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oh well, again
I can feel it
this feeling is not new to me
life, just fucking me up again, nothing to do with poker
thinking about hitting the ER before my head explodes and I faint
feel free to hate
I just... dont care



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Submitted by : Carthac

Full Tilt Poker Game #21953333746: Table Warp Speed (6 max) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:03:17 ET - 2010/06/29
Seat 1: zwj26 ($25.80)
Seat 2: emdubbbs ($25)
Seat 3: Hero ($24.96)
Seat 4: qualico ($69.24)
Seat 5: oodlebum ($25.40)
Seat 6: Ilominati ($25.85)
Ilominati posts the small blind of $0.10
zwj26 posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #5

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
emdubbbs folds
Hero raises to $0.85
qualico folds
oodlebum calls $0.85
Ilominati folds
zwj26 folds

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $2.05)

   
Hero bets $1.25
oodlebum calls $1.25

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $4.55)

   
Hero checks
oodlebum checks

River (Pot : $4.55)

   
Hero bets $3
oodlebum has 15 seconds left to act
oodlebum raises to $6.25
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero raises to $22.86, and is all in
oodlebum calls $16.61

Showdown
Hero shows a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
oodlebum shows four of a kind, Sevens
oodlebum wins the pot ($47.76) with four of a kind, Sevens

Summary
Total pot $50.27 | Rake $2.51
Board:
Seat 1: zwj26 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: emdubbbs didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Hero showed and lost with a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
Seat 4: qualico didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: oodlebum (button) showed and won ($47.76) with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 6: Ilominati (small blind) folded before the Flop

Got this off our local car club forum, thought id share.

One thing that has always bugged me, and I'm sure it does most of you, is to sit down at the dinner table only to be interrupted by a phone call from a telemarketer.
I decided, on one such occasion, to try to be as irritating as they were to me. The call was from AT&T and it went something like this:
Me: (swallowing) Hello
AT&T: Hello, this is AT&T...
Me: Is this AT&T?
AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T...
Me: This is AT&T?
AT&T: Yes This is AT&T...
Me: Is this AT&T?
AT&T: YES! This is AT&T, may I speak to Mr. Byron please?
Me: May I ask who is calling?
AT&T: This is AT&T.
Me: OK, hold on.
At this point I put the phone down for a solid 5 minutes thinking that, surely, this person would have hung up the phone. I ate my salad. Much to my surprise, when I picked up the receiver, they were still waiting.
Me: Hello?
AT&T: Is this Mr. Byron?
Me: May I ask who is calling please?
AT&T: Yes this is AT&T...
Me: Is this AT&T?
AT&T: Yes this is AT&T...
Me: This is AT&T?
AT&T: Yes, is this Mr. Byron?
Me: Yes, is this AT&T?
AT&T: Yes sir.
Me: The phone company?
AT&T: Yes sir.
Me: I thought you said this was AT&T.
AT&T: Yes sir, we are a phone company.
Me: I already have a phone.
AT&T: We aren't selling phones today Mr. Byron.
Me: Well whatever it is, I'm really not interested but thanks for calling.
When you are not interested in something, I don't think you can express yourself any plainer than by saying "I'm really not interested," but this lady was persistent.
AT&T: Mr. Byron, we would like to offer you 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Now, I am sure she meant she was offering a "rate" of 10 cents a minute, but she at no time used the word "rate." I could clearly see that it was time to whip out the trusty old calculator and do a little ciphering.
Me: Now, that's 10 cents a minute 24 hours a day?
AT&T: (getting a little excited at this point by my interest) Yes sir, that's right! 24 hours a day!
Me: 7 days a week?
AT&T: That's right.
Me: 365 days a year?
AT&T: Yes sir.
Me: I am definitely interested in that! Wow!!! That's amazing!
AT&T: We think so!
Me: That's quite a sum of money!
AT&T: Yes sir, it's amazing how it adds up.
Me: OK, so will you send me checks weekly, monthly or just one big one at the end of the year for the full $52,560, and if you send an annual check, can I get a cash advance?
AT&T: Excuse me?
Me: You know, the 10 cents a minute.
AT&T: What are you talking about?
Me: You said you'd give me 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That comes to $144 per day, $1,008 per week and $52,560 per year. I'm just interested in knowing how you will be making payment.
AT&T: Oh no, sir, I didn't mean we'd be paying you. You pay us 10 cents a minute.
Me: Wait a minute here!!! Didn't you say you'd give me 10 cents a minute? Are you sure this is AT&T?
AT&T: Well, yes this is AT&T sir but......
Me: But nothing, how do you figure that by saying that you'll give me 10 cents a minute that I'll give you 10 cents a minute? Is this some kind of subliminal telemarketing scheme? I've read about things like this in the Enquirer, you know. Don't use your alien brainwashing techniques on me.
AT&T: No sir, we are offering 10 cents a minute for.....
Me: THERE YOU GO AGAIN! Can I speak to a supervisor please!
AT&T: Sir, I don't think that is necessary.
Me: Sure! You say that now! What happens later?
AT&T: What?
Me: I insist on speaking to a supervisor!
AT&T: Yes Mr. Byron. Please hold.
So now AT&T has me on hold and my supper is getting cold. I begin to eat while I'm waiting for a supervisor. After a wait of a few minutes and while I have a mouth full of food:
Supervisor: Mr. Byron?
Me: Yeth?
Supervisor: I understand you are not quite understanding our 10 cents a minute program.
Me: Id thish Ath Teeth & Teeth?
Supervisor: Yes sir, it sure is.
I had to swallow before I choked on my food. It was all I could do to suppress my laughter and I had to be careful not to produce a snort.
Me: No, actually, I was just waiting for someone to get back to me so that I could sign up for the plan.
Supervisor: OK, no problem, I'll transfer you back to the person who was helping you.
Me: Thank you.
I was on hold once again and managed a few more mouthfuls. I needed to end this conversation. Suddenly, there was an aggravated but polite voice at the other end of the phone.
AT&T: Hello Mr. Byron, I understand that you are interested in signing up for our plan?
Me: Do you have that friends and family thing because you can never have enough friends and I'm an only child and I'd really like to have a little brother...


