Unable to win on ladder

Ivey is real to me, while Helmuth is God’s sick joke on poker players.

Birds of a feather flock together.
Your side was obvious before you even said it, lol.

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Sorry to tell you that. But the versionyou’re playing is extremely bad. Why flik? Why watchers of the sun? Why gnome why ignis? Why thistle tea? You need sonya, the 5 mana pirates, zilliax, pit stops and you can put also the frequency oscillators.

Thanks to all the replies i feel abit better ive managed to play alot more games without conceding i did do a few but no more on turn 1.

The only early game concede was vs otk shaman and was slight tilted vs mech warrior who always found a way to stop lethal.

I like ignis as it can close out games or provide me with a 1 mana boardclear ive always like the card.

I truly don’t understand how you can’t understand someone remaining calm. Sure, there’s a competitive nature to Hearthstone. However, it’s not the Olympics. I’m not the type to start adding opponents to berate them, nor breaking my keyboard, nor getting angry at all. You’re projecting that because I don’t react like you apparently do, that that’s somehow wrong. It’s not, there’s zero need to get tilted, and so I don’t, because it’s a game.

But make of it what you will. :wink: It’s as though you’re taking my statements here personally, and you shouldn’t.

I get it. hopefully the upcoming patch will help to reduce the tilt you’re experiencing. The current meta and gameplay therein isn’t exactly fun, at least for many of us. What might help, also, in these times of tilt is to go out for a little walk. Getting fresh air helps me a lot when I’m having an anxiety attack, for example.

It doesn’t surprise me this is what you think scrotie as from my interactions with you and just observing how you talk and react to other’s on this board it’s clear you would rank somewhere in the 5th percentile when it comes to self awareness.

Killmunati, however, Im less sure about as he’s all over the board, sometimes he comes across as self aware and sometimes completely not so.

In any case, killmunati made the implicit derogatory comment that if you get titled in a video game your emotional state can’t be more mature than a child. I stepped in to defend aetheris and to point out that being tilted is a very normal human reaction, to the point that comparing it with the biological need to urinate is reasonable.

I’ll leave you guys with a quote from a pro poker and League of Legends player on tilt which summarizes the point I tried to get across quite well

First off, let me state by saying I’ve been a professional poker player for some 10 years plus. In that time, I’ve also coached many students and friends, and the biggest thing holding a lot of these players back is their mental game. It truly is. I’ve come across many great poker-minds, and their biggest flaw preventing them from making the step up is the fact that they simply cannot control their emotions.

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That’s fine, I understand your state of mind it’s nearly apathetic to the point of you don’t care if you win or lose. That’s completely different than striving towards a goal and constantly derailing for various reasons.

By definition, your experience is not comparable to op, they care about progress, afaict you care about having fun. Both are totally reasonable.

But that’s like a casual golf player going up to a pro golf player who had a loss streak and is frustrated to the point of losing it, then telling them to just calm down and play the game like them.

Anyhow, I don’t take anything you write personally, I’m just trying to point out your experiences are completely different than op and not applicable. You play the same game with different goals.

Dear God, man, get over it. I prefer winning, and yet that doesn’t require me to get tilted. You’re being ridiculous. I am at a loss, honestly, as to why you’re interpreting my ability to not get angry over a video game as me not caring. This is a strange hill to die on. If you feel I was somehow attacking you’re getting tilted, I wasn’t. I was trying to better understand OP.

Your premise is essentially made up. You’re making a huge assumption as to my state of mind, as well as why I play and my goals in playing. Firstly, this is entirely unsubstantiated. Secondly, you don’t know me.

Edit: I should add that this isn’t analogous to professional sports nor poker. In those environments there’s a ton of money on the line. I’m not attending Hearthstone tournaments. I don’t have that on the line, which is a far better reason for someone to get tilted. And so… I don’t.

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Ive read some comments i just want to make clear i am generaly not as tilted id go as far as to say calm person but for some reason when i dont reach diamond 5 or legend i get abit titled because if i dont get to that rank it makes climbing alot harder as i have less of a star bonus.

I do realise i am using a deckj that is not as strong but generaly i like to play with decks that are abit off meta or decks that ive made myself.

