just starting out a blog here as i've never done one before. i had tons of stuff i was planning on including at some point such as how ive been doing online and stuff like that, but i'm going to vegas tomorrow and will be there from oct. 8-18. if any of your will be out there and want to meet up / come party send me a pm or post on here.
on a side note: i really fucked up my arm playing racquetball by falling on it. i don't even clearly remember what position i landed in but now my shoulder hurts like fuck and this was 2 days ago. i can move it pretty well except for a few directions when it gives me pain and is kinda weak, but it seems manageable assuming i can yell out HOLY FUCK every 5 mins. i think its been getting better, as right after i fell i couldnt move my arm at all and that was scary as hell. i think i'll probably be fine, but haven't seen a doctor due to having no health insurance (recently graduated, fml).
anyways! oct. 8-18 will be awesome. i'm staying at the hard rock for the first half and then the trump for the rest.
Well ive played a bit on it today after coming back to play and actually trying to improve etc, the quality on the nl10 tables is absurd as i stacked someone earlier on a 8 3 2cc board with a jc turn (120bb stack or so) and he calls with..... k2o and loads of fishhhhhhhies which is always good.
Anyways ill try keep my progress updated as the bonuses also seem quite easy to clear.
What do people who have played on the software think, i personally think the software is the most tilting peice of shit ever, but then you see the how shit everyone is its like karma?
and how fishy does Da_Punisha99 sound :D
pz gl lp
I get wednesdays off and decided to grind most of the day except for where I had a 3-4 hour nap.
Last few weeks and months have been pretty awful for me in poker.... and its not getting any better.. net worth is just getting lower and lower fml. I hope it changes real soon
Short sum-up since last blogpost.by MasterofLaw, October 07
So what have happened?
Friday I got drunk with some collegues, then went home to sleep after a very short profitable HU-session online...against even more drunk people...
Saturday I hanged out with a really nice girl. Had a really great time. Really nice since my last girls have been somewhat mentally retarded most of them. Nice end and more to come.
Pokerwise I dragged my ass to the casino tonight...made a 6k profit in 3.5hrs (20/20 blinds). Still crush the tables I think...lost some sick hands but it's those spots that make you win so much anyway....online I would like to kill someone, at the casino the calls people make just make you wanna hug and hold them like forever...they are your bankrolls best friends forever or something like that ;-)
Work-wise not much have changed. Have been assigned two pretty interesting cases. One that includes me kick people and another one trying to help a company not to be liquidated...
Wenseday is most popular tournament in my local town casino, since it takes no rake + it give gamble chip to play also.
What happened my work buddies started drinking before workday endy to get into good condition for tournament. So we talked our nit friend to register into 10$ fulltilt 5k guarnteed tournament. And we agreed to pay 1/3 of his payment.
In the meantime it was 2 hour to register our local casino tournaments and we looked at net that only 3 places left 2hours before it begins they called and said that they bron those places that they will be there with 4 mins. But what the hell then they got there they still sold those tickets to somone else..
But it was all good. In mean time i was playing that tournament started playing at 3k chips.
At the end I fucking got to final table. With 4 players left we made deal that 300 to play for and else chipstack deal. So i had guarnteed alreadty 940.
In the end i was heads up and lost with 99 to aq. But it was all good 1/3 winnings 310$ chip it
so, after my last session (you can see on my last blog post) I'm a little bit tilted and I was wondering if any1 here would like to help me a bit on session today. I'm not willing to pay anything, just asking if someone would like make a new friend and help me on your bored time. I'm currently crushing NL25 but I feel that I could do better and will always be nice to hear someone looking my game from outside and giving me some insights. I'm from Brazil and here online poker is not popular at all so I actually only have a couple of friends (online, never even met then) that play so I guess it would be really nice to meet new players and stuff... I'm @ work now, gonna be home in a couple hours but I'm only gonna start my session 6 hours from now.
PM me if interested or add me on msn messenger: arthur.alencar@terra.com.br
and I'm also offering any kind help to any1 that play my limits (untill NL50), would be really nice to share some knowledgy.
