so as you know i'm in vancouver and watching all these hockey games.
i went to the US vs CAN womens hockey gold medal game. it was a great time, until the end. there was almost a weird fight in the stands because some drunk canadian retard brought in some fake silver medals and started trying to put them on USA fans necks from behind. however, the fight was inter-canadian as some older Canadian guys took huge issue with the problems he was stirring. things got kind of elevated when a few canadian fans rushed the boards behind the US players during the silver presentation and put up some "Hockey is Canada's Game" signs behind them. I thought this was a bit tacky as well, and a little disappointing to see, but I'm sure alcohol was a factor and there's always going to be a few goons in any crowd. I might be on a youtube video because someone was filming it, I'll have to check it out.
Other than that, it was a great game (as far as womens "sports" can go), and the gold medal game environment was sick. Canada's women played an excellent 60 minutes and their goalie was a real warrior in the crease. The US Women seemed to have a clear speed edge, but the Canadians had way more grit and tact in how they controlled the game.
Vancouver has been a top notch host city imo, and is probably one of the best cities I've had the pleasure of visiting. It's a very easy walking city with excellent scenery. The public transport here is pretty impressive as well. I've been surprised at how few foreign visitors appear to be here. There is a ton of people from Scandinavian countries and Russia, but that's about it. The American turnout is very very low particularly considering we're hardly 50km from USA. I think it's fair to say that the amount of Americans present is = to Europeans if not slightly outdone. It is possible some people are more afraid to wear USA gear and "represent" as it is no longer trendy to be proud of being an American in the global scene these days.
As of right now, the USA is guaranteed to play in the Gold Medal game, with home advantage. This is a good thing for us, even though it will surely only be a home advantage with regard to line changes. I'm pretty torn with regard to Canada tonight. I kind of want them to lose because it'll be humorous, but at the same time I'm sure it will effectively kill the vibe in the city. I don't feel any need for USA to "prove" themselves in the gold medal game because we already beat Canada once and in USA the champion is crowned due to the rules of the tournament, not some delusional theories about best of 7's, what if's, and whose goalie is "Hot."
That being said, it is likely we'll have a North American showdown, and I doubt anyone in North America can feel bad about that. I expect teh gold medal game to be a battle regardless, and will be surprised if there is a blowout in any of the possible matchups. I was glad to see the US Coach resting our players fairly early in the Finland game, and I think it was a great statement game for the US and played out basically perfect with regard to building steam heading into the most important hockey game in US history since the Miracle. It's also pretty neat that both our men and women played in a Gold Medal game, I'm quite proud and happy for them.
Time to watch teh Canada/Slovak game, I expect big things. Very exciting time moving forward.
Team USA has sent a message stunning the Fins in a semi-final game they currently lead 6-0. Most people including myself felt this game would probably be a tight low scoring affair based on the Fins goaltender and defensive prowess but it's proved to be anything but. The fins haven't showed up very well but full marks to the Americans for simply overpowering them with speed, size, and skill. Miller has once again looked exceptional as he has all tournament long. He continues to prove he's the best in the world at his position.
If Canada beats Slovakia tonight I expect the Gold medal game to be a toss up 50/50 vs. the USA.
One distinct advantage the Americans will have is that they played 4/5 games at noon and Canada has played all of its games at 4:30PM. Routine can be big for these players and the Gold medal game will be played at noon which could really throw the Canadians off. Canada's depth is better but the Americans have more than enough pop to get the job done. Should be a great close game between both teams where anyone can win.
Also I'd like to say that team USA has made a statement in this tournament. They've got a lot of skill, size, and speed in their young forwards. These kids are really coming into their own. Most of all they've showed they have quite a bit more heart than the Russians or the Swedes who clearly have more skill. Team USA's desire to win at all costs is starting to rival that of the Canadians. Hopefully we'll have a lot of great games for years to come. I for one am hoping for a best of seven super-series during a summer at some point.
