about to head out, still needing the money though
gonna go $1k in vegas for $1050 on stars, i'll have my laptop with me so it can be done wherever. pm me!
On March 20, 2003, we the United States invaded Iraq, eventually leading to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
I wonder how Exhilarate's 15th b-day went. I can't believe it has already been six years ago to the day! Man time can go by really fast sometimes
IMO the vid below should be called "How to identify a conservative today"
(the first 1:30 in this 3part vid is easily skippable)
A few of the smaller points I like in this video and if you look Ron Paul IS ACTUALLY always and constantly fighting for:
The main purpose of a government, in a free society, should be the preservation of liberty
Liberty is an individual thing and not a collective right
Freedom does not come to us because we belong to a group
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As for the H.R. 1207 bill in the House that he talks about to audit the Federal Reserve, it was created a month ago by him and has so far grown to currently 29 legislators backing it, which honestly isn't many but it is progress.
I can't agree more with Ron Paul that the Federal Reserve at the very very very very least needs to be transparent and public. So if this proposal can actually gain more momentum and backing it would be a HUGE achievement for the middle class and below.
For those who aren't familiar with these - it randomly generates a number every minute that I now have to enter to log into Pokerstars. (You don't plug it into your USB or anything - just type whatever number it is presently showing) So now a hacker has to steals all 3 of my my password, my pin - they still need this physical token I carry with me to access my account.
It adds another level of comfort especially if you use a wireless and are afraid of someone stealing your password via a key logger etc.
edit: 1:10am 3/21
Sorry for not responding sooner but I believe its available to all upon request via email. Also it is about 50 bucks in FPP, but thats basically selling at cost if you check prices on the interwebs - this is supposedly a 5 year version too.
For those wondering, I believe its not necessary if the 50 bucks is a huge chunk of your bankroll - since stars is already top of the line with security and they already have the pin. And the risk of hack attempt is greater the more you have to steal I suppose. Stars also has a lot of other behind the scenes safeguards. For instance, my account was frozen once for trying to make a transfer from an IP address that wasn't one of my standard play locations (I was on vacation and it was unfrozen after a simple phone call). Nonetheless it is nice to have the token for just an extra level of security especially after all the stories from the LAPC.
By the way it says it takes 4-6 weeks but it took 10 days from VIP store purchase to delivery.
So at the start of March I said, that I wanted to beat NL10 and get Silver star. As of yesterday I completed both these goals.
After pissing around in Jan and lack of play in Feb, I had just over $200 (wasted so much $ on MTTs) at the start of the month.
I am grinding NL25 now (only up 3BI so far). I actually hit $500 last week, and jumped into NL25 a little hastely, loosing 4BIs, and dropping me back down to $400. So I went back to NL10, to prove to myself that I really can beat NL10, and in no time I was back up to $500. Reaching Silverstar was a nice bonus. People said I shouldn't aim for this, and should just play. Well yea, that is what I did. I just grinded al ot of hands, to get me to NL25, and was hoping I could reach Silverstar. in the process.
It feels good to beat goals. So now for new goals. I have played about 8,000 hands now at NL25, and it has been very swingy. I definitely need to work on playing my A game at NL25. I have noticed alot of things that are different from NL25 and NL10. Unlike NL10, where I rarely see min raisers, I have seen a TON of min raisers at NL25. These guys have stats like 50/2/30. Their min raise line is so obvious now. When guys like this min raise in early pos, it usually implies big hand like premium pocket pair. At first, when someone min raised and im holding AK, i was just laughing, and 3 betting up, and then they would come over the top with a huge raise, and im like wtf, calling, flopping my K on board, and they min raise the flop, and i get it in, and they turn over AA. So yea, I have seen this a few times. Ive lost some chips to these plays. So at first I was totally confused. But now I am starting to understand mindsets of some of these donk NL25 regs. There are other little things that are different, but I feeel I am starting to adapt to how NL25 plays. The good thing is, there are still a TON of fish that have not got a clue wtf they are doing.
So for now my goals are to beat NL25. I am keeping the strict no tourneys, as I seem to make more profit playing cash games. I feel tourney play is for another day. Only downside is, I have got alot on in real life coming up. I am moving house next weekend, I am prob going to have no internet for at least a week. Im dreading it lol. But it does give me some time to get lots of shit sorted that I keep putting off, because all I want to do is grind!
