TL;DR - I took some flu drug before going to a poker room with my buddy and somehow got a heater lololol
There are a couple things that I don't like about my state:
1. no online poker
2. live poker has no NL (only spread limit, although big casinos do something like $2/$5-$500 spread limit, which kinda feels like NL)
3. there is an admission to go to strip clubs and you cannot buy alcohol there (although dancers can be bottom-less :O)
But anyway, so my buddy Tao likes to play poker. He is more of the gambler type, but recently he said he started to read some tournament books and wanted to try it out. More importantly, he just quit today for another job in Calif. and this is his last weekend here. Despite the fact that I had been sneezing all day and didn't feel too well (left work at around 2pm because I didn't wanna just sneeze in the office and somehow get everyone sick), I decided to go with him and play a $50 small tourney (4-5 tables MTT) because that is the only NLHE you can get. Before I go I took a pill of this flu drug I got from China, and it is called Contac NT in English (picture in spoiler).
At about 6pm, we arrived at this poker room we usually go to. Interesting to see there are a bunch of holdem cash games running (usually there is only one game going because tournament starts at 7pm), and when we asked to join the tournament we found that it is the poker room's 6th anniversary and there was only cash game for the week with awesome high hand bonuses and whatnot. With only $50 in my wallet hoping to play a tournament, I was like, dang it but let's do it. Went to ATM and got $300 and sat down at a $1/$3-$20 spread limit holdem game.
If you haven't played these kinds of low spread limit poker before, it feels like a shit show. You don't really want to bluff much because you can't raise enough to get people out of the pot. $20 raise? ez pz call. by the time we get to turn/river, it is just like a $5/$10 limit game where you just do $20 big bets lololol. I didn't have much success prior to this, breakeven at best. But today I sat down at this juicy juicy table. Oh boy, this guy with a sick mustache is a real drooler with sick luck. He would get in with some A2s and got trips on the turn, and he pretty much turned the game into a $10/$20 limit game preflop. Fun times! From 6-9pm my whole table was just juicy. My cards were pretty good as well, flop went to my way quite a bit when I opened/called in preflop. My buddy Tao and I took a couple of huge pots vs the mustache drooler guy and I was up about $200 by that point, while Tao was up $300. (he has tighten up a bit and applied what he read into the game which I think it is a big step for him haha). chip counts in spoiler:
Around 8:30pm I felt a very weird high, didn't do anything but staying hydrated with water and getting some Chinese food by the table. My body felt warm and I was a little bit dizzy, but still pretty concentrated still. I put my hood up and just sat there folding hands, waiting for another big pot to come. At the same time I was just enjoying myself, chit-chatting with people around me, etc. but the droolers started to leave one by one, and more and more grinders started to join the table. Had an interesting hand with this big nerdy dude, he called my EP AQss open with pocket pair and made a set on the flop. I had one spade and two overcards on the flop so I decided to c/c, but bricked turn so I decided to give up. He was suddenly all excited and was like 'good fold buddy'. I was like, 'well sure'. About maybe an hour later, he opened from MP and with 2 callers, and I decided to 3bet squeeze with AKo. He called 3 streets and was like "woah I have never seen people 3bet AKo before, I thought you didn't have the ace man". I lol'ed. I was so into arranging my chips at one point in time for some reason. chip counts in spoiler:
The high was still going on, and my hands were going strong. But I started to play small because of the table is full of grinders now. Taking down a couple of small pots here and there, but the weird high started making me feel sick, so I decided to stop playing at around 10:30pm. Cashed out with $777. Didn't try to make that number, just kinda happened haha. Then I was just waiting for Tao to finish his game (he was my ride because I am a cheap-ass). He moved to another table because he recognized some fish he wanted to catch. At the end of the night he was up about $200. Not a bad day at all. final chip counts in spoiler:
When I got back home, this weird high is still going strong, so I decided to look up the drug I took, and realized that it was pseudo LOL. Apparently the drug is an upper and I was playing my A game because of it, while I thought I was sick and playing my C game and got insanely lucky :O (or maybe a bit of both because I am fish). Fun night! 8/10 will do it again (without the drug next time LOL)
My car was broken into this morning. The fact this happened is accepted and I am not here to talk about it. I want to talk about the how.
