I just spent a week without playing poker. Why? Well many people said I should get a side income, which I did. It's called ghostwriting, and I won't get into many details - it's basically writing on behalf of somebody else for financial compensation.
The one I did forced me to review probability, which was pretty good for poker. Stuff like
GENERAL RULE: P(E or F) = P(E) + P(F) – P(E and F)
[quote[In a 52 card deck what is the probability of queen or a heart
4/52 (queen)+13/52 (heart) – 1/52 (queen of hearts) = 16/52
or
MULTIPLICATION RULE = P(E) • P(F) • P(G) • …
E = {at least one head}
Ec = {no heads} = {all tails}
Ec consists of 5 events … tails on the first flip, tails on the second flip, … tails on the fifth flip
These 5 events are independent
P(Ec) = 1/2 • 1/2 • 1/2 • 1/2 • 1/2 = 1/32
Thus P(E) = 1 – 1/32 = 31/32
This project I did was quite stressful as I had to study a lot of it and it involved a ton of excel fiddling and forecasting and analyzing dull company accounts. It just reminded me what I don't want to do in life and why I am playing this game.
LOL Donkaments
The only poker I played in the last week was a couple $8 180 man turbo donkaments (well 3 in the whole week) I played on the side, and what do you know
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #64564919547: Tournament #414678283, $7.34+$0.66 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XX (3500/7000) - 2011/07/14 16:40:49 ET
Table 414678283 13 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: DoC.LemOn (199552 in chips)
Seat 4: LilBigKahuna (70448 in chips)
DoC.LemOn: posts the ante 700
LilBigKahuna: posts the ante 700
LilBigKahuna: posts small blind 3500
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind 7000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to DoC.LemOn
LilBigKahuna: raises 62748 to 69748 and is all-in
DoC.LemOn: calls 62748
Showdown DoC.LemOn: shows (a pair of Fours)
LilBigKahuna: shows (a pair of Fours - lower kicker)
DoC.LemOn collected 140896 from pot
LilBigKahuna finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $264.24.
DoC.LemOn wins the tournament and receives $396.42 - congratulations!
Summary Total pot 140896 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: DoC.LemOn (big blind) showed and won (140896) with a pair of Fours
Seat 4: LilBigKahuna (button) (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Fours
- I boinked the first one for $400, I played a lenghty (for a turbo) HU with some kind of a baller $300k+ SnG earner, what can I say, it feels good man.
Poker progress So far
It's been going great, I purged my database when I graduated, stopped watching high stakes and started learning how to play very tight. My goal is to have quite tight, solid intuitive game (except LP steals) against unknowns, and unleash my inner adjusting monkey only when people stop being unknowns and I have good rational reasons to get out of line through reads like here http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/912073
or here http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/911967
For graph happy people - insignificant sample size, it's NL25-50 and some NL10 spewing + Show Spoiler +
What I have been aiming for is when my play is intuitive it should always be on the tighter ABC side with lots of rules, and whenever I do something crazy and creative it must come from my rational thought process. I love FPSing and I do think I adjust better than vast majority of regs at my limits (Credit goes to Tom here, we talked just once but I keep reading the notes every pretty much week :O), but when FPS becomes part of your intuition it's the worst thing that can happen.
Going Forward
I am actually rolled to start taking shots at fish at NL100 with my 25BI, but of course NL50 will be my core limit, I got a day off today and will start slow after the break.
I will keep working on my fundamentals and solid intuitive game, I just can't wait until I finally get my intuitive solid game good enough to beat NL100+ and, and once that happens I will know I can start focusing on what I love - creative adjusting poker again.
As Longple Said when he rejected NL50-100 players for his coaching, guys like him add value only when they can make already good players better, and I have super strong motivation to get fundamentally 'good' beat micros and NL100 and get the confidence to start harassing you high stakes guys I love so much again
Rise from NL2- Even worth it anymore?by Magnum LP, July 18
Hey all, a friend who lurks in LP introduced me. Anyways, we were having a discussion about grinding out a bankroll online from microstakes. I play a fair bit of NL200-NL500 live cash games and do pretty well, know my basic value betting and hand-reading and positional play. Is it worth starting with $50 online grinding NL2 up anymore? I hear the games have gotten significantly harder over the past few years and are getting harder still, so progress up from micros to high stakes are much slower than they used to be. (A skilled player 5 years ago may have made it in 6 months, a similarly skilled player now may take 2 years).
