Hey LP.net, I am not very active anymore, but I still lurk around here from time to time, though I do not play any more poker. Last years shot went bad, I could not even beat NL25 anymore (but I did not play a big sample, I think I should still be able to crush it, but that is not the point here), so I completely quit poker and try to get a university degree... I am almost there, already turned in my thesis, will have 3 more exams in February and if everything goes well I am will be a Bachelor of Science in 4 weeks...
So this is last night story, it's a bit long, but maybe you will enjoy the read, it's not about sluts though.
At the moment I am doing a internship in Shanghai/China and last night me and some friends at first, one friend later went clubbing. I get a wage from my company which is very good for Chinese standards, but drinking, clubbing and girls take lots of cash away, I took my last money (about $50) and went out that night. My Chinese account was empty with that and I can not take credit off it.
My friend lives near my apartment, but not exactly in the neighborhood, but we wanted to take a taxi together back after having drunk all night long. At that point, I had already spend most of my money, I had about $8 left, enough to split the bill for the cab home. Anyway, my friend got to know some ho and he took a taxi for himself. He wanted to make sure he could start with the foreplay already. He knew about my situation, so he gave me a 100 RMB note (about $15),allowing me to take a cab, too.
Somehow because of my retardation, I lost that note in the club. Now that was bad, but I thought I would be able to get some cash from the ATM from my European account, that ATM is near my apartment. I got into the taxi and told the driver where to go. Shanghai is really huge, so it took like forever, and in the end the bill was at like $12 or $13. I told him that I need to withdraw cash (I do not speak Chinese, so I showed him my Cash Card) and went to the ATM, but it's fucking China, and nothing is working as it should, no cash for me after several tries.
Basically, I am fucked, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, I am drunk as hell and I am not able to pay my cab driver, so what the fuck do I do? I do not feel like cheating my poor driver and I know that $13 can be a lot to simple employees in China, so I went back to the cab, gave him my last $8 and said "Sorry, but I did not get any cash" what he probably did not understand as Chinese taxi drivers speak English very poorly, like most Chinese people. Then I took a run into the darkness... Holy shit, screaming wheels and and a pissed off taxi driver ready to run me over, he was really fast coming after me with his taxi although I started my run for my life in the opposite direction as he was standing. He was shouting hellish swears at me. My adrenaline started pumping.
Now you have to know that Chinese people are really friendly towards "Lao wai" or westerners AS LONG as they can extract money from you. I am convinced that they can become very unfriendly and unpleasant when they realize that you cannot be their cashcow anymore or even owe them money, like I did in that moment. For sure I did not want to find out middle in the night in some dark road. I did not know whether he was calling the police or colleagues or whatever, but I thought it is a bad idea to get caught.
Another thing to take into consideration is the architecture of Chinese streets. You cannot simply vanish into the night, because there are fences and walls everywhere, you are forced to stay on the streets and if you want to enter your flat (they are in compounds most of the time, which can only be entered through gates. And these gates are protected by watchmen 24/7. I did not want my new nemesis to know which compound I live in and running by the watchmen in the night would not be a good idea either, so I took another direction. He was still behind me, I could hear his taxi. I took several 180 turns to get rid of him. Luckily there was a small passage at some point which I entered. The taxi driver did not get off his taxi, he was an old fatty anyway, I knew I could outrun him and he did probably know it, too.
I started feeling safe for the moment but I did not know if he gave up at that point (I mean i owed him like $5) or he would try to get a manhunt on me, so I hid like for several minutes and felt like James "underground" Bond. Like a ninja-night-warrior I took peeks around corners to see where he was and what he was doing, sneaking silently around the buildings, even creeping on the ground to not get spotted by him or alerted colleagues/watchmen/w/e. My next concern was whether the driver would inform the watchmen around to look out for a young "yang guizi" that ripped him off. I took a walk around the block, always hiding in the bushes if a taxi would run by and got into my compound from the back side, that guard did sleep, in the end I was safe finally.
Now I have to watch out in the future when I take a cab here :-/
pretty much been 3bet bluffing more, double barreling more, and opening up my range a lot for image. Been helping so far to get paid off with better hands. Small sample I know, but it's a start.
Solid roll now. Need to be consistent and deal with the swings.
