Went back and played the 5-150 again on Sunday. This time I'm trying to keep the image of nervous young kid so that people give my raises credit, and then some guy that I played house games with sits and about 5 minutes later starts blabbering saying yeah this guy makes a ton on the internet! Called out :
Some crazy asian came, called 300$ (I made it 50, he made it 150, I made it 300 which is max I can raise, he flats) - insta-shoves over my 150 bet on K high flop and obv hits two pair to own me. Worked the rest o the night to make it back and cashed about 150 up. Still, the place is a gold mine. I see myself there quite often in the future.
Can't stop listening to this song today. This is a great cover:
Since i've been so disappointed with how mediocre of a player i've turned out to be for the past year, i've finally decided on two things, first of all, CUT DOWN on tables, i admit it wont get me anywhere but only add more confusion on whether im a an average, decent or nit type of player, sure it does ship monies every month, but it seems the 12/9 style is giving me so little money compared to what i SHOULD be making. added to that is the stress is gives me whenever i do get terrible results. so by the end of the month, ive already spoken to my prospective coach, and cutting down to 8 tabling 100nl FR. ive started last night, playing 8 tables, and it has been nothing short of interesting again, im starting to like poker once more and im really excited with the prospects of getting a really solid winrate, and not be too obssessed with getting bonuses and fpps lol. 1st session 8 tabling i hit a number of suckouts but overall for some reason it didnt really hurt as much as playing 12/9 then losing when you get your money in good. i still lack the guts to fire the 3rd bullet sometimes in spots where i know im getting a fold but im just too scared if firing it is an EV move or not. that's where the coaching comes in and i really do hope he can explain to me well and instill a really solid and less exploitable type of game. im really not a terrible player, chickenshit yes, terrible, not at all, im good at hand reading but just way too scared and sometimes lazy to move on my reads. wish me luck guys. coaching starts end of october for 200nl. peace.
if someone sees me 24 table again, ill ship them 50usd lol
but maybe someday i can do 12 noh? hihihi
(weird, I made a new post and for some reason this one is the only thing showing up...)
WTF - this is getting worse and worse and worse...
A woman canvassing for Obama in Wisconsin was punched in the face by a man ranting about ACORN. The woman was part of a canvassing effort organized by friends of mine. As we were about to go on stage for Oobleck Election Play 2008: The Trojan Candidate, a friend of our lighting designer who was in the same canvassing group called and told her the story.
The silver lining is that when the woman who had been assaulted returned to Chicago, there was already a voicemail message from Barack Obama expressing his sorrow that she had had to go through such an experience.
That's it. McCain supporters are dicks. The usual gang of conservative bigmouths are inciting violence with their propaganda, and the suckers who want desperately to believe are so frustrated with the lack of believability of the propaganda that they're lashing out with violence and violent rhetoric.
Meanwhile, Obama has such a great organization that he heard about this small incident and contacted the victim before the end of the day.
More as the details come out.
Ridiculous shit. McPalin needs to stop lying about things like ACORN and Ayers cause they're inciting people to violence with their BS. ACORN has been getting death threats when they haven't done ANYTHING wrong!!!! The right wing gets absolutely insane when you throw this type of rhetorical red meat at them and McPalin know it, but they do it anyway.
ACORN:
At the same time we have the right wing blowhards like limbaugh saying Powell only endorsed Obama cause he's black... but if that's true how come NO black candidate before Obama was able to get the nomination... hell, before Iowa Hillary was getting the majority of the black vote!
Limbaugh, and Pat Buchanan, too (whom I work with at MSNBC and who I will say is decent even when he's way wrong, so I will cut a little slack), make their "he's one of us" vote claim regarding Powell in particular (blacks in general) in spite of the fact that a person of color has run for the White House in every presidential election over the last 24 years: Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. Gov. Douglas Wilder of Virginia in 1992. Former ambassador and conservative activist Alan Keyes of Maryland in 1996 and 2000. Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois and the Rev. Al Sharpton of New York in 2004.
Plenty of opportunities for Powell and other blacks to willy-nilly support a brother (or a sister).
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Clearly -- more important, factually -- most blacks don't vote for blacks just because they are black.
This should have been evident in the early stages of Obama's campaign, when Sen. Hillary Clinton initially out-polled Obama among blacks, to the surprise of everyone except people of color, who knew going in we weren't a monolithic voting bloc. Should've been evident when blacks and liberals had to ask the inane question: "Is Obama enough?" Even Michelle Obama was reduced to saying that one day black America would "wake up and get it" with regard to voting for her husband based on race.
