Thanks to the invaluable language help offered by LP I was called to the interview for the PhD position I was applying for (see last blog entry). So I nailed the interview the day before yesterday and got the good news yesterday, I got it! Gonna be doing scientific computing in relativistic quantum mechanics applicable to materials science for the next 4-5 years =). I'm super happy right now, this is perfect for me.
Are you still playing NLHE? ApocalyplsPLZ and I were thinking to visit the Vegas area for a brief stint. I've had trouble locating you on Facebook, so I was hoping you still visited this site. Anyway, if you think you'll be in the area sometime between April and May, shoot me a PM.
Things have been a little rough lately, but I feel energized and positive about the future. To briefly summarize:
- Had a great December (~16k) mostly online but lost a fair amount back in January
- Lost ~9k in trip to Macau mostly from bad bankroll management (not bringing enough)
That said I have a lot to work and look towards. I'm going later to a live game in my city for the first time. I am a tad worried about safety / game-riggedness but I'll take it easy and walk away if necessary. Next month I plan to go to APPT Seoul so I need to harvest minerals for that.
As a potential blogsaver this is the gf's bungee jump off the Macau Tower:
Curently playing nl 25+ on hero but the site's current form of rake back is shit. Basically on the site you can exchange 100 points for 1$ about 3 times per month/week (not sure) and I currently have like 5k points or something. I'm thinking about switching my bankroll to another u.s. site. What's another site with relevant decent traffic and has some form of rakeback.
Rudi Assauer (67 years old) probably one of the most famous football club managers in germany has made it public that he suffers from heavy Alzheimers.
Its allready that bad that he is not allowed to drive a car anymore
He currently is taken care of by his family
He states that its so bad that he sometimes looks at players from Schalke04 whom he had close working contacts for years and now often needs several minutes to recognize their names again.
I find this pretty tragic
He had such a hard working and successfull life as Manager of Schalke 04
During his time they won UEFA CUP, DFB Pokal came close to winning the national title several times (never managed to win though)
he pretty much was the face of that football club
And now everything he achieved slowly fades away from his memory till in a few years he wont even know what Schalke04 means.
I formyself have always had a very modest goal in Life ....
When i am old I want to be able to look back at my life and say " hey u did pretty well on the fun part and lived a pretty happy life overall"
I find it cruel beyond imagination to be 67 years old having lived a pretty amazing and successfull life and when looking back all u realize is : "I dont know what i ve done and i will die without realizing that i ever lived."
To me this would be like fucking soulrape for eternity
If someone wanted to start playing pokerby k2o4, February 01
If someone wanted to start playing poker online right now, what's the route you guys would advise? What sites take Americans anymore? Are the micro stakes still soft as hell or has it filled up with short stackers and card runners grinders? Does CR still exist even? I haven't paid attention the scene for the last ~2 years, and I'm guessing with all the legal drama's that the fish would be harder to find than they were 2 years ago. But maybe the microstakes stay immune to it all. I dunno, someone please gimme an update on what it is like to grind a roll from nothing these days =)
Had a spew session playing HU plo which I'm not very good at and was being ultra aggressive which was kinda working against some of the bum hunters there.
Then this mega fish joined my table and I ended up spewing a bunch before I finally tried to adjust and I didn't know how, he was in godmode too which didn't help I think I lost 20 bi's too him I kept getting deep and losing 500bb pots quit me at 3 am and couldn't sleep because of the adrenaline.
Anyway I dropped back down to 25plo with only 1.4k left played 5k hands and won 500$ then played 50plo again lost it almost immediately and just decided to play 50plo until busto which has worked so far thanks to running good back at 3k.
I used to have problems with moving up when losing now I just add tables and I have to make all these snap decisions don't have tn not good working on that.
Eating well all this omega 3 and shit cmon brain become smarter. Not had a single drop of alcohol or weed this month either.
so in order to keep my weak ego intact i too must post some results
best month ever in terms of learning.
i played three or so regs in HU who were quite a bit better than me last month, and they turned out to be the most +ev long term spots, i asked one of them to tell me all my leaks since i gave him action and he told me all my leaks+ gave me a list of all the midstakes regs that give HU action.
also played a leggopoker coach and he's going to make a leakfinder video with a recording of me playing at 1/2 deep.
If you look at the red line going down massively in the middle its cause i started playing NL100 and was really scared haha so i guess I give up much more often and don't play as fearless as NL50. You can see When i started NL50 again The lines goes straight. Anyway tl dr.
Im currently in Cebu city in Philippines. I came back here after vietnam cos I didnt like vietnam too much. It was good when i was hanging out with my friends from russia - My friend and his wife live there, he works on an oil rig as mechanical engineer. So i hanged out with them. But I got pickpocketed twice in a row while being drunk haha. Which sucked so i got really pissed with vietnam. Plus people there are not as nice as in Philippines.
So yeah I came back to phils and its really good here. I havnt been doing much except playing games and hanging out with girls.
