The massive tilt ups/downs in the middle are actually not as tilty as they look, its tyr tables, i think 240TYR = 100EURO or something. i mixed in some 100NL tyr tables some halftilty session (on BOSS they offer euro/tyr/dollar and gbg tables) but ANYWAYS!
over last 1.5 months, rakebackpro ftw, lol.. i feel sad when i look at my graph since the last sitetransfer
Hey guys, there are a lot of WCOOP tournies that require an very large bankroll to play.
I am not rolled for the 340+ one,s and was hoping to be staked for any of them.
anyone who wants to cover any that cost over $215 PM me and we can talk a deal, percentages, possible make-up (there will be more than 3 tournies that I will be looking to be staked in unless i win an early one)
I have very much experience in high stakes MTT's, am in the top 20 on the Pokerstars TLB and have a very high integrity that can be backed by many sources.
We got about 650 signups. WINNAR. To put that in some perspective, the booth to our left had about 10 signups. I think we had among the most signups of any club!
Our marketing tactic was pretty sick. We just screamed ILLINI POKER CLUB!! and WHO LIKES POKER!? from 12-4pm. The crowds were so ridiculous that there wasn't really much else we could do. PokerStars used to sell those limited edition decks of cards in different colors, and I had those out to attract attention. Some people tried to snatch them because they thought it was free, and in the end I lost my red colored deck .
I thought we'd get like 2 girls MAX to sign up, but I think there was 10-20 girls that signed up.
I met SpeedyJack from LP, and some 2+2ers and other regs. I also met someone named Haseeb (I remembered him as the guy who shared dogishead's name, not dogishead himself!), who apparently knows DCal Zone and Faraz Jaka?
I have to respond to my last blog post where I got some good criticism . For one, I kind of really screwed up the question. It was actually a flyer but I accidentally said poster. Also, I forgot to mention we could only use black and white, so colored pictures would be bad. Whoops.
The biggest reason though is because of the people that are going to be joining the club. Here's my logic: the vast majority of the people who sign up will be people who play with their friends or online for play money. The club is geared towards that level of poker for that reason. However, within those people are many, many players who think they are much better than they really are. There were a ton of people who said things like, "I'm really good, I just won a lot in Vegas" or "I have a lot of experience; I always beat my friends", and I was hoping that they might be a bit humbled when they read the sheet and realize they probably don't know much about the game. Also, I have to make it very clear that the primary purpose of the club is to teach poker, and not to actually play it. If I advertise it wrong, I think it's possible hundreds of people will walk in expecting to see tables and chips setup their gambling pleasure. So basically, I'm also trying to filter out certain traffic. Does that make sense? If I'm forgetting something or the logic is flawed, let's hear it!
In any case, I wrote the flyer in like 10 minutes at 5am. Now that I look at it, it's pretty cheesy and bad LOL. I didn't have enough time to check on my blog for responses though .
But after all the chaos, I think today was a pretty big success!
Just read a bit of ToTheEastSide's blog and thought I'd post some of my thoughts on the current health care debate in the US. This is a general complaint from my morose mind and hasn't got much to say about the politics of the situation. This is also too long to probably interest many readers, but I think it's simple and easy to argue for or against.
Not only is insurance causing pricing problems - medical insurance, at least as it exists today, doesn't even make sense. Insuring against buying monthly medication is pretty much the same as insuring against buying groceries. The whole point of insurance is to avoid variance, something poker players know a lot about. Example: if we summarize your yearly income from poker as being either 10BB/100 or -10BB/100, with an 80% chance of 10BB/100 and a 20% chance of -10BB/100 then your EXPECTED win rate for the year is 6BB/100. Remember, we're supposing that at the end of the year you will either come out at 10BB/100 or -10BB/100 and that (unlike the real life) no other option is a possibility. Would you, knowing that your EV was 6BB/100, be willing to pay a .5BB/100 premium to LP.net Insurance in order to ensure that your win rate was 5.5BB/100 for the year?
That's how insurance works: You insure against the possibility of a low-probability, high-impact event. You don't insure against relatively low-impact certainties. You don't insure against buying groceries. We shouldn't insure against monthly medication. Why are you paying a premium to medical companies on top of what you're already expecting to pay?
