Not my best month ever really, but I think it might be the 2nd best. Could even be the best depending on in what currency you count it, but I'm not sure about that. Also, there's a few days left to go so I might be able to change that, I'll just need like 10 or 20k more and I'll for sure set a new record. I'm fairly happy about this since I've had a very slow year with a lot of run bad, shit that's taken time away from the grind and overall random crap.
When I was a highish stake NL pro my favorite poem all time was;
(yes, that's my favourite reading on youtube for some reason)
I always thought that;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
meant that I should be as happy when I ran good as when I ran bad. For some reason I figured I could live up to that. However, I was definitely more happy back in the day then during the last year during which I ran much worse, so I really think I let running bad fuck with my mental state. While earlier this month I reflected that I was annoyed that I did not feel happier over my success again I'm starting to come around a little bit and I feel much more at peace with myself. My girlfriend actually commented that she's so happy that I'm doing well, not only because of the money but mostly because I seem like a happier person. That's nice, but I should really start to handle my emotions better. I think it's easier when I have a solid foundation to stand on, and I'm working really hard to make mine stronger.
Due to this I changed my mind and I won't go for SNE next year. I'll just spread money over a bunch of euro sites and hope those games are better. I'll try to live a little bit more healthy, get my winrate up to something less swingy and spend more time both playing and studying the game.
I also got a bunch of books for Christmas. My father-in-law gave me this book about Jerusalem and I've read like 150 pages so far. It's really fun to read and it's given me a new respect for the Jewish people (I knew they where bad ass, but they're just on another level when it comes to surviving fucked up situations) and also reminded me that I'm really an intellectual at heart, even though I really try to pass for a red neck. My mother gave me Socratic Puzzles by Nozick which made me happy since I really liked Anarchy, State and Utopia and I do consider Nozick one of the great thinkers of modern time. I also got a bunch of other books and I'll take my time to read them, although I'll pause for a week or so when the last Wheel of Time book is released.
I've also moving forward with my book or whatever, a bunch of people are slightly interested in doing something with it. I think it could turn into something reasonably cool.
I am not a Christian, not a Muslim, not a Buddhist -- I am not religious. I believe life relates to something more than passed down stories, passed down moralities, passed down methods of control. Where does my lack of religious belief leave me? Free. I think openly, without prejudice. I embrace my thoughts, your thoughts, the world's thoughts, in a collective boundary-less manner. I believe in the harmonization between equally experiencing the living process, while differently interpreting the living process; The realization of self and introspection of self; The desire for justification and reason; The need of inclusion and option of exclusion; The opportunity of free will, without impedance of surrounding free will. Simply, I believe in being free.
I believe absolutes define us, and we absolutely are defined as free.
Plans for 2012:
- Continue working out, and getting in shape. - Started out well, the first ~6 months went well, and they I started a new job which has had me working a lot.
- Spend less money on partying. - Sort of, but not really
- Start saving money. - Nope
- Sell my stocks to eventually buy an apartment. - Could have sold them, but will wait a bit longer.
- Plan a trip ahead, instead of going on small spontaneous trips. - Done.
- Be happy and content with work. - Done.
- Win one donkament. This should be doable, even though I don't put in the volume. - Not really close.
- Start training MMA. - No.
2012 Cliff Notes
- Dated the most beautiful girl for a year, broke up a month or so ago.
- Travelled a lot, Amsterdam, London x4, Madrid, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, New York, Chicago, Miami, Sarasota, and a few places in Sweden.
- Happy with work, even though the hours are long.
- Played a lot of Tennis, Badminton and Table tennis.
- Got glasses
- Work
- Got a suit tailored, as well as a new tuxedo.
- Evenmore work.
- Spending New Years Eve in Miami.
- Learnt a lot on Revenue Forecasting, Reporting & Analytics.
- Words used: ubiquitous, discrepancy, monetization
Plans for 2013
- Get back into a routine of regular training, try to get into my work schedule.
- Get a pay raise
- Get even more responsibility at work.
