It's been 7 months since my last blog; not to say that my life hasn't been blogworthy in that time, it's just been super hectic and annoying since Black Friday. Ok, where to begin...
I had just started to become a winner in online cash again and was grinding 2/4 and 3/6 with shots at 5/10 from January through April of this year with mediocre success (+20k or so on limited volume); but the point was that I was balancing my poker portfolio a lot better than I had in the past. With a nice mix of MTT's, online cash, and live cash. Anyways, that online income stream got taken away from me obv and I'm lucky (I guess)to be living in Vegas and have live cash to fall back on.
Unfortunately live poker is a beast that makes you think you are a losing player when you're not and vice versa. So now I'm currently grinding 5 days a week about 30 hours a week at 5/10. My results have been less than stellar (breakeven since the wsop) and I can't put in any more hours right now because of family obligations. So life is pretty tough right now with no steady income stream and no tournament scores to help (not to mention a black hole of tournament makeup from being backed for the last year so even a small 6 figure score wouldn't help me).
Also, I sold the GT-R mostly because I wasn't crushing it anymore, but also because (You were right Ket) it wasn't as fun to drive as my Evo was. But I got a white '05 Mazda RX-8 and it's more fun than the Evo was imo(RWD!!!).
Ok enough with the bad and out with the good:
My wife is about to graduate and is finishing up her student teaching in a First grade classroom. She graduates in January and then will go on for her Master's while teaching in an elementary school here next year. When she has her master's after the 2012-2013 school year we will re-evaluate the financial situation and if we are struggling at all or online poker hasn't come back we may look into International Teaching where she would teach at an English-speaking school in Europe and I would play online poker and life would be cool. But until then we are just waiting it out in the states.
I have a SC/BW background so thought this would be my first forum to join! Not great at BW, reached C+ several times on Iccup so bit of skill but not a lot. Student, 23.
Started getting very interested in poker a few months ago, read a couple of beginner books (Holdem for dummies and Full tilt tournament poker book). I play on 888, lost a bit of money in my first few months playing being a bit overly ambitious with terrible bankroll management, took a break have come back more recently a bit smarter however now I seem to be a break even player (which is an improvement from losing) and looking to improve from there. I play the 1/2c NLH tables on 888, usually 4 at a time to keep my interest. I find my ABC poker is fair, I tend to lose money from tilting and being impatient mainly so I'm working on that.
Ideas on where to go to improve would be cool, curious about some poker software, wondering if poker tracker is worth looking into.. so yeah any feedback or questions or anything about anything would be neat!
Some of you may or may not know, but I've mentioned on here that I have a relative (grandmother) who is a huge MLM victim and wastes thousands of dollars in multi level marketing "Business opportunities". One of her long-time swindlers/con men (a disbarred lawyer who has spent time in prison, but is charismatic and clearly without a conscience) convinced her to join yet another MLM.. somehow under the pretense that *I* will handle this opportunity for her.
Yes, without consulting me she literally shelled out the several hundred dollar joiner fee & committed to the monthly distributor fee (dunno how much, usually its 40-200 dollars a month in these scams), with the idea that I will do the "business" for her.
I didn't even know what to say when she told me yesterday, and now she's given my phone number to the disbarred lawyer (MLM scammer). He is going to call me and brief me on this "opportunity".
What the fuck?
I am trying to figure out how to turn this into a positive thing. Maybe I can somehow maneuver into such a position where the ole grandma will trust me more than this con man, but dunno....
What's my play tomorrow when this motherfucking scammer calls? I can't just tell him to fuck off because he holds a strong sway with my grandmother, as does the idea of MLM in general, and I'm sure he'd appropriately label me an enemy of his financial interests.
I don't think I want to become a scammer myself.
I am just awe-struck that she signed up for this thinking I would take over when I've told her how unethical and amoral MLM is.. Of course she doesn't understand because she is incredibly naive and ignorant.
All of this is kind of whatever, I guess, but she mentioned that they convinced her to buy more of their stock, which is literally lighting money on fire. I honestly think she is losing rational control of her retirement money. Will I be to blame when she is broke in whatever number of years down the road?
This is a pretty interesting talk about google and fb and how they filter information. I may just be a tinfoil hat wearing fool but this is kinda scary for me and I feel it is very wrong. What do you guys think?
yo
if you win when your roll of 50 is greater than the result of [ ( random1-100) + random1-100 ) ]or [ (random2-200) ], are you doing the same thing in both cases? ie do you win ~25% of the time in both situations?
I have googled long and i just can't find it.
I've requested some tournament summarys, and trying to import them into HEM .
But i get 224 errors 0 imported .
Anybody have any idea ? or a different tool to replay tourneys with?
My summary is from pokerstars email .
looks like this
> oksana425250: posts the ante 40
> KasperSonn: posts the ante 40
> mrs-nurse: posts the ante 40
> Next-L3vel: posts the ante 40
> roundersgr1: posts the ante 40
> vladan: posts the ante 40
> outragous76: posts the ante 40
> roundersgr1: posts small blind 150
> vladan: posts big blind 300
Microstakes Revelationsby superfashion, October 22
After getting back into the online scene (thx Carbon lol), I've done a lot of work on my game. I have a good friend who has played professionally across multiple sites as high as 10/20 (as far as I know) who has sort of become my "mentor," and it's made me look at the game a lot differently.
If you're a struggling microstakes player, I might have some useful advice.
