Just got stoned out of my mind (felt great tho)by intown, April 29
I was never the pot smoker, and I honestly didn't like smoking weed except when in parties or group of friends I like and trust. Each time I smoked, which was rare, it would always just be getting buzzed or just laugh incessantly and not gain anything but temporary stuff and once it faded I would just forget about it and move on. Yesterday's one though, was a very profound for me tbh.
I just smoked the strongest weed yesterday while in the beach with friends and it was a fucking ordeal just to get
my brain to slow down from processing a clusterfuck of issues I had with myself. It was my first time to smoke weed after being hooked on Joe Rogan's podcast and for the first time I had some info on how to handle being stoned, had so much anxiety (as I always have had each time I smoked pot) that I just ktfo myself while trying to matrix my way into so many stuff that needed to be dealt with. The whole process was alien to me but the after effect was terrific because I was able to bring back most of the "solutions" to my anxiety and guilt. Honestly feels great to have that out when you really wanna zone in on some stuff you want resolved without having all the distractions.
btw, is there some kind of particular weed that does that? all I ever got to smoke were very different from this one yesterday, or did I just trip balls since it was really too strong for me?Or did Rogan just give me really good tools in handling it? I hear there's indica and sativa, the latter is what I am used to from what I hear but what the hell do I know since I really have no clue on the subject.
note;
I'm a regular LPer here(movie guy, sc2 hater, and types too much "lol" in his posts) and i just had a self ban for 1 month since I couldn't delete my blog
Realised on Friday night I was 3.3k VPP short of platinum this month! Whoops. Couldn't play tomorrow due to Manchester united vs Manchester City game! So had 2 days to clear 3.3k VPP!
About $200 profit on tables, $160 on reload bonus. ($90 left to clear), $50 stellar bonus. And 8k FPP! Not a bad two days
Played terrible at some stages this weekend, going to spend tuesday-friday going over key hands. Not losing a stack is just as important as winning one, need to realise when I'm beat and find folds that are actually easy folds when concentrating but not when in robot mode!
Wish there was a 32NL though, Nl25 to Nl50 is such a big jump. Don't feel I have the bankroll yet for NL50, think i'd want $1.5k before I take a 2buyin stoploss shot.
Only issue is that horrendous red line! Will try find some spots to analyze that and see what I could of done differently.
Goals for May is 100k hands and try take a shot at Nl50 when good tables are going!
Watched it in 3D yesterday. Easy one of the ~5 best movies I've ever seen along with stuff like Pulp Fiction, Dazed and Confused and a few others. Really awesome. Just check out the trailer and then go and see it, in 3D if possible.
Month going slow, about 30bi under ev but getting a semi-decent amount of hands in. Learning a bit too. Going to be a crazy month or two before I'm all moved to the new place.
looking to buy something like this but i have no idea what it's called. searching "tee shirt with front ties" basically just returns those stupid shirts with tuxedos printed on the front or whatever. anyone have any idea if there's an actual term for this style?
I had to laugh when I saw this after clicking on the lobby link this morning. I wanted to see if there would be any double VPP weeks although those are truly a thing of the past nowadays. This is what I found from Pokerstars tips about Milestone hands.
Milestone Hand Tips:
Play on more tables - If you are able to play on more than one table at a time, you will increase your chances of being dealt into a milestone hand.
Play longer sessions - The size of the prizes depends on the number of VIP Player Points (VPPs) you have earned while sitting at the table. Try to take a seat at a table well in advance of the next milestone hand to increase the amount of your potential prize.
Loosen up - you earn VPPs every time you contribute to a raked pot. The more pots you play in, the more VPPs you will earn.
Play more tables, more hands, and longer hours! Thanks for the tip Pokerstars .
Hey guys i was wondering if any of you tryed this facebook game and what your rank is.
