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So, I've been thinking for a while how inefficient it is to have a huge chunk of cash just sitting around (bankroll) doing nothing for me other than being a security blanket for running bad in poker. I'd like to have that money working for me. I've always been intrigued by sports betting but have only dipped toes in the water so-to-speak. I know practically nothing about any sports other than knowing some of the known players and whatnot. I have no bias to any teams and am not a fan or anything because, tbh, I think sports and watching them is a huge waste of time.

Now that I have all you sports fans on my side, how many of you place a large amount of wagers each week? How much time do you spend handicapping the games? Line shopping? Do you focus on specific sports or do you bet everything? How much time per bet would you say sports betting takes for you on average? What websites do you visit to get all of your stats/info/etc that you feel gives you an edge? (especially interested in that) If you bet a lot and were to give advice to a beginner, what would you say/where would you send them to learn the ropes?

Thanks!


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Abysmal month in every respect. My birthday night out wasn't what I'd hoped, fitness and diet plans continue to be stuck on hold as I can't find the motivation to get back on it, I had to sell my M3 and downsize (To a 2012 MkIII Focus ST2) due to high running costs and continually high expenditure in general and to compound the problem I barely played any poker and when I did I couldn't win for shit.

I've now left myself 121,149.28 VPPs short of the 400k VPP milestone, so I need ~40k each of the 3 remaining months, an amount I've not achieved in quite a while. It would be stupid of me to get to 370k VPPs or something and leave myself just 50 hours short of the 400k VPP bonus, which I believe is $3.2k, or $64/hour extra JUST for the milestone not including the 100k ish FPPs (Another $1.6k bonus) that I'd make on top of that. Guess I gotta pull my finger out this month, especially as I'm gonna be in Ireland for 6 days late in the month and have another couple of weekends taken up by birthday parties and following day hangovers. Not gonna be easy.

In terms of actual winrates this month I didn't do too badly at all, just I tended to win at 100NL zoom and lose at 200NL zoom, a trend that seems all too commonplace in the last couple of months. I continue to experiment with my game and I've made a lot of changes to both my preflop and postflop game plans, and it seems to be going well mostly, I just need to get in more volume and stop running like dogshit at 200NL. If I get really short of time in which to make up VPPs I might have to look at jumping in to a few 500NL zoom or even 200PLO zoom games to catch up a bit, though I'm likely small dogs in both those games when they don't have especially weak lineups.

MTTs continued to go shite. WCOOP was a waste of effort. I got relatively deep in a few tournaments during WCOOP, but they were mainly some of the smaller tournaments I was playing alongside the WCOOP events which had small buyins and thus small returns, and none of them was deep enough to final table unfortunately. I almost bought in to the WCOOP main event with 100% of my own action just hoping to luck box but I had already been awake 12 hours by the time the tournament started, had been active all day and thus felt way too tired to commit to the ~12 hours or however long you have to play to make Day 2. One of these days I'll luckbox something though, I can't possibly be a dog in the lineup of virtually any MTT in existence.

Anyway; Screenshots:

Cash: http://i.imgur.com/fQvGggv.jpg

MTT: http://i.imgur.com/zpmET5j.jpg

New Car Pics:
http://i.imgur.com/f1fS92K.jpg
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Overall results:
VPPs: 13,771.60
Cash: -$224.99
MTT: -$1,091.21
Overall: -$1316.20 (Not including bonuses and FPPs)

October I really need to force myself to play a lot more. Hopefully a minimum of 40k VPPs and a decent winrate to go with it. Standard goals of spending less (yeah right..), getting back onto a reasonable diet and workout schedule and in general being healthier and more productive. As the weather gets colder I'll hopefully find more excuses to hermit and actually achieve these goals instead of going out and getting shitfaced every other day -_-


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Hey guys!

I did a blogpost in the beginning of the year asking for advice if I should take a semester abroad in London, Canada (NOT England). I thank everyone who said I should, I've now been here for a month and I'm very pleased with everything!

So this weekend me and some other exchange-students will go to Toronto (~2,5h drive) Friday-Sunday. Tips on what to do during this fairly short visit? Sadly there wont be any NHL-games during this time.. I guess we will do some basic tourist stuff like CN-tower, and what more?

I'm a big fan of asian food, so maybe a visit to the "chinatown" of Toronto, any solid restaurant recommendations (doesnt necessarily have to be asian, I heard about "little italy" as well) ?

And what clubs should we aim for during this weekend?

Really enjoying Canada! If some fellow LPers happen to be in Toronto/London during this time give me a PM!

On another note, when the finals exam are done here in mid December I dream of going to British Colombia or similar to snowboard until I go home 29 December. Havent really met anyone here that's also up for it so if you are planning a trip there/got experience of the area I would greatly appreciate any input.


