Graduated college a couple of weeks ago, so I figured I'd start up poker again in the summer before I start law school. I was a breakeven microstakes cash player before building up a small roll on Full Tilt (Really really hoping THIS is true).
Anywho, I deposited $50 on Lock Poker a month ago and built it up to a thousand playing HUSNGs, then tilted half of it off, then built it back up again. Absolutely love the gametype and have been making a killing at the $20-30 reg/turbo speed games. I'm just too damn impatient in 6-max and full-ring games - being able to open 80-90% of my hands is much friendlier for my attention span.
For someone who has always struggled at low-stakes cash games, I'm surprised at how bad some of the midstakes HUSNG regs are. These guys are so predictable and get killed by aggressive postflop play. Against some regs, I'm opening all my hands from the button and cbetting every flop, and they'll never fight back enough.
One particular reg (name-redacted), after I valuebetted trips on the river: + Show Spoiler +
REG : lol
REG : come on
hapa : you calling a shove there?
REG : with top
REG : pair]
REG : vs u yea (note: no he aint, liar.)
hapa : well **** I don't have a good image
REG : 92% c betting
REG : come on
hapapants : whats my turn cbet % on your hud?
REG : 91%
REG : fold on flop 17%
REG : must be drunk alot
I still don't have an HUD or pokertracking software, so it was kinda funny to see the numbers. (btw, what do y'all recommend for software? Seems like Hold'em Manager and Poker Tracker are the big two).
I'm definitely not normally doing the above against your average player, but the guy folds probably ~80-90% of hands to double barrels and c-bets 90% --> checks --> folds to river bet if he doesn't have atleast 2nd pair.
This same reg check/raises a polarized range (very weighted towards air) and runs up some random crazy bluffs.
I get good odds to call the check raise on the flop, and call the huge turn bet since he would never pot the turn with top pair with two tens on the board. I snap called the pot sized river bet to some funny results:
hapa : sweet.
REG : omg
REG : u station
hapa : yeahh...
REG : wow
hapa : I'm proud of that one haha
REG : donk central
REG : wow
REG : notes
hapa : if you want to know why, your line made no sense
REG : called 720
REG : with king high
REG : donk
hapa : indeed
REG : even if u thought u were good
REG : ur were getting no odds
REG : wow
REG : donk
hapa : =)
REG : wat a moron
REG : defend ur call
REG : again
REG : getting no odds
REG : wow
REG : uwere getting no odds
REG : i bet potr
REG : pot
REG : moron
REG : omg
hapa : Dude, you gotta give me that one =P cmooon
REG : station
REG : wow ur bad
REG : that was amazingly bad
hapa : it was also amazingly awesome =D
REG : thumbsup
REG : ur abeast
REG : thx for playing
hapa: tyty
REG : stay here neverquirt
If you managed to get to here, thanks for reading, and I'll be posting more in the coming months.
So my name is R3m3mb3rM3, a name you should remember.
(Im so famous everytime I log in I have to confirm I am RememberMe via checkbox)
Joke aside, as many of you I enjoy starcraft and strategy games in general, and when I heard someone got poker champion 2 years back to back I started doubting poker is just about luck.
I was always pretty good in games without much practice, which didn't keep me from practicing anyway. So now, smelling some money, I want to give poker a shot.
My plan: start with 10$ play till nothing is left or earn 1000$.
The last 5 days I started to read a lot, watch a lot and play a lot of/about poker. My first tables went horrible so I started sit & go's with a lot success. I was down to 1,50$ (close one ^^), now I'm back to 25$ and I feel a lot more confident and strategic.
As motivated I am at the moment, I doubt I will pay for Tracking software, even if it would be useful, I don't want to commit too much until I convinced myself I can make money.