At first when my gf made me try it i thought it would suck but its actually fun since your constantly matched with people close to your level and game is well made.
i'm currently rank 18.
also i was wondering if you guys think something like this: is legit. There is no way i could ever be that fast. Sometimes i think top players are bots
Anyone here record songs? Ive written a bunch and have just bought an audio interface.
I have a good guitar but not a good amp. so what programs do i need to simulate an amp?
i downloaded ableton live 8 but not sure im that happy with it.
Let me try some play poker at 10 am pleases stake me for tournaments guys cmon ok zzoooom it is quickest easiest i bet i can out play regs fucking bnooooobs
So today I had a rather unusual encounter. While entering the freeway to head into town some maniac started tailgating me at 80 mph. Not just normal "get the fuck out of the way" tailgating, but like 2 inches-directly-from-my-bumper-about-to-cause-a-crash tailgating. So I speed up a little but realize I'm not going to do 100 mph until I get a ticket, meanwhile cocksucker is still on me like I've got a dead body hanging out the trunk. He finally decides to pass and I let him, only to get up to my window and start flipping me off and other retarded shit, so I just gunned it and blew right past him again.
Once again he starts tailgating me beyond the threshold of safety, so I let off the accelerator and coast down to about 35 mph on the freeway while he continues to stay behind me, until he finally goes for the pass and I just slam on the gas and take off again. He catches up to me again and starts waving goodbye which I dont quite know what to make of, and I start running out of freeway and am forced to enter city streets.
I'm a little nervous to let him box me in at a traffic light or something so I continue to take known roads until I reach a Wal-Mart parking lot. Then we just drive laps at 15 mph around the entire parking lot as he continues to chase me or whatever. I finally punch in the GPS to go to the nearest police station and figure I'll let him chase me there and see what happens. I am forced to stop because a car gets in front of me, at which point he quickly comes up beside me and starts yelling "go on little girl! go on!". I dont really understand what his deal is but I got the impression he was giving me the right of way, which I can only deduce to mean he thinks I cut him off somehow. I usually enter the freeway pretty fast just for the fun of punching the accelerator, but I also make sure the road is clear before doing it. I'm a very courteous and observant driver and there's no way I cut anyone off.
So it kinda got me thinking that this guy might be a psycho, and I'm sitting here having to keep my car in motion to make sure he cant get beside me and shoot me or throw a bottle at my car or whatever. I have a fast car (5.0 mustang) and can pretty much outrun any normal car, but then again I dont really want to have to endanger myself just to run away from some asshole.
But people are crazy in the world and I dont want to become Zimmerman's next victim, so it got me thinking. Aside from my car, I dont have any self-defense capabilities in this world. I dont know how to fight obviously, plus my attacker may not fight fair, I dont have a gun, taser, baton, etc etc. I started to feel like a statistic, like that person who gets mugged/killed because there was nothing I can do. Most people get all self-defense oriented after something shitty happens to them because they dont ever want to let that happen again. I kinda felt like this was a little wakeup call. There have been plenty of times where I'm in sketchy neighborhoods, ATM machines at night, etc etc, where I am just a big target and it would be nice to know I at least have a chance. Afterall, thats why the call a firearm "the great equalizer".
So I'm going to go to a shooting range tomorrow and see what it feels like, because I've never even shot a gun before. I'm also thinking about tasers (the kind that shoot) but since those are basically one-shot only, and look close enough to a real gun that my attacker may start shooting first, I'm still leaning towards good ole fashioned bullets as my best defense.
My goal is to keep this weapon tucked away somewhere in my car. They make car holsters for putting it under your drivers seat, between the seat and arm-rest, etc etc, so you can grab it faster than going for the glovebox.
It's been ages since I made a blog entry but as I need to gain some more motivation / seek advice I figured it would be a good idea to get things back on the rail again. Also I feel that LP is in need of a little active member boost again like the good old 2007-2009 days. I think longple mentioned this as well and so I'm just trying to contribute! Moving on to poker, last month results wise was very good; online I mainly play Omaha PL50 / PL100 and was very fortunate to spot a giant fish on the 1/2, didn't have the bankroll for it at the time but figured it was worth a shot which turned out to be quite decent as you can see from the stats below. I also ran quite good against him with some setups in my favor but also feel like I played the most EV game against him overall.
