i blogged about a car last year (ME WANT) and since then, the year has been decent, despite my going through several bad beats involving not so small sums of money, etc (stolen wallet on the way to the bank = -2k, ftp account hacked = -3k, strippers = -1k, passing out in the middle of the shadiest city in the southern US = -250 cash + unauthorized charges on my cards, and more that i can't fully recount).
i haven't really touched online poker yet, but live really took off this past month and i've managed to luckbox my way back into 2/5 from an 8 buy-in shot at 1/2, and the good run continued. i've set aside a major portion of that 2/5 bankroll to pay for 50% down on the car, but i'd be forced to move down to like 1/2 for a while if i wanted to maintain a solid br for my stakes.
it was a tough choice because while staying at 2/5 is definitely hugely profitable, i had no easy means of getting around from point A to point B atm + i didn't want to catch the bus every other day for 2 hrs of commute time. i also didn't want to continue relying on hospitality of my friends in New Orleans, where i stayed for basically free during my repetitive trips.
i plan to pay for the rest of the car with 0% interest over 36 months cuz i have sick good credit after blowing through my ridiculously awesome scholarship and most of my poker profits by paying off my credit card. i hope to pay it all back asap because i don't know what's going to happen pokerwise in the future and i'd hate to rely on my parents to rescue me if something did actually happen.
i'm still negotiating for a good price at the ONLY Hyundai dealership in town, but it's a fun process, even though some absolutely despise haggling. before i went to the dealership i looked up the MSRP, the invoice price (dealer's cost + rebates for dealers + other kickbacks and bonuses), and the Edmunds.com True Market Value. the salesman, after giving me this weird, tugging power handshake that he was obviously trained to do, actually came up with a bullshit price offer that was almost 8% OVER MSRP, stating that the genesis coupe is actually a very popular item right now, and the market demand is reflected in the price. it was an interesting point, but sort of moot when i have a friend who passes by that dealership every morning and night for work, only to see that silver design sitting on the grass for about a month now. all the other designs were sold and gone but that silver one stayed throughout. i gave him a sort of ballsy counteroffer at the researched invoice price of $23.5k. there is at least a 2% holdback (3% for American cars) on that amount, which is paid to the dealer when the car is sold, so i knew that the dealer can still profit if selling at the invoice price.
at this point, the salesman said there was no way he could sell it to me at invoice price and profit, so i explained to him that the car has been sitting at the dealership for some time now and that there was ABSOLUTELY no way he'd profit by letting the car sit there, whereas he could still profit if he sold it to me at the price i offered, telling him, "you know, i'm by no means interested in the price you offer, but i am extremely interested in the car itself, so i could get rid of it for you asap if you'd sell it to me." the guy replied by saying, "well, this is the only hyundai dealer in town and it's the best price we can offer." so i told him, "i'm already aware of that, sir, but i already looked up most of the dealerships in this state and several in Houston and Mississippi, and i'm pretty damn willing to make the 4 hour trip to Houston this weekend if the deal didn't work out, and it looks like it won't. good day"
as i was getting up to leave, he stood up and said that he needed to check with the manager before i left. he came back with a "final" offer that immediately slashed the initial price by almost two grand within ten minutes of negotiations (rofl). he also brought back some laughably bullshit comment about how there are only 21 2.0 Turbo Manual Transmission Genesis Coupes in the country and ZERO in Houston, when i've already called up and checked the inventory in Houston before even leaving the house. well, even at the slashed price, i still had no plans to buy the car at MSRP so i took the offer he gave me and promptly left.
the plan is to take this offer written on paper and contact other dealers that i've located and use that to drive the prices down a bit before going back to the dealership in town later this week with a new set of competing offers, while the car just sits there like it has been sitting for the past 4+ weeks haha.
once the deal sets at my offer, there is another nice bonus that i'm not mentioning to the dealers until the very last moment. the manufacturer is offering a rebate program ONLY for graduates and upcoming graduates for $400 dollars, so if i get a deal at around invoice price, in the end i will have actually paid several hundred dollars BELOW invoice, which would be an extremely awesome deal.
hope it doesn't fall through! ^__^
*crosses fingers*
in the meantime, i'm trying to figure out how to drive a manual transmission.
Hey guys,
So June started out pretty shitty, then got good, then turned to shitty again (teh swongs). Lost 2k on a 2/4 shot early in the month, returned to 1/2 and won 3k putting me at +1k for the month. I then entered a -3k downswing at 1/2, which was of course fun. So today I jumped onto 6 NL100 tables for the first time in over a month to get some confidence back and ran good and played good. NL100 6-max on stars in an insanely nitty game....imagine a table of 1-3 40/5 retards and 2 15/13 nitregs. Paradise There are enough tables running on Stars at this limit at any time of the day that you really can table-select 6 tables exactly like that. There really is quite a substantial difference in the skill level of regs at NL100 and NL200 on Stars imo....the majority of regs at NL200 play like 20/18 pre with a decent 3bet %, while the average NL100 reg is just a multitabling nit... Anyways I haven't decided whether I'm gonna play some more NL100 and get back to even for the month or jump back into the NL200 games....I have played like 50k hands of NL200 6-max on Stars now with a winrate of a whopping 1.65 or something, but that includes like 2 or 3 10+ BI downswings so I'm pretty sure I have a solid edge in those games. Might just play some random sessions of NL100 when I feel like it for the next week or so, since I have an exam tomorrow and 3 next week as well....just less variance/stress.
