Playing WCOOP 51 instead of 47 and 54. Because i missed 47 and 51 is the same value as 47+ 54.
I will be playing 54 as well but thats 100% of my self.
FINAL EDIT:
IF i end up playing less or more tourneys from the smaller main events I will use the money you invested as a % of the total entries. Changes wont be big, but say I want to play tourney 21 instead of 17 as stated you will be receiving a % cut based on how much money you sent divided by my non mainevent (5200$) tournaments.
Hope thats ok.
Looking to sell some action for wcoop 2012 ME.
Rate 1.2 : 1
I will also be playing a bunch of smaller events, so far it looks like 8 of em. Selling only 20% of the smaller ones for at 1.25 : 1.
As for the events im playing
17 $320
23 $700
29 $1050
30 $215
38 $215
44 $2100
47 $265
54 $320
totalling 5185
EDIT:
The non main event tournies I will be playing are all nonrebuy, and are totally 5185$ so if u want 5% do the following math.
5% * 5185 * 1.25 = send to wobbly_au and i'll confirm here
I'm a 4NL microstakes player but when I can I take the trip to Niagara Falls for vacation and to play at the 1/2 live games they have there.
This time around, my girlfriend got us free hotel stay for two nights and so we went together with the plans of shopping in buffalo after + eating at McDonald's which in America, they have 20 pcs for $4.99 which is basically unheard of in Canada. This more than anything in the trip blew my mind.
I had always wanted to go across the border to play at Seneca Casino because I heard that drinks are complimentary which is basically unheard of in Canada. This was the second thing that blew my mind. So, with all these dreams of mine and my girlfriend being very supportive of my ambitions, we decided to go to both during our time there.
I had four hands that were kind of interesting to me because I was a little confused with the way I played them. Some I know I butchered irreparably but I would like some input.
We get there pretty late, check into our hotel and eat something small before we go to the 1/2 game at the Niagara casino. We arrive around 2:30am and I sit down alone because my companion doesn't feel like playing anymore and to my dismay, there was only one table going. Sitting down for a short while I realized that it was actually a really good table, a lot of limping, passive, and bad-aggressive type players so I sit down with $260 and looking around I realized it was really deep.
I play tight, raise with KQs with no callers, 3-bet KK no callers and trying to play as solid as possible.
1.
First real hand opens up when two MP players limp in and I get dealt Kc10d in the CO. I raise to 12 and sb/bb and two limpers call. Everyone has me covered and I'm playing ~$260 effective. Four way to the flop.
Flop (~$48)
9d 10s 5d
x to me and I had a plan to bomb the flop if I flop any top pair. So I bet $45.
To my surprise and dismay, all four players call.
Turn (~$228)
Ac
Pretty much the worst card in the deck.
Checks to me again and I have about ~$200 left.
Not really sure what to do here since shoving into 4 players with Kc10d didn't appeal to me that much. Didn't want to check to the river where I give free equity to the players in the pot especially with just a pair of tens.
In hindsight, I think I should have shoved for thin value to get draws to call and maybe (MAYBE) weak aces to fold. Or to check and just give up the pot on the river if anyone bets.
I decided to bet $66 to fold out gut-shot/Q and J high hands that have a bit of equity against me and to charge players for the flush draw. I would never expect a x/raise as a bluff on the turn from these players so being bluffed out wasn't really in the question. Planning to fold if I got raised.
Plus I had position on the river to fold/check back/value bet depending on the river card.
That was my rationale, not really too sure what the best play was.
MP calls, rest folds.
River (~$350)
Jc
MP x's and I quickly x-back. He shrugs, and I show Kc10d to win the pot.
So far so good.
I have an image of a very nitty player from the way that I was willing to fold my small blinds instead of completing.
2.
