Hi guys, I'm selling action for the PCA and LAPT Main Events. It'll be a 10.3k and a 3k+r events (playing a sat for the 25k w/ the rebuy if I don't use it) at 1.2:1 markup
Thought about doing an update on the latter part of the year but I played very little volume, some MTTs on sundays basically, most of my time these days goes into coaching and taking care of my new team that I started around the end of July. It's going pretty well though, first 5 months: + Show Spoiler +
>10 day forecast
>temps no lower than 50
>could get as high as 80 for a couple of days
other than that, i saved myself quite a bit of money at the tables tonight, jesus. omaha 1/3 - button, 5 limps i have qqjj double suited, i pot. 7 callers. flop comes out kxx two hearts, 4th to act pots, i end up folding cause no draws. him and another get it in. aaqq double suited v aakk double suited. still up a couple of buyins for the month with the low volume i have. next year, i want to hit up the wsop circuits in the south, though, i'd try to sell some action to some regs around town.
About a month ago I got back into poker after playing a live game at a friends house (20$ buy in, 10$ rebuy). Didn't do as good as previous games and lost out at 6th out of 16. That game though made me realize how much I missed poker (fuck you black friday) but after searching found bovada.
I don't care for the anonymous tables because I never used that software and I had a lot of learning to do. Before black friday I was never really good, but I would play the poker stars 2.20 180 man sit n go's a lot and place top 3 about half the time (I see a lot of people think I am doing a subtle brag, I didn't play this very much lol 10-15 times at the most, placed top 3 in 6 of them iirc correctly). Looking back at it though I always knew I was bad, but with what I know now my god I was super terrible and I have no idea how I won those 180 man sng's at all.
I'm still bad and I know it. I am not playing Poker for a living just a mix of fun and maybe a little bit of a side income. I am watching streams (jcarver mainly), reading and all that fun stuff. I have invested 60$ into it and on Saturday I played a 2.20 1k guaranteed tournament and placed 2nd taking a nice 240$. The most I had ever won previous to this in 1 tournament/sng was 108$ for first on the 180 mans. The ending hand I had QC9S and he had K7o. Flop came with Q, 9, 2. We both had about the same amount of chips I had 1.3 million chips and he had 1.45 or something like that. I check, he shoves and I call. Looks great and I thought I had it won easy. Turn is a 7. Ok whatever odds of him hitting another 7 or K on the river is unlikely. Well he flops another 7 and takes me out.
I was sort of annoyed, but was more happy at my progress in poker lately in both cash and tournament poker. I am making a lot more deep runs and I played a 1$/50cent cash game and ended up going from 30$ to 90$ in about 30 minutes (Got AA, KK back to back and won each one for most of my profit).
Bankroll wise I shouldn't be playing that kind of cash game, but I don't care I do what I want . I don't have as much time to play poker during the week due to work, play for maybe 2 hours or more depending how I do in a tournament or if I am playing cash that. In general fun stuff and keep learning a lot and hoping to keep going up instead of down, but only time will tell .
Also going to be playing my first live poker tournament next month as I am going to Florida for a vacation with family. I googled and saw there are some poker places that run 55$ tournaments and my brother and I are going to play it just for fun. Going to try my best, but not expecting much considering I have never played live poker like that, but going to try and be as prepared as possible!
I have been meaning to write some things about the voids of existence that emerge. The pain. The realization that comes and goes and comes back again that we are but tiny specks of consciousness in an infinite universe of nothingness and chaos.
"Champagne for the pain"
The first time I heard this was Jay Z or Kanye West? Perhaps earlier but most prominently in a song that does not immediately pop into my head from their Watch the Throne album (which I am a huge fan). Jay Z: "Champagne for the pain... High for the low."
I lived by those words for a long time. With what I know now they have the potential to be a bit damaging and misleading at least for me. Basically, just writing a disclaimer on that advice that there are usually better, more healthy, more sustainable ways to heal "the pain" than drugs and alcohol.
