The poker room near me has it in the rules that the winner of a hand at showdown can ask to see the loser's hand. Is asking to see their hand just for information bad form? Would you ever do it just for information?
Yes I'm asking because a couple people did it last night. One guy sat down with a super small stack and on his first hand he gets it all in with AQ on Q high board and asks to see his opponent's mucked hand which was Q9.
I passed the entry exam to the Warsaw School of Economics. Yay. There were approx. 6-7 candidates for 1 spot and I almost bubbled out cause the required amount of points were 57/100 and I got 59. The test was tough tho. Around 40% of it was micro / macro economics, 30% was world economy, european union info, political geography and the remaining 30% was english at which I suck. Anyways, it's passed. Hopefully in two years I will get master degree in Finance. And for the most part I'm happy beacause I won't pay a dime for it.
I had quite different plans even couple months ago beacuse I wanted to travel for a year or sth. I decided to go for masters 2-3 months ago and then started preparing. Out of the 4 semesters that I will have to complete in WSE I'd like to go for 2 exchange programmes. So I guess the studies will be some sort of a compromise between travelling, and doing something useful. I wanted to go to Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, but unfortunately going for the second x-change is a bit complicated.
In order to go for second exchange I would have to join CEMS organization. It's some sort of agreement between top management schools, one from each country within western and central Europe. However, an exchange through this programme is Europe only which means I have to pick Sao Paulo or Hong Kong for let's call it bilateral exchange programme and won't be able to go to both places.
So I'm thinking if I should start learning mandarin now, go to Hong Kong in 1 year and pick up some of it there. And once I'll be done with studies in 2 years I'll go to mainland China for a year to finish learning mandarin. Otherwise it's pretty much a waste of time. I would need 7 to 10 years to learn it properly in Poland going to class, and I doubt I will stay in Poland or that I will have patience to grind out 7 years of chinese ( rather the latter ).
It's all plans, however I'm really excited and happy that I have so many opportunities. It will depend on me wheter I will make use of them or not. But the sole existence of them makes me feel good.
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I started playing a bit now. Before I go to LV I wanted to play some cash games so I cleared 200$ everest bonus by playing NL25, NL50 and running bad.
I also deposited 1000$ on PS and I started playing low stakes tournaments, and MTT SNG's. It seemed like I'm bubbling every 180-man but hopefully next weekend it's gonna be better.
I never really played MTT's so I'm adjusting to bigger fields. I try not to spew so much anymore. I will also try to give up on marginal calls/pushes beacuse in deep stack tournaments I am able to pick up chips w/o showdown. I tend to bluff river too often as well, re-raise BTN/CO w/o any particular reads, and I never think of laying down AK. But I adapt quickly and sooner or later I might get some score.
Been a lil out from conversations lately on LP, been mostly lurking and posting a lot at the latin LP...
I'm wondering if anybody out there is willing to stake me for the next 10-12 sundays in the Sunday Million, Sunday Warmup, $55 200k gtd, not sure if adding some FTP tourneys or even a few more on stars is possible, but im mostly interested in the 3 listed on stars.
We can discuss the terms, percentages, makeup and all of the neccesary points on aim/msn.
1 Final table in the Sunday 500, 2 1st places in the $55 $70k gtd, 3 top 24 in the sunday warmup, 1 1st place in the nightly 100k, 2 FTs in the $11r and $3r, and a few other small accomplishments.
PM me your contact info here on LP or add me on aim: stratomx88 or msn: pako_edg@hotmail.com
Hey guys, I need help to try to get a hotel over this weekend at AC. Is there any good deals or something? Cuz the borgata is $500 for one night.. which is a lot... and even the tropicana is like $300...
So with absolutely no success finding jobs in NY for 3 weeks I decided I needed to make a change. My Aunt has a beach house down in Bethany Beach, Delaware and my cousin was living and working there. So I decided to take the 5 hour drive down and look for a job. I go on the boardwalk as soon as I get down there and get two job offers in like an hour. One of them was a wrap shop on the boardwalk and the other was working at like SunSations or some shitty store. Well, I'm desperate, so I called the wrap place and asked him if I could get 40 hours a week and preferably work openings to see if I could get a serving job at night down the road. He said it was no problem and that I would start at $8/ hr then after two weeks be at $9/hr. Whatever it was a job.
