I play poker but am a complete computer noob. So I was playing today on my pc on fulltilt when all of a sudden like 6 windows poped up with fake virus alerts and I couldnt get rid of them. Then everything like Google chrome, internet explorer, itunes and even Fulltilt shut down and i couldnt get it back working. After 5 minutes my computer shut down.I couldnt get it up in normal mode. I moved all my FTP money to a friends account obv outa fear from a keylogger or something. So now I started my pc in safe mode. It's my fault but couple of months ago my virusscan expired and i didnt get a new one. So this shit seems pretty serious is and my question to you LP is, what should I do, download etc...to get rid of it.
First player qualifies to Panamerican WCG (Tourney for latin america + usa/canada WCG winners). If I win for some reason, I'll try to pay trip myself to LA.
After quitting BW for a while i've been around a Month preparing for this, and I only care to do my best, cause i'll prolly hang the mouse after this and play poker only.
Tomorrow is group stage (32 registered players) and finals will be held on Sunday.
I am in no way favorite but I have somewhat of a shot If I get lucky with matchups/maps.
I've practiced my builds on each map and I feel rdy for this. I've got 3rd-4th at WCG a couple of times before (back in 2004 or smth) and I hope the mental endurance provided by poker + experience at live games gives me an edge over other nervous nerds i'll be facing.
Will be updating each day with games description and results.
Btw I play protoss and i'm a fanboy of BeSt =D.
Given nicknames are huge on live games, post suggestion on something to wear next to my tag for games =D
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So as I was shifting in bed this morning, trying to get the most comfortable arrangement of pillow and laptop (stfu pervs, I was just reading something), I managed to jam the corner of my laptop into my eye with considerable force. I was fine for a while but now my left eyelid keeps fluttering and my vision on that side is fuzzy. I'm sure I'll be fine, I just feel like it's my body's way of reminding me that "Hey Michael, you're stupid!"
Lying in bed around midnight last night, I realized I hadn't been outside of my apartment building in over four days, so just to feel quasi human I went out for a drive. I did nothing more elaborate than visit the ATM and get some drive-thru Carl's Jr., but it was probably good for my sanity.
Before my eye started acting up I did manage to get in a couple sessions of $15+1 today. My first was 24 tables and minus $40. My second was 18 tables (I usually keep it at 18 while playing the 3+R) and plus $300, making the BR now at $1904. Very encouraging, as I've mostly coasted at even for about a week. I don't really ever have downswings at SNG's, but sometimes I do have protracted periods of breaking even, and it feels really good when those periods end. Now I just need to get in a few more solid sessions to make this feel legitimate. Hoping to make another ~$1k before I cash out a little for the month; about half will go to bills and the other half will be for small stakes tourney buy-ins at the Bike, and possibly joining a training site or two (recommendations are welcome and encouraged). Then, in September, I intend to start focusing on $25+2.
On playing: I have seen some very bad advice on SNG's in poker books, by Moshman and Harrington off the top of my head. I think I have seen the Moshman idea parroted elsewhere: It's a complete misapplication of the idea of effective stacks. It goes that if you're shoving against a smaller stack, your shoving range should be what it is if you had the same size stack as your opponent does.
This is appallingly stupid. But I see regs who are obviously employing it with regularity. It is a huge leak, so it's somewhat encouraging to see many of the best players at this level employing it.
Why is it a leak? If your M=7, then you do not have an M=3 level of desperation. How desperate you are to avoid passively blinding out is a huge factor in determing shortstack shoving ranges. This should make it crystal clear that Moshman's advice is atrocious: If you are not desperate, but you are shoving with Q2, you might as well be setting your chips on fire. But wait, it gets worse. Your shortstacked opponent actually IS quite desperate, and will often call you with quite a wider range than you expect him to. You should not assume that he is playing optimally according to your standards (and it is probable, if you buy into a lot of the ideas in the poker literature about SNG's, such as ICM, that your ideas about optimal play are incorrect, but that's a topic for another time).
One idea you often see written about is correct: confrontations are frequently mutually destructive. Both players in a showdown sometimes have -EV, and the beneficiaries are the players not in the hand. I had to think about this to address my sitting and fuming about how this error by some regs often hurts me when I am the player in the BB being shoved on, which made me realize that I am the beneficiary somewhat when I am the short stack making the call, but to a greater extent, while less visibly so, when they make an incorrect shove against someone else who calls.
Withdrew 780$ dollar from my FTP account, which according to FTP is 612€. I needed 600€, but what i got on my moneybookers account was 592.48€. Are they really charging 20€ just to xfer it from FTP to MB?
