age 15: i fell in love and altho the girl liked me a year ago sshe decided to hate me from now and then on. i died inside, from an A+++ student to a complete nihilnist. my gcses were 11 a-b, my alevels were bcd.
age 17: 6th form in my private school. people called me a zombie. i racked up 200 days on an online text based game. my report cards said "jonathan is dishevelled and degenerate". i left my IT project till the last night and got a C. i got a D in one IT exam then retook it with zero revision and got an A. it was all about how you interpreted the question. bullshit.
age 18: i went to uni. first day of uni i met a guy called dave. an hour later i done weed for the first time. i didnt stop. a few days later i discovered family guy and south park. the first year of uni was the most mindless fun ive had in my life. i hooked up with a random 15 year old and a random 14 year old. alcohol was awesome and so was i,
age 19: i spent several thousand on weed.
age 20: i approached my university tutor and claimed i was addicted to online poker. in the meantime i was making 200/day on hollywood poker, abusing their bonus system because they had no proper system in place yet. i played 5max and heads up and smoked weed and made 200 dollars a day.
age 21: i went to argentina with erik. i met erik on liquidpoker, he was another nub poker player and we decided to move to argentina together. we booked the most expensive apartment possible , it had a chandelier.
age 21.5: my laptop got sent over to argentina but i never bothered to pick it up. instead i was drunk 24/7. i went out every night, got attacked many times, got scammed many times. spanish people are fucking assholes. one time i tried to score weed and got hit in the face. one time i tried to score weed and eneded up running from the policea. one time i just got hit in the face for no reason. one time i was just walking along and if the police didnt show up i would have been dead in the gutter.
age 22: erik and brendan fucked off back to europe. i spent 2 months in a hostel , drunk as fuck every day. i turned into kenneth williams. i was kenneth williams.
age 22: i was kenneth williams. everyone loved me. no joke.
age 23: i returned to england, got kicked out of my moms and lived with my grandmother. my grandmother is awesome but also sucks. imagine living with your grandmother. its hell.
age 23: i got a job in a nursing home. my coworkers were middle aged women. my job was to clean shit and vomit off of people, and to emotionally support 80 year olds who whine like you cant believe. working in a nursing home is literally the worst job in the world.
age 24: still working in a nursing home. short of staff every other day, which means 30% extra work in an already terribly demanding job for minimum wage (5.90/hr).
age 25: i re-applied to university. i spammed a few unis within the last days of application, and got into stoke uni to do biomedical science.
25.2: going to the gym every 2-3 days, whilst keeping an awesome record of my workout training regieme and eating/cooking 4 times a day
25.6: depressed becauses i miss the girl im in love with (for the last 2 years, left out of previous reports). stopped going to the gym. stopped going to uni. stopped playing online games. stopped caring about my existance. stopped taking my anti-psychotic drugs. stopped taking my anti-depressant drugs.
25.8: missed most of my uni exams. gave in a coursework 1 day late but they didnt accept my late submission request. moved to blackpool to live with an internet friend. got a job in telesales. quit my job in telesales. got a job as a receptionist in a posh hotel.
25.9: university has banned me from going back unless i contact them about payments. got offered 5k by student loans to go back next year. will phone on monday to negotiate going back to uni since i have 5k offer.
option 1: continue in blackpool with various part time jobs and 10nl and starting a new life living with internet friend. maybe get kicked out and have to go back live with my mom.
option 2: try to get back to uni doing biomedical science (max salary is 21k but its an honerable subject). will request to retake the first year but since i have 5k loan affirmed (even after failing 3 yrs of uni ages ago). problem is i fail at living my myself, i just drown in depression.
So I got around to reading my subscription to the economist today and there was an interesting "special report" on gambling. The general tone of the report was very favorable and considering the prestige and influence of the economist and how widely read it is among the upper class, I think it will have an impact on public opinion.
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.
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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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