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As some of you may know i went busto from this blog. Ive even typed up my poker summary as a poem.

After going busto i quit poker. And since i have finished my university degree in Electrical Engineering and had no job and no income I went on the dole while looking for a job.

Now I have finally found the job and have been working for 2 weeks! At NOVORAIL alliance. Which in Australia is 4 companies working together to re-energize Sydney's railway network. Seems like a really sweet job so far. The only things ive been doing however is reading up theory and jsut taking orders from my boss here and there. But hopefully I will start doing some real stuff soon.

The job includes making substations and overhead lines for the trains. So it involves working with 66kV AC overhead lines and 1.5kV rail wires. So its really dangerous and the company is very strict on safety.

I had to do a medical test where they check you for drugs and all that sort of stuff. So naturally i was shitting my pants cos ive smoked some MJ like 3 weeks before the test. This is why I havnt posted this blog earlier. Cos i wanted to make sure they are not gonna find something and fire me. So now that my medical has come back and ive passed I cant really smoke anymore(they do random checks now and then) and I dont really want to either.

So yeah jsut wanted to share it.

Also as you might have also noticed ive been only posting girls in my blog and funny stuff in the rofl thread and other random posts here and there cos im still part of the community eventhough i dont play poker.

Also a question:
Should I live 1hr away form my job with my parents and dont pay rent. And save up for a nice car or should I rent some place in the city, close to work so that I dont have to get a car?

TLDR: I quit poker and got electrical engineering job that pays well.

cheers all. Pix in next blog


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Hey there, long time no see again! Just over a year ago I tried to make a 50c/$1 6max video for this site, and after a couple of attempts, bad content, tilt and silly plays in the video which I did not really want to show resulted in fail. With that fail, pokertableratings.com reported me as -$150 or so in 800 hands, me being OCD and all, I endeavored to fix that red report and make it green with a winrate of at least 2BB/100, I think any lower than that is a pretty bad winrate particularly for myself and particularly at a stake which is so far below where I used to play regularly. After over 100k hands, months on and off of playing those stupid stakes I've finally attained a winrate of 2.02BB/100 on pokertableratings. I can officially stop playing there now which is a huge relief for me.

I withdrew about $50k late Feb/Early March, leaving myself with just $250 intending to quit playing for a while and just robusto a bankroll whenever I restarted playing. Just 2 days after leaving myself with $250, I went ahead and started playing again, after experiencing some wild swings early on which put me up to 1.2k and then dropping to ~$20, almost bustoing a "bankroll" for the first time in my life in the process, I've managed to work it back up playing a mix of micro stakes. The results culminated in ~$2.5k profit, and attaining the aforementioned 2.02BB/100 winrate on 50c/$1 according to pokertableratings.com.

Here are said stats for those interested:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4582/sincemarch2nd.jpg

Another finally is that this is probably the start of my run at PLO. Although I'm gonna be starting at low stakes again, mainly because I don't know the game very well at all, and because I don't have a huge amount of money online anyway, I do expect to move up through the stakes fairly rapidly and improve quickly. I think long term, learning other games is extremely necessary to maximise potential winnings and I should've done this long ago. No doubt, if it wasn't for my OCD tendencies with regards to making my stats look relatively pretty I would've done so, but alas, better late than never.

A huge help, when I get around to it, is that I'm going to attempt to sell my WoW account and never play the game again. I don't regret playing the game, and to be honest I still find it kinda fun, but it's too much of a time sink and I need to focus on poker as I've severely underachieved/underplayed the last 1.5-2 years or so. Hopefully I'll get a few buyins for the account and pad the roll I have left in Stars account a little too.

Goals from here on out are to move up through the PLO ladder, hopefully getting to a point where I can win at PLO400 or so for a reasonable winrate, rebuild my bankroll so I can then play a mix of 400PLO, 600NLHE, 1kNLHE for the rest of the year. Hopefully, without WoW, and without 50c/$1 winrates holding me back, I can get to where I should be again, and sort myself out.

Here's hoping!


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Aight so, a little background info.

I'm kinda dating this chick for the past month, and i decide to invite her as my date to a party last night. Well we talk about it all day and shes acting all excited and shit, then when i finally go to pick her up, as im like 5 minutes away from her house i get a call from her friend, whos like, "oh shes at my house, when are you gonna be here to take us to the party?". I say "... umm 5 minutes i guess...." then hang up. Now here im thinking, 'WTF why is her friend coming, and i kinda get instantly raged, i dont want a friend coming on a date wtf. Anyways, I get to her house and pick them up, and kinda just turn my music up the whole drive being silent and irritated. We get to the party and i kinda get out of my car, say "bring the cups" in kind of an asshole-ish way and go inside. So im in there chilling for like 5 minutes with my friends and some other girls and i notice that they didnt even come inside yet.