Anyways, I had better include a graph of today's session, since the title of this blog is 'Sick NL100 Session': http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/154b14015c13662f091ba1ca49169232.jpg
Whats left of rights and right of lefts?by ToTehEastSide, June 15
It feels there should be a totally hilarious answer to my title and I wish I could think of one but I just woke so I'm slow and can't think of anything perfectly for it yet. The two fitting answers I have for ya are...
not much
and
just us independents
(and the two answers don't have to answer necessarily respectively and suffice as to why I see and feel the need to speak up before we all get steamrolled hard)
Moving right along, I'm going to make this blog of 3 categories on issues that I believe to be very important in our nation today and post three vids of where I stand in them.
As short and sweet as possible... the three issues I think are highly important are:
Transparency and auditing of regulation and policy of the Federal Reserve (H.R. 1207 and S. 604) + Show Spoiler +
Here are vids I think are worth watching on the subjects:
For the issue of the Fed and need for transparency
In foreign Policy and direction of the war
Health care
This is where I am at on these three issues. As you can see, for 2 of the 3 I used voices from the left to express my POV on what I think is right or needed
Hopefully this will at least somewhat clear you hard lefties of future talk in that common assumption of "my" bias (or ppl like me) which is actually in fact your own. It is becoming redundant. Just because I do not share your views does not mean I am whatever is your 100% enemy. Please try to see that.
There are many many other issues of things and the correct answer requires seeing a bigger picture than just left right. Left and right are meant as a guide to understanding and don't really matter so much until you lean so hard one way in your views you no longer see past your own labels of things. Therein lies an increasing majority problem.
I can see where you are coming from, but can you see me? or others?
If we don't wake up soon to this respect we will very much regret it as a nation. I really hope I'm not pulling on the reigns to late. I don't believe I am.
Thanks for your time in reading this. I hope it was worthwhile.
Peace
Anyone wanna stake me for the $12 180man turbos for 2-3 weeks? i will need around $1,800 stake.
as i recall i had around 35%ROI in them of a sample size of around 2k sngs....i'm pretty sure i can push it up to 40-45%ROI long term. I will be playing around 60 $12 180s/day during the stake. if i calculate using my 35%ROI that would come to $252/day overal or $126/day for the staker.
i just got back from a 6 month stay in bangkok and didn't play much poker/partied too hard.
So I have been out of the poker scene for about 3 months now. Due to a lot of hassles in real life I was forced to quit. Not that big of a deal anyways since I wasn't doing too well the last couple of months of my career.
So I moved and ran out of moneys and had a hard time finding a job in the new city so I knew it would be a long time before I could get playing again. I got the msn of a 5/10 10/20 limit player about a week ago and he decided to graciously help me. However, he said he would only stake me into bigger games (NL 100, NL 200) if I could pass the professional gambler test lol. I have to play .02/.05 with a hundred dollar bankroll he lent me until I reach $250 and then I must NL 10 that shit until $750 and then I have to NL 25 THAT shit until $1500-$2000. This is hard as fuck to fathom because I have terrible discipline and bankroll issues. But I pray to God I can handle this. So far.....
The first day we set up team viewer and he obs me 4-8 table .02/.05 for a few hours. The first day I made $70 so I gave him back his $100 plus an extra $20 leaving me with $50 that I could grind with on my own. After day 2 roll sits at $90. Either I am running really good or these guys have no clue how to player poker in the least. I can't count how many times I have rivered the second nuts and they will flat my 2 bet with the nuts lol.
i saw a video from stoxpoker where the 'coach' is using a program that stacks all the tables (not cascading, they're all perfectly stacked) by pressing a keyboard shortcut i guess?
Do you know what's its name?
And i'm also looking for a program that automatically open SNGs (until i reach 20 for exemple), and auto close the lobby and other usefull features for mass SNGs on PS.
All kind of weird shit is happening from stripes all over the screen to simply frozen actual image to complete blackout or random white squares.
Most of the time I restart, but sometimes the PC restarts itself.