Fastforward:
I actually went back and found the song:
"Welcome to the Jungle"
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[Jay-Z]
"My uncle died, my daddy did too
Paralyzed by the pain, I can barely move
My nephew gone, my heart is torn
Sometimes I look to the sky, ask why I was born
My faith in God, every day is hard
Every night is worse, that's why I pray so hard
[Kanye West]
Why I pray so hard, this is crazy God
Just when I thought I had everything, I lost it all
So que sera', get a case of Syrah
Let it chase the pain, before it goes too far
[Jay-Z]
My dreams is big, reality set in
Let off a clip from an automatic weapon
Through shots in the door, it died in Vegas
Though it fought so hard, I knew it wouldn't make it
I'm a tortured soul, I live in disguise
Rest in peace to the leader of the Jackson 5
I dided in my sleep, I'm still Big Pimpin'
I ball at the mall, beginning of the ending
Where the fuck is the sun? It's been a while
Momma, look at ya son, what happened to my smile?
My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket
I'm just looking for love, I know somebody got it
[bold]Champagne for the pain, weed for the low[/bold]
Goddamn I'm so high, where the fuck did I go
etc.
I found it interesting on going back and listening to it my perception now is that Jay is actually speaking his truth on the fact that drugs and alcohol do not actually fill any voids or actually heal any pain and was just plainly speaking on where he was at at some lower points.
Putting my own spin on it that is where I am at. Champagne for the pain, weed for the low are occupations. They are a way to fill time and avoid pain but a lot of the time it is just delaying healing and development. Drugs and alcohol are simply occupations, drugs, medications with positives and negatives that should be used with personal best discretion. Buyer beware. etc.
Going back to Jay for a second though I am just a really huge fan. He talks about how his music is a Rorschach test. My original interpretation of the line in times where I abused alcohol and drugs it is easy to get caught up in the boastful, bravado, glamourous nature of the Watch the Throne album and glorify the champagne for the pain, weed for the low, YOLO nature of that album and pop culture in general but of course, Jay laces it with entendres and 2, 3, 4 sides to the story.
I would put his Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint Album up there with any existential poetry, literature, philosophy works in existence.
Earlier in that album on the first track Kanye finishes the song with:
When we die the money we can't keep
But we probably spend it all cause the pain ain't cheap: preach
I would take it a step further in saying time and freedom is a more important asset than money but money is certainly up there and can buy time and freedom.
So, how do we spend our time, freedom, and money?
How do we fill the void and heal the pains of the world?
People have been asking these questions and searching for answers for years. I will just say that for me being part of a group, a community, a tribe and sharing my thoughts and learning from other people and engaging in discussion seems to work for me so that is one of the reasons I continue to post on LP. Thank You.
ps.
I will leave everyone with some quotes that I recently came across and found thought provoking and inspiring.
"All neurosis stems from mans' attempt to escape life's legitimate sufferings." - Carl Jung
"(one lost everything in the death camps except) the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances" - Viktor Frankl (Austrian Holocaust survivor and psychologist)
Anyone can do a new year's resolution. To end the year with a bang, and to start off 2015 with a huge confidence boost. I will be doing the following, THIS YEAR from now to the end of it:
1) No booze. Yeah no alcohol whatsoever. I will go out with friends, I will spend time with haters (AKA family). But I will not touch a drop of alcohol in the process.
2) Excercise Session 7x per week - A session means at least an hour of excercise. Gym, Jogging, Home workout, Street workout, Floorball - everything counts. I am allowed to do 2 phase per day, swap e.g. morning cardio evening gym to allow for rest days.
3) 6hours of poker per day on average - self explanatory. Today after 17:00when I started included my target is 120 hours of poker between now and december 31st 12:00. No table or stake limit really although I won't play less than 4. Cash games only, tournaments don't count towards this.
bonus: no dirty movies of any kind
All this while spending at least 3 days with family. It Might mean I won't go out on New Year's Eve if I'm a pussy and don't end reasonably early.
