does anyone pay for a subscription to this? any value in paying for the pro version over the 2 cheaper versions? It seems like it would go well with PIO and I am trying to up the analytical side of my game.
Tire exploded whilst drivingby spets1, November 05
First time ever. So I stopped on side of road and started changing the spare on. Rain started. But no probs it wasnt that hard. Everyone just drives past. One dude came out of the house asked if everything is alright. Said its all good. One lady stopped and stayed with me till i fixed it. All good. Thx lady. If you were hot id get your number lol (anyway seeing that girl now from the last blog, shes pretty cool).
In other news i got a massive payrise at work. Pretty happy, working like a donkey though, reckon doing the job of 3 people. crazy shit. But raise is good. Finally got it. 75 to 109k usually nobody jumps that high ever, But yeah im good what can I do.
Also i moved back to live at my parents house. Its far from work (fkn took me 2hrs to drive today, thx to rain and traffic). Usually i catch a train that takes 1.5hrs prob. Fuck sydney traffic sucks. Never driving again.
Anyway not paying rent now, and got a raise, so gonna be swimming in cash soon.
Btw tried MDMA, its heaps good. Do it alone at your own risk, i spent SHITTTON of money on whores when i did it. MSG every single girl in my address too haha. fuck. Broke right now till i get my pay.
If you recall, I finally did it. I ran the numbers, went over the data, tallied the figures, and concluded that my near 6 years of experience plus everything I've learned from LP.net was enough to justify going pro. In the words of the great O'Reilly, WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!
Your little resident newb spread his wings and actually made a profit, how bout that? The biggest thing you might notice here is my total playtime. I've been struggling to put in more hours, not as a result of discipline but just staying deep. As any live player knows you often end up pretty deep pretty quick sometimes. I'm just not comfortable sitting on 400BB's yet. It's really just a case of MUBS - Monsters Under the Bed Syndrome. I see so many bad beats that I become paranoid I could become the victim of one in a huge pot. Fish can be truly fearless at times since anything earned over their initial buyin is just a freeroll in their eyes. They could run $300 up to $2500 and as long as they finish $400 for the night they consider it a good session. So I end up having these little mini 4 hour sessions before I cash out and come back the next day.
What's really bad here though is just how much money I've given back. Consider the following
Each one of those downward spikes is me going on tilt, calling big bets on the river just to prove to myself how bad I run. Like I know I'm beat, but I want to see their cards so I can feel good about how I played it and how bad they did. It's stupid and I'm working on it. Had I not donated like that I'd easily be up another 3k on my winnings this month. Just talking about how I gave fish $3000 for the pleasure of making them show their dogshit hand makes me want to vomit. Hopefully next month produces a cleaner graph.
All in all though playing poker professionally has turned out to be everything I wanted it to be. My friends/work acquaintances are all jealous, and I just sit back and literally do whatever the fuck I want each day. It's so incredibly relaxing to no longer have to walk on eggshells answering to a bossman. Having someone micromanage you, check on your schedule, chastise you for taking an extra long lunch break, feeling guilty when I come in late or go home early. Fuck all that noise. I feel healthier, I am eating better, I get all the sleep I need, and just really feel like I'm at peace and in a good place in life right now. This is definitely the life for me.
Thanks for all the support people have given me here. LP definitely turns out a unique breed of player in my opinion. Aiming for 5k minimum next month.
Hey guys, I'm doing an interview / Q&A session with Jared Tendler tomorrow (Friday) 19:00 CET/gmt+1
The free stream ( no registration) will be here http://www.pokerstrategy.com/coaching/
You'll need to create an account and click "tune in" at the bottom where the info is at 18:50 to be able to ask questions though.
Hey guys, yesterday I binked a small $7 1k for 335 and decided to join the $33 5k tonight. I won it on stream Had a peak of 25 viewers tonight which is kinda cool, seems to be going well.
I was looking through some of the hand historys on the sidebar... just checking out how people were playing and enjoying people's analysis, etc. Missing the game.
Mean to click to see more recent hand historys from LP members but accidentally click "my hands"
I haven't played poker since a month or so before black friday so all my hands posted are super old. Start going through some with comments on them...
