Last best poker month imo considering one single player donate me 2K/m since December and I dont see him again. Volume was very low compared to last month because there's very few regs left I consider profitable playing, I table selected harder and I had a long fever the last week. Also I took some 30/60 shot at the beginning that gone wrong (there's a -75BB stretch there in less than 200 hands), but managed to stay green . I collected 7500 vpp only
Now I only have some intestinal pain from a week or so, so I'll have to table select even harder. Hope Im not celiac or something. Have to see a doctor if I dont improve
Books update:
1. Finished to read some training books ("supertraining" from yuri verkhoshansky, "overcome gravity", "superjoints", "relax into tretch" and "the naked warrior" from Pavel Tsatsoulin and "stretching scientifically" from Thomas Kurz)
If I have to recommend something is, dont read Tsatsoulin, he never talks about watching muscle soreness after stretching to be a problem. The big priority is muscle strenghtening of the muscles that are an obstacle to the splits. So there's a minimum strenght requiered before going into stretching imo or I'll risk losing standing balance/posture. So, deadlifts and light aductor leg flies are gonna be in my workout list and no more than 30sec stretches
2. Still reading "the black swan" from Thaleb. The guy is so intense and repetitive like if he was telling stories to kids. Dont think its a very worthy read
How valuable is VPIP/PFR/AF still??by The Dean, March 02
Its always worth a chuckle reading some of your comments on here to my blog. If it was spam I would do it more often....think about it guys.....anyway... let us look at the three main online poker tracker metrics of VPIP/PFR/AF stats. These stand for “Voluntarily put $ into the pot” (VPIP)….. “Pre-flop raise percentage” (PFR) and “aggression factor” (AF). The VPIP stat measures how often you place money into the pot by way of limping, raising, calling a raise or completing the small blind. In short then it measures how loose or tight your online poker style is. The PFR statistic is pretty obvious regarding what it means but the aggression factor measures post flop aggression.
Some years ago when tracking software first came into vogue then there was a greater disparity in opponent types in online poker than there is today. There is a big and very important reason for that and it can be summed up in two words…….better education! Your average online poker opponent will be well versed these days in all of the basics and advanced basics of the game. This means that their VPIP and PFR stats will be similar to other players at the same level. For example in full ring games then most players fall into a very narrow band of VPIP and PFR which kind of makes these stats much less effective.
The aggression factor is a metric in online poker that measures vital post flop aggression. As a rule then the average tight-aggressive or loose-aggressive player will be more aggressive post flop. However this is a metric that has less significance in no limit hold’em than limit because it is often correct to go into pot control in no limit and so checking and calling is often the right line to take. The AF metric is of much greater use in six max games than full ring where more players are aggressive post flop.
So the bottom line is that if you play online poker and you are not necessarily statistics orientated then you would be much better off playing full ring games than perhaps six max games or heads up games. Because you will be doing much more folding in full ring then it will take your opponents far longer to get meaningful sample sizes on you and this is especially the case when it comes to play on the river for example.
If you game is heavily statistics based then you will find that six max may be where your greatest strengths are because this is where you will be able to get the biggest edge over your opposition.
One key set of metrics in online poker that are just as important whether you are playing full ring, six max or whatever are your 3/bet stats along with those of your opponent. This can also be tagged along with your fold to 3/bet stats as well which indicates how often you raise and fold to a re-raise. The key reason why this is important in games like no limit Texas hold’em online poker games is because play in and around the blinds is far more aggressive. So the bottom line is that you need to learn which metrics and statistics are important in online poker and which are of lesser importance and then focus on the more important ones.
Nietzsche On Reading and Writingby RiKD, February 28
Hi All,
Sometimes I just need some Nietzsche in my life: that crazy, brilliant, bi-polar, psychotic, sick, son of a bitch. I was feeling the love, strength, and hope and felt like sharing from the heart. Nietzsche's heart to my heart to your heart:
Of Reading and Writing
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
It is not an easy thing to understand unfamiliar blood: I hate the reading idler.
He who knows the reader, does nothing further for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
That everyone can learn to read will ruin in the long run not only writing, but thinking too.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by the heart.
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of joyful wickedness: these things suit one another.
I want hobgoblins around me, for I am courageous. Courage that scares away phantoms makes hobgoblins for itself - courage wants to laugh.
I no longer feel as you do: this cloud which I see under me, this blackness and heaviness at which I laugh - precisely this is your thunder-cloud.
