So I slept all on sunday, really ALL day, and woke up at 11 PM and just tried to sleep again to fix my sleeping schedule. But I just couldn't sleep again, and at 6 AM I was talking to my friend janekaaa and said I slept all sunday, so he said "lol, so now you're gonna GRIND all day! you'll go and play 500 games!" and before I could say "no, I'm tired, I don't even wanna play today" he said "I'll give you 15 bux if you play 500 games today".
Hey LP! I have been away from Poker for about a year now and for the last few weeks I've been craving for some poker. Since I have stopped playing, I did cash out all my funds from PS and Microgaming. I don't have the kind of money on hand that I would need to fund a good BR so I could return to NL25/NL50 which is what I played when I stopped (built 25$ free BR promo into roughly 1.5-2k overall). BUT! I do have 40$ sleeping on my Paypal account. As you all know, no site accepts Paypal payments, so I'd be looking to transfer 40$ to your for the same amount on my PS account.
I have done a successful transfer on LP before with voodoouser (back in early '10 lol) and am willing to send my money first, to a reputable LPer.
I know these are ridiculously small amounts for most of you and your time might be worth more, but I realllllly need my poker fix right now I'm actually installing HEM as we speak I would love you forever and take your side in every argument on this site! (ok maybe I'm pushing it for 40$, but you would make my day!)
Also, lol @ my title, my peepee for your PS. Yedig?
I hope everyone had good holidays and a good new year. I basically have just recently really got back into poker. After BF I pretty much just stopped playing for a good while and just didn't really have any passion to grind. It was a good break and mentally I got back to where I need to be.
I started to really get into the live scene. Playing a lot around town and going to some casinos. I had 1 final table in a $215 event where we ended up chopping 3 way and I ended up getting 4.2k.
A few months after that, I went to West Palm Beach, Florida to a place called the Kennel Club with my roomate. This place was probably the best poker room I've ever played at in terms of soft/good games. I played mostly 5/10 which played really deep and loose (more like a 10/25). The first few days I won about 2k, then had a pretty bad day and lost 3.5kish. The last day I was there I did really well and won around 4k and could've won more. I took 50% of my roomate in a shorthanded 5/10 game and very first hand live reg raises CO, My roomate 3bets the BT w AQhh and they get in $1500 each on a 654hhh flop, run it once and his 66 wins when the turn pairs the board. Regardless, a fun and profitable trip.
The next few months I played primarily online on a skin on Cake Poker anywhere from 1/2 to 5/10 did pretty decent. The games were much softer than the other sites I messed around with that were open to US players. I was really starting to build confidence again in poker and life and things were going well.
Not too long after this (probably abt month ago), my good friend from High School called me and told me about a 2/5 game that was super juicy and good. It was in another part of Tennessee that was about a 3 hour drive from me but I decided to check it out and see if it was worth the drive.
.....IT WAS!
The game played like minimum 5/10 because there was literally a $10 or $25 straddle just about every other hand. Also it played super loose. There were 2-4 guys that just literally would never fold pre if they straddled. So I felt it was super +ev and did pretty well the first day I played it winning about 2k. I came back the next week it ran and had another great session. My biggest live cash session of all time actually, winning about 7k total. It felt really great and while playing in this game I was making a lot of good connections and friendships with people that could help get me into more games and just open doors for other things. Well this past Wednesday, life finally went bad.
I called my buddy and decided to come back again for the game. My plan was to play it and just drive right back home the next day. Well I did that and won about 2k. I woke up at a friend's apartment the next day around 11:30 am and was trying to decide whether to go home or not. They ran a 1/2 game that played super loose and deep too that started at 12:00 pm every Thursday. Well I decided I don't really have anything to get back for at home so I might as well play it until 4pm or so and just go home whenever I feel. A little background on this game - it has been running without any trouble from the police or other businesses close by it for over 20 years. The guys who run it are really nice and good people and for the most part do a good job of running the game. I had no fear of getting robbed or anyone there doing anything shady.