I have a new(er) car with the smart key. I had my car locked remotely and the alarm should, in theory, be set. I go to bed at a little after midnight, and I had seen my car locked just before. At 6:28 AM I got a text from a neighbor saying my doors and trunk were open. I woke to see this text at 7:00.
Sure enough, the trunk was popped and the front windows were down. I initially thought they broke them out until I was close enough to see. I believe you'd have to start the car, or at least initiate the electronics, to lower the window. The alarm never went off.
The police say they haven't seen anything like it before. We have had other break ins on cars in the area recently, but none that had the windows down. The officer said he was certain I had left them down, and that was how the thief got in, but I showed him my auto settings for air conditioner, which I had been using. I had three other people witness and vouch my car was locked and windows were up. I am known for being quite cautious about that sort of thing.
When dealing with my bank today, a teller mentioned she had her newer car broken into a few days ago, herself. She, like myself, had the windows rolled down, no sign of forced entry (my back driver side door was pried open, or half shut, but I did not touch that door, and there were not marks from tools on the paint or seal). She said the police mentioned to her they hadn't seen anything like it, either.
I went to Google and got some results about an app to hack a car used by car thieves, but am not certain what it is, and I haven't finished the articles, but will post them here:
So I ask you, clever LP - how do you think this was done? How did the car thief access my car and put the windows down. If you think that access didn't deal with the windows being lowered, why and how would the thief then lower the front windows?
We need to assume I am a random target, or at least that it was not personal. I have only one key, and it was in my locked bedroom with me, on my bedside table. I have roommates, they are not suspects.
Need to think about method for gaining access.
It has me really curious.
Specs are a 2013 Dodge Dart SXT. Has one traditional key entry, driver door. It has remote start and a built in alarm. It was parked in front of my condo and under a street light.
It happened between ~ 2am and 6am. Other cars in the lot were hit, most were earlier 2000's models, other new ones had doors popped, but not necessarily a sign of slim-jim (tool used for opening cars). Mine was the only one with windows down.
My cousin needs help with this equation and I do not know anything in this area.
I need the mean of [alpha]*exp(-[beta] *x ), since the standard equation for an exponential is [lambda]*e(-[lambda]*x) and the mean of that is [lambda]**(-1), I can then state that the mean of my equation is [alpha]/[beta] * [beta] ** (-1) which is alpha ... right? RIGHT??
edit: [alpha]/[beta**2] .... which doesn't make sense in light of my data
I know some of you guys are really smart, and not many people have tried to help her with this.
>play first live game in a couple months
>just a simple 20$ shootout
>first hand
>im utg on my table
>pocket tens
>raise 3 blinds
>five calls
>flop comes low rainbow
>bet again
>two callers
>turn comes
>shove
>get called
>guy to my left turned his gutshot with 74o
Got some decent volume in this month playing after work. I usually tried to do a 2 hour session every day, 4-tabling on Bovada. It is not a whole lot, but that's how much I am playing. Work is very draining sometimes, and I tried to play tired after work and it usually ended up very shitty sessions because I was just yawning the whole damn time folding hands lol.
I think my flop play has gotten tons better thanks to Lemon. He told me to keep around 60% cbet flop and I started doing that, and I think I have a much better time dealing with turn/river by cbetting less on the flop because the pot is much smaller when I don't flop huge. I still had a lot of trouble on the turn and river, especially facing a raise. On these readless games I think I just tended to call a bit more than I should have. I really need to plug this leak ASAP.
Bovada's anonymous tables really got me at first because I couldn't do stuff I used to do on SealsWithClubs when I have 1000+ hands on a given villain. I felt like I could exploit just a bit more against certain villain, and on Bovada I had to play slightly more defensive most of the time. From the graph I think it took me about 2k hands to adjust. From then on I think I started getting a hang of it and winning more and more. So at the end of this week I am netting +10BI with 8.63bb/100 winrate. So much rake on Bovada though!
