Our account randomly got limited and they forced us to give them documentation about our business and our supplier contact information, otherwise they would restrict our account and prevent us from withdrawing money. They gave us a deadline of 7 days.
I sent in the documentation the day after I received the warning, and I called in to double check that they were going to get it taken care of. They ended up not getting back to us in time and our account got restricted today and we weren't allowed to withdraw or send money. I called in again and got the contact info for a guy named Vincent, who is in charge of our case.
I'm talking to Vincent and basically he says congratulations for having such tremendous growth, we're going to put you on a rolling reserve with a rate up to 9%. He actually called it a "sidepot" which made me chuckle a bit.
tl;dr
PayPal is going to force us to loan them up to 9% of every transaction we make for 90 days and there's nothing we can do about it. They're also trying to play it off as though it's for our safety.
How to prepare to play pokerby Carthac, December 15
Hey everybody, it has been a while Since black Friday I have not played much poker. What I have been doing is focusing on school. In one of my classes, Psyc 360 Cog Processes, We had an assignment to complete on improving our test taking process. I figured now that finals are over, I would share a little bit of what I learned and apply it to playing poker.
-Before you are going to play, diet is very important. You want to be eating foods filled more with complex carbs and proteins. When you eat foods higher in fats and simple sugars, the stomach requires more blood and oxygen in the stomach to break it all down. This ultimately pulls blood and oxygen away from your brain and lowers thought performance. I can’t recommend a lot of various foods, but the obvious fruits, vegetables, and whole grain foods come to mind.
-Caffeine is a very touchy subject. Caffeine has been shown to have very few physiologically harmful effects when consumed in small doses, even over a long period of time. Studies have shown caffeine increases the speed of your thought process on material you know very well. This is why caffeine improves performance on various competitive video games, but caffeine has shown to degrade performance on tasks that require more complex and logical thinking. Thusly, if I were to recommend it, it would be to the tired 1-2 live player who does not have a lot of tough decisions, but would not recommend it for the online 1-2 player. However, if you have a normal level of caffeine consumption every day, do not deviate from that. It will degrade your performance more than if you were to have it.
-Have a normal wake cycle and routine of poker playing if you can. One study, which sadly I can’t find the citation for, found that test performance improved if students studied in the same environment at the same time in which they took their test. This means if you play online daily at the same time, your body will become accustomed to increasing performance at that certain time. If you are not accustomed to doing this, it typically takes about a week to establish a cycle. As a side note, those of you that have trouble with sleeping, this is the key to obtaining a normal sleep cycle. It is a little more info so I won’t write it all here, but if you would like to know, PM me or ask in a comment below.
-NO DISTRACTIONS. As much as humans want to think they are capable of multi-tasking, they are not. One study in particular exhibited this effect. Participants wore headphones and were played two audio tracks of people talking, one in each headphone. They were told to focus on one voice. After the test, subjects were asked what the other person was saying during the experiment. None of them could answer the question. However, almost none of them recognized the person was speaking a different language! The best performance you can exhibit while playing is 60% of what you would normally perform if you were focusing your attention solely on the task at hand. However, this %age goes up with familiarity. So I would recommend against listening to music, but if I had to, I would recommend music you are familiar with. However, no TV, no podcast, no AIM/MSN chat.
-Exercising is great for the body and mind, but it has small time-frame drawbacks. When you exercise and are going to do something cognitively demanding, leave yourself a buffer time in-between. I would recommend waiting at least 30 minutes before playing poker.
Buying a car and other shitby byrnesam, December 15
So, first thing: Ive been looking to buy a car, because i need something to get me from work to home. Unfortunately around this time of year Jesus decided to be born, so im stuck with some stupid forced holiday which is more expensive than if i were to take an actual holiday at any other time of the year I choose.
Anyway, So I was sort of needing a car since about last week. So i started hunting. If you want to see discussion on Veyrons, GT-Rs and Lambos, look away now.
I started off looking at Subaru Legacys. I had one before and it was rad. Unfortunately, when i moved to Thailand and my dad was in possession of it some kids (Maoris) stole it.
So i lined up a few viewings of 2 Legacys, 1 Impreza hatch-back and 1 Mitsubishi Legnum.
The Impreza was nice, but had a 1500cc engine and the actual car was tiny, and i like the room of a station wagon so i can move my shit or sleep in it. (Which is a topic i want to cover in another blog post, but seriously think about: with todays internet/communication technology and skyrocketing rent living in a vehicle makes a lot of sense)
The 2 Legacys were pretty shit. They were both the same year as my old one, but felt much worse to drive. One was fairly beaten up used by some foreign students to travel around. The girl was smoking hot but the car was beat, and the other one felt pretty crap and the guy was too honest about its condition, which was poor.
The Legnum however, was amazing. It was quiet, comfortable, had a sweet stereo, it was massive inside and it looked pretty sweet. It was the most expensive of the 3, with a nearest offer price of $4500.
So i got a vehicle inspection done on it and it was bad news. According to the report it had major oil leaks around the engine. There is a twist to the tale though. The kid who owns it said that the oil was a result of him spilling it whilst servicing it himself just prior to the inspection.
