There should be places all across the world where you can go when you want to die. You go to these places, you self administer Nembutal, Pentobarbital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nembutal. Fall asleep, die in your sleep. Then have your organs harvested and get cremated. The organs pay for the process. More people who want to live, live, more who want to die, die. World is a place of less suffering.
so today i'm naturally stalking Zazano as usual, open all his 16 tables.
Then somehow accidentally tableninja2 sits me in on one of the fucking tables at NL1k out of nowhere when im not even playing poker just talking on skype and I fucking missclick squeeze tableninja sizing.
Before I realize what's happening at that this isnt nl16 I autoclick raise cause its a sick spot + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Hand #110504967996: Holdem No Limit ($5/$10 USD) - 2014/01/21 11:12:14 ET
Table Sualocin II 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Eccentric_BG ($1112 in chips)
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn ($1000 in chips)
Seat 3: Muladkhara ($1015 in chips)
Seat 4: DeAristoKat ($1000 in chips)
Seat 5: zazano ($2341.78 in chips)
Seat 6: zdravko ($1612.52 in chips)
Eccentric_BG: posts small blind $5
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind $10
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
Muladkhara: folds
DeAristoKat: raises $25 to $35
zazano: folds
zdravko: folds
Eccentric_BG: calls $30
DoC.LemOn: raises $105 to $140
DeAristoKat: folds
Eccentric_BG: raises $972 to $1112 and is all-in
DoC.LemOn: folds
Uncalled bet ($972) returned to Eccentric_BG
Eccentric_BG collected $315 from pot
Eccentric_BG: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $315 | Rake $0
Seat 1: Eccentric_BG (small blind) collected ($315)
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Muladkhara folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: DeAristoKat folded before Flop
Seat 5: zazano folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: zdravko (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Im like wtf is this shit man did I just squeeze 9BIs? And why would I squeeze in the first place xD
Then I decide, what the fuck paid the blinds (AKA my regular one buy in) lets play the orbit
In the end I ended up getting some money back from none other than the person that caused this: + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Hand #110505208075: Holdem No Limit ($5/$10 USD) - 2014/01/21 11:17:03 ET
Table Sualocin II 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Eccentric_BG ($1664 in chips)
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn ($1026.62 in chips)
Seat 3: Muladkhara ($1001 in chips)
Seat 4: DeAristoKat ($1000 in chips)
Seat 5: zazano ($2312.78 in chips)
Seat 6: zdravko ($1645.60 in chips)
zdravko: posts small blind $5
Eccentric_BG: posts big blind $10
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn: raises $20 to $30
Muladkhara: folds
DeAristoKat: folds
zazano: calls $30
zdravko: folds
Eccentric_BG: folds
Flop (Pot : $75.00)
DoC.LemOn: bets $50
zazano: folds
Uncalled bet ($50) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $72 from pot
DoC.LemOn: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $75 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Eccentric_BG (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn collected ($72)
Seat 3: Muladkhara folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: DeAristoKat folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: zazano (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: zdravko (small blind) folded before Flop
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Hand #110505133995: Holdem No Limit ($5/$10 USD) - 2014/01/21 11:15:35 ET
Table Sualocin II 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Eccentric_BG ($1664 in chips)
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn ($1000 in chips)
Seat 3: Muladkhara ($1000 in chips)
Seat 4: DeAristoKat ($1000 in chips)
Seat 5: zazano ($2341.78 in chips)
Seat 6: zdravko ($1644.60 in chips)
DeAristoKat: posts small blind $5
zazano: posts big blind $10
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
zdravko: folds
Eccentric_BG: folds
DoC.LemOn: raises $14 to $24
Muladkhara: folds
DeAristoKat: folds
zazano: calls $14
Flop (Pot : $53.00)
zazano: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $32.90
zazano: folds
Uncalled bet ($32.90) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $50.62 from pot
DoC.LemOn: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $53 | Rake $2.38
Board
Seat 1: Eccentric_BG folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn collected ($50.62)
Seat 3: Muladkhara (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: DeAristoKat (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: zazano (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: zdravko folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Needless to say, when I'm on my deathbed I can be happy with my life as for a brief moment I flew with the eagles, I faced Gods. I hit and run run Zazano for five big blinds
What would I do if I get dealt QQ in late position and face a 3b and a decision for half my bankroll, we will never know.