So i walk outside, and just by chance im walking out with this other girl, who just happened to be going out at the same time, so when i get out i notice my girl is really pissed off and quiet, and im asking her why they havent come in, and shes being all awkward and quiet, so i just kinda walk back inside, and am like whatever. So another 10 minutes go by and we need the cups so im like fuck i gotta go back out there... So i go out again and i ask her whats wrong. She basically tells me she thinks im really mad at her, and im just having fun with "that other girl".(who i just happened to exit the house at the same time as) So i end up kinda apologizing and saying im not mad at her, and basically defuse her anger and we make up, and i give her a piggy back ride inside.

So we start playing fuck the dealer, and ring of fire and all that shit, and everything is better now, me and her are getting drunk, vibing, being cool, you know. So after i while i realize this other guy keeps talking to her over and over. And im kinda getting annoyed by it, but i just ignore it, and kinda come cut him off, or just try to stay with my girl most of the time, but its a party so i gotta be roaming and entertaining the masses you know. So me and her keep hanging out, we both are pretty damn drunk, and shes getting in her, im almost gonna take my clothes off mood apparently. I'm kinda almost in drunken zombie mode, you kinda walk around, and just stare at people lol. It usually only lasts like 30min to an hour, but im sure u know what i mean. So anyways i notice she keeps disappearing all the time, mostly because her friend constantly brings her off to other rooms and bullshit. And i notice that almost eveyrtime i go look for him, its those 2 and that guy that kept trying to talk to her. So im getting a little more annoyed, and i end up kinda ignoring her the whole night, after telling her friend i was getting a little pissed off she kept ignoring me and they kept talking to this dude.

So anyways, we eventually leave and im basically stone the whole drive home, just ignoring everything, and just thinking about how im gonna handle this situation. So after like 20 minutes of complete silence, i drop off her friend, and i start to take my girl home. After like 5 minutes of more silence, shes like.. "why are you mad at me?" So i basically tell her, im frustrated because i invited her as my DATE, and she brought her friend, (im usually okay with a friend coming along, but not a fucking friend who pulls her off constantly and cant be alone). Then im basically telling her that i dont know whats going on between us, and im getting kinda annoyed that shes so "off and on" if you know what i mean. And i told her its so hard to find time to hang out with her, that its kinda stupid when she invites a friend. I dunno, i think im being reasonable. But anyways, she decides that she wants to spend the whole day tuesday with me to make up for it, so im like okay whatever we will see how this goes.

NOW, today i log on facebook, And i see on her facebook pages, shes not added friends with that guy from the party. And Their convo was something like this...

Guy- Whats crack a lackin lol?1
Girl- Hey not much, just recovering from last night lol
Guy- Haha we did get a litle wild haha
Guy- Well if you ever wanna hangout outside of a party let me know lol
Girl- Haha we did, i had a good time, message me your number!


So now, what is my course of action.. It really pisses me off because one of my best friends, BROUGHT this guy. So now i dont know how to deal with this.

TL:DR
girl trippin
guy hitting on her
she gives guy number
murder?


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What kinda crazy world is this becoming? This is a story I never imagined I'd hear about unless it was in a bad movie... maybe a bad porn movie.

UPDATE: The LA Times reports that Stephen Hill has died as a result of head injuries suffered from his roughly 50 ft. fall...Developing... LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A porn actor suspected of killing a colleague with a sword was taken into police custody Saturday after he fell some 40 feet from a rocky hillside from which he had been threatening to jump, officials said. A "less lethal munition" was used against Stephen Clancy Hill just before his plummet, said police Officer Bruce Borihanh, who had no other details about the weapon that was used. SWAT officers spent part of Saturday afternoon trying to talk Hill down from the outcropping as he clutched a sword. It was unknown whether the sword was the murder weapon in Tuesday's deadly attack at a DVD production center that also left two people injured. Hill fled to the Chatsworth neighborhood hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday. Borihanh said Hill, 34, would be booked on murder and attempted murder charges after he was treated by paramedics. His condition was unknown. Story continues below The charges were filed against Hill Friday after Eric Jover, who runs the Ultima DVD production house, offered a $2,000 reward on the company's website for information leading to his arrest. Hill attacked a colleague with a sword that was used as a film prop during a social gathering at the Ultima's studios about a week after being told he was being fired and that he would have to move out of the production facility, where he had been living, authorities said. He then turned on two others who rushed to their co-worker's defense. One of those who attempted to help, Herbert Hin Wong, 30, was killed in the attack. Hill, whose professional name is Steve Driver, fled in an SUV with the murder weapon, authorities said. Ultima is located in the San Fernando Valley, known in the adult film industry as Porn Valley for its large number of porn businesses. The small company produces niche films featuring fetishes and sexual domination of men. Hill was convicted of second-degree assault and a handgun charge in March 1999 in Maryland, according to court records.