So I hope you will hear from me soon and I hope you'll
R3m3mb3rM3
EDIT as per request: History lectures by Wuhl who is primarily known for being a comedian, so it's actually entertaining. The lectures are on the concept that history as we remember it is largely skewed by popular misconceptions that come from old age media sources first line is "I am going to assume the position that history is pop culture." E.g. taken more from novels by Irving and Longfellow more than it is actual events. Can be summed up by "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Also has parts on the idea that Americans constantly elect or care about their stars "star fucking is as american as apple pie" and other things that have been in American history that have unusual origins.
I am going to Boston soon and wonder if anyone has info and good things to do/eat/drink? I will be near Fenway and going to see a ball game. Other than that, not sure what else is cool. Any help is appreciated!
So I'm heading to Korea for a work event. Anyone gonna be around? Arriving in Seoul on the 13th and will be in Korea for 1 week. Hit me up if you're in country =)
Hi i am professional poker player for maybe 3-4 years.I lost my whole bankrol at FTP and because i had spent my other money for a place to live so i had to start grinding again.I have played pretty much any type of game(and i mean any-6max,9max,HU,PLO,8 game,almost every single type of SNG) at small and medium stakes and i have taken shots at 1k and 2k nl and cap NL.Although i consider myself a HU and short handed specialist i have been winning at every of these games.I don't play much MTTs.Mostly HU MTTs a have won 3 omaha HU tournies at FTP and a few Holdem HUs too.My ROI at sng HU at omaha and holdem is more than 10%.So that is all i think.I will play SCOOP-L and i am looking to sell the action for the M.So if i do i will play it.The offer is 35-65% for stakers.IF someone is interested send the money to Krasen159Y(yambol with a picture of Doc Holiday).If i do not sell the shares i will send back ofcourse.I can take the last few shares ofcourse though. I have been reading this forum for years now but not being active.If you are worrying because i am new you can choose someone to keep the money i don't mind.But you will have no problems with me!O and shares are for 5%-11$ and for 10%-21$!GL to you guys and hope not to meet me on the tourny
pork rinds too good to be true?by bigredhoss, May 10
today some bags of spicy pork rinds caught my eye. i checked the back of one of the bags to look at the nutrition info and it said 10g protein per serving, 6 servings per bag. so i'm like "health food, easy game" and buy like 6 bags.
when i get home however i realize right next to the protein listing there's some smaller text that says "not a significant source of protein". wtf does this mean, it has protein but it doesn't? anyone who is knowledgeable about nutrition and such tell me what sort of tomfoolery is going on here?
SO my holiday is almost over, ive been away from home since november 2011. thats going to be 6 and a half months. Going back home in one week. Really loved the phils, wanna stay here forever haha. Mostly cos of girls.
My trip was
Sydney(home) -> Perth -> Davao Philippines (met whamm and choy both lpers there) -> Manila -> Vietnam -> Cebu(philippines).
Been staying in cebu for a while where I met bunch of 2+2ers that stay here, renting houses and stuff. Been going out which has been good. Picking up girls is easy. At this point in my life I really don't see a reason to stay in Australia where I cant ship as many girls if any. Here girls just throw themselves at foreigners if you look somewhat alright and not too old. So I'm in the gold. But for now I will have to go back to australia where I will need to find a job once again. but possibly start an online business and get back to asia. Hopefully!
Also you can live in phils quiet comfortably grinding NL25 even, without a sweat, and having really nice place. This is also an option if im too depressed in aus.
Fuck april, go swedish fishies! + musicby Gumster, May 09
April really sucked. I was doing good half way through, but then I started running poorly, which made me impatient so I added more tables (8-9 instead of 6) and then I started playing worse and the bad run continued. Even though I ran above EV I still feel like I was running pretty poorly. With 50% rakeback I still managed to get like a lousy profit of 300$, which is embarresing considering the time I put into poker last month.
So... what's missing? Why am I not making any monies? Nl20 shouldn't have to be that tough now should it?
