So I posted in one of my previous blogs about my fiancé losing her best friend to cancer at the age of just 29 in August.
Well she was an amazingly generous person and was a founding member of a charity named BabyTree Projects, an organisation developed with her brother to provide schooling and education in rural Cambodia where her family had to endure torture camps while raising all of her siblings before being able to escape to Australia.
A brief history of the charity:
In the late 1970s an Australian charity helped the Saly family and their children to escape the desperate situation in Cambodia and to start a new life in Australia. The gravity of the situation was not lost on one of the youngest members, Koky Saly, who was inspired to help other in need, just as he and his family had been helped.
In 2006, Koky, in participation with Orphfund, and with the assistance of many friends, family and associates raised money and a built a school in Sophy village. Sophy village is in Siem Reap province where 80 per cent of the children do not finish primary. The new school enabled many children to attend school as the overcrowded school was extended. Ongoing support for the school was provided including purchase of land for a school garden, a breakfast program and establishment of a library.
In 2007 BTP was officially established as a charity with two branches one in Australia and one in Japan. The dedicated volunteers worked tirelessly to raise money to fund a new school in Peam village, also in Siem Reap province. BTP volunteers travelled to Cambodia in December 2007 and work on the project was completed in February 2008, with the schools officially opening in April 2008. This was a great achievement for BTP, with its first stand-alone project completed. BTP facilitates visits from English teachers to live in the village and teach at the school and is providing ongoing support for many of the schools activities. Since this time BTP has been working extensively with Anlong Kraing (Big Hole) village in Kampong Thom Province. BTP constructed a school building there in January 2009 and constructed a secondary school building 10km away in Sambour village in 2011. BTP is also exploring ways to improve the quality of education, including providing visiting teachers, English classes, scholarships, teacher training and much more.
In each of these school building projects, volunteers traveled to Cambodia to live in the village, assist local builders in the construction of the school building and interact with children and other village members. The volunteers are encouraged to run classes for the school children, play games and attend village events. It is an amazing experiencewhere theylearn about Cambodian village life and culture and even pick up some Khmer along the way.
Throughout each of these projects, in intervening trips to Cambodia and with our contacts on the ground, we scout for new villages that need and want assistance in establishing or extending a school. We consistently have several potential projects in our sights and visit our established projects regularly.
The charity have arranged a walkaton in her honor to help raise funds to build and maintain additional schools. My partner and I are obviously assisting and attending the day and although it is unlikely if anyone is willing to give even $10 it will have made this post worthwhile.
Managed to survive my first week back training, barely. Damn, I had no idea how out of shape I let myself get over the prior 6months. These breaks are fucking killing me. I currently wouldn't last 1rd with myself from 6 months ago, not even just a cardio thing but tiny mistakes(some large ones too) and brain farts walking myself into bad position that I would never do before. Good news is in the last week I've lost 8lbs and can now go a 4-5hour day without vomiting so that's always a plus. Sore as hell and black and blue from head to toe. Thankgiving getting in my way tho and the gym is closed for the next 3 days since everyone is traveling for the holiday so time to put those 8lbs back on and carb load for the next month or two.
4 tabling zoom is pretty much fun. Played like an hour each day and it seems I can't concentrate for much longer. Any hints on how to focus better? My attention is definately going down after 30 minutes. Is a winrate of 18BB/100 realistic over the long run at NL5? I usually don't think so, but maybe something like 8-10BB/100...
Really appreciate to have the possibility to talk about Poker here, thanks guys
Hi everyone. So I checked out this whole zoom thing on PS last week and I must say I like it. Not only can I play more hands per hour but also win more due to a higher percentage of fish/weak regs playing there. I'm still adjusting my game because it doesn't look exactly the same as on regular tables but I would never say it is tougher to beat zoom. I am going to stick to zoom for a while and I may check out its twin brothers on FTP/Ipoker to see if the average skill level is lower and then play there.
