Looking to trade Merge $ for PS or FTPby MARSHALL28, January 15
I know I don't keep a regular blog here anymore since becoming a CR pro (my regular blog is over there now) like over a year ago, but I know a lot of people still frequent this site, and I'm trying to post this basically everywhere.
I have up to 40k on Merge network I'm looking to trade, I'm willing to negotiate %'s for vig, please PM me if you have any interest in trading at minimum 5k.
Two weeks into the year but I've finally got my goals for 2011 down on paper so here goes:
Goal one goes without saying...but...STOP FUCKING SUCKING AT THIS GAME.
POKER
• 200k VPPs
• PROFIT
• 15 live MTTs
• Play WSOP Main Event
• Host a live game
• Play live more often
• Play only when I can be 100% focused
• Be profitable at various forms of poker
• Tweet/blog more
• Be more accountable for when I’m playing poorly
OTHER GAMBLING
• Have positive year gambling in other games (mainly my roulette degenning)
• Continue not sports betting
• Play more fantasy sports
JOB
• Get a new job that I ENJOY, is normal hours, and pays comparatively with health insurance…a plus if they allow for me to continue coaching high school basketball
FITNESS
• Lose fat, gain muscle…ideally weigh ~180 pounds
• Increase running stamina…run in 5 NYRRC races
• Become a better basketball player and play in some adult leagues
• Eat healthier but don’t let dieting consume my eating habits
• Cheat less but when I do…don’t be with fast food
OVERALL MONETARY GOALS
• Put money into savings and DON’T touch it
• Take shots when appropriate in poker and in normal life
• Get approved for a credit card
OVERALL GOALS
• Get permit and drivers license
• Be less stressed overall
• Be a cleaner person for my girlfriend
• Become a better chef
• Explore home business/other investment opportunities
• Get a puppy
I can't sleep. Stupid alcohol messing with my sleep. I want coffee. In fact I'll go make some. Soon. Before I've written more then a few lines more. I love music. I can't play or sing but I love listening to it. I love good lyrics. I want to write some things about music. Why? I dunno, probably because it amuses me. And sometimes someone say; "Hey, if you like that you'd probably love this!" and I find something really, really cool. Or I'm just an egomaniac who loves the fact that you guys comment on stuff I write and gives me attention? Who the fuck knows? Anyway, I've got my coffee so here it goes. My first little text about a musician I love; David Bowie.
I was 15. Or something. I was a geek, I am still but back that I wasn't the lovable rather reasonably-looking and cheerful geek that you've all grown to like and cherish. I was an ugly mofo. I was overweight. I had great grades, but other then that I was not successful with anything really. I wasn't even a fair starcraft player yet. I don't think I was really happy, but that would change a few months later. It was a summer evening. It was raining. I sat in front of the TV in my parents house and they showed a documentary called "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars". From that day forward my online handles were always something like "dusty" or "stardust". Quite possibly the single gayest fact about me known to man.
I don't care that he was dressed in a, ehh, dress? On that day in London 1973 the guy was a god. Or an alien. "Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe!" After watching that crap I had long hair for the next 4 or 5 years. This is 3 years later;
Time flies, right? Which reminds me, Bowie sang about that too!
Time - He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy
Anyway, I started listening a lot to him and he's actually more then a really fucking gay look, a messiah complex and a fairly cool voice. They guy is an artist in every sense of the word and has both some of the coolest lyrics ever written and some really cool rock songs. His first big Album was "Space Oddity" from 1969. The Album has two really cool songs, the titular "Space Oddity" and the amazingly awesomely named "Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed". The first one has a really cheesy video. Notice how young Bowie looked a bit like a young Stu Ungar and then ignore the video and hit the song up on spotify instead. The video version sucks ass.
The other songs on the Album are of less stellar quality. I like some of them but I wouldn't recommend them to anyone but a Bowie fan. A year later, 1970, he released "The Man who Sold the World". This album, like the first one, has two really good songs ("The Man who Sold the World" and The Width of a Circle") and a bunch I don't care much for. Nirvana made a great live cover of the first one, but other then that no one I know really gives two shits about this album. Yet another year later he put out "Honky Dory" with a bunch of cool songs including classics "Changes", "Life on Mars?" and one of my personal favourites; "Oh! You Pretty Things". It's a really nice feel-good song.
