anybody willing to teach me how to beat NL10 PLO ? It seems impossible to beat, as ridicolous as it may sound.. I cant stop playing it, and it keeps fucking me over.
Like the title says I'm starting to play again and I'm starting from the bottom of the "foodchain".I made myself a little challenge to play every stake till I'm up $x amount/stake.+ Show Spoiler +
nl2=$50 profit; nl5=$100 profit; nl10=$250 profit; nl25=$600 profit; nl50=$1k profit; nl 100=$2k profit ;nl 200= $5K profit and than by the end of next year I want to take shots @ nl 400
The reasons I'm doing this are:
- I haven't played serious in a long time and this a way to get back into it.
- I was stuck @ nl 100 for awhile and I wasn't motivated to play anymore because i was missing the thrill of moving up stakes and the feeling that you're actually getting better at this game
- To prove to myself that I can actually beat these stakes and that it wasn't luck that got me there
I'll update every time I move up with graphs and stats(inspired by longple ) and at the end of the month.
Also for some reason I can't stop listening to this:
essay due will pay on stars (open to negotiation)by Mortensen8, December 07
its a long shot putting this out there
So I was meant to write an essay due tomorrow 8 dec at 5 pm gmt ... but skyrim and goddamn towing reality shows and too much procrastination.
Anyway the subject is the most pretentious bs ever ladies and gentlemen I present to you Postmodernism anyway I picked hyperreality if anyone knows something about this shit ill give you the details of what needs to be done I need 2200 words but anything at this point (even 800 words) will buy me time to write it again once they fail me.
I didn't do graphic design to write essays its like torture to me I simply can't do it, think I'm just gonna drop out my hearts not in this anymore.
So I just finished watching the 26 episodes of this new season. For those that haven't seen the original I recommend checking it out, this new one however I wouldn't bother.
The first half is pretty decent, even tho its still a major drop in quality from the first season. But where it got really shitty was the second half. I found myself muttering "ffs" as I was 2x speeding thru that drawn out endless drivel. I dont even know how to describe it, it almost felt like a parody of the original, like the authors were mocking me for even liking it in the first place... It was awful and it managed to take a dump on all the themes that made the first season great. Even as I was wishing for it to end already the ending itself was terrible and just managed to bum me out even more.
This anger actually just now kinda brings me back to a show Ive watched like a month ago that made me furious. The show in question is Ringer, its a chick show but it had Buffy as the lead so I gave it a shot.
The particular scene that was so enraging was at like episode 3 or 4, she assumed her twin sisters identity and her sisters husband had surprised her with a fancy dress made for her. So its evening and they are alone in their house and shes in the dress, she gets all teary eyed and he says like " whats wrong? you don't like it do you?" and she gets all emotional and almost cries and goes " No, its just that its the nicest thing anybody has even done for me" and at this point I had to physically remove myself from my seat and walk around my flat talking to myself.
The reason for that is that while this dress shit was going on, her A.A sponsor is getting his face smashed in by some mafia guys for covering for this bitch,that earlier that DAY called him to ask for help because she killed some guy and doesn't know what to do with the body. The FBI is after her, this murderous mafia guy wants her dead and she just killed some guy and needs help with the body, so despite all that this guy goes " dont worry, Im gonna fly over and were gonna deal with this together". But apparently that doesnt quite hold up to some rich cunt buying her a fancy dress... I think I yelled "oh you fucking bitch" and then had to walk it off, it might be the angriest Ive ever gotten at something fictional and Im actuall getting a little angry right now just remembering it.
I have no idea why I just wrote all this shit... Im off to sleep -.-
Can you filter SnG's by buyin level without an account?
I did about 30euro of messing about with SnG's before grinding properly over on pokerstars.fr but wanted to see what my stats are since grinding properly (ROI/ITM%)
Can anyone help if can't be done via no account? Username: SoC0731 on pokerstars.fr (it's further down list about 20 up from bottom)
<33 (If that's not possible, search by last 120 games maybe that would work? or stats for last 100?)
So for roughly the last 3 months I've been producing/running/hosting my own sports talk show on a local radio station. Yesterday I downloaded an app for my iPhone that will let me broadcast a podcast soooo, if you'd like, please listen while you're screwing around on the interwebz today!! it's only an hour long, and I'd like to be critiqued on what I can do better.
