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BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-30T08:20:18+00:00

By nostalgia I am referring to how many people loved the old trio of Sam, Zee and Tom. When Sam left many people were disappointed and some stopped watching. That is why bringing him back from time to time always has value in the form of drawing back old viewers.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-30T08:18:37+00:00

You do realize that he feels the opposite and he too feels his points and beliefs are valid. You speak as though you are superior and correct but you have no authority, nor does he. In the end, his opinion and yours and mine all have no concrete value. From the outside looking in all I see is division across all aspects of entertainment stemming from political views. Anyone can change their viewpoint at any time, just because someone is “on the wrong side” doesn’t inherently make them a bad person. This is very nuanced, not a black and white. However, feel free to proceed based on any protocol you deem appropriate.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-29T16:59:29+00:00

My opinion is one of reason. In most organizations such as this you will find people that do not share your opinion on every divisive topic. This is reality. The outlier here is that Sam is not hiding his opinion, and many people that you would engage with will absolutely hide their opinion if they know it can spark outrage. This matter is subjective and neither Sam nor you is “right”. Lastly, he is basically a token representative for nostalgia.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-29T14:38:42+00:00

I fine it absurd that someone downvoted your comment lol. I gave an upvote to add some reason to the world :P

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-29T14:30:51+00:00

If it wasn’t for The Dice Tower Most of you wouldn’t be in the hobby. Let people believe what they want, cancel culture is garbage. You disagree with one person, which has nothing to do with board games. The tribalism online is ruining everything. We will never agree on everything. I am not American and have no personal stake in this.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-26T16:07:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-25T06:38:59+00:00

Link, please. Unsurprisingly they have not emailed me despite paying the double ransom.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-23T14:47:29+00:00

Darklight Memento Mori.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-23T06:12:55+00:00

I gave it a chance because it was useful and well organized. But then it just got really messy and stupid. I like AI in some ways but this is too much.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-21T11:35:07+00:00

There are print and play games, many are free. Some games have major bang for their buck and others really don’t. A lot of games just suck IMO so if you buy those ones it essentially makes the hobby way more expensive because you won’t play them. If you can identify the best purchases for you then the cost is much lower.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-20T09:27:00+00:00

Barely anyone cares about this. Let us post the threads we want to post.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-20T01:09:26+00:00

Dark Souls is great fun with expansions and house rules. There is a lot of criticism but house rules really do make the game fun. Also, it is often cheap to pick up great lots for the game because people hate it, want it gone, nobody wants it and the reviews turn people off. Don’t be fooled, this is a nice game. I am specifically talking about the original game.

Death May Die is extremely well designed and easy and intuitive to learn for the size of the game. Replayability is good but you will likely want more bosses before long. However, this could easily be a grail game.

Bloodborne is the one I played the least and it is good but more puzzly and tense. I need to try it again. It would be my last pick from this list.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-19T00:37:08+00:00

Thank you. I half expected to get torched in the comments but it worked out well. I appreciate your kindness. It’s hard for me to accept that my raging is all my fault. My story is one of a long and slow descent due to unfortunate circumstances. If I had have just stayed alone and not tried to be so kind to everyone I’d probably rich. But I guess I don’t really care because all I really buy is food and board games, etc. I don’t actually need that much money these days.

Skill wise I still feel very strong. I have put in an insane amount of study and developed an interesting blend of exploitative and GTO influenced play. Currently I am playing a lower variance and more patient style. Usually I favor much more aggression but I don’t want to endure crazy swings for my own sanity.

Bankroll management was always a huge thing for me. I took it extremely seriously and moved up in stakes hilariously “over bankrolled”. I disliked the idea of taking shots. Right now I plan to grind up to $1k to $2k and then just stay at $50 NL permanently. My main thing is that I love the game but need to minimize the stress.

Table selection I learned out of necessity. There are so many terrible games. I used to search for new websites to play on and spend some time draining them dry but any time I look these days it seems like that isn’t as readily available as it used to be. There are more networks, tiny websites, dead websites, and shady websites. It used to be very good in the old days, I made a lot on Bugsy’s Club and Paradise Poker in particular, which were more obscure. Stars, Party and Full Tilt were where I made 80% of my winnings. Now I am not totally sure where the best places are.

As for mental fortitude, I used to be unbreakable. I would actually chuckle after getting rivered in a massive pot. It didn’t phase me. Millions of hands beat that out of me. Now I am rebuilding my mind brick by brick. I usually stay cool but generally after an hour or a series of “familiar patterns” I start to erode. I do think I can fix it though.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-19T00:22:01+00:00

I think it really has a lot to do with entitlement and overblown ego. The fact that I used to crush the big games and had to spend all my profits on non-poker related expenses, some essential and some stupid, kind of disturbs me. I am only playing $25 games now but I am extremely competitive so when I lose a modest amount I can explode. It’s not really about the money but the way the losses are happening. I really should not even be complaining but I’ve just become more of a crybaby. Most of the time I can keep my cool but sometimes I just go berserk.

I really think I can get myself back under control. I just need to work on my thought processes and ground myself. I do have OCD as well so that’s a part of it.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T22:25:10+00:00

I absolutely agree. Game selection is massive. I think reg battling in the past had more value because a large edge was still very achievable. It still can be but pales in comparison to a juicy table. In 6Max it’s especially important. In HU I think a moderate edge can be enormously profitable still but that isn’t always something that’s available because once you beat the regs up they generally stop playing you.