Listening over some of the commentary there are parts I'd like to expand more upon but time constraints stop me from talking about everything I want to. When I'm posting a reply in a thread I sit there typing for like 15 minutes just for 1 hand so I often times make long posts with almost all of my thoughts on the matter, however in this video I'm trying to cram my thoughts into as little time as possible.
For instance on the KQ call preflop at 8:20 or so I said I would like to 3bet rather than call in that spot sometimes and I didn't fully explain. With youthoughtwrong in the pot, 3betting and driving him out would be pretty bad when I know how bad he is, how wide he's going to be overcalling there and how much top pair good kicker is worth against him. However if the situation was different and the button open limps a lot but either folds a lot pre or plays reasonably post to the point where I think it's more profitable to squeeze the money out of the original raiser preflop (Who would have to be raising wider than CasualCay was in that spot) than trying to flop a top pair and extracting vs the donk in a 3 way pot, then I would prefer to raise there than call. I guess with a suited KQ I would basically always call in that spot having position on the raiser and getting it 3 way with a donk in there, but KQo doesn't play that well multiway, though it's perfectly good here against youthroughtwrong who, as you saw in this hand was limp/calling Q5o and sucking on huge cockbags.
With that being said, even now I don't agree with everything I said in the video and I definitely didn't say all I wanted to, so feel free to post any comments or questions on any hands where I wasn't clear or if you didn't agree with what I said. I haven't done this very often but I wouldn't mind to make more videos in the future and have thought about getting into coaching multiple times, but never quite did it so any criticism is welcomed.
I got my body composition tested at the gym yesterday and I've lost 1.6kg of fat and lost 0.1kg of muscle in the last month. I've gone from 74.7kg with 23.6% body fat to 72.8kg with 22% body fat. This represents much slower progress than I was hoping for, I was hoping for a small gain in muscle and a bigger loss of fat. I know it's difficult to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time, but I know it's possible, especially in beginners, which is basically what I am but I must be going about it wrong. I think diet is still the main problem and I'm having huge difficulties getting a routine down. I'm skipping breakfast a lot, only eating like 4 times a day and the meals are too low in protein. I'm hoping that in the next month I'll be able to get my act together and speed up my progress.
Poker results this month have been poor, mainly because the month started off just how the last one ended - running WAY below EV and getting cack all over my face. After losing 16k in 2 days (30th Sept + 1st Oct) I decided to play some 200NL and 100NL and I've been playing a lot of those limits. I've been running below EV there also, but winning at least. I've tightened up my play preflop, mostly UTG and UTG+1 where I was definitely raising too wide in the past. I feel good about how I've been playing at 100NL and 200NL even though in the past when I played there I've been unable to take it seriously, and there have been signs of that from time to time this month also, but by and large I feel that I've been playing reasonably well.
I'm happy with how many hands I'm getting in at least, usually 20k is more than I play in a month. I'm enjoying the game and feeling like I am making some progress even though results aren't following just yet. I'm probably going to continue to stick around at 100NL and 200NL for a while and then move back up to 600NL, 1kNL again. I feel like this is something I never did in the past, partly because last year I didn't go through many downswings, but it's definitely necessary to take a step back when things are not going your way and I'd rather play 200NL or whatever than not play at all. Need to play to improve and running away and not playing at all does not solve anything.
Time to go watch the first 2 episodes of the new Dexter series and eat. Enjoy~
Blog is back!! Have a video coming out! 20k/mth!by Joeingram1, October 07
Just wanted to let everyone that follows the blog know that I am coming back to the blog world.
I will write a full update tomorrow of the past few months and post alot of 5/10 and 10/20 hands I have played. I was lucky enough to be owned in the very first hand of Ansky's recent DC video also, always exciting, I have Q10ss in the hand
I also made an NL100 fr video with a bunch of shorthanded play also for the people of 2+2 which focused on 3betting people, I think I ran about 48/41 with 40 percent 3bet so was playing my usual nit game. The video is being processed right now by Split from 2p2 and will be up on his site tomorrow!