Pretty meh week. Glad what felt like a bad week ended pretty even. Played mostly 6's with a mix of some 12's. Feel like I ran pretty bad, couldn't get a win the second half of the week. This hand seems to sum up my FT's for the week
Submitted by : attik34
Full Tilt Poker Game #27724805482: $6 + $0.50 KO Sit & Go (215474665), Table 6 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:13:00 CT - 2011/01/29 19:13:00 ET - 2011/01/29
Seat 1: connman20 (31,032)
Seat 2: attik34 (28,023)
Seat 3: choneDbone (80,072)
Seat 5: cominatchayeeha (21,574)
Seat 6: RickyM99 (32,112)
Seat 7: kayfusha (28,081)
Seat 9: csr67 (49,106)
connman20 antes 300
attik34 antes 300
choneDbone antes 300
cominatchayeeha antes 300
RickyM99 antes 300
kayfusha antes 300
csr67 antes 300
connman20 posts the small blind of 1,200
attik34 posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #9
connman20 bets 2,760
attik34 has 15 seconds left to act
attik34 raises to 9,600
connman20 raises to 28,332, and is all in
attik34 calls 15,723, and is all in
connman20 shows
attik34 shows
Uncalled bet of 3,009 returned to connman20
connman20 shows three of a kind, Queens
attik34 shows a pair of Kings
connman20 wins the pot (57,546) with three of a kind, Queens
Summary Total pot 57,546 | Rake 0
Board:
Seat 1: connman20 (small blind) showed and won (57,546) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: attik34 (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: choneDbone folded before the Flop
Seat 5: cominatchayeeha folded before the Flop
Seat 6: RickyM99 folded before the Flop
Seat 7: kayfusha folded before the Flop
Seat 9: csr67 (button) folded before the Flop
On the bright side, alot more volume than last week which is good. Overcame alot of RL frustration and didn't tilt tooo bad at the tables. Going to get a good session in tomorrow and I'll throw out the month long chart, should be fun.
On a side note. Whats with like, half of the blogs being pictures of girls. I thought there was an epic boobs thread for that kinda stuff. Just sayin....
I just started playing poker again at 0.05/0.10 NL and was wondering if anyone can give me constructive criticism on my current statistics. I should also mention that I play 6max 20-50BB tables.
Is it possible to graph a specific limit in HEM? Like for example I want to have a graph of my 1/2 life time. If not wtf? If so how do I do it? Thanks!
I'm looking to play a bit on Full Tilt Poker just to get a hang of the games and I'd rather not spend days waiting for my Stars account to cash out. Would anyone be interested in a trade for my $50 Stars for your $50 FTP? Given my post count and non-existant reputation, I will be sending first if you are somewhat reputable.
I realize I haven't done an intro blog even though I meant too months ago. Just never got around too it after I got sick. Long story short, I've been playing poker the last 2-3 years and although I started playing strictly 12-tabling 6-max tables I now gravitate between 50/100/200 NL HU cash games and MTTs when I have a chance. I've lurked the site for the last two years and decided maybe I should give it a shot. Basically do cash on FT and MTTs on both when I have time.
Today has actually been the first good day I've had this week. I managed to get 14th in the $8.8 25K 2xTurbo on Stars, which actually got me incredibly pissed of as I managed to make Final 2 tables yesterday prior to meeting the Doom Switch. Luckily today I managed to place 5th in 11:00 AM $75 $35,000 KO on Full Tilt for a $2,275 take. At first I was upset I didn't make it higher obviously, but the irony of it all is that I should have came in 9th as I came in as the small stack.
About 5 minutes after the Final Table started, I had a serious case of the runs [wtf!] and literally had to bust out my best road-runner impersonation as I went to pay homage to the porcelain Gods. At any rate, I come back and hover over my folded hole cards [TT] and do my best "WHAT THE FUCK!" face. However, as I immediately see 2 separate players move all in with AA and AK respectively, I realized that maybe luck wason my side today. The rest was history.
The weeks been rather testing but I'm glad I'm logging time again. I've been able to log 48, 40, 60, and 51 tournaments each of the last four days [TY FT for Multi-entriments], which was more than I ever did which was around 30 on average whenever I had a chance.
Busy weekend so only playing some MTT's on Sunday. Going for a 5th cash in the turbo take down, cmon 500 bonus!
All 25PLO, need to play more hands next month im sooo lazy. If anyone wants to do a sidebet for motivation im down. Something small like $50 to the other guy if you dont play 60k hands.
I'll take the weekend offby DustySwedeDude, January 28
Ok, so I've decided to put January in the books. My profit isn't great by any means but it's ok. Still more then twice what my parents does toghter, lol. Poker makes weird things to your perception of money. I've played pretty low and after two losing months it always feels good to turn it around. As far as the goals I put up goes I'd say I did so-so as poker goes. I put in the right volume, but not the right quality. I've started coaching a little bit and even though I havn't really got the hang of it yet it's ok. Slow but steady. I haven't watched enough poker videos, mostly due to some problems with my Bluefire subscription. I should probably fix the last part this weekend and the take steps to organise my life a little better.
