So 2011 is about to be over, and I've been thinking a lot (as every year lols) on my future plans and what I want to achieve next year, and my main conclusion is I'm not living up to what I consider my potencial and that I have 2 clear straight paths ahead of me.
My company has been decently successfull and I'm really happy about winning the powerlifting nationals (u can read bellow); however it is true both success has been
Path 1:
I could continue doing what I'm doing now, and be like everyone else. Get drunk ocassionally (aka get wasted x4 a week) the entire summer, and drinking ocassionally trough the year. Keep going to university and passing classes barely with minimum study, and playing tons of starcraft cause I love it and I'm among the top foreigners now. Keep my company running and make like 20k trough the year before we have to spend like 15k in more equipment and profit 35k for the next 2 years.
This path will lead me to living like everyone else, getting a job for a starting salary of 2k in 2 more years and moving away from home in like 5 years or a bit earlier if my brothers wanna help me up (luckily they both doing very well and making tons of money, though I think they are expending more than they should because of their wives/kids)
I will keep looking average with a chubby belly cause I'll keep lifting and being the strongest guy I know, but won't be setting records nor having a 6-pack cause alcohol impairs recovery too much to allow it.
Path 2:
I could pick up poker again and just grind nl25/nl50 for a few extra bucks which will come in handy and evaluate if i'm enjoying/have the skills to start moving up again and working on my game (left it like in february this year after losing 70% of my br).
I could give up on alcohol, as the ammount of wasted money/time and side effects (getting fat and lifting less) is astounding, specially considering how much I usually drink. It's prolly not worth it getting some pussy (really sporadically aswell t.t) against having a perfect body, making a lot of money and having the potential to pick up hotter chicks in the future with said body/money (and the confidence that comes with it)
My company could sell a lot more if I/we respondend mails in time (we need a secretary soon hopefully ), took time to go sell to some gyms as they requested and stopped slacking and started the process of making a new import as there is some equipment (oly shoes/bumper plates) that are ridicously overpriced from the other provider (1 guy) and we could make a shitload of profit, even though we should be careful to not start a prize war.
So given all of the above I plan the follow:
Get wasted for new year and stop drinking for 3 and a half weeks in which I would complete smolov squat cycle first phase. This should bring my squat raw max from 150kg to 170kg (my belt/wraps max). Then re eval, prolly consuming moderate alcohol in the following 2 weeks which involve light training before the following 4 weeks of nightmare, on which I won't drink again. After it, this could bring my squat anywhere in the 200-230kg range. In the long rung, I should just stop drinking.
Pick up poker again and play moderately at nl25 while I keep playing starcraft cause I want to try winning some stuff starting after new year, but eventually start working on my poker game and ditching starcraft completely. That is, if I can be decent againt (beat nl100) and actually enjoy it. Remember in latin america 2k month is a lot of money .
Actually do what my company needs and stop not doing it because of lazyness.
So that's what I hope for 2012, seems a solid plan.
tldr: Stop drinking, pick up poker again, work on my company, break national records in powerlifting.
Some sad news + going back home.by longple, December 30
Everything packed, leaving for sweden alittle bit earlier then we planned, tomorrow, we payed for the apparment in phuket for january but me and my fellow (poker) travelingpartner got alot of homesickness + we got some very tragic news on chirstmas eve as we got back home to our room on ko lanta (paradise/weed island outside of phuket) and since then we just didnt feel the same about the trip.
About 5 swedish pokerplayers had tryed to contact us on xmas eve, and i called one of them up and e got the terrible news of that one of our traveling friends (swedish, maybe u heard about it on the news / on 2+2) whom we lived with for 3 weeks in bali was found dead on his hotelroom from a fire in the room.
We couldnt believe it, everything just stood still for a while and all i could think of was that we were jokeing on christmasmorning as we read the news in swedish newspaper "young man found dead on bali" and we were kinda laughing and saying "haha its probably "J" that sicko" or something along those lines....
Very intellectual, atletic, kind guy. Very successfull in everything basically, inclueding poker, achieved way more then myself pokerwise, and only at the age of 20. Pure talent
We were 4 ppl starting out together in bali, but the internet was so bad and me and my "main" traveling buddy felt the need to move to thailand (read older blog) to get better internet for grinding, while the other 2 were gonna stay for another 3-4 weeks or so and then join us for new years in koh pangang for the famous full moon party.
The 3rd person in the "group" joined up with us on dec 16 and stayed in our appartment for a couple of nights as he already had booked his flight to phuket, while "J" where staying on his own in bali for another week or so before joining up in thailand, and then this happends. On christmas.
