Mediocre month.
I missed a week or so to study for my CA exam. Nonetheless I played the most hands I have in a while, mainly due to 20 tabling. This no doubt probably increased my variance, but any winning month is good month!
I dont know why I dont play much poker right now. I have been able to put in 1 hour of play the last like 4-5 days, and that is pretty bad. I have some stuff to do in school, an essay has to be written until friday for example, but its not so much that I wont have time to play. I guess I´m not discplined enough. CS, series and friends takes a lot of time right now. Got to change that if I want to move up in levels!
Palin, seriously, drop out and give the Republican's a chance. Actually, fuck that, stay in, you're gold for my guy. But anyone who says Palin is ready to lead or a good VP choice for reasons OTHER than exciting the base is full of shit.
THE QUESTION DIDN'T COUNT CAUSE HE WAS A VOTER?!!?!? ROFL!!!
And McCain with his "it was a gotcha question" BS.... wow. Spin spin spin spin spinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Anyway, Richard Wolfe awesomely lays out all the BS McCain has been feeding us about the bailout over the last week:
[WANTED] Day[9] or mathuserby failsafe, September 29
a high school girlfriend's dad was a computer programmer and when she was young he gave her a problem to solve. she never solved it, but she'd asked me my freshman year of college and i couldn't solve it... then yesterday it popped back into my head because i had an intuition about what the problem represented, yet even with some more math training i still haven't been able to make the connection and solve the problem!
so anyway the problem is simple:
there are two bugs... the first bug is crawling a long the x-axis and the second bug is crawling along the y-axis. the first bug starts at the origin and heads toward 1 on the x-axis. the second bug starts a 1 on the y-axis and heads toward the origin. the two bugs have a line between them and are moving at the same speed. what is the equation that describes the curve outlined by the series of lines drawn by the bugs.
so pretty much you've got f(x,y) = (x, 1-x) for your intercepts and the lines connecting the intercepts are tangent to a curve. the question is what is the equation of the curve?
presumably if i had any idea how to describe the sequence of lines i'd just integrate and know my answer but i'm instantly defeated. this is probably a ridiculously easy question because a guy at the local high school solved it instantly but i didn't know the guy and the girl who asked him on my behalf was a friend of a friend and the answer was never relayed to me
Just played 2 sessions and it went great. I really feel like I'll be up at nl200/400 in no time, seeing as how rakeback will be coming in 2 weeks and also I should be done clearing my $600 bonus at ftp soon. Anyway, here are my stats for today:
Also my friends and I have this thing we do where whenever anyone pulls out a camera we do the "Ådalen sign" (Ådalen is a place very close to where I live, where some of my friends live and where I hang out (though not as much anymore but blablabla)). We basically just try get friends/ppl we meet/celebrities to do it. First one up is one with me, hansen and a friend of mine doing it (Bingan on this site, doesn't post):
Still can't win shit in poker, but it'll turn. It always does.
Malimis outdrank me and made me feel middle class last saturday. Then I outdrank him right back when we started ordering in stronger drinks.
I've got a decent sized burn mark on my right hand due to me putting out a cigarette on it. Didn't hurt as much as I thought it should, still not sure if I could do it sober without actually moving my hand.
My roommate is still 3-2 vs me in our race. Fucking sucks.
Remmember87 got me with a fucking headshot when we played paint ball.
I met a friend I havn't seen in like more then a year a few days back. Singing "wind of change" on the way home 04.15 am I's pretty fun.
Took my first shot at 100NL, ran bad and I have to admit, played pretty fuckin bad as well. 31 minutes and -2.2 BI. Which means -$426/hr which is pretty sick. Gotta learn to calm the fuck down when I move up. Anyways, back to 50NL to get ready for shot number 2.
It's funny cause before the bailout failed the McSpinners were all gloating how McCain was the one who made it all happen:
"This bill would not have been agreed to had it not been for John McCain... This is a bipartisan accomplishment, a bipartisan success. And if people want to get something done in Washington, they just watch John McCain. He's been the guy whose name is at the top of major pieces of legislation for a long time."