Wake up you sleepy head Put on some clothes,
shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
The guy looks seriously retarded though, I can see why he started using make up.
Then he finally got around to make The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, quite possibly on of the greatest concept albums of all time. To quote wikipedia; "The character of Ziggy was initially inspired by British rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor who Bowie met after he had had a breakdown and believed he was a cross between a god and an alien". Yea, he's that weird.
The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There's no electricity to play it. Ziggy's adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, 'cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. 'All the young dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite. [...]
The end comes when the infinites arrive. They really are a black hole, but I've made them people because it would be very hard to explain a black hole on stage. [...]
Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a Starman, so he writes 'Starman', which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately...The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don't have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black hole jumping. Their whole life is travelling from universe to universe. In the stage show, one of them resembles Brando, another one is a Black New Yorker. I even have one called Queenie, the Infinite Fox...Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starmen. He takes himself up to the incredible spiritual heights and is kept alive by his disciples. When the infinites arrive, they take bits of Ziggy to make them real because in their original state they are anti-matter and cannot exist in our world. And they tear him to pieces on stage during the song 'Rock 'n' roll suicide'. As soon as Ziggy dies on stage the infinites take his elements and make themselves visible.
And then they try to tell you that drugs never did any good... If you truly believe that I recommend you to burn all your CD's and remove spotify from your computer. Half the guys you're listening to were high as kites when they made that music, hell, the Beatles were so stoned that they even let Ringo sing a few songs! (bonus points if you figure out who I stole that joke from)
Anyway, at this point I'd strongly recommend you to put this trackon on spotify. That's the introduction to his last live show as Ziggy Stardust before he retired that persona. If you can find that concert DVD it's great, or you can just open the album up on spotify. It's really, really good. Everything from his own super hit "Ziggy Stardust" to his cover of the Rolling Stones "Let's spend the night together" and Jacques Brel's "My Death" is cool as fuck. The single greatest thing might be how coherent that concert was. It starts out with Beethoven's ninth symphony from A Clockwork Orange, then the band starts playing the rock song "Hang On To Yourself" which sets the tone for the first part which is mostly up beat songs before the turning point in the middle with "Space Oddity" and "My Death" which builds up towards a much darker part of the performance. The second part is about death, getting old, philosophy and sex rather then romantic emotions. It ends with the superb "Rock and Roll Suicide".
While writing this I get the general feeling that Bowie speaks much more to the younger version of Dusty. The version I'd probably despise a fair bit and tell to get his damn act together if he wants to get something done or get laid. I'd probably tell his sorry ass that he can't expect to just find some game and make ridiculous amounts of money and then by some twist of fate start with martial arts to get in shape. Or at least I hope I would. Anyway. I don't care if I'm more grown up and happy as a fish in water, this last song feels comforting.
Oh no love! you're not alone
No matter what or who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
After the Ziggy Stardust era he made a few more good albums and a bunch of songs I really like. "Rebel Rebel" and "Absolute beginners" (one of the best love songs of all time, or at least top ~50 imo) comes to mind.
I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
And I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same
Unfortunately most of his later stuff is really weird and it doesn't really speak to me. At all. Don't get me wrong, he does a bunch of cool stuff, but I just don't get it. He has great ideas but everything just turns into some kind of experimental glue of mediocrity much like The Rolling Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request". Unfortunately he did not follow it up with a Beggars Banquet (on of the greatest albums of all time) but rather more of the same crap.
Other random songs I think you should check out is the wonderfully ironic "God Knows I'm Good" about an old lady who is shoplifting, the really gay song "Lady Stardust" (with really cool lyrics), the über cool "Moonage Daydream" and the fairly cute "Let me Sleep Beside You".
If you don't know a lot about Bowie but want to check him out I made a little playlist with some of my favourite songs of him. Both a lot of his hits but also some slightly less known songs;
I was just wondering how much/often do u guys drink. I'm asking mainly cause whenever I go out and drink more than average I find myself arriving home late and having hangover which impedes me to play poker (the only productive thing I can do while on holidays). I'm also certain i'll be ridicously fit if I didn't drink much.
On the other hand, buzz is ridicously fun :D
So just wanted to know about another poker players. Also post ur age, as I think some people here are twenty something and over the "get drunk with friends" phase or w/e u call it when u drink a lot in early 20's.
