just wanna share some updates on my progress. Was feeling good about my game last couple months, but now when I checked my HEM to make some screenshots, I can see I still suck.
Put in very little volume since last update, but was dealing with some rl stuff, moved twice since november, my main desktop comp died + working 40hrs/week in my job. But now everything is sorted and I already started grinding volume/hours I am happy with.
I feel like I improved my game a notch since last update, much love to everyone commenting on my hands, especially Talented Tom and other midstakes+ ballers. So good for my game & confidence.
I am than not afraid to try knew things - when I know it was a good spot for triple barrel or calldown - I dont get mad when I lose the pot and can keep on grinding my a-game. + it feels rly good to own other regs when I have good idea about their range and can outplay them. Doesn't happen often //
Tryin to focus more on fish tho - trying to play lots of pots with them - adjusting my opening/flatting/squeezin/iso ranges to table conditions - e.g. when fish is in the blinds, my opening ranges widens significantly from every position.
I have often the most laggy stats from all regs at the table when I have some huge mark on my right. Quite sure I am spewing a ton as well, as I am getting into lots of marginal spots, but many times I managed to stack the mark before the other regs did.
Feel like I improved my sense for gameflow - I can tell when regs start to be fed up w me constantly isoing mark at the table and I think I have an edge on most of them in preflop reraising game (e.g. when I see the crappy hands they are tryin to outplay me with, bet sizing tells,.. basically looking for what I was doing wrong like 1/2 year ago))
Still lost in TONS of spots tho - usually playing oop marginal made hands and/or playing w/o initiative.
Thats all for now, will add some pics and maybe more random rambling laters.
Lost about 10 k over the course of the month... I am not at all surprised although I have been a bit discouraged lately... I ran like god for a few months so I suppose it was inevitable to go on a down swing... I decided to drop down to 24 and 3 6 for a few thousand hands and enjoyed the wonderful fun of busting even and losing piles of huge plus ev spots... O well thats Omaha and not alot you can do about it
Over all I am very happy with my year in general and will be putting alot of time into my business in 2012.
If there is interest I may post as far as I have gotten in my business plan and see if anyone can post comments or info maybe some suggestions on how I can improve it as I am relativly new to the process :D
You think it's a good idea to start to dabble in Hero Poker now that the road towards regulating Poker in the U.S. is on the upswing? I just want another source of income while I start my personal training career as a part-time trainer. It's either part time as a personal trainer and working as a waiter at a restaurant I used to work at, or part time personal training and grinding the nl25-nl100 range. I'm all rusty from not playing ever since Pokerstars got shut down in the U.S. , but my thought processes are still probably decent enough to herp derp the 25nl-100nl.
Some of you may remember my brief love affair with a Nissan 370z. That deal went south after the dealership fucked me and tried to change the contract after I already had the vehicle for a week and put 500 miles on it. I told them to fuck off and gave back the keys. Went back to car hunting and settled on a Mustang this time. It's cheaper, faster, bigger, and more comfortable. This time I made sure to pay the dealership in CASH so there would be no fucking around like "well you see there was a problem with the paperwork son, we need you to come back here and pay us more".
I had this car custom ordered straight from the factory. By the time I was given the keys it only had 5.9 miles on it. Only a handful of asses have touched the drivers seat. I went so far as to tell them not to even unwrap/wash it upon delivery. I drove it home dirty as fuck covered in dust and plastic from shipment. Had it detailed and windows tinted the next day, and began work on my first fun upgrade, a new car nav kit. You can see it in the youtube video below sort of documenting the installation. I turn giddy as a schoolgirl every time I see it light up and begin driving. Turned out exactly like I wanted it to. The only other upgrades I can think of would be new exhaust/speakers but even those I am supremely satisfied with.
the elusive witty comebackby bigredhoss, January 08
after a random incident at the grocery store i have decided that i wish to acquire the ability to make witty comebacks. any info that could make the learning process quicker and easier is appreciated.
i just got back from the grocery store to buy some milk, and since it's like 2am here the place was basically empty (just 1 register open), there was a customer ahead of me in line but i think she was the only other customer in the store, also maybe 6-7 guys stocking shelves in the aisles.
anyways, i was in line waiting for this girl in front of me to figure out how to scan her credit card or whatever. the cashier was a guy probably around my age (early-mid 20's) with long red hair and vampire-white skin and overall kind of dirty appearance. i put my milk and a couple protein bars on the belt, and in a random outburst of sociability he asked, "Did anyone say you could buy that [implied smiley face]?"
i did not expect to be interrogated in the grocery store so i was pretty much taken off-guard and really didn't know what to say. i paused for like 4-5 seconds (which felt like a minute) shifting around uncomfortably then looked at him and said "no".
now it was his turn for an awkward pause, and eventually he said "it's no fun if you don't have a witty comeback". i realized that he was right, and that it would in fact have been a more enjoyable moment if i had had a witty comeback. but unfortunately this is a skill i have yet to acquire, although that will change soon.
