This was when I moved my roll to FTP, got owned by rake and cashed out everything. I had a little over $1 left on Stars, and my friend recently deposited, so I started with one min buyin at NL2.
Needless to say I didn't have to re-deposit on Stars, lol.
I really don't know how you could lose at NL2 and NL5 fullring. Obv 19/7 is optimal since you will stack someone 99% of the time if you hit a draw, and you're deepstacked in both games (250bb and 200bb max buyin respectively).
I used to be a FR nit so I decided to give 6max a try this time. Graphs are very spiky which scares me already :< I have no tilt control so I wonder if I can handle 6max at higher limits once I've built a roll. Been 1-4 tabling mostly.
My buddy is a poker player and the other day we were talking and decided to make a bet. Its a race to get our BR to 1k. It isnt a huge bet but I bet him $200 that I would beat him there. Now there is no set time on this bet, its just whoever gets their first wins. Stats must be tracked as well for proof.
Here is the difference. My friend is a straight up NL MTT player. I am a LHE cash game player. I do play a tournament every now and then. His scores would be a lot bigger but a lot less frequent than mine but I win more consistently then him.
I made this bet because straight up my friend is an idiot and thinks he is good at poker becaue he has 2 decent scores but he really has nothing to show for it because he had to pay off his debt. He also has terrible BR management... I dont even know if he knows what it is. He also goes on terrible tilt and gets way to tricky a lot of the time. Ive seen him play a lot and I just dont really think hes good at all. He tries to justify some of his moves to me like raising with 39o and stuff but really he just sounds like an idiot. I think because I am a better player (maybe a bit of ego there but seriously I am) and because I actaully follow strict BR management that I am going to beat him there.
Right now I am about 1/3 of the way there with a BR of $325. I am playing $.25/.$50 LHE 6 max right now and crushing it. Soon Im going to move up and I think from there it should be pretty clear sailing. He will not win this bet plaiyng tourneys because 1. He doesnt play big buy in tourneys and when he wins he usually dumps a lot of it back to the community at cash games + he has no BR management and 2. He is a pretty inconsistent player and tilts way to hard. I got this!
Going to grind now. Ill update later
Good Luck today everyone
Last night was my first session back in the NL200 games here on campus in getting instarolled in UB donkaments, and boy what a comeback it was.
I decided that I'd only fire one bullet so I just brought $300 in cash with me to the game at about 9pm last night, and at first things weren't going too well. My stack got down to around $98 by like 11pm and I wasn't seeing much and anything I did get just whiffed, but I figured I'd stick it out since the entire table was just LAGtarding and spewing chips around everywhere. Eventually I got my stack to around $450 and then hit perfect-perfect against some overly-loose reg with AKdd on a Kh7c5c flop against his 77, and a 50BB shortstack who had K6 or something. It was thin and somewhat marginal but I know it was the right play to shove over the SS and try to either iso or maybe even get some kind of combo draw to call from the covering reg, especially since we have LOTS of history and he had already shown what kind of hands he would call a RR with and lead the flop that session. Anyway, big pot #1 gets my stack to around $1k.
Then comes the uber pot of all time on campus. About an hour after this hand I was still somewhere around $1k, and some other reg with a lot of history who was in for about $750 had me covered IP. He raised and I called with 77, flop comes A7A, and basically I get a 4bet all in called by AK and scoop the 10BI pot. SHIP ITTTTTTTT!!! Then we keep playing until around 8:30 in the morning, mostly 3 handed for the last 4 or 5 hours, and I make about another $400.
In the end, after ~11 hours of play I managed to turn my $300 into $2315, so I made a profit of $2015 XD. After the game broke I went right to my psych test and owned the shit out of that too. Now I'm just waiting for my roommates to meet me for lunch, go to sleep (because I've been up for about 24 hours now, and I'm sick), then go to another 1/2 game tonight. Hope I can keep running in godmode there too
Not sure how many of you read the OP-Ed section of the NYTimes but Kristof had an excellent article today that I would like to share with the community. Goes well with my previous blog post which got a grand total of 6 page views. I copied it below but you can read it in the original format here:
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 9, 2008
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and educated leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse — a White House that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t get very far either.