Solid week. Today I got my first dose of the 12 dollar level. Not much different, got hit by a 3 outter on the river 4 handed in one for a ginormous stack, which sucked. But still made for an up day. I'm really feeling good about my game right now and also my mindset. Not really getting tilted by bad beats as much, just know they are gonna come.
Something I've done recently is started to realize the showdown value of hands. I've been seeing alot more cheap showdowns and it's been paying off.
Things to work on would be not spewing as much, people are just stations, it doesn't matter how many barrels you fire they aren't folding so if i miss with AK give it a cbet and then give up.
13hr session, but mostly 1-3 tables only cause I dont have a mouse here. Sick swings, only gonna have to deal with 199 more of these and I'm done though
So...haven't updated for a whileby Mikae, January 14
Because there isn't much to blog about.
I was really out of poker for a good 6-7 months when I started work. Starting a new job is always stressful for the first month or so, worrying about things like whether i'd be able to get along with work mates, other graduates, senior management etc etc. Finally settled in after 6 months and i feel more like a permanent fixture around the office. I'm planning to study for professional qualifications so that'll also drain a lot of my time. The pay is average but sustains my lifestyle so I was content with my situation. I managed to save a bit on the side while servicing daily spending. There is no need to grind poker when you get your first paycheck after a 5 year stint as a broke uni kid. It's like wut? so much monies!
Then I made a loan repayment for my parents debt. Suddenly all my savings were gone. I was a busto. The debt itself isn't substantial and since its with a family friend, it is basically interest free. Nevertheless, it is a debt I need to pay off. I think I can still manage to save a bit even after the annual payments but that amount only allows me to put a deposit on a place after 1.5 years and that also means no travel. Although I haven't been a big fan of travel so far, i believe i should see the world more and check out some places i've always wanted to visit like korea and japan. Would be awesome to go to GSL and watch the graken crush through while eating galbitang. I feel pretty uncultured amongst my workmates who have traveled the world, visited a lot of exotic places. But unfortunately i'm tied down at home as the sole breadwinner. When this became obvious to me, i felt hungry to grind poker. Hungry for more money. I've felt this hunger during the last year of uni when i had alot of time but no money. Thus the next logical step was to consider my options in making more money. I'm doing a 9-X job (where x is >=5, =<8723ad3453s94). Another job however cruisy will crush me. Being a graduate, my skill set is also quite limited. Poker was a pretty obvious answer. Live or online? Live is too time consuming and variance is too high. Not to mention i feel like shit after being down after a 2-3 hour losing session on Sunday with work to look forward to. Although that didn't stop me playing for fun/cash because my edge is so huge, i don't think it is viable if i dont run like a god when considering rake and "time charge". Online is better, more relaxed and i'm home, cutting down on travel time and it works around my schedule.
I think i've improved my game a bit, i.e. redline is steadily trending up after i plugged leaks, changed style, leveled up. Taking this shit FOR REALS. I'll have to grind my br a bit higher before taking shots at 100nl but i'm pretty sure i have an edge on 100nl. My mate was planning to move out to a place close to the office and we had planned to just grind after work / sleep over / work next day but i think that's been put on hold because his parents are against it. He's a 200nl reg taking shots at 400nl so can definitely learn from him. Too bad he's a nit. BR atm is ~2k having grinded from 100 bux left on my friends account over 3-4 months early last year before dicking around at 100nl for a few thousand hands then stopping completely.
I think my goals for this year are as follows:
1. 10k br by the end of the year (i.e. include rb)
2. Become a 200nl reg
3. Learn zvz, get into masters league and quit sc2
I shouldn't have a problem with volume since i'm motivated. I just need to keep the motivation up. Damn that grind house would have been awesome. These goals are pretty easy to achieve considering i'm awesome at poker.
BL at the tables everyone, cuse i'm back and i want to runner runner you fish.
man I'm on a weird form of tilt. And that's cuz uncle sam is gonna get his bigass piece of the cake. ugh ;(
i wanna stay in the kiddie pool where i don't gotta pay shit like taxes. pretty sad to know that i'm only really earning like 60 to 65 cents on the dollar in actual money i get to keep.