-- Mitt Romney, NBC's Today show, 9/29/08
"What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all of the parties to the table, including the House Republicans, whose votes were needed to pass this"
-- Steve Schmidt, NBC's Meet the Press, 9/28/08
"We're optimistic that Senator McCain will bring House Republicans on board without driving other parties away, resulting in a successful deal for the American taxpayer."
-- McCain spokeswoman Kimmie Lipscomb, 9/26/08
If McCain was taking credit for it passing, before it passed, shouldn't he get credit for it failing too?
Also, let's laugh at palin some more:
And from that same katie couric interview, here's a question/response that isn't getting much attention but should, considering that Palin endorsed Hamas...
Couric asked, "What happens if the goal of democracy doesn't produce the desired outcome? In Gaza, the U.S. pushed hard for elections and Hamas won."
Palin's answer, in full, was this: "Yeah, well especially in that region, though, we have to protect those who do seek democracy and support those who seek protections for the people who live there. What we're seeing in the last couple of days here in New York is a President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends, Israel ... and we're hearing the evil that he speaks and if hearing him doesn't allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, especially there in the Mideast, then nothing will."
can someone help me, im dumbby nutshot, September 29
i want to download the dark knight
however, i have no clue how to use torrents or anything like that. can someone just type out like a really simple beginners' walkthrough guide of how to get this movie on my fucking computer?
Yeah, well, went up to 23k+2k, I have 4.5k left as of right now(basically down 5-6k gamewise, along w 7k rb which basically mean I have made 2k for putting in 150k hands and playing 2month (around 200hrs) On a side note I'm sure I've had some pretty bad plays, but I haven't got luck on my side at all. Not really sure what to do next, I did put in a sick amount of hands on a sick amount of tables, I'm guessing when you run bad playing that many tables it's hard to make nice fold. I've had a sick amount of cooler for sure, last time I checked my EV w holdem manager I had 6k$ under EV... I guess if I look at it from another angle I'm close to break even over a large sample.
At first I thought the downswing would turn around, but my days average -2k$ for the past 2 weeks with two winning days. So now I really need some change, I've tried playing less amount of table or drinking 2 coffee before playing, result didn't change. Tried putting a bi limit, but I just came back later and lost as horribly. Did a lot of exercises too, ate healthily, played some other games, went to visit friends, had some nice trip. Gonna have to think about something really soon, maybe dropping limit but ehhhh don't feel great about it.
I haven't played poker in about a week, because I've finally realized that I need to take care of things in my life first, since it is distracting my optimal poker playing. What I've decided to do is first get rid of the sleep debt that i've accumulated brought about by my poor sleeping habits, and insomnia. I also want to fully catch up with my school work without any procrasination, and to exercise daily. It sounds simple enough but its something that if I handle I know I'll be so satisfied. I've also noticed that when I'm on top of other areas of my life while playing poker, I am generally more focused, and really enjoy it.
-Exercise daily to increase my general well being and energy, which helps me with my other goals
-Take care of homework and studies as soon as I can, no delaying.
-Start sleeping earlier, and get rid of all my sleep debt.
=Play poker in a better frame of mind
Also recently I purchased two books online called Flow, and Creativity by the same author. I am really excited to read them. If you know anything about Flow you'll understand why.
So what I'm pretty much looking for is to balance my life a bit more, and stop being so foolhardy with thinking I can just mass poker. Maybe one day I'll be able to, but I need to learn how to manage myself better and build my discipline before I can do it effectively (like some of you sickos can).
September was the first month of two months of a test: I need to make $2100 each month for two months to prove to my mom that I can play poker for a living whilst waiting for the new college year to start (I dropped out from my last study because it bored the crap out of me, and I couldn't get in a new one for this year so I need to wait for a year). I also cashed out $4k once I hit $8k as the dollar course was pretty good at the time.
