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i'm going to college with a computer engineer major, but i hate physics with a passion. i was looking at assist.org and it says i only need three semesters worth, compared to the 6 or so in computer engineer.

i want to work with computers, but i hate physics. but i was wondering if anyone knows if software engineering is a good thing to major in? would i have a good future if i got a degree in it? etc etc. or should i just stick with computer engineering even though i hate physics?


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SNE



Whats up guys, I finally booked some action on me achieving SNE this year. I bet 5k to win 7.5k with BraveJayHawk from 2p2 forums, have known him for awhile and he decided at the beginning of the month when I was at 290k VPP that I couldn't get it done. I also booked a 1k bet with Hodge05 on who can get to SNE first. He has a prop where he can only play nl100/200 to achieve SNE this year so we figured the 50k VPP lead he has over me was fair since I am playing anything/everything.


Just finished up an 8k VPP session where I finally made it to the positive for the month at PLO


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PLO graph this month



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At my low point on the graph I decided it would be good to actually try to learn the game. I read 3 PLO books, read alot of stuff on 2p2, and watched a few videos. Combined with decided to not 24 table, I started to win more. I was overplaying alot of my hands before, going nuts with AAxx with the xx usually not working well together/unsooted, 3betting way to fucking much, and a bunch of other issues. I feel like I am getting alot better every session and hopefully can continue to profit while I put in a high volume.



Game 7 Lakers vs Celtics


I don't think I ever posted about this but I went to Game 7 of the NBA finals. Me, the gf, SNE prop bettor Ballcup, his gf decided to go up to LA from San Diego kinda last minute and get tix for the game. We ended up paying around 4.4kish for tix that were in the very last round/center court of the stadium. The line for the game was Lakers -6 iirc so naturally we bet the amount we paid for the tickets on the game. We were sweating it pretty hard but luckily we were victorious and essentially freerolled Game 7. So glorious lol, pics from that are at the bottom of the blog




WSOP


This is long overdue but have just been doing everything else but blogging/vegas ended really horribly so I didn't really want to think about it. I went out there for 7 days around june 18-25. I loaded up my M3 and drove out there with my girlfriend Rachael and we stayed with my friend BW07507 at Pallazzo. It was alot of fun! While I was there I checked out a few poker houses that people had out there, I was kinda sad that I didn't get a house out there to stay and hang out and I am planning on 100 percent doing it next year.


Some highlights of the trip include going to my fave vegas restaurant Cut at Pallazzo like 3-4 times. I faded the CCRs for the trip everytime except once which left me with a 700 dollar bill. My birthday was on June 24th and we went out to dinner at Craft Steakhouse at MGM and then went to the country place to hang out with like 25 poker players for the night(forget the name of the place).

Also I was able to play in a little private game at the Hard Rock, my friend Notontilt09 invited me over there to play some 1/2 NL/PLO with him, Nanonoko, LttlBstrd (WSOP event 6 winner), Ryan from pokernewsstrategy.com, and Nascar_1949/kangis. Was a really fun time and I think I profited from the game, with help from me one outting Nano on the river after getting it all in on the turn in PLO. Obv we ran it twice so I only chopped the pot lol, Nano runs so fucking good vs me online and appearntly offline as well. MBN


I will just post all the pics now so you can see all the online poker guys by there faces. I think most of the guys are mainly PokerStars people so sorry FTP players lol



Me, GF at Lakers/celtics Game 7, I am sunburnt as hell here


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BallCup and me at Game 7


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Next career when I go bust from Poker

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Me, Nano

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Me and the Iceman


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GF with the Iceman


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Let see if I can do this in the right order, this is from my Bday

Me, Drluck3, Speedle, Ariolis30, Natisfinest, eveloverags, tomrh, and little greg20021 (some combo of #s) in front

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Ehafner, me, Iceman, Jrockhaf (best nl100 FR player in world), Swtwtr


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Private game, Notontilt09, Nano, lttlebstrd, me


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Me holding the Event 6 bracelet (only in my dreams lol)

Nascar_1949, notontilt09, me, nano, ryan, lttlbstrd

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Bday Dinner

Ariolis30, nascar_1949, amy, notontilt09, gf, me, ryanmack


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Buncha Pros Alextexeria was with

takesix, regular kid, swede, alextexeria, HU pro, legendary aurora446, me, gf


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Thanks for reading the blog, time to get SNE







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Oops. that didn't work. only played 6 out of the last 11 days, 42.5 hours total and a net loss of 2.5k. Not quite what I wanted but I'm gonna get back at it the next week before I leave and before WCOOP starts. GL kids.