I still feel the Canadians are the stronger team overall but the goaltender position counts for everything in these one-game playoffs situation and there is no question that Miller has been a step above everyone at these Olympics. It's going to be a toss up but holy crap is it ever going to be exciting to watch!
whats the deal about leatherass?by longple, February 26
ive heard for along time now all around shit about leatherass that hes like this fish bumhunter hit and runner
i guess i just havent played long enough or something, or posted long enough on 2+2 to know what the deal is
i havent seen any of his videos but he seem to crush the games up to 25/50 and grind a ton according to his PTR on both FTP and PS, so how can he be a bumhunter if he is like 10 tabling 5/10 and 10/20?*
whats the deal, why does ppl talk shit about him? ^^
hi lp in few days will go to Unibet Open (budapest) a lot of friends will come
so that will be fun,also after unibet will go to Spring Poker Festival (wien),that will be a lot of fun love Wien and the girls there.
I'm also planing to go to Ept Snowfest but that will see how goes till then,
and after that for sure i go to WPT Bucharest so march will be very bussy.
Will also sell some % of the higher buyins,so if u plan to go to budapest open let me know and we can meet,also wien ,and if u are interested will sell but only accept if we can meet there.
will try to keep and update and the schedule for the tournaments.
Gl everyone and thanks for the transfer
You know they say it takes insanity or downs syndrome or some shit to do the same thing twice and expect different results.
I caught myself last night doing the same dumb shit I always do that costs me money. So I adjusted. I tried something different, to get different results. YAY IM NOT WETARDED! Tonight was night 2 of "pummel the fish with real hands" night. Since I dont know how to make graphs of live play I'll do my best to photoshop one.
This is roughly 4 hours of play, at an estimated 40 hands per hour dealt. I let myself slip twice unfortunately. I tried to bluff a donk off my missed draw and use table talk to assist, which resulted in him calling me with ace high. Props to him. And I got sloppy during my last 30 minutes knowing I was out the door, and started repopping and showing a few mercy calls with like 86o OOP and shit just to hit a flop and get some last minute action. Didnt work. I curse myself for degen'ing for even a second. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. These guys can beg me to stay as long as they want, I wont let their bullshit friendly comments try to bait me into gambling with them.
Taking weekend off with the wife, monday is next. I almost have a legit roll for live NL200 play now. All from 3 BI's. Knew I could fuckin do it.
I play lots 45 mans mostly and was wondering if anyone else plays lots of these as well im not as good at the 180 mans but i do put in a decent bit of 18-45 play mostly
I originally created this blog to help motivate myself to 'wrap-up' every day with the lessons I learned from that days sessions/videos + my thoughts on an interesting hand. Once again, I struggle with maintaining a more-than-rigorous 12 hour schedule, so to end my day with ONE more productive task is very difficult for me, considering my gaming/degenerate history. I've always had the bad habit of: work about 70% hard for a few hours -->> end day with a blunt and some TV. It's hard to break out of old habits.
The last two weeks have been good though. Me and Joe finally developed a schedule we really really like and it looks a bit like this: up everyday at 7, session 75 minutes, do p90x (totally amazing home-workout program, for those interested send a PM I'd be glad to help), shower/eat/session before 12:00, then HH review. From 1:00-3:00 we work on anything business, from contacting companies/finding potential partners/investors to working on our site and formulating other business plans. Then basically from 3 to 8 we do 2 more sessions, HH review and generally watch a video/discuss. Saturdays & Sundays are very casual, since our goal is to eventually reserve every Sunday for some comedic PUA show we've been dying to start filming. It's a busy day, but it's invigorating to be learning so much everyday and being so productive at the same time .. not to mention feeling extremely healthy and getting more ripped everyday.
Anyway, on to poker:
- 3betting hands like JT92ds in SB vs a LP raise is better 150bbs deep than 100, since people won't be raising gay flops as light.
- ALWAYS ALWAYS give a bare minimum of 10% of their range to be complete monkey BS in SSPLO.