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is soooo much fun lol so many hands n constant action.


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Hmmm so the game turned out to be 2-5 even tho it was advertised at 1-2.

Major pots: Double straddle of $15, $30. Two limpers, I shove with JJ, and get a call from A6o. He covers, pot is ~650.

Flop comes 266 and runs out without a J.

Straddle to $10, UTG (short with only about ~120 left) shoves. I shove over with about $350 with AQs in MP and BOTH BLINDS CALL and I'm like...I'm soooo not good.

UTG turns over 44, blinds turn over 77 and 99. Flop comes 235 rainbow. Turn hits a 6.

Folds around to SB. He sits with 650 or so, I cover. Active villain opens from SB for $15, I'm in BB. I 3-bet with A4s to $50, he calls. Flop comes 339. He bets $60, I raise to $150, he calls. Turn is a 7. He checks, I bet $200, he shows TT and folds.

I told them in reverse order, so I busted with JJ =(

Sick soft game tho, need to get back there next weekend.

POKER GODS, STOP TORMENTING ME!! Need to win more flips and 70/30's. PM me if you coach in flips.


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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/28/us.scotus.handgun.ban/index.html?hpt=T1

step in the right direction imo


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Hey,

So i ll be most likely going to Cologne to study since October++.However i know a lot of people there that tell me i wont be able to find a flat to rent with my 2 other friends without using some sort of company to find one for us and take like 2k euro just for that.They told me no one would give an apartament to 3 18 year olds foreigners.I just want to double check it with someone that actually lives there their whole life ( or most of it ? :D ) Is there really no way to get a decent flat without spending 10k eu just for companies, rents and kaution( well dunno english word )? Damn i dont want to be forced to live in some shitty place given to me by studentenwerk. All info is welcome !


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just around 780usd my stars ur ftp. help my kid out. lol


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I've noticed that over the last few years it's been very hard to find a good game to play, especially something with high re-playability. I've been playing video games as long as I can remember, starting with the original nintendo and the first mario. Even played atari while visiting my grandparents since they had my uncles old one in the basement. Owned a sega genesis, super nitendo, nintendo 64, playstation... and then I got really into computer games over consoles once I found Warcraft 2.

That developed into a love for BW to satisfy my strategic needs and counterstrike to satisfy my shooting needs. Those 2 games were my staple games for ages. I'd always play them and try to get better, and as new games came out I'd play for fun, often just the single player, and then move on.

Well it's been nearly 15 years of those 2 games and as much as I love em, they definitely feel old. And then I found MW2 to replace CS and the beta came out to replace BW. Same shit different games.

