Supernova Rakeback / Sunday Stormby SolarM, February 27
Hey guys, played the Sunday Storm on Pokerstars yesterday and got really deep to about 200K starting at 5K and got killed by AT preflop all in while holding AA. Fuck it! Only received 80$...
I've learned a lot in the last few days, cause I've played lots of NL10 and feel really comfortable to beat this game. I've realized at last, that it's the big decisions that differenciate the good and the bad players... Not wheather to cbet or not. It's the big pots and the proper decisions. Right? :D
I just calculated the Rakeback for Supernova and Supernova Elite just for fun... Here are my results :
Supernova : 4000$ back for each 12987$ Rake they pay (30.8%) PLUS average 3114$ (2600+2800+3000+3200+3600+3800+4200 (the more they play, the more they gain, but I will just calculate the average) for each 18181$ Rake they pay (17.13%) = 47.93% Rakeback!
Supernova Elite : 4000$ back for each 9090$ Rake they pay (44%) PLUS average 11700$ (9200+9200+9200+19200+9200+9200+9200+19200)for each 45455$ Rake they pay (25.74%) = 69.74% Rakeback!
What the fuck, thats a lot. And I didn't even calculate the 20K Bonus when reaching Supernova Elite.
Since doing math is fun at 5AM I will calculate BronzeStar, SilverStar, GoldStar and PlatinumStar as well...
BronzeStar : 25$ back for each 455$ Rake they pay (5.5%) PLUS average 10$ for each 182$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 11% Rakeback!
SilverStar : 50$ back for each 545$ Rake they pay (9.2%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 14.7% Rakeback!
GoldStar : 300$ back for each 2273$ Rake they pay (13.2%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 18.7% Rakeback!
PlatinumStar : 650$ back for each 3636$ Rake they pay (17.9%) PLUS average 50$ for each 909$ Rake they pay (5.5%) = 23.4% Rakeback!
Thanks for listening... Do you think those amounts are correct?
My venture back into online pokerby Carthac, February 27
Hello everybody. Since Black Friday hit, I stopped playing online poker all together. Switched more to live play and had success, but given the size of my BR, I could not grind like I did micros. Games are incredibly soft, but you still need a proper sized BR to handle variance, and I am a huge BR nit so I like more buy-ins than the standard. With the recent litigation in America not going through, and the rumor being there will not be anything done with online poker until 2013, I decided to just start from scratch back at NL10 with a moderate amount of money that I could afford losing. I just truly love the game of poker, and want to keep playing/learning as much as possible. I don't fully expect to get this money back as the U.S. market is shady at best, but I am getting my online game back together. Before Black Friday, I was learning NL50 and beginning to get the hang of everything. Oh ya, I want my money back Howard(please die)
Here is my graph of all the hands I played so far, with comments on my play during the various sessions.
I hope to continue on, perhaps building a roll to tackle NL50 again. However, I am also weary of having that much money on a site that is not guaranteed to give me the money back. One poker roll has been enough for me to lose, especially when it made up a significant amount of money to me. I figured this time around I would only keep around 20 BI for the stake in case the money in seized for whatever reason. NL10 and NL25 should not be a problem for me once I finish making the fine adjustments to my game again.
Is this rake even beatable?by Carthac, February 27
Been playing some micros lately on Lock Poker. Would like to build a roll back from scratch again, but after looking at the amount of rake I pay, I am unsure if it is even possible. Would love some input
Couple of my buddies asked me why i never update my blog anymore. I've always used this blog to brag about my billion dollar months or bitch about how poker is only rigged for me. Since I'm no longer able to do that, I stayed away from updating. Although I've erased most of my ancient blog posts, life was "ok" when I was able to update this blog frequently.
I haven't played poker since September. I've been on tilt/denial in life since black friday so I decided to take a break till Full Tilt situation is sorted. Unfortunately the break has been longer then expected. I'm no longer a professional poker player but a exceptional dog trainer and a Starcraft 2 grand master. One thing I realized from this break is that I'm actually not addicted to poker Although I enjoy not working(kind of), I know that if I stay on this life break, game will pass me by or life will blind me out. So couple days ago, I max shoved some change in bodog in attempt to get my game back in shape.
