Poker... what?

So here is a little update from whats been going on in my poker world.

First of, I just got back from the casino with a buddy of mine who is a 2+2'er. I never me him before in real life, but knew him from PS and aim, it ends up he is good friends with Lyric and so we know a lot of people in common. Anyway he is really cool and i had a fun time. His ps id is asydraine i think (i am really bad with names/nicks) and he plays 6max 1/2 - 2/4.

We went to this place called Presidents Casino.


It's in saint louis and its pretty trashy place. Basically we see a lot of old guys who pass their time gambling and living in some home for old people. A lot of bums and some young kids.

As for the casino live play. First let me say I don't like casino play for obvious reason (too slow, only 1 table, etc).

Second, the players are bad -- yes, I concur, but this bad makes it harder for me then playing vs good players. The people are calling down super loose, no credit is given. If you raise pf after a few limpers you still get 5 people calling, etc.

Anyways I don't have much experience in the live play so it takes me a bit of time to adjust.

I ran like crap and got sucked out a bunch, won't bother with the suck out stories. Eventually my hands starting holding and the highlight hand of the night for me was this:

Someone limps and next guy raise (this is 1/2 btw). Guy in middle position (this black guy who seems to be good but is clearly frustrated at couple beats he took and hands not holding shoves for like 70 dollars.

I have A10 on the button and I am pretty sure I am ahead of his range, so I call. The big blind, also a shorty shoves for like 5 dollars extra.

Flop is 9Jx, big blind shows 99 for the set and I'm thinking "i'm screwed" ( with an Irish accent). Turn is Q, river is .. yes... K .

The black guy flips his hand over and is like "give me that mother fucking money.. SHIP IT to me". He manages to ramble a good 15 seconds while I am waiting for him and his Q10 to shut the hell up.

So I am like "wait up bro" as i flip my a10 and i start singing his stupid ramble back to him "GIVE ME THE MOFO money" he feels embarassed and leaves and whole table gets a good laugh.

Another comment is that I played a bunch with the gf of Nutsinyoureyes. I know that i know this guy from somewhere but I don't remember where. I think i used to play with him back in the day, if someone knows please share. Anyways this girl is a good looking dame which surprised me and my friend to see a good looking person on a saturday night alone playing poker. I figured she is a shark and found that to be true. She was probably the most solid player amongst all the wackos there.

Anyways, besides that the rest sucked. I wanted to leave like after 3 hours of playing, I was sick of it, but the 2+2'er was stuck and wanted to get even and since he was my ride back, we stayed like 8 hours and I was dead tired of playing.

Besides that I have had some recent success in tournies.

First success is I played a 50k gtd with a fellow lp'er from this site and offered him to split profits. I lose in 1st hour and he ends up winning for 13k.. ship 6.5k .




Second was i played this 109$ tourney and got 3rd. I managed to lose since this same buddy came to obs me and I lose everytime he obs me. I don't believe in superstitions but omg every friggin time he comes to obs me I lose, its mind boggling.



Finally yesterday I ft'ed the supernova. I lost in 8th place which sucked a lot cause I had good amount of chips. I made a horrible choice of trying to bluff the chip leader who is a 50nl grinder/super light caller. Big mistake, oh well paid the price. I'd like to blame Kabutze on this bluff since I am a wuss and won't man up to my own faults. (he knows why)

And thats about it. I realize I suck at poker but manage somehow to get enough money to pay school and bills and live a comfortable life while doing something I enjoy. I am slowly trying to get better, but am super busy with school. I actually had a coaching lesson with a fellow lp'er for 1st time ever. Thought it was quite goot.

So its fun stuff. But right now I am in a critical point in life, about graduate school and need to choose what to do with life. The game of life still boggles me.. a lot, so I am lost so far.


Anywho, thats that. Peace ya'll.

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floofy you are forbidden to participate ... thx

Anyways, the hand I am about to show is pretty embarrassing,
atually it is a horrible hand. Probably the worst hotw/year. Instead of hiding in shame i shall expose it and offer bling bling for the genius who can think like an idiot.

ok so whoever epxlains what happened in this hand from pre-flop to river i will send 20 bucks.

I will hint at two things:

I defintely was not playing focused (obviously... shouldn't have been playing tbh), was also messing around.
This guy was pretty aggro.


Submitted by : CamilaPunt

POKERSTARS GAME #12081853115: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2007/09/15 - 22:18:32 (ET)
Table 'Ludovica IV' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: crazyal25 ($203.10 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($215 in chips)
Seat 3: Sloan5454 ($107.90 in chips)
Seat 5: iltw555 ($261 in chips)
Seat 6: mmmbillski ($206.85 in chips)
mmmbillski: posts small blind $1
crazyal25: posts big blind $2

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
Hero : raises $6 to $8
Racemnow joins the table at seat #4
Sloan5454: folds
iltw555: raises $20 to $28
mmmbillski: folds
crazyal25: folds
Hero : calls $20

Flop (Pot : $59.00)

   
Hero : checks
iltw555: bets $32
Hero : calls $32

Turn (Pot : $123.00)

   
Hero : checks
iltw555: checks

River (Pot : $123.00)

   
Hero : bets $56
iltw555: raises $145 to $201 and is all-in
Hero : folds
iltw555 collected $233 from pot

Summary
Total pot $235 | Rake $2
Board  
Seat 1: crazyal25 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Hero folded on the River
Seat 3: Sloan5454 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: iltw555 (button) collected ($233)
Seat 6: mmmbillski (small blind) folded before Flop

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so, hmm, serious question...is this picture the standard background of this dvd player?

answer will have serious implications on whether i order or not

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All I can say is: this movie is bad ass!

