November Income and Expensesby thewh00sel, December 05
Time for another installment of Income & Expenses. This section is where I break down my income and list my expenses for each month along with a short analysis of how I think I can improve on them in the future.
This month was pretty cool. Within the first week I was up 12k after a successful 10/20 shot in a soft game (7k) and a nice 5/10 win and very few losses. The next week and a half or so was pretty stagnant, and by the 21st I was sitting comfortably with the same 12k profit. In the last 10 days of the month I managed to pad an additional 12k onto the total with some nice heat-rocking at 5/10 which got us to the monthly total you see above. Looking over the results, the last 3 months have been very kind indeed; a nice 60k upswing =].
I managed to get 157 hours of cash games in. My goal is 40 hours per week, but considering that I also played two MTTs which I do not factor into the hourly, I am very happy with the hours I played.
Expenses $15,653
Put up a large number this month on expenses. The main reason for that is that we purchased a used 2005 Pontiac Vibe for $5,400 on Craigslist to replace our inefficient SUV. I did $1,100 worth of maintenance on the vehicle, but it still came in well below blue book value for the car and it's the only one I've seen for less than 7k available online. I am happy with the car, aside from some smoke odors inside, but they have been dissipating since I've been treating it with a smoke-removal product...so we will see. Anyways, now the SUV is up for sale for 14.5k. There is a 10k note (loan) on the vehicle, so if the sale goes through @ 14.5k the replacement vehicle will only be a cash flow loss of ~2k for one month versus a $435 car payment every month. Break even point of ~5 months I believe and an immediate 50% increase in fuel mileage. Pretty excited that the wife got on board for this. Here's a picture of what the car looks like. http://images02.olx.com/ui/3/48/85/60544385_3.jpg
Pretty much like that. Same color/model year, but ours has a dent on one of the fenders and some safety shit on it, but whatever you get the idea.
Despite the "expensive" month, we still managed a savings rate of 41.21%. Which is pretty solid given the future savings of the cheaper vehicle. Went way overboard on Xmas shopping (432) and also spent 500 for the pistol I bought earlier this month and 250 to get professional holiday pictures done. I'll leave you with some samples of those. Merry Xmas LP.
Letter to Santa / Downswing please stop.by Trolala, December 05
Dear Santa
I have been most likely a very good boy this year. I have written comments to lower limit folks, replied to my PM's, haven't really posted bad beat hands and tried to ask questions from those with stars of green.
My wish is for my current downswing to end. It hurts my nerves. Here is the pic. It is since November. NL100/200 (mostly 100). WWSF per hand is the same as during my best months. I didn't become a looser in a month, right? So, can you please make it stop. And I could run above EV for once. Give me some of those cookies you gave nanonoko a few years back? In numbers it's like 9k this year and 4k last year. But I cannot really complain, FTP was reborn and that was definitely over EV.
Day started by losing a flip for 60% of the chips in a ftp 5.5k garantee with 2 tables left but I Didnt let that get to me Another sick day 7000 vpps to supernova gotta grind it out http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/1659/chart22.jpg
Selling Action PCA ME 2013by bonzocuellar, December 05
Hi guys, my name is Jesus Cuellar, “bonzocuellar” on PS. I just won a satty in to the PCA ME 2013 and I’m selling a piece of myself.
Experience
I’ve lived out of poker for 3 years now, started out playing live poker and right now I’m grinding SnGs and MTTs online with good results. I’ve played a couple of live events in Mexico City, but as poker was “prohibited” this MTTs were not as big as I would’ve liked.
About 10 months ago I played the WSOPc San Diego with a finish in place 14 in the 500usd event. Lost KK<33 aipf against second in chips while I was first with 17 left for massive chiplead.
Apart from that I’ve played a couple of live MTTs in Mexico with decent results and have played live cash for a living for about 8 months.
About a year and a half away from now I had to come back to my old city where there are no cash games so I started online again. I rested my sharkscope graph when I came back so this is a graph for last 16 months.
I’ve FTd the 1r 3x, the bigger 22 and 2 worth mentioning deep runs. One in the SCOOP ME L and the other one in a WCOOP 215 Sunday 2 day event, both for a place around 95-110.
MTTs (missing a 5k score, nothing else worth mentioning)
Why invest in me?
I’m sure there’s a big difference in live play and online play. I’m winning in both of them so I know the gap between them and know how to adjust. Eventhough it is a hard field it also has a bunch of bronzestar/freeroll satty winners which i have a strong edge against.
References:
Brian Fite “BFizz11”
fujikura
Strato
Baal
bongky/SPEWTARD
Pieces
Selling 30% with no MU, possibly selling more later on.
Total = 3090
I’ll receive funds via PokerStars and Moneybookers. If anyone is interested in paypal ill try to set up an account.
Will be giving updates via twitter on @bonzoc.
Will very possibly be selling a small package of side events. I'll post later on this blog.
My nerd era over ? Can it beby PplusAD, December 04
Hi all
Long time no see
As most of you guys , too i have been a computer nerd all my life.
