Hey guys and gals, I've been in Canada for a bit under 2 weeks now so I figure I'd give an update on whats up in Whip's world. My roomates and I got to Canada on Feb 1st and managed to find a nice place a bit outside of Toronto on our first day. We pretty much went straight to check out the place right after I got off the plane. It's on the countryside, which means no distractions as we grind poker. I got off the plane and started working immediately when I traveled to Korea, so I suppose this is some sort of pattern. We had to deal with getting Canadian bank accounts/depositing money/living expenses for the first week or so, so I haven't played much poker until last weekend.
I just borrowed 50$ from my roommate Everize to play with until I could get my wire transfer to Canada from my American bank. I played 2nl to get a feel for the games on stars since I mainly played on Bovada back in the states. The games were definitely more fun, people felt better on average and 3 bets all over the place! Eventually I got my wire and was able to grab a vanilla master card and used those to deposit 200$ on stars (but it was CAD... rip exchange rate lol). I started playing 5nl to see what it was like, since that's what I was playing over on Bovada. Everyone on 5nl seems to be better overall and play way more aggressive. It took a tiny bit to get used to it, but after my session today I feel like I've really got the hang of it and will most likely move up in a day or 2 to 10nl. I felt like playing 5nl allowed me to quickly improve in multiple areas of my poker game, it was an... interesting experience.
I've been playing a mix of 6ring NL holdem cash games and zoom (4 tables), with pretty comparable results between them (over a small sample size however). I also spent a lot of time recently working on my HEM2 HUD and memorizing ranges. I have a nice preflop ranges excel sheet which I have parts in my head, but I want all that information on a snap's notice so I can play more tables more efficiently.
I know knowledge wise I've barley scratched the surface of poker. I am taking it step by step, building on basic concepts and slowly getting more and more information. I'm still trying to get into a good routine involving the gym and playing more hours of poker, and playing/studying a bit more each day till I am comfortable with the amount of time I put in each day. I'll also post a pic of my cash results graph, I know its quite a small sample size and only around 10k hands... but at least it's a positive graph! Please scold me and tell me to play more lol.
Oh I'm also going to downtown Toronto this weekend to check out a Dota2 lan/tournament, and that also gives me an excuse to check out Korea town in the area so I can feed my KBBQ addiction! I am actually ridiculously exited about this, since there was nothing Korean related anywhere near where I lived in the States. I'll post another blog most likely when I am comfortable with 10nl and am looking to move up beyond that. Lets hope that blog is sooner rather than later!
Have you ever seen a person and only have thought one word for them? “Slut, gay, fat, anorexic, ugly, weird, attention whore” those are called labels in a simple way to say it. A way to explain labels is a stereotype or a social standard the society that surrounds you thought and implemented on your brain while you were growing up. This stereotypes or social standards can be from “only girls use skirts”, to, “let´s kill a woman with rocks because she wore a short skirt”.
This lessons that the culture, society and family thought us, go into our unconscious, making them part of the way we think. They go really deep in to ourselves because, think of a kid as an sponge, it absorbs everything in their surrounding, even if we don´t remember those lessons, they are there.
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I understand how bitcoin works but I had never had carried any currency there... until now. I have decided to practice what I preach and be an engaged + active user of bitcoin. I am not too concerned about it as an investment in money but rather an investment in knowledge. My position is that bitcoin is a more ethical currency and better system than currently exists and would like to figure it out.
So, unless the governments and corrupt centralized institutions of power have completely taken it over and/or it is tank city at this point:
How does one exactly go about getting started? Insights? Advice?
sorry for all the saddish and depressing posts. i suppose this one will also be a bit on the melancholy side.
i have a co-worker who is straight up addicted to adderall. not the coolest or the most hard-core addiction i know. i get it. some of u kids eat that shit for breakfast.
it just suxs. i was concerned about 4-5 months ago and even though it was tough and uncomfortable on me, i did my best to talk to him about it. he would play it down. i really didn't want to get involved any further but god damn. it's just hard to see people lose everything and self destruct you know? so i gathered a group of friends and i don't want to call it an intervention but we sat down, the five of us, and just talked about all the things he has. a great job, great living situation, a car, great coworkers and friends and relationships and how i personally felt, that this could all be put in jeopardy due to his bad habits.
