how do I play this? DO I need a key? I'm just updating steam now.
Had a sick good week 6hrs of excercise/sauna, healthy prtein rich breakfast every day made $1k at work but exhausted with a cold and have to stop myself from hemorrhaging poker moneyz cause can't even play my C game -,-
Until recently I considered myself a person who did most things with their left hand. I was a "left-handed person" and that was that. There wasn't much to it.
A while back, I decided to begin learning to write with my right hand. The endeavor served as an excellent opportunity to practice my patience, and so it was. Whereas before I could hardly form letters with my right, today I can fluently write in cursive and block. Notably, my right's handwriting is not only today far more legible than my much more highly practiced and developed left's, but my right hand claimed this advantage very early in its training!
Yet there is more.
Today, my right hand is fully competent at writing and much more. That much is clear. The more interesting experience I've had along the way is that while writing a document (whether it be a fictionalized story, non-fiction story, technical writing) I began to occasionally switch which hand I was writing with -- from right to left first, then left to right -- due to muscle fatigue. In doing this, I have been amazed at how the words themself come out differently. That is, if you read what I've written with my left and with my right you can readily identify that differences exist in each "voice".
It is an uncanny reflection of the different ways the brain is activated by varying physical input-output.
There are a few overwhelmingly apparent expressions of this difference in my explicit behavior on the day-to-day. It is simply that thinking right-handedly somehow affords me greater navigation of my own memory. Historically, my happiness has been greatly diminished by one simple characteristic that seemed to be an attribute of me -- I'd often feel that I had a lot to say, but couldn't seem to "think of whatever it was" in the moment at hand. My ability to recall a figment of thought, or memory, and formulate it into transferrable information has and is greatly increased through writing with my right hand. Recent experience has taught me that this increased ability to perform on-the-spot has transferred across all domains: Today, I hold my own and manage my side of conversation like I always "knew I could", my ability to perform in real-time such as in sport or job has increased, it simply feels as if my spark plugs have been replaced. And this is all traceable back to a general increase in "alertness for the moment" that has been heavily associated with the daily training of my right hand.
What kind of crazy person decides to change their handedness in adulthood?
Well, what is really that crazy about doing something that you haven't done before?
For this essay, my medium is the standard QWERTY computer keyboard inside of a word processing application (I recommend disabling automatic spelling and grammar checks). In fact, I have probably spent several multiples of time longer expressing myself through QWERTY versus through the handwritten word. My voice comes through differently here just as it does when I choose to write with my left versus my right hands. Just as it does when I'm in real-life conversation. This is most relevant because every expression we make is not only itself a given, but also comes back upon ourselves to influence us. It is hard to elaborate much more explicitly on this point without becoming technical, but consider the differences in your automatic thinking if you compared yourself before, during, and immediately after you had spent ten years locked in a room with only woodworking tools and food around.
Our voice is the translation of our mind's thoughts through the brain and ultimately the rest of the body (since our brain doesn't have limbs nor vocal chords). Our voice is the only way through which we can effect other people -- by our impressions upon the environment whether they're words delivered by sound wave or sight delivered by gymnastic performance. By learning to use my right hand I have literally changed the landscape of my brain and have gained an enhanced ability to communicate and perform.
This is something worthy of sharing, and so it is done.
There may still be a couple of days left in March, but I'm not going to be playing on either of them so figured I'd post results now.
I have put in extremely little volume this month, in fact I've made barely more than 20k VPPs and so SNE is completely off the cards now. It's gonna be tough to force myself to sit down and put in volume without having a volume oriented goal in mind and I think it's hard to feel the same incentive to play hard in order to make 500k VPPs or 700k or whatever is attainable for me. Just doesn't motivate like the benefits of SNE can motivate (Apparently that wasn't enough to make me play much either though). I have been going out way too much and getting way too drunk this month and so I've felt a bit like a zombie most days. It was a very fun month though and life enjoyment is worth more than money anyway so I'm not overly sad about the fact I fucked up my SNE pursuit.
