Like I said last blog Dzoo and I are heading down to New Orleans tomorrow to check out the NFC Championship... Pretty pumped to go into the Superdome down there and see Brett Favre get demolished
Definitely going to pick myself up a Drew Brees jersey aha.
Havent been grinding that hard this month yet with PCA and school starting up but Ive been trying to take more 10/20 shots when there are enough games on Stars/FTP and today the games werent great but I figured Id go at er anyway
I'm having a super bad day. Like the worst ever imaginable. So I slowroll calling a flop shove with 2 pair in a 3bet pot and the guy turns his KK into a set.
I've had this problem with my internet a few months back where I would get lag spikes and disconnects like every 10 minutes. They sent a guy out and it seem fixed for a while. It started up about a week ago and has deteriorated very rapidly and now it's at the point where I disconnect every 2 minutes and takes up to 15 seconds to reconnect. I've been openmucking some quality hands preflop, so far AKhh, TT, 99, etc. Once I drop AA I'm gonna go Phil Helmuth on my ISP
P.S. yes I know it's dumb to play under these conditions. I'm only playing NL10 on Rush poker and I don't lose that much of an edge.
P.P.S. That's another awesome thing about Rush poker, if you time out you only time out at a few tables instead of a dozen tables.
Moving the family to Vegas or Summerlin need .....by AURELIUS, January 21
some insight into the whole scene. I will be moving with wife and young daughter, and looking to improve my poker BUT IN NO RUSH AT ALL. Lper's any good advice would be welcomed.
so I logged onto facebook for God knows why, I hate that thing, and first status update or whatever I see is:
"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~Marilyn Monroe.
Admitting you're [censored] half the time doesn't make you strong, or make you insightful and deep, it makes you living in reality. LOL people.
In a pretty good mood though. Went in the kitchen and saw roomates left half a pot of coffee for me so I didn't have to make it. Viva la coffee.
Good buddy of mine, very talented. Heres his first youtube mixtape premier. More songs to come, and all of his old stuff from the band is on youtube, and quite good. Anyways, chicks dig this song, and his version is actually listenable. lol
Right view begets right speech (Because often what we say are just reflection of what's in our mind.)
When we can control what's in our mind, we can control what comes out of our mind, and we can calm situations, calm ourselves, which also causes reduction of suffering, absorb the stuff that comes at you, which will reduce tilt as well.
Scaring the fish ?
Does it cost you money? (Will it make them quit if you harass them, make them play better?)
Wrong speech....
You're also stirring up some negative mojo inside you.
"Clear your mind of the evil that could put you on tilt."
Think of it as, purifying your mind, undoing of wrong speech (Which is the same as right speech.)
Chatting online
"Look at typing in the chat box purely from an EV standpoint."
Do you think your probability of making miss clicks is increased or decreased by typing in the chatbox?
It can't be positive EV to type in the chat box.
Reasons to keep your fingers quiet:
- You'll make fewer mistakes.
- You'll optimize information reciprocality.
If you're actively using msn/aim.
You'll divert power to making money. Any language uses up a lot of brain power.
Upside of chatting and aIM-ing while playing:
- soothing
- humor
- release
"Awareness is the most important thing."
- For people who are unsure, test, try play a few hours not using it, to see how that makes you feel.
* Extremely easy to miss out on profitable spots where you "give up" on a hand, and it goes check check on the next street as well, and you could have taken it down if you were paying attention, hugely + EV
Posting online
If we just take a minute to not be so "reactive" then we're a little more likely to say what we really want to say, in the way we want to say it.
*One of the problems with talking to people and we say things we regret, is because we immediately reacted, didn't take a split second to just pause, so we're not mindlessly reacted.*
- It's the nature of message boards that people tend to post when they disagree. So when you post something, there's a high probability that you're going to get a disagreeing reaction.
- So when someone replies to your hand "I think you played this like a moron, I hate you." React with, sitting up straight, breathe, and think before replying. Or rise completely above it.
- Your happiness, your thoughts, never need to be dependent on what someone else write/says/thinks about you, ever...
Thought is such a dangerous thing, they come out of people's mouth, they intent one thing, and gets interpreted another way, and then get's miss interpret even worse.
Rise above it
Not being thrown of what people say is an essential skill not to be put on tilt.
Online anonymity
"Don't poison your own mind."
Stillness
"You can't hear what is quieter than you."
- You need to still your mind, then you can hear what comes in at all levels.
- When you're talking, you're not going to hear people who are lower than you.
The whole idea by being still, is to CRUSH your opponents in the information world.
Theory of mum
mumpoker = Silent poker, two days of doing it:
* Don't talk/interact speak about anything poker related to anyone at the table/or in the chat box. But react to non poker stuff.
* Don't speak to anyone, remain silent no matter what at the table.
- Usually people respect people's right to remain silent.
Sixth Street / Defined
Everything that happen at the poker table after the last round of betting is done. (Can go on for a long time.)
* Don't explain anything, or make any excuses. Don't get dragged in when people shoot at you, or question you.*
Shutoff answers: Anytime anyone ask you a specific questions, no matter what it is, just say Yes. No matter the question, shuts them all of. (If that won't work, say something where you use as few words as possible, and use same answer for everything.)
Some words from his book
- Bet with your hands, not with your mouth.
- Never call for the clock on another player.
- When you are going to raise, and you are goign to state the amount you raise, do not begin to speak until you know what you are going to say.
- Do not say the word "call" unless your call is the final betting action of the entire hand. And even then, only sometimes, such as when you have the nuts or a probable winner, and you are doing a courtesy fast roll. In that case you would simultaneously turn your hand over and say "call."
