Forgot about this money I had on Lock, and the withdrawal minimum is huge unless you wanna take a 10% hit through Western Union. I would rather not deal with that company and instead ask if someone here would be willing to help me out. I'll throw in 10 dollars for your trouble.
I'm reputable around here. If you need someone to vouch for me, let me know. If you are interested, post here or send me a PM. Thanks!
I've been trying out 50NL on the new Lock Poker revolution network. It feels absolutely fantastic to be grinding online again. I've been playing 4-6 tables and feel like I have a large edge in the game. Playing so much live poker has helped me discover the fold button... which is pretty important IMO!
I'm not sure how much of a roll I want to keep on the site. I would like to grind 100NL but not so sure I want to keep 4-5k on there. I realize it is a big risk to even be playing online in the USA right now. The main reason I'm doing it is to keep my game sharp and to test myself against good players. I guess making decent money is a plus too. I guess all I can do is cross my fingers and hope the cashout goes through when the time comes. From what I have read it is taking about 2 months and requires countless e-mails to the support team.
Here are the results so far. Running good and playing good!
Haven't really followed any tv shows lately and looking to start a couple series.
some tv shows that I liked off the top of my head are weeds, spartacus, breaking bad, misfits, lost, heroes etc. Pretty much mainstream stuff but I am really out of the loop with whats good now since I haven't watched tv in like a year so help me out lp.
just curious to your opinions, me and my friend were debating this and in general would like some feedback. i feel as though there are a lot of Z whiners in general (i play Z myself) but feel as though T > Z > P?
tough to say with all the patches and metagame shifts and even map changes. but it is nice to see that nestea is a 3 time gsl champion/mc is a 3 time gsl champion and that mvp was a 3 time gsl champion.
and secondly which matchup besides mirror matchups do you feel is most balanced? (TvP imo)
Tired of D3 or just got an extra key sitting around? Looking to buy cheap accounts/keys in exchange for pokerstars or paypal (also have cash on a few others pokers sites if you prefer).
Recap + Identifying player types post PTR by Joeingram1, June 16
This might be my longest post ever reading it again now, but if you use twitter and like to interact follow me on their as I spend most of my time on their now and talking to random people, way more fun for me nowadays to read on there. Also I misspell a few words later down when I went into beast writing mode and just going to keep it like that, sorry to the spelling pro's out there but i don't know how to spell identify on the fly well lol
I need to do a blog recap of last like month and a half, I dont think I ever put up my pic from when I met the legend himself Phil Galfond. Super nice guy and was fun to hang out with. Stinger was staying at my place for a weekish during SCOOP and told me he would take almost all my action if i wanted to play 25/50 and 50/100 again, was grinding 400-1k at the time pretty happily and enjoying the low stress/variance. I decided sure why not and lost like 7bi at 50/1 and made a bit at 25/50 but still fucked with my head a bit just seeing the big drops in my graph lol. This was first time Ive ever sold any piece of anything in cash games so felt kinda bad losing someone else money but then felt little bit less bad when he bossed it up for like 500k when he was here and kept going on about how he needed to get to Vegas to go bracelet hunting and then of course wins a bracelet, can't even describe it but such a beast/machine/legend. My May graph was looking okay but I actually ended up down a bit (like 10kish) when I took out what piece Stinger had of me and was first losing month in awhile so felt pretty meh about that. Was hard to mentally adjust to playing 1200 dollar and 2000 dollar pots one day and then getting it in good and losing 20k pots the next, even if it was essentially playing 5000 dollar pots, I think I could get used to it in the future but at the time last month I was just like ahhh fuck this shit. Grinding midstakes is just so much less stressful, although lately this month I have been loading up every single table and just battling, which is going away from the strategy I employed the first few months of this year that allowed me to make so much money. First 5 days of the month I was playing with like 20 percent 3b 24 tabling, just batshit insane, chatting everytime I lost a hand and putting myself on tilt. Finally a few days into the month I banned my chat and am on like a 20k upswing since, still mass tabling though but play like infintely better not spazzing in chat and putting myself on tilt. I'm kinda just passing the time until I decide to leave Canada, not even sure what I'm still doing here but the hint I can give you is there may or may not be someone of the opposite sex persuading me to stay longer.
