Okay first the poker stuff ...
Doing good so far allthough i am a bit angry at FTP riggedness
Checked my Database and i am down - 250$ / 5BI over 19,6K hands on NL50 6max FTP
thats completely ridiculous kowning that i am up +635$ ( 25 1/2 BI) over 24K hands Nl25 6max FTP
+ i am up NL50 HU and NL100 HU a good amount This year
Well its just that i recieve an unreal amount of suckouts and bad beats on Nl50 6max FTP and it hasnt stopped yet
doesnt concern me too much though since i make good money from HU
Overall 1st week of June
+ 539$
Hands played ~ 5 K hands
played 6/7 days of June
I think i could play more hands and stuff but overall i am fine since i just quit a day when i felt like running bad and being up some.
Poker has stressed out me enough in the past ^^ so i will just take everything relaxed , put in a few hands , play my best and have some fun while making money.
Thats also the reason why i have 2 BR spread on Stars and FTP and play everything from NL256max to even occasional Nl200HU
may sound stupid to the hardcore grinders BR ~ 4,5K € atm.
But i am making money without ever feeling any preassure ! And that is a very nice thing.
@ NewbSaibot
thx very much for the PC advice
I searched a bit the internetz and what u said was 100% true
so i insta called the support and asked if they can change some things
They had not sent the PC yet and so it was no problem
I got DDR-2 800 instead of 1066 + a better mainboard and 4870overclocked + silenced instead of 260GTX-216
saved 15€ overall <3
okay so now here is my 3rd martial arts review
This time i will talk about BJJ the brazilian form of submission grappling.
BJJ - Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
History
BJJ is a brazilian martial arts developed by the brothers Carlson and Helio Gracie ~ 1920
BJJ has its roots in Judo since the Gracie brothers learned their basic Jiu Jitsu from Mitsuo Maeda who was a schoolar of Jigoro Kano. ( Jigoro Kano was the founder of Judo which i reviewd in an earlier blogpost)
Helio Gracie was a small person only weighting 63Kg ( 138lb) with an incredible work ethic and the absolut willingness to do anything to win.
Since he was so small he always lost to his much bigger brothers.
So he together with Carlson decided to study the techniques and adjust them to fitting his small weight to be successfuly used vs bigger opponents
after years of adjusting and practicing with his brothers
-> BJJ was born
It became a popular martial arts in Brazil allthough it never really made it out of teh country before Rorion Gracie
BJJ did suddenly get famous on November 12, 1993
Rorion Gracie knew that his brothers have proofen in plenty of unregulated NHB fights in Brazil that their BJJ is a very effective martial arts. Moreover he also knew that BJJ was still very unknown outside of brazil and that it was impossible to deal with it unless u knew the basics attacks and counters of ground fighting.
So in 1993 he really pulled a masterpeace in founding UFC.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship which was intended to solve the Ultimate Question of all martial arts practicioners Which martial arts is teh best in a 1v1 no rules situation !
Royce Gracie absolutely destroyed the competition in this UFC1 event and suddenly BJJ became famous over night in every country of the world.
However if u are a fair sportsman u must admit that BJJ had a very unfair advantage at this point.
The other martial arts like : Boxing,Kickboxing,Sumo,Karate,Judo etc have all been popular for many years and it was very easy to observe these styles and look for leaks and strength that the BJJ guys could adapt.
BJJ was still very unknown in the US and so nobody knew what he was into when facing Royce Gracie
Its like if someone played PvZ for years but never even seen a replay of PvT and suddenly is thrown into his first PvT without even knowing Terran does exist... while the opponent has watched 4000 replays of PvT and very well knows what to do ^^
U could clearly see that this was the case when u notice that 4 years later BJJ dominance was gone and all the great champions where wrestlers with boxing skills and good Ground and Pound. What simply happend was that over the years and with BJJ becomming popular some of the other martial arts ( especially wrestlers) adapted and became equally good.
With Guys like Wanderlei Silva, Randy Couture and Tito Ortiz comming up it became clear that there is no such thing as
best martial arts
There are a bunch of good effective martial arts and a bunch of not so effective martial arts
BJJ has proven itself over all the years to be in the boat of very effective martial arts toghether with MuayThai,Boxing, Wrestling and Sambo.
Allthough there hasnt been a BJJ champion in UFC or Pride for a long time nobody would ever deny that BJJ works very good for 1v1 fights
What is BJJ about
Well BJJ is basically about getting your opponent on the ground and then submit him through either a choke or a joint manipulation
BJJ originally is a martial arts where u were a GI.
Nowadays most of the BJJ though is without Gi. The no GI BJJ simply became more popular due to the MMA hype.
Here i will show a nice highlight video of a grappling tournament where u can see different submissions.
Its 1.36am now and i will go to bed
part 2 of BJJ review will follow in some of the next blogposts
GL ALl
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U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)
Last edit: 07/06/2009 20:59
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terrybunny19240 United States. Jun 07 2009 19:47. Posts 13829
cool little write up ^^ hope your month keeps going well bro
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Critterer United Kingdom. Jun 08 2009 00:43. Posts 5337
dont worry about the 6max 20k hands isnt even big enough sample to worry about anything, if you are losing in 80k more hands then perhaps u may need to evaluate... till then just keep playing it seems you are likely a winner!
and yea these write ups are cool gj and gl for the month!
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