We can’t solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth.
Almost half of young Americans said in a 2006 poll that it was not necessary to know the locations of countries where important news was made. That must be a relief to Sarah Palin, who, according to Fox News, didn’t realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country.
Perhaps John Kennedy was the last president who was unapologetic about his intellect and about luring the best minds to his cabinet. More recently, we’ve had some smart and well-educated presidents who scrambled to hide it. Richard Nixon was a self-loathing intellectual, and Bill Clinton camouflaged a fulgent brain behind folksy Arkansas aphorisms about hogs.
As for President Bush, he adopted anti-intellectualism as administration policy, repeatedly rejecting expertise (from Middle East experts, climate scientists and reproductive health specialists). Mr. Bush is smart in the sense of remembering facts and faces, yet I can’t think of anybody I’ve ever interviewed who appeared so uninterested in ideas.
At least since Adlai Stevenson’s campaigns for the presidency in the 1950s, it’s been a disadvantage in American politics to seem too learned. Thoughtfulness is portrayed as wimpishness, and careful deliberation is for sissies. The social critic William Burroughs once bluntly declared that “intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.”
(It doesn’t help that intellectuals are often as full of themselves as of ideas. After one of Stevenson’s high-brow speeches, an admirer yelled out something like, You’ll have the vote of every thinking American! Stevenson is said to have shouted back: That’s not enough. I need a majority!)
Yet times may be changing. How else do we explain the election in 2008 of an Ivy League-educated law professor who has favorite philosophers and poets?
Granted, Mr. Obama may have been protected from accusations of excessive intelligence by his race. That distracted everyone, and as a black man he didn’t fit the stereotype of a pointy-head ivory tower elitist. But it may also be that President Bush has discredited superficiality.
An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity. Intellectuals read the classics, even when no one is looking, because they appreciate the lessons of Sophocles and Shakespeare that the world abounds in uncertainties and contradictions, and — President Bush, lend me your ears — that leaders self-destruct when they become too rigid and too intoxicated with the fumes of moral clarity.
(Intellectuals are for real. In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”)
Mr. Obama, unlike most politicians near a microphone, exults in complexity. He doesn’t condescend or oversimplify nearly as much as politicians often do, and he speaks in paragraphs rather than sound bites. Global Language Monitor, which follows linguistic issues, reports that in the final debate, Mr. Obama spoke at a ninth-grade reading level, while John McCain spoke at a seventh-grade level.
As Mr. Obama prepares to take office, I wish I could say that smart people have a great record in power. They don’t. Just think of Emperor Nero, who was one of the most intellectual of ancient rulers — and who also killed his brother, his mother and his pregnant wife; then castrated and married a slave boy who resembled his wife; probably set fire to Rome; and turned Christians into human torches to light his gardens.
James Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other, Thomas Jefferson was a dazzling scholar and inventor, and John Adams typically carried a book of poetry. Yet all were outclassed by George Washington, who was among the least intellectual of our early presidents.
Yet as Mr. Obama goes to Washington, I’m hopeful that his fertile mind will set a new tone for our country. Maybe someday soon our leaders no longer will have to shuffle in shame when they’re caught with brains in their heads.
College, Poker, Heroes; Fuck WoWby fira, November 11
So ya, finally decided to quit WoW as the world outside Azeroth wails for my assistance. It was a good game while it lasted, until blizzard decided to completely and anally obliterate it with patch 3.0, killing the entire PvP aspect of the game. If anyone's interested in buying level 70 characters, I have a priest, warrior, shaman, and druid for sale (all fully geared, not that it matters in a few days though).
Moved back into college, currently in an off-campus apartment with some friends I knew from freshman year. Class has been a refreshing change and a nuisance. I'd say it's 30-70 though. The girls here are pretty hot (especially our neighbors, who are consistently met with challenges beyond their physical capability; i.e. opening jars, until I heroically come to their rescue).
