Anyone has an idea where can i find the show ? MTV blocked my country from viewing season 2 for some reason and i cant seem to find it anywhere. Probably the only quality reality work mtv has done ever
why are people living life like its some movie that they need to put episode titles in everything they say or do? i get so mad lol
who wants to bet on sc2 or bw sospa matches for less than 50usd pstars? made a 100 deposit again and lost to stupid sngs lol. post here if theres a coming ufc or sc2/broodwar event vs me so i can just bet this and not log in to stars ever again (throwing my rsa token lol)
Since poker allows of freedom and downtime, one must set goals to accomplish to have purpose in life. Therefore, I picked things that most interested me and what I thought would also be somewhat meaningful/useful in life.
Dancing - I remember going to the club with a group of friends about 2 years ago and was dancing on my own having a good time being buzzed and these black girls told my friends that I couldn't dance. I didn't give a fck and keep dancing anyways. It must have been embaressing for my friends but i got no shame.
Anywho, the plan is to use my X-Box kinect and play Dance central/Justdance and unlock all the levels. Next time there is a social gathering or party at least I will be able to bust some moves and show people whats up.
Learning a new language - My wife is Vietnamese so that will be the most convenient and best language for me to learn. Right now she still speaks to me in English all the time but I am slowly persuading her to speak to me in vietnamese even tho she gets annoyed at me sometimes. Her parents are also living with us to help take care our 10 month year old son and they only speak vietnamese so they help out once in a while. Vietnamese will eventually come to me in maybe 2-3 years? who knows depends on how movitvated i am. After that I want to learn another language like spanish/chinese but I have no idea how I will do that. Rosetta stone maybe? one step at a time anyways.
Being able to speak another language is one of the best assets you can have in life whether it be traveling, doing business, or just being able to communicate with others i believe.
Learn Piano - I love the way this shit sounds. So many songs played on piano sound just so fcking beautiful and elegant. Learning to play this shit would help me not only with achieving one of my goals in life, but mentally sooth / therapy for soul in a sense.. so to speak. I also hear girls wet themselves over guys who can play instruments so that a bonus.
Gameplan for this is there is a guy on youtube named lypur. Watch and learn all his videos until i can learn sheet music then basically just spend hours and hours of alone time practicing playing this wonderful instrument. Will need to buy an electric keyboard or something for like 500 bucks I think is the right price range for a quality one.
Last few months have been quite interesting, lots of ups and downs. Since February I had moved to $200s and was doing quite well.
In April I went to the US for ~2 weeks, first time in California, had a great time with the gf, and when I came back even though I lost a bunch in the end, was still a pretty solid month for such a small volume + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/PJmpIaM.png
May was my best month @ online poker, solid sng results and a great SCOOP with one FT and a deep run in the ME-mid, both could've easily ended in the 6 digits but still were good scores + Show Spoiler +
Then came June, which was a disaster. My first losing month, first I had the great idea to play 1000 games HU4rollz vs a guy I had a clear edge, but he got coached and maybe ghosted, and even with that I still played better and EV-wise it was really close but he godmoded and I lost 10k. At least I did learn a lot and improved my reg x reg game immensely. So I continued losing by running terrible @ $100s and $200s and after a ~130bi freefall I decided to drop the $200s to print some money variance-free + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/Ney7AxY.png
And then in July money was printed variance-free. Played some BSOP events and didn't score shit but it's all good + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/rMPPVqf.png
Looking forward for the WCOOPs next month, the Main Event is on my birthday which is a pretty obvious sign I'm gonna win. Gonna make another post later in the month to sell some action.
So I took advice of some of you and as my job ended, my roomate moved out of the flat in the UK I packed my bags, entire setup apart from speakers and flew to Cxech Republic.
44KG of bags on plane, my desktop and 2 24'' screens in them along with all my things - needless to say it ws an adventure. Regrettably I have to say that en route somehow the letter to the left of x on my keyboard got lost.
I parked myself in my sister's bungalow as she is away for 18 days and after that will stay in upstair flat where in my Grandma's house in my hometown. Hello expense free life, well virtually.
