im mostly playing 100 nl in merge, occasionally grab a few 50 nl tables too.I mostly try to play only 6 tables but lately i have felt pretty good about my game so i have 9 tabled the last 15 k hands or so. Im planning to try to move back to 200 nl as well which used to be very comfortable for me a year ago. So hopefully i will manage to play good there as well.
November goals:
-move to 1/2
-try to improve my winrate
-play at least 50 k hands
-get my university stuff done
-stay away from alcohol as much as possible
-make €
Finally quitting this game. It's about time.by Newblish, October 30
Well after 4 long years of this game I'm finally saying goodbye. This game has brought me nothing but hardship and trouble in my life and its time I got rid of it. A bit over a year ago i had ~50k and was doing great. I planned to be playing high stakes and have over 100k by the end of the following year(this year). A year and a bit a bit later however, i have nothing to show for all my hard work except the following:
-running 82 Buy ins below EV without even considering coolers
-full tilt robbing me of $~4000
-Absolute from what I now hear is about to vanish without paying me the $~4000 I have on it
- being lazy and barely playing due to low motivation
- not furthering a career that i would have otherwise had if i used my degree in any way.
- A fucked up sleep schedule where I go to bed around 3am and wake up at noon
- more of an antisocial lifestyle than before i had poker since my "job" was on a computer and there was less of a need to ever leave my house
- only around $7000 to my name, excluding my car/computer etc ofc and potentially(but unlikely) the money from FTP/ABS
I just now had another bad session where I was 4 BI's below EV against one of the worst players I have ever played HU. That is ~$800 and thats actually alot now considering how much less money I have. my living expenses are over $1200 a month and i cant afford to be having bad sessions like this anymore.
I just dont want/need it all anymore. I cashed out every single penny I have left online(excluding ABS/FTP of course). I really feel I put a good effort into this game, I am certainly not a great player, but I was good enough to beat midstakes up to 5/10 at one point when I was at my peak around a year ago. Regardless, I feel like my efforts were in vain because I really really did work hard for the last 4 years despite being a full time student(well excluding up until the last say 5 months due to low motivation). I feel like I am not getting rewarded for the time and effort i put into poker. I know I am supposed to accept that poker can be like that and that you're going to have bad stretches, but for me it lasted an entire year(and i cant afford that since it started to happen EXACTLY when i moved out of home). All the endless hours of grinding, of stress, of fatigue, of thinking hard, of staring at a computer screen, of heart pounding in big hands, of analysis, etc.. and alot of the time all you get out of it is emotional distress and a losing session. You can work hard for all these hours, then you just run 5+ BI's below EV and can only think: Is that really the result of all this time and effort? The longrun is a damn LONG RUN if you know what i mean. If i have to wait over a year for things to start evening out and to get rewarded for the hours of grinding then to me its not worth it and i give up. There is just a point where all of the effort/work you put in HAS to give you something in return except for breakeven/losing months(I had only 3 winning months in the last year of which only one was a good month, the other two were measly/miniscule)
Starting poker was a huge mistake. If I could go back in time 1 year form now everything would be so damn easy. Cashout my $50,000 get a real job where you interact with people, have a real contribution to the world, make a real salary, etc and things would easily be better than today where playing poker has so many negative consequences -
- all of the above things of course, but also
- the games are much harder than they used to be
- there are less donks/fish to play against due to the point directly below
- There are so many heads up regulars now that it is next to impossible to find bad opponents
- Two sites have stolen alot of my(our) money
- Americans cant even play on the biggest sites which have shrunk the games even more
- Poker sites are a lot less reputable due to all the recent scandals which give poker a bad name and further makes it unlikely for more people to play
- list goes on
Obviously some of these things were something I could not predict and that was the coin I(we) were dealt, but it just pains me that my parents were right about all of this and that I should have quit poker while i had my former roll. I feel like i let them down. I worked hard in my life for everything... all the school grades, the sports i played, the exercise i did/do, poker, etc. The feeling of working hard and getting rewarded for efforts was something i was sued to ever since i was a little kid. Poker however has really ruined that belief though(for the wrong reasons, but it still has nevertheless). It's my fault I played poker though, nobody elses.. so there is nobody to blame but myself.
