The good thing is that I'm still very well rolled for 3/6 and only down 10bi or so since I got home (of which half will be returned to me in form of rakeback). The bad part is that I'm now apparently incapable of beating anyone. I just played some dude who I strongly suspect had a lower IQ then my shoe size, and I'm fairly sure it was in the negatives. I was up like 5-6 bi and then the poker gods turned away from me. Think I'm down like 3.5k today, out of which 700 was to this dude. Ohh well, was bound to happen, no big deal. I guess I'll go work out or something.
Clarifications and amends to my last entry...by MasterofLaw, June 12
NO, first i'm not quitting poker for losing 200BB.
I'm quitting poker because:
1. I obv suck at it, haven't made profit in at least 6months. Don't have discipline to apply BRM long enough.
2. Poker is evil, it eats your soul and slowly everything that surrounds you. Sometimes I think poker, play poker or longing for poker 24/7, not very sound imo.
3. Tired of loosing streaks which affect my well-being in a negative sense. Have a great life otherwise so why degenerate it with lousy plays and a lot of lost money. I will obv. never be a pro so maybe it's time for a new hobby.
5. I'm just sick and tired of the game, however, I will gladly play again someday but at the moment I hate it and also, the summer is here! A lot of parties,girls and other funnier stuff imo is coming up, why sit inside in front of your CPU when you can go out and meet people! Seems stupid, now poker is for the winter seasons!
Finally, all you guys that show big profits, live on poker and so on, congratz! In some way i'm sad that I'm not one of you. It seems like a nice way to spend your youth. But I have met several people how earned a lot on onlinepoker and they don't do jackshit with their money or possibilites that their grinding gives them. They just stay home in front of their cpu and play all and everyday. Of that i'm not jealous, it doesn't appeal to me at all. If I have been a pro I would first of all leave this cold country, maybe go to west indies or thailand, and grind from there. Why not having fun when making such a shitloads of money. I think I would grown restless only by staying home, meeting noone, and play online.
So my natural talent for tilting which results in a lousy BRM is major factors that make me quit along with my deep insight that I never will go pro or earn enough in relation to time spent at the tables. Like live-poker more, so maybe I'll change for that since I live very near the casino.
Quitting poker....for a while.by MasterofLaw, June 12
I suck to hard. Can't win a single "flip" with AK vs AJ...Have lost too much of my roll, have about 4-500e left, started with 600. But will receive some RB so I think I then might be back to where I started, a great time for a pause. I'm stuck in a mechanic mood where I'm afraid of everycard that falls on the board every single time, which prevents me from being creative and instead just trying to win the pot right away which is not a win-maxim way to play poker. Need a break and focus on other thing and then I might get back in July or Aug if I feel pokers fun again...
Quitting poker....for a while.by MasterofLaw, June 12
I suck to hard. Can't win a single "flip" with AK vs AJ...Have lost too much of my roll, have about 4-500e left, started with 600. But will receive some RB so I think I then might be back to where I started, a great time for a pause. I'm stuck in a mechanic mood where I'm afraid of everycard that falls on the board every single time, which prevents me from being creative and instead just trying to win the pot right away which is not a win-maxim way to play poker. Need a break and focus on other thing and then I might get back in July or Aug if I feel pokers fun again...
full raging tilt, fuck you lakersby jasper5408, June 11
i'm full steam, just punched a fucker in the face for rooting for the lakers and being a god damn douche bag the entire night throwing food at my gang. i finally snapped and just decked the mother fucker. god i'm so fucking pissed.
to all you dumb mother fucking bandwagon fans, the fucking orlando magic lost 2 games in ot. they could have just as easily won both of them. it's just coin flips you fucks. and anyone who blames jameer nelson can get a taste of my fucking foot in their mouth. dwight didn't make a single field goal and missed free throws down the line, fucking trevor ariza got every fucking stray ball every fucking offensive rebound it seemed, fisher shooting 20 percent decided to make shots today, stan van gundy not fucking fouling in regulation to prevent a fucking game tieing 3.
if your a magic fan their loss is your loss, their win is our win. some fucking loyalty and devotion would be nice. i don't blame any of them. i'm just as pissed as anyone else (probably more so) but fuck anyone who blames anything on the magic. it wasn't any one person's fault, it was an incredible game and fortune just favored the lakers.
fuck you kobe, your a complete piece of shit.
to jameer nelson since your going to be blamed for everything
Would it be okay to hook up with a girl who has hooked up with a buddy of yours.