Despite not playing too much I have managed to spend silly amounts lately. I've withdrew about £9k (~$15.5k) from my Stars acc in the last 2 months which I definitely cannot sustain for long if I encounter a break even or losing stretch. Too much of the stuff I've spunked on is useless stuff that I didn't even need, but one expenditure I made that I'm excited about is the fact I booked tickets for Seoul, Korea. I'll be arriving there 3rd April and staying till 9th April. No doubt I will be drinking every day. If there's anyone here that's in Seoul who'd want to meet for a few drinks or food or whatever I'd prob be up for it, just send me a PM or whatever.
When I did play I did well this month. I was up 55 buyins in the first 30k hands of the month which was about $8.5k or something, unfortunately I ran like shit since then and went on a 20 buyin downer which I've just started recovering from. Still, I feel like I'm playing a lot better than I did in February, just need to refocus and get more volume in when I'm back from Korea and will hopefully still be able to make a 6fig year when rakeback is factored in. Yearly EV winrates at 200 and 100nl are both around 5bb/100 with almost 200k hands combined now so I'm feeling pretty good about continuing playing at those stakes and making some good money without a great deal of variance. I'll prob try and jump into 500nl games at times, particularly if there's a lot of 1 tablers or known fish, but since I'm not going for SNE anymore I won't force myself to play there much.
Next month I just plan to enjoy Korea, get in a good amount of poker when I'm back but not force myself to play too much or even at all if I'm not in the mood. Basically just to play when I feel like it and get in a reasonable amount of volume without going crazy I guess.
So this morning some stupid fuck decided it was a good idea to rob some people at gun point. The cops were combing the area around my house for the last 2-3hours. Figured he was long gone, but I hear my dogs going fucking insane and I poke my head out the window to tell them to chill out and I see a man fitting the description climbing over my fence, my wife and kids are in the house so I picked up a stick I used to prop the sliding glass door and charge him, before he even touches the ground into my yard my dogs Asha and Kiera are all over his ass just fucking him up, he manages to throw himself over to the other side of the fence before I got to him, so I ran out to the street and flagged down the cops passing by and he was caught a few moments later. I'm so proud of my puppies for protecting my family.
Back after 2 years and looking for sm orientationby ytricky, March 27
So after a 2 year break i decided to start playing poker again, but i feel a little lost.
If some of you could answer these questions that would be great. I quit some month after black friday and havent kept up with poker development. I want to start playing NL Holdem again. So here goes
1. I started playing some hands on Unibet(Microgaming) to try to get into things again and noticed alot of anonymous tables. Is this the case on all networks nowadays? Also would you consider them fishy or is it just a bunch of regs on them who dont notice there are no fish?
2. What are the good training sites today (recommendation for series/videos would be great). Any new books, that are a must read?
3. Has the play style for NLHE changed much? Any super important paradigm shifts one should know about? Also have the games gotten much harder? Also if you had to give a recommendation for a starting point for someone who played 100nl with shots on 200nl two years ago, what would it be?
4. I am interested in playing zoom on pokerstars. How would difficult would you consider the level right now? Is it similar to how rushpoker was after it stabilized? Also is there any good deal for signing up with pokerstars besides the 600$ thing? A training site promo or something?
5. Lastly are there any major things, that have happened in the last two years of poker history, that one should absolutely know about?
SLI option disappeared in Nvidia propertiesby dr.dre, March 26
i've started topics on nvidia, intel, and 3 other computer forums, but im trying everywhere since tried on google for many hours, and there is no fix
Once it helped to install chipset drivers first after reinstalling system and then he installed nvidia drivers and it worked.
One guy solved it by restoring default settings in BIOS.
Other guy used Coolbits 2.0 ( program from 2004, he used it in 2011 )
Nothing from above worked for me.