This Thursday everything was going fine. We just finished eating some delivery pizza and at around 4pm we heard someone knocking on the front door (usually everyone goes through the back entrance). The knocking gets progressively louder and everyone hears shouting and yelling. One of the people who help run the game saw that it was the police and ran into the main room where we were playing poker. Everyone starts to scramble around and it's just utter chaos. I dash to gather up my things with my first instinct to just run away and the get the fuck out of there. This all was in probably a 10 second timeframe and after this the door gets busted down. Five policemen in vests and with guns drawn burst through the door. The crazy thing about what was happening was that some of the people at the game thought we were getting robbed and not busted by the police. So a couple of these guys pull out their guns, ready to shoot. In these split seconds the guys who pull out their guns realize we're not getting robbed (illegally anyway) and put their guns away. One guy however, just throws his on the ground. It lands next to a Mexican gentlemen who doesn't speak/understand English very well. The police are yelling "GET THE F ON THE GROUND OR WE'LL BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT". Not exactly police protocol. The Mexican doesn't understand what they're saying and isn't listening. This causes the police to try to wrestle him down and cuff him. While this goes on, one of the policemen knocks over a cup of hot coffee that spills all over another guy's back who was laying under the table. When this happens the guy reaches in his lower back because it is burning. The police interprets this as he is reaching for a gun in his back pocket. So then this causes another shit storm. All in all was a really crazy experience. After things finally settled down and half the people there were cuffed, they gathered everyone around and said they were going to search the area and everyones' possessions, including everyones' vehicles outside. Well I'm thinking that this is really bad for me. I have $1600 on the table, another $2k in pocket and about $4k in my bookbag. I normally would never bring this much to a 1/2 game but I had played higher the night before which requires you to have a lot of money to play and I won a decent bit. So my initial thought was that they were only going to take what was on the table but I was wrong. They took everyting...
I wasn't arrested but they took down all my information and money (-6.6k). They then searched my car (thank god I had no weed in there), and took the remaining $60 on I had on me. While the cop was searching, I asked him if he could just leave the $60 in the car because it was the only other money I had on me. He said, "I'm sorry man, I gotta take it all". I then said, "Man listen...you guys just took almost $7k from me, can you cut me a break, I play for a living and wasn't even using all of that money for the poker game, ect". He's like, "YOU LOST HOW MUCH?!", "That's messed up man, let me see what I can do". He then goes back inside and talks with the other policemen for about 15 minutes and comes back out and says he couldn't do anything for me.
All in all a very bad experience and big hit to me. The fact that the game isn't going to be around anymore really sucks too. I've talked with some friends who know the laws and police work pretty well and none of them think there's any chance of me getting the money back ;(
Anyway, now my plan is to just grind a ton online and try and make all I lost back by the end of the month (or at least some of it). I had plans to travel to Biloxi, Mississippi and back to West Palm Beach to play WSOP circuit events and cash and now this puts them in jeapordy.
That's about all I really have to update. I've had some thoughts of trying to get back into coaching. I still feel iffy about it just because I've never done it before and there's just so many coaches out there that can't beat todays games. Since I've been playing on Cake I've been changing my SN every week so it would be a pain to look up all my old SN's to provide results but I could do it if anyone would like me to. I'm thinking my rate would be somewhere between $35-$50/hour which I think would be pretty reasonable. Maybe I could provide the first session at a discount so potential students could get an idea of what my coaching would consist of and decide if they want to work with me in the future.
I also have been playing a decent bit of PLO. I still have lots to learn and plan on getting coaching from someone in the near future when we both have free time -_-
Anyway GL to everyone and send me a PM if you're interested in the coaching. I'll probably blog soon in the future with updates on my results so look out for that.
What do u think? Heuristics/Biasby Night2o1, January 14
YO SONS
I am not sure if this is an article, a speech, or a casual essay. What do u guys think of it?
Heuristics And Bias of The Mind
Have you ever had to read a long text that simply didn't pique your interest? We've all tried to get it over with in one long session, just reading and reading.. Until suddenly realizing, “Hey, I've read the past two paragraphs but have no idea what they said.”
Let me be the first to welcome you to the enormous field of research in mental heuristics (or shortcuts), dedicated to uncovering the what's and how's of which actions the mind performs outside of awareness – reading in this case – and how these mental shortcuts can lead us astray, causing biases in everyday decisions big and small. If some part of your mind can automatically, effortlessly read, what else is it doing without your knowing?