So no fullmoonparty for any of us this year. The 3rd person who were very close with "J" insta booked his flight home, and we now feel kinda the same way. We were still planning on staying for another month, but the sadnews just made the homesickness to strong, we just wanna get back home. And i miss my friends and family so fkin much atm.
Sorry to bring this news to you all during these "happy" times of the year with new years comeing up and everything. But i wanted to write something about him.
All thoughts and love goes out to his closer friends and family.
Im not a believer, but if there is a heaven he sure deserves to go there.
to write something pokerrelated, the stake has been going well so far, havent been playing much the last week, obv, but overall its been a good month on the stake on stars, for the ones following me on PTR, its pretty off, so here is graph of the progress so far during these 90 hours of play this month, mostly been playing 2/4 and 3/6 http://i.imgur.com/jtmXA.jpg
1: AVGN: Im sure most people have seen the Angry Video Game Nerd at some point in time, but if you havent and grew up with console gaming then you will like his stuff. His collection and knowledge of the old consoles is insane.
This is one of my favorites, because i remember seeing a lot of the stuff advertised. Its really a great insight into console gaming history, and how crazy the industry was when we were growing up.
2: So after mental christmas work schedule, i bought a bass guitar:
similar to that, in a pack with a little amp. So far im really enjoying it. Ive been using youtube and web material to learn some scales and riffs. I started trying to learn with fingers, but i think im going to continue playing with a pick.
3: Bought a phone with Android 2.3 - my last phone was a few years old and a bit beat. There was a special on at work so it was about 1/4 off. So i decided to get my first android phone. Any recomendations are welcome, I seemed to have a few problems with getting movies to play on the micro SD, but i downloaded MX Video Player, which seems to be doing the job, apart from playing The Simpsons.
Its primary purpose will be distracting me from work.
It has been a while since i withdrew, and actually since i've played because my exams are coming up. This week i got 2nd in the big 11 for 6500. Since i dont plan on playing due to exams, and after that my internship (all together 7 months) I withdrew most of it. So i get this mail from stars security saying i got to scan in my id, drivers license and a copy of a bill. No problem, I do this. I transfer this money to Moneybookers. I get a mail from them saying they will send me a letter to confirm my emailadres. Now all of the sudden i get another mail from moneybookers, in addition to the letter theyve sent me, i got to send my id, drivers license and a bill again.
What is this bullcrap? Anyone had this b4? I have withdrew some money before on MB, not that much but I remember when I played on Fulltilt i cashed out 9.5K once thru moneybookers(other account) and i didnt have to do all of this crap.
I got a new place, living with silver from lp with a goal to make monies for a few months. We are thinking of adopting the idea of penalty stunts from the tv show 2 months 2 million next year, any suggestions for embarrassing penalty stunts are welcome.
poker has been going averagely this half of the year. had a 20kish downswing in july and have almost completely recovered from it, but have still lost about 12k at 2/4 since my 20k downswing. i've just been taking shots over and over again at 2/4
Talk,Text, Triple-Barrel Bluff: The Emergence of Mobile Poker.
It's the question every grinder has been asking:
“I know I can play online poker pretty much 24/7, but when my girl/boyfriend is getting ready to go out for a movie together, and I've got 25 minutes to sneak in a couple of hands, how can I do it without having to wait for my computer to load?”
Well, my fellow degenerates, good news. A number of poker sites have listened and have produced their software specifically for the use of Smartphones (primarily Android and iOS, including the iPad.)
Mobile poker, was an inevitable step, gaming and portability had already proven to be a major hit with the general public, the Game Boy is the third-largest selling console in history, even above the PS3 and Xbox 360, with over 118 million units sold, showing the interest for gaming entertainment to be able to be taken on the public's travels. More recently, the use of smartphones and online gambling has been becoming engrained within the gambling community. Back in 2005, it was believed gambling on mobiles would reach more than $19.3bn, now, it's believed this could rise to $48bn by 2015
An attempt at mobile poker had begun much sooner than online players would expect, however. 2005 was also the year that PokerRoom, a site from the Ongame network before the site was bought by Bwin Party Digital Entertainment, was known for it's innovative ideas, including the first mobile poker room. However, it never took off, and Pokerroom was shut down in 2009 by Bwin, due to increased competition. There were some setbacks to mobile poker at that time, mobile phones at that point were awkward to use for poker play, with the keypad controls so fiddly, it would cause players to make mistakes with their betting actions, costing them money. Phone screens were too small and too low a resolution and pixel count to produce a visually appealing interface, most mobiles were still using WAP technology to access the Internet, which was too slow and unreliable for a fast flowing poker game, and mobiles at the time had different operating systems, depending on the manufacturer that produced it. A separate program had to be created for a Nokia phone, then for a Samsung phone, and so on.