Any comments on that particular idea? I was toying with the notion of depositing online and taking it pretty seriously for a couple months as a hobby. I have a pretty addictive/obsessive nature for games, namely in the past-- starcraft, counterstrike, and most currently league of legends, so I feel like putting time and effort into it, learning the game in more detail isn't something I would tire of easily since there's a very obvious measure of how well you're doing. (Similar to the idea of rankings/stats)
”I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream”
- Warren Zevon, Splendid Isolation
Yesterday I played some poker. I can't remember how I did, probably up a little bit. I'm up a little bit most days now. A week or two ago I was down most of the time. Around 6 in the morning I couldn't sleep, so I decided to go for a walk. I hadn't slept since I don't know how long but somehow the fresh air made me feel good and the early morning sunshine refreshed me. I started running. I haven't been out running for a year, and it wasn't very far, but it just felt so good. And I figured, maybe I'm back?
Last year I made a shitton of money, but I did not work enough on my game and to be honest I think I just got used to running like good and taking everybody's money in coin flips. I must have gotten senile or something, and I think I just got into bad habits of not thinking. I should have played more and studied the game more and overall done better, but I did not.
“If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that have hurt you
And you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
I'd give them all to you
Then you'd love me, love me
Like you used to do
If I could turn back”
- Cher, If I Could Turn Back Time
And did I tell you guys, I was always jealous when I saw how some of you grew up and bought houses, moved in with your girlfriends and got some kids. So I found myself a little girl last winter, whom I got fairly drunk on really nice red wine and when we woke up she still wanted to hang out with me. We're now engaged and just as soon as we're done with school we'll buy a house and live happily ever after.
“And I will always love you
You will always be mine
Forever and always
Till the end of time”
- June Cash Carter, Song to John
Anyway, thought you guys should know. Some of you might've found one with bigger boobs, and some might found someone with less of a temper, but I happen to love my girl and that what matters. Except for possibly the temper I would not have her any other way. White girl with an ass, BOOM!
Also, she's smart as hell so that's good.
Back to poker. I've always been a big supporter or the denial and error strategy proposed by Ricky in Trailer Park boys. Can't do it? Fuck that! Sure I can!
“If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive me
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry “
- The Pogues – If I should fall from Grace with God.
I don't fucking lose. It's that simple. It's my game. Remember when Avon gets out of jail? He could have taken the easy route and gone with what Stringer did and just laid back and be just fine. But nah, outnumbered, outgunned and out-ganstered (let's face it, Marlo and Omare are two of the coolest characters in any TV-show ever) he still decides to bring the noise. I'm not made for a desk job.
“Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the
world
And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl”
- The Clash, Death or Glory
So? What have I've done except hanging out with this girl for all this time? Well for once I'm almost done with my Law Degree. I'm writing my thesis on how Game Theory was used and could have been used to “solve” the negotiations during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm also doing a little bit of work for the Swedish Libertarian Party and I've become increasingly involved in the stock market and this time around I'm actually making a little bit of money. I'm invested heavily in precious metal junior miners and some oil companies.
“I'm gonna take a trip around the world
I'm gonna kiss all the pretty girls
I'll do everything silver and gold
And I got to hurry up before I grow too old“
Joe Strummer, Silver and Gold (Before I Grow to Old)
It's my opinion that the European Union, the Obama administration (which is only slightly worse then most before), Ben Bernanke and the FED and various other central banks is destroying the value of money and assuming that they'll continue to go unchecked for a couple of more years they'll destroy the middle class. If you think that you'll get rich by working hard at your desk I'm afraid that you're to late. That ship has sailed. So I'll try it my way instead. Hard work is all fine and dandy, but it will no longer be enough.
“Sida vid sida, tillsammans hjälps dom åt
staten och kapitalet, dom sitter i samma båt
fast det är inte dom som ror, ror så svetten lackar
och piskan som kittlar, kittlar inte heller
deras feta nackar”
Ebba Grön, Staten och Kapitalet
Well fuck it, we never did set out to be normal. We're geeks and freaks, in some cases a bit sexed up by money and self-esteem but at what other place can you find such a wide range of creativity? A bunch of people have started up businesses, a fair few are millionaires (I plan to join those ranks within a couple of years) and I'm sure most of us will do fine anyway. One or two of us might actually do something really great and make a difference.
“Hero--the voice of reason
Against the howling mob
Hero--the pride of purpose
In the unrewarding job
Hero--not the champion player
Who plays the perfect game
Not the glamor boy
Who loves to sell his name
Everybody's buying
Nobody's hero“
Rush, Nobody's Hero
Anyway. I don't know if I'll make it back to high stakes. I don't know if I'll be a poker player forever. I don't know shit really. Not really sure if I'll post here or not. Not much omaha discussion here anyway. So last parting words for this time:
Check out Huskystarcrafts youtube channal for some new games with Jinro aka LP's own FrozenArbiter. The guy is a serious SC2 beast.
nice turnaround for me, + almost 30k$ today wich is a huge record for me, have been breaking even for 2 months straight now, finnaly putting me in the green for the month after many brutal sessions
My name is kurtisturtle. was kurtistheturtle before 14 character max but no stress
Migrant from TL, owner of bug-eyed fish.
