Oh Titles, So Tough To Chooseby k2o4, September 20
Hello wonderful LP world... do miss you guys, but what tends to happen is that if I don't play poker I don't wander here often, and then I don't post or read often, and then it's a drift away. Occasionally I have some weird desire to post something somewhere and I think of LP, usually at like 2am or in between classes or something, and I'll post and then forget I posted. It can be quite a while before I make it back here again. It's weird how that happens as you age, being an internet kid as I was, to not be in a daily engagement with a tight online community.
Anyway, that's my ramble, and now the point. It seems that there's some dislike of my title choices. Maybe it's cause they're not original. Maybe cause I keep using the same one over and over again. Maybe cause that repeated title sounds crazy to some people. Whatever it may be, I'm here today cause I had one of those inspired moments and I thought it would be nice to finally reply to some comments and explain why I keep using that same old annoying title over, and over, and over again. So with no further ado,
I use the title because I believe it to be true, and I'm fine with making a bold (or crazy sounding) claim that people will eventually catch up to. There's cautious, which is a good thing, and then there's stubbornness, which holds back progress. I've seen enough evidence to be convinced that cannabis has the power to not only slow tumor progression, but to also completely cure cancer. My definition of cure cancer may be a little different than your definition, so let me make it clear - by "cure cancer" I mean that someone has cancer, then they change nothing in their lives other than adding cannabis, and then they no longer have cancer. I hope that's simple enough. I know that this has occurred on our planet, that people have met that definition, and therefore I feel secure in speaking what I believe to be the truth in my title.
I get it - some of you are indoctrinated into the belief that you shouldn't believe, that you must doubt anything which can't fit into a test tube or hasn't been replicated a million times in a lab. That's fine, your needs will be satisfied... eventually. I've decided not to wait around like you though. I'm on a journey of letting truth flow into my life and not denying it, but embracing it. I don't blindly accept things, I require evidence just like you do. Just not as much. When I tell you the story about a 3 year old boy with a brain tumor who beat it by using cannabis oil, you just see anecdotal evidence and assume that there are too many unknown variables to be valid because it's not in a lab. You see reasons to doubt so you don't even investigate. But I see my brother, or my father, or myself, undergoing an experience and then being dismissed because my experience didn't happen in a lab where these doubters could watch me. I understand that by putting things in a lab you can eliminate variables from influencing the result and therefore be sure of cause. But I also know that you can witness something with your own eyes and know it to be true, and taking it into a lab is just a confirmation.
I'm not making this up about the kid with the brain tumor, and the story is well documented and actually quite epic... A 3 year old who's traditional cancer treatments have all failed, a desperate father who wasn't willing to give up on his son, and a daring journey to secure a medicine which his government deemed illegal and could land him in jail. And in the end, the fathers daring journey paid off, and his son lives.
What would you do if your 3-year old son was stricken with brain cancer? Most parents wouldn’t think twice about bringing their child to a mainstream doctor, only to undergo modern-day cancer ‘treatments’ such as chemotherapy. This is what one father, Mike Hyde, from Montana did when his 3 year old was diagnosed with brain cancer, but the father doesn’t attribute his sons victory against cancer with the use of chemotherapy or any other mainstream treatment; the dad actually says marijuana oil is what made the young boy beat cancer. While the story isn’t recent, it is one that everyone should hear about.
Doubt all you want, and fall further to the back of the pack as new truths emerge and reshape our world. That's fine, that's your choice and it's your right. But for those of us who are moving forward, it's going to be good.
And now to the comments:
On September 16 2012 22:39 Carthac wrote:
You couldn't have come up with a worse title. Marijuana is useful for slowing down the progression of certain types of cancer. Curing it would mean it eradicates the spread of the disease.
Now that I've explained my view above, I think it should make sense why I use the word "cure". The language of "slows progression" is just cautious scientists, which I respect and understand, but it's just caution because there's so much skepticism that they don't want to overstep. They've just recently found that cannabis "stops metastasis in aggressive cancers", so you can see the evolution occurring. More data arrives which confirms what was obvious to many of us earlier, while those who are cautious held back on their conclusions at the time. Carthac, I'm glad to see that you are aware that cannabis does have healthy effects on cancer, and I'm sure as the science moves along you'll be able to grow with it =)
On September 17 2012 17:14 NewbSaibot wrote:
I guess k2o doesnt read responses much anymore, but I've said time and time again that he'd do a far greater service to his skeptics if he cut the sensationalist bullshit and just created reasonable sounding topics. Saying "Pot cures cancer!!!1" is an immediate red flag and causes many people to just ignore the "evidence" and write off the information as likely bullshit, information which may in fact be quite valuable. His goal shouldnt be the preach to the quire, it should be to preach to those who are in doubt.
