Ditching all my poker stuff.

[bassman]

My wife says I am spending too much time playing poker so I have to get rid of everything. I have 10 books and wilson turbo and tourny holdem software. About 3-4 hundred bucks worth of stuff. I am dumping it on ebay. It is titled AWESOME POKER BOOK AND SOFTWARE COLLECTION and the opening bid is $25.00. So far no bids, but there is two people watching it. Probably going to snipe. If you want it, here it is. I have until the end of the month or it all goes into the land fill.


Enjoy

[PokerAce]

Here's a pair of pants, try them on.

Seriously, why give up poker completely? Unless you are addicted and poker has completely taken over your life, why not compromise? Cut down on the time you spend playing and dedicate more time to your wife.

[Molina]

[SebQtaneus]

[bassman]

I have been doing poker for awhile. Spend hours and hours. I have software, pretty good actually, that folds all the crap hands and then notifies you when there is something worth while to play. I have a ton of kids and would rather spend more time with them. I make a really good living so 2-3 hundred a session doesn't matter much. I have read and reread the books and I regularly beat the software so it is a good move to get rid of it. Figure I probably won't go to the WSOP or win any truly significant money so I will take a few years off. Also, if you look at some of the stories of the regulars, I am not sure that that is a lifestyle I want to emulate.

Holdem is really fun. With these books and software, I have become quite good. But they say you spend time with what you love and I love my family more. I don't have to be chained for hours to a computer because I am 5 tabling and may miss a move. Believe me, a break will be good. Plus, I can help out a fellow traveler with a smoking deal on an education that cost me about $400.00 to obtain.

Yep, seriously. Got one bid of 25.00. Which almost the cost of the theory of poker. That is just one of the books. It is item 8734517993 and includes both software programs and 10 poker books. Theory of poker, killer holdem, killer online holdem, book of tells, harrington on holdem v. 1, caro's book of tells, pyscology of poker (misspelled but I have all the stuff boxed and ready to ship), low limit holdem... I have the whole list and links to amazon for each one on the ebay ad. About 300.00 worth of book and 150 worth of software. Oops, got another bid, now up to a smoking 26.00!

If you want it, take it. Maybe in a couple of years I will come back to it. I am sure it will still be playing somewhere and, who knows, it may even become legal to play online in the US!

[Cactus Jack]

[bassman]

[Johnny Hughes]

Folks quit poker all the time.

Fellow comes up to the table and says, "I'm not gonna play for two reasons, one I don't have any money...."

E.W. interupts him to say, "We don't really care about that other reason."

[bobby]

good luck with your marriage.............

[bassman]

"I don't have any money". That is funny! Well, once the stuff sells, I will have a little. So far, it is only like $56.00. Not bad for hundreds worth of books and software. People quit all the time. Cool. People also join all the time looking for the fast buck. Then they find it is a slow buck. Look at most of the "names" of poker. Not a really great life. Everyone looking for the big score, but they don't have the patience and dicipline to follow through. Poker requires emotionlessness and cold logic, especially online. Tilt happens and a bad tilt, especially in NL, can be deadly. If you can't control your game and your emotions, stick with low limit holdem or quit. The easiest way for the vast majority to double their money is to fold it in half.

If you are diciplined and patient, you should do really well as the fish are really schooling, especially on party. I think there is one day left on my books for my auction. Maybe less. I hope whomever gets the books that they read them. Should pay for itself in a single session, even if it goes for a couple hundred.

As far as my marriage, you spend time with the things you love. Maybe, when my kids are older, I will get back in the pool. But spending hours with my kids, as opposed to you fine people, reaps much greater rewards than a few hunskys an hour.

It will be interesting if the winner of the auction would keep in contact and decribe their journey as a result of getting the software and the books. I wonder if they will have what it takes to excel or if they think that having the books, maybe reading the books once will be an adequate substitue for cold logic and bowing to the gods of mathmatics.

I will keep you posted.

[stickdude]

$147.50!!

I already had TOP and SSHE and a program comparable to Wilson's (Poker Academy Pro), so I definitely wasn't willing to go that high. Not a bad deal, though, if you don't have any of that stuff yet.

[bassman]

Not too bad. figured it was going to get sniped. I have poki pro as well. Got holdem inspector, foldem, poker tracker, tons other. Have trouble selling that as it is a download and most are keyed to my mac address. Not sure how I would send that off. Of coures you can use a programmable MAC address on the NIC. Poki is good software and is certainly prettier than wilson. Wilson is better for advice and simulation. In NL tourney heads up, wilson is kinda weak. Was really easy to bleed as I just raised every time the software didn't show strength. Poki is a bear heads up, especially if it plays you a lot. I have over 40,000 hands with it and over 100,000 on party. I regularly beat both wilson and poki and was great training. Anytime I went on tilt, I would play wilson and poki until I started winning again and it was really good practice. If anyone wants to try the licenses for poki, poker tracker, holdem inspector or foldem, let me know and we will see what we can do. May just need to talk to the retailers. Of course, they probably want you to buy it directly.

[gutsh0t]

i was the second highest bidder lol

I had half of the books, but was just really looking forward to trying out wilson. After losing the auction i just headed over to the wilson site and ordered Turbo Texas Hold'em on the spot. I hope it is every inch helpful as you said it would be, I play mostly limit 6max $1/$2.

What other software is useful besides Wilson? I already use pokertracker and was thinking about the PAHUD.

[Kuso]

definitely get PAhud... ASAP.

[bassman]