I had SLI option some time ago, now it vanished, not sure for how long - havent checked for some time. BIOS sees only one of my cards - Geforce 8700M GT ( and there are two the same cards )
My computer:
Dell XPS M1730
Win7 x64
CPU
Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T9300 @ 2.50GHz 29 °C
Penryn 45nm Technology
RAM
8,00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 0KX412 (Microprocessor) 36 °C
Graphics
Rodzajowy monitor PnP (1920x1200@59Hz)
256MB GeForce 8700M GT (Dell) 70 °C
Hard Drives
119GB OCZ-VECTOR (SSD)
466GB Western Digital WDC WD5000BPKT-00PK4T0 (SATA) 29 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA Device
Motherboard
Manufacturer Dell Inc.
Model 0KX412 (Microprocessor)
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model PM965
Chipset Revision C0
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model 82801HBM (ICH8-M)
Southbridge Revision B0
Those of u who have been to a poker game that has been raoded by the cops or personally know someone or a game that has.. what day did the raid fall on?
I am wondering if there is any chance of validity to the theory of them happening more on weekdays than weekends as the cops have more going on during the weekend..
On June 13 2012 19:12 DustySwedeDude wrote:
If you live in a Euro country, the possible exception being Germany which seems fine for the time being, make sure to have some stockpiled food home, enough to last for a week or two, keep enough cash home that you and your family would be fine in cash the banks top working for a few weeks. Make sure to have enough saving to survive unemployment for 6 months or preferably more. If you're a poker player, make sure that at least some of your profits are reachable even if your bank account would stop working for extended amounts of time.
If you lived in Cyprus you sure as hell would've liked cash at home.
Bank accounts stopped working for a few days on Cyprus.
Don't think there's been any food crisis yet, but I still think it'd be good to have some around. I should get some canned foods.
Youth unemployment (and in some parts real unemployment) is at record levels.
I'd say that was pretty good advice.
On June 13 2012 19:12 DustySwedeDude wrote:
Obviously this crisis might blow over, but my guess is that it'll be a lot worse before it gets better and while we've seens some riots in big European cities and bank runs in Greece, that shit is very likely to happen a lot more.
Not that much riots. I guess a little bit of it in Greece. I assume bank runs will start as soon as the banks on Cyprus opens and a lot of people are calling for the withdrawal of any savings or investments form the Euro zone or at least from the South of Europe. Not that far of.
On June 13 2012 19:12 DustySwedeDude wrote:
I live in Sweden and since the Swedish currency is not pegged to anything and Sweden is doing better then most of Europe (even though private debt is soaring due to retarded mortgages and that will, not might, will blow up in our face sooner or later) so I'm ok to have most of my money in this currency, but if you live in a Euro country, get hold of some Swiss money, gold and/or silver if you want to be on the safe side.
The SEK is doing well, the Euro is not really. Gold is doing ok but it's down the last 6 months or so. Still feel that gold is a lot safer then the Euro.
We will face another batch of news of "recovery" and crap before the election in the US and politicians in Europe will say that it's about to turn around. That will all be lies. Watch how country after country in the EU will need to be bailed out and eventually the Bundesbank won't be able to stop ECB from printing money and creating inflation. Inflation is a lot like a tax on money, and it's sneaky as hell. The FED will soon (within the year) start some kind of QE3 in disguise and print a shit ton of money and create even more inflation. Sooner or later China won't be able to drive the world economy. This fractional reserve banking system we have will most likely cause a fairly big collapse.
Still hearing stuff about "recovery". QE3, or QE to infinity, was announced and implemented. Inflation is under control they say. Shadowstats, other web sites and people who buy stuff ins stores. Doesn't seem to agree. Japan elected some guy who makes Ben Bernanke seem like a hawk.
China is still going (relatively) strong and the FRB-system has not collapsed yet.
On June 13 2012 19:12 DustySwedeDude wrote:
I'm aware that I sound like a paranoid gold bug (and I am, no argument there), but at least take the time to think about it next time you see a big European country in need of a bail out (I'm guessing Italy sometime this fall) or congress raising the debt ceiling.
