Yesterday I nearly got scammed. I am looking for a new house, which I have now found, but before moving into my current abode I accepted an offer from someone else. That offer seemed too good to be true and there were some scam like things I've seen elsewhere which raised my suspicions, so before I went any further I did a little research, and found his IP address relates to that of a known nigerian scammer.
Today he sent me an email asking for a deposit, which would definitely have ended things since I haven't even seen the house yet lol, but I haven't replied yet. I must say his previous messages were a lot more normal than this obvious scamming crap. Here it is:
How are you doing today ? I just got word from the city council regarding the tenancy form approval and am glad to let you know that your tenancy form has been reviewed and accepted so you have been approved to rent one of the rooms available. What i was told to tell you is for you to pay the required deposit to the below information. All you have to do is to log on to www.westernunion.com and register, after doing that, you click the send money in minutes button and then fill the form, the confirmation will be sent to your phone or emailed to you. Once you receive that, you are to call and activate the transaction. Email me with the transfer info.
Receivers Name: Terry Lane
Address: 133 Edward Street Brighton BN2 0JL
Once you have sent the deposit, kindly attach and e-mail me with the deposit slip been given to you after the transfer or e-mail me with the below info.
And after the deposit has been made you just get back to me with the below information..
Once i receive the details, I will send you the receipt, residency approval and rent agreement confirmation immediately i receive the deposit. I would be waiting to hear from you to know if you got my
email or not.
Thanks for your time and effort!
Sincerely,
Terry Lane
So I'm looking for suggestions on how to stitch him right up... I am aiming for humiliation here...
I've been in Vientiane, Laos for a couple of days. I'm here to get my 1year Thai Visa, but I'm stuck waiting here for the university to send me the visa papers. It isn't a problem to be here except that I've kind of slipped out of vacation / travel mode and I'm really in a mindset to get working on my finances. Still going to get some exploring of the city done this weekend since I'm here though!
Played 4k hands of poker this month, ~4-6 tabling over the past 3 days. I've finally been winning again and running really hot. But its good, because this is the *perfect* time for a heater seeing as how my roll was down to 2.2k and is now at 3.7k. I think I've been playing well too and I've been getting some poker-studying in. With disciplined play and any luck I hope things don't get real rough again too soon haha.
Well I guess here is my first graph close to qualifying as a brag in a long time, woo
I'm selling up to 80% of my action for the 4 million gtd event on February 21st. This will only be my second time playing the Sunday Million, but should be +EV, and you can look at my previous couple of blogs to see some of my MTT experience.
10% = $21.50
Whoops. I guess I couldn't play this after all. The following amounts of been sent back.
21.50 elite00fm
43.00 spewtard
21.50 tiagoxdd
21.50 hneves182
65.00 longple
Sorry guys
Such a cool Commerce hand by JonnyCosMo, February 12
This post is a 100% shameless brag, so if you don't like reading my brags gtfo and move on to the next thread. Hand happened earlier today at Commerce. Villan is a certain older gentleman wearing a certain unnamed MMA logo on his hat and t-shirt (I will keep it unnamed, but for those who are here and playing the games you will know exactly who I'm talking about). Villan has a massive case of hero syndrome (and apparently did not realize I have a bigger case of it) where he wants to make the big call downs, the big bluffs, and basically the most heroic play possible then show his cards and be like LOOK AT ME, I AM GOD OF THIS GAME, SUP?
Game is short handed 10/20 where Villan limps in the CO, SB is young kid who raises to $80, I am in BB with and call. Villan also calls. 3way to flop.
Flop: ($240)
SB checks, I bet $200, Villan calls pretty quickly, SB folds.
Turn: ($640)
I bet $620, Villan immediately asks "You have a set?" then proceeds to tank for 2 or so minutes. Finally he makes the call.
River: ($1880)
I check pretty quickly assuming my hand is good here >%50 of the time with the way the action went. Villan doesn't waste anytime and shoves all-in for $4900. So I stood up and called over a few people I knew that were walking around the table to come and watch what I was going to do to this poor man.
Then I called. He shakes his head with disgust and mucks. Table the A9 high ftw of the $11k+ pot. Dealer calls me "Young man" (reference to Peter Tran here at Commerce for those who know who I'm talking about). I <3 this place.
1k hands, down over 8 BI, worst swing ive had so far, keep flopping good hands and running into the nuts played in the most wtf ways ever. I get called preflop with any two and they always outflop me. Honestly ... just lost like 1/3 of my profit on those stakes in 1 fucking session. This game is fucking dumb.
