bump last blog entry. Posted very late at night and many ppl didn't get to see. Also has anyone else gone, what was your favourite ride at the Orlando parks
Realizing I've been a spewtardby vasoline73, August 20
Well guys, after my last blog, I've pretty much completely fucked myself over. I'm back at NL2 after playing bad and imo, running worse. Mostly playing bad.
Really though, I think it's important that this happened. I would also wanna thank Fudyann for something that helped alot. I was sweating him and made a comment about a AJo hand he played where the board sort of bricked maybe 7 high, and the limper donk bet into him about 3/4 pot and he folded. I said something like "tough spot" and he was like "wtf no, not a tough spot. we dont even beat AK there" or something to that effect. Anyways, it wasn't profound or anything, it just made me sort of realize I've been effing around too much and definitely incorporating wayyyyyyyyyy too much fancy play syndrome into my play. I need to stop floating and trying to push people off pots just because they limped.. or some dumb reason like that.
I'm embarrassed to still be at NL2 after all this time, but I'm glad that people are commenting on my HH and for advice/encouragement on the site. I really think I'm this close to wrapping up my "major" leaks and will hopefully be a NL10 player soon. I don't think I'm THAT bad and it's just frustrating. It's doubly embarrassing when I see players like Lemon who moved up so quickly in the time I've pretty much been doing nothing.
Anyways, I played 1389 hands today 4 tabling and ended up losing 1.22... which imo is much better than me 80$ in the same amount of hands because I spewed horribly and ran bad. Currently about 6-7 buyins below my all in EV, but I know that luck < skill in poker and that today I played well. When I got it in I was way ahead and you can see some of those hands in my HH.
Overall I am hopeful and determined to move back up although at the same time, scared that maybe it'll never be. Guess I'll have to grind a bit more and see.
Really I think I was just playing an aggressive style and hitting cards + getting paid off.. and when cards started not hitting I kept pushing it. Clearly I need to cool it a bit.
Anyways, I hope whoever is reading this is rooting for me to be a better player through LP.
In general what do you guys think? Time to quit? Still have a chance? Did successful players ever take this long to move up? T.T... hand quantity wise I know it's not alot.. but the amount of time I spent playing these hands was pretty long since I kept taking on and off breaks from poker. I dont know. Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed the blog. Like I said, I feel like I'm this close to figuring it out. And thank god for rakeback + FTP's 100 dollar bonus thing.. otherwise my BR would be looking pretty thin (hint: it is!)
so ive tried to import my old pt2 hands to my hem database. it imports and everything. did what the site said. but when i try to go change to select a name nothing comes up. its old UB hands. dunno anyone else have this problem?
School for me is starting next Monday. This is the cause for my taking it easy and sidetracking today because come Monday I will be doing a 16 hour semester as well as having to keep up a grind for income/bills/life etc... I'm getting a breather while I can.
The title of this blogpost is because I wanted to say thanks to the both of you for having a relatively small hand (but a hand nonetheless) in two of the classes I am taking. One is a foreign language and the other is Political Science.
To get a little more in depth, since classes are starting soon the school is busy and my processing and applications etc took a bit which means the selection of classes I got to pick from was dwindled down this semester. I've always wanted to learn another language but never really had the opportunity and it wasn't ever required for me to do. Now's the chance.
As for Political Science, I am actually really wary and hesitant to take this but again since it was one of the ones open I feel now is a good time to see what it is about. I'm hoping overall it's a good experience. It was either this or a computer programming class. I'm going in with eyes open as wide open as possible and I will try my best to not make all hell break loose but no guarantees =D
This school & poker is an interesting line I am taking to say the least and I'm not sure how it will all work out. Maybe I shouldn't be thanking anyone until after the semester is over eh...
ah well
Onto other things..
(yes beware....politics below)
First I think a huge problem in this country is our "Representatives."
This is daily business in the Texas legislature.
