So I'm flying to Amsterdam on tuesday morning, and meeting up with a friend who's flying in from Sweden. We're going to see the Euro qualification game. I'll be very happy if we get 1 point, but if there ever was a time to beat Holland, that time is now; due to the fact that they have a bunch of players missing. Will be in Amsterdam for 2 days, any tips (dont need coffee shop tips)?
On to more football, my team Malmö FF is in 1st place with a few games left. We haven't won the league since 2004, and I missed the celebration that time since I was in the army. I will be travelling home to see their last game and be there to celebrate with them.
After that a friend's dad is coming to Barcelona to watch FCK (Copenhagen) against FC Barcelona, so I'll probably tag along. 2 weeks after that, one of my best friend's is coming over for like 10 days, and we're going to check FC Barcelona - Sevilla out - should be awesome.
So schedule looks something like this:
Netherlands - Sweden
Barcelona - FCK
Barcelona - Sevilla
Malmö FF - Mjällby
Other than that work is going ok, got a lot of stuff to do which I guess is good. Still 60 hour work weeks go by quicker than you would imagine. Looks like im picking up a lot of milage this year:
I do Barcelona - London at least once a month to our HQ. Got a few clients in Sweden that I will visit too, so nice to be back home (I guess). Other than that, my mom invited me and my girlfriend to Chicago over thanksgiving, so we're going there for about 8 weeks, and I think I will be back for x-mas (if I'm not at my dad's place in Munich).
im looking for a stake to play mtts from 2$ to 26$ guaraanteed beeing my highest roi tournaments..and grind higher if goes well
follow a 50buyin br managment..
50/50 plus make up
stake untill the end of 2010 or when to reach 10000$
I'm at the point that I'm not sure the 1 dollars are worth playing when I see ZERO difference in the two levels. I'm going to start making it at least an even ratio and probably move closer to just the $3 ones.
End of the night I'm up 48 bucks and am very happy about it. Can't ever complain about approximately 15 bucks an hour, and soon to be more hopefully.
This also gives me a good start on my building tomorrow, as I hope to build up to at least 100 in profit for the week so I can run a few tournaments Sunday as per my plan.
Speaking of which, anyone have a good list of 5-10 dollar tournaments with solid guarantees and not 8000 people in them? PS FT or Absolute, doesn't really matter. Looking for a decent format, good payout, and starting between 1-4pm Central time. Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Time for a little personal info: I love playing/listening to guitar...sooo heres a video!
PokerStars Game #50821168133: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2010/10/09 2:24:03 ET
Table Shapleya V 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: Hero ($75.46 in chips)
Seat 3: Dr7ve ($25.77 in chips)
Seat 4: Pokerfjes ($63.80 in chips)
Seat 5: aknowl ($76.11 in chips)
Seat 6: affinity_00 ($62.63 in chips)
Pokerfjes: posts small blind $0.10
aknowl: posts big blind $0.25
Hero: posts the ante $0.05
Dr7ve: posts the ante $0.05
Pokerfjes: posts the ante $0.05
aknowl: posts the ante $0.05
affinity_00: posts the ante $0.05
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
affinity_00: folds
Hero: raises $0.75 to $1
Dr7ve: folds
Pokerfjes: raises $2.75 to $3.75
aknowl: folds
Hero: calls $2.75
Showdown Hero: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
Pokerfjes: mucks hand
Hero collected $105 from pot
Summary Total pot $107 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 2: Hero showed and won ($105) with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 3: Dr7ve (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Pokerfjes (small blind) mucked
Seat 5: aknowl (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: affinity_00 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Probably gonna jinx myself.../Big Game talkby Carthac, October 08
But I have been running fairly decent and feel my play has improved significantly. With bonuses/rakeback/winnings, im not too far off from taking another shot at NL25. However, I may stay here for a little while longer and make sure my game is strong and this isnt a nice piece of short term variance.
If you have not figured it out already from my previous blogs/posts, I am a huge fan of TV poker, and this week has been huge in that aspect. The Poker After Dark table this week is literally amazing, and the Pokerstars Big Game table is pretty awesome as well.
Table consists of the amateur loose cannon(who is surprisingly not too bad compared to the other participants that have been on the show), Antonio Esfandiari, Tony G, Ike Haxton, Jason Mercier, and Phil Hellmuth.