And what will I do for money? Well gamble of course
I have been playing quite a bit, but when you crush NL16-NL25 but then have to withdraw half your BR just to pay rent it gets a bit discouraging, knowing you pretty much can't move up safely just sucks.
But now I have a schedule, already arranged for floorball training next thursday and all my and most my family is here so I have no doubt about this being the very best conditions to give it one more shot (besides, working in Cxech Republic sucks, if I do fail I will with poker move out again but shht to my family xD)
I already have a group of microstakes players where I post regularly, if there is interest of making one for LP only let me know - it would be only known folk mostly from LP.Net, not one with randoms.
SChedule
This Weekend im stting myself up, just playing free for all but plan is to have 1 day off for family stuff, one day pure studying/sweats and play only if I really want and on playing days have a target of 7 hours+ more if I feel like it.
MOrning is always breakfast and excercise, and I will try not to eat much after 6 and keep a schedule around +-1hr constant every day
lifeblog update (extensive with random photos)by K40Cheddar, August 01
Hello LP,
I've been meaning to get around to writing a blog post for awhile but have been too lazy to do so. Many things have been happening in my life and I feel I am at a point where things are starting to come together. I wanted to share this with people, partially for me to get some things off my chest and partially to just let others know more about me.
Recent Graduation
Last May I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major in statistics and economics. As one of the top schools in the midwest United States, I was very happy to attend and had a great four years there. I am proud of my degree and had the opportunity to meet many new friends for life. I would have never got into poker if I hadn't met some select few people there as well who introduced me to this site a long time ago (jas0n, edzwoo). I also had the opportunity to play in the Big Ten Marching band down there, the Marching Illini. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life and I'll never forget the thrill of playing on the football field in front of tens of thousands of fans. While I loved the independence and freedom that college gave me there are some things I won't miss. While the atmosphere was exciting and young, I personally tend to live a more reserved life. Constant parties and screaming throughout the night got to me after awhile. It's not that I never liked going out, but I do appreciate my time alone and prefer social contact less often than others. I'm sure there are many LPers who feel that same way sometimes.
Probably the hardest part for me the last few months has been finding a solid job. Even with the double major I possessed, as well as two actuarial exam credentials, the job market in the U.S. has been very poor. One thing I never did in college was obtain an internship. It's not that I didn't try but I pursued the opportunities too late and did not succeed in any interviews I had. I pretty much have been feeling like this most of the time.
For anyone still in school, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND you pursue internship possibilities for your career AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I was under the belief that yes I'm a smart person with basic actuarial credentials and a job would just fall right into place. Wrong thought process. You have to want it and you have to go out and get it. Don't wait till it's too late.
So basically ever since fall I have been job searching and even throughout the summer for the last two months I have been religiously applying for positions daily. The thing that makes me the most upset is that I know I have the ability to succeed and I know I have the basic credentials, but when you walk into an interview room with 30 people applying for the job and they only take 1 you better be the best damn one there. It has been very frustrating.
Luckily, I have not given up and just recently I received a very solid entry-level job offer to work in downtown Chicago as an assistant options trader. I was extremely surprised to get the job, as the interview process was very competitive and they only ended up taking one person out of around 15. I was invited last Monday to go see a baseball game with the firm and got to meet many of the other employees, all who seem like pretty cool, highly intelligent, confident people, with the desire to be the best. I start next week and am looking forward to the challenge ahead. Since I will be partially working on the options floor, I'm a little nervous but luckily the firm offers full training and mentoring for years so I hope I can adjust and learn well.
The new world I will be living in. The excitement!
I am lucky to have a very supportive family throughout this process. I have an older sister who is about 5 years older than me and is getting married this weekend. I'm very excited and things have been hectic. She's one of those really hardcore type A personality people so if things don't go perfect the family is going to have some serious emotions running all of the place lol. I really like my future brother in law and go to go to Vegas a few weeks ago with a bunch of his friends and a cousin of mine. Solid trip but that is for another time.