-They've never dated, but they have hooked up multiple times in the past, most recently last month.
Girl lives in Oklahoma and is here until Sunday. She went to High school with my buddy and I.
We're going out for drinks tonight and she already spent the night with me last night [we didn't do anything] but she hinted to the fact that she wanted to.
Only reason I didn't make a move is the previously mentioned 'involvement' of my friend and her.
p.s. she has very large boobs (to the point of her wanting reduction) and is pretty fit (I find this very relevant)
-Also, this buddy of mine is one of the biggest man whore's I've seen, he could pick up his phone and get laid at pretty much a whim, I've seen it... It was retarded.
back to stars, need FTP=> STARS plzby Zalfor, June 11
well, since my BR is only 500 from all those cash outs and no one is willing to xfer me from FTP=> stars, i'm back at nl25.
so i figure i'll play for a little and there are so many fish. T_T i ran pretty well so far and I'm up 5 BI for today (400 hands). I feel like I'm going to play a little more at best but prob. going to sleep happy for the day.
So far I haven't had a bad day for the last week, with average of ~30-50/hr on nl25.
[edit] bought the +160 bonus on stars. Woot!!!
Come on!! keep on the luck!!!
There was an Op-Ed piece today by one of my favorite journalists, Nicolas Kristof of the NYTimes. He is one of the fiercest advocates for human rights and I respect him greatly. He wrote the following piece about health care:
Perhaps you’ve seen those television commercials denouncing health care reform as a plot to create a Canadian-style totalitarian nightmare, and you feel a wee bit scared.
Back in the election campaign, some people spread rumors that Barack Obama might be a secret Muslim conspiring to impose Sharia law on us. That seems unlikely now, but what if he’s a covert Canadian plotting to impose ... health care?
Rick Scott, a former hospital company chief executive, leads a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. He was forced to resign as C.E.O. after his company defrauded the government through overbilling and is now spending his time trying to block meaningful health care reform by terrifying us with commercials of “real-life stories of the victims of government-run health care.”
So here’s a far more representative “real-life story.”
Diane Tucker, 59, is an American lawyer who moved to Vancouver, Canada, in 2006. Like everyone else there, she now pays the equivalent of just $49 a month for health care.
Then one day two years ago, Ms. Tucker was working on her office computer when she noticed that she was having trouble typing with her right hand.
“I realized my hand was numb, so I tried to stand up to shake it out,” she remembered. “But I had trouble standing.”
A colleague called 911, and an ambulance rushed her to the nearest hospital.
“An emergency room doctor met me at the door, and they took me straight upstairs to the CT scan,” she recalled. A neurologist explained that she had suffered a stroke.
Ms. Tucker spent a week at the hospital. “The doctors were great, although there were also a couple of jerks,” she said. “The nursing staff was wonderful.”
Still, there were two patients to a room, and conditions weren’t as opulent as at some American hospitals. “The food was horrible,” she said.
Then again, the price was right. “They never spoke to me about money,” she said. “Not when I checked in, and not when I left.”
Scaremongers emphasize the waits for specialists in Canada, and there’s some truth to the stories. After the stroke, Ms. Tucker needed to make a routine appointment with a neurologist and an ophthalmologist to see if she should drive again. Initially, those appointments would have meant a two- or three-month wait, although in the end she managed to arrange them more quickly.
Ms. Tucker underwent three months of rehabilitation, including physical therapy several times a week. Again there was no charge, no co-payment.
Then, last year, Ms. Tucker fainted while on a visit to San Francisco, and an ambulance rushed her to the nearest hospital. But this was in the United States, so the person meeting her at the emergency room door wasn’t a doctor.
“The first person I saw was a lady with a computer,” she said, “asking me how I intended to pay the bill.” Ms. Tucker did, in fact, have insurance, but she was told she would have to pay herself and seek reimbursement.
Nothing was seriously wrong, and the hospital discharged her after five hours. The bill came to $8,789.29.