I got a quote on the potential cost to fix the likely causes of the leaks (rocker covers and filter) in the report at $500.
Given that i have spent alot of time in the last few weeks watching Pawn Stars, I put on my best Rick Harrison impression and set about hammering this guy down to a pawn shop price.
"Look man, its a nice car, but not great... Im gonna have to put probably $500 into this thing to get it working"
"Lemme call up a buddy of mine whos an expert in spilt oil"
Anyway, today this guy holds firm at $4000, He agreed to take it to the mechanic on Monday and get it signed off that there are no oil leaks. I offered him $3300 cash with all potential risk of oil leaks, but he still said no.
He never replied to my last text, but after this weekend my urgent need for a vehicle decreases and i have much more time to shop around. I will see if he actually bothers to text me on Monday or if he just throws in the towel.
So maybe im not as good a negotiator as i thought. Its a shame because I really liked the car. I will probably shop around for another Legnum in the time being.
OTHER SHIT
1: Super Meat Boy: I know im a little late to the party with this game, as i often am now since i dont buy shit until it turns up on Steam in their sale for cheap. This was the best $7.50 i have spent in a long time.
It is platform-genre perfection. Perfect learning curve with enough to keep you going. I struggled through the main story mode then I felt such elation when i beat the final boss - BUT WHAT, omg there is a dark world, holy shit.
I have 99% on Light World with 1 level left on Cotton Alley, all levels have A-rating and Ive completed forest, hospital, salt factory and hell Dark worlds.
Just amazing.
2: Music: So, ive been feeling recently like I would like to spend my free time learning an instrument. Ive always liked Guitar. I had one before but virtually never played it. The bass guitar intrigues me, because Lemmy and Steve Harris are so fucking cool, although the sound of a bass on its own is pretty crap. Might get the cheapest acoustic guitar available for fucking around on.
3: American Restoration: This show is awesome, granted that all they do is break something down, sand blast it, paint it and put it back together. The show is cool.
edit:
Probot was a side project by Dave Grohl, involving loads of rock musicians. Shake Your Blood bass was written/performed by Lemmy, and its fuckin sweet.
I wrote the lyrics in about ten minutes. . . It's rock & roll, you know. It's not one of those complicated things.
also:
Headcat was a rock n roll collaboration with Lemmy and they do loads of covers of old rock n roll like Chuck Berry
Advancements in tatooing (NFSW)by whamm!, December 15
was bored and say some images of tatoos in google then ended up in the weird part of the internet
won't bother posting links since its gross so just type in these keywords: (its not super super ogrish gross but still wtf material)
edit: Now posted some sample pics
Type the following in google then obv click the "images" tab:
* "scarification" - its tatooing but not using ink but actually fucking chipping off ur skin and leaving a scar with an elaborate (and painful design) + Show Spoiler +
* "eye tatooing" - pretty self-explanatory and fucking painful jesus christ + Show Spoiler +
http://edge.ebaumsworld.com/2007/10/eyetat01.jpg
* "zombie tatoo guy" - the guy appeared in some talk shows and a lady gaga music vid (born this way), its sad coz in some interview he said he just wanted to look cool at first but now actually regrets having his tatoos lol + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/COLST.jpg
body modification people are really nuts imo so i dont really classify tatoo people alongside with them, but it seems the line drawn between those two are getting painfully closer to each other with the advent of the internet .The internet seems to show these things then a lot of sickos see that oh cool , i think i'll do that coz some idiot already did so its probably ok. I hope I wasted minutes of your time LP. lol
Hi guys, I want to teach you guys good poker, no scams. I've won $1400+ in poker tournaments, my username on stars is "rafzrafz". I'll be coaching for $10 a hour. I'll teach you guys the basics and some of the more advanced plays.
turned 24 yesterday
spent the whole day away from family cause i was moving into my house
stopped at a brick and morter
met a guy from Wichita Falls
said he was joining the WPT next month
chuckled cause I doubt it
donked away shit loads of money
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I'm going to donate one day of my poker earnings (either for tomorrrow or friday, depending on time etc) to Musikhjälpen (http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3946) and was thinking maybe someone wants to do this as a joint venture kind of thing. I don't make that much but will probably be giving around 300-500 dollars.
Let me know, would be pretty cool if we are a few players willing to do this.
Low limit PLO-player look hereby DustySwedeDude, December 13
I'm thinking of doing a kind of group-coaching/studygroup thingy that I think could be fairly good value for everyone involved. It's probably a semi-novel concept and it won't be as intensive as a normal coaching program but it'll be much much cheaper and if we can get a good group of players together I think it could be very good.
If someone's interested just send me a PM and if I get 3-4 people that seems like good fits together I'll try to get it started after Christmas.
I assume everyone knows who I am etc but feel free to ask stuff about me. Got various things going on that's not a look yet so I can't discuss too many details about this coaching idea just yet, but I'll get to that really soon, just judging interests so far.
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.
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Since black Friday I have not played much poker. What I have been doing is focusing on school. In one of my classes, Psyc 360 Cog Processes, We had an assignment to complete on improving our test taking process. I figured now that finals are over, I would share a little bit of what I learned and apply it to playing poker. 
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