Artanis11 $5,300.00 poker stakes
AndrewBoccia $750.00 poker stakes
quocy04 $400.00 400 of 1k left
david kent $120.00 poker
li $2,000.00 poker stakes
Reid $350.00 canada
thyrandaal $40.00 canada
dad $330.00 gamblin
goal - pay these off asap and get a nice place on the beach here in CR, when my 1 year lease is up :-)
upon arrival I was 20k in MU (cost 10k for everything (had a canada move go bad 3500x2 7k) 10k owed to staker but x2 for any $ non poker related, rent / moving / airplanes / food / other stuff, etc;
ill comeback to the page to mark off debts when i get em paid up and update you guys np ;-)
mad respect,
I want to do everything correctly now guys,
Show me the master ways;
GL LP,
win!
Ryan
I'm still a little hungover, groggy and felt like getting some stuff down on paper and felt like some of this might have some value for the LP crowd. Just going machine gun style:
-Anyone interested in health, wellness, medicine, tech should read "End of Illness" by David Agus. He covers basically all the health threads that popped up in the general forum over the last year and it's basically a hack on health and wellness.
Alcohol:
-not all wine is created equal.
-not all tequila is created equal.
-et al
To all the young, broke kids:
grow/improve/acquire knowledge/build quality relationships, make some $$$$$, start drinking better alcohol you will not be disappointed. i guess it's all subjective but a really good glass of wine is orgasmic and after a lot doesn't fuck you up the next day. ditto w/ tequila, rum, whiskey, scotch, cognac, vodka, et al.
$5/bottle tequila and rum is horrible. i'm not saying you need to go broke buying $10 shots at the bar but pick your liquor of choice and scale up. i will be surprised if you are disappoint.
This holds true for basically anything that you enjoy in life.
Hangover Remedy:
-sleep+time
-ICE COLD water. nothing better.
-frozen fresh picked fruit
-maybe little bit coffee or painkiller
if you can stomach it and the weather is nice:
-walk+fresh air. try to push yourself to the point you get some natural endorphins, painkillers, anti-inflammatories kickin in.
-eggs + bacon + steak (w/e you like)
Food Related but Non-Hangover related:
asparagus is (the) nuts right now. get that shit fresh picked. lil bit evoo. sea salt. garlic. pepper. roast that sumbitch up for like 20-25 min. lil bit evoo. grated parmesan cheese. lemon. that's where it's at this april.
add in steak of choice and gameover. you've won.
oh shit, cab or malbec of choice? man nukka pass go like 20 times, don't go to jail, and land on boardwalk holla.
House Music:
-don't sleep on hernan catteneo. if you enjoy a bit more deep, progressive, house'y, electronica'y stuff thus nukka gets it better than anybody.
-as far as mainstream right now. avicii and sebastian ingrosso are killin it. if you wanna give new house music a try check them out. they've been killin it for a while but all these f swedes are murderin shit. imo they've kinda started their own new sub-genre of swedish house ownage.
-if you are completely new to house: thomas banghalter. daft punk.
Aside from letting you guys know about the Tough Mudder event, I'm trying to see if there's anyone going to any of the many events that are held around the world.
It would be a great time to do this event, as well as meet up with some fellow LP`ers along the way and team up for this event, since some of the courses require help from other people.
I've been talking to some friends, and we got a 5 person group so far that will enter the Diablo Grande event in Northern California. Taho filled up too fast.
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FACT #2 – Mudders do not take themselves too seriously
Triathlons, marathons, and other lame-ass mud runs are more stressful than fun. Not Tough Mudder. As hardcore as our courses are, we meet you at the finish line with a beer, a laugh, and a rockin’ live band. It’s pretty hard to take yourself seriously when you’re covered in mud and have just finished an obstacle called ‘Just The Tip’, so please don’t show up at a Tough Mudder without a sense of humor. Just check out the ridiculous team costumes in our event photos to get a feel for the spirit of Tough Mudder.
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so i call a 3x BB raise with 8d9d... not a typical play for me but it's just micro. 5 players to the flop, which comes:
9h 8h Jh
i bet 2/3 pot and get called by the guy who did the initial 3x BB raise. turn comes:
9h 8h Jh 6s
i bet about 2/3 of the pot again and he has me covered and tosses in enough to put me all in. i call and he turns over 9c 10h and proceeds to hit his straight on the river.
should i just not play connectors? i feel the need to since every time i play big hands i either run smack into bigger hands, or get some fool calling all my bets with absolutely nothing and ends up making a straight or flush on the turn and river.
EDIT: i was early pos and initially just called, he was mid-late pos. didn't really play with him long enough to figure out a pattern
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We have now completed a review for each of the tournaments played April 4. As a part of determining fair compensation for these events, it has been decided to credit your PokerStars account with at least the tournament fee of every tournament in which you suffered a timeout. In addition, for any tournaments in which you were then materially affected – we have also credited your account with the total amount invested for the event. Please read our findings below:
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i admit i didnt get cracked on the river for once, but wtf 4bet me with k4 suited?
either there's some new israelian tactics i don't know of, or my pokerstars picture disturbs my opponent
Had a good first day on stars today.
