jesus christ thats a sick score, that AK v QQ meant 18 mil for him vs Guy, what a luckbox - did Guy back him or how much of himself did he have??
anyone have his contact info, time to get highdrooler stakes!!!
back to serious, getting my 2nd grind day in @ Hero pokerz, gonna add in lock pokerz real soon too, sent my documentation in, but sent it from wrong e-mail addy 4tl -_- re-sent that in, guess u can play b4 its verified though - i just don't trust a new site at all, verify me and i'll play there
Hero has added a few new sunday MTT's, they had the 11 15k 109 125k and 530 70k, now they added a 33 MINIsuperSTACK which will have 15k (500ppl), and a $60 30k gntd 10k starting stackzzzz! So awesome to have those added in with the 109 1r1a's and 109 2nd chance etc, Sundays Are Great on Hero, weekdays are pretty sweet too
so far the first 3 early mtts lost ahead each time w/e -just gettin warmed up, tournies don't really start there til noon
Look to keep knockin away that mu and get to getting mah 50%....before August one time.
I should be in my house by Friday-Saturday, waitin on monies, have a fat live $30 br to flip 5 times in the meantime!
Turned 21 today. I remember dreaming of spending this bday playing in my first ever WSOP ME in Vegas but oh well...after 7 years of playing poker I still suck balls, don't put in enough volume, get tilted, etc. etc. I really regret not being disciplined enough back then when the games were sooo juicy. And I'm not sure whether to be thankful that I found poker or not. Hmmm...
MAIN EVENT: Few % left *UPDATED*by eatyourstac, July 04
***CLOSED***
Hey guys decided to post this here cause I haven't got much feedback on P5 staking forums.
I'm selling 40% of me in Wsop Main Event @ 1,25 MU (currently 6% left) - Deadline is 6th of July
1% = 125$
5% = 625$
6% = 750$
etc...
There are couple of guys who want a share but haven't paid yet, I[b]'m willing too let go 10% on top of that if there would be good interest the last 2 days.
I lurk this forums on regular basis but not much of a poster:
Hello my name is Gardar Hauksson. I'm a poker player/student turning 23 this summer. I have played professionally (for a living) since I was 18 years old. I'm selling shares in me in WSOP Main Event 2012 this summer at 1.25 Mark up
Sat, 7th July 12:00 PM Event #57 $10000 NL Hold'em @ 1.25 Mark up
Main Event Championship
My biggest achievements poker wise is a 120k score on Full Tilt in the Sunday 750k (3 way chop but I eventually took it down to get the extra cheese) and 65k score in the Sunday Warm Up. My biggest live cash came in EPT Madrid last year for €20,000 (30,000$~).
/ I accept cash in Vegas, neteller, paypal, transfer through Merge/Stars (would be in my best interest getting cash in hand)
send me EP if you are interested or contact me through eatyourstack@gmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All winnings will be paid out after taxes (if I get taxed by the Icelandic government, which is rare unless I win something very big)
I will send the winnings back the same way they were paid for
I will post a blog during the tournament and inform you how I'm doing
MAIN EVENT: Few % left *UPDATED*by eatyourstac, July 04
Hey guys decided to post this here cause I haven't got much feedback on P5 staking forums.
I'm selling 40% of me in Wsop Main Event @ 1,25 MU (currently 6% left) - Deadline is 6th of July
1% = 125$
5% = 625$
6% = 750$
etc...
There are couple of guys who want a share but haven't paid yet, I[b]'m willing too let go 10% on top of that if there would be good interest the last 2 days.
I lurk this forums on regular basis but not much of a poster:
Hello my name is Gardar Hauksson. I'm a poker player/student turning 23 this summer. I have played professionally (for a living) since I was 18 years old. I'm selling shares in me in WSOP Main Event 2012 this summer at 1.25 Mark up
Sat, 7th July 12:00 PM Event #57 $10000 NL Hold'em @ 1.25 Mark up
Main Event Championship
My biggest achievements poker wise is a 120k score on Full Tilt in the Sunday 750k (3 way chop but I eventually took it down to get the extra cheese) and 65k score in the Sunday Warm Up. My biggest live cash came in EPT Madrid last year for €20,000 (30,000$~).
