I'm just going to make a May blog now so I can stop worrying about having a pretty may graph and just play more. + Show Spoiler +
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Last month I didn't make a thread because I moved and stuff but played like 15k hands up started up 2.5k ended the month down like 1k.
I'm trying to stop fapping so much since that byrnesam thread so there won't be any thread saver. Also still eating good I've stopped completely with junk food, sweets and soda just feels like I'm poisoning my body and mind with it.
Have 3 huge omega-3 pills a day, used to have only 1 a day because it also had multivitamins but I recommend the pure.
Hey Guys, I have a short question due to my trip to USA within next 3 weeks. Mostly i`ll be working over there, and traveling a lot, so just free weekends i guess. Can anyone give me a tip on good poker rooms/casinos - locations are New Orleans, Atlanta, and Cincinnati so far ( tournaments oriented - not a fan of cash games, but will do as well). Appreciate any help.
My first sales job.
It was a great experience I must say, fun people working around me, people helping each other out, lots of nights out and I got my life motivation sky high again - lost some 15kg since Xmas and got proper social life with sports and going out again :O
Just the results lacked especially in terms of numbers - I got good at selling finally in the last month, got a contract in last week, solid processes but never really got hang of the admin side of things (which there was surprisingly a high amount of I must say), and it was making me nervous when I was actually selling.
But I feel like I have a great foundation to build on and will defo keep rock&rolling, I built a sick work ethic at some 11hr/day, (I feel it's sustainable, never missed floorball, 3x+ gym per week and going out with friends weekly. . . Apart from the couple weeks around the girlfriend fiasco that you can read about on my teamliquid blog) learned a ton about the sales process and know what to expect now.
I got an interview tomorrow with some slightly shady outsourced sales hustlers (The "MD" is Romanian, and doesn't even have Linkedin profile lol), I don't give a fuck as long as I keep the momentum going - I drank my first coffee last week in ages and don't plan on stopping. Besides, they will let me do things my way.
That's why I chose sales - it's so easy to get a job, hard to keep it when you hit a bad streak, reminds you of something perhaps?
P.S. Got a cold, so annoying
Also, met a Scottish girl some time ago - made out a bit and hopefully will see her this week :O
She's proper crazy, travelling all over the world, doing bungee, scuba diving, even went to Seychelles on her own once just for the sake of it and is going to work on a dairy farm in New Zealand in October.
You know - lives her life, something I feel I haven't been doing properly, and sales is similar to poker, as it gives you the freedom to do so, there is no excuse.
P.P.S.
There might be some time for poker as well, I had to work weekends too, but my next jobs should have them free - I will put $100 in and build that bitch up again and see where it takes me.
75 bucks for some quick graphic design work?by MARSHALL28, May 24
Okay so I'd like to get a graphic created to both be posted for my CR videos and also to be posted on my personal website upon it's creation.
What I'd like to do is have my real name used, 'Peter Jennings' as the main focus with the words 'AKA Marshall28' somewhere in smaller print on the design. Also, anything that you might know about me that could add a personal touch to the design will likely be rewarded.
Be as creative as you like but I can't accept something that has anything vulgar or inappropriate for a relatively young audience. Whichever one I receive that I like best I will ship you $75 on either Black Chip Poker or on America's Card Room, or $50 on paypal. Completely your choice.
Please send me a PM to get my e-mail address as I would have to be completely nuts to release that information publicly.
I kinda struggled on the micros for a long time now.. played nl200 for few months broke ~even and hit SN in 2010, but after that I kinda gave up on poker..
played occasionally on stars, few micro mtts, eventually shipped the 3$R for 6k$ but thats about it..
Well I kinda decided to reset my poker mindset and start playing again.
I deposited 50€ on PS.fr, played sngs until I hit 400€ and now im playing a mix of cash and mtts. also shipped a small omaha tourney for 400 so that puts my roll to ~1k€ after having cashed out 300€.
To keep myself focused and motivated I decided to go for Supernova this year!
currently got 3k VPPs from like 2 weeks of playing.