- Generally, people who lead in 3b pots are trying to get folds out of hands with similar equity.
1) Conversely, in 3b pots, vs a range that mostly consists of aces, we can eliminate the aspect of 1) trying to maximize equity, and focus primarily on 2) try to bluff him off a better hand/hand with similar equity. So better to lead a board like T83 2-tone with a wrap because, with proper bet sizing (bet a good amount on flop so we can shove PSB on the turn), we can get him to fold any diamond turn, since nobody is just calling there with AAxxdd.
2) With a hand like JJQdd, we should consider other options since we're allowing him to play turns so well - basically folding all the cards that complete our draws. Regardless I like leading there anyway with that specific hand since a) most the money is probably going in regardless so doesn't really matter what happens, and b) if he folds a non-diamond Q or 7 turn.
3) IP in same situation with AAxx, we should be shoving the flop 90% of the time.
- GTO demands that somebody who bets the flop and then check-calls the turn when a flush comes, we need to be barreling 100% of the time on good rivers since he's c/cing there with a lot of sets + lower flushes + some 2pairs.
- Start 3betting some double-paired connected hands for deception + bluff value.
1) Pay very close attention to the hands and the situations we get in when 3 betting OOP. The main issue is most people turn their hands face up by the turn.
P.S. Laptop died and lost ALL my hands/programs/convo histories/cdkeys . What do you guys think about this badboy:
it's a celebration bitchesby collegesucks, February 25
haha after getting scammed for 3k and several months of online poker hiatus, i played some nl25-nl100 these past couple of weeks on full tilt and now i'm finally breaking even on ptr! lol
if you look you'll see that i lost -1.3k (+1~1.5k in several tourneys) in cash games on april 18th 2009, the day that someone from Europe logged into my account and spewed off my money in the most retarded fashion:
Submitted by : collegesucks
FullTiltPoker Game #11759358076: Table Rand (edu, 6 max) - $3/$6 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:45:10 ET - 2009/04/19
Seat 1: waitamin08 ($690.45)
Seat 2: AmeXCetuRioN ($988.05)
Seat 3: Hero ($672.60)
Seat 4: TexasTexx ($915.10)
Seat 5: artel76 ($136.45)
Seat 6: URnotINdanger2 ($600)
TexasTexx posts the small blind of $3
artel76 posts the big blind of $6
The button is in seat #3
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
URnotINdanger2 folds
waitamin08 folds
AmeXCetuRioN folds
Hero calls $6
TexasTexx raises to $18
artel76 raises to $60
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero calls $54
TexasTexx raises to $102
artel76 raises to $136.45, and is all in
Hero calls $76.45
TexasTexx calls $34.45
TexasTexx has 15 seconds left to act
TexasTexx bets $48
Hero raises to $536.15, and is all in
TexasTexx calls $488.15
Hero shows
TexasTexx shows
artel76 shows
Hero shows Ace King high
TexasTexx shows three of a kind, Kings
TexasTexx wins the side pot ($1,072.30) with three of a kind, Kings
artel76 shows a pair of Jacks
TexasTexx wins the main pot ($406.35) with three of a kind, Kings
Summary Duration 76s
Total pot $1,481.65 Main pot $409.35. Side pot $1,072.30. | Rake $3
Board:
Seat 1: waitamin08 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: AmeXCetuRioN didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Hero (button) showed and lost with Ace King high
Seat 4: TexasTexx (small blind) showed and won ($1,478.65) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 5: artel76 (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 6: URnotINdanger2 didn't bet (folded)
i requested a hand history for the period when my account was stolen and this is what i dug up. suspicious?