I think you make a very good, valid point here. And it makes a lot of sense. I'm still gonna behave differently though as I have a different goal in mind, but I agree that if my goal was to bring in the masses then there are better titles to choose. But this one is the most honest one to me, and I gotta speak my truth on this issue. I'm fine with sounding crazy or ridiculous now because I know soon people will catch up and a phrase like "cannabis cures cancer" will be common and normal. I'd rather be part of making that phrase normal to the masses, even if it means they won't read my posts. When they're ready, they'll remember those crazy, annoying, idiotic, sensationalist titles which that douche k2o4 used to post, and maybe they'll look up my post and read it then, maybe they'll find another source to get more info from, and then they'll know it too. That's my hope at least. Such an idealistic idiot I am.
On September 17 2012 20:49 whamm! wrote:
he must be high when he wrote this
You're so busted for not reading, cause I didn't write anything, just copy/pasted something and put it in a quote. osnap
Thank y'all for the fun comments to reply to. Till next time.
Just wondering if it is just LHE or do you NLHE/PLO players feel like you are becoming crabby nits also. Could be the influx of WCOOP money still working it's way up the chain, but I have been seeing some especially donk filled games these last few weeks and I know at one point in my career I would be twice as many pots with these fish due to my post flop advantage. Play like an old timer now though and just whine to myself instead. *sigh*
Close to break even so far this month only played like 15k hands so far though, so we will see what happens.
Flopped quad queens vs AA, that was nice. Got paid.
I decided to play some online poker again since I want slack off video gaming for a while.
I recently made some money off D3 and decided to gamble a chunk of it. I bet sc2 on pinnaclesports, drop me a pm if you do too and want to discuss bets in a skype group.
About me
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I play small time SnG poker at PS but nothing really special. The purpose of this entry is that I also play on EspaceJeux. It's a poker room that you can only play If you are resident and physically are in the province of Quebec, Canada. The software is pretty awful ATM but it is full of fish. I played around only 20 hours and seen some pretty awful play, I mean really bad.
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I'm looking for is coaching, I want a good SnG player to watch and coach me over skype for sessions at EspaceJeux vs theses fish to see what my level really is. Drop me a pm if you want to discuss that further.
I'm also looking some suggestions of reads about SnG. I always got some free time to read and I tough I'd pick up a poker ebook. I'm looking for intermediate/advanced stuff. Let me know if you know some books that are interesting in that regard.
That's it for now guys, let me know if you got some suggestions for me !
it's like if you ever say LOL you've just committed suicide. there's no way to get away with a misuse of the lol term. lawl and lawd are awful and anything involved 'ew' has been overused way too much.
lol on the other hand will never get old. however, lol is meant to be a free standing deal. Lol is bad and loL is worse. neither should occur.
let's be frank, there's no way to say it and definitely not LoL or lOl thought LOL is obviously not preferential. and in stream of consciousness you'll opt for LoL subconsciously, every time.
it's not that you've gotta approach these questions with a certain level of terse. it's just that these are important considerations. if you allow questions like this to run amuck internet etiquette quickly devolves.
what is the metagame? it's one of those emphemeral perspectives that only a word like lol and its correct failure to ever evolve in anyway is really the essence of why the metagame is really a non-issue. anyone who subscribes to metagame is a victim of their own conceits. you can't play starcraft or poker by the rules. it's no different than risk, and though i've never played diplomacy, i'm sure water is just as valuable there as it is in either of these other questions.
anyway myth once posted a famous bruce lee video that explained all this and why it's the essence of poker. i hope this clarifies the correct internet usage of the term lol and why any other possibility is unacceptable.
Also got my hands on the HOTS beta - I'm kinda underwhelmed by it tbh, it feels almost exactly the same and the new maps are pretty boring super big macro yawn fests. Hopefully they will tweak/add some more units that really shakes the game up.
Hong Kong, Macau, random mid-month postby TianYuan, September 18
Friend of mine needed a visa to China, couldn't get it in Korea so we decided to go to Hong Kong for the weekend. Had a pretty brutal first day ---
Some pre-info: My friend had to express re-new his passport as it had run out of pages, so we were due to pick up the new passport just a few hours before our flight left.
8 am: Wake up, get ready to go take BJJ test (first stripe white belt - I'm a fish).
