Help with Hold'em Manager?by GolemMadness, September 14
I downloaded HM2 last night, and so far have had a lot of troubles getting it to work. I have a preferred seat on Pokerstars, so I set it for the same one in HM2, but the names are still always in the wrong position; sometimes they even seem to be on the wrong table. After several hands it doesn't seem to update if somebody joins or leaves the table. It doesn't work at all for a tournament, and just perpetually says "Waiting for hands." I've tried searching for solutions, but much of the stuff I find seems to be for an older version and I can't find the stuff they say to do. Is there an easy solution here that I'm missing?
Transfers to "jaacsin" on pokerstars, fat guy with glasses is my image (Mexico)
(Im currently watching a lot of MTTs videos to learn more about them but i almost know how to play +EV with any stack below 100bbs, MSS play, also i was a reg at SH tables few months ago playin 50nl too 100bbs+ deep)
A kickstarter campaign was launched not too long ago to fund the worlds first high-end consumer friendly virtual reality headset. This was basically supposed to be the VR headset that finally does virtual reality right. VR is nothing new, I've tried it before back at various arcades in the early nineties. It was clunky, had horrible head tracking, and very low quality graphics. Everyone wrote it off and rightfully so. Till some guy came up and said "we have the technology". Of course VR has such a bad rep from previous attempts no company was willing to back it, hence the kickstarter campaign. Anyway, the campaign was a huge success and they got all the money they needed to begin development.
Out comes this developers kit which is really meant for game designers, but so many people bought it and began sharing their own stuff that there are actually quite a few nifty demos out there to give you a taste of what VR was always meant to be. I finally grabbed one, and I must say I am impressed. There are still issues with your field of view, and until they come out with a lens that wraps around the side of your temple, or flat out project images on to your retina, you will still feel like you are looking through a pair of binoculars INTO the world, rather than actually feeling like you are IN the world. But it's still incredibly fascinating to look at, and as I write this my head is still spinning and my stomach nauseous from having just played around in the thing.
So far the most impressive worldly feel, and by that I mean a game that actually pulls you into the universe is Half Life 2. This is basically the only commercial game with official support for VR from the developer, so obviously it shines as a well polished example. Plus the world of HL2 is perfect for VR since it's so exploratory. It's also the quickest to make you dizzy since there's so much interaction to proceed. You see, the more you have to move around, the more you get sick.
The easiest games to stomach are the pure demos. You just sorta sit back in a pod or something, or mindlessly walk empty corridors just kind of staring at stuff as you go. These are natural movements, and your brain is willing to accept the disconnect from physical motion and visual motion since you can kind of pretend you are sitting in an electric wheelchair and just gliding everywhere. It's the games like HL2 where you are supposed to be walking and climbing and going around corners that make your stomach churn, since now it feels like the world is just spinning around you. It's perfect to just stand still and look around, but as soon as you have to start moving and going around the corner of some building, your stomach turns into knots, or at least mine does.
What really makes this whole thing work though is the latency factor. Old VR systems used infra-red scanners and magentic resonance detectors and stuff that were just horribly slow and inaccurate, plus the computational horsepower available at the time was pathetic, so when you turned your head left, it could take a full second for the screen to turn left. You basically just felt like you strapped a cellphone to your face and were looking at a little box. With advancements in gyroscopes and accelerometers thanks in large part to the mobile phone boom, incredibly accurate and fast devices are now available and allow the headtracking to be 100% SPOT ON. You move your head the equivalent of 1 pixel width of visual density, and the screen updates PERFECTLY. There is absolutely no delay whatsoever between your eyes and what you see. You can literally turn your head in any direction, upside down, sideways, at an angle, left, right, over your shoulder, you can even spin in your chair and do a 180 and look directly behind you. The camera follows with absolute perfect precision. The only thing left to do with this device is simply widen that field of view so you dont feel like you're looking through a tube.
Improving my shortstack/turbo SNG playby Trav94, September 12
So I play the $1, and .50c 90 player turbo's on stars. My shortstack play has come a long way, but there's obviously a lot of improvement that can happen. I've fooled around with ICM calculator on PT4, and looked at some Nash equilibrium charts and what not. Both have helped.
