Ugh. Today I woke up to my grandma's shrieks as she was attacked and hit repeatedly by my schizophrenic uncle. By the time I woke and crossed the house he was fleeing to his room. I helped grandma off the floor. Called 911 and the police came and committed my uncle. Grandma seems to be ok, she is bruised up a bit, worst part is she landed on her elbow and shoulder when she fell and badly sprained her shoulder or perhaps minorly fractured her clavicle. She complains it hurts but also feels numb, and she has swelling. The paramedics came along with the police and told her to should go to a walk-in clinic to get it x-rayed, I've tried to convince her, but she hates walk-ins for some reason. She is going to have her fucking chiropractor-acupuncturist x-ray her.. of course he isn't nearly as well trained to spot problems as a real doctor. And I have to drive her up to the guy. I'll fucking explode on this guy if he tries to manipulate her body. If this chiropractard gives her an all-clear/put ice on it and she doesn't improve markedly in the next day or two I'll make sure to take her to a real doctor.. She refuses right now. I'm glad she didn't break a hip or anything more serious.
Now the whole first 2/3rds of the day are used up.. was supposed to goto the gym when I woke up, have to wait around for gmas appointment now.. I guess my situation isn't a big deal but.. god damn it if I could have a fucking normal environment that I controlled I would be able to keep my focus on what I need to accomplish. I hope I can pull this shit together and make some money, I need to live on my own so badly.
I'm so angry (at my uncle slightly(mostly at his illness), at alternative medicine leading my grandma not to seek a real doctor, my grandma's gullibility) and tuned up and I can't do a damn thing about any of it.
I've been trying this April to avoid having losing sessions! (good plan right) So far it has gone pretty well as you can see from the screenshot below, but when I do decide to have a losing session, I need to make sure it isn't all my monthly profits
Played about 4k hands each of 2/4 and 1/2 PLO so far this month winning at both. I'm really going to start trying to climb out of my 100plo and 200plo hole on PTR that I am currently in. Have been doing well at 100plo so far this month so hopefully I can accomplish that by the end of this month. I'm down about 100 buyins at 200plo though so that one will be more challenging. I really want to start a new diet this month that I will post in the next few days and try to get some feedback from all you diet/workout pros on liquid for ways to make it best. I'm aiming for 200k hands or 20k profits from the table this month so hopefully can combine that with a new diet for a good all around month.
Heres my biggest losing hand so far this month at 1/2. I think I like leading the flop with pair+gutter+bfd, I don't really think I can ever fold on this flop
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 60297761739 ***** Poker Stars
$200.00 USD PL Omaha - Sunday, April 03, 10:27:51 ET 2011
Table Gudula XII Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: bogmonsta $267.85 USD
Seat 2: JoeIngram1 $513.70 USD
Seat 3: Beauweevil $498.80 USD
Seat 4: atticus281 $212.40 USD
Seat 5: WestSideChic $545.70 USD
Seat 6: VeryK1nd $845.75 USD
JoeIngram1 posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Beauweevil posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
bogmonsta posts ante of [$0.40 USD].
JoeIngram1 posts ante of [$0.40 USD].
Beauweevil posts ante of [$0.40 USD].
atticus281 posts ante of [$0.40 USD].
WestSideChic posts ante of [$0.40 USD].
VeryK1nd posts ante of [$0.40 USD].
Getting to know rake races: Industry Viewby HeroPoker-CEO, April 05
When I first started at Hero Poker and surveyed the competitive landscape, I said, 'I don't want to do rake races'. Now at an educated site like LP, everyone knows what a rake race is and I would think that all grinders want one.
SKIN=RAKEBACK=RAKERACE=RIGHT?
So as a skin, it's obvious that I should follow suit and do a rake race right? It would be naive not to, but I didn't want to do a rake race as is.
The problem with any new business situation and with a start-up, there is the temptation to simply do as others do and start from there. After all, why re-invent the wheel. That being said for the poker industry, we have that great divide between the network skins and the stand alone sites. It's not to say that standalone sites that give out rakeback do not do rake races, via their affiliates, but it is not their main promotion, whereas for rakeback skins, it is.
I didn't want to simply rely on both rakeback and rake races and pigeon hole our site as another rakeback site. So it has been a much harder start in that regard as the growth we have is very organic. Our players haven't come on board because we have this month's great race promotion, rather, they continue to play for other reasons.
