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?
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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
I sympathize with the cause based on actual honest arguments. So why do people make disingenuous arguments for their side when there are perfectly legitimate arguments to be made?
Both sides do this, in fact every side ever does this. Propaganda is ubiquitous.
Really, I guess we know why they do this: It works. It actually takes a bit of knowledge and a second of thought to deduce the bullshit sometimes.
For myself, I probably saw this pic several times and never paid it any attention past a cursory glance that made me go "yep".
I wonder what else we see like this, every day, without a second thought? Anyone else have some modern day stealthy propaganda to post, and if it isn't obvious, why its propaganda?
I needs it. Whats do you prefer? I know nothing about it, but I documented my trip to game 6 of the ALCS where the Texas Rangers just won and are going to the World Series for the second year in a row. I'd like to edit all this video and make a vlog about it.
So finally tonight got my first taste of live tourney victory.
Home game with 45 players at $50 BI, ended up splitting 1st/2nd cash once we got to heads up for 960/2 = $480. Since I had a backer on the BI ended up with $300.
Bubbled 2 previous times, and got knocked out last time wih QQ vs AJ so it was particularly satisfying.
Little bit about me:
1. Currently in grad school = #1 priority. I know a lot about nutrition/exercise/lifting/etc. if anyone needs advice on this type of stuff.
2. Got $10 last dec from asdf2000, and played occasionally on weekends and grinded it up to $60 something playing SNGs. But then black friday happened and yeah.
3. Went to Hero (thanks Dave) and binked one of the free rolls for $5 and $10, and got one of the 100+100 and have grinded it up to $200 playing FR 4NL, but went on a 10 BI downswing which sucked to ~$160. Played a bit for the first time in a few months and am back up to $170. Hopefully, once I hit $200 again I'll take a shot at 10NL and go from there.
We'll see how this plan works out with grad school and other stuff I need to get finished! Hardest thing for me is just getting in the volume.
But yeah, glad to have a first blog. Love you guys. I don't post much but I read a lot of everyone's threads.
Was wondering where I should ask for this but since there is a good amount of well-read people in LP decided its probably one of the better places for such a question
I need some good books on about how the humans mind work, why are we in constant search of approval and acknowledgement and such soapy bullshit everyone needs, also books on ego (i think those 2 things could be strongly connected as well). I d rather they re more philosophically written, but if the you think you've got something worth reading please leave author + title
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