So I had been talking about doing something like this for a while. Finally got someone to put it together, shout out to newb saibot for helping me out with the editing.
Let me know what you guys think. And if you'd like to see others, post links of the hands you'd like to request.
Housing during WSOP (Rental help)by Rush, February 26
Been semi-looking for housing for this summer's WSOP. I was hoping someone might have a good site/company that they've rented through before that might be more reputable than others. We have 7 people for all of June + 1st 2 weeks of July. It's been a bit difficult to find somewhere that's 1. Close to the strip 2. Big enough 3. For the right amount of rental time i.e. not longer than a short term lease.
If you guys have any suggestions, let me know. Thanks
Priests abuse little boys
They treat 'em nice
And buy them toys
Tell the kids night stories
To parents: “no worries”
When sun sets down
The church gets loud
The children scream
The priests make cream
The reason for this
Stands as it is
The priests are gay
And need the lay
...(new rhythm)
The church is a boys club
No women in the place
Who else would want to be there
Only fags commit to that faith
Just think about it,
to be a priest
You cannot have a girlfriend
No wife.
No sex.
No one night stand,
You can't do drugs..
play in a band..
The only love,
is in your hand
The only thing you are to do
Is worship God forever
fuck that my friends
I'd join never
But lets imagine
you were gay
The church.
A great idea
There's only boys,
alot of dick
The choice
is pretty clear
I know this story
Brings church no glory
But I despise
This dirty way to paradise
Hello my name is Luis Enrique Guevara, im 22, im an accounting student and i play poker for fun whenever i can! i've been playing since 3 years now, i start playing when my brother teach me the basic rules of nl hold’em one night of chill with some friends, and after that night I didn’t play poker till the day my brother download pokerstars software and then he told me to make an account and I start playing on play money cash and then I change to sngs and after like 3 months I start playing real money with the bankroll from pokerschool but I bust pretty fast, I continued to play play money and then freerolls and then I deposit and start playing real money and taking more serious the game cause I usually only play live in a casino of my hometown and I love it, but when they closed the casino I needed to keep playing my favorite sport so I come back to play online on PS and from that day i’ve been playing and playing and trying to be the best and improve my game cause i love this game!
I’ve been from robusto to busto a lot of time so all i want is to play more poker everyday and learn all i can and i want to play with the best of the best poker players! My favorite pro is Jason Mercier cause he’s a beast playing poker i like a lot his style and my dream is to get to know him one day.. and discuss some poker with him, i will be perfect if i can play with him one time too! so i think this wcoop is an opportunity for me to play with the best poker players in the world learn all i can from them, and if i win I think i will get to play a lot of scoop and try to get to play full-time poker and demostrate that mexicans are at the level of any other poker players...
And after i win i could get to play some major tournaments and maybe go to some live events.. and i want to help my parents with my education too, they had help me a lot in my life that i just want to give some back to them.. all i want is to win cause i love poker and i want to be better than anyone else ! I think i can be the perfect guy to represent all the bloggers over the internet!
In my Opinion Pokerstars is the best site in the world! Im proud of playing there!
And I expect a super good run on this WBCOOP! :D
WSOP events at ceasarsby Gsr_01_integ, February 25
WSOP events at ceasar Ill be there from the 8th til the end of the series just wondering if any LPers will be out for the events and wanna do anything. PM me or something and we can meet up and party
Yeah, I know Feburary ain't over yet but since all the topics always float after the end of the month with the title of the month I thought the blog would get a little more attention.
Grinded some 50nl FR this month, not nearly where I wanna be at. Had very shallow volume, planning to set some volume goals else I'll be a buster forever(was thinking about 3 hours playing/optional 1 hour studying). I'd like to hear you guys opinion about motvation for volume n shit.
Also I bought alot of books and planning on reading them. just some I'm planning on reading: ace on the river, ace on the river, mental game of poker, psychology of poker. Also got 2 books of Randy gage: why you're dumb, sick & broke and risky is the new safe. Don't know if you guys now him but I thought he seemed to have some good ideas (don't wanna go to in depth cause of last thread LOL). Oh and any recommendations for poker books are welcome, also planning to read mathematics of poker after I read these ones.
