So as some of you probably know, Kate Upton did a photo shoot in Zero G with Sports Illustrated. My step-uncle is a co-founder and flight director for Zero G and was on the flight.
So I'm a little bit sick (having a cold...) and being in no good shape for long poker sessions I've spent a lot of time making stupid bets on the next UFC event.
It's a bit like when you look through the hands of a session and you just go "WTF was I smoking!?".
Let's just say that I have a fair few parlays and I really need Ronda to win by submission, Maia vs RoryMac to go to a decision and that Sterling guy to win. Also at least one of Pyle and Assuncao needs to have their shit together and win.
Not sold on most of my bets, my bet sizeing seems bad and overall I'm not real happy with how I've played this event.
OH WELL, it's better then trying to play poker when your sick at least, lol.
Next dumb decision is to go to the casino tonight. I'm not in the mood and it's probably not a good way to get rid of the cold, but my gf really wants to go so I'll tag along I guess.
Good thing that I've been running fairly good online the last few days. To bad it's just low stakes and very little volume. Next month will be better.
Hey guys, remember when I went to buffalo and did that 1k and got 3rd for 16.5k (4th 3rd ok 3rd )
well they are running a series again - if you are in the area or are going let me know!
----- (if u live close post this to facebook plz) -----
Do you enjoy playing a poker tournament? This is the first good tournament series....in a while.....for everyone in our area! Buy-ins are affordable, big first places, everyone sign up, i want 1st to be huge in everything!
The phone and the tablet cost me around 900$ and basically the purchase cut in half my BR. Its freaking awesome that I can have fun, relax and earn money, with which I can buy luxury items, which otherwise I wouldnt have bought.
Yet, not so long after the purchase, I sat down to play an MTOPS event - dont want to go in details, but it was a series of brutal badbeats (8-9 70/30 80/20 lost in an hour or so to runner-runner straights/flushes), which put me on a tilt and I was heavily upset. Even if I was right to be upset, after a while I was like:
WTF brain, you are upset cause you lost 40$ worth of BIs due to badbeats, but earlier you bought some cool things for 900$ which hopefully you'll get to use a couple of years and for which you earned the money from the same game - you are effing retarded.
Moral of the story - I need to not worry so much about badbeats, because I know they turn around in the long-term, but on the moment I let them to get to me and influence my game. I am now thinking to switch off the show cards option when you go all-in or just switch the windows to not care about cards that run out. Will have to figure out a way though to take notes of people stacking off light, etc.
So after taking a year off dealing with a broken hand and an annoying divorce I finally got my life and training back together and have an MMA bout coming up March 15th in Petaluma California.
So I had a really bad DFS day yesterday. The Cavs/76ers blowout hurt my lineup a lot, the spread was Cavs -4 so I consider that to just be variance. I was facing a bunch of blatantly sub-optimal lineups for $50+ h2h's, so it kind of sucks that my lineup under performed so badly. That is going to happen from time to time though. Today should be a good day. Lot's of games, and none of them stand out as being exceptionally good value. Narrowing down my list of players was harder today than it is most days, here are my top 4 at each position:
PG:
Lillard(7500)
Curry(9900)
Thomas(7900)
Mills(4800)
**I like Rondo but I'm avoiding due to the trade deadline tomorrow at 3pm
Next time I play live poker and a flush hits on the river I am going say, "let me check my hand...", lift my actual hand and stare toward my palm. "Ok, allin".
After a certain period of time playing live poker I reach my threshold of feeling disgusting from handling the chips of dirty, degenerates. If it weren't for the hand sanitize dispensers near by I would wear OJ simpson gloves, I mean micheal jackson gloves.
Sell me 1/10th of a bitcoin? by HungarianGOD, February 17
There was a site I wanted to try out that just used bitcoins (The state I'm in doesn't allow brovada -_-) and I was wondering if somebody was willing to sell me a small amount of bitcoin for paypal transfer, just enough to mess around on the site to see how I like it. The smallest amount I'd want to buy is 1/50th of one. If you are someone who posts a reasonable amount I'd be happy to transfer you the paypal money first.
If anybody wants to, just let me know. I don't know much about how bitcoin works, I am just tired of not being able to play online to improve at all.
