Last year i got the 03/2004 Nitro Storm lend by my cousin
Ofc this board was very old and had traces of use all over it.
Now i am searching for a nice but not too expensive snowboard + bindings
somehwere in the range of 250-450€
Main mission is to finde a board that is nice to handle , decent in cruising down the mountain and able to do some easy/simple tricks every now and then.
There are dozens of boards+binding in this range but hardly any review on the quality of them.
Most stuff i read in internet forums is like either :
everything lower than 500€ is bullshit quality
or
The 500€ boards are bullshit and not really notable better than the 300€ boards
havent updated blog in awhile. i've been grinding it out recently at 100nl 6max, playing like a 19/16 nit and table selecting like crazy.
im making an ok bb rate doing this, played about 45k hands, but feel like i dont have much of an edge on the regulars at this stake.
i want to improve my game, looking for someone with some experience coaching this stake to help me loosen up, play more like 24/20 and start crushing regs.
please let me know if that sounds like you, or know someone you can recommend!
Pretty good week for me on the poker front. I grinded back about 10 buyins at 50NL and about 6 at 50 PLO total. On Tuesday I took another shot at 100NL and I won about 3 buyins and then another 1.5 buyins in a short session yesterday. Hold em is actually going well for me since im running decent, PLO on the other hand is doing its best to make me quit the game. Its not easy getting it in as an 80/20 or 70/30 favorite in PLO, yet everytime one of these fish make it happen for me, they hit it on the river. Very frustrating. I will say there is alot of money to be made at low stakes PLO. I'm usually the only person at the table 3betting more then AAxx, and I take down almost every pot with a cbet. Even when i do get played back at I can be sure they have the nuts/2nd nuts. Easy game. If real estate is about location, location, location, PLO is about position, position, position.
Almost done with work before some xmas vaca time. Friday, monday and tuesday I'll be working out of my house (aka getting paid to play poker, aka getting paid to get paid) and then my vacation starts wednesday and I'm off until after new years. I have alot of family to visit around xmas plus my girlfriends fam. We also have plans to go to Atlantic City one night, and might even hit up mohegan sun for new years. Definitely going to enjoy my time off and just relax, grind, enjoy being with the family/friends. I have an uncle thats fighting pancreatic cancer right now and its very aggressive, hes only 61 and theres a very good chance this could be his last christmas. If theres anything I realize in all this its that life is short and it could end tommorrow, so always enjoy the time you have with ur loved ones and the important people in your life, never take anything for granted. Anytime poker isnt going ur way and you get upset/angry, be thankful for the things you do have in your life, and suddenly poker wont seem like such a big deal anymore.
Going to get a bit personal.by WilsWils, December 17
I haven't blogged in a long fucking time, and with good reason, personally i was planning to just post poker results and not talk about anything else, but then i realize that no one else in the world (other than my coaches and people i talk poekr with) will understand anything about poker. This is going to be a long fucking post. You've been warned.
So, lets begin
I play mainly FR. I've been coached by the biggest 1/2 winner on FTP last year... I've also been coached by a very successful and respected MSNL player who is now playing at 5/10, 25/50 at FTP. Both these coaches have told me that i am extremely capable, and SHOULD be beating the stakes they taught me at (nl100 and nl200), respectively. SO CLEARLY I SHOULD BE WINNING LOTS? ehh not so much, but its mostly my own fault. I made 60 BI at nl100 over 100k hands (while running 20 bi below ev) after getting coached and was very happy with my progress. I started taking shots at nl200 and broke even, which i was fine with. My new coach taught me alot of new moves and things to look for - exploitable leaks that ALOT of "solid" regs have, and i started playing with certain lines and trying out new things. This didn't work very well and i lost a bunch in the learning process.
Then i started to run bad. Not "run bad" as in OH MY GOD MY ACES KEEP GETTING SUCKED OUT ON, my AIEV was pretty standard (only liek 5-6 bi below ev) . It was moreso spots where i would be like "okay, in this spot, villain has this range, and only this hand beats me. by the line he's taking and my image , i should be good here a large amount of the time". then i call, or shove, and get raped by the nuts. This happened over about 25k~ hands or so, but was enough to severely cripple my roll. To date, i've lost about 20~25 BI at nl200. which sucks.
I've since moved back down to nl100 and find the amount of fish SO much more plentiful. It's insane how many bad players are at these stakes, how unbalanced they are, and how they decide that turning hands with SDV into pure bluffs is +EV IN SOME SPOTS.
So yeah, i'm very disappointed in my poker results so far. I've withdrawn alot and paid for coaching, so i went from about a 12k~ roll to around 4k. I'm going to be putting in about 50-70k hands at nl100, 9-10 tabling , focusing on making good decisions and nothign else. Hopefully this downswing will turn around and i'll be able to make 30-40 BI and take a second shot at nl200. I'm extremely disappointed and a little depressed, but i know that i possess the tools to be able to beat nl200.
So why else do i think i havent been winning over the last 3 weeks?
Welps, running bad doesnt help, but isnt the be all end all of excuses. I probably wasnt playing my A game because, i had the FUCKING SWINE FLU for 3 weeks. I decided that playing poker while sick and tired would be a good idea, and subsequently my bigggest losing sessions were during this time period. In my mind i'm "playing fine", but subconciously im playing horrendously and dont realize it because im too tired to make concious, thoguht out decisions. Also, i was eating like fucking garbage (tired and sick), not eating enough, and exercising nowhere near enough.