I'm still a gold bug. Maybe I can take away the "paranoid" part now? Italy did not need a bail out so far, and right now it seems like France is closer. Congress has messed around a little with the debt ceiling. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2013
I won't rant more about this since I do know that people who don't believe in it probably won't be convinced and people who do can read up on it much better elsewhere. Take care, feel free to ask stuff and remember that being prepared is the best insurance against things turning ugly.
I guess I was half right so far? Now I only need to be right about stuff that's relevant for my investments, lol.
I'm going to Gustafsson vs Mousasi and I'm going to do a bit of betting.
I've put a large bet on Laflair over Alloway. Odds was 1.85 so he has to win a little more then half the time for me to breakeven. While Laflair has something of a can crushing record he seems like he's a solid fighter with good athleticism and Alloway just seems to lose whenever he fights someone good. Also TUF contestants are almost always overvalued when it comes to odds.
I put a small bet on Peralta vs Akira, mostly because while Akira is a solid bad ass in his own right and fairly decent in most parts of fighting Peralta is just a monster who is only getting better and simply doesn't lose standing. Akira do have some KO-power but other then that I think he's fucked as far as the match up goes. Odds was 1.5 on Peralta so I need him to win more then 67% to make money.
I think the main even is kinda unplayable because Mousasi is just too much hit or miss and while Gustafsson should win the odds are simply not good enough to bet against Mousasi. Couture vs Pearson seems like it'd be a stomp from Pearson but again the odds just isn't there.
Picket vs Easton will be a hell of a fight but I'm not familiar enough with the fighters so I probably won't bet it.
Brandao should win vs Garza but Garza tends to spoil parties and Brandao's conditioning seems slightly suspect.
As far as the preliminary card goes I picked against Madidi and basically said he was drawing dead last fight but he ended up "losing" the fight because of bad judges so I can't really pick against him again. Johnson is fairly solid though so I'm not at all sold on it.
Havn't found odds on Troeng vs Cella yet, but considering how Troeng has fought a lot of really good fighters and Cella has yet to fight anyone with a winning record (except on TUF) and 3 of his 4 wins are against people with 0 wins I will put down a fairly big bet on Troeng if there's decent odds. I'm also fairly sure that he'll look better fighting in Sweden then Cella who probably isn't used to travel around the world for fights.
Don't know why Spång is a favorite over Amagov, I was hoping to bet Spång as an underdog. Dude has some serious striking. Thinking of betting Amagov hoping that the Russin comes with a game plan and grapplefucks Spång, which might happen. Not sold on it yet though, gonna read up a little more and watch the line.
Brimage vs McGregor will be fun to watch. No idea who wins.
Kuiper vs Lawlor seems fun too. The problem is that Lawlor is pretty good and Kuiper is kind of the Struve of the middleweights. I'm not sold on how smart he fights. Might bet him as an underdog anyway just because of his potential, but I'm not at all sure about that.
Abedi vs Yousef is one of those fights I can't decide what will happen in either. On one hand I'm not sure if Yousef can survive the first round. On the other I think he will win easy if he does. Abedi and conditioning is just a match made in hell for some reason. Might put in a bet on Yousef but I have seen to little of them for me to feel good about that.
I need some advice plz... relationship stuff =/by sodarage, March 22
So I've been with this site forever. I just made this account because I forgot the password to my other account and I'm pretty sure it is linked to my deactivated school account.
Anyway I want to get this whole thing off my chest and out my mind by posting about it. Please give me advice from your own personal experiences if you can... thanks.