THE OBVIOUS ANSWER IN BUSINESS IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST
It's always difficult to talk business with players or those who do not have a business background because the first response by those players would be, 'What are you stupid? Do what obviously works, duh.' The problem with that is if everyone is doing what obviously works, how well is it working for getting ahead. No doubt it will keep your company alive for now, but business strategy isn't about keeping your company alive, its about, keeping your company alive and getting ahead.
So as I was beating my head over this entire concept of rake races, which was totally foreign to me as a director at PS. I had to come to grips with reality, that I can't get away from doing some type/form of rake race in the short term, because it is what those on poker communities expect. Until fish start falling from the sky, rakeraces provide a lot of instant value/comfort. Now the 'value of the site' is something I'm dealing with every day and of course includes the entire boutique positioning and community participation; but I've had to face this beast of rake races first and I want to do it on my own terms for the growth of the site.
NO BIG DEAL?
Again, you may be wondering, 'what they hell is the big deal Dave? Do a rake race, people grind, they get money, you get money and everyone is happy'. From a player's perspective, you are absolutely correct. From a CEO's perspective, nothing is that easy. To hit certain revenue targets just using rakeback/rakerace combination I need to hold X amount of rakerace prize pool for at least one and a half months until the promotion is done (so I can't do anything with those funds for that period, just sitting there as the guaranteed payout) and it needs to be significant enough that it is a competitive offering compared to other sites. So lets say the average I want to put up is 25k. I'd say that is a sufficient amount to pique most grinder's interests, but lets say 40k per affiliate site I have because I'm a new site. So I put up 40k at one site.
Now the players will need to rake 40k plus 35% of that for our site to break even (due to player rakeback), then there is the affiliate and network costs; not get into the actual numbers, but lets look at the number with just rakeback: so basically 54k total rake to break even on the 40k. But that is reasonable and it's an educate risk as one would likely minimize your risk by doing a monthly rakeback races at multiple sites. So some rakeraces would be down, some up, but the net would be positive (after all if it wasn't, this model wouldn't work and it does).
But the financial risk isn't my concern (after all I've spent up to 150k on live events in new markets with no expectations for immediate short term returns), rather, what happens next month? If it worked out, I'd probably do it again and increase my scope. But even as I do that, I'm putting up a hold on all my marketing funds for 2 months and there will be a point where the risk of a higher rakerace prize pool out weights the potential return. So then there I'm stuck at this revenue level. So what is wrong with that? It is a steady source of income, and now I can save it for my marketing projects, right?
RUNNING A POKER SITE LIKE HOW A POKER PLAYER PLAYS
What I've come to understand is that just like a poker bankroll, there will be months where there may be a big hit that would wipe out the profits for that month and perhaps even the preceding months, meaning that I took a loss on the rakerace. Thus, the more I do this, the more I need to keep as my 'rakerace bankroll' to deal with the possible variance, which is no worries if our site runs good, but it it doesn't for some reasons, then we'd have to continue doing this rakeraces to get back into the black. It's almost being a poker player backer with a lot of horses while diversifying your risk and having enough bankroll to go the distance (which it inevitably will work out like most players with sufficient bankroll and management skills). That being said, this ain't the stock market with unlimited places to keep increasing your rakerace investment and why would I run a business like a poker player? Because the biggest downfall of this model is that you never build a brand and never attract fish.
Would you rather have lots of fish or a great rakerace? Now that is a stupid question to ask a poker player, the answer is, both of course, but I don't know if that is possible. Additionally, all those months you focused on rakeback races, and then start engaging in marketing, well you're again, starting from zero, as all marketing takes time to take effect. Time is something that I need to contend with more than just short term revenue considerations.
GO BIG OR GO HOME
The fact is, if you need to build up revenue to spend on marketing, then that kind of thinking is from someone who had no intention of making a serious poker company that would ever target the mainstream. You need to have put aside marketing funds for marketing, not for rakeback promotions to one day engage in marketing. The rakeback/rakerace model works, but it exists in this microcosm of a network putting up with your grinders, and when it decides the grinders are more than the depositors, then you have a cash where i-poker starts kicking off skins and affiliates off en mass to stabilize their network. But you guys know all that, and that isn't my point, and while I still could just do both (rakeraces/marketing), I'd rather spend everything on marketing for a long term position as time is the biggest opportunity cost.
