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This is a question that I have asked myself many times and the fact that I am asking the question at all would confuse an awful lot of people. I play poker so I must be a “poker player” would be many peoples reply. Of course there is some truth to that as anyone that plays poker is technically a poker player but that isn’t what I was referring to. When I say “poker player” then I am referring to being a “natural poker player”. I think natural poker players simply take to the game and have to do far less work than other people.

For example you have already mentally evolved before you come into poker and because poker is a mental game then any issues that you have away from poker will be highlighted within the game itself. So if you are easily bored then you will probably become easily bored at the poker table. Also what about compulsive behaviour? If you are prone to compulsive behaviour by way of over drinking, over eating or anything else then you may have problems controlling your behaviour at the poker table.

At its very core then poker is a simple game although it has the capacity to be complicated immensely, it is just that as humans we tend to automatically complicate things. Also because a human being is many times more complex than a poker game then what we have is a relatively simple but easily complicated poker game played by unbelievably complex entities.

This is why poker can be so frustrating for many people because of the fact that it can seem unbelievably complex. At its very core then we need to concentrate on three key areas to be a poker player.

These are our overall poker system, this is our style of play that we end up playing after we have studied all that we can about the game. What we end up with is our poker game and this poker game will either be good enough or not good enough to make us money……that is the bottom line. Most poker games will need to have certain environments for them to be able to make money. For example depending on your level of experience and ability then your own game may need to be played at a level that is no higher than NL25.

Even then if your own destructive personality traits are holding you back then you may struggle to make any kind of meaningful money. The next question is when you have found a way of playing poker to then estimate your edge. This is more difficult than what it sounds which is why I have designated two ways to go. The first is to use conventional theory and hope that your opponents or a number of your opponents do not know it. The problem with this way of playing poker is that you can find a way of making money fairly quickly but the profit potential will be limited.

Conventional poker theory isn’t called “conventional” for nothing and years ago then the data that you had may have been sufficient to make money on its own but not anymore. So I think that the biggest edges in poker these days are gleaned from understanding theory in an un-conventional way. While this may not ultimately work for many people, it at least allows you to do something different to what the masses are doing which I think is very important. I think that if you play like the masses then your results are going to be broadly similar.

I simply cannot stress this often enough. You are better off thinking about the game differently even if you end up going down a few blind alleys along the way. However if you are working very hard on your game and you still find that your results are not what they should be then there is every possibility that you are simply not cut out to succeed in the modern world of online poker against the new breed of shark. Learning theory simply isn’t enough unless you want to recycle money.

In the games that I play in, most players tend to have a good grasp of poker theory at levels as low as NL25. So this means that getting an edge in terms of knowing more theory is difficult. In full ring cash games then you need to devise a solid strategy based on what your opponents are broadly doing. If you can learn to think strategically in poker rather than merely on a hand to hand basis then you may just find that you can make considerable money from the game. Any player that can make $60/hour and find 40 hours per week to play online is an absolute monster in online poker.

Carl Sampson is a professional poker player that plays online at www .888poker.com



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are delusional and talk smack like they're the god of poker then they lose a pot and get all butt hurt, hammer fisting the table and criticizing other people's plays. Semi tilted after tonight's session playing significantly under my A-game and donking about 600$ to this idiot, and 400$ to other folks.

I hate people who can't take even the small losses at the table and cause an uncomfortable tension. Why does this fishy type of player have to be such pain in the asses at live games? It surprises how many of these people who probably have at least upper middle class income can act like such babies.

sigh


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I know I should stop playing after 12+ consecutive hour session. Yet I can't stop until I literally pass out.

I know I should fold in a lot of situations recently, but I couldn't resist to call trying to believe he got the lower end of his range.

I do believe I know how to beat nl25/nl50 yet my hands betray my thoughts. I've been playing underrolled as well. Maybe im a gambling addict.

Went bust yesterday, don't really care about the money, as im financialy and job stable... as soon as my self-imposed deposit restriction can be removed I can put money back in..

But until then, I have 4-5 days to chill out and think over my actions.

It's a shame I can't complete the summer challenges as I can't deposit - so if anyone is reading this miserable blog, and can transfer me 1 USD on stars 'oldmemor' I can transfer on paypal with 50% interest maybe 1.5$USD + 20% of any Shootout Winnings as I can't deposit now.. just so I can play a zoom hand and get in today's summer stars challenge.

that is all. GL


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Renterd a place for AUD $410 a week at st peters - pretty much 5 min walk from train station, 20 min from my work. So its good.

Living by myself, my really good friend lives about 2 min walk from me so thats also good.

working on a new project - upgrading 3rd busyiest train station in sydney - wynyard.
So pretty large project. Doping really well at work and got a good rep at the moment.
Going for promotions soon hiopefully.

havnt played poker for ages, still have like 300 bucks on PS probgonna install it up when i feel bored.

anyway

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peace ya'll.



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love ya


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yo brosefs if you guys are bored im streaming on twitch right now dead rising 3

twitch.tv/jvilla777


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I send first to regulars..

Looking for $116.88 or whatever you can below that.


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This is Triple draw 2014 graph. I lost last year hands but I lost 2K trying to learn the game from 0. Key things about the graph:
- first 17K hands are 1/2 - 5/10
- then its 2/4 - 30/60 and started table selecting better
- average is 1BB/100

here it is:
http://i.imgur.com/9l1GQZp.jpg

What I learnt from this game:
-Best EV drawing decisions
-Think about ranges
-When to 3b with 2 card draw pre
-Avoid dangerous instaplays
-Card removal and blockers dont change the game a lot (unless you saw the 4 cards of that rank)

What I need to review:
-The never ending search for the best way to split ranges
-How people is biased with the first hands you play against them
-Automatize my HU lines

Thanks for your time, I just needed to write something somewhere and kill time


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http://i.imgur.com/FE9xn8g.png

i just don't get it
there i am on the turn
and im barreling out like usual
but then he decides to call
and im like, great, this didn't work out, AGAIN
i show my hand, and he his kings


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on massive gaming tilt atm after some fucking stupid sc2 games


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So I've gone back to training again after a long break and I've been playing lots of live poker over the last two years as well. I seem to have a problem thought with playing poker after training. It's like my adrenaline is way up and I don't think as clearly, play often on instinct, and am much more reckless with my play.

I know there are several guys on here who also do both, was wonder if anyone had the same issues and hoping maybe they had come up with some solutions. Other than the standard get a nice post work out meal in and kick back for an hour or two before playing. Even when I do both of these I still run into the same issues.

Any help and or ideas would be much appreciated.

Osssss.




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Can anybody do 300 to 1k paypal for my stars? I'll send first if you are reputable, otherwise you send first.


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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).

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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)


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got it in on the turn 94% fucking equity
http://i.imgur.com/x8kxP7U.png

pretty much how ive been doing lately



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Hey guys.

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:

http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8830657/

http://autos.aol.com/article/car-thie...reless-technology-to-break-into-cars/


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.




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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.


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