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Basically its sort of like a streaming version of itunes and last.fm. The invite i can give u will let u use the free version but theres adverts. Premium with no ads is £5/month o $7.5/month and theres a version with even better sound quality and no ads thats £10 or $15/month..
Roll boosted to $2500 yesterday, so I decided it's time to play some NL50 with a 6BI move down rule. Didn't went too good, heh. Mostly a mixture of coolers and bad play:
Well, time to go down once again. This time I'm going to grind those stakes until I reach $3000. The reason for this conservatism is that I find NL25 really soft here and, even though I don't desperately need money now, I'll need some in the not-so-distant future, so I can't really afford moving up and down numerously with a constant bankroll. I don't think I'll have any problems with motivating myself to play overrolled, because I've already made $600 here and didn't really feel the urge to move up. I just wanted to take a shot and see what happens.
Although not everything went as planned, I'm still confident in myself. Grinding a ton at the moment (as you can see from the graphs; the time span is just seven days) and willing to continue putting a ton of hands at least until the end of the summer break (that is until 4th October), so I'm expecting to hit that $3k pretty damn soon, rofl.
I can't really say why, but the struggle to finally win some money during the past few months made me more motivated than ever. I'm 100% positive that I will reach those fucking midstakes sooner or later, no matter what. Good luck me!
Here are the statistics. As you can see I've played on all different currencies on iPoker, skill-wise they feel about the same, but too short sample to tell. Perhaps the pounds-table was a bit harder, but probably marginally.
What can be said about NL50 then? The majority of the players are actually regulars, but they seem to be pretty bad most of them. Biggest mistake I see by them is not valuebetting enough, and polarizing there range heavily. Makes it a lot easier to call down with 3rd pair if you know they only valuebet with a thin range of hands.
I have some small specific tips to help beat the level, and especially in the face of all the regulars. There are still tons of fish who donate their money to you though, so don't worry. But sometimes the tables were all filled up with 20/18 guys 3-betting like 10+%. A common thing they all have is that they pretty much 3-bet all the time in the SB and BB against a BTN/CO-raise. So, for all using HUD, it's pretty a MUST to check specifically from which position people 3-bet.
My general idea in the 3-bet department is to mix it up a bit more positionally; it's a great idea to once in a while throw in a 3-bet from the HJ against a loose UTG open with a hand like KJo. Also, to 3-bet the regulars who just won a big pot probably had a success rate at 95 %.
Against habitual squeesers in the BB, you should once in a while flat a raise with a premium hand in the SB to trap them. It will not work everytime of course, but it's a good idea to do and not just habitually 3-bet like a robot.
Time to try NL100 now. BR at 2000 euros which seems sufficient enough to try (will move down if I drop 5 buyins). Next goal is NL200, which I feel I need at least 30 buyins for. Feels good to start playing again, and hopefully the good run continues.
1/4th of my roll in 3 days...taking tomorrow off...hopefully I make this back in the next month...moving down to 100nl if i lose 9 more bi...bright side, i didn't tilt
edit: to bored and still focused...may not take tomorrow off
I'm looking for more HU vids to watch, currently i've seen prinnyraiding 1+2, real life mshu grinder, santas chanukah helpers and dogisheadsup. Or basically which site offers the most low stakes HU content that i can sign up to and leech?
gonna play sattys with my remaining fpps (36kfpp)
looking to xfer to absolute,party or any other site which has p2p xfers lol
i have about 3500 left online more or less by the days end
Good runs, bad runs, you know I've had my share...by DustySwedeDude, August 22
Running good on Prima. Playing good too. Up like 40k or so in August over very few hands. Have lost a couple of K on some other site. Trying to be rid of the dumb ass shortstackers by site selecting a little bit but I run like a gay midget on heroin (ie: not very good) on those other sites. It suuuucks!
Also had a new high in the amount of "I'm up a ton but still tilted like a mofo"-sessions. It's weird. Might be that I haven't been able to work out much after Prague due to a cold. Got my ass beat really badly when I got home but figured it was due to me being a little bit tired but then I got sick the next day so figured that had a lot to do with it. I think I might be back tomorrow though, which would be fun.