Ms. Tucker has since lost her job in the recession, but she says she’s stuck in Canada — because if she goes back to the United States, she will pay a fortune for private health insurance because of her history of a stroke. “I’m trying to find another job here,” she said. “I want to stay here because of medical insurance.”
Another advantage of the Canadian system, she says, is that it emphasizes preventive care. When a friend was diagnosed as being pre-diabetic, he was put in a free two-year program emphasizing an improved diet and lifestyle — and he emerged as no longer being prone to diabetes.
If Ms. Tucker’s story surprises you, you should know that Mr. Scott’s public relations initiative against health reform is led by the same firm that orchestrated the “Swift boat campaign” against Senator John Kerry in 2004. These commercials are just as false, for President Obama is not proposing government-run health care — just a public insurance element in the mix.
No doubt there are some genuine horror stories in Canada, as there are here in the United States.
But the bottom line is that America’s health care system spends nearly twice as much per person as Canada’s (building the wealth of hospital tycoons like Mr. Scott). Yet our infant mortality rate is 40 percent higher than Canada’s, and American mothers are 57 percent more likely to die in childbirth than Canadian ones.
In 1993, the “Harry and Louise” commercials frightened Americans into abandoning health reform. Let’s ensure those scare tactics don’t work this time.
"So I'm a SC player trying to get into poker. I recently deposited $500 on cake and am trying to figure out what is going on with rakeback. Cake and LP have differing statements of how much rakeback I've earned.
I recently starting playing at cake poker through the 33% rakeback thing and the 110% deposit bonus.
-This is what LP statistics say. (How can I have -$22.43 rakeback?)
June 8, 2009 Cake Poker 1166962 $-22.43 33.00% $-7.40
June 9, 2009 Cake Poker 1166962 $8.69 33.00% $2.87
June 10, 2009 Cake Poker 1166962 $25.90 33.00% $8.55
Total $4.01
-Now this next thing that I found on cake poker basically says that you are able to get rakeback and clear the bonus at the same time, but you'll have a slower time clearing the bonus (since usually it is 1 FPP per $1 rake and 7FPP per $1 in tourney fees)
"We’re pleased to announce our very own Bankroll Stimulus Plan: There will be ZERO deductions against your Earnings starting May 1st, 2009!!!
To facilitate this new Bankroll Stimulus Plan, we’ve made some changes to your FPP rules (see below):
Ring Games: 0.5 FPP for every $1 in rake.
(example: .25 FPP for $0.50 raked at the table)
Tournament: 3.5 FPP for every $1 in fees.
(example: 1.75 FPP for $0.50 in tournament fee"
And on Cake it says:
Hands Dealt 2484
Hands Raked 812
Total Rake $41.56
Entry Fees $0.00
Total $41.56
Earnings: $13.71"
yeah not asking for stars money, the whole seizure of money from processors has kinda fucked me over getting my car registered so I need someone to send about $450 to a friends paypal account to pay for the registration in exchange for money on stars.
Pm me or reply if interested, obviously only trusted members of the site. TY fellas
I’m on downswing. I have lost two more buy ins today and it really sucks me. Today result: 625 hands -105.13$. I also played subsatellite to CPT and finished on bubble.
I think that today I made some mistakes which sucks me even more. I have to start more concentrate on game and watch more instructional videos.
** Hand # 2657962705 starting - 2009-06-12 00:28:07
** DeepStack 161 [Hold 'em] (3.00|6.00 NL - Cash Game) Real Money
KalleKanin sitting in seat 1 with €636.00
rossemcity sitting in seat 2 with €525.53
value_town sitting in seat 3 with €1541.90
bartboos sitting in seat 4 with €1200.00
Hero sitting in seat 5 with €3001.75
King_J sitting in seat 6 with €1047.90[Dealer]
KalleKanin posted the small blind - €3.00
rossemcity posted the big blind - €6.00
Holecards(Odds) value_town raised to €21.00
bartboos folded
Hero called - €21.00
King_J called - €21.00
KalleKanin raised to €102.00
rossemcity called - €102.00
value_town folded
Hero called - €102.00
King_J folded
not even after dropping to nl25 bcuz 60bb donkeys flop 2 pair on me and stack me multiple times a session and bad regs float gutshots deep and then stack me.
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