Title says it all. Since the turn of the new year, I've played 10/20 almost exclusively. So far it's paid off. I ran quite hot at the beginning of the year, and got into some very good spots against big whales. This boost in bankroll provided a boost in confidence that translated well to my poker game. Not confidence like bluff every hand like a hero, but allowing myself to play my "A" game sitting deepstacked against all opponents.
My average hours played has suffered a bit, but that's due in part to us pulling our daughter out of school and me spending more time with her and the baby at home. She was picking up some bad habits, and it just wasn't worth the cost because I had to stay home with the baby either way, so driving her up to school and coming back home is a waste of time and money. And I still take her to the park and other events for socialization and learning so I'm happy with the exchange.
In other exciting news, my wife will be taking next year off of work to stay home with the girls. She'll be doing the preschooling for our oldest. We are also going to make a big decision with regard to schooling of our oldest after this year. I am heavily leaning toward "unschooling." If you haven't heard of it, it's the act of raising your kids without public education, and simply teaching them whatever they want to learn about at any time. It's a legal form of homeschooling in the United States, and has shown some promising results in kids that are going through it or have gone through it. (wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling)
My day job is a software developer. So I love tinkering things on a computer. Recently I hooked up my tracking program, fpdb (I am too lazy to buy HEM2/PT4), to my profolio page on the Internet, so it shows my poker graphs on a web page. Theoretically it should work for all tracking softwares, because they all use a database (PostgreSQL or MySQL, which are similar). With some sort of database reading software, I should be able to read the data out with relative ease.
1. Get a server hosted on http://digitalocean.com (server is super cheap nowadays, and digital ocean offers even cheaper price! for $5/month you get a pretty good server with blazing fast network speed), then install a bunch of shit like LEMP (Linux, nginx (not sure why it is E), MySQL, and PHP) stack, phpmyadmin, and other shit.
2. Set your tracking software to take in that online database instead of the local database.
3. Write some code to surface the graphing data. This part is kinda tricky, because there is a query you have to call the database with, and you don't know what it is. So what I did is to make my database log all the queries, and as my fpdb refreshes the graph, fpdb will make a query to the database, and BAM! Copy-pasta, then code code code, and we got this (omitting a bunch of steps for the code/setting up the server to run the code and other tedious crap):
4. Then I graph the data with some javascript. There we have it!
As far as poker goes, I withdrew my 1 bitcoin from Seals and started fresh on Bovada. Not planning on taking the money out at all, but just sit down and actually learn how to play well. Cash graph (5NL only) seems break-even, and I think there were some bad beats here and there, and there were more hands that I just didn't play well at all. But since Bovada has more people, I got more game choice. I really enjoy playing Sit n Go's (I play $3-$4 SnG's with about $170 in the roll, should be decent BRM right?!) and from the graph, I think I am doing okay in it
As always, I thank everyone on LP that have given me help/advice and I will keep playing and getting better!
My live progress is going pretty well despite not playing my A game all the time, have been playing 20-30 hours per week for the last 2 months, am currently up 8500$.
On another note I think my pc is r.i.p. from viruses and repeated overheating. Thinking about buying another gaming pc but I'm not a super serious gamer so I don't really want to spend above 900$. I was thinking about buying this one ...
opinions? I'm also browsing on newegg.com so any recomendations on prebuilt rigs would be apriciated. Also, i'm too lazy to buy separate parts and put them together.
for years my sleeping schedule is fucked up
I've been sleeping most of the time 4am and waking up 12pm
I think I wake up in the morning like 15 times per year, only when I really need to
I always thought most creative people used to stay awake in the night and sleep at daytime ( also that they did that polyphasic sleep that I think it's bullshit )
but I found this and I'm a little surprised
another thing, usually when I go to the gym right after I wake( 12:30pm~1:00pm) I'm lazy for the rest of the day, anyone experienced something like that ?? shouldn't be the opposite ??
