What is better for multi tabling, dual 22 inch monitors (resolutions are 1900 x 1080 and 1680 x 1050), or a single 28 inch monitor with 1920 x 1200 and the 1680 x 1050 22 inch monitor on the side for messenger/extra tables? Does it feel weird having differently sized monitors when multi tabling? That's the main concern. The other thing is that my friend tells me that having dual monitors may make you tired if you're looking from one screen to the other or having to move your neck a lot during a session.
Opinions?
Also, price-wise, which isn't a huge deal, the 22 and 28 inch monitors cost about 200 and 400 respectively. I already own the other 22 inch monitor with 1680 x 1050 resolution.
got tickets for LOWLANDS! yahoo! by piratematerial, August 12
ha, games have been going fairly well the last couple of days. though my feeling is i'm a long way off from reaching 10bb/100 at 100nl right now. i think so because the swings have been fairly large and i don't feel like i'm crushing the games. like i used to feel or how i feel at 50nl. i do think i'm a winner just not a big winner yet. still working on it. Daily updates got kind of boring. So i'll update in a few days, with a weekly or something. So i can show whether i'm making any progress to the 10bb/100 mark.
I've posted some hands in the forum and got some good comments on misplayed hands, so i think i'll be posting some more.
Moving on beyond poker. I got my hands on a ticket for a big music festival(LOWLANDS) here in the Netherlands. It's a 3 day deal with camping out and all. 60.000 visitors and everything. it was sold-out before i returned from Argentina but thanks to my flatmate, props to her, i got one off the black market. I'm already pretty stoked about it. I'm putting some of my favs up for you guys.
ex-singer the knife.
more or less hip hop
this one is also going to show up, but i'm sure you're all familiar
Ok booooooooyzz i'm off to the gym. I'll be back at the tables in like two hours. If anyone wants some practice games at 50nl HU where we help each other out finding leaks and such find me. (Pokerhaasje) or drop me your msn here. And thanks to all the people taking the time to comment on hands. Big help. cu later.
Had some arguments with the gf a couple days ago, got me pretty upset and I really didn't want to work. Also didn't want to spend the rest of the day upset, so I got some weed. It did make me feel a lot better, but it's definitely a slightly -ev move on my hours. I only got about 4 hours done the past few days. Granted the first day I took off wasn't really related to weed. Today though I could have played, I just got sidetracked and didn't plan my day very well. I did win 400 though, and the time off was nice. Going to give weed a break again though. My immediate finances are ok but I want to do better than just break even or be slightly in the green. I think someone said in the comments why make promises you can't keep, and weed is hard to quit, it's something you cope with. I think that might be true for me, I just need to learn to not abuse it. I think I'm getting there, I'm not doing what I used to do which was smoke weed for 2 weeks straight and not play at all. I don't plan to smoke again for a little while though.
On a brighter note I've spent a lot of my time off studying hands and making 2+2 posts. I feel like my interest in the game is sparked again. I have been studying 3 bet pots, in general I just avoided them, because I tended to get really confused as to what to do on later streets. After looking at some hand ranges, and realizing 10% 3 bet is a lot of crap, I've started playing back with stuff like AQ, TT, JJ, stuff that plays well against a looser 3 bet range. So far the results have been really good, I won some pots I never would have before which is why I went up 8 buy-ins.
Ranges is something I never studied, but the hand range tool in HEM is great. Its nice to enter in 50% and see exactly how much garbage these types are playing. Then you realize something like AT is a great hand against them, and definitely worth a reraise. I'm starting to value town these types a lot more, and I had some nice pots because of it.
I've been tilting less too, forcing myself to wait before each decision. No quick decisions. It's been helping. Hopefully I see a benefit to my long term results.
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Kevin_2384 wins $249.40 USD from main pot
Hand 3.
Another awesome hand. I decide to use fish tactics again when i actually hit something....
Submitted by : spets1
***** Hand History for Game 31455836788 *****
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 10, 04:52:42 ET 2009
Table Thuban III Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Denmarkiane $118.45 USD
Seat 2: spets2 $123.15 USD
Denmarkiane posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
spets2 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
Hello dear reader. My buddy d.Apollo left my place on the 6th August after a 2 month stay and since then I have to stop drinking alcohol. I've had gastroenteritis since leaving the Phillipines about 3 months ago, it's supposed to simply go away by itself, and although it's much better than it was I still get stomach pains now and then after drinking or eating particularly oily foods. I went to the doctors a few weeks ago and they told me that the problem left a scarring in my stomach which continues to get inflamed every time I drink alcohol or eat oily foods and that I have to stop for an entire month. Naturally this was not possible while d.Apollo was here as he is a king of birding and alcohol consumption and I followed him on many a night out. I find myself wanting a drink very often, it's frustrating but I know I have to do this because my birthday is the 8th of September and I want to be able to drink by then without problem, and especially since I have some guests coming around that time.
Poker this month has been pretty damn awesome, I've played a total of just over 1 hour of poker and have made enough money to satisfy myself for the month despite playing so little.
Obviously winning every flip, coolering people and getting called down by weak holdings when I have the goods.
It's nice that I 10k last month playing just a few thousand hands and being up 7k this month playing only 400 hands, because I really am not enjoying the game again. I think it's because of that long stint pissing around on 100nl, 200nl trying to make my stats pretty and being tilted a large majority of the time playing poker. It wasn't fun and I regret that I wasted so much time doing that, and I'm paying for it in more ways than one. Firstly I made 0 money playing 60k hands at those limits, when I should've been playing higher limits and most likely actually showing profit over 60k hands of 600nl, 1000nl so I missed out a lot in terms of $ made, and also the fact that I don't enjoy poker because of playing those limits means I play much less poker now also, again impacting on money made. So I'm really happy that I've been able to make 17k in the last month and a half because I really shouldn't be making much at all considering I've put in like 4-5k hands over that timespan.
