It's easy to lose perspective in mma in terms of your own growth when you're surrounded by fellow fighters it often feels like you're hitting a plateau because your team as a whole is constantly growing at a relatively similar pace, and you're so used to each others' styles that you adjust your own sometimes without even realizing it. It can be real depressing and mess with your motivation. I've felt like this many times in and the past and more so recently coming back from a 6month break and falling behind that learning curve was hard to take in.
Since coming back I've been having a real tough time and even getting the worse end of sessions with guys I used to be able to take down and submit at will. Feeling a bit conflicted, on one hand I'm proud of them for their improvements and I enjoy the challenge being there for me to overcome, but at the same time I can't get over this feeling of self disappointment that I shouldn't be having difficulties at this stage and should be breezing through people who aren't long term or up and coming pro fighters. I want to fight and test myself against the best in the world but right now it just seems so far away. I know I'm over thinking things but it's kind of my thing. Oh wells, end pointless irrelevant post.
We just experience them as being 'hard' because we all suck. Really bad. The avg reg that has made 7 figures lifetime is just not very good at all (myself included). Think about how good you have to be to get to the top x percentile in any other competitive pursuit and compare it with poker, it's a joke. Good news for motivated "good" (relative to all the other fools) pros!! Cheers
Was just curious as to why girls are much more vocal during sex than guys. + Show Spoiler +
Just thinking in evolutionary terms, I heard blue eyes are preferable because they are easier to read. So kind of the in the same vein, I think girls are more vocal because that leads to men being able to trust them? Something along these lines.
Hello all... I am still studying computer science and actually getting fairly decent.
I have a personnal project right now, i was wondering if its an interesting one before i invest time into it.
I want to make a RPG battle editor where the user can easily create any RPG battle he wants. Not an rpg game, just the battle.
The basics will be a screen where you can build heroes (choose abilities, life, defense, mana, etc, with plenty of options), and another screen where you create the teams (max 5 players per team) and can start playing, either PVP or vs computer.
In addition to this, there's a few features i might want to add.
#1 Ability for the computer to calculate the best move, in a fairly advanced way, for any matches.
#2 Ability for the computer to try and predict which side will win before the battle begins.
#3 Ability for the computer to generate a random battle, which he thinks is close and interesting.
#4 Ability to create a random hero with balanced abilities.
#5 Ability to save the characters, teams, etc. for next use.
Note: i'm still not very good with graphics... best i would do is an image the user choose to represent the character and very very basic animation
So if you have better project ideas, additionnal ideas for this project, or just think this is a good idea, please post ^^
So 3 months have past since I made my first investment at LendingClub.com. When I first signed up, I deposited what remained of my PayPal balance from some stuff I sold on eBay for a total initial deposit of $1,259.83. Pretty much firing one buy-in at the investment.
My strategy for investing on the site isn't too complicated. I did some mild research and found some helpful filtering sites to narrow down my criteria for lending money to strangers. I found a lot of use in lendstats.com in filtering for specific loan-types that seem to have a history of high returns and non-default. After I have a list of loan applications I scan through them for proper grammar and reasonable loan requests (i.e "Consolidating my debt" > "BUYIN A HARLEYY!"). Then I buy a share of the loan ($25) and repeat. The whole process of takes all of 10 minutes once a month so it's not too much of a hassle.
As you can see I'm invested in 54 different notes and have been paid $98.72 in payments to date. Of those payments, roughly half is my initial investment back and half is profit (interest). My net annualized return is very high right now, but that is a function of no defaults yet, which will of course happen eventually. I am in the early part of all of my loans and this period typically has the lowest default rate of any time period in a loan. I expect that 20% return to drop to the mid to low teens eventually, but for a speculative investment after a few months I'm satisfied. If things are still running smoothly I may even begin making regular monthly investments here. I will see how annoying it is to deal with this type of investment at tax time though before I start doing that. If anyone has any questions about the site or my experience with it so far I'll try to answer them as best as I can.
Video blog of me trying to STOP MY DOWNSWING!!by Joeingram1, November 22
I was thinking about things today as I am a big believer in weird things like this. Ever since my girlfriend bought me this little koala my losing at poker, running bad in life, running bad in poker, playing terrible has started. I looked over next to my computer today and realized this fucking bear was bought 2 days before I arrived here around the same time I had a -130k session. IT MUST BE THE BEARS FAULT!! Here I am trying to stop this evil being
Hopefully it works
This is one of the graphs I have since I have been around this demon!
