I think I'm probably playing too crazy at Nl and leveling myself but there are so many abc guys I feel like I have to do something else.. was playing too loose and spewy at plo cutting down on tables, table selecting and talking to spicy helped.
Feels bad man, I was a break-even 25NL player for a long time before I decided to get better and be honest with myself.
That's when I started to grind 4NL even though I'm rolled for 10NL or 16NL on stars, but I wanted to crush at least 1 limit first. But here we are... I definitely played looser than I'm used to running at 22/18 so there's definitely ALOT of spew and leaks.
I have to work on emotional issues, auto-piloting issues, not getting frustrated when i constantly get min 3-bet, stop 4-bet bluffing, stop tilting and get better psychologically.
Gotta also work on fundamentals, properly adjusting and plugging up leaks/spew.
Old school dusty blogby DustySwedeDude, February 29
Since my change of site I've been feeling good. Played a lot of hands (22k in a week), did decent in some Sunday tournament and was fairly close to make a good score and thanks to gold/silver prices I've made a bit of money despite not actually playing at any decent limits in poker. I'm super excited about my girl getting a job in her home town up in Sundsvall since that means that I don't have to put that much money into buying a house but rather can buy something cheap or rent something and then put a ton of money into investments. Going really crazy with my investment profile and let's just say I'm rooting for a higher gold price...
Going to try to get like 50k hands in next month despite it being fairly clogged up with stupid stuff I need to do. Got some fairly reasonable goals as far as hands goes and I might actually get a year with a decent amount of volume in, which would serve very good as an indicator on the topic of "Can Dusty still cut it in poker?". I dunno. Anyway;
This was pretty fun:
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Proxy stuff is cool.
I'm really looking forward to the Strikeforce event this weekend. Might be really cool. Go Ronda!
10k posts! I was thinking about what to write about, and I will just go with totally random blog about what I learned the past few weeks.
My new job is starting tomorrow, or might I dare to say: Career. I am going to be a salesman, or 'assistant buyer' or 'sales consultant' as people in the profession like to call themselves. After a month of studying, watching the entire US Office, every single sales movie there is, hours of audios and four books I am very excited to get cracking.
There are a lot of similarities to poker - the need to focus on the process and eliminate fear of failure, steep learning curve, easy to get in, hard to stay and make it, short term variance, and pretty much identical learning process: Read books, listen to audios, talk to other salesmen, learn from your mistakes and tons of opportunities to try new approaches with every new sales call.
Perhaps the greatest lesson that resonates among every resource I read and that is directly applicable to poker is the importance of positive self-image. A while back there was a huge discussion about Wobbly, and how delusional the bastard is in believing he is the best. Turns out that exactly that is what makes him and other people successful - you will never become what you don't believe in, and when you don't fear failure you will take action instead of procrastinating. Experiments in Social Psychology have shown that people that have a very strong, even over the top self belief in themselves are really more successful and happier than those that don't, even though the side effect often is what happened to Wobbly - this belief will antagonize some people if you take it too far.
Positive thinking won't let you do anything, but it will help you do everything better than negative thinking will Zig Ziglar
Oh well poker world, that was pretty random wasn't it I felt I had to post a semi-meaningful 10k post and not waste it on the Tutz banned thread. Peace ut LP
Supernova Rakeback / Sunday Stormby SolarM, February 27
Hey guys, played the Sunday Storm on Pokerstars yesterday and got really deep to about 200K starting at 5K and got killed by AT preflop all in while holding AA. Fuck it! Only received 80$...
I've learned a lot in the last few days, cause I've played lots of NL10 and feel really comfortable to beat this game. I've realized at last, that it's the big decisions that differenciate the good and the bad players... Not wheather to cbet or not. It's the big pots and the proper decisions. Right? :D
I just calculated the Rakeback for Supernova and Supernova Elite just for fun... Here are my results :
Supernova : 4000$ back for each 12987$ Rake they pay (30.8%) PLUS average 3114$ (2600+2800+3000+3200+3600+3800+4200 (the more they play, the more they gain, but I will just calculate the average) for each 18181$ Rake they pay (17.13%) = 47.93% Rakeback!
