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.
i dunno if you noobs like to read but i just bought mad books so i figure i'd post about them cause they were semi educated decisions and maybe some people would like some book recommendations.
This book is about some lady author who decides to live for a few months in three areas of the USA and try to survive on minimum wage-ish jobs. It more so becomes a memoir/look into the people with whom she ends up having to work with or live around becaues of her low paying jobs from what I can rather (have read 1/3rd of it). She works three different menial jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota respectively. I find this "hands on" investigative journalism stuff pretty interesting and the section on Maine was ok. I kinda got the vibe the author was sort of an ego-maniac and used a lot of hyperbole and stuff to make thing sound more dramatic than they really are but its an interesting account of lower class American life in the three very different cultural/geographical areas she does her little experiment in.
George Friedman is a guy I was semi familiar with whilst acquiring my political science degree. For reasons I'm honestly not fully understanding of he is very highly revered in the political/financial worlds, particular for his supposed ability to predict future events. This book is actually a pretty interesting read as the guy is really well school on political history and political philosophy and does a good job (imo) of combining both effectively to formulate good hypothesis. That being said, it is worth noting that this man is a Texan, and has a very pro-US and US-Centric bend on his "predictions" even in this book. I won't try to spoil it too much but he predicts very few negatives for the US over the next 100 years relatively speaking. One interesting note is he does allude to his belief that over the next 100 years Mexico will possibly re-annex land lost in the Texan Revolution and Gadsden purchase via some interesting methods. Also, those of you who are into the poland-ball comics might be amused to find that he predicts Poland to be one of the four major powers of the world by 2100 via some interesting turn of events he predicts with regard to Europe. This is definitely not a book you can take super serious but definitely an interesting read coming from someone who is very educated on macro-humanity and the political systems that have been in place over the last 3-400 years.
This book is perhaps the one I'm most interested to read. For those not familiar with the USA, I am originally from the Northeast, which, probably not coincidentally, is the only part of the USA not experiencing what I would consider a meth epidemic. It wasn't until I moved to Las Vegas that I was confronted with the realities of Meth. I literally moved to Vegas with no idea of what it was as I suspect its still highly underreported in the northeast as its just about impossible to come across. Given I was in Vegas and I play poker I'd be out at odd hours. Frequently you'd stumble upon "tweakers" (meth users) at a convenience store at like 4am or wahtever, picking at cuts and scabs theyve picked into their skin and generally fidgeting while buying a $7 pack of cigarettes in loose change they had picked up off the ground or stolen. I've seen this scenario played out at 2-7am just about every other time I go to a store at these hours. I'd say it's a problem. This book examines a dozen or so of the most ill-affected meth communities from small towns in Iowa to cities such as El Paso, Texas. I haven't read much of this one yet but I'm very interested to see whats up.
For the last six weeks or so, I've been avoiding eating any processed meat and generally been maintaining a more or less vegan diet. I plan on continuing this trend for the forseeable future. I already feel better than I did before and overall more energized and I expect this to continue for some time as the toxins exit my body. Don't get me wrong, I think animals are pathetic and it is our darwinistic duty to smite them at all costs, however, the manner in which we are farming animals and producing them solely for consumption / feeding them corn etc. is really alarming. I'm not even so worried for myself as I am for future generations of people and the long long term effects of this kind of dietary trend as we have seen (especially in the USA) over the last 30-40 years. The tipping point was watching some documentary on how much corn is in the average US diet and how most livestock are cornfed as opposed to eating the foods they naturally would (grass etc) blah blha. One day I just decided this isn't too good so I'm gonna try and stop eating meat for awhile. About a week into that I figured if I dont eat meat there isn't much reason to eat dairy so I cut that out too. I will however continue to use leather as it is cool and feels nice. Anyways, I dont know why I sorta "hid" this from people in my life, I think it was mostly because I didn't think I'd make it this long/actually stick to it, but by now I'm pretty confident that I will sustain this diet for the forseeable future. Wish me luck.
Anyways, this book is one of the best/most comprehensive books I've found on diet and was recommended to my by an old friend who is actually working as a nutritionist now. I'm not a big fan of telling people how to live their lives or whatever but I'd at least recommend reading more about diet if you haven't already because it's something that I think it under-appreciated and undervalued in traditional global society.
Hopefully some of you guys will find one of these topics interesting and check them out, books are cool dude.
Hey guys, I've always felt guilty about taking so much information from this site but never actually giving anything back to help other players. Well the time has come, I will reveal the secret to beating online poker.
It's Taylor Swift. If you also want to win over 20bi in less than 5,000 hands, you should listen to Taylor swift on repeat.
LF your FTP $, my PS $ trading partnerby PanoRaMa, August 06
Looking for someone who would like to trade longterm with me, I give Stars, you give FTP. I cash out on FTP but my main site is Stars so I'm naturally looking for FTP money a lot. This doesn't have to be like a daily thing, but it'd be nice to have people I can just randomly message and be like hey! wanna swap a few g's? kinda thing. Looking for people who would like to do at least 1k at a time.
If not longterm, then I'm looking to get up to 10k off Stars right now, let me know if you would like to help
Also it's been decided for me by the way of degenerate flipping that I MUST attend APPT Sydney (long story). If any LPers are going, or if there are any Sydney LPers that would like to hang out/show me around this December let me know!
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