Tagg-ISH Indian-Guy (~$145) raises from EP iso-ing a EP limper. MP calls, MP+1 calls. and I have AQo in the small blind. I really hate flatting these type of hands OOP and I considered folding but I thought that 3-bet was okay as well. I had the intention of calling his shove. My logic is iffy on this aspect, refer to QQ hand below. I raise to $56, EP limper folds, and EP raiser snap shoves ~$120 and gets folds to me.
My rationale: If I'm going to raise him I'm going to call getting like 1/3 pot odds.
I call, we both table AQo
I left with ~$375 profit after ~2 hours or so which was nice over all.
So, next day we decided to check out Seneca Casino.
As soon as I sat down, I noticed that the American players were really aggressive compared to the Canadian ones. There was hardly a pot where someone was limping, and even less so that they weren't being isolated. It took me a while to notice the tendencies of the players.
3.
I already know I butchered this one. I'm dealt QQ in the sb. LAG older gentleman raises limper to $15, two callers to me in the sb.
So I decide to flat.
My reasons were because QQ is strong enough to slow play pf, pot control OOP and to get his weaker range to bet into me post-flop.
In hindsight to me, this is a 93% definitive raise. Our effective stack sizes were about ~$250, deep enough so that they would never fold a raise. Therefore I can value-raise and the weakest part of their ranges would still call. Also, 3-bet for initiative, it's easier to bet for value than to x/call or x/r a c-bet to get value.
4 to flop
Flop (~60)
Qd 6h 6d
I check; LAG will c-bet every dry flop. I feel like donking was a bit worse than checking. it x's to raiser who bets $35.
I call. Rationale, my equity lock on this hand is pretty stable (little chance to get sucked out) and I wanted the players behind me to call as well.
In hindsight, raising here is okay; it doesn't look very credible. The flop is dry and the only real hand I could have is 76s/A6s but with the image I had, that might be out of my range and therefore raising looks bluffy and therefore, I can value-raise.
Players behind me fold
Turn (~$110)
2c
I check; I don't want to fold out his bluffs.
In hindsight, This is where I should have donked. He is not going to continue at all with his air-c-betting range on this turn and all his hands with SD Value is going to check back. All of his range except AQ/AA/KK will check this turn and I felt like I should have bet for value to charge all his mid-PP's and FDs.
He checks back.
River (~$110)
2d
So the board is Q6622.
I lead for $71. I guess this is okay. The flush hit but I didn't really expect to get called so I was surprised when he did.
I showed, and he mucked.
I was up around ~$300 profit, with a total of around ~$500 in my stack until this hand happened, and even though I feel pretty good about it not sure if it's THAT good or not.
4.
So, I get dealt 10h8h.
MP limps around to me in the bb who checks.
Six way to flop of
Flop ($12)
Qd 10c 8d
I lead $15. For value, it's really drawy and my equity is not so good against six players. Four callers, Effective stack sizes was ~$200.
Turn (~$72)
5h
sb checks, I bet $62 still for value. If I bet on flop for value, turn bet is for value.
In hindsight, I still think betting is better than checking. It is still drawy and my equity still isn't so good. Folds to sb who shoves for ~$144.
My only read with sb is that he plays a lot of hands aggressively and I saw only one hand where he shoved a brick river (~$65 into a $100) as a bluff because once the guy called, he insta-mucked and rebought.
I was pretty glad when he shoved, thinking in my mind to snap-call him and not really thinking about his range so that was a pretty big mistake on my part. I thought he could have KQ/QJ even 84/Q4/Q10 but mostly because it was $92 for me to call to win ~$250 and I had two purrr.
So, I called. He had the nut-straight, and I bricked out.
Not exactly sure how I should of went about the situation. Could I have found a fold to his shove? Against this player? I think MAYBE, but calling should be better.
I still left Seneca with $100 profit AND like 15 free rum and cokes which was nice. I did tip the waitress (obv) but overall I had an amazing time.