Anyway, I really think this is the right decision to quit. There is no future with this game for me. I'll play it for fun and never higher than nl100 if i ever do play again but its very unlikely. I really urge everyone else to let go of this horrible game while you can. At the very least, let it go until the rake is fair or there is a new boom. The game just sucks balls right now.. I've been raked over $60,000 since i started poker(which is higher than my roll has ever been). It's just absurd. Quit the game while you still can.
Im sorry to anyone who remembers me as someone who complained alot and who hated running bad. I hope you can understand that it was just the way I was and that I have learned that it solves nothing. I evolved as a player like everyone else and that was one of my biggest flaws. Thanks to everyone who gave me advice and who helped me improve my game. Thanks in advance for reading this as well. It helps to get my thoughts out about this.
I wish everyone the best. Ill still log in and read the news and many of the treads. Take care.
merge sucks where else to play by Gsr_01_integ, October 30
Merge is gettin way to old...theres never more than 10k ppl on at max times the mtts sucks and never really have a good prize pool and it seems like all you do is run way under EV and every hand is set up just for action...the rb is nice but sucks when u get like 0 points everyday towards the 100 seats to 100k...where else can i go and play thats not so rigged?
Tilted hard. So i logged in my battle net account and i see that i didnt cancel my wow subscription so there go 50eu for the past months for not noticing this shit, whatever i dealt with that. I stopped playing due to laptop overheating ( or so I thought ) + game got boring anyway. Soo here comes the problem - I bought a laptop cooler. After i saw that my WoW is paid, cancelled my subscription but decided i would try to play and see if it was the overheating thats the problem. After 20mins Laptop just turned itself off. Its super cold not even the slightest sign of overheating. Only happens when i play WoW ( or at least i think so ), tried playing sc2 on highest possible preferences - no problem at all even @ 4on4 - not even a 0.1s freeze or sign of lag, didnt turned itself off. So what the hell is the problem
Hmmm so i have some sort of GF problem and it seems like it can't hurt to post about it on LP!
here it is.
My aunt usually rents cars, and then let my dad buy them. This is good for my dad since he knows the car he buys are good (my aunt is carefull with them).
Then, my dad has always given/sold me his cars, since i know theyre good.
A few months ago, he called me and told me that, in april, hes gonna sell me his acura 2005 (worth like 6K) for 2500$ (value of my own car, which i would sell). Then my GF says she wanted to buy my car, since her own car is becomming real shit (its a 1990...).
However, my aunt decided to... change cars RIGHT NOW. This is a problem because now, my dad would have to pay for 2 cars at the same time (both his acura he would sell me, and his new car). So he is now considering selling his acura to a random to get 6000$ for it. He says that its not worth it for me to pay higher price than 2500 since the acura's value would drop way faster than my own car's value.
So 2 days ago, my GF told me to ask my dad what hes going to do, because she was going to do some fixing on her car, but if shes going to get my car at the end of the month, then she won't do it (waste of money). My dad kinda told me it was fine, and that hes going to sell me his car now. However, he didn't seem too sure about it (kinda an important decision).
Today, i talked to my dad again, and he said hes not sure at all about it anymore. He explained to me that, my car is perfectly fine for me right now, if he sells his car 6K to some random, he's going to save a lot of money, and i really don't need a luxury car that much since anyways, my own car is working just fine. However he said that if he doesn't manage to get 6K, he is going to sell it to me.
Now i call my gf, and you can imagine she was disapointed. My car is decent (2002 honda civic) and i was going to sell it to her for 2500$. So now shes either forced to deal with her crap car that can't be completly repaired, or buy a new one, which is risky. Also, she's REALLY mad that my dad changed his mind since he "said" that she would get my car for 2500$. She kinda said "hey he promised it and now he changed his mind, thats horrible". She also claims if she had never been offered my car, she would have searched for new cars and shit, and would have been in better shape.
Now she's so mad that she said she won't talk to my dad ever again. Obviously i can't imagine having a GF that won't talk to my dad ever.
I also can't get a definite answer from my dad, he really does not want to rush such a decision.
What should i do, and is my GF right to be this mad?
Also i gotta agree my dad tends to make a lot of nice plans and they sometimes don't happen, however hes also a very generous dad (i rather be promised a lot of things and have some of it happen rather than having nothing promised at all...).
Need to get this out of my chest, been running sick bad latelly. Downswing is @ -35bi right now, over 85k hands. Never had such a bad run, have been studying more and more, cutting down tables, even signed blue fire poker again, nothing working so far. Yeah yeah yeah I know I'm a whiny lil bitch, whatever. Feel free to hate!
