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What started off as a really rough day at the tables ended up being a great one. I started the day off donking off 3 Buy-ins really quick with hands where I felt like gamboling a bit like so:

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I took a little break because I was playing bad and when I came back I got coolered right away lol:

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Not much I can do there. Eventually though the fish started to pay off my big hands and I really turned the day around and ended up +5 buy-ins which felt great. Here are a few of those hands that helped me turned the day around

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Im really glad I managed to turn it around today becasue it sucks to be playing out of a hole. Its weird adjusting to the swings you go through when you move up limits. Before I would never see a $100 downswing playing NL10 and NL5 because thats 10+ buyins at those levels but now that Im at NL25 its only 4 buy-ins which is totally standard to be losing. Thats where bankroll comes into play and Im really glad that I am a bankroll nit for this reason lol.

Here's the graph for the day:

http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp360/mbs03/march19.jpg

I play a few tournies today as well. I played in a 5k Garuntee that had over 4000 ppl in it and I ended up placing 458 for an amazing $5 lol. I wish I could take one of those down but a lot bigger. Thinking this I decided to try and qualify for some of the bigger tournies Pokerstars offers. So I played a few FPP satellites and managed to get a seat in the Million Dollar Turbo take down which happens next Sunday. 100k for 1st place. Fuck that would be sweet to win lol. Since you cant unregister for it when you qualify through a satellite (not like I would get money if I did... its only 5k FPP to play) I guess Im going to play in it. I dont play a lot of Turbos so it should be interesting.

Probably wont get in many hands this weekend since Im gonna do some partying. Its a friend of mine birthday and shes havin a huge bash for it. Should be a great night out. Hopefully I get a few stories for you guys come Monday.

Im out thought folks
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Finally got that shit over with. Turbotax is fail. They always want you to pay money after every step you take. It's tilting. It took me like 3 weeks to get the taxes done. Not all turbotax's fault, but they didn't help by constantly trying to charge me. My GF found some place called Taxhawk.com which let me do everything for free and was much quicker than turbotax.

As for poker the downswing continued all week long. Just ran horribly bad. Today I sat down thinking that I was about to end the downswing and I was right and ran quite well. I still have no clue how I'm doing this week money wise. I haven't checked my cashier or my session winnings/losses since my last blog post where I came up with that strategy. It's helping me to focus strictly on my game much more. I re-organized my HEM reports tab so that I could only see my stats, not my winnings/losses.

I think I lost every session till today (that's my guess and considering how bad I ran I would be blown away if I was winning all week). It was easy to avoid checking the results because I'd already trained myself not to. The real test was whether I could be winning and A) keep playing and B) not check the results. I achieved both of those goals so far today. I started running hot and put in a 3k hand session. Woot. Hope it translated into big wins! But by not checking the results I've actually got a lot more desire to keep playing and I plan to do another session tonight before bed. If I start running bad then I'll stop, but if I keep running good then I'll just mass grind. Working to retrain myself to do that and I think I'm on the right track.

Right now I think that I will wait till the end of the month to check my cashier. My BR was at 8.5k when I started this little experiment so I should have enough to play NL100 / NL200 as I please. I doubt I'll drop low enough to need to move to NL50, and I doubt I'll win enough to move to NL400. So I will just grind away till the month is over and then see how I did =)


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I've never had a 60/7 fish suck out on me so much in my entire life.

You know those fish who are like extremely high variance? They shove the river with their entire range whether they missed or hit?

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Just finished another session and well I was UP now I'm breaking even for the past 3 days, that sucks madballz and I get all nervous and shit, but since there is a lot of BS going on I'm not worried hopefully things will go back to normal by the weekend.

Some interesting hands.