Had a little over 20k month last month and finally got out of the negative on tableratings site which is a big goal of mine actually lol but I started this month down 12k but have rebounded. Graphs to come tomorrow!
for some reason I loaded up 9 tables today, instead of my usual 6-7. Those couple of extra tables really put me into autopilot mode, and I made some tilty decisions because of all the actions popping up and shit.
Some reg c/c 33x flop, c/minraise turn J, I look down at my TT, and I just tilt shove into quadzillas. definitely going back to 6-7 tables tomorrow, to reduce tilt and increase quality of play ...
... I got smoked by a city bus while walking homeby rossro, October 06
Ok I will get right into it.
Last Thursday I was at a bar with a bunch of my buddies when I decided to take off a little early (worked at 5:30am the previous morning so i was tired). So I left the bar and started walking home since my house was only a few blocks away from the house. I was waiting at the cross walk at a fairly busy intersection. The pedestrian walk light came on and I began walking, not noticing anything in my direct view, although I did have my hood up since it was raining out. So I take about five steps out into the street when I hear a large vehicle basically right beside me and before I know it I am lying on the pavement in front of a city bus. The impact was enough to completely spider the front window of the bus, send me flying about 4-5 feet before I smacked the pavement on my side. The police/ems where called and recorded the incident checked to make sure I was fine (although it was extremely brief). I was able to get up immediately after the incident, obviously in shock at the time. Anyways after a few hours of reports, etc (the bus driver completely corroborated my story, and of course it was a woman.... lol). So the next morning I had a large bruise/pain on my hip as well as some pain in my shoulder/side and a head ache (although the headache could have been from being hung over). So I went to the hospital to make sure I had not broken bones or serious injuries, and after getting an xray of my hip showed that I had no broken bones, I was prescribed pain killers and sent home. This happened late last week and as of now I still have pain in my hip as well as shoulder/upper body. As well a $500 watch and brand new coat were completely destroyed in the incident.
Anyways if any of you are actually still awake after that I have a few questions I was wondering if anyone has any insights about.
1. Anyone have any clue what compensation is typical in an incident such as this one. Keeping in mind this accident occurred in Canada. I am obviously not expecting a concrete answer I am just curious if anyone has had any experience with anything remotely similar. (Keeping in mind it was a City Transit Bus)
2. I have to contact the insurance agency (SGI - Saskatchewan Government Insurance) about an injury claim tomorrow. Should I also be contacting a lawyer to get legal advice about this matter (e.g. pain & suffering compensation) ?
Thx for any responses.
Overall it was quite a traumatic experience if the bus driver had seen me a second later or been going any faster I could definitely be dead. For how hard I was hit I still cant believe how mild my injuries are, luckily I am a pretty big guy (6’4, 245 pounds and fairly muscular… at least that’s what I tell myself).
ok i fucking hate this game.by Newblish, October 06
Ok,
Gonna remove this post. Was just a "i want to let off steam because i had a bad session(the worst one ive ever had) and i get piles of one of - hatred/spam/people posting random useless shit that has no real relevance to anything.
Jesus christ, Sorry for fucking venting some frustration you idiots(not all of you, though you know who you are - street hooker).
If anything positive can come out of this - It's that this has taught me that i need to work on controlling my emotions and just forget about these days. Thats ultimately all you can ever do.
I guess my dream to be regular at NL50 will have to wait a more
damn, feels so bad a -4bi loosing session
some motivating word would be nice
and also some critizes about those hands, I know I did not played then well...
on hand2... villain is a 10/7 uber nit, how the fuck he calls that preflop. I just went on super tilt after that hand
Liberte is back on Earth soon and back to poker?by Highcard, October 06
So I was reading this article about Guy, says he will be back October 11th. He spent $35 million and a lot of time training/preparing + divorce. I am just wondering if people think he will be hitting up the HSgames or does this Space shit seem to be his new distraction from poker
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