Got a new phone too. Had my old "good for knocking guys out with but probably not much more"-indestructible piece of crap for too long and I finally got really annoyed with it so got a new phone with one of them "touch screens" and such. The phone company (telia) is being super retarded though so I haven't got internet on it yet which sucks.
Thinking of going to UO Valencia and Venice this fall and probably the Swedish Championships on Malta too. Might not the best decisions from a pure poker ev point of view considering travel costs and such but it'll probably be fun enough and it'd bee cool to win one.
I didn't really want to bump the milkman thread as i'm sure he'll make a post later but heres two pics of the $700 charity money that LP raised & sent to Kaaliti to build the well.
As you all know, I moved to Blackpool a few months ago. I immediately started a job in telesales but quit after the first week because I had more than a bad feeling about it (see previous blog).
A few weeks later I magically got accepted as a receptionist for a semi-posh hotel that was within walking distance and required me to dress smart! My friend had a hotel-reception job and according to him it sounded utterly easy - he would spend up to 4 hours per shift on the company phone to me just chatting random shit and singing Final Fantasy songs.
Not the case with MY reception job! Starting at 7.30am, I would race through countless non-stop tasks for 4-5+ hours before finally getting 5-20 minutes of "cool-off" period. The procedures weren't too tricky but they were innumerous and there were SO MANY opportunities for "problems". In 60 minutes I might put 5 IOIs on my manager's desk for him to sort out, since we weren't trained or authorised to do many things ourselves. Having said that, if I thought *I* was busy having to stay behind for up to an hour for many shifts, the amount of stress my two managers had to deal with was overwhelming.
We had 2 managers, 2 receptionists other than myself, and a "boss" who worked from another county and I saw maybe 3 times in my ~7 weeks. This boss was a northern woman named Tracey. For those of you who don't know what "a northern woman named Tracey" usually entails: think "STUCK-UP, BULLYING, IMPATIENT, NASTY BITCH".
I did actually think she approved of me, until she came in the other morning and said "Jonathan, we're letting you go. I want you to get your things and leave right now."
I wasn't TOO surprised; I'd heard of 5 members of staff either thinking about quitting or potentially being fired through rumour. Tracey told me, "it's not just you - i'm getting rid of a lot of staff". Great.
So here's what she had to say:
"One of the night porters has refused to ever work when you're on duty".
I cannot stress enough how much this baffles me.
"You never answer phone calls during the evening shift".
My managers have stressed that our policy is to ALWAYS answer the phone, no matter what circumstances we are experiencing. I always answer the phone, unless I am pouring a drink in the bar or am upstairs bringing someone an iron etc.
"You've only been here 3 weeks so it's still your probationary period."
I'd been there...7? 8? weeks....idk.
"I never receive the daily reports when you're on duty."
This pissed me off. I have my own printed checklist and have never EVER missed out ANY of the 4-6 daily reports we are supposed to send. I can only imagine that she confused me with the other receptionist (who recently had a stress-induced rampage and told someone they can stick the job up their ass - presumeably she has now also been fired ).
"You keep making double-bookings and are costing the company money."
Okay. I've spent FUCKING HOURS allocating rooms, editing details, filing paperwork, and trying to problem-solve over-booked periods. It is downright SICK to say this to me. I might be wrong, because the procedures/computer system are retardedly complex at times. But as far as I know, the computer doesn't allow you to actually MAKE double-bookings - you can only resolve them.
"You never should have been hired in the first place. You aren't the person I would have hired if I was conducting the interview."
Oh fucking CHARMING. If I knew what sort of boss YOU were, I would never have FUCKING APPLIED.