Since I have so much free time due to not going out and the lack of interest in playing poker I've been playing a lot more StarCraft. I'm finally beginning to feel like I'm improving somewhat and I hit B+ on iCCup with a 68% winratio yesterday playing ONLY Korean players. I literally dodged non Koreans because it's tilting to play in a laggy game and they're also less good on average, and as I would like to improve I'd rather play the Korean players and have tougher wins and more losses in order to improve than try to get A- with a prettier winratio and not struggle that much. Too many people do that nowadays and I really don't think it's much of an achievement to get A- unless you only play Korean players. A lot of Korean A- players, even with 50% winratio are better than all but the top 5~ or so non Korean/Chinese players, and it sickens me to see people like lastshadow boasting an A- account with a good winratio just because he dodged a shitton of Korean players. Try playing against Koreans exclusively and I bet that guy wouldn't get past B rank, and if he did he would have to play a shitton of games and would have a shit winratio.
I've also restarted playing a little bit of diablo2 on the asia server, it's the game that got me into online gaming as much as I did and I kinda love/hate it for that reason. I can't play StarCraft all day and I'm bored of WoW also so I'll continue to play it a bit here and there when theres nothing else to do. Something else I did to pass some time lately was download an emulator and play some super old games. I finished double dragon the original yesterday, I used to love going to the arcades to play that game when I was like 8 years old haha, feels so funny to play that game like 15 years later.
I'm moving apartments on the 19th, moving into a 2 bedroom place with the girlfriend, but with seperate bedrooms. We both like our own space, time and privacy so that was the reason for that. Anyway, the place is bigger than the 1 room studio apartment I'm in right now, has a nice enough living area and is cheaper than where I'm at right now. It's also only a 10~ minute walk from where I'm at now so I'll probably still be going out to similar places which is a major + for me as I really like this area.
On the 29th I'm going to Japan for 2 days with Susie to meet up with Manifesto7, who stayed at my place for a few days not long ago (His blogpost is here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99096¤tpage=3). I have to leave Korea every 3 months because I don't have a visa and that's the excuse to visit Japan, but I'm looking forward to trying out some real Japanese food, staying in some luxurious hotel (pictures here: http://www.fushioukaku.co.jp/english/) and seeing the differences between Japanese and Korean culture.
Need a place to stay in Vegas~by Night2o1, August 11
So I'm planning on being in Vegas 'til mid-sept. I'm looking for a room to stay in from the 22nd of this month through mid-sept (thinking the 12th-22nd or so). I'm pretty a clean person over all, drug free, and quiet if that's needed. Anyone have a spare room I can camp out in for a reasonable price?
Some songs that i really loved when i was 16 years old metal maniac
Friend of mine and i talked a bit about music today
While talking i got really really nostalgic and searched youtube for some of the old stuff i was listening back then
First metal song i ever heard in my live
It came in a german metal radio that i tuned in by fluke while zapping through different radio stations
Symphony X Evolution was about 1 month before the release of the album
in 2000
Paradise Lost - Album Draconian Times / Song Shades of God ( omfg this song was so fucking epic back in the days)
I still think this is a really beatiful and epic heavy peace of metal
Overkill - Bleed me
one of my favourite songs when i first started to like metal
i got really excited and agressive when listening to thins song
still think its a good song
children of Bodom - Bodom after ...
The first song with "black metal ish" vocals i ever listend to.
I think the song sucks ass ^^
still it was the reason i started to get interested in black and death metal.
Dimmu Borgir - Arcane Life force Mysteria
first black metal song in my life.
really sick song.
I dont listen to black metal anymore ... but i remeber how this song touched me due to the dark occult atmosphere
5.00 - 6.00 i felt like doing some satanic rituals and stuff ^^ ( Lol teenagaments)
left good friend , middle me doing a nazgul, right hand of another friend
Pokerwise :
today was shitty ...
started out brilliant being + 150 in the first 1,1 K hands
after that i got a sick amount of coolers lost FH and flushes left and right ...
ended - 266$
well i did run very good the last 9K hands ... so i guess i still cant complain
still up more than +1000$ in august
Self Note + Lightning Storm Picturesby TremendousGats, August 11
The bad new is, your on a down swing and she is kicking your ass.
The good new is, the old you would go on monkey tilt and start spewing. The beautiful thing is, i'm not mad or TILTEDat all, i realize its variance and shall continue to grind. I firmly believe every downswing makes your a stronger poker player.
A losing session feels goot?!??!!??by 4Kingell, August 11
Weird but had a losing session and feel pretty good about it. Played the best poker I've played probably ever, didn't tilt, didn't pay off any fish (well not for large monies anyway ) and played pretty solid. Just got some sick suck outs - nothing I can do about that.
Hi, i was wondering if someone could help me out. I need 25$ on PS to pay for a special promotoion. I have money on FTP. I would send first if i must. Reputable people please.
ok so i have a maxtor one touch 4 plus 500gb external HD. a while ago i lost the power supply and used my laptop power supply cuz it fit. well needless to say idk if it was fried before, but the power is failing now either way even after finding the correct power supply. i plug it into the power strip and the LED light just blinks and my computer doesnt recognize it. i was going to sned it into maxtor/seagate to get it replaced but i dont have the installation guide or installation cd, so that appears out the window. any suggestions?
i read somewhere i could take the harddrive out of the casing and put it into my actual tower, which wouldnt be such a bad idea given i have one HD in my cpu failing due to a SMART event. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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) and played pretty solid. Just got some sick suck outs - nothing I can do about that. 
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