I've been making a conscious effort to read about half an hour or 3-4 news articles daily. Despite my efforts it is really difficult to keep everything together, what platforms which candidates/parties stand by. Was wondering if there was any goto site that keeps track of everything with minimal bias.
Lastly I've read both Bossypants by Tina Fey and Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) and have to only recommend the latter after reading the latter. Although Bossypants was an enjoyable read/audiobook (have a tablet so can read/listen depending on my environment ie bus or class) Mindy Kaling's book was so much more touching and well written. After reading her book it is obvious to me that she is both intelligent and kind.
Growing bored of poker already?by Watkyn, August 12
My past month has been a bit weird. A little over a month ago I started playing online poker again.
I get obsessed about things quick and have a good worth ethic. I enjoyed playing it and started playing 8+ hours and later even 12+ hours a day a couple of days straight. I was in this mindset for about two weeks.
I was doing pretty well too. I turned about $20 into (currently) about $750. I enjoyed seeing the progression in my play, moving up the stakes and finding new challenges.
As I had to work all day yesterday, I planned on playing 8k hands today. I would 9 table (I normally 6 table) 25NL for the whole day like I did the days before. I found myself not having the motivation in the morning like I used to have. I forced myself to startup PS and join 9 tables.
I didn't reach my goal. After almost 9 hours I "only" played 5k hands. The worst part is is that I didn't feel the motivation, the excitement, the desire to play better and win more. I sat there and played because I made myself to.
This might partially because of 9 tabling. I was nitting it up (11/8, I normally play 17/12) and it was simply less fun.
Later in the evening I started 6 tabling again, trying it with less tables. Again, I didn't give a flying fuck the whole hour.
Anyway, maybe I've been pushing myself too much the last couple of weeks. My progression (both bankroll aswel as skill) has stagnated a bit. This might also has contributed to this.
My goal was to be rolled for (25BI) 50NL before college starts again in september. It still should be a realistic goal, but we'll see.
...just had to get that off my chest. I'm taking a break tomorrow. I haven't worked out in a month since poker, so that'll probably be a good idea too.
So, I was playing around in OpenOffice + Odds Oracle to figure out how to make a sheet to calc EV of calling 4bets (never really used OpenOffice before so this is all pretty new), and just as I was done... I realized there's a native function to automate this inside the Odds Oracle program already -_-
My problem? I'm getting a different answer for the EV from the Odds Oracle than I do when I calculate manually / with open office. Could anyone check what I've ****ed up?
What I enter into the Odds Oracle's PQL interpreter:
select avg(
case
when minEquity(hero,flop,0.3006)
then 42.75*riverEquity(hero)-(5.55+12.85)
else 0 - 5.55
end
) as EVCALL
from game='omahahi',
syntax='Generic',
hero='QQ33$ds',
villain='AA**'
Note: I don't know any PQL, this is cobbled together from a post by someone on this forum and some perusing of the FAQ (link: [url]http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=28772831&postcount=145[/url])
I'd really appreciate it if anyone could show me where I screwed up, thanks!
NOTE: Am aware that unless you set trials to some absurd number the % will fluctuate a little bit everytime you query (so the numbers I entered manually for, lets say, avg equity, will fluctuate slightly but the difference should be in the 0.02 range rather than 0.2)
So, I haven't written a blog in awhile but I have been fairly active at my local casinos. For a little while playing 1/2, 1/3 I felt on top of the world wrecking every table i played at have consistent days of 600$ profits. Some days good, some bad. Overall I felt great. My problems began when my regular 5-6 hour days turned into a 12-14 hour days and i would always feel tired and lazy toward the end of my sessions. For some reason I just bean playing every day trying to win back any loses from the last day and usually playing pretty well in the early hours only the make mistake after mistake and miss reading my opponents constantly. So yeah, pretty much the worst 2 months after being up around 4.5k. I would get mad at the way the cards fell without realizing that the problem was post flop and i was aggressive against a tight player. It was just a snowball of bad poker by me. I consider myself a good player when I am thinking clearly and understand my limits but i got greedy and tried to exceed what i was capable of.