Pink Dec 6th! Business!by Pinkk Sugar, December 06
So after talking to a couple of my new found friends on LP from MSN I have decided to post something very close to me that I have been working on a long time. My goal of this post is to start a discussion and to follow along anyone who is interested in watching me try to transistion from cards into being a business owner.
I am not talking about giving up poker just playing it on the side. After talking things over alot with my hubby i realized im in a very rare situation ion my life... I paid all my bills up to june of next year and have approximately 21k left over from my card winnings. The bank also approved me yesterday for a 40k line of credit to use as I please. These 2 factors give me the financial means to make this work. My hubby has also agreed to carry the bills of the home so all I have to pay is my car payments per month. This should give me sufficient income to be able to invest full time into my business.
The type of business I want to get into is the resale of second hand jewellery video games and electronics. Sort of a pawn shop but not.
At the moment im looking at types of software and have a few links to post of what im looking for:
http://www.mullersys.com/bssmmenu.htm#
this link brings up a point of sale system used in second hand stores and would be perfect for me. Unfortunately the software is 7 thousand dollars and I can spend a huge chunk of my budget on just my software.
My first question is are there any programmers that have experience with POS systems and could make somehting like this for me ? If its possible how much would it cost? and could it be made compatable with a lable printer ? I dunno its my ideal scene and what im trying to find.
these are 4 other companies I found that sell simmiliar products.
Is there anyone on the forum that has experience with Second hand stores? Keep in my im not pawning anything simply buying the items and reselling them at a profit. I am simply looking for the software to run this type of business.
All i need is software that allows me to buy items keep track of who sold them to me when and for how much to handle the local law enforcement laws and when I sell the item to take it out of inventory ring it up as a sale and to keep track of the taxes I owe to remit to the government and print a receipt for the customer.
Anyway Im realy hoping I dont get alot of trolling and can find some serious young minds that are either smart with software or simply enjoy talking about business or poker.
I have also decided to post my MSN: Pinkksugar81@yahoo.ca for those of you who want to talk poker or business or who feel they could help me with my goals. Also if there is anything i can do to help you guys let me know
+10k session Day 4, Meh Day 3by Joeingram1, December 05
Looks like it happened again sooner then later. Wasn't expecting to have another session like the first day of the month but man seems like I could lose when I got it in today, although a majority of the time i was getting it in 60%+ after doing some hand review after but was playing my A A+ game most of the day. Day 3 was pretty meh for most of it, went on tilt a few times and ended up dumping a bunch toward the end of the day when I was super tired and not at all the the mood to keep grinding. Need to insta quit and take a walk when that happens because I CAN NOT be randomly launching off 3k chunks of money from time to time.
Obv ran like Tim Tebow in the 4th quarter. I had to mix 2/4 and 1/2 which I don't like to do because I play so much tighter at 1/2 and really don't focus to much on those tables/hands, just try to b/e. At 2/4 I'm battling with everyone for every hand. I've gotten super comfortable in my game lately and have been playing pretty much everyone (with the exception of a few of the goddest of god moders) to get tables started but most regs prefer 6 regs to HU for a bit then 1-4 fish joining. Only a tiny few of the regs will give me HU action now to start and usually it ends up being high stakes guys grinding some 2/4 or like 6ptbb guys. I really have no idea why they won't play to get games going, esp when im 24 tabling where there edge on me will be big . As a result when I wake up late in the day my time I have to mix in 1/2 and 2/4. I play like a massive asshat at the deep tables for an unknown reason so have not been grinding those in my daily mix. Sometimes those games have 1 huge fish but the other 5 players are like either random recreational guys who only play deep tables and like 50/38 with 15 percent 3bet or super winning regs who only play deep tables as well and have so much more deep experience then I do that I'm going to get my shit owned there so often. Even buying in for 100bb I don't feel comfortably at all in those games quite yet.