Poker has been decent. I haven't been playing nearly as much as I did back in my 2k/5knl days (doing 600nl now) but have been able to maintain consistent profit. I've been flipping a lot lately mainly because of my frustration with reading 100 textbook pages of Biology (missed most of the lectures) and dropped a few bi's from doing so. At least I (somehow...) aced the midterm today, that was a relief.
I think the new season of Heroes has progressed nicely with a few twists in the plot. One thing that bugs me is how Sylar has become some shitty wimp ever since adopting "goodness," or rather, being finally able to control his ability. He's an emo fag now and gets physically raped at every opportunity (by peter, then mohindur, then the dad, and maybe some scrub intermediates in between). He used to be badass.
I've been reading this website/blogs/hh's for over a year now and thought it was time to start posting on my own. I really like this community. I think your input will motivate me to play more which would be great. I'll try to update this blog once in a while so whoever cares can follow my progress lol.
Ok so my name's Tom, 22 living in Antwerp; Belgium.
Pokerwise I'm a 25nl player at FTP. My nickname is YESHBOOM. I think I could destroy 25nl if I didn't have tilt/spew issues from time to time. Trying my best to get my emotions under control at all time. You can easily spot the tilt spots in the graph below
I like to mix it up between FR/6max. When I'm playing FR I'm doing it 16tables at once being the ubernitlife, 6max varies between 9-12 tables although I feel I should decrease this number as I don't think I'm playing my A-game at all times. I just get bored so easily..
Well i hate to say this, especially because i really like the guy and think he's a great poker player, but i pulled my first "neilly". however i realized that i am stupid and cashed out because A) it prevents me from being stupid B) i need money anyways. I have $50 in my account, and i am going to regrind starting at 2nl on stars. I am going to continue to play cake just how i was @ 10nl.
I just can't play 25nl underrolled anymore. I had $200 in my account which just ain't enough. I find myself wanting to go back to 25nl just because you can win more money more quickly.
I'm going to get PT3 + hud for some additional help.
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gl everyone.
Won another 800 or so on a friend's laptop and about 200 on a friend's account helping him get to goldstar status, both at 1/2. Obv heater, but should have played more. For some reason i lack the drive to play more and i havent even played 2k hands this month and its already the 11th. Ever since april ive been pretty fucked up poker-wise. God this game is difficult to handle sometimes. Too much thinking hurt brain
On a side note ive been listening to Rammstein alot lately lol. dont know what theyre saying most of the time, but it gets me pumped up for soccer.
So I just finished watching every episode of the PBS documenatary "The American Experience" and their collection of biographies on US Presidents. I feel compelled to make this blog post because in light of the recent groundbreaking presidential election, I felt quite humbled after watching this series. I considered myself to be an educated person who was knowledgeable about politics and history. After watching this series, I realized how much I didn't know.
During the presidential election, most Americans voiced their opinions so confidently, myself included. But to gain insights into the future and to grasp the present, we must understand our past. Sure I learned about these presidents in history class. I got straight A's in history in what can be considered an elite educational environment. But I truly feel that I learned more in an hour watching this series than I did in a whole semester in high school. I completely agree with the phrase "Ignorance is the root of all evil" and I felt ashamed at my arrogance. I believe the world would be a much better place if people were more aware, and on that note, I will start regularly posting blog entries on this series starting with the following:
George H.W. Bush
He is better known amongst our generation for fathering the devil, but he was quite an extraordinary figure in his own right. He was probably one of the most experienced and qualified presidents since he could boast the following on his resume by the time he took office:
- congressman
- ambassador to the UN
- diplomatic envoy to china
- director of CIA
- vice president
During his presidency, he oversaw one of the most important events of our generation, the end of the cold war, including the end of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was vice president to Ronald Reagan who ushered an era of conservatism and whose legacy lives on to this very day. And while Reagan and his son were both staunch right wing conservative republicans, George HW Bush was in fact much more moderate. Despite his campaign promises and his reputation, he chose to raise taxes, and spend government money to aid the poor, and serve the greater good.