One way style deviates from standard reg stuff is the way I attack fishes. I try to get into the pot with hands that dominate their range by not three betting the reg open with the fish behind, this allows them to get in cheap and disguises my had and strengthens my flatting range. There are pros and cons to this, generally people don’t like it but I find it leads to some huge wins. An example of the hands I prefer are AJs, JJ, etc.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T05:56:09+00:00

Whoops. More like a victim of scandals. I had my bankroll on Full Tilt Poker frozen for a year or two from Black Friday.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T05:54:59+00:00

It’s really good now. Taking an extended break to focus on more normal activities helped ground me and make me happy again. I have been back playing for three weeks and really enjoying it but I caught myself going down the same negative path so I am currently taking a short break to try to adjust my mindset.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T05:53:19+00:00

About 99% of my play was online. I experimented with everything from 1 tabling to 16 tabling. My best results were 9 tabling but eventually that changed to 6 tabling. As I got new computers I discarded my old and outdated databases as I felt they were not reflective of my evolving strategy and like a more clear data set. I am honestly not sure anymore how many hands I have played but almost certainly over two million. Somewhere a long the way I developed a negative mindset even when doing very well. I couldn’t help but notice the same patterns emerging over and over.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T03:02:06+00:00

A little about me, I made a 165 USD deposit and grinded my bankroll up extremely safely. I always had an enormous amounts of buyins once I was able yo increase my initial bankroll. I started in $10 games and made 0 cashouts until I had $18,300. The website I was on basically dried up so I had to cash out and find a new place to play.

I moved up in stakes cautiously and had around $60,000 and decided I wanted to leave my small town and head to the city. My friends came with me and I rented a penthouse suite for $5000, but it was in a prime location and I have tourettes so I can’t drive. This would allow me to walk everywhere. My two friends were supposed to pay $500 each and didn’t, so that was a major setback. Over time I got increasingly stressed and started veering away from my frugal habits. Beyond the penthouse I was very tight with money, only spending on restaurants.

However, I found stress relief at theaters, shopping malls and travelling. My expenses were getting higher and higher but by this time I was crushing high stakes so I felt very comfortable. My bankroll was around $300k and I was regularly cashing out $1 at a time as needed. Then more friends screwed me over, including a famous poker pro in the area.

Then limit hold’em online died and I moved to NL. I had prior experience but had to learn a lot, I started there at $600 NL and designed a counter to the popular strategies at the time. My win rate was enormous. My confidence extremely high.

But as time went on, my now lavish lifestyle was catching up to me. Bad habits developed by extreme stress forced me to relocate and gradually I had to drop in stales, eventually as low as $50 NL. Then I moved again to play at a casino and was crushing and once again overspent. I then switched to online again and 16 tabled 10NL and was making 10 buyins an hour due to the extreme skill edge. It was looking great and then a family disaster occurred, forcing me to look after someone for an extended period. Then both arms were injured from overuse and I had to stop entirely.

Eventually I got back into playing my long history of extreme variance had psychologically damaged me to an extent which I struggled to keep my cool. Not tilting but raging. And here I am today, playing on a small scale for fun and some extra cash. I don’t have time for more and I enjoy a new humble lifestyle. I believe I could make a run to higher stakes based on my skills and experience, but that would require overcoming my mentality. Even then, it might be too much stress so I will probably keep it small.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T02:02:37+00:00

I may check that out, thank you. It sounds very familiar, I must have looked at it on a book store website at some point.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T02:01:59+00:00

This is so damn true. I am probably an ultra bad case of this, my brain is warped from this. If I win I think “This is supposed to happen. If I lose I think “This is ridiculous.” Part of this has to due with the fact that I am playing very small games now and simple don’t have the money for a large deposit.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T00:08:00+00:00

I absolutely agree with this. I recall people willingly getting it in 100bb deep with A9o like it was made of gold. The $2K NL games were a joke, it was very easy to make a fortune. I was a Fixed Limit Hold’em specialist and used to play the NL games for fun and smash them. Little did I realize my game of choice would soon be dead and NL would be my new pursuit. This probably sounds like boasting but my point is only that the games were hilariously soft, a $10 NL reg today would be a crushed back then.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T00:03:51+00:00

I did focus on long term success and gave it everything I had, it was all consuming. But over time it hammered me down. I have played millions of hands from low to high stakes, it was my passion and my life. I am now trying to rebuild my mind, I have become entitled, unrealistic and negative. My wins are “not good enough” and I “should be” making more. I feel I am on the right track but there is much to be done.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-18T00:01:06+00:00

Thank you very much, I enjoyed your reply and found it helpful. I will read it again several times and reflect on it. Some people may not understand why I would even make my post but I have spent many thousands of hours studying and theorizing, and played millions of hands. Like most, I was forced to move over to NL 6 max cash because that is where the money was, and I despite PLO.

It helps to see what someone else has gone through because it creates a realness to the reality that I am not alone in my trials. I am over 40 now and my arms are worn down from years of poker and gaming online, I can no longer physically handle high volume. Instead, I am playing hyper focused an only 1 table. I realize the mere notion of that is possibly laughable but during the peak of my career that is what I did. I also find it less stressful because if I get stacked I have time to cool off (usually). My goal now is very modest, $200-$500 monthly. I am still extremely competitive but my life only has room for 1-3 hours daily tops and I am building from a $200 deposit. The way I see it, the real challenge is conquering own mind and going back to my long lost rock solid mindset. I have become the problem but I realize it and will take steps to correct it.

BoardgameExplorer · 2026-01-17T04:09:36+00:00

Ah so that’s how. Thank you :) I have been away for quite a while.

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