Beyond the merit of that, or of any of those positions, it does not appear as though black America is handing Obama a "he's one of us" vote.
Rather, the majority of black Americans are giving their votes to the man who, as Powell said, has passed the tests of leadership, particularly over these last seven weeks.
I think the confusion is with the conservatives. Simply because they have a "he's NOT one of us" vote that is applied with a very narrow litmus test -- macaca, uppity, people from non-pro parts of America -- it does not hold true those with a more progressive nature have or use the opposite.
This weekend i played in my first tournament on Cake Poker, a $2+.20 sat to a $10K guaranteed tournament. There were 13 seats to the 10k, and i think there was something like 87 people + like 200 rebuys or something ridiculous like that, and i was in 2nd place when the tournament ended. (not going to lie, i wanted 14th place b/c it paid like 20 bucks). So i get the seat, and i played 11 hands, got 48th and won $44.
Nice ship. Turned 2.20 into 44... Thats a 2000% profit =)
1st place got 2.1K, and i seriously think i had a shot at 2.1K. That was the softest tournament i have ever played in my entire life. So soft. i won 5 out of 7 at showdown, (lost to someone who was all-in and only had like 1K chips and i had like 20K, and obv the hand i went out on, 88 vs KQ).
Anyway, i think i am going to grind sat's to the 10k tournament from now on, maybe in a month buy a porsche
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Oh yeah, also lost a hand 55 vs JJ when i was chipleader, i had about 32K and the other guy had like 20K...bad call shouldn't have done it, but i learned my lesson. Gotta pick better spots.
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Much thanks to my live sweat partner Moffa, if it wasn't for him, i wouldn't be that good. I'd sweat him bettter, but the only hands he gets are 62 and 64.
My FTP is being so fucking gay its pissing me off. Basically it freezes everyhand, then unfreezes, again and again. Cant play/watch shit. So anyways I went down to the Brantford Charity Casino with my buddy. He is the guy who thinks hes going to win big at poker but is just a toolbox lol. You gotta meet the guy to understand this.
Anyways the games they have there are all LHE. 2/5, 5/10, 10/20, and 20/40. Ive only played in the 2/5 and 5/10 there. Before we went my buddy was trying to get me to play 2/5 with him because hes broke. I told him theres no fucking way im playing the 2/5 because its a joke and has 7+ people to the flop and big cards just get cracked all the time. He tried telling me that the game was easy and that playing TAG is the way to go but I kno from experience that the game is just so shitty and not worth playing in becuase no one folds shit pre flop. I decided to play the 5/10 because its still a soft game but people arent total idiots and the pots are very nice.
I had a great table to be at but had a tough start and found myself down a bit really quick. So I nitted it up a bit and waited for some good cards. Finally UTG I look at JJ. I raise and get 1 called MP and both blinds. Flop comes A6J... bingo. I check, MP bets, blinds fold I call. Turn is a 10. I bet, he raises and I start thinking MAYBE that was a good card for him but I dont think hes got it so I raise, he calls. River another J. Quads baby. I check, he bets, I raise and he just calls and shows A10. Ship it. Anyways that was a nice hand for me and got me pretty close to even. I had a shitty hand a little bit later against some never fold plug who beat my QQ with 92... not even a BB special ew.
Still down a bit I look over and my buddy is broke and looks really pissed. He comes over and says eep playin man Ill stay for a bit and of course I said alright and stayed. The next big hand I had was against this guy who was down a lot. He was that guy who you can tell is just a mess and keeps switching seats hoping to get better luck. He was to my right, it comes to him and he raises. I look down at 44 and call on the cutoff. Button folds, 1 blind calls. Flop QJ4... bingo. He leads out, I raise, blind folds. Turn is an A, he checks I bet he calls, river is a 2, he checks I bet he calls and mucks. Ship it. At this time Im basically even and kinda mad because I just get the text from my buddy saying he wants to go so I decided to just leave but man I wish I coulda stayed because my table was perfect. PRetty good day still tho even though I only broke even... he ride home sucked because I got to hear about how shitty the 2/5 game is and how hes never going to play in it again and all I could say was I told you so.
I learned a few things tho.
1) Continue to never play 2/5
2) If I go to the Casino... Im driving.
3) I love quads.