But for the last few years before MW2 and the beta came out, I've been hunting for new games. Only a few have been any good and all of them have only been good for single player. Once the game was beaten it was shelved. I started buying lots of new games looking for something awesome, either to replace CS/BW or to at least give an experience like halflife did, but very few were up to par. I blew quite a bit of money on shitty games and realized I should be playing demo's first. heh

Anyway, here are the few good games i found over the last several years. Sad how short the list is:

Batman: Arkham Asylum (fun game and gives you a fun few days feeling like you're Batman, but once you beat it no desire to replay) Farcry 2 - (Almost super awesome but not enough attention to detail, especially with AI) Bioshock - (entertaining at first but I never finished it) Gears of War - (great single player but never got into multi, then it stopped working cause Microsoft games are stupid) Portal - (super fun single player but once it's over it's over)

And here are the games I tried and either hated or the game fell short:

Call of Juarez - (crappy cowboy game) S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl - (hated) Left 4 Dead - (repetitive) ARMA: Combat Operations - (Sucked) Company of Heroes - (Boring) Empire: Total War - (Snooze) Lost: Via Domus (and I loved LOST at the time I played it but still pretty meh) Sniper Elite - (good idea, mediocre execution) FEAR - (meh) Newest Tomb Raider - (they still haven't figured out controls imo, she's an idiot and annoying to maneuver) Mass Effect - (just started it and it's pretty mediocre, and all FPS suck compared to MW2 lately) Call of Duty World At War - (but I got it on Wii which probably fucked it up) Fallout 2 - (I like the idea, hate their execution of a FPS / RPG, as their FPS sucks) Ghost Recon - (a newer one which sucked, but my comp also couldn't handle it very well so didn't give it a fair try... still, felt like it would suck even with a good comp)

I know I missed a few (good and bad ones) but I think that gives a good list. Have any of you guys played any of these games??

Oh, and I'm thinking of trying the newest Resident Evil - anyone play it?


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Oh I hate you so, yet I love your software/rakeback too much to leave you


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My volume has really sucked this month. I'll of played about 77 hours of poker and about 55k hands when june 30th rolls around and that is really not enough. I have spent time studying and stuff but still..

I'm feeling a lot better about pretty much everything so.. I will shoot at 25 hours/week next month.. need to at least be playing 100 hours/month for sure. My standard volume was 100-120 hours a month last year so I can definitely do it.

Just a thought.



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the moderation on tlnet is absolutely abysmal

i wrote a 2 page review of the tlnet moderation but my laptop thinks everything i press the mouse bar is a back button

read through the banned thread on tlnet. some people are banned for jokes, some for memes, some for truncation, some just because the mod doesnt like them, some because the mod doesnt like their tone, some because the mod misunderstands them (SOOOO MANY), some because the mod thinkss they are worthless but dont realise they have written 2000 pages in other threads eg Foulcout.

u know my favourite bans? when someone posts a blog entry that is significant to them, but the mod doesnt like it or thinks its dumb because theyre too fucking elitist and stupid to figure out why something is interesting or has the potential to be interesting.

WANT A CLUE MODS?

WHEN A THREAD IS MADE, IF NO ONE POSTS IN IT THEN NO ONE IS INTERESTED AND IT FALLS OFF THE FRONT PAGE. THIS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IS A GOOD WAY OF FINDING OUT IF A THREAD IS WORTHY OR NOT.

i am honest to GOD when i say that it feels to me like teamliquid is literally months away from enforcing censorship of swear words.

tlnet 5 years ago was a good forum. tlnet now is like reading Woman's Weekly.

it was 6 months ago that tlnet made the official rule that "NO THREADS ARE TO BE MADE ABOUT RELIGION EVER".

shit has gotten worse and worse and worse since then


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Deviance
of
Winning.
Not
Sure
Why
I
Never
Get
Stacks.

Fuck you June.


