not a fantastic month but not a bad one either. i have really been getting owned so far this year.
Even though i am losing a lot this year my confidence is at an all time high, as i know i have been playing some of the best poker of my life for past two months since i completely quit fast tables.
quitting fast tables is definitely one of the best changes i have made.
it kinda sucks that i can only play HU at 6max tables now though.
i was watching a coaching video by THE_END a month ago and he said something about it not mattering how tight or loose you play. Probably some of the worst stuff i've ever heard in a coaching video, i know he probably didn't mean too much of it but if i was making a coaching video i would always make sure everything i said made sense. I would never do a live video because of this principle.
Anyway this month i played a lot of nl100 deep which is insanely soft, and some nl200 100bb as well when deep games are not running.
I'm thinking really hard about buying a couple of books which I mind find interesting:
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
The God Delusion (R. Dawkins)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (R. Dawkins)
Anyone had some experience with these titles? I'm especially interested in thoughts about the second one, since if it's just some random hatred-driven rant about how religion is crap (which, after reading up about it, appears to might be), then I could give up on checking it out.
Any other particular titles regarding religion/cosmology/philosophy that you recommend?
I need to work on my mental game a lot I think. I just finished a session out of frustration after playing like a moron. It started out with a suckout in the first couple hands then I opened more tables up to 10 (super stupid idea). HM2 was giving me trouble because I had too much other shit open and that made me want to punch my monitor (I get the most angry when technical shit isn't working; wifi problems, RAM problems and timeouts all bring out some kind of rage in me). Then I made some super dumb calls and jams (I think I 4bet jammed an oesd/fd against a set on the turn, b/b/c'd some schmuck who'd nfd made and ace on river, and worse was 77 calling an overbet shove on a 679 8 T board woops he has JJ). Looking at my graph for this session what really bugs me is that it would have probably been about breakeven if I had kept it together
Landed in vegas a few hours ago, checked in to my room and went straight for the tables. Having never played in a casino, those drinks the waitresses keep bringing by are completely free right? And people just tip them like $1 or so for every one? Most important, will they make you any drink you want for free? I mean can I order some nice vodka beverages and it's all on the house?
Anyway had a good first run. Bought in for $200 at a 1/3 game and cashed out $540. I nitted it up to start, but couldnt help but attempt to isolate and target a few players with no joy. I just dont know enough about that stuff, and bleed off a good 30BB's before I recognize it just isnt working. I seem to do alright stealing blinds, but I just cant quite understand how to properly iso/squeeze and what to do on certain flop textures. I keep trying to balance my range even though I know it's pointless because nobody cares, I just cant help myself, it feels like the right thing to do.
Apparently people are allowed to use cash for chips on the table. I turned a flush and missed a shit ton of value vs 2 pair because this guy had $100 bills under his stack and I just wasnt looking at that. I looked at his chips and thought I put him allin by sliding a stack out, only to realize there was a good $300 behind that I missed in value.
Other than that, the casino is great, the Aria is ridiculous, and I feel right at home in the live setting no different than playing in my home town.
I felt that after this sample I was confident enough that I can comfortably beat NL 4 and am moving up to NL 10 today. 8.64 bb/100 winrate ain't too shabby even if it's against some really terrible players.
a lot of deep runs in the end, had 5 screens now going very deep on all, and no FT... ran super crappy when it came down for the big flips. posted the important hands.
around 4.1k left now, so good enough for another sunday, will have to be 06/10 tho cause I'm going to Sao Paulo to play a big live MTT this weekend. there is still hope for when I come back tho
Register on the site, go through 15 groups, select 1 of the 5 players in each, and you are finished. Fun, easy, possibility to win prizes. I think 1st place wins 1% of Negreanu's winnings at the WSOP this summer, which could be fairly big if he cashes the one drop. Gogogo
Here are my picks. I tried to prioritize more on people that play more events and skill was second.
