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So I've decided that I'll buy a bunch of new films this weekend. I don't do hookers and blow so some small vice in the form of a retarded DVD-shopaholicness is ok. I want some tips on films so just bring it. As reference I'll post a list of the films I've decided to search for to begin with:

Die You Zombie Bastards!
A Serious Man
Jennifer's body
Femalien
Vampyres
kamikaze girls
St. John of Las Vegas
The men who stare at goats
St. John of Las Vegas
A Serious Man
In Bruges
A Scanner Darkly
Sell the dead
Breathless
SLackers
The boat that rocked
The Dead Undead
Airheads
Hotel Chevalier
Red Dawn
The man from earth
Mindhunters

Movies that I've seen and liked a lot lately includes:

Funny People
Shutter Island
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Taken
Rocknrolla

I found Sherlock Holmes and The Spirit less satisfying.

So bring it, I want ideas.



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How do you know how much you have with the RB and such ?
Never got a single penny from whatever rakeback promotion i got. There must be something wrong... T_T
halp.

Recently registed on noiQ within lp.net rakeback. But i'm not sure what poker screen name means. Is that our registered account on their site OR the name it is shown on the poker table ?
I put in my name shown on the poker tables. Hopefully it'll get updated because the rakeback's page show 0 but i guess i should give it time ?


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Hello!

Last blog I talked about starting PLO and so far it's been going really well in terms of results. I've quickly moved up from $0.10/$0.25 to $1/$2 so far, winning at a nice winrate, although I've been running super hot at $1/$2 obviously. The game is really complex though and I'm still not very confident in my play despite the results thus far. One reason that I know my game is still very weak is because MiPwnYa keeps owning me and instantly sits in to play me HU whenever I join a new table and he's online, I feel like he may have added me to some buddy list as I've already spewed like $1k to him which is like 5 buyins at $0.50/$1 and 2.5 at $1/$2 despite winning a $1k pot at $1/$2 vs him. ! I'm getting better though and am sure I will continue to do so, hopefully I'm already good enough to beat $1/$2 and can continue learning and building my bankroll back up from there.

Here are stats so far:

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/516/ploq.jpg
Sidenote: One thing I love about PLO is how many VPPs you make, I'm not even close to Supernova and we're halfway through the year but it's definitely possible for me to get there if I'm playing $1/$2 PLO or above, even if I don't play that many hands a month.

On another note, I'm leaving Korea on August 17th. I'm going to be staying in New Jersey for a month, during my stay I'll be hanging out with the gf and her friends, many of whom I've already met when they visited Korea. I'm also going to be taking a trip out to Toronto to meet some nerds that we both know from World of Warcraft. Naturally I'm looking forward to sampling many "bad" (good) American foods, I', expect to put on a lot of weight and potentially have a heart attack, so let's hope I run good and don't die. Just before I leave, on September 8th, I'm gonna celebrate my birthday, so far I don't have any plans on what I'm going to be on that day, but I'm not planning on getting too hungover as I'm going to see Katatonia and Swallow the Sun in New York the following day. A few days after that I'm going to be returning to England "for good", where I'll go back to live with my family. I'm looking to buy a house with my parents and go 50/50 on it, so they've been looking around at houses and they like this one:

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Whether we move into this house or some other house I'm planning on making the garage a home gym so I can work out without the need to go to a gym because I'm simply to lazy to travel there each day, particularly since the gym is like 4 miles away and I don't drive. I've tried to get into working out several times in the past but it never really stuck, I've gained a decent bit of weight during my stay in Korea and will obviously gain even more during my stay in the States so I'm remotivated and I feel like with a home gym I'll be way more likely to stick to some kind of schedule since it's no effort at all to just go into the garage and work out. On that note, if anyone has any recommendations as to what I should get, and potentially where I should get it from, I'd appreciate it!

That's all for now, thanks for reading.


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The wife and I just got back from vacation in North Carolina where I had the opportunity to drive to the Harrah's casino and finally play some poker in a real casino environment. I've never been to a casino before. This one is probably nothing compared to anything they have in Vegas, as poker only became legal last year. The casino has thus existed entirely on slot machine players, so it's basically just one big mammoth building with about 10,000 slot machines in it. Kinda weird looking at first, just row after row after row of degen fuckin slot machines. Their poker room looks more like an afterthought, tucked away to the side with about 10 tables. You wouldnt even know whats going on over there until you got close enough. The tables being used are those electronic PokerPro machines where everyone sits in front of an LCD touch screen, very internet friendly.

