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After grindin 2 and 5 NL i'm finally rolled for 10NL.
I must say i feel much more confident playin within my BR and respecting it. I really feel I can beat these stakes.
I'll be back later with some numbers.

I also made the switch from PS to FTP, because stars really began to tilt me.
Their updates sucked like hell. The first time i updated my sound wasnt working. The second time i couldnt register for tournament.
Then, for no reason and without a warning they blocked my account cause my brother was playing on the same computer.
So i switched to FTP and i really like it. Suprisingly i find it softer then PS. There are fewer donks and the tourneys are less crowed.
So I really consider stayin on FPT.
Well, i'ma grind some 10NL again.
Wish me luck
Peace

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gay

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played 75 of the $4.4 180 none turbos today with 132%ROI

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I must be on casino owners red list or something b/c oddsmaker.com just gave me $100 to gamble on their site?!?! is this some crazy scam or something?? they have poker, a "casino", scratch offs, fantasy sports, sports bets...why haven't i done this/heard about it b4 and why did they give me 100 bucks!?!?

they also sent a poster of a hot chick.

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just booked my flight back to BKK, leaving on thurs

also just shipped a $4.4 180 man for $216 whilst in my bed watching the movie 'The Hungover'

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Funny as hell
http://mindcrap.com/media/1132/Annoying_guy/

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Ftw?
I have enough on my BR to play, wtf is this?

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yo i got a weird problem maybe you guys can help me with.

i have two monitors, a 30 and a 20, with the 20 placed vertically.

regardless of which table is primary, when i click view--> tile tables, it always tiles as many tables as it can on the small vertical 20. is there any way to solve this? it does this on my other setup as well.

FTP always seems to know to tile on the bigger monitor.

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So I thought i was going to hate my life as a non-grinder but I have to admit, I really like the structure that having a job has. I also forgot how much i love to travel and how much I love technology and everything about my job. I don't even really feel like I'm working when i work, I feel like im learning every day.

I was doing a very difficult project for TA truck stops/Petro truck stops where we were essentially installing completely new networks. Working with fiberoptics, switches, routers, linux and everything you could imagine dealing with a network on a commercial scale. Admittedly this project was way over my head. I have no experience with linux/cisco and i'm not too comfortable with server work. My lead man got terminated for getting into a fight with a manager so I didn't really get to absorb all of the new knowledge because we had to come home asaply.

I'm leaving out sometime this week on a sick easy project where all i have to do is upgrade computers in wal-mart making a minimum of $300 a day. I'm bringing this girl with me + Show Spoiler +

. We have been on and off for 3 years, lets hope we are only on for the 2 months we're gonna have to live together while i do this new project. Maybe I'll teach her a bit and have her work with me and pay her, i'm not sure exactly what we're gonna do yet but im way happy to have her with me and not be totally alone.

some random pics from the TA project
+ Show Spoiler +

This is me like 50 feet up on this sign. I wanted to go to the top but there was a metal plate blocking me from going any higher.

This is the most beautiful cable management i've ever seen in my life.

This pic was taken on the az/ca border. I've never in my life seen a prettier sight, The pic doesn't do justice.

I haven't played hardly any poker, i was working like 16hr days on the TA project. I'm still on cake however i'm considering moving. Mostly just been playing nl100 hu and if i can't find a game there nl50 hu. The break from poker is amazing. I didn't realize at all how much of a weight that would be lifted off my shoulders not having to win at poker to pay the bills.

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past few hundred sngs variance hit me pretty hard. I had two 80-90 buyin downswings that made me feel like i'm a complete donk that just reshoves too light every time lol.

I still managed to maintain 50%ROI which isn't necessarily bad, but still around 25% (i think) below what i should be getting in the longterm.

I haven't been able to move up stakes as i am in the middle of paying my roomate the rent money for my apartment in bkk (hopefully flying back in a few days)

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Last night while waiting on Battlefield 1943 to dl onto my ps3, i played 10PLO for about 45 minutes. In that forty-five minutes, i was up 4 buyins. Hells Yes.

Arm - =(

Having an MRI done ASAP, don't know when yet. I told them how time sensitive this was, and they said they could try to get me in this afternoon, but i have a feeling it will be monday or tuesday. The doctor said that my pectoral muscle most likely has a tear where it connects to the collar bone.
Most likely, it will not require surgery.
HOWEVER. I told him that there were two distinct pops. One probably the pec. When he did a motion test, i was laying down on a table, he grabbed my arm, which was completely relaxed and moved it in a circle, and there were two pops felt, one by my collar bone, and other in my shoulder. So, the MRI that i am having will tell #1. How severe the pec tear is (the worst is 2 months, but more likely 2-4 weeks), and #2. it will tell if/where the tear in my shoulder is which will 90% need surgery.
Also i strained my lat. but thats nothing lol. no big deal
i'd upload another pic but its not working
wish me luck.