ElkY (Bertrand Grospellier)
Dan O'Brien
Vanessa Rousso
Shaun Deeb
Thomas Marchese
John Juanda
Tobias Reinkemeier
Tom Dwan
Sam Trickett
Vivek Rajkumar
David Chiu
Viktor Blom
Shawn Buchanan
Chino (David Rheem)
Brian Ras
for nl100/200 HU players for $100 per hour, or 3 hours for $75 each.
I used to play NL1000 HU a before, I made a good clip, but i was mostly bum hunting and was not very good.
Only recently I have been playing the mid stakes games recently, sitting across multiple tables "waiting for donks" but routinely joining other regs; i average about 300-500hands per hour because of this and I am constantly in action.
I usually never coach, but I think its the right time. I think most of my students will only need 1-3 hours.
PLEASE Inquire with PM for details and the expected outcourse.
I'm just going to make a May blog now so I can stop worrying about having a pretty may graph and just play more. + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/txz6I.jpg
Last month I didn't make a thread because I moved and stuff but played like 15k hands up started up 2.5k ended the month down like 1k.
I'm trying to stop fapping so much since that byrnesam thread so there won't be any thread saver. Also still eating good I've stopped completely with junk food, sweets and soda just feels like I'm poisoning my body and mind with it.
Have 3 huge omega-3 pills a day, used to have only 1 a day because it also had multivitamins but I recommend the pure.
Hey Guys, I have a short question due to my trip to USA within next 3 weeks. Mostly i`ll be working over there, and traveling a lot, so just free weekends i guess. Can anyone give me a tip on good poker rooms/casinos - locations are New Orleans, Atlanta, and Cincinnati so far ( tournaments oriented - not a fan of cash games, but will do as well). Appreciate any help.
My first sales job.
It was a great experience I must say, fun people working around me, people helping each other out, lots of nights out and I got my life motivation sky high again - lost some 15kg since Xmas and got proper social life with sports and going out again :O
Just the results lacked especially in terms of numbers - I got good at selling finally in the last month, got a contract in last week, solid processes but never really got hang of the admin side of things (which there was surprisingly a high amount of I must say), and it was making me nervous when I was actually selling.
But I feel like I have a great foundation to build on and will defo keep rock&rolling, I built a sick work ethic at some 11hr/day, (I feel it's sustainable, never missed floorball, 3x+ gym per week and going out with friends weekly. . . Apart from the couple weeks around the girlfriend fiasco that you can read about on my teamliquid blog) learned a ton about the sales process and know what to expect now.
I got an interview tomorrow with some slightly shady outsourced sales hustlers (The "MD" is Romanian, and doesn't even have Linkedin profile lol), I don't give a fuck as long as I keep the momentum going - I drank my first coffee last week in ages and don't plan on stopping. Besides, they will let me do things my way.
That's why I chose sales - it's so easy to get a job, hard to keep it when you hit a bad streak, reminds you of something perhaps?
P.S. Got a cold, so annoying
Also, met a Scottish girl some time ago - made out a bit and hopefully will see her this week :O
She's proper crazy, travelling all over the world, doing bungee, scuba diving, even went to Seychelles on her own once just for the sake of it and is going to work on a dairy farm in New Zealand in October.
You know - lives her life, something I feel I haven't been doing properly, and sales is similar to poker, as it gives you the freedom to do so, there is no excuse.
P.P.S.
There might be some time for poker as well, I had to work weekends too, but my next jobs should have them free - I will put $100 in and build that bitch up again and see where it takes me.
75 bucks for some quick graphic design work?by MARSHALL28, May 24
Okay so I'd like to get a graphic created to both be posted for my CR videos and also to be posted on my personal website upon it's creation.
What I'd like to do is have my real name used, 'Peter Jennings' as the main focus with the words 'AKA Marshall28' somewhere in smaller print on the design. Also, anything that you might know about me that could add a personal touch to the design will likely be rewarded.
Be as creative as you like but I can't accept something that has anything vulgar or inappropriate for a relatively young audience. Whichever one I receive that I like best I will ship you $75 on either Black Chip Poker or on America's Card Room, or $50 on paypal. Completely your choice.
Please send me a PM to get my e-mail address as I would have to be completely nuts to release that information publicly.
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