Does anyone have any tips or anything? Any guides or resources on improving shorstack/turbo sng play would be great.
Abadon slow ~ dazzle slow
abadon heal is 1 person < dazzle multiple heal + dmg
apotic shield ~ shallow grave
* i know shield will debuff, but shallow grave can keep someone alive for 5 fucking seconds and only has 15 sec cd, so 10 secs between shallowgrave
aba ult < dazzle ult
*aba ult is just for himself. meanwhile dazzle ult can effing melt the enemy armour or increase his team.
lane harass: dazzle has one of the highest starting attack dmg and with decent ranged melee attacks, he can harass much better than aba
why is aba being picked over dazzle?
2) is the gold from last hitting random? or is it based on some formula?
Hey guys, figured I'd do a write up on my first month up here, so lets get crackin!
Got up to Ottawa and right away was seeing castles n stuff like this everywhere, was pretty awe inspiring to say the least. Went to lots of clubs pubs, the best sports bar voted by ESPN which has like 90 500 inch TVs etc, some awesome experiences.
Been driving to MTL to play some late night MTT's, get completely fckin hammered bluffing everyone to the FT's, showing them a rag everytime, pissin ppl off w/ my gift of gab at the table, god its been a blast.
I took on a new student that has came a LONG way, hes really fckin sick now, think he mb > me soon !
Stayed with a friend the first month, but on the 16th this lease is up, so going to look at some new places today.
Partying in MTL is insanely insane.
I've been coke free for over 13 months! (pepsi is way better!!)
mmmmmm the kush tho, yah, thats just too good to stop.
so in a nutshell, Ottawa is really great for grinders, MTL is really dangerous too which I never knew, but a sweet fun city. One night I was passed out drunk in the car when my friend went into see a girl, cops came n grabbed me out of the car, I left my wallet and phone in the car, they drove me about a mile away at tim hortons and dropped me off, but was rollin that night too, so had no fuckin idea where the hell i was, was like being dropped off in japan. thank god my roomate found my wasted ass !
heres a graph of my first month back on stars,
week 1 - was getting my push fold back down and was making alot of mistakes - week 2 - was more confident but still had some mistakes - week 3 way less mistakes and started clicking back tons of 4 and 6 bets - took the last few days off after like 20/21 days played
I'm definately not happy with the results of my first month, and look to pick up the pace and have a dominant second month.
Sry for posting all those hU hands yesterday, for my backer and figured some lpers would want to see it to so posted here instead of a random pokerhand forum
K, I've had 3 27inch korean monitors at my place for a while:
1) hooked up to a desktop with a 24inch
2) hooked up to a laptop although only could project 1080p
3) extra one i bought off a friend who moved after school
So I've already debezeled the monitors and am in the process of hooking up a vesa mount (just needs to get shipped)
Been scouring the forums and read so many different advices. but was hoping one of u guys could point me to a decent computer solution. I wanted to initially get a laptop, but a laptop that can handle 3x high resolution monitors will cost 3.5k+ So i'm gonna make a mini tower but was curious as to which graphics card solutions I should opt for.
thanks in advance.
still haven't bought a laptop. really disappointed with windows laptops, they are just to big, bulky and way too plasticky for costing over 1k. still waiting on the surface pro 2. would be really happy with it since i use one note all the time. for those who havent used one note, it is microsoft office's best product since Microsoft word 2005. the surface would be great, since i could write notes all over my powerpoints and pdfs.
So in my previous blog I talked about having my shit stolen by the movers I hired to move, my shit. So today was his court appearance where he gets to make a plea in front of a judge and face his accuser and all that jazz. The cops told me it really makes an impression on the judge if the victim comes to court to display the severity of the case and such. I make my appearance, which was a little bit weird since I have never seen the inside of a courtroom before. I felt kinda guilty at first because the kid has been in jail for 2 weeks now just waiting for his hearing. He wasnt able to post bail so it's pretty obvious he's a life degen on the wrong path.