So I posted in one of my previous blogs about my fiancé losing her best friend to cancer at the age of just 29 in August.
Well she was an amazingly generous person and was a founding member of a charity named BabyTree Projects, an organisation developed with her brother to provide schooling and education in rural Cambodia where her family had to endure torture camps while raising all of her siblings before being able to escape to Australia.
A brief history of the charity:
In the late 1970s an Australian charity helped the Saly family and their children to escape the desperate situation in Cambodia and to start a new life in Australia. The gravity of the situation was not lost on one of the youngest members, Koky Saly, who was inspired to help other in need, just as he and his family had been helped.
In 2006, Koky, in participation with Orphfund, and with the assistance of many friends, family and associates raised money and a built a school in Sophy village. Sophy village is in Siem Reap province where 80 per cent of the children do not finish primary. The new school enabled many children to attend school as the overcrowded school was extended. Ongoing support for the school was provided including purchase of land for a school garden, a breakfast program and establishment of a library.
In 2007 BTP was officially established as a charity with two branches one in Australia and one in Japan. The dedicated volunteers worked tirelessly to raise money to fund a new school in Peam village, also in Siem Reap province. BTP volunteers travelled to Cambodia in December 2007 and work on the project was completed in February 2008, with the schools officially opening in April 2008. This was a great achievement for BTP, with its first stand-alone project completed. BTP facilitates visits from English teachers to live in the village and teach at the school and is providing ongoing support for many of the schools activities. Since this time BTP has been working extensively with Anlong Kraing (Big Hole) village in Kampong Thom Province. BTP constructed a school building there in January 2009 and constructed a secondary school building 10km away in Sambour village in 2011. BTP is also exploring ways to improve the quality of education, including providing visiting teachers, English classes, scholarships, teacher training and much more.
In each of these school building projects, volunteers traveled to Cambodia to live in the village, assist local builders in the construction of the school building and interact with children and other village members. The volunteers are encouraged to run classes for the school children, play games and attend village events. It is an amazing experiencewhere theylearn about Cambodian village life and culture and even pick up some Khmer along the way.
Throughout each of these projects, in intervening trips to Cambodia and with our contacts on the ground, we scout for new villages that need and want assistance in establishing or extending a school. We consistently have several potential projects in our sights and visit our established projects regularly.
The charity have arranged a walkaton in her honor to help raise funds to build and maintain additional schools. My partner and I are obviously assisting and attending the day and although it is unlikely if anyone is willing to give even $10 it will have made this post worthwhile.
Managed to survive my first week back training, barely. Damn, I had no idea how out of shape I let myself get over the prior 6months. These breaks are fucking killing me. I currently wouldn't last 1rd with myself from 6 months ago, not even just a cardio thing but tiny mistakes(some large ones too) and brain farts walking myself into bad position that I would never do before. Good news is in the last week I've lost 8lbs and can now go a 4-5hour day without vomiting so that's always a plus. Sore as hell and black and blue from head to toe. Thankgiving getting in my way tho and the gym is closed for the next 3 days since everyone is traveling for the holiday so time to put those 8lbs back on and carb load for the next month or two.
4 tabling zoom is pretty much fun. Played like an hour each day and it seems I can't concentrate for much longer. Any hints on how to focus better? My attention is definately going down after 30 minutes. Is a winrate of 18BB/100 realistic over the long run at NL5? I usually don't think so, but maybe something like 8-10BB/100...
Really appreciate to have the possibility to talk about Poker here, thanks guys
Hi everyone. So I checked out this whole zoom thing on PS last week and I must say I like it. Not only can I play more hands per hour but also win more due to a higher percentage of fish/weak regs playing there. I'm still adjusting my game because it doesn't look exactly the same as on regular tables but I would never say it is tougher to beat zoom. I am going to stick to zoom for a while and I may check out its twin brothers on FTP/Ipoker to see if the average skill level is lower and then play there.
And to keep this blog a bit balanced when it comes to content I'm posting some pics from my last trip to the US. Thanks for following and see you next week
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)
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