So... my first love and my other firsts(yeahyeahyeah). The relationship lasted a bit over two years (our third and fourth year of college plus the next 6 months long distance). We did the whole planning out our future thing with each other which would have us spending five years long distance (sucks but we thought we were meant to be... as all couples do) before getting back together. I thought the long distance was going fine, she was busy with her job and I was busy with my own applications and stuff, but then she started becoming non responsive. I called her out on it and she asked if we could take a break. I said break = breakup so she asked if she could take that back. I said yes but the day after that I initiated the breakup because you don't just ask someone for a break for no reason. She had to have been wanting to see other people or was already cheating, right? So we broke up. Even though we broke up mutually, it feels like she broke up with me.
Anyway, She said she still loved me and if we ended up single in the same area when we're 30 we can give it another chance. I agreed because she's the one... right? So she wanted to keep talking as if we were friends in the meantime because that's how we got along together. We were friends. Honestly I wanted to keep talking to her too, but it hurt talking to her so I blocked her on FB and told her I wouldn't talk to her until I was ready.
I got through two months without talking to her until she texted me one day asking talk. I thought I was fine so I called. We spent the next three days talking just like when we were together, but we acknowledged we were single and hoped each other found someone else since we were each other's last resort... kinda. She told me she already slept with a coworker but it was a rebound. It shocked me since we literally just broke up, but we're both single now so whatever. However, it seemed like she was moving on while I'm stuck still thinking about her so I cut contact with her again.
So this is my current situation. Have any of you kept contact with an ex? How long should I not contact her for? Couple week/months/forever? I'd like some advice please.
Ryan Gosling article hinting at happinessby mnj, March 21
Thought Gosling is more insightful than it I thought and might have a point. But at the same time it comes off as very risky to say these kind of things especially publicly.
I'm currently selling MTGO "event tickets" for pokerstars $1 each. Can be handy because MTGO charges taxes to customers from certain countries to deposit money on there, or if you're just a poker baller who likes MTG and wants to do some drafts or whatever
plz send me a PM here or on MTGo (my ID is TheSquanderer) and help a busto out
I normally do not have to worry about it - I leave it turned off and typically use a regular USB mouse in a sort of desktop fashion with my laptop.
Whenever I am on the go, or take laptop to work, etc, and I do not have my mouse, I have to use my mouse pad / track pad.
It is so horrible, I swear I feel homicidal mania swelling inside of me. What motivated the killers in America of all the recent horror? I am pretty sure they were just trying to type a f***ing paragraph and had to type it like 100 times because the track pad would highlight and erase everything, or jump around, etc.
I had not made a blog in awhile and thought this would be good for some flames or for sympathetic souls who also utterly despise the track pad.
My friend has a Mac book pro and it doesn't behave this way at all. Maybe it is just the HP laptop track pads. Turning it off and typing is an easy solution, except its a constant on and off switch like every other second that it makes everything "not worth it."
Just wanted to make random blog bitching about something random cause why not
This post is to discuss something I've been mindful of lately. I think it would be good if more people are mindful as well. In today's and tomorrow's world, everything you do on the internet is permanent and public record. It's prolly a good idea to adjust your way of living to take into account this fact. Whatever you share with the internet today is going to be accessible forever, once it's up it can't come back down. There are a myriad of ways, some obvious and others you wouldn't have seen coming, that what you think is a good idea to share now will come back to bite you in the ass at some point in the future.
If you have just one lapse of judgement you can't count on definitely being able to erase any trace. I think the best way to proceed in this world is to assume anything about you that gets digitally recorded is public and permanent. My personal policy will be to try to keep as little information about myself publically findable as possible, and try to be very careful about the data I do volunteer to the interwebs, have a kind of "PR game face" on so to speak. It's much better to be too paranoid and go overkill than not do enough, and on that vein I'm gonna post on lp anonymously from now, with an account that cannot be tied to my real identity. Better would be to not post anything at all to forums/facebook/twitter/whatever else, but there are clear upsides to taking part in these activities as well.
Thought this is worth a share since if you look on youtube, blogs, facebooks today, there seem to be a heck of a lot of people who seem to very much NOT be mindful of the possible future rammifications of what they're doing on the internet today.
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