whats a good smartphone for travelling overseas, with long battery life to get?Not too expensive, not more than $1k. 600 range would be alright. Im also looking to buy a netbook for travelling as well saw some for $400 bucks http://www.onlinecomputer.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=3881.
I haven't been active here on LP like I used to be, so I am here to make an effort to get back into the community.
After Black Friday, as many others were, I was confused as to what my next step in life was to be. I debated between getting a 9-5 job using my Marketing degree, enrolling in the Sheriffs academy, grinding live poker and moving out of the country to grind SNE. After making a list of pros and cons for each, grinding SNE was by far the best choice for me financially and logically. My number one focus being that I would earn in 4-5 months grinding SNE, the amount I would make working three years at a 9-5 job.
After an epic failed move to Toronto with a couple of fellow grinders, it was up to myself to be proactive and move to Vancouver (my #1 move choice). After a month of searching, I finally signed the lease for a studio townhouse in Yaletown, right on the harbor and down the street from a couple of sports stadiums.
I moved to Vancouver and started grinding 100nl on July 1st with 132k vpp and achieved 150k vpp grinding 10-11 hours per day for the month. After 452k hands of 100nl-400nl in August, I achieved 500k vpp on the 31st. I am now at 530kish and will be grinding 12+ hours per day to hit SNE by the end