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http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo219/Reminiscize/untitled-1.jpg

LOL not sure what to make of this.. maybe I'm paying off too much or alot of preflop coolers


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http://img99.imageshack.us/f/carthacbr1.jpg/

First 1k I have made at poker since I started at NL10 with 60 dollars in January (technically October but I only played for like a week with $30 then quit when I lost lolol)

Pretty glad I stuck with poker. Not for financial aspects as I havent spent any of my poker money or anything, but for the enjoyment I have gotten out of it so far. Never would have thought before that poker had any sort of meta game or strategy to it. I thought it was the equivalent of a slot machine with playing cards O_O




TLDR version: /brag post and trying to justify it by saying poker is complex but fun

edit: adding graph from the past 1.5 weeks at NL25

http://img138.imageshack.us/f/carthacgraph.jpg/


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taken care with hoylemj, thank you for helping me out


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http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1055/junestartingbadly.jpg

It was nice while it lasted at the end of last month. IDK I guess I will play some nl25 or something...

roll 1850


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Don't take this shit, it's not good for your health

Anyway, I've cash out all from Pokerstars, and need some info about
any site without tilting software, and soft games + rakeback
Any help appreciated Oh, I play nl10 / nl25



My last post was like half year ago, so many things have changed... nah, still the same shit.

As summer starts I'm going to post more often so stay tuned



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edit: nm about the swap

So far my hu sng results are depressingly terrible, but my turbo mtt/sng are pretty good but i have very low volume in those.

In the meantime, I played a little on ftp since i just swapped 200 over there, played a turbo-rush-mtt-rebuy and did prety well, the field was incredebly fucken soft

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/8210/rushmtt.jpg


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I was searching some sutff at my computer when I found a unfinished video of my old counter-strike team, back when I played CS pro. My nickname there was "tutz" or "tutao" but I don't think you can see it there cause the quality sucks @ youtube.
This is was gonna be our third movie... too bad our lineup couldn't stick too long and I never finished this video.
from 0:52 to 1:20 and 1:27 to 1:43 there is no video, just some guidelines I had put there to help me, so if you want to see this vid just foward that parts.



those were some good times, I made some great friends

me @
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1:44
2:40
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I'm thinking about getting a japanese Kanji for each wrist on the inside ofcorse.

"inner strength" and "self belief"

Can someone who knows japanese or has a friend, please get me 2 pictures? I dont trust search engines, dont know if their reliable or not .

Thank you!


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I have only $76 on Stars, which I would like to transfer to FTP. It would be great if someone can help. Thank you!


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The OCEAN

Some of the greatest scientific minds have attempted to unerstand personality tendancies, Frued thought that people were best grouped by the bodily oriface from which they dervied the greatest pleasure, Jung looked at the positon of the stars at birth, and Victorian maverick scientist John Galton looked at the shape of the skull.
Other scientist pursued different approach: to look at the words people use to describe others, and to find basic groupings from that. It began in the 1930s, by going through the unabridged dictionary, making a list of 18000 words. From amusing to abhorrent, benign to belligerent. The list was narrowed as best they could, later early computer analysis were applied, narrowing the list to 200 key words. Thousands of people were surveyed to rate themselves and others on sub-sets of these adjectives, and increasingly advanced statistical analysis was applied to the information. I the 1990's several independant large-scale studies, some in Chinese and Spanish, showed results, and found that they were identifying the same 5 core dimensions of personality. The Big Five
The groupings are commonly labelled 'Openness' 'Conscientiousness' 'Extroversion' 'Agreeableness' and 'Neuroticism' together they are the holy grail of personality profiling, easily remembered by O.C.E.A.N.
The attributes tend to remain unchanged over a persons life, and have been shown to influence consumer choice, performance in the work place, success in relationships and choice of hobbies.
But, what I am interested in is how it effects their decisions at the poker table. Aiming to get to that key of knowing what they are thinking, which will tell you how they will react if you do a certain action, like overbet bluff when their hand is likely a bluff catcher.