During all that I played some donkaments which made me some money. Since it has to be $2100 each month and not $4200 for two months, I decided to mass some donkaments at the end of september. I finished seventh in a large $55 80k gtd tourney for $2926. http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2481/bankrolloprms0.jpg
I'm pleased to announce my bankroll is now officially OVER NINE THOUSAND!!
september - back from 3 months of retirednessby rogier, September 29
yeah well - started again after not playing for 2 months. reason for not playing during that time was erm, i got distracted with other things like women. relationship's over now so i got back to the pokers.
goals at the start of the month: make 12 buyins and possibly platinumstar.
results: http://666kb.com/i/b2j55uj9pce5t1ixg.jpg
must say i've had quite a hot run, so i'm not unhappy with results also made $50 in the monthly vip donkament so thats another good thing - whew!
credits for the things ive learnt this month: [vital]myth+ryanfee
goals for next month:
-reach platinumstar again
-win 20 buyins at 100nl
-if things go well - even move up to 200nl.
-seriously get a girl, i'm tilting irl because of it. cannot get over my ex.
-hopefully catch up on uni a bit, especially the math part
-pass the exam ill have at the end
shoutouts to: all the people at the #liquidpoker channel @ irc and Strafe, Soltari84 +luckb0xx
So we had an economy bump for Obama, then McCain regained as talk of a bailout was made public. McCain drew even (46/46) and then announced his campaign suspension. At that point he began to drop and Obama began to rise. Once the debate finished Obama started cruising, and is now tied for his record high and biggest lead. I hope this isn't another bounce, but rather keeps going up and then solidifies.
I guess I need to post something about the debate, and I will a bit lower, but I think what's even more telling and important is how McCain acted before and after the debate. I think Frank Rich of the NYT said it well:
WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to get to the White House.
For all the focus on Friday night’s deadlocked debate, it still can’t obscure what preceded it: When John McCain gratuitously parachuted into Washington on Thursday, he didn’t care if his grandstanding might precipitate an even deeper economic collapse. All he cared about was whether he might save his campaign. George Bush put more deliberation into invading Iraq than McCain did into his own reckless invasion of the delicate Congressional negotiations on the bailout plan.
By the time he arrived, there already was a bipartisan agreement in principle. It collapsed hours later at the meeting convened by the president in the Cabinet Room. Rather than help try to resuscitate Wall Street’s bloodied bulls, McCain was determined to be the bull in Washington’s legislative china shop, running around town and playing both sides of his divided party against Congress’s middle. Once others eventually forged a path out of the wreckage, he’d inflate, if not outright fictionalize, his own role in cleaning up the mess his mischief helped make. Or so he hoped, until his ignominious retreat.
I'm personally sick of "Country First" when it's obviously "McCain's Ambitions First" and he believes that nothing is too disgusting as long as it can get him into the white house. First the attack ads which developed into the most dishonest ads in history, going out of the realm of "stretching the truth" or "exagerating" or "takign quotes out of context" which are standard political BS, and arriving in the land of bald faced lies.
Then the Sarah Palin pick which was extremely gimmicky and blatantly political... it had nothing to do with "Country First" cause she is NOT the best person for the job, she's just the best way to shake up the race and excite the Republican base. And it's extremely irresponsible to put such a clueless, inexperienced, unqualified and extremist right wing person in position to be 1 heart beat away from the presidency. And I choose "heart beat" intentionally cause McCain's got a 72 yr old heart, a history of skin cancer, and refuses to release his medical records.
Now this campaign suspension. Another gimmick that he throws together cause he's scared he's losing to Obama because of the economy. This one backfired horribly because people are seeing through his BS more and more. It's so ridiculous and insulting that it makes me very very angry. Let's give Kerry a minute to rip McCain apart:
And here's a nice detailed explanation of how it all went down over the last week... click the spoiler.
