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you know those guys who just cant lose? The fish who you're basically at the table for his money and he just wont stop winning? This was the mother of all fish who cant lose guys.
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***** Hand History for Game 35766961138 ***** Poker Stars
$10.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, November 24, 12:28:49 ET 2009
Table Pia Real Money
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 3: ariel.b51 $3.50 USD
Seat 4: Hero $18.95 USD
ariel.b51 posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$0.10 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
ariel.b51 raises [$0.95 USD]
Hero raises [$3.40 USD]
ariel.b51 calls [$2.50 USD]

Flop (Pot : $6.85)

   

Turn (Pot : $6.85)

   

River (Pot : $6.85)

   
Hero shows
ariel.b51 shows
ariel.b51 wins $6.65 USD from main pot
***** Hand History for Game 35767149407 ***** Poker Stars

had some fun today at pokerstars. sorry everybody i sucked out on to get back to even


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Ken Lewis made BOA go broke. The company is so "messed up" and "direction less" that no one is touching it. Who can solve the problem? Its CLEAR. KEN LEWIS can!!!!!

Link

You actually cant really blame them. Because Washington is running on the same principles as well!

Oh and btw BOA buying up Merrill was apparently a great move too!


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that was today, good night!


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Played pretty bad today overall.. Yesterday I was feeling pretty iffy too. I think if I don't feel 110% when I start my session tomorrow, I'm just going to take the day off. Disappointed that I played very suboptimally though. Just feeling really shaky at nl200 since 3 days ago when in the first 30 minutes of my session I got insanely coolered for 4bi and just lost every other pot otherwise lol.

I feel like my mindset is still a bit delicate right now so I'm going to play only nl100 until Friday evening.

This is my month so far, kind of depressed tbh when I look @ rossro's results.. I feel shitty about it tbh.

Overall month
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/e536a.nov-so-far.jpg

Gonna read poker books tomorrow.

Nl100 for the month
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f2f2b.nl100nov1-23.jpg


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Although some LPers told me I should grind NL50 some more because I needed a bigger sample size, others told me to take a shot at NL100 if I felt ready despite my 20BI roll. I took the latter's advice and managed to go up 3BI today. YEAAAAAAAHHHH. I know 3BI is totally standard, but I felt so damn good after my session. I played scared money a little bit, which I think cost me ~$100 after going over my hands, but I'm still really happy about the results.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/3b928.a.png

I got into these two situations here and I don't really know if I made the right play.

Hand #1: villain was 0/0 over 9 hands. I think I played scared money here because I felt like I should have 3bet bigger preflop and either shoved or folded. My postflop game here was terrible, I really don't know what I was thinking.
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Hand #2: villain was 16/10 over 40 hands. Once again, I think I played scared money here. I feel like I should've raised or shoved the flop but I think I was right in folding the turn.
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Even my redline is fucking hot.
That's how i roll baby.


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The first one who catches me playing cashgames higher then 3/6 NL/PLO before December 3rd this year gets to pick a signature for me for 1 month and can pick a charity of your choice that I'll give 500€ to. If more then one sees it it'll go to the first one who sends a PM to me.

Conditions for charity are:

Nothing to much against my beliefs, so I will refuse if it's to nazi, feminazi, enviormentalist, communist etc)

Has to be relatively easy to give them money from Sweden (ie: don't wanna give my cc info to weird random site from Russia or w/e).

Conditions for sign: nothing that is against the law, will get me banned or is formulated in such a way that I'll get to deal with rakeback sites or people who wants to have rakeback more then usual.


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So I took a look at my hold em manager today and realized that I have a hit a milestone @ 100nlhu. Pretty proud of where I have come over the last 4 months :D. Unfortunately my I lost all my data from july, which was my biggest month yet (>10k). Anyways here are the results.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/a1fb0.100khands1.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/43434.100khands2.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/32351.100khands3.jpg

Gl on the tables every1.