Bush signed a number of major laws in his presidency, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; this was one of the most pro-civil rights bills in decades. He worked to increase federal spending for education, childcare, and advanced technology research. In dealing with the environment, Bush reauthorized the Clean Air Act, requiring cleaner burning fuels.
As a result of these efforts, he lost the right wing conservative vote, and combined with an economic downturn, led to his defeat to Bill Clinton in the election of 1992. His son, George W. Bush, saw his father's presidency as a failure and vowed to learn from his "mistakes" and has acted opposite to what his father would have done on many issues. And while this did lead to his popularity with the right wing conservatives and won him re-election, it also doomed his presidency as the worst in American history.
The story of George HW Bush covers 4 generations of privileged politicians and some of the most important events of our generation. I strongly urge everyone to take an hour out of their day and watch this amazing story. You can see it here:
About 22 hours of work at NL5 and 10k hands at 18.32bb/100 I have a roll for NL10 now.
I've requested a check of like $700 from Stars to be sent and requested a $700 cash out from Cake to my eWallet account. It's quite a hassle as I have to wait about 24-48 hours although it's been much more now, and then e-mail eWallet and ask for a withdrawal because I think eWallet is strictly for purchasing items online instead of like an online bank like PayPal.
I know beating NL5 isn't much to brag about but I finally feel good about poker again. I had like a pretty sick run of cards my last 2 sessions.
I took a shot at NL10 today like one table when my roll was about at $180 or whatever and it didn't go so well but it might be cause I wasn't very interested. I sat only like half an hour maybe and lost 10 bb.
I have a biology exam to study for so I'll go try studying for that, it's coming up on Friday. I don't want to fuck up my GPA for life just cause I decided to go grind micro stakes this week. I need to get good grades or I'll risk losing my scholarship so fuck poker for the next 1 hour or so til I get bored and come back.
I think I'm ready for NL10 soon, just not tonight since I should be studying.
So I'm seriously thinking of taking dares to raise myself some money. Do crazy stuff on webcam or something like that.
My car just died in the ass.
Mum's sick. Work earns me next to nothing. I'm reallly regretting cashing my poker money out, I wish I could grind some money out, lol, so much for quitting.
Going to start looking for a second job.
So I decided to make a blog item for the first time on Teamliquid about WCG. I haven't been active on Teamliquid for a few years already, except the occasional thread closing and banning some guy but considering I met a lot of Teamliquid people this weekend I decided to make a little report as well. It's not gonna be epic like mnm's blog but whatever
I booked a twin bed hotel room at the Hyatt resort in Cologne with Kalle (my colleague from my pokerwebsite). It was a pretty awesome 5 star hotel with valet parking and they had some fountains in the lobby etc. so it was pretty baller.
Friday
I got to Cologne on Friday at like 9PM and I got to the hotel to find out there were like 8 guys in my hotel room plundering the minibar who had been invited by Kalle so that was a bit overwhelming haha. I found out that they were mostly guys from the german version of the poker website and some other people. I quickly punched down a vodka/redbull from the minibar before all was gone.
After that I wanted to meet the people from ToT. Mondi thought I was gonna eat dinner with them so he sms-ed me at like 8:15PM in the car that they were waiting for me so I called them to go ahead and I'd meet them after dinner. When I met them at their hostel it was fun meeting Midian and some British friends of his, Mondi and Ele were there and Lilsusie so it was fun to meet them all. I was already kind of tipsy there and I kinda urged the other guys to come with us to go drinking but Mondi had to play the following day so he didn't want to come and Midian had some stupid excuse that he was tired (wtf?) :D. So we just went drinking with the five of us only to find out that Cologne has a pretty shitty nightlife. We ended up in some club that had terrible music but we were too drunk to care anyway.
Saturday
Because we got at around 5 AM the day before we slept until like 1PM and watched the video on the stream while getting some breakfast via room service. After that we went to the venue and I met a lot of people over there. I got to meet Mnm there and Baal from WGT and the Liquid guys (Nazgul, Meat, Pooruser). I also met Ret, my fellow countryman. The last time I saw him was at some lan tournament like 4 years ago or whatever but he hadn't changed one bit hah :D.
