I swear there has to be some correlation between (I'm not saying every one of them) highly motivated, driven people and same-sex attraction. Some of these people were homophobic, but just as many identified as straight and did not express any homophobic opinions. Most these people have a strong spiritual component to them (ie. christians).
I don't think I'm just projecting this .. I will consider accusations that I am instead socially inept and don't understand certain social ques but I don't think that is the case.
anyone else notice this?
Christmas is coming pretty fast, I'm fairly late for that but I'm going to go ahead and give it a shot anyway, I'm writing this year again to get any donation you feel like making. We basically go in a shopping mall and there are these paper christmas balls with names and 2 different gift we may choose from, we basically get as many as possible until all the money's gone.
This money is going to be used to buy gifts for children who otherwise wouldn't be able to get anything for christmas, I've done this the past 2 years, this year I might have a special guest who will come and tag along to buy gifts, you guys know him as takechip, he's quite hilarious so it should be fun.
I got told we had until december 15th to do this and since there usually are a lot of people in the malls on thursdays I figured we should go tomorrow night, so send as much money as you'd like within the next 24 hours and then I'm off to shop!
well after not playing poker in forever i've been messing around on hero for the past few weeks with some $ i forgot i had on there from their original freerol. anyway pretty much running like the sun lol.
i requested a cashout but the max they allow is $2.5k (wtf) and it takes like a month, so i want to do another $2-3k. i assume the only option i have is to trade someone for paypal or something? i don't even know how p2p transfers on hero work, but i got the impression that the CEO dude can make it happen.
and if that is my best option, anyone need hero money? need to be pretty reputable if i'm going to send first obv. if you're comfortable sending me first i can maybe get a couple HS regs to vouch for me, but i'd have to check with them before putting words in their mouth.
So just finished 1,000,000 vpps for the year 17 days earlier than last year so I'm real stoked about that. But pity made like $300,000 less than last year. I think the main reason for that is Black Friday and me mentally giving up on poker because of it.
I've also had an insane death run in terms of all in ev, but there is still plenty of room to improve my skills. Also played nosebleeds 100/200 and 200/400 for the first time ever this year. I ran pretty bad tho, called a shove with AK vs the mark after squeezing and couldnt spike anything, losing a $120,000 pot and I also lost a flip to chaoren QQ vs AK. All in all down about $100,000 on nosebleeds. But you guys will be seeing more of me there some time in the future.
Let me expand on my point of Black Friday killing the games, I think alot of the recreational players left the midstakes field, whereas the highstakes fish are still keen to play 25/50+. This year I've found midstakes to be super hard and if it weren't for SNE, I don't think I would even bother. When I come back to poker again, I will spend about a month time doing some research and strategising to try and find an improved way to play 24 tables. If thats not successful, there might be a chance of me becoming a bumhunter @ 25/50. (Fingers crossed it doesn't come to that.)
Anyways going to take a 45 day holiday with family and girlfriend (planning an EPIC golf holiday), see you all next year! Best of luck to those who are still grinding.
Where are the Us players from lp?by MeaL, December 12
Hi, i haven't been on for a long while in here. I really miss posting in this forum. I been lately sports betting with some friend that are professional gamblers @ this stuff been making some aight profit but obviously never like poker use to be. I been playing poker live pretty good up around 3k in 2 1/2 months but money comes money goes when you got a child and a wife to feed plus bills. Still studying psychology hopefully by may i will have my major and continue on studying. I been trying to find poker sites online but non to my liking i preffer live so far. I was wondering if someone could give me some insight on how poker online is @ right know. Also if you want to share a story dont mind
TL net a little too gay now?by whamm!, December 12
It might be the droves of younger wow/lol players who are into these emo, androgyny, cosplay stuff nowadays. I remember making my first account there when bw.com went down and it was very similar to how LP is now, I get the whole open-mindedness and tolerance thing, plus the super moderation going on in there. Heck I even find the "Nada's BOdy" thread one of the funniest of them all (although i am disturbed by how many guys really are serious about worshipping nada's body). There's also the "gay starcraft players" thread which is fine since TL is huge, now the made a "beautiful men" thread. WTF man, really?!?
Call me old fashioned but it seems really gay now lol. I visit TL daily for the BW stuff and schedules and read most of the interesting stuff there, just lately that I've noticed this "trend" haha
It really bothers me that there are lots of huge scams going on in the areas of coaching players. I dont think there is a lot of good/affordable coaching out there. I also want to give myself a way to make more money when I am not in canada and cant play online.
PLO coaching: $125 an hour
full ring NL: $100 an hour
MTT: $75/hr
After Feb 1, 2012 (refer to post #20 in this thread):
PLO coaching: $175 an hour
full ring NL: $150 an hour
MTT: $125 an hour
get 4 hours of coaching, 5th hour is free
I would consider trying a different method (ie % of profits) for a reputable lower stakes PLO/NL player who cant afford it. I would try to work something out with someone who wanted coaching but doesnt have a lot of money.
i only offer coaching in these 3 things as they are the only I have been beating the past few years for good winrates. I dont have every hand I've ever played, but these are about 95% of my online cash game hands since october 2009. of this 26 month period, I took lots of time off due to travel, breaks, and the DOJ. my total hours played is listed as 891, which makes my hourly $105.76, which is how i chose my coaching rates.