/ I accept cash in Vegas, neteller, paypal, transfer through Merge/Stars (would be in my best interest getting cash in hand)
send me EP if you are interested or contact me through eatyourstack@gmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All winnings will be paid out after taxes (if I get taxed by the Icelandic government, which is rare unless I win something very big)
I will send the winnings back the same way they were paid for
I will post a blog during the tournament and inform you how I'm doing
Relaxation today , been getting set into new place here in states,moving in today or tomorrow idk
had a funday sunday, hero has much less ppl in the fields with a lot more mediocre player than I expected.
3rd 530 10k, 1st 60 fo 1600, 6th 44 turbo rebuy and 2nd in a 11r. not bad, just 1 day grinded since been back, been doin lots of family time n hangin w/ friends etc
figure when i get into my house i'll start grinding a ton again
have a nice firepit outside, secluded area, good for tha grind n for afterparties
Not in stakes but in the country. I'm officially a resident of Sundsvall which is about 400 km north of Stockholm according to my, not very exact, estimation. The apartment is pretty nice even though it's not the fanciest thing I've ever seen and it's very close to the Casino. Unfortunately it's not much of a Casino.
Since Telia is the worst company I've ever had the questionable pleasure to deal with promised me that I'd have internet and TV here by the end of June I did not worry about it. If I tell them not once but twice how it's very important to me and they promise me that it'll get done I'd be fairly safe, right? WRONG! I got pissed and now I'll get internet from some other company within 2-4 weeks and until then I'll have to make do with a slow ass connection that only allows me to play poker some of the time. Oh well, it's not the end of the world since I live close to a Casino, right? I can play poker live, no problem, right? WRONG AGAIN! I took a walk down to the casino a 19.30 a friday night and apparently they did not have any cash games running, even though they stated that they had cash games some days. Girl in the reception recommended video poker and some table game. I asked for the closest way home. They did not know. Oh well, apparently they have some kind of tournament series with two, yes two, tournaments in a few weeks. Main event is some 5000SEK (~750US) thingy that I might play. They might have some cash games then.
A girl I used to do BJJ with comes from this city and works at the hospital over the summer so I tagged along with her to a rolling session for the first time in more then a year yesterday. I was just a out of shape and slow as I imagined I'd be. Got gassed like 5 min into the class then spent 10 minutes getting tapped by a big guy, 20 min getting tapped by a smaller guy, 10 min getting tapped by the girl (she's a purple and have won a fair few tournaments including some decently sized ones all over Europe) before someone decided to teach me how to do reasonable arm triangles since I had forgot most of it. I forgot that I had to grab my bicep and rather tried to do it with a monkey trip, heh. Then I rolled some more and by the end of the class my breathing had gotten back to somewhere close to what it should be and it felt a little better. I had a ton of fun and I'll try to keep that up rolling at least 2 times a week and maybe do some running, go to the gym or train something else 2 times a week. I thought the place I used to roll at was good but this one has a bigger math, less people and everyone was really nice.
As for poker I've managed to get in like 3.5k hands or something stupid so far this month running 10bi under equity and winning like half a buy in. I'm ok with that, hoping to get like 40k hands or something this month but that might be hard considering how I should probably visit my parents, my connection and some other things. Aiming at 80k hands in August instead and I'm hoping to have at least one month when I put in 100k hands this year so that I can start getting used to putting in volume.
hey guys. i was thinking about something to make the grind fun and stupid:
*24 hours (has to be played from start to finish, maximum of 2 hours allowed for breaks)
*nl 50
*max 4 tables
*profits must be above 2000€ at the end of it
i'm pretty sure this hasn't been done in such a manner before.
would anyone be interested in a piece of this? thinking something along the lines of my 10000 for your 40000.
Free burger at Carl's Jr. on July 4th if you dress like Spider-Man, without the mask.
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I don't own any Spider-Man related attire, but some of you might have kids who do, so if you're into eating unhealthy food, go grab yourself a free burger.
LATE: 10K Selling shares in MEby eatyourstac, July 02
Hey guys decided to post this here cause I haven't got much feedback on P5 staking forums.
I'm selling 40% of me in Wsop Main Event @ 1,25 MU (currently 6% left) - Deadline is 6th of July
1% = 125$
5% = 625$
6% = 750$
etc...
There are couple of guys who want a share but haven't paid yet, I[b]'m willing too let go 10% on top of that if there would be good interest the last 2 days.
