soon selling this one ( i feel its like this half baller watch so its kind of lol now that ive used this for like 3 years( bought it with prima betonbet heater monies before ) i feel having a watch is silly coz fones have time, but having two is becoming to feel absurd so i think ill stick with the new suunto core one i traded
i love trading/selling my old/used stuff
btw, is the blackberry bold 9700 good for texting? i might buy that one once my tag heuer is sold because the samsung fone is kinda embarrasing to use lol, is that specific blackberry good?
handling that htc legend fone was a pain in the ass, couldnt hold it properly in any position without risk of scratching
Running about 11BI below EV (net expected run is 160 ) and it's only 15000 hands since my downswing blog but I honestly feel like my play has improved so yeah ^^. Will try to play until 230-250$ and take a NL10 shot.
The last 5000 hands have been frustrating because it seems like I am just breaking even while my EV has been steadily moving up. Guess it's better than losing though ^^.
Trying to let the red line fall more has been helping me alot.
OK, only my last live poker trip, I was playing with this terrible spewtard who was literally raising any 2 cards and loved showing down bluffs and such stuff like that. He obviously wasn't playing to win, and was one of many soft spots at the 1/2 table. Anyway, after playing for a few hours with the guy, we have an interesting situation come up.
UTG raises to $10 and there's 2 calls, so I call behind on the button with 77. Spewtard squeezes to $50 and it folds to me. While I'm "thinking", he flips over AKo. I lol and all in. Is this considered unethical? I'm sure I could get a better spot vs this guy and all, but I wanted to take this spot. I felt pretty bad, and felt it was kind of underhanded, but it was his mistake, and felt like it was a spot where he might fold, and either way I'm technically +EV shoving 77 vs him. Thoughts?
So this month I have been raped in all aspects of this game. I am down ~19 BI from coolers over 35k hands, Tilted off ~13 more, ~15 were a combo tilt/run bad. I have all those hands listed below. Here is a graph of my month. I still have ~1350 BR so I can continue at 25nl but my mindset is pretty much fucked at this point. Next week night classes for my MS in structural engineering will start again and will pretty much kill 3 nights/week. This combined with working a fulltime 40hr job I may just take a break from this game for a while....
Decided to become a nit at rush poker playing 10/7 full ring. Seems to be working well so far. I have been playing very solid and have definitely eliminated a vast majority of spews. I have improved on the ability to fold and to play based off the board more rather than my hole cards (although obv good cards help). Running almost with EV which makes me happy. About $70-$80 away from being rolled for NL 25, though I am considering slightly overrolling so I feel more comfortable with the increase in swings.
Bad at Poker, Good at everything else. by JonnyCosMo, August 26
Been getting killed in poker since moving into this new place. I swear our internet is cursed. Haven't been playing very well thou so need to fix that. That wasn't the point of this blog thou, I wanted to update and tell everyone that I just beat ElkY in SC2 3 times in a row. I has replays to prove it too!
Ok Ok, and now for epic hands that was played at Palomar a few weeks ago. The game is 20/40 mixed with 5/10 big bet and the rotation of games was Badugi, Triple Draw Deuce to Seven, PLO, and NL Hold'em. Villan in this hand we will refer to from now on as "Pizza Tom". He owns a local pizza shop in San Diego, and has recently picked up poker as a hobby. Note: He has played less than a week of poker before coming in on this particular day.
Hand #1: ($20/$40 Badugi)
First orbit of Badugi and Pizza Tom has never played the game in his life, so we tell him the rules are pretty simple: "You draw 3 times, You want low cards, you want 1 card of every suit, ace is low, and bam you have a badugi!" Pot is 5 way to the first draw, and everyone is drawing atleast 1 card to some that are drawing 3. Oh Badugi is so fun! With one draw left there is about 16 big bets ($640 ish) in the pot with 3 players still left, one being Pizza Tom. Two players draw and Pizza Tom stands pat. First player leads river for $40. Pizza Tom raises to $80, both players fold. Pizza Tom rolls over the and is like "Badugi!" as he scoops massive pot. LOL
Hand #2: ($5/$10 Pot Limit Omaha)
Gordo16 (whos played an extensive amount of PLO / Mixed games, prolly one of the best mixed players in SD) has been the most active on the PLO rounds since he got himself a little stuck. Finally he gets in a heads-up pot with Pizza Tom who once again is still learning the ins and outs of PLO. They get into this one hand on the river the board reads Q-J-7-4-2 with no possible flushes. Pizza Tom has 77XX hand, and Gordo16 has QQXX. Pizza Tom checks river and Gordo pots for $3k. Pizza Tom makes the most ridiculous soul read of a fold after like 10 seconds of thinking!?! Gordo shows him the top set to let him know he was right. This hand sets up the final most epic hand....