I have to point out that clip ^ is Texas government which is state and local government and not federal. I think with a dab of common sense it's obvious today that states in America are far from sovereign entities and they are reliant upon the Federal Government to a pretty big degree. So at least to me it's really easy to envision something similar as this clip going on at federal level as well as no real change nor accountability within your state until some of that reliance of federal funds is decreased. I try to always keep primarily focused on deflating the need of national government to bring the powers and rights back down to the states therefor much closer to the people. It is obvious to me that government today, whether it's state or federal, looks out after it's own welfare first to continue to grow. There is absolutely no cutting back. Every taxpayer dollar spent to create a bigger government then becomes a dependability and thus for government to evolve and move forward they need that money and then more. This clip shows the rats at work doing nothing more than looking out after their "union"
The next thing I'd like to show you guys is another "Representative" but this time in New York.
This one even directly admits he's not there to represent you!
The audio is hard to make out, but luckily where I got this from (The Washington TImes) also provided the audio in text form which I will put in this spoiler + Show Spoiler +
MASSA: I’m not going to vote for 3200 as it’s currently written. Step one, I will vote for a single payer option or a bill that does have a medicare coupled public option, which we don’t have right now. If my town hall meetings turn into the same media frenzies and ridiculousness, because every time that happens we lose. We lose another three million people in America. They see that happening and negate us.
PARTICIPANT: It changes the narrative.
MASSA: Every time that occurs. So what happens in my town hall meetings frankly is important, because I am in one of the most right wing Republican districts in the country, and I’m not asking you guys to go back to wherever and send people to me. This is a generic statement of 'what can I do?' Well that’s one thing we can do.
PARTICIPANT: So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you’d vote…and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it?
MASSA: Oh absolutely I would vote for single payer.
PARTICIPANT: If there was sixty forty sentiment in the room?
MASSA: Listen, I tell every audience I’m in favor of single payer.
PARTICIPANT: If there was eighty twenty in the room?
MASSA: If there was a single payer bill?
PARTICIPANT: And there was a single payer….
MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.
PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?
MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.
(inaudible participants' comments regarding the "interests" of the district statement from Mr. Massa)
MASSA: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.
Lastly is something a little different.. It's something that I hope we can discuss openly without flaming of characteristics. What do you guys think of the Obama joker posters?
If you don't know what I am referring to, I'll post a couple of pics and videos to get you up to speed.
wait... before I do that, I want to attempt go ahead and completely nix and obliterate the racial card out from this discussion.
If you really think that Obama as The Joker is a racial thing, click on the spoiler + Show Spoiler +
To blend my non-racial points of these two appropriately without spending alot more energy I will use this picture. I do like this one and it does an awesome job
Here are some pics from my Orlando trip, I had a blast. I love Universal studios the most. The Simpsons ride and Spiderman ride the most out of all the 3d rides. I would so on those 2 all day. The shittiest ride was Its a small world after all. Holy crap that ride was horrible. Anywho, here's some pics.
First real hour + session in over a year [update]by NerO, August 19
So a lot has changed since i last made a post.. moved twice.. got real depressed for a few months then met and fell in love w/ a girl in miami.. been with her now about 6months, ima change my profile pic to one of her. Finally feeling good really truely happy for the first time in a long time. I think its time to finally commit and focus on poker as a job. I had a talk w/ her and i need a real job for us 2 do stuff, yes my school and all my bills and living expenses are paid for by scholarships so i dont really need one but its time.
Heres wuts happening 25hours/week starting as of this upcoming week.
I will be playing only 6max tables starting at 10NL, I tried messing around w/ FR this week 5NL 20tabling w/ very minimal wins so I decided to play 9 tables of 10NL 6max w/ about 130$ ended upabout 20$ in 45mins so decided then that i was jus gunna play 6max. The next day I had about a 6hour window so finally got my first full long session in with some pretty good results:
with these results I more than doubled my bankroll (and my confidence). So i'm quite optimistic on where I can go from this, hopefully I continue playing well and the cards keep falling in my favor, and i can work my way up the stakes.