Day 3 I didn't quite make the 14.5k vpps but planning to make that up here in a bit for a few more hours of grinding for the night
i sent my stats to a student so i figured what evs can post them here
i dont have large samples on the sites u play on, and this is 5max and 200bb deep atleast against 50% of the regs there buy in deep, but might be interested for some atleast
after talking to the student and from playing on stars the last days is what i noticed is that (probably) the most of you need to be opening way more buttons
from playing on stars a couple of days i saw guys on 2/4 opening more in SB 6handed then on the BU and were still big winners, i mean wtf?
open SB's against weak players but as aejones said one time was that against a very though reg BvB he is on the border if he even wanna open ATo, and that says alot about alot of you robots opening 45% in the SB no matter what
dont open 50% in the SB against every1, and dont raise 40% of BU's lol, go atleast over 50% from the BU and maybe 25% SB against though regs and against some nitregs u can go 80% probably (same goes for nitregs in blinds open 100% BU)
anyways, here are my stats, the first stats from reports are from the last 4 months as ive done some adjustments with my 4betting/folding to 3bets and raise first in ranges, the hudpop up are frmo all SH hands this year (filtered to more then 2 players, aka 3player+)
and remember its also 5max so the games plays alittle more aggro
So a disappointing 1st day of play... But i feel I played extremally well and lost the minimum through the 3 sessions...
I played a 4 hour 600 hand session of 2/4 and 3/6 and posted a net loss of approx 80 big bets. The games were generally terrible and reg filled and when playing amongst those fields you tend to run into a great deal of variance. Over all I played very well and reviewed 10 of my key losses and felt i could have saved only one bet on a hopeless river call.I also could have saved a bet on the river firing a hopeless 3rd shell on a board that my oppenent was obviously gonna show down on. These are good indicators of obvious spots to me that I miss from playing more tables. I will definately add a little more attention when im deciding to bluff a dangerous board and make a mental note of what cards Ill abandon my bluff on.
My 15 30 session was a 3 hour HU match versus a player I feel a have a decent edge in. Unfortunately I made very few scoops and generally found myself in alot of situations where my oppenent hit some miracle cards and crushed me in almost all of our key hands. Overall I think he played very well but I stand by my play happily and will gladly play him in the future because I feel I have a good edge.
Last session I played was a very strange 10 20 match. My oppenent opened up by folding nearly 60% of his hands HU so you see my graph just slowly creeping up on him and then he just exploded. we won a few key pots against me and still continued to play very tight and then I won 4 or 5 in a row and he blew up. Raising and 3 betting about 95 vpip and 75 3bet and off he went.
Needless to say im happy with the sessions for the day despite my losses.
I am a bit disappointed as I wanted to start my blog off with some big wins but unfortunatelty losses come to us all and its very important to handle these situations with care.
So a disappointing 1st day of play... But i feel I played extremally well and lost the minimum through the 3 sessions...
I played a 4 hour 600 hand session of 2/4 and 3/6 and posted a net loss of approx 80 big bets. The games were generally terrible and reg filled and when playing amongst those fields you tend to run into a great deal of variance. Over all I played very well and reviewed 10 of my key losses and felt i could have saved only one bet on a hopeless river call.I also could have saved a bet on the river firing a hopeless 3rd shell on a board that my oppenent was obviously gonna show down on. These are good indicators of obvious spots to me that I miss from playing more tables. I will definately add a little more attention when im deciding to bluff a dangerous board and make a mental note of what cards Ill abandon my bluff on.
My 15 30 session was a 3 hour HU match versus a player I feel a have a decent edge in. Unfortunately I made very few scoops and generally found myself in alot of situations where my oppenent hit some miracle cards and crushed me in almost all of our key hands. Overall I think he played very well but I stand by my play happily and will gladly play him in the future because I feel I have a good edge.
Last session I played was a very strange 10 20 match. My oppenent opened up by folding nearly 60% of his hands HU so you see my graph just slowly creeping up on him and then he just exploded. we won a few key pots against me and still continued to play very tight and then I won 4 or 5 in a row and he blew up. Raising and 3 betting about 95 vpip and 75 3bet and off he went.
Needless to say im happy with the sessions for the day despite my losses.
I am a bit disappointed as I wanted to start my blog off with some big wins but unfortunatelty losses come to us all and its very important to handle these situations with care.
So a disappointing 1st day of play... But i feel I played extremally well and lost the minimum through the 3 sessions...
I played a 4 hour 600 hand session of 2/4 and 3/6 and posted a net loss of approx 80 big bets. The games were generally terrible and reg filled and when playing amongst those fields you tend to run into a great deal of variance. Over all I played very well and reviewed 10 of my key losses and felt i could have saved only one bet on a hopeless river call.I also could have saved a bet on the river firing a hopeless 3rd shell on a board that my oppenent was obviously gonna show down on. These are good indicators of obvious spots to me that I miss from playing more tables. I will definately add a little more attention when im deciding to bluff a dangerous board and make a mental note of what cards Ill abandon my bluff on.
