my sleep schedule definitely suffers because of poker. Simply put, the games from 11 PM - 3 AM are much better than they are from 8 AM - 12 PM. So I tend to live on about a 4-5 hour different schedule than most people I know.
6) How would you describe your method / strategy whilst playing?
This is a difficult question to answer, because it's very broad. I'll just say that I tend to use relentless aggression, but not reckless aggression. There is a HUGE difference.
7) Thinking back on some specific hands during your time at the tables, list some of the thoughts that go through your mind (word for word) when working things out (e.g. Working out odds and outs, trying to read people, replaying every detail of the hand in your head, any time you may have felt tilted, insults that you may have though up about how certain people played their hands, mistakes you’ve made etc.):
Yikes. I think you'd be better off browsing through thousands of posts already in this forum than having people rewrite things here. That should provide you with tons of data to use. I'll point you to the one hand that I still think about though, and the one that I probably described with the most detail when I first posted it here:
Good luck with the film. I'd love to see it when it's done. You should submit it to the for sure!
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