After some thought this blog really does nothing to benefit my poker development. If anything it probably hinders it because I waste time fucking around on here seeking out sympathy when I should be on the tables grinding.
I'm also considering quitting poker at the end of this month. We'll see what happens.
I get dealt Aces on the button. A fish limps and I raise for 6bb.
A nitty reg cold 4bets me.
I look at my hand.Its Aces, sweet and...fold, my screen just froze.
I can't even watch DC vids with having PT3 open.
My PC is 4 years old with AMD Sempron processor with 512MB ram and W XP, and I had to recently buy a usb sound card because the jacks were not working.
Would a simple additional 512MB ram addon be sufficient, or should I just pay up some £270/$430 (i.e. one amazon voucher fot 25k FPP) for W7 PC with 3GB Ram and one of the quadcore or whatever that is nowadays thingies?
I absorbed all the great ideas from The Eithfold path to Poker Enlightenment, but as Tommy Angelo himself said, getting rid of tilting is a long run exercise and tiltlessness will not be achieved over night.
Still, my C game is way better than it was before, and when translated to winrate I think I am losing only some 5bb/100 when I play my C Game (the worst you can possibly play), where it was some -10+bb/100 in the past (see my previous blogpost with an example of my Cgame from a month ago)
I've got a lot of travel coming up and need to do a major music update. I haven't DL'd any new songs in at least 2 years so I'm very outta date. I like rap but hate the southern crunk shit. I've got a shitload of older underground hip hop (at least it was underground back then, lotta peeps are known now). I also like lots of alternative rock (is that still what it's called?). God I'm so bad with genres. So I'll list some artists I like:
BEP
30H3 (just that 1 song, but any songs like it are thx)
timbaland
kanye
Jack Johnson
Dispatch
Daft Punk
My musical taste are all over the board from classical (mozart is thx) to tupac to hindi music. So please just post suggestions, preferably by posting a youtube video so I can check it out if it's new to me. My musical memory is so bad and I hear lots of songs I like and forget them really fast. Halp plz
I just finished my ongame skin. Due to lot of effort I put in to make it I want to get some wasted time back So if anyone is interested in my mod I can sell it for you for just 15$. You can contact me via PM, skype: Sadz1k or e-mail: sebastian.sadowski2 (at) gmail.com
These are my first 25k hands on Pokerstars 50NL. Is there a huge difference in skill between 50NL and 100NL? I have 30 buyins for 100NL and am trying to decide if I should take a shot.
Background:
I am an American English teacher living in Prague [my wife is Czech]. One of my students introduced me to this site, and I have found the advice in the forums very useful. I don't have a Starcraft background - the closest thing I guess to that would be playing DotA in CAL when I was much younger.
I guess my short-term immediate goal is to improve my hand reading so that I can be a consistent winner at 100NL, and it seems as if there are many LPers with similar aspirations. I am positive my biggest problem is calling when I should be folding, so that's something I will focus on the next 25k hands.
Those are the words that just slipped out of my mouth while browsing the Team Liquid VOD section for the first time. I rarely ever visited TL back in the day cause I was always more interested in the USA and Europe scene than the Korean one. My memories of the site are probably extremely outdated as I haven't visited it in at least 2 years.
When I used to play BW I'd think about how cool it would be to have a nice easy to access VOD section on a website to satisfy my VOD watching desires. I remember the days when watching a VOD meant hunting around a Korean website clicking random links till something started to DL. Then replays came along and that became the primary way to watch games, but VODs were always so fun with the commentators and so on. I remember for the Team Liquid league that they ran a year or so ago they had videos on youtube and I watched a bunch from their channel and loved em. And now I've found this VOD section and I'm probably gonna crack out on it for a bit and my girl is gonna be sick of my nerdiness real quick, haha.
Hi. Some of you may know me, I used to play under the name Birdstone44. I haven't played in a decent amount of time since I'm in college and most of my time is consumed by school and my social life. Anyway, I've had good results in the past and am looking to see if anyone wants to stake me now that I'm on winter break and have some time. I would be looking for a stake for 100-1k huplosngs and similar stakes huplo cash.
Feel free to check out my sharkscope for my past huplo results and if your interested let me know.
Hi. Some of you may know me, I used to play under the name Birdstone44. I haven't played in a decent amount of time since I'm in college and most of my time is consumed by school and my social life. Anyway, I've had good results in the past and am looking to see if anyone wants to stake me now that I'm on winter break and have some time. I would be looking for a stake for 100-1k huplosngs and similar stakes huplo cash.
Feel free to check out my sharkscope for my past huplo results and if your interested let me know.
pretty much a bump. Seeing if anyone want to stake me for nl50 HU for one night. We split profits + u get ur 50 back at end of session.. If i bust then.. ur 50 is gone.
Actually I may just quitby Sicks Macks, December 12
I may just quit poker. I don't need the money at all, and I'm not really having fun with it any more. I just had a really unfun session (see blog below), and I'm honestly not sure why I do this. I understand that I'm a winning player, but variance is so big that I can't rely on poker to be a nice way to blow off steam (which is what I use it for); despite the fact that I win in the long run, I either walk away from a session kind of pleased but very excited (not a great thing when I'm trying to relax) or very pissed off and very excited. Most of the fun I get from poker is from discussing hands, and thinking about theory, and I'm starting to realize that I don't actually need to play for that to be the case.
In fact most of the things that drive me to play are stupid in the first place. Here are the honest to goodness reasons why I play a given session:
1. I've run bad for so long (read my posting history and trust I understand what this does and doesn't mean) that I feel I need to grind towards the long run so my winrate looks like what I think it should.
2. I need 200 FTP points for Ironman that day. (I'm in like month 13, this shit is like crack)
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And that's basically it. Frankly, I'm such a stubborn person that this may be enough to keep me playing, but I ask you guys, do any of you just play for fun or competitiveness (I know fish do)? If there was absolutely no chance of poker money every changing your lifestyle, would you still play? What sort of events would you lead you to quit?
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