My long term goal for this summer, is to reach NL100. I do work in a FT job atm, but every moment I can get where I am in a fit frame of mind, I play as much as possible. This month so far, I have put in just over 24,000 hands (16,000 of them at NL10). Looking to put in alot more table time before I move house and can not get on internet! Ahh gonna suck. Hopefully will get it up and running asap
Some music that I have been listening to alot while grinding;
so me, my gf, and a bunch of our friends will be heading up to vegas for the weekend, kind of a spur of the moment thing. gonna be staying at a friends house and partying for the most part.
unfortunately since it was kind of spur of the moment i don't really have funds to gamble with and was wondering if anyone up in vegas would be willing to do a little $1k stars for $1k cash trade, really wanting to get in some decent poker time while im up there so pm me if you can help a brotha out.
I go to K (I'll call her K because I'm nice but I should say .. whore?)'s house earlier today to hang out and her cute friend Emily and hot 16yo sister are there. Life is amazing. I got home and was talking to PJo and my roommates about how life is cool, and K calls me and says PJo and I should come back to the bars in Toledo with her and Emily. So after the Michigan game (LOL **** YOU BEVILL), we get around and head there.
Arriving in Toledo 15 mins late, they're still not ready, and don't get ready til about midnight. I stop at Brooke's and see Chloe for like an hour, and then get dinner and a beer for PJo and they say they're ready finally. We drive there and are chillin and everything's awesome. They show us their corsets and their bras and whatnot and we're on cloud nine. It's so sweet and we're basically thinking we're getting laid tonight. I'm the designated driver so I take E's BMW and drive it to the bar.
We roll out to this Ryno bar that is the exact opposite of the Rhino in Vegas... a ****ing hole in the wall piece of **** bar with 30 people, 26 guys and 2 other girls besides K and E. They flirt with like everyone and start making out with each other and we're like, whatevs, we got a hotel room with them tonight and they're all ours. Oh boy were they not.
After the bars closed down, the night began. We go to this after-party thing and there's no one there so we go to this ripped Air Force dude's house and we're real glad he's not an enemy cause dude is BIG. Like 6'5, 260 and cut like crazy. There are probably 10 of the sleazeball guys, three other girls and K, E and me and PJo. The three other girls bounce and K and E start making out and being sluts.
We just chill for a while and like 4am rolls around and the people at the house were saying we all had to leave because they had to lift at like 9am (lol). So K and E go to the bathroom and this skinny-ass pale nerd tells us we need to get the **** out. We are like "are you serious? the girls are in the bathroom, just wait like 45 seconds" and the dude starts pushing me tryin to get me out the door, I tell him to just hold the **** on and he punches me in the stomach and the Air Force dude tells us to get outside.. we gladly oblige cause dude is ****in huge.
So I have E's keys to her car and we're standing outside wondering what the **** to do, and she calls me and says get back up to the apartment with her keys and in the background I hear one of the dudes say "those mother****ers can WALK to their car". I tell PJo we're going. We start to drive off in E's car... not knowing where we're going. We know we turned a lot of times, but other than that we have no idea. Here's a visual of where we stopped and called Brad (bknollenberg) because we were lost and needed directions compared to where my Z was:
So Brad decides he needs a cigarette and I decide **** him I'm driving. I eventually find the road I need and remember some of the landmarks. I get to that diagonal road close to where my car is and I pass a cop going 10 over the speed limit. He doesn't turn around.. whew. I get to the road before we turn to get to my car and pass another cop... he stops us. We get turned onto the road where my car is -- I can physically see my car -- and we do the whole "getting pulled over" thing.
I can see so many things going wrong.. they reported the car stolen, the cop wonders why we have the car, the lack of an insurance card ****s us over, the Air Force dudes are at K's house just waiting for us to pull up.. the possibilities were endless. So I tell the cop I'm taking E's car back to K's house because she's passed out drunk at some dude's party and I need to get back to my car. He says he just gave my Z a warning because I parked illegally and asked if I know the speed limit and all that bull****, I tell him no, and he gives me a warning. Yay, two warnings in one night, ship that!
So I get back to K's driveway, put her keys on the seat and drive away in the Z. It's 6am and I'm wired and was scared for our lives, and I am pretty sure I've never had so much fun.
Well that house didn't work out, apparently someone else was already negotiating for that house when we put our offer in and it ended up selling for less than we offered. grrr stupid realtors not taking our offer even though it was more than what the other offer was. Oh well, I guess I'll update when we try for another place.