To put these 24 hours in context, you must remember that McCain not only knows little about the economy but that he has not previously expressed any urgency about its meltdown. It was on Sept. 15 — the day after his former idol Alan Greenspan pronounced the current crisis a “once-in-a-century” catastrophe — that McCain reaffirmed for the umpteenth time that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong.” As recently as Tuesday he had not yet even read the two-and-a-half-page bailout proposal first circulated by Hank Paulson last weekend. “I have not had a chance to see it in writing,” he explained. (Maybe he was waiting for it to arrive by Western Union instead of PDF.)
Then came Black Wednesday — not for the stock market, which was holding steady in anticipation of Washington action, but for McCain. As the widely accepted narrative has it, his come-to-Jesus moment arrived that morning, when he awoke to discover that Barack Obama had surged ahead by nine percentage points in the Washington Post/ABC News poll. The McCain campaign hastily suited up its own pollster to belittle that finding — only to be drowned out by a fusillade of new polls from Fox News, Marist and CNN/Time, each with numbers closer to Post/ABC than not. Obama was rising most everywhere except the moose strongholds of Alaska and Montana.
That was not the only bad news raining down on McCain. His camp knew what Katie Couric had in the can from her interview with Sarah Palin. The first excerpt was to be broadcast by CBS that night, and it had to be upstaged fast.
But even that wasn’t the top political threat McCain faced last week. Bigger still was the mounting evidence of the seamless synergy between his campaign and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage monsters at the heart of the housing bust that set off our current calamity. Most of all, it was the fast-moving events on that front that precipitated his panic to roll out his diversionary, over-the-top theatrics on Wednesday.
What we were learning — through The New York Times, Newsweek and Roll Call — was ugly. Davis Manafort, the lobbying firm owned by McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, had received $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac from late 2005 until last month. This was in addition to the $30,000 a month that Davis was paid from 2000 to 2005 by the so-called Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy organization that he headed and that was financed by Freddie and Fannie to fight regulation.
The McCain campaign tried to pre-emptively deflect such revelations by reviving the old Rove trick of accusing your opponent of your own biggest failings. It ran attack ads about Obama’s own links to the mortgage giants. But neither of the former Freddie-Fannie executives vilified in those ads, Franklin Raines and James Johnson, had worked at those companies lately or are currently associated with the Obama campaign. (Raines never worked for the campaign at all.) By contrast, Davis is the tip of the Freddie-Fannie-McCain iceberg. McCain’s senior adviser, his campaign’s vice chairman, his Congressional liaison and the reported head of his White House transition team all either made fortunes from recent Freddie-Fannie lobbying or were players in firms that did.
By Wednesday, the McCain campaign’s latest tactic for countering this news — attacking the press, especially The Times — was paying diminishing returns. Davis abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance that day at a weekly reporters’ lunch sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, escaping any further questions by pleading that he had to hit the campaign trail. (He turned up at the “21” Club in New York that night, wining and dining McCain fund-raisers.)
It’s then that Angry Old Ironsides McCain suddenly emerged to bark that our financial distress was “the greatest crisis we’ve faced, clearly, since World War II” — even greater than the Russia-Georgia conflict, which in August he had called the “first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the cold war.” Campaigns, debates and no doubt Bristol Palin’s nuptials had to be suspended immediately so he could ride to the rescue, with Joe Lieberman as his Robin.
Yet even as he huffed and puffed about being a “leader,” McCain took no action and felt no urgency. As his Congressional colleagues worked tirelessly in Washington, he malingered in New York. He checked out the suffering on Main Street (or perhaps High Street) by conferring with Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the Hillary-turned-McCain supporter best known for her fabulous London digs and her diatribes against Obama’s elitism. McCain also found time to have a well-publicized chat with one of those celebrities he so disdains, Bono, and to give a self-promoting public speech at the Clinton Global Initiative.
There was no suspension of his campaign. His surrogates and ads remained on television. Huffington Post bloggers, working the phones, couldn’t find a single McCain campaign office that had gone on hiatus. This “suspension” ruse was an exact replay of McCain’s self-righteous “suspension” of the G.O.P. convention as Hurricane Gustav arrived on Labor Day. “We will put aside our political hats and put on our American hats,” he declared then, solemnly pledging that conventioneers would help those in need. But as anyone in the Twin Cities could see, the assembled put on their party hats instead, piling into the lobbyists’ bacchanals earlier than scheduled, albeit on the down-low.
