i'm hoping this bill goes through, even though i'm doubtful.
i can't get over the ignorance and the constant stating of information as though they were fact. that old lady is like "nobody doubts that if marijuana were legalized... more people would do drugs"
from my research, drug use appeared to go down in the long term in the netherlands after legalisation, so i'm not sure how everyone knows it will create more use.
i'm sick of politicians pretending that marijuana is harmful, and dodging the fact that a reasonable portion (perhaps even a majority) of productive citizens use it. if you did an anonymous poll that didn't include bible belt jesus freaks i'm guessing that well over 70% of the US is pro-legalization, or at the very least doesn't believe smoking marijuana should make you a criminal.
Wee, finally strung together a few winnings sessions at nl50 after addressing some serious leaks I had.
I put in a 75 minute session this morning for a few bi (started pretty ul, but the cards evened out and I won a few big pots by the end of the session)
I'm starting to feel very comfortable at NL50 and expect/hope to be able to pull atleast 2bb/100+ (I play 16-24 tables mostly) there until I reach NL100
Ok, some tournament information, first off I'm allowing myself to play all MTT's again.
I'll be taking some precautions though, such as;
Say for instance, if I win $13,000, I'm not going to go into NL200, I'm going to continue to grind up the limits til im +20bi and have atleast 25,000 hand sample size on each limit before moving up, so I know I can beat the limit if need be anytime in the future
*just preparations and aspirations*
For my MTT days, I will be either devoting a whole day to them (up to 10% bankroll investment in entry fees monday-saturday : except sundays where I'm staked for and have a set amount to play MTT's on), or playing 1-4 bigger tournies later in the day. I'll be playing mtt's on Sundays and 1-2 days out of the week.
hrm, so im just about back in the green at The Fitty, inching closer to NL100 and hope to be there soon.
so im pretty stoned, gonna chill for a bit and play some more cash later or maybe a few mtt's
(btw this now revokes what i said that i would give $25 to any player who spots me playing mtt's months ago, theres no reason for me not to play mtt's and i've been learning a ton, and am 100% confident in my bankroll management now)
Great success, after 35/65 split I get $1110, and 50/50 stakes for now on instead of 35/65
today was a great day, back over 3k finally! (been gone a few days u know )
+450 in the sunday turbo takedown
+1400 in the warm up
+1691 in the million
i made a few mistakes late game in the mil, went over them with a tournament professional and have learned some lessons
So look forward to me splitting 4-5days a week at nl50 and 1-2 days a week playing MTT's
If I do score big in MTT's, I'm going to continue to play each limit up until I'm +20bi on each limit. I want to learn to beat every single limit on stars consistently (at least until 1/2)
I appreciated everyones support today, very ul in the warmup at the end, most lag crazy player at the table wakes up with AA when hes been opening 3/9 hands per orbit vs my JJ otb... oh well, thats how tournies go sometimes
Just smoked a nice J, gonna go watch some tv for a few and pass out
Tomorrow I might play some MTT's, but I'm craving some NL50 6max too. Maybe start the day off at NL50 6max and play some MTT's in the afternoon
So I just busted out of the 10k at Commerce in the most absurd way. Before I go into detail with my bust out, I'll describe how my tourney went. Day 1 was kind of rough for me, as I got stuck at a real tough starting table with SCTrojans, Bushman, Neal Wang, and two other kids who play online 25/50 NLHE. I hovered around 20k (which was starting stack) until our table broke, and I got moved to a much softer table where there was the most absurd young kid lagtard ever to my left. At first I was just thinking that this monkey was on the most insane tilt ever, opening every other hand at the 100/200 level to a size between 425 and 500. In