Got back a couple days ago to the states after 6 months up in Canada, happy to be home. Was the biggest rollercoaster I've ever been on.
the trip was going really well, I was making like 1.2k a day for 45 days, then i got way to egotistical...
i forgot how to play from my heart for a long time. =[
Pretty much debt free though, did a good job on that while I was up there which is a great feeling, just a few to john and artanis left
Around January it was my last rent payment (2400 move in and 1200 a month - security covered 4th month on the 4 month lease) - I was struggling a lot, had very little confidence at the table, and had very little food.
I was questioning everything in my life. I sat there and played way above where I've ever played for about 45 days, after that I was playing like a fckin n00b and just lost direction.
Things were shit.
I had like $400 online and rent due in a week.
I managed to get to $1400 and get rent paid, and kept $100 on an rebuilt, knowing there was no reason for me to even be there, other than 60 days rent paid in downtown Ottawa when I was just about broke.
Everytime I won - I was sending my debts out - I kept nothing, John (jlost88) was my backer, he was astonished that i kept 0-10% of what was coming in, but a man on a mission, is just that.
So ya, I flowndered around with very little confidence, didn't have my medication, was having trust issues with the group of poker players I moved up there with, it was shit.
so long story short.
win 45k (got like 20ish of it) paid off mostly (only positive)
brag about it and started playing from ego.
Struggle for 2-3 months.......was making $50-$150 a day and cashing out food money etc.
I got really fed up - it was like day 105 of the downswing, and I stopped playin for a while, the game was making me sick, there was no passion or joy.
After taking a lot of time off, I came back and had a lot of fun again, was playing well, and playing 6max, MTTs and lowstakes PLO - to keep the game fresh and fun.
I then took 3 days and binked out a few tournaments (hadn't even paid for my ticket home yet on the 8th or so when I cashed out) - first day I invested 133 with helviti from LP, we won 1400, 2nd day we invested like 200 and got back like 100 each profit, 3rd day we both got a few hundo too. we tried the SM and a few other highstakes good ones but they didn't pan out. lost a flip for like 80k, just knew he was weak, river ace, w/e.
Got home and been a lot more relaxed, have made some big adjustments, i play cashgames mostly now (but i do 1-2 tournaments a day that are soft and pay well on ACR) and just work for $20 or so an hour at cashgames til I become one of the best. I played like 90k hands of CG's on stars, 50k hands of 1/2 zoom and did really well, I feel very confident in the games, although I'm just rebuilding at NL25 now. Always 4 tabling cash or 1-2 tabling MTT.
In life I haven't met any single cute girls recently, but have cleaned my act up a ton. Quit the clubs for about 4 months, quit any hard drugs, same timing about 4 months now, feel way better everyday.
I started working on my nutrition, feeling I have some deficiencies in some areas, i think this is going to help my life a lot, luckily my brother is a nutrition guru, that really helps.
This is a class stoned neilly ramble
#neverpreview
Ottawa was a really nice city.
I learned that 60-200bi is never close to enough for MTT's...FMl...lol.
I became a cash grinder and changed my mindset 100%, had tons of coaching which I am super thankful for (John, Marshall, Forhelviti, CasinoCasino and my local buddies up there)
I really love the new Iveypoker site, the videos are extremely stellar. feel more confident everytime I watch a video.
I binked a $6 1k (1.4) today - kids can eat. (oh wait, no kids)
I went through more emotional stress, maybe even semi trauma during that last trip. Thats my last trip ever out of the usa for more than a month or two for poker. I just go to hard, I feel like im in a time constraint and have to be grinding 24/7 or something. idk, im slightly degen if im losing too. if im winning, im always in very good control and most people don't understand this. i think its a chemical imbalance or something in my head. not like i can go to my doc and say i ate tons of lsd and mdma over the last 10 years, then he wouldn't give me xanax lol
things got pretty scary up in canada a few times.
i was ballin pretty fckin hard and playing sooo amazing - i was playing on like level 10 about a month in (or whatever just a high ass level) - i had to take a few weeks off waiting on my meds, came back and was at like lvl 4 - expecting to come back at lvl 10. that was fckin terrible. was stressing over the 1st places too much.
i hate tournies.
i spent 4 years on mtts.
ive played poker like 10 years.
im just like a 1/2 - 2/4 6max grinder at roughly 1bb/100....