11 am: Take test - scary as fuck, especially as I normally go to the evening classes so when at first I barely recognized anyone I wasn't feeling too at ease, but a bunch of familiar faces trickled in as time went on. Passed just barely, as did the other guy taking the same level test as me. Teacher asked me what I thought of my performance, I said soemthing along the lines of "I'm missing a lot of details, and whenever I have to do it left-handed I'm screwing things up royally". Teacher said "Agree 100% with that. Be better prepared next time!". Then turned to the other guy: "Exactly the same applies to you".
Tests are honestly one of the few things that make me nervous in life - like, I'm not insanely confident or outgoing or anything, but I don't actively dread most things... Tests will keep me awake at night. So glad I passed.
Come back, go to Seoul to pick up my friends passport from embassy, head to airport... head to checkin...... My ticket is NP, my friends ticket? "It appears it was cancelled....". After a long wait my friend has to basically re-book it on the spot (and gets a better price than me wtf, I booked in advance and picked a nicely priced one, wtf is this shit :D). Just barely make it to plane.
Arrive in Hong Kong, it's like.... 11 pm I guess? We get a crazy young HK taxi driver who has seriously 4+ phones all sitting in his dashboard and all connected to his head by various earpieces and what not. Crazy guy and also a bit of a hustler vis-a-vis tollgate fees but w-ever.
We get to our hotel, go to check in....... Ticket booked for 1 week from now. What..the....fuck? Friend re-books. We go to find an ATM and get something to eat, pretty tired by now. ATM eats my friends card. Does not give it back. I put in a random expired gym card, machine is like 'nah, i only eat credit cards' and gives it back... so apparently freak accident. We call support number and go eat, finally get through after 40 minutes on hold (looking forward to seeing what his phone bill will be after that). They say go bank and we can pick it up tomorrow.
Next day, wake up 6 am, get to travelling agency to apply for China visa at like 8:30~, head back to bank... Cute young bank lady is pretty helpful and calls around a bunch and determines that yeah, the card is there etc and let's go down and get it. Older bank manager type woman says hmmmmmmm, yeah the name on the card is your name, and you have a passport, drivers license, ID card, other card from the same bank and papers from said bank... but to be safe we're gonna ship this card back to canada, you can collect it there.
.............
So after 2 hours of this (bank lady #1 fought the good fight for us), my friend gets his card back. We go pick up the visa and do some shopping. Somehow vaguely disappointed with the shopping, I feel like we missed all the good spots :/ We checked out Times Square area, bunch of stuff along Henessy Road (SOGO, Jardine Crescent area etc) and some other random places. Feel like there could have been a lot more quality shopping with someone who knew the place a bit better.
So, Sunday we decide to go Macau for some poker. I've never played live poker in my life, haven't played Hold'em in forever, and my friend hasnt played in forever in general, but has played some live. When we arrived the first mode of transportation we saw was a free bus to the Venetian so we hopped on that, walked around til we found the poker area and sat down at a fresh HKD 25/50 table --- I guess that's like 3.5/7 USD). Probably the softest table in Macau that day lol
All fish except for 2 nits and they are basically 2 empty seats for all the hands they play. Unable to fold anything tho and keep paying the any-2-cards guy off monstrously with their overpairs.
One of the two nits was an old guy in a hoodie and headphones...
I don't know if any of you guys read the Live Poker guide by Rumnchess on twoplustwo, but in there, there's a description of a player type called "Old Man Coffee". Basically old man coffee is an older man who plays incredibly straight forward --- deuces is a limping hand, so I'll limp etc. This guy might have been slightly more towards a nit grinder than that, but when he busted out the starbucks I almost had to start laughing
Eitherway, this guy plays about 1 hand/hour at most, but will never fold top pair ever.
Finished up a little then went to eat at a really nice Brazilian steak house. Delicious o.o
Returned, got back to same table but completely different lineup: Old man-nit is still there, but the rest have been replaced by a bunch of very obviously chinese young-regs. We play 6 handed with them for a bit, until it fills up. One unpleasant retard - who thankfully leaves very soon - accuses my friend of string betting because the 4 chips he picked up to raise the river didn't all drop at th exact same mili-second (it was seriously dumb, the delay was infinitesmal). So 4k raise turns into a minraise. Might be a good thing as the guy talked himself into calling vs the nuts, but who knows.
This guy thankfully leaves, gets replaced by a Korean - we get to surprise him by saying we're from Korea too etc. Always fun. Anyway, funny hand happens.
Korean raises in ep A8s, old-man-nit calls AK behind him, chinese reg flats A3s. Flop A83, Korean bets, old man nit calls, reg raises, Korean calls, old man nit goes all-in. Chinese reg, who btw was a Chinese version of SaSe, complete with hat and everything, starts agonizing. Thinks for an eternity, and folds. Korean shrugs, calls.