i feel like addiction is one of those things where you don't really realize how dangerous and what a monster it is until you see it in person. until you see it affect someone you truly care about.
i guess we use it too much in our vernacular in our daily lives? "i'm addicted to coffee" or "i'm addicted to my netflix" blah blah.
anyway i've spent like a month going to different vice anonymous and just interviewing people and asking how they got out of their addiction and what actually helps. seems like rehab hardly works, and treatment centers are super ethnically questionable, and therapy isn't a panacea either. from what i've gathered it seems like it takes years of extremely difficult effort, and concerted/active focus and cycles of trying to overcome but still stumbling and succumbing to w.e vice you have. and on top of that i feel like the people who actually were able to quit had to hurt someone close to them, directly cause harm due to their addiction in order to really re-evaluate their lives.
So here is a little collection of novice programs I think have their place. Let me know what you guys want to see next. I have some ideas I want to think about. I'll also have to do an intermediate series and touch on some things there because I know there are a lot of people out there that mess around with the weights and aren't necessarily novices but haven't really ever been on a proper program. So I'm toying with some ideas and I'll get back at you guys. Like and subscribe to see more shit. Any questions welcome. Comments are appreciated.
Hi guys. I made a new video for the new series I'm trying to put together of videos to help people get started. This one is about a program I would recommend to most people getting into lifting and definitely the one that would appeal to the broadest amount of people. It's kind of a catch all and gets you started no matter what direction you end up wanting to go in. So I hope you guys like it. Leave some comments and let me know what you guys think. Also like or subscribe (or both?) so I know if you guys are digging it. I'll be getting more indepth in the future but I wanted to keep it simple and scale up the information as we go instead of bombarding people with more than they can chew on. Also i appreciate everyone that actually is proficient at lifting commenting and critiquing. It's really helpful and you guys are awesome <3
First of all I'd like to ask you all a favor:
There's this band, I know 2 of it's members - cool guys. And I want to go to their show in Prague, and if they win it they get a free trip to Spain for a festival.
But to get to the Prague show at "Hard Rock Prague" they need to rank 9th at least in an online vote. And that's where you come in
Click vote. And if they get the 9th I will post pics from the concert in a LP hoodie
January I played some 75k hand at around 2.5bb/100 - mostly zoom without a HUD as it didn't work at the new added limit. But I did loads of stuff too - my aim is to slowly eke out time I spend with watching shows/interneting/movies and replace it with good stuff. It first started as a preparation for my podcast on a guy that has a travelling project where he collects chips from casinos from all around the world - I simply didn't have much to add myself so I went ahead to at least explore places around Prague and take pictures. But it kinda hit me that all have to do is cut time I spend on unproductive stuff and I can keep doing it
So far I've went to monuments, galleries, parks even The National Theatre (worst date idea imaginable btw, it was a modern super confusing and long play). And volume hasn't suffered much cause I take the time from stuff that's not rly poker related.
My mindset has been good since I try to be myself more, accept it and make it better, it's a long way to go tho - still have the tendency to open the internet when I run bad in a session and hide from my real game and revert to button clicking, had to make some corrections after I posted my last batch of hands here . I won't change myself overnight at least I am starting to accept who I am, what my game is and making it better. I had Barry Carter on today on my podcast who wrote the Mental Game of Poker (literally - Jared Tendler's Ideas, Barry did the physical ground work of writing it) and we discussed an article he wrote on too much self-help being harmful: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/wor...p-doesn-t-always-work-in-poker_89413/
I am a self confessed self help and over thinking stuff addict and it still will be a journey to drop this ever self challenging, ever changing persona and just focus on putting in the work instead of finding that new me and dropping what I know.