I made this blog for a reason originally and that was to write a bunch about ways to identify player types without the use of PTR but I will post some pics and graphs first.
This is my May Graph, as you can see there is a like 110k drop in there which was over a few days time span, not even sure what percentage of that was mine and really don't even want to think about it anymore. Stinger had like 45kish (more or less not sure right now) so ended down money. Also ended down in buying pieces for SCOOP and playing High plo scoop but actually ended up about 20k in live cash and up some buying pieces of stinger so actually might have had a super small winning month when take it all into account but dissappointing nonetheless.
So at some point in time over the past few months I kept using a goal of buying a new car (ferrari) as a way to motivate myself to keep playing and making money. I decided to start looking more into that over the past month and debating buying a car in canada for a few different reasons. I was thinking of staying here longer and was going to just say fuck it and get one for a few months and then figure out resale later or importing into usa at some point or who knows what. I have alot of money in Canadian dollar right now in my bank and with the conversion rate not so hot in my favor I thought this might also work if I was to head back to the USA and was planning to buy a car anyway. Alot of my friends on 2p2 and fb gave me their inputs as to the idea of doing this and most said it was dumb/idiot thing to do which probably is true but I was moreso looking at it with a way to reward myself for the hours and hours of grinding I have put in to give myself the dream car I have always said I was trying to make money to afford one day. Knowing I could always resell it if for whatever reason and would continue to play poker online and still make money. I still have been going back and forth on it now but have kinda decided for the time being with potential move back to USA and then trips to Vegas and Spain that I can put off buying a car and see where my head is at come August and see where I decide to ultimately settle down at post summer. With that said here is a pic and video of my test driving an f430
Player Type Color Coding
I want to write about the EV of buying pieces of people that you are friends with and in the marketplace but will save that for a few days from now as I want to write about what this was intented to be about before I lose the passion to write. I only get this feeling once every few months now so want to take advantage of when I have it. I always have thought one of my strongest edges this year was exploiting the weaker players by intedifying their specific areas of weakness and devising what works best against that type of play. I was game selecting pretty hard for awhile and by doing this and only playing 1 or 2 tables at a time you naturally focus in more, with having position on the fish all the time you would end up paying more attention to their play and figuring out certain lines they take with certain ranges/hand strengths and could then figure out ways to best exploit this. Alot of the really bad players were semi-regulars in a sense so if you can be really fast at seat selection you will end up playing with these guys often. Also with the use of PTR and looking at stats you could then pinpoint more exact the type of player a new fish was and have a better plan of attack because would have played against a wide varitey of fish already and learned in what areas to exploit. Without the use of PTR though its kinda like a big pandoras box for me lately in idetendigiyng new fish types and figuring out where they fall on the color coding scale. I use a color coding scale of about 12-15 colors ranging from The WORST OF THE WORST aka the -80ptbb players aka the ones you would play even 2 to their right sometimes (julia, rafedu, few others) to the guys you just want to avoid playing with because their winrates are awesome for a reason (eire, cleaner, lautie). I don't ultimately think those 2 specific colors matter to much because the WofW you can usually tell almost immeditaly by their stats/plays they make but its the other 11 colors in the middle that are the clusterfuck to figure out and learning how to idetify better and faster will ultimately give you a better edge on the competition and make you more money.
Luckily for me I have a base color down for most of the people I play vs 2-4+ and I'm happy I do. There are some random people that you never really notice or remember that I PTR'd before who would show up with like super awesome winrates over a good sample who I coded accordingly with just looking at their stats would think they are random player. I can kinda do a bit to avoid these players now and look to exploit others. Without PTR though this is impossible so I have been trying to figure out other ways to do this but haven't really stumpled upon anything besides HEM research and intent attention while at the tables in the forms of notes and what they showdown. I have some Fishy/weaker Reg color codes and those came in handy so much when playing against, these are the breakeven or slight losers who play really often and sometimes multiple tables but you seem them make plays like getting it in with Weak SD/Weak FD/Dominate draws in spots where good players would never do because they know their equity is never going to be ahead vs the range of hands you are getting it in with. These are just fundamental errors some make because they overvalue certain hands still and at some point after losing enough with them you realize (you do win alot with these hands too sometimes which justifies you to keep playing them that way). When you see regs make plays like this over time that is a big indicator of this color and then you can adjust accordingly when playing bigger spots with them and knowing there range is going to be wider then a better player. You can also expect this type to make alot of smaller mistakes in other pots and get to showdown a bit more/wider so can barrel them off the weaker part of their range and also valuebet thinner. Post PTR i think this player type might be one of the easier to identify for me personally.