Chinese guy sees old-man-nit has AK and goes crazy.
Not too much else interesting - had some run-good with A7 (kept flopping monsters with said hand), but there was one hand:
2 limps, reg in sb makes it 300, I 3bet in bb to 1k (we're like 8k deep or something). One of the limper folds and (accidentally?) shows an ace. SB makes it 2.3k. I felt incredibly strongly he had KK, considered calling for set+to bluff A flops, decided I was too likely to do somethign dumb on low flops and folded. Guy showed me KK, was so happy.
Got recognized at the table by some friends-of-a-friend, which was fun. Overall finished up a little bit, really enjoyed playing live tho --- really makes me 1) Miss hold'em 2) want to start taking some trips out to Walker Hill here in Korea.
Online this month has been meh - I feel like everytime I play badly, I run good and get rewarded, then when I play good I run like acid, part of poker I guess but still annoying to deal with, so much easier on your mind when you play good = win and play bad = lose. Down like 4 buyins or something in 30k hands.
Food in HK = amazing, one of the things i dislike the most about Korea is how difficult it can be to get a diverse selection of food... Korean Chinese restaurants generally only have Koreanized chinese food, and Korean sushi is on average pretty Koreanized too. HK had everything everywhere and that was sweet. Hong Kong also felt waaaaaay bigger than Seoul tho, kind of exhausting just being there. Want to go to Macau again badly, really hope the new table-cap law doesn't fuck over poker there....
I took like.... 3 pictures total from this trip because I'm the most horrible tourist of all time.
Emotional feelings, niggah wat?by mnj, September 17
I haven't been dating/seeing anyone for quite a while. It wasn't really a conscious decision but maybe the mix of having no real viable options + contemplation about views on love, relationships.
Anyway I met a new friend, and she is so beautiful, I am finding myself drawn to her. I have been having a blast with her, and have taken her on a few play dates, like driving into the country and looking at the stars with no kissing but hand holding. I don't know if she likes me more than friends.
Anyway earlier this week I saw her talking to some other guys, and I got kind of ridiculously jealous and felt really stupid for feeling this way. I didn't enjoy the way I was feeling because it's so stupid. Maybe stupider than this post. Anyway I adjusted by cutting my time with her.
I'm just confused as to what to do and want to just save myself any future embarrassment or heartache
PokerStars Hand #86262510394: Tournament #2012090039, $670+$30 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round VI, Level I (25/50) - 2012/09/16 12:01:05 BRT [2012/09/16 11:01:05 ET]
Table 2012090039 5 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: E. Katchalov (7400 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (7600 in chips)
E. Katchalov: posts small blind 25
Hero: posts big blind 50
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
E. Katchalov: raises 50 to 100
Hero: raises 200 to 300
E. Katchalov: raises 525 to 825
Hero: calls 525
Hero: checks
E. Katchalov: bets 1850
Hero: calls 1850
River (Pot : $7,250.00)
Hero: checks
E. Katchalov: bets 3775 and is all-in
Hero: calls 3775
Showdown E. Katchalov: shows (two pair, Kings and Fours)
Hero: shows (two pair, Queens and Fours)
E. Katchalov collected 14800 from pot
Summary Total pot 14800 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: E. Katchalov (button) (small blind) showed and won (14800) with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with two pair, Queens and Fours
PokerStars Hand #86285687966: Tournament #616020018, $500+$30 USD Holdem No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2012/09/16 19:11:43 BRT [2012/09/16 18:11:43 ET]
Table 616020018 69 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (9890 in chips)
Seat 2: SicTheory (4580 in chips)
Seat 4: ricardons8 (8693 in chips)
Seat 5: Syndrome1977 (9248 in chips)
Seat 6: Klebanov999 (9448 in chips)
Seat 7: trickyone14 (29919 in chips)
Seat 8: EZz_GAME (15450 in chips)
Seat 9: nguytheone (25718 in chips) is sitting out
Hero: posts the ante 25
SicTheory: posts the ante 25
ricardons8: posts the ante 25
Syndrome1977: posts the ante 25
Klebanov999: posts the ante 25
trickyone14: posts the ante 25
EZz_GAME: posts the ante 25
nguytheone: posts the ante 25
trickyone14: posts small blind 125
EZz_GAME: posts big blind 250
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
nguytheone: folds
Hero: raises 250 to 500
SicTheory: folds
ricardons8: folds
Syndrome1977: folds
Klebanov999: raises 500 to 1000
trickyone14: folds
nguytheone has returned
EZz_GAME: folds
Hero: raises 1586 to 2586
Klebanov999: raises 6837 to 9423 and is all-in
Hero: calls 6837
Showdown Hero: shows (two pair, Kings and Eights)
Klebanov999: shows (two pair, Aces and Eights)
Klebanov999 collected 19421 from pot
Summary Total pot 19421 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Hero showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Eights