Anyway the room is packed with all walks of life and I'm first to be called. I enjoyed looking like a fish out of water, walking to the wrong podium, and otherwise obviously not knowing what to do with myself. The kid is escorted from behind closed doors in a prison jumpsuit and shackles.
The judge recounts the events as described in my criminal report and verifies everyone agrees on what happened. Then he turns to the kid and starts quizzing him on his criminal past, asking him if he's ever stolen anything before and so on. It was a pretty obvious setup but alas, this guy's in chains for a reason because he's clearly not too bright given the crime he committed. The kid basically describes himself as a saint, before the officer who arrested him cuts him off. Before the officer even gets a word out the judge cuts HIM off, and says "wait wait wait, let me have my fun". There was an audible chuckle in the audience behind me. At that moment the judge proceeds to tear his kid a new asshole, reminding him it's pretty stupid to lie about your past to a fucking JUDGE who has access to your entire life's story. The kid has been arrested several times before for related crimes and was actually on fucking parole when he robbed me.
The echo of giggles continues in the background, and even I find myself struggling not to grin out of fear of the judge considering it disrespectful. Anyway the judge pwns this kid into oblivion while he stutters trying to save his ass with feeble "I'm truly sorry for what I did" comments, gives him a max sentence of another 30 days in jail, then deports his ass back to his home state to suffer the consequences of his parole violation. Judge looks to me and says "Sorry but thats the max I can give him". I nod and thats it. The cop who arrested him escorts me out, jiving about the whole experience on the way. He said the kid was a fucking freak and started doing all sorts of weird shit in the squad car when they arrested him. I didnt bother to get in depth.
All in all I have to say the situation was oddly satisfying. I like to think of myself as a "just" person, an honest person, a good person. I dont do evil shit, I dont hurt others, I live by the golden rule, all that sort of stuff. I kept wanting to feel bad for the kid, to prove to myself I have some sort of empathy. But all I could feel was joy that he got fucked. I mean honestly I think the punishment fits the crime. The kid lied to me about the phone, lied to the cops when they interrogated him, then lied right to a judge's face. How stupid can you be? The kid is obviously just another dumb pathological dip shit who just isnt learning his lesson.
I dont know if he's ever served REAL prison time before, but I'd like to think 45 days is jail probably sucks hard enough that maybe he really will learn something from this. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate people. Most of the time it doesnt, but in this situation I think there's a chance. If I dropped charges and this kid got off after 2 weeks in jail, he'd probably consider this a win. 2 week stint for a $500 prize? Hey no problem right? Shit you could make a living like that. Whatever... I'm glad he's being punished, hope he learns something from it, and still feel oddly good about the whole experience.
My flatmate is a tournament grinder who has played about 4500 tournaments in the last 12 months or so.
Anyway on this day (last Wednesday) he was playing the big 162 and a few other tournaments (about 1 hour into his grind) when a stomach pain he had from earlier in the day when we were at the pub came back heavily. Fortunately I guess my ex girlfriend had an appendicitis 5 years or so ago and everything about this reminded me of that, all the symptoms seemed the same, so when the pain worsened and I could not see what else it could be we called an ambulance and asked their advice. They said if the pain got worse or didn't get better come to the hospital in half an hour. He left his tournies blinding out and we went to the hospital and to cut a long story short he did have an appendicitis, stayed in and had it out the next day.
He got a 'sick note' from the hospital, emailed stars, sent the proof of this and they refunded all the tournaments he was in when this happened to a total of $300ish. I feel like this kind of thing should be recognised, especially now with all the shady things that have gone on and are going on eg Party Poker. Pokerstars are the only really online poker site that give us a small ray of hope in an otherwise seedy dark online poker world.
Anyway, props to Stars
cliffs
-Friend had an appendicitis, had to leave his tournaments and blind out and Stars refunded all his buyins ($300ish)
-I should have been a doctor, obv in the wrong profession.
-He handles intense pain really well
Yea that is right, the moment uve all been waiting for.
I'm a bit confused on what to do, and most likely that just writing this will help me out, but advice are welcome.