Submitted by : dejokah

PokerStars Game #26113053935: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/03/18 21:25:29 ET
Table Nikko 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: GetHighRM125 ($26.55 in chips)
Seat 2: chas2148 ($14.90 in chips)
Seat 3: sheppard43 ($17.65 in chips)
Seat 4: Mboma ($26.60 in chips)
Seat 5: renatooo ($4.15 in chips)
Seat 6: luckzor ($25.10 in chips)
Seat 8: whiskey_bar ($32.30 in chips)
Seat 9: letikelly ($27.10 in chips)
GetHighRM125: posts small blind $0.10
chas2148: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards
Dealt to whiskey_bar
sheppard43: folds
Mboma: folds
renatooo: folds
luckzor: folds
whiskey_bar: raises $0.75 to $1
letikelly: folds
GetHighRM125: raises $2 to $3
chas2148: folds
whiskey_bar: calls $2

Flop (Pot : $6.25)

   
GetHighRM125: checks
whiskey_bar: checks

Turn (Pot : $6.25)

   
GetHighRM125: bets $3.50
whiskey_bar: raises $6.75 to $10.25
GetHighRM125: folds
Uncalled bet ($6.75) returned to whiskey_bar
whiskey_bar collected $12.65 from pot
whiskey_bar: doesnt show hand

Summary
Total pot $13.25 | Rake $0.60
Board  
Seat 1: GetHighRM125 (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: chas2148 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: sheppard43 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Mboma folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: renatooo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: luckzor folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: whiskey_bar collected ($12.65)
Seat 9: letikelly (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)

PokerStars Game #26110657875: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/03/18 20:08:17 ET
Table Nikko 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: mejsunio ($7.75 in chips)
Seat 2: hairyfb ($25.90 in chips)
Seat 3: coorsflat ($27.40 in chips)
Seat 4: jazziu ($24.75 in chips)
Seat 5: mastapj44 ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: Thekakou ($4.50 in chips)
Seat 7: DaTruf_88 ($25.25 in chips)
Seat 8: whiskey_bar ($25 in chips)
Seat 9: dogaroo72 ($43.85 in chips)
DaTruf_88: posts small blind $0.10
whiskey_bar: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards
Dealt to whiskey_bar
dogaroo72: calls $0.25
mejsunio: calls $0.25
hairyfb: calls $0.25
coorsflat: folds
jazziu: folds
mastapj44: folds
Thekakou: folds
DaTruf_88: folds
whiskey_bar: raises $1.50 to $1.75
dogaroo72: folds
mejsunio: folds
hairyfb: calls $1.50

Flop (Pot : $4.10)

   
whiskey_bar: checks
hairyfb: bets $3
whiskey_bar: raises $6.75 to $9.75
hairyfb: calls $6.75

Turn (Pot : $23.60)

   
whiskey_bar: checks
hairyfb: bets $14.40 and is all-in
whiskey_bar said, "quads ?"
whiskey_bar said, ":o"
whiskey_bar said, "wtf"
whiskey_bar: folds
Uncalled bet ($14.40) returned to hairyfb
hairyfb collected $22.45 from pot
hairyfb: doesnt show hand

Summary
Total pot $23.60 | Rake $1.15
Board  
Seat 1: mejsunio folded before Flop
Seat 2: hairyfb collected ($22.45)
Seat 3: coorsflat folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: jazziu folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: mastapj44 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Thekakou (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: DaTruf_88 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: whiskey_bar (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 9: dogaroo72 folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #26030502903: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/03/16 15:34:26 ET
Table Pegasus 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Guillaume989 ($32.75 in chips)
Seat 2: jwnash ($11.20 in chips)
Seat 3: maschine1981 ($14.15 in chips)
Seat 4: bagnus ($25 in chips)
Seat 5: Tezmax ($17.55 in chips)
Seat 6: Bwere ($15.35 in chips)
Seat 7: altzie ($27 in chips)
Seat 8: graceaisha ($21.35 in chips)
Seat 9: whiskey_bar ($37.20 in chips)
bagnus: posts small blind $0.10
Tezmax: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to whiskey_bar
Bwere: folds
altzie: folds
graceaisha: calls $0.25
whiskey_bar: raises $1 to $1.25
Guillaume989: folds
jwnash: folds
maschine1981: folds
bagnus: folds
Tezmax: folds
graceaisha: calls $1

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $2.85)

   
graceaisha: checks
whiskey_bar: bets $2.25
graceaisha: calls $2.25

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $7.35)

   
graceaisha: checks
whiskey_bar: bets $4.25
graceaisha: calls $4.25

River (Pot : $15.85)

   
graceaisha: checks
whiskey_bar: checks

Showdown
graceaisha: shows (three of a kind, Sevens)
whiskey_bar: mucks hand
graceaisha collected $15.10 from pot