So I decided to move to Svenska Spel (boss network? or something) thx to longple giving advice. And I only got this to say: OMFG PEOPLE ARE SO BAD! Not only are people terribad, but they buy-in for 200bbs! I've been blessed with a godlike run on my new account which of course is sweet. Now I just have to make sure I play through the bad run as well and hopefully I'll have a sweet month right before the summer. Theese are my goals for may:
Suistanable winrate, I know. Lastly, some sweet tunes. I found this gem from 1985 by Alexander O'neal (never heard of him either) called What's missing, which is basically what I need to find out about my poker career, wtf am I doing wrong. Well I don't really need to tell you much about the tune, it's pretty straight forward 80's synthy soul (almost pop?), enjoy!
Having a good time, while playing the low SCOOP Stud and reading Daut's Stud guide for the 15th time, while drinking some beers and listening to some nice dubstep.
Possibilites:
[x] win Scoop event
...
[x] profit
or
[x] bust scoop event (most likely against crazy russian dude at my table) (ever notice how russian are aggro like scandies but bad?)
...
[x] profit mentally by being able to continue to read Game of Thrones
----> the day cannot suck. Sweet times
EDIT. Game of Thrones it is then. Probably misplayed several streets though.
Submitted by : Luna_Bluffgood
PokerStars Hand #80186700244: Tournament #2012050101, $25+$2 USD 7 Card Stud Limit - Level X (200/400) - 2012/05/09 22:41:03 CET [2012/05/09 16:41:03 ET]
Table 2012050101 27 8-max
Seat 1: neckbr4ke (10769 in chips)
Seat 2: DrunkinClown (859 in chips)
Seat 3: KolaBeldi_Jr (3296 in chips)
Seat 4: TheCart3r (5778 in chips)
Seat 5: Terry_Toria (7588 in chips)
Seat 6: FaraChef (6524 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero (3643 in chips)
Seat 8: Jandrulo (2748 in chips)
neckbr4ke: posts the ante 40
DrunkinClown: posts the ante 40
KolaBeldi_Jr: posts the ante 40
TheCart3r: posts the ante 40
Terry_Toria: posts the ante 40
FaraChef: posts the ante 40
Hero: posts the ante 40
Jandrulo: posts the ante 40
3rd Street (Pot : $320.00)
Dealt to neckbr4ke
Dealt to DrunkinClown
Dealt to KolaBeldi_Jr
Dealt to TheCart3r
Dealt to Terry_Toria
Dealt to FaraChef
Dealt to Hero
Dealt to Jandrulo
Terry_Toria: brings in for 60
FaraChef: folds
Hero: calls 60
Jandrulo: raises 140 to 200
neckbr4ke: raises 200 to 400
DrunkinClown: folds
KolaBeldi_Jr: folds
TheCart3r: folds
Terry_Toria: folds
Hero: calls 340
Jandrulo: calls 200
4th Street (Pot : $1,460.00)
Dealt to neckbr4ke
Dealt to Hero
Dealt to Jandrulo
neckbr4ke: bets 200
Hero: calls 200
Jandrulo: calls 200
5th Street (Pot : $2,060.00)
Dealt to neckbr4ke
Dealt to Hero
Dealt to Jandrulo
Hero: checks
Jandrulo: bets 400
neckbr4ke: calls 400
Hero: raises 400 to 800
Jandrulo: calls 400
neckbr4ke: calls 400
6th Street (Pot : $4,460.00)
Dealt to neckbr4ke
Dealt to Hero
Dealt to Jandrulo
neckbr4ke: checks
Hero: bets 400
Jandrulo: calls 400
neckbr4ke: raises 400 to 800
Hero: raises 400 to 1200
Jandrulo: raises 108 to 1308 and is all-in
Betting is capped
neckbr4ke: calls 508
Hero: calls 108
River (Pot : $8,384.00)
Dealt to Hero
neckbr4ke: bets 400
Hero: raises 400 to 800
neckbr4ke: raises 400 to 1200
Hero: calls 95 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (305) returned to neckbr4ke
Showdown neckbr4ke: shows (a full house, Aces full of Kings)
Hero: shows (a full house, Sixes full of Jacks)
neckbr4ke collected 1790 from side pot
Jandrulo: shows (two pair, Tens and Nines)
Jandrulo is sitting out
neckbr4ke collected 8504 from main pot
Hero finished the tournament in 1715th place
Jandrulo finished the tournament in 1716th place
Summary Total pot 10294 Main pot 8504. Side pot 1790. | Rake 0
Seat 1: neckbr4ke showed and won (10294) with a full house, Aces full of Kings
Seat 2: DrunkinClown folded on the 3rd Street (didnt bet)
Seat 3: KolaBeldi_Jr folded on the 3rd Street (didnt bet)
Seat 4: TheCart3r folded on the 3rd Street (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Terry_Toria folded on the 3rd Street
Seat 6: FaraChef folded on the 3rd Street (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Hero showed and lost with a full house, Sixes full of Jacks
Seat 8: Jandrulo showed and lost with two pair, Tens and Nines
London to Houston to Vegas to San Fran to Portland to Vancouver
Houston and Portland will be busy visiting family (short stopovers).