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Ive been tempted lately to start playing more plo, and Ive put in about 5/7k hands this month in plo but I only know the very basics and not much else.. Ive looked at some coaches on 2p2 and have been talking to some and was just wondering if anyone on LP was coaching mid/high-stakes PLO

Anyways I send me a PM with pricing/credentials and stuff is anyone is intereated or if you already have my aim/msn msg me

thanks


EDIT:

Im also looking to get rid of 12k on VCpoker an ipoker skin for Stars or FTP... will pay a small vig if necessary


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Hey guys. Anybody know a way to export hands from HEM easily, where you weren't in the hand yourself? I dont want to have to click on every player and export all their hands each to get my datamined hands exported.


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i ran pretty hot this month =) feels good

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It all started about two months ago. I was alone at my house in San Diego. It was 2 AM, but I wasn't tired or sleepy. So I decided to watch a movie, and what better way to enhance movie watching than a vaporizer and weed? I took a few hits, then took a few more. Very soon I was completely baked and dousing myself in a world of interesting and trippy thoughts. It was very enjoyable. And then, suddenly, out of nowhere, it hit me. By the way, I'd just like to add that this rather long blog post won't be poker related.

The image of a circle appeared in front of me. It was the scariest thing I had ever seen in my life. It was immediately followed by a feeling of certain understanding of the workings of the universe. It was disgusting. Within the circle I saw the true meaning of time, eternity, and the horrifying, cyclical nature of the universe. My jaw dropped, my eyes were filled with terror, and I was completely motionless. I contemplated suicide.

A period of time passes (I'm not exactly sure how long, I had lost track of time) and I had calmed down slightly, but still had the horrifying ideas (which I will go into in a bit) in my head. I looked back at the movie that was playing, which by the way was Knocked Up, a pretty good comedy that I later enjoyed without such distractions. I simply could not appreciate the film whatsoever; every time I focused on the movie, I would notice how fake everything is, and that societal values are illusions constructed from evolution. I tried to force myself to sleep, in desperate hopes that I would forget everything. I did...

...Until 2 weeks ago. Myself and a friend of mine decided to take half a dose of LSD one evening. Neither of us hallucinated or anything, but probably because we didn't take a full dose and LSD requires a certain thresh hold to actually work. Anyhow, it was a fun experience that lasted until ~3 AM. He went to bed, and I decided to take out my vape and smoke some more. I went back into my room and took out my laptop, in preparation to read about Plato (I had been very interested in Greek philosophy). After maybe 5 minutes or so, the haunted thoughts I had experienced 2 months ago mysteriously returned to me. It was traumatizing.

I imagined that the human race, like all previous organisms, would destroy itself eventually. Culture constantly pressures competition, and the desires for greed and uniqueness would eventually cause world wide depression, and then insanity. The worst part of it all is, such a fate would recur over and over, from an eternity, to an eternity. I understood why I was so terrified of the circle. It represented the universe, and the idea of eternal recurrence. If you are not familiar with eternal recurrence, it is the idea that the universe is stuck in an endless loop, has always been, and will always be. It was originally popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Basically, eternal recurrence logically makes sense, because, given a finite amount of constantly rearranging matter, and an endless amount of time, the matter would eventually be arranged in every possible configuration, an infinite number of times. Imagine an infinite number of hands of poker played. Every single possible hand and outcome would be played out an infinite number of times. Eternal recurrence implies that humans have existed countless times before in the past, and will exist countless times again in the future, once it inevitably destroys itself.

Imagine a sphere, and a line that travels around the sphere randomly, and infinitely. Would it not cross every path, make every turn, and arrive at every point an infinite number of times?