Summary
Total pot $15.85 | Rake $0.75
Board  
Seat 1: Guillaume989 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: jwnash folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: maschine1981 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: bagnus (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Tezmax (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Bwere folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: altzie folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: graceaisha showed and won ($15.10) with three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 9: whiskey_bar mucked

PokerStars Game #26146394785: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/03/19 20:39:32 ET
Table Indiana V 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: whiskey_bar ($33 in chips)
Seat 2: Nelisschuif7 ($28.05 in chips)
Seat 3: mspitolai ($25 in chips)
Seat 4: bythorian ($24.55 in chips)
Seat 5: mohammedia ($20.25 in chips)
Seat 6: Igol24 ($18.55 in chips)
Seat 7: HGWT Paladin ($35.55 in chips)
Seat 8: cilvaringz08 ($16.30 in chips)
Seat 9: alvaro_roka ($12.05 in chips)
mspitolai: posts small blind $0.10
bythorian: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to whiskey_bar
mohammedia: folds
Igol24: calls $0.25
cilvaringz08 said, "nc"
HGWT Paladin: calls $0.25
cilvaringz08: folds
alvaro_roka: folds
whiskey_bar: raises $1.25 to $1.50
Nelisschuif7: calls $1.50
mspitolai: calls $1.40
bythorian: folds
Igol24: calls $1.25
HGWT Paladin: folds

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $6.50)

   
mspitolai: checks
Igol24: checks
whiskey_bar: bets $4.25
Nelisschuif7: folds
mspitolai: calls $4.25
Igol24: calls $4.25

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $19.25)

   
mspitolai: checks
Igol24: checks
whiskey_bar: bets $27.25 and is all-in
mspitolai: calls $19.25 and is all-in
Igol24: calls $12.80 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($8) returned to whiskey_bar

River (Pot : $64.10)

   

Showdown
mspitolai: shows (a flush, Ace high)
whiskey_bar: mucks hand
mspitolai collected $12.70 from side pot
Igol24: mucks hand
mspitolai collected $54.85 from main pot

Summary
Total pot $70.55 Main pot $54.85. Side pot $12.70. | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: whiskey_bar mucked
Seat 2: Nelisschuif7 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: mspitolai (small blind) showed and won ($67.55) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 4: bythorian (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: mohammedia folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Igol24 mucked
Seat 7: HGWT Paladin folded before Flop
Seat 8: cilvaringz08 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: alvaro_roka folded before Flop (didnt bet)

How many hands you have played, total, including online and live and all poker games (HE, omaha, draw, anything that's considered "poker")?

Here are my totals I think...

~8k hands playing with friends in high school in 2004 to 2006
~50k hands playing play money online in 2005 and 2006
~100k hands of nl2-nl50 in 2006
~100k hands of nl50-nl200 in 2006
~100k hands of nl400 in 2006 - 2007
~100k hands of nl1k-nl2k in 2006 - 2007
~50k hands of nl5k in 2007 - 2008
~50k hands of nl400-nl2k in 2008
~50k hands of nl200-nl2k in 2009
~2k hands of non-holdem games overall
~4k hands of live casino cash games
~25k hands of tourney/sng

I think I got it all... adds up to about 650k hands

and you?


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Whenever I want to fkn punish fish (and we are deep, cause he sucked out on me) I am punished, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???
Submitted by : nlloser60

PokerStars Game #26145602414: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/03/19 20:14:31 ET
Table Freda II 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($299.60 in chips)
Seat 2: hugavo69 ($207.40 in chips)
hugavo69: posts small blind $0.50
Hero: posts big blind $1

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
hugavo69: raises $2 to $3
Hero: raises $9 to $12
hugavo69: raises $195.40 to $207.40 and is all-in
Hero: calls $195.40

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $414.80)

   

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $414.80)

   

River (Pot : $414.80)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (a pair of Aces)
hugavo69: shows (two pair, Fives and Fours)
hugavo69 collected $414.30 from pot

Summary
Total pot $414.80 | Rake $0.50
Board  
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: hugavo69 (button) (small blind) showed and won ($414.30) with two pair, Fives and Fours

This is probably pretty stupid and I think I know, but I wanna confirm.