Didnt really do much today other then that but I did watch the newest episode of Entourage. DAMN it was a good one, not the same old how bout you do this movie and then having Vince saying he doesnt want to do it. I really think Ari ends up taking that job as head at Warner. Vince pulled the old guilt trip on him and it looked like it really bugged Ari. Cant wait to see what happens. My bet is Ari takes the job and Vince gets to star in a massive movie thanks to Ari. Who knows tho!
Tomorrow Im getting a massage because my back is killing me from work/hockey. Probably going to hit the gym and then go to hockey practice later during the night. Hopefully I can fucking get FTP going again so I can get back on the grind. If not probably keep going with watching my new 2nd favorite show Dexter or maybe rent a video game or some shit.
sick downswing for the past week. that is all. i'm being rivered so many times, all my sets are on monotone flop/turns, and my aces keep getting cracked. Hope things turn around soon.
Unfortunately Im only up around $700 due to MTT failures, and I need to be up $2.1k at the end of the month to continue playing poker for the rest of this school year, but after today I'm confident I can make it.
Ok, so I took like 4-5 days off from poker because I was on some annoying break-even stretch and also because, quite honestly... the iPoker software totally tilted my ass off (partially because the software sometimes acts weird when typing in bet amounts, made me shove when I ment to c-bet because it forgot the dot a couple times) so, I went shopping with some mates this week and I stepped into a gameshop and I saw Saints Row 2 laying there for the Xbox 360 and I kind of was waiting for that game for almost 2 months becauwe well... it may not be as complex as Starcraft and other RTS or other kind of games, but SHIT, it sure is a whole lot of fun.
And what I found out is, that it is the best de-tilting tour EVER !!! You can put out all sorts of crazy over the top violence and the best thing is, the game isn't even bad without the violence, the storyline is quite good, doesn't look great but not bad either but it's so fucking diverse, name some crazy shit and you can probably do it in that game.
Destruction derby's, cage fights, beating people up dressed as a cop for some TV-show, drive around in a septic truck and spray shit all over the people and buildings around, just performing drive-by's or fly this big-ass Apache-like helicopter and just cause pure mayhem shooting around with rockets and a mini gun and a lot more crap, and all this is apart of the storyline which basically involves some nice, funny and bad-ass cutscenes and after that you performing a lot and I mean A LOT of awesome and chaotic shoot-outs.
Anyways, that was it, call me addicted (I probably am...) but I finished the game in 4 days playing a little more than 35 hours over like 3.5-4 days and I thought it might as well write something about and recommend it to anyone out there with tilt problems...
Well, that would probably be all, hope all of you a lot of luck on the tables and I hope I can do better now since I am starting poker again after a 5 or so day break. And I hope I helped anyone out with fixing their tiltproblems this way.
Have you ever known someone that would continually get themselves in the same, or similar bad situation, complain about it, and then do it again? As the person on the outside of the drama, usually we can see quite clearly where this particular person’s folly is, but for some reason, even if they can see it themselves, they keep repeating this pattern over and over, as if they were trapped, and had no other option.
We know how easy it is to see our friend’s folly, but for some curious reason it’s not so easy when we’re the ones going through the drama. These cyclical like dramas can be as traumatic as repeating abusive co-dependent relationships, to as subtle as not engaging in a conversation that could have benefited you, or pushing all-in in a situation, when we know we should fold instead. So of course, why and how these dramas exist at all is critical to understand if we wish to end the negative influence they have over our lives.
So I have on simple question for you. How successful do you really want to be at poker, and life? The funny thing about these dramas and beliefs is that the more personally significant something is to you, the more intense these problems and beliefs will present themselves in our psyche. The key to success is un-covering these beliefs and dramas and come to an understanding as to why they exist, and how they hold a power over us.
Great success comes with great effort and work. Some people are fortunate enough to not have significant limiting beliefs that will block them from some of their lesser goals, however, everyone will face blocks to one degree or another. The tools, or will-power we have in breaking through these blocks unravels our fate before us. But the higher the stakes, the bigger the blocks, in both life, and poker.
False Beliefs
False beliefs are simply incorrect beliefs we have accepted about ourselves, and the nature of the world, which limit our personal potential. The difficult thing about false beliefs though, is that they remain fairly hidden in our psyche, primarily because these beliefs have never been put into words before. Theses false beliefs were conclusions that we made at some point (generally in our very early development), about scenes in our lives we participated in. And since the beliefs haven’t been put into words, they cannot be understood with the rational mind. Instead, these beliefs emerge, mostly as feeling states, and we act out upon these states without knowing why we do.