Ike Haxton has truly impressed me from what I have seen so far. However, the person that has blown me away is Phil Hellmuth. He has completely changed his style in this cash game, and is playing very solidly. Along with this, he is taking huge beats but keeping his cool, even with Tony G being a complete ass and doing his best to needle him in every way possible.
If you have not checked it out yet, you really should.
One of the most common attacks against Marijuana these days is that weed "kills your memory". The degree of memory loss depends on who you're talking to, but ranges from "only mild short term memory loss" to "life long memory damage". The truth? Life long damage is a crock of shit, and the short term memory loss depends on the type of weed you smoke.
All of the previous studies on MMJ in labs in the USA were using low quality government provided MMJ or solely THC extracted from the plants. It is found that THC does mess with your short term memory, making it harder to remember things that are learned while high, though it's not very severe and it is still possible to learn new information while high and then remember it later while sober. But another ingredient in MMJ called CBD actually counteracts THC and totally eliminates any memory impairment.
Finally a study actually used a realistic setting to test the affects of MMJ, having people smoke their own supply in their house before undergoing testing. The results have researchers thinking that CBD might be a cure or treatment for people suffering from memory related diseases like Alzheimers.
The findings suggest that an ingredient more plentiful in some types of marijuana than in others may help to reduce the memory loss that some users suffer.
The key difference between the types of cannabis is the ratio of two chemicals found in all strains. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the primary active ingredient, and is responsible for the effects associated with the classic 'high', including euphoria and giddiness but also anxiety and paranoia. The second chemical, cannabidiol, has more calming effects, and brain-imaging studies have shown that it can block the psychosis-inducing effects of THC2. Skunk-type strains of cannabis contain a higher ratio of THC to cannabidiol than do hashish or herbal types.
To test this hypothesis, Curran and her colleagues travelled to the homes of 134 volunteers, where the subjects got high on their own supply before completing a battery of psychological tests designed to measure anxiety, memory recall and other factors such as verbal fluency when both sober and stoned. The researchers then took a portion of the stash back to their laboratory to test how much THC and cannabidiol it contained.
The subjects were divided into groups of high (samples containing more than 0.75% cannabidiol) and low (less than 0.14%) cannabidiol exposure, and the data were filtered so that their THC levels were constant. Analysis showed that participants who had smoked cannabis low in cannabidiol were significantly worse at recalling text than they were when not intoxicated. Those who smoked cannabis high in cannabidiol showed no such impairment.
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The results suggest that cannabidiol can mitigate THC's interference with memory formation. This is the first study in human to show such effects. One previous study, led by Aaron Ilan, a cognitive neuroscientist at the San Francisco Brain Research Institute in California, failed to find variations in cognitive effects with varying concentrations of cannabidiol3.
Ilan attributes the positive finding of Curran and her team to their more powerful methodology in analysing subjects' own smoking preferences. In the United States, government policy dictates that only marijuana provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse can be used for research — and it "is notorious for being low in THC and of poor quality", says Ilan.
Lester Grinspoon, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachussetts, who has studied the effects of marijuana on patients since 1967, says that Curran's study is important. "Cannabis with high cannabidiol levels will make a more appealing option for anti-pain, anti-anxiety and anti-spasm treatments, because they can be delivered without causing disconcerting euphoria," he says.
I'm forcing myself to make this blogpost. I don't want to forget this lesson to hopefully in the future minimize it's chances of ever happening again.
Since my last entry I've primarily been playing live. That in itself is an adventure. Before I went and played live, I had cashed out to pay off all of my bills & debts. Immediately after doing so I started to have a case of the cashout blues so I decided to switch to live for a bit. Even though I'm not properly rolled for live atm, it is completely my money (yessss!!) and when you combine that with knowing 100% how juicy the live 1/2 games are plus the online cashout blues it becomes an easy risky-yet-profitable decision. As I am not up as much as I'd like to be (primarily for getting bored and being two+ steps ahead instead of one) I did have to make a few adjustments and remind myself that even online at best I don't usually win more than 60% of my sessions in the longterm. Live rocks though and I hope to eventually do that just as much if not more than online.