The hardest tier for me to get a handle on right now is that like 5-10 range (using 1 amazing-12 worst scale). These guys were insta easy to give a base color with PTR because they would range from -7ptbb to like -35ptbb and could label them right away and then if you started to see them more often could go more indepth in their game but as a standard you wouldn't see these guys that often but sometimes often enough where their tier might matter (ie: you have 6 games going and a new game pops up where a 5/6 tier with 50bb doesn't provide that much value and is slightly +ev when trying to focus really hard on the other games with more EV/Value where before you could identify these types right away but now you have to play with them to figure it out). The ability to identify these players as quick as possible and be right about it I think ultimately is very valuable. Their are some guys I just leave as undecided fish for a few session because I really just can't fuckin tell where they fall. There are some 70/8 players who really never stack off and with PTR before this was easy to identify with winrate/stats but now your like this dude is playing 70 percent, he has to be terrible, lets color code him this and insta sit/be on the lookout. In reality this guy is a slight losing player who doesn't provide that much value compared to others who in the wrong table dynamics you might be even losing a bit/high variance spot. Going from the 8-10 tier is kinda difficult for me to establish right now too because the difference in even those 2 for me from what I have seen is immense sometimes. The 10's with their winrate are the types sometimes to just say fuck it preflop and gambool it up with any 4 cards therefore letting you adjust accordingingly and get it in for value wider. Where'as an 8 will still play pretty snug preflop in those same spots but is going to play pretty poorly postflop and get it in bad on certain flops. The problem for me is distinguishing those 2 types quickly because their stats tend to be similar and without paying alot of attention you just group them as one but your still missing out on spots to exploit them and win their money when looking at it like this. I'm still working on ways to be able to distinguish a 5 from a 9 but honestly not working hard enough right now as I have kinda checked out on the whole bumhunting aspect when playing midstakes.
I do have similar viewpoints on identifying regulars and giving an appropriate tier for them but I don't really feel like writing to much anymore so will have to save that for another time. Ultimately anything I have just said really won't mean to much to the mass tabling beasts that can play in any lineup and have an edge for the most part (mipwnya, lautie, rivalzz (debatable him). But I think there are alot of people that just kinda go unnoticed with not so big edges that if they were able to identify player types better/more efficent/faster could make themselves more money. Writing this was kinda just my way to figure out for myself my thoughts on the current spectrum of things and get some feedback from other people on some things they look for or ways that helps them accomplish this better. I know alot of this might seem like holy fucking shit why are you thinking about this shit so much but this is basically the strategy I used besides running good to make me 450k lol which I have gone away from. The basic idea to minmize your variance/hands you play/spots you get in vs the really good players (in and oop) and instead focus a majority of your efforts on only the weak player in the lineup and how you can take his money the fastest and most efficient and be on to the next one. Since I have less confidence right now in my fish finding ability I instead have reverted to my old strategy of just playing any seat/any game/as many as possible but luckily for me I am a much better player now then I was before when I used to do this and I can achieve some level of success doing it but with higher variance/swings.
I probably missed saying some things because my mind went elsewhere but will re-read this few times over the next few days and add in anything I may have not said or forgot to write down. I have a tough time lately verbalizing/writing anything I think out lol
O yea graph for June since chat ban so far, basically 24 tabling/playing anyone HU, lot of the big drops are from losing alot to the run good god regulars that never lose at HU deep tables
The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr
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The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr is a documentary about the mixed martial arts career and personal life of Mark Kerr. The documentary is critically acclaimed for its sobering account of the brutal sport of early no holds barred fighting and the depths of addiction in which Kerr succumbs to and eventually overcomes.