Prior to these hands, from 2005-october 2009, I made about 200k in NL cash on pokerstars, 75k in NL cash on full tilt, 100k in PLO cash, and made about 30k total on ub/cake/merge total. in total ive made roughly 500k from online cash games + maybe 150k worth of rakeback/fpps.
In live tournaments, I am up approximately 1.3-1.4million dollars with 3 major final tables in WPT events. In online tournaments I am up about 315k total. +387k on stars, up about 15k on ub/other sites and down about 85k on ftp.
However I am not a tournament regular. I only play a few hundred a year and stay up to date on how the game is played, but since it is not my main game I dont feel comfortable charging the same price as I do for PLO or NL.
I would do anything from hand history reviews to going through sessions to watching a current session to theory. For theory I would probably either require more hours or a higher rate due to a lot of preparation required. But I would be fair in how that rate was decided. Whatever the student wants, as long as I know ahead of time.
I am not available at all times as I do spend a lot of time traveling. But in any given month there is at least a 2 week period where I would be available.
I have done a little bit of formal coaching, but not much. However, I have made 15+ videos for cardrunners.com and have experience explaining my thoughts in all 3 games.
either post here or send me a pm if you are interested.
Ok, so i got featured blog thingy here on LP, and have been thinking of writing something up for some time now on how things are in asia etc, lifewise/pokerwise.
ill start off with the bad news, im kinda busto, it all happened really fast frmo me haveing alot of bad shots/bad months before i went on the trip, and then in bali me and my travelingfriend (good player atleast same caliber as myself) decided to share profits and just mass volume, just to keep both from us from playing the same tables + taking more fish/less variance etc
but it was doomed, he went on the biggest downswing ever, and after losing a ton of money we kinda decided to just stop the company because it made both of us feel very stressed since my roll wasnt as big anymore + him loseing so much he felt like crap and played worse by it aswell, so i had to ship him like 50%+ of my roll
and after that i just kinda didnt have the diciplin to move down stakes/been running bad at the good higher games vs big fish + spending a ton of money on the trip/hotels/roomservice etc etc ballin etc
so what are my options? well, first off i paniced and deposited like my "last" 8k$ i could spare on ongame to 14 table 1/2$ and did that for a couple of days, and it went fine, i played well and were running at 7bb/100 over 15k hands
then daut contacted me and we talked it all over and i got a nutstake from him basically on stars, wich is supergood for me atm since im in thailand, and the EU sites dosnt run many games daytime anyways, on stars i can play 24/7 and now being on stake i can continue liveing my life as normal for the rest of the trip without any risks
so ull see me in the starsgames for quite some time probably
ive been fortunate enough to catch a decent heater in the beginning since regs arent used to playing smoe1 playing as loose and wierd as me they are just spazzing off money to me basically
been playing 2/4-5/10 and trying to get deep tables going, with bad results, no one wants to play, but i got action by a bad reg (Faiv) today HU on 3/6 deep and ended up taking 4.5k from him on 1 table so that was sweet
hopefully can get more deep games going in the future, but my 100bb game feels pretty good atm aswell
anyways, even if this stake wouldnt work out, i would instaget good stakedeals/burrows from friends as soon as i get home to grind my bread and butter swedishsitegames, but for now, me and my traveling partner both share that site + that im alittle busto now getting this stake on stars by daut is supersupergood, im very happy for it <3 much love man
over to the traveling, we started off spending 2 weeks in Bali but the internet was supercrappy there so we went to phuket in thailand instead and have been here for about 3 weeks now, the first week or so we stayed at 5star serenity hotel, (following the advice roman on LP gave me in my prev blogpost and as he said the internet there was good)
but we left it due to its high expences with roomservice etcetc and have now found a supernice appartment a bit outside patong.
its 1/3 as cheap, and double the space and very fresh, and we got a gym/pool etc close to everything so its a nutplace really happy we got it.
we moved in here december first and will be staying here until february 1st, wich is when i probably will be going hmoe to sweden again (i miss all my friends )
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(i also bought a guitar wich was a great idea, havent played much at all the last years (played since i was 7 and probably where better when i was 11 then i am now, but its nice to have something else to grind then the pokers, learned how to play hotelcalifornia and stairway to heaven so far, close to the original versions, but had to do some deviations from it to be able to multitask enough to get the lyrics right aswell, especially on hotel california, but feels good to started up the musica again!)