- Sixth street starts when the betting stops. Sixth street is when players let their guard down, as if all of a sudden it's safe to reveal classified secrets to the enemy. It's like they don't even know the war is still going on.
Upgrades
- Right speech cures foot in mouth disease.
- Stop saying stuff you often regret right after, gossip, stop the cruel toxic language.
- Right speech is close to right view, changing views and ideas, poisonous words.
- The act of not blaming other people for thing, or yourself.
"Blame is a form of cruelty."
Ending words
Whatever you do, end things with a smile on your face. No matter if you lose or win.
NL5 and NL10. Had a nice ~4BB/100 24tabling NL5 in my last few thousand hands while waiting for my registration code for PT3.
Just got a question:
- Why is it that with these tracking programs and sites, your BB/100 is half what I think it should be. For example, say for NL5, Ive played 115k hands and profit $481. Thats $0.41/100 which is abit over 8BB/100, where as on PTR it shows 4BB/100. Same goes for PT3 and such.
today:
+220$ in 5 minutes
2 hours nothing
+another 160$ in few minutes
sit with 550bb on one table and lose AA to QQ flop ai turning set for him i suck
then play back up and finish +420$ for 2 days
The variance in this game, its sick... I think playing hyper turbos you have less variance ^^
Graph of "NL50 + take a shot at NL100" by Annasky, January 21
missing lots of hands, these are only the hands i played in the office,still pretty good~ i also took a shot at NL100 today, it was fun=) regs are more aggro, and a lot more pro short starckers, kinda annoying..
*hope eveything will be fine~ gonna keep grinding!~ !!POWER UP!!!
I really do wonder what kind of butt raping it will actually take for the American public to realize the Dem-Repub paradigm is all part of the same establishment and that the joke is on them http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/92b81.chartic3.jpg
Also, ironically I read this article yesterday on history news network that I really liked and figured I'd post it here because of my Wilson being the worst president comment...
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Mr. President, in your speech at West Point on 1 December you spoke about the benign intentions of American foreign policy. You said that since the days of FDR, “our country has borne a special burden,” fighting all over the world for freedom and the betterment of peoples. You also said, “For unlike the great powers of old, we have not sought domination….We do not seek to occupy other nations’ resources or target other peoples because their faith or ethnicity is different from ours.” Although these words triggered an outburst of sustained applause from the audience, I think that your description of American foreign policy leaves out some important truths. I would like to comment on some of these missing truths, the contemplation of which might lead to a negative judgment of your Afghanistan policy.
First, it would have been more accurate to begin your historical overview of American foreign policy with Woodrow Wilson, not with FDR. It was Wilson in his war message to Congress on 2 April 1917 who issued the first fully articulated call for the U.S. to fight for the peace and liberation of the world. He said that “the world must be made safe for democracy.” Seeking nothing for itself, he concluded, the U.S. would serve as the champion of humanity.
Two days after the President’s war message to Congress, Senator Robert La Follette, a Republican from Wisconsin, rose to speak in the Senate. His speech lasted four hours. He thought that far from going to war to make the world safe for democracy, the President’s professed aim, we actually were going to war to make the world safe for Wall Street.
Ever since those fateful days of April 1917, historians of American foreign policy have been split between, on the one hand, defenders of Wilson and, on the other, defenders of La Follette. The policy makers themselves, especially since FDR and including you, Mr. President, have been Wilsonians.
I am planning to go to Vegas soon, at the latest in June for WSOP. I have heard and read that the Venetian is the best room in Vegas overall. However, I hear that the competition as such a nice casino is a little tough than at some other, smaller rooms. I hear Bally's 1/2 game is really soft and that MGM's 2/5 game is quite soft as well. Any confirmation? Any other thoughts?
I really been wanting to try 6max for awhile now. I find FR boring, and feel that I could get more out of 6max since I play FR at 19.5/17.5. Although I wouldn't know how to play well preflop, I wouldnt know what to put people on when getting 3bet and stuff. idk what to do, im beating nl100 FR at like 3bb/100 over ~75k hands.
What should I do? if I switch to 6max, should I beat nl50 first? or even nl25? or should I just suck it up and keep playing FR, since beating anything lower than nl100 would be a waste of time..-_-
my redline is nice looking too, something i couldnt have in regular cash games (which is probably why they bored me so much... i hate playing the nuts only)
I've been 4-6 tabling, decided to try 8-tabling today. Was alright, there was a 1 minute stretch where all 8 tables suddenly demanded my attention on top of some text messages so I got distracted, but otherwise I think I can handle 8 tables fine, and probably more.
Hands:
I had a ton of small pots today that somehow all added up for a very nice gain. Here's the biggest wins / losses in nonchronological order.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791486 - $12.85 - I only have middle set here, but villian had tried mass shenanigans before this hand with marginal stuff so I felt like I was good. Also he would have reraised flop, in which case I might have folded.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791493 - $7.80 - Not sure if I should have shut down here or not... Flop is dangerous but maybe if I took advantage of villian's passiveness I would have stolen the side pot.
Results:
935 hands
+$20.01
Summary:
I tried 3betting more, got a couple of 4bets in too. I think I lost more than I won on my 3bet hands. I really like 3betting with straight hands, AKQJ, 5678 etc, but overall the betting was probably good for my image at the tables. Sadly my 3bet% for the session is exactly my overall 3bet%. Still need to 3bet more. Oh and, I need 350 more FPP to get to silverstar, 11 more days.
Graph:
I guess I'll include daily graphs from now on. Whoops, graph in bb's, doesn't really matter.
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