So far, it's been a deadly struggle to run a decent session. Not only is the stakes 100x lower then what I'm used to, I'm limited to playing 4 tables max and the competition is pathetic. It makes Starcraft2 icon on my desktop look more tempting then the Jack Ace of spade on top right of bodog tables(Blackjack).
For temporary fix, I've had couple of my friends sweat me to help my boredom. Shit got me going. So I'm offering a deal. People frequently asked me if I coach and although it's still a no, I'm offering something similar and better(in terms of price).
I'll be playing all my games 4 Tabling anonymous tables. There's minimal amount of reads in those games so most of my play will consist of what I believe to be the game theory optimal play. You can ask me anything poker related and I will try my best to answer. You can even skip the poker, crack jokes about dumb blondes all session and it's fine with me long as you keep me occupied.
Also since I'm opening some room to be cheated, I won't work with you unless you've been on LP for years or 2p2 reg threads enough to semi-trust your integrity or have mutual friend vouch for you. Trust me, I will find out if I'm cheated and I will kill you. 8)
^last months prior to black friday. i'm sure my hourly would be higher if I ran the HEM back to 1Million hands but I dont have the postgresQL linked to my PC. I played the best poker in my last 1M hands and also made the most in my career. Last 300k hands were my worst run in that span(Brag).
You can leave a msg here or shoot me a PM(2p2 may be quicker since it's linked to my e-mail
What's up liquidpoker colleagues, been a while, I've been writing in spanish but everyone speaks english and since everyone that blog posts here seems to go into a huge good run I might as well try!
So first things first, I'm gonna be a dad for the second time! my son Alejandro is already 2 and a half years old. Don't have a recent photo in this back up PC but here he is younger than now, will post updated one later.
So I'm very very busy with all the preparations as the fathers here in LP know. Still managed to be with our very own Ket the couple days he was here in Lima, we had a great time, one hell of a guy, hopefully he got a good impression of the life here. Also managed to squeeze in almost 3 week trip to the US between January and Feb. Went to Miami, New york and San Antonio, Texas. Loved it there, especially Manhattan, what a place! Will also update pics later when I have my PC back but man I wish I could visit more often, if only online poker is legal again there I guess... My trip was mainly bussiness related and family visiting but nothing really came out of it, will see in the next few weeks when I get some word back from there. Aparently real estate in the US is pretty good right now.
So what's new pokerwise, I was doing well and dandy, too well actually in 2011, felt super confident in game and decided to try a lot of shots at the 50/100 and 100/200 starting 2012 with 0 table selection of course. Even found myself in a 100/200 game w Sauce, Kanu, patpatman (some say its durrr) and me just duking it out like a champ, turned out the poker gods didn't want me to roll in cash just yet and I lost a lot in those games, buyins wise it wasn't THAT bad, but still something I think it was more than 200k.
I made some back in usual 10/20 and 25/50 but then after talking to a lot of friends decided to try and go for SNE, would be the first peruvian to do it and thought it would be cool, I have the experience and am good enough to at least breakeven playing 24 tables and it's still 100k in profits, but doing it mostly for the bragging rights.
Way behind pace at 83k but I can do at least 5k Vpps/day 6 days a week easily and regain pace. Was doing pretty well first 2 days but then it hit me
I started having PC troubles, man PCs are great but they sure need maintenance. If it's not the video card it's the hard drive, then the internet, then the power supply, then it's hold em manager that closes spontaneusly every once in a while. At least this showed me that I'm way over tilt, cuz I kept my cool throughout all those shitty inconveniences.
That has been my life so far in 2012, hopefully you guys are having it better than me at least moneywise! (Actually I think 100% of lpers are doing better than me moneywise this 2012 haha).