I've said this so many fucking times, poker + emotional control + health = do well. If one of these pieces is lacking ,it all falls apart, ESPECIALLY for me. The fact i was out of shape, tired all the time, eating liek garbage + running bad = i deserved to lose alot.
To add on, i bombed my finals (i only ended up getting a B+ in one course which i feel i should have got an A in), and got a fucking F in calculus (i somehow apparently bombed the final...). I've taken calculus THREE fucking times. I'm on academic probation this year. What does this mean? B+ + F = not a high enough gpa to stay in university = i get kicked out.
So i mailed the dean and both my professors to see what the fuck happened to my tests, and hopefully i can work something out to get my life straightened out. I am 100% sure once i get my life straightened out i'll be able to win in poker, get straight A's in school, and succeed at life again ultimately. These past 3 weeks have been fucking brutal for me.
guys- never, EVER stop exercising or eating well. It can do nothing but be detrimental to your poker career, and ultimately, your lifestyle. seriously. even a 20 minute walk and eating more vegetables instead of fast food or sleeping in will help you so, so so much
If you guys have made it through this rant, thanks for reading, maybe share your thoughts if you've gone through something similar.
GL at the tables and life gentlemen. I wont be making a blog post again until i've gotten back on the right track. Here's to hoping for a post within a couple weeks.
Merry xmas and gl again
-wils
p.s cliff notes
-i dont think i'm the best player at 1/2 or nl100, but i def think i can be a winning player
-lost a bunch online via running bad a bit, but mostly from being sick and deciding to play while extremely fatigued
-basically on a small life downswing
-ALWAYS EXERCISE AND DONT EAT LIKE SHIT, when your lifestyle sucks, everything else will suck as well, poker included. nothing but bad things come from sleeping in and eating garbage
My last shot has been pretty bad, but I cleared a bonus and have moved my BR up a good amount.
I am taking a few days off and will then start getting back into NL 25.
I have been interested in learning more about the math behind poker, can anybody help me find some articles that range from beginner to advanced. I'm sure i'll pick the theory and math up pretty quickly.
so I finished a hard semester of school barely playing any poker because of the lack of time.
and now I get rewarded by pokerstars with this for the past 3 days.
my computer is making me lose moneyby lazymej, December 16
I really don't know what's wrong with this box of junk, I just formatted it a couple of months ago and installed windows 7 on it.
now it keeps BSOD'ing in the middle of my sessions which of course makes me rage. It just happened and when I rebooted and my tables loaded up again there was this unreal lag (never happened before) which basically made it unplayable.
I guess I should really get a new computer because this is super annoying.
I probably played this pretty bad. I already posted my thoughts in the comments of the hand, but I'll do it here too. I was afraid I wouldn't get any action from a bigger bet on the river but I probably could've shoved and still gotten a call now that I think about it. Best case scenario is he has pocket queens, but I'd seen him reraise pre with queens so I was pretty sure he had something weaker. Feedback would be appreciated.
PeaceJam’s FUCKING Awesome Peace Fueling Acousticby k2o4, December 15
Reposting this cause this person said everything I want to but better than I could (everything below was written by Claire at theregularweirdpeople.com):
A good friend of mine works for PeaceJam, an international education program that brings the knowledge of Nobel Peace Laureates to youth around the world. I pretty much piss excellence, joy and beauty when I am around them.
“Piss” is not a word they employ with any regularity at PeaceJam. However, I do.
A couple of years ago I participated as a mentor in a PeaceJam Slam which brought together youth from all over the mountain region to Denver for a day of awesome discussions, awesome lectures, awesome goal planning and an awesome speech by Naomi Tutu (daughter of the awesome Desmond Tutu) who inspired us to be even more awesome than we felt in our awesome glands. I was blown away by how involved PeaceJam had made these students. They were, by themselves, creating all types of programs in their schools, neighborhoods and cities from picking up trash to raising money for African NGO’s. They were taking on huge projects and accomplishing deliverable goals. I very much enjoyed encouraging their continued awesomeness…and wanted to be more like them! Please check out their website and learn more about how to be involved with the organization.
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Well, PeaceJam is currently auctioning off a series of acoustic guitars (Taylor Big Baby Model 307) EACH signed by 10, TEN Nobel Peace Laureates on EBAY! These include:
The Dalai Lama
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Jody Williams
Shirin Ebadi
Jose Ramos Horta
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Betty Williams
Now THOSE are some sounds I can get behind. I’m fairly certain that we can all support peace, love and music on this blog so get in on this bit of Nobel history and OWN it. It’s not every day that the Dalai Lama signs a guitar. It’s currently unknown what great powers these guitars can bring you, but me thinks they involve the powers of diplomacy, mediation and the famous and funky “peace” booty shake.
what's up with China and poker?by luddite, December 15
I don't remember seeing any players online from China before. But tonight there's one on all of my tables, all shortstacking, all open shoving preflop any time they get a good hand.
i still technically have 1 bi left since i was taking a 10bi shot. But with how i'm running and the mindset I'm in I feel i'd just spew it. Taking the rest of today off, going to grind 2/4 on Wednesday-Sunday hopefully will kick some ass and get my confidence back. Believe I will play 2/4 until I go to florida where I'll then have to take a 6 day break from poker. If I'm feeling good about things after the break I will take another shot at 3/6.
here's my br management plan
Roll currently 20.8k...will play 2/4 til I get my roll back up to 26k. Then will take another 10 bi shot at 3/6, if my roll drops down to 20k again I will go back to 2/4 and regrind til i'm back up to 26k, rinse and repeat til i'm winning at 3/6. If my roll drops to 10k I will move down to 1/2, 5k move down to .5/1 etc.
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