Left Home, Moved to Vegas! Pman Presents The Ride

Oh, I like pman

Franz, you need some help dude. Please refrain from negative comments.

Meshanti, idk, luckily i'm not in a 3rd world country.

Sounds like you are the one who needs help. You're still my favorite.

Knock it off Franz

Ok, I apologize.

I just stopped by because this thread was so popular today. Once again I wonder why TheFranz isn't banned from 2+2.

I just put him on my "ignore" list

Glad to know Franz harasses other people too I guess. Lol.

First podcast will be recorded this weekend and probably published to YT on monday. Hope everyone has a great hump day. I'm a bit under the weather.

I just read this thread from start to finish over the course of several hours.

Wow.

All I can say is, this is a case study in "toxic positivity".

I've known many people who are like pman in that regard. Immune to criticism. If you try to warn them they are on the wrong path or making mistakes, they pull some boilerplate line out of their ass about how you're just cynical, that anything is possible, that they can do whatever they want and if you disagree it's negative, followed by a lecture.

Absolutely atrocious worldview.

The people who were telling pman early on that he just "needs to put in volume" were equally misguided. Volume + losing strategy = losing at a much faster rate. Unless their goal was to get him to go busto so that he would move on with his life or something.

Pman paid lots of lip service towards his goals but never took actionable steps to accomplish them, as has been pointed out ad nauseum in this thread. Pman doesn't seem to know the difference between saying "i'm dedicated" and actually BEING dedicated. That's because the work doesn't involve telling others you're going to do it so they can feed you good feelings about it, or getting attention from inane vlogs. Anyone encouraging pman's approach here has been doing him a massive disservice.

Pman seems to think that replying with "thank you" to actionable advice is the same as putting it into action. I believe the reason he doesn't do the work isn't because he's lazy but because the work (in regards to just about anything in life) is that part that doesn't give you attention and validation. His refusal to get / hold down a job speaks to this. This is crazy also because pman was handed jobs I'd jump through hoops for.

Anyway, that's my .02. Not that it's a unique take here because it certainly isn't.

Better advice then i get from my liberal therapist

its the classic compassion vs. cold hard truth/logic

There's alot of truth in there. I guess i want to say thanks for reading my thread. This has been a what, 5 year journey for me? I've changed as a person. I feel good about life and I'm not sure why you think my world view is atrocious. I'm doing the best i can. But I do appreciate your 2 cents.

What does doing the best you can mean exactly though? Walk us through it. This is what I'm trying to drill down to - the mechanics of actually accomplishing this goal. It's ok to say that you don't exactly know. What spots do you think you need the most work on, for example? I read through this whole thread and didn't see one instance where you actually explained what it is you were studying, just that you've been "studying a lot". The thing is, if you actually believed that you didn't need anyone's advice here and that you are just fine making a go of it on your own, then you never would have continued to post here. Nor would you have felt the need to explain yourself. You would just do the thing you set out to do on your own.

Ask specific questions if you want specific answers.

By the way, the only reason I felt qualified to speak my mind here on your particular situation is that I see a little of my younger self in the pman that I've seen here, minus the attention seeking. There was a time when I didn't quite get it either. It was only after getting screamed at a lot and having to actually clean up the messes I created that I finally learned that maybe people criticizing me were doing me a solid even though it hurt rather than retreating into denial and comfort.

There was a guy on the show Kitchen Nightmares who was telling Gordon Ramsay "look at all these reviews, they love our food!" while drowning in debt from lack of sales. Ramsay said "in my restaurants I am only interested in hearing the negatives". Now would you consider Ramsay to be a failure? Did this overly critical view of himself result in him succeeding or failing?

"Don't let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful."

- Beautiful by Eminem

PM Sent!

Doing the best I can, I suppose, means giving it my all. I don't know how. Recently i've been studying gtowizard spots for mtts, drilling btn vs bb and vice versa from 12-20bb. I don't know why I post on here. I've always been an extroverted introvert. I like people and telling stories. I thought mine would be interesting and go better than it has so far.

I'm sorry i come across as attention seeking. Part of me enjoys the positive attention for sure. But i really do enjoy making youtube vlogs and stuff like that. I appreciate you reading this entire thread and i'm glad that it resonates with a younger version of yourself. This thread started 5 years ago, and i'd like to think in that time i've grown as a person. No, Ramsay is obviously nota failure. His overly critical view definitely helped him succeed.

If you were me, WWYD?

---

Hi McLovin! <3

If you don't recall, you are banned from this thread.

Do the opposite of what you've been doing would be the simplest answer. Embrace what you'd call "negativity". Seek out the criticism you've been dismissing and hiding from this whole time. This should come easy since you don't have a problem putting yourself out there, clearly. But when people have given you their honest reactions to what they see you ignore it to protect your ego.

When someone is telling you something that you know is just humoring you or telling you what you want to hear, ignore it. You can say thanks or whatever but you should be going out of your way to look at your weaknesses.

I'll probably get some **** for this but all this anxiety stuff, mental illness etc is not worth talking about. It's an excuse. I'm not saying its not a hindrance. But its your hindrance. Talking about it gets you nowhere because in all reality, nobody cares. Your excuses are your own. Deal with it as best you can, by all means. But understand that when you bring this stuff up people are going to dismiss you as a p*ssy. I'm sorry but its true. The quicker you learn this the better.

btw i realize this is mostly life advice and not poker advice. But it seemed appropriate. Fix this attitude that people should care about anything other than you working towards your goals. Not the fantasy, not the excuses, people want results. And in this case the result is you working to get to a pro level.

Thank you Bink. The critcism i receive is unwarranted for the most part. Some of it is good, like our conversation now. But there's alot of ****ed up haters from the las vegas vlogs thread who make up stories about me and **** talk me every day and night. So i tend to tune out that kidn of negativity.

I don't think mental illness is an excuse. We are all limited in some ways. A man in a wheelchair probably can't run a marathon. Thanks again for taking the time to read and comment. I hope my 2026 is successful and we can look back on this exchange 😀

I haven't read anything about you in that subforum so I don't know what was said. But even so; the critiques in this thread have mostly been entirely valid. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater just because some people can be pricks. Take the constructive criticism and ignore the senseless hate. Or are you telling me you can't tell the difference?

As for the point about mental illness and the example you gave- what are you saying exactly? That you're a in a wheelchair and therefore you can't run a marathon? If so, then do something else. But clearly you don't believe that because here you are. You see what I mean?

If you're disabled mentally and can't do the things you say you want to do, then what are we even doing here? If not, then don't mention it.

Ah instead of answering a very valid question about your work ethic, just say oh you're banned and avoid it. Got it.

Sometimes it is hard to understand the difference. No i'm not in a wheel chair I was making an extreme example. you're right, people won't understand things about mental health. I'm kinda ******ed but i'm not disabled mentally, i can play poker professionally.

Ok so then it should be easy to understand why people have been saying you're using it as an excuse. There you have it, you said it yourself. You're not mentally disabled. Now get to work.

Yessir! Thank you

Mental health? Pman is a known gambling addict, gambling is bad for his mental health but he won’t stop due to the addiction. Luckily, he’s also so lazy, his gambling is limited, which is a weird combination because a lot of the true gambling addicts I’ve known/met work extremely hard in one way or another to stay in action or try to live a normal middle class life despite their crippling gambling addiction.

Pman cannot play poker professionally and he cannot win at vulturing slots. If he says anything different it’s a lie to get money or some sort validation. He cannot just “get to work” — he’s an addict, no amount of studying or grinding will make him a winner.

Thank you Doc