45 buyins under ev in 75k hands. Also running bad in cooler spots. I think I've gotten KK vs AA about 20+ times in this sample and AA vs KK once or twice. Dunno how to check it on HEM to confirm though.
Hey guys!
I think it would be a good idea to share with each other some great youtube channels!! Post here your favorite ones with a little description, I will post some of my favorites :D
KassemG - Fun guy interviews people on the street about all sort of things in a very funny way
Spricket24 - Hot and awesome girl talks about different subjetcs
SimplePickup - Guys pickup girls on the streets by making the most embarassing things you can imagine lol (very funny)
PrankVSPrank - Couple make awesome pranks with eachother
A while back I blogged about how one of the differences between 'smart' and less 'smart' people was not just that they were better, but that they had better strategies for thinking. I should of thought of this myself at the time but.. anyway I've come across research on this very thing, in this case applied to mathematics.
The study is ( Gray, E., & Tall D. (1994). Duality, Ambiguity, and Flexibility: A "Proceptual" View of Simple Arithmetic. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 25(2), pp. 116-140 if anyone has a clue on how the public can access such a thing I'd like some info though I imagine this one isn't publicly available from such a niche journal )
Anyway, this is what happened: They took a group kids (age ~8) and sorted them into two, one "high achievers" and another "low achievers". All of these kids had received the same/comparable educations but ended up in different places as far as ability goes. So, they asked the kids to do simple arithmetic problems and to explain how they did them. There were 4 strategies that the kids used when presented with an addition problem such as:
0 0 0 0
+
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
1. Counting all: This is where you count your numbers up to add or subtract them, literally counting (1-2-3-4..etc) everything up
2. Counting on: Whereupon a person counts from 1 to 4 and then continues from 5-17
3. Known facts: Where the person just knows that 4+13=17 automatically/without thinking because they've done that problem a bunch of times
4. Derived facts: (I will copy this straight from the summary) "This is where students decompose and recompose the numbers to make them more familiar numbers for adding and subtracting. So they may say, "Well, I know 10 and 4 is 14," and then they add on the 3."
ie doing 96+17 by saying "Ok, 96 -> 100 leaves 13, 13+100 is 113"
Now when they did the study they found for each group..
Above average students: Counted on 9%, known facts 30%, derived facts 61%
Below average: Counted all 22%, counted on 72%, known facts 6%, derived facts _never_
The researchers drew two main conclusions: Low achievers are often though of as "slow learners" when they are infact not learning the same things slowly, but literally learning a different mathematics. They view math as a ladder whereupon procedure after procedure is to be memorized and 'stacked up'. They are literally learning a different subject from kids who have an understanding of the big picture of math (something that is critically missing from America's education system, we about always learn math in a very compartmentalized, zero critical thinking way which is why I fuckin HATED math until I took statistics and saw real world problems being related to math).
Experiments have been done, taking these low achievers and teaching them better thinking strategies, and the results were very very good.
So yeah, this is just one example of ways that thinking strategies are at the core of smart vs dumb people. My view is that this concept definitely applies outside of math.
1 - When it comes time to study, all distractions is removed, music is off. The only kind of music that you can actually have in the background is classical baroque music.
2 - Try and think of your study/classroom time as a job, investment in your future.
3 - You can tell yourself i'm only gonna study 5 minuts, has a tremendously powerful psychological effect, because once you start, it's easy to keep going.
4 - Always make a list, what you will learn, for instance "10 new words, this amount of pages" so forth.
5 - Research has shown that you're more alert, tend to remember more, more on the ball in the start and at the end of study. So really sick to take frequent breaks, like 20 minute intervalls. This way you'll have a lot more peaks. (If you're on a roll, you obviously can go on a little longer).
How to easier remember what you read
When we read through it, we only read through it once and when we read through like a newspaper, we go through one article after another, we never stop or rehearse anything.
Some general tips
1 - Pay more attention, be aware that we want to remember the information.
2 - Dimish our distractions, turn off music, put ourself in a place mentally so we are focused on that information.
3 - Lifestyle habits that support good memory, sleep, how we eat, alcohol so forth.
4 - Stop after each chapter, focus on what you read, next step is to think of the main step/points in that chapter was.
5 - Never mind the details that much. Get the gist of it, if you do that, you'll remember everything more clearly.
