So I lost my job that I thought was going to be my career but such is life. I have always dabbled at poker but have decided to take a serious shot at it will I explore my job opportunities and options. My current financial situation is not so bad. I have 2 months of living expenses and a 600 dollar bank roll. I am bonus whore it up but that seems to be lot harder to do than before. I ll be trying my luck at micro plo and maybe a little NL. I have always ended up fucking up my BR by trying to take shots at limits where I dont belong. So here is a list of starting goals that will help keep me on the right track
1 - DO NOT PLAY OUTSIDE OF BANK ROLL, I have always done this before in the past and try and take a shot and double up at 2/4 or 3/6. I am going to try and stick to .5/.10 until I have at least 1K.
2 - STUDY 1-2HRS A DAY, I am going to be treating this like a job until I manage to find one. So I think I can spend at least 6hrs a day playing poker out of those 6Hrs at least 1 will be devoted to studying.
3 - PAY ATTENTION NO MORE THEN 5 TABLES, Not gonna try and mass multi-table. If I want to get good my best bet is to play less tables and try and focus on the tables rather then playing 20 tables on auto pilot.
Thanks for advice Stroggoz aernout and enigma, I tightened in blinds, got a lot looser LP, 3bet and cbet more and it showed right away in redline + winrate
I'll try to put in an hour here and there during the week and megagrind over next weekend 10k hands + again
Btw, there are some REALLY solid people at this stake :D
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Hand #89449186743: Holdem No Limit ($0.01/$0.02 USD) - 2012/11/18 15:16:55 ET
Table Icarus III 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: W1LD D1X ($5.49 in chips)
Seat 2: SAMPA67 ($4.65 in chips)
Seat 3: Jdalton20 ($3.02 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($4.19 in chips)
Seat 5: NasaExpert ($0.80 in chips)
Osse$$ione will be allowed to play after the button
W1LD D1X: posts small blind $0.01
SAMPA67: posts big blind $0.02
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
Jdalton20: folds
DoC.LemOn: raises $0.05 to $0.07
NasaExpert: folds
W1LD D1X: raises $0.15 to $0.22
SAMPA67: folds
DoC.LemOn: calls $0.15
W1LD D1X: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $2.59 and is all-in
W1LD D1X: folds
Uncalled bet ($2.59) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $3.11 from pot
DoC.LemOn: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $3.22 | Rake $0.11
Board
Seat 1: W1LD D1X (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 2: SAMPA67 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Jdalton20 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn collected ($3.11)
Seat 5: NasaExpert (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Last two days before the weekend I think I lost more then I've ever done at the poker tables due to mining shares dropping in value fast for no really apparent reason. And I had some baaad sessions 10/20 HU back in the day
Anyway, late on Friday I finally decided to take it as a blessing in disguise and use they money I had laying around since I took some profits in Sandstorm Gold (SLL.V/SAND)at 13.20CAD or something and put it back into the company at 11.12. I read up a bit of about this and most people just feel that it's been a few days where the big stock indexes has crashed down through various support levels and basically taken everything stock related with it. Markets are stupid (at least short term when they're not free but full of big banks with bailout money)^^.
Back in the day my dad used to be angry about automatic trading and "a bunch of robots fucking everything up". I'm not though. If someone wants to drive markets lower (divert from optimal strategy) to abuse weak longs/investors (fish) I'll just abuse the dumb fucks who drives the market down by buying the dips. It's just like poker. Fuck that, I'm not leveraged, as long as I'm in solid companies that makes money you can do whatever the fuck you want, I'll buy the dips. I've made 8 high call downs for half a stack and J-high for a few 100bb's, try scaring me away from something I believe in.
Although, this made me more then a little over invested in Sandstorm Gold lol, I think I have about 50% of my portfolio in it which is, ehh, "slightly" more then recommended. Well I've stated it before and I've state it again, if I'm ever in need of a God I hope Nolan Watson is up for the job. In case Jerry Garcia can't make it. Anyway, here's a article about the businesses model:
So I've been playing casually poker for some years now, but never been a good player not even on my shitty level. After losing the initial 50 bucks like 3-4 years ago, while thinking i was being good and the soft ain't good for shit, and losing some more additional 10-20 bucks every 4-5 months or so, I finally decided that I must put an end to this and actually start listening to guides and enforce patience on my game. Its pretty frustrating to fold away JJ or AQ offsuit, when I thought for so many years that those hands are huge. Slowly, but surely I think I finally managed to somewhat limit down my looseness. I've deposited 10 bucks on PS on Wednesday and am up to 85 now by playing 0.01/0.02 zoom poker, by winning some satellites (and unregistering) and by playing some 3.5$ 18-27 sit'n'gos (yeah, I know that this is way above my limit, but people seem even worse than I am).
If you have any advices, software for a a fellow TL'er (LP'er i guess now), I'm more than happy to listen to it.
