I'm looking to hire several people for a part time job. The successful candidate must possess a strong knowledge of basketball and logic, the ability to multitask and attention to detail.
Position Description:
Your job will be to watch NBA games and to record a detailed log of events that do not show up in the box score. You will often be required to utilize your judgment and an in depth understanding of professional basketball is essential. For example, one of the required tasks is to classify every shot taken throughout the course of the game as one of the following: wide open, open, contested, heavily contested. Accuracy and attention to detail are absolutely required.
Compensation:
You will be paid per game analyzed. Each NBA game runs 48 minutes in live action time and it currently takes me roughly 2 1/2 hours to complete a single game. We are shooting to reduce that time frame to under 2 hours by developing an interface that simplifies the note taking process. The amount of time it takes will also vary depending on your concentration level, your ability to multitask, and your APM. A typical qualified and competent person will earn between $10-$12 per hour. There will also be a variable compensation plan tied to your performance which can increase your hourly rate.
I understand that the hourly rate is quite modest, especially when compared to most poker incomes. However, there is significant value in steady, stress free, supplementary income. The hours are also extremely flexible. You determine how many hours you would like to work so this job can easily fit around the other priorities in your life. There is no time and money spent on commuting since you can work from the comfort of your own home. If you are a student you can scale back or even stop all together during exams and take on more hours during your vacations. If you are a low stakes grinder, a little steady income on the side can help you weather a rough downswing.
If you are interested in the position please send me a PM.
LikeASet will be no more. Just not able to man up and sustain my A game throughout my sessions. Bad beats and stupid plays unecessarily stress me out. Cashed out my last $1000. I'm mentally putting too much weight on my own shoulders and the stress is making me play poorly too much of the time.
I have learned some good things like the enforcement of the value of a dollar, and no such thing as an easy buck. I think it would be much easier if poker income wasn't the main source of my income and if I had a lot in the bank first that way it wouldn't be that stressful and feel like such a grueling job.
Good thing is that I'm most likely getting my old waiter job back. Just going to continue finishing up my BS, working part time waiter, and saving up to buy a new desktop to play STARCRAFT :D. Also in a few months when I build up a lot of cash, I plan on playing live poker, I got a lot of live poker casino resources at my disposal, including Reno and a super soft 18+ casino. I've played live a few times already and it's super fun and easy, so far of course.
Will still linger around LP of course giving my 2 cents and taking part of the trollaments.
Feel free to laugh at my face if you ever see me on pokerstars again.
I'm going to be more diligent about making blog entries more than one time per year. Don't know if anyone reads these anyway but it's Ok. So, I was reading what I wrote last in the blog and wanted to give an update since it has been a year now.
As I said before I got married in Vegas to a girl I met for 3 weeks. And I know you are all going to be surprised but it didn't work out. While I was going through that hard time of trying to find a job, my girlfriend / wife who I will call Jennie ended up cheating on me. Sad story I know.
What happened was that she was living in Maine and I was in NY looking for a job. She ended up having sex with one of her co workers and told me when I picked her up in Boston to take her back home with me for a family reunion. That was a terrible time. I tried to stay with her and see if I could ever get over it. But one night I woke up in the middle of the night knowing something was wrong so I gave her a call and she told me, "I can't talk right now" She didn't hang up the phone and I heard her having sex with someone in the background. That one hurt a lot needless to say.
So, after that it was basically over. She called me on January 1st, 2010 and said that she was going to kill herself over some new boyfriend problem. I took her seriously and she said if I drove up 8 hours to Bangor, Maine she wouldn't do it. Of course I listened and started my journey at 1am in a blizzard made it up there by 10am. When I got up there she was a bitch to me, it was awful. I felt like shit and told her I didn't deserve any of this and left at 10pm that day. I tried driving back but I was so tired from not sleeping for over 40 hours so I pulled off to take a nap in a parking lot. I ended up sleeping for 8 hours and woke up to 3 feet of snow. I wanted to make it home so bad, that I tried to still drive home and I ended up totaling my car in Portland, Maine.
I finally got back to NY on a Greyhound and realized that I needed to change my life I was sick of it. Then as fate would have it I got this letter in the mail for a firefighting test that I thought I applied for a year ago in Portland, Maine. It turns out it was in Portland, OR. So, I said fuck it, I have a best friend who lives there I will just move. So 3 days later with one duffel bag I moved into my best friends apartment to live. I took the firefighting test failed it by 3 points . So, I started working for Greenpeace canvassing.
I met a girl there named Samantha who was absolutely gorgeous and amazing. We have been dating now for a little over 3 months and live together. Everything is amazing she is a sweetheart and an overall good person which was lacking in my previous relationship. I quit Greenpeace about a month ago and started grinding 10nl.