Research has shown that mental heuristics are universal among all peoples, and those in the field have come to describe automatic thought, which happens constantly and outside of awareness, as the work of System 1. Effortful thinking on the other hand is the domain of System 2. For instance, finding the solution to a difficult math problem is done by the deliberate and logical operations of System 2. The steps taken toward the solution can be logically followed back and forth. But reading simple words in your native language, or solving 2+2=? is an automatic activity of System 1. Certainly we can't afford to think through every single thing we do, nor do we always have the time to, so when does System 1 benefit us and when does it mislead or influence System 2 without our even recognizing it?
Imagine yourself in the kitchen preparing a meal when a sharp knife is accidentally knocked from the counter. In what may be called instinct, the mind immediately asks and answers several questions, “What object fell? Should I catch it or move away? Where should I move to avoid danger(back, forward, left, right)?” then sends the appropriate commands to your limbs. You've already moved, the knife having clattered harmlessly to the floor. System 1 worked it out quickly, effectively, and decisively – you didn't have time for conscious thought. But what if a pot of boiling water was balancing on the counter behind your left elbow? Depending on the urgency (or if you usually have a pot of boiling water there) it is possible that System 1 wouldn't take the boiling water into account, at which point you're in a world of hurt.
“Surely, I wouldn't be so foolish as to place a pot of boiling water on the edge of a counter!” But System 1 heuristics extend beyond the home kitchen, an environment under your control. Read the following sentence,
“Which fast food restaurant...”
It is likely that the name McDonalds popped into mind over any of the other myriad fast food restaurants in town. Why? Does McDonalds serve the tastiest french fries or burgers, the healthiest or highest quality food, are they even your favorite fast food joint? Probably not. Yet the name is so prominent that System 1 brings it into consciousness when the words “fast food” are uttered. Their marketing has embedded the brand into your and the public's mind, knowing that research has demonstrated that when a consumer has a choice between a familiar name and an unknown, they are likely to choose the familiar. System 1 recognizes McDonalds and feels safer; System 2 is lazy, often adopting the first's suggestion without question. If this unconscious bias towards familiarity is universal. Then what other, more important decisions, are effected by thoughts of which we are unaware even occurred?
The study of mental heuristics and the bias they cause was pioneered by Amos Tversky, PhD and Daniel Kahneman, PhD over twenty five years ago. Since that time the field has become a full blown avenue of research within the field of psychology while the research coming out of it has transformed the way we think about such diverse fields as economics, management, marketing, and more. Systematic bias in Systems 1 and the way they effect System 2 are part of the very basis of what it means to think; therefore past and ongoing research in the field is relevant to every single form of human inquiry. While here we've only just begun to scratch the surface of what is already known, we all have much left to learn; I expect you'll come along for the ride.
I have decided to go for sales, pretty much it's a mix between talking to people where I can use the psychology stuff I studied. I worked in finance in a large dull corporation before and it was well... all that the phrase office drone means and this is just so much better on paper (although hard work).
But also It's good for the bottom line and sick fast progression if you work like a madman (going to Managing director with your own branch in 1-2 years is pretty common)
I already got accepted to a purely commission based marketing company that sells broadband door to door and got 2 days long interview and a long phone call for a sick good Norwegian tech company that started 10 years ago and creates software as a service analysis of news, social networks and some other stuff.
Fingers crossed innit; the second one is pretty much flawless and they put a lot of emphasis on fun, and if I want I can point at a country and pretty much go there as they are all over the world and the Edinburgh office has Norwegians, Russians, Canadians and have a sick good portfolio like HP Coca Cola Gucci etc...
Although going into the wild and selling door to door and chatting with so many random people would be just a great thing for social skills and for getting better at chatting up the ladies, I wouldn't mind it either. I had a full day experience and you really meet some weirdos but in general people in Scotland are really friendly to sales people.
Tell me what you think guys. I will put poker on hold for now, especially in the first couple of months when I will need to learn the ropes and get into management and build proper capital ASAP. I got £3k student debt and I want that gone and then put some money into a roll to play on the side, at limits I should be playing if I didn't cash out - NL50-NL100.