There software makes poker 500% better its ridiculous how much better stars is than every other site put together...feels awesome!
anyways, was hu vs the #1 player on the tourney leader board, he won the monthly last 3 months and is #1 yearly, he bested me, kinda played a lil too lag, usually have that problem first few days back at ft's, gonna tone it down some n hopefully get the 1sts; hes a friend on skype, was a fun match to say the least, gonna go visit him on the beach here in CR soon
I think a coach would learn me a lot. I'm not too experienced with online poker.
Only friend I have on skype that plays poker is a nit that doesn't think bluff exists in poker. Also, who wouldn't want to see a toilet paper head brown skinned taliban @ WSOP final table?
Objective -> Grind 15k for the main event this july.
My skype is fabz0mg, feel free to add me.
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11 september
In my last blog I made a comment about retiring in under 6 years if I can save 80% of my income every year. This isn't an estimation, it's simple math and anyone who can save that much will have enough saved up in that time period to live off of the money they've saved for the rest of their lives. Here's a chart of savings rate versus amount of time working assuming a starting point of 0 savings: http://i.imgur.com/CpPoo.jpg
So I decided to do a more detailed breakdown of my specific situation and the amount of money in expenses I will need to cover at the time of retirement to determine what my "number" is. That is, the amount of actual money I will need to have saved up so that my wife and I can quit working and defeat the game of life. To keep things simple I'm not going to break things down into individual categories. Instead I'm going to keep things pretty general.
Current Expenses: ~7,000 per month. Let's assume that it stays at 7,000 for the rest of this year and then becomes lower for the years following to make the math easier.
Estimated Expenses after 2012 (cutting out everything we don't really need i.e cost of living after retiring): ~4,500 per month (probably more like 4,000, and significantly lower once we pay off the house, but 4,500 seems safe).
So the goal now is to determine how big of a ball of money can generate an annual income of 4,500 per month. That actually isn't that hard. First you multiply 4,500 by 12 to get 54,000 in annual expenses. Then you take 54,000 and divide by .04 and you get the number: $1,350,000
Then there is the time factor. How much time will it take me to reach that number? This is the cool part because you have the power of compounding on your side.
Let's take my current savings rate for 2012 of 50%. So if I hold on at 50% for the year with 7k/month in expenses, I will have saved up 84,000 (7*12). Now assuming that I don't put any of that into my poker bankroll and invest it into something risk-averse we can assume that the money will generate about 5% on average from investments. So by the end of the year that money will be worth 88,200, not bad. So for years 2-5 let's assume that I can still save 7k per month. By the end of the 5th year my nestegg will be worth 487,360.676. Here's what the year-over-year breakdown would look like:
Now let's add some stuff. Right now my wife isn't getting paid much as a substitute teacher, and will be a full time teacher for next year. She will probably get about 35,000 in after-tax pay. So if I add in her 35,000 per year as savings and also add the 2,500 per month in savings after we are down to 4,500 per month in expenses next year, it brings our total up to 149,000 for years 2-5. Wow! what a difference cutting out 2,500 a month can do; it adds an extra 30k per year in savings, effectively doubling my wife's 35k per year income! Here's what it looks like over 5 years:
year 1: 88,200
year 2: 249,060
year 3: 417,963
year 4: 595,311.15
year 5: 781,526.71
That brings us to 57.8% of our "number" in just 5 years assuming that I can make no more than what I'm making now at 5/10 after expenses/taxes each year. Not bad. Now, let's assume that after the first year I decide that I have enough of a buffer to play 10/20 about half the time that I play poker. And let's assume that I win 1.5x as much as I win at 5/10 even though it's double the stakes and you can buy in for more. How does that affect the numbers?
Well, let's see how much more I would make from playing. If you take the 114k that is saved from my income in years 2-5 and multiply by 1.25 (remember we're only making 1.5x as much as we were half of the time) you get 142.5k. Add in my wife's 35k and we're at 177,500 in savings PER YEAR. Here's the final 10 year breakdown to retirement:
year 1: 88,200
year 2: 278,985
year 3: 479,309.25
year 4: 689,649.71
year 5: 910,507.20
year 6: 1,142,407.56 year 7: 1,385,902.93 Oh yeaaaaaaah beer me we're retiring!
year 8: 1,641,573.08
year 9: 1,910,026.73
year 10: 2,191,903.07
It's pretty sick when you break down the numbers and look at them laid out like this, but I think that retiring in 7 years or less, given that we have some money saved already, is a very likely scenario for me and my family and I'm pretty damn excited about it. What's your number?
note: this is assuming that we continue to make 2k in mortgage payments for the rest of our lives. If I factor in that with minimum payments the mortgage will be paid in 27 years, and assume we live another 50 years after that, the amount of money we actually need to retire will be much MUCH lower. This seems like the best way to do it for now though, since I'm not accounting for future expenses like children's tuition and higher health care costs when we're older so I figure it all balances out this way.
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