1 screw 1 million screwdriversby whamm!, February 25
this was my day yesterday. basically all i wanted to do was have a 3 monitor display, i talked to milkman and genjix about it and they gave me options:
*get a displayport( since you cannot connect 2 dvi and hdmi using 1 video card regardless how baller the model is) genjix
*get a 2nd cheap video card ( ez solution by milkman)
so im like great. ill take option 1 first and try what genjix recommended, just an adapter sounds cheap then i find out:
*my video card has a connector for display ports (YAY)
*my monitors dont support it (AKLGSKJDGKLASDH)
*adapters are expensive, only sold in the U.S. ------> not 100% sure itll work on asian branded monitors, kinda like 60/40 flip
after hours of trying to find a workaround in google, i finally think " screw this, ill go for the ez cheap 2nd card alternative" so i go with the milkman route (no pun intended) then find this gem out:
*my first card, a radeon hd5700, is so fucking huge, that the 2nd pci slot could not fit any other card known to man, but fits for ANOTHER 200usd radeon hd5700 (thx radeon, fuck you seriously)
*so in all my nerdrage, i decided i just buy another after 1 hour of trying to fit that shit 2nd card in (almost tilted and just fucking push it hard and wreck the pci slot and card lol) i go back to my parts supplier like 5min drive away and buy that 2nd card anyway
* i rush home, get started, find out that out of the million screwdrivers i had, the one i needed got lost, even tried those changable screwdriver heads coz the handle got lost and used my fingers which was quite pleasant, then keys and knives (LOL)
*finally got tokeweed to come over and borrow his screwdriver, but after an hour i finally managed to use my bare hands and get all screws done lol
so i fire the computer up finally and the 3rd display had it moments and did not display which almost had me throwing stuff at this point, but eventually it did.
now i realized, i had an SLI mobo capable of doing crossfire, an app that lets u use the performance of the two cards together to give you basically twice the power and maximize the 500 dollar investment on goddam video cards when i only play starcraft lol. i had a hard time getting crossfire to detect both, since the vendor didnt tell me i needed to connect like a bridge that came in the box (TY again)
now that everythigns done, i see that 3rd monitor cannot be used in crossfire apps since crossfire is only for 2 monitors, , i just shrug since ive been running so bad it just felt like another aa vs set on a dry board against a nit. i did not play poker the whole day and was just happy its all over. ty for reading. its been a fun day
one more thing, HAS ANY HUMAN IN THIS PLANET EVER BEAT JUST 1 QUICK GAME VS THE COMP(ROOKIE) IN NBA2K10? THAT SHIT'S SO IMPOSSIBLE IVE BEEN TILTING HARD PAST FEW DAYShttp://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/77ba2.nerd-rage.gif
Got ahold of SC2 and played those qualifiying matches, got ranked in some Gold divison and now its saying server will shut down in 4 minutes so i logged off i dunno... lol
Didnt play pokerz the last weeks since hughe amount of heavy university tests ...
passed all
only 2 semester to go till i am finished and have my degree
weeee
pokerwise
First session since a long time today
rush poker 6max NL50
1 h 10 minutes
+ 170$
1389 hands.
Yes is a debilitating existanceby toby71au, February 25
My entire life has been an answer of YES. Yes I want kids, Yes I want to get married, Yes I want a promotion, Yes I want to be a slave to debt, Yes I understand you are unhappy, Yes I want you to take the kids away from me, Yes I want to give you half of my existence for the next ten years.
Now I have the freedom to say NO.
No I am not happy. No I will not give you more. No I don't care that you aren't happy.
Why is having so much freedom so hard to take? Why do I miss the things I hated the most? Why do we always have to hit the bottom of the curve before it gets better?
This is not an emo slit wrists type thread just an expression of random thoughts and strong emotions.
Enjoy my pain.
Longple thanks for the tough advice and reach out the other day. Appreciated.
A friend has recently forwarded me to Disney website (Its Canada by the way), and I found out about this movie:
I just love Tim Burton and it will be the best film based on Alice for sure.
Poker
Win - I still keep 4 tabling and its awesome.
Win- I tilted. A lot, even on four tables. 1st time I disobeyed my rule of taking a break after at least every 60 minutes. Standard stuff, but a good lesson.