Showdown sheksek shows,
fcloutier doesn't show,
sheksek wins $3.99 USD from main pot
Edit: After smoking a bowl, listening to some Ronald Jenkees and moving up to NL20 (I have like 40BI for NL20 after donkament score but still set a goal to play 20k NL10 hands first)
anyone going to vegas in may? LP meetup again?by whamm!, February 11
thinking about going but obv not playing the ME. last trip was kinda whacked, spent a lot more than i should've, destroyed my roll. would like to do it again lolol
might go by june if ever the situation allows.fwiw, no purpose or reason no nothin' haha
Blahhhhhhh disaster session
Lost 2 flips at the beginning, the rest was getting it in overpair vs 5 outer, straight vs set on turn (rivers a boat), set losing to straight, set of 4s on AK4 getting it in on K turn vs AK, losing more flips and 3 outers, etc
Overall, I liked my play but probably should have had a stop loss
My roll's back down to 800 now, time to regrind some nl25
Although I am taking part in asdf2000 coaching mtt sngs offer so I might just do that instead
Trip report (tl;dr, Oozing)by sawseech, February 11
I had my shoulder scoped on Wednesday to repair anterior and posterior cuff damage. Here is my account of the experience:
In the days leading up to the surgery I found myself to be hypomanic. I suspect that it had something to do with the fear of imminent death. I send an email to pokerstars support, willing my funds to my brother in the event of my death and then proceed to deluge the forums and this blog with an array of hypomanic diarrhea, which amuses some and irritates others. I think that I wanted to leave something, anything of myself in the world that I could to help whoever might stumble upon it and derive any form of value from it that they could. This, without question, tells me that I want to have children, today.
I win a moderate sum of money, which means nothing to me. I've always found hypomania to be beneficial to my roll.
Wednesday arrives and I find myself to be strangely calm. Still hypomanic, I find it difficult to sleep. I force myself to take the rest. I wake up, cranky and sore. I shower thoroughly and get dressed and grab my knapsack. My brother drops me and my mother off at the hospital. The next few hours are rather boring. Multiple people ask me questions and I repeat myself time and again, deadpan. My mother is chattering incessantly and I ask her to please stop talking. She complies. I close my eyes and chimp down.
The surgical team arrives and I crack a smile for the first time today. My orthopedist is as bright and perky as ever. Amazing since she's completed, by my count, at least three procedures so far today. I remind myself to send truffles, if I live.
I check out the surgical assistant, and she's rock solid. A younger, slightly more enthusiastic version of my orthopedist. I'm helping to train this person to become the orthopedist to the next generation. Fantasic. I turn my eye to the anesthetist and I'm satisfied. He has the hands of a poker player, and I doubt that he's ever made a false move in his life.
I'll probably live.
A small bag of an obscure substance is attached to my IV.
My orthopedist and the anesthetist vanish like ghosts. Where did they learn to do that, at ninja school? Damn, this stuff is good.
The surgical assistant remains to walk me to the bay. My head is high, my steps steady. She's old hat, and has probably seen her fair share of running. They don't do that where I'm from. Didn't she get the memo?
They direct me to the table, and I comply. They hook me up to the stations, and I notice that the beeps are frequent. I breathe deep and easy, and the beeps slow.
Someone new arrives. This must be the gas man, because all activity has ceased and everyone is smiling. This must be in the manual. Send the patient off to lalaland with a smile. I play along, and remark that this is just another day at the office for me. The assistant replies that they're trying something new, that they're going to do this without anesthesia. I ask if it's the year 1400. She says no, it's 1500. I smile.
"This is the part where I go to sleep."
The mask comes down and I no longer exist, with a smile.
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I have the shadow of a memory of words being spoken, joviality, and being physically manipulated.
I'm back, with a start. I gulp down the O2 like it's water. More. Must have more. I can't see anything. Oh, right, eyes facing in that direction. Fuck me. Where the fuck am I?
Oh, right. OK. I'm not dead, or at least I think that I'm not dead. If this is hell, then it's 4:05 and unusually cold for the season.
I play a game of tug-of-war with the nurse assigned to my station: I pull the oxygen mask down and cough up phlegm repeatedly and, for lack of recourse, swallow it, and then I forget to replace the mask. She puts the mask back in place. Repeat.
Eventually I regain what she must have regarded as consciousness. She titters around at the head of my bed. I make movements to try and sit up, which is hard because my right arm is mummified or entangled in some form of obscure swaddling, or so I think. She asks me if I want to sit up and I say yes but it comes out sounding more like urgghz. She takes that as an affirmative and elevates the head of the bed. I try to thank her, but end up saying erekro.
The nurse assigned to my station sits upright at the foot of my bed and observes me with what can only be described as the cool. I've noticed that my throat is sore. I'm still coughing up phlegm, but at reduced intervals, and now have the wherewithal to remember to replace the mask myself. Her gaze never falters and she makes no false moves.