Giving away poker strategy in 2014 by Joeingram1, January 20
I went on a mini twitter rant yesterday about doing strategy videos on PLO and I wanted to write more about the idea of giving away poker strategy in 2014. People have been putting out strategy/training videos for years now, this isn't new. People putting out more and more PLO specific strategy videos is more of a new idea and something I was hoping would take as long as possible to actually start to take place. With RIO training site, I could see how it would make sense for the end game bosses like Phil and Odds to put out training videos while actually dicussing good, in depth strategy. The more action they get and the more people that could make it to playing 25/50+, the better for their overall bottom line, which is very debatable if that is actually true/false. What made me write those tweets yesterday is when I saw a PLO 200zoom video being put out by a new video maker. I watched a bit of it and then I became very confused as to why this guy would decide its ever a good idea to make a 1/2 zoom video that is his main game with the intention of making people better at playing zoom. I can't imagine this guy is getting paid anything close to the point where it makes any sense at all. I don't think many of the players who were around to watch as the NL games get progressively tougher years ago are the ones making PLO stuff now because they realize how fucking dumb it is. Maybe the reason is similar to what Marshall said in a post on here as to why he is making videos now. They are looking for respect from there peers and want to help others get better at the game. I think all video makers should watch videos from one of the guys that play on the Barcode account on Pokerstars (Hac Dang). The team of people that play on the account handled video making pretty perfectly. They attached there name on the site when it first launched to help there friend out and get more people to the site while putting out a couple vids each where they basically talked about nothing.
In isildroon last video he mentioned something about how more regulars are playing alot better now and the growth of other players game was going much quicker. It sounded like he was not sure as to why this might be happening but you never can be sure with accents. When one of the better regs in the games is putting out 2 videos a month playing a bunch of deep tables and going in depth into different things, what do you expect to happen to the games over a 6 month period??? It is seriously mind blowing that some of these guys on different sites are continuing to put content out there as they watch the games they play in get tougher and tougher directly because of them. I know as PLO continues to grow/become more popular and the regs are getting more and more experience the games difficulty will continue to increase faster but all of this makes that happen much much much faster.
I can see a bit more merit for some of the small stakes guys to put out videos but not too much more. The amount of money they might be making from doing these videos might actually be a big percentage of their overall bottom line and with the player pool being so large at the stakes they normall play, they don't have to worry as much about directly impacting the games they play in on a daily basis. Also the people that tend to watch these videos are usually of lower skill level so they will end up misapplying different concepts to their own game often enough. If I was a 100 or 200plo regular and poker wasn't my full time thing or in my near future, I would be tempted to put out videos on a regular basis as well if I could.
I think the obvious live poker equivalent for this is when people don't shut the fuck up about talking strategy/over hands at the table while the bad players are sitting there confused and the meh regs who breakeven/lose a bit might get encouraged to actually work harder at there game because of something you said and end up turning into winning regs. I read something that Alec Torelli wrote about it that I really agreed with and is basically saying the similar things I've been saying in this post http://www.alectorelli.com/blog/sharing-information-at-the-table/
As I wrote a bit about in a few previous blog posts, I've been working on writing up different things for my website. The problem I've run into is that I've always been pretty anti-giving away strategy (read my 12k posts on 2p2 to confirm this) and many of the things I intend to write about are actually strategical type of things. None of it is really game specific strategy but as I was writing up something about how to set better poker goals for yourself and actually make a plan to achieve them I started thinking why the fuck I want to try to help people that make there money from playing poker (like I do) set better goals and work more efficient. I do have the desire to help people out but I just can't convince myself it is very smart to put out content that is going to help my direct competition or future direct competition be more effective in what we both do for a living. As I mentioned before, there is the chance that things I might suggest is completely wrong/bad and/or people are going to misapply the ideas completely, but I don't think it outweighs the times it helps take a breakeven small stakes player to a winning midstakes player. Instead I was thinking about writing up strategy that pertains to life, love, and happiness but even with that I think I might end up having too much of a positive impact. I do think I am overestimating the impact but if it is > 0 that is probably too much.