Was fun to be at the venue and watch some Starcraft and hang out a bit. Kalle/me went back to the hotel around 7PM and I got ready for the Teamliquid meetup. I went there by myself with a cab from the hotel but couldn't really find the place at first because the taxi couldn't go there. Eventually I harassed Jamie a few times by phone but they couldn't find it either. I started asking random people on the street until I found a 'velo-cab' who could take me there. It was basically just a bike with a bench in the back so together with the guy we found it. I found out there were already like 50 people there. At first I was waiting for like a half hour to finally get a beer (too lazy to go to the bar to get it) and after like 1 hour 15 minutes I finally got a steak as well. Ah well whatever, I just talked to some Teamliquid lurkers as they called themselves, but I recognized their screennames anyway (Maenander and Konni I believe but I'm not 100% sure, sorry guys :D). After that I just went mingling with some people and talked to a bunch of people there. I didn't really talk to the Koreans because to be completely honest I don't care about Korean progaming anyway so I didn't really care about talking to them either .
Suddenly when on my way to the toilet I heard some guy shouting some Dutch like 'Now I recognize you!' or something and found out that was Nyovne, otherwise known as Forsaken~[TUW] (his bw nick) and it was a relief to be able to talk some Dutch hah. After that I spoke to the Teamliquid guys such as Pooruser, Nazgul and Meat and later on Puertorican was there too and I found out that he challenged Nazgul to a PvP betgame for like 10$ and they asked me if I wanted in on the bet. I wasn't sure if I heard this correctly. Puertorican wants to challenge the awesome protoss that is Nazgul for even odds? I was quite astonished but once I found out what was going on I obviously snapcalled.
Also met Nony and Tasteless and talked to them very briefly and gave them both my boost of confidence or whatever with their doings in Korea.
Also there were my colleagues from the website but they stayed away from the meet pretty much because they didn't know anyone from them anyway so I went and hung out with them a fair bit as well.
I kind of regret not meeting more people now. I was having fun as it is but now I regret it! I think we should've taken a picture with the entire Teamliquid Staff actually that was present. I actually dodged like most of the pictures even though I was there from 9:00PM until around 3:30AM so that was kind of weird haha. Ah well no worries, I'm just good at picture dodging.
Sunday
Got back at the hotel with a taxi and went to bed at around 4:30 I think. We had to wake up at around 11:00AM to get to the starcraft venue. So we took a cab and got there just as the game was starting. I saw Jamie there and we just got some seats in the back. If I knew you Teamliquid guys were all on the front I'd definitely go there. Oh man so many missed chances (not meeting enough people at the meet and not getting to cheer with the Teamliquid people goddammit). The final was really bad though and I enjoyed the Warcraft3 final waayy more. Also because I had Grubby to cheer on who I actually knew a bit from meeting him a few times at WCG 2004 and ECG 2005 and because the games were totally awesome/exciting/close. Warcraft 3 is definitely awesome to watch when it's top players playing.
So before the weekend I wanted to stay until dinner or something but I was really tired so we just went back to the hotel, checked out and I went home. I got home at around 8:00PM pretty smashed with a lot of good memories but not enough pictures. I actually didn't take any pictures except a few pictures with the website guys that are not really interesting to post here. I should be in some pictures that Eleonore made though but she hasn't uploaded the pictures anywhere yet.
A lot of thanks to mnm and Naruto for organizing the TL meet. You both organized the meetup in extraordinary fashion so you both have my thanks!
Not including pictures because I didn't make any and I'm not gonna take credit for pictures made by others =].
Oh edit: I actually will upload one picture so the guys that didn't meet me but wondered who I was know who I am for the next time (hope you don't mind that I hijack your picture Mnm :D).
I'm the guy in the light colored jeans and the black/white striped shirt in the middle foreground of the picture (don't think it can get more clearer than that).
Maybe I'll blog some more in the future but I'm definitely going to attend more of these events (blizzcon or WWI or whatever) because they are really awesome. I might even play some Starcraft again to keep up my interest =].
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