Supernova Elite : 4000$ back for each 9090$ Rake they pay (44%) PLUS average 11700$ (9200+9200+9200+19200+9200+9200+9200+19200)for each 45455$ Rake they pay (25.74%) = 69.74% Rakeback!
What the fuck, thats a lot. And I didn't even calculate the 20K Bonus when reaching Supernova Elite.
Since doing math is fun at 5AM I will calculate BronzeStar, SilverStar, GoldStar and PlatinumStar as well...
BronzeStar : 25$ back for each 455$ Rake they pay (5.5%) PLUS average 10$ for each 182$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 11% Rakeback!
SilverStar : 50$ back for each 545$ Rake they pay (9.2%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 14.7% Rakeback!
GoldStar : 300$ back for each 2273$ Rake they pay (13.2%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 18.7% Rakeback!
PlatinumStar : 650$ back for each 3636$ Rake they pay (17.9%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 23.4% Rakeback!
Thanks for listening... Do you think those amounts are correct?
My venture back into online pokerby Carthac, February 27
Hello everybody. Since Black Friday hit, I stopped playing online poker all together. Switched more to live play and had success, but given the size of my BR, I could not grind like I did micros. Games are incredibly soft, but you still need a proper sized BR to handle variance, and I am a huge BR nit so I like more buy-ins than the standard. With the recent litigation in America not going through, and the rumor being there will not be anything done with online poker until 2013, I decided to just start from scratch back at NL10 with a moderate amount of money that I could afford losing. I just truly love the game of poker, and want to keep playing/learning as much as possible. I don't fully expect to get this money back as the U.S. market is shady at best, but I am getting my online game back together. Before Black Friday, I was learning NL50 and beginning to get the hang of everything. Oh ya, I want my money back Howard(please die)
Here is my graph of all the hands I played so far, with comments on my play during the various sessions.
I hope to continue on, perhaps building a roll to tackle NL50 again. However, I am also weary of having that much money on a site that is not guaranteed to give me the money back. One poker roll has been enough for me to lose, especially when it made up a significant amount of money to me. I figured this time around I would only keep around 20 BI for the stake in case the money in seized for whatever reason. NL10 and NL25 should not be a problem for me once I finish making the fine adjustments to my game again.
Is this rake even beatable?by Carthac, February 27
Been playing some micros lately on Lock Poker. Would like to build a roll back from scratch again, but after looking at the amount of rake I pay, I am unsure if it is even possible. Would love some input
Couple of my buddies asked me why i never update my blog anymore. I've always used this blog to brag about my billion dollar months or bitch about how poker is only rigged for me. Since I'm no longer able to do that, I stayed away from updating. Although I've erased most of my ancient blog posts, life was "ok" when I was able to update this blog frequently.
I haven't played poker since September. I've been on tilt/denial in life since black friday so I decided to take a break till Full Tilt situation is sorted. Unfortunately the break has been longer then expected. I'm no longer a professional poker player but a exceptional dog trainer and a Starcraft 2 grand master. One thing I realized from this break is that I'm actually not addicted to poker Although I enjoy not working(kind of), I know that if I stay on this life break, game will pass me by or life will blind me out. So couple days ago, I max shoved some change in bodog in attempt to get my game back in shape.
So far, it's been a deadly struggle to run a decent session. Not only is the stakes 100x lower then what I'm used to, I'm limited to playing 4 tables max and the competition is pathetic. It makes Starcraft2 icon on my desktop look more tempting then the Jack Ace of spade on top right of bodog tables(Blackjack).
For temporary fix, I've had couple of my friends sweat me to help my boredom. Shit got me going. So I'm offering a deal. People frequently asked me if I coach and although it's still a no, I'm offering something similar and better(in terms of price).
I'll be playing all my games 4 Tabling anonymous tables. There's minimal amount of reads in those games so most of my play will consist of what I believe to be the game theory optimal play. You can ask me anything poker related and I will try my best to answer. You can even skip the poker, crack jokes about dumb blondes all session and it's fine with me long as you keep me occupied.