My 15 30 session was a 3 hour HU match versus a player I feel a have a decent edge in. Unfortunately I made very few scoops and generally found myself in alot of situations where my oppenent hit some miracle cards and crushed me in almost all of our key hands. Overall I think he played very well but I stand by my play happily and will gladly play him in the future because I feel I have a good edge.
Last session I played was a very strange 10 20 match. My oppenent opened up by folding nearly 60% of his hands HU so you see my graph just slowly creeping up on him and then he just exploded. we won a few key pots against me and still continued to play very tight and then I won 4 or 5 in a row and he blew up. Raising and 3 betting about 95 vpip and 75 3bet and off he went.
Needless to say im happy with the sessions for the day despite my losses.
I am a bit disappointed as I wanted to start my blog off with some big wins but unfortunatelty losses come to us all and its very important to handle these situations with care.
Tri Slowhabit Nguyen's First Millionby Mariuslol, December 03
In my poker collection there used to be over a hundred books, now I have nine, deleted the ones I felt weren't worth having. Three of these books are written by the same author. And now I have the privilege & honor of writing my very first book review of this man's next book, "How I Made My First Million From Poker".
The book greets you with a short foreword by Barry Greenstein (for those of you who don't know who that is, that's the guy who kissed Shannon Elizabeth, as shown here in this clip). + Show Spoiler +
Anyway, after a picture where Nguyen displays his smashing set of hair, we move on to business. When I first got the book, I couldn't stop reading. I chose to read through it first, then re-read it afterwards, where I proceeded to write over 30 pages with extensive notes.
The book consist of 20 chapter, all of them seem to be about stuff you "need to know/should know" when it comes to poker. It's fairly easy to read and feels a little bit like a mixture of Ace on the River & The Poker Blueprint all mashed into one. A little story like, but with poker content that helps you delve deeper and think more clearly about the game.
My favorite chapters were the ones about making your own Poker Journal, tracking sessions using excel, how balancing ranges helps me hand read better and what he likes to call "My Secrets to Crushing".
I immediately started a Journal using Evernote at the end of each day, only to re-read what I wrote the very next morning. (Feels pretty awesome so far), and the excel doc handles itself, calculates how much you are up or down. (You just type in the numbers and it does he math).
We also get to hear his thoughts on topics such as Tilt, Bankroll Management, Downswings, Routines and his take on how to make passive income with poker. The book is at times very "personal", has emphasize very clearly on his personal views and take on things, how he approached poker, and how he overcame the challenges on the way. Rocking back and forth from "Poker theories" to "Poker stories".
Every chapter also ends with one or more exercises. So it's pretty fun to read one chapter at the time, and then spend some extra time on the exercises, take a break, get some water, and then go back at it again.(I feel material stick so much better if you do it this way).
Here's an example of an exercise, (there are roughly 20 - 30 of these throughout the book):+ Show Spoiler +
Exercise 5.5
When was the last time you took notes while watching a poker video or reading a poker book? If it has been more than a month, make it a goal to start doing so once a month. Write down the date you are planning to watch a video or read a book.
So there you have it folks <3, and after release date, with Tri's approval avcourse, I will post my notes on it + my own answers to all the questions.
Wow, what a start to this month! If I had to imagine the best case scenario for this month to start off with it would have not even been this great. I was in the f zone pretty much the whole first session and I don't think I ever really lost 2 big pots back to back until like 13k hands into the day. Seemed like everytime I 4bet AAxx, they would miss or I would get it in and hold. Everytime I called a 4bet with a rundown vs AA I would hit. Was my best day ever of poker only counting money made at the tables. Overall I made 42BI (13.5k), I got 1st for the day in the PokerStars grinding Leaderboard for extra 1.5k and I won bet with BallCup, he bet me 1k I couldn't get 1st place one of the days. Add in another 750/800 in fpp value (roughly) and overall not a bad day at all and a dream start. Had a tough time getting to sleep but finaly managed to late last night. My personal assistant/cook/pro helper I guess we can call her came over today and made me some lunch and then chicken/veggies/pasta for dinner, she is sure on top of things and has a really good plan for the month to help me stay fed. Well worth the money imo and probably will deserve a bonus at the end.
