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08-16-06, 04:53 PM
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You have a $200k bankroll?
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08-16-06, 05:05 PM
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08-16-06, 05:20 PM
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I have definately cashed out more than I have deposited lifetime, but I don't think the numbers either way are large enough to be terribly relevant.
As for Penguinfan...I think you are a decent player who gets down on yourself too easily. 
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08-16-06, 11:04 PM
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Example != Exhibit.
Enjoy,
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08-16-06, 11:25 PM
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IT really depends what you're asking.
Does winning more than you lost make you a good player? Not necessarily. IT does however make you a winning player If I start out with $500, playing at the $1/$2 NL tables (way underbankrolled), get up to $2500 then move to the $2/$4 Tables (again underbankrolled) eventually move up to $10/$20 with a $200k bankroll (correctly bankrolled) then have a cold streak and blow $195k, I'm still up from poker and thus I am still a winning player. Now I realize I lost 195,000 dollars (I realize some may not take it that way bc it was money they won not money they earned, so it feels less real, but regardless I did lose 195k), but I started with $500, and I now have $5000, thus I am up $4500 from poker and am a winning player. It would be absurd to say I am down almost 195k, because I lost that here, and I started with 500, if you count the losses you have to count the wins also obviously.... your net total is your poker success. Like TP said, Gold won 12 Mill... does that make him the best player there is? No. Im sure he's a good one though, and it certaintly makes him a winning poker player. If youre asking how good am I, it's decisions not results If youre asking how successful am I, just look at the numbers... they dont lie.
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08-17-06, 02:20 AM
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I agree with all of this, with the exception of the bolded part. I've earned every single dolloar I've won playing poker. Maybe that's the difference in how the people who think of it as house money look at it compared to how I look at it. They feel like they got lucky and won the lottery, where as I feel like I worked for and earned the money.
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08-16-06, 11:03 PM
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I didn't know it was an example.
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Really? Aren't lawyers supposed to pay attention to detail?
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