I am do regret making the topic as some of you have started to somewhat argue with one another and i would like people to get along.

I personaly would not like to get upset over hearthstone because getting upset does nothing here or in real i know i will find my old mindset again it is merely a matter of time.

I do feel being compeitive can lead to this kind of stress i am putting myself under which is totaly unnecesry.

Thank you all for trying to help i hope i can finally put my negative behaviour and mindset behind me once and for all.

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You’re good, dude. You needed to vent, and that’s fine. The issue is someone else.

And what position are you in to make this evaluation?

As I’ve said you made derogatory comments towards the op implying if they get titled in a video game their emotional state is no more developed than that of a child. Correct me if I am wrong, but there’s few other ways to interpret your comment.

In that comment you are asserting that this once affected you but you have now matured or grown out of it, implying that that’s the normal developmental pathway for a well adjusted human such as yourself.

I just called bs on that, and asserted that op reaction is perfectly normal.

Don’t get tilted by this discussion :blush:

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Sure, go and read my comments. You’ll find none contain derogatory comments toward the OP. The OP and I are actually friends.

Anyway, you are (akin to the above) reading a lot into what I’m saying. Never have I said I’m better than anyone here, nor more emotionally mature. In fact, I’ve made sure to, multiple times I believe, state as much. Accept that people are different, and react differently to situations. It doesn’t make anyone, better or worse than their peers.

I’m in the position of being inaccurately judged by you, hence my evaluation.

I’m less tilted and more confused, especially since we have always gotten along here. I realize now where you’re coming from (thinking I’m attacking, or belittling OP), and my apologies if I worded my comments poorly as they were never intended to hurt feelings.

If you thought none of your comments are derogatory, why did you have to preface one with “no offense.”

There’s been many psychoanalysis survey studies of prose, and this one phrase, among all other possible phrases is one of the best predictors of someones intent being to defame or offend the target of their prose.

Wikipedia itself writes

As a general rule, if you’re using the phrase “no offense intended”, you are actually being offensive.

On the topic.

The preface is actually just you confirming to your readers you intend to offend, insult or defame.

I prefaced with “no offense” to indicate my intentions (that is being non-offensive but rather inquisitive).

I have to say, I’m done here, alas. You can assume what you’d like, I suppose.

You should take note this phrase implies your intentions are the exact opposite to the reader, and that is not just my take, it’s the generally accepted norm.

Perhaps your intentions were inquisitive, but the way you reacted above certainly seems you were trying to vehemently defend your untenable position, another indicator that that is unlikely to be the case.

Anyhow, do what you want, just don’t crap on other people with a holier than thou attitude, save that for Reddit.

There are too many bad interactions in the deck.

  1. You don’t need Watcher of the Sun the excavate deck is fast paced if you cannot win in time you will lose.

  2. ignis- is a very late game card and it will not really work with this deck as I said you have to keep pace of the deck and ignis is a late game card you need to security before playing the weapon.

3.Mechognome Guide - The card is a trash especially for the rogue you pay 6 mana to get a spell with 3 mana cost reduction and there are not even any rogue spell that can trully benefit from cost reduction.

  1. Flix stats are terrible, expensive and for the cost there is only maybe against druid you can trully benefit from it.

Mining rogue is not so good right now when you add those cards to deck it gets even worse.

So the person you’re quoting is in agreement with me and in disagreement with you.

I completely agree with this. However, if you want to be a successful poker player, you cannot be a normal person. In particular, as your source said, you need to have emotional control. Having emotional control is not normal, and it is glaring obvious how abnormal it is watching any televised poker event and seeing all the blank facial expressions. (Also Tony G somehow.)

When you know that you’re wrong but won’t admit it, you resort to ad hominem attacks. I wish that you’d have the self awareness to know that much.

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You misinterpreted that rule.

When you say to someone “No offense”, if you care about him, you’re actually trying to teach him something by pointing out something his ego might consider being offensive. You are acting/behaving offensively only if that person interprets it as offensive. If the person knows you mean that not as an offense but as a helpful suggestion, than no harm is done and it wasn’t “being” offensive, it was being “helpful”

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