Got a new 124gb SSD and 3T HD for what it's worth noting, SSD is especialy amazing cause I'm importing hands at about 4-5x the speed.
House caught on fire this evening. Power line into the house exploded and dangled outside the door, exactly where I stood 10 seconds prior. Threw a snowball at the fire coming from the disconnected line that was going into the house. GG
Snow Balls rule
Coincidentally I have 16 pre-made snowballs along the fence outside for various purposes, which are as follows:
a) because you can only make them when the snow is sticky. Now I have snowballs everyday regardless of the winter weather.
b) because my dogs loves playing fetch
c) because they have high projectile properties. Good for headshots/tree trunks/putting out fires.
This happened back in the day, it's been like 3-4 years already - a regular Wednesday evening, right before sleep. Had a couple of $ laying in my Stars account and I've seen a hold'em tourney with only 50 players registered. Thought it would be a fast one. Oh boy was I wrong. After the first level of blinds, I found out that it was a Mixed Hold'em event. Had no idea about LHE, never played it before. So I thought, well I'll limit myself as much as possible to NLHE, just playing the obvious premium hands in LHE. Everything went better than expected, I've ran pretty hot, considering I didn't have the slightest cue about poker back in the days (not that I'm any good now, but I was even worse :D), and I ended playing 3,5 hours just to get to the FT. Was superexcited and it's a feeling compared to none other. At least it was for me. I was checking the lobby every 4-5 minutes to not forget about the prizes, haha. It was 40$ first, 27$ second. Even though I didn't manage to ship it, I finished second, which considering how many times I was at risk with 7-10 BB's at times, it was a super result. Also I had a big deficit going into HU play (4-1 dog, I think), and managed to pull back to almost to even. But the German guy won a flip in the end and shipped it all. However, I will remember it for a long time, not only cause it was my first FT, but everyone was chill and willing to chit-chat. All-in-all a super fun night and hey, my best placing in an MTT! Totally worth for feeling like a zombie the next day at the university.
I know there's a lot of fellow Liquid members who enjoy both StarCraft and poker, so to you I ask a simple question: what is your favorite poker moment? Is it when you win a tournament, when you outplay your opponent, when your aces hold or anything else in between?
Before I let you guys answer, I'll give you my take on this. Like many of you, PokerStars is the go-to poker room if you want to enjoy some games. They're huge, they've got great software and fantastic support, so what more could you want right? Even US players know that, sorry you guys can't enjoy poker on Stars anymore I hope things will change soon.
My favorite moment has got to be winning a tournament. It's not necessarily about amount I win. The thrill of moving up in ranks as your opponents get eliminated one by one is amazing. Stars is known for running tournaments 24/7 and I remember the first one I won when I started. It was actually a Sit & Go tournament, but damn it felt amazing to win it :D
It happened back when I first started playing poker and I remember receiving an email from PokerStars saying I got $10 free in my account. Having never really played before, this was basically a mini Christmas, and boy was I happy! ALMOST as happy as the Nintendo 64 kid.
There was a catch though: I had to play at least one tournament if I wanted to keep the money. I had no prior experience so I started asking some of my friends for advice - which one should I choose, when is the best time to play it, etc. Eventually I set my eyes on one $1.10 Sit & Go. Just one. I felt that was the right one for me. And I was gonna win the shit out of it.
Armed with the knowledge collected from my poker-playing friends: high cards are good, 7-2 is bad mkay? And raise your aces, because this is how bad beat stories start - "so I limp with aces..." Anyway I sat down and waited for the final countdown. Damn it felt tense.
After about 20 minutes of play I managed to win and it felt amazing! Sure, I only won about $3.50, but I got to keep my $10! Woohoo! I obviously got cocky and thought poker's way too easy so let's play some more. Lost the second Sit & Go, got angry and developed an intense hatred for pocket eights in the process.
Going back to this blog's topic, I have to say I find it quite strange that I enjoy the thrill of playing (and winning) a tournament yet I try to focus mostly on cash games. I guess it's because of variance and how with tournament poker you can hit huge ups or downs, whereas with cash games it tends to be slightly calmer.
What about you guys? What do you consider to be your favorite poker moment and why?