I'm taking two courses in a community college BioChemistry and also Organic Chemistry, so I can go to a Naturopathic Doctor school out here in Portland. It's a 5 year program but I'm really interested in Natural Medicine and think it's a great opportunity to change the paradigm of modern medicine and the bullshit that I can go on and on about but I won't.
So, While my girlfriend works at Subway saving up money before she goes full time to Community College I play 6 max 10nl rush poker. I hadn't played in a long time so it's been a struggle but I'm getting back in the swing of it. I'm going to try and post my month of August everyday in a blog and talk about hand analysis because I know I need a lot of work and would love to do poker as a side job even though it's full time now.
9k VPP since Jan; Supernova by year's end?by vltava, August 02
I recently dropped out of school for multiple reasons, some of them personal, one of them being to focus on poker. I'd like to see if I can make Supernova by the end of this year, although I have only earned 9k VPP so far this year. $240 currently in my account. Clearly I can earn 750 VPP in a day, but not necessarily every day. I have a live-in girlfriend who works full time, but wants a lot of attention on the weekends and in the evenings. I only need to make minimal cash-outs, so I think whether I can achieve the goal depends primarily on whether I will be successful enough over the next four months to move up in stakes and stay there. Back to those SNG's...
if i upgrade from 22-27 inch with same resolution there is no advantage in multitabling right? the same amount of tables will fit? hardly an upgrade? pixels are just biggeR?
It has been quite a while since I've updated my blog but I figure I'm going to be diligent in my poker updates.
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I've been quite lax in my volume this past July with poker but I hope to turn it around this August. I've been mending a bunch of IRL things in my life and working on getting back into "the swing of things." I'm currently still backed for SNGS and MTTs on Stars playing majority of $16 9 mans and 18 mans and $12 180s. I have a few goals in line for this August that are rather high-reaching but meant as more of a motivational attainment:
[ ] 2000 Games Played [ ] $4,000 in Profits [ ] MTT bink for $1,000+
Just thought I'd leave it up here so that at the end of August I can see how I faired in my endeavors. Will try and keep the updates coming...gl to everyone.
broke even for july, and played 1k hands today since i was bored and have been talking to mikeymoo about poker. Damn, i got a lot worse. I don't feel as crushing when i play against the nl100 regs. I need to get my ball sacks back and start playing better.
First 500 hands I played were pretty bad, but then I got better as I kept playing. It's all comin back to me now. Overall a solid sesh so nothing to be unhappy about.
I am not sad, however, as I have a strong roll (~330) to continue and have made steady improvements to my game due to excellent feedback from fellow LP players on some of my hands. As a recreational player, I am happy to be learning as much as I have about the game this past month. For the last 5000 hands or so, I have improved on giving up when I'm beat and extracting more value out of weak opponents. I'm beginning to understand the concept of putting opponents on a range and reading them accordingly. Looking forward to the next 10000-20000 hands to see result improvements (ideally) NL 10 rush is gonna get pwned!
Summer always has and always will be tough to play a lot of hands for me. Specially since i moved from California back to Estonia (small country between Sweden and Russia). Here in EST the summer is unbelievably hot this year. So it is very hard to keep my ass at home behind the tables. Only time I can play in during the night nowadays since it's cooler and no distractions are disturbing me in any possible way.
I got back to Tallinn and started to rent an apartment in downtown Tallinn. Due to the economy the rent prices are cheap as hell here. So I finally got to buy myself a little goodies to help my poker game. First i bought a table 55$(original 110). Then the chair 100$ (original price 200). And then the Monitor Samsung syncmaster 2433 which cost me another 330 bucks. And to make my ''office'' complete i also added some subwoofer + 2 speaker system to it. Now i can finally enjoy myself a little more behind the computer.
Poker has been going relatively good this month as i have managed to make +6000$ with rakeback in 200nl. Due to not playing every day i haven't gotten my shit together enough to move up to 400 nl, but im planning to make that happen in September. Or go broke trying. My HEM is still not working (planning to put windows 7 to my computer instead of xp and hopefully get it working soon).
Some goals for August:
*play at least 40 k hands
*start taking shots to 400 nl again
*Try to put at least 4 hours a day on poker 5 times a week minimum
*Play some sessions with my friends
*Analyze at least 1 new video a week
My country has banned Pokerstars.COM and auto redirect me on my local pokerstars.
I have a lot of FPP on my .COM account that i would like to use but i simply cant download the .COM client anymore...
Can you please give me the link to download the .COM client?
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. So, I started working for Greenpeace canvassing.
) NL 10 rush is gonna get pwned!
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