So I'm thinkin about Costa Rica as my next grind station as my 6 months in Canada are nearly over. Does anyone have experience with this? And if so How are the key components such as: Internet connection? (how fast, stable) Secure banking/online banking methods, and housing? (prices availability etc)
Thanks a lot for any input. If you know anyone that knows anything about this tell me as well ^^
I'm in the middle of a Macau trip with the girlfriend. Poker-wise, the trip has been a little rough - I took a shot at 100/200 HKD, the table became a "must-move", became 3handed, and I lost a huge AQo vs TT allin pre. Besides that I've been playing well so nothing to really complain about. We've been playing at the Wynn, which is pretty cool as it's packed with high-stakes tables; I really need to get my act (bankroll) together and enter that arena. I saw Johnny Chan (@300/600) and heard that Ivey and Antonius are at the nearby Starworld playing nosebleeds. Not so much a fan of Ivey after hearing his exorbitant/mo salary at FTP but will maybe check it out.
Outside of poker, Anna went bungy jumping off the Macau Tower, the world's highest jump. I didn't participate but will probably be forced into it the next time she jumps. She really enjoyed it and is uploading the vid to Youtube, so I'll have her blog about it. Took her to Morton's which was pretty nice. Now she has a constant craving for crab cakes! That's about it for now - will post pics when we get back to Taiwan.
My sickest and longest session ever.by UnitedAs1, January 12
So I wake around 8am watch a bit of tv and eat something. Then around 9-10am i start the grind, I played 1 session didn't go that well ran kinda bad but who cares about that I finished like $800 down. I take a break and go play the playstation and get something to eat.
Then around 5pm I get back on it to try and at least break even, well things went really bad. I managed to lose another 2.2k making a total of 3k after 10k hands or so. Now being me I don't like losing a dime in any session so I continue to grind. I felt pretty good I wasn't tilted and so I decided to play some HUPLO (this is where I think I play my best game) as I was way ahead of VPP pace now,
Anyway I get some tables up, 2 people 2 tabling me and they both ran like the sun I think I dropped another 2k making a total of 5k. 1 of them just hit and ran me and the other stayed and that's when things started to turn around. I won about 1k off the guy who stayed with me and won another 1.5k off other people.
Then me and this other guy played about 650 hands and I managed to win 2.5k off him making me get back to even/small winner. The thing is I didn't even know I was 5k down at 1 point if I knew that I would of probably stopped and gone on life tilt :D.
So now I’m ahead of pace currently at 43vpps and I’m probably going to take tomorrow (well it’s actually today) and Saturday off and come back refreshed for a Sunday grind. I wish I could get SNE just through HUPLO would be so much better but I don’t fancy playing super long sessions like today because I don’t think I earn enough VPPs.
So 11 days into the SNE grind and still on pace, I haven't yet dropped the ball and fell behind yet so lets hope I can keep that going. This week has been really busy played 7 games of football in a week and played a couple of rounds of golf and done my a couple of driving lessons. I wish I never played that many football matches cause my back is killing me now .
Anyway today was a stupid day I was doing really good then happy hour came on stars and managed to drop a lot of buyins, I was just happy to come out of the session 1 buyin up. I do feel reasonably confident with my PLO game at the moment, 1 thing I would say is that I too loose in the blinds which is costing me.
Here is the graph...Guess when happy hour came? :D
My Birthday + Milestone Complete!!by wobbly_au, January 11
Its my 26th birday today, very very big things coming up. My girlfriend is arriving in Sydney from China to visit me and spend both her and my birthday together (Yes we are born on the same day although she is 6 years younger than me!). Then I am scooting off on a 2week golf vacation with my good friends, girlfriend and sister!
On October 16th 2011 I weighed 84.7kg whilst only being 173cm so that my friend is really fat as you can imagine. Now the weird thing is I've never really cared about the fat jokes or felt at all insecure and I think the reason for that is I felt I was overachiever in every other aspect in life anyway.
I thought to my self; 4 years ago I was a broke student with less than $1000 in savings now I own an apartment and still have more than 7 figures banked. I've come along way success wise, but my health has suffered immensely as a result.
So I decided to just become the perfect being. The epitome of a young balla, I started with 3km runs on day 1 but by about the 30th day I had already increased my run to 10km.