This is all from 888 poker. Must say I ran pretty well, slightly above EV for the last part of the month so definitely can't complain. As I work for Stars here in London 40-50 hours a week I cannot put in as much volume as I would like to online, but on the side I play quite a bit of live as well (usually about 10-15 hours a week). On a side note, no I don't know anything about the sale with FTP so don't bother asking
I really enjoy the job though, almost 2 years now that I moved to London and besides playing poker it gives me a solid monthly income which I can partly put towards poker as well. Obviously it's in an environment that I love and the colleagues that I have are amazing and have become good friends with a lot of them. We play quite a bit of home games as well, smallish stakes though but it ends up getting Β£200-300 deep on Β£0.25/0.50 with all Dealers Choice games. Stockholm is by far my favourite DC game; in short you get 5 cards with a betting round, a flop is dealt and then another betting round. After that is one drawing round in which you can discard up to 5 cards just like 5card draw. The turn is dealt immediately afterwards -> betting round -> river -> betting round like normal. Pot then gets split between the best 5card draw hand and Omaha High hand using 2 cards from your hand. This game is insane as you can imagine but sooo much fun.
If anyone here has some more cool DC games that I know of please let me know and I'm sure we will get them in the mix next time.
Going back to my stats from the screen above, I realize that I play quite nitty in PLO online. This used to be completely different and in live games I still play a bit more laggy than I would do online. However this is one part where I am seeking some advice; for any highly experienced PLO players out there like MiPwnYa, Daut, Ket etc. - is this comparable to your stats? I feel like I should be opening up more hands in 6max PLO and my 3bet should definitely be higher. One thing I also noticed from the details, is that my fold to flop bet percentage is 64%. I feel like this is way too high and if I compare this to other players on 888 it definitely seems higher than the average. Should I be c/r or c/c more with medium draws or peel off an extra street more often with TP kind of hands? It just feels like I completely nitted up online although it does seem to be working on 888 where people still pay me off regularly.
I also played a few MTTs on 888 with one good result just before the start of this month. It sucks that you cannot do deals on 888 since we both had 12-15 BBs in headsup. The guy was a massive fish but I simply made a bad shove against him and was really frustrated with myself afterwards for not shipping this one. Still not a bad result.
Live I played hold'em at the Fox poker club mostly, some 1/1 but usually 1/2 NLH or ROE if the last one was running. Problem with the fox compared to the vic is that tables never go higher than 1/2 but imo there is still plenty of action to be found and the dealers are friendly. Reason I don't like the Vic is that the tables are often quite boring with a lot of passiveness, and after 2/3 hours I usually give up or simply get too bored with it. The Fox in that aspect is different as I know quite a lot of people there, some I know are internet regulars and decent players which I tried to avoid as much as possible. The avg. potsize on 1/2 there is simply much bigger than what I've seen at the vic, so for now I'll stay at the Fox. Also played a small Β£35 bounty tourney there which I took down for Β£600 (included 15 out of the 60 bounties - lols). Never had such a run good in a tourney so that was fun to experience for once.
Ending it off with one of my most favourite songs from my favourite band from the last 10 years. This was from their first album which is still the best one they ever made. I've seen them live in Amsterdam 2 years ago just before moving to London and it was the best concert EVARRR. The Swedes here should definitely know this one:
Alright that's it for now. Any advice on the PLO stats would be very much appreciated.
Cheers!
A different kind of month: merge, coaching, AUTHORby Daut, April 26
Pre-black friday my monthly poker routine would be to play something like 60 hours of cash and 25 hours of sunday tournaments in a month. I was never a huge grinder, but I was pretty consistent about putting in decent volume for the 5 years I had been a professional poker player. I never put in a shitload of volume, but I never really burned out and felt like retiring. I would spend a few hours doing staking stuff here and there, but I would rarely put in more than 90-100 hours into poker each month.