I recently borrowed a few books from the library about investing, economics, and personal finance. I have only finished one, and it was a book-on-tape that I was listening to on my commute to the casino so that's kind of cheating. Here are some of the books I'm reading and my impressions of them so far:
Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki What the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not! http://www.startupgrowthexpert.com/wp...2010/10/Rich-dad-Poor-dad-300x300.jpg
This book is a best-seller and, although it was written in 1997, is still widely regarded as one of the best personal finance books available. I'm about half-way through this book, and it is a really engaging, and easy read. It's only 183 pages so you could breeze through it in a day or two depending on how quickly you read. It's about the author, who grew up in 1960's Hawaii with with his well-educated, but financially illiterate father, who he refers to as his "poor dad," and his friend's father (rich dad) who helps teach him how to make money work for him instead of working for money. I like this book, and like I said, it is a very light read so far and probably a good way to get into thinking about personal finance and how to think about money.
This was the "book-on-tape" I listened to. It was a very simple book that talks about how to go about purchasing your first home, and how to turn that purchase into an asset, and not a liability. How to use certain tax laws to your advantage when selling your home, or keeping it as a rental home to upgrade to another home. This book was written in the booming real estate market of 2004-2005, and you can tell from the tone of the book that everyone's houses are appreciating like crazy, but in general the author is clear to mention that you can still make money in any real estate market. The book is not about flipping houses and becoming a real estate genius, it is about an easy buy-and-hold strategy for creating wealth, and becoming an "automatic millionaire homeowner." I liked this book even though at times it seemed overly simplistic talking about things I already knew, relating to mortgages and brokers, etc. I still think I learned a decent amount from this book though, and would recommend it to anyone thinking about buying a house in the future.
This book is a difficult read. Most personal finance books are geared at a 6th grade reading level. This book seems to be at more of an undergrad college level. There are a lot of charts, and a lot of information in this book. For some backstory on the author, he lives on $7,000 per year, hence the "Extreme" in the title. He also runs a finance blog @ www.earlyretirementextreme.com. You can read his own review of the book Here. I have only gotten through the first few chapters of this book, and I would say it is a lot of material to digest. I would recommend only reading one chapter per day in this book to keep it interesting.
I'm reading a couple more books, but I don't have a very good feel for them yet. I'll post book reviews of a few more books when I find the time to read them, but I think these are a good start, and some tips on the ERE blog/forums could be put to good use by almost anyone.
Lacking anything else to do while I'm waiting for the lust to gamble to return (which will probably take about half an hour or so) I thought I could try to enrich the literary knowledge of LP by recommending one of my favourite authors. Anyone who consider himself as having any kind of humour should have read at least a few books by Terry Pratchett, preferably from his discworld series. Anyone who wants a background of the guy could read up on him on wiki. The guy has Alzheimer's disease and decided to handle that by making the BBC documentary Choosing To Die. Anyone who wants to watch it can find it on youtube:
Anyway, the guy has written some of the funniest books of all time and I think I've had more laughs reading them then from anything else, and I hope he can write one or two more books before it's all said and done. He also seems like a very nice old man so I wish him all the best.
Here's a few of my favourite quotes by him:
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... "
"The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
"He could think in italics. Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance."
Anyway, if you like fantasy and/or stuff like "the Hitch Hikers Guide To the Galaxy" you should definitely check him out.
how much time u waste on
the internet, its duality amuses me.
with one hand its helping you while the other stabbing you
can u really escape the browsing circle? probably just taking a break
checking mails, fb, news, forums, REPEAT MOTHER FUCKER
(im not even mentioning games)
i feel so unproductive, degenerate blank mind
pathetic
you feel what u should do, but you cant do it, you are constantly paralized, all your life
but maybe its the normal way, its all good and normal
normal, say it in a whispering chilling voice
normal, what kind of a sick fucking name is this anyway (poser sentence(
JUST MY THOUGHTS I KNOW U LOVE RANDOM BULLSHIT CANT DENY IT
comment only if u feel like it, let it be your choice
comments ROFLMAO. u got afraid now. just a little tiny bit
Time for another installment of Income & Expenses. I guess we'll start with the income. There wasn't any. The month started out fine, steadily climbing up to a peak of +$12k around August 15th. Then I steadily declined back down to zero over the next two weeks finishing the month with a loss of $3,300.