I guess it comes down to what type of person you want to be and what kind of impact do you want to try to have on others around you. Can you live with and accept that you might be making a certain area of your own life harder while potentially bettering others in many different ways beyond that specific area of your own life that you might be making harder. Poker is such a unique world to be in that anytime you help the people you are closest with your potentially hurting yourself. There is a bunch of merit to the idea that writing about these ideas and getting feedback will potentially having a bigger positive impact on myself than could be measured but I'm not entirely sure I believe that yet. I think I will end up focusing more on entertaining content with some life strategy and less on trying to make others more successful poker players.
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So after several years of quitting poker to take studying more seriously, travelling, and now working full time I'm back.
But just for fun.
Its nice to see some familiar faces around still from years ago, wonder what everyone is doing now in their lives?
Still playing poker full time, working or studying?
Anyway so I'm back, not instead of a job, not as a extra source of income but just for fun.
SUp people last week was rly bad spewed loads, got tired, really bad diarrhea played like 2.5hrs/average per day was throwing shit across the room didn't feel like playing.
thought I'd share mah recovery over past 2days: (lost bout the same in a 10 day period prior) http://i.imgur.com/jITLEc3.png
- played through tilt, made shitloads of mistakes, spewed many stacks.
- logged off skype
- didnt watch any videos
- pushed volume by force even when I really didnt feel like it
- did lots of de-tilt stuff. I wanted to scream and throw stuff like I did thursday when I got sucked out on again but instead covered my face with a hoodie, bit it with my teeth closed eyes and took deep breaths to 10 and insterted logic
- consciously realized I was emotionally charged as fuck, and focused on not adding to that by any spots.
- I avoided regs that were aggressive that I spewed stacks for no reason to because they added to my emotional charge. Same when someone stacked me a few times I just left table when I felt like I'm getting negative emotions
- listened to jack canfield fucking awesome audio book and book the success principle. MOst important thing is that everything is my responsibility, I am accountable for everything I do in my life it goes like Events+Your reaction=Outcome
And since there is exactly nothing you can do about events like getting sucked out on in poker, you need to focus 100% energy on your reaction to the events and that's what (in the long run) is the only thing that changes your outcome.
Finally got my body in balance after it was drained with that diarrhea thing - I was eating shitloads of pasta veg and chicken and multivits to load back on nutrients over the past 2 days and finally I feel like I have my energy back after 2weeks I feel pumped up for the gym once more.
I have really concentrated on PLO for the last year or so and am feeling very rusty in holdem. I'm looking to play 2/5 PLO in vegas probs gonna start with 100bb sits until I get a good feel for whats going on. I am going to vegas with 5 friends 27th Jan - 11th Feb.
Does anyone have any suggestions of good places to play PLO in vegas, obviously fish and/or lower rake is really what I'm after (eV I guess) rather than a nice room etc
Thanks in advance for replies.
EDIT: Looks like we're going through venetian deepstack series, so I guess that will probs be the best place to play?
It's been a long since I don't play online, I used to be a breakeven player, used to make around 700-1k/month with rb grinding micros-mid stakes, quit 2-3 yrs ago.
I think it is worth a mention poker has always been my 2nd income.
I kept playing live just because I really love the game, I've more success playing live, since September 2013 I started keeping track of my live sessions since I started to visit a casino at the US, so far I've been playing NL200 at Casino del Sol @ Tucson, Arizona. I live in the north of México, it's a 4 hours drive to get there and I usually stay there for 3-4 nights (I get free room for 5 hours @ poker daily)
So far I've done 7 visits and these are the results:
This is in $MXN, 1USD = 13MXN so it's around 6k usd which for 5 months of playing is almost 3x the std salary where I live for a 180hours/month job.
Gotta say the obvious, live is much easier than online as I can recall, I play much less hours and make more profit, games are pretty easy there, mostly play vs 50+ old pals which has no clue what they're doing, I just play ABC, value all my hands, make discipline folds and I never get out of line, I barely bluff, I've gained a lot of discipline which I lacked of in my online years.
I know nothing about live bankroll management but I have 5.2k in my bankroll and I just got a couple of nights very cheap @Vegas (22usd @hooters) next week, so instead of staying in Tucson I decided to give NL500 a shot, since there's only NL200 in Tucson, any recommendation would be great of where to play in Vegas.