Also since I'm opening some room to be cheated, I won't work with you unless you've been on LP for years or 2p2 reg threads enough to semi-trust your integrity or have mutual friend vouch for you. Trust me, I will find out if I'm cheated and I will kill you. 8)
^last months prior to black friday. i'm sure my hourly would be higher if I ran the HEM back to 1Million hands but I dont have the postgresQL linked to my PC. I played the best poker in my last 1M hands and also made the most in my career. Last 300k hands were my worst run in that span(Brag).
You can leave a msg here or shoot me a PM(2p2 may be quicker since it's linked to my e-mail
What's up liquidpoker colleagues, been a while, I've been writing in spanish but everyone speaks english and since everyone that blog posts here seems to go into a huge good run I might as well try!
So first things first, I'm gonna be a dad for the second time! my son Alejandro is already 2 and a half years old. Don't have a recent photo in this back up PC but here he is younger than now, will post updated one later.
So I'm very very busy with all the preparations as the fathers here in LP know. Still managed to be with our very own Ket the couple days he was here in Lima, we had a great time, one hell of a guy, hopefully he got a good impression of the life here. Also managed to squeeze in almost 3 week trip to the US between January and Feb. Went to Miami, New york and San Antonio, Texas. Loved it there, especially Manhattan, what a place! Will also update pics later when I have my PC back but man I wish I could visit more often, if only online poker is legal again there I guess... My trip was mainly bussiness related and family visiting but nothing really came out of it, will see in the next few weeks when I get some word back from there. Aparently real estate in the US is pretty good right now.
So what's new pokerwise, I was doing well and dandy, too well actually in 2011, felt super confident in game and decided to try a lot of shots at the 50/100 and 100/200 starting 2012 with 0 table selection of course. Even found myself in a 100/200 game w Sauce, Kanu, patpatman (some say its durrr) and me just duking it out like a champ, turned out the poker gods didn't want me to roll in cash just yet and I lost a lot in those games, buyins wise it wasn't THAT bad, but still something I think it was more than 200k.
I made some back in usual 10/20 and 25/50 but then after talking to a lot of friends decided to try and go for SNE, would be the first peruvian to do it and thought it would be cool, I have the experience and am good enough to at least breakeven playing 24 tables and it's still 100k in profits, but doing it mostly for the bragging rights.
Way behind pace at 83k but I can do at least 5k Vpps/day 6 days a week easily and regain pace. Was doing pretty well first 2 days but then it hit me
I started having PC troubles, man PCs are great but they sure need maintenance. If it's not the video card it's the hard drive, then the internet, then the power supply, then it's hold em manager that closes spontaneusly every once in a while. At least this showed me that I'm way over tilt, cuz I kept my cool throughout all those shitty inconveniences.
That has been my life so far in 2012, hopefully you guys are having it better than me at least moneywise! (Actually I think 100% of lpers are doing better than me moneywise this 2012 haha).
I'm out of the loop completely in regard to hardware, my current machine is Athlon 3200+ with some bullshit ATI x1600PRO GPU (which went into "legacy" like 2 years ago) and 1gb ram, which basically means I have 3 bottlenecks in my setup. I don't plan on gaming like a madman and "ultra" settings in highest resolutions are not really what I find interesting in games, however it would be nice to be able to run SC2, DOTA2 and D3 and sort, without reverting to obscene 800x600 in lowest details, so the new setup must not go obsolete in next year, preferably still alive 3 years from now but obviously on lower end. I plan on using virtual machines and I need to run one seemlesly, obviously strictly for programing/development and not multimedia. Other than that, I don't plan on doing any video or graphic editing and if I do I can cope with substandard specs. It would be nice to be able to run some sound editing though, either out of the box or as an extension. Considering all that I want a comfortable, budget machine that would still be decent in few years.
First of all, I desperately need multicored CPU. I'm pretty sure I want Intel this time unless someone makes a very good case for AMD. I was thinking 2 cores 2 threads each would be optimal, but apparently only i7 has hyperthreading enabled and there's a HUGE gap in prices between i5 and i7, currently I narrowed it down to i5-2400 and i5-2500, both have 4 cores (no hyperthreading). According to specs I'm seeing only difference is bus multiplier (seems more important) and in turn about 200Mhz less on 2400 (less important), but 2500 one is about 1/8 cheaper and I'm leaning towards 2400.