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GG nba for the next 6-7 years
you heard it here first


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for las vegas tommorow, gonna play the main event and maybe 1 or 2 side event depending on my mood lol

see you guys there ~_~


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Last few days have been on the worst run ever at the 57s, 115s and some 230s, but just got 2nd on the ultimate luckbox tourney ($102 Hyper HU) for the downswing breaker!! Feels good to run well again. Wish I ran a lil better a the end+ Show Spoiler +

Submitted by : player999

PokerStars Game #46039247516: Tournament #284560992, $100+$2 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round VII, Level I (50/100) - 2010/06/27 1:41:09 AT [2010/06/27 0:41:09 ET]
Table 284560992 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: jetblackx (880 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1120 in chips)
jetblackx: posts the ante 20
Hero: posts the ante 20
jetblackx: posts small blind 50
Hero: posts big blind 100

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
jetblackx: raises 760 to 860 and is all-in
Hero: calls 760

Flop (Pot : $1,760.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $1,760.00)

   

River (Pot : $1,760.00)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (a pair of Deuces)
jetblackx: shows (a pair of Deuces)
Hero collected 880 from pot
jetblackx collected 880 from pot
Hero said, "awww"

Summary
Total pot 1760 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: jetblackx (button) (small blind) showed and won (880) with a pair of Deuces
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and won (880) with a pair of Deuces

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PokerStars Game #46039263000: Tournament #284560992, $100+$2 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round VII, Level I (50/100) - 2010/06/27 1:41:52 AT [2010/06/27 0:41:52 ET]
Table 284560992 1 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: jetblackx (880 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1120 in chips)
jetblackx: posts the ante 20
Hero: posts the ante 20
Hero: posts small blind 50
jetblackx: posts big blind 100

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises 1000 to 1100 and is all-in
jetblackx: calls 760 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (240) returned to Hero

Flop (Pot : $3,520.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $3,520.00)

   

River (Pot : $3,520.00)

   

Showdown
jetblackx: shows (high card Ace)
Hero: shows (high card Queen)
jetblackx collected 1760 from pot

Summary
Total pot 1760 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: jetblackx (big blind) showed and won (1760) with high card Ace
Seat 2: Hero (button) (small blind) showed and lost with high card Queen

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PokerStars Game #46039280463: Tournament #284560992, $100+$2 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round VII, Level II (75/150) - 2010/06/27 1:42:40 AT [2010/06/27 0:42:40 ET]
Table 284560992 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: jetblackx (1400 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (600 in chips)
jetblackx: posts the ante 30
Hero: posts the ante 30
jetblackx: posts small blind 75
Hero: posts big blind 150

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
jetblackx: raises 1220 to 1370 and is all-in
Hero: calls 420 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (800) returned to jetblackx

Flop (Pot : $4,720.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $4,720.00)

   

River (Pot : $4,720.00)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (two pair, Fours and Threes)
jetblackx: shows (a flush, Ace high)
Hero said, "gg run better"
jetblackx collected 1200 from pot
Hero finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $2070.00.
jetblackx wins the tournament and receives $3450.00 - congratulations!

Summary
Total pot 1200 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: jetblackx (button) (small blind) showed and won (1200) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with two pair, Fours and Threes

, but oh well, cant complain.

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8586/2nd102.png
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2444/dsbrkr.png

Still up for the week tho:
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5554/weekk.png

Me running good again can only mean Brazil will start pwning again, gogogo!!


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Strikeforce spoilers below
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My $100 on JPN vs your $175 on Paraguay. (Or any smaller increments) Any takers?


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Hey guys,

I have recently started grinding NL10 6-max and getting a ton of breakeven sessions. PTR says I'm 33% tighter than optimal.

I'm basically playing a robotic style with pf opening like below:

Suited connectors: Raise 3x on button, else fold
KJ/KQ/AJ: Raise and fold to raise/3bet
AQ: Raise, 3-bet in position, fold to 3-bet OOP
22 - 77: Raise, 3-bet in position, call up to 3-bet OOP
88 - JJ: Raise, 3-bet in all positions
AK/QQ: 4-bet, fold to 5-bet

Anything out of the ordinary here?


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Hey guys, it's been a while since I've blogged. I'll probably make a big update in a week or two when I've got nothing else to do sitting on a plane or in the airport, but for now I have a question.

I'm gonna be studying in Sydney at UNSW this next semester, and I couldn't help but wonder what the live games were like. Are the best games found at casinos? Which are the best ones? I'm 19 so I can't play in casinos in the States, but I'm pretty sure you can gamble at 18 in Australia, no?

Basically I just wanna have somewhere fun to cooldown/unwind on a weekend or two and maybe play some low stakes soft games and pay for the next week's drinking while I'm at it.

Also if anyone wants to hang out or something I'll be arriving July 5th and I'm not gonna be doing much for the first few days except checking out the city. I'll be staying in Coogee Beach.

Uh I guess this is how blogs work:
NWS
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