And to keep this blog a bit balanced when it comes to content I'm posting some pics from my last trip to the US. Thanks for following and see you next week
So I lost my job that I thought was going to be my career but such is life. I have always dabbled at poker but have decided to take a serious shot at it will I explore my job opportunities and options. My current financial situation is not so bad. I have 2 months of living expenses and a 600 dollar bank roll. I am bonus whore it up but that seems to be lot harder to do than before. I ll be trying my luck at micro plo and maybe a little NL. I have always ended up fucking up my BR by trying to take shots at limits where I dont belong. So here is a list of starting goals that will help keep me on the right track
1 - DO NOT PLAY OUTSIDE OF BANK ROLL, I have always done this before in the past and try and take a shot and double up at 2/4 or 3/6. I am going to try and stick to .5/.10 until I have at least 1K.
2 - STUDY 1-2HRS A DAY, I am going to be treating this like a job until I manage to find one. So I think I can spend at least 6hrs a day playing poker out of those 6Hrs at least 1 will be devoted to studying.
3 - PAY ATTENTION NO MORE THEN 5 TABLES, Not gonna try and mass multi-table. If I want to get good my best bet is to play less tables and try and focus on the tables rather then playing 20 tables on auto pilot.
Thanks for advice Stroggoz aernout and enigma, I tightened in blinds, got a lot looser LP, 3bet and cbet more and it showed right away in redline + winrate
I'll try to put in an hour here and there during the week and megagrind over next weekend 10k hands + again
Btw, there are some REALLY solid people at this stake :D
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Hand #89449186743: Holdem No Limit ($0.01/$0.02 USD) - 2012/11/18 15:16:55 ET
Table Icarus III 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: W1LD D1X ($5.49 in chips)
Seat 2: SAMPA67 ($4.65 in chips)
Seat 3: Jdalton20 ($3.02 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($4.19 in chips)
Seat 5: NasaExpert ($0.80 in chips)
Osse$$ione will be allowed to play after the button
W1LD D1X: posts small blind $0.01
SAMPA67: posts big blind $0.02
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
Jdalton20: folds
DoC.LemOn: raises $0.05 to $0.07
NasaExpert: folds
W1LD D1X: raises $0.15 to $0.22
SAMPA67: folds
DoC.LemOn: calls $0.15
W1LD D1X: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $2.59 and is all-in
W1LD D1X: folds
Uncalled bet ($2.59) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $3.11 from pot
DoC.LemOn: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $3.22 | Rake $0.11
Board
Seat 1: W1LD D1X (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 2: SAMPA67 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Jdalton20 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn collected ($3.11)
Seat 5: NasaExpert (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Last two days before the weekend I think I lost more then I've ever done at the poker tables due to mining shares dropping in value fast for no really apparent reason. And I had some baaad sessions 10/20 HU back in the day
Anyway, late on Friday I finally decided to take it as a blessing in disguise and use they money I had laying around since I took some profits in Sandstorm Gold (SLL.V/SAND)at 13.20CAD or something and put it back into the company at 11.12. I read up a bit of about this and most people just feel that it's been a few days where the big stock indexes has crashed down through various support levels and basically taken everything stock related with it. Markets are stupid (at least short term when they're not free but full of big banks with bailout money)^^.
Back in the day my dad used to be angry about automatic trading and "a bunch of robots fucking everything up". I'm not though. If someone wants to drive markets lower (divert from optimal strategy) to abuse weak longs/investors (fish) I'll just abuse the dumb fucks who drives the market down by buying the dips. It's just like poker. Fuck that, I'm not leveraged, as long as I'm in solid companies that makes money you can do whatever the fuck you want, I'll buy the dips. I've made 8 high call downs for half a stack and J-high for a few 100bb's, try scaring me away from something I believe in.
