http://ket.liquidpoker.net en-us Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:08:27 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1176109 Ket I’ve been recovering at home from covid for past couple weeks not doing too much, mainly bored. In the downtime I started getting some nostalgia feels of the poker golden days good times. LP was started in Sept or Oct 2005 and I believe I probably checked this site daily from day 1 until 2013 or so when I quit poker. Those were some great times, I remember fondly and am super grateful for ... Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:08:27 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1176109 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1063317 Ket We just experience them as being 'hard' because we all suck. Really bad. The avg reg that has made 7 figures lifetime is just not very good at all (myself included). Think about how good you have to be to get to the top x percentile in any other competitive pursuit and compare it with poker, it's a joke. Good news for motivated "good" (relative to all the other fools) pros!! Cheers:beer: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:37:13 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1063317 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1060569 Ket I wrote a reply here in longple's blog in answer to some requests I got -> http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/1059700/last/_quot;I_need_help_rant_quot;,_stake.html?topic_id=1059700&currentpage=last Just making this post to draw attention to it for those it interests, since the longple blog is buried somewhere now Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:52:43 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1060569 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1058714 Ket http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html What sort of things are you guys doing with your careers now? For the guys still playing poker, how are you enjoying it? Any plans for after? For the guys in jobs, tell us what you're doing, why, what you hope to get out of it and what the plan for after is. Also does this TED video happen to ring true for ... Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:31:17 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1058714 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1055017 Ket This post by RiKD got me thinking about a few things, I was going to write a reply in the thread it's from but thought it's a worthy discussion in its own right and deserves its own post. [QUOTE][B]On September 15 2012 10:33 RiKD wrote:[/B] One thing to consider is poker can be pretty damaging to other facets of life and development. Getting to the point: [other text that was getting ... Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:43:05 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1055017 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1044668 Ket I got a pm from a LPer a while ago who was asking about switching from msnl to plo. I thought I'd share the Q&A [quote] Hey Ket, Just had a few random PLO questions, hope you don't mind, tell me to bugger off if you like I'm a 2/4+ NL reg atm, and have forever been considering a switch to PLO. How are today's games compared to NL? How do you think the future games will be? I'm... Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:18:38 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1044668 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1044065 Ket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730Q-baXOhE tldr if you have a really short attention span [spoiler] Well I'm pretty low key usually so you might not realise I was gone or remember who I am, which is fine. I've been a part of this community since the very beginning and it has now been 6 years since I've played poker professionally. It sounds insane when I put it into words like that, that's... Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:16:06 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1044065 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1042167 Ket my thoughts when im 12tabling 5/10plo on stars: wow no one is that bad, how can i win? my thoughts when im 4tabling 5/10plo on stars: wow no one is that good, how can i lose? Thu, 17 May 2012 23:36:16 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1042167 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1013692 Ket About a month ago I had an interesting dinner conversation with some close friends that are also poker players about poker communities (one of the very rare times we talk about poker). One side of the argument was that making any sort of contribution to a community of serious poker players is a really bad idea. You're decreasing your own future EV by making other players better at taking money ... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:28:55 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1013692 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1003453 Ket "We're all just a bunch of egos passing judgement on other egos, to help keep our own ego intact. Strange but true." Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:53 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1003453 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1002173 Ket Hi guys. Happy 2012! Let's achieve our goals this year! So earlier today I booked a last minute trip for 3 weeks from next week because why not. I'm headed towards South America and am gonna meet up with a small group of close mates that already out there, including my housemate Tom who prob needs no introduction on here. Pretty excited for the trip, here's my rough itinerary: - Tues 17... Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:36:50 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1002173