Holy fuck I played really terribly. Horrible bet sizing. Fun times. Still miss the game though!
When you DL Bovada HH they display the holecard information of all players at the table regardless of action (anti-collusion measure). When i use the hand converter to turn Zone HH into ZOOM hh that are compatible with PT4 they lose the holecard data.
My hope was that I could go into PT4 and look up hands where i folded and see what my opponent had rather than manually digging through HH files.
Is this possible?
example.
unconverted bovada HH (one with opponent showing his cards at showdown, the 2nd i fold and he doesn't have to show)
Bovada Hand #3279914547: OMAHA Tournament #13536253 TBL#1, Pot Limit- Level 1 (10/20) - 2015-10-14 03:08:52
Seat 1: Dealer [ME] (1,380 in chips)
Seat 2: Big Blind (1,620 in chips)
Dealer [ME] : Set dealer/Bring in spot [1]
Dealer [ME] : Ante/Small blind 10
Big Blind : Big blind/Bring in 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealer [ME] : Card dealt to a spot [2s 6d 2c 4d]
Big Blind : Card dealt to a spot [Kd Ah 5s Kh]
Dealer [ME] : Raises 50 to 60
Big Blind : Raises 160 to 180
Dealer [ME] : Call 120
*** FLOP *** [2h 6c 4s]
Big Blind : Bets 360
Dealer [ME] : Call 360
*** TURN *** [2h 6c 4s]
Big Blind : All-in 1080
Dealer [ME] : All-in 840
Big Blind : Return uncalled portion of bet 240
*** RIVER *** [2h 6c 4s Jc]
Dealer [ME] : Showdown [2s 2c 2h Jc 8c] (Three of a kind)
Big Blind : Showdown [Kd Kh 6c Jc 8c] (One pair)
Dealer [ME] : Hand Result 2760
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(2760)
Board [2h 6c 4s Jc 8c]
Seat+1: Dealer 2760 with Three of a kind [2s 6d 2c 4d-2s 2c 2h Jc 8c]
Seat+2: Big Blind lose with One pair [Kd Ah 5s Kh-Kd Kh 6c Jc 8c]
Bovada Hand #3279914545: OMAHA Tournament #13536253 TBL#1, Pot Limit- Level 1 (10/20) - 2015-10-14 03:08:04
Seat 1: Dealer [ME] (1,500 in chips)
Seat 2: Big Blind (1,500 in chips)
Dealer [ME] : Table enter user
Big Blind : Table enter user
Dealer [ME] : Draw for dealer
Big Blind : Draw for dealer
Dealer [ME] : Set dealer/Bring in spot [1]
Dealer [ME] : Ante/Small blind 10
Big Blind : Big blind/Bring in 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealer [ME] : Card dealt to a spot [Ac 4c 2s 7d]
Big Blind : Card dealt to a spot [7h Qd Td 5c]
Dealer [ME] : Raises 50 to 60
Big Blind : Call 40
*** FLOP *** [6s 8d Jh]
Big Blind : Bets 120
Dealer [ME] : Folds
Big Blind : Return uncalled portion of bet 120
Big Blind : Does not show [7h Qd Td 5c] (High Card)
Big Blind : Hand Result 120
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(120)
Board [6s 8d Jh ]
Seat+1: Dealer Folded on the FLOP
Seat+2: Big Blind 120 [Does not show]
Converted HH Counterparts to the above hands that get imported into PT4
PokerStars Hand #3279914547: Tournament #13536253, $50+$2.50 - Omaha Pot Limit (10/20) - 2015/10/14 3:08:52
Table '#1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (1,380 in chips)
Seat 2: PLR_7404661JJ (1,620 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 10
PLR_7404661JJ: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [2s 6d 2c 4d]
Hero: raises 50 to 60
PLR_7404661JJ: raises 160 to 180
Hero: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [2h 6c 4s]
PLR_7404661JJ: bets 360
Hero: calls 360
*** TURN *** [2h 6c 4s]
PLR_7404661JJ: calls 1080 and is all-in
Hero: calls 840 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2h 6c 4s Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: shows [2s 6d 2c 4d] (three of a kind, Deuces)
PLR_7404661JJ: shows [Kd Ah 5s Kh] (a pair of Kings)
Uncalled bet (240) returned to PLR_7404661JJ
Hero collected 2760 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2760 | Rake 0
Board [2h 6c 4s Jc 8c]
Seat 1: Hero (button) showed [2s 6d 2c 4d] and won (2760) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 2: PLR_7404661JJ (big blind) showed [Kd Ah 5s Kh] and lost with a pair of Kings
PokerStars Hand #3279914545: Tournament #13536253, $50+$2.50 - Omaha Pot Limit (10/20) - 2015/10/14 3:08:04
Table '#1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (1,500 in chips)
Seat 2: PLR_7404661JJ (1,500 in chips)
Hero: Draw for dealer
PLR_7404661JJ: Draw for dealer
Hero: posts small blind 10
PLR_7404661JJ: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ac 4c 2s 7d]
Hero: raises 50 to 60
PLR_7404661JJ: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [6s 8d Jh]
