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
Had a lot ot tilty sessions after work, need to work on my discipline as shuffling 60hr/wk job with floorball, poker and gym takes a lot of balancing. One thing I have to desperately change is my diet and regular sleep, I became a well disciplined person in the last few months (already cut virtually all alcohol) but will now take it to another superhuman level and become unstoppable
I started reading pokerstrategy basics again, forgot loads of shit like that you should cbet more on drawy boards and when your range is stronger and vice versa
Thanks LP
The help is much appreciated, loving the comments on hands LP seems to be a bit dead recently strategy wise so hopefully there are some basic spots that you are helping me with that others will find useful too.
PLease comment on the stats again. It seems I need to look at my SB hands, am I being too loose there? Prolly just need to tighten my SB, if theres any specific stats I can post from SB that could tell you what I'm doing wrong Im all ears
T$ trade
got T$23.70 will trade for $23, just pm me ur username on Stars and I will trade
NL10
Will start grinding NL10 with 20BI now, move down 2BI etc, but will tableselect like a mofo which I think is necessary when you're learning and the rake is so high.
My best month ever without winning a tournament. Really went hard at the start for a really degen charity even on two plus two. Team event we didnt win but I won the volumn comp something like 2000 180's in 10 days won free coaching but just donated it. Lost a bit in tourneys lately killing my luckbox unsustainable winrates but Id rather make a steady 6 grand every month in sit n gos then win the big 8 or 11$rebuy everymonth its alot more fulfilling. Really needed a solid month after playing to much shitty low win rate games last month to get me in range to get supernova this year which I can now do in about 9 sessions and have plenty of free time for the holidays. Sorry for the terrible wall of text I have a broken laptop with no enter key and malfunctioning mouse (its awsome to 30-40 table with a touchpad) I plan to build a solid pc for grinding with the help of my cousins nerdy bf this christmas. Mindset is an interesting thing I assume ive had a great one for awile but I dont feel I got there untill I was used to losing 1k a day. I used to think I would still tilt if I had a -2k day but now im not so sure. Im truly at a decision by decision basis where as I only get mad for a -ev decision over how much i lose a day. Think It might have been the mushrooms I did at the start of the month. I dont do to many drugs but Id recommend them to anyone at least once.
In November I played mostly zoom 6 max and normal 6 max, with a bit of headsup too.
I started the month very good, but then hit a small downswing (I swing very little recently) and my play got worse too. I did a bit of analysing and mostly re-thought my game plan on flop, started playing solid again and recovered for a smallish winning month in the end.
(EV should be some $500 or so more because HM1 imports run-it-twice incorrectly.)
As for volume, hand-wise its ok, but hour-wise I was kind of lazy again. Only managed to put in 91 hours, which is about 30 hours less than what I think my average should be.
Finally started taking some shots at 2/4 PLO. With some table selecting the 2/4 tables are actually pretty good, so I hope I will be playing more and more 2/4 in the near future.
Looking forward to the next month as I feel like my game improved by quite a bit in the last 10 days or so and just want to prove it to myself it is not just a feeling. And also because I am probably going travelling with my gf to Cuba or somewhere with summer weather
I d like to buy a new monitor.I have 24 inch 1920x1080 now but since i saw videos of 27 and 30 inch monitors i just want higher resolution.
I found this one on ebay http://i.imgur.com/DF4OW.jpg
for 380$.
Anyone have experience with these low cost monitors please?
There are several companies selling them like shymian, crossover and but there is only 1 year warranty.
solid month, put in a lot of volume but didn't play that great, didn't really improve and made some spewy folds and calls. I started 8 tabling zoom and and also 8 tabled HU yesterday against two people at the same time, lols. praciticing for SNE next year.
Funnily enough i've been losing a ton at zoom and 5/10 shots, but winning a ton at heads up.
I like this title because I was sitting here the past few weeks and I couldn't remember when I actually won playing PLO. I would start my session by getting on a bunch of tables running, play most anyone heads up to start games and look at results at end of sessions and kept seeing losing. Would wonder what is going on, what happened. This kept up for about a month and here I am frantically checking my bank accounts, watching the countdown to busto happen, questioning life, question my existance in life, looking up work visa information for Australia, seeing how much I could make per month if I started personal training, looking into being male internet cam model, debating doing copious amounts of drugs. Eventually I decided I needed a break and took a few days off. I found myself on my computer a few days later and decided I would play super small stakes just to play, was maybe 8 tabling and lost 3 buy-ins but didn't feel tilt or too bad.
