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So im going to tell you a story, prepare for the official byrnesam feel good movie of the year:

April:

Broke up with my Thai bride-to-be after far too long being 'long distance'

Over 1 year of living in some denial bubble, drifting along and distancing myself from everyone around me

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Wallow in self pity. One of the lowest points of my life.

Engross myself in Ryan Gosling movies

Realize I live in a beautiful country with a loving family and hundreds of potential new friends

May onwards:

Claw myself out of my pit of despair.

Get involved in a new social circle made up of foreign travelers/students in Dunedin thanks to Silver)Z(. To which i would like to extend my most sincere thanks, because what followed were some of the best times of my life.

Went skiing in Queenstown, hiked to the viewing point at the top of the mountain.

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^ thats me

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Took this on my cellphone.

Suddenly, regular socializing during the week.

Looking forward to the weekends.

Slowly a few people begin to leave as their trips in NZ come to an end.

Slightly bummed out, but decide to make the most of it with the people there and the time they have.

Go for a weekend trip to Te Anau and Milford Sound and do some hiking.

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Go on said trip with a french girl who i hadn't known previously.

Get on well with french girl, become a little smitten.

Go out one of the following weekends. End up walking her back to her place. We share a drink in her kitchen and end up in her bedroom.

End up going to bed together in her bed

THIS IS IT BYRNESAM, YOURE IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. THE COBRA GETS READY TO STRIKE

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Try all my best moves

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and manage to get friend-zoned in the process.

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Wake up the next morning and think...

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At least i got to squeeze some T&A...

Things quickly fade between us. Back on that self-loathing and wallowing in my own despair. Feel like destined to be forever alone.

Attend social drinks function for work. Think its going to be shit, but figure i should make a celebrity appearance to boost the ratings. Have to sober drive - night turns out to be really good fun.

Meet girl there who I hadn't met before because she works Sundays when im off.

Give her a ride home (LOL BETA WHITE KNIGHT FAGGOT MOVE), she promises to buy me a drink to say thanks. General good vibe.

Take a shot and add her on FB. Get to chatting, she invites me out for coffee to say thank you. Scheduling conflicts prevent this.

Take a punt and invite her to a party i was going to attend later that week (on the day before my birthday)

She accepts

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Attend said party, its alright, I don't really know the people there that well (or at all)

Talk to girl the whole time, getting on super well.

Party moves from the house to some bars in town, we go ahead of the others. Things go awesome at the bar, getting a little closer - bit of cheek-to-cheek action whilst we talk.

At 1:30am on August 24th (byrnesam's birthday) we decide to head home. Im driving her home. We park up outside her place.

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LETS GET READDDDYYYY TO RUMBLE

Make the move, mission successful.

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So there I was, 2 hours into my birthday, making out with a chick in my car with Motorhead playing in the background. It was one of those wonderful moments when you pause and think to yourself 'remember this moment, because its fucking awesome'

Shes not Asian

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Shes training to be a doctor.
Im a 27 year old live at home, quake live playing, man-child.

We part ways at about 3:30am. I was at like day 5 of no-fap. Made it home with extreme blue balls and was actually in pain. Had no choice but to cure myself.

I get up a few hours later and go to work. All my co-workers wish me a happy birthday.

Go into the break room, they've baked me a fucking huge cake and a bunch of delicious savory muffins (not pictured)

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Its amazing how much life can change in a matter of moments. I dont usually do anything for my birthday and this ended up being one of most memorable ever. So if youre ever feeling forever alone, just remember theres a planet full of awesome people and awesome experiences waiting for you just around the corner.

Everyday is an adventure.


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Could somebody help me out 55$ on paypal. I transfer on stars and throw in a couple of $.


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hi , im offering coach up to nl200 i already have 3 spanish speaking students and im looking for 3 more.

im offering coaching for NL200 and below because those are the limits that i have huge sample sizes with good winrates(a million hands in both nl100 and nl200)

here are my numbers :


http://www.pokertableratings.com/fulltilt-player-search/ReaverMicro
http://www.pokertableratings.com/party-player-search/reavermicro
http://www.pokertableratings.com/party-player-search/Igamble77
http://www.pokertableratings.com/party-player-search/TILTYBOY
http://www.pokertableratings.com/ongame-player-search/Gamblerboy26
http://www.pokertableratings.com/ipoker-player-search/Gamblingcents

and my last 900k hands on stars

http://imgur.com/JqZh3

also i can provide good references from my current students just pm me if you want them.

the rates are :

60$ x hour and 15 minutes for NL50 and below
80$ x hour and 15 minutes for NL100
135$ x hour and 15 minutes for NL200

the rates includes free hh's reviews and answering all your doubts from any topic you want

im very professional with my students i guarantee i will give you guys all my knowledge in a very easy to understand way you will be amazed how committed im with my students i really want them to improve btw i teach big stack strategy and multistack strategy for both FR and 6max.

if you are interested pm me good luck to everyone.