It suddenly occurs to me that I'm thirsty, and so I ask if I could have a glass of water, please, only to then remember that all I'm permitted to have is ice chips, because I've been around the block a few dozen times. The other nurses laugh as one, but my assigned nurse merely cracks a brief smile. One of the others remarks that I've phrased my request interestingly. My assigned nurse offers ice chips and I accept. She runs off to the ice chips store and comes back and feeds them to me and they are delicious.
A few minutes pass and I begin to experiment with the concept of oxygen mask removal. My nurse makes no move to intercede, letting the now fully conscious me be the judge. She occassionally offers me the gentle reminder to breathe deeply, which I gladly take on the occasions that I have forgotten to breathe. At one point she informs me that my O2 stats are a little low, her words not mine, and so I put the mask on and concentrate on sucking oxygen for as long as I can stand it.
Eventually I find that I can successfully oxygenate on my own. My nurse stands up and makes a beeline for my right shoulder. I lean forward. She guides me to a slightly more forward position and checks what I now identify as compress bandages, a kilometer of tape, and a really snazzy jet-black sling. "There's some minor oozing," she says. I glance backwards, not to see anything in particular, but more to acknowledge the awesome fact that I have now oozed. I hrmm it, and she adds a couple more bandages and tapes it up nice and snug.
Hello LP, I am a lurker that wants to take a shot at blogging because i feel like it will help me keep track of my progress. I started playing online poker in early December and have been on a roalercoaster ever since. I’ll have a winning session, think im one of the poker gods themselves, and spaz out and lose 5 buy in’s trying to run double/triple barrel bluffs with absolute garbage.
I think my biggest leak that caused this was always trying to win every pot, and having a hard time folding. Instead of thinking “What line can i take to Win the most or Lose the least,” I am stuck on the winning the most part. I felt as if every pot i played i had to absolutely win, and this lead to alot of blind betting and raising without thinking of my opponents holdings, and only thinking about my own.
Ok, enough about the past.
I currently attend McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and am in an Honours Bachelor of Science Program. I am a dedicated Toronto Raptors fan, and enjoy long walks on the beach (kidding about the last part, if anyone wants to talk basketball I am always down). I currently play 10NL with a ~$450 bankroll on stars and am planning to move up to 25NL once i establish a solid winrate, or move down to 5NL if necessary.
Ok, and now onto some of my current concerns with my game.
I believe that one of my biggest leaks has to be continuation betting too often. I checked my PT3 over my first 12k hands and saw that I am continuation betting 96% of flops. I believe this is again because of the pattern of thinking i have. I always try to push my opponent off any hand he has by being agressive, and this over aggressiveness costs me alot of money. Currently i am down 5 BI at 10NL and going over my Hand Histories about 4BI’s of losses are basically bet pf, cb f, opponent calls, bet again turn (opponent calls), either c/f river or push if a scare card comes up. I really feel like I need to tame my agression.
So the First Question I have for you guys is:
When Continuation Betting, what is your thought process, and what things make you not want to cb.
Lastly, I want to leave you guys with some hands that i played and your thoughts on the lines that i took.
Hand One —> The player was playing with TAGish stats over 30 hands (so doenst really mean much) and i was generally readless
Submitted by : kbis
PokerStars Game #39588699254: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/02/11 13:38:33 ET
Table Hungaria III 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($10 in chips)
Seat 2: johnpbg ($10.35 in chips)
Seat 4: drumbun ($13.20 in chips)
Seat 5: ElzwisPresPl ($10.15 in chips)
Seat 6: maagzuur ($8 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.05
johnpbg: posts big blind $0.10
Ichspielen: sits out
Holecards Dealt to Hero
drumbun: raises $0.30 to $0.40
ElzwisPresPl: calls $0.40
maagzuur: folds
Hero: calls $0.35
johnpbg: calls $0.30
Hero: bets $3
ElzwisPresPl: raises $5.25 to $8.25 and is all-in
Hero: ......
I put him on some kind of a flush draw with a jack, I dont really think he wouldve check raised me with a KQ, although he wouldve if it was KQh, I also did not think he had a AK because he probably would’ve 3bet that preflop, and also there was a slight possibility he has some kind of Qxh or KJh, otherwise, i felt that he had generally some kind of flush draw possible with a J. I am wondering what the best play here would be to call, or fold.
Hand Two —> Villain seemed to play extremely tight from the BB and i had previously stolen his BB over the last 3 orbits.