I'm out of the loop completely in regard to hardware, my current machine is Athlon 3200+ with some bullshit ATI x1600PRO GPU (which went into "legacy" like 2 years ago) and 1gb ram, which basically means I have 3 bottlenecks in my setup. I don't plan on gaming like a madman and "ultra" settings in highest resolutions are not really what I find interesting in games, however it would be nice to be able to run SC2, DOTA2 and D3 and sort, without reverting to obscene 800x600 in lowest details, so the new setup must not go obsolete in next year, preferably still alive 3 years from now but obviously on lower end. I plan on using virtual machines and I need to run one seemlesly, obviously strictly for programing/development and not multimedia. Other than that, I don't plan on doing any video or graphic editing and if I do I can cope with substandard specs. It would be nice to be able to run some sound editing though, either out of the box or as an extension. Considering all that I want a comfortable, budget machine that would still be decent in few years.
First of all, I desperately need multicored CPU. I'm pretty sure I want Intel this time unless someone makes a very good case for AMD. I was thinking 2 cores 2 threads each would be optimal, but apparently only i7 has hyperthreading enabled and there's a HUGE gap in prices between i5 and i7, currently I narrowed it down to i5-2400 and i5-2500, both have 4 cores (no hyperthreading). According to specs I'm seeing only difference is bus multiplier (seems more important) and in turn about 200Mhz less on 2400 (less important), but 2500 one is about 1/8 cheaper and I'm leaning towards 2400.
Other thing is, for some reason all CPUs I'm seeing have an integrated GPU for no apparent reason, is that standard? I don't need one since I'm defenitely getting a standalone GPU.
Graphcis - nVidia and there's no discussion, not only do I have rather bad experience with ATI, I need CUDA v2.1 support. Also, almost defenitely only one card, I don't see the reason to get two, I would rather just get one but better card. Unfortunately that's as much as I know, need serious help here. One I found (selected at random almost) is Gigabyte GTX460SE, 1GB memory GDDR5, 256 bit bus on PCI-E 2.0 x16, but everything here is a guess except for nVidia chipset. Do I need more memory? Bigger bus? According to some benchmarks I've seen it does decently enough for now but it seemed to be right in the middle as far as shading units and internal clocks go. Also, there are tons of manufacturers with cards on this chipset, once again I'm at loss.
Memory - I was thinking 4GB and maybe 8GB, don't really see need for it at least for now. Not much research done here, need opinions once again.
Finally motherboard, vendor I was looking at only had some uATX boards with LGA1155 socket, quick glance at some other gave soooo many results at all prices. I just don't really now what to pick. uATX actually doesen't sound bad since I don't think there's any need for internal cards aside from GPU, if I want a better sound card I will just get an external one. Also, what kind of AC do I need? 600W?
TLDR:
Need new machine for decent gaming time up to one year ahead and poker, need comments on:
Hey, I've been listening to a lot of Joe Rogan podcasts lately, and sometimes when it's about really cool topics, or they talk about people who's amazing I look up some of their work, to learn and find out more.
One fascinating character called Terence had a lot on his mind, I listened for a few hours to some of his speeches and I made a summary of some the stuff I felt was really well said, thought provoking, and awesome.
Catalysts to say what is never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language, and what's really important, the self presence of direct experience.
We have to stop consuming our culture, we have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR.
Create your own roadshow, the nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your Universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson, lady gaga or somebody else, then you're disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons.
Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X, or have lips like Y or something, this is shit brained. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you, and your friends, and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans and your fears.
And we're told no.
We're unimportant, we're pheriperal, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player.
You don't even want to play in that game, you want to reclaim your mind, and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half baked moron, consuming all of this trash that's been manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
I take a single buyin shot at NL200 live a few times a year when I can, just hoping for a little rungood when I do, and now that time has finally come. +5 BI's in a week = fun time. It's always nice to see your work go towards something, so I took Holly for her first joyride in a private plane.
Miro Mijatovic interviewby PuertoRican, February 25
A must watch for PRIDE fans.
