Since coming back to mma something had felt off, like I had forgotten how to ride a bike, and couldn't tap into my prior experience and training, just grinding through the motions waiting for that instinct to wake the fuck up. Well I finally got my epiphany, mid-round monday morning everything just clicked and instantly I felt like a completely different person. Not to say I crushed everyone else from that point on cause I still get worked hard, we got some insanely tough and skilled guys on the team, but fighting returned to being a natural state for me. I stopped over-thinking things and just let my instincts take over and just enjoying the moment, suddenly everything just slowed the fuck down big time, I could see and feel where and how people were moving and planning on moving rather than just praying my reaction timing were good enough. I could relax and breath freely knowing when I was safe which allowed me to nearly double my session times and cut out those annoying vomit breaks. Feeling more motivated than ever before and can't wait to get a fight lined up so I can share my joy with whoever is unlucky enough to step into that cage with me.
Today in Warsaw the weather was a bit on the rainy, dark side. On my way to school I got a text from a friend of mine who has got an amazing memory of pretty much every single thing that happened in his life. This time, because it is not the first time I got a reminder about some event's anniversary, he texted that exactly 5 years have passed since the first real Texas Holdem tournament was hosted at my highschool. 49 students bought-in, a couple of girls too. He even remembered the winner's final hand ! It was T2 and, unfortunately, it was not my destiny to win that heads-up battle and I took the 2nd place.
photo of my friend who made it all happen as the student board chairman, it was taken during that tournament thanks !!! (hope he doesn't mind that I uploaded it)
$20 on PS to the best photoshop of my friend's face in homosexual situations, use your creativity, feel free to add a celebrity or anything your mind comes up with. Only thing is it has to be pretty gay.
[London] Recruiters in financial services?by MadeInPolanD, November 26
Hi,
my friend is looking for a position within financial services industry in London. He studied in London School of Economics. Anyone knows anyone who could help him find his dream job?
From 7 figures to social life - a woobly's guideby Emi, November 25
Ok I have been lurking forever here, and today I won a lot in fishy live omaha 5 games (those games are so fun + easy) so I am in a good mood to make a little education for our local hero "wobbly_au".
I will teach you a guide about "social guide". Think of it as the newbie guide, FROM 7 FIGURES TO SOCIAL LIFE, same as we have for stacraft.
So wobbly listen because such education might not come everyday : When talking to anyone, you are playing against a RANGE of people. Some of them are dumb, other are smart, some are egoistic, others dont care etc.
So lets analyse your play against different common range :
- For the dumb people, you just look like a incredibly pedantic guy.
It is like coming to a black reggae party and shouting I AM GENETICALLY THE SUPERIOR RACE I WON SO MANY RACE SUPERIORITY CONTEST I AM THE RACIAL KING. And anyway, how good your "proof" of smartness is, they wont get it so eitehr will think you lie or just think you are an asshole.
In IRL you would be beaten to death. Just trashed on forum. Much better I agree. However from experience personalities from forum tends to reflect real life personalities, minoring eventual IRL shyness
So very bad play versus this range.
- Versus the smart guys range, those that won awards as well, ranked national in SC with few training, being generally talented in everything etc. you just sounds like someone that has self esteem issue and need to prove himself. The more you try to prove yourself, the more pathetic it get.
The only thing you show us is that you have not learn this basic social skill that even if you think you outsmart everybody, it is almost always better to not show it off. Even in interview or dating where YOU HAVE to show that you are smart the indirect way is much more efficient. Trying to sell it outright is overselling yourself.
So basically no matters how good your poker skills are, you sound like that dumb autistic guide that can paint the eiffel tower blindfolded but can not talk. Meaning your intellect seems to be limited to some specific aera
I suggest you spend some time optimising your ranges in differents situations.
Take a look a our others LP heroes, their social range are extremely well balanced and thus they end up being loved by everybody
Of course you might not even care about opinion. But that would be an obvious lie, since the mere fact that you spend many lines trying to justify yourself of your skill imply that you do care enough to try and earn some social whatever
It's easy to lose perspective in mma in terms of your own growth when you're surrounded by fellow fighters it often feels like you're hitting a plateau because your team as a whole is constantly growing at a relatively similar pace, and you're so used to each others' styles that you adjust your own sometimes without even realizing it. It can be real depressing and mess with your motivation. I've felt like this many times in and the past and more so recently coming back from a 6month break and falling behind that learning curve was hard to take in.
Since coming back I've been having a real tough time and even getting the worse end of sessions with guys I used to be able to take down and submit at will. Feeling a bit conflicted, on one hand I'm proud of them for their improvements and I enjoy the challenge being there for me to overcome, but at the same time I can't get over this feeling of self disappointment that I shouldn't be having difficulties at this stage and should be breezing through people who aren't long term or up and coming pro fighters. I want to fight and test myself against the best in the world but right now it just seems so far away. I know I'm over thinking things but it's kind of my thing. Oh wells, end pointless irrelevant post.
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
Was just curious as to why girls are much more vocal during sex than guys. + Show Spoiler +
Just thinking in evolutionary terms, I heard blue eyes are preferable because they are easier to read. So kind of the in the same vein, I think girls are more vocal because that leads to men being able to trust them? Something along these lines.
Hello all... I am still studying computer science and actually getting fairly decent.
I have a personnal project right now, i was wondering if its an interesting one before i invest time into it.
I want to make a RPG battle editor where the user can easily create any RPG battle he wants. Not an rpg game, just the battle.
The basics will be a screen where you can build heroes (choose abilities, life, defense, mana, etc, with plenty of options), and another screen where you create the teams (max 5 players per team) and can start playing, either PVP or vs computer.
In addition to this, there's a few features i might want to add.
#1 Ability for the computer to calculate the best move, in a fairly advanced way, for any matches.
#2 Ability for the computer to try and predict which side will win before the battle begins.
#3 Ability for the computer to generate a random battle, which he thinks is close and interesting.
#4 Ability to create a random hero with balanced abilities.
#5 Ability to save the characters, teams, etc. for next use.
Note: i'm still not very good with graphics... best i would do is an image the user choose to represent the character and very very basic animation
So if you have better project ideas, additionnal ideas for this project, or just think this is a good idea, please post ^^
So 3 months have past since I made my first investment at LendingClub.com. When I first signed up, I deposited what remained of my PayPal balance from some stuff I sold on eBay for a total initial deposit of $1,259.83. Pretty much firing one buy-in at the investment.
My strategy for investing on the site isn't too complicated. I did some mild research and found some helpful filtering sites to narrow down my criteria for lending money to strangers. I found a lot of use in lendstats.com in filtering for specific loan-types that seem to have a history of high returns and non-default. After I have a list of loan applications I scan through them for proper grammar and reasonable loan requests (i.e "Consolidating my debt" > "BUYIN A HARLEYY!"). Then I buy a share of the loan ($25) and repeat. The whole process of takes all of 10 minutes once a month so it's not too much of a hassle.
As you can see I'm invested in 54 different notes and have been paid $98.72 in payments to date. Of those payments, roughly half is my initial investment back and half is profit (interest). My net annualized return is very high right now, but that is a function of no defaults yet, which will of course happen eventually. I am in the early part of all of my loans and this period typically has the lowest default rate of any time period in a loan. I expect that 20% return to drop to the mid to low teens eventually, but for a speculative investment after a few months I'm satisfied. If things are still running smoothly I may even begin making regular monthly investments here. I will see how annoying it is to deal with this type of investment at tax time though before I start doing that. If anyone has any questions about the site or my experience with it so far I'll try to answer them as best as I can.
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