Hey guys, I think I'll be going to APPT Sydney but unlike my other tournament stops in the past I'm looking to spend some more time there. Normally I'd just get a hotel or something but that might cost a bit if I stay longer than the tournament. The tourney is from the 5th to the 12th of December, and I'm looking to spend an extra week or so at least after that. So I know this is a long shot, but if there are any LPers from Sydney that live alone/is in a generally good living arrangement to allow for me to sleep over that would be fantastic.
I'm a stars reg at 2/4 and 3/6 and we could definitely talk poker and stuff. Likely I won't be at the place 24/7 since I'd like to go out and do stuff and meet people, but having a place to come back to would be great . In case it matters, I'm 22 years old, asian, and am generally clean and chill and stuff, can drink etc.
Besides that, if there are any LPers that are just going to APPT Sydney let me know!
edit: The casino is Star City in Pyrmont fwiw, so if anything I'd prefer someone close to that and not like 1-2 hours away
Alright guys, it's time for an upgrade on the monitor. I am trying to figure out what the best 30 inch monitors to buy are.
From a quick glance, I've noticed both the Dell Ultrasharp 3007 and 3008 models have good reviews. What are some other monitors that I can look at, and how do these monitors compare? I'm mostly trying to get the maximum resolution in a 30 inch monitor, as well as a clear picture. Also, please be sure to include where I can find some for cheaper if you know. I know some of you guys out there know all the sweet deals =)
Thanks for the help guys!
and i can not stop thinking about it... i was driving up a hill and it just come outta nowhere when i got to the top, and i couldn't do anything about it. after i did i pulled over to recollect myself because i was like omg omg omg, turn around, and saw it lying there dead. and now i can't stop thinking about like what if it was someone's kid or something. ugh i am a horrible person.
A long time ago I saw joeingram1 doing 24tables all cascaded on top of eachother. Who uses this setup reguarly and what programs do you use to assist you? I want to try it out but am afraid of epic misclicks.
since all the blogs I make are mostly whining here is a positive one
I just booked my flight + hotel (Deerfoot) for tomorrow was originally planning on leaving today but that didnt work out so the 1k tourney is likely going to be my first live tournament ever followed by the 5k HU and the 2.2k mainevent + 5/10 cash and some other smaller events if I bust early in the 5k/2k
if anyones coming to Calgary ship me a pm we'll meet up and goto the casino / for drinks or something
I've been doing well online since I took a brief trip to montreal at the end of June/start of July
up some money at staking and other stuff as well thats like 10-15k or something
I probably dont plan on playing anymore online this month and obviously it didn't end too well as I lost like 10k in the last 2-3 days but I was really tired/hungry when I played and def tilted/spewed a ton so I only have myself to blame
overall lifes pretty good right now I turned 19 2 days ago yay! and I'm looking to move to downtown Toronto by the end of the year so hopefully I can find a nice place
So, I've been living in Portland, Or for 6 months now. I know there was a post on one of my blogs that there were some people from this site that live in Portland. I have my girlfriend here and my best friend from college and a couple of other friends but not too many. If anyone wanted to meet up that would be awesome. I live in the SW on Barbour. So, let me know.
New Place, back on the grind!by JonnyCosMo, August 19
First off, note that I haven't had internet for the past week. I wrote this on my offline time so it's a couple days out dated:
Not even going to get into trying to update my blog more. When playing mostly live pokers, your time spent on the computer drops dramatically. Add that in with the release of Starcraft 2 (which is clearly a mandatory 2-3 hours of wasted time per day), and a little bit of the online poker grind here and there, I basically don't find myself with the time I use to have to update this thing.