Ok so thanks to Marius' thread, which spun into something absolutely crazy Floofy like, I decided we should get the ventrilo server back so here we are:
Game: Ventrilo ( v3.0.6 )
Server Name: Liquidpoker.net
Server IP: 85.236.100.69:5814
Join Address: ventrilo://85.236.100.69:5814/servername=Liquidpoker.net
It's setup for 3 months and there's space for 30
I can't check if it works at the moment as I'm not at home but feel free to test. If any setup is needed I'll do that in a few hours.
whats the metagame for zone? treat the bb as if you were the button and to treat the actual button/co as if they were blinds that need to be bullied by betting oop into the raiser on the flop every time? i had about five hands folded to me preflop in the last couple days, which is insanely what the fuck? i see the players per flop avg and it's usually a quart to a third, and there's usually the big blind calling me every time.
is anyone experience no effectiveness for buying the blinds? this seems like it would prevent me from being able to "hedge" some of my other losses like folding the blinds. im not sure what the best way to adjust is, but maybe i can figure some things out in a couple days.
btw, i got fired from my job today because even though i told the other store, owned by the brother of my boss, specifically the bosses wife, that i was putting in my 2 weeks, it never made it to the boss. he told my boss that he thinks im a bad employee and some other stuff that i couldn't really understand since they have foreign accents, and even though my boss knows that i put in the two weeks, he didn't think i told them. i told him that i told his brothers wife on x date and he said he would take that into consideration, but ive already been replaced.
she was like my tiger mom D: how could she do that to me? probably an accident but still...
First live straight flushby DustySwedeDude, March 30
So I was playing some 25/25SEK (so like 4/4USD) live PLO the other day. UTG+1, who's a reg and decent enough for a live player raises the straddle to 125, I 3bet 8s6d5d4d to 450 or whatever, I get a coldcall from some other guy and some guy who's been running the table over pots it to around 2k. Not sure the sizes but something like that. Oh, and I'm like 13k deep and the 4bettor covers. The other two has between 5 and 8k I think. The 4bettor has ranted about how stars regs can't fold AAxx on any board and how he's won 8k USD in those spots from retards etc all night.
UTG calls, I call and the guy behind call. 8k in the pot, and the flop comes 6s3d2d which gives me the straight and a flushdraw. Also one out for the straight flush. That's nice. 4bettor checks, UTG+1 checks and I bet 5k into 8k, one fold, 4bettor calls and UTG+1 tank/folds. Turn is a off suit 4, which I guess is a fine turn for me. A blank queen or something would've been better, but whatever, at least it's not like 7d or something that would be weird. 4bettor checks and I shove whatever I have left, I guess like 7k or something. He tank/calls. River falls Ad and I show my straight flush. Dude shows AA and muck the other two.
33k SEK pot, so around 4k USD or something. Not huge, but biggest or 2nd biggest I've played live. Kinda neat.
You guys seem to be pretty tech savvy, so maybe you will be willing to help if you know how.
I have a 50 Mbps internet connection. Should be 50 Mbps download and 20 upload. I am pulling about 5-8 Mbps download and about 5 upload. A tech from the cable company came out and replaced modem and we did hard line testing, etc. and it still didn't change and she was able to put 75 Mbps once on her laptop, but only once, and was getting varied times after. The line connection is almost flawless and there isn't line distortion.
I am wondering if there is some kind of malware or the like on my laptop that could affect the speed and I am not sure how to find out. I got rid of Norton antivirus because it constantly slowed down my laptop.
I am on a 64 bit Windows 7 home premium, with 6 gigs of ram and I do not think I have any viruses, but maybe I do?
If you guys know of anything that could help, I'd be all ears.
so deep, put your ass to sleep. Thats how I'm going to play from now on. I'm going to play so deep it's as if a large black male has his erect penis so deep inside you that it pinches an artery shut and your butt cheeks begin to tingle. I've been half-stacking NL25 on Bovada for awhile with success before realizing that 50BB poker is heinous and puts you in lots of weird spots where you dont know if you should ship it in or just call/fold or whatever. You cant buy in for any less, and I've been avoiding fullstack play since the games are anonymous and I didnt feel like there was much EV getting set up with coolers vs random players. Then again it's bovada and everyone is terrible so there's certainly value in playing big pots.
But the real goal is to practice for live play again. I havent played live since last november, when I folded a 2000BB pot with a set because a fish shoved on me and they always get there. Of course he had 2 pair and is just being a fish, but it rattled me nonetheless. I didnt stop playing because I lost, but because live games always end up super deep, especially live home games where there's some expectation that you stay awhile. At that moment I realized I was not prepared for deep stacked play, and thus I cant play at all since I'd have to hitrun every time I doubled up.