I've played SC a long time, figured better to devote time to money. What I'm going to do is deposit a small amount (maybe more depending) and go all or nothing. I'd like to use this money to find out if poker is for me, if I'm good at it, and if I can handle it.
unrelated but also like to do more math in general. hated it in school but numbers fascinate me
Opening up a pokerstars account. I've lurked through this community a couple times, cracks me up. So if you have any suggestions for how I approach my goals, I'm all ears! look forward to growing with you
short term:
grow my $50 into $200 by end of 2nd week of august
mid-term: figure out how much time im willing to devote, if any
long-term: if still playing;
develop tight (is that right word?) playstyle which will allow me more financial freedom barring if i get caught up in the thrill of first place
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what? god damnet. no real money? fuck the us and all this stupid morality. so, first, is there a place or method i can play from the US with real money (like if i used proxy or do they monitor bank accounts?)
second, does this site have a search function/where is it?
I wrote this in poker main but wrong place so I'm transplanting it here
now the only thing that differs from a normal PLO/8 hand is that they see the nut low as A,2,3,4,6 (cause they say the A,2,3,4,5 is a straight not low hand) So who wins this and explain...i know we have some great PLO players here so i would like some input
12+h of practice everyday [x]
1h session review after every session [x]
2h book/forums/strategy articles reading [x]
Submitting and discussing hands with sickos [x]
Movies(frustrating month, some few ones i saw)by whamm!, July 16
One of the driest months in terms of good movies to watch or download, was very frustrating to dl and see all the shit that's out there. It seems it only takes an HD cam and a couple of delusional idiots to make a movie and upload it to torrents nowadays - but some of those nigerian flicks are pretty lol. No hidden gems for the past month so I was pretty sad. Ironclad is the only one that has my superb approval
Ironclad (Paul Giamatti,some other good actors) Torrent
- story of a bunch of guys who hold fort to prevent the ousted king from retaking his throne after being overthrown by the nobles, king hires some viking or germanic tribe to do this in return he promises them that the Catholic church and the knights tempar leaves their lands alone. Pretty decent for non-theatrical release, think braveheart meets 300.
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows 2 Theaters
- pretty good movie, if you like the book, you'll appreciate how the movie was made inspite of some lazy mistakes in the end. How can you go wrong when two wizard armies and mythical creatures go at it in the end and the two wizard bosses have a final confrontation after almost 10 years of watching this shit. All I can say is that snape is the man. If you're not a huge fan of the book like me, you'll still find this one worth a watch.
Transformers Theaters
- Watch this movie just because you want to say goodbye to the whole series. Im so sick and tired of robots fighting and rightfully so this one sucked ass, still how much you pay for the ticket is worth the effects spent on this turkey. I miss megan fox too
Wrecked(guy from the pianist)
- memento wannabe when a guy wakes up in a wrecked car in the middle of nowhere, has memory loss and tries to retrace his steps to figure shit out, deals with adversity doing it (broken leg plus cougars and shit). Obviously this is worth watching by the acting alone.
So which one of you was this...by PanoRaMa, July 15
I was using www.compete.com to check visitor analytics between LP and some other sites and it shows a "Top Search Terms" for how people access each site:
Well, i was lucky enough to get two free lessons of longples coaching, and it was a really good experience to see what goes on in the mind of someone who crushes the higher stakes. It was also just a lot of fun talking about poker. He taught me a lot about bet sizing, and how to save a bundle of money. There is one thing he taught me though, that is really high level and it stuck out from everything else. Lets analyze this play that he taught me.
***** Hand History for Game 1580609390 ***** Boss
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, July 14, 09:55:48 ET 2011
Table Julia Turbo 6 Real Money
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 2: smekt $16360.63 USD
Seat 4: longple1 $20066.25 USD
longple1 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
smekt posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
9s8c7d2s5h
longple1 bets [$1585.00 USD]
smekt raises [$5570.00 USD]
longple1 raises [$16081.25 USD]
smekt folds
longple1 wins $15925.00 USD from main pot
longple1 wins $12096.25 USD
This is just my analysis, so i may be wrong in some parts about the opponents range and stuff.
so here we see longple 3bets JTs deep, flops the nuts and goes for value on flop and turn. All pretty standard stuff.
The really important part of this hand is the river.
When we get to the river, villain can have alot of top pair type hands like T9s. He can also get to the river with a 6 a decent amount with hands like 76s, 66 maybe.
So what happens against a good regular when we make a pretty normal bet size of $4k~ on the river?