I'm procrastinating from the point of this blog tho. Live is not the reason for this entry
runester: bets $3
~~N!CHOLAS~~: raises $3.50 to $6.50
Hero: raises $13.50 to $20
taroff: folds
runester: folds
~~N!CHOLAS~~: raises $19.95 to $39.95
Hero: raises $42.35 to $82.30 and is all-in
~~N!CHOLAS~~: calls $15.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($27.15) returned to Hero
River (Pot : $119.30)
Showdown ~~N!CHOLAS~~: shows (a straight, Five to Nine)
Hero: shows (a straight, Three to Seven)
~~N!CHOLAS~~ collected $116.30 from pot
Summary Total pot $119.30 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: runester (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: ~~N!CHOLAS~~ (big blind) showed and won ($116.30) with a straight, Five to Nine
Seat 3: Indra81 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Hero showed and lost with a straight, Three to Seven
Seat 5: istnurgeld folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: taroff (button) folded on the Turn
This is the dumbest hand I have played in . . . . hell it's been so long I can't even tell you the last time. At nowhere in the hand did I even think of 89 as a possibility. I thought an 8 was possible, but I was just thinking set set draw set draw and set. I felt so incredibly st00pid after this hand that my mentality completely deteriorated. I usually let things go rather easily but after this mishap I was laughing & berating myself so much that my game immediately turned stale then completely fell apart. I told myself multiple times (outloud even) that I should just stop but I didn't as I wanted to make up for such a silly dumbass mistake. You can see just by the graph my outcome.
This session reinforced my belief in how much of this game is mental more than anything else. It's quite ironic that just a few weeks ago I was showing someone a graph where I had started out devastatingly bad and then made a comeback to completely even before calling it a session and upon showing this I had mentioned how that type of session/graph was soooo much better than it's opposite because at the finish line you have a completely reversed feeling. Truer words have never been spoken.
The moral of this post for me is primarily that I need to listen to myself; especially when I talk outloud. I am usually very good in this department if not the best but today shows that no matter who or what you think you are, anyone can sometimes fail miserably at something that's so easy and obvious to them. Maybe I could be proud I finally did stop and at least it was in the green but even now I am berating myself and that is why I'm making this post; to learn my lesson and hopefully let go
So I'm back after a long hiatus. Playing some poker, and really trying to focus on my game to hopefully grind out enough to justify not working minimum wage jobs.
A nice recent cash of 700 for 5th in the 10k $1re Rush has helped alot. That coupled with a deep run in the Daily Dollar deepstack cashing 80 bucks for 10th reminded me that poker is just full of money to be had.
So I've done some reading, talked to some guys about how good ways to approach building a br and now have a plan.
45 man Turbo SnG's are rediculously soft and easy to play. So the goal is to play lots of them. Currently only playing 1 dollars and splashing 3's because I needed to take most of the winnings from those tourneys off. I'm left with a BR of about 200 bucks. Plan is to have 50 BI's of the lvl. I could be playing 3's at this point but I want to stick at the one dollar lvl until I'm sure I have the game figured out.
Currently I'm crushing, not going to lie.
155 games played 32.09% roi overall.
Since I've done some reading and really focused up (obv a small sample but) 29 games played 81 percent ROI.
How I'm approaching this plan is to basically grind out this SnG's any time I can during the week. Come Sunday I'll look back at the week, and use 20 percent of my winnings that week as buy-ins for Sunday. This will allow me to play in some bigger stuff, so that when I run/play good, I don't get 80 bucks for beating 8000 people. I feel this is a solid plan, as it allows me to take alot of shots at MTTs that could GREATLY increase my BR without actually making a big BR risk. I can't play more than 4 MTT's unless they are SnG's that I'm botting anyways, so I might as well make my 4 on Sunday count.
Also glad to be back on LP. Missed reading everyone's stuff and posting about life and poker and such.
Today i set a goal for my self to put some hands into this month, since i have been occupied with school n stuff. Due to running really bad, i lately feel some kind of lack of confidence as well. Really dunno, bizarre shit's been happening lately. Im not used to running this bad.
Oh man i am waiting for the day i will have some good sessions again.
I have played longer sessions, instead of 1,5 h - 2h i have started playing 2h - 4h sessions. Maybe there lies the key to why i haven't been on top of my game.
Anyways here's a graph i played on 7th of October:
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