Well I usually make these drunk post that end up being worthless. This one might be too, but I think I have something worth considering.
The relationship between music and your mental state of mind.
Many pepole listen to music without considering that it might effect your consciousness. I have often listened to genres of music and felt hyped, violent.
The fact that plants grow well with the supplement of classical music and badly with other forms of modern music suggests something to me.
In ancient Greece there were laws about the melody or wherther or not the music was acceptable or not.
The rise in shit music is everywhere around me inharmonious generally irritating music seems to permeate my everyday life and I have to seclude myself from it.
Pythagoras was especially vocal about this issue and considered stringed instruments to be the best form of sound.
I know that a lot of you guys often want to donate to charity, but it's hard to be sure where the money goes. Well, if you want to donate to some Kindergarten students that will receive what is advertised, here is a link to do so: http://www.donorschoose.org/project/fun-with-math/966767/#materialsList
Fun With Math
Mrs. Parmann's supplies project at Somerset Academy - Oakey Campus in Las Vegas, NV
My Students: Do you remember sitting at your desk doing math problems from a text book? Kindergarten students need to be up out of their seats and engaged in math practice that feels more like a game than school work.
I have 47 wonderful Kindergarten students who are very passionate about their learning. They attend a charter school with wonderful parent and community involvement. My students work hard but need more hands on math activities to get them more excited about practicing math without a pencil.
My Project: Kindergarten students learn best with hands on experience and interacting with their fellow classmates. My students actively engage in reading centers and they are ready to start independently practicing in math centers. My students will be able to practice their math skills through fun games where they will not even realize that they are practicing skills they need to master before moving on to the next grade level.
Having fun math games will allow students to actively participate in Kindergarten math skills. Students will be able to use these math games to build mastery without it feeling like classwork. Not only will these games better their understanding for math, but they will build social, good sportsmanship, and team work skills. « hide
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I'm moving flat, and work has been really slow lately.
Basically I do direct sales, and the product we had was free but they changed it from everyone can get it to only poor people on benefits can get it and my earnings dropped fro $700/week to below $300. I made just $160 last week, although yesterday I ran hot and made $160 in one day.
Luckily from tomorrow we will be doing new stuff - hard to treat walls basically it's a $1500job for free for everyone regardless of poor or rich and I get paid $100 for one so money will start rolling in again plus in a few weeks I will be selling alarm systems for $160 per pop, should be easy to make $800+per week if I run hot, but there is a lot of swings in sales and we get pay with a 2 week delay.
sales is kinda like poker
the more hands you playpeople you speak to the more money you make are as long as you can avoid tilting keep positive attitude and keep studying and working on your lines, thought process, 3betting etc. pitch,turning negatives closing etc.
It's a lot of variance and negatives in both, just in poker it's hands you lose and in sales it's negative people. Plus you have the whole building teams stuff in sales which I'm not into so much so far, ima selfish bastard
So I will have to Cash Out
To bridge expenses related to moving. I have a rule that I never put money back into poker apart from the initial fiddy bucks so I will have to cut my BR by 40-50% basically.
The good news is that the flat I'm moving into is a cheaper as I'm moving in with my director from work so after I get settled I should never have to cash out ever again and can finally do what I wanted to do in the first place - treat poker purely as a serious hobby and never be afraid to play the highest stakes possible just because if I blow up I lose deposit money.
I will just end up with graphs update since deposited $50, I play a lot more cautiously than I'd have to if I didn't know that I need the money, and it's affecting me especially when I play NL50.
Once I cashout get settled I will be a lot more aggressive, because I find it's a lot ore fun when you know you can make 20% of your BR in once day if you have a huge session, just helps me focus more and brings out the inner gamble to a healthy amount http://i.imgur.com/VvJohyK.png http://i.imgur.com/fGyQFY1.png
Started to play again this month after a long time of inactivity (1.5 year). Basically a lot of things has happened. Not sure where to start.
After the fall of FTP my roll was stuck there (around 7k), and regrinding on PS went fine but I had to cashout too much (cashout curse) to pay rent and stuff. Decided to quit and focus on school, I'm currently enrolled at Copenhagen University, studying to become a psychologist. Done in a year or so. With FTP coming back I cashed out most of it to pay off debts.