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Better quality version below, but, it's dubbed in German. You could sync the above and below video if you really wanted to. Although, I watched the lesser video quality version while at my desk eating dinner, so the quality wasn't an issue. + Show Spoiler +
Ethiopian government has just made it a criminal offense to use VoIP services within the country such as Skype and Google Talk. Anyone caught using VoIP service can now spend 15 years in prison. Ethiopia passed the new law last month, and it’s only just now becoming known outside of the country.
The Ethiopian government argues that the bans on VoIP services are because of “national security concerns.” Ethiopia currently has a single telecommunications carrier, which is state owned, and called Ethio telecom. This ban of VoIP services also happens to help protect the state’s monopoly on communication services.
The Ethiopian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology also gained “the power to supervise and issue licenses to all privately owned companies that import equipment used for communication and information.” Ethiopia’s ban also extends to social networking with people not be able to make audio and video communications. Ethio Telecom is also said to be blocking access to the Tor network, which allows people to surf the web anonymously.
Sold my car! And .. Coaching rate addendumby MARSHALL28, June 14
Hey guys,
I finally just today sold my Porsche. Bought it about 6 years ago, roughly 4 months after declaring myself a poker pro. It really was the only asset I had to my name. So now I'm back to ground zero. I consider this a good thing though, because now I feel motivated to work towards new goals--which if you are a regular reader of this blog--you'd know has been a major issue in my life. At this point in my life I'm 28, and a lot of non-poker players my age are catching up to me as far as acquired wealth. I have such a different outlook now than when I bought that car at 22 years old since all I cared about then was trying to be a baller and spend every dollar I made. Now with these regular guys catching up to me, it's like a race, and I don't like to lose.
I'm ready to start building my financial portfolio and actually get myself headed in the right direction for the future--i.e. acquiring wealth (if you guys have any suggestions regarding investments, please let me know!). The car was so expensive as far as general upkeep and insurance payments that I'm actually just glad I got out from underneath it before something bad randomly happened that could have ended up costing me like 15 grand to fix. So that burden is gone. And now that I have no assets, I'm hungry to acquire new ones. This is the chance for all of you guys who told me I was making a huge mistake and how bad of an idea it was for me to buy the car in the first place. haha.
So, onto a new era. Going to take a large portion of money I received from the sale of the car and invest it, and I'm actually going to take a step down in stakes for the foreseeable future. In addition to my savings and investments, I want to follow the 50 buy in bankroll rule from now on, so you'll probably see me playing a lot of 2/4 and very little 5/10 for the next couple months. You know, for the last 12 months I've been constantly playing under-rolled pretty much everytime I took a seat at a table, and because of this, it forced me to pass up on many marginally +ev spots in order to preserve my bankroll and my ability to continue playing in those games. No longer do I have to pass up those spots which means I can get away with playing more aggressively and I won't have to just let other guys push me around nearly as much. This is going to make the game a lot more fun--and profitable--for me.
And also.....I wanted to make a correction regarding the coaching rates I stated in my most recent video. I had said that I was currently charging 200 per hour. What I forgot to explain is that I've switched to doing 90 minute sessions. The 200 I am asking is for one 90 minute session.
I understand that in this current poker economy that the price might seem relatively high. The reason for it is because I feel very strongly that the cost of subscribing to poker training websites is incredibly low. People have been paying such a low price for such high quality content (if you think about it, like 130 bucks or something gets you every Phil Galfond video ever made--which is just completely absurd IMO).
The rest of the players who subscribe to websites have improved so much while paying so little that I feel I can't possibly charge any less than this 200 per session, especially since even after a couple of sessions I notice how quickly the mistakes you guys are making get fixed. I really hope other guys who coach have noticed the same thing and adjust their rates accordingly. Otherwise, they really are just hurting themselves way too much by improving their competition so quickly for such a cheap price. Either that or they are just scamming people by claiming that they are better than they actually are and baiting potential students with relatively low prices. This is something very important to be weary of. If someone who plays above 2/4 regularly is charging less than like 100/hr there's a good chance they aren't winning very much, or at all.
