how much time u waste on
the internet, its duality amuses me.
with one hand its helping you while the other stabbing you
can u really escape the browsing circle? probably just taking a break
checking mails, fb, news, forums, REPEAT MOTHER FUCKER
(im not even mentioning games)
i feel so unproductive, degenerate blank mind
pathetic
you feel what u should do, but you cant do it, you are constantly paralized, all your life
but maybe its the normal way, its all good and normal
normal, say it in a whispering chilling voice
normal, what kind of a sick fucking name is this anyway (poser sentence(
JUST MY THOUGHTS I KNOW U LOVE RANDOM BULLSHIT CANT DENY IT
comment only if u feel like it, let it be your choice
comments ROFLMAO. u got afraid now. just a little tiny bit
Time for another installment of Income & Expenses. I guess we'll start with the income. There wasn't any. The month started out fine, steadily climbing up to a peak of +$12k around August 15th. Then I steadily declined back down to zero over the next two weeks finishing the month with a loss of $3,300.
Income
(3,300) Hours of cash Played: 125 hours over 19 sessions
MTTs played: 2
Hourly Rate: (26.84)
Expenses$7,234
Home- 2,434
This number is elevated from it's normal $2k range because our water heater broke and needed a $100 repair. I also bought $150 worth of lumber/mulch/seeds to make my own vegetable garden in the backyard. This bill will be very small next month as we refinanced our mortgage this month and will be getting a one month break on paying the mortgage. Our rate will also be lower in future months resulting in significant savings.
Auto & Transport- 1,379
This number is pretty standard, 350ish towards gas, 150 toward insurance and 435 + 220 car payments. The difference is extra money I threw at the car principle this month.
Health and Fitness- 504 Insurance- 418
Gym- 34
Payoff Hospital Bill- 51
Finally paid off an annoying $350 /month hospital bill, and our insurance costs should go down now as well because my wife's new job offers her free insurance, so I will only have to pay for me and our daughter. I expect next month's health/fitness category to be around 400 next month.
Food & Dining- 1,083 wal-mart- $896
restaurants- $186
I just can't seem to get this bill to go down. I think that because we lump in our regular grocery shopping + anything else we buy at Wal-Mart as "food and dining" it makes this number higher. I'm going to try to remember to split up future purchases so I can accurately track the food expense.
Bills & Utilities- 850 Internet/Cable- 130
Mobile Phone- 166
electric- 360
gas- 163
water- 31 Feel like it might be time to cancel the cable TV and get a Roku or stick to downloaded shows streamed from my PC to the PS3. Decisions, decisions.
Shopping- 237
Kind of annoyed we keep buying dumb stuff we don't need. I splurged on a pair of Seinheiser HD201's after I saw TalentedTom's blogpost and I'm pretty impressed with the quality for $18 headphones, but still I didn't need them. I have a pair of Bose quietcomfort's with one of the ear pieces torn off. Going to see about repairing them and reselling them to make me feel like less of a headphone fish. Other stuff we bought this month were clothes for Bobbie's new job as a Kindergarten teacher. First paycheck from that job arrives in a couple weeks, pretty stoked about that.
Business Expenses- 343
Took a trip to Pennsylvania, specifically Parx Casino for the WPT $3,500 event that they held there in early august. I had enough frequent flyer points to get the trip for free, but the hotel cost for the week I was there still came out to $343 after splitting the room with someone else. Not too bad.
Entertainment- 200
Bought a couple of classes for our daughter to go to once a week and socialize with other kids. Fairly fun to do. The place where the classes are is about 6 miles away, and according to Google Maps it's a 32 minutes by bicycle. Might try that out next time I need to take her. Will let you know the results.
Unexpected Vet Bill- 204
We had to take both of our dogs to the Vet this month. One had an ear infection, and the other got picked up by a German Shepherd. Thought she was going to die, but it turned out the bite was very soft and didn't break the skin. Still a scary moment and $100 Emergency Vet bill.
I guess that's everything. I'm pretty disappointed in the spending this month. Back over 7k again, at least I can say if I didn't go on my poker trip I'd be in the high 6k range. The negative income for the month was pretty annoying as well, especially after a nice upswing to start the month. My second one this year, putting me at a negative savings rate for the month and bringing my average for the year down to less than 30%.