Starting now i have $275, after donking tournaments today which made me realize I need to stop playing tourneys until I have a much larger BR cushion even though thats wut I've made the most money by far playing, I want to get poker to be a reliable income, which isn't obtainable by playing low stake tourneys. I will be open to any, and all stakes for tournaments though, I will most likely save up and buyin to wcoop event 6 the 109.
Basicly I'm at $275 playing 10NL 6max, at $600 I will take a shot at 25NL 6max then if i get down to 500 move back to 10NL 6 max since I've won at 25NL before I want to try to get there fast.
I will update my blog every week and give updates on my progress. Also expect starting next week there to be posts with marginal hands that I would love input and advice on so keep a look out for those!
ok so i thought id play again now i have alot of time and i have some spare cash to invest into a BR. So basically, i have a bonus on a site and the bonus requires 2k points, ive cleared 10% today BUT ive been playing under rolled and off the back of two bad beats im thinking shit, what an ass i am. Anyways, whats best, survive the grind under rolled to get points quicker = get bonus quicker, or grind the shit out of nl5 ? (Can only play like 6 tables max cos the software is rather turd.) I played for about 8 hours underrolled btw to make 10% of bonus progress.
whats best veterans :<
pz lp
ok, 4 days ago i decided to stop the shit masstable grind and concentrate at the fish instead. ive been running really bad (110BI under EV over 3 months if u go back to an earlier blogpost of mine http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=774508 , if now some1 cares)
but anyways, the last 4 days has felt good, less stress, softer sessions and overall a much higher bb/100 winrate.
Ive still ran crap in flips these days but w/e i will get there eventually i guess.. (really looking forward to the day where i can say that ive ran 110BI over expectation ^_^, ofc from playing good in standard spots not just spewing like a monkey winning everything)
Anyways ive tableselected really well these 4 days and only been playing 2 or 3 tables. Its the nuts really, im really raping the regs where i usually dosnt pay to much attention.
Its like i can see everything all of a sudden. playing alot looser to and my redline rules ATM after having it down in the negative usually when i masstable.
Anyways, gl hf! i hope my month will end in the good now after breaking even the first 20k hands before these 4 last days. And maybe get my fucking ass back to NL50 again and maybe start earning some fucking monies of this game..
I really recommend you guys who masstable to cut down some tables once and a while and think about stuff atleast 1 session/week or something.
I will stick to this to get a "real" sample of the 2-3 tabling. But so far so good
ps. sorry for all the EV talk from me all the time, something i need to work on is less whine and less crying over variance, even if its the doomswitch of a lifetime, maybe ive had / will have mine now at 25NL and will run goot at 25 50 next year instead
So I desperately want supernova because supposedly that is as good as FTP's rakeback and I like the software on stars 10 times more than on FTP. I 6-9 table PLO50 and I don't put very many hands in. I get about 3,000 VPP per month. (Does anyone know how many hands on average that is?) What's the best strategy for me if I want to grind out supernova very quick? Should I just put a ton more hands in or should I try to 24 table full ring NLHE for a couple months? Basically any advice on grinding supernova in terms of games / stakes / # of tables and # of hands required is appreciated.
never thought i would EVER overcome 10 days worth of below average ev in one retardedly stupid day. (a 2.4k ev deficit overcome in a day! although i did some at nl400 i guess)
im feel so gangster lolol
before you hate on me, im posting a monthly, i am above ev, but only ever so slightly, i guess i had the luck in the bank.
fwiw i am still down about 2.2k on the year on that allin ev after today. but i dont really think it means much, i probably deserved it :o
i swear to christ i was set up every single pot i was in, and somehow i won a bunch of them :o
on the month i am like 2.5ptbb now and i guess im quite happy with that but lets shoot for 3
off to the music festival i blogged about in the past. check out the songs i put up. after that i play in some live events. looking forward to that. quite a big deal over here. summer classics! will report about everything later. graph starts to show some potential :S it includes the last graph but just continues. ok give them hell this weekend and have fun! http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2d2ce.week2.jpg
Basically if u had an account with UBS(the swiss bank).