Post black friday has been different for me. I have a girlfriend and a dog living in california, so permanent relocation wasnt an option for me. But neither was sitting on my ass doing nothing. I rented a place in canada for 6 months and bounced back and forth spending roughly 12 days a month in canada. While I was up there I felt forced to play more hours per day to make up for having a smaller window of time to play. Then when I would return to the USA I would take it easy and not grind.
April was the first month since july that I spent 0 time outside the country. As a backer, I always try to put in extra volume in the months leading up to black friday so I can make more money before the most expensive time of the year. I felt the need to put in my hours somehow, but I have no desire to play live poker. I turned back to HEROPOKER.
i deposited about 1k on hero a year ago and fully expected to be able to run it up to infinite like I was nanonoko. It didn't work out like that. Building from a small roll was a lot harder than I expected. The merge games have lots of regulars that arent bad, the mid-higher stakes games arent great and dont run, and my shots worked out horribly. Coming into this month I had just under 7k on the site that I had built up from the original 1k, but had no way to cash it out.
I went through the process of filling out all the annoying forms so I could cash out to moneybookers and cashed out 3k leaving myself just under 4k there to start april. I put in about 70 hours of grinding and have built it up to about 7600 at all 50 and 100plo.
With my 35% rakeback and side bonuses this worked out to +3600 for a whopping 50 bucks an hour. Even though its a small hourly, i'm proud I was able to obtain that playing such low stakes on a non pokerstars network. I also spent a lot more time battling than I do on stars. Since there are so many tables that run on stars, I usually just pick the 4-8 best ones and grind those for a huge winrate. I decided to use merge as more of an experiment and try to battle regs and improve my mass multitabling. I spent a lot of time 12 tabling in tougher lineups and feel like my PLO game is getting much better and look forward to hopefully starting to move back up in limits on stars when I go to vancouver for scoop.
In addition to merge, I did 6 hours of PLO coaching, made 9 MTT videos for cardrunners and have written about 90% (about 80 pages) of an e-book on backing. I sent it to a few tournament players to find out what they think about it and see if I left anything out, but I am hoping to release it sometime in may before the WSOP starts. I don't expect to make a ton on the book, but if I can even make 5 figures out of it ill be happy.
In terms of poker grinding, I didnt put in more hours than I usually do. But combined with my videos, coaching and writing I dont think I have ever worked harder in a single month. The month still has 5 days left and I've probably put in about 125 hours of work and probably made about 20k in equity with everything added together.
gonna add in a quick poll. how much do you guys think I should charge for the e-book? keep in mind the following: there has been NOTHING written about backing in the poker world and a good amount of people would be interested/learn from it as it covers things like buying/selling pieces extensively as well as all other parts of backing and being backed such as makeup deals, finding horses, finding backers, setting up a deal, problems that can occur and contracts.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=1302
Poll: How much should Daut charge?
(Vote): $10: everyone can afford!
(Vote): $25: cheap but you will still make money
(Vote): $50: value bet everyone!
(Vote): $100: value bet bigger and get called half as often!
(Vote): $200: expensive but comparable to other in depth books
(Vote): $500+: if people really want this info they'll pay for it
This is probably worth its own thread as it could open up a discussion, but I'm just going to post this here as a recommendation.
It's a fairly old TEDTalk iirc, but it has just been re-uploaded today. I watched it again and I realize how "paradigm-shifting" (for lack of a better term) this can be for some. In his words: "people don't know this about themselves, and not knowing this can work to our supreme disadvantage." Of course, if you are familiar with ancient philosophy, whether it is from the East or the West, this won't be news to you - you will realize that they knew all about this 'synthetic happiness' and fully understand why they built disciplines around it. But whether you do or don't, it's really interesting to see some data about it, and this scientist has an overall great talk on the subject. Enjoy.
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