Other than that, everything is going well, except for work lol. On a nasty project that couldn't get away with. Kept having production issues and couldn't have my code running. I needed to keep going back trying to fix bugs, and it takes a week to see my bugfixes go live, which sucks balls. Oh well we will see this week.
I am writing a plugin that allows SealsWithClubs players to use HEM/PT HUDs which I am going to sell for 60 chips a pop (60 chips = 0.06BTC = $36). That way I can use the money for playing bitcoin poker on Seals from time to time lol. On the other hand, I am also planning on writing a plugin for Bovada that enables HEM/PT HUD use. Although it is not going to be as good because the of anonymous bullshit but I think it will still help quite a few people online if they want to see more stats/import their hands on the fly. the Bovada converter from acepokersolutions had issues importing to HEM2 so I am pretty pissed about it. Not sure if they are going to fix that any time soon.
Posting my Bovada cash game graph here. You can also checkout http://lhr0909.github.io/poker to see my progress on various games if you wish haha.
need help with windows language settingsby bigredhoss, August 08
alright, so i've had this problem for a while but never bothered trying to fix it because because i know some spanish and it wasn't a big deal...but lately i've been trying to teach myself some stuff, and running into more technical language in spanish can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
Just over two months ago now I made the decision to start putting some serious time into poker. I decided I no longer wanted to use my free time spent at home on a less productive hobby. I play for fun and for the excitement of piecing together the puzzle of how to become a consistent winner in today's poker climate. One really interesting and yet disturbing trend in my game that I've noticed over the past two months is very poor results in 3-bet pots. Here are some graphs, I'd love to discuss with whoever is in the mood about how to rectify what I think is a fairly significant leak in the way I play the game. Although to be honest I've already taken some steps and done some tinkering with how I handle these situations.
Plausible Explanations:
1. Calling too wide vs. Strong PF 3-bet Ranges. Even weaker players aren't especially 3-betting trashy hands.
2. Calling without positional advantage on a regular basis.
3. Not stacking off enough on flops where I have better equity than I realize.
4. Stacking off too much on the wrong type of boards for my AAxx hands.
5. Taking poor post-flop lines in general
Here Are Some Stats & The Graph - The majority of All-In's are happening on the flop, so EV is decently accurate I suppose. One potential issue of course is we don't have any calculator for determining how lucky or unlucky we're getting in terms of just what we flop vs. what villains flop. So luck becomes impossible to estimate in some ways. When we are getting all in though, it's not going so well.
since i have been in vegas i have earned income in the mid 30kish range with something
like a ratio of 21k poker 9k earned from job and some bitcoins monies. i'm using when I arrived here in oct as my calendar month so i have 2 months left to claw out a pretty average, high variance income with questionable sustainability. i moved into the meridian apartments a couple of months ago and its a pretty convenient location. but id say id attribute my savings rate mostly due to a lack of paying taxes. I drive a shitty car and I also feel skeptical of finding a woman of sufficient standard.
been playing poorly of late and I have had a bad session today. I have noticed that alot of people burn out nearing the completion of 1 year, and I am going to being my 11th month out here now. I mean even if I do everything right long term, what can I accomplish? I am starting to meet and talk to more regulars and also starting to see how the 10/20+ level winners operate here and they seem pretty beastly. It is also difficult meeting all of these rich tourists and rich locals at the wynn and not introspect upon myself and feel some sort of anger/drive/guilt/envy etc. I really would not like to be one of those grinders turned dealers despite it being rational in many ways. I love what's going on in downtown las vegas and I want to be a part of it but I wonder if I have the savvy and will have the financing from poker to accomplish something noteworthy in that arena. still got 30k but its distributed all over the place in multiple checking accounts, cash, ira, bitcoin, etc.