I'm am a competitive chess player and just recently I have taken a strong interest back into the game. I took some brief time off a few years ago but somehow got the motivation to get back to improving and studying. Since most players don't reach their peak until their late 20s, I still have plenty of time to improve. Right now I am a USCF expert, top 2% nationally, and have made it my goal to reach 2200 and become at least a United States master. While I may never achieve a full world title, I feel that I am perfectly capable of reaching this goal over the next few years.
It's sad to think how good I could have been had Black Friday never happened. I can only dwell on the days when I was grinding daily, about to enter midstakes for the first time, and getting slapped in the face with a big GG. I'm not a huge believer in the everything happens for a reason stuff but perhaps staying away from the game has been more positive, as many of you are fully aware of the emotional changes you experience and develop while playing. I just wish the government wasn't retarded and would get this straight. I have no desire to be a professional but I do enjoy regularly playing and improving and I do want to learn as much as I can and be a strong amateur player. I've tried playing live a lot a local casinos around Chicago but live poker makes me tilt so hard. It's so slow and I know everyone is bad but when your hand sample size is that low you can't sit with the fish long enough to know you'll get it all back. + Gas and travel costs add up. Still hoping one day the U.S. gets all this stuff figured out. These days you can sometimes find me donking it up on the NL 4 tables on carbon when I'm bored. I do however have a strong desire to play in the World Series of Poker and next year and I will do my best to try to get into an event there. I have also made it one of my life goals to eventually play the main event.
Well this post was pretty long. Just want to thank all the members of this site for making it entertaining. I'll give you the cliffs here for you lazy people.
TL;DR
-graduated in May
-love things about college, don't love things about college
-get work experience or your gonna have a bad time
-got a new job as assistant options trader in Chicago
-sister getting married
-gonna be a chess master one day
-want to play poker again, life WSOP goals
Do you guys think personal training is worth it? I'm looking at the rates around me, and they seem really overpriced.
I'm looking into it because I want to start working out, but I don't know how to do the exercises properly / with proper posture. It would be difficult going to the gym and not knowing wtf to do.
The car that FINALLY died (tranny went) was quite the car. She was a 1994 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale - aka the boat on wheels. Bought the car when I was 15 for 2500 off of a family friend when it only had 40,000 (old guy lived in florida - basically took it to get groceries and that was it). After years of a few hundred bucks here and there it has finally gotten to the point of the repair is worth more than the car, not to mention I was having more and more issues every 10,000 miles or so - made it up to ~167,500 miles which is okay in my books.
Cars I'm currently looking at is low mileage 2007-2012 affordable midsize cars with decent gas mileage - things like the Hyundai Sonata, Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord in the price range of up to 18k - the only option I'd love to have again (havent had it in about 5 years with my current car) is A/C!
I was looking at hybrid's but the pricing and resale value is still pretty bad to where there's a good chance I don't make up the difference in price vs the gas mileage savings during the lifetime of the car. Not to mention the batteries would need replacing once or twice which is an extra 2k into the hybrid's cost people don't think about.
I'll keep you all informed on what my 'baller' ass gets. Depending on financing options I may just attempt to pay cash, but if there's a sweet deal with a low apr that will help me increase my credit score even more I might do that as well.
If you guys have any other options for potential cars I should be looking into as well please let me know ^_^
I just read through my some of my previous blog posts and really enjoyed remembering where I was years ago. Warningthis will not be a blog post about how I'm a millionaire now and living on cloud 9. I wanted to keep writing here so when I do feel the need to do this again I hope I would appreciate this blog entry. I've been lurking LP for years, only recently posting in the MMA betting forums. However, the first place I look at are the blogs because I have learned a great deal from a lot of them and the comments are usually pretty fun to read. Which leads me to my next point I miss Neilly. I wish that could would write a blog still.
So my previous blog post (abridged version) I just moved to Oregon had lived their for 6 months with my girlfriend. I took the firefighting exam failed it and then worked for Greenpeace before playing poker again.