Also, I think the smartest and most economical way of attaining good advice for your game individually is for you guys to find a friend and split the cost of a session between you. You wouldn't be getting completely one-on-one coaching, but if you have a friend who you talk strategy with frequently, likely you play a lot of spots similarly and also make similar mistakes.
Additionally, I know there are a lot of you guys out there who are in study groups. If you have like 4 guys in a study group and you pool your money together, like 50 bucks each, then you prepare a number of spots/questions you'd like to discuss, or a string of footage you'd like to discuss, that's something I'd be open to doing as well.
For you guys at 50-100nl, these I think would be the best ways for you not to have to spend 2-4 buy ins on one coaching session and still get a lot out of the information being shared.
With this new set of series I'm doing of climbing the limits, taking a look at the 50nl games, then the 100nl games and the 200nl games, there are still an alarming amount of you guys misapplying concepts spoken about frequently and at length during videos. Another other thing about it is that sometimes the right advice to give in a video is the exact opposite advice to give to an individual in a coaching session. The reason for this is that in a video, I'm usually trying to give the best general advice to a range of players at different intervals regarding level of skill. When I talk to you personally and understand your skill level, the type of advice is automatically much better--and semi-frequently completely different--this is because I am basing it off of a better understanding of the skill level of the person I'm speaking with.
Anyways, shoot me a PM if any of you guys are interested as I'm becoming more regimented with my personal life, most specifically, my sleep schedule is becoming more normalized therefore I won't have the same issues I've had in the past regarding my unwillingness to schedule appointments. From now on I plan to schedule all appointments.
Drop any comments in the section below, I always appreciate them.
A public service announcmentby DustySwedeDude, June 13
This might be the most important post I've made on a blog. It has very little to do with me but a lot to do with anyone who lives in Europe or any other country that might turn to shit really soon. To get some background, please watch this speech in the European Parliament by quite possibly the most entertaining politician in recent times:
The Euro is shit, it'll turn to shit and to claim that the Euro was a good idea is bullshit on such a level that I can't even describe it. Ten years ago I though the Euro was a cool thing that Sweden should use. My only defence is that I was 15 and an idiot.
If you live in a Euro country, the possible exception being Germany which seems fine for the time being, make sure to have some stockpiled food home, enough to last for a week or two, keep enough cash home that you and your family would be fine in cash the banks top working for a few weeks. Make sure to have enough saving to survive unemployment for 6 months or preferably more. If you're a poker player, make sure that at least some of your profits are reachable even if your bank account would stop working for extended amounts of time.
Obviously this crisis might blow over, but my guess is that it'll be a lot worse before it gets better and while we've seens rome riots in big European cities and bank runs in Greece, that shit is very likely to happen a lot more.
I live in Sweden and since the Swedish currency is not pegged to anything and Sweden is doing better then most of Europe (even though private debt is soaring due to retarded mortgages and that will, not might, will blow up in our face sooner or later) so I'm ok to have most of my money in this currency, but if you live in a Euro country, get hold of some Swiss money, gold and/or silver if you want to be on the safe side.
He's a bit extreme but he is mostly right in his predictions.
We will face another batch of news of "recovery" and crap before the election in the US and politicians in Europe will say that it's about to turn around. That will all be lies. Watch how country after country in the EU will need to be bailed out and eventually the Bundesbank won't be able to stop ECB from printing money and creating inflation. Inflation is a lot like a tax on money, and it's sneaky as hell. The FED will soon (within the year) start some kind of QE3 in disguise and print a shit ton of money and create even more inflation. Sooner or later China won't be able to drive the world economy. This fractional reserve banking system we have will most likely cause a fairly big collapse.
I'm aware that I sound like a paranoid gold bug (and I am, no argument there), but at least take the time to think about it next time you see a big European country in need of a bail out (I'm guessing Italy sometime this fall) or congress raising the debt ceiling.
I won't rant more about this since I do know that people who don't believe in it probably won't be convinced and people who do can read up on it much better elsewhere. Take care, feel free to ask stuff and remember that being prepared is the best insurance against things turning ugly.
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