Currently waiting for my second lesson session dealing 5/10 limit hold'em for. The cne casino.
Wondering how many liquidpoker members are going to partake? I'm going to work a shit load, night shifts, so if you see a handsome Asian guy named Sam, come and say hi
I guess its about time I write a blog entry at liquidpoker.net
It would be nice to start with basic info: who am I? I guess a lot of people will just recognize my name from the forum, especially Im way more active lately at lp.net, but still
Im an ex high stakes player ( I guess I could write a little detailed story in the next blog posts ) that risen from 50$ no deposit bonus to nl1000 in 1,5 year, and then dropped poker completely.
That brings us to the second part: I've been working for lp.net for quite some time already ( over 3,5 years ), first being a newsposter on tlpoker.pl, then running the site in general.
From March I am officially working as a manager for liquidpoker.net I hope the site will feel more active with every month, and we will be able to provide you guys with more and more quality material.
But back to blog! Ladies and Gentleman, today I present you: LiquidSnow 2011 trip report!
Under this secret code-name is nothing more then an awesome trip, where part of the liquidpoker.net staff was invited. We decided to meet-up in French Alps for skiing to get along together, and actually know who you are working with
Our house was located in the city Les Menuires, in the area of Les 3 Valles ( 3 Valleys ), which is the biggest skiing/snowboarding resort in the world.
There was quite a few people expected to come, so we rented a 14 person house with 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms over 3 floors ( plus sauna, giant kitchen and some other cool stuff ). In the end it was only 4 of us, and since the house was prepaid, we didn't change the location. Lets be honest, there was no way to whine about the conditions of stay, it was just way too good
Who attended ( I will use nicknames instead of names later on, so you can recognize us easier later on the forum ):
Liquid`Meat ( Joy )
Raidern ( Antoniel )
Pindarots ( Jeroen )
me/Defrag ( Sebastian )
Raidern arrived in Europe way earlier ( he's from Brasil ), and traveled to France together with Meat and Pindarots, since they both are from Netherlands. They picked me up on the way to Les Menuires from Lyon airport and lp.net team was complete . After quite a smooth ride we arrived at our place a little after 18:00 on Saturday, done some shopping, ate something, unpacked and done formal stuff ( got ski-passes, paid for house etc. ) and then we hit the beds being so tired ( especially Meat and Pindarots, who were driving for whole day ).
I'm not gonna describe every day in detail since our schedule looked pretty familiar:
~8:00 get up/ eat
~8:45 pack up, hit the slopes :D
~16-17:30 get back to home, hit sauna, eat something, play some games together , get some drinks etc and hit the bed
For first three days it was quite cloudy and the snow was raining pretty heavily, so it was quite hard to ride, especially after 15:00 since there was a lot of moguls and the visibility was sometimes worse then 3 meters ( which forced us few times to ski right next to the poles showing end of slopes ).
Skiing was going quite well for the first two days: Raidern took some lessons on the first or second day, since he never skied before in his life ( he never actually saw real snow in his life before ;D ), Pindarots skis really well, Meat snowboards very good as well, and Im not gonna judge my own skill, thou I was expecting it to be way worse after a 3 year break due to torn Menicus and ACL's on my left knee which resulted in 3 surgeries in the last 2 years :D
Unfortunately, Pindarots had a really nasty accident on the third day I think: in the begging of the day ( we were hitting the slopes as early as they opened,so they were really icy ) he crashed, looked really badly, we took quite a short break, then he skied down ( from the top, so like a 20-30 minute of skiing ) and took a break for the rest of the day. Why did I point out that he still went down? Because when he later visited the doctor it turned out that his whole muscle was torn! Talk about high pain tolerance. Really unlucky, since he was grounded for the rest of the trip.
For the second part of the trip we had pretty much perfect weather condition ( almost zero snowing during ski time and perfect visibility with really nice sun ), and we moved to the better area of Les 3 Valles as well, which was Val Thorens. Val Thorens is just 10 minutes away by car from Les Menuires, we had ski passes for the whole area so we didn't have to pay extra, and the made conditions were sooooooooo much better. In the end, we stayed there till the end of our trip
We were also switching sun screens like crazy, going from 10 to 20, then to 30 or even higher, and still getting faces burned pretty badly. Just look at the photo:
My very own first crash came on the third day, in familiar fashion to Pindarots, where I started to carve and one of the skis slid down on ice before catching the edge. I fell right on my chest and face, leaning my head backwards, which made my chest absorb majority of impact before hitting the ice with my chin. Feeling of not being able to breath for at least 15-20s wasn't the best, but I think its way better then broke nose. In the end, I was quite lucky.
