a girl that you LOVE said that she wants you to quit poker otherwise you can't be together anymore, or even if she didn't asked but if you knew that's the only way you can stay together. what would you do?
PS: not saying this happened to me, I'm just curious
other questions:
do you think poker takes a lot from your life?
is/was it worth all the effort to become the poker player you are?
you think poker stole a big part of your youth by sitting in front of a computer all day or at a poker table?
you wish you could do all that money outside the poker world?
probably most people here can't answer all this questions but I'd love to read some from the most experienced players!
thanks
Have you guys heard about the barefoot bandit? This is such a cool story, like it's out of a movie, but it's real. This guy is pretty impressive. He's been on the run for 2 years after escaping a halfway house at 17 yrs of age and for the past 5 days has been evading police on a small bahama island while breaking into houses every night to get cash, food and internet access.
"I tip my hat to the fellow," said Clayton Sands, a 54-year-old Bahamian who, like nearly everyone else, has been following every twist in the case. "For him to duck and dodge the police in two countries at 19, that's impressive."
Wanted posters featuring the blue-eyed, 6-foot, 5-inch teen have been plastered across this one-stoplight sailing town, where tourists and locals debated prospects for the fugitive's capture. A playful video circulating among islanders showed a footprint etched in the parking lot outside a Marsh Harbour government building.
"I don't think they're going to get him. He's not going to come out in the daytime," said Andrew Gates, 42, a heavy-equipment operator. "He's a smart guy."
red: im playing okay in non-showdown hands
blue: i have some serious leaks in big hands and am getting in "heater" (???) situations
yellow: same as blue since my red line is ok
green: im going bust within the next 10k
i love this post sooo freakin much im going to copy it to my blog so i dont lose it. i always wondered how language has an affect on the way people think, and bring it up from time to time but no one seems to fuckin care.
by Ooni on TLnet
I was doing a paper on East Asians languages and number systems. I thought some of the ‘non-Asians’ would find my paper interesting since we all know 'Asians' are good at maths. Right? I’ll rewrite my paper in the most simplest form, in math~.
East Asian languages have a logical numeric pattern. Using this pattern East Asian children subconsciously learn how to do basic arithmetic when they are learning how to count.
Let's look at the English number system
Twelve = 12
An English child has to associate the word 'twelve' with a value '12'. Not only that the child has to associate words with value from one to twenty.
Let's look at the East Asian number system
十 = 10
二 = 2
十二 = 12
An East Asian child associates 十 with 10 and 二 with 2.
An East Asian child says the word 十 (10) first followed by the word 二 (2) thus making the word 十二 (12)
Through just saying the word 十二, the child learns basic addition. 十 + 二 = 十二 i.e. 10 + 2 = 12
When an English child has learned how to count to 20, An East Asian child has learned concept of adding two numbers together.
Of course when an English child learns twenty-one
The English child will start to understand the concept of addition.
Twenty = 20
One = 1
Twenty-One = Twenty + One i.e. 20 + 1
However, by this time an East Asian child has already learned basic multiplication
二 = 2
十 = 10
一 = 1
An East Asian child says the word 二 (2) followed by the word 十 (10) then followed by the word 一 (1) thus making the word 二十一 (21).
In order say 21, the child must understand the basic concept of Arabic numerals.
* 2 followed by 10 is now 20 But why?
* 20 followed by 1 = 21 Because of the previous rule of adding two numbers
The child subconsciously figures out 2 followed by 10 means the numbers are base 10.
i.e. 2 x 10 = 20
20 + 1 = 21
So 二十一 (21):
二 (2) follow by 十 (10)
二 (2) x 十 (10) = 二十
And using the previous rule 二十 (20) + 一 (1) = 二十一 (21)
When does an English child learn this new concept? When they reach one hundred.
One hundred = 1 x 100
Two hundred = 2 x 100
Two hundred One = 2 x 100 + 1
Once the English number system reaches one hundred, it uses the same "wording" as the East Asian number system.
Now look at the stage of the development
Infancy – Basic Counting
Preschool – upto 20
Early Schooling – counts up to 100
An English child has little to no concept of Arabic until public school, while an Asian Child has already understood that the Arabic number system uses base 10 number system.
What is more interesting is concept of substraction.
Going back to previous example of twelve. An English child does not understand the concept of base 10 system. This means an English child only looks at twelve as 12 not 10 + 2. If you ask the child to take away 2 from 12, the child is likely to count his fingers, and realise that he only has 10 fingers. If the child was somehow gifted and visualised 12 objects and removed two from it, it still does not change the fact the child has no concept of the 10 base number system. The English child has to be told that ‘twelve’ minus ‘two’ is ‘ten’ (The words ten and two are hard to associate with twelve since it’s a different “word”. What is even more frustrating ~ tw- is in front of the word, not at the back).
If the same question was to be asked towards an East Asian child, either the child will figure out that the answer is 10 by dissecting the word 十二 (十二 - 二 = 十 or after the answer is given, s/he will figure out that they can dissect the word 十二 into 十 and 二.
So in order for an English Child to have the same mathematical reasoning skill as an East Asian child, when the East Asian Child learns to count to 11 the English Child must learn how to count to 21 and when the East Asian child learns to count to 21 the English Child must learn to count to 101.
So what does this all mean? It’s quite simple; East Asians are not natural mathematicians. Or rather a fault in the English language creates a barrier for English speakers from learning mathematical reasoning at early age.
Do not be discouraged because there are other people who seem to be better than you at math. Just put that extra effort into it. You could beat them because they may not be as smart as you think they are~
Its not that easy. The first one got quiet a bit of space in teh freezer. Second comes with food in it. Third one has fridge magnets, and magnets are fun! Fourth one is not even a fridge, but there is somethign about it that intrigues me.
Started the day pretty fantastic. Had Dennis Phillips on my table and a bunch of fish and managed to pick up about 15k in the first 30 minutes before getting set->quads over set by some random. Table broke a few minutes after and got put at a table with Antonio Esfandiari to my left, along with 2 other good online players to his left. Had to tightened up a lot but was just running pretty terrible. Ended up shipping 99 with about 31bb @ 200/400 50 ante level and got snapped by this laggy fish and lost to AJs.
Sorry to disappoint everyone
GL to anyone still left in the main
Loook at my range my range is amazing ...by Mortensen88, July 07
OK guys fucking tilted pretty hard today got home after ger - spa kinda drunk played two tables 5nl rush minus 7 bi or something insta switch 10nl minus 2 bi insta switch two tables 100 nl, lol somebody stake me ffs Submitted by :
insta quit manage to leave two buyins down so bankroll at 415$ should I be playing 10nl with this im kinda waiting to reach 500 but ok been reading ryan fees 6max free ebook first few chapters andd i think this is the range he recommends obviously adjust to table dynamics but im playing rush so im going to stick with it
Not really suire about blinds was thinking of playing quite tight like 20% from sb but loose from bb like 45% what do you think?
Not sure about calling ranges at all I'm just going to stick to calling range according to the opening range according to position, maybe I will call more suited connectors to utg raise if I feel like calling... also raising more broadways to weaker players and limopers
also thanks guys for the advice on playing these stakes lol just not barreling much anymore and its things are going better also not calling with ax or suited connectors as much anymore valuing broadways more now
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or after the answer is given, s/he will figure out that they can dissect the word 十二 into 十 and 二.
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