Shout out to whamm and bilat_power! if they come to cebu lets hit uo the pubs hahaha. Or if anyone else is out here lets meet up. I jsut got my visa extended today for 38 days so gonna be here till march. And maybe more if i feel like extending again.
YOU'RE running late for work and you can't find your keys. What's really annoying is that in your frantic search, you pick up and move them without realising. This may be because the brain systems involved in the task are working at different speeds, with the system responsible for perception unable to keep pace.
So says Grayden Solman and his colleagues at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
To investigate how we search, Solman's team created a simple computer-based task that involved searching through a pile of coloured shapes on a computer screen. Volunteers were instructed to find a specific shape in a stack as quickly as possible, while the computer monitored their actions. "Between 10 and 20 per cent of the time, they would miss the object," says Solman, even though they picked it up. "We thought that was remarkably often."
To find out why, the team developed a number of further experiments. To check whether volunteers were just forgetting their target, they gave a new group a list of items to memorise before the search task, which they had to recall afterwards.
The idea was to fill each volunteer's "memory load", so that they were unable to hold any other information in their short-term memory. Although this was expected to have a negative effect on their performance at the search task, the extra load made no difference to the percentage of mistakes volunteers made.
To check that the volunteers were paying enough attention to the items they were moving, Solman's team created another task involving a stack of cards marked with shapes that only became visible while the card was being moved. Again, they were surprised to see the same level of error, says Solman.
Finally, the team analysed participants' mouse movements as they were carrying out a similar search task. They discovered that volunteers' movements were slower after they had moved and missed their target (Cognition, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.12.006).
Solman's team propose that the system in the brain that deals with movement is running too quickly for the visual system to keep up. While you are rummaging around a messy house to find your keys, you might not be giving your visual system enough time to work out what each object is. Since time can be costly, sacrificing accuracy on occasion for speed might be beneficial overall, Solman thinks.
The slowing of mouse movements suggests that at some level the volunteers were aware that they had missed their target, a theory that is backed up by other studies that show people tend to slow down their actions after they have made a mistake, even if they don't consciously realise the mistake. Solman reckons this reflects the brain's "attempt to slow down the motor system", to allow the visual system to catch up and conscious perception to occur.
"What's really interesting is the notion that the motor and perceptual system are decoupled. They're both trying to help you find [your keys] but they're not coordinating," says Todd Horowitz, at Harvard University. "There are implications for social search, such as a doctor looking through an X-ray or [security] looking through luggage."
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so it looks like the difference between having good days multitabling and days where you just feel exhausted can be chalked up to a variance of 10-20%. If the reactions you have at the poker table while mass tabling has 10-20% margin for error you can see why some days feel like a breeze and other days it's just a bunch of garbage.
ok time to quit this SNE runby UnitedAs1, January 30
Sorry to say but its true ...
I started off pretty well I enjoyed grinding that for long hours but recently I've have been getting off pace and playing golf and footy much more and has kinda got in the way. This meant I had to play catch up and grind 2 or 3 days worth in 1 day it got hard and I'm not the best 6 max PLO player by far so I couldn't go in to auto pilot and just click buttons. The past few days have been brutal I played like 25k hands i think and I'm down 10k yup 10k also down 8k in ev makes me wanna puke.
I was speaking to a friend that plays recreational live and he goes I lost 200 quid the other day at the casino you can imagine my face knowing that I lost so much acting like I care whilst he was telling me about it.
So anyway I've played about 135k hands this month and down 6k such a disappointing end to the month but I have to end the SNE because at this rate I'm going to go busto and I just cannot afford to do that. So I'm making a new goal for this year and that is to make 100k+ at all games I decide to play but which I'm thinking is mostly going to be HUPLO.
I’m nearly at Supernova and nearly have 250kfpps so I can get the 4k bonus which by the time I reach Supernova I will have 1.2k in stellar rewards making a total of 5.2k and I get another $300 bonus for being on pace for SNE next month. Also I think I get to play in some decent freerolls which should be good. So this month hasn’t been a total waste. http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/si777/ENDofSNE.png
To be honest though I’m not sure why I took on the challenge of going for SNE I mean this is all my HUPLO hands and I could probably make a 100k (what SNE is worth) quite easily and that’s before rakeback. I guess it was because I wasn’t playing enough and wanted to up the volume, but when I decided to quit SNE run it felt so good not having to actually force myself to play I mean that’s why I wanted to play poker in the 1st place was for the freedom it had to do anything you want.
I do respect those guys who do make it to SNE, especially those who do it so quick or play a ton hands in a month just to catch up AKA joeingram1.
If guys are interested in me continuing with the blog then I will we just be on what I play and get up to. Also I posted my set up on 2+2 the other day so I may as well post it on here. Lighting is a bit crappy
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I kept getting deep and losing 500bb pots quit me at 3 am and couldn't sleep because of the adrenaline. 
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