I lurk this forums on regular basis but not much of a poster:
Hello my name is Gardar Hauksson. I'm a poker player/student turning 23 this summer. I have played professionally (for a living) since I was 18 years old. I'm selling shares in me in WSOP Main Event 2012 this summer at 1.25 Mark up
Sat, 7th July 12:00 PM Event #57 $10000 NL Hold'em @ 1.25 Mark up
Main Event Championship
My biggest achievements poker wise is a 120k score on Full Tilt in the Sunday 750k (3 way chop but I eventually took it down to get the extra cheese) and 65k score in the Sunday Warm Up. My biggest live cash came in EPT Madrid last year for €20,000 (30,000$~).
/ I accept cash in Vegas, neteller, paypal, transfer through Merge/Stars (would be in my best interest getting cash in hand)
send me EP if you are interested or contact me through eatyourstack@gmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All winnings will be paid out after taxes (if I get taxed by the Icelandic government, which is rare unless I win something very big)
I will send the winnings back the same way they were paid for
I will post a blog during the tournament and inform you how I'm doing
So as you can see, pretty much a whole lotta nadda. God what a grind live is. Visiting the ATM for money, driving to random places across town, eating and drinking like shit, playing till 12am, coming home exhausted and smelling like smoke, getting 6 hours of sleep before going back to work and doing it all over again. Sure it has some fun elements, the whole social aspect, but it's still such a chore doing it, I dont know how anybody does.
So I decided to try a new deposit method for Hero and lo and behold it worked! I gave Bovada a brief shot a few months back and the software is so punishingly crippled it simply is not worth playing there. Plus the withdrawal system is gimped, and you're lucky to get a check in 2 months it seems. Meanwhile Merge keeps humming along nicely. Despite BF there still seems to be a decent play pool available.
That being said, dipping my toes in the water on Hero today felt really really good. It's just so remarkably nice to be able to play at home, with the window open and a slight breeze blowing by, cup of juice in one hand, mouse in the other, just relaxing and watching the day fade away from the comfort of my leather computer chair. I just dont see myself going back to live. I mean, I'll play every now and then just to say whats up to everyone and have some beers, but thats about it. In fact, playing online today was such a joy that it has completely shifted my focus on job relocation efforts. A few months ago I was scouting Vegas and other live poker mecca's to see where I would like to live and grind. But fuck all that shit now, online is the only salvation. This points me back square at Vancouver again. Joeingram did a great service with a recent blog detailing his impression of Vancouver. I cant say I'm a fan of the rain or cold, but good god being able to play back on Stars again practically makes it all worth it. Plus Vancouver has its perks when it's not shitty outside. More on that later.
So to get off to a good start, I went and upgraded my old HEM license to a HEM2/PLO2 license. You see, for no reason whatsoever other than to keep things interesting, I've decided I want to try and learn omaha. But not by learning from other people's mistakes, but by learning from my own. I want to teach myself how to play. It seems like the best players at any given game today are always self-taught. There's just something unique about learning from your own experiences and developing your own thought processes that cant be rivaled by coached efforts. That isnt to say coaching doesnt have its place. No professional athlete can ever say to have truly "taught themselves". But, I just want to see where this goes by using my limited knowledge of PLO thus far.
As it stands I know the following:
The rules
You should almost always be drawing to a nut hand
You want to have 2 pairs of cards that play well together
Danglers suck
Pot control (not quite sure how to implement other than checking OOP vs aggro opponents)
Pretty much never fold to a 3bet IP
Be weary of bottom set
Our mind really likes setting up traps for us. Features of our mind that are meant to help us may, eventually get us into trouble. Unless we're aware of them. These traps can hinder our ability to think rationally, leading to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions.
Now on to a list of the most harmful of these, and how to avoid each one of them.
1. Anchoring Trap: Over-Relying on First Thoughts
“Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? What's your estimate?”
What if we were to ask same question, but use a different number, 90 million?
Without fail, everyone estimates concomitantly higher than the first suggestion in the last one.
Lesson: Your starting point can heavily bias your thinking: Initial impressions, ideas, estimates or data “anchor” subsequent thoughts.
This tarp is particularly dangerous as it's deliberately used in many occasions, such as by experienced salesmen, who will show a higher priced item first “anchoring” that price in your mind.
What can you do about it?
Always view a problem from different perspectives
Think on your own before consulting others.
Seek information from a wide variety of sources.
2. The Status Quo Trap: Keeping on Keeping on
We tend to repeat established behaviors, unless we are given the right incentives to entice us to change them. The status quo automatically has an advantage over every other alternative.