Been feeling stressed out lately because I just started training as a personal trainer level one at 24 hour fitness but it's at a location about 50min - 1hr away and the commute is killing me inside. The average income for trainers who are able to have a full schedule of clients is roughly 40k, can earn 6 figures but you'd have to work 60-80 hr weeks maintaining current client relationships and building new ones plus training the sessions you already have scheduled. So far I would have to say that I have a shitty experience with 24 hour fitness starting off as a beginner personal trainer because basically my training has been spending the first 2 days sitting at a computer over viewing orientation materials about 24 hour fitness company, their policies, how to meet/greet guests, general stuff etc, I basically felt rushed through the materials because my manager kept asking if I was done and that I couldn't print the materials out for later review (materials not available on public computers). Then the following days was basically the manager going, "OK go rack weights and go meet and greet people." The stupid thing is that I'm already expected to start offering free sessions and build clientele when they haven't even fucking told me what I'm supposed to do for each type of training package, how to guide clients through the computer when entering info and filling out question-airs, and how to handle personal training data on the computer.
So #1, I'm already expected to sell without clearly knowing what I'm selling, and #2, I haven't received any training when it comes to conducting any of the 24 hour training packages. I'm basically roaming the gym trying to find other trainers to shadow so I know how to conduct a "fitness orientation", and trying to talk people into getting interested in packages that I don't even know how they work. Basically sat my ass on a computer for 2 days, and spent the next days running around the gym learning shit from other trainers (who haven't even been training for a year at least), while the manager who hired me walks around and does his own shit.
I'm already have a nationally recognized certification (NASM), currently working on two others, I personally research articles about training and nutrition just as a hobby, and I've been training myself and with friends for almost 2 years. It's just that during the whole hiring and orientation process, they didn't give me a clue to what to expect, and what I'll be doing during the first 5 weeks of the orientation process.
It's probably the particular gym branch that I'm currently at because another branch that I want to transfer to, gave me an actual outline of the orientation process, and told me that they would feed me at least 1 new client every week so I can slowly get used to the system and running a 24 hour training business. The other branches location is actually only 12 mins away from my home and they have no bad turn-over, not like the one i'm at where no trainer has been there for more than one year. It sucks though because it's not a guarantee that I'll be able to transfer, and I already am going to tell my current manager that I have to leave because the commuting situation is not working.
I guess my current options are to quit and; try to transfer to the close 24 hour fitness gym that probably has better management, or switch to another close gym called In_shape that coordinates with an independent personal training company called "Custom built" and work back my old waiter job at the same time. The thing is that Custom built offers shitty commission rates to trainers but trainers in Custom built don't have to worry about the sales aspect of personal training. If I work for 24 hour gym close by I will have to tough it out through the stress of starting my own personal training business in which only some clients are fed to me through the gym itself, I would therefore have to go out and focus on selling and marketing for most of my client base, but the commission is significantly better when compared to Custom Built (25% vs 8%).
Training people in living a healthier lifestyle is what I want my career to be, but do I want to start off on the more stressful half sales/half training corporate chain gym? Or do I want to start off at the more stress free 10% client sales and maintenance/90% focus on training them, smaller chain gym route with less pay?
Any thoughts would be appreciated, especially from those who are in the fitness industry, sales, trying to go independent in something, etc.
So 7 days into this and my head is all over the place...Swings are crazy went from being 4k up this month to $300 up ... swings got so much I even gave NLH a go but that sucked people are so nitty and as I'm 16 tabling I don't get really many options to table select. I really don't know how joey did this in 2 months it's pretty sick how he did.
I'm back playing PLO I just played some and finished 1k up. I was planning to take today off as I'm a few days ahead of pace now, glad I didn't but I only played a hour because I have a footy match in a bit (1st 11 a side game since before xmas. I'm gunna be so unfit when we start playing).
How does merge's BBJ work?by Stim_Abuser, January 06
I've looked it up and a few of the sites say you need to be dealt in the hand, as in at the table to receive a peice.
But they also go on to say thats how it worked on UB. When in fact on UB you got a piece of it just for being at the same limit as the jackpot.
That's pretty much what I'm wondering, on merge to you get a piece for just being at the same limit when it hits? Or do you need to be at the table that it hits on?
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... swings got so much I even gave NLH a go but that sucked people are so nitty and as I'm 16 tabling I don't get really many options to table select. I really don't know how joey did this in 2 months it's pretty sick how he did.
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