If I stay at my average spending rate for the last 4 months of the year, I will need to earn another $157,000 or so to reach my goal of 65% savings rate for the year. Since I think my expectation for the rest of the year is about 50k for the rest of the year I don't think I'm going to make it.
Just spent like 2 hours looking for a post from you (or at least i think it was you) about the progression of a first world country into a third world country. just noticed your blog on the blog section, and was reminded that it was you (i think) who posted it. and in case it wasn't was hoping someone on lp would know wat i was talking about
I've been following the poker blogs section for a few months already and thought why not start a own blog myself. there's already a ton of micro stuff on the forum so thought there wouldn't really be any harm in there. The blog is mainly gonna poker oriented. so a little about my poker experience so far: I've been playing poker for about 3/4 year so far or so. started on 2nl, made like 2 10$ deposits on pokerstars and after I started taking it more seriously and deposited 50$, went really quick from 2nl to 10nl. My BR is on about 500$ and kinda struggling to improve. playing on PKR atm cause I figured it's the most fishiest site. That's also the main reason I created account on here, to improve my game. So anyone has any tips on the what helps you to improve? main thing I try to do atm is study HH and watch DC videos.
graph so far on PKR (note: the volume is so low because I only recently started playing there):
reads on villain: he was playing super crazy and spewy, he was raising almost every board against me so I didn't really gave him any credit for a hand here.
Submitted by : aernout
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (PKR)
$10.00 USD NL Texas Holdem - Saturday, September 01, 12:59:17 ET 2012
Table Monkey Planet (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( $8.28 USD )
Seat 3: Player3 ( $3.28 USD )
Seat 4: Player4 ( $6.15 USD )
Seat 5: Hero ( $11.28 USD )
Seat 6: Player6 ( $14.03 USD )
Player6 posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
Player1 posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
reads on villain who cold calls my 3bet: he was a passive fish and otf if he calls I think he really only does that with small medium pairs and he would raise up his draws/ TPs. so I thought I had enough FE ott.
Submitted by : aernout
August started really bad and was forced to move down to 50nl to regrind. Luckily I went on a heater when I moved back up to 100nl. Been coolering everybody for the last 10 days : ]
If anyone is interested, I am looking for a coach with Live tournament experience.
To make this a bit more friendly, here is some information about myself. My name is Tony. I am 26, a full time Fire Fighter with a large love for Poker. When I am not playing in tournaments I am reading through the handful of tournament poker books I have,highlighting important topics and trying to make my game better with every chance I get. My knowledge of the game is through the books I have read, reading forums (liquid poker/ 2plus2) and grinding 1/2 (live) games.
I was hoping there was someone out there with knowledge to offer and willing to help me get better as a tournament player and increase my knowledge of the game. I typically play at my local casinos entering 100$-300$ tournaments, between 5-10k stacks, blinds start 25/50 and between 25-35 minute blind levels. It isn't the best format but it's all I have. I have found some success making the final table abut 50% of the tournaments I play in. There are a lot of errors I know I make and a lot of areas in tournament play I know could be greatly improved upon.
If anyone decides to contact me we can go over pricing and any additional coaching information.
I realize majority of players today are online but I thought I would give this a shot. It couldn't hurt to ask. :D
Thank you for taking the time to read this and reply if you chose to do so.
Had 3 1k scores in one epic 24 hour session. My third 4kish day this summer. Unfortunately they were all disappointing 4th places and I left alot of money on the table in a 11$ rebuy 26$ 6 max and 25$hyper turbo but at least I had some positive run at the 30$ buyin range for once.
180 mtt sng's -
Filter: 01/08/2012-31/08/2012 E:180 Count: 1,997 Av Profit: $2.02
Av Stake: $8.08 Av ROI: 23.4% Total Profit: $4,030
Ability: 75
Was looking like a heater untill my last 3 days -2k. Really low volumn for me not sure how much of that helped me get an elite winrate. Playing alot at offpeak hours seemed to help as well. My downswing was probably the only time I grinded at 11-6pm mon-thursday when there is an insane amount of regulars.