one hand, he opened to 475 with J4o from UTG and got in another 7k vs a short stack after flop came 3-4-8 all hearts (as he held the Jh). I proceed to play the following hand vs him: I raise to 600 with AK, he flats behind me, and one of the blinds flats. Flop comes 2-3-3 rainbow. Blind checks, I bet 1350, the lagtard behind me called and the blind folded. Turn was K, so I check and the kid thinks for a little bit then checks back. River was a 5, and I value bet 2,000 and he INSTANTLY tosses in 6k total. This was pretty puke since it really didn't feel like he was bluffing, and I was pretty positive he didn't have a hand like 3X or 22 since he check turn and slowplaying was not something he was doing with his current image at the table. So he had to have exactly 55 right? Which made me kind of sick to think that he rivered a 2 outer on me. Finally I just came to the conclusion that this is a bluff a higher % of the time than most people's raise in this spot (even thou I thought that % was real low) and thought he could also be going for VERY thin value with some hand that float flop and hit K on turn, so I called and he showed 64. /wrists
So that put me down to 7k, I squeezed AJs and got it in vs 88 to double to 15k, won a pot to get up to 16k, then hit a set when the lagtard hit top pair which ZOOOOMED me up to 32k. From there the rest of the day went pretty smooth. I ended up trying to fight back with the lagtard, but he toasted me with a 5 bet bluff (yea he was that sick) and bashed me back into my nit cave for the rest of the day, which was fine since the rest of the table sucked so whatever. With 5 mins left in the day I had 50k, and jmc (10/20 reg on stars) raises in CO, I flat button with KQ, and blind called. Flop came K-9-4 rainbow, and went check check to me so I bet smallish little under half pot, the blind folded and jmc check-raised all-in for like 2x pot so I called and he had 96o. Turn 9. Fuck my life T_T, so I end the day with 40,675.
My Day 2 table was super soft with the exception of Hafizzle and Neal Wang. Lucky for me, hafizzle never got things going and ended up busting pretty early. Neal Wang, however, got a hold of some chips and became a little bit of a pest to my left. To my right, there were two massive fish who clearly have no clue what they are doing. At the 200/400 level, it got folded to one of the fish who raised on the button to 1200, I reraised to 3400 w/ QsQc and he called. Flop came T-5-4 all hearts and I bet 5400, and he shoved for ~45k effective. Wat? I ask him if he knew how deep we were and he nodded, saying that he clearly ment to shove like x4 pot. I fold and he showed me Kh and said he had a pair with it. Later he claimed KK. That's fine. Lost a flip, missed a draw, got down to 30k, then won a flip, and raised some more pots and got myself up to 45k by the 300/600 level. I noticed my table had gotten pretty tight, as the blinds were raising so I decided to open up and start bringing some noise. Got my stack up to 60k without a showdown, easily being the most active at the table. Then this happens--->
That same fish who over-jammed pot on that earlier hand, opens in early position to 1600 from his 54,000 stack. I look at 88 and flat call in middle position. The small blind ends up calling too. Flop comes: Qc-8s-5c. BOOOYYAAAA!!! Small blind checks, the fish who raised checks, so I make my usual small gay 2900 bet. SB thinks for a bit, and counts out a raise, but then the nit inside of him made him fold. Action back around to the fish raiser who starts shuffling and moving around his chips, I see him say something so I take my headphones off to ask what he said. "I'm All-in" was the first words I heard, so I looked at the dealer and asked "What did he say?" The dealer announces the All-in and puts the All-in button in front of him. So fireworks are going off in my head, and I can hear people cheering my name as they shoot of streamers and sing songs of glory for my success. I stand up and give it the big wind-up fist pump like "YEEAAAAHH I CALL!!!!"
The fish calmly looks at me.......... then rolls over QQ.