RAKERACES AS JUST REWARDS
While I'm not concerned about gaining short term revenue, I do want to increase regular participation on my site by those who are active on poker communities; and if you're active on a poker community, you're likely on rakeback and like rakeraces. So last week I decided to do rakeraces, and have spent the week reflecting on how to do them that works for our site and my conclusion is to make it a capped entry for my existing low stake players who have already shown commitment to the site.
So in this case, I'm not going to use a rake race for the purpose of getting new players, but rather to reward players (aka retention) who are already playing without a rakerace. The amounts won't be comparable to the industry standard rake races, but since they will be capped and selected entry, they will still provide value to our players who normally would get a comparable amount or even less if they had joined an open huge rake race. Again, this isn't ground breaking stuff, I know a lot of sites will use private rake races to reward their top players; but again, their purpose is more revenue than retention and my players are already playing without a rakerace incentive.
HERO POKER ARENA RANKINGS
But I've decided to brand the rake race as 'Arena Rankings' and even if it is fundamentally rake race, as its not a term I really want to introduce in my mass marketing activities either. Before I launch that though, I'll get a freeroll out of the way first; so I'm going to make a thread in the Main poker asking for when and where etc. And in terms of my mass marketing, it launches quite soon, so if you're in that market hopefully, you'll notice it.
Cheers,
David
HeroPoker CEO
SUMMARY
-rake races for a pokersite requires a bankroll like someone who backs a lot of horses because not all rake races work out
-I didn't want HeroPoker to be dependent on rakeraces, but I recognize that somehow they should be integrated
-rake races aren't bad, but I'd rather spend everything on mainly marketing
-will make rakeraces capped and for newer players as more of a reward for those already playing.
I'm grinding out these sngs on heropoker where you start off with only 10bb. On top of that, these fishes have a super high calling range which increases the variance even more. These games end quick so I can grind up to 200 a day pretty easily. I still feel that I have a huge edge regardless of the variance but my graph says otherwise.
So since my money was stuck at betmostpoker for a few days (they take 4 full days to proceed a cashout and i did cash out 31th march since i thought they may take like 10h or so to proceed >_<)
So I could only start my first pokerstars session for the month today.
I have to mention though that it was very nice from the betmost support to send me an individual cash bonus worth 28€ out of nowhere directly after my rage mail towards them
I did only played 1,8k hands on their site last month U normally do get individual cash bonus only when LVL3 VIP or higher
Unfortunately that 28€ make up nowhere to anything i had earned playing on stars the 3 days earlier this month.
Still April starts good so far and i am not much behind pace in profits ( aiming for another ~1K month)
Did start out ugly with ridiculous suckouts but ended well
Says 2 days since i played from 11pm - 1.40am european time
Also graph Box is in € while graph line is in $USD
ALl NL25€ 6max
not really. are you mad at me now? here's a troll song to cheer you up.
Justin Bieber + Blind Melon
heres a legit mashup so you dont hate me forever.
so today im moving up limits from NL5 to NL10 with 250$ currently in my roll, improved from about 85$ or so.
im currently down about 1 BI right now after losing a pretty lame hand (AA vs 87s, hitting 2 pair) but thats poker so its just best to move on and keep going.
are there any significant differences between NL5 and NL10? id assume so but id like to know if there are more apart from what ive observed so far.
thus far ive noticed a small increase in the battle for blinds and im seeing more LAG players which is fairly good for my roll since near all of them dont really know how to play LAG styles effectively. some players will actually lay down weaker hands on scary boards which is a nice change of pace. i get the feeling that most players are still fairly incompetent and wont lay down a lot of hands but theyll at least lay down garbage.
OPINIONS?