I will soon take shots at NL50 and for now play 5-10€ with 20€ shots mtts and NL25!
I think SN wont be too much of a problem if I can successfully move up to NL50!
Graphs will come soon when I got some more k hands in!
Moved to a new room this month so i didnt have any Internetz.
Also was kinda broke so i applied for a rl job
Got a job where i sell Dog Food on the telephone ...
Lol well its boring and kinda monotone.
But i am wondering that its pretty easy money compared to poker.
People are so fucking stupid.
Day runs like this
Hello this is Pplusad from XY
How would u like to have the best dog food availible on the market.
Customer: Well that sounds nice but i dont think u have what i am looking for
Me: Well Mister XY just give me 5 minutes to explain why our products have millions of satisfied customers
Customer: Well okay i ll give u five minutes but i dont think i will buy something on the telephone
Me: Do u agree that ...
Customer : yes
Me do u agree that (Ask obvious questions everybody agrees)
Customer : 3-4 times yes
Me: Okay , there u have it ! Our product is exactly what u are looking for.
Customer: well kinda but i am not keen on buying
Me : Why dont u give it a try ! Just this month our product is at an all time low (well lol all our products are at all time low T_T)
for just 75$, Give it a try and see what it will do good for you and your dog !
Do you agree that in case u never give something new a chance u will never get the best product available ?
Customer: all right okay i agree i will give it a try just this one time ...
bing ...
Lol its ridiculous
I sold dog food for 9000$ this month ... lol
Got paid 2300$ by the company for that, which after taxes will leave me with 1644$ net winnings
I have a ton of stories and stuff I'd like to post here so I'll try to do that from time to time and keep this blog active to keep in touch with the community and such. I've had so much fun with liquidpoker over the years and I hope to have a few more. I'm not sure if I'll play full time or if I'll walk into the shadows and be a lawyer (just got my law degree!) but the allure or getting back into high stakes poker is strong. My dream is to play full time, do BJJ 4 or 5 times a week and then spend time with the people I love, travel a bit and try to make enough money so that I never have to touch a damn legal code again unless I want to. I know that's fairly weird, but that's me. This song kind of made me feel like I'll have to at least try to be a bad ass poker player again. And yes, I get the irony of playing poker when I could be a lawyer and then bitching about "the struggle for legal tender".
I'm gonna be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender.
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender.
I'm aware I'll probably end up working with something fairly plain at a government agency or something sooner or later, but on the other hand I'm not sure what's so bad about that. Or I might by a farm and try to be one of those self-sufficient people who produces most of the stuff they need by themselves.
Anyway, I guess that's it for today. Next week I'll probably post a bit about my poker plans and such. Stupid HEM2 destroyed my db with the last patch so no big graphs or anything. They where swingy but not overly impressive due to my trying to play 24 tbls of PLO joeingram-style not working out as well as one could've vainly hoped.
I actually do like a bunch of you guys a fair bit, despite not talking much to most of you.
just entered from sat to 60k gtd. One time! Lowest prize would double up my roll so will do my best.
edit: nah with dbl up, as for now there are 1,5k entrants so lowest is 60 usd, still would be nice to cash
I'm trying to play every LAPT this year, already went to the LAPT Viña del Mar in Chile which I think went great, even though I didn't cash big I chipped up like a madman and it was a very very very easy field. I encourage anyone that wanna take a trip to Southamerica to come for any of these tourneys, I had a friend who actually won one of these LAPT while his main reason to come was just to tourist around SA.
Sadly won't be selling pieces for the Main Event but maybe for the Highroller which is 5k, if I'm out of the main event + the second chance and am not too tired.
Other than that, doing great in NL both online and live but bad in omaha, I just get destroyed in that game and don't get it yet, not sure if I should bluff more, play more tight, it just seems very hard to know what is the best play in virtually any spot. I would love to get really good at it because there's always great big games going on but I'm too bad to try those, I just rail them and try to learn something.