So, both are things are over. My girlfriend Samantha broke up with me in Portland because she wanted to move back to California. I remember that being really hard for me. When she told me she was thinking about moving back to California, I remember telling her to do it. Not that I didn't love her, it was just that after my previous relationship I didn't want to deal with a back and forth struggle of should we break up or not. So I told her to just go, if she thinks she will like it there and be better I thought she should go. Well she did. And, I took it hard. However, I did not call her or anything like that for months. Well, 6 months later we talk and we're friends and she comes back to Portland. Needless to say she has been a great friend for 3 years. So word of the wise, when you get older and relationships end just take it easy and let it be. Takes too much energy worrying the relationship that just ended.
As for Poker I quit for good about a year ago. After being unsuccessful at poker since my last blog post, I ended up working for Netflix as a customer service representative for the next 2 years. The job paid well for customer service at 40k a year. I like a lot of things I do I decided I was going to be the best at it. I ended up being in the top 3% on the company and was interviewed and then offered a job in Los Gatos, CA at their corporate headquarters. They were to pay me 10k for the move and then raise my salary to 60k a year. I decided however that I really wanted this job as a "Student Coach". I got up to my last interview with them when Netflix offered me the corporate job. I was told by my friend who worked as a student coach that no one has ever not gotten the job after getting all the way up to the final interview. I decided I didn't like Netflix and declined the promotion. Later, that week I found out that what my friend said wasn't true. I in fact, did not get hired as I had basically bombed my final interview.
At this point I was feeling really bad about what had happened. I shot myself in the foot by declining a promotion to get a job that I didn't even have. At this point I was kind of lost and stuck out being at Netflix even though I hated this job even more because of being so close to being out. At this point of the story is where I meet Brianna my current girlfriend. We met at Netflix and moved really quickly. She had a boyfriend and before long she dumped him for me. We moved in together really fast like after a month. We continue to still live together today. She is a wonderful girl who finally lets me be me and I cannot get rid of her if i tried. I'd like to dedicate more of my relationships good and bad but I'd have to write a whole separate blog and this is already getting way too long.
So, after a while at Netflix I just started to hate it unbearably. The customers sucked, middle management was horrid, and everyone was miserable. I broke every rule got written up a record 13 times. However, every time the higher ups intervened and kept me because I worked 2x more proficiently then every goal the company had for the center. Eventually, I would drink and smoke pot every night because I hated having to go to work the next day. One day I walked in and decided I couldn't do it anymore and just walked out the door. Never stepped foot in the office again.
This was in fact as most of you know, pretty fucking stupid. I didn't have income anymore and it wasn't like I saved. So, I got food stamps. $200 a month from the state of Oregon. I then decided after non successfully finding a job and committing to look for one I decided I should try and get unemployment even though I quit. Somehow, in the end after Netflix fighting it tooth and nail I was awarded unemployment. I was getting $460 pretaxes a week for Unemployment. I at this point think I'm a bad ass because I stuck it to Netflix. However, at this point I started to get really depressed.
I didn't go out anymore even though I had loads of free time. I was hardly thinking and my days, then weeks, then months started passing me by. By the 9 month period of being unemployed I felt like a caged animal mentally, emotionally, and physically. I would come up with budgets to abide by, and then stocks to invest in, and researched different ways to invest. There was the whole problem that I was just on unemployment and was in a decent amount of debt. So, something had to change. But what?
One night I was talking to my Aunt who lives in Delaware and every year she invites me down to the beach house to live and work for the summer and every year I say no. This time I of course did my whole no Aunt Donna it's fine speech and left it at that. The next week me and my girlfriend are out at dinner and I tell her what my Aunt said. Brianna was like, we should do it. Let's live on the East Coast for the summer. I then of course had to take it to an extreme and plan out a whole long term plan on the east cost.
So, this brings us up to the current situation I'm in. I'm living in DE with Brianna. I'm an assistant swim coach for a club team down here as well as a lifeguard. And Brianna is serving in a restaurant. I just got a job in NY working as a Physical Therapy Aide and will be taking one more class so I can apply for dPT school hopefully for 2015. Brianna wants to go to school for nursing and will be getting her pre reqs for Nursing starting this fall.
I kind of feel now that I'm growing up a bit more. I'm actually trying to attain a career that allows me to be financially dependent and also flexible. I've found out from these past couple years that having money is important for if not anything but the fact that it allows you to actually be free. I can't wait to go to a bar with friends and worry that the tab will force me to miss meals the following week. Coaching this summer has also made me want to work in a job where I can slowly see people progress.