2nd time I realised something very important - I spew huge when I play right after I come from work. My mind is still overwflowing with all the work stuff and I spew a shitton. Now I know I have to wait at least 60 minutes when I come home before starting poker.
I also decided to standardise my preflop raise sizing to be ready for higher limits. I use the positional systems with the following raise sizing at NL50 which I want to practice next month or so so it becomes my standard and I start changing PF sizing based on table when it gets to my blood.
UTG 2
HJ 1.75
CO 1.50
BU 1.25
SB 2
Also, I have 3 hands I need help with. Please post bet sizing to all bets/raises and your action if you get re-raised.
in the ass and call me a bitch. I did it AGAIN. I played super loose aggro vs a bunch of fucktard fish at NL200 live. Why oh why do I keep doing this! I look back at my own blog and talk about pulling my head out of my ass and quit trying to FPS and outplay everyone at the table just because I see them limping in with trash. Yet I saw a guy limp UTG and call a raise with J3o. The raiser had 94s and was just fucking with him and they checked it down, which is how I saw what they had. At that point I silently said to myself "it's on now bitches".
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I dropped almost 3 buyins in like an hour. I dont even remember how exactly. Basically I just NEVER connected with anything whatsoever, and think I ended up check/folding a lot of turns and shit.
Then something amazing happened... I remembered the advice given on LP. I remember reading Myth's articles about how to beat live. I remembered all the posts and all the hands posted.. I tightened the fuck up, said to hell with worrying about a nitty image, and just waited for the big ones. I still saw cheap flops calling the blinds with misc suited hands, 22-99, if it was raised UTG and someone called I insta-mucked KQo pre, etc etc etc. And in about 2 hours I made it all back plus a cherry on top (bout $80) before I decided to call it a night.
It's just fantastic how light these players get it in with. And while I still cant help but think my A9o is good like 90% of the time preflop, these fucking hands just always fail to connect. You really need the AK's and JJ's and shit to be able to properly value town. I even raised AA pre, flop comes A45r, I cbet, get called 3 way, I check turn OOP desperately hoping some tool to bet since there was a lot of that going on, then value bet river and get 1 caller. He mucked but um, wtf did he have? Didnt matter that I raised UTG and a big fat ace hits the flop, somehow his hand was worth about 40 BB's.
So I set a new challenge for myself. Since I'm still addicted to lag play, I'm going to force myself to adapt to being nitty by taking a shot at NL2 FR, since thats how these NL200 games play. I did this a long time ago, starting with play money. I actually had a real roll, but I decided to try play money to get myself used to being a nit, since theres just no other way to play these guys. It worked, and I graduated to NL2 and won like 50 BI's just proving to myself I could do it. It was the first and only time I ever looked at winnings in terms of results and not $$$, since clearly the money is peanuts. These NL200 games are so fucking juicy I simply must start raping them. It's worth it to retrain myself at NL2 so I can play live, because now the $$$ is actually meaningful.
Show me deepstack graph plzby Night2o1, February 24
I was dicking around my laptop database (which is v small, like 25k hands), and I ended up filtering 3-6 player, filtered out and filtered only for sb & bb and effective stacks < or > 145bb. The result was interesting. My winrate with <145bb stacks is very small, with a strongly declining red line, and my winrate with >145bb stacks is enormouslymassive with a strongly inclining red line. I would really like to see some of your guy's graphs with 145bb stacks with or without the blinds, in 6max play, to see if the result is typical or if it shows that my 100bb game is suffering.
I also just had a thought that I should filter for like 75-145bb vs 145bb+ to remove whatever weird effect shortstacks might have (then again there are no shortstackers in my games on ftp HAHA STARS PLAYERS and FTP databases from jan. or earlier, plz filter for 75-145bb instead of just <145bb).
Anyway I will post my graphs later, my laptop doesn't have internet access right this second.
They're not spectacular or anything but I thought a first person view might be more entertaining than just replays, for those who don't have a key. I'll likely be posting more in the future so just go to my channel if you want to check for updates.
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so march will be very bussy.
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