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Everyone remembers this movie right?

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Released some time in the early nineties during the height of Stallone's popularity, it turned out to be a cheesy campy action movie with no soul. For some reason hollywood felt possessed to recreate it, and for some reason I felt possessed to watch it now that it is on Netflix.

But I said God Damn! God Damn! This movie was actually really fuckin cool. The story is thin, nothing more than a vehicle to drive some of the most hyper gore shootouts I've ever seen. The catch is that they're all artistically filmed and awesome to watch. Think "Matrix" bullet-time stuff, but with the bullets actually penetrating meat. The new Dredd is the Doc from Star Trek ->

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Who's constant scowling under his mask is almost humorous

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In fact, he never takes the mask off. Not once do you ever see his full face. Still, the movie has some sick original shootouts, some pretty extreme violence, and makes you completely forgot about the original 90's shit version and is totally worth your time to watch if you have Netflix.


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I'm too stupid to make a deposit on PS so I'm looking to transfer $55 via Paypal for a $50 transfer on Pokerstars. I'm pretty sure I can receive a transfer but we might want to try $0.01 first.

I know I have no reputation on LP, but my TL account is oBlade, so you can trust me. And if you can't trust me, I'll let the account be collateral. Hope someone can help me with this favor.


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Is it even worth looking at your hands in bb for tournie monies?


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Got 8th in the monthly stars free roll for $1200.
Busted 77 v 88 with 3.5bb against 7bb LP shove

This is kinda lol since I am moving, spent money on deposit and ran super bad this month my BR was super low at around $600 and was looking at temp jobs today- jesus clearly wants me to gamble.
EDIT: Shouldn't rly whine tho, it's my fault since I played just30k hands and acted like I was on holiday. Well I was on holiday but it wasn't good anyway

Starting in October I am sharing a flat with 2 hardworking 30+y olds and all my life will be poker and floorball baby :D


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I ran into flopped straights about half the hands I played tonight. Fuck yea!


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Let's say you were given $1k to manage in a stock and you have a potential return of $113,000 if not more. How much would you ask for in return for a fee?

inb4 lel@100x increase


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Wow how'd I miss this?
I've been very results oriented recently not feeling like I'm moving forward, always got tilted by bad beats and took plays v players so personally. And I was bored/frustrated.

Since my long break I forgot one totally fundamental part of my thought process. When I was at my best I was influenced by "where the buffalo roam" series and my thought process was very much like that. Basically I'd think about the spot and consider what I want to do here with all my range ignoring my holding (in that series they have cards covered completely) and when I decided the cards just fell into that range, and I could move on when I made the decision
I guess that's totally standard for you guys but I somehow forgot or got lazier and lazier until I stopped doing that completely and just played my hands, putting more thought process on the villain his range, dynamic and how to play it with these two cards.

=>CONSIDER WHAT RANGE YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH, not the hand. Hand just falls into that range.
The time flies by when I think like this. No
time to think about beating bastards, when I go all in I made my decision and it's nor good or bad when I lose. When I do this, when the spot comes but I have different cards, I have already thought about it before which takes a lot of pressure of my brain

The session is done, and I can be 10 byins down but I wouldn't know nor care, the time flies just like ages ago before that thing called normal life with jobs, girlfriends and career trouble took the joy out of the boyish grind that I loved so much during the heyday of my poker career.

I know this sounds like bullshit to you guys and it probably is but today poker was more fun than it has been since I first interrupted my career, because of a "career"




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PLO 6max on the IPhone is epic..

Today at lunch I won 2bi. Great day off.

up like 28k or so, my backers account was literally hacked, saw all the proof, $9k was stolen, that was a big hit to the profits I made (every 10k I make I can move up a $100 limit (ie when i hit 20k i could play 215s etc) - was really stressed out the last couple days, but stars finally got back to him after a few days thank god.

have a nice chunk in the account anyways, was mostly gonna be fine, just not the optimal scenario to be in abroad imo.

Getting back OTG tomorrow, nothin to big lately, chopped a 11r for 6.7k last week and chopped the 55 60k turbo for 8.1k with 800k 3/4 stax were 425kish,800k(me),1.25k,2.1k - Was happy with the figures, I never look at lobby - ended up busting 4th too so that worked out well.