After this session I started actually thinking to myself, how did I crush for 5 months straight to start the year? How did I come back online and have a 210k month and then just can't win day in and out? The answer is obvious in theory, many have even told me since. PLAY LESS FUCKING TABLES to start but as anyone who mass multi tables now, there is just some mind fuck that happens where you think you need to be playing as many tables as possible. You need MORE fish, MORE money to make, MORE MORE MORE. Instead of focusing on the tables open, you are actively seeking out MORE bad players to play vs. Finally when thinking more about it I finally convinced myself to just calm the fuck down. You don't always need more. Its like dating women, you have sex with one and now you want more sex with more women and fall into a cycle where your always on the hunt and never actually focusing on what you have at the current time but looking forward to who is next. Pretty off topic but I could relate the idea of that to poker. I wrote down how I thought I was winning so much to start the year and wrote down why I thought I was losing so much now. Nothing from either list matched up . I realized playing in great games and being amazing at exploiting fish's weaknesses doesn't translate to mass tabling vs regs and playing good players heads up. Add in massive tilting during this and as shown its a recipe for disaster. When you tilt in position again someone with a terrible winrate, it never really ends up being THAT bad. You can make a questionable all in pre and often they end up with an even worse questionable all in pre against you. When playing vs regs though, there questionable range ends up being double suited AKxx and QQxx and any KKxx. When you get it on the flop vs fish with a bad flush draw and bottom pair, they show up with an over pair/no redraw or Top/Bottom pair and you end up usually having good equity when in reality you made a terrible play. Against regs when you make these same tilting plays though your always crushed. I mean in theory this is obvious but I have never really heard or read it ever put like that before.
I guess the basic idea I am saying is that I need to go completely away from what is not working and go back to what was working. I started writing down all my old strategies I used to game select and coming up with better ranges to play against certain types of weaker players in different situations. On the surface the idea is play less tables, bumhunt weaker players, win money. I think alot approach it like that and win but I probably went into it 10 times deeper during my peak of really thinking about it. As I started to win more money though I became lazy and went away from improving my ideas and strategies and went back to an abc approach at it. These last few days I have dove back into thinking about everything from all angles. Basically it is play 1-4 tables, depending on those tables and amount of action going on (ie: double jesus with alot of betting/hands getting to showdown instead of jesus seat with 4 other tigheter regs with not much postflop to follow) can add 2 more tables. Once that 4-6 cap is hit completely focusing on games being played instead of checking the lobby every couple seconds for new games or wait lists or anything of that nature. This is fine do to while I have been playing 1/2 up to 3/6 but I do realize once I start moving back up stakes that I will have to keep lobby open and pay some attention. With less tables to follow though that shouldn't be an issue. Actually taking notes and paying attention to what is happening during hands and when they get to showdown (ie: fish makes pot bet on river, note his hand and watch for similar spot in future to either solidify that note or exploit that) When I'm mass tabling I probably look over less then 5 hands in a weeks time, that idea to me thinking about it now is fucking insanely terribad. Everytime my note taking or paying attention to what is happening pays off I get very excited lol.
When I started writing this I was in a writing zone, then I went on my patio somewhere during the last paragraph and kinda lost it, I was just sitting here on my computer after finished last session and was like fuck man I am such an idiot for going back to my old terrible habits of mass tabling/spewing away thousands. I need to write this down now and not forget it again. I probably have so much more on my mind about all this and hopefully write more about it soon
I'm going to continue to stick to mid stakes for now and at some point add in 5/10 and maybe 10/20 again. I'm still rolled to play up to 50/100 (definition of rolled meaning I could lose a few BI there and drop down to rebuild comfortably) but that desire to lose massive pots isn't there for me right now. After regaining my confidence and winning this might change but until then there is still heaps of money to be made at mid stakes.
Here is my graph since going back to old process. As you can see I didn't full commit at first and after I won a bit decided I could 12+ table again and win and was hit with a your a fucking clown, don't do that again pretty quick. But so far so good
I've been starting to enjoy myself more living here in Sydney. Have a few music fests coming up here and went with my girlriend to Stereosonic last weekend. Had a great time there and really enjoyed seeing Tiesto. Thinking back on it though, I would have enjoyed anyone tremendously at that point in time of the night but it was fun. Had a chance to wear my spirit hood out for the first time in Australia
Another month is pretty much in the books now. Finished November +44,663.