I planned my calorie intake everyday (set at 1300) and planned my cardio and strength training to burn atleast 800 calories. I did this by rotating between a 2km swim or a 10km run or a round of golf. With an addition of 80 situps and 60 push ups daily.
There were days where every atom in my body wanted to give up and take a day off but I persevered.
I remember one day super clearly. It was towards the end of December and I had been sick with a slight fever and was playing poker since 10am till 2am. Thats 16 hours of continous grind. I was also down about $30,000 but the fish logged off so I was done. Really wanted to eat something warm then shower and sleep but I hadn't done my run yet! Oh shitt..... No pain no gain I thought. So I put my shoes on, did the laces up and went down stairs. Then I finally realised what all the noises were, there was a monster storm, thunder and lightining everywhere. I still went for it, I told myself this is how people succeeded and there was no way I would accept failure. That day I ran 10km, the rain completely soaked my clothes and shoes. With rain and sweat dripping down my face I couldn't even see where I was going, but I ran and ran and when I was finally done I felt like a champion..
Today, on my birthday the 12 of Jan 2012 I weigh 69.8kg thats 14.9kgs lost in just under 3 months.
Travels! Any Madrid/SA ppl here?by Ket, January 10
Hi guys. Happy 2012! Let's achieve our goals this year!
So earlier today I booked a last minute trip for 3 weeks from next week because why not. I'm headed towards South America and am gonna meet up with a small group of close mates that already out there, including my housemate Tom who prob needs no introduction on here. Pretty excited for the trip, here's my rough itinerary:
- Tues 17 Jan fly from London in the morning to Madrid. It's a connecting flight to Buenos Aires but I did it in such a way that I should have a day to quickly check out Madrid. Are there any LPers in Madrid who wanna meet up for dinner/a beer/show me around a bit next Tuesday? That would be awesome if so! Pls msg me asap!
- ????????????? from Jan 24th to Jan 28th. Haven't decided yet. My friends are going to Rurrenabaque to mess about in a jungle. As I hate bugs I think I would enjoy that about as much as Karl Pilkington did on An Idiot Abroad. I may just suck it up and join them for the experience and to say I did it. Open to any suggestions, anything unmissable? Next stop is in Peru so was considering Lima on the shortlist for this slot of time, any LPers in Lima who wanna show me around? locoo is that where u are?
- Get to Cusco, Peru on 29th. Check out the sights there for a couple of days, acclimatise to the altitude a bit. Then a 4 day jungle route (ffs no bugs plz) to Machu Picchu including downhill biking, rafting, 2 days trekking and last day hike up to MP itself. Looking really forward to this except for bugs. One rest day in Cusco after this before...
Would love as much feedback as I can get about any part of any of this. For example, what can you do in half a day in Madrid? What shouldn't we miss in Buenos Aires? What are some things I should consider doing to fill in "??????????"?
Ron Paul Celebrates Historic Second Place Win in New Hampshire Primary
"We urge Ron Paul's opponents who have been unsuccessfully trying to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney to unite by getting out of the race and uniting behind Paul's candidacy."
Read more here http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ron-...n-in-new-hampshire-primary-2012-01-10
Right before the end of 2011 I went on a 6 day trip, 2 To Jamaica, and then went to St Maarten for 4 days, I planned on playing poker some but had to finish the last 20k VPP when i got home because bad internet connection. St Maarten is awesome, cool locals, good food, lots of activities, Ziplining 1000 feet in the air, windsurfing, parachuteing, French and Dutch side and kind of affordable to live as some places had 500/month for all inclusive. The internet was kind of slow but to be expected when living in hotels. I found some reliable internet providers having service at 1000kbs(is that fast enough to run multiple 24 tablers off a single connection?) Anyways its an attractive to place to live as poker plaer, and I am highly considering moving back. Anyone ever considered places like this? seem to be a good alternative to the Thailand type destinations many poker players find themselves in.
Contact Users: 2784 Active, 0 Logged in - Time: 06:11
I'm actually installing HEM as we speak 
I would love you forever and take your side in every argument on this site! (ok maybe I'm pushing it for 40$, but you would make my day!)
.
,
,
,
,