So, the next day I go in and he tells me I'll be working 2-3 hours so I figured I would be out by 11 or 12. So I called Sunsations and asked her if I could have a trial day and she said yeah come in at 12:30 - 6:30. Sweeeetttt right? The wrap shop isn't fun but whatever it's money so by 12:00 I'm like yo when am I getting off to the manager because the own told me I was only working 2-3 hours. He was like oh that's how Tim is, you'll always end up working longer. Needless to say, I worked until 5pm that night, missing my opportunity at Sunsations. No big deal, this dude promised me 40 hours. He told me to call the next morning about the schedule and when I would be working. So I called, and they still hadn't had the schedule, that night I called no schedule. Next morning, no schedule, that night I called I finally got Tim. He tells me that some kid from last year just came back and he gave him my job. I of course go off on the guy and tell him how much he had fucked me over with the other job, and how he gave me his word that I would have 40 hours a week. He apologizes but I'm so pissed with this whole summer already.
I tried to stay positive saying that job sucked anyway, and the next morning continued to look for jobs up and down the coast. Went into every restaurant I could find and no one would even offer an application because they were so booked. I had one romanian restaurant tell me they needed a runner, but they never called back of course. So yesterday after no calls I decided to try back to NY.
So, I am feeling extremely low and pretty depressed. I feel like I can't really do anything to get a job everything is dried up. I'm so poor that the only thing I eat is Peanut butter and bread. It's terrible. I have $700 in credit card debt to pay off and now 4 weeks to save up to move into an apartment in Portland, ME and also find a job there. Don't really know what to do, and to add insult over injury things with my girlfriend / wife have been rocky of late.
I don't even have a dime to put on poker and basically use it as my 8 hour a day job and see what I can do. Even $20 a day would get me through. So, I'm asking this last time for a $200 stake for 5nl - 10nl. I know I don't have any graphs or PT tracker to prove I'm a winning player because it was all on an old computer. But I'm asking for someone to trust me, I don't lie ever, and I would never run away with someone's money. I'm asking someone to take a chance on me, I never thought I would be this desperate, but unfortunately I'm basically at rock bottom.
Had what is, with great regret, most likely our house's last party night of the summer. First we watched UFC 100 @ our place, then we went to the nightclub The Bank at Bellagio. I had a really good time and unfortunately I was distracted by a cute west african girl for most of the night and didn't get to hang out with frinkx, pooruser, rekrul, fraser, and gumster as much as I would of liked.. but as far as I know everyone had a pretty good time and it was a good end to the summer's festivities.
Not much left to do but chill out and return to.. err.. semi-normal life starting this wednesday. I'm actually the only one not returning to a normal life as I'm going to spend the next 3 weeks in various timeshares (basically nice hotels) and then who knows what.
Munching on some Del Taco.. a delicious end to the night ;D
turning 21 today, i have a fake so ive celebrated friday and tonight. I'm in columbus ohio for the summer on a internship at nationwide so it's pretty nuts.
Pokerwise, after winning 1500, i haven't done shit and i don't give a fuck since i'm making 10k this summer. in related news, good luck to all still in ME and big ups to lisandro, ivey, and t soprano.
I've been running well as of late, and I'm proud to say that my downswing is over, at least monetarily speaking. Hopefully I'm at what is at the tail end of a roughly 100k hand break even stretch . Thanks for all the encouraging comments especially throughout June when I was having the worst month of my life.
Went to Vegas for 4th of July Weekend, made only like 200 there but I played drunk 4/8 limit @ Venetian with two of my friends at 4 AM and it was probably the funnest poker-related thing I've ever done. Everyone needs to try that once in their life (it's amazing how long $200 will last you in Limit too lolol). Staking-wise, my main horse has been underperforming (I even witnessed his supreme run bad first hand), and I have no horses currently in the WSOP ME :[. It looks like I'm going to end up booking a severe loss as far as WSOP summer staking goes, but oh well.
What's on the mind now is APPT 2009! I'm gonna try to attend as many as I can. http://www.appt.com/tournaments/ for the schedule, anyone else planning on going to any?
+58 BI in 4 days, recovering from big downswing !!by Joeingram1, July 12
Edit: Sorry Editing this before bed, its actually +63 BI now
Well since my last post on here thinks have been going much better. There was alot of comments on my last blog and I don't know where to even begin to address most of them but I know one guy said obviously I suck at poker, cant win, need to play less tables, etc etc. I guess I would say to that is I really don't think I am that terrible at poker, I have won 24 tabling for 12/13 months. I still have hopes for SuperNova Elite also and that is achieved by 24 tabling. I guess I could play a few tables and be able to have a better read on situations but I feel the biggest reason I have these huge sessions is simply 3betting way way to much, tilt calling way to many 3bet/4bets and just getting it all in preflop with any random cards because i Just say fuck it. Also I obviously don't know when to quit a session down which is a pretty big problem as well and leads to this epic losing sessions. Some people are just going to think I suck and I am fine with that, as long as I am making money and happy then that is all that matters. I must say there does seem to be alot of support for me on the 2+2 threads I have right now, I'm not sure if any of it is deserving but it is appreciated. I don't mind really sharing my ups and downs, hopefully someone can learn something from it and not lose 52 fkn BI in a session.