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(went out on a "date" with one of the waitresses, very cute and smart girl, decent english and not some random hooker so thats nice, have met her a couple of times since, shes nice but probably in love with me wich sux balls to kinda have to break her heart as i go home)
a couple of days ago we did a trip to ko lanta (outside of phi phi island, google for more sickness) to just relax and get away frmo the grind for a while and smoke some weed etc
as for the trip overall, we havent done much drugs/partying overall, we wanted this to be a healthy grindtrip, and its been awesome so far, have been working out 5 times/week following a great workoutprogram for 3 weeks now and it feels great, have been gaining about 20kg since i started playing poker, so it feels great getting back in shape again
have lost about 7kg so far, asia is the nuts for loseing weight, and have been already after 3 weeks been getting alot of great results from the training so everything feels wonderful
will schock ppl as i get hmoe in 6 weeks all negro and ripped
everything is gold except for the unfortunate bust, but thats kinda how i roll, i lost a big part on ongame taking a 25/50 and 50/100$ shot, and after that just kinda had bad timeings and some stupidity i guess.
but im superglad the stake have been starting off well, will be back in no time for sure!
hope everything is well and that it was a (y) read for the guys who read it all, ty for reading see ya soon and keep checking in on my hands in the handsection for some entertaining standard swedishness
is a good spectator fighting game? looks solid imo. i think its great how this game has transformed into this over time (used to suck) fighting game guys thoughts on this?( i hear Kung Lao is imba though)
anybody willing to teach me how to beat NL10 PLO ? It seems impossible to beat, as ridicolous as it may sound.. I cant stop playing it, and it keeps fucking me over.
Like the title says I'm starting to play again and I'm starting from the bottom of the "foodchain".I made myself a little challenge to play every stake till I'm up $x amount/stake.+ Show Spoiler +
nl2=$50 profit; nl5=$100 profit; nl10=$250 profit; nl25=$600 profit; nl50=$1k profit; nl 100=$2k profit ;nl 200= $5K profit and than by the end of next year I want to take shots @ nl 400
The reasons I'm doing this are:
- I haven't played serious in a long time and this a way to get back into it.
- I was stuck @ nl 100 for awhile and I wasn't motivated to play anymore because i was missing the thrill of moving up stakes and the feeling that you're actually getting better at this game
- To prove to myself that I can actually beat these stakes and that it wasn't luck that got me there
I'll update every time I move up with graphs and stats(inspired by longple ) and at the end of the month.
Also for some reason I can't stop listening to this:
essay due will pay on stars (open to negotiation)by Mortensen8, December 07
its a long shot putting this out there
So I was meant to write an essay due tomorrow 8 dec at 5 pm gmt ... but skyrim and goddamn towing reality shows and too much procrastination.
Anyway the subject is the most pretentious bs ever ladies and gentlemen I present to you Postmodernism anyway I picked hyperreality if anyone knows something about this shit ill give you the details of what needs to be done I need 2200 words but anything at this point (even 800 words) will buy me time to write it again once they fail me.
I didn't do graphic design to write essays its like torture to me I simply can't do it, think I'm just gonna drop out my hearts not in this anymore.
So I just finished watching the 26 episodes of this new season. For those that haven't seen the original I recommend checking it out, this new one however I wouldn't bother.
The first half is pretty decent, even tho its still a major drop in quality from the first season. But where it got really shitty was the second half. I found myself muttering "ffs" as I was 2x speeding thru that drawn out endless drivel. I dont even know how to describe it, it almost felt like a parody of the original, like the authors were mocking me for even liking it in the first place... It was awful and it managed to take a dump on all the themes that made the first season great. Even as I was wishing for it to end already the ending itself was terrible and just managed to bum me out even more.
This anger actually just now kinda brings me back to a show Ive watched like a month ago that made me furious. The show in question is Ringer, its a chick show but it had Buffy as the lead so I gave it a shot.
The particular scene that was so enraging was at like episode 3 or 4, she assumed her twin sisters identity and her sisters husband had surprised her with a fancy dress made for her. So its evening and they are alone in their house and shes in the dress, she gets all teary eyed and he says like " whats wrong? you don't like it do you?" and she gets all emotional and almost cries and goes " No, its just that its the nicest thing anybody has even done for me" and at this point I had to physically remove myself from my seat and walk around my flat talking to myself.
The reason for that is that while this dress shit was going on, her A.A sponsor is getting his face smashed in by some mafia guys for covering for this bitch,that earlier that DAY called him to ask for help because she killed some guy and doesn't know what to do with the body. The FBI is after her, this murderous mafia guy wants her dead and she just killed some guy and needs help with the body, so despite all that this guy goes " dont worry, Im gonna fly over and were gonna deal with this together". But apparently that doesnt quite hold up to some rich cunt buying her a fancy dress... I think I yelled "oh you fucking bitch" and then had to walk it off, it might be the angriest Ive ever gotten at something fictional and Im actuall getting a little angry right now just remembering it.
I have no idea why I just wrote all this shit... Im off to sleep -.-
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anyway I picked hyperreality if anyone knows something about this shit ill give you the details of what needs to be done I need 2200 words but anything at this point (even 800 words) will buy me time to write it again once they fail me. 