- In Part 1 of our extended interview with Miro Mijatovic, the former manager of Mirko Cro Cop and Fedor Emelianenko discusses his initial contact with the Yakuza, their involvement in Japanese MMA, Naoto Morishita's mysterious death, and rumors of fight fixing. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/rrpt...-miro-mijatovic-interview-part-1-of-3
- In Part 2 of our extended interview, Miro Mijatovic details how Pride impacted the Japanese TV landscape. He also mentions why Mirko Cro Cop never fought Yoshihiro Takayama, and how signing Fedor Emelianenko to Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye led to death threats from the Yakuza. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/leoi...-miro-mijatovic-interview-part-2-of-3
- In the final piece of our extended interview, Miro Mijatovic retaliates against the threats of the Yakuza with help from the Japanese police. He also discusses the magazine Shukan Gendai's dealings, why he left the fight game and the climate for MMA in Japan today. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/3y57...-miro-mijatovic-interview-part-3-of-3
So I got some stuff in the mail for free online casino money from tiptop2012.com
Why the fuck is there about 6 online casinos for US customers where you can put real money online and play casino games... yet like 2 actual poker sites that cater to US players?
With that question asked... which casino game should I gamble away this free money on?
It's like video poker, black jack, baccarat, craps, pretty much all casino games other than poker.
Hey guys, I just got back from a trip to Niagara Falls and I decided to play the 1/2 game they have there at the Niagara Casino.
I arrive, I'm a bit tired but nothing a large Tim Horton's coffee couldn't solve. It was a Thursday night so it wasn't too busy, I went there with a friend who doesn't really know anything about poker. I gave her $60 (The min buy-in) to splash around with to have some fun and apply some concepts I kind of nonchalantly been teaching her about.
I sit down at a table and my friend sits at the one next to mine. As I take my seat, I recognize one of the players there: a girl that played at the CNE casino I've been dealing at in the summer. I remember her because she's cute, funny, very friendly and talks a lot.
There's five hands until I'm the big blind so I observe the table. A ~30-year old black man in seat 7, from the table-talk, he is very tight and from the way hes putting in bets pf and post, I'm assuming he's nitty-TAG. The white-man to my immediate right has tattoos, and the way the dealer knows his name I assume he's a regular. He's in a hand with an older white man ~40-50, where he gets it all-in on the river and Showdowns the J10 nut straight. The older white man from the way hes looking had a very very badly played Two pair. He re-buys for $260
The white man to my left is around ~20-30 enjoyed talking about poker and he threw around terms like equity, set-mine, and pot odds so I assumed he was a bad-but-thinks-hes-good player.
So I post the big blind. UTG White Poker Player (~$350) limps, and the Friendly Whale (~$170) limps when the Black Man(~$200) raises to 16. It folds to me where I peel an Ad. Then I think about the ranges I'm continuing with hoping for another A, where I peel a Ks.
I wanted to play longer than this for my first real decision since my friend was still splashing around learning and having fun and my stop loss was only at $260 and I didn't have any REAL reads. My initial reads weren't really concrete but I decided to just flat OOP (which is probably a mistake) than the other option of re-raising where I didn't really expect anyone to fold and playing OOP in a large pot. UTG flats and we see a flop of:
Pot (~$55)
10h 9h 5d
I check, Poker-Player checks, Black-man checks to a
Turn:
4d
I check, Poker-Player bets ~$15, Black-man calls,
I fold.
It's my second hand T_T and I wanted to play longer for other reasons as stated above. So I'm thinking that he's a regular and probably a some-what decent hand-reader who knows what I probably have. I wasn't sure if he could do this with a FD so I thought for about a minute and whispered call. He didn't reveal his hand or anything and the dealer didn't seem to catch it, so I moved my chips to the middle and announced louder my call.
My thought process was that I didn't know how he played and since the pots around ~$300 and I'm risking $100 so I'm getting ~3:1 and in a vacuum against 1/2NL players, I could be against badly played QQ or a FD. I thought 55 and 66 would play it exactly like this and it was my first thought. But I figured there was too much in the pot to fold and I was going to shove any turn anyway so might as well.
Turn came the 4s and the river measured the 5s where he announced two pair. I show my KK and he says that's good. Apparently he had pair + FD.