Seat 2: SicTheory folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: ricardons8 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Syndrome1977 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Klebanov999 (button) showed and won (19421) with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 7: trickyone14 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: EZz_GAME (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: nguytheone folded before Flop (didnt bet)
PokerStars Hand #86282442091: Tournament #616020017, $200+$15 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round V, Level I (10/20) - 2012/09/16 18:07:09 BRT [2012/09/16 17:07:09 ET]
Table 616020017 2 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Luckbox1326 (1540 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1460 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 10
Luckbox1326: posts big blind 20
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises 40 to 60
Luckbox1326: raises 100 to 160
Hero: raises 205 to 365
Luckbox1326: raises 1175 to 1540 and is all-in
Hero: calls 1095 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (80) returned to Luckbox1326
Showdown Luckbox1326: shows (a pair of Kings)
Hero: shows (a pair of Queens)
Luckbox1326 collected 2920 from pot
Summary Total pot 2920 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Luckbox1326 (big blind) showed and won (2920) with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Hero (button) (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Hero: bets 9404 and is all-in
19Pistike93: calls 7346 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2058) returned to Hero
Showdown Hero: shows (three of a kind, Tens)
19Pistike93: shows (a flush, Ace high)
19Pistike93 collected 28644 from pot
Summary Total pot 28644 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: GIV19 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Pass_72 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: KJulius10 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 6: memoanda folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: rivermanl folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: wizowizo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: 19Pistike93 showed and won (28644) with a flush, Ace high
PokerStars Hand #86288955328: Tournament #614836846, $1000+$50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round II, Level II (30/60) - 2012/09/16 20:31:28 BRT [2012/09/16 19:31:28 ET]
Table 614836846 13 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (6393 in chips)
Seat 2: aejones (13607 in chips)
aejones: posts small blind 30
Hero: posts big blind 60
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
aejones: raises 60 to 120
Hero: calls 60
Hero: checks
aejones: bets 180
Hero: raises 295 to 475
aejones: raises 858 to 1333
Hero: raises 1121 to 2454
aejones: raises 5323 to 7777
Hero: calls 3819 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1504) returned to aejones
Showdown Hero: shows (three of a kind, Fives)
aejones: shows (a flush, Ace high)
aejones collected 12786 from pot
Hero finished the tournament in 54th place
Summary Total pot 12786 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: aejones (button) (small blind) showed and won (12786) with a flush, Ace high
PokerStars Hand #86293724885: Tournament #2012090044, $2000+$100 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XIV (400/800) - 2012/09/16 23:25:03 BRT [2012/09/16 22:25:03 ET]
Table 2012090044 34 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: tRaMp$d0PrAy (33150 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (28551 in chips)
Seat 3: LR-President (66358 in chips)
Seat 4: SlyderS1 (62045 in chips)
Seat 5: Leanod (39518 in chips)
Seat 7: 7sorryforyou (138948 in chips)
Seat 8: ragingquads_ (11463 in chips)
Seat 9: MaxBNuts (68435 in chips)
tRaMp$d0PrAy: posts the ante 100
Hero: posts the ante 100
LR-President: posts the ante 100
SlyderS1: posts the ante 100
Leanod: posts the ante 100
7sorryforyou: posts the ante 100
ragingquads_: posts the ante 100
MaxBNuts: posts the ante 100
Hero: posts small blind 400
LR-President: posts big blind 800
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
SlyderS1: folds
Leanod: folds
7sorryforyou: folds
ragingquads_: folds
MaxBNuts: folds
tRaMp$d0PrAy: raises 960 to 1760
Hero: raises 2226 to 3986
LR-President: folds
tRaMp$d0PrAy: raises 29064 to 33050 and is all-in
Hero: calls 24465 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (4599) returned to tRaMp$d0PrAy
Showdown Hero: shows (a pair of Eights)
tRaMp$d0PrAy: shows (a flush, Ace high)
tRaMp$d0PrAy collected 58502 from pot
Hero finished the tournament in 364th place
Summary Total pot 58502 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: tRaMp$d0PrAy (button) showed and won (58502) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: Hero (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 3: LR-President (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: SlyderS1 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Leanod folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: 7sorryforyou folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: ragingquads_ folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: MaxBNuts folded before Flop (didnt bet)