I have a lot of work to be done in order to go to dPT school. I hope when I look at this blog next I'm in dPT school or a licensed physical therapist and I appreciate this blog post. But, the good thing about life is that even if I did't go for my dPT I'd still appreciate this blog post. So I don't know if anyone will read this, I can't believe I wrote so much. But I hope someone can relate to my experiences this year as I have learned from a lot of you. Thank you LP.net, I love this site.
July started very promisingly. On the night of 30th June/1st July I was down to the last 2 tables of the Sunday Million. The field remaining was quite weak, with only 1 player whose game I really respected (EDWARDHOPPER). I was 2nd in chips at one point but eventually busted QQ v KK with ~13bb vs EDWARDHOPPER for 15th place. So close yet so far. Still, $5.1k profit was a good start and I expected to go on to having a good month. Sadly, it wasn't to be. I lost $1k in MTTs over the rest of the month and I barely won at cash. Still, barely winning is better than the previous month where I suffered a 40 buyin downswing and didn't win at all.
I've continued to experiment and make changes to my game, and largely I've been happy with the changes and my results. Mainly I've just tightened up opening ranges and done some work on my play vs shortstacks. Infact, until yesterday I was running at 4 EV bb/100 for the month which is no better than I was doing in the first 5 months of this year, but a lot better than in the last 2 months. Unfortunately I lost about $2.1k yesterday which was something like 15 buyins (More at 100 than 200) and that ruined the winrate for the month. Even still, my positional winrates are all higher than the year as a whole except for from the BB, and by a small margin in the CO. The Big Blind is the position where I've made the most adjustments in the past couple of months and it seems it's still not working for me. Currently I think one of my biggest problems there is a bit of situational run bad, but also I'm simply not 3betting enough from that position specifically. I aim to do better than -40bb/100 from the BB next month. I don't even really care too much about how I do from other positions because I'm quite happy with my opening ranges and 3bet ranges etc from those positions and results will improve with the more volume I put in, I feel that I really just need to fix the leak in the BB and I'll be winning at a good clip again as I was in the first few months of this year.
Life has been a bit depressing lately and it's definitely effecting my play. Tilt has set in on more than one occasion and I'm usually very good at resisting tilt. I'm already thinking about a future without poker and I'd really like to move on from it as soon as possible. If I won like $200k+ in an MTT I would probably play until the end of the year and then quit relying on poker for income, only playing a little when I felt like it. I have no better options for income at the moment and not enough money to quit so I'll continue until I do have enough money. I certainly need to cut back on expenditure. I estimate I've made $45~50k so far this year including rakeback/bonuses and I have no more money in my Stars account or bank account than I did at the start of the year. I don't even have any large mandatory expenses, I'm just spending too much on stuff I don't need. This has to change if I'm to make enough money to quit poker in the next 2-4 years (I REALLY don't want to have to play any longer than that). I have restarted dieting and working out lately and I expect that will help with regards to how I'm feeling in day to day life, so that's one positive going forward at least.
Volume wise I've put in about an average #of hands for the last 3 months, but given that I've tightened up preflop I'm making less VPP/hand. At the start of the year I wanted to go for SNE, which I gave up on by March, then I changed my goal to 500k VPPs. At this point that's an impossibility also unless I get back into $2.5/$5 Zoom full time, which I can't see happening as I'm not happy enough with my winrates at $1/$2 and $0.5/$1 Zoom or confident enough on not losing at $2.5/$5 unless the lineup is quite weak. 400k VPPs seems reasonable though, to do that I need just under 160k VPPs in the remaining 5 months so just under 32k VPPs a month which is around about the volume I've been putting in last few months anyway. I'd be happy enough with another $25-30k (Including rakeback/bonuses) for the rest of the year, and hopefully make cuts on spending so I'm actually increasing my bankroll, not just breaking even on my expenditure.