How to easier remember names
It's hard to remember names because we're rarely paying attention to it, numerous distractions, it's "mundane" and we're usually focused on something else. And we get the name very quickly and early on. Stress and anxiety also makes it really hard to remember.
We also don't rehearse it in our heard right after hearing it.
- Repeat the name several times after hearing it. (Smart to say her/his name out loud after they say it).
- If you're a visual person, picture the name, make a visual image in your mind's eye.
- Make up a story for the name, if you're very verbal, this is most fun. No point making it long, one line is enough.
Sleep tips
- Take things running around in your mind move it on to a piece of paper, things you need to do, worry about, want to do etc.
- Want to make your bed a sleep zone only, no reading, no pc, no tv.
- Do something non-stimulating before bed time, or make a routine before bed, to wind down.
- White noise.
- Insomnia can be a symption of some physical illness, so smart to check with your doctor for chronic insomnia.
- Exercise or work, but not too close to bed time, get some daylight.
- Try to go to bed around the same time, wake up around the same time, your body loves that shit.
More thoughts on memory
Problems people have with memory are things like names and faces, numbers, birthdays and anniverseries, shopping lists, cards they been playing so forth.
Not really a problem at all, just miss-using the memory they have.
Analyze, self analyze, sit down, make notes on what do you remember? What don't you usually remember? Where do you generally have your forgetting experience. Like an investigation, self check. Corporated within that check, is your memory.
You link something to an image, and it's locked. You drive a car to the mall, you come out, you forget where your car is, why? Because you were thinking about other stuff, what you were going to buy etc. But if you for a second look at the enviorment, a plant, a wall, a bush, a house, then go in to the mall, you don't even have to think about where you parked your car.
How To Release Your Inner Genius
1 Realize the power of your brain
Everybody has the potential for genius. The human brain is far more powerful than a super computer, it's potenatial is still not known. Everytime they put a boundary on it, it busts through it and keeps going further and further.
2 Make your brain your hobby
So once you're aware, what are you going to do lol? You know you've got it, so the second step is a very simple one, making it a hobby.
As soon as you do that, your brain is like a young child, what happens if you focus on a young child? It flourishes. The minute you go into a library, attend courses, read books on it, the brain will reward you in ways which even you now wouldn't believe would be so.
3 Use your left and your right brain
Left Dominance is words, numbers, lines, lists, logic, analysis.
And the Right Dominance tends to be Rhythm, colour, shapes, maps, imag-ination and daydreaming.
Creativity, is NOT, as nearly everyone thinks, right brain activity, words involves logic, analyzis, songs, so forth. Both sides of the brain needs to be used in harmony, then you'll get an explosion of creativity.
4 Daydream
The nice thing about daydreaming, it has been considered a sign of incompetence, a sign of bad academic potential. But we've now found out it can make you or break you.
The greatest minds, daydream big.
A big difference of "waste of time daydreaming" and the genius, brilliant daydreaming which everyone can do. Making that dream come through.
5 Recap
Have the attitude that you can, belive that your brain can, and then daydream whatever you want to come true, then work to make it come true, and that's brilliance. And everyone can do it.
it is for my class project in introduction to entrepreneurship.
we were given the assignment to make a youtube video and grades are distributed throughout the groups based on the number of hits your youtube video gets, kind of silly but any hits from LP would help a lot! thanks.
Got a pretty annoying problem. Recently i've switched ipoker skins since william hill is being gay and doesn't allow rakeback anymore. How do i export the notes I've took at that site? Just the location of the note file would suffice.
A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, according to state media.
Moyo has been charged with bestiality. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said. Photo: ALAMY1:15PM BST 26 Oct 2011
"I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with (the) donkey," Sunday Moyo told the court, according to The Herald newspaper.
Moyo, 28, was arrested in the town of Zvishavane, about 185 miles south of the capital Harare on Sunday.
He said he had paid $25 for a prostitute, and was surprised Sunday morning when he heard people accusing him of having sex with a donkey.
Moyo has been charged with bestiality and remanded in custody. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said.
Hey guys, this is just a personal project of mine, if you're going back to your studies or working part time, then take a look at it and their might be an entry that might help you out.
Feel free to pass it on to other mid-stake guys who maybe couldn't make the move abroad and are looking at options.
I had a blog similar to it on TL, but it was deleted and this one is related directly to players taking time off.
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