Vegas watching the Amir Khan vs Lamont Peterson fight (only there for two nights or something with my Dad).
Otherwise if anyone is in San Fran or Vancouver and wants to hang out (and not a complete wacko like some of the others I have met - and won't just talk about poker - since I don't play so often), let me know!
Everyone who reads 2p2 for hours a day is soooo bored right now and trying to find something/anything to read and occupy time so maybe I should be blogging more as a way to not only keep myself busy but maybe keep someone else busy for 2-5 minutes as they read/interact. This is Day 2.5 of my Workout/Diet prop bet and I am excited to eat the salad sitting in front of me right now. I found a salad bar/juice place that is supposed to be the healthy place the yuppies of Yaletown here in Vancouver go to, for a make your own salad and some fruit its 15 dollars lol, but whatever. Before I go to the gym to start my workouts I usually walk down the street to the healthy/most expensive grocery store known to man and buy a pre-workout "drink", 2 big bottles of water and then a post-workout "drink". I have no idea what exactly these pre/post workout drinks do but I trick myself into thinking they might be good and it is another good way to spend 14 dollars per workout I have found. My bank wire hit my account from Pokerstars and I don't really need more then 5k to live off of so now if I ever think about buying something, I just buy it. I really haven't spent to much money since my 400k upswing besides on getting my teeth healthy/looking better and maybe 10k-15kish on clothes/accessories (watch) so I think I'm doing good so far on that end.
Here is pic I took yesterday for beginning of workout prop bet, I took some with shirt off to gauge progress but I probably should keep those to myself and to various ladies lol
In my last blog I wrote how I was playing poker for PTR (tracking results site for noobs from fb) glory so to say and that once PTR stopped working that I didn't care anymore and lost a bunch of money. Someone said this is first step to failure which if you look at my results for the first 4.4 million hands that is confirmed because I think I have always been like that. I never really played to make alot of money, as long as I had 10k to be able to grind with and pay bills I was happy and fine. Something kinda changed during this last grind challenge where I realized I should stop being so -EV in what I was doing with my pokertime and do what I needed to do to win money. So I decided to stop playing 24 tables and play 1-4 tables because I knew thats what I had to do to be +EV and obv the results show for themselves. Once I won 100k that first month I was tempted to just not put much effort into it anymore but the thought of running up my PTR graph as high as I possibly could and the glory/excitement that comes from that came into my mind and provided me that motivation I needed to keep going. This sounds ridiculous to some but thats how I think about it and not really sure how to trick myself into changing that thought process. My goal before PTR went down was to get to 1 million profit on there and ever since it went away I've kinda been racking my brain and wondering around for a new goal and finally found one with my workout/diet prop bet, gives me something to focus on. Sounds even more ridiculous now that I would have stayed in Canada and kept grinding to try to get to 1 million profit for the sole reason of making my PTR graph look more awesome and not for the 1 million dollars itself lol, here is obligatory screenshot of final PTR for me
Lets get to what this blog post is all about. How is it to live in Canada and the process that goes into it. The original question was from NewbSaibot and he said
I'd like to hear more about life in Vancouver. I know for awhile you were living in a 10k/month penthouse or something, but for the avg joe how affordable are the nice areas of Vancouver? How is the weather year round? What other considerations should someone make if moving to Vancouver? Basically I'm really interested in living there for a variety of reasons, and because I've heard nothing but good things about the city. Overall, could you see yourself living in Vancouver forever? Or are there certain factors which might drive you back to the states?