Don't feel exactly satisfied though because I was up ~55k 2 weeks into the month. This has happened to me twice before where I get up big the first two weeks, roughly somewhere around 50k, then nothing seems to go right. I felt like I didn't run that well considering I lost 3 or 4 pots at 10/20 for 4k where I got 2 outed on the river then also couldn't seem to win any pots AIPF where I was a favorite. I dropped like 16k on the 15th of the month. I definitely didn't play well that session, but I was motivated to win it back. Took a 30 minute break, then spent the following 8 hours grinding trying to get back to even and finished +3k.
After that I was just kind of sour on continuing to put in much volume. I talked to a friend about it, he said I have complacency tilt. Can't exactly disagree. I've never had a month better than 55k but I've had multiple months where I am up that much 2 weeks into it. I'm not a greedy person though. I don't exactly need all that money. Sorta strange I actually feel broke right now especially considering I only spent 7k this month. Probably because it takes forever to get my money off these sites. Have like 40k in limbo right now that's neither in my bank or in my bankroll. So really haven't been playing the last two weeks.
One weird thing I've seemed to have been noticing lately is more and more people who are claiming the games are too difficult now and that it's incredibly hard to win. I really don't agree at all. My game has become even more robotic in the last few months than it has ever been before. I have all of the spots memorized. I haven't even been working away from the tables hardly at all. I just have set ranges for every spot and I play them all the same way. I don't even adjust for player tendencies and I've been consistently having 30k+ months for the last 4 months putting in roughly 15 hours a week. And I'm really not THAT good.
Been trying to find a new coach but can't really seem to find anyone who is both capable and willing to do so. I looked into some guys who were really successful at high stakes games 12-24 months ago, but many of them are struggling now and are not even playing as high as I am regularly. I tried asking Sauce and Ben86, neither said they were currently coaching. I heard something about Jungleman charging 1200/hr but that's a little more than I want to pay and I'm mostly looking for someone to work with me on my 6max game--don't even know if he plays 6max at all.
I'm heading back up to the bay area in two days to go catch a couple of Golden State Warriors games with a friend. 400 bucks got courtside seats so that's pretty cool. I expect I won't be playing much for the next couple of days at least. Anyways, promised myself I would no longer talk about personal issues in my blog. So I guess that's it for now.
Since coming back to mma something had felt off, like I had forgotten how to ride a bike, and couldn't tap into my prior experience and training, just grinding through the motions waiting for that instinct to wake the fuck up. Well I finally got my epiphany, mid-round monday morning everything just clicked and instantly I felt like a completely different person. Not to say I crushed everyone else from that point on cause I still get worked hard, we got some insanely tough and skilled guys on the team, but fighting returned to being a natural state for me. I stopped over-thinking things and just let my instincts take over and just enjoying the moment, suddenly everything just slowed the fuck down big time, I could see and feel where and how people were moving and planning on moving rather than just praying my reaction timing were good enough. I could relax and breath freely knowing when I was safe which allowed me to nearly double my session times and cut out those annoying vomit breaks. Feeling more motivated than ever before and can't wait to get a fight lined up so I can share my joy with whoever is unlucky enough to step into that cage with me.
Today in Warsaw the weather was a bit on the rainy, dark side. On my way to school I got a text from a friend of mine who has got an amazing memory of pretty much every single thing that happened in his life. This time, because it is not the first time I got a reminder about some event's anniversary, he texted that exactly 5 years have passed since the first real Texas Holdem tournament was hosted at my highschool. 49 students bought-in, a couple of girls too. He even remembered the winner's final hand ! It was T2 and, unfortunately, it was not my destiny to win that heads-up battle and I took the 2nd place.
photo of my friend who made it all happen as the student board chairman, it was taken during that tournament thanks !!! (hope he doesn't mind that I uploaded it)
$20 on PS to the best photoshop of my friend's face in homosexual situations, use your creativity, feel free to add a celebrity or anything your mind comes up with. Only thing is it has to be pretty gay.
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Done that before and it just doesn’t work..
. I realized playing in great games and being amazing at exploiting fish's weaknesses doesn't translate to mass tabling vs regs and playing good players heads up. Add in massive tilting during this and as shown its a recipe for disaster. When you tilt in position again someone with a terrible winrate, it never really ends up being THAT bad. You can make a questionable all in pre and often they end up with an even worse questionable all in pre against you. When playing vs regs though, there questionable range ends up being double suited AKxx and QQxx and any KKxx. When you get it on the flop vs fish with a bad flush draw and bottom pair, they show up with an over pair/no redraw or Top/Bottom pair and you end up usually having good equity when in reality you made a terrible play. Against regs when you make these same tilting plays though your always crushed. I mean in theory this is obvious but I have never really heard or read it ever put like that before. 
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