My laptop jsut died. No its not from porn overloading...
I was playing sc2 and trying to survive on that protoss mission where you have to stay alive for 25 mins and kill 2.5k enemies, my laptop jsut turned off. It wasnt lagging or anything but it does get heaps hot when i play sc2
So now when i try to turn my laptop on the lights just flash (those lights(diodes) that light up to show if battery is charging, wireless is turned on etc).
What does it even mean when the lights flash? But wont turn on.
Broke into $15+1 STT's last night. Stars BR up to $1220 now, so while I got skunked in three STT satellites with buy-ins totalling $200 at the Bike today, making my live play for the week slightly ($30) in the red, online I'm up $980. 2300 VPP so far for the month, but that should accelerate now that I'm into the $16's. I have an eye for $25+2 and $35+3 at some point, but just having a really hot streak which bloats my bankroll will not, I think, feel like adequate justification for me to move up. For some reason I want to play at least a thousand or so games at this level to make it feel legitimate.
In other news, I bought my girlfriend, Carol, "Getting Started in Hold'Em" by Ed Miller and she's enjoying it and studying it diligently. I've been giving her a pretty solid grounding in the rules, evaluating hand strength, and calculating outs; so far, what she's reading is reinforcing some of the things we've worked on so far. She has a pretty good mind so I would place a solid bet on her being a winning poker player within a few months.
As I was writing this, she came in the door, brought me the book and pointed out an error. /boggle This bodes well...
Hi Im in need of cdkeys for diablo 2 and expansion (3 of em). I wont be playing for long (maybe just a week), as im only playing with my younger cousins during their holidays.
I spent the last month in China, and experienced many first times.
Tomorrow's my last day, and I'm going to spend it shopping for lots of cheap stuff.
I've had such a blast here but I'm about ready to come back to the US.
Various games and stakes 10plo/25plo/25nl/50nl
Was playing 10plo when I first got to China due to unstable internet and the added benefit of micromania@stars.
Towards the end of last month, I put $600 on BigBetPoker through LP promotion and started playing NL again.
Took down 2nd in last month's LP rakerace and also netted a hefty amount in rakeback so it's been good.
When I get back to the US, I'd like to find as many opportunities as I can to play some live poker for the first time. I'm looking into places in SoCal where the minimum age requirement is 18. If any LPers want to go on a trip with me to Morongo or somewhere else, let me know. I'm completely free from Aug 11 - 23.
24k Hand PLO session, most hands ever in session?by Joeingram1, August 08
O man, it has been awhile since my last blog but this is a great time to post one before I get to sleep, will post Vegas TR with a bunch of pics of fellow internet poker players in the upcoming days.
I decided August 1st I was going to go for SNE, i had about 299k vpps at the time, this is the session I just played, 16 hours straight 24 tabling 100plo, made 16k VPPS and total for the day did 34k hands with 22.5k vpp
Now sitting at 61k vpp for the month
I was playing 20-50bb tables for first 10 hours till enough stopped running then added in 40bb tables buying in for 50bb there as well, so the 50 dollars is a buyin for me
typed a huge wall of text but just deleted it. i dunno i feel im getting a bit better on poker but feel like quitting already. i still make some money but sometimes i just feel it aint enough anymore, bought a HTC legend fone to keep myself motivated but i just felt bad and dont even touch the thing lol. anyway im leaving stars and trying out other sites just so that i can 4 table really, cant seem to do it on stars with all the options. seriously need to be motivated/interested, poker has just become so depressing even without downswings
Managed to persuade my girlfriend to put off today's trip to the Griffith Observatory off for a few hours, and I got in a couple sessions of 24-tabling $6+.50 while she plays Karaoke Revolution in the next room. First set was good, +$44; second was a smash, +$136. Up to $767 now. Think I will switch to $15+1 somewhere in the $800-$1k range. This is a difficult decision on this occasion because I am very emotional, plus I want to move up very smoothly without having to drop down much if at all. A big issue with jumping up to more than 2x my current buy-in and a significantly tougher group of regs is my emotional reaction to misfortune. The smaller the percentage of my bankroll a swing is, the better I can handle it.
Playing notes:
QJ is an interesting hand. Normally it's about my minimum raising hand with low blinds in the hi-jack. And normally, almost any hand within my normal raising range with low blinds, if I would be offered 2:1 on a shove (now generally speaking about high blinds with no antes), I simply shove in the first place. But I think QJ is a bit too weak for this in the hijack. So if I have 1700-2100 and the blinds are 100/200 with no ante, I just open fold QJ in this position. None of: raise/folding, raise/calling, or open shoving seem likely to be good lines.
In a comparable situation, say I have 2500 and it's 100/200+25, still in the hijack, it's a more complex decision, since it's hard to have three or four out of four of the remaining players to act to have me covered, meaning the 2500 number doesn't usually have much relevance for effective stacks. Shoving, raise/folding, and raise/calling can each be viable depending primarily on the stack sizes, and to a lesser extent the player types.
I am noticing some regs are occasionally flatting with AA preflop in early rounds against other regs (me) to try to extract a stack-off after the flop. I think my larger early position raise sizes (4-6x) in the first round help justify this play. I wonder if reducing my raises to 3x with these villains at the table would help discourage their play by making it seem too risky.
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