PokerStars Hand #86293031961: Tournament #2012090042, $200+$15 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXIX (7000/14000) - 2012/09/16 22:52:38 BRT [2012/09/16 21:52:38 ET]
Table 2012090042 451 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: giorgio16-7 (578018 in chips)
Seat 2: Turcooooo (1042685 in chips)
Seat 3: QuimQuim (317084 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero (299756 in chips)
Seat 5: Barsalata (181916 in chips)
Seat 6: 7sMsMsM7 (128866 in chips)
Seat 7: 4k.falc (1526688 in chips)
Seat 8: stuupid5 (569766 in chips)
Seat 9: hotmark777 (165933 in chips)
giorgio16-7: posts the ante 1750
Turcooooo: posts the ante 1750
QuimQuim: posts the ante 1750
Hero: posts the ante 1750
Barsalata: posts the ante 1750
7sMsMsM7: posts the ante 1750
4k.falc: posts the ante 1750
stuupid5: posts the ante 1750
hotmark777: posts the ante 1750
stuupid5: posts small blind 7000
hotmark777: posts big blind 14000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
giorgio16-7: folds
Turcooooo: folds
QuimQuim: folds
Hero: raises 14000 to 28000
Barsalata: raises 152166 to 180166 and is all-in
7sMsMsM7: folds
4k.falc: folds
stuupid5: folds
hotmark777: folds
Hero: calls 152166
Showdown Hero: shows (a pair of Sevens)
Barsalata: shows (a pair of Queens)
Barsalata collected 397082 from pot
Summary Total pot 397082 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: giorgio16-7 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Turcooooo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: QuimQuim folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Hero showed and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 5: Barsalata showed and won (397082) with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: 7sMsMsM7 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: 4k.falc (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: stuupid5 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: hotmark777 (big blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Hand #86293460126: Tournament #2012090042, $200+$15 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXX (8000/16000) - 2012/09/16 23:12:50 BRT [2012/09/16 22:12:50 ET]
Table 2012090042 451 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: giorgio16-7 (481002 in chips)
Seat 2: Turcooooo (1155790 in chips)
Seat 3: QuimQuim (293584 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero (231680 in chips)
Seat 5: Barsalata (326582 in chips)
Seat 6: 7sMsMsM7 (498737 in chips)
Seat 7: 4k.falc (1326743 in chips)
Seat 8: stuupid5 (395911 in chips)
Seat 9: hotmark777 (100683 in chips)
giorgio16-7: posts the ante 2000
Turcooooo: posts the ante 2000
QuimQuim: posts the ante 2000
Hero: posts the ante 2000
Barsalata: posts the ante 2000
7sMsMsM7: posts the ante 2000
4k.falc: posts the ante 2000
stuupid5: posts the ante 2000
hotmark777: posts the ante 2000
QuimQuim: posts small blind 8000
Hero: posts big blind 16000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Barsalata: folds
7sMsMsM7: folds
4k.falc: folds
stuupid5: raises 16000 to 32000
hotmark777: raises 66683 to 98683 and is all-in
giorgio16-7: folds
Turcooooo: folds
QuimQuim: folds
Hero: raises 130997 to 229680 and is all-in
stuupid5: folds
Uncalled bet (130997) returned to Hero
Showdown Hero: shows (a pair of Tens)
hotmark777: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
hotmark777 collected 255366 from pot
Summary Total pot 255366 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: giorgio16-7 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Turcooooo (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: QuimQuim (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 5: Barsalata folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: 7sMsMsM7 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: 4k.falc folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: stuupid5 folded before Flop
Seat 9: hotmark777 showed and won (255366) with three of a kind, Nines
PokerStars Hand #86293700485: Tournament #2012090042, $200+$15 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXX (8000/16000) - 2012/09/16 23:23:55 BRT [2012/09/16 22:23:55 ET]
Table 2012090042 451 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: giorgio16-7 (511002 in chips)
Seat 2: Turcooooo (808924 in chips)
Seat 3: QuimQuim (776752 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero (227994 in chips)
Seat 5: Barsalata (252582 in chips)
Seat 6: 7sMsMsM7 (550801 in chips)
Seat 7: 4k.falc (1291746 in chips)
Seat 8: stuupid5 (390911 in chips)
giorgio16-7: posts the ante 2000
Turcooooo: posts the ante 2000
QuimQuim: posts the ante 2000
Hero: posts the ante 2000
Barsalata: posts the ante 2000
7sMsMsM7: posts the ante 2000
4k.falc: posts the ante 2000
stuupid5: posts the ante 2000
4k.falc: posts small blind 8000
stuupid5: posts big blind 16000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
giorgio16-7: folds
Turcooooo: folds
QuimQuim: folds
Hero: raises 209994 to 225994 and is all-in
Barsalata: folds
7sMsMsM7: folds
4k.falc: folds
stuupid5: calls 209994
Showdown stuupid5: shows (two pair, Aces and Kings)
Hero: shows (two pair, Kings and Nines)
stuupid5 collected 475988 from pot
Hero finished the tournament in 119th place and received $1267.98.