So I just busted out of the 10k at Commerce in the most absurd way. Before I go into detail with my bust out, I'll describe how my tourney went. Day 1 was kind of rough for me, as I got stuck at a real tough starting table with SCTrojans, Bushman, Neal Wang, and two other kids who play online 25/50 NLHE. I hovered around 20k (which was starting stack) until our table broke, and I got moved to a much softer table where there was the most absurd young kid lagtard ever to my left. At first I was just thinking that this monkey was on the most insane tilt ever, opening every other hand at the 100/200 level to a size between 425 and 500. In one hand, he opened to 475 with J4o from UTG and got in another 7k vs a short stack after flop came 3-4-8 all hearts (as he held the Jh). I proceed to play the following hand vs him: I raise to 600 with AK, he flats behind me, and one of the blinds flats. Flop comes 2-3-3 rainbow. Blind checks, I bet 1350, the lagtard behind me called and the blind folded. Turn was K, so I check and the kid thinks for a little bit then checks back. River was a 5, and I value bet 2,000 and he INSTANTLY tosses in 6k total. This was pretty puke since it really didn't feel like he was bluffing, and I was pretty positive he didn't have a hand like 3X or 22 since he check turn and slowplaying was not something he was doing with his current image at the table. So he had to have exactly 55 right? Which made me kind of sick to think that he rivered a 2 outer on me. Finally I just came to the conclusion that this is a bluff a higher % of the time than most people's raise in this spot (even thou I thought that % was real low) and thought he could also be going for VERY thin value with some hand that float flop and hit K on turn, so I called and he showed 64. /wrists
So that put me down to 7k, I squeezed AJs and got it in vs 88 to double to 15k, won a pot to get up to 16k, then hit a set when the lagtard hit top pair which ZOOOOMED me up to 32k. From there the rest of the day went pretty smooth. I ended up trying to fight back with the lagtard, but he toasted me with a 5 bet bluff (yea he was that sick) and bashed me back into my nit cave for the rest of the day, which was fine since the rest of the table sucked so whatever. With 5 mins left in the day I had 50k, and jmc (10/20 reg on stars) raises in CO, I flat button with KQ, and blind called. Flop came K-9-4 rainbow, and went check check to me so I bet smallish little under half pot, the blind folded and jmc check-raised all-in for like 2x pot so I called and he had 96o. Turn 9. Fuck my life T_T, so I end the day with 40,675.
My Day 2 table was super soft with the exception of Hafizzle and Neal Wang. Lucky for me, hafizzle never got things going and ended up busting pretty early. Neal Wang, however, got a hold of some chips and became a little bit of a pest to my left. To my right, there were two massive fish who clearly have no clue what they are doing. At the 200/400 level, it got folded to one of the fish who raised on the button to 1200, I reraised to 3400 w/ QsQc and he called. Flop came T-5-4 all hearts and I bet 5400, and he shoved for ~45k effective. Wat? I ask him if he knew how deep we were and he nodded, saying that he clearly ment to shove like x4 pot. I fold and he showed me Kh and said he had a pair with it. Later he claimed KK. That's fine. Lost a flip, missed a draw, got down to 30k, then won a flip, and raised some more pots and got myself up to 45k by the 300/600 level. I noticed my table had gotten pretty tight, as the blinds were raising so I decided to open up and start bringing some noise. Got my stack up to 60k without a showdown, easily being the most active at the table. Then this happens--->
That same fish who over-jammed pot on that earlier hand, opens in early position to 1600 from his 54,000 stack. I look at 88 and flat call in middle position. The small blind ends up calling too. Flop comes: Qc-8s-5c. BOOOYYAAAA!!! Small blind checks, the fish who raised checks, so I make my usual small gay 2900 bet. SB thinks for a bit, and counts out a raise, but then the nit inside of him made him fold. Action back around to the fish raiser who starts shuffling and moving around his chips, I see him say something so I take my headphones off to ask what he said. "I'm All-in" was the first words I heard, so I looked at the dealer and asked "What did he say?" The dealer announces the All-in and puts the All-in button in front of him. So fireworks are going off in my head, and I can hear people cheering my name as they shoot of streamers and sing songs of glory for my success. I stand up and give it the big wind-up fist pump like "YEEAAAAHH I CALL!!!!"
The fish calmly looks at me.......... then rolls over QQ.
I'd like to take some time to get something off my chest that is really bothering me. I am from the great state of New Hampshire. In New Hampshire we have a tradition of small government and general "live free or die" (state motto for you foreigners) mentality. I am quite depressed today because NH has finally given into federal US bribes and will soon be making it a law for all people to wear a seat belt. Not only will it be made a law, but it will be made a "primary law" which means it is a law by which a police officer can detain you temporarily. (For example, in massachusetts the seatbelt law is 'secondary', meaning that a police officer in Massachusetts can not stop you in your vehicle if the only thing he observes you doing 'wrong' is not wearing a seat belt. He can only cite you for not wearing your seat belt if he has pulled you over for something else).
Now you may be thinking, Nolan, what the hell is wrong with you, wearing seat belts saves lives, why wouldn't you want to wear it?