When i was a kid i played Doom,Wolfenstein,GrandPrix2, Indy Car racing, Fifa95, MOrtal KOmbat 1, Need for speed1-2, Command and Conquer
When i was a teenager i played Half Life, Warcraft2 , Quake , UT99, Need for speed 3-5, Baldurs Gate, Fifa 97-2000
Later when i was a young adult (19-21) i mainly played Starcraft1 and Diablo2LOD
Laters i played ~3 years of Poker ... some WC3 ... some SC2 .. Some Counterstrike some Elder Scrolls
recently i have played 300h of Diablo3 (since release in may) and some CS:Go (70h)
I also tried the new Hitman a bit ... but it simply doesnt work for me...
I loved Silent Assasin (Hitman 2) and neither Blood Money nor Hitman Absolution do come even close in my eyes
Playing an average of 2-3h of Computer games every day has been a part of my life since i was 8-9years old.
So i have around 18years of gaming history
I am almost 28years of age nowadays and somehow these new computer games just dont do it for me. Cant help but somehow they all suck ....
SC2 Sucks , Diablo3 sucks ... Skyrim was okayish but far from really good .. CS:GO is average/sucks,too
At the same time i am have had enough of this old computer games that i am not motivated to go into them again.
SO while
SC1> Sc2
D2LOD>D3
Oblivion>SKyrim
CS1.6 > CS:Go
Hitman SA > all other Hitman
I have played these oldies so much over the years that i simply feel done with them.
Maybe at the age of 27years i finally manage to quit computergames ?
I played some CS:Go 1h ago and quit after the aiming made me feel puke again.
However i dont want to play 1.6 anymore since it just looks so fucking ugly and i feel so done with it.
Kinda same with many other new games like Diablo3 and Sc2
Thats when i had this brief thought of my nerd era finally comming to an end.
During October and early November I didn’t play as much reason being is uni students usually gets pumped with uni work towards the end of the semester. I’m not the type of student who really studies unless there is like a week left until something is due. But this semester I tried much harder because it consisted mostly of group works. Anyways I got a pass and a credit for my subjects which made me pretty happy because I usually just pass lol. I’m also doing 2 subjects in uni this summer session; hopefully I finish by the end of next year if all goes well.
Also during the start of October I lost like 2 BIs at 25nl I just insta quit then moved down to 16nl and there I lost 5 BIs so just also quit, this happened within a span of 3 sessions in 2 days so didn’t play for a few days. I was still comfortably rolled for 25nl at this time but I usually just go back down to 5nl and 10nl and just win a few BIs. I’ve always been a bankroll nit I don’t usually play unless I have 45-50 BIs. It’s a funny feeling when I’m winning I feel like I am super good but when I lose just a few BIs I feel like I am the worst, this is why I move down and just try to win a few BIs to get that winning feeling again (I think it’s called confidence lol).
I am still off track, I wanted to reach the last level of the micros (50nl) by December but it didn’t happen, I am still at 25nl. Here is my lifetime graph.
Also since it is December I’m giving away $5 on Pokerstars to the first LP member who correctly answers both questions which I will post below. I know $5 is peanuts but I’m no baller, I’m only a micro stakes player so just call it a Christmas gift (haha), also just a way to give back to the community (LP Hand Histories = super quick way to learn).
1. There were 4 dads and 4 sons that went out fishing, every single one caught a fish which they brought back, but why were there only 6 fishes that were brought back?
2. I have $10 and I want to split it so player x gets $1 more than player y, how do I split this?
I know it's not the best time to take a vacation just getting back into training and all but things just kind of fell into place and I'm not one to pass up a free trip to SoCal to visit family and hit up the theme parks.
Any1 got extra Dota 2 invite?by flounder44, December 03
Just got a new laptop, installed the game spectator mode but not really willing to pay 30$ for the game when almost everyone got it for free. I filled out the survey 3 days ago but havent gotten an email back from steam.
Pretty much busto'd the MTT BR, got enough for one more session of just a couple tourneys next week, who knows, maybe that's the one. If not, gg, I've gave my best and that's all we can do.
Medical marijuana is gaining acceptance, but could it even help kids? Dr. William Courtney has seen it happen, and on Friday, told HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski about it. Saying he was "quite a skeptic 5 or 6 years ago", Dr. Courtney continued that "my youngest patient is 8 months old, and had a very massive centrally located inoperable brain tumor." The child's father pushed for non-traditional treatment utilizing cannabis.
"They were putting cannabinoid oil on the baby's pacifier twice a day, increasing the dose... And within two months there was a dramatic reduction, enough that the pediatric oncologist allowed them to go ahead with not pursuing traditional therapy."
The tumor was remarkably reduced after eight months of treatment. Dr. Courtney pointed out that the success of the cannabis approach means that "this child, because of that, is not going to have the long-term side effects that would come from a very high dose of chemotherapy or radiation... currently the child's being called a miracle baby, and I would have to agree that this is the perfect response that we should be insisting is frontline therapy for all children before they launch off on all medications that have horrific long term side effects."
So after my first 8 months of on and off trading, I learned this so far.
