thanks. any suggestions for followups? I wanted to do the other side and talk about extended losing streaks. It will be a harder blog to write, this was more of a play by play, while a blog about losing and downswings is describing raw emotion and self doubt.
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I liked the part about reading tells. Geez that is huge advice you are giving there for things to be watching out for! So I know it might seem like giving away your secrets, but any more info there is always appreciated when trying to improve my own game!
I also liked how your story showed the risk involved. IMO, you did not emphasize the risk enough and I think by doing that you could even further increase the excitement of the story while still putting out a good message.
This stuff is not free and lots of people do LOTS of damage to themselves, their families, and others by gambling as you are doing here. I cannot say that I would ever recommend anyone risk their money as such, it just seems like such a quick way to lose. However, if you are really into the idea and you wont take, "no" for an answer. Then I have a lot of respect for the risks you take and therefore you deserve what you are getting.
But the bottom line is... This is VERY risky behavior paying off for you, which is fascinating!
I think many of these same concepts should still apply if you write a blog post about losing, and it should still be very entertaining and enlightening despite the sad story.
I also really liked your play by plays. Your shortening of terms to 5s/Kh and such made it hard to read. I understand the short-hand but I am not sure it is helping the clarity of your post. You might just spend a little more time proof-reading those sections for clarity, you tend to buzz through those sections pretty quickly with little regard for the lay person who does not have your skill level.
Just slow down a little and flesh out these play by plays a little more and I think you are on to something big here. This was very entertaining. Thank you very much for the good read!
Thanks for the input. I tried to balance it so there's something for people into poker as well. I also didn't want to make the blog too long, I've found people lose attention after a certain length. Balancing these two things: interesting for the lay person and interesting for the poker fan while also retaining some aspect of brevity was difficult.
I do think talking about the risk involved is a good idea though. At the time I was pulling in roughly $20k a month from playing poker, I had no expenses in school (room&board were paid for and in fact I was paid to go to grad school because I was teaching undergraduate math classes at Penn State) was able to buy in for the tournament during 2006 so I could write off the winnings on a winning year, there was a chance I could do extremely well, and it was a fun opportunity to go to another country so paying $8k to enter wasn't a big deal to me. But at different stages of life we have different levels of risk tolerance, and I'm not sure that 27 or 32 year old Ryan with bills to pay and not in school, but with the same amount of money would do the same thing.
That would be rad @gaut44. It would be interesting to hear how a pro deals with loosing streaks. I think this could really help me in my trading because trading and poker are very similar in nature.