US goverment now is going into ur offshore swiss accounts and put you in jail for not paying half of what you earned OUTSIDE of America to the US goverment! So they can give it to AIG and other wall street firms+Airlines+the random shitty enviourment companies+General Motors+Chrysler. Or basically any company who is retarded enough to go bankrupt.
Well I haven't really got much to say, just an update showing what I've been up to last few days. Massgrinding baby uhn tiss uhn tiss yeaaa. I'm rolled for 10nl now but I'm not sure if I'm gonna switch to 10nl and 4-6 table or just keep 10-14 tabling nl5 untill im up to nl25.
Also I'm going to request to change my Stars nick, any ideas? Something fun (it contains my surname atm, i hear you can request to get it changed for security reasons)
So I signed up for a poker training site last month some of you may have heard of called PokerVT. It is a site started by Daniel Negreanu meant to visually explain his latest strategies behind poker.
I had a few hiccups during the initial signup phase where after being charged for service and logging in for the first day, my account was inexplicably terminated due to a technical glitch which somehow claimed my account had expired. According to technical support, this is actually a problem several members have complained about. Technical support resolved the issue that day, however my second month billing cycle started about a week ago, and the same thing happened again. This time technical support was unable to resolve the issue. So for over a week now I have been unable to login to the site, as it claims my account has expired, even though they have clearly billed me for this month. After getting fed up calling technical support multiple times a day I decided to ask for a refund in full for this month's service until they have resolved the problem. At that moment I was told by someone claiming to be the manager that the problem had finally been resolved and I have nothing to worry about anymore. Naturally I'm a bit skeptical since the problem was also "resolved" about 8 times in the last week. Regardless, I still requested this month be refunded to me since I have not been able to use the service for a full month on the pretense that they have overbilled me. Management refused. I then asked to have my account canceled and since I have been prevented from using the service this month due to technical difficulties on their end, requested a refund for this month's service. They refused again. At this point the manager was actually talking over me any time I spoke, rudely interrupting everything I said going on some long circular diatribe about how if I'm canceling then why should I be refunded, and if I'm staying why should I be credited, completely disregarding an entire week of failed access to the site.
So I have filed a dispute with my credit card that I was billed for services never rendered and they will launch an investigation claim. I have also put a block on future payments to their site since they have proven they cannot be trusted with my financial details to continue billing me. I have screenshots of the failed login screen which shows the pokervt account information with timestamp and my credit card records showing the charge they placed this month for membership that my bank has requested be faxed to them.
Ultimately I would rate this site a 1/10. The customer service is terrible, the management is rude and clearly has no experience in customer support. I wish I had recorded the phone call because it was laugh out loud hilarious and would result in his immediate termination if heard by the executive branch of this company. The site suffers from technical glitches which will disrupt access to your account for prolonged periods of time. They will also continue billing their customers regardless of whether you are an active member or not.
1st in $11Rebuy on Stars + Met Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” by Masaki, August 19
What are the chances of meeting Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul and winning the $11 Rebuy on the same night? I don't know 398924062360 to 1? Either way, thanks to xAlyssa for letting me meet Saul. She's friends with the guy through facebook and I'm friends with her through Pocketfives.com Hamilton and since she was sweating me she decided to give him a shout once we were down to 7 handed and I was chip leader after calling an all-in from a short stack with 77 vs A4o and than doubling up again through the chip leader with QQ vs 44.
When we were down to 7 players xAlyssa tells me on msn "wow ignoring Kevin Sauls raiil!" in all fairness I try to avoid all poker chat if possible and leave Poker Stars on the "info" button because I don't want to get too distracted. So she kindly asked Mr. Saul to sweat me, not that I wasn't under enough pressure as is. What felt like 10 Minutes later I win the tourny
Anyways, thanks for all the poker advice and the sweat Leroy "CanDo.ca" Wong, xAlyssa, and of course Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul gave me.
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