http://vltava.liquidpoker.net en-us Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:30:38 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=928276 vltava Gained 10k VPP in about five days, while also working on Jeux d'Eau by Ravel, a Hindemith viola sonata I'm accompanying, and my daily scales, and attending three cool chamber music concerts - a piano trio in Pasadena on Saturday night, the Juilliard string quartet at Cal Tech on Sunday, and a string sextet with members of the LA Phil last night in Arcadia. So naturally I'm looking at SNE and t... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:45:43 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=928276 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=926596 vltava Man, girlfriend + piano lessons + poker is hard. Add in the fact that I waste time doing stuff like playing random games on the side, and I don't know how I even manage to survive. Bought a new laptop a month ago, but then procrastinated about getting HEM up and running because it tends to be such a pain in the ass to set up, so I didn't play any poker for three weeks or so. However, about a... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:33:45 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=926596 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=919803 vltava Normally it downloads within a minute. I just started using a new laptop, and now after 20+ minutes it is only 3% complete. Anyone else ever experience or hear of his? Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:29:17 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=919803 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=917655 vltava Hit the 40k VPP mark for the year and I'm halfway to 50k. I'm very happy about my progress considering I have not been trying very hard for the past couple weeks. I was slightly up at the $60 and $38 STT's following my BOP win, when my new laptop died in the middle of a session, and as a result of not being able to get back online, suddenly I was down, and my $55+5 ROI on SharkScope jumped in... Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:19:01 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=917655 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=913460 vltava I dumped about $500 a few nights ago playing PLO 100 all night - badly. Also I had to cash out about 1k for bills and expenses, and paid off a $100 debt to a friend with a transfer, leaving me with about $1700, but I started grinding it back up with the $16 and $27 SNG's and was back up to $2200 Saturday night. As Battle of the Planets rolled over at midnight, I checked the leaderboards and I... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:18:39 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=913460 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=913300 vltava 12k to first, will be starting after the remaining two HU matches if there's no chop. Tourney ID 297422451. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:01:54 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=913300 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=912083 vltava Went to Griffith Observatory on Sunday. Previous trips never panned out, as we would get there in the afternoon and the parking situation is ridiculous. We showed up bright and early before the doors opened at 10 AM and managed to get a space in the actual parking lot. From that altitude we were able to gain a beautiful, sweeping panoramic view of LA and smog in its natural habitat. No seri... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:01:38 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=912083 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=910991 vltava I got in three more sessions yesterday afternoon which brought my Stars BR to $2100. Hunger began to gnaw, and to reward myself for my progress I went out to Afloat Sushi, awesome restaurant in "old town" Pasadena, where I live. It's a sushi bar with boats floating around the bar, and the boats hold premade selections which you can just pick off. Pro tip: Don't go at 5 PM on Friday... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:07:32 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=910991 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=910780 vltava So as I was shifting in bed this morning, trying to get the most comfortable arrangement of pillow and laptop (stfu pervs, I was just reading something), I managed to jam the corner of my laptop into my eye with considerable force. I was fine for a while but now my left eyelid keeps fluttering and my vision on that side is fuzzy. I'm sure I'll be fine, I just feel like it's my body's way of r... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:59:41 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=910780 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=909952 vltava So, ~1000 points away from Platinum yesterday morning, I hit the $15+1 SNG's hard, getting in eight sets of twenty-four between 10 AM and 9 PM, posting a loss of $61. I had about 45 points to go as I finished my last session and Carol walked in the door, and I wanted to catch the first episode of the new season of Weeds at 10:00, so I set down the laptop in front of the TV, fired up a dozen or... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:57:05 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=909952 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=909642 vltava Played a bunch of PLO 50 on Stars yesterday, profiting about four buy-ins. I don't think I played all that great; the games are very soft and you can get the money just by nutpeddling. I would have been up more than twice as much if I had just folded the second nuts more often. Reached the 15k VPP threshold and cashed in the $50 "stellar reward". BR at $1590 after transferring... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:28 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=909642 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907750 vltava Getting a bit more disciplined; I had the first two sets of twenty-four $15+1 turbo STT's in by noon. I tend to have trouble motivating myself to get going. I used making Gold Star as my motivation, needed to earn 707 VPP to get there today. Two more sets after lunch; in all four of these I lost a bit, and was down ~$180 with 96 games played. In the fifth set, I rebounded and made ~$220, an... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:13:18 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907750 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907475 vltava Broke into $15+1 STT's last night. Stars BR up to $1220 now, so while I got skunked in three STT satellites with buy-ins totalling $200 at the Bike today, making my live play for the week slightly ($30) in the red, online I'm up $980. 2300 VPP so far for the month, but that should accelerate now that I'm into the $16's. I have an eye for $25+2 and $35+3 at some point, but just having a reall... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:08:50 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907475 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907174 vltava Managed to persuade my girlfriend to put off today's trip to the Griffith Observatory off for a few hours, and I got in a couple sessions of 24-tabling $6+.50 while she plays Karaoke Revolution in the next room. First set was good, +$44; second was a smash, +$136. Up to $767 now. Think I will switch to $15+1 somewhere in the $800-$1k range. This is a difficult decision on this occasion beca... Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:26:03 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907174 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=906750 vltava Took a day off from the grinding to meet up with my friend Dan and play some satellites together at the Bicycle Casino. He ran into some bad traffic on the 5 freeway, but managed to show up just in time to buy the last seat in the first sat. I was still scanning the crowd for him during the first hand, then realized that he was sitting three to my left, in seat 6. Working his ninja skills. ... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:33:28 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=906750 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=906445 vltava Cashed in the $50 10k yearly VPP Stellar Rewards thingy. Roll is at $547 now. 1424 VPP so far for August, which technically puts me way behind pace for Supernova, but I'm still well ahead of pace for making Platinum, and I know my point accumulation will accelerate as I move up, since I'll be able to earn more than I cash out. Leaving my FPP bonuses uncashed for now. Using the potential Supe... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:22:27 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=906445 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=905812 vltava I recently dropped out of school for multiple reasons, some of them personal, one of them being to focus on poker. I'd like to see if I can make Supernova by the end of this year, although I have only earned 9k VPP so far this year. $240 currently in my account. Clearly I can earn 750 VPP in a day, but not necessarily every day. I have a live-in girlfriend who works full time, but wants a l... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:43:02 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=905812 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=833630 vltava In chess tournaments, all players, from tykes who have barely ceased to wear diapers, to seniors who have taken it up again, learn the protocol of quietly stopping the clock and seeking out a director. In bridge tournaments, where the median age is about sixty, an aggrieved player feebly calls out "director" at a volume slightly above the standard hushed table chatter, and helplessly ... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:40:27 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=833630 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=831208 vltava One particular idiot yesterday chastised me for smoothcalling a raise with pocket aces in a live single-table SNG at Hawaiian Gardens. "NEVER slowplay aces", he declared. He babbled some faulty analysis of the hand, then left the table, as he no longer had any chips. Then he wandered back to berate me some more, and I explained that I was not actually interested in receiving a poker l... Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:32:37 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=831208 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=580973 vltava Went to Hawaiian Gardens with just under $300 in my pocket last night, disappointed that I didn't get my check yet (for 2k) from PokerStars. Played some 100 NL and decided to sign up for the Thursday night shoot-out ($120 buy-in). Incredibly soft game, but really really small stacks and fast blinds. Three tables, three players at each table advance, pay-out at final is $1060-600-500-400-275.... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:53:51 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=580973