PLR_7404661JJ: bets 120
Hero: folds
Uncalled bet (120) returned to PLR_7404661JJ
PLR_7404661JJ: doesn't show hand
PLR_7404661JJ collected 120 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 120 | Rake 0
Board [6s 8d Jh]
Seat 1: Hero (button) mucked
Seat 2: PLR_7404661JJ (big blind) won (120)
you can see especially in the last HH that after the conversion Villain hole cards are not visible at all so going into pt4 to see what people had is at this point useless (and maybe a results oriented practice in general but wouldn't you want to know if you were bluffed or not if possible?)
I'm having internet issues until I upgrade to the 30 meg internet, so i will post a blog when im streaming + my twitter message.
I'll try to upgrade ASAP (have to talk to ppl I share internet with - its in there name)
I'll be streaming mostly at night at sessions after 11pm, sometimes during the day, when I do i'll make a blog since theres been some great feedback so far.
I watched a few episodes they do seem pretty good, thx for all ur help newbsaibot and hopefully I can turn this stream into a success, so much to learn, but I got time.
http://i.imgur.com/eSUrpaM.gif
I went around northern Japan for a month, in my little K-car. The 2011 Tsunami struck the North east coast of Japan hardest, reaching 42m run-up height in places. I wanted to see the damage for myself, and also get a feel for how the rebuild is progressing after 4 years.
http://i.imgur.com/sstIzYz.jpg
The height the Tsunami reached on this apartment building. Most damaged buildings had been cleared, but this one was left as a monument. Standing beside this building you struggle to imagine how much water was flowing through it.
http://i.imgur.com/HUKNi3C.jpg
My little car which I "borrowed" from an expat acquaintance. It's a K-car meaning it is tiny and has a 600cc engine, but its 4wd and light, and I don't care if it gets damaged because it cost me $300, so I can take it anywhere.
http://i.imgur.com/wvRbYTc.jpg
This train station near Matsushima has been abandoned since the Tsunami cut the train line. The rebuild of the new raised concrete track is slowly reconnecting stations, this one will be next.
http://i.imgur.com/cQ2xLwu.jpg
Modern Japanese construction is earthquake safe, but otherwise fairly flimsy from a structural point of view. The old style of construction found in this shrine however, was much stronger. Left standing with damaged roof tiles while the houses around it were washed away (I think that the gravestones were re-placed since the disaster)
I have more photos but many of them didn't capture the scale of the destruction. Or the massive size of the new sea walls and towering concrete overpass bridges that are being constructed across valleys. (Japan government response to the disaster has been to pump cash into major public works in the region - a coast expressway for one)
Stealth Camping
In Japan it is generally legal to camp in public parks, roadsides or forest parks (though campgrounds are encouraged). Even though my Japanese is OK, rather than searching for guesthouses, booking, then checking in checking out and all that, it is much easier to go without an itinerary and see where the road takes me for the day. Japan has a very safe feeling, even more than New Zealand, I don't feel I am going to run into any angry people here, so summer camping is fine. And there are many Onsen (public baths) for luxurious cheap bathing. But still, I would rather not draw any attention. The hardest part is finding a place where my car will not be noticed, either blending in or hidden from the main roadways, then either reclining the drivers seat in my car, or... http://i.imgur.com/JNN9BFW.jpg
Hennessy Hammock. It's a tent. That hangs from the trees. Great for forest camping as you don't need clear ground and can camp on a mountainside, where it is very unlikely anyone is going to notice. I stayed for 3 nights in the mountain at the center of a busy tourist town, Hakodate, left my pack and hammock tent in the mountain while I was out and about having basically the same overall experience as a tourist that pays $150 per night for a hotel.
http://i.imgur.com/9UVqwbG.jpg
Hotel plebs are still driving to get to prime photo-taking locations while I am enjoying the morning light and still air at Matsushima Bay because I slept on the mountain.
