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!
never doing this again. i promise to leave stars after this final one. never win a dime clearing shit and end up playing for points and tilt because of said reason. moving to some site with no 24 multitabling, no awesome software, no 93876409 vpp grinders 95% of the time. screw that pos site for wrecking the fun out of poker for me lol
which one is better? HTC legend or wildfire?
i do not have a clue on fones but i hate apple coz its gay. i know one is more expensive so i also do not know if the price difference makes a huge impact the overall fones performance
(jeez my spelling is really starting to suffer because of internet and texting for years)
Hi LP. I thank you for reading this.
A friend of mine managed to go into the final of a photo contest, and if he wins he would be awarded a new digital camera. The voting is extremely close, he is right now on 2nd place and only 30 votes behind the 1st place...
Fired up 9 tables of 50NL, dropped 4 buyins in 200 hands (20 minutes), switched to 50PLO, there go 4 more buyins in 200 hands. Stop loss? Nahhh. Im no Andrew Song, but still pretty nice comeback for me.
Took a day off from the grinding to meet up with my friend Dan and play some satellites together at the Bicycle Casino. He ran into some bad traffic on the 5 freeway, but managed to show up just in time to buy the last seat in the first sat. I was still scanning the crowd for him during the first hand, then realized that he was sitting three to my left, in seat 6. Working his ninja skills.
$33.50+6.50 buy-in, 1500 chips, ten-handed, 15 minute blinds, starting at 25/25, one winner. Insert bad beat story here which left me microstacked, and I was eliminated shortly thereafter. Conveniently, Dan also got knocked out on that hand after some questionable (IMO) preflop play by him, so we were able to play the next sat together. $53+7 buy-in, otherwise the same. I picked up 99 in the BB in the first level. UTG+2 open limped, two more players limped behind him, the SB raised to 75, I called, three more players called, and we took a flop five-handed. 433 and the SB checked, so clearly it was unlikely he had TT+. I bet 250 into the 375 pot, and UTG+2, who happened to be an incredibly annoying wannabe who bragged that he plays $10/$20 Razz on PS and occasionally cashes in $100+ buy-in tourneys there, shoved for ~1800 after very brief thought. It was folded around to me. I strongly doubted he would make this play with 44 or A3, so I basically had the nuts, since his preflop play with TT+ was also very unlikely, and I called. He had 54cc. There was a club on the flop, and a ridiculous Ac came on the turn, giving him any deuce, four, or club as outs, but the river was an offsuit six, and mercifully he stfu'd and departed.
It turned out the player on my right was making small preflop raises with almost any hand, but I had no reason to get involved in a big pot in these levels. Fortunately I picked up QQ at 50/100 and reraised him the rest of his chips (875) after he popped it to 250 UTG. He had a hand this time, AK, but the board bricked out. After that I pretty much just coasted, occasionally winning the pot raising preflop, and shoving after raising preflop with JT and flopping top pair; no call. When we got down to three-handed, I made an error I would have been less likely to make online, because there I don't have to keep eyeballing the stacks to figure out what they are. Dan had the button with 5k, I had 7k in the SB, and the BB had 3k. Blinds at 200/400 (no antes - never any antes in these), Dan folded, and I raised to 1200 with 87o. I think this is a clear mistake. With the ranges I had seen from the BB in BvB play (e.g. I had shoved with A2 earlier in this level and he snapped for 2k more with T9hh), I would have to call his shove, in which case it would be better to shove in the first place, but that would be an open shove for 7.5 effective BB with eight high with no antes when I myself still had 17.5, so just calling preflop seems best. At the time, I thought he had more chips, about 4k, but even then, with his reshipping range versus a PFR, just calling is best. I can take a flop if he makes a small raise, or just fold to a shove. Anyway, he shipped with Q9; I realized I had to call, and binked an 8 on the river. Dan offered a chop, 1/3 to him and 2/3 to me, and of course I accepted, as I'd been planning to.
I took a break for lunch and Dan took the last available seat in the next sat. In the middle stages, his overpair of tens failed to defeat a small flush draw, and he was out. He had to drive home at that point to beat the brutal traffic on the 5, but I hung around to play one more, since I had $300 in tournament chips and no one was buying them at 4 PM when the tourney for the night, a mega satellite, was not until 6 PM. Eskimo Clark walked up as Dan and I were saying our good-byes, and I asked Eskimo if he wanted to buy the chips, but he said "not yet". After he walked on, Dan told me who he was; I didn't know. Noob.
The last sat for me was an $80 (2000 starting chips), which I fortunately just barely had $ for - I had $200 budgeted for buy-ins; the tournament chips were not accepted towards satellite entries. Early on, I picked up a small suited gapper, 86ss, and limped behind a pile of other limpers. I picked up an OESD on the A75 (two diamonds) flop, called a small bet, and paired my eight on the turn, but let it go to a 350 bet from the guy on my right. After he won that pot with an uncalled bet on the river, he proceeded to go on a heater and eliminate everyone. I didn't play a hand again until shoving time, and I won more of those than I lost, so I made it HU with him. 3500 chips to his 16.5k. He offered me a $640-80 chop. Fuck him, lulz. I doubled up with A9 v his 44, spiking an ace on the turn. Then after he raised preflop, I shoved with A9cc, and he folded. Mostly limped and folded after that for a little while, winning and losing some small pots. I didn't want to play reraised pots with this guy; my hubris said I could just outplay him instead.
At 300/600, limped on the button with 75o. I had about 6k at this point. He minraised and I called. Flop 753 two spades, I had the 5s. He bet 1200 and I called. The turn was lousy, a 6. Hard to get any value there. Check check. River was the worst card in the deck, a four. Check check and I chopped with his KT.
A few hands later I got A3o on the button. I thought he would shove a wide range if I raised, so I figured I could get the best equity from limp-shoving, since he'd fold a lot of hands I'd be flipping with, whereas I'd have to see a showdown if I raise-called. He minraised and I shoved, but this time he had KK and gg. I don't mind losing the $80 at all. It would have been glorious to win the whole $720 there after being outchipped 5:1 HU and rejecting a deal.
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