I have a great tournament skill.
Nowaday I'm gonna grind online mostly, Casino Fri and Sat night and MTT sundays, and ya, like a 6r and one of the "bigs" at ACR each day
About moving to play poker, I just wanna get an apartment here, do what i say above (get a 6 month lease) - hopefully do atleast a 30k wsop schedule - if I have a good summer, move to Humbolt County - Grow green legally and play at night.
When my br gets back to 2500 - I'm starting a 1 year timer. If I don't have 30k saved after all lfie and bills paid in 12 months, then i would go back to school and play on weekends.
I'm going to push it harder this year than I ever have. Hopefully I don't fuck up. About 500 pros tell me everyday I deserve huge wins (exaggeration but god its said a lot to me) - I've been cleaning my life up and working really hard and studying life a beast to just be the best beast ever.
thats a true ramble.
been a long time since I posted.
I got back a few days ago, I hope to ski 1-2 times and keep grinding a lot, I just want to get an apartment here I think..........but my friend offered me a great room in las vegas for $350 a month which has legal sites plus bodog and acr...and i'd be close to the big good live mtt's which will give me more opportunities at winning them. - gonna try to relax til 5k or so and make a decision then...
Fira - I've had some weird poker dreams man. One night I was walking from las vegas to my house, then barack obama and i were in the air parachuting to the earth, as i landed, i walked the land, and went over a hill, and Greg Raymer was there. His wife was super nice, they took me in, we had a great meal, and I stayed the night at there house lol.
Also, had a dream I was at the table with my dad and JohnnyCosmo and Elky (i think) - I had like AA - it was a FT and like everyone went all-in and I had AA and held, then JohnnyCosmo ran infront of the Trophy and stole the picture! I think they gave him the $ in the dream too!
I hope you guys have been well, I had to take a lil time off from LP, my ego gets goin sometimes, its a love/hate.
So I have been thinking that invention of Bitcoin is as revolutionary as creation of internet or the wheel. I am a huge advocate of digital currencies.
Now i think it might be all a conspiracy theory! We don't know who created the bitcoin! Was it aliens? Was it government? Who The FUck Was it? Why stay anonymous?
A new digital coin (cryptocurrency) has come out few weeks ago, it is called Huntercoin.
Basically what it does is. A human/person must be doing something on the computer on internet to earn these coins, say play a game, collect digital coins. It's the future of humanity. Enslavement is imminent.
>Human Mining – Control Hunters to harvest coins in another dimension using strategy, time & teamwork.
>1 Minute Block Times.
>Dual Algorithm –SHA256 + Scrypt. Each algo has separate difficulty, both targeting 2 minute blocks. Both are Merge Mineable.. See http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Mining
>Total 10 coins Per Block – 1 to the miner, 8.75 onto the Map.
>Crown of Fortune – 1 Unique Item on the map which will generate 0.25 HUCs per block
>When a Hunter harvests coins and brings them back to a spawn area, the coins will materialize in their wallet, Miners will receive 10% of these ‘banked’ coins (TAX)
>When a Hunter is killed, 4% of the coins they held will be taken by miners. The rest will be dropped to the ground.
>Hardware Miners should receive in total (over time) ~20% of the Block Reward (2 Coins) + Player Death Taxes.
>42 Million Total Coins
>Retarget Every block based on last 2016 Blocks (for each algo separately) – PPC Style
>Can be considered a basic decentralized P2P Massively Multiplayer Online Crypto Currency and Game, which takes place within the block chain.
>Includes all relevant features of other crypto currencies.
>Integrated Client Chat – Player can chat per block.
>Serverless (open source and decentralized)
>Starting cost per Player is 1 HUC
>View the in game World Live (currently showing closed beta world and oldish client) http://192.81.209.210:3000/
The other interesting thing from this coin is that these creatures or "characters" that will be in the game, that try to collect these coins will be the closest thing to real life people. I have read some of the strategy to collect these coin. One person on the forums says:
"It's quite addicting to play, but you will be playing all day for any kind of pay out. Also self-destructing hunters are annoying as hell. In the end I found best strategy was to have a vanguard and rearguard, as well as manually controlling my hunter on return to base to succeed."