Raidern was hitting easier slopes for majority of time, Pindarots had to stay at home due to his accident, so me and Meat tried to hit as many slopes and glaciers as possible. It was fun, but during the week we were there I doubt we managed to visit even half of the available slopes. Maybe we can try out the rest next year
Food at slopes was JESUS_CHRIST_SO_EXPENSIVE ( quite good thou ), and for evening we split the trip eating half time out/half time we made something ourselves. I can only give out one major advice: never eat in Mexican restaurant in this area. Only one of us had decent meal there, and let say rest of us thought food was quite... bad :D Some vodka with whiskey back in the house doused the bad taste thou!
During last day we also ordered some Raclette for evening from the house owner, I must admit I ordered a set for my own home few days ago. It was damn delicious.
We also had some fun when going back. I had flight back to Warsaw from Lyon around 13:00, we left around 9:00 ( it was a ~2:30h drive ) with plenty of spare time, and when going still in the mountains we smelled burning rubber... since we were passing some small town we just thought it wasnt our car, but after it continued we decided to stop. It turned out we had some problems with breaks in the car ( quite dangerous in the mountains, huh? ), Meat actually knows how to deal with his car so after taking off the tire and few fast calls we were back on track! We made it right on scheduled time to the airport, however my plane was delayed for over 1:30h.
And I must say, this was only once in my life when I was scared during the flight, lol. I fly quite a lot, and I find it really comfortable, there is not much difference between a bus and plane for me when it comes to worrying about crashes. However, the plane was delayed a ton ( never saw that happen on non-cheap airlines ), they changed the crew right when we were boarding, and when I sat down, a middle-aged guy in suit sits right next to me, pulls out a leather case and starts chewing his finger nails while reading a manual entitled "How to react in cases of plane failure". Him having a official airlines logo on the bag didint help either. When taking off plane was bumpy as hell, I was scared as f%*@. But hey, at least it was fun.
What about the LiquidPoker crew? Seriously, I cant say a bad word about anyone present ( shame on people that didint attend thou! ) even if I wanted. It was an awesome trip, and I hope there will be a repeat of this next year, hopefully with more people attending.
Just signed up, don't have any option to deposit, and I only want a little to mess around for right now. Can anyone xfer me $100? I'll send first on paypal to anyone known.
Most of you have probably never heard of him. He is a belgian cyclist in the team of leopard trek and he died today in the 3rd stage of the giro d'italia. The images they showed on television are still going true my head. His girlfriend is pregnant too making this even sadder http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/13..._da96e1de6c27d1159eac4fb44a28774c.jpg
If anyone wants to follow me on twitterby El_Tanque, May 09
I'm just getting into the whole twitter thing, and 90% of my posts are going to be related to my bleacherreport.com articles, but if you'd like to follow me, that would be kick ass.
I guess search for me as claythomas or @claythomas ...however the fuck you do it. I'm not really a fan of twitter, i like facebook. Search for Clay Thomas. I'm the guy standing under the ALCS sign at the Ballpark in Arlington, wearing a blue nylon pullover thing. haha...
I feel this post was a worthless piece of shit and took up space and pissed someone off (it atleast pissed me off)...
Anywho, hope to see you around!!
So to begin I have unofficially reduced this blog to absolutely non-poker stuff, I've realized over time that nobody ever gives a shit about lowstakes rungood or downswings and I've already posted a lot of retarded bs in this blog which has not served any use to anyone.
So yeah I've decided to make this blog a little more useful to LP and it's users who love movies and tv shows. Zero poker, more movies and tv plus some random life updates if anything remarkable ever happens in my life (which i doubt lol). I hope you guys enjoy the movies as much as i did.
I've made another smurf account for my poker shit haha but just purely for hands no blogs or troll posts etc.
decent
*Hall pass(comedy) - decent and worth the watch, had good laughs owen wilson and that funny SNL actor plus ricky gervais pal
*Lucky(documentary) - stories of lottery winners, mostly good ones, some sad, also ok.