What can you do about it?
Consider the status quo as just another alternative.
Know your objectives.
Avoid exaggerating switching costs. (They aren't as bad as we tend to assume).
3. The Sunk Cost Trap: Protecting Earlier Choices
Any sunk cost is already payed, and it shouldn't influence your decision.
What we can do about it?
Be Ok with making mistakes.
Listen to people who were not involved in the earlier decisions.
Focus on your goals.
4. The Confirmation Trap: Seeing What You Want to See
Looking for information that will most likely support your initial point of view – while conveniently avoiding information that challenges it.
This confirmation bias effects not only where you go to collect evidence, but also how you interpret data: We are much less critical of arguments that support our initial ideas and much more resistant to arguments against them.
No matter how neutral we think we are when first tackling a decision, our brains always decide – intuitively – on an alternative right away, making us subject to this trap virtually at all timez.
What can you do about it?
Expose yourself to conflicting information.
Get a devil's advocate.
Don't ask leading questions. (When asking for advice, make neutral questions to avoid people merely confirming your biases).
5. The Incomplete Information Trap: Review Your Assumptions
Renathe is an introverted gurl. We know that she is either a salesperson or a librarian. Which one do you think she most probably is?
Most people will be tempted to say librarian. Sucks that this reasoning is dead wrong =[ (uuuu)
We usually think of salespersons to be outgoing, if not pushy. So this makes sense to us.
We “forgot” or neglected the fact that Salesmen outnumber librarians about 100 to 1. Before we even consider, we should have assigned only a 1% chance that Renathe is a librarian. (That means that even if all librarians are introverted, all it takes is 1% of introverts among the salesmen to make the chances being higher for Renathe).
Overlooking a simple data element can make our intuitions go completely astray. (We keep mental images, simplifications of reality, then make the jump to conclusions before questioning assumptions or checking whether we have enough information or not.
What can we do about it?
Make your assumptions explicit. (Don't take a problem statement as it is. Keep in mind that for every problem you're using implicit information – your assumptions. It's usually not hard to check the validity of assumptions, but first you need to know what they are).
Always favor hard data over mental simplifications. (Be a little careful to not over-rely on our preconceptions, such as stereotypes. When given the choice, always prefer hard data).
trying to get into cash games. just ended a 12 or so hour session of 2-4 tabling nl 50. extremely boring yet profitable to do shit this way. playing less tables is obviously the way to go.
Would love to play this MTT. Starts on Tuesday Jul 03. Selling at 1.10 so $1,100 buys you 10%, 550 for 5% etc. Paypal or Cash. PM me or leave a comment.
A thinking tarp
Slows down personal improvement
Can easily make people waste their whole lives on
What is it?
Something that you've already spent and that you won't get back, regardless of future outcomes.
Some examples
Bad overall life decisions:
Persisting on an unfulfilled job or career, just because you invested so much time in it? Persisting on a bad relationship, just to “make all those years worth it”? (Maybe some of the saddest cases of the sunk cost effect). Since people literally waste years – if not their whole lives because of it.
Bad financial decisions:
Refusing to sell something at a reasonable price, just because they spent so much money on it. Gamblers who won't quit, claiming they need to make back the money they've already lost.
Bad Everyday Decisions:
Ordered too much food, eat it anyway despite being full. Keeping useless clutter in your home, since you payed for it. Watching a bad movie to the end lol. The examples go on and on. The consequences for each of them may seem trivial at first, but if you think about it, we make these mistakes so often that they add up pretty quickly.
Why Do We Fall Into the Tarp and How to Avoid It
1. We Want to Make the Investment Worth Our While
“We have a genuine interest in making our efforts worth our while”. We don't want to feel that we spent anything in vain – time, money, anything. However, even if we know deep inside that our approach is wrong, we still have trouble abandoning it.
Solution
Cut your losses and move on! (LOL, ok, kinda anti climatic, but whatever works I guess).
2. We Fear Failing and Looking Foolish
We live in a success-oriented culture. Cutting losses means admitting you made a mistake, if not in public, at least to yourself. Our egos will always try stubbornly holding us to your commitments, so we don't need to admit our imperfections. If you made a public commitment, you're even less likely to break it, as there will probably be a lot of explaining to do. (That's one thing I got going for me, I don't go out much, so dun have to hassle with that haha).