Hand #OMG EPIC LOL: ($5/$10 Pot Limit Omaha)
I'll write this hand from Ryan's point of view (Palomar regular who was sitting next to Pizza Tom, and was helping him with the rules to each game. Pizza Tom was showing Ryan is hand each time) Pizza Tom raises UTG to $40, Gordo16 3bets to $150 to try and isolate him. Someone flat calls, and action gets back around to Pizza Tom who repots to like $560. Gordo is sitting deep with him and is already thinking "Oh baby, time to crack aces" as he flats the 4bet. Cold caller folds. When the flop came down , Pizza Tom now leans over and shows Ryan his hand: and asks "Wait so I can only use two cards?" Ryan is like "Yes you can use only 2 of those cards". Pizza Tom proceeds to be like "Oh shit" (as he realizes now that he doesn't have three of a kind 8's) then checks to Gordo. Gordo fires $700 and Pizza Tom doesn't waste too much time before calling. Turn comes so board reads , Pizza Tom checks and Gordo pots it all-in for $2500. Pizza Tom looks back at his hand and again doesn't waste much time before saying "I call, I have a straight" Gordo says "Ug, you must have the AA4X" Pizza Tom then rolls over his 8884 thinking that his lone 4 was making him a straight. Gordo just stares in horror as he rolls over the to see that Pizza Tom had just a pair of 8's which were good at that point (not to mention the 3 blockers to Gordo's straight draw, and 84 to take away the 7 as a 2pair out lol). River bricks and Pizza Tom ships massive PLO pot with pair of 8's. "That would happen to me" say Gordo after the hand as he proceeds to play every hand in the badugi orbit before tilt leaving.
Moral of the story, don't bluff people who don't know the rules to the game
So I don't play on stars anymore but I racked up about 10,000 FPPs before I moved to full tilt poker. I don't really know what to do with them. Does anyone have some recommendations as to store items that might be good to get? Can I use them for anything else? I'm not really interested in the money bonuses cause I don't play on stars anymore.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Worldby XoXthajmanXoX, August 26
Wow haven't blogged in almost forever. I just saw a bunch of people posting movies in their blogs and I just saw this movie and thought I'd post about it.
Honestly I wasn't gonna see this movie. I'm thinking like ok, just another strangely awkward kinda funny Michael Cera movie, which are oddly abundant nowadays. But I promised lil sis I would take her to a movie and it was the only thing playing that didn't suck/she could see.
And dudez, seriously. . .I fucking loved it bad. After watching it for 10 min. you can already tell it was SOTD director. Really quick witted fast paced humor. The comic book style takes some getting used to but only gets better. Probably the most original movie I've seen in a long time. Go see it!
I'm back after having no internet for 2 weeks. That means....more movie recommendations!!!
Green Zone - american army action hero film. was okay for a casual thing to watch, got 7/10 on imdb.
Altered States - suupppper awesome 1980 movie about a scientist who uses an isolation tank and an exotic drug to explore dream states...then makes a revolutionary discovery! why do i always think old movies must be crappy or dull? if you like psudo-science then this is your new fav film
Keys to the VIP - mtv series in which 2 buff hunks are sent into a nightclub and have to get girls' phone numbers. hilarious, interesting and sickening at the same time! if you know any other shows like this (guys trying to win girls in real life situations/competitions) let me know
Audition - japanese horror. A man starts dating a woman who isn't quite what she seems. this was pretty cool.
Death Bell - korean (iirc) horror, a bunch of highschool students and their teachers are trapped in a school and slowly picked off by an unknown killer. also pretty cool.
Ju-On - japanese horror revolving around deaths that occur in a particular house. i thought this had potential, but when it came to it the "shock" scenes were just plain not scarey in the slightest. i wouldnt recommend this. (it was also remade as The Grudge in usa)
One Missed Call (USA, horror) - heeeey i actually liked this! it got 3/10 on imdb? this was a decent film and you should watch it!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant get ahold of the japense version yet
The Perfect Storm - i love storms so i just haadddd to get this movie! it didnt disappoint (my incredibly low storm-loving standards).
Suicide Club (jap, 2002) - hundreds of young kids start killing themselves all over japan and the police try to find out why. totally delivers, a must-watch.