You can already see taht the game strategy is evolving just like human society has. People collect resources to provide for the community. But there is another choice. To steal, rob, form gangs to control and even maybe make poeple pay tax later on! Jsut build a gang. An army of these "bombers" and demand everyone pay tax for you to protect them.
So basically there is a chance of the game to evolve so far that the game character will be "alive" making all the human decisions. It will be as if he is alive and aware of what he is doing. He might even have a brain and think that he has free will, because all the decisions he makes will be thought out and will make sense in his own brain.
My solo guitar virtuoso album!by Sliggy, February 16
Hey guys! This year I'll be releasing my first solo album entitled "The Judge."
It'll basically be a guitar circle jerk but it's my first virtuoso album and it will feature a few somewhat notable names in the modern metal / prog world.
Since it's all-star weekend in the NBA I have had a little extra time on my hands, most of which has gone into working on my statistical model I plan on using next year for DFS. I also had the time to compile all my stats so far for my ~4 month DFS career. Here's some graphs/charts for those that may be interested.
http://i.imgur.com/AdaONLg.jpg
This is from a starting BR of $200 with a $200 deposit bonus. I have only been playing close to optimally since half way through January, so keep that in mind. Also, that huge dip at the end is the $1200 error I made by forgetting to set my lineup.
There is a little bit of a breakdown of what game's I'm playing and my ROI in each. My next blog entry will likely be a very basic tutorial on how to approach DFS since that seems like it would help the most people.
Also, if you do not have an account on Fanduel and I have helped you get into DFS in any way, use my referral link https://www.fanduel.com/?invitedby=therelapse&cnl=da when you sign up. Be sure to search for a promo code as well. There is always one that will give you deposit match up to $200. Thanks guys.
It has been a short time since my last blog post but I have played alot and Iam highly motivated.
Why am I already updating? I think such a blog is a very nice opportunity to do alot of self reflection on yourself and your play, while even may getting some helpful comments from more experienced users. Objective self reflection and learning from mistakes is the key to success.
I definetly have to do an analysis about my game play and have to reflect it objectively.
After my last blog post, I went to a little downswing, but recovered very nicely after thinking again about my play!
After going to a new bankroll peak, I went on a huge downswing again and yet it looks like I did not fully recover from it eventhough the last 12k hands have been kinda akward (my all-in EV basically stayed above $30 and was at some points even peaking at $40 but my net winnings have gone down): I was running alot of 2nd nuts into 1st nuts situation where you could not do soo much about it. Anyway, Iam not here to cry about this! Its normal and it happens in poker everyday somewhere.
I know I can play "solid" (compared to the standart NL2 level) and win on that stake if I play correctly, but at some points I always seem to forget how to play my "A-game" and mess it up with my old loosing style. I take some bad beats, mix in some bad plays etc. Think everybody has been there.
When I remind myself on what do to better I almost asap do better. That's why I want to write down and think about what I'am still doing wrong (of course there will be alot of things that I do wrong), so that I can go back and read it and might even get some comments (as stated above) about it, which could help immensely.
Played FR and 6m mixed so lets go with some Stats and review them:
- My FR VPIP might be a little bit too high but should not be completely off. Maybe the VPIP/PFR ratio is also a little bit too small.
- I should fold more to 3bets! 50% seems too low!!
- My old problem is still there (ofc I included all my hands: the newer sessions look in general better in that way): WTSD too high and especially W$SD way too low!
- My W$WSF seems very, very high or?? I should probably give up way more flops than I actually do.
- I should CBet less!
- I steal a little bit too often and fold to less against steals!
Positional view seems okayish imo. The only thing I find a bit "strange" is that I have way more hands EP than on CO/BTN. I mean having more than CO/BTN is okay but not soo much more or?
Eventhough I open BTN 3x more. But as one can see on the VPIP/PFR: I often fold the BTN if it has been raised before me. I guess this is a leak?!
Also my CO opening can be a little wider.