Superzoom http://i.imgur.com/tfH4pWv.jpg
The Nikon P610. 60x optical zoom. I bought this before my north Japan tour, took all the above photos with it. have never had a decent camera before. I say decent, it is actually a glorified point and shoot with a huge lens and fairly cheap at around $500, but its fine for my needs.
http://i.imgur.com/Tz6fodk.jpg
The port of Akita city. I meant to red square this, but there is a brown sawdust mountain at the factory at the top right, right? http://i.imgur.com/764jLuN.jpg
Zoom in with the camera and this is what is there.
In a week or so I'm planning to visit the Nuclear exclusion zone in Fukishima, and sneak in if it is at all possible. (I'll only be there for a short time, not enough to get radiation sickness or risk cancer. Relax I have a physics degree!) So I'll see how that goes and maybe post a few more pictures.
First off, know that stars will be able to be played in Pennsylvania, with partnership with a casino inside the state. Which makes this quite exciting for me.
Email #1:
Weekly Update from Rich Muny, VP of Player Relations
Things are getting interesting for online poker in Pennsylvania. It started with last week’s rejection of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's tax plan by the Republican-dominated House. Without consensus, but with a budget deficit looming, both sides have been thrust into a dash for revenue. And, perhaps not surprisingly, given the push for online poker in the Keystone State this year, our game now figures prominently in the debate.
PA House Speaker Mike Turzai [R] and PA House Majority Leader Dave Reed [R] are suggesting authorizing online poker as an alternative to raising taxes. Reed gave gaming expansion a prominent place in his list of priorities, saying that exploring the possibility should come before lawmakers consider raising taxes.
Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati [R] said gaming bills may not have seemed like a great idea months ago. But with massive tax increases and the government's partial shutdown at stake, perspectives should change. "All of a sudden," Scarnati said, "gaming doesn't look that bad."
Gov. Wolf says he is “open to a conversation” on online poker in the Keystone State.
PPA will keep up the drumbeat for poker throughout this debate.
Take Action
Let’s send prefilled, fully editable tweets to PA House Speaker Mike Turzai (here) and House Majority Leader Dave Reed (here) thanking them for identifying licensed online poker as a good way forward in the budget debate. Let's also vote in an online poll and make & like pro-poker comments in an article on this issue.
Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny Webcast
On this week's Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny?, I was joined by Campaign for Liberty Senior Vice President Norm Singleton. Norm, who served as former Rep. Ron Paul's legislative director right up until Dr. Paul left Congress, and I had a terrific discussion on the House Speaker race, his organization, poker legislation, and liberty. You won't want to miss this!
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Proud to play,
Rich Muny
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Email #2
Ryan,
I have good news to share with you. Your state legislator is now an outspoken proponent of licensing Internet poker and iGaming! This represents a huge opportunity for us, as they serve in a leadership position and will be very influential going forward in the contentious budget negotiations between the legislature and Governor.
Serving as your representative in the formal discussion, your legislator is actively calling for the licensing of Internet poker and iGaming as a way to help close the budget gap without increasing taxes. He needs to know that poker players like you appreciate those efforts.
Please take just 60 seconds to send this pre-filled, fully editable email thanking him for his leadership on the issue and for supporting licensed Internet poker.
We’re closer than ever to having a licensed Internet poker market in Pennsylvania. With continued leadership from your legislator and an active player base, we can make this a reality.
Proud to play,
Judah Rosenstein
Pennsylvania State Director
Poker Players Alliance
ONE TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 MF TIME PLZ LEE ONLINE STARS!!!!!!!
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Had a peak of 25 viewers tonight which is kinda cool, seems to be going well.
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