Summary Total pot 475988 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: giorgio16-7 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Turcooooo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: QuimQuim folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Hero showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines
Seat 5: Barsalata folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: 7sMsMsM7 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: 4k.falc (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: stuupid5 (big blind) showed and won (475988) with two pair, Aces and Kings
DOES MARIJUANA CAUSE CANCER? RESEARCH SAYS MARIJUANA FIGHTS CANCER by Lisa Garber
Does marijuana cause cancer? The censorship-happy government’s war on marijuana may be sorely misplaced, especially when considering all the other issues in need of focus. Dr. Sean McAllister of the Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has spent years researching cannabidiol, a cannabinoid found in cannabis, the plant that flowers marijuana. “Cannabidiol offers hope of a non-toxic therapy that could treat aggressive forms of cancer without any of the painful side effects of chemotherapy,” he says.
You might remember Cash Hyde, the 3-year-old boy from Montana diagnosed with brain cancer but who beat it with his father Mike’s help and marijuana oil. Well, Hyde’s case isn’t the only one revealing the positive relationship between marijuana and cancer.
Does Marijuana Cause Cancer? THC as Therapy
In 1998, Cristina Sanchez of Complutense University in Madrid reported in a European biochemistry journal that THC—the famed psychoactive component in marijuana—“induces apoptosis [cell death] in C6 glioma cells,” which are a type of brain cancer.
Lead author of another study and Harvard University researcher Anju Preet says, “THC can have a potential therapeutic role.” His findings, presented in a 2007 American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles, showed that THC has a direct antitumoral effect.
THC’s First Human Trial
The first clinical trial studying THC’s antitumoral effect on humans was conducted by Manuel Guzman and his team of Spanish scientists. Guzman administered THC to nine patients who had not responded to traditional brain cancer therapies for the study. As published in a 2006 issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology, tumor cell proliferation reduced in response to THC administration through a catheter – showing the medical benefits of marijuana.
THC and the Lungs
Another Harvard study reports that THC slows lung cancer progress. Moreover, unlike chemotherapy which damages all cells—healthy or cancerous—THC specifically destroyed tumoral cells without harming healthy ones.
In another study published in the Journal of American Medical Association, spanning from 1985 to 2006, over 5,000 men and women smoked about one joint daily for seven years. Co-author Stefan Kertesz found that subjects, rather than having damaged lungs, showed increases in lung air flow rates. Surprising findings indeed.
Cannabidiol and Breast Cancer
With backing from the National Institute of Health, Dr. Sean McAllister conducted a study and found that cannabidiol inhibited breast cancer cell proliferation, metastasis, and tumor growth.
McAllister researched cancer’s relationship to the ID-1 gene—a protein active during embryonic development but, in healthy subjects, turns and stays off. In the case of breast cancer patients, the gene turns back on, which causes malignant cells to metastasize. In the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, McAllister wrote that cannabidiol switches off the gene’s expression.
McAllister found that cannabidiol can even work alongside standard chemotherapy treatments by performing synergistically with pharmaceuticals. This means that maximum, toxic doses don’t have to be administered.
Despite accusations that marijuana smoking can compromise the immune system, mountains of research indicate that the plant has more to offer than a high. More studies are undoubtedly in the works.
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In this research, Manuel Guzman located in Madrid, Spain discovered that cannabinoids substantially inhibit the growth of tumors in a variety of lab animals. In the study he also found that not one of these tested animals endured any kind of side effects seen in many similar chemotherapy treatments.
If all of the research doesn’t appeal to you, then maybe the 2,500 total studied patients throughout these 37 controlled studies may. None of the patients reported any kind of adverse side effects from the use of THC and based medication – further adding to the benefits of medical marijuana and strengthening the positive connection between marijuana and cancer.
So, does marijuana cause cancer, or does it fight cancer?
potential downsides of a poker lifestyleby Ket, September 15
This post by RiKD got me thinking about a few things, I was going to write a reply in the thread it's from but thought it's a worthy discussion in its own right and deserves its own post.