I came home that day and my landlord told me I had to move out within a week. He was awesome enough to find me alternative accomodation, and I moved in today. It's great, but I have no internet. Here's the funny thing, though:
My previous landlord charged me 60/week to rent a small room and he provided many memorable evening meals. This gave me 60/week spending money left over from my part-time reception job (21 hours at 5.88 - yeah, don't get me started on how England sucks for salaries. My last proper job was 5.95/hour...after an annual raise of 5 motherfucking pence. And THAT one was no walk in the park - more like choking down a log of turd every day).
However: My NEW landlord wants me to apply for housing benefit (alongside "job seekers allowance"). Basically, the government will pay my new landlord all my rental costs, and also pay me 60/week. SO I'M ACTuALLY BETTER OFF NOT WORKING IN A PART-TIME JOB.
I'M FINANCIALLY BETTER OFF SITTING AT HOME ALL DAY THAN WORKING 3-4 SHITTY RETARDED STRESSFUL FUCKING SHIFTS A WEEK.
Interesting fact: In the last 3-4 years I have lived in a total of ELEVEN different places. Skater's gotta make those additional pylons.
In 90-man deep stack sngs on FTP, i am now running at least 140 "buy ins" (is that the correct terminology for sngs?) below EV over the last 60 days. Maybe as high as 300 buy ins. Might post graphs later if this keeps up. Seriously starting to lose my fucking mind. When bb > 1000 I am running 2,000,000 chips below EV. There are 270k total chips in play. Fuck you.
End Rant. GL at the tables.
I got in three more sessions yesterday afternoon which brought my Stars BR to $2100. Hunger began to gnaw, and to reward myself for my progress I went out to Afloat Sushi, awesome restaurant in "old town" Pasadena, where I live. It's a sushi bar with boats floating around the bar, and the boats hold premade selections which you can just pick off. Pro tip: Don't go at 5 PM on Friday unless you want to have to ask for everything you want, since it is not busy yet and there are not a lot of options on the boats. I did ask for a sake (salmon) sashimi and it was ridiculously good.
After dinner I had 141 points left to go to the 20k VPP mark for the year and the free $50, so I hit the $100 PLO tables. Maybe I need to just stick to the basics and nutpeddle. I made ~$100, but would have been up another couple buy-ins if I had adhered to my mantra. I cashed in the $50 reward, and Carol arrived home around 9. She had important business to attend to - defeating the final boss in Final Fantasy 13 - so I played a couple $2/$4 8-game tables sitting next to her on the couch. Surprisingly (to me - I don't play the game), she encountered much less difficulty with Orphan than she had in several previous battles. I scooped a few nice pots and profited another $100, bringing me to +$700 on the day and increasing my BR by > 40% to $2350.
Afterwards she played some .02/.04 limit online, which is funny to me because she could probably beat .50/$1, but she is too nervous to play that "high" yet. I just watch and comment afterwards, so she's not being coached by me during hands, it's her own play. She flopped a full house in a multiway pot on one of the final hands, but she bet the flop and everyone folded. No big pots yet.
Dowswing and realizationsby zulu_nation8, August 21
I hit my first real downswing since starting poker, dropped 17 buyins over two days. All the descriptions people generally use fit perfectly. Godmode fishes, running into the top of people's ranges, losing every flip, etc. The more I play the more I lose. Yesterday after losing another stack AA vs set I finally realized no matter what I do, these spots will come up eventually. Variance can't be avoided. If it can't be avoided, I can only take care of the stuff I can control, such as playing my A game, working out, and maintaining a healthy mindset.
I used to have a habit of quitting when I'm up, but playing long sessions when I'm stuck to get even. I've now realized those tricks to fool myself into feeling good at the end of the day are extremely shortsighted and completely pointless. What I need to practice is to become numb towards short-term results and just grind. The only numbers I should worry about each session are how many hands I've put in. Hopefully I can maintain this mindset even after the downswing so that it isn't just a petty defensive mechanism during bad stretches.
Another way to deal with what happened is to blame the run bad on my clearing another bonus. I think the worst I've ever ran have always been when clearing bonuses on stars. So if I somehow avoid doing that I can win and still be results oriented.
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