Although, this made me more then a little over invested in Sandstorm Gold lol, I think I have about 50% of my portfolio in it which is, ehh, "slightly" more then recommended. Well I've stated it before and I've state it again, if I'm ever in need of a God I hope Nolan Watson is up for the job. In case Jerry Garcia can't make it. Anyway, here's a article about the businesses model:
So I've been playing casually poker for some years now, but never been a good player not even on my shitty level. After losing the initial 50 bucks like 3-4 years ago, while thinking i was being good and the soft ain't good for shit, and losing some more additional 10-20 bucks every 4-5 months or so, I finally decided that I must put an end to this and actually start listening to guides and enforce patience on my game. Its pretty frustrating to fold away JJ or AQ offsuit, when I thought for so many years that those hands are huge. Slowly, but surely I think I finally managed to somewhat limit down my looseness. I've deposited 10 bucks on PS on Wednesday and am up to 85 now by playing 0.01/0.02 zoom poker, by winning some satellites (and unregistering) and by playing some 3.5$ 18-27 sit'n'gos (yeah, I know that this is way above my limit, but people seem even worse than I am).
If you have any advices, software for a a fellow TL'er (LP'er i guess now), I'm more than happy to listen to it.
P.S.
statistics for my last 1000 hands:
Hold'em (Real Money):
1000 hands played and saw flop:
- 35 times out of 166 while in small blind (21%)
- 37 times out of 170 while in big blind (22%)
- 88 times out of 664 in other positions (13%)
- a total of 160 times out of 1000 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 22 out of 44 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 122
An analysis on this would be nice as well, as I have no idea (besides that maybe i should play even less hands).
My stats are prolly gay and my game was all over the place, any comments on the stats? I feel weird in even semi marginal spots like flopping midpairs on meh flops etc
This shit is so addictive btw, I will put in 3ish hours tomorrow and restrict myself to one hour per day during the week, BR at $90 hopefully will have a hundo by the end of tomorrow to go for NL5
Black Friday shopping threadby PuertoRican, November 16
sup.
Can someone who's knowledgeable about "Black Friday" shopping threads, please make a thread in the General forum, since the holiday's are coming up soon.
We just need 1 solid person to start off the thread, then everyone else can contribute to the thread. I don't have enough knowledge on all the deals to make a decent thread myself.
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I'm looking to purchase a new pair of headphones before the end of the year. Do you guys have any suggestions? They can be either audio style where you use them mostly just for music purposes, or a gaming headset. I don't like the headphones that have the black coating on the ear area, cuz that will flake/peel off over time.
Basically, I'm just looking for a headset with good sound and bass. I don't need the best headset on the market, since I'm just using it for recreational, everyday use. The headset I have now is a gaming headset, which I've used for 7 years, and it's time to upgrade since this pair is falling apart.
Just read interesting suggestions about how to go about doing HH reviews, and started to question my process.
I know I do not do it often enough, what about the rest of LP? http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=1331
Poll: How often do you do a HH review
(Vote): after xor before every session
(Vote): weekly
(Vote): monthly
(Vote): never?
The article was from http://www.plusevpokerstrategy.com/ and it suggested doing about 20min up to an hour (depending on volume) after each session. I think the last time I reviewed mine was mid September.
I did find a few spots to refine at this time, then didn't really go back into it for a while.
After chatting with a friend and fellow grinder I found a few things to look for in my own game (by talking over exploitations of a few opponents we encountered in a live 10/20 game ---> after the game obv) because he noticed a few things I did not. In the live game we both still maximized, but the flaws he saw in a slightly different way than me.
I then went through my database filtering for money lost.
I took the top three spots I was losing money and objectively looked at what I could do differently. Although the changes were very slight I found it very helpful, and now I also see more clearly when my opponents make these class of errors.
This article and retrospection on how helpful it was for me the last time I did an in depth review has reinvigorated me to be more diligent in this regard.
I am interested on how everyone uses HH to refine their game? Thoughts, tips, whatever you think might be useful.
Also, if anyone is interested to maybe set up some type of HH review trade. It is always helpful to have a 2nd set of eyes and I think that this would kinda force me to be more dilegent in this regard. Keep in mind I play LHE, my NLHE game is only good enough to beat 1/2-2/5 live.
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