PokerStars Game #60325459696: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2011/04/04 14:16:20 ET
Table 'Vaticana VI' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: ruskild ($5.13 in chips)
Seat 2: annonymus27 ($7.30 in chips)
Seat 3: VladBlag ($28.45 in chips)
Seat 4: wolfstars ($9.58 in chips)
Seat 5: Jolly2702 ($10.95 in chips)
Seat 6: flOoke ($10.55 in chips)
Seat 7: Paddel100 ($3.60 in chips)
Seat 9: Adams*TM ($10 in chips)
ruskild: posts small blind $0.05
annonymus27: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to flOoke [Kd As]
VladBlag: folds
wolfstars: folds
VladBlag leaves the table
Jolly2702: folds
flOoke: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Paddel100: raises $0.30 to $0.70
Adams*TM: folds
ruskild: folds
annonymus27: folds
flOoke: calls $0.30
*** FLOP *** [8c 8d Ks]
flOoke: bets $1
Paddel100: calls $1
*** TURN *** [8c 8d Ks]
flOoke: bets $2
Paddel100: calls $1.90 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.10) returned to flOoke
*** RIVER *** [8c 8d Ks Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
flOoke: shows [Kd As] (two pair, Kings and Eights)
Paddel100: shows [Qs Qh] (a full house, Queens full of Eights)
Paddel100 collected $7 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $7.35 | Rake $0.35
Board [8c 8d Ks Qd 7s]
Seat 1: ruskild (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: annonymus27 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: VladBlag folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: wolfstars folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Jolly2702 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: flOoke showed [Kd As] and lost with two pair, Kings and Eights
Seat 7: Paddel100 showed [Qs Qh] and won ($7) with a full house, Queens full of Eights
Seat 9: Adams*TM (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
i felt i had the best hand after the flop when i bet and he only called, the queen came and i still bet for value. should i have checked the turn? in retrospect i think i should have bet more on the flop as well. although i get the feeling this guy wasnt folding on the flop no matter what.
restricted myself from tourneys finallyby whamm!, April 04
motherfucking time and money sinkholes. didnt even know they had tourney/sng restrictions since ive always used the cash 12 hours and limit restrictions. still grinding has been very much what it is, a hardcore grind, up and down everyday but i dont think im playing that terribly although i do know i play very un-optimal poker in some spots. i think ill need to grind like this for a month or two, get a couple grand in profits/fpps and decide to 4 table and try 6max, now its just a race to 8k roll so i can witdhraw more than half to finance my little microstakes business venture lol
the mini review/my personal website/mini online shop will be up about a month or two, ill be putting the torrents within the short review pages ill be recommending just so that you'll get a decent copy of the movie right away. im so tired atm, almost done downloading two movies and gonna watch it soon after, gotta take a nap. glhf gayboys
update: movie is decent and worth watching , dont expect an ala "prison break" type of thriller though. more of a drama, focusing on the hardships of actually crossing borders of several countries dodging
the russians and germans
watching this atm and so far it's good. ed harris, colin farell, and a bunch of other dudes in this prison escape movie set in siberia set in world war 2. its based on a true story(as usual) and national geographic produced this, its pretty well made and the torrent available is very clear. the escapees have to contend with the locals since the russians have a bounty on any escaped fugitives heads, not to mention the wildlife, hunger etc. i recommend u check it out.
Going to try and watch hobo later
So, I applied for work with Greenpeace and today I had a group interview with them.
I walked in and waiting in reception was a smokin hot Vietnamese chick also waiting for the interview. So my mind drifted off about how we would go fund raising together and have wild sex in mother natures green grasses, then get married.
I just heard back and Ive got the job and am going in tomorrow for training.
I will be fund raising for Greenpeace. Its out and about, which means ill get decent exercise and wont become an all-out fat ass like when i worked in an office, and should have options to move around the country and move into other sectors.
Will get to meet lots of people, the pay is really good, hours are alright and its for a good cause. There are many many asian chicks out there who are willing to donate. Im sure they love a guy whos in touch with environmental issues.
Maybe in a year youll see me swinging off the side of a Japanese whaling boat.
Lol my worst day this year in lolkersby LikeASet, April 03
Lost a lil more than a $1000 in April at le nl 100 6max and some nl 50. Some of it spew, some of it le run bad, same ol' story.
Cashed out entire roll, about 2700, but used to be 3700 . Roll started from 400, playing nl 10 late jan/early feb.
My actuall goal for poker was just to become a succesful midstakes player while having an actuall carrer, hopefully working a steady job and then playing midstakes as a hobby and makin an extra 20-30k a year or something for vacations/investing/etc.
The money was on my GF's account anyways so had to withdraw it all sooner or later. I will probably deposit like 1.2k or something beginning of summer, grind nl 50 to get off the ring rust, and then take another shot at nl100 but more concentrated and slow paced, fewer tables for sure. I usually play too many tables because I get addicted to bum hunting and can't resist opportunity for easy money even if it results in lowering the quality of my overall game, which it most likely does.