- Sell stocks, invest one part, and the other part should go towards a down payment for an apartment. (will do so even if i move)
- Keep enjoying all aspects life
- Win a donkament
- Racking up even more air miles for a new card status
- Move to NYC if the opportunity arrises
- Play more golf
I just recently decided I want to pick up the guitar. I got myself a Yamaha FG700S for a Christmas present (pic attached). Do any of you play, and how did you start? Can you recommend any starting resources or starting pointers? I've played the piano at a state/national competitive level since I was 6, so I'm pretty musically inclined, although I do not have any experience with any other instrument.
best xmas in recent years. less stress, no armaggedon, good prospects for 2013. i wish everyone here the best and thank you for being my number 1 source of inspiration and entertainment. lp + jre/stitcher + torrents = the nuts
using a tablet exclusively now which keeps me from constantly going online since these things are so bad for typing and browsing lol. ill try harder to actually be more sociable nxt year without uneccassarily drinking each time. good luck guys and props to the best site and group off assholes assembled! lolz
will post more movies once i get my internet tv box thing going. glhf
to a 11 day full time gring. Goal is 40k hands and building a solid nl25 roll, and learn lots. Will post graph so far sunday morning. Im finally done being a surveyor, was giving ppl free insulation from government and measuring houses now im gunna sell alarms after new year which should be much moar fun, 150 bucks a piece too :o p.s. How do i get hem1 work on zoom who knows? P.p.s rip neilly
open faced chinese pokerby MARSHALL28, December 21
so i played it for the first time yesterday and thought it was great. tried to do a little research to find out what strategy is out there for it. it's definitely a game heavily reliant on math. it's a game that im sure by knowing basic strategy you can find some edges on opponents, but, i doubt anybody playing it at a high level would be doing anything but tons and tons of math.
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i just spent like 30 minutes typing up a bunch of the strategy i came up with, then i realized, why should i just give this stuff away to people who havent earned it.
i think i have some decent basic strategy that probably encompasses several variables that i don't think most people will be taking into consideration.
those of you who have played, list some of the things you've picked up ... as you guys release information, and i deem it's valuable, i'll release information. it could be a win-win.
if not .. oh well ... no other way to get good at new games than to start talking/thinking about them.
Are there any other micro's players out there currently playing FTP?
I've been playing 5NL there despite the higher rake for my $600 first deposit bonus. I shit you not 5NL is looking more and more like 200NL. Some tight regs and some short-stack south americans all bumhunting like crazy. Tables break instantly if a fish sits out and with seemingly fuck all people on FTP it takes me upwards of an hour some nights just to get to 6-tables. If a spot does become open then I have to wait through the waiting list of people declining their seat and by then the tables broken anyway.
Decided to try some sitngo's and I'm sitting here failing to get more than 2-3 tables open at a time, the entire lobby is stone dead.
Is this just a timezone thing being in Australia or is full tilt just a dead website?
Props to the ones I like @ LP and the ones that help on hand histories.
Cynical douchebaggery never ends.
I've been playing over a year paying tens of thousands of debts with no respect, I'm the BEST MTTer that comes to the forums, and I stirr the forums up when they are boring.
Yet, its constant shit from 93.33% of you?
you guys can go fuck yourselves, n hope when you MTT, that you're not at my table.
This is my official GoodBye to LP.
This sites sucked for like 3 years, Stroggoz, TalentedTom and like 2 other people are the only ones worth listening to.
Ego-driven retards everywhere else, derailing everything, having no life, jabbin at people with a future.
Guess what?
95% of you at LP have no future at all in poker, where 92% of you think you do.
Its a case of, you guys suck so bad, you want to berate others to make yourselves feel better, but guess what? You guys only feel better for 2 seconds, I feel good for life.
LP gets in the way of my grind anyways.
so ya, my official FUCK YOU, Good Bye.
Thanks for teaching me like 5 years ago
Was fun fucking around with you nits on the forums, but well, no exceptions, if i hate 93% of you, i just hate you all
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