Well fuck that, there's just too much money in these games to avoid them due to fear. So I'm going to start playing Bovada and basically never table change unless the game breaks. NL25 is a perfect limit to simulate live play (not too retardedly fishy but certainly no talent either). The players are trying to win, just like at live NL200. They just have huge leaks. Hopefully this way not only can I break my fear of assuming the worst suckout always got there, but I can start to hone proper value betting techniques. There's still lots of 200BB stacks at NL25 on bovada which is a start.
By the way anyone hear about that Malaysian plane? Crazy shit..
So some huge updates, much of it due to LP. A few months back I got heavily involved in daily fantasy sports as a result of Daut's first blog about his fantasy football performances. I was never a big fantasy guy before, but the daily variant ended up becoming a massive passion for me. I played almost exclusively basketball and it was the perfect time to get involved. Made accounts on the three biggest sites: FanDuel, DraftKings, and Draftstreet.
One day in mid-January or so I was taking a break from making a lineup and started exploring the FanDuel site. I was mainly looking for promos, but the fact that FD started as a tech startup caught my interest. I'd been involved in co-founding a tech startup before and I'm knowlegeable about the community so I started reading up on them. I clicked over the Jobs section and saw that they were advertisting for a position that was very much in line with my work experience at previous startups so I applied.
Fastforward a couple months and here I am as the new Promotions and Events Manager for FanDuel. FanDuel is pretty much the undisputed largest daily fantasy sports site and they're expanding hard right now. A big part of that expansion is increasing the number and scale of live events. My responsibilities cover conceiving of, planning, and executing these live events from start to finish as well as helping across the board on promotions and user retention for all major online events.
My first big project which we just launched today is the World Fantasy Baseball Championship. It's the daily fantasy spin on the World Series of Poker: 11 distinct fantasy baseball events with $5mill in prizes spread out. All of this culminates in a weekend at the Vegas Cosmopolitan where we'll be playing out (live) the finals for 4 different tournaments, including the flagship Daily Fantasy Baseball Championship with a $1million first place prize.
Anyway, I know there are some daily fantasy grinders here on LP and you guys were my inspiration for getting involved in this industry in the first place so thanks! Don't hesitate to check out our NBA flagship event either (http://www.fanduel.com/dfbbc). As a FD employee I can't play on FD anymore, but we all have accounts on other sites to feed our addiction so I will always be available to talk picks and strategy.
And since I am an LP member at heart always, don't hesitate to hit me up if you guys have any issues playing on FD or have any questions about anything. Msg me here on LP or email me at kevin@fanduel.com.
Ideas for an essay in Finance?by Balzamon, March 25
Hello LP,
I've read some interesting threads about finance here, and I know a bunch of you are interested in topics related to economics and finance specifically. I'm about to try and find an interesting topic for an essay, could be about anything relating to finance, the first step are:
"A description of the research area and a problem
discussion ending up in two specific research
questions: one qualitative and one quantitative."
Should end up in 10-14 pages, not a huge essay but it's a course that is an introduction to how to write my master thesis next semester, and if I manage to pick a really interesting topic already this semester that would be a good start for the thesis. Not an easy task...
I dont read as much articles as I should do, so if anyone have read/know about a really interesting/hot topic feel free to post it, a link to the article/research in question would be great as well. In the end its probably easier if I pick something related with Sweden but all ideas are good
Its the period of annual meetings for companies during spring, and I was thinking perhaps something research related to them since it could be fun to attend a couple, not sure exacly what angel though. For example a friend is going to see how big influence institutional investors have on the meetings, seems like a good idea.
Bitcoin has interested me, and how big a impact a currency with zero transaction costs could have on the economy, but a fairly hard topic to research and many are on it already.
Shoot away, if nothing else I will hopefully get some good financial articles to read.
Hi,
I'm not sure if there are any who still regularly visit this site, but I have a quick question: My wife and I met with our accountant today, and she told me that all poker income is taxable. In other words, every deposit from Skrill or Neteller which reaches ANY bank account I have is subject to personal income tax.
I seem to recall reading in earlier years this was not the case. Was I/Am I mistaken?
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