P.S.
statistics for my last 1000 hands:
Hold'em (Real Money):
1000 hands played and saw flop:
- 35 times out of 166 while in small blind (21%)
- 37 times out of 170 while in big blind (22%)
- 88 times out of 664 in other positions (13%)
- a total of 160 times out of 1000 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 22 out of 44 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 122
An analysis on this would be nice as well, as I have no idea (besides that maybe i should play even less hands).
My stats are prolly gay and my game was all over the place, any comments on the stats? I feel weird in even semi marginal spots like flopping midpairs on meh flops etc
This shit is so addictive btw, I will put in 3ish hours tomorrow and restrict myself to one hour per day during the week, BR at $90 hopefully will have a hundo by the end of tomorrow to go for NL5
Black Friday shopping threadby PuertoRican, November 16
sup.
Can someone who's knowledgeable about "Black Friday" shopping threads, please make a thread in the General forum, since the holiday's are coming up soon.
We just need 1 solid person to start off the thread, then everyone else can contribute to the thread. I don't have enough knowledge on all the deals to make a decent thread myself.
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I'm looking to purchase a new pair of headphones before the end of the year. Do you guys have any suggestions? They can be either audio style where you use them mostly just for music purposes, or a gaming headset. I don't like the headphones that have the black coating on the ear area, cuz that will flake/peel off over time.
Basically, I'm just looking for a headset with good sound and bass. I don't need the best headset on the market, since I'm just using it for recreational, everyday use. The headset I have now is a gaming headset, which I've used for 7 years, and it's time to upgrade since this pair is falling apart.
Just read interesting suggestions about how to go about doing HH reviews, and started to question my process.
I know I do not do it often enough, what about the rest of LP? http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=1331
Poll: How often do you do a HH review
(Vote): after xor before every session
(Vote): weekly
(Vote): monthly
(Vote): never?
The article was from http://www.plusevpokerstrategy.com/ and it suggested doing about 20min up to an hour (depending on volume) after each session. I think the last time I reviewed mine was mid September.
I did find a few spots to refine at this time, then didn't really go back into it for a while.
After chatting with a friend and fellow grinder I found a few things to look for in my own game (by talking over exploitations of a few opponents we encountered in a live 10/20 game ---> after the game obv) because he noticed a few things I did not. In the live game we both still maximized, but the flaws he saw in a slightly different way than me.
I then went through my database filtering for money lost.
I took the top three spots I was losing money and objectively looked at what I could do differently. Although the changes were very slight I found it very helpful, and now I also see more clearly when my opponents make these class of errors.
This article and retrospection on how helpful it was for me the last time I did an in depth review has reinvigorated me to be more diligent in this regard.
I am interested on how everyone uses HH to refine their game? Thoughts, tips, whatever you think might be useful.
Also, if anyone is interested to maybe set up some type of HH review trade. It is always helpful to have a 2nd set of eyes and I think that this would kinda force me to be more dilegent in this regard. Keep in mind I play LHE, my NLHE game is only good enough to beat 1/2-2/5 live.
$100 on PS. Advice needed.by Underestimated, November 15
Dear LP Community,
this is my first entry and, simultaneously, a request to all of you. But first things first.
I've been here fot quite a while, though I decided to go 'public' a couple of weeks back, when I created my account, I don't clearly remember why.. I mean at times I really had an urgent need to post something, to comment on some hands [or to share something in the ROFL thread, which I love BTW], but never really got the courage [I'm quite a shy kind of person, an introvert you'd say], but since I decided to change something both in my attitude to life and to poker - here I am. LOL.
So this being said, I just wanted to say that I visit LP on a daily basis and must say that skimming through the posted hands alone really improved my game and approach towards playing poker. I come from Poland, [although I'm living in the UK at the moment] and back there poker is generally thought of as a game for gamblers exclusively, who are or will soon be broke; a game in which winning relies on your luck only [I remember when I first decided to share my fascination about poker with my family.. I really regretted that, all I got in response was something along the lines of 'OMG you're gonna get addicted, poker will make your life hell.. - but why? did you ever play this game? are you telling me this from your own experience or what? -..well not exactly..but that's what the TV, the government, the society tells you! [that's one of the reasons I left the country.and my home. but that's a horse of a different colour, heh], anyway LP changed or even shaped my view of this game as a game that requires certain amount of skills. not only mathematical, psychological, but also pure gaming skills [which I still has to acquire :-)]
So I've been playing for some time now on PS, posted some hands [appreciated the feedback, really], and I got a bankroll of $100 [at first had like 25$, sent by a friend just to try out], and I don't really know what to play - which stakes, how many tables, I just don't want to lose all that bankroll within a couple of days. Since this community is made of some really, really great, experienced players, I hope someone will help me out with this and post some guidelines..