I had a hard time getting the fucker to work properly, it would never register my inputs or show my cards to me when I tried to peak. People were telling me to jab it with my finger, or flip my finger upside down and tap it gently with my nail, or use an ink pen, or use a credit card, etc etc. There were some serious FUUUUUUUUUUU moments where I'm gettin irritated making people wait and timing out and shit and people leaning over to help push buttons for me lol. They would tap my screen and presto it works, I do the EXACT SAME FUCKING THING and nothing happens. I finally got "good enough" using a combo of techniques that I could play. Over the course of an hour I tripled up sending 2 fish walking before I cashed out so my wife and I could go eat dinner. I was really just testing the waters and she sat right behind me watching, so I didnt want to make her wait.

The overall experience was awesome though, being in a casino that is. I was always skeptical about how I would view life living in one of these things, working a job as a professional player. I thought I might feel worthless, or like some horrible degen or matt damon wannabe, cursing myself for throwing my life away to play in an adult version of a video arcade. Thoughts of looking myself in the mirror and asking "wtf are you doing?" were always my worst fears. Well those fears have been officially put to rest. I loved every minute of that place. The lights, the sounds, the sprawling indoor campus, the restaurants, the faces, just the whole damn experience. It is definitely for me, and I think I would fall in love with Vegas casino lifestyle even more when I get a taste of that some day.

So where to from here? Well the question is how the fuck do I get to vegas playing professionally? There's always online poker, but me and the internet dont get along so well these days. Live play always keeps me cool and collected. Online im so quick to play back at people and trash talk (chat banned myself a year ago from ftp and stars) and just get tilted beyond belief that it really ruins my play. Because I cant be a total douche live, I play so much better. I really think the only way I'll ever be successful is through live play, just because of the anti-douche factor.

So the way I see it I really have no choice but to start grinding the home games in my city again to build a life roll I can use to migrate to vegas, like 10-20k I imagine. I have NL200 and NL500 at my disposal 7 nights a week. While nowhere close to being rolled for these, my edge is so huge vs these live fish that I think it should be doable with a little rungood/reloads over the next few months until I get some momentum and can play with a real roll. From there all targets need to be set on vegas, reaching that pivotal moment where I can finally hop on a plane and fly the fuck out there. There are other places to play, but honestly none of them really seem as good of a deal as vegas. AC is a shithole from what I've read, living near foxwoods is expensive plus the weather is completely fucked during the winter (i hate the snow), Florida is ridiculously hot/humid plus the people are all cocksuckers down there. Their casino scene still isnt as well established as others and is more like a vegas/AC junior, especially with the recently uncapped NL buyins. Oh it's also expensive as fuck to live in Ft. Lauderdale. So that really leaves no options other than vegas. The upside to vegas besides the superior casino environment is that home ownership is ridiculously cheap out there with all the foreclosures and what not. It's still hot, but not humid. It's reasonably close to some cool shit on the west coast, namely california and all the places it has to offer. Overall just seems like the best bang for your buck.

To date I have been kinda flaky with my poker ambitions simply because I just wasnt sure if I could do it and more importantly, if I wanted to. Now I feel the answer to both question is yes. So hopefully my euphoria wont wear off and I'll get back out there before too long.

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My PS for your PayPal (up to $500)
I will pay the $3 paypal transaction fee or w/e

Trusted members only, PM or post here.

TY!


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fuckkkkkk energy levels have been so low the past week or so

coffee doesn't help much :< wtf !

here's June

I really hope I can skip the first half of the graph this month. IDK how my results for june so far are tho tbh. Trying not to check results until the 9th.. super painful esp cuz I think I am not doing so hot. Might not last til friday lol
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5136/june201052khands.jpg

been playing some nl100 this month too idk how its gone LOL


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Hey guys,

Looking to move about $350-400 from FTP to Stars. I have reputable members who can vouch for me and I'm always willing to work out a trading arrangement that would be suitable for both parties. Thanks.



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[the blind spot]

mp opens
i 3b TT in co
bn folds
sb mostly fishy soccer-type coldcalls
mp folds
135x eff or someshit

972r

he donks
i think and r
he calls

7 putting a 2flush out

he chks
i think
and something is there
and i think some more
and i can no longer delay my decision because it would create the impression that he has FE
so i bet

he immediately moves in
it's still there but i can no longer reasonably release

KK

i sit there and stare at the screen.
it hits me 30 seconds later.

he instacalled the flop raise and instachkd the turn.
when combined with an insta turn jam, and given that fact that this player is, in my estimation, fundamentally a coward... yeah.

i wonder how i didn't see it.