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looking for some advice on what to get for a laptop, preferably something under $1k. it's mostly for school, i won't need it for gaming or anything. just something that's easy to carry around, has a good/functional keyboard, and won't be annoyingly slow with a few tabs open. i was thinking one of the 13" ultrabooks, macbook is a bit more than i want to spend though.

i've read some reviews on a couple sites but still feel like a fish, so any suggestions are appreciated.


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currently playing NL10, got 600$, my style is a bit Lagish and I don't like being hit by variance so at what amount to move up, 700 or more?

6max.


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Done and done.

Tack för intresset


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Anyone from Cuba?I might be interested in going there.
I need some info so if you have some please share.


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new theory
so anyway everyone these days is scared of running out of resources under ground etc. its bad that we mine oil/gas/coal cos its bad for environment, co2, global warming, blah blah blah.
All that crap.

My new theory is that earth has come up with a way to save itself. Anyway, its thousands and millions of years that the oil/coal/gas takes to form underground. It's a one way road. What gets trapped under the earth doesnt come out.

So basically the earth becomes a bomb. Time-bomb. It's all good on top with trees n shit, oxygen, birds singing, people fuckin. But the Oil/gas/coal are trapped under the surface. Until some shit happens. Like an asteroid or tectonic plates movement or pole shift. Anyway this all “explosive” stuff gets unearthed. Right into the oxygen, and then KABOOM. It all lights on fire, explodes the fires basically last for years. This creates heaps of smoke, blocks the sun and ice ages starT! GG. Back to neanderthal living ways.

So the shit we doing now. Getting all the oil/gas/coal out is good so we can save ourselves and dont explode. Otherwise sooner or later some catalyst is gonna light it all up and humanity goes up in smokes. This is what happened to dinosaurs btw. They didnt use up the coal. Well too bad motherfuckers. Asteroid hits, all shit is on fire, possums win. Dinos are gone.

TLDR. BP pay me million bucks to develop this theory further thx.




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edit: nvm, sorted


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What do you guys think of my halloween costume?
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pretty sure I'm going to wear it until it breaks - maybe this year I'll put deadmau5 ears on it. the equalizer shirt and rave gloves would go well with it fa sho


side note - i played some CS:GO drinking games with a few buddies, don't recommend it....

1.) since when does like 10 shots get me this drunk?
2.) CS:GO is random as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck - colt sucks, ak kinda sucks.... pump shotty best close range/mid range gun - awp still best far distance gun. encourages strafing and spray and pray - slightly annoying.
3.) Me > Asians at CS:GO


Also - want to play CS:GO? what's your steam info and lets play some drinking games motha fucka


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just won the Brasilia Poker Fest, a local poker tournment in brasilia (capital of brazil) for R$38k (~19k usd).

246 entrants, buy-in R$1k (~500 usd).

ps: yes, I'm back to brazil

link with pics: http://www.brasilpoker.com.br/index.p...o-campeao-do-brasilia-poker-fest.html

ship it.


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any opinions? reviews? just wondering.

The site is claimed to be #1 in terms of fastest cashouts in the U.S. (2-4 days)

just bored, diablo 3 is dead, sc2 is zzz, bro has my xbox.

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any opinions? reviews? just wondering.

The site is claimed to be #1 in terms of fastest cashouts in the U.S. (2-4 days)

just bored, diablo 3 is dead, sc2 is zzz, bro has my xbox.

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So I have a credit card. I don't like buying shit on credit but it's golden and looks cool. And I got it for free since I had a lot of money in the bank (and still have some of it left! Yea! Go me!). The bank wanted me to do various crap with my money but everything they suggested seemed like it'd be a great freeroll for them and fairly crappy for me so that card was pretty much the only thing I got after having a meeting with my "Personal bank contact" or whatever the hell they call it. Anyway, I figured that a golden card should attract chicks. That was the plus side. The minus was that I was, and still is, in a committed relationship. Whatever, maybe I could get sex more often, right?

Anyway, turns out the damn thing is useful for something. My regular card did not work with bluefire poker so I just used this card to sign up since my man crush on Galfond could not be cooled down by anything less. So basically the only thing on my credit card bill each month was like 29 US or something for my bluefire subscription. Today I got another one and it struck me as odd that I still gave them money every month despite not really be able to remember that I ever renewed that thing.

So I sent an E-mail and asked them.

They replied that "oops, we've been taking zee monies for 4 months without giving you anything for it... Can't pay it all back due to anti fraud regulations and crap, do you want a free 6 month subscription?" I did want one. I'm happy with that deal. They replied really fast too so I just wanted to state that I like how they handle things. Also, now I can finally cancel my golden card and only use it to have something to flash in my valet.

Other then that poker is going ok. Unibet has turned on the ethernal doomswitch and I keep turning top2 + flushdraws 150bb deep vs bot set and losing every damn time. Up a ton on stars though, despite running below equity. I think something like 14k+ plus a bunch of points. Not bad for someone who played PLO50 a couple of months ago.