Well we can get top pair to fold here quite alot, hands with a 6 will just flat call so we get value from them. I'd imagine most regs would not have two pair or a set here too often, again this is something i'm not too sure on.
so what happens if we bet $1500~ on the river vs a good regular?
well, with their top pair hands they could be calling alot, or they could turning top pair into a bluff here as well, as a good regular would realize that top pair is hardly ever good here vs this bet sizing. But The best thing about this bet sizing, is you are inducing a value raise from a lower straight very often. So even with this small bet on the river, you actually get more value from a straight, than if you would bet a standard size of 4k. So vs a GOOD regular who will value raise lower straights here, this play becomes very good.
There's also the added bonus when we are this deep, that we are going to put them in a very strange spot once we jam over the top here. A spot where even if they are a good reg they can make mistakes here.
TL;DR:
betting smaller can get you MORE value from almost their ENTIRE RANGE vs GOOD REGULARS. i like talking in caps when its important.
Anyways, their were a few other interesting hands we went over that i may post in upcoming blogs, and im feeling very comfortable at 1/2 after those coaching lessons. I hope to move up to 2/4 soon and my goal is to get to 3/6 by the end of the end of the year. (started at nl50 in feb)
Im also looking to start coaching nl25-nl100 regs for free once i get a pretty decent winrate at nl400. I'm an impressionable person so yeah, charity inspires charity.
That's right I've got a new Ferrari sitting in my driveway right now. Be jealous, be real jealous. YEA RIGHT! Once again I've captured your attention using a youtube-esque headline to suck readers in. So now you're stuck reading this boring blog. I'll try to make it as interesting as I can... but I have to warn you guys that it's not "Ferrari" exciting.
Instead this blog is going to be "BMW" exciting. There's a new BMW sitting in my driveway. I picked it up about 2 or 3 months ago, but I haven't got a chance to write a blog about it. It's really not that exciting, your basic entry level BMW. However for me it's a pretty fun car to drive considering my last car was a soccer mom mobile. I went out the other day and took some pictures of it, so it was fresh out of the car wash at the time (hence why there is water all over it). Take a look at some of the pictures: http://www.organicrakeback.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/BMW1-416x278.jpg
As you can see the interior is really nothing special. It has a leather interior throughout with a small entertainment console in the middle. There is an iPod console in the flip up box between the two front seats which can be controlled through the entertainment console and the steering wheel. Other cool perks are auto-rain-sensing wipers and auto headlights (you can tell how low tech my last car was based on these comments).
I’m planning on writing an in depth review of the car at some point, but I’ve been relatively lazy as of late.
I’ve also been considering switching from a Blackberry to an iPhone lately. I don’t know whether I should give it a shot or not. Anyone have any feedback to contribute to help me make my decision? This is the phone I currently have (Blackberry 9700):
It’s served me well as of lately but I’m just debating whether an iPhone is more useful to me. I really like the personal hotspot capabilities of the iPhone, but I’m afraid I’ll lose track of my data usage (running an iPad off the wifi hotspot) and get absolutely screwed by my mobile company on data overages.
For those of you guys who haven’t heard the iPhone 5 is supposed to drop in September which is pretty exciting. These are still rumours however, so it’s all educated speculation (backed by reputable sources). The iPhone 4 already seems like such a complete phone, the only improvements I can see being made are improved screen resolution, higher megapixel camera, and faster processor. These all seem relatively unnecessary for the type of usage I would be subjecting the phone to though.
Anyways that’s all I have to write about for now guys! Thanks for reading my blog! I’ll try to make my next post more exciting!
ok, first of all i wanna thank all of you who wrote all these PM's
most of them were really ambitious and long, and i appriciate the time alot of u guys put into this
sorry to the ones who really put the effort into their PM but didnt get a spot.
i picked 2 guys that i see alot of potential in, that i would like to do this with and try to help them climb the stakes to 2/4+
most of you 50nl 100nl guys probably can get alot of better help from hireing a decent smallstakescoach at a good price
as my goal as a coach is gonna be to (hopefully) add something extra to already good players games
Ive PM'd the 2 winners
Im not going to PM every1 else, ive gotten alot of PM's and i really appriciate the time u took for this. <3
gl to all of you in the future
i will present some type of coaching details for private lessons after ive done some more freecoaching and just get more used to talking/coaching poker in english
more info to come later
if u didnt check out the video i made for LP a couple of days ago u can find it in the blogpost previous to this one.
also i wanna thank the LP admins for apperantly deciding to give me a greenstar here on LP, i really appriciate it and i will do my best to live up to it and post interesting/my 2 cent thoughts here on lp
Finally worked out the quirks of streaming (followed Destiny's guide on Teamliquid) and am currently streaming Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition. Even if you don't play the game, drop by and say hello. I talk while playing as long as there are no spiders present. My main is Ken but I'll play other characters on request
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(a pair of Fours - lower kicker)
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