Also here the significane drops quite hard but am I overrating hands like AQo, KJs, KJo ? Looks a bit like I do. Especially AQo!!
I guess thats mostly because I often call 3b with AQo. I should stop doing that!
If anyone has additional thought or comments to it, they are well appreciated!
DFS and Live Hourly Winrate?by Gadget, February 12
What's up guys. I had my first big setback in DFS this weekend. I went to visit my girlfriend and was doing DFS on my laptop on Saturday night and I forgot to switch out my dummy lineup for my real lineup. Absolute disaster. I had about 15% of my BR in play, or $1200. I guess it was a $1200 lesson. I now have an alarm set for 6:55pm every night so I never make this mistake again. The good news is that I have had something like 12 winning days in my last 14 including the dummy roster disaster. I feel very good about my edge, and am growing more and more confident in my ability to make money playing DFS. I have settled on 15% being the number I want to stick with as far as amount of my BR in play. I will definitely take some shots with a higher %, but for the most part I will stick with 15%. I'm going to just give my top 4 plays at each position based on Fanduel prices from now on. They are listed in order, so the 1st guy listed I consider to be the best play. Here it goes:
PG:
Jennings(8500)
Paul(8200)
Knight(6600)
Calathes(5100)
*Still looking at San Antonio Guards
*I Like Rondo a bit too with Bradley out
I also have a question about what I can expect as an hourly winrate for live $1/$2. I have mine calculated so far and I'm up $1270 in 33 hours. That gives me a winrate of about $38 per hour. I feel like I'm running well below expectations so far, but my winrate seems to be around what I would expect. Does anyone have any good data for this?
I'm planning on playing $1/$2 until I have 10k in profits and then I will move up to $2/$5. Any and all tips for building a live BR would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I'm sitting at a live 9max table. All unknowns except for two players: to my right is Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (WSOP 2013), who seemed like a decent player. To my left is an older guy with glasses whom I've played with at 1/2 live. Pretty loose, sometimes misreads his hands. Not sure what stakes, but it seemed like mid-high.
It's folded around to McLaughlin, who raises standard. He'd been raising a lot from late positions. I'm on button and look down at KdKh, and make a smallish raise, a bit under 3x. Older guy calls in SB, and McLaughlin sighs and says something like "you've got the best hand" but calls anyway. Two unknowns who were apparently sitting between me and McLaughlin call. I'm confused and panicking a bit because I didn't realize they were there, not to mention in the hand. I'd have raised a lot more. Oh well, to the flop.
Flop is AsQc7c, 5 way. Checked around to me. I decide to bet about 40% pot for value/protection. Older guy calls, McLaughlin makes a comment about my sizing and calls. The two unknowns fold.
Turn is Ks, 3 way. I don't remember what I did, but it didn't seem important at the time. Let's say I checked.
River is Ah, 3 way. Older guy goes allin for around pot, McLaughlin thinks for a bit and calls. I shove for about a minraise, and McLaughlin calls. Older guy shows AJo, McLaughlin shows KdKh. Wait, isn't that my hand? I flip over my cards and see that I had A8o. What the hell?
The next hand begins. As I'm trying to explain what happened, I hear a knock on my door and my great-aunt telling me it's 2PM and I should get up. Sick beat.
Black chip poker checksby squishypoopie, February 10
Does anyone here from US play on black chip poker? I requested a check payout on 1/20 and it is 2/10, but still no check. anyone in us ever request a check and been paid?
Buying action in cash gamesby AndrewSong, February 10
I'm looking to buy action from long time crushers at HSNL.
If you've been crushing NLH and haven't been able to move up because of bankroll, seat script or simply fear of risk, my group can help you. We are looking to buy action at 5/10 up to nosebleeds. The most we will commit is 50% as a group and it will be by case by case basis. We are long term HSNL players that's been actively buying and selling action. We also sell our own piece and you can choose to buy our action as well. Easiest way to be a part of us would be having a stellar reputation and a way to prove to us that you don't need to be part of us. If your interested, contact me at Andrew Song on 2p2 or PM me here.
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but it's my first virtuoso album and it will feature a few somewhat notable names in the modern metal / prog world.
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