Well, you would be correct. I always have and always will wear my seat belt. However, I personally don't believe it is the government's job to be concerned for my own personal safety when engaging in behaviours which can not harm others. Allow me to elaborate. Smoking cigarettes in your own home is legal. This action is not very safe, but if you are smoking cigarettes in your own home then it is unlikely anyone else will be harmed by this action, thus, in accordance with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is not a crime. Smoking cigarettes in a crowded restaurant, sports venue, or airplane, is no longer legal. The justification for these bans is that smoking among other people exposes them to second hand smoke and thus infringes on their rights and health.
Now let's apply that to seat belts. If I am cruising around New Hampshire alone and am not wearing a seat belt, I have not infringed on anyone elses civil liberties nor have I put anyone but myself in danger. So, at what point do we allow the government to "parent" us an control our level of safety? Don't humans have the right to put themselves in danger or act in a manner they see fit so long as no one else has their freedom or health compromised? Seat belts seem like a little thing, but laws like this can create a snowball effect. I would guess that obesity causes more death in the US than people neglecting to wear seat belts, although I could be wrong. Even still, if you think it's reasonable for the government to force you to wear a seat belt, by definition, you must also think it is reasonable for the government to ration food so that people will not become obese, right?
As government gets bigger and bigger, liberty and freedom gets smaller and smaller. I think resisting small seemingly harmless things such as seat belt laws is necessary in order to avoid the snowball effect which could have serious detrimental consequences.
What do you think?
Look forward to next episode: Marijuana, the "drug" which causes zero deaths per year, infringes on no one's rights/health when consumed in a safe manner, yet still requires a few billion taxpayer dollars and about 100,000 imprisoned non-violent criminals in order to regulate, lest our society get out of control with raging relaxation and junk food consumption.
Todays going to be a 1 day huge tournament day for me ;
Schedule at bottom
I was on vacation the last 4 days and didn't have enough FPP for the sunday turbo takedown, but no worries, I won my first fpp tourney for a seat (2000 FPP 10 man, just like the sunday mil ones)
I'll be playing $5 tournies to $216 tournies, one unlimited rebuy tourney (11r with $51 stop loss), but I will play tournaments with 1rebuy 1add-on, since they will be easy to track on OPR
hopefully todays my tourn and I can take one of these down :-)
wish me luck LP
I'm playing on a 1k sunday stake (my bankroll is $2137 for cash) at 35/65%, and will be playing in two of the sunday $216's, or 1 sunday 216 and 1 50 1r1a, i'll know soon when I go through the lobby and choose my MTT's for today
My tournament schedule today
$11 Deep stacks
$22 $32,000 gntd
$10+1 sunday two hundred grand [200k gntd]
$11 turbo 10k gntd
$215 sunday warm up [750k gntd]
$11r 70k gntd *** <-- * see at bottom - $51 max
$5.50r *** <-- * see bottom - $25.50 max
3r - $15.30 max
$11 10k gntd
$5.50 5k gntd
$109 50k gntd
$11 30k gntd
$22 1r1a = $62 tournament [small field and very winnable]
$55 Daily 80 grand (125k gntd)
1 Million Turbo Takedown - FPP victory
$215 Sunday Million
27.50 360 players max
16.50 360 players max
$16.50 [turbo]
$11 30k gntd
$5.50 6max
9.90 turbo [only final table pay so if I make it payouts are very big)
$11 1r1a --> $31 tournament
$27.50 40k gntd
8.80 turbo 10k gntd
2.20 turbo - 3k gntd
$1062.70 assuming I max rebuy in the 1r1a's and i spend $51 in the 11r and spend $25.50 in the 5r (rebuys will go in top right corner of monitor two so I can monitor them)
Assuming i need to double rebuy and lose the $11r, $1042.70 assuming I double rebuy and still bust before the first hour, and $1032.70 assuming I double rebuy and bust during the first hour
*I will only allow 1 double rebuy in the 11r/5r to make this tournament no more expensive than $10+20+10 / 5+10+5 = for a chance at the 70k and 50k prize pools)
There will be 0 cashgame hands played until late tonight (after midnight, or tomorrow morning) - if you see me play cashgames on this tourney day I will instaship you $25
To my understanding, whatever I win over the $1k investment I keep 35% of, and if I lose $1-1k then i will be reimbursed my loses up to $1,000 from todays starting bankroll of $2,137) and payback the difference in makeup whenever my bankroll is $26,000
I invested around $1060, $60 over which I don't mind to take a small hit on if I don't have a winning day, since this allows me to play all the MTT's I want to maximize my profitability
Well, 2 just started, wish me luck, if I make it deep in any tournies I'll be sure to keep LP posted
Well i started playing a bit more often and trying to take it serious... ive been mostly a LIVE player and tournament player, ive played at nl100 but i was vastly inexperienced. So ive taken all my money out and started fresh with 50$, in the past month ive worked it to about 250$. i'm trying to make my play more solid and profitable. I figured keeping a blog would keep me motivated. Here's my graph for this week as well as my stats.