As supernova we get a 3.5x FPP multiplier. I understand this to mean that if I earn 1 vpp, I will get 3.5 FPP. Right?

So if I make 10k VPP, I should also have earned 35k FPP, right?

Or have I read the Pokerstars page completely wrong?


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Well, maybe not as dramatic as it sounds. Basicly I dont have any motivation to play anymore. I had a goal to earn myself enough money to buy myself an appartment before I went back to school. Well, winning the sunday mill sort of took care of that. After the mill win I wanted to give 5/10 a real shot, with my new nice bankoll. I to this day think Im definitely good enough to beat most 5/10 games and definitely most HU regs on both ipoker and prima. Its kinda sad that I am quiting right now as I have such a deep deep understanding of this game. However, my shots at 5/10+ went soso, went good in the beginning but I kinda crashed and burned after that. I ran pretty shitty in alot of key spots and ended up playing my B or even C game way to often. This in combination with my horses running really shitty resulted in my bankroll dwindling and Im not rolled to play 5/10 anymore.

The dream of beating 10/20+ was the only thing motivating me and the hands on 2/4 and 3/6 ive played the last few days have been poorly played overall. Basicly, I have lost the love of the game. To be honest I think I probably lost it a long time ago, but ive keept going because poker for me was a necessary evil, I had to put in a couple of hours a day to pay the rent or to validate my existence or whatever. Well guess what, poker is not a necessary evil anymore. I have money and I have a plan for my life. I see no reason to push myself to play bad regs on 3/6 anymore when all it does is cause me stress and makes me unhappy.

Ive always been happy when running well and feeling bad when running like shit, but what made it all worth it above everything else was that playing poker in it self, regardless of results, made me happy. I enjoyed it imensely and poker is the one single thing I have spent the most time in my life on. More than starcraft, more than any other game/sport/hobby/job.

I have let myself completely drown in poker. During the last 3 years in general but the last 6 months in perticular, I have lived poker. I think about/play/study poker and that is pretty much all I do. Everything else that I do during my days has indirectly been connected to poker, things i deemed necessary to do to keep myself on my A-game. I think its this obsession that has made me as good as I am today, but it has also made me define myself as a poker player, both to myself and people around me. Everyone around me except my best friends and my family view me as "that poker guy", and this puts me on tilt. I remember years ago when I though it would be so cool to be able to say to people that I play poker professionally. Now, I am very reluctant to admit it to new people I meet, because A: people dont understand poker and B: I dont want to be that poker guy.

I have defined myself as a poker player and I want to be more. Poker has made me neglect things I used to do regularily. I have put all my self worth in my ability to destroy people in this game and I have neglected to develope other important characteristics. I dont read as much as I used to. I dont work out as much as I used to. I dont play the piano as much as I used to. I dont spend as much time with my family and friends as I used to. As much freedom as poker has given me, it has also chained me down in other ways. Im kinda like the guy/girl that where the most good looking/most popular in high school, neglecting to develope character and qualities because they are the king of the world and then five years later you see them working in the supermarket.

When you define your own life and person through poker, your selfworth and your self confidence will swing along with the natural swings in the game and that is for me unacceptable. I dont want to work in the proverbial supermarket.


Now this blog post probably makes things sound worse than they really are, but I made my decision 2 hours and I have been feeling genuine happiness since then. I am quiting poker. I leave about 20k online for now, uninstall all my poker programs and move on to other things. I wont go back to poker until I have found the love to play the game again. Until I feel the urge to play the game and not the urge to just win money I wont play a single hand of poker.

I will keep coaching, I will keep backing my horses and I will still frequent these forums alot so not much will change in that department. I just wont play. As for ept and Vegas I am still undecided. I might still go and I might not.

This is the end.


For now.


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http://www.gladwell.com/blink/index.html


What is Blink about?

1. What is "Blink" about?

It's a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. Well, "Blink" is a book about those two seconds, because I think those instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really important and, occasionally, really good.