Hrm, been going out some, friends here are vv chill, have some good students on there way up....ne thing else, ah, wcoops are stressful i tell ya lol, they are good at numbing you for the 10-30k hits though, after playin for such high figures daily, the 10k hits seem like 2k hits, so thats kinda a great experience, this was my first year playing mostly any wcoop 500 or lower i wanted

those 109 2r1a i play for $209 (5k starting) and they are like 7-10k a night. I loooove em. Took down a $33 2r1a Sunday for 4.3k, but somehow I am 6.5k or so in makeup give or take 400. (I did just need to take a loan though, was on last $20 in wallet in Ottawa lol)

Lifes been pretty chill, feel like im workin for nothin kinda, but thankful and very happy to be working at same time. Have only paid off 2 debts and put a 22% or w/e chunk in a 5k debt im payin off so far, just hoping before end of year i can be free for 2014 one freakin time for real.

ok my rants over,
GL to everyone
LPGC
Ryan


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In high school I tried opened a modeling agency. I was under the assumption that my business partner, who at the time was working for an existing agency, had a client he could sign. It was going well, and I got to hang out with models and experience trendy clubs for the first time but we executed poorly, attempting a game of smoke and mirrors, and he didn't sign. That was my first deal and I lost 200$.

When I was sixteen, I started a poker room downtown. I convinced my boss at the restaurant I was working for to partner with me for 800$. When i needed more he backed out. Woot! I managed to get the resources i needed from a dealer at a 5-10 game. And it worked out well! Too well. It wasn't even a few months before my main competitor closed down and the promoter came to work for me. Unfortunately that same promoter brought in some intimidating and shady businessmen to relieve me of my position. I had to "exit" after 6 months and got a royalty of 500$ a week and a job as a dealer. That's when my friend, the dealer with the resources (500$, a poker table and a car) was shot. Unrelated to the business. He was shot twice in the head while visiting his old college. Major depression followed for me. He was in a coma for months until he woke up miraculously and is now "ok". The Montreal casino opened up a poker room around this time and the club closed. I got involved with some less than admirable people and did some mildly bad business practices. After 6 months I got myself out of the trouble i was going to get into but life was a mess and i was depressed. Addiction followed. At 20 I got clean, moved back in with my parents and got a job working for a legit poker room outside the city. I introduced pot limit omaha to the club and then got promoted to a "sort of marketing position". The actual job was replaced by the owners son. I quit and back to feeling like shit. The last 3 years, i haven't done much. I likely won't get back into online poker. Now, i'm 24, i live at home with my brother, my parents, 2 dogs and what i think is a good attitute. When you have as much time as I've had to think, and you're interested in as many things as I am, it's easy to get flooded with options. I'm going to start a small business licensing technology for restaurants and working on becoming focused and energenic enough to go to school.



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Well it's that time of the year again. I'm feeling good about my game and have got my sleep schedule synced up with wcoop and looking forward to another ~9 hour bubble again

I'm looking to sell up to 50% of myself, but will be playing regardless of how much I sell. Currently have sold 5% so there's 45% left.

Am charging 1.15 markup so $118.45 = 1%
send to Filthy999 (Australia)

Will post graphs once the pokerstars hand histories arrive, but the tldr version is I'm up approx 75k this year over however many hands 136k vpp is at 10/20 to 40/80 8game.


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So I haven't written anything in a while. I actually wrote a long long post that I wanted to do something with a while back, but then when I read it again when I was less tired it just made no sense and sucked pretty bad.

So I just lost my first 20k pot at 10/20, at least I think it's the first one. Had maybe 10ish 15k pots played and I've probably played some bigger ones at 25/50. AQT32ccc vs QQxxx and 44xxxm, both with some backup draws, on Q54cc in a aggressive 5c PLO game. Obviously the 44 hits quads on the turn. Had a horrible day the day before yesterday and wcoop has be lol-bad for me so far, so I'm on track for a shit month. Got various dumb ideas on how to proceed but I'll probably just take a short break from poker.

I'm really happy that the Gustafson vs Jones match, I had no idea he was that good but I've been a fan since 2010 (http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=872356) so I'm really happy that he finally gets recognition as one of the best fighters in the world. I'm guessing they'll have a rematch sometime next spring. It'd be so cool if it was in Stockholm but I assume they'll put it in Vegas or at least in a better time zone. Although I read in the paper that some manager at "Friends Arena" wanted it in Sweden in front of about 60k people.

My girlfriend is finally getting her back fixed. After a lot of retardation (http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1081592) it's finally a set date for when she gets surgery. I had to spend a fair bit of money since the first doctor (public health care...) didn't think it was anything but thanks to the MRI we got on a recommendation from a private doctor we went back into the system and when they saw the results from the MRI it was very obvious that they would have to do surgery. I'm so damn happy that I decided that the first one was a retard and that I had to get a 2nd opinion, best decision I've made this year. Also made sure to come with her to the appointment this time just in case, which I think was probably good.

Been watching a lot of Dota 2 and played it a bit lately. It's really entertaining.




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