Solution
Allow yourself to make mistakes. Quickly admitting your mistakes is really productive and more awesome than trying to “save face”.
Do like Socrates and think differently, become proud of admitting your errors (haha, poor longple, who doesn't make mistakes). Change your attitude from hiding your mistakes to actively exposing them. (This is actually sick advice, I always feel a warm wind when I do this in front of people, but it wasn't consciously, I just suddenly felt like it).
This might make you feel defenseless and uneasy at first, but once you get used to it, you'll feel invulnerable to harsh criticism.
Instead of focusing on the sunk costs, take pride in recognizing the cost associated with sticking to the old approach.
3. We Become Attached to Our Commitments
After we decide to do something, we feel attached to what we committed to. And the bigger the commitment, the harder it is to let go. Plus that it's a human trait to be overconfident in everything we set ourselves to do will pay off. We're biased when we evaluate the probability of success of already-made commitments. (This is known as overly optimistic probability bias).
Solution
Be aware of the natural bias, evaluate the status quo as it was just another option, rather than the frontrunner.
Try your best, detaching yourself emotionally from past decisions.
“Zero-based thinking”. Forget about the past, and consider this very moment as your “point-zero” in time. Act like all you have in the present. (Cool trick is to pretend you've just woken from amnesia, or a really, really bad hangover). This helps focusing on your current situation, instead of clinging to past decisions that would drag you down.
4. We Lose Sight of Our Underlying Goals
Get too preoccupied by how much time and effort we put into something, that we lose sight of it's relevance in the greater scheme of things. We become attached to the means and forget about the ends.
Solution
Always mindful of long-term objectives. Don't get caught up in justifying your current actions.
Let Go of the Past, Move On
Greatest example of sunk cost is that you pay with your own time, can't really reclaim that time. So no point clinging to the past, make the most of your life right now.
LAPT Medellin: Selling Shares!by Carreira, June 28
Hey guys, my name is Luis im 24 years old and im a SNG, Live MTT player from Peru.
I am a current member of Team Moshman and i play 18m SNGs on PokerStars under my sn "Road2V1ctory". I also play Live MTTs and have started playing Online MTTs.
Friends that can vouch for me here are: SPEWTARD, locoo20 and i believe everyone on TLPoker.la knows me.
I started playing poker around 3 years ago when i got a free $50 from a friend of mine and since then ive never made a deposit of my own money for playing poker. Started by playing 6max cash games on Ipoker, moved to ongame until NL30-NL50 and after making some cashouts to buy a new computer/furniture etc (i currently live in a big house with some of my friends/roommates) i left around $350 to begin training myself in MTTs and SNGs on PokerStars.
Things have been going quite well since i joined the team, my mindset and skill on the game has improved a lot and ive won 2 live MTTs on local casinos here, i also managed to get my online roll big enough to confortably play the 15s (i havent started playing them because im a nit, lol)
So this month i won a Pkg to play the LAPT-Medellin and since i would really like to reduce variance i am looking to sell up to 65% of my action without mark-up. I consider the LAPT to be really a soft field and i believe that i have a serious chance of making it deep.
I am also making this mark-up free since this is the first LAPT ME that im going to play (Ive played a side event of the LAPT-Peru last year and i busted close to the bubble, AT vs KK BvB).
Anyways, numbers here:
Full Buyin: $2350
Looking to sell: $1525
20% = $470
10% = $235
5% = $
2% = $47
1 = $23.5
1% Min buy to be able to track everything easily.
There is a 20% taxes going on by Colombian goverment: Money i win will be transferred to my Stars account and taxes will be applied to stakers and me according to each % of action one has. Ill send shares to everyone, Mb or PokerStars. Will do it when i come back to Perú around August 13th
I accept Moneybookers and PokerStars transfers (Road2V1ctory).
Started playing zoom and it's not showing on my graph so posting this now.
Graph + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/IoEos.jpg
Reason I'm playing zoom now is to maximize my volume before I go to the real job that I've accepted as a backup.
Want to bring attention to this book that I'm slowly reading.
Tragedy & hope - Carroll Quigley
Story behind the book; the only researcher ever let into the archives of the council of foreign relations and spent 20 years writing this book. Once published it instantly sold out but he was told it wasn't selling later he found out that they had destroyed the plates and it was out of print for ages. It has now been reprinted but I'm not sure if there are any changes.
This is the real history book.
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