See ya guys on Stars/Full Tilt, who knows, a couple months from now. Will still be on LP to give my mediocre low stakes advice/opinions, and of course troll.
clever title that grabs your attentionby Haunted, April 03
hmmmmm now that ive actually accomplished step one and youre actually reading this trash i guess i should say something interesting.
i just started playing poker this month and im working really hard to improve and get everything straight so i can improve and hopefully making enough to live. i started off horrrrrrrrrribly and have made a pretty nice comeback.
in the first 2k or so hands or so im just running well and playing tight. after that i get cocky and start to loosen up and i get destroyed for playing like an idiot and constantly over committing to lost pots and try to win too many pots needlessly. from about 12k hands or so up until now ive been studying and working to improve my poker logic and overall process of analyzing the hands im in.
rekruls really the reason why im doing this, i loved how he put it that "poker is freedom". its pretty poetic the way i see it, poker unlocks a million doors for you at the end of the day. if youre willing to give it your all and do everything within your power to improve the game will be gracious to you and give you a good life.
ive been working about 12 hours a day studying and playing, im doing my best to be patient and pick my spots rather than trying to win every pot. after reading a bit of david sklansky's, barry greenstein's, and gus hansen's books it helped my view of poker tremendously and im getting a firm grasp on poker quickly.
***SUPER KEY POINT***
minimizing your losses is an absolute must.
5 Other Key things learned thus far.****
1 dont over commit to too many pots
2 big pots are for big hands, use checking to help control the pot size
3 dont be overly aggressive SB-EP, try to play only decent to strong hands OOP
4 get a read on their hand and stick with it (but obviously update your view of their hand based on incoming information), its better to be decisive and be wrong than be indecisive.
5 +EV is going to be +$ poker
ill do my best to post consistently and try to catalog my progress, feel free to comment on my hands. good luck
what could i have done to extract more here?
PokerStars Game #60283890304: Hold'em No Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2011/04/03 17:06:51 ET
Table 'Arequipa VII' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Onra57 ($12.64 in chips)
Seat 2: HMisi ($3.29 in chips)
Seat 3: furzkissen80 ($5.53 in chips)
Seat 5: poker777roza ($14.41 in chips)
Seat 6: Macami123 ($4.26 in chips)
Seat 7: tourell ($2.25 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero ($5.12 in chips)
Seat 9: viclipucli ($1.93 in chips)
poker777roza: posts small blind $0.02
Macami123: posts big blind $0.05
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ac Ah]
tourell: folds
Hero: raises $0.15 to $0.20
viclipucli: calls $0.20
Onra57: folds
HMisi: folds
furzkissen80: folds
poker777roza: folds
Macami123: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ad 3s Qs]
Hero: checks
viclipucli: checks
*** TURN *** [Ad 3s Qs]
Hero: bets $0.20
viclipucli: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.20) returned to Hero
Hero collected $0.45 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $0.47 | Rake $0.02
Board [Ad 3s Qs 2s]
Seat 1: Onra57 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: HMisi folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: furzkissen80 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: poker777roza (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Macami123 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: tourell folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Hero collected ($0.45)
Seat 9: viclipucli folded on the Turn
I tried to trap but he didnt bite and once the turn brought a 3rd spade i felt i had to bet. what could i do differently there?
Hi.
I know what most of you will say, but around an year and a half ago I get bored of playing life poker and was unable to adjust to online I start to play roulette from time to time - just for the feeling, I guess I have tha gamboool in me as many of you actually, but to the question - the more time i spend on the roulette the more I think about actually grinding some roll out of it.I feel, think, wish, hope it's possible, but want to share some serious opinions with people who have already try to do this, or have the urge to do it.
The advantages I see here are that roulette is much more intensive than poker, you play vs tht house - yes, but still you are 48% to 52% underdog which don't sounds unbeatable to me with good bankroll management and some system ofcurse.And when I start to browse the net for more info I realised that in some casinos to prevent this from happening when you have a winning bet you are obligate to leave it for the next spin which is not the case here.That makes it possible to even just play black/red with big enough bankroll but this is a lil' bit ridiculous for me so I continue to searh for a better option.Also I'm talkin about french roulette ( with only one green zero, not the american which have an extra green double zero).
So ... this is it.
-Leron
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