Submitted by : kbis
PokerStars Game #39589481918: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/02/11 13:53:15 ET
Table Hungaria III 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($18.80 in chips)
Seat 2: johnpbg ($11.05 in chips)
Seat 3: suspicaz ($5.85 in chips)
Seat 4: drumbun ($12.50 in chips)
Seat 5: ElzwisPresPl ($19.30 in chips)
Seat 6: maagzuur ($8.10 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.05
johnpbg: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards Dealt to Hero
suspicaz: folds
drumbun: folds
ElzwisPresPl: folds
maagzuur: folds
Hero: raises $0.20 to $0.30
johnpbg: calls $0.20
Initially i wanted to just attempt to steal his blind, but unfortunately he called. I check the flop to him planning to check raise trying to play as if i slow played a set, he bets, i cr, he calls. At this point i put him on some kind of middle pocket pair, a set, or a diamond suited connector type hand. After my agression i decided the best play would be just to give up on the hand. I checked the Q turn to him, and he checked back. This eliminated a possible Set, or overpair, and i was left under the assumption that he was looking for some kind of strait or flush draw, Maybe a hand like A4d, or A2d, or any two diamonds. The turn came a blank for A2d and any flush draw and i decided the best option would be to bet out.
What are your thoughts on my analysis of that hand and what is the line that you would take?
Alright, that was really long, but it felt really good to get all of that out,
Thanks in advance to the people who decide to post and follow me on my journey.
Song of the day: Nas - The Message "A thug changes, and love changes, and best friends become strangers. Word up."
40$ paypal for 50$ PS/MBby voodoouser, February 11
Hello,
I need 40$ on my paypal, i give 50$ on Pokerstars or Moneybookers.
I send first, contact me on pm please!
I already made a lot of transfer on LP, i'm an honest man not a scamer!
Anyone selling a sc2 beta key? im willing to good $$ for it. Also, for anyone who has it, how does the beta key actually work? Its just a scratch off and I put in that # once beta starts? Thanks guys.
PM ME IF U GOT A SC2 BETA KEY FOR SALE.
and plz no fags bidding here. yes, i think like a bumhunter.
Hey all, first blog. Well basically I've posted a few times here but I mainly just lurk because I don't have much to contribute to most discussions really but that's fine.
So I started totally from scratch playing 1/2c NL with a limited bankroll in the hope to learn the basics of ABC poker gameplay on the cheap which has worked for the most part. Put on $20 with FTP (the only poker site that works at university) and together with rakeback and the bonus, have increased that to over $40 so far after initial losses for a bit that I figured were to be expected (seen as how I'd played poker before maybe 3 times...).
I can't imagine that I will want to update this a lot (like anyone cares anyway ) but I just wanted to put a few thoughts down here so maybe I can get some insight from others.
From a totally new player's perspective it seems so difficult to get enough hands in to do anything at all really. It would be nice to look at an overview and say 'oh look I'm winning x amount here I must be getting better' but in reality when you don't play many tables and have other commitments (aka studying) then its real hard to get statistically significant numbers of hands down!
Usually I just go for 2 but have tried 3-4 a few times more recently and although it does seem easier to focus on what is going on on every table than it used to when I attempted 4, I still don't feel like I have the total overall grasp of the players on all of the tables, and have most of my success with 2 tables.
However at 2 it really does take a long long time to get hands down (like 200/h or something). I have been playing a lot more recently that I did right at the beginning and I am more confident now that I can beat nl2 but I don't know how much by and I've only played 16k hands lifetime ANYWAY so who knows?
I think I'm actually ok at not tilting which is probably an advantage. I mean I get a little frustrated when someone hits something ridiculous on the river but I don't usually let it bother me much. Occasionally I brainfail on the next hand and insta-do something when I shouldn't but most of the time I think I'm pretty diciplined (not that I've had a really mega rough time yet so that remains to be seen). Like today some guy flopped a really disguised straight when I made a set, but I just kinda went 'tut' and that was that.
I seem to get more annoyed at things like 2 pair on the river (8's and 3's or some bull like that ) beating tptk than things like set over set and AA/KK.
Obviously the next stage is 2/5 and I want to stick to the 20BI rule really, however $100 is a long way away, especially in time. So I have been tempted to reduce that to something a little earlier but not sure if that is the right way to go about it (most of the temptation is due to the apparent similarity of 1/2 to 2/5 and maybe even 5/10 from seeing videos and reading what people say about the micros, how the players are still very bad and that its just a larger bankroll required to play to ride out the variance).
Well I don't have it because it costs like 2x my BR to buy and I'm not sure how much use it would be at micros anyway. But obviously with everyone using it all over the place to help with individual player analysis it's crossed my mind as to what point it would be worth buying it. Not really a priority though because of the cost more than anything else.
That seems to be about it, depending on what happens I might put some more nanostake thoughts up at some stage.
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and call. Villan also calls. 3way to flop.
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