Man this is a great question and I'm sure there are so many people that never left the USA to relocate anywhere for a number of reasons. I will write a little bit about my experience here so far and if anyone has anymore questions feel free to ask. I'll just start by going through the questions he asked. When I originally moved here we picked a place that was 5.8k/month sorta penthouse
This was obviously unnecessary but me and ballcup thought process before moving here was lets just get one of the sickest places we can because who knows if we will ever be able to again. So even though I was busto and rent per month was more then what my starting bankroll online was we decided to go through with it. I guess I had a lot of confidence in my ability to build it back up. I think Vancouver is affordable in the nice areas (Yaletown, Downtown, Gastown) for the average person who is relocating for poker. I would assume most people doing this have some money and are good at making more money from online poker and can afford it. I think the average 2br is anywhere from 2k-3k depending on how nice and for 1br you can find somewhere from 1.5-2k, I've been in alot of places downtown in these areas of town and they are all basically the same thing. Nice view, patio, in good shape. I came from San Diego where i was paying 2.4k/month in rent for myself so I was pretty used to these prices but for people coming from other areas this is like a what the fuck/holy shit type of thing. I think you may be able to find a bit cheaper prices in West End and Coal Harbor areas of the greater downtown area but I think prices will run pretty similarly. I would never come here and live outside of the little Island Vancouver sits on when you look on the map but I know you can find cheaper accomidations if it is that big of a deal. The weather here year round sucks, it is never warm out until yesterday, for the last maybe 7-8 months it has been a combo of cold/rainy/miserable outside. Good for staying inside and grinding but bad for going outside and enjoying. I'm not really too sure what other considerations one would make when moving up here, I guess knowing other people is good. I knew 3 people from our Vegas house that we moved up here with so always had people to hang out with even though I was busto/depressed when moved up here for the most part. We did meet alot of new people right away and if you open yourself up you'll be able to make new friends pretty easily. I would say I became pretty good-really good friends with 4 people I met in Vancouver that play poker. People come and go though which sucks but the opportunity is there to meet some people if you are here for a 3-6month time span. I think the city is beautiful, I live in Yaletown right now and it is great for walking anywhere and finding a ton of food options. When I lived downtown it was even better for finding 100s of different food options. If you are the rare poker player who likes to meet women you will have no problem doing this. I think I have met/been out with around 15-20 people and have probably tried like a 5 out of 100 to meet anyone in that regard. The crowd in the town is interesting, basically a mix of white people and asian people. Some indian/brown people scattered throughout but that is about it.
I think I could see myself living in Vancouver for a long period of time but taking many vacations. I have felt like a prisoner trapped in Canada though for most of my time, I know many of my friends have left and come back without issue but since I have had my car here I always felt a little iffy about flying out and then for some reason not being able to get back into the country so I chose to just stay here. I originally had a 3 month visitors visa, I applied online for an extension for 3 more months and got that mailed to me and then I applied again online for 4 more months and was approved again, thats how I was able to stay longer then the 6 months everyone on the forums talks about. It was a super easy process and one I would recommend to anyone looking to legally stay up here longer. I kind of want to write the Canadian government a letter for letting me stay so long and make all this money lol, I actually think I might do this. The wantingness to keep writing is kind of fading away right now but I think I hit on alot of important things/main topics people ask about often so if anyone has anymore they want to know go ahead and ask.
Going to eat now and get on with the day but if i feel like blogging more today or something comes to mind then I will
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