You look up when you desire to be exalted. And I look down, because I am exalted.
Who among you can at the same time laugh and be exalted?
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at tragedies, real or imaginary.
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
You tell me: "Life is hard to bear." But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignations in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and assesses of burden!
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?
It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.
And to me too, who love life, it seems that butterflies and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them among men, know most about happiness.
To see these light, foolish, dainty, affecting little souls flutter about - that moves Zarathustra to tears and to song.
I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
And when I beheld my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: it was the Spirit of Gravity - through him all things are ruined.
One does not kill by anger but by laughter. Come, let us kill the Spirit of Gravity!
I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
Thus spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Frederich Nietzsche, pp. 67-69
what do you guys do for supplements? i am not asking in reference to bodybuilding, although i exercise, but for being better generally, healthier - less dying, more/better energy, whatever. i don't know much or where to start. i know vitamins exist but do you just grab any multivitamin? or can it be like water poisoning where you wouldn't expect it but it's bad to take more than you really need? i know there's fish oil, i saw cranberry extract, i know melatonin is supposed to be a legit sleep aid. aspirin for heart?
I have no background with this so I want to sort out things that have no effect and things made by people like Deepak Chopra... what do you take or what have you had success with?
Here for 1 year on working holiday visa. I'm traveling around for now, to cities that interest me, so I can decide where to settle down and find a job. Yeah, probably English teaching, seeing as it's hard to find anything with computers or engineering with only conversational level Japanese skill.
Finding some underground poker games would be fun though.
Hey guys, After Caesars blackballed Pokerstars for a few years keeping them out of the US, they have teamed up with them now that they are under Amaya. They are going to aggressively be pursuing many bills etc.
Also on Pokernews you can see that Cali is doing a lot having 3 tribes now willing to allow pokerstars and 2 opposed, when it was 0-5, things are progressing, and another bill was put in today although its just a start for the year as it won't do much imo.
Still grinding but loving it???by The Dean, February 19
Let us start this post off by looking at a very common example taken from a $0.50-$1.00 game that I play in. It had been folded around to the cut-off player who raised to $3.50. Now in online poker you need to have as much information as is possible to form your decisions but in this hand then my opponent was new to me. I held the Qc-Jd on the button which was clearly a hand that I would have raised with had my opponent folded.
They had a stack of $98.50 having gone through the blinds once after buying in for 100bb. My stack was 117bb on this table and my choice here is between calling the raise, folding and three betting. I do not know my opponent but I have a hand that fares well against what is probably an average range of a position stealer. At the level of online poker that we are playing at which is NL100 then most players are pretty strong as a rule and will open their ranges from position to steal.
The best players use a piece of software that is absolutely free called PokerStove although I use and prefer Equilab. This helps you to visualise the hand by way of equity. We need to put our opponent onto a range of hands and then find out how our hand stacks up against that range. I think that my opponent would raise with any pair and certainly any Broadway hand. They would also raise with suited aces and many suited connectors and kings. Using PokerStove allows us to see that this is around 30% of their total range as a minimum in online no limit Texas hold’em.
So entering my Q-J hand allows me to see that against a 30% range that my hand has around 46% equity against that range which is very good considering that I also have position. That is simply too much equity to fold even though folding isn’t really all that bad in a vacuum. You at least have to make your opponent feel uncomfortable about raising with too wide of a range because they will deny you many opportunities to make money. Three betting is also an option but you can see how having a fair indication of our opponents ranges allows us to see what a good play is here but more importantly to know why we are making the play that we are.
In online no limit Texas hold’em poker then it is often remarked how “any two cards can win”. This is true but only when looked at within the confines of a single hand. Unless you begin to look at the long term profitability of poker hands rather than the short term then you will find it very difficult to become a winning online poker player.
To know that you have 46% equity against your opponents estimated range is to know where you stand in the hand or to go some way towards understanding where you are. You could three bet them as part of your short term poker strategy with a hand like 7-2o but what happens if your raise gets called? The profit potential of your hand is so low that it is difficult to win money by any other way other than bluffing and this makes playing the hand in the first place a long term mistake in no limit hold’em.
Carl Sampson is a professional poker player who plays online at www.888poker.com
I used to be a tilt box but years have passed and I am older now. I have played millions of hands of this game with plenty of huge downswings and feel like I have seen just about anything. Especially live play is just rote at this point with automatic decision after another at a slow pace while often times i'm just on my phone to stay productive.