Lost 15% so far, so I still have 85% to burn lol
Basically it's a lot of propaganda and self fulfulling prophecies for chart technicians, very similar to passing the ball and whoever has it last is usually "it". Being a noob like me it's always tough to identify which is which so I keep acting on impulse and making bad trades with no exit plan resulting in a lot of commissions, fees and taxes being paid - basically all my losses so far is the "rake" haha
*Candlesticks - Identifying sentiment day to day
*MACD - for entry and exit points, also identifying trends(bullish, bearish, sideways)
*RSI - have an idea where support/resistance are (if a stock is overbought or oversold)
*Read SEC disclosures - Basically drives market sentiment
*News - usually late and fabricated(by some entity with an agenda etc) helps at times esp articles
*Forums are for bashing and hyping lol
Still need to learn position sizing and portfolio management, lot to learn and will start real learning in 2013. So much info and reading material out there with no real mentor I had to sift through this clusterfuck of information all by myself.
I'll update my progress as soon as I know what the hell I'm doing
Hello, I'm thinking about make regular visits to a card room that is very close by (about 12 min drive away). It's a small casino that has around 6 tables dedicated to poker and the rest dedicated to black jack etc. I was wondering what kind of experiences you all had with small card rooms like these. I've heard rumors about my local card room having a lot regulars that "work together".
The rake is about 3$ + 1$ for jackpots, and 1$ for unflopped pots. I believe the lowest limit has 1-2-3 blinds (yes i think 3 blinds at once) and i think goes up to 3/6 or 5/10. It's located in the middle of two suburban cities, one with 120,000 population, the other about 20,000. Very close by is the wine country where all the rich folks live. This is in northern California btw.
So just wanted to hear what kind of experiences you guys had with small card rooms, up until this point I've only played live poker at friendly house games, Las Vegas, and big casinos out in the middle of Indian territories.
I have been traveling on a terrible road trip Miami->Texas and so when I check in at the end of the night I have nothing to do but read the internet until I fall asleep. Lately, most of this involves reading reddit/gawker and just looking for anything that is interesting.
Lately, all I've been reading about has been the Fermi Paradox and 'Men's Rights'. My sister actually somewhat put me onto the Men's Rights stuff when I talked to her while driving as she was talking to me about how some of her friends at Uni have been 'brainwashed' by the Women's Studies program. This actually tied in a little bit to my last blog post as well so I did some more prodding around on the topic.
Apparently the most recent high-profile incident was a protest at U of T (Toronto) for some guy I'd never heard of before Warren Farrell who was doing some kind of conference there. An admittedly pro-Farrell video clip of some of the protests here:
Anyways, I find this whole thing mildly interesting. It is interesting to look at the real differences between men/women in the western world in regards to education, medical spending, longevity, etc. etc. I'm really on the fence and without an opinion but I must say I am surprised at the amount of academics who seem to be popping up to champion the 'cause' of men and boys possibly getting the short end of the stick in today's society.
The Christina Hoff Summers woman has some interesting writings/youtube stuff as well.
Anyways, what do you guys think? I know this stuff is kind of dull, but don't worry my next blog post will be advanced and talking about the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, and the upcoming Technological singularity.
Also, I have another 10 hour drive coming up, and am running out of podcasts. I got the Joe Rogan ones etc but if anyone has a recco on any good/controversial science/sociology/current events podcasts please let me know!
Well I guess this is a comeback of sorts, I started playing poker seriously again sometime last month after taking probably about 6 months off from playing.
Throughout October I worked my way up through 50 and 100nl zoom and this month I played mostly 200nl zoom. Zoom has more or less got me interested in poker again because I can feel focused on every hand on every table, and still get a fair amount of hands in.
I have actually been able to be motivated in poker again and focus on my game on and off the tables whereas that has been missing for the better part of a year or two. I have been lucky to be able to bounce ideas off a couple of great poker minds as well which has really been beneficial for my work ethic and mindset in general.
November 2012: http://i.imgur.com/CjfI0.png http://i.imgur.com/tG3ff.png
Throughout the summer I was able to work at a great golf course north of Toronto and probably played about 80 rounds (which is why my poker kind of took a back seat). My goal at the start of the summer was to get my 7/8 handicap down to a scratch. I did not make that goal but I did get down to a 2 handicap at one point and at this point in time I think I am a 3.
Some of the highlights from the summer was shooting a 70 on a par 72 6900 yard course and getting my first hole in one!
Hole in One: http://i.imgur.com/6zmr1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hzSLT.jpg
Working on my swing plane: http://i.imgur.com/OPLy5.jpg
I am hoping to test in for my CPGA card next summer and play some mini tour events as well. The biggest problem next summer is trying to balance poker and golf. For my golf program in school I have to work 500 hours at a golf course... so on top of working on my golf game I still have to find time to play poker 20/30hrs a month :s
I think it will be difficult to find the time to improve both my golf game and my poker game at the same time next summer but what is the point of taking the lazy easy route Done that before and it just doesn’t work..
Going to try and get 40k vpp in December so that I can get Supernova for next year (this is what I was talking about being lazy throughout this year). And then start the New Year off grinding a ton before the summer season kicks in again.
Good Luck! and if anyones on twitter give me a follow @JamieBreedon
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