I am certainly not an experienced player, though I visit both LP and pokerstrategy regularly.. I think if someone will say something, anything as to how to manage bankroll, which stakes to play, or give any advice at all, I will feel more confident and will play this game more eagerly [although I already fcking love it, lol]
TL;DR -> I have $100 on my PS account and dont wanna lose it, rather- wanna multiply it [safely].
I'm not following soccer much but Zlatan is so fucking good. Sweden has been really good for a few games now and if they can keep this up they might actually make a little noise the next few years until Zlatan and Co retires. He's only 31 years old and seems to be in great shape so we've got at least 4 or so years more of magic before he retires I hope.
This is a full highlight from the game against England:
And here's one vs Germany:
They should probably figure out why our defensive that has traditionally been good suck so damn much though.
Stuff I've learned last week
I've so far only read very few technical analysis of Gold or Silver saying it'll go down. It happens, but not as often as it should. I think I'm probably reading biased sources. Had a discussion about TA with a bunch of LPers and read the old Sick Mack-forum topic about investing and most seems to think that TA is more or less worthless. I'm not completely convinced but I'll probably keep paying very little attention to it. Sometimes I let it dictate at what point in time I should buy something I want for other reasons, but that's about it. Trader Dan (http://traderdannorcini.blogspot.se/), one of my favorite bloggers, seems to be somewhat good at not being to biased in his analysis but other that that it seems a little bit hard to find good ones.
For example, this, to me, seems like utter bullshit:
First of all, people has been talking of a cup and handle for a while now and according to what I've read it would've been supposed to break up again slightly faster then it did and as far as Elliot waves goes he had use a fair bit of good will to make that pattern fit.
Stocks
This is not financial or any other kind of advice, blablabla.
Nulegacy put this short clip up on their youtube page:
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1.4g AU per Ton is ok but not great by any means. A few years back you needed about 3g/ton to be happy to mine for it as I understand it and since this stuff lies fairly deep that's probably a low number. However, prices have rallied from about 250USD/oz or so to over 1700 so 1.4g looks a lot better in that light.
Gold miners took a big hit yesterday due to intense selling pressure from, ehh fuck if I know, but that happens. A TA guy would say a bunch of support levels broke while I'd say that people have a heard mentality. I think it's the same, probably. Thinking of buying the dip a bit and primarly looking at silver streamer Silver Wheaton.
Ron Paul
Congressman Ron Paul's Farewell Speech to Congress
The guy is a great hero of freedom and liberty. He takes a lot of time speaking about freedom of speech, the war on drug, internet freedom and other things. I really hope that his son will turn out like a congressman in his father's spirit.
So after many drinks I got to thinking why fucking wait, so I sold off my recently unbanned D3 account and hit the road. After a seemingly much longer 29hour drive I'm back in Cali and ready to get shit started. Dropped in to a morning jiujitsu class to surprise everyone with the early arrival and got some good rounds in, made the mistake again of not grabbing my mouth guard and broke a good chunk out of one of my teeth. Now to get to the chore of unpacking before going back to training tonight. Feels damn good to be back.
I think Political Correctness is pretty fascinating. There is a clear 'party line' if you will on what types of things are OK and which are not.
Anyways, being a bored retired poker player I stumbled upon a pretty interesting (to me anyways) e-battle between some people in Vancouver.
I don't want to present links just yet but the basic cliffnotes are that a university group in Vancouver attempted to open a 'Men's Center.' It arguably, is a response to the Women's Centers that already exist and the extensive "Women's Studies" courses taught there.
Anyways, I'm clearly a bit biased in this regard being a male and such, but it had in the past bothered me a bit that a lot of the groups/student unions at myown Alma Mater were certainly female-centric. I suppose bothered is perhaps not the best word, but it was noticeable that there was a general atmosphere of catering to the female student body ahead of the male one. It was common to walk past signs such as "MEN RAPE" and "MEN CAN STOP RAPE CULTURE" etc. I found these a bit troubling then as I do now.
Anyways, I'm typing a whole lot of blah blah to really just to ask something I'm curious and undecided on. That is, does the replacement test hold weight?
The placement test is simple, and I'll use an example from a random Women's Studies facebook page that was linked on Reddit.
'Woman, without her, man is nothing'
Clearly, a lot of woman would fist pump about a statement like this. Many men would as well. However, clearly if you switch the wording
'Man, without him, woman are nothing'
This would be a horrific thing to say worthy of much derision.
My real question though, is does this 'replace Subject X with Subject Y and now watch the reaction' hold weight as a form of argument?
I've always been aware of the whole women's studies/rape culture liberal stuff that's going on but to be fair I hadn't given it a ton of thought until recently. I also hadn't considered how much things such as Men's Centers may actually be neccesary, particularly in a place such as North America where many young men are involved in military actions and exposed to a lot of raw violence.
Anyways I know that wasn't very cohesive but I wanted to get some of this out there and maybe someone from LP digs it and can give me some interesting links or alternative viewpoints on this type of stuff, cause I'm admittedly ignorant to most of it.
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