[the 0EV jam]

sunday 530
within breathing range of the bubble
i need a cash, a significant result, anything, right the fuck now
largish ante, nits on my left, nobody wants nuttin of it
i have been active, but "gonna win the tournament" active, not "LOL IGHN" active

utg playing 25x insta opens 3x with imo 22+ A6s+ K9s+ QTs+ ATo KQo (direct hand observation)

fold fold

i have A9s. 23x. something is niggling at me. i don't know what it is.

i jam.

all fold

he thinks for 2 seconds and calls with QQ.

i stare stupidly at the screen and slowly realize that he was never folding 55 or 66 or AQo given his retard overvaluation of his read of me as a LOL IGHN.

i look for something to break but realize that i have run out of suchlike.


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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07...sts-as-td-securities-sees-parity.html

Guess I'll convert mine to USD for awhile.


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Need $32USD on paypal for my stars or moneybookers, preferably stars !

Need it to buy HoN =)

I'll send first


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still about 25% left


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i suck at poker

but lp comments on my hands

maybe i'll get betterz


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i want to get back into poker after a few years of not playing.

i have $200 bankroll and just played ~10? hours of 9man 3.20s and 5.40s, some double or nothings, some heads up and some 10nl 6max. i went up $90 then down $85 on stars.

i can't afford tracker/ace which SUCKS but im going to get the trial version.

im wondering what game type i should play with my little bankroll (10max, 6max, sngs? what stakes and for how long?).

what site should i play on? is it dumb to play on stars now since everyone is a reg? (??)

i need to relearn a lot of things, like basic hand ranges and preflop stuff like what hands to raise and reraise in various positions. (aq in first? aj to a raise? small/big blind play with aj or kq? how to respond to possible blind steals with pocket pairs?)

if you're in a similar boat or want to join my support group then add me to skype "perisie" (isle of wight?) or msn "kaiten_yari@hotmail.com" .

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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Been playing over a month on euro donk site , mostly greek donks.
pretty low traffic , like 12 tables at peak hours running few micro tables
4-5 nl50 and few nl100/nl200/nl400 tables.Best players are like equal to a nl25 stars winning reg^_^

driven my 200E deposit to over 3k in less than a month and planning to stick there for a while
no graphs since HEM is not supported by those bandits...

ps Suggest a site for movie downloading you use nowdays.
all i knew are dead/closed down-_-

gl at wsop lpers !


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Busted out in level 3

Tourney Recap:
Got KK vs AA -> only lost 5k on 22983 board down to 25k
Got J9 vs AK all in on J9K flop for 13k or so each, river K down to 12k
3bet light with a bad player in the middle, first guy 4-bet and i folded, down to 9k
KK < TT all in preflop to bust.

Annoying but I'm not that upset because I didn't make any mistakes. gl the rest of LP I hope you crush it.




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I've dropped markup, and will be selling at even. For those of you who already shipped I'll be shipping back the markup once everything is booked. Still looking to sell ~80%.

sold:
ket - 5% (sent)
timdawg - 2% (i sleep in the room next to him so sent)
pinball - 7.5% (sent)
tenbagger - 3% (sent)
iop - 2% (sent)
wakamaru - 5% (sent)
TheHuHu3 - 2% (sent)
jubert69 - 2% (sent)
rush - 3% (sent)
tj - 10%
mezmerizeplz - 5%
woezy -3% (sent)
thewh00sel - 5% (sent)
JizzleSmitts - 1% (sent)
Minion - 1% (sent)
akevin87 - 1% (sent)
4TM - 1% (sent)
albonycee - 1% (sent)


total -59.5%


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Are the cruelst bitches in the world. Just so u know


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18 days ago i started to play ultra-micro on ladbrokes. I doubled my roll, and have enough to try nl10 here.

Stay tuned.


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Played a bunch of donkaments, close-to-bubbled in that MSOP-main event and finished 13 in one of the smaller sunday donkaments for a K or two. Also played a ton of cash, probably had more fish action then ever and managed to hit like 3 hands in 6 hours. Did some fun herocalls and a bunch of biggish bluffs to break even so I had a ton of fun despite running like crap. It's easier to appreciate these days when you're up a bit on the month.

Also think that I play fairly good now. My A-game in NL has gotten much, much better since I started playing it a lot again and I feel that my approach has gotten a bit more math-based or logic based or whatever rather then the feel-thingy I used to play by thanks to some comment some good players made a while back. My omaha game might be a little better then a while ago but not by much. This is probably pretty good since I've got a good math.

Sooner or later I'll win a donkament too. Anyone going to UO Prague, btw?


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