From my loses I took the last 1k or so and spent it on things i needed before i would take a small break. I decided to take a break when my girlfriend moved in with me and i took a little vacation. I decided that I would switch from cash games to tournament play. Prior to playing cash games as my primary focus, I played the local casino tournaments and although i wasn't too good at the time, after winning a few for around 1k each, I was hooked.
Lately I have been playing in a lot of tournaments and doing exceptionally well. Like cash games, I want to build up a little larger of a bankroll before enrolling myself in tournaments that are above 300$. The unfortunate thing where I am is that the tournaments are usually 25 min blinds, 5k ish stacks, and start at either 10/20 or 25/50. I wish they were a little more deep with longer blind levels but that 150-200$, I probably won't get my wish. The 5 tournaments I played in I have made the money in 4 of them, usually chopping the winnings with the remaining 3 or 4 at the table depending on the take. So, as things are looking up i am sad at my previous performances lead me back to tournaments. Not because of my choice to play.
On any note, things have been going well and as time allows (girl friend) I will continue to compete. I played in a wsop satellite a little ways back without being rolled for the type of re-buy that it was so I hope to build my stack to be able to compete on that level again. I am not a good player but i think I know a lot more than the competition that I am up against which bodes well for me.
I have learned that my weakest point in any tournament is usually when I have about 20 bb's and blinds are 200/400 with 50 ante. I just can't seem to get a good fix on stealing correctly and picking my spots. right around this time is when the tight players begin a steal attempt or two and i find myself being the victim of their first "steal" attempt and forced to fold due to having the only information on them as a Tight player. Obviously they may not be bluffing but they will show their cards trying to tilt me or feel like a bad ass, I can't tell.
So, I will try to start submitting spots that I wasn't sure about keep you guys updated on my tournament play. I have a few casinos to choose from with all sorts of different ranges for tournaments so once i build my stack up higher I will join the larger tournaments with prizes for first coming around 10k.
Since moving up to 25NL I haven't experienced the same success as I had at the limits before. I don't feel it's harder, but I've just played worse and ran bad.
Started yesterday in my first 500 hands losing 3 buy-ins, spending all day trying to grind it back. I did, went over it and then lost my winnings again. Ending up with a 0.09 BB/100 session after 15 hours of play.
This morning, same thing happened, but even worse. Lost AA vs KK, AA vs AQ, small pots and an awful tilt bluff. Back down to -4 buy ins.
I know, I shouldn't whine too much, in the little over a month I have been playing again I haven't experienced any real downswings yet, but progression stagnating is a bit demoting.
I kinda want to revamp what I wear. i basically dress like a 15 year old high school athlete and its time to change that. i've tried to get my girlfriend to help a bit but what she likes and what I like are so far different that Id rather get some other opinions and form something thats more of my own style.
I searched some of the old threads on LP (http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/559749/Clothing_thread.html) but given how much people were recommending ed hardy and affliction shirts, I think it's safe to say that those threads are outdated.
I guess i'll just go over every part of an outfit that I need help with. I've got nice pairs of jeans, nice dress shirts, a good pair of sandals and finding cool sneakers is really easy. so i need help with shorts and casual every day shirts.
finding t shirts to wear is easy and i can do that either online or at a place like pac sun. finding nice polos and casual every day shirts is not. it doesnt help that i have a hard body to find shirts for. im 6'0 170 so im tall but pretty thin. muscle wise i have lean arms, a very small chest and a thin frame but well developed shoulders. so basically mediums are snug on me and really short while larges are the right length but are extremely loose fitting around my arms and chest.
any recommendations for nice casual every day shirts that arent t shirts and arent golf shirts? one big pet peeve i have is guys who dress like they are a professional golfer every day. looks really stupid to me. just as i imagine me dressing like im some pro mma fighter looks really stupid to them.
but these really arent enough. any recommendations on other good every day shorts to wear?
i also have absolutely 0 sense of what kind of stuff matches together to the point that I probably come off like I have aspergers lol. what are big no-nos for matching shorts and tops? and what colors go well together or dont go well together?
The USD : CAD conversion rate is almost exactly 1:1, and yet everything in Canada costs between 30-100% more (this pisses me off). Anything I can do here? Or anyone know of any good quality headphones that are under $50 which ship to Canada?
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