Sunday i meet a girl from the internet. So i did the usual routine i learned from LP seduction gurus, and ended up sleeping with her. However, i really felt something was special this time... its like... idk... i really thought she was cute (even tho a bit fat, but i didn't mind it), she blowed me like a godess (seriously, she was WAYYY better than all other girls that sucked me), and weirdly in the seduction phase every times something happened (like first kiss) there would be a storm or something. We basically had sex/kissed/talked all night and the night felt pretty magical. I'm also pretty sure she also enjoyed the sex. And idk i also really enjoyed the way she was... smiling, fun to talk to, etc.
Then we when talked on facebook she seemed still interested... but the problem is, i made it like, way too obvious i wanted it to be more than just sex, and pushed too hard to see her again. I got like over confident we would fall in love. She told me some shitty line like "hey i really think we got something special, but i'm not used to this kind of 2 sided interest thing so i'm really afraid of getting hurt so you need to let me time to think". So anyways things went pretty downhill from there, because if it was a test or whatever i failed it. At the end i wrote her some sort of message to let her know she can take her time, and since then we haven't talked to each others. My plan was to simply cool it off for like a week, then try to meet up again for something simple (which would have worked because she needs to give me back something).
Now i had planned to see a bleh girl tonight that seemed to just want sex, so could like fuck her until the other one is done doing bullshit.
But now, something is making it more complicated.
I have a girl roomates that lives with me. This girl is a bit of a social loner, decent looking and has never had a relationship. She's been trying to spend time with me for the past few weeks. Like take walks, play games, watch movies, etc. I always accepted, but i never really attempted to go further than friendship, because i dislike to take shots at girls when it can be bad if it fails. She even learned some of the games i play lol.
Today... i think she got sick of me making no moves at all and was REALLY straight foward. like "hey wanna go see a movie tomorow with me". i was like "sure". then she's like... "you know.. like... a date,... you and me?".
so i guess i got 2 main options:
1) cancel off the bleh girl, and date the roomate. Hopefully she's not the kind to wait for months for sex tho lol. And just forget about the first girl.
2) Try to know if the first girl still has interest (Which would probably kill any chances i have left...). I could be wrong but she probably thought i was way too needy, which means my only chance is probably to prove i can not be needy.
3) Play it the asshole way. See the bleh girl, date the roomate, and stick to the plan with the first girl!
Leaning toward #1 after writing this... but idk i really liked first one.
Advice needed. I won WCOOP 530$ ticket.by Trolala, September 06
Hey
I won a WCOOP 530$ ticket on stars lottery. Which is the best tourney to participate in? I'd like to just cash some $$.
So I don't really have much tournament experience. I've played NLHE cash games all my life and also PLO HU hyper SnG's.
Any advice is for transitioning to tournament thinking is also nice.
Oh, as for personal note. I am a chef now. One restaurant accepted me for trials. So poker has turned from a living to a hobby. It happened so quickly. Actually If you're interested, you can read the full story and some other stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/olegpah/posts/726041790745608
Might be hosting my own game soonby Gnarly, September 06
Some shit went down with my sister. Her BF sold drugs, is a felon, and had guns, until the cops came with a search warrant. The house isn't getting taken away, and my sister can't get a job since she's pregnant. So, I've offered to host a home game twice a week over there. I want to do a 20/10 rebuy followed by 1/2 cash then a 50/20 rebuy followed by 2/5 cash, after having been up for a while, at least, but I'm not sure.
Anyone ever hosted their own games before? Any tips?
Ha - naw jk but check out this pretty awesome video which totally nails how I feel about 'spirituality' or whatever you'd like to call it.
Also up for 28 hours now, finally going to crash. Crushed the live limit tables today +6 racks at 8/16 - time to sleep for a few hours then ball it up hard tonight
I wrote these 4 years ago (you feeling old?) when I had a job that had a lot of 'spare time' - Its spoof pokernews.
Found them in my drafts from my email. There were some others that have been lost in cyberspace, like a story about Phil Hellmuths hall of fame picture falling off the wall under the weight of its own ego.