I've been there 2 times and mostly played NL200@MGM in which I think games were pretty soft, but have 0 experience @NL500.
Anyway that's it so far, I will keep blogging to keep track of my thoughts/results about poker and hopefully I'll write more about my life since I think it's a good excercise, not for you but for me
PCA is pretty cool for LP since our own Ryan Daut won it so here you go some pics of the place for those who hasn't go there yet. The Atlantis Resort is a pretty amazing place, hope I can go there on vacation for sure.
I did not post update in my blog for 3 and half years (wow, how the time flies) but its interesting to read some of my older stuff. I was kinda desperate, living with my parents, just ended my bw career and was playing very low stakes of fullring. A lot of things have changed.
I grinded my way up to midstake, took some shots at 5-10, but played mostly 200nl 6max in my career. I also satellite in some tourneys and played PCA Main, WSOOP Main, EPT Prague Main, RED Dragon(Macau) Main. I did quite good and cashed a bit. It also allowed me to travel a bit. I visited Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Macau, Thailand etc. I lost all of my poker drive mostly because I did not spend too much of my money, because I felt like I did not need anything. And when you don't spend your money, and you don't need any money, grinding seems kinda pointless. I still enjoy the big tourneys, because you get to travel and meet interesting people.
I always struggle with purpose in life(like all the semi intellectuals that got plenty of time on their hands). Never felt like I belong somewhere and figured out who I actually am. This is mostly due to loosing 10 years of my development years to Starcraft. But slowly I am working on myself. Figuring the things I like, what kind of people I like to be around, What are the social rules. You know its hard. But mostly I am learning to become grateful. Grateful for all the free time, poker, opportunities, health, my family, and this beautiful world around me.
Since Its after the new year and you should set yourself with some goals, mine go like this:
1. Figure out where I want to live and get myself a place of my own(I never had a place of my own for the last 3 years, just traveled and rented), its nice to have your own place(and stuff) you can come back to.
2. Get in shape! (this is VERY important for sooo many reasons)
3. Get some social circle running. (When you travel, Its hard to keep your friends)
4. Create, don't be just a consumer. This is a very big thing for our generation. We consume everything: Video games, Movies, TV Series, poker. We just watch and use, we don't create enough.
5. I still think I wont find a better income in next few years, that i can get from poker, that is why I will continue to work on my game.
Randomly took a break because I was away from my desktop due to holidays and moving (for job).
And this is prob the most passively effective I've ever been in my life (not even exaggerating).
1. I picked up french on android app "Duolingo" and have been putting 30 minute sessions a day usually while taking a shit or waiting on random stuff like restaurants or coffee.
2. Ran a half marathon after training 4 weeks. Took me 2 hours 18 minutes. Running's been kind of addicting for me, after at age 25 being diagnosed with worriesome blood pressure ~140 mg/90. The way the doctor explained it to me was, yea it's prob ok for now, but when your 50, you really will want to reach 75 so go ahead and start now. Everyone has around 1.8 billion beats in their hearts, and the harder it is for ur heart to pump, the more resistance (aka high blood pressure) the more beats it takes per day. multiply this over 20 years, and its easy to see why you wont make it to 70 when u should be living to 100. Also running has been addicting. I've never enjoyed running even after training for a triathlon. But lately I've been doing a set time vs a set amount of miles. This way it's lost time anyway, and I should look to leisurely run and build my endurance.
3. Started playing guitar, and picked up a lot of songs. Cry me a river, hallelujah, say something, hey jude were all surprisingly easy to play!
4. Reached 4.3k on bovada! Really soft tables, and as a matter of fact fish get bigger as u reach .5/1, this allowed me to buy a surface pro2 and macbook pro and a mac thunderbolt display (all through my brother's bestbuy discount!).