You could also say that it's a book about intuition, except that I don't like that word. In fact it never appears in "Blink." Intuition strikes me as a concept we use to describe emotional reactions, gut feelings--thoughts and impressions that don't seem entirely rational. But I think that what goes on in that first two seconds is perfectly rational. It's thinking--its just thinking that moves a little faster and operates a little more mysteriously than the kind of deliberate, conscious decision-making that we usually associate with "thinking." In "Blink" I'm trying to understand those two seconds. What is going on inside our heads when we engage in rapid cognition? When are snap judgments good and when are they not? What kinds of things can we do to make our powers of rapid cognition better?

2. How can thinking that takes place so quickly be at all useful? Don't we make the best decisions when we take the time to carefully evaluate all available and relevant information?

Certainly that's what we've always been told. We live in a society dedicated to the idea that we're always better off gathering as much information and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. As children, this lesson is drummed into us again and again: haste makes waste, look before you leap, stop and think. But I don't think this is true. There are lots of situations--particularly at times of high pressure and stress--when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

One of the stories I tell in "Blink" is about the Emergency Room doctors at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. That's the big public hospital in Chicago, and a few years ago they changed the way they diagnosed heart attacks. They instructed their doctors to gather less information on their patients: they encouraged them to zero in on just a few critical pieces of information about patients suffering from chest pain--like blood pressure and the ECG--while ignoring everything else, like the patient's age and weight and medical history. And what happened? Cook County is now one of the best places in the United States at diagnosing chest pain.

Not surprisingly, it was really hard to convince the physicians at Cook County to go along with the plan, because, like all of us, they were committed to the idea that more information is always better. But I describe lots of cases in "Blink" where that simply isn't true. There's a wonderful phrase in psychology--"the power of thin slicing"--which says that as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience. I have an entire chapter in "Blink" on how unbelievably powerful our thin-slicing skills are. I have to say that I still find some of the examples in that chapter hard to believe.

3. Where did you get the idea for "Blink"?

Believe it or not, it's because I decided, a few years ago, to grow my hair long. If you look at the author photo on my last book, "The Tipping Point," you'll see that it used to be cut very short and conservatively. But, on a whim, I let it grow wild, as it had been when I was teenager. Immediately, in very small but significant ways, my life changed. I started getting speeding tickets all the time--and I had never gotten any before. I started getting pulled out of airport security lines for special attention. And one day, while walking along 14th Street in downtown Manhattan, a police van pulled up on the sidewalk, and three officers jumped out. They were looking, it turned out, for a rapist, and the rapist, they said, looked a lot like me. They pulled out the sketch and the description. I looked at it, and pointed out to them as nicely as I could that in fact the rapist looked nothing at all like me. He was much taller, and much heavier, and about fifteen years younger (and, I added, in a largely futile attempt at humor, not nearly as good-looking.) All we had in common was a large head of curly hair. After twenty minutes or so, the officers finally agreed with me, and let me go. On a scale of things, I realize this was a trivial misunderstanding. African-Americans in the United State suffer indignities far worse than this all the time. But what struck me was how even more subtle and absurd the stereotyping was in my case: this wasn't about something really obvious like skin color, or age, or height, or weight. It was just about hair. Something about the first impression created by my hair derailed every other consideration in the hunt for the rapist, and the impression formed in those first two seconds exerted a powerful hold over the officers' thinking over the next twenty minutes. That episode on the street got me thinking about the weird power of first impressions.

4. But that's an example of a bad case of thin-slicing. The police officers jumped to a conclusion about you that was wrong. Does "Blink" talk about when rapid cognition goes awry?

Yes. That's a big part of the book as well. I'm very interested in figuring out those kinds of situations where we need to be careful with our powers of rapid cognition. For instance, I have a chapter where I talk a lot about what it means for a man to be tall. I called up several hundred of the Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and asked them how tall their CEOs were. And the answer is that they are almost all tall. Now that's weird. There is no correlation between height and intelligence, or height and judgment, or height and the ability to motivate and lead people. But for some reason corporations overwhelmingly choose tall people for leadership roles. I think that's an example of bad rapid cognition: there is something going on in the first few seconds of meeting a tall person which makes us predisposed toward thinking of that person as an effective leader, the same way that the police looked at my hair and decided I resembled a criminal. I call this the "Warren Harding Error" (you'll have to read "Blink" to figure out why), and I think we make Warren Harding Errors in all kind of situations-- particularly when it comes to hiring. With "Blink," I'm trying to help people distinguish their good rapid cognition from their bad rapid cognition.