On September 15 2012 10:33 RiKD wrote:
One thing to consider is poker can be pretty damaging to other facets of life and development.
Getting to the point:
[other text that was getting to the point in the thread but not the point here]
I'd love to hear some more thoughts from RiKD, and anyone else who wants to join the discussion, on how poker can be damaging to other facets of life and development. It would be good to get the perspectives of current other professional poker players, but actually especially valuable to get the perspective of guys like RiKD who have seen both sides of the fence. Guys who used to live the poker grinding freedom lifestyle and are now following different, more traditional paths, and so have seen both sides of the fence.
I have my own thoughts which I'll outline below, but do add to the discussion and let me know if you see it the same way, or where your perspectives vary, and especially new ideas I haven't been able to consider as someone who's only seen this side of the fence.
When you get strongly interested in poker (a period that i think pretty much all players that manage to become successful experience at some point) and the whole process of playing and learning and improving, you find you become addicted to this creative process and want to invest 100% of your limited mental energy+focus every day on the process. Personal growth generally happens as a result of mental energy/focus being invested in something challenging, and to limit the avenues you invest your mental energy in is to limit the avenues in which you'll grow. By investing only in poker you'll only grow in the areas of risk management, rational decision making, mental discipline and being able to play card games well (obviously). Breadth of experience will be sacrificed for great depth in one limited area, which can have all sorts of suboptimal consequences on personal development and therefore ultimately, happiness and quality of life (anyone disagree with this leap of logic?).
In my experience both personally and from talking to several other poker playing friends, a very common facet of life that poker brings negative consequences to is social development. As poker is inherently a very isolated profession, much more effort needs to be made to rectify the default situation than for someone in a traditional job who spends large parts of his work life interacting with colleagues, and social groups are easily and conveniently formed from the workplace. Generally, overcoming any kind of life-inertia like this takes some conceited effort and will, and so not everyone will do it. The problem can be especially compounded by the possibility that if the dedicated poker player is investing 100% of his mental energy into getting better at poker and/or trying to make more money, and some mental energy is required to overcome inertia, it's unlikely to happen if there isn't any left. Your most likely social group (the one for which the least amount of energy invested in overcoming inertia is required) as a poker player is other poker players, and so your perspectives and circle all become limited, which limits your potential avenues for growth, development and discovery (going back to the idea of breadth of experience being a positive).
I believe that while professional poker does present these challenges and can bring these pitfalls, it's up to the individual player to overcome the inertia of the default situation playing poker for a living puts you in with an investment of energy and will. This is quite a difficult thing to do generally, and that's why you see a lot of unhappy professional poker players and a lot of obese people to name another example. Since this is just some stream of consciousness thoughts to open discussion, I won't bother to write any sort of tidy conclusion beyond this and instead hope the discussion starts flowing from here
Been lurkin on this site for almost 4 years now. I guess I feel like I owe the cummunity some content. I am a Limit holdem player and will try to post my thoughtprocess and progress as I go.
I have been playing for almost 10 years in what I call a part-time professional capacity. I am moderately successful but have lately been very driven to perfect my game. Join me on tracking my progress.
BOOOOOM, back to poker lifeby Joeingram1, September 13
Was waiting till I got back on the grind till I posted my summer blog
Basically started 3 day drive home to Vancouver, fly to Vegas, Win bunch at 50/100 plo and take bobbys room shot and profit, fly to San Diego for a few days, Fly to Ibiza for 1.2 weeks and proceed to fall in love with raging/drugs/edm/potentially a person, fly to Barcelona with group I met in Ibiza, fly to Belgium for Tomorrowland which was one of sickest things I ever been to in my life as well, fly to Malta to visit ze german TimStone and bigasiga, get convinced by stinger to fly back home to Chicago for Lollapolooza, Rage hardddd there and meet a crew of people who are into staying awake until 8am and raging crazy style, decide to go out with them for a few weekends in a row and wake up questioning my life lol, debate investing in a nightclub, book place for 3 weeks in Vancouver with stinger instead, and leads to this graph of being back these first 3 days. Now I HAVE to write the blogs for this summer because its some crazyyyy shit
been trying to get eating utensils out of my kitchen drawer but there's a stack of plastic measuring cups that gets stuck against the end part where the wood material hands down a bit lower every time i try to open it (there's a bunch of crap behind the cups that prevents me from moving them back to get unstuck). i tried jamming it a little but i'm afraid the cups will break b/c they're plastic. anyway pretty bummed, i've been to starbucks twice today because i cant get it open. http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad241/bouttreefiddy/stupiddrawer.jpg
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