5. Pretty good video. I think it's honestly prob worth a few thousand dollars for the students who are currently interviewing/looking for jobs
6. Pretty good economics article on government owned vs privately owned.
I remember there was a thread where TT got flamed over some opinions and ppl kind of dog piled on him after he said something questionable about economics or something. i just wanted to say that I learned economics through school. And part of the beauty of it was a) how logical everything was and b) how wrong I was about a lot of common phenomenon. Economics can definitely be tricky and it's a different way of thinking then what we've learned growing up. Everyone's acting like they were fucking born knowing economics or were self taught. Well honestly congrats if u somehow did self teach urself economics and ur prob a freaking genius, honestly. but for those few who are interested here's what i consider a very reasonable article detailing one of the beauties of capitalism (how demand is met with socially efficient amount of supply, without anyone having to say a word)
7. finally finished infinite jest. when i first picked it up 1-2 years ago, it was so damn hard to read at first. but it's a book like no other. even if ur just looking at the way the book has been organized. i've read in interviews that dfw had a poster of some pyramid fractal, and thought "i wonder if i can write a book like that". well he basically did. the book jumps from here and there. and because of that you can actually read the book from any page. i prob read 75% of it, but because of the structure never really felt the need to finish it. but after being home with so much time i ended up reading the whole thing. think there's a time in most people's lives when reading this book would be meaningful.
8. ARCHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
gl and keep productive lp!
i'll prob still check this site out once a week but not too sure about posting. most of my posts are pretty worthless and meaningless haha.
and i also want to randomly say/point out, for those of us where poker didn't work out i almost want to say we're the lucky ones. i think were forced to go back to reality and forced to grow and interact with it. i don't want this to come across as an anti-poker comment, but honestly, if you're a successful poker player, there is so much to be proud of. you're doing something successfully that less than 1% of the population can do. but at the same time, there is no doubt in my mind, that with those skills you could have accomplished something even greater. naturally this is pretty subjective and perhaps for some of you, given the countries your living in, poker was the best method possible. but when i see the posters on lp, there is some fucking talent and it's really easy for me to see the majority of you guys living full, kind, productive lives.
Joe recently talked about the importance of goals in poker, to which I added my only little take about how I set winstops as a goal to stay focused and positive. Most people dont advocate this, but I still wanted to talk about it just because it has been helping me a lot lately.
I always have the ugliest graphs because I'm never consistent with anything and just play in my spare time. What you see happening here though are a series of trends directly correlated to my goal oriented sessions vs my freeplay sessions. Basically, at each of the spots where you notice a downward trend are days where I completely ditched my goals and started playing with no particular purpose (other than to win money). For instance switching to HU, or PLO, or normal ring games, or higher stakes. What happened was that for no particular reasons I just said "lets try something new to day", most likely out of boredom I suppose. And on each of those days, I just started clicking buttons trying to learn the game. It's understandable I might fail at foreign game types like HU or PLO, but even the ring games where I had no winstop always ended in me losing several buyins.
Every time I would finish these losing sessions tilted wondering wtf happened. There was always some degree of self-imposed jackassery involved, coupled with tilt and just bad hand selection. But I never knew why I'd suddenly begin playing like this. I still dont honestly, without any goal to look forward to I just lose track of everything I'm doing and start doing stupid shit like fancy play and so on.
The converse being every time you see an upward trend is when I went back to setting winstops. I'd say "lets hit $100 tonight, that'd be nice, that sounds doable at NL25" and just proceed from there. By the simple act of having to watch my bankroll grow another $100 I'd do everything in my power to win. You know, stuff like proper hand selection, no hero calls, no big bluffs, etc. The real kicker is, no matter how those sessions ended, I'd always leave feeling good. Most of the time I'd actually hit my goal, which would serve as excellent motivation for the next day. The times I'd lose wouldnt even phase me. I'd just shrug it off and say "cant win em all, back at it tomorrow". I'd never lose more than 4 BI's at a time so I guess I had a stoploss as well. Now you might wonder why I dont just keep going after I hit $100 & renegotiate my goal. Well that wouldnt work because I'm so fucked up I'd know I was cheating and then start playing sloppy. I really need the feeling of success at the end of the night to stay motivated to play the next day, and to stay motivated to hit my goal. If I dont have a goal in sight then the motivation drops. But just like any sport, when you are so close to victory you find yourself trying extra hard to reach the finish line. In poker this translates to even stricter attention given at the tables.
Anyway I hope to condition myself with a series of winning sessions that result in a permanent positive attitude more or less, so that I can then remove this cap I have placed on myself and rely on my experience to just win win win with no end in sight.
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