5. What kind of a book is "Blink"?

I used to get that question all the time with "The Tipping Point," and I never really had a good answer. The best I could come up with was to say that it was an intellectual adventure story. I would describe "Blink" the same way. There is a lot of psychology in this book. In fact, the core of the book is research from a very new and quite extraordinary field in psychology that hasn't really been written about yet for a general audience. But those ideas are illustrated using stories from literally every corner of society. In just the first four chapters, I discuss, among other things: marriage, World War Two code-breaking, ancient Greek sculpture, New Jersey's best car dealer, Tom Hanks, speed-dating, medical malpractice, how to hit a topspin forehand, and what you can learn from someone by looking around their bedroom. So what does that make "Blink?" Fun, I hope.

6. What do you want people to take away from "Blink"?

I guess I just want to get people to take rapid cognition seriously. When it comes to something like dating, we all readily admit to the importance of what happens in the first instant when two people meet. But we won't admit to the importance of what happens in the first two seconds when we talk about what happens when someone encounters a new idea, or when we interview someone for a job, or when a military general has to make a decision in the heat of battle.

"The Tipping Point" was concerned with grand themes, with figuring out the rules by which social change happens. "Blink" is quite different. It is concerned with the smallest components of our everyday lives--with the content and origin of those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that bubble up whenever we meet a new person, or confront a complex situation, or have to make a decision under conditions of stress. I think its time we paid more attention to those fleeting moments. I think that if we did, it would change the way wars are fought, the kind of products we see on the shelves, the kinds of movies that get made, the way police officers are trained, the way couples are counseled, the way job interviews are conducted and on and on--and if you combine all those little changes together you end up with a different and happier world.


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Hey. I'm -_- from TL.

I'm afraid to post. Why? Because I know how I'll look.

I was never a great SC player. I tried to get good once. Got B on PGT by the end of a season. But I map-whored, MU whored, and played C- players when I was close to upping my rank. Still, I understood SC. Even if I didn't know exactly when to cut probes PVP before expoing, I got the game as a whole.

And I laughed at the newbies who thought they knew better. You know the guys. The people who said Broodling was a great spell. Or made blog posts about how they were D, but were going to get to C+ over their holiday. Get the fuck out the strategy forum and stop deluding yourself, kid.

But that's who I am now. I'm looking at the forums to the left, and the topics names are written in a different language.

I'm thinking that Poker can't be all that hard. It's mostly luck, isn't it? Tilt? Heh. Maybe other players will lose their heads, but I'm different. I'll make money at this thing quick.

I know what I just said is wrong. I've been on the other side of those kinds of statements. Yet... I still feel I'm right. I guess a newbie is a newbie, no matter how self-aware he is. Or do you poker pro guys really call newbies "fish?" And yourself "sharks?" LOL!

I'm not too dumb to ask for a few tips, though. I realize tip number one will be "use search." You're bored of newbies making these kinds of threads. Well, that's why it's a blog. If poker was starcraft, tip two would be "play games" but...

Poker depends on luck more than Starcraft. Thus, just playing 1,000,000 hands won't ensure I learn anything. That is, maybe when I play a certain hand in a certain way and win, it was just because I got lucky. Like I'd teach myself that a two and a three was the ultimate hand.

Just give me tips on small stakes no limit texas hold em. And when I say tips I mean really broad theoretical things to keep in mind. Like "keep position in mind." (Yes, I read the beginner's guide!)




(::sigh:: I bet I just said "Internets" in poker speak)


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what is happening? tried some NL200 to boost myself. When I even cant win there I think its time for a break. I got it in with trips on a Q82 board and JJ draws out, I push an openended straighflushdraw and both a higher flush and a straight calls etc etc. I outplay them in sooo many pots but I cant win any big ones.

Its good I can be busy with a big schoolpaper I have to write. I thought I was on to a big breakthrough and this comes... bläää!