Anyway, screenshots:
Cash: http://i.imgur.com/iMWBt19.jpg
(Couple of hands at 100NL Zoom FR and 2NL Zoom were simply misclicks in the lobby haha)
Like I said, mainly just hoping to do better from the big blind, cut down on expenditure and make 30k+ VPPs next month. Feeling better IRL would be nice too.
So I need a rest from playing poker. I've played more hours this month than any month in the last 4 or 5 years. Maybe as many as 120 which would be equal to 30 hours a week. I've had a lot of long sessions and it's been very tiring but also very profitable.
Haven't ever had a month like this before as I'm now up $79,600. I placed 193rd in the main event for $42,990 but I only had 30% of my own action there which totals $9897. The other 70k was pretty much all online cash games. Still trying to hit that $100k month, thought it might happen when I was up 87k 4 days ago but it doesn't look like that's in the cards now. Oh well, it's not like it really matters, it's just a stupid arbitrary number.
$34k playing mostly 5/10 and 10/20 plo and 35k playing 5/10 and 10/20NL. I have to assume that part of the reason for why I did this is because I was able to game select better than I had previously. Helps to always stay in higher stakes games. Sometimes there would be a few okay 5/10NL games running but some good 10/20 plo games running so obviously I can choose to play the PLO. Or sometimes there's only 2 10/20nl games but also some 10/20plo, then I don't really have to sit in the 5/10nl games.
Getting everything ready for my move to Rosarito at the end of next month. Yeah I know I said originally I was going to Vancouver, but this just makes a lot more sense to me. I'm going to keep a place here in San Diego so I don't have to uproot my entire life here. I'll probably travel back and forth between the two places once a week. Heading up to Mission Viejo tomorrow to pick up my new whip. 2013 Infiniti G37. I'll post some pictures once I have it my possession.
Going to have to do a lot of grinding this coming month as well. Trying to put as much money together as possible for when I move to play on Stars. I might have to just play 5/10 there for a bit until I can be sure I have a big enough roll that I won't go broke. What a disaster that would be if I changed everything in my life and moved to only go broke. Might need to take some extra precautions with regards to bankroll. I've began to study the HS games running on stars though. I can't really ever see myself playing in that 400/800 that's been running but eventually I'd like to sit in these 50/1 games I see running somewhat frequently. Gonna take some time but hopefully I can get there.
I'm going to attempt a biphasic sleep cycle to allow me to
A: Play the graveyard shift for poker of 10pm-5am
B: Be awake during the day with my family
C: Sleep less/more efficiently
For those of you who don't know what a biphasic sleep schedule is, there are some variations of it, but basically you sleep twice per 12 hour period for around 3 hours each time. I have just begun my foray into this practice (today will be my 2nd 24 hour cycle of biphasic sleep), but I have to say I am already impressed with how it feels. I'm going to keep a log of how I feel with this sleep schedule until it becomes routine for me. Probably a week or two and then update if I am still using this schedule in the future.
Day 1: 7/27.
After a 14 hour session of poker I arrived home at 5am and had something I had to be awake for at 9am so I set my alarm.
Day 1(b) first attempt: 7/28
Sleep cycle 1: 4hrs
Sleep cycle 2: 1hr45min
Total sleep: 5hr45min
After waking I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to attempt biphasic sleep. So I stayed awake until 5pm at which point I attempted to go back to sleep for 3 hours. My daughter didn't quite let me fall asleep at first, but eventually I fell asleep around 630pm and slept until 815pm. Upon awakening I was a little groggy because I didn't wake naturally but by my family jumping into bed to wake me up. After putting Allison to sleep I headed to work and started my session at 10pm. I played until 5am and felt great the whole time.
Day 3 7/29
Cycle 1: 3hrs50min
Cycle 2 (projected): 2hrs30min
Total sleep (projected): 6hr20min
When I got home at 530am I went to sleep until 920am. I awoke a little groggier than I was expecting, and laid in bed until 10am until finally getting up for breakfast. Now at 1pm though I feel great, and am going to try to go back to sleep from 6pm-9pm tonight.
Targets:
-Have an average sleep per 24 hour cycle of right around 6 hours.
-Not be cranky
-Crush people at the pokers
-Feel awesome and productive
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