As I mentioned earlier, Friedrich Nietzsche was the original "father" of this theory. He wrote several books on eternal recurrence, but simply reading a lengthened summary of Thus Spoke Zarathustra made me rather nervous. I won't go into detail but basically, Nietzsche believes that humanity is only a step in a pre-designed evolutionary chain. He thinks that once humans truly grasp the undeniable concept of eternal return, the vast majority of them will shrivel away in depression and insanity. True understanding of eternal return will become the evolutionary factor deciding the next step of where life goes. Nietzsche calls the next step the Overman, which is an advanced version of the modern man that is able to not only accept, but embrace the idea of eternal return, and embrace the fact that every hour, every minute, every second, every one-millionth of a second, in the long run, will last an eternity. Every possible outcome of a person's life, of humanity, and of the universe will last an eternity.

The following is a famous quote from Nietzsche describing his first encounter with the idea of eternal recurrence:

"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?"

Reading this was a bit scary for me, because it seemed to happen in the same way for me. I was alone, and the visions that came to me seemed external; I had never really studied philosophy or the idea of eternal return. Nietzsche said to truly grasp eternal return would, to any human being, "horrifying and paralzying" and says that "its burden is the heaviest weight imaginable." I seemed to have felt the exact same way.

Anyways, back to my earlier story. After witnessing these ideas in my head, I began repeating to myself the phrase "Constantly forced to destroy themselves." By themselves, I meant life in every form--cells which gave rise to animals, which gave rise to humans, which will give rise to the Overman. Each one is destined to meet its maker and perish, and the cycle will repeat endlessly. I probably repeated this phrase over and over for an hour or so. By now it was probably 6 or 7 AM, and I still couldn't get myself to sleep. I tried watching TV shows to take my mind off of it, but to no avail. My brain was so traumatized by what it had seen, it simply refused to leave it alone. For a while, I thought maybe I would be stuck in that miserable state forever.

My insomnia lasted till the next day. I was so depressed the next day, I didn't talk to anyone. I just sat in my room contemplating eternity and the eternal apocalypse. My roommates tried to cheer me up with gaming, but I just didn't have the stomach for it. I also didn't have the stomach for food. I ended up not eating for over 30, and not sleeping for over 50 hours.

I'm currently still recovering from that trauma, although each day it seems to get better. I've been able to reconnect with friends and family, but I still feel a looming uncertainty in my head at all times, haunting me.

I wish it to expire soon.


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A lot of crazy things have been going on in my life lately. I had sort've a mental breakdown so to speak and my parents took me to a hospital where I was in a "rehab" for 10 days. It was a very good experience for me as there were tons of pretty fucked up people who really needed help and it made me realize how lucky I am for a lot of the things that have happened in my life.

While in "rehab" I did a ton of thinking. Playing poker exclusively for a living was fun but I think I need to go back school. I'm going to probably live with a friend and take around 12ish hours at MTSU. Also planning on putting in a lot more hours into poker.

Lately I've taken a little on again, off again break from poker and just been taking it easy on my mind. Now I'm ready to grind grind grind and hopefully I'll have decent results.

In self promotion news, I think I'm going to sell 50% of myself in the main for PCA. If you're interested in buying some, send me a PM. Also, one of my friends I met in some of the poker games in Knoxville has started his own poker site called www.neverfelted.com. It is a skin off of Cake Poker. I've never played on Cake but apparently the software is pretty similar to that and the games are all pretty soft since its a fairly new site. The site is pretty neat and has a lot of features that I think most players on LP would really like. I deposited 1k and will probably try and run it up to a 2/4 roll eventually. I'd appreciate it if you guys can make an account and refer me (knoxshane).

Also anyone wanna help me set up holdem manager through mikogo/skype/vent (ill ship $20)? I'm just really lazy and have failed setting it up the few times I tried because I'm pretty computer illiterate.

That's it for now, I'll probably post results if I can get HEM working at the end of the month.

Take it easy

Tim




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sundays are ALDGSKJDLKASJFHLKJAS:DFHASDHA(*E$^Y#@*(


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Yeah, adding another vote to the "Sundays are Rigged" camp.

Bullshit, but oh well, gotta fight it out.


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