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I voted for a Republican Senate candidate in Boston, MA today... and we won. Maybe libertarian Republicanism isn't dead yet. Anyways it was nice to see regionalism fall apart a little bit, and it's always nice to introduce a little gridlock into the legislative process.

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Heading north for the following targets:




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Wish me luck, boys.

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the things I'd do to you!


I love married women. Also I love making 100k+ this year. This is the only place I can brag about that without being a huge dick. I honestly wish all of you the best life possible. Also, didn't smash with married woman X tonight, well whatever, new city, new girls tomorrow.

Run good everyone!

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I may just quit poker. I don't need the money at all, and I'm not really having fun with it any more. I just had a really unfun session (see blog below), and I'm honestly not sure why I do this. I understand that I'm a winning player, but variance is so big that I can't rely on poker to be a nice way to blow off steam (which is what I use it for); despite the fact that I win in the long run, I either walk away from a session kind of pleased but very excited (not a great thing when I'm trying to relax) or very pissed off and very excited. Most of the fun I get from poker is from discussing hands, and thinking about theory, and I'm starting to realize that I don't actually need to play for that to be the case.

In fact most of the things that drive me to play are stupid in the first place. Here are the honest to goodness reasons why I play a given session:

1. I've run bad for so long (read my posting history and trust I understand what this does and doesn't mean) that I feel I need to grind towards the long run so my winrate looks like what I think it should.

2. I need 200 FTP points for Ironman that day. (I'm in like month 13, this shit is like crack)

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And that's basically it. Frankly, I'm such a stubborn person that this may be enough to keep me playing, but I ask you guys, do any of you just play for fun or competitiveness (I know fish do)? If there was absolutely no chance of poker money every changing your lifestyle, would you still play? What sort of events would you lead you to quit?

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and most importantly

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Can I still post here? lolz.

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It helps just to write it down:

QQ+: 0% W$SD over 1,600 hand session.


I'm going to go drink now.

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Has anyone used listentoyoutube.com? It rips any youtube video into an mp3, I'd really like to use it, but don't want to get teh aids.

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If I go to a website that may be hosting malicious software, if I search for all files modified during the time I was on the website would I see something if I got something on my computer (virus scan came up empty)?

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Seems like someone hacked our friends at 2+2 and opening the forums sends (sent?) a trojan into your computer that seems to target poker related folders.

Anyone know anything about it? How risky is it? Who's behind it etc? I made this a blog post because I feel like it should be discussed but I don't want to sully a lp main forum with talk of this sort of thing. Anyone know anything?

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I didn't play in Oct, so November was my month to get back into it. Luckily for me, November is "Run 11bb/100 Under EV Month" at FTP, so it's been really exciting.



Oh well, it's ski season soon, which means that it's psychologically impossible to be unhappy. I've got 10 trips to NH slated: Bretton Woods, G-Rock (for when I'm drinking in Boston the night before), and some others. Plus Jackson Hole and maybe St. Moritz! I think I'm going to go buy myself a pair of these:

http://www.volkl.com/ski_05/karma.html

On the topic of other fun stuff, I'm going to buy a PS3 this week for the sole purpose of playing Tekken 6. Are there any other Tekken-heads out there?

Run good everyone.

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Well, kind of. This is a public forum so I'm going to focus on poker only, sorry nothing salacious.

Didn't actually play more than an hour and a half of poker because frankly there are more interesting things to do in Vegas, but I found it fun. I stayed at the Bellagio and sat in at 2/5 on Sunday night. There was one guy who I could have sworn I recognized from blog pics or something, so if you're out there I was the brown-haired guy in the 7 seat with the vineyard vines sweater on playing from like 8:00-9:45.

The table was lol-amazing. Completely unlike anything I've ever seen online. Within the first orbit, there was a hand that goes as follows that personified the table:

EP limp
EP raise to $25
MP call
CO shove for $900

"Pro" snickers derisively

EP fold
EP fold
MP fold
CO shows aces and says "you'll have to pay to crack them"

Basically everyone limped pre and overvalued top pair hands post. If you showed any aggression preflop they let you rep aces no matter how many times you did it. I iso'ed maybe 15% of hands (a lot for FR) and took down EVERY SINGLE ONE with a either a cbet or preflop.

Some interesting hands that show you what a live fish I am:

I check my bb with QTss (best hand I had at that point, but had just iso'e twice before and was oop against stations).

Flop: AsKs4s

I check, bet of $15 from a crazy asian, call, fold, I raise to $50, asian calls, other folds.

Turn: 8c

My hands now visibly shaking (I was terrified I had misread my hand, but did not want to give it away by checking it again) I bet $120. He calls.

River 8s

Balls, I shove $280 more to try and get called by Js, but he folds what I imagine to be Ad5d or something. I show the Ts to try and pretend I was semibluffing the first two streets and overvaluing my hand on the last. Given that I had to be told to put a chip on my hand, was shaking, and was being very talkative before the hand I figured I could rep fishy well. With how the "pro's" played I wouldn't mind the image.

Here's another lol-I'm-a-livefish hand:

tourist limps, and I go to count out $30 to iso qith Q9o, but put $10 in front of me first. The dealer announces "10" and I say fml inside. I get 3 calls total (including two "pros"), and see a JJ4r flop. I say to myself, wow, this is exactly how a fish would play aces, and so I figure any sizing greater than halfpot folds everything from the pro's that isn't a J or greater and lots from the fish too. I do, and everyone folds, the "pros" smiling knowing that they made a sick laydown.

Here's a hand I think I may have screwed up:

Old nit opens for $25 UTG (had been limping a bit), folds to me OTB, I flat with JJ (he has 225, I have 600, blinds cover both). I flat because I figured I should 3bet very polarized (QQ+, AK, trash) given how straightforward people play. Crazy asian in the blinds calls. T94r flop, asian checks, nit bets 40, I call, asian folds. Blank turn, he shoves quickly and I fold. It just felt like he had an overpair trying to protect, especially because he was so seemingly nitty, but I feel dirty.

Also I played to the right of Hal Lubarsky, the blind guy. It was very weird to deal with a helper describing the action.

Ended up $280 or so, obv ran good, but I feel like those games are absurdly soft. GL everyone, and thanks again for all the vegas advice in the previous post!

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