More recently however, phones have advanced in technology, with dual-core processors for more power, high-quality displays with touch-screens, allowing for a better interface and a method to play poker in a similar fashion to what you would on a computer, two more-or-less standardised format of operating systems for smartphones, and two new connections to the internet with 3G, which could come with unlimited subscriptions on mobile price plans, or the ability to connect to a Wifi network for even faster bandwidth, allowing for mobile poker to be re-born.
PokerStars recently launched it's first mobile client in the Italian market. A sign of things to come?
In 2010, while Full Tilt Poker was once again not the first poker site to come onto the scene, it did manage to become the best, with a mobile poker room designed for their new poker game “Rush Poker”, called “Rush Poker Mobile ”. It was a format that seemed to be made for mobile poker, allowing the player pool to instantly play another hand the moment you folded the previous one, maximising the number of hands you could play in any time period. Despite this success, Full Tilt is currently in hiatus after seizure by the DOJ and that's left mobile poker market back up for grabs. Numerous poker sites such as RedKings, Switch Poker, Unibet, Speed Poker, and mFortune have already produced mobile-poker sites to establish themselves further in a now untapped market. Pokerstars have produced a mobile-poker platform for their Pokerstars.it domain, as a means of testing the platform out, and even Bwin have returned to take another stab at it.
So what does this mean for online poker? How will this be an influence to an already quite saturated market and benefit all those in it? The obvious benefit will be that you can play 24/7, anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection to your smartphone or iPad. This could potentially mean a higher average player count throughout the day, a benefit for the poker sites with a higher revenue in rake. This should be seen by the poker players at that site through better promotions, bonuses, point rewards etc from the site. For the more serious player, this could mean better, softer games available for longer, as those who like to play one table at a time (i.e. the fish) can play whenever they want.
Will this mean we'll see an influx of new players? There are considerations as to why this could happen. With smartphone users coming closer to 50% in the UK, and with most smartphones on contracts with free internet bandwidth, the cost of playing poker online is going to crash down for many who find computers and broadband too expensive. It also becomes a useful application for those who travel regularly around the UK, to have a machine that can link to poker on them at all times. The easier method of just downloading an app onto their smartphone could bring back those who once played but now have dormant accounts. This doesn't take into account that poker is still a niche market and there are still a large audience that can be tempted into giving it a go with the right advertising and by having the more recognisable players on T.V promoting the sites.
If the fact that software developers have already produced poker-tracking software similar to Poker Tracker and Hold'em Manager for mobiles is anything to go by, mobile poker is beginning to boom, and for good reason. Mobile poker is fast becoming big business in the UK and Europe, add to that the USA currently out of the online poker scene, and with Asia still up for grabs to poker sites in the future, mobile poker exploding in later years, seems inevitable.
++ got a new Girlfriend in May and we get along very well so far. <3 <3 <3
++ got rid of insane ex GF which almost ruined my life completely
++ stopped smoking cigarettes (Well after being a casual smoker (~ 4 cigarettes a day) for 11 years i finally managed to stopp that shit in 2011. From March to December 2011 i only smoked a total of ~ 15 cigarettes spread over 3 days ... besides that i was completely smoke free since March 2011.
o didnt play much poker in 2011
I improved my knowledge of the game a lot by reading all kinda theory stuff but besides march 2011 where i made ~ 1K USD grinding 30K hands i didnt feel like playing poker for most of the year.
strangley after the best month i had in quite some time i didnt feel any drive to continue playing.
played a bit every here and there .. lost like ~200$ after march till i decided to give myself another shot at poker in September
this time i tried HU SNgs but it didnt go too well ... after a whole month of grind i ended ~ + 200€ which was a joke compared to how much effort i did put in
only good thing was i binked 440$ at a Sunday Storm
after that dissapointing month i did another break till Late December.
deposited 60€ on Pokerstars ~ 10 days ago and started to play 6max
did go well untill today where i went on monkey tilt.
cashed out 146€ after spewing away 100$ in pf all in on NL100 HU T_T (that i enterd because i was breakeven on Nl10€ the last 2 days despite putting in solid hours and playing good)
I guess in whole 2011 i played around 60K hands and made 1,5K profits.
besides the fact that i never really was any good at poker i think i finally accepted that i am just not meant to be a poker player.
I will play every now and then whenever i feel like playing.
But i doubt 2012 would be so much different than 2011 in terms of poker
- - MMA
My MMA 2011 was a complete desaster
I was planning to do 3-4 fights 2011 and getting some sponsorship comming off from winning some smaller shows in Germany the
FAC SHow where i went 3-0 (Descison , 1stround KO, 1st round TKO)and FFA new Talents show 2011 by knocking out a Judo blackbelt in the first round i had pretty high expectations for 2011.