Much of the press paid lip service to McCain’s new “suspension” as it had to its prototype. In truth, the only campaign activity McCain did drop was a Wednesday evening taping with David Letterman. Don’t mess with Dave. Picking up where the “The View” left off in speaking truth to power, the uncharacteristically furious host hammered the absent McCain on and off for 40 minutes, repeatedly observing that the cancellation “didn’t smell right.”
In a journalistic coup de grâce worthy of “60 Minutes,” Letterman went on to unmask his no-show guest as a liar. McCain had phoned himself that afternoon to say he was “getting on a plane immediately” to deal with the grave situation in Washington, Letterman told the audience. Then he showed video of McCain being touched up by a makeup artist while awaiting an interview by Couric that same evening at another CBS studio in New York.
It’s not hard to guess why McCain had blown off Letterman for Couric at the last minute. The McCain campaign’s high anxiety about the disastrous Couric-Palin sit-down was skyrocketing as advance excerpts flooded the Internet. By offering his own interview to Couric for the same night, McCain hoped (in vain) to dilute Palin’s primacy on the “CBS Evening News.”
Letterman’s most mordant laughs on Wednesday came when he riffed about McCain’s campaign “suspension”: “Do you suspend your campaign? No, because that makes me think maybe there will be other things down the road, like if he’s in the White House, he might just suspend being president. I mean, we’ve got a guy like that now!”
That’s no joke. Bush has so little credibility he can govern only through surrogates (Paulson is the new Petraeus). When he spoke about the economic crisis in prime time earlier that same night, he registered as no more than an irritating speed bump en route to “David Blaine: Dive of Death.”
It’s that utter power vacuum that gave McCain the opening to pull his potentially catastrophic display of economic “leadership” last week. He may be the first presidential candidate in our history to risk wrecking the country even before being voted into the Oval Office.
Anyway, what I found really hilarious is that while McCain was supposedly on a suspended campaign, he released a web ad saying he'd won the debate... before he even said he was going to attend the debate! His entire campaign is a joke and an insult these days. Sam Stein lays it out well...
After days of saying that John McCain would not attend Friday's presidential debate unless an agreement on a bailout package for the markets was "locked-down," the McCain campaign has gone back on its word.
On Friday, it announced that the Senator would head down to Mississippi even though, as they readily admit, much work remained needed on the bailout agreement.
The whole episode left even conservatives admitting that the McCain campaign looked erratic and a bit foolish with no apparent direction or guiding principle.
"It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology," said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. "In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The 'steady hand in a storm' argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain."
Now that brings us to the Debate. First, if you haven't seen it the best place to watch it is on the MSNBC politics page. They have a cool video player which allows you to jump around easily by keywords, questions, and lot's more. Go here and scroll down to the "Debates" box.
I've heard both of them say all the same things so many times that overall it was kinda boring to watch. I do think Obama won, but hell, I am an Obama fan, so it's not like it means much for me to say that. But let me try and explain some of my reasons.
1) I think that McCain spent more time attacking Obama than he did discussing the issues, and when he did talk about the issues he sounded like he wanted to keep Bush's plans. Obama on the other hand answered the questions by listing out his plans point by point. He was clear and left me feeling like he was focusing on the issues and knew what he wanted to do for this country.
2) Obama did a good job of rejecting any lies McCain told, always interupting McCain with "that's not true" or something along those lines when McCain was lying, and then making sure to explain why it wasn't true when he got his chance to talk. Obama also didn't tell any whoppers, while McCain made big mistakes and lied. Here's a good post by Jed Lewison laying that out:
I've put together a summary of the misstatements of fact in last night's debate as tracked by FactCheck.org.
The bottom-line is that while Obama did make a few mistakes, none were outright fabrications, and even when wrong, he was fairly close to being accurate.