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took a semi long ass break, bought a car, kinda getting buyers remorse coz i coulda just uploaded to stars and played 200nl for more money, not saying id kill it but definitely going to be profitable in terms of fpps and marginal winnings monthly. since taking a break and getting out of everest poker, haven't played a decent length session at stars, kinda unmotivated and just fuckign around with the car and shit now i feel a lot better and should be playing solid and not be affected with all the shit that comes with playing it. havent played more than 2k hands in 2 weeks which is pretty sick slow, considering i play that in 1 of my 4 sessions in a day usually. goals now are to get to 100nl roll again asap playing 50nl and just continue to grind until i reach a solid roll for 200nl again, cant buy anything thatll hurt my br now since i already bought the car so im pretty safe lol. peace out and gl

btw, sup with doomer ss'ing the 50nl tables? lol i guess hes teaching someone to grind fpps for him or soemthing, whatever.


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i have binghamton winning it all baby!

so been playing 40 dollar buy ins for PLO100.........i just need to pump these damn hands out

usually takes me 1 hour to do 1k vpp but now it takes like 1.5-2 hours (UGH!)

im just having no consistency at PLO 100 so im just playing flips all the time with short stacks. profits at cash games are just not there right now. its either down a little up a little over and over again and i feel like a pure bonus player now. im just not used to this as i had over 12 straight winning months at plo 200.

last 4 months have been horrendous and all my money is coming in from bonuses.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/646b0d494e942eed9037f2c73d618da3.jpg

a few months back i posted a hand where i lay down nut flush and i got a lot of slack for it. i was supposed to get away from the one below but i didnt!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/656433
-i mean what else is he raising me there with other than the straight flush?! i have both the K and the A of clubs and sodapop is not raising there with a set as i have a gajillion hands with him.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/656437
-floaters (head shake) this what i put up with at plo 100 all the time except it doesnt work out so well for me

i still dont have MS PAINT??!!?!?



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never again..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/ad783519df5c2e42947e87352f0cf2fb.jpg


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So it's my birthday and Unibet doomswitched me. :'(


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NL50 yayyyyyyyyy

cashed out 1k, lost 500, time for nl50!

fuck. my. life.


I'm winning at like 1pbb/100 anyway, ridiculous shit someone teach me to win???


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okay.. It's been a really long time ago now since my last post.
Obviously since i haven't posted here at all I fucked up at my 50 dollar building a bankroll mission.
otherwise I would've proudly presented my succeses here... obviously.
So attempt #2 now. I deposited 50 dollars on Stars and going to start really low (NL2) and try to build a Bankroll for at least NL25 so aiming at collecting 500$ that is my first goal. I managed to build it up to 100 relativly quick, then tilted it away again on NL50 HU. lol..
When I have cleared the 50$ first depositers bonus which might take quite a while since I'm playing so low I think I'm will take advantage of the offer HOldem Manager has on their website and deposit 65€ on Unibet to get a copy of Holdem Manager for Free!
so yeah maybe gonna try to actually take this serious now and not spew my entire roll away. pfff

bankroll management>

move up to NL5 at 100$
move Up to NL10 at 200$
move up to NL25 at 500$

so just a standerd 20bi rule, could've just typed that.. but whatever and yeah playing HU sngs and some MT SNGs to get some variation..which is fun.. variance is fun...especially when you don't use bankroll management i know that know. GL everyone may the variance be with U.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=812
Poll: If you were forced to put your whole roll at stake, which option?
(Vote): IDEAL_V_ (me) will make it, he's a solid grinder and will build up a roll of 500 !
(Vote): no way that he can build a roll! he will go busto as a result of bad BM & lack of discipline
(Vote): wtf, I feel like being boring cause I dont know u so i pick this option





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After a really great video (that everyone interested in economics should watch even if it is an hour long) had made it's way into my last blog, I started checking out a little bit more on Peter Schiff and I found this video.
Apparently back in 2006 there was a debate about future of the economy
With two very different outlooks, only one could be right, and inevitably a wager was made...lol




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i have 30 dollars on ftp
need 30 on UB



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bigbb33 delivering the lulz

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=114959781


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