Visitor Q - this, alongside Marebito, is the ultimate in sick-headed japanese perfection. i cannot believe something like this existed without me knowing about it for all these years. DO NOT WATCH THIS WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND!!! SHE WILL HATE YOU!!!
Marebito - a reporter who likes to film things everywhere he goes experiences some strange things. as above, an absolute must-watch
Assault Girls - short movie (40 mins?) about 4 MMO characters in a super realistic game. dont be fooled by the title, nothing much really happens. you're better off watching hack/sign if you like that kinda thing.
The Karate Kid - weeeee jackie chan looks OLD!!!! heheehe not really :3 its all makeup u kno. this was a cool movie, although not a single peice of epicness in sight. watch it on a rainy day - this is not a jackie movie to run out and buy some beers for.
Pulse - american remake of japanese (korean?) horror Kairo. watch the original, which is fantastic and very scarey. then watch this when you have nothing better to do (and want everything spelled out to you and explained, and then some).
Vampire Hunter D - old but satisfying (and famous) anime flick. even though its old its still entertaining.
Cannibal Holocaust - wow, this is awesome. a handful of american "adventurers" go into the amazon and some things happen. wont spoil it! i cant believe this got 6/10, its a must-watch. very brutal, showing live animals being cut up and also pretty graphic child rape.
The Quiet Family (korean) - a cute family open a lodge in the middle of nowhere, but their lodgers seem to keep accidently dying!! entertaining dark comedy. theres a japanese version of this too im trying to get.
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer - solid and interesting, about a psychopath who kills people secretly. worth getting.
The Day of the Triffids!!! wow im happy i remembered this one. this was a 2-part remake of the old film/s. the entire world is struck BLIND. to top it all off, killer plants begin to roam the cities. this very modern remake of the classic was decent and fun to watch.
Invasion Earth - this is a 6-part obscure british series that i rememebered verrrry vaguely from when i watched it on TV in 1998!!!! feels awesome finding stuff like that after so long. it follows the efforts of an army base and local town after TWO new alien species are suddenly discovered. this was memorable because of a very dark spooky atmosphere that runs throughout, and has an epic and non-bullshit finale.
So what to recommend? There's a lot of stuff "worth watching" in this batch, but it really depends on your taste and what you feel like.
Absolute must-sees are
Visitor Q
Marebito
Altered States
Cannibal Holocaust
IF YOU CAN HELP ME find torrent or link for My Sassy Girl (Kor) and "The Last Train" (old british series about a bunch of people who wake up after 1000 years to find themselves in post-apocolyptic world)
Blinds 25/50, 10k (200bb) stacks in the copc HU 5.5k event:
flop 865r, his opponent checks, Phillips bets, opponent check-raises, Phillips 3-bets, 4-bet, 5-bet, 6-bet (could've been a shove here, if not, Phillips 7-bet shoved)
Anyway they're both all-in.
Phillips shows TT and says "How big is yours?"
So i'm officialy finished school, i just got my last courses mark on my transcript so i have a bachelor of science in nursing. Yay for me. Still gatta write a Canadian board exam in October to be licensed but no more school. I dont hate school really, i just hate writing essays since i find them so useless and their worth %30 of my grade usually in most courses. Life is good!
Looking to move about $350-370 from Stars to UB. I'm willing to send first if I think you're reputable and I have people who can vouch for me as well. Thanks!
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) i feel having a watch is silly coz fones have time, but having two is becoming to feel absurd so i think ill stick with the new suunto core one i traded 
) and it's only 15000 hands since my downswing blog but I honestly feel like my play has improved so yeah ^^. Will try to play until 230-250$ and take a NL10 shot. 
and is like "Badugi!" as he scoops massive pot. LOL
, Pizza Tom now leans over and shows Ryan his hand: 
and asks "Wait so I can only use two cards?" Ryan is like "Yes you can use only 2 of those cards". Pizza Tom proceeds to be like "Oh shit" (as he realizes now that he doesn't have three of a kind 8's) then checks to Gordo. Gordo fires $700 and Pizza Tom doesn't waste too much time before calling. Turn comes 
so board reads 
to see that Pizza Tom had just a pair of 8's which were good at that point (not to mention the 3 blockers to Gordo's straight draw, and 84 to take away the 7 as a 2pair out lol). River bricks and Pizza Tom ships massive PLO pot with pair of 8's. "That would happen to me" say Gordo after the hand as he proceeds to play every hand in the badugi orbit before tilt leaving.
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