McCain, on the other hand, delivered several whoppers that weren't even close to the truth.
* Denied voting for a budget plan that called for a tax increase on people making $42K. He did vote for a budget resolution with such a recommendation, but even if it had passed, it would have not have had the force of law. Moreover, he does not support such a tax increase in his current plan.
* Claimed Iraq has a $79 billion surplus, but that figure is outdated and the actually number is now closer to $60 billion.
* Claimed 95% of "the American people" would see a tax cut under his plan when he should have said "95% of American families with children."
* Claimed McCain's health care plan would levy taxes against employers on health care premiums when McCain would actually be taxing individuals.
Second, McCain misstatements:
* Denied Kissinger called for meetings with Iran without conditions, when Kissinger had made such a call.
* Claimed Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen had criticized Obama's troop withdrawal plan when Mullen had not.
* Claimed earmarks had tripled in the last five years when they have actually decreased.
* Claimed U.S. pays $700 billion per year to buy oil from hostile nations when the actual figure is at most $359 billion.
* Claimed Obama would hand the health care system to the federal government, which is false.
* Claimed Dwight Eisenhower had penned a letter offering his resignation if Normandy had failed, but that didn't happen.
Basically, when Obama erred, he was saying 2 + 2 = 4.01. When McCain erred, he was saying 2 + 2 = 4,000,001.
3) Lastly, body language. McCain was stiff, stared straight ahead and pretended Obama didn't exist. He looked scared. He wasn't willing to make eye contact or talk directly to Obama. McCain looked scared. He also was smirking and condescending throughout the debate, and it didn't look good. Obama on the other hand was looking at McCain, talking directly to him, not scared to cut McCain off, and seemed strong and in charge.
Overall I agree with Obama on the issues and disagree with McCain. There are a few things I agree with McCain on, and it seems Obama does too, as was evidenced by the times he'd say "John is right about that" and so on. Cause McCain isn't all bad - we're with him on ear marks and taking care of the vets and so on. And I thought it was great how Obama was sure to give McCain credit when he was right. I think it's shitty of McCain's campaign to try and use that against him with an ad though...
Despite the McCain Camps spin (and lack of spin from Palin as they locked her away, lolz), and the pundits middle of the road "it was a tie" pronouncements, the polls all say Obama won.
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows 46% of people who watched Friday night's presidential debate say Democrat Barack Obama did a better job than Republican John McCain; 34% said McCain did better.
Poll_warning Obama scored even better -- 52%-35% -- when debate-watchers were asked which candidate offered the best proposals for change to solve the country’s problems.
(I'm too lazy to find more links to other polls, but just search and you'll find em).
I hope this is the point in the election where people finally wake up and realize that Obama is the right choice for this country.
I've been around here at LP since the beginning. Though I don't usually post much, I still read this site pretty much everyday. I started playing poker in Febuary of 2006 when I first turned 18. I made it up to nl25 pretty quickly but started having some troubles there. With a lot of help from my main man Hansen I made it to nl100 but got stuck again (this was around mid 07). Then after that I've travelled between nl100 and nl400 back and forth, starting over like every other month (I practically have no database consisting of more hands than 150k).
Early this year (Jan - Mars) I even made it to nl1k and have played there maybe 50k hands. Unfortunately I am breakeven there because I suck at moving up in stakes. Anyway, ever since April I have barely played at all and when I actually have played I have played like shit. I've still had lots of money that I've cashed out throughout the year but it is now September and the dough is running out. I don't feel like taking a job and I am fairly good at this game so I am gonna give this a real shot now. Here's my plan:
Roll: 1,5k (+600 bonus I bought for 1k FTP medals)
Step 1: nl50 untill I hit 3k
Step 2: nl100 untill I hit 5k
Step 3: nl200 untill I hit 11-12k
Anyway, that should be it for now. Here's a pic of me big pimpin' (along with a video of some other ppl doing it):
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also made $50 in the monthly vip donkament so thats another good thing - whew!
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