Insurance has other problems. It creates a lot of fucked up incentives. With a typical insurance company, we have copay (for simplicity's sake I'll ignore other types of insurance, but the principle is basically the same for coinsurance, etc.) Suppose my copay is $25 for any medication I buy. Medical corporations can now price their $35 product at $125 and yet no matter what they price it, demand from the insured is the same because copay is only $25. The whole concept of quantity demanded as a function of price goes right out the window. Profit-maximizing firms are incentivized to raise their prices.
Suppose then that not all of the population is insured. Insurance companies are gonna say "fuck the uninsured demand, I'm raising my prices. I can sell my shit at $125 where I used to sell it at $35, and people [the insured] will still buy it exactly the same as before." In other words, the insured have an extremely inelastic demand cure, meaning they will continue to purchase the medication is though it were $25 even as prices skyrocket. So, given that fact, medical corporations have an incentive to raise prices regardless of the uninsured demand because it benefits them to sell less product (also meaning less costs associated with production) at a substantially greater price. This whole phenomenon forces some of the uninsured to consider purchasing insurance just so they can afford the extreme prices of monthly medication.
Obviously this is a vicious cycle.
Another consideration with regard to insurance is the consumption of doctors' labor. The AMA already has a stranglehold on the number of doctors being licensed so in the USA we already have too few doctors to be called socially efficient. Couple the shortage of doctors with the copay example of how prices rise due to insurance. The price of a doctor's time, already artificially high because of the AMA's licensing procedures, is further increased by the fact that copay pays for all but $25 of a doctor's visit that can range into triple digit prices. Doctors prices are pushed higher, making them unaffordable to the uninsured while the quantity of doctor's labor demanded by the insured remains unchanged. We can imagine some unsavory, if not unlikely results: Suppose that before the introduction of insurance, a doctor's visit was relatively expensive, and suppose that once insurance is produced, a large fraction of the population purchases insurance. Then the quantity demanded for doctor's labor may actually increase due to the introduction of insurance meanwhile, because of the copay system, prices charged by doctors skyrocket. This means that not only will there be a shortage of doctors' labor, but that the condition will persist perhaps completely unchanged in spite of prices becoming incredibly expensive.
Do I think there should be medical insurance? Yeah, for stuff that doesn't happen often and is hugely expensive; not for routine check-ups or monthly/weekly prescriptions.
Sadly, insurance isn't the only problem with medical markets.
The very nature of medical markets disposes them to social inefficiency. As people are constantly pointing out, if you're dying and there's only one company with the cure, you're probably willing to pay a pretty high price to that company. In medical markets there are often no good substitutes for a given treatment; there are R&D/licensing barriers to entering the market; etc. Basically medical markets breed monopoly (or at the very least, they breed inefficiency).
Because medical companies are essentially monopolies reaming public welfare, government regulation of medical markets is absolutely necessary to achieving a socially optimal equilibrium. The breakdown of revenues and costs in medical markets is so far out of economic equilibrium that when I first read it I was hung up on the fact for days. What i'm referring to is neatly summed up in the fact that across the ENTIRE medical market, the mean after-tax accounting profit is over 20% of medical firms' revenues and costs balance. Without going into too much detail, there's a huge economic profit being realized in medical markets, and economic profit is a reliable red flag for social inefficiency. Socially efficient market structures do not yield positive economic profit, so positive economic profit is always suspicious to someone interested in socially optimal outcomes.
So you can see what I'm talking about, compare the following:
The graph is from 2005. Oil/gas is doing worse than you might expect. If this graph were current, banks and financial shit would be crashing, and I suspect that medical/biotech would stand well away from its competitors in terms of profits reaped. This is important for economic consideration: the fact that medical markets are way better than "the best alternative." Medical markets are raping all the other markets listed, and medical markets are also raping society at large.
So I have to create a blog to do this, and am wondering if someone will be able to assist me by shipping me $2k on pokerstars for $2k on full tilt poker.
Meh, I feel completely dead & depressed. My roll & all of my money in general has been completely obliterated. I have to redeposit to play nl100 anymore, if I can even beat the limit, because I'm back down to my original deposit on FTP (1800). If I don't do that I have to grind god damned 1/2 and 1/3 live, which is fucking pathetic.