Really liked the style of filming.

Only negative thing I might say, and this is not a spoiler, is that Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor), persian emperor/god, is like todays drag-queen.

As for poker, I am back at 200nl for the time, been doing well even though i have some weird ass beats lol. But no whining

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Ok, so poker is now coming back on track. I moved up again from 50NL to 100NL and am now almost br'ed for 200nl. So i guess it has been going good but not really playing much due to school.


Have a few stories that might involve poker related stuff:

first : Douche Bag friend screwed my battery

A little over a month ago I bought me a laptop, yee-ha. My friend drove me to best-buy and I ended up getting a printer also. We went back to his place and watched some movies, at the end of the night, about 2:00 am or something, I decide to go home which is walking distance from his place (we both live on univ. campus). I take my laptop with the power cable in my book bag and leave the rest in the boxes there to pick up later.

Ok so a few days later I am there again and we watch movies again (this happens a lot, the guy has the hugest tv screen in the smallest amount of space I have ever seen) and at the end of the night I ask him to give me a ride home to take these boxes.
note: I NEVER ASK FOR RIDES, I always walk home.

The gay-ass friend refuses so I take my printer box and put it on my shoulder and go for the 20 min walk in the cold ass weather, np. So a few days later I call him up and say "hey im gonna pick up my laptop box cause I need my battery tomorrow". So hes like "what you talking about? I threw that out"

GG battery. So i got screwed over on battery, he talked to me as if it was my fault and I didn't bother to argue. After pondering over the situation a bit I realized it's both our faults and he should OFFER to help pay the 140$ that is a new battery. I think that even though you are doing someone a favor, you are responsible for the favor, so to be honest I think he should pay the full amount, but whatever. No offers... so that makes him a douchebag of a friend.

Please let me know if you think I'm out of line in my train of thought.

second: Pokerstars GG's me on monitor

I ordered 20" monitor over a month ago. It arrived 2 weeks later, broken. I reported and got word that the monitor would be picked up.

That seems cut and clear, but it isn't, PS support was a mess in letting me know what was going on. One day I randomly get a phone call from UPS saying they coming to pick up a package. I obviously figure this to be for monitor, but wtf, why didn't PS emmail me about this? So, I am on my way to class and realize that I don't know what address to forward this thing to, or is it UPS that fills this crap out? I don't know...

Finally I get a call from the company that does this work for PS and a british guy talks to me in this tone of voice thats basically saying "u moron" and tells me UPS will try two more times.

Anyways, more then three weeks later, it is still in my room!

I don't like to talk badly about PS but this situation is messed up. It's now to the point where I am asking them for the address so I can send it out. PS really needs to be more clear in these situations.

well I'll stop here.

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So I am trying out blogging. I'll try to post some interesting things that I see and a little comments on my game.

Basically I was a 100nl/200nl mainly player, now I am back to 50nl after a semi heavy withdrawal to pay school and for some reason suck really bad and can't get back up yet. I seem to be getting too angry at some ridiculous suck outs in a row and combining with bad plays always make my real good session become a flat even one.

Anyways, I am reading Greenstein's book and saw this really interesting comment he made on mice.

CONDITIONED GAMBLER:

Mice are put in a cage with a button that they can push with their paws. The button is connected so that the experimenter has the option of allowing the button to give the mouse an electric shock or give the mouse a food pellet from a chute next to the button.

Mouse #1 is given a shock the first time he presses the button. He spends most of his time away from the area where the button is. If the button ever gets pressed again, it will be accidental. Mouse #1 has been conditioned to associating pressing the button with getting an electrical shock.

Mouse #2 gets a good pellet when he presses the button. He presses the button often and seems to enjoy his environment. But after many presses, Mouse #2 is given a shock. He waits a little while and tries again. If given another shock, mouse #2 will stay away from the button. He believes, and rightly so, that something has changed the function of the button. If he gets hungry enough, he may try the button again. Mouse #2 was originally conditioned to associate the button press with receipt of a food pellet but now that conditioning has been extinguished.

Now the most interesting case: occasionally feeding and shocking mouse #3. First we give mouse #3 a food pellet, then a shock, then a couple of food pellets, then a few shocks. Mouse #3 realizes that sometimes he will get food pellets and sometimes shocks, but he cannot predict what is coming. Once we have him conditioned in this fashion, we stop giving him food pellets and only give him shocks. Mouse #3 has learned that eventually he will get a food pellet if he presses enough times. What do you think he will do if we never give him a food pellet? The answer: He will shock himself to death. This experiment shows that intermittent reinforcement is the hardest kind to extinguish.

Now think of a food pellet as a winning session and the shock as a losing session. People who win enough times to keep their hopes up are able to withstand the shock of losing. This intermittent reinforcement may cause people to keep gambling until they have lost everything.

So, I thought that was a pretty interesting analogy. We, here at LP pretty much all fit in as mouse #3 but with different order of shocks and food pellets.

Anyways thats it for my 1st blog.

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