Speaking of podcasts - I still make these laid back Ps community podcasts, you can watch older ones here:
This is a video I wanted to make before I got into talking about programming for beginners. Its important that people have certain things in the long run. Eventually anyone serious is going to want to pick up most of these things. But its nice to review the basic tools before getting into talking about how to get started. Anyway enjoy! Like the video if u like it
Also i did this in one take and its just to get the info out there asap since I want to actually get on to the next video so I didnt realize the angle of the camera cuts off my face at the time. But its about the items anyway so I wont make that mistake again. My badz
This is a video I wanted to make before I got into talking about programming for beginners. Its important that people have certain things in the long run. Eventually anyone serious is going to want to pick up most of these things. But its nice to review the basic tools before getting into talking about how to get started. Anyway enjoy! Like the video if u like it
yesterday's video
I made a little progress video to give an idea of what my intensity days are looking like. I want to make some more beginner oriented videos in the future though. I have a few friends I have been coaching lately and I really enjoy it. So I'm going to try and put out some videos for people looking to getting into some lifting. I'll try and go over some programming and details about things that people might struggle with learning about. This one took me a while because I had to learn how to edit everything, but in the future I'll try and up the quality a bit. Any questions welcome. <3 peace
Photoshop skills needed - Easy $by MiPwnYa, February 06
Hi guys, I promised Id help my gf do her homework but I cant be bothered doing it so I'm offering $80 to whoever wants to do it. The assignment is basically to make a new poster for the movie "Requiem for a dream". Here's the assignment :
- the poster must carry the same mood&tone of the film
TEXT REQUIREMENT (in the poster you must have these text)
- REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
- A FILM BY DARREN ARONOFSKY
- CAST
ELLEN BURSTYN
JARED LETO
JENNIFER CONNELLY
MARLON WAYANS
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
1. PDF file of the poster
2. PDF file of a short description:
- 2.1 describe your interpretation of the concept.
- 2.2 specify your audiences: age - sex - SES (Social Economic Status), remember the film is rated ?NC-17?.
notes:
- the use of images from the film is accepted, or you have to create your own images/photos. no other photos or images from other photographers are allowed.
- any kind of font using is allowed, no need to use the original font from the movie
- please do not copy the layout of the original poster
- the poster should use semiotics technics from the film
- the poster must have the same mood&tone with the film
Good start for the year. Only played 2-7 Triple draw FL 5/10 and 10/20 with some exceptions (fish at 3/6 or 15/30 and a $27 donkament the last day) and made 18K vpp.
And for thoose who love graphs: (do you see the trend? Im not, so I wont make conclusions)
Been running quite bad lately and today started out even worse getting coolered in literally every single hand I played to start but thought I was playing well and after taking a break took a step in the right direction hopefully this is the start of running good!
Hit a royal flush with J10cc on AcKcAdQcX today at Lucky Chances in Norcal. Shipped a 500 bonus for it because of a promotion. Woulda been nice if the other guy in the hand had AA woulda been worth a 100k bbj
I have finally completed my degree in IT from University of Wollongong.
I received my results couple of days ago and was super happy, since I did supplementary exams right before Christmas, my graduation date will be mid year this year. The feeling of achieving this is somewhat overwhelming mixed with confidence boost.
Just the experience alone of being a uni student is priceless. University of Wollongong is probably the best University around the east coast of Australia, it's right next to the beach and super laid back.
This year I'm basically going to focus on making as much money as I can and invest it in a start up by the end of the year.(Hopefully)
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I challenged myself to crush zoom last year mid year, but I lost focus during my last semester and ended up taking a big chunk out of my Bankroll before Christmas for the first time. I was basically a winning fish in the micros, however in the last few weeks I've actually had more time to look into my own database, and found lots of leaks and spots that needed improvement. My redline before looking and studying my own database was pretty much the opposite of my actual profits, since then I've been finding lots of spots to improve this.
So after the Seahawks blew it last night, it was time to drink heavily. Have a decently bad hangover this morning. Obviously eating helps along with some water. Gatorade has done nicely in the past. What have you guys found most helpful to tackle a bad hangover?
this little graph starts where the last one left off so... not a great start to the year and I'm not playing a lot when running poorly so hopefully I run better this month and try to play around 100k hands
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