Luckily theres great NL games going on everywhere and they aren't gonna stop for a long time, I'm pretty sure NL reached the top, the hardest it can get, and now it's just gonna get easier and be in constant ups and downs in terms of toughness, that's my theory, could be wrong but don't think so.
1. I'd like to buy a monitor which is large enough to 6 table properly without overlapping tables.
Which one would you recommend? Below 200$ if possible.
2. Which pokertracking software would you recommend? I'd like to grind hard now with a perfect setup.
Hey all, this is my first blog post so I'll make it long, give my background, and put in a bit of an effort.
I started playing poker with my family. It was just an around the dinner table affair, we had a poker set and none of us were any good. I saw the WSOP ME stuff on TV and I thought it was pretty cool, but I was still completely clueless about poker. The hands and poker speak would go in one ear and out the other. All I could see was who had the best hand and I'd think exactly what the announcers said (after they said it of course). I think a couple years ago my friends and I would play some SnGs for a bit of cash. None of us were good at all but it was still lots of fun. The poker was mostly something to do while drinking and smoking.
I heard more and more snippets from the poker community. A lot came from TL and rekrul's posts there. I think I remember reading about Isildur or someone else running a few million under EV. It blew my mind how much money was being played for and also the fact that lady luck could fuck with someone that much. Eventually I started to watch Poker After Dark and High Stakes poker a bit, and learnt more about online poker. I looked into depositing on PS but decided against as I was 18 at the time. That was a couple summers ago.
I forgot about playing poker for most of the year after that, but last summer I had my interest reignited. I don't know what it was, I think it was EVE Poker (EVE is an mmo renowned for its spergy players. One or some of these spergy players made a browser client where you can play for the game's currency, ISK). Everyone on there was fucking terrible and I yo-yo'd my account for a few days until I busted (because I was fucking terrible as well). Around that time I started to browse LP and 2p2. I figured with the beginner guides on both sites I had enough to make it online, so I put 15$ on PS and grinded that down to $0. I got frustrated, said fuckit and gave up... for a week when I couldn't help myself but play the play money games on PS.
I enjoyed the shit out of those. I think it was just because I liked to play poker, and I liked to win, and everyone on the playmoney tables were bleeding their playmoney welfare cheques away. After a while I decided I should play for money again, so I deposited another 25$ on PS around October. This time it stuck around for a while and I'd grind and make my account yo-yo between 20$ and 50$. I hit 90$ some time in November I think but spewed it back down to 20$. Up until around March this was the state of online poker for me. I'd yo-yo around slowly getting VPPs and mostly wasting time and putting aside school work (not a good idea tbh).
This took a turn sometime in March. My game had gotten a lot better than it was before (it's still shit tho) and I would slowly make $$ from microstakers fishier than myself. One night I came home drunk and played PLO and made like 40$ or something. The next day I decided to get HEM2 and since things have been looking nice
I'd play PLO every once in a while again and I think I've given back all I won playing drunk, and I'll also play when I'm bored or tired. It takes a decent chunk out of my balance that I'm working to only play when I want to play my A-game, not just see some cards.
So, to my milestone. I started playing today with about $170 in my balance. I ran good for a couple hundred hands and had about $185.
I told myself I'm not getting up until I hit 200$. A couple hundred hands more and I'm at 199.15$. Sooooo close. Then two gross hands happen in quick succession and I'm back down to 190$. I did not give up and I played and played until I was finally at 200$. Here's my graph for the day:
I know it's super bad to be results oriented and think about how much money you have in your balance, but it's nice to see $200 sitting in my balance when I've been so used to double digits for a long time. I also know these winrates aren't that sustainable and I've ran like a horse on crack I'm still learning though and while I feel good when I win hands, I feel better if I felt like I made the right decision (especially if I win the hand).
Cliffs:
-At some point in time I started playing poker due to various circumstances
-I bought HEM2
-I hit $200 in my balance for the first time
-I've ran very well over a ~25k hand sample
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