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[X] Final table 3 mtts
[X] +$3k in mtts
[ ] Find an apartment in Stockholm
[2/5] Run at least 5 times

Looks like I have to run 3 times in the next few days, oh well









Anyways gonna play the sundays, and play one FTOPS, start work on the 10th of august! 9 to 5 here I come!

Special shoutouts to pinball for being a cool cat, steal city and fazi for the help!

And sorry to all randoms in donkaments who I bitch at.

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So i played my first session respecting my BR.
I played a couple of hands on 2NL, and i found it boring so i decided to grind the 1.25 MTT sng over and over.
This worked well, i'm like in the money 70% of the times so thats pretty cool. I'll post figures later when i played some more.
Its hard to adapt to the microstakes though, i was used playing 25 and sometimes even 50 NL. Its both hard and easy.
People are so hard to read, many of them are like 50/15 or sth but you know.
I dont allow any fancy play either, i play ABC poker cause theres really no other way on these stakes.

My life has been pretty stupid this week but after all its not that bad.
I drove my dads new volkswagen against a post so that sucks. And my bike was stolen so that also sucks.
But me and my girlfriend are together 2 year today so thats pretty awesome. She hates poker though. Thats not awesome at all.
Peace

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Dammit i'm at work and i couldn't see it. #18 in MLB history.
Mark Buerhle of the Chicago Whitesox.
Gabe Kapler hit a would-be homerun but apparently it got robbed, so it was the 1st out of the 9th inning...and i missed it!!!
damn work.

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any good omaha books? I think i want to learn how to play.

bought speakers for my new computorz. pretty legit. ty pandora.

Might as well update my arm condition...my trainer/physical therapist/rehab guy said "I am worried, but i think it's a sprain, and i reserve the right to change my mind."

I think i want to hurry up and get an MRI, because if it needs surgery, i don't want to go to oklahoma for school, i could live at home, play poker in my closet, keep my job, buy the truck i want (it's an amazing truck and still hasn't been sold...ommmmmg...it's meant to beeeeeee). So i need to know asap as to what my plans are. I either go to NWOSU or i go to UTA and keep my job *sigh* and school starts in... 4 weeks wtf.

It still hurts, i can't really move it above 180* without pain...
I've had a torn labrum in my left shoulder and the pain is very similar.
I don't know man we'll see...not in my hands.
GL everyone

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I don't know how many of you know this, but i'm a college athlete. I'm a baseball player, a right handed pitcher, and i am committed to play at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

I've always had a love for the game, if you've been playing baseball since you were 4 years old, 17 years, thats what happens. I've grown up in Arlington, Texas, home of the Texas Rangers. Every summer i go to Rangers games, i bleed the Red White and Blue team colors. The best i can relate to most of the people on this world-wide forum is soccer. It seems everyone is very passionate about soccer outside of the US. This is it for me, this is what i do. I go to work, I go to school, I study, I play baseball.

I have a lot of great memories, and i always competed, I always left it all on the field. I was never scared, never frightened, if you were supposed to win, I played harder and made sure you didn't. The best example is when my team was the obvious underdog in a tournament against Waxahachie H.S. We were supposed to lose that game. What did i do? I threw 7 innings and got the win in a 1-0 ballgame. I was 15. Later that year my HS team was playing in a fall league (the HS season starts in february and ends in may). We lost 1 game the entire season, we get to the double elimination tournament as the number one seed and lose in the first game. We win 2 more games and make it to the next weekend, We win 1 game saturday, and then on sunday, if we wanted to win the entire tournament and become city champions, we have to win 5 games in a row. We won two, then in the semi-finals, we had a guy who hit his first and second homeruns of his life. The first one was in the bottom of the last inning and his HR tied the game, sending it into extra innings. His second tied the game again, sending it once more into extra innings. We played 11 innings in that game (regulation is 7). We then beat the #2 seed twice to win the championship. All of this with only 9 players the entire day. Everyone on the team played every inning...When i was 18 years old, on my club team i pitched a complete game shutout in the championship game against an unbeaten team. That was for a national championship. It was one of the greatest moments in my baseball career.

All of this being said, and now i have to tell you that i took it for granted. There are two types of "arms" in this game. One is made of glass, the other made of rubber. Mine is made of rubber. Glass arms are injury prone (because glass breaks). Rubber arms are seemingly injury proof. In my 14 years of baseball, i have only had one "injury" to my pitching arm. My senior year of high school i had a strained ulnar nerve. 3 weeks of no baseball and 6 weeks of rehab and i am fine. As a freshman i threw 40 innings, a sophemore 60 innings (thats a lot since we had like 21 games...about 125 innings in the season) Junior year i was a closer on varsity, and threw 20 innings and then my senior year i was the Ace of the staff, and threw about 50 or so.

