well done jonsey!! interesting & entertaining read :) im dropping all my teams except "cupcake SIUE", so hopefully we can get that going again. also, as a sign of thanks, i had my wife send you some poiso-errrr, homemade cupcakes.

If aejones' HD team beats yours, you smile and thank him for the experience.

Would just like to point that aejones stated I was the coach he learned the most from. Also when I first realized it was him, I attempted to trade HD coaching for poker coaching ( I was playing poker for a living at the time as well)  he intelligently turned down the trade and we talked a ton about HD. I actually learned a good amount from him as well, and he became the more accomplished coach, but I have the satisfaction of having more D1 titles, lol. Although the overall titles isn't even a competition. 

What is it with people playing poker for a living? Does everyone have a stint doing that?

Lol. I did it for a few years, much more than a stint. After I stopped playing for a living I didn't play a single hand of poker for a year and a half, but over the last 5 months I've been playing some, and the last couple of months it has been a supplementary income, and will be funding my birthday party this Saturday, lol. 

I also think the nature of this game, people enjoy the challenge, poker players really like figuring things out and there's a lot to figure out about this game to become among the elite coaches. 

The reason I ask is because I used to enjoy playing poker several years ago. I played two or three times a week at the local casino and was there to have fun, which I did. I considered any money I made to be a bonus because I enjoyed the game that much.

Then I noticed a few trends about many poker players that made me want to avoid their company, so I stopped playing. This doesn't mean all poker players are what I'm about to describe (as I certainly am not) but a decent amount of them are.

Most poker players in my experience thought they were really good or even great at playing poker, regardless of their actual skill level. Most of them thought they were better than other people in general. They were arrogant and rude much of the time. They would have a strong tendency to gloat any time they won a hand, no matter how badly they actually played the hand in question.  Many bragged of winning money at poker nearly every time they sat down to play, with some saying they made a living doing it, and NO ONE ever admitted to playing despite continuously losing over time (which I'm sure some do).

In short, most poker players are arrogant *** holes I don't want to associate with, which is the main reason I no longer play poker. Again, no reflection on poker players here because it's not every poker player, but it was enough of them I didn't want to deal with it anymore.

I seem to remember several years back some people started to do a WIS poker night on PokerStars. Can't remember if it took off, but I think we did it at least once or twice.

Would be fun to have an HD poker tourney ... aejones would not be invited. And I agree w. kmason -- a lot of similar characteristics between people who are good at HD and poker.

yeah but if aejones wanted to just use some random alias I bet he could win the whole tournament what about that huh?

Pretty funny...the timing of it all:

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/15675-poker-strategy-for-the-rest-of-us-aaron-aejones-jones

Does anyone else think its weird to put a face to the online moniker?

Posted by dacj501 on 6/4/2013 4:14:00 PM (view original):
yeah but if aejones wanted to just use some random alias I bet he could win the whole tournament what about that huh?

I bet if he played as himself, people would be gunning for him. I know I would ...

Posted by girt25 on 6/4/2013 5:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dacj501 on 6/4/2013 4:14:00 PM (view original):
yeah but if aejones wanted to just use some random alias I bet he could win the whole tournament what about that huh?

I bet if he played as himself, people would be gunning for him. I know I would ...

I don't play much poker, and even if I did it sounds like jonesey would be better than me anyway... mine was a rather lame-*** attempt at call-back humor over the month-long alts fiasco....

I am in if we get  a HD poker night.

Does anyone else think its weird to put a face to the online moniker?

Yes!

Seeing how much money he's won playing poker makes me want to go back and hit the tables again myself despite the fact that sometimes there are *** holes there. Even with my less stellar ability to win money I did okay for myself and it reminds me there is money to be won there.

But I probably won't do it. I have other things going on now in life, and the game doesn't interest me nearly as much as it once did.

bistiza, generally it's bad players who think they are good that berate others at the table. The vast majority of people who are actually good players don't say anything because why would you want to let somebody know that A) they made a bad play and B) that you play well? I will never call somebody out for making a bad play, I don't care how much money it costs me because I understand I make my money due to others mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes will workout for the person making the mistake.

The site I play on now there are a lot of those type of think they're good but aren't players, and I tend to make fun of them, because they will occasionally call me bad, and then I just really mess with them. Of course I never dispute their claims of me being bad or tell them they are bad, but I find clever ways to talk trash, I've made an art form out of that, lol.