It would be a 3 person alliance and I would want allies that can do things independently and have their own network instead of this "let's vote together" BS. Of course we also don't get each other eliminated. The way we would work together is mainly share information about what's going on and it's important we actually don't do things together. Literally if my alliance can understand that me bussing them is only a play on perception/telling whoever what they want to hear and not that I want them gone, then we have my ideal alliance.
I feel like kandy/JohnBatman/me would make a great alliance for that.
I joined this site in 2010, when I was 15. And within the game we had a competitive environment, there were red heart games, gold heart games, etc. I didn't know what any of that meant though, I was just playing random mafia games. But I did try in them, I tried to be a good player and win the games.
It was like nothing I've experienced before. A lot of the times when I would make a blunder, mishammer, play badly as mafia, etc. I got shouted at and verbally abused (because I lost for the team). Especially in gold heart games. This affected me quite a bit, and we were a pretty small community, so these are people that I am gonna play with again, and it just made me feel terrible about myself overall, I didn't want to have to face them again but they were in the only open table at the lobby...
You see, I had never been subjected to verbal abuse or bullying my entire life. Everyone was nice. So this was all new to me, and looking back, it was my intelligence (something I really pride myself about) that was being insulted, and I believed what they were saying about me, so I felt worthless.
I'm pretty sure the only reason I stayed was because I wanted to get better. And so throughout my stay, I stopped getting affected by their words. When I think about it today, I owe it to EM for making me have a thick skin, because it was really thin then, and I'm glad I don't take other people's opinions to heart anymore.
If you want to be good at poker, the first thing to understand is that what your cards actually are doesn't matter that much. What matters is what your opponent thinks of your card. The second important rule is to actually fold most of your hands pre-flop. If you want to play the hand, raise the pot right away before even the first 3 cards are shown to narrow the playing field down to 1 or 2 opponents.