Factors In Terms of Poker

These are my guesses as to how this could be useful at the poker table. Your ideas would be most welcome, dear reader.

Openness- (inventive / curious vs. cautious / conservative). Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience.
I have a rich vocabulary.
I have a vivid imagination.
I have excellent ideas.
I spend time reflecting on things.
I am not interested in abstractions. (reversed)
I do not have a good imagination. (reversed)
I have difficulty understanding abstract ideas. (reversed)

Identifying this factor in a player could tell us about and how straightforwardly they will play their hand. And how adaptable they will be if we put them in tough spots, or how much metagame will effect them. E.g. If they can't even imagine that someone could be 4bet bluffing them, then we might be able to get away with it several hands in a row.

Conscientiousness- (efficient / organized vs. easy-going / careless). A tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned rather than spontaneous behaviour. Inquisitiveness.
I am always prepared.
I am exacting in my work.
I get chores done right away.
I like order.
I pay attention to details.
I leave my belongings around. (reversed)
I make a mess of things. (reversed)
I often forget to put things back in their proper place. (reversed)
I shirk my duties. (reversed)[30]

If we could identify a high level of conscientiousness in a player It could tell us if he will be likely to make big folds? or at least that he will be able to stick to a plan, if we can figure out the plan he has we can know how to play against him.
Low conscientiousness would lead them to not being careful, and I think would make them much more likely to call down to see the cards, because they don't care.

Extraversion- (outgoing / energetic vs. shy / withdrawn). Energy, positive emotions, surgency, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.
I don't mind being the center of attention.
I feel comfortable around people.
I start conversations.
I talk to a lot of different people at parties.
I am quiet around strangers. (reversed)
I don't like to draw attention to myself. (reversed)
I don't talk a lot. (reversed)
I have little to say. (reversed)

This doesn't seem revelvant to how a person will play a hand of poker?

Agreeableness- (friendly / compassionate vs. competitive / outspoken). A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.
I am interested in people.
I feel others’ emotions.
I have a soft heart.
I make people feel at ease.
I sympathize with others’ feelings.
I take time out for others.
I am not interested in other people’s problems. (reversed)
I am not really interested in others. (reversed)
I feel little concern for others. (reversed)
I insult people. (reversed)
I like being isolated. (reversed)

This might influence how they play a hand: those with alot of agreeableness might be more like to be socially pressure, could be asked to check it down in chat for sick angle shooting?
Those who are on the competitive end might be ones to have ego issues, or get blinked by thinking they are 'right'.

Neuroticism- (sensitive / nervous vs. secure / confident). A tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability. Emotional stability.
I am easily disturbed.
I change my mood a lot.
I get irritated easily.
I get stressed out easily.
I get upset easily.
I have frequent mood swings.
I often feel blue.
I worry about things.
I am relaxed most of the time. (reversed)
I seldom feel blue. (reversed)

Those with a high neuroticism score would be easily tiltable. Could make a special effort to make plays with implied tilt-odds. Or tilting comments.




Determining Someones' Types
The usual way is to take a personality test like this one:
http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
but asking people 30 questions at the poker table might be a bit awkward. What you can do is observe them carefully, and after gathering a how they speak and act, run though the attributes O.C.E.A.N. and see if any stand out as high/low.
It may be that poker players are all fairly uniform personality type. At least the huge tilters probably go bust pretty quickly!


Anyway, This is just a brief overview and seed of ideas, if anyone wan't to discuss how this could be used, or why its totally inapplicable I'd be keen to hear it.
Next week, I might expand on this with a tendencies blog post of the categories I use when thinking about opponents

Fight on my Brothers in War


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This guy CLEARLY just hates me

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On PTR he's a solid winner LOLWAT

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Oh and lol you sly devildog you: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/832285


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it's that time of night - and I'm just drunk enough to get emo off these kinds of songs

so do your worst LP - give me your sad songs!


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transfer first to credible/high post count and winning players here blah blah
low post count, shady scammer types send first obv to get ur money on ftp.
still need up to 2k. ill just grind the remaining for some cheeseburgers at ftp and rebuild whatever

so far ty to:
lilzhiming
bfranchise99
justastation




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Ouch. Today was my first losing day in a while. Unfortunately it was a bad one! I probably played pretty badly as I bluffed my stack off many times today. I know for sure I was tilted by the end.

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7244/todaymg.jpg

Oh well.

And overall

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/9996/100nlrush.jpg

Back to the grind tomorrow!


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2nd again my heads up pretty much sucks, was quite a long heads up game though took the chip lead at one point, ended going out in some ultra spazzy way lol

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