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Ok so I just satellited into the 750k guar. on Full Tilt for tomorrow night.
Was just wondering is there a way to sell the tourney ticket like on Stars?
I just started playing on Full Tilt this month, and I guess I just assumed this was an option like on Stars. but I don't see it, anyone?


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I'm freaking break-even / slight dog in diamond league 1v1s.

Teach me plz. I play zerg right now.


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help me gtfo here pls
do it for my kid! lol

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*Thread bump on EURO time*

Hi,

I'm selling my Battle.net account with Starcraft 2 : Wings of Liberty in it.
Sadly, I dont have time to play anymore

- The character name is: TheMarine
http://imgur.com/W89UR.jpg

- It's an EUROPE version, language available are English, Deutsch, Spanish, French, Italian, Poland and another one (?)
http://imgur.com/HInNk.jpg

- Price: 30 EUROS (59.99 EUROS on battle.net, you save 50%)

- Payment: Paypal

Send me a pm or leave a message here, first come first serve.





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Alright so many of you know I have had quite a rocky history when it comes to poker. I have had many ups and far more downs. About 1.5 years ago I kind of emerged from the rock bottom state. At that point in time I started reading tons doing meditation etc. After about 6 months I finally thought I was strong enough to give poker another try. I quickly discovered that the game had changed majorly. I no longer felt like I was the best player at 50 and 100nl like I used to. I ran really bad but never went broke. In fact I slowly grinded up a decent bankroll. Then I lost a 2k bodyfat loss bet with a friend and then my car died on me so I had to buy a new one. I was left with about 450$ online and felt so sick and depressed about it that I couldn't even log on to grind. Around this time I just started playing Starcraft 2 hardcore to get my mind off poker and eventually got to 10th in diamond.

I finally decided I definitely wasn't going to make any money off of starcraft 2. So I decided to make the commitment to really grind poker hard. I began playing 25nl rush and ran it up to 1200. Then I played 50nl rush and ran that up to 1650. Then about 3 days ago I won like 11 buyins at 50nl and decided to move up and take shots at 100nl. That went extremely well. I then moved up and took shots at 200nl rush and ran like jesus basically (although still under ev). Then I decided to take a shot at 400nl rush 2 tabling. Ran insanely good like 40bb/100 over like 3k hands.

When all was said and done I am now sitting on the biggest bankroll I have had in over 3 years. Im getting this ridiculously scared feeling now because I have been trapped in the micros for so long. Now that I have a very secure bankroll for 100 and 200nl I am beginning to wonder if I currently have the skill to beat these games for a decent winrate.

Back in 2005-2007 I used to crush 100-200nl so hard. But now those games play way way stronger than 5/10 and 10/20 used to at that time. My style of plays is good enough to win at 50nl for like 3-4bb100 without a doubt. And im sure I can beat 100nl. But 200nl and up im not so sure that I would be better than break even at this point in time.

I think its time to be brutally honest with myself. I am going to have to seriously work on my game and apply myself to get better and be able to move into the midstakes.

I am really interested in hiring a coach to help plug my many leaks. I would like the coach to be a huge winner at 100-400nl. I have never been coached before so I am not sure what to expect. A lot of people that I have spoken to seem to think its worth it. If anyone has any recommendations I am def interested.




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So my HUD is having a fun issue. The players hud doesn't appear next to the actual player. When I move all the huds next to the proper player on one table it fucks up the hud locations on all my other tables. Anyone know how to fix this?


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writing is hard but dealing with these psychopaths and principled sociopaths is fucking exhausting and more to the point i'm not allowed to say fuck. the games fucking suck. the fish are all gone because fish like to have fun and these games are not fun. you can have it. buy my books.