Why you should be prop betting!!!by Joeingram1, August 01
I was driving to the gym this morning and I got inspired to write about why prop betting is important and why more people should be doing it. I also said on twitter that if I failed to write this today I would be paying out 1kusd to some lucky retweeter. This is a prop bet (more freeroll) that I will not be losing
What is a prop bet? In the poker world it is considered anything you might side bet on doing against another person. For example, some of the prop bets I've done are playing 50k hands in a day, playing 600k hands in a month. The bets don't always have to be as extreme as those, they can be as simple as you betting another person on who plays more hours that week (I did a bet like this before with some poor soul who did not have a chance )
Why do people prop bet? Some people do it because they see a chance to make a large amount of money assuming they are wiling to take on a good amount of action against. Some people want to challenge themselves. Some people want to try to make a name for themselves.
Okay, now that we got the basics out of the way, lets talk about why prop betting in poker is important for you to consider doing. The number one reason I initially did my first prop bet is because I really enjoyed the challenging of trying to do something that no one else had ever done before. Every prop bet doesn't have to be as dramatic as this but trying to do something where you are actually going to have to bust your ass to do can be an incredibly positive long term choice. If you are able to win the bet, your confidence will be super high and in the future you will feel much better taking on anything. Even when you fail at winning the bet, assuming you worked you ass off and tried your best, you will have a better understanding of what hard work in poker is. The confidence I have gained myself is something that will probably stick with me forever.
The easiest way to get a prop bet started is to come up with an idea and ask your friends what they think about it and if they want to make a small/big wager against. It might be something that you can compete against each other and that way you both push each other. Another way to get action is to post on the poker forum that you frequent and see if anyone is interested in betting against you. You will need set in place rules, a reliable escrow to hold the money, and a judge(s) to handle any problems that might come up for most prop bets. I think coming up with challenges that you and your friends can do is one of the best sources of motivation that exist in poker (outside of someone saying you don't understand the game you frequently play).
If you are at the small/micro stakes level and want to get your name out there, doing something crazy is the best way to do it. I know some people don't play poker to get any sort of recognition and only play for the money but I think most people enjoy being recognized for something. It can be a great way for you to meet new people that might be following along or that play in the same games you do. I met my San Diego roommate (without him I never would have moved to California) during my first prop bet when we started chatting on twoplustwo and then on Skype when we found out we lived close by. Networking like this can be important for your growth as a poker player. It can also be stepping stones to having a podcast that people enjoy watching .
I don't think most of this will be new information for the mid/high stakes guys out there but for the recreational/micro/small stakes guys this should be something you seriously consider doing more of. I think even for the more established players, taking on something very challenging could be what you need to bring back the passion for the game you once had. If anyone has any questions about anything, it could be a prop bet you have in mind or you might need a judge for your prop bet. Feel free to message me here in the comments, private messages or on twitter @joeingram1 or on facebook.
I also have a standing prop bet offer to anyone in the world for any type of PLO volume competition on Pokerstars
By the time this script is published, the uploaded hands are not going to be listed by default so we can really use this extension without flooding our hands section.
Next Version (lolwut):
1. Adding some menu shit other than just saying hi to Benjamin1, having some settings on it.
2. Making it so that it will list the first hand, and add the rest of the hands into the first hand as a comment.
3. Suggestions welcome.
Well, the BR now stands at a somewhat acceptable 2030. I'm working my way through learning 25PLO. At some point recently things started to click as I made major changes and thought I'd figured it out. The last 3-4 days though I've seemed to lack the same strength of focus and maybe that's why it hasn't been clicking as consistently. I find the hardest challenge in learning to beat this game is figuring out what's actually working for me.
Spots I know I need to work on:
1. Paired Boards
2. 3-Bet pots - particularly as the caller, and absolutely need to 3-bet good hands more
3. Lots of rivers and turns where I need to continue with my betting to get the fold instead of giving up sheepishly
Goals for Next Month:
1. 60-80k hands
2. Think more deeply about spots where I'm leaking and plug those leaks
3. Continue to develop my ability to focus for 2-3 hours straight on my A-Game
4. Reach PLO50
5. Cross the 50k FPP barrier, sitting at 31.5k now
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