These false beliefs manifest as problems, or blocks, when attempting to achieve personally meaningful goals because we are unknowingly trying to understand our present reality through a misunderstood past. Further, the beliefs become cyclical in nature, and whenever a scene in our present has similar qualities to scenes from our past, we apply our previous false conclusion to our present scene, which invariably ends in a problem or distress. Thus, we must reflect and uncover these past scenes, so that we can put words on them, see them against through our adult eyes, and draw new conclusions that will free us from the psychic parasite which is limiting our potential.
How do you know if you have false beliefs?
1. Failure to achieve one’s goals with excellence.
2. Creating, or setting secondary goals as if they were your primary goals.
3. Making practical matters the primary goal of one’s life.
4. Not preparing adequately for goals.
5. Losing concentration or energy.
6. Being unable to resist distractions.
7. Not being able to maintain the goal.
8. Letting opportunities go by, or sabotaging opportunities for success.
9. Blaming others for not achieving.
10. Functionally ideally during a crisis, but experiencing anxiety before and after such events.
So some crazy McPalin supporters decided to sell some fucked up anti Obama "cause he's a muslim" bumper stickers @ a rally, and some Muslim McCain supporters ain't having it.
Props to those McCain supporters for standing up to this type of hateful BS!!!
It was also funny when the guy said "are you trying to lose us this election??"
Well, as you can see, i have very few posts here so you don't know me. Let me introduce myself to you - I am 19 y.o. from Bulgaria. My name is Nikola and this is the first blog i make so it is kinda new experience to me and hope there are people that read this . I started playing poker just a year ago and have never looked back . For the past several months I have played only SnGs and MTTs and have abandoned the cash games cause of various reasons. I prefer cash live, so if i decide to play cash it wouldn't be online... So... i have specialised exclusively on sit`and`go`s and have moved from 3+30EU in Boss Media to 20+2 (have played stg like 6-7 sngs already and getting unlucky, but steal about breaking even) , but I mainly play 10+1 cause there r just not enough people playing on the 20+2. That sux big! Yesterday night there were 11K people on Boss Media which is the biggest nmbr of ppl i have seen online there at once. And still, I waited for it to begin for more than an hour and a half :O.
For now, i am crushing the 10+1 sngs, really just killing the fish! I`ve read some articles on sng stats and the ROI stuff and they all say that generally a 15% ROI is great. To me, playing 9 10+1sngs and being up 10euros is as great as getting fuc*ed in the ass! And i am no gay! I just can't see how this % ROI can be considered great, probably they meant the much higher buy-in SnGs. Ppl on 10+1 and 20+2EU sngs are soo weak. Callin allin with A-high or a gutshot+a backdoor flush draw is something I see every day. Many ppl just don't know what beats what (not literally but still stg close to that). I've seen ppl calling allin with T-high, no draws on, the flop. However, there are players that kinda know how to preserve their chips at the beginning and I wait for the big later-stages-mistakes when i think i am very good at. I don't use tracking programs like PokerOffice/tracker or Holdem Manager cause i think they r not supported by Boss Media and i am kinda lazy and feel good on my own. I am currently typing this blog from my work. I work in an insurance company and it's been 2 weeks since i started. The job is pretty boring and the salary sux. Ahhh, the boss just entered the office, signing off . see ya
Well I am back, after a while and I decided to try an experiment. I had always played poekr for fun only and mostly MTTs ..I would deposit 50 every once ina while and play some mtts, the most i ever di was get 3 on a 10 rebuy for 525... I hadnt played in a while and now Im back and I want to do an experiment
edit: sweet i found a page that keeps track of UB tournaments
I deposited 50 today in UB and I plan to play cash games with real br management. Im gonna play nl2 there until I hit $150 and move and take shots at nl10 Im gonna do a 15bi rule. if I drop down from 150 ill move back to nl2.
The plan is play until a I reach $1000 and cash out. I can only play max $1-3 dollar MTTS for now.
I also plan on start posting on the low stake forum more often and post more HH for review
I played around 600 hands today 4 tabling and Im down 1 buy in. I got to say the players are fucking horrible but the beats are sick. All done in 6max games.
Lets see if I can follow this rules and not degen my br on one MTT or nl50.
I also want to see what would be my br in december 27 if I follow all this rules.
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