Which comes to the VERY next hand on the BU where I have 66 and limped behind. I was talking about the KK hand where people thought I was going to fold and told them that maybe he had a set and I continued talking where I saw a flop of
It continues, I play tight, get AK two more times, Raise PF this time! And get folds around. Pick up KK (AGAIN) UTG-raise to $11 and get folds. Get AA Raise $15 pf to a limper. Bet flop he folds.
I ran really good but no action unfortunately. I'm just talking, agreeing with people's poker logic, listening to stories, laughing, making sure everyone's having a good time. I somehow got the image of a tight-winning-poker player. I decide I should start stealing more and making more bluffs.
Kind-of new player sits down, Middle-Aged Lady (MAL) who seems nice, we welcome her to the table and I assume she's a reg as the dealer knows her name. She posts 4 to the bb away so I assume fishy.
She checks her option and flops two pair where she bets it aggressively.
I'm dealt AsQs UTG so I raise to $11 and get called by (MAL)(~250) in the sb and (WMT)(~$85) in the bb.
Going on my reads, I guess MAL is doing it with ~A5 or ~AJ or ~55 but I wondered if she could be doing it with a smaller Ace as thats what 1/2NL players do. The shove from (WMT) could be an Ace or a J or a FD. Pretty weak and I'm almost certain I beat him. I think for about 10 seconds and fold.
(MAL) calls and showdowns AK and (WMT) had a FD apparently.
Then we come to this hand where I feel like I made a pretty bad mistake.
UTG+1,(MAL)(~$350) limps, I limp on the BU with 4s4d, sb completes and the bb (Tight-Older-Asian-Gentleman)(TOAG)(~$500) decides to raise $15.
(MAL) calls, I call and sb thinks and folds.
Flop:
pot (~$50)
10h 6h 5d
(TOAG) does something strange and he decides to c-bet to $10.
(MAL) calls.
I smell weakness, like (TOAG) has ~AK, AQ because I figured he'd bet bigger for value unless he's looking to c/r, and like I don't really think this particular gentleman would play AA,KK,QQ that tricky on this board. (MAL) I guess maybe picked up on this? Has something like a pair of 6 or a 5, maybe a FD, maybe a SD and maybe a 10.
So I re-raise to $50. Reason: TOAG probably has a weak hand and MAL has something pretty marginal that she might fold. I had a plan to bet a A,K,Q,3, MAYBE 7, and obviously a 4 turn card.
TOAG folds and MAL starts thinking, and looks pretty distressed. So I felt pretty good about it until she asked how much it was and she did that,
"Mehhhh, Ehhhhhh, Okay, I call."
Turn:
6c
Bad bluff card =[. Not folding anything but maybe a draw. But if she's calling with those on the flop I think I have to bet huge on the turn to make draws fold.
She checks.
I check.
River:
6s
Worse River card haha, but Maybe I'm good so I check behind,
I always pull stupid bluffs to take a chunk of my profits almost every session but w/e, I'm still trying to learn and I did leave with a healthy $200 profit after ~2 hours of playing.
Plus my friend ended up with $85 (She was up ~$130 at one point) which is really really good for her first EVER live poker casino experience and probably her 10th time playing overall.
Well I'm really settling into my schedule. Grinding 3 days during the week for 7 hours (5-12), and grinding 8-10 hours on fridays and trying for 8-10 hours on Saturdays and doing Sunday + one random weekday off. Seems like a good work-life balance right now, so hopefully that keeps up. Ok, enough with the scheduling mumbo jumbo...
I'm still a bit behind pace on hours played, but I should get 180 hours in this month because I've been playing a lot, which will almost cover up my 95 hour January. If I can add a couple extra hours here and there I can bump my monthly average up to 150 hours by May I'm sure.
For other stats, Hands per hour is probably around 30 for live play, so you can derive most things from that. i.e 240*30 = only ~7200 hands played so far.
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Oh, and please die Howard
Although I enjoy not working(kind of), I know that if I stay on this life break, game will pass me by or life will blind me out. So couple days ago, I max shoved some change in bodog in attempt to get my game back in shape. 