I don't think I have to tell you how much this tilts me, I had this, before that a virus (newly installed AVG found 3 trojans and 5 other viruses lolz) and a Generic host for win32 processes bug (shuts down internet every 10 minutes, I spent about 15 hours trying to get rid of that shiz.
wsop event 13 update- barryG 2 to my right!by I_run_godlike, June 15
I ended up busting with BarryG at lvl 5 when he shoved a fish's limp w/ ATo and I reshipped w/ AJo for 4kish at 100/200/25 and the fish snapped w/ AQdd.
Here are some remarkable hands that happened.
There was an old rock, literally only plays QQ+ AK directly to my left.
50/100
mp limped, I had about 8k and looked down AKo from sb and pumped it up to 500, the old rock min 3bet to 1.1k and mp folded. Back to me and I looked at his stack and saw he had 3k left so I decided to just shove and be happy with it. To my surprise, he folded, which is nice.
just 2 orbits later, I picked up AA from co and there were 3 ppl limped, I made it 800 (50/100 still) and the old nit instant 3bet to 2400 (now he had 4.3k behind), everyone folded and I looked at his stack the same way I did in the AK hand (cuz he had a water bottle right next to his chips) and announced all in again, obv with expectation of getting snapped by his QQ or KK or whatever he 3bets me with. The rock then tanked and tanked and tanked for literally almost 5 mins and then open mucked KK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's like the worst beat in my tournament poker life. I really don't know how he managed to 3bet/fold KK pre when he already put in 1/3 of his stack in and to a guy who 4b shoved on him 2 times in 3 orbits?!?!!?. I obv didn't show my hand to make him feel he made the right play; but seriously, how did he do that?
Another interesting hand was that I opened 99 at 50/100 from hj and both blinds called.
Flop came Q43r and it went checked around. Turn was a diamond 8 which put 2 diamonds on the board. small blind (i have no read on him cuz he just sat down but looks like a donk) led 600 into around 1k. bb folded and I called. River was a diamond 7 and he made a fairly weak bet around 1200. I decided to turn my made hand into bluff and was hoping he'd fold his weak Q. I raised to 3850 and he instant called and I obv thought I was dead. I turned over my 99 and he nodded his head saying...omg...well played sir! nice read! and then he turned over A7! omg, what did I get myself into? why are these ppl playing wsop events?!?!
Anyhow, just after my AA couldn't get paid off by KK, I started to go on downhill and lost a big pot aipf w/ AK vs QQ and didn't win the flip. Then there was the barryg hand that busted me.
Conclusion: just another standard tournament that I felt like I played pretty well but keep being on the wrong side of the variance.
so i cashed out & decided to restart from nl2. got to nl10 and had a bad run.
then doctor prescribed me pills for a cough i had. yesterday was playing nl10, won 1 buyin, was absolutely euphoric and then in the gayest setups i ended up being down 2 that night. so i really wanted to die and got all depressed and oh noes my world will end. im breaking out in cold sweats from what i assume is cold truth dawning on me that i've forgotten how to play poker.
anyway i check the fucking side effects of this medicine i've been taking and yes, it lowers your concentration and gives you dramatic mood swings totally out of character as well as making your highly irritable.
bastards. i'd rather have not taken the stupid pills. too late now i have 3 days left and u have to lower dose otherwise its dangerous.
PRESNISOLONE - dont take this shit
im also hungry as fuck ALL THE TIME and sleeping constantly.
first losing session in foreverby jasper5408, June 15
and by forever i mean 5 days. after being up about 9-10 buy ins, i had my first losing session today. i mean i sorta deserved it cause my ego was at its peak. anyway, made a few minor mental errors and lost King high flush vs Ace high flush. Not to frustrated or sad about it. i thought i played over all well, and losing taught me something.
anyway i was just wondering if anyone wanted to talk nl 25 strategy. i feel like its one thing to be able to beat nl 25, and quite a good exercise to figure out how to cream nl 25. i have a few ideas i want to run with ppl, and i think these ideas are utilized in nl 50 or nl 100. obviously it's nothing special but its always cool when you discover it and figure it out by yourself versus being spoon fed information.
on other news, i decided to reinstall StarCraft and wouldn't mind someone re introducing the game to me. If your down. And if your more down, play SC while discussing how to cream nl 25 would be ideal. lol.
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There are enough tables running on Stars at this limit at any time of the day that you really can table-select 6 tables exactly like that. There really is quite a substantial difference in the skill level of regs at NL100 and NL200 on Stars imo....the majority of regs at NL200 play like 20/18 pre with a decent 3bet %, while the average NL100 reg is just a multitabling nit... Anyways I haven't decided whether I'm gonna play some more NL100 and get back to even for the month or jump back into the NL200 games....I have played like 50k hands of NL200 6-max on Stars now with a winrate of a whopping 1.65 or something, but that includes like 2 or 3 10+ BI downswings so I'm pretty sure I have a solid edge in those games. Might just play some random sessions of NL100 when I feel like it for the next week or so, since I have an exam tomorrow and 3 next week as well....just less variance/stress. 
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