Other than the three stories i talked about earlier, every team i've been on has sucked. Really bad. My senior year we only one 1 game. I never had any motivation to really work hard. I always did what i was told to do, but never anything extra. In high school, while playing for my school, we never were any good. My first year of college i was a red shirt so i didn't play. I was given a year that did not count against my eligibility so that i could mature and grow. My first year in college we sucked, we finished 2nd from last in our conference. This last year, my sophemore year at my junior college (last year at junior college) i played well, threw a 2-hitter against UT Tyler, a well known division III school, and we as a team, we so very close to making it to playoffs. The entire season all i could do was think about going to playoffs. Playoffs playoffs playoffs. My entire life every season that meant something, my team has sucked balls, and now finally after so long i have a chance to go to the PLAYOFFS! it's all i've ever wanted is to just go. I didn't care if we got swept in the first round, i just wanted to go.

We didn't go, but we were in the race until the very last series. Going into the last series, we were tied for the last playoff spot. The first tiebreaker was heads up, which we were 3-3 with eachother. The 2nd tiebreaker was how well you did against the 1st place team. We were playing the first place team, #1 team in the nation, Richland College. They were the worst team in our confernce, probably going to sweep them. That meant that if we swept Richland, we would beat them out in the tiebreaker...
In the bottom of the 9th inning, we were losing 8-7. We had 1 out with runners on 2nd and 3rd base, and our best hitter who was hitting about .420 up to bat. That was the best situation we could be in. All he had to do was get the ball into the outfield safely and both runners score, we win, our chance at going to playoffs in extremely good. The batter absolutely creams a line drive, heading over the 2nd baseman. Everyone starts screaming and cheering in the dugout, we knew what we had to do and we thought we did it. Unfortunately, the 2nd baseman jumps into the air as high as he can, barely catching the line drive, then throws it to 2nd to double him off, ending the game, and ending our chance at playoffs. I've never seen 23 people have so much joy and turn it into sadness and disbelief that quickly, within 2 seconds.

This made me want to try so god damn hard to get better. I knew i could do it. I committed to NWOSU, an NAIA school, who needed pitchers. I was going to work my ass off and give it everything i had to go to playoffs because this past year has been the most fun i've ever had playing baseball. I have been running, lifting weights, and i hired a trainer to help me train. The training is supposed to make me injury proof and increase the speed of my fastball. I should be throwing 92-93 mph in december. I was looking forward to it so much.

But today, during my lifting, i was about to start doing pull-ups, and as soon as i started my first rep..."pop-pop" really quick. i stopped what i was doing...left the YMCA, and headed to a friends house whose parents know a shitload about biomechanics. His mother was the only one home and she couldn't tell for sure what it was. I called my trainer whose main expertise is sports rehabilitaion, he said ice it and we'll look at it tomorrow.

Everytime i've tweaked something or felt pain in my knees or ankles, the first question someone asks me is "did you hear or feel a pop?" I've always said no, and a couple of days later, i'm back doing whatever. This time the answer is yes. There was a pop. I'm scared. Pops = tears. Tears = surgery. Surgery = 99% chance you will not get drafted. Its pretty much automatic if you don't throw 95+, and even if you do, you have a red flag the rest of your career.

So just don't take anything for granted. I feel i'm obligated to tell stories that could improve someones elses life. I believe in God, i know some of you don't, but i think that God, or the universal force, or whatever, puts you through trying times for 2 reasons...One, you learn from it and better your life, and Two, you tell other people and possibly inspire them, and my story could better someone else's life.

Tomorrow, i go to Chuck, the trainer, he'll examine it, and probably refer me to someone for an MRI, and hopefully in a week i'll have an update. Hopefully it will be a strain, however, I'm going to school for physical therapy and sports rehabilitation, and as i haven't taken any classes yet, being around sports and being interested in physcial therapy and well, just knowing my own body, i'm 95% sure i torn the fuck out of something. The only weird part (5%) is the location and type of pain... I can't explain why it hurts were it does and why there are like 2 kinds of pain... but who knows.

Sorry for making such a long depressing blog. i just needed to express myself some...get it off my chest. I figure i'll see a lot of "tl;dr" and "baseball sucks" and "haha u believe in god" but hey, at this point i really don't care about anything. baseball could be gone for me.

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After reading all ur comments on my blog, i decided to get it together. I realized i really was playing a pathetic and fishy way of poker. So tomorrow i'll deposit my 50 bucks and start grinding 2NL.
If i have some troubles, i hope i can find some help here.
Thx for makin' me realize how bad i play.
Peace

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It's time to invest in my poker game. I feel this is necessary to become a winning player. Most of you have HEM or PT3...





I'm buying starcraft.

After reading The Growth of a Nerd, it's a pretty obv choice.

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