I can't play anymore today to try and save myself because I'm fucking awful and obviously tilted.
I dunno what to do except keep grinding but that's already what I've had to do and it clearly hasn't worked.
I don't know wtf is wrong with how I'm playing except that I can't fold when I ought to, I timebank-call everytime I should click the fold button and its hilarious.
I do appreciate all the advice and thoughts I get on hands btw, I know there have been a couple comments I haven't responded to in the hands section.
I might as well post a funny graph of my 6max online this month
also I'm down 1350 online this month lollllll and like 6k live(this was legit sick running bad) + expenses & I got robbed for 400 this month
after playing so badly yesterday which led to me tilting for the first time in a long time I won the morning $109 tourney for 5.6k its not much but I'll take it let the run good begin
My rebuilding excercise was going well until today.
I was running good in the morning, but then I sat down when I came back from the town...
Got stacked 1x KKvAA, 2x AKv AA and lost all flips but one. But w/e thats poker. Unfortunately I lost it and started multitabling again... and fell 4BI's while multitabling and playing really bad. I just can't bloody control myself...
I KNEW I had hit my stop loss and I KNEW that multitabling is the worst thing to do. But nope... I still couldn't do it.
By my super strict rules, I withdrew to 1k and will move down to NL25 at 900 should that happen.
Poor tilt control and multitabling urges are the only things keeping me at NL50 for so long, and nothing less drastic will work.
anyone feel like staking me for the mil or any of the sunday tourneys? my stats are good on opr look me up gsr_01_integ PM me and let me know we can work something out
Getting KK v AA in NLHE =[ What sucked was that it was live, we were deep, and I didn't have a rebuy. I took another bad beat because the card room was running a promotion to give away $500 every half hour to the first person to win a hand with pocket aces. I get there at 7:20 and at :32 past the hour I get AA but they were late on calling the rollover =[ Got doubled up by a guy chasing a flush draw though but still..
Think I am going to take a break from live poker. People just want to give their money away but the suckouts are just so sick with the stuff people play. Last time I was there I got pocket in the BB and decided to setmine since it was 4way flop and it is real easy to stack someone if I hit. Flop comes . SB bets $15 and I raise to $30 and both the other plays call. Turn comes , SB checks, I shove, and everyone calls. Guy to my left has . Guy to my right said he had a "gutshot draw" lol. The last guy, who was the only one to have me covered, had and the river comes , which means he committed 25% of his stack with an ace high and a backdoor flush draw in a 4 way pot.. Wow
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No more weekend grinding.by BalloonFight, August 23
I swear I'm cursed on the weekends. I win every week, then just get sucked out on vs fish. Or lose 60/40s pre or 70/30s all day. I'm seriously just not going to play a weekend for 2 months minimum now as I just drop my winnings for that week vs retards who shove with things like 77 on AT4 flops then turn a set.
PokerStars Game #31949744490: Tournament #189371632, $22+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round II, Level III (50/100) - 2009/08/23 1:49:00 ET
Table 189371632 1 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (3820 in chips)
Seat 2: pidawg (2180 in chips)
pidawg: posts small blind 50
Hero: posts big blind 100
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
pidawg: calls 50
Hero: checks
Showdown pidawg: shows (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
Hero: shows (two pair, Aces and Jacks - Ten kicker)
Hero collected 1000 from pot
Summary Total pot 1000 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won (1000) with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 2: pidawg (button) (small blind) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
I hope you all enjoyed! I'll post up a Part 5 soon enough. I just can't get enough of this post-rock / ambient sounding bands. So far I've given 39 (10 each time, but put Sigur Ros on it twice) bands and I'm sure there's many more out there! Stay tuned!
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in the BB and decided to setmine since it was 4way flop and it is real easy to stack someone if I hit. Flop comes 
. SB bets $15 and I raise to $30 and both the other plays call. Turn comes 
, SB checks, I shove, and everyone calls. Guy to my left has 
. Guy to my right said he had a "gutshot draw" lol. The last guy, who was the only one to have me covered, had 
and the river comes 
, which means he committed 25% of his stack with an ace high and a backdoor flush draw in a 4 way pot.. Wow
(two pair, Aces and Jacks)
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