My sisters moving into a place with the internets so taking back her laptop I was losing for the last three months so its time to buy. I want a computer but no desk and not much room will look at both any suggestions? The boys are in town gonna get fed up tonight.
edit - Also staked/coached someone for close to 1k in the easy kind of profit. Thinking of adding on more. Looking for a few more people and I really trust people on this site if anyone's interested
Think equity and improve your non-showdown statsby The Dean, August 31
One of the biggest leaks (perhaps the biggest) in losing and break even poker players cash games is having a poor non-showdown win total. Most decent online grinders do well at showdown because they usually have a playable hand. However it is the non-showdown winnings that often cause the problem and this highlights what has become known as the “red line”. This is the line in PokerTracker and Holdem Manager software that shows us how much money we are winning without going to a showdown.
As you play tougher opponents then your showdown winnings will decrease simply because better players will pay you off less when you have big hands and they will usually have big hands themselves when they stack off. This is why many players struggle to make money when they play higher levels. This is because their non-showdown winnings are wiping away their showdown winnings and so profits are not amassing.
There is really one big fundamental problem with why players have poor non-showdown winnings and it is basically because of placing money into the pot and then folding……it is that simple. If you win the showdown then you are not affected and if you fold pre-flop then you are not affected. So the lesson is clear and it is that when you decide to play a hand then you either want a lot of players to give you implied odds or you want to isolate and play the hand aggressively.
If you play better hands pre-flop and select hands with better equity then your non-showdown winnings will escalate and you will become a winning player. In full ring games for example then you really do not want to be playing poor hands because you will simply place yourself into too many tough spots post flop. Situations where you either have to run through multi-street bluffs or weakly give up is not very strong poker.
There are other areas as well in which we can improve our game but we need to start thinking about playing post flop when we play pre-flop. Unless you are receiving very good implied odds then you ideally should be looking to either fold more hands instead of limping or isolating against a single player. This alone will do wonders for your non-showdown winnings because you will be folding more of your junk, playing tighter and more playable ranges and getting yourself into fewer tricky spots post flop.
August - First month of full time playingby TianYuan, August 31
Didn't get many hands in today, I went with HerO to his GOMTV games instead, to support (he destroyed his up/down group 4-0 to get back to Code S), so I guess this concludes my first month of full time playing, even though I played some in June and July as well. Started at PLO25 and 50, played PLO100 for the last 1/3 of the month.
EDIT: Since I realize some people might not know this - I'm Liquid`Jinro / FrozenArbiter on TL, I've been playing SC2 professionally for the past two years and I retired recently and am playing poker again. August was the first full time poker month since...... probably late 2008 or early 2009 for me, and I didn't really touch the game at all during my time as an SC2 pro.
My volume increased a lot towards the later half of the month since I got my 30" monitor shipped to Korea and started playing some zoom as well (didn't really enjoy playing more than 4-6 tables on the smaller 23" I'd been using for SC2).
Approx. half the hands are from PLO100 (mostly zoom, decent bit of regular), the other half split between PLO25 deep, PLO50 deep and PLO50 HU (and various random hands like accidently joining Hi/Lo no limit tables and realizing on the river when you are about to hero call with your whatever hand that he just overbet the pot times two). Summary is up a bunch from PL025, down a bunch from PLO50 deep, up a bunch from PLO50 HU, up a bunch from PLO100
Got about 60k VPPs to go before I reach supernova - considering going for it in September, tho I'll be going to Japan for 3-4 days at some point. Will see! I think there shouldnt be too much difficulty in doing it even so.
So I finally played 10 000 hands at Zoom NL10. Roll still going up. I can't wait for NL25. As soon as I get 20bi I'm switching. I hear that NL25 is same as NL10 anyway. The regs at this game seem to reraise like insane. Especially BTN vs BB vs SB, kinda annoying but whatever. I'm pretty sure I'm just being paranoid and they're actually not rr as wide as I think. I broke even for 3000 hands which was very annoying. I forgot how titling the game could be some times.Let's see what the future brings.
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