In regards to "range"...stop thinking poker stove wise, and use your head. Observe your opponents and see how you can use both your image and your position to open a wider range of hands. Force yourself into strange postflop decisions because of opening marginal hands; this will force you all around to have a better game sense.
Related, forget about the money. Nothing you can lose at microstakes is anything that you can't make back working at McDonald's for a few weeks, so the money factor shouldn't bother you at all. Try bluffs in spots you wouldn't normally. If you get snapped off, then you know you probably shouldn't have bluffed there and you can make note for next time.
Range in regards to position...so you want to play XX hand on the button, but it's not normally in your "range." So...3bet it! Fuck it, why not right? This gives you the betting lead in position on someone you probably can out-think or out-play, which is never, ever a bad thing.
On the whole, I guess what I'm trying to say is to stop playing ABC once you understand how to play ABC. Of course there are times when you're going to have to show down top set, but you can't rely on coolering people to make all your profits. Force yourself to understand the game better. In no way am I saying that I'm "good" compared to a lot of people who play, but I wanted to share some things I feel I've learned recently with those who are in the same position I was 8 months ago.
Not a huge sample, but this is my results graph since moving to Merge so I'm not COMPLETELY talking out of my ass (note the sick 10bi swing where I ran 7bi below EV D.
Few hands that would not have happened if I was playing the same way I was playing 8 months ago:
Submitted by : superfashion
MERGE_GAME #4218872900408: Texas Holdem NL $0.10/$0.25 10/19/2011 23:12:22
Table Tijuana 42188729
Seat 1: newbling $25.00 in chips
Seat 2: duncan107 $83.45 in chips
Seat 3: Ughtoiletclog $25.00 in chips
Seat 4: SubZeroWINS $49.46 in chips DEALER
Seat 5: Hero $42.83 in chips
Seat 6: masterhopkins $21.29 in chips
Hero: Post SB $0.10
masterhopkins: Post BB $0.25
Obviously there were some wacky dynamics going on that led to these hands, but that's exactly what I'm trying to talk about. If I snapped off the K4 and he showed me 77 on the river...Oh well, maybe I'm an idiot. What if I get snapped off by jacks in the Q8 hand considering he was getting almost 4:1 on his money? In that case, I metagamed the shit out of myself and consider making the same play deeper, or folding to the 4bet preflop. Don't give up the chance to analyze your options in weird hands like this, and don't pat yourself on the back for your line being the best thing possible just because you won the hand. Keep thinking!
It's funny to hear the players always talking about their love of the game, respect for the legends etc... when its painfully clear the only thing they care about is the money. They want 53% of the revenues... what buisness gives 53% of its profits to its workers, greedy bastards, 1 less ferrari a year
I am having a poor year spent 6 months of the year playing very little games and cant get a good run going, Playing 60nl hu sng turbo at the moment just until im confident in my game again, but im only a marginal winner, will stick with it and hopefully i start winning again.
This year ive moved into a rented flat with my girlfriend and spent 2 weeks on holiday in mexico. My new work desk..
Going to grind lots before christmas so hopefully i dont have to worry about working during the festive period. 6 months more of this and im going to have to think about getting a job
On October 21 2011 10:37 ERASA wrote:
I watched it directly from espn page, good quality and no lags, let me see if i can find a link... http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7124904
indeed very sad :/
This 20 minute video on Razor Ramon aired recently. The first 2 minutes of video one has some lag spikes, but it smooths out after 5 minutes or so. It's a good watch, but very sad.
Just got up to speed on this. Definitely the way to go. I use Google Reader just b/c I'm a google fan and can link it to my droid.
Any recommendations for feeds?
Right now I just have a pretty standard news feed and added:
-New York Times
-Wall Street Journal
-Time
-The Economist
-Mark Cuban's blog
-Harvard Business Review
-Jonathan Wilson (Footy)
-Liquid Poker (yeah budday)
-T-Nation (juiced up gorilla meathead site)
-WikiLeaks
-Zonal Marking (nother footy site)
I'd obviously recommend any of these
I'm looking for:
-I'll try just about anything at least once
More Specific:
-Any topic covered in sunday NYT. top news, world news, opinion, business, fashion, entertainment, etc.
-Business
-Politics
-Technology
-NFL
-NHL
-Sports in General
-Men's Fashion
-Men's Magazine type stuff (GQ, Maxim)
my computer isn't playing videos anymore wtf ? i dont get errors or anything just the area that the video would play in stays blank. any experts here know what to do about this?
I thought for a while about the the topic for this entry, but decided to go with a simple one that would draw the attention of some mid-high stakes players.
Recently I've spent some time watching tables from 1/2 up to 5/10 @ stars and what I've noticed is how full of regs they are. I'm dazzled with this, how can any money be made? Fishes are not common at those stakes, from what I've seen looks like the regs are just exchanging money with each other.
I would love to hear from the most experienced players here, how is the edge built here? I can see the a case for heads-up, but what about 6max and FR? How can players like nano and wobbly have such an edge on those game in order to make a winrate of 2BB/100 for example?
I'm happy playing NL50 and NL100! I've thought about taking shots @ NL200 but the difference in the games is huge. I guess I'm stuck in a mindset where I dont think there is much to be changed in my game and that NL200 regs will crush my soul. Every time I've tried to move up in stakes I went thru some bad streek and mindset. Maybe I should get some coaching but I'm still really reluctant...
Please give me your best words and understanding!
Thanks
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