Also I tend to see the girl I'm seeing right now for to many hours at a time. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that she's both fairly pretty and smarter then me. It's weird to actually have a conversation with a girl about anything remotely interesting (ie: not feelings) and stuff I actually have some use for in my every day life. It's fucking up my sleeping schedule even worse then poker though so I'll need to fix that.
As for the other goals I've started talking more to some interesting people, I've read two and a half book (but all by Pratchett ) and I haven't done enough BJJ. Investing is going semi-decent though, and I've been taking a lot of long ass walks and eating fairly clean. I'm down to something like 87-88kg from the 90 I started at in the beginning of the month so that's nice. I've also done reasonably well in school and managed to clean up my e-mail, rrs and facebook account a little bit so that I don't spend half the day figuring that shit out.
Overall I'll say it's been a very interesting and fairly productive month despite the fact that I've underperformed slightly. My plans for February would be to get my sleeping under control, figure out a good way to get a few hours of poker in most days without playing to bad and getting my bluefire account active again. I also hope to get a lot of BJJ in, I really start to feel that it's fun again.
What video sites out there are good now days for a former biggamerollaballa winner thats now losing on nl10 (starting again after 123 years off poker)?:D
.The piano and sax samples are definetly from another song and not recorded specially for this track if someone remembers from which song they are please tell me
Is gonna be so hard to keep up with the VPP pace. Hopefully will get to 40k this month then 150k by february. Also played some MTTs tho today and cashed $0 so dropped 1k ish there.
Looking to move about $250 from Stars to UB. I'm willing to send first if I think you're reputable and I have people who can vouch for me as well. Thanks!
tl. dr. wikileaks is bs and is easily predicted what the cause of it is(and so are other systems)
1. Assange put a face on it. Why?? Why label?
now wikileaks doesnt release anything. Who cares about assange, just leak the damn info.
Why are the cables taking so long? You said you have fucking loads(gigabytes)? Is there any useful info in them??? Just leak the shit out. The public will sort out whats important and whats not.
2. What is the most hyped up leak of wikileaks? killing journalists. Shitting me? Is this even real.
3. Assange makes fun of people who ask him about leaking ufo files. Why?? Dude wtf.
"Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a pot-plant."
- why the fuck he degrades people who esquire about the ufos(it is interesting enquiry!! its like he changes personality when he answers that question, in a totally differnet tones to all other questions.. why??).
I believe ufo was a big propaganda during the 80s. ANd if there is hidden info about it. It would shed alot of light on wtf is happening. COs dude if they actually found bodies of aliens. And i think they were claiming that they have. THat whould change everything. Kaboom. But that info is not available for public...it is kept safe! by your government! for your benefit! Patriotism!!! woohoooo!
aliens? kept secret from me for my benefit? how exactly???
4. a challenge - we release a huge file heavly encrypted. If you can decrypt it. You will know wtf we're hiding. Wtf man. Thats the military style encryption. Military..
And we all know what military does. Right? Carries out wars.
To see where Im coming from you have to sort of dip into the thought that all mass media is propaganda or at least a tool that is used and abused for to benefit someone - those who can control it. Tool utilised to remain in control.
An institution that tries to survive as long as possible.
But anyway this is only my opinion, my theory. A thought that I came to by observing the way we live. And exist in the system that we are in. I believe I can predict the system. ANd this is why inherently - this 'system' will always selfdestruct.
History is prime example. Societies always fall. Economies fall.
But anywayyyyyyyyy
thats whole another planet i live on.
Needless to say. I just came back from BDYO in sydney. WHICH WAS FUCKING AMAZING BY THE WAY. TOOL - i submit to my new overlords. Geniuses at making music.
Was on a FT of a $2 180man (I won btw) and some guy kept saying "SC1PIO BROTHER NEED $3". Felt like I was doing him a service by not giving it to him to support what I assume to be a gambling addiction.
Gonna try to finish out January strong, gonna grind some NL10 short while it still exists and smash some fish.
Contact Users: 795 Active, 0 Logged in - Time: 05:47
ill also play alot of good music!
) and I haven't done enough BJJ. Investing is going semi-decent though, and I've been taking a lot of long ass walks and eating fairly clean. I'm down to something like 87-88kg from the 90 I started at in the beginning of the month so that's nice. I've also done reasonably well in school and managed to clean up my e-mail, rrs and facebook account a little bit so that I don't spend half the day figuring that shit out. 
,
,
,
,