*Tucker and Dale vs evil(comedy/slasher) - pokes fun at slasher films with a twist, my kids had fun and so did i, but if i watched this alone i think id rate it just 3 out of 5.* I take that back, its kinda hilarious in a dumb kinda way
Just barely ok
*Gnomeo and Juliet(animation) - decent and cute
*Rio(animation) - blah im getting tired of these tbh, so many of them coming out
* Johnny Mad Dog - liberia story of boy soldiers violence, too bad this wasnt as well made as tropa or city of god, i didnt find it interesting though
avoid
* Glen the flying robot - most uninspiring and boring movie i have seen
* endure - fucking guy actor with the mustache
* butchered - jeez
* sanctum - total garbage from james cameron
I'll update with trailers and some more movies im watching 3 in a couple hours
*the violent kind - some bikers vs zombies flick, might be good
*the big bang - antonio banderas, gangster espionage(dont get too excited, i have yet to check it out if its any good)
*Killing bono - one of those cannes hipster things
*Lesbian vampire killers - brit comedy, lesbo vamps who dont look like vanessa selbst, might be ok
*Megan is missing - some indie movie about a missing girl, hit or miss this one
Sup guys,
so april was very solid since i only played 100 nl. Managed to win like 5,5 w rb. winrate ended up to be like 8 bb/100 on a 50 k sample. Played 98 h only 6 tables. I am very happy with the results and im gonna go back to playing 200 nl from now on. I will do all i can to keep up the solidness in 1/2
Also haven't been able to play in may since i visited Turkey for a week with my gf and couple other friends. Went wake-boarding and pretty much got shit-faced all week long. Oh and gonna play some tennis tournaments and squash tournaments in April as well, So i guess thats about it for now.
people are strange when you are a strangeby the cleaner, May 08
I'm a little drunk right now. my bankroll has been really low and trying to make enought money to provide for expenses. this probably sound like a stupid idea, but i'm just typing and that's all
my life:
born: hamburg, germany
father: german
mother: hungarian
1985: left germany at the age of 10 on a sailing yacht to trawel around the world. (lived on the yacht 11 years)
1987: stayed in venezuela to get me up to date in school in a international german school called colegio humboldt.
1990: studied in night school trying to finish high school wich i never did.
1991: left home (parents) at the age of 16 in a foreign country
.... had a ton of jobs that included , pool shark (hustling) cleaning swimming pools, hotel receptionist, tourist guide, professional diver, captain, shipping agent, seaman.
1998 meet a nice girl to whom i married and got my head fixed. she had a 2 year old daughter who's 14 now.
2002 my son got born
2005 my son got diagnosed autism
2007 bought my own apartment
2011 still playing mediocre poker trying to survive.
dunno why i'm typing all this. life is strange w/e.
Oh my god I miss making whineblogs so much, let's make one:http://i.imgur.com/GS1BT.png
11BI in 1k hands assassination
I don't know what to write in a whine blog anymore, I guess damn you poker or something like that? it's been so long since I made one.
Anyway while I'm at it I might as well make a small update Poka
I still feel kind of fucked from the terrible habits picked up in the first 4 months in this year where I was killing myself over finishing uni and I am all over the place really with schedule, eating, sleeping etc etc. which must be fixed if I want to get back on track. I am currently grinding NL25 and doing okay results and volume wise, I could go ahead and play NL50 with my 25BI but I need to get set with my schedule and learning first. I will try to work on my regime and schedule this week.
Personal
I am grinding poker hardcore, and I got a series of free workshops run by my university on what to do after uni, how to make myself attractive in the job market (cv, networking, interview skills, choice of career...) in the next 14 days. And I fucking need to know the results of my exams, they postponed them until 23rd and it's really painful not to know since I need closure to have a peace of mind.
Once I know I passed and get graduation over with and I will pimp up my job prospects I will be pokering , do 4-6 hours of volunteering per week, work on the psychology stuff, party and apply for jobs and attend interviews and maybe take a job eventually, but I must be 100% sure that's what I want to do and I definitely want to avoid jumping on the first thing that arises.
Neuropsychology of poker
There is a really great article and video series at Pokerstrategy on neuropsychology of poker, which deals with neurotransmitters and their impact on mood and energy and in general what to do to make yourself feel good and energized from science perspective. Goro told me to stop wasting my time with cool blogs so I make notes just for myself but I can share them if there will be interest, leave a comment under the blog
Thanks for reading LP, expect more random shit and small updates from me as I am starting once again to take this thing seriously.
Got this pretty insane email from deucescracked....
Don't miss out on Carbon Poker Rakeback, the window is closing
Merge poker has announced that they will not be offering rakeback on accounts created after June 1st, 2011.
We've put together a special offer to get 35% Rakeback + FREE DeucesCracked and up to a $2,000 deposit bonus on Merge through Carbon Poker. Play ONE hand after depositing and we'll give you a free month of DeucesCracked and a discount to purchase Hold'em Manager. Play more hands and earn more rewards down the road.
Sounds good to me,
thoughts?
anyone else get this email?
How do you do this?!?!?
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