I've been on vacation for the last 4 days, I hadn't blogged a couple days before that cuz i had a 30bi ds and took a day off, then played the next day and won back 10bi and had to leave to go to my hometown for a couple days
Things were fun up there, its the coldest place in the usa somedays (literally)
On my drive to my hometown my windshield wipers were broken, so I buy some Rain-X to help the fix the matter which it did help, but I went blind in snowstorms multiple times, one time with a tractor trailer honking his horn at me cuz apparently my trunk was open, although I never noticed
Stopped at sheetz about 20 miles later and found out it was open, drove for like 60-80 miles like that lawl
My bankrolls $2137 right now, I haven't been doing to well at the fitty, but the mistakes I was making (3 major leaks) I have acknowledged and am in the process of fixing (main leak was, I was aiming for 5+bb/100 instead of around 2bb/100. 5bb/100+ is totally unrealistic playing over 16+ tables itlr, which I didn't understand since I was a blaster for the last 15 months, some other things I'd rather not post because NL50 players can read here)
My very good friend lostaccount (jlost88) helped me by teamviewering my pt3 and going through my stats with me (something i'm not the greatest at)
I'm actually down a few bi at nl50, but after my 4-5 days off I'm ready to come back with a bang
Oh, and an IRL friend has given me $1k to run in MTT's tomorrow (at 100% makeup) for 35/65, so I'll be running a lot of tournaments all day sunday and starting cashgame grind monday or tuesday ::edit - 30/70 to 35/65, thanks man)
Wish me luck in the MTT circuit tomorrow, I hope to god I take one down
Almost forgot about the turbo takedown, thought it was next weekend, i only have 3250 fpp right now,mf! ok, gonna have to run some fpp satellites tonight and win a seat into it
This will be on of my first sundays off in a long time. I am a tourney player and won a couple tournies last year on stars. Im looking to work out a deal with someone to get staked on stars for the sun mil. If intrested PM me
I tried signing up with 2 different credit cards but for some reason my account is bugged. After a few emails they decide to give me one month free. Yay for DC support!
Hi Bryan,
There seems to be some bug with your account. So what I have done is upgraded your account for 1-month for free.
Hopefully the bug will be fixed by the time your 1-month is up and you decide to continue your subscription.
Sorry about this and see you on Deuces,
Joe Tall
DeucesCracked Team
Well i guess you cant use PT and stuff with cake but i decided early this morning as i was waiting up all night to see my lawyer at 830 am because there is no way in hell i was gonna wake up that early as i was browsing lp and seen a "Cake poker 33% rakeback" I thought hmm, deposit bonus + rakeback = win. I'm gonna do it, I get my huge income tax check soon and fuck it i'm just gonna deposit and quit wasting time on supermicrostakes faggot bullshit on stars.
ANYWAYS, so i deposited $500 to cake and wow i ran sooooooooooo good today and the players are sooooooo much worse than on stars it's pretty amazing. I think it's gonna take years to clear the deposit (I think ive played 2-3k hands and only cleared $10 so far)
Anyways my BR as of posting this =$737 and thats purely from playing .1/.2 heads up.
my life is so much happier with poker success in it, i havent been able to win on stars in forever. Hopefully this is just a start to a great thing.
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