Did BJJ today. Felt tired as crap but pulled through due to "tired Dusty stubbornness". I'm probably the most boring grappler in the world when I'm tired. My gameplan when tired is something like:

If on my back: Go to rubberguard. Find out I'm not having shit for angles. Remember that I'm limber as fuck and go for (and mostly fail) omoplatas anyway.

If on top: Put lots of weight on top and hope it's uncomfortable. Wait until they fuck up. Go for, and mess up due to being slow as hell, armbars and try to get into full guard when they turn shit around. See "If on my back".

When I'm not half dead I'm not doing stupid rubber guard shit, but my top game sucks anyway. I seriously managed to miss enough armbars from month that I'm fairly sure I have a higher success rate just going for mounted gogoplatas, and that sure as hell ain't a solid "go-to-move". I have a hard time thinking I'll ever be more then a halfway decent grappler, but it's fun as hell.

One of the people I roll a lot with is a girl who's a 60kg purple belt. I'm about 100kg. I should probably weight like 85 if I was in good shape, but it's still a big weight difference. She still owns me for the most part due to her being really, really good. She lost the finals of the Swedish championships in submission grappling last year to some girl who went on to survive for something like 7 minutes against Kyra Gracie in adcc later that year. Anyway, she's in the hospital now due to running around at work with a pencil in her mouth(!). Dunno what the f happened but apparently they need to sedate her to fix her mouth or something, so that's kind of weird and I hope everything turns out well for her. While she looks like a monster she's actually really nice.


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I started poker back in 2009. I didn't have a lot of money so I kept depositing 50$ to try and grind it up all the way to major money. I didn't have the patience to do NL2 because I thought the money was too low. I eventually played a bit of SNGs and saw that I was winning more than 50% of them so I kept playing and made a few hundred of dollars.

At some point I played a SNG triple shootout tournament and won about 350$ which gave me lots of confidence and helped me out switch to cash games and do NL10. Again I somehow managed to grind until NL100 but thats where I started to lose. Problem is though I had major poker leaks especially since I had no job at the time and that 2000$ I made from poker was the only money I had. Made me tilt and I started ignoring my BR management and eventually went busto. I did learn a lot since I played like 300 000 hands in a year. The moral of the story was to not play poker when you don't have a freaking job.

I stopped playing since then but I went to Vegas this last month mainly for partying. Of course as any poker player here there's no way you wouldn't try to play poker there, So I did. It was my first time playing live poker and even though I lost 200$ at the Venetian (Didn't want to play more than that) I found it extremely fun. A lot also happened since 2009, I'm now wiser and have a good paying job. So I decided to give it a second shot at poker.

I deposited 200$ only and start grinding at NL10 and see what I can do. So far so good. I unfortunately don't have a lot of time to play so for now my BR is going up slowly. Here's my graph:


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Starting my WCOOP 2012 stake. It's gonna be a make up system of 65% investor/35% player, the total is 100 shares of $400, the total of WCOOP buy ins is around $20.5k, WCOOP 2nd chance buy ins for around 7.8k and the rest of the stake money (total $40k) to be spent on regular scheduled tourneys (mainly $109s/$215s), decreasing the variance of the big WCOOP fields. Obviously I won't be able to play some of the planned tourneys, with the eventual missed tourney having its BI returned to the stake BR and spent on regular scheduled tourneys.

5% - $2000
2.5% - $1000
1% - $400
0.5% - $200

History: I have 38% ROI in MTTs according to sharkscope and solid HUsng results for almost 70k games. I have made similar stakes on SCOOP 2011 (+105% ROI ), WCOOP 2011 (+71% ROI ) and SCOOP 2012 (-71% ROI). I also have live MTT results, some tracked here (2 BSOP Event wins).

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=158317

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Schedule:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...0zEEpvdE96VndfNHVUc01FbVR4X2wwaU1YZUE
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Stakers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...0zEEpvdGxlclVuS0lDUjlFYzFzdVhoNUhXSUE





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Lock poker cash outs.. thoughts?



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So after a +105% ROI SCOOP 2011, and +70% ROI WCOOP 2011, my third stake comes to an end at -71% ROI. Even though I didn't have to, I did try to recover after the SCOOP end, willingly playing over 20k deep in make up, and did win a little.

I feel like I played a lot better than the other ones, despite the results, sadly MTTs are just about getting the big score, 20 deep runs are worth less than 1 1st place. I did get deep runs on every single Sunday Major (ironically except the 215 HU ), just couldn't take any of them down. Final results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...dGpyalZxNllheUViM2YyamZkM194TlE#gid=0

Finishing it right now since I will be unable to play in the next 2 weeks, and after that the WCOOP starts, and so I will be starting the WCOOP Stake. It will be in the same format as this one, I'll make a detailed post tomorrow, but quick details are below. Each $250 piece on this one ended up worth $72.45, everyone who had action can PM or post here the ID for it to be shipped, or you can reserve action for the WCOOP instead and send the difference. Here's hoping we run better this time around

WCOOP 2012
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