My gym is open literally every day over the holidays so it won't force me to run in the snow or anything
If I manage this, 2015 resolutions will actually have a substance behind them, as I will know I have the discipline to do anything.
NO nutrition goals because Christmas. But I will eat healthy pretty much porridge breakfasts, BCAAs, eggs, tuna, vegetables. will eat some pasta and rice for cheap carbs, if I eat crap and don't get proper sleep I pretty much have 0 chance of completing it. I am allowed caffeine during this time.
I will post a before pic later today
Thoughts? I have a cold now, lasting some 3 months so it'll make it a proper tough challenge
I'm giving you 1:1 fun bet odds on this, max bet $20 per person. shipped @Stars at the end of the challenge. Just to keep it fun
spreadsheet will be updated, you can ask for a screen at any time.
PT4 sessions will be shown at the end to show hours.
I will record workouts to spreadsheet - basically will have to go by trust? can't think of any hard evidence. why I take max $20 so I don't have incentives to cheat. http://i.gyazo.com/791b6b2bfa7147a8e90ef994fd2c2f90.png
I been out of poker almost since black friday. I use to be GuSWrX, MeaL or MeaLOwNz. I just came back the past month normal back to 50nl doing alright so far won a couple of low stakes tournaments for $425 and $800 which help me build my bankroll and been doing really good but sometimes i find flaws in my game that i will be correcting has i remind my self my old style of player of poker. But i am grateful to be back and looking forward to sharing hands and indepth dicussion of poker and other topics.
I believe 70%+ was vs regs, im feeling really confortable playing anyone lately, with the exception of a few 5k+ regs that also plays midstakes, but its really good to play them at 400 for learning purposes
I also feel like im learning so much lately and I'm improving much faster than anyone else at midstakes, maybe ill hit the highstakes soon =)
still cant find a decent coach, I know that theres lots of coach/staking teams at midstakes but their deals sucks, good thing is that ive been able to compete with people getting coach just by studying on my own
Just sent this to an Ex GF who I dumped (got bored?) a year ago - still love - but is with someone else and keeps messaging me from time to time. She doesn't seem willing to get back together though.
Editing...I am not sure I want Google bots spidering this thing.
So I was streaming for a while, watching dota streams alot (big SingSing fan), tendler's podcast, 2p2 pokercast. . . and also worked in Sales, and as you probably know I am pretty much an attention whore.
And an opportunity came up to do a podcast for Pokerstrategy. To make it easier the first episode was with Vonki, a fellow Microstakes player. Who happens to be a girl. It's a non-serious weekend show that's supposed to be fun, make the community more lively. I played SPin and goes in the first one and Pleno1/Pads, the guy who was a 1/2 reg and shot to 5/10 zoom and became one of the sickest MTTers within the last year joined for a while to talk about goals.
I got wasted the night before, using a focus group of my gf and couple friends to come up with ideas for the show, but I forgot that you also get hangover when you are drunk and I was affected quite a bit
Also didn't turn down Stars sounds enough so sorry if you will think action's on you if you grind while watching.
I'd love any feedback you have, and don't be surprised if I invite one of you LPers at some point if the show gets renewed, it would be kinda cool to make the theme gaming and poker parallels :D
>play PLO
>getting coolered every time i have a set, straight, flush, full house, or quads
>im getting coolered multiple times with quads
>just within typing this i get coolered with q flush v k flush
Cooler after cooler after cooler. I'm at the point where I have no idea if I was playing bad or playing good. I sit there, laugh my ass off that I'm about to get coolered again, but still have to play it the same way, and then wham, on the river, there's the cooler. I try to set traps, get coolered. I play and get it in good, get coolered. I even tried getting it in bad, and I still get coolered. (kt high v k9 high) (yes, they called with kt high on the river in PLO)
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Happy Holidays all!! 
. I don't have as much time to play poker during the week due to work, play for maybe 2 hours or more depending how I do in a tournament or if I am playing cash that. In general fun stuff and keep learning a lot and hoping to keep going up instead of down, but only time will tell 
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