Some are better than others...
Busto frat boy claims “Doyle is bad for the poker economy”
James Scott, a freshman at Florida State University has claimed that Doyle Brunson is bad for the poker economy and is taking money out of the game.
Mr Scott said yesterday “I was watching Doyle on High Stakes Poker, he was playing really tight, nitting it up, winning a few blinds and then it hit me” he said “Doyle is old, he cant have long left – when he goes the money Doyle has accumulated over his lifetime playing poker will be divided up by his estate. Only a small percentage of this will be put back in by his son Todd”
Angered at this thought Mr Scott took his revelation to the internet message boards to rally support in an attempt to get Doyle to return his poker winnings to the poker economy and get him banned from high stakes cash games and any tournament with a buy-in greater than $12.
His enthusiasm wasn’t met with the support he had hoped and he quickly found himself on the back foot arguing against forum posters who found his comments disrespectful to the poker hall of famer.
“They’re all fan-boys” James said, “But think about it this way, if Doyle divided up his fortune among the lower stakes players, everyone could move up. I currently play NL10 but all these donkeys keep going all in with 56 suited and busting my AA so its impossible to get a bankroll started”
Mr Scott claims that he and many others could benefit from a windfall from Doyle and he could move up stakes “to a level where they respect my raises”. He also added “the UIGEA has affected us all, before I had almost $187 in tournament winnings on Full Tilt, but post legislation I am now -$97 and struggling to break even”
“By my estimations a bankroll of about $50,000 would put me in reach of my poker goals of being a regular at the 5/10 and a Breitling watch”
Mr Scott says his next step is to attend the World Series of Poker with patches and badges which he is hoping other “young guns” will wear and give his cause some media coverage.
“I won’t be giving up on this, I know I‘m right”
James is planning on dropping out of university next semester to pursue a career as a poker professional.
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*This is in regards to the following video, at the 2 minute mark:
Media Intern Dies after receiving “Ivey Death Stare”
The Media intern who jumped in Ivey’s path shortly after he busted from the Main Event final table has died 3 days after she received Phil Ivey’s trademark “death stare”
Video footage shows young media intern Maria Martinez throwing herself in front of Ivey as he was departing the Rio on November 9th. “She grabbed him around the waist and tired to turn him towards the camera so the interview could commence” said eye witness Howard Lederer.
“He said ‘whoa’ to try and warn her, but it was too late, there wasn’t enough time for her to get out of the way”
It was at this moment when Ivey’s eyes unleashed a wrath of power synonymous with the high stake player. “This time it was more intense, like he actually seized her soul” Lederer added.
Two days later she was admitted to hospital with fever, cold sweats and uncontrollable diarrhoea.
On November 12th she was pronounced dead. The cause of death is unknown but having reviewed the footage doctors say that Phil Ivey’s eyes were the most probable cause. “Each year around the time of the World Series of Poker we see patients admitted with similar symptoms” said Dr Suman Prakash “The one constant in all these cases is that they were usually seated at the same table as Phil Ivey.” He said “This is the first case where a patient has died, but having reviewed the footage it’s clear that in this instance the eyes were radiating a much higher level of soul-reading”
Dr Prakash advised poker players not to look directly into the eyes of Phil Ivey. “If you must then the player must use a pin-hole viewer – similar to the ones you would use to look a solar eclipse”
Howard Lederer made a statement to the media on behalf of Phil Ivey and Team Full Tilt. He said “We are deeply saddened that Phil’s eyes have caused the death of a young member of the media. Our condolences are sent out to the family.” Howard also added “I had talked to her only moments before she made the fatal error. She was a freak and a very weird girl. She was also quite young; I think she should have stayed away.”
Phil was unreachable for comment as his chat was turned off at Ivey Thunder dome.
Local man wins home game high hand jackpot with 5 of a kind
Derek Whites, a local of Carlston, South Carolina entered his weekly home game tournament the same as he had been doing for the past few years. However this week, his fortunes changed, and after what he claims to be “one of the worst downswings in worldwide poker history” his big score finally came in.