-william ium


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So weird. Lately I can barely muster up the spirit to log into any poker site. My stomach turns in knots, my heartbeat starts racing, i start gnawing on my finger nails. The whole thing is just one big miserable experience. It's not the result of any particularly bad sessions or bad beats or anything either, it's just the whole faceless aspect of it all. I just get personally offended when someone calls me with K8o or 92s and all I can see is this faceless icon + screename. I feel like theyre hiding from me or something. I dont know how to describe it, it just bothers me. When I play live I take all sorts of bad beats and it doesnt bother me that much at all for some reason. Maybe it's just because I'm already in a good mood from the social atmosphere, maybe it's because I'm usually enjoying a free meal + drinks on the house. I enjoy talking to people, listening to people joke around and be funny bastards with their table talk, etc etc. All I know is when I go to play live I go feeling pumped. When I sit at a microstakes table online I just feel miserable. Maybe it has something to do with the money or something. It's not that I'm underrolled or anything, but I think it's just rather a lack of meaningful results. It's a real chore to play for an hour to win 80 cents or 2 bucks or whatever. Poker already sucks the life out of me, both live and online. I'm feverishly focused on every hand, to the point of wearing myself out when I get home. I think this extreme stress with no real results just runs its toll on me. At least live I can book a few hundred dollars in a winning session and get that sense of accomplishment. Online it's just another "uhhhhhhg gaaaawwwwd back to the grind, and for what? Pennies? Christ". I feel like how a McDonald's employee probably feels, just "please kill me now" kind of feeling.

Think I'm gonna hang up online play for awhile. I wonder if this has anything to do with why so many online regs have become live regs in the end.


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Hi,

I'm selling my Battle.net account with Starcraft 2 : Wings of Liberty in it.
Sadly, I dont have time to play anymore

- The character name is: TheMarine
http://imgur.com/W89UR.jpg

- It's an EUROPE version, language available are English, Deutsch, Spanish, French, Italian, Poland and another one (?)
http://imgur.com/HInNk.jpg

- Price: 30 EUROS (59.99 EUROS on battle.net, you save 50%)

- Payment: Paypal

Send me a pm or leave a message here.





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Hey, just wondering if anyone wanted to do a standard trade with play money and real money. I'm a reliable person, I can get a few other forum users on this website to verify my creditability if needed. Also LegendaryDreams from TL.net.

PM or reply in the thread if you're interested. Thanks in advance.


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Heyoooooo long time no talk LP

Been busy with working while starting a new business - computer repair (gonna take down the geek squad one city at a time! rawr~~~~)

also I've been working on my music you need to hear section so that should be up in a day or two when I get the time for some better reviews of the music.

Anyways onto the weight loss prop bet.

I'm currently 6'0'' 225 lbs (god knows wtf % body fat, but I'm sure it's not a healthy amount)

My brother is 5'11'' 190 lbs (more fit than I am but still not where he wants to be in terms of % body fat.)

The challenge for me getting down to 160 in 6 months
The challenge for my brother is to get down to 10% body fat from where ever he currently is at in 6 months

Starting
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Sept. 1st

How it works
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Every month we put $200 bucks each into a slush fund
at the end of the 6 months there is a potential of up to $2400.00 for the winner.

However we break it down so it works like this
actual/goal = %

so lets say I lose 50lbs
so we have 50/60 = 83%
my brother on the other hand hits his 10% bf goal so he is at 100%
the difference is now 17%

therefore he gets his original $1200 back plus $204.00(17% of 1200) of my money.


I feel like I may have gotten the short end of the stick here but either way it will be a great motivational tool to get our asses back in shape.

extra incentive: every time we get drunk we add 100$ to the slush fund, however the drunk incentive is only a winner take all(no getting % back). So if we get drunk 6x that's an additional 1,200.00 up for grabs whoever comes out victorious.


Where you come in!
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I've never really 'eaten clean' in my entire life. I was always in sports in high school so I stayed relatively in shape without much effort.

Now I'm out of school and don't really do much. I recently got a gym membership for this competition though so I'll be putting this to good use.

Anyways any tips or pointers in losing fat/weight would be much appreciated. I'll probably start a blog later as well and update it weekly with progress. Maybe even post pics and hopefully see a beastly transformation




Anyways I'm off to get fucking plastered before I can't drink any more for 6 months :3 Haven't really drank much over these past two months but shi... got to go out and get down before this life change.


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... -_- gahhh i start running bad right when im taking a shot at nl200, at first I was thinking I should stoploss at -2BI, but then I decided to keep going while playing deep tables. there goes 1/3 of my roll I know I could beat nl200, im so sick of nl100.. i wanna move up already! been cashing out too much

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tilted 2BIs near the end. gonna post some hands up tomorow and see if I played well, ran into alot of deep situations

gonna have to grind out ~25 BIs at nl100 before taking a 2nd shot. fuk


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