Today was pretty good. In the morning I played short session (216 hands) and finished break even but I had very funny hand against one fish. I posted this hand here on liquidpoker - http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/705103.
In the afternoon I had beach volleyball tournament. It was for mixed teams and we finished on third place of total twelve teams. Tournament was pretty good, nice weather, good people and also good result I think.
In the evening I went with my friend to watch Australian football match here in Prague, because my cousin played there. It was really very interesting and then we went with other players to pub so I really enjoyed this day.
What up LP? Its a little bit since Ive done an update and I got sometime to kill right now so I figured I would give an update on how things are going in poker and just in my life in general.
In poker things are finally starting to take off for me. A while ago I started talking about poker with this guy I met over at 2+2. He told me he had a friend who played full ring like I do but he palys 1/2 - 3/6 instead of my micro limits lol.Ive become pretty good friends withh him and it turns out he doesnt live far away from me at all.
At the start of June I was running pretty shitty and wasnt making much progress. I was breakeven for 45k hands and getting very frutrated. I like to think that I dont go on tilt that easy. If I did go on tilt during this breakven bs then I could have ended up losing a ton of money. I asked my buddy to do a couple of sweat sessions wiht me and he pointed out a few little leaks that I needed to fix and almost right away I started to see better results.
A few weeks ago he asked me if I would be interested in a stake. We talked it over and finally came to a deal that was in the best interest for both of us. Part of the deal was that he would have to coach me atleast once a week. This is such a great opprtunity for myself and I really have nothing to lose but just so much more to gain. I couldnt say no to the offer. So now Ive moved up in steaks and I am very comfortably rolled for what Im playing. Already with his help I can see my game is getting lot more solid and Im starting to feel a lot more confident at the tables. Hopefully things go well for the rest of the month so I can start making some serious monies!!!
On the non-poker side of things Im running pretty well this month too lol. It was my birthday on Saturday and my brother managed to get tickets to go see Russell Peters at the ACC in Toronto on Friday. The show was great. Russell Peters is hilarious lol. He picked on this one guy in the front row so bad haha I almost felt bad for the guy but everything Russell said about him was so true lol. Saturday night I went out in London with some of my buddies and it was just a messy ass night lol. I was platered but hey it was my birthday so I should be lol. Pretyt solid night too. The next mornign sucked dick though because I was soooo hungover and managed to lose my car keys. I had to go all the way back to Kitchener to grab m spare, then drive all the way back to London to pick up my car. The fucking alarm would not go off and it took me like 35 minutes before I got the car to start lol.
Yestrday I went back to London to move some off the stuff out of my house. Im moving back home and well... moving just sucks period lol. Img oing to go back there today in a bit to get the rest of my shit. Hopefully its the last trip I have to do.
Well I cant really think of much more to write right now so I guess Ill talk to you guys later. Take care everyone and good luck at the tables!
These past few days I've been coming to the realization of how much I've lost in a 3 day weekend. 1 night playing blackout drunk at a friends house and losing a good chunk of my br still makes me feel sick to my stomach.
Right before my trip to Vegas too, I feel sick and ashamed.
I don't want to come off begging for a loan but I would have something in mind is anyone is interested.
-2k loan to play 100NL-
every week pay a minimum of 200.00 [or any amount over in increments of 100.00 ((ie at the end of the first week I'm at 2439.23, I pay back 400.00))]
-I don't really expect it to take me any longer than a month to pay the entire thing back. I'd even be willing to do a higher minimum per week as well if you'd be more comfortable.
If this doesn't work out I'll probably regrind the small amount I have left on my FTP account.
p.s. I've never received a stake nor have I received a loan, I only am asking because I want to come out to Vegas in July and party with some fellow LP'ers finally, and ofc teach them how to drink. : I really never thought I'd be asking for this.
-PM Me if you'd be interested.
edit: 2k would be the max I'd be comfortable with taking. It's a manageable amount to pay back for what I have atm.
Played a live tourney yesterday, 32 ppl, took it down... two hands i got really lucky on @ ft...
Hand 1.
6 handed from the BB, blinds are 4k/8k, and i have 27k left. One guys shoves his 9k (i think utg), guy right of dealer/chip leader shoves. I have A9s, and my only hand history with chip leader/dealer is previously he said "i have j7s" then shoves, gets called, shoves j7hh, and hits a flush. This guy is obv donkfish. So i go all in w/ A9, Chip leader had AJ, and 9k guy had KJ. Flop was A7A, and i turned a 9 for a boat. That got me to 2nd chip leader next to the guy who called me earlier.
Hand 2.
we're down to heads up and i shove with AJo, he (same chip leader/guy who said "i have j7s") calls with ducks. Flop is TTT...Q....T....giving me quads with A kicker. Next hand i put him out and take it downnnnn
feeling good...trip to vegas T-minus 18 days can't wait.
k after last time fiascos n sheet im back and today i got a new monitor, so i can nit more fr tables wo0t check this bad boy out. http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/w2252tq.jhtml
and it cost nothing booyah :D
gl lp
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.
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