In the mean time, poker life has been meh, lost about 20-25k since my win at the wynn, so im slightly behind pace for my goal for the year (50k per month), sitting at an avg of just over 40k per month. Also I have a big tax bill due in April, so that's like a government ordered mandatory downswing right there, but whatever, gotta be paid.
On a positive note, my friend Keith "DaMurdera3" Ferrerra won the 10k main event at the Wynn. It only got like 100 people but he still made about 255k and got a larger version of the trophy that I got. So congrats to him. Here's a pic. http://media.cardplayer.com/image/v/verticalwinnershot.JPG
I swore, I SWARE, I ran like shit monday so I quit.
I was at 870 or 900 or so. I was tilting, I called a really bad regs snap shove with AQ, I tried to get a guy to fold an overpair by repping a set, and I did a lot of dumb half thought out moves.
I woke up this morning, my roll is at 999!!!
WHAT? 999???
YES! That means.. 250 more til 50nl!!
Hey folks,
decided to make a blog, since I lost like 7bi yesterday @ 200nl due to bad beats and the associated tilt.
poker background: Like alot of players, started from playmoney on PS and slowly (very slowly) grinded my way up. I usualy play 0.50/1$ and 1/2$ 6max on pokerstars. I have been grinding 50nl for a very long time, mostly because I had to cash out my winnings on a monthly basis to pay for expenses and therefore not being able to move up stakes.
I felt really depressed about poker cause I had been grinding 50nl and 100nl for most of the year and went on a bad downswing/breakeven stretch for almost 140k hands, after having a 4.5ptbb/100 winrate for almost 400k hands at those stakes. I felt much better about myself after reading many replies of posters who said that breakeven stretches like that are pretty standard when playing enough hands.
So far these are my results in poker for this year:
note: the 1000nl shot was while feed up with my wife and shitface drunk playing 3handed with tsifknits and matate. I usualy never do degenerate stuff like that.
Another good small session today, keep it up. Im running good, hope it holds on. Also improved my game a lot, finally seem to have my discipline under control again.
Maybe I can turn this month around into a good one after all .
Also played some SNG's, they're really fun and so fucking soft lol. But need a larger sample size to see how I am really doing. People get really way too tight in the late stages of the turbo, and you can abuse them so good by pushing a lot. http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4171/sng.png
Got an Omaha question as well : How swingy is the game in general, compared to NLHE?
leaving in 2 hours, gonna try to drive very long sessions in attempt to make it there asap, and leaving myself with atleast 20+ bi upon arrival
ONE TIME CAR HOLD!!!!! NO BREAKDOWNS!!!!
have fantasy baseball draft on sunday, its a 32 hour drive to vegas, so my dilemma here is if i drive 2 16 hour days i can have my fantasy baseball draft in vegas instead of some hotel that could be skeezy on the way.
buuuuuuuuuut
if i drive 32 hours in 2 days, its gonna be TOUUUUUGH
but
u all know me
im all about the challenges
expect me in vegas sunday
hope to be chillin w/ the winner of the wynn classic (FROM LP OF COURSE) sunday night :-)
if your in vegas or plan on being in vegas, pm me your cell # and ill give you mine and we can meet up sometime (that is if i know you anyway whatsoever or if your reputable in our community)
Tomorrow i will leave to Heiligenblut and go snowboarding for 8 days.
I am a beginner and have no experience with snowboarding at all ...
Hope this will be fun.
@ night. looks like ure in Vegas ?
I still owe u 100$ from our bet and u didnt answer my messages for quite a while.
I originally didn't care enough to spend any time or energy on it, but atm I do care just enough to spend just a little bit. I will not spend more than 5-10 minutes in the creation of this entry.
To clear something up before moving on, in the I LOVE THIS GUY blog I made...well to not sit here and type the whole thing, I'll just copy & paste what I told someone with which I do care for/respect their opinion.
I'm thinking about defending myself on it in the forum, but I really didn't want to spend the time or energy to do so cuz public opinion doesn't matter that greatly atm
and I know how it looks, and it's easy to think and even prove that I am on the opposing side in the issue I created
however, short and sweet, look at all the posts I made, and then when I "express my "beliefs" or "views"
look that it is after it is assumed what my actual views are
that yes, I went with that assumption
as I was typing my response
I coulda went one of two ways
and I decided to stick with the issue
to get to what I personally wanted
no matter what it would look like
hell, that really sums it up perfectly
take it or leave it
now omfg who the hell is this Rahm Emanuel guy? lord help us
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