Once again I'm slightly more drunk then I'm supposed to be. Thank good for firefox's built-in spelling thingy. And "thingy" is a word, everyone who has seen anything by Joss Whendon knows that. Fuck firefox.
Today was another awesome day. I got advice from Sanai and Bohus about some stuff and they're both very wise young/fairly young men who's bet sizeing probably sucks ass. Then I played some poker and made like 2-3k before getting a txt msg form my friends Matti and Pauliina who will leave Sweden tomorrow so went out and ate dinner and drank a non disclosed number of beers with them. When I got to the restaurant I they had us wait (!) because they had no tables ready. They asked if we wanted something to drink and I replied "A glass of red wine, please". At once I started to wonder if I turned gay, but realised that I in no way feel that anal sex would be nice so I figured that I for some reason just tend to like red wine. Sorry Daniel.
After that I went to some student bar and ordered "Irish Coffee". It might have been the most horrid drink I've ever tasted. On a scale from 1 to 10 where 10 is "Passable" and 1 is "distilled piss" it was a weak 2. I'm fairly sure you'd actually need burnt coffee, cream from 1998 and some kind of home made Somalian Whiskey to make such a drink. It was probably the worst liquid I've ever tasted. And I've been to Bulgaria.
Then I took a cab home. They taxi driver told me that he only worked nights, I asked how he did that because I tend to get very tired if I try to work nights. He was like; "wtf why?". I replied; "well either it gets to bright so I wake up early or some buddy calls me and wants something in the middle of my sleep". He said he didn't have friends. I got scared. For many reasons.
Anyway, I just wanted to express how much I like everyone (except Daniel W and Simon. You guys shouldn't get bigger heads anyway, lol). Kraaaam!
My friend keeps gaining weight!by Night2o1, January 14
Looking to sort of bounce this off of you guys, as I don't really have any experience with this.
Basically, a good friend of mine (who is my ex gf, from like 3 years ago, we haven't been romantically involved for ~2 years and I'm not looking to reignite that), has gone from a healthy weight to nearly 150% of her previous weight over a period of 4 or so years. She is overweight now, and according to BMI is on her way to being considered obese. I honestly am worried about the direction she is headed, as she has very bad eating habits/food preferences and always has.. I guess its just been kicking in since she passed ~19 years old.
Should I talk to her?
How should I approach it?
What should I NOT say? lol
Running super hot at nl100, coolering tons of people, and been having some fun experimenting with some unusual plays. Not actually sure if my unusual plays have resulted in larger profits or not rofl.
I've ran SUPER, extremely bad at nl200 and I tilted a bit too . I'm down 16 buyins for the month there LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Times like this I always think about "well I could just spend the next 2 weeks grinding the limit I'm comfortable at and have a nice healthy mindset and roll for the next limit afterwards!", but there's literally zero chance that if my roll is above ~22buyins for the next limit that I'm not sitting at it lol. Oh well.
Just going to keep on truckin.. off to the gym and a movie date with a friend.
Also got 140 on MB in rakeback from last month's ipoker play. Now I'm gonna put everything on Stars (trying to achieve 200k VPP for the year). I'm thinking about either playing NL50 to get used to "new" software, or jump to NL100 directly. What do you think? (Roll is ~3040)
Weekend now and I wish I had the time to play more, but it's hard to say no to the delicious bottle. Anyway, couple of months ago I thought about making a video, but since I have been playing so bad it would probably be very un-educational for all of you that would have been interested. I'm gonna wait a while now while rebuilding my roll and If my good run continues then I promise to show my spewtastic game =)
I'm at Punta del Este - Uruguay since dez 31
Conrad - the biggest south america cassino is here, so me and my friends came here to grind poker live and spend some good times at the beach
I've been grinding nl600 through nl1k live, the field is cool, some drunking millionaires spewing money everywhere and some nit regulars
would be nice if I didn't run like shit every session
everyone in my house is running like shit, except by one guy who doesn't beat nl25 online, he made 10k in 5 days at nl1k
everything here is so expensive that makes me sick
porsches, lambos, ferraris and mclarens everywhere
any decent party is 200$+ and they may not accept you there if they don't like your face
girls here are amazing, but for some unknown reason they ignore my existance
maybe they are looking for some rich fat bald motherfucker, not some hot guy like me, who knows
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