Other thing is, for some reason all CPUs I'm seeing have an integrated GPU for no apparent reason, is that standard? I don't need one since I'm defenitely getting a standalone GPU.
Graphcis - nVidia and there's no discussion, not only do I have rather bad experience with ATI, I need CUDA v2.1 support. Also, almost defenitely only one card, I don't see the reason to get two, I would rather just get one but better card. Unfortunately that's as much as I know, need serious help here. One I found (selected at random almost) is Gigabyte GTX460SE, 1GB memory GDDR5, 256 bit bus on PCI-E 2.0 x16, but everything here is a guess except for nVidia chipset. Do I need more memory? Bigger bus? According to some benchmarks I've seen it does decently enough for now but it seemed to be right in the middle as far as shading units and internal clocks go. Also, there are tons of manufacturers with cards on this chipset, once again I'm at loss.
Memory - I was thinking 4GB and maybe 8GB, don't really see need for it at least for now. Not much research done here, need opinions once again.
Finally motherboard, vendor I was looking at only had some uATX boards with LGA1155 socket, quick glance at some other gave soooo many results at all prices. I just don't really now what to pick. uATX actually doesen't sound bad since I don't think there's any need for internal cards aside from GPU, if I want a better sound card I will just get an external one. Also, what kind of AC do I need? 600W?
TLDR:
Need new machine for decent gaming time up to one year ahead and poker, need comments on:
Hey, I've been listening to a lot of Joe Rogan podcasts lately, and sometimes when it's about really cool topics, or they talk about people who's amazing I look up some of their work, to learn and find out more.
One fascinating character called Terence had a lot on his mind, I listened for a few hours to some of his speeches and I made a summary of some the stuff I felt was really well said, thought provoking, and awesome.
Catalysts to say what is never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language, and what's really important, the self presence of direct experience.
We have to stop consuming our culture, we have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR.
Create your own roadshow, the nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your Universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson, lady gaga or somebody else, then you're disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons.
Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X, or have lips like Y or something, this is shit brained. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you, and your friends, and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans and your fears.
And we're told no.
We're unimportant, we're pheriperal, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player.
You don't even want to play in that game, you want to reclaim your mind, and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half baked moron, consuming all of this trash that's been manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
I take a single buyin shot at NL200 live a few times a year when I can, just hoping for a little rungood when I do, and now that time has finally come. +5 BI's in a week = fun time. It's always nice to see your work go towards something, so I took Holly for her first joyride in a private plane.
Miro Mijatovic interviewby PuertoRican, February 25
A must watch for PRIDE fans.
- In Part 1 of our extended interview with Miro Mijatovic, the former manager of Mirko Cro Cop and Fedor Emelianenko discusses his initial contact with the Yakuza, their involvement in Japanese MMA, Naoto Morishita's mysterious death, and rumors of fight fixing. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/rrpt...-miro-mijatovic-interview-part-1-of-3
- In Part 2 of our extended interview, Miro Mijatovic details how Pride impacted the Japanese TV landscape. He also mentions why Mirko Cro Cop never fought Yoshihiro Takayama, and how signing Fedor Emelianenko to Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye led to death threats from the Yakuza. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/leoi...-miro-mijatovic-interview-part-2-of-3
- In the final piece of our extended interview, Miro Mijatovic retaliates against the threats of the Yakuza with help from the Japanese police. He also discusses the magazine Shukan Gendai's dealings, why he left the fight game and the climate for MMA in Japan today. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/3y57...-miro-mijatovic-interview-part-3-of-3
So I got some stuff in the mail for free online casino money from tiptop2012.com
Why the fuck is there about 6 online casinos for US customers where you can put real money online and play casino games... yet like 2 actual poker sites that cater to US players?
With that question asked... which casino game should I gamble away this free money on?
It's like video poker, black jack, baccarat, craps, pretty much all casino games other than poker.
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I felt I had to post a semi-meaningful 10k post and not waste it on the Tutz banned thread. Peace ut LP
Oh, and please die Howard
Although I enjoy not working(kind of), I know that if I stay on this life break, game will pass me by or life will blind me out. So couple days ago, I max shoved some change in bodog in attempt to get my game back in shape. 
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