My friend Kris (Dashornman on PS) came up to visit for a few days and it was very +++EV for my grinding/profitability. He is an up and comer still at the micro stakes but is starting to improve his work ethic for the better. While he was here, I decided to started 24 tabling 6 max the last few days with really great results the first 15 or so sessions. I feel like I play way way better at 6 max and spew way way less. I love how they don't always have AA, KK vs me which seems to always be the case at full ring lol. I do get pretty bored playing so nittish and non spewy though, once in awhile i still try to get it in preflop with a 106o type hand. I have probably played about 50k hands at nl50 6 max before this month and had great results there also so hopefully I can have continued success.
Here are my stats so far, I have still been playing short sessions and booking the 3-5 BI but got stuck alot one session so had to grind it back lol. To be honest I really don't know to much about ideal 6max stats yet so will need to start learning some more about them.
I am so close to my overall goal for the month that I can feel it, I just have to avoid any big losing sessions and I will be fine. Plenty of time remaining!!
Just took my girl to a live cash game with friends and we took all the monies. Such a fearsome team we are! Heading to another game now which I think will play at 1/2 or 2/4, so if we run good it should be a solid score. My girl is planning to start learning poker and blogging here on LP, keep an eye out for her. I've got her reading theory of poker right now.
All time great boxing champ Alexis Arguello died 2 weeks ago and today
RIP Arturo ''Thunder'' Gatti. This man was a monster, for anyone who follows or followed boxing, he had fight of the year 4 times, one of the greatest boxing trilogy's with micky ward, and a great guy as a whole. Tough loss for montreal and new jersey. You can be damn sure he won't be forgotten
Sickest round in boxing, even non fight sport fan watched this and went O-=
PLO hand reading thoughts coming tomorrow(im a big strategy geek).
Still in with 664k after day 4. Basically doubled up about 30 minutes in and broke even the rest of the day. Played with Lou Diamond Phillips and JC Tran most of the day. Lou is a surprisingly tough player for an actor I've gotta say and JC Tran is super sick as well. Dennis Phillips got moved to our table for a little also but bled off 100k pretty quick before our table broke. Got moved to Hac Dang's table(trex313) to end where I basically did nothing and broke even there too.
Pretty excited to still be in. GL everyone else still in.
I bought some clothes today too since I wanted to look decent in London and also because I've got like 2 pair of decent jeans and 3 shirts here at my parents house and I can't be bothered to go to Uppsala and get whatever crap I've got there. I had been up all night playing poker so I went to some local halfway decent store without any sleep at all and I have no idea about clothes and stuff anyway but the girl in the shop was very helpful (even if I'm halfway sure that the last item she recommended was something they just try to see how big of a sucker the customer is). Ended up buying clothes for like 450 USD but I'm very happy with what I got (except that last thingy) so that was nice. Then I think I managed to figure out how to automatically pay the bills for my mobile internet-thingy I got so that I can check my e-mail when I'm away fishing with dad and such. Really proud about that.
Would be really cool to win that London donkament, or even better just trade 5% with someone, bust first of everyone and have him win it so that I can hang out in London all weekend. Either way is fine. I'm starting to look forward to it a decent bit. Never talked much to the people that I'll probably see there, but Fazi is obvious a bit of a legend and overall I tend to get along really well with east euro people. Also, Zografa has been owning me a bit lately which kinda annoys me so I'd like to know what he looks like. If he's like really tiny or something I can try to run him over more etc.
The UFC 100 will be really fun to watch too. I obviously don't know as much about MMA as some people on this forum, but I find that shit fascinating. Lesnar looks so fucking scary too, which is kinda cool. Next step might be real gladiators fighting each other again I guess. Probably hard to do in civilised countries but I'd say it's 50/50 that it'll happen within like 30 years.
Also, DooMer wrote a good little piece about our "job" or whatever on his blog: http://doomer.liquidpoker.net/ Not quite sure I agree with all of it because overall I feel that I don't want to sound negative about it, but he has a point of two.
Also, again. Anyone who's going to London: I want to trade %. I think Zografa agreed on something but I can't find the MSN log so if he can confirm something it'd be nice too.
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and didn't get to hang out with frinkx, pooruser, rekrul, fraser, and gumster as much as I would of liked.. but as far as I know everyone had a pretty good time and it was a good end to the summer's festivities.
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