Just came off of an awful WSOP. Played the $10/$25 at the Rio for cash games, and ended up getting creamed for ~$30kish over the week I played. Got the chance to play one of the craziest cash games ever with RaSZi where a $10/$25 turned into a $10/25/50/100. Weeeeeeeee! Although I ended up being pretty card dead during that particular session. On another day, I had probably my worst single orbit of live poker ever where I flopped a set 3 times and lost all 3 pots. Lucky for me, none of those pots where over 200bbs. I also played 3 tournaments, one of those $1k shit shows where I lasted about 2 hours then got 2 outted. The $2.5k 6-max where I lasted til 11:30pm before getting knocked out by Jeff Shulman in a sick hand where I river a set and he binks a straight . Finally the Main Event, I played on Day 3 and drew Table 1 Seat 2. Was it a sign? Table 1 Seat 1 happened to be Theo Tran, and our table didn't break all day. We had a pretty soft table for the most part and I ended the 1st day with 77k. Day 2a did not go as smoothly as I wanted, as I was working off of one hour of sleep from the night before for god knows what reason (maybe I was too excited to play or something?). My stack went on the monkey coaster for the majority of the day, swinging between 40k and 180k. Ironically, if I played my good solid tight game I probably would have ended with a pretty variance free 100k. Instead I ended the day with 125k after several hands where I just went bat shit insane and ran good. Going into Day 3 I was pretty well rested and took an adderol to make sure I would stay focused. I drew Annie Duke's table and we had the cameras around the table for the majority of the day. I played just about as good as I wanted to play and built up to 210k in chips at the 1k/2k level. Then I ran TT into JJ for a 70bb pot. The very next hand I flopped the world with AcQx on a Jc-Tc-3c board and bricked vs JT in a 80bb pot. Finally I reshipped my last 18bb's with A9s from the bb vs btn open and btn woke up with JJ so I was out 2 orbits after having a massive stack. That was pretty heart breaking, but the good news is that I might get my 15 seconds of fame as I played some weird hand with Annie Duke and the ESPN cameras were there and took down my name so... crossing my fingers!
In other news, just finished with a year of living in La Jolla (northern San Diego) less than a block away from the beach, and it definitely was an awesome experience. Going into the year, I thought winning money in the online pokers was a myth but I learned (or basically relearned) what it takes to be an online grinder and so hopefully in these upcoming months I will have a winning PTR on atleast one site :-P
I just moved to a condo in the south side of the Hillcrest area of San Diego (between Pacific Beach and Downtown). Yes, it is the "gay-friendly" area. It just so happens that everyone that I've met in our condo building so far has been gay. Make fun of it all you want! We got the biggest condo in the building with a baller ass 270 degree view of San Diego for about half the price as it normally would be just because it's the "gay" area of town. New roommates: GoGators86, A2Steaksauce, Clayton_27. Only downside = when walking around the building or outside in the Hillcrest area with one of my roommates we are probably mistaken as a gay couple. The upsides = We are closer to a lot of the other poker players down here who mostly live downtown. Great location to pretty much everything (10 minutes to the beach, 5 minutes to downtown, 10 minutes to Petco Park, 10 minutes to Qualcomm Stadium, 10 minutes to PB bars, 5 minutes to golf course / driving range). And this...
I am going to play the 8,500€ Partouche Poker tour main event tournament, which takes place on September 2, in Cannes, France. It has 3,000,000€ guaranteed prizepool.
The buyin is quite high so I would like to sell about 25-35% of my action.
I expect the field to be one of the softest among 5k€+ tournaments, probably like top2 tournament of the season along with EPT San Remo.
Because of this I expect my ROI to be quite high and dont really wanna sell at even price, but I think selling at 1.25 is still a very good deal for potencial buyers.
It means I am selling 1% for 106.25€ or $137.
Minimum share is 5% for 531.25€ or $685.
If you want to check out my live tournaments history, its available at hendonmob: Josef Samanek @ Hendonmob
If you are interested, pm me or write in comments.
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. In case it matters, I'm 22 years old, asian, and am generally clean and chill and stuff, can drink etc. 
. Finally the Main Event, I played on Day 3 and drew Table 1 Seat 2. Was it a sign? Table 1 Seat 1 happened to be Theo Tran, and our table didn't break all day. We had a pretty soft table for the most part and I ended the 1st day with 77k. Day 2a did not go as smoothly as I wanted, as I was working off of one hour of sleep from the night before for god knows what reason (maybe I was too excited to play or something?). My stack went on the monkey coaster for the majority of the day, swinging between 40k and 180k. Ironically, if I played my good solid tight game I probably would have ended with a pretty variance free 100k. Instead I ended the day with 125k after several hands where I just went bat shit insane and ran good. Going into Day 3 I was pretty well rested and took an adderol to make sure I would stay focused. I drew Annie Duke's table and we had the cameras around the table for the majority of the day. I played just about as good as I wanted to play and built up to 210k in chips at the 1k/2k level. Then I ran TT into JJ for a 70bb pot. The very next hand I flopped the world with AcQx on a Jc-Tc-3c board and bricked vs JT in a 80bb pot. Finally I reshipped my last 18bb's with A9s from the bb vs btn open and btn woke up with JJ so I was out 2 orbits after having a massive stack. That was pretty heart breaking, but the good news is that I might get my 15 seconds of fame as I played some weird hand with Annie Duke and the ESPN cameras were there and took down my name so... crossing my fingers! 
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