“It was just another night. My pal Greg runs a tournament in his basement every Wednesday night, it’s a $20 buy-in winner takes all. We usually have about 6 – 12 entrants. It’s a tough game, but after a few beers the action starts to get wild” said Derek.
“Id made it down to heads-up when I was dealt pocket 5’s” I went all in and had my opponent covered” he said “He called and the board was dealt. The flop came 2 of clubs, 5 of clubs, King of spades” My opponent flipped his hand, stood up and shouted “CLUB ONE TIME!!” as he threw 7 clubs 3 clubs on the felt”
“The prize pool that week was $160, and my truck needed a new back tire, so I was praying like hell for him not to get there”
The dealer burned and turned “A 5 of clubs hit the turn, my heart sank – I was devastated – his flush had got there and I needed to pair the board to win”
The dealer dealt the river and the 5 of hearts was flipped from the deck onto the table “I just exploded with joy – greatest feeling in the world – Id been watching Chris Moneymaker’s World Series win earlier that day, and I thought that feeling of taking down a major tournament would always remain a dream for me”
It wasn’t until the chips were being counted down that John Gregory, who was dealing the game, noticed that Greg had made 5 of a kind.
“At first I thought it was the beer” said John “I was pretty hammered at the time, so it took a few moments to sink in. I alerted the table that there was an extra 5 in the deck, in fact the back extra 5 was a different colour to the rest of the deck, and I don’t know how we missed it first time round”
Derek’s opponent and runner-up Shaun Long was asked if he wanted to run the board out again. He declined saying “That’s poker folks”
The weekly high-hand jackpot of $15 and a 6 pack of Budweiser were awarded to Derek. He has since replaced the tire on his truck.
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Jeffery Pollack Introduces ‘Wild Cards’ to the World Series of Poker.
Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, Jeffery Pollack, is aiming to introduce a new “Wild Card” to the standard 52 card deck.
The new card, similar to a joker, will be able to be used by a player to be any other card of the deck.
“Imagine the excitement of Pocket Aces vs. Wild Cards” said Jeffery “We’ve all seen Aces vs. Kings at the tables, and its losing its excitement, we know the odds, Aces is 80% favourite to win – but 2 Aces vs. 2 Wild Cards? Who knows which hand is a favourite in that scenario!?!?”
“I’m once again going to improve the game of poker and make it more exciting for the viewing public”
The new cards, which will be named after the creator, will be designed to look as exciting as possible “Id like to see any player keep his or her poker face when they’re dealt ‘Pocket Pollack’s’ under the gun during a world series event” said Jeffery.
“We’ve done a lot of research into what the design of the card should be. We wanted it to look exciting. So we went with a bright colour scheme, dollar signs with a gold trim”
“Its going to shake the game right up” Said Jeffery “Im throwing out the rule book, quite literally, and replacing it with a better more exciting one – All these math wiz kids are going to have to get their calculator out if they hope to master the changes in probability with the introduction of my new cards”
If the new cards are successful, Mr Pollack aims to replace all other forms of poker with No Limit Texas Holdem by the 2012 World Series “They say it’s the only true form of poker ‘The Cadillac of poker” said Jeffery “That’s a line from the new Matt Damon movie ‘Rounder’s’ which was just released”
Paul Magriel’s Tongue Allowed To Enter Poker Tournament.
World Poker Tour officials declared Paul Magriel’s tongue eligible to enter WPT events as a separate entrant from Paul himself.
After reviewing footage of Paul from previous televised events he has played, it was decided that the tongue could be considered a separate entity from Paul himself.
“It appears to move on its own accord, have a conscience and be able to make decisions independently from the host body.” Said WPT Spokes-woman, Jane Wirral.
It was unanimously agreed that Pauls tongue – nicknamed “X-Twenty-Tongue” would be allowed to enter tournaments on its own accord.
Allowances will be made so that both the tongue and Paul can play in the same tournament and neither player would have to miss a hand.
“Paul will be required to close his eyes when the tongue is playing its hand, officials will be on hand to ensure this, to avoid any advantage that Paul could gain from knowing the tongues hole cards”
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