Income
(3,300) Hours of cash Played: 125 hours over 19 sessions
MTTs played: 2
Hourly Rate: (26.84)
Expenses$7,234
Home- 2,434
This number is elevated from it's normal $2k range because our water heater broke and needed a $100 repair. I also bought $150 worth of lumber/mulch/seeds to make my own vegetable garden in the backyard. This bill will be very small next month as we refinanced our mortgage this month and will be getting a one month break on paying the mortgage. Our rate will also be lower in future months resulting in significant savings.
Auto & Transport- 1,379
This number is pretty standard, 350ish towards gas, 150 toward insurance and 435 + 220 car payments. The difference is extra money I threw at the car principle this month.
Health and Fitness- 504 Insurance- 418
Gym- 34
Payoff Hospital Bill- 51
Finally paid off an annoying $350 /month hospital bill, and our insurance costs should go down now as well because my wife's new job offers her free insurance, so I will only have to pay for me and our daughter. I expect next month's health/fitness category to be around 400 next month.
Food & Dining- 1,083 wal-mart- $896
restaurants- $186
I just can't seem to get this bill to go down. I think that because we lump in our regular grocery shopping + anything else we buy at Wal-Mart as "food and dining" it makes this number higher. I'm going to try to remember to split up future purchases so I can accurately track the food expense.
Bills & Utilities- 850 Internet/Cable- 130
Mobile Phone- 166
electric- 360
gas- 163
water- 31 Feel like it might be time to cancel the cable TV and get a Roku or stick to downloaded shows streamed from my PC to the PS3. Decisions, decisions.
Shopping- 237
Kind of annoyed we keep buying dumb stuff we don't need. I splurged on a pair of Seinheiser HD201's after I saw TalentedTom's blogpost and I'm pretty impressed with the quality for $18 headphones, but still I didn't need them. I have a pair of Bose quietcomfort's with one of the ear pieces torn off. Going to see about repairing them and reselling them to make me feel like less of a headphone fish. Other stuff we bought this month were clothes for Bobbie's new job as a Kindergarten teacher. First paycheck from that job arrives in a couple weeks, pretty stoked about that.
Business Expenses- 343
Took a trip to Pennsylvania, specifically Parx Casino for the WPT $3,500 event that they held there in early august. I had enough frequent flyer points to get the trip for free, but the hotel cost for the week I was there still came out to $343 after splitting the room with someone else. Not too bad.
Entertainment- 200
Bought a couple of classes for our daughter to go to once a week and socialize with other kids. Fairly fun to do. The place where the classes are is about 6 miles away, and according to Google Maps it's a 32 minutes by bicycle. Might try that out next time I need to take her. Will let you know the results.
Unexpected Vet Bill- 204
We had to take both of our dogs to the Vet this month. One had an ear infection, and the other got picked up by a German Shepherd. Thought she was going to die, but it turned out the bite was very soft and didn't break the skin. Still a scary moment and $100 Emergency Vet bill.
I guess that's everything. I'm pretty disappointed in the spending this month. Back over 7k again, at least I can say if I didn't go on my poker trip I'd be in the high 6k range. The negative income for the month was pretty annoying as well, especially after a nice upswing to start the month. My second one this year, putting me at a negative savings rate for the month and bringing my average for the year down to less than 30%.
If I stay at my average spending rate for the last 4 months of the year, I will need to earn another $157,000 or so to reach my goal of 65% savings rate for the year. Since I think my expectation for the rest of the year is about 50k for the rest of the year I don't think I'm going to make it.