Also had my first child 10 months ago, eats up everything (enery and time).Pic from summer:
But back to poker. Decided to take som shot again and deposited a couple of hundred $ at PS to play nl25. I have a great rakeback deal at a smaller network, but software and games tilt me big time. Playing on PS is relaxing and easy to put up loads of table in no time. Everything so smooth.
So, I've played around 25k hands of NL25 with good success. Running good. Here is graph:
Gonna stab nl50 the next couple of sessions (6 buyin shot) and move down immedietly if it fails. Going to table select pretty hard in the beginning, cause no need to battle 5 regs while moving up.
So I made a bet with my father in law. I'm supposed to lose 16 kilos in 4 months. I started at 108 which makes me a fatty and first two weeks I managed to lose 5.5kg. I think it's mostly water weight, but still. Feeling fairly good even though I'm sleeping a bit more and I notice that without carbs I can't play 12 tables for shit. Not all bad new though, 6-tabling makes me play better. My strategy is to take one or two decent walks each day and eat very clean, very often and not very much. I'm eating tons of fruits, cottage cheese, greens, yoghurt and berries. I also eat a lot of chicken, some meat with good nutrition values and fish. In addition to that I drink vitamin drinks and some protein shakes (those with few calories and extra fibres) to make sure I get all the stuff I need while I'm on this diet.
Gonna start running as soon as I can without risking breaking my legs on the snow/ice/general crap on the streets and possibly take some green tea extracts and other things if I stop losing about 1kg/week. Probably going to cut a little bit of water or something the last day or so to win this little bet, but that shouldn't be a problem. When I reach 92kg I'll try to keep losing like 2kg per month or so until I'm at 85kg or so. I think that'd have to be my goal.
This brings me to another point. I'm absolutely horrible at doing things half-ass. When I put a ton of energy into something, this bet might actually be borderline unhealthy, I tend to preform really well but if I try to do something less then 110% I tend to under preform a lot. Is this true for most poker players?
Anyway, poker went very well in January and while I've won a fair bit (low 5 figs) this month two my volume has been pathetic and I really have no excuse other then the diet and the lack of energy I feel from it. Might try to ad some carbs in the mornings or whatever. Also toying with the idea of playing like 100 MTT's ranging between like 20 and 250 EU buyins and see how I do. Watching a couple of MTT videos and it seems really fun and might be the change of pace I'd need. It also seems like it might be slighly softer then cash games.
Other then that Fringe is a really nice TV-series that should get more buzz. As far as movies goes I want to see The Master, Lincoln and maybe Silver Linings Playbook. Are those any good?
Lloyd Irvin, a famous scumbag (those stories are for another day) grappling instructor put on an invitation brown belt no time limit submission only tournament he has dubbed the BJJ kumite. His student, Keenan Cornelius, is the next big name in BJJ. He won all of the biggest tournaments (worlds, world no gi, pan ams, european championships, brazilian national championships) at middleweight and absolute as a purple belt last year and was recently promoted to brown. Lloyd wanted to prove that Keenan was the best brown belt in the world, so he invited some of the other best guys in the world to compete against him.
Check out the 3 episodes:
Really enjoyed watching these. Lit a fire under my ass to start training a bit harder.
with that out of the way I been pretty fucked up and barely grinding. About a week ago after feeling pretty good all of a sudden I just lost all control of my senses and felt dizzy really hard to describe. Ive had similiar things happen which im pretty sure its vertigo my ears are pretty fucked. I thought I was dieing or something and couldnt even control my arms at the worst of it. Im pretty sure I had what id describe as a panic attack because of it (also a symtom of vertigo) and it was fucking scary these went on for the next 3 days and I felt completely retarded, and fears of having brain damage etc sent me into those 1hour+ panic attacks although I controled them better with positive thoughts after the first terrible one.
Between them I had like extreme dizzeness + out of tune senses for three days but its progresively got better the first 24 hours were scary enough and I kept expecting to wake up better but it never really happened although in the third night it got alot better.
Well Im obviously gonna see a doctor but im just glad the worse seems to be over.
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I hope things will change soon.
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