So tonight I'm in a 3/5 game at the local casino I go to and for the first time in as long as i can remember I just packed up and went home early out of tilt.
everyone 100 effective about. utg makes it 10, mp calls, I call with A4cc on the button, sb makes it 30 and utg calls and I call.
Flop is As7c4s.It checks around to me and i bet 75 and both call.
turn is the Qc making a AsQc7c4s board. Sb leads all in for a bit more than the pot like 380 into 320 or something roughly that size (we all have similar stacks; i cover utg and sb covers me by like a dollar) and I get ready to call while UTG goes into the tank for like 2 minutes. He is a huge donk and just thought the action was on me. When he realizes it is on him he snapcalls all in.
While UTG is sitting in the tank i was chillin figuring I was going to have to hit versus SB's AQ 90% or maybe his QQ if he was stubborn enough on the flop. He flashes his KJss to me though for some unknown reason thinking i already called or something iono so I perked up a lil when I saw I was the massive favorite. I call (obv calling no matter what).
SB shows KJss and UTG shows 103ss (lol live poker- why i put up with it though). Obviously river is the 5s or the 8s one of those. Owned
Pretty standard beat I mean I play PLO mostly so i see worse every other SNG. I literally almost never get tilted by results if anything I might get a little frustrated if I make a bad play but I don't really even do much of that anymore. I guess its just the time issue. Live is so slow I know its gonna be a couple days of grinding before I even find a spot that sweet again. I can't move up or open a bunch of tables.
Well i guess that is why i went home to play on Bovada
In a society of your creation, would you give soldiers the right to vote on whether they fight in invasive/occupational war or would you have war be in the power of a few instead of those who fight it?
And yes I dropped the automatic for a stick. I dont know what I was thinking the first time, but already am loving being able to put the car in the correct gear in anticipation of my next move, instead of having to predict how the auto will behave and creatively mash the gas pedal to get the desired outcome.
Well everybody has heard about the book and the movie about 50 shades of grey. jesus, i admit i have read the trilogy, just for fun. But, most of the people that has read them think of themselves as "oh im such a submissive or such a dom, im into bdsm, oh yeah i love whips" but seriously, that book has nothing of bdsm in it, is just abuse, Mr. grey is not a true dom, he just like to hit women, really, he doesnt give comfort after sex. Honestly bdsm is about to enjoy your body with ur partner in a respectful way in which both agree what to do and if any of both individuals want to stop, they have to stop. Other wise is abuse.
The point i want to make is that this movie is going to mislead and misinform hundreds and thousands of young teens, and probably is not going to affect them all but to some is going to. They might think of themselves as doms or subs and they are not going to make things right, *not saying there's a right way, but they are going to miss the most important thing that is respect, this also can lead to traumatize teens if they try stuff in the movie in not a safe way. They are going to even hurt themselves. How? Imagine bondage with a guy they think is "great" and then they want to stop but because of this misinformation maybe the guy doesnt stop, and even if the girl wanted to have sex with the guy in the fist place, if she wanted him to stop and he didn't it becomes rape, and this can traumatize her.
But anyways, my opinion is not going to stop teens to watch this movie or try this things, im not saying they shouldnt, im saying if they want to try them, they shouldn't take 50 shades as a guide. CUZ IS NOT.
What's your opinion?
thanks for reading, and even if you didn't thanks anyways. c:
When I was a huge whale back in the days (prolly still are) I made accounts on so many different poker sites where I could get some no deposit bonuses (out of my head I remember everest, titan, pkr, intertops pkr).
Mostly I gamb00led the rools away and left the site (sometimes there were still some cents left over with which I could not buy in again to the lowest cash games).
Now I got an e-Mail from Everest stating that after 365 days of inactivity they will start charging an inactivity fee that applies for all account that are inactive for more than a year but still have money in their accounts (I have like 35 cents). At least they were fair enough to tell me that if I withdraw that money no fee will be charged.
Lol'd hard. Is this common sense on the different Ipkr webshits? That seems super greedy and BS to me but ok I don't care enough to really complain about it.
Just wanna know which sites I will have to check again for accounts with some money left over which I need to withdraw before they start charging a fee.
So if you leave some money on these sites (or can not even withdraw because the amount is too small) and you stop playing it will be gone after 1y+!
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