Year could not have been worse !
I only made 1 fight since i got sick or injured in every one of the 3 other prefight training camps ... (WTF)
The one fight i made was a desaster , too ..
it only lasted a few seconds and then i got cut over the inside of my eye and the ref stopped it ...
for anyone who is interested ... allthough its not worth watching it
So well good thing is its not possible to get any worse in 2012
bullets ricochet confirm/denyby bigredhoss, December 28
hi guys,
i'm getting towards the end of season 2 of Burn Notice right now and i have a question:
there's a scene where the hero michael westin is in a car chase shootout and he says that when you're in a firefight on the road that you can fire shots at the pavement underneath the car and they will ricochet up through the under-carriage thru the floorboard of the car (this is assuming the other car is trailing behind you), is this accurate?
Creativity, "hard" subjectsby Night2o1, December 28
Art is the natural realm of creativity. It is there that creative people should focus their energy. Art is where creativity is relevant. At least, that is a view that many express. In reality creativity is everywhere. Logic, science and reasoning are viewed as non-creative; there are rules to follow after all. But perhaps a better view is that there are "rules" to be understood. In this frame it becomes clear that the advance of science and mathematical concepts, and the daily implementation of them to real-world problem, doesn't come about by the following of rules. Just because the result must satisfy certain conditions doesn't mean the methods and result itself aren't creative, or incorporate benefit from creative solutions.
As a result of the stereotyping of creativity, it is often treated as the opposite of "hard" sciences and the maths. A young, intelligent, creative person may not pick up math immediately but excel in their art class. So they are encouraged to focus on "what they're good at". Math, the structure & rules of problem solving, numbers beyond 10. These are all very new concepts when a child first enters school. At age five, which is when Americans enter kindergarten, they've already spent over four years playing with blocks. Developing a feel for color. Drawing, painting, none of these are new to them. By the end of elementary school with nearly a decade of art experience and less than five of math, superior performance in the former results in the judgement of respective ability!
A smart kid, whether directly told or not, may get the vibe that they aren't a "math person". Math or other "tough" subjects are downplayed in importance. Every parent wants to see their child succeed and to minimize any apparent suffering, so this process happens naturally (let alone if they are directly told they're "bad" at something) if the parent isn't specifically aware of it. Children, and keep in mind that being intelligent doesn't mean to possess wisdom, are malleable. They are sensitive to adult's expectations of them and will endeavor to fulfill them.. How should they know that focusing all of their energy on art at the detriment of more rigorous subjects will cause them to be at a disadvantage when it comes to surviving and flourishing in adult life?
It is clear that people develop at different speeds both mentally and physically. This is most apparent in childhood and it is therefore most important that the young are not judged or sorted based on apparent strengths or weaknesses. Professional athletes fell tens or hundreds of times before learning to even walk; in math, algebra is the equivalent of that process. It is a foreign and abstract tool, often difficult to learn the intricacies of. Some struggle should be understood as part of the learning process much more than is currently recognized. A shift ought to take place in our schools and among the people, where it is kept in mind that at the root of all excellence is persistence -- a far more general and accessible skill.
tldr; education, early results don't necessarily indicate further achievement
Im currently an engineering student at Purdue University and I heard Illinois will accept online poker as well as Nevada and New York, something like that.. Do you guys know something about it?..
When CFR says "Time to Attack Iran" , the red button has already been pushed. These are the guys who tell the president and the other monkeys what they MUST do. I advice you to start prepare, guys. This is not some idiot speaking. It's the fucking CFR saying on their fucking website that Iran is to be attacked. Time to drop the iPhone, turn off the TV and spare a thought or two on the implications of the situation. The bullet has been fired, it's your choice if you are going to move away from it or wait to be shot down and then start thinking what to do.
6 Days left, 127k VPP to go till SNEby Joeingram1, December 26
6 more days to go!!! Here is last session of the day today that i just finished up, tried to play pretty conservitaeatete firs thalf of it and then went nuts last half of it trying new things, did a little video blog midway through session, someone in my 2p2 SNE prop bet thread was asking why i havent posted any graphs where I am running over EV lately and made a big deal about it so thats what I am talkinga bout in video, ALMOST DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 75ISH MORE HOURS TO GO!!
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), took time to go sell to some gyms as they requested and stopped slacking and started the process of making a new import as there is some equipment (oly shoes/bumper plates) that are ridicously overpriced from the other provider (1 guy) and we could make a shitload of profit, even though we should be careful to not start a prize war.
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