Just spent like 2 hours looking for a post from you (or at least i think it was you) about the progression of a first world country into a third world country. just noticed your blog on the blog section, and was reminded that it was you (i think) who posted it. and in case it wasn't was hoping someone on lp would know wat i was talking about
I've been following the poker blogs section for a few months already and thought why not start a own blog myself. there's already a ton of micro stuff on the forum so thought there wouldn't really be any harm in there. The blog is mainly gonna poker oriented. so a little about my poker experience so far: I've been playing poker for about 3/4 year so far or so. started on 2nl, made like 2 10$ deposits on pokerstars and after I started taking it more seriously and deposited 50$, went really quick from 2nl to 10nl. My BR is on about 500$ and kinda struggling to improve. playing on PKR atm cause I figured it's the most fishiest site. That's also the main reason I created account on here, to improve my game. So anyone has any tips on the what helps you to improve? main thing I try to do atm is study HH and watch DC videos.
graph so far on PKR (note: the volume is so low because I only recently started playing there):
reads on villain: he was playing super crazy and spewy, he was raising almost every board against me so I didn't really gave him any credit for a hand here.
Submitted by : aernout
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (PKR)
$10.00 USD NL Texas Holdem - Saturday, September 01, 12:59:17 ET 2012
Table Monkey Planet (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( $8.28 USD )
Seat 3: Player3 ( $3.28 USD )
Seat 4: Player4 ( $6.15 USD )
Seat 5: Hero ( $11.28 USD )
Seat 6: Player6 ( $14.03 USD )
Player6 posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
Player1 posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
reads on villain who cold calls my 3bet: he was a passive fish and otf if he calls I think he really only does that with small medium pairs and he would raise up his draws/ TPs. so I thought I had enough FE ott.
Submitted by : aernout
August started really bad and was forced to move down to 50nl to regrind. Luckily I went on a heater when I moved back up to 100nl. Been coolering everybody for the last 10 days : ]
If anyone is interested, I am looking for a coach with Live tournament experience.
To make this a bit more friendly, here is some information about myself. My name is Tony. I am 26, a full time Fire Fighter with a large love for Poker. When I am not playing in tournaments I am reading through the handful of tournament poker books I have,highlighting important topics and trying to make my game better with every chance I get. My knowledge of the game is through the books I have read, reading forums (liquid poker/ 2plus2) and grinding 1/2 (live) games.
I was hoping there was someone out there with knowledge to offer and willing to help me get better as a tournament player and increase my knowledge of the game. I typically play at my local casinos entering 100$-300$ tournaments, between 5-10k stacks, blinds start 25/50 and between 25-35 minute blind levels. It isn't the best format but it's all I have. I have found some success making the final table abut 50% of the tournaments I play in. There are a lot of errors I know I make and a lot of areas in tournament play I know could be greatly improved upon.
If anyone decides to contact me we can go over pricing and any additional coaching information.
I realize majority of players today are online but I thought I would give this a shot. It couldn't hurt to ask. :D
Thank you for taking the time to read this and reply if you chose to do so.
Had 3 1k scores in one epic 24 hour session. My third 4kish day this summer. Unfortunately they were all disappointing 4th places and I left alot of money on the table in a 11$ rebuy 26$ 6 max and 25$hyper turbo but at least I had some positive run at the 30$ buyin range for once.
180 mtt sng's -
Filter: 01/08/2012-31/08/2012 E:180 Count: 1,997 Av Profit: $2.02
Av Stake: $8.08 Av ROI: 23.4% Total Profit: $4,030
Ability: 75
Was looking like a heater untill my last 3 days -2k. Really low volumn for me not sure how much of that helped me get an elite winrate. Playing alot at offpeak hours seemed to help as well. My downswing was probably the only time I grinded at 11-6pm mon-thursday when there is an insane amount of regulars.
My sisters moving into a place with the internets so taking back her laptop I was losing for the last three months so its time to buy. I want a computer but no desk and not much room will look at both any suggestions? The boys are in town gonna get fed up tonight.
edit - Also staked/coached someone for close to 1k in the easy kind of profit. Thinking of adding on more. Looking for a few more people and I really trust people on this site if anyone's interested
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