"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
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"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
sageproduct
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Huh? I was just saying that I never saw the appeal of online poker, just sitting around on your computer playing a social game by yourself just seems odd to me. I suppose some guys can make money with online poker so props to them, but it doesn't seem real.Luke!! said:
I casually enjoy poker with a circle of guys I know, drinking some beers, smoking whatever, shooting the shit, and winning a couple hundred bucks here and there.
sageproduct
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$5 buy-in, 13 players...1st place gets $50, 2nd place gets $10, 3rd place gets money back.
I wanted that money so fwcking bad. Played til about 1:30...when I lost at 3rd place. Got the WORST FWCKING CARDS the whole game. Best hand I was EVER dealt was AQ offsuit, once. I was dealt an ace maybe 4 or 5 times total the entire night. The only other good hand I was dealt was pocket 8's once.
All the other guys were just splashing chips around. Almost every hand went to the showdown, so I was basically waiting to hit some nuts or at least some kind of a hand and just let the money roll in. Never happened.
Fwck...now it's late and I gotta be up at 6, but not before reading 80 pages for a class. Just had to vent.
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Every time I started getting into it, the people I knew who played would always either stop playing or just disperse in general.
I've been wanting to get to one of these new places in DE now that they legalized table-games there. Just haven't had time...
The most dangerous element in a poker-game is an amateur who doesn't know when to fold.sageproduct said:
Were they raising big pre-flop, or just limping in? Usually in those amateur games, those guys will limp in pre-flop and call later if they have any draw whatsoever, but a good bet pre-flop gets them out of the hand.
That's something that's always impressed me about "real poker players"...their ability to move back and forth between different kinds of games.Luke!! said:
I know as an amateur donkey, it's very hard for me to adjust to "limit" poker, because the implied odds are a lot less of a factor and without the extra risk, you get a bunch of those "chip-splashing" games where people know they're only in for so much and are more likely to call instead of folding.
Let alone trying to play something like Omaha...just knowing what's a good hand or not vs. Hold'Em is tricky.
I guess the more exposure you get to it, the easier it gets. I'd personally just like to get good at NLH. But I'd need practice. Which is what I'm not getting right now.
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
sageproduct
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Limping in pre-flop, calling to the river with TERRIBLE pot odds. Occasionally raising pre-flop. Pre-flop raises didn't get them out, they played almost every fwcking hand. A couple times I picked up some small pots by raising 3x the BB pre-flop, missing on the flop, and continuation betting, but I really couldn't do that too much because it was too risky.squirrels said:
Just gotta slow play or value bet those fish all day long, depending on whether they're a crazed aggressor or calling station. I couldn't catch any hands.
sageproduct
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??? Is it illegal here in the States to deposit money into an online poker account?Luke!! said:
squirrels
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From a credit card, yes. You have to use a third-party money wire.sageproduct said:
US government was getting salty that so much tax money was being lost to people gambling using overseas casinos. So they banned using credit cards for online gaming for "moral reasons".
Even with total donkeys, there's often an amount you can bet pre-flop to get them to throw away junk. Sometimes it's something as psychological as the color of the chips. They'll throw those white and red ones around like they're pogs, but when one of those blue ones comes out, they're all like, "oh sh!t". (I'm not advocating over-betting pre-flop, just saying what I've observed)
Omaha really f's with my head...it's too many cards in play.
I might have to see if I can find some books on the subject and re-learn."The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.