I finally woke myself up this afternoon and crawled over to the computer to get started. A part of me really didn't want to play for fear I would end up losing all of it back today and another part of me expected to make another 10k+ today. Eventually I was able to convince myself to get in a mindset where I try to forget about wins/losses and try not to tilt and play my A game. First session felt pretty good and I managed to go for 5 hours without looking how much i was up/down, eventually I caved because I thought I was doing really well and was only up a BI . After I looked it obviously effected how I was playing and I quit shortly after. The 4b pots weren't falling my way today and my top sets werent holding 90 percent of the time sadly but still did okay. Went to do a quick workout because that always gets me motivated to play poker and then was back at it. I went into reg-ware mode and my 3bet was hovering around 11 percent most of the session, usually it is 5 percent. More 3betting=more variance and session was rocky, finally quit down 4BI and went to dinner with ballcup. Just finished up final session for the day where I started down 4.5k and finally said stop playing like a fucking idiot and was able to end up a BI. Usually my problems during my session happen when I go 3bet happy, esp OOP and the BTN. When I finally calm the fuck down and start flatting in those spots on the BTN and flatting/folding those spots OOP is when I start winning again. I'm sure most PLO guys are of the notion that 3bet BTN is always +ev but I think for me personally I do better when I flat and play postflop in position with higher stack-pot ratio and also greatly lowers my variance during a long session. I am getting better in 3bet pots but I think its one of the weaker parts of my game right now. In some spots I should prob be cbet/calling it off I instead check back and wait for a safe turn in order to lower my overall variance which might not be +ev as far as overall profit at the tables.
Heres the graph for Day 2 overall, this is how I expect many of my days to end up.
i haven't visited this site in so damn long
i've been playing 2/5 at a local poker room and been banking an ok amount, about 1k a week nothing to brag about ( i still wait tables though)
but the life is so unsatisfying, letting down my parents, having friends continue to move "further" in life
i been constantly wondering/questioning wat the hell i am doing and where i want to be, and how to chase hapiness not money or a standard life, so i don't wake up at 50 and hate myself
and the road has been so fucking lonely that's the worst part. i used to have a gf, who i paid living expenses for, but a bad break even stretch in july/august and she fucking bails on me
but i don't care no more. i made up for it with my biggest winning months. and even though i never won a high hand, or a bad beat jackpot, even though i never flopped quads i run so fucking good.
i played with a trader, who i impressed enough to get me an interview with his firm. like it's nothing guaranteed but it's a damn good opportunity.
i know i have so much to prepare for, it's like getting a 1600 on your sat's. but it's doable. u just gotta put in crazy work.
and all my past loneliness, tears of pain, that empty feeling in your heart after busting roll after roll. all those hands of poker that never felt rewarding.
i can forget it all. i'm not quite sure how well i am conveying my feelings or my heart. i've been playing poker, and each day i play, the more likely i will play forever. how other job possibilities get smaller. the chance to reconcile with family diminishes.
but i run so good. i run so fucking good.
i am so overwhelmed and so grateful. it's like i'm one of those losing regs at the poker rooms year after year. but i finally win a bad beat jackpot witch erases so many decades of pain.
i get to start over. i have hope.
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miss nolan's big fat black dick
baal is so tame these days
tutz is an idiot
miss them gooks huhu/collegesucks
fck isuldur1 we have LONGPLE
So im rdy to start the day... Im just cooking up some breakfast and looked outside when I woke up and it was lightly snowing... I dropped my son off at school so I wont need to pick him up till 4 pm should give me a good 7 hours of play. My goal today is to break 10k in fpp's and post 200 in winnings.
Also found this interesting TV show that I thought was kinda cool to watch to keep some of the boredom that can come with long sessions :D
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) and at the end of the month.
anyway I picked hyperreality if anyone knows something about this shit ill give you the details of what needs to be done I need 2200 words but anything at this point (even 800 words) will buy me time to write it again once they fail me. 
. As a result when I wake up late in the day my time I have to mix in 1/2 and 2/4. I play like a massive asshat at the deep tables for an unknown reason so have not been grinding those in my daily mix. Sometimes those games have 1 huge fish but the other 5 players are like either random recreational guys who only play deep tables and like 50/38 with 15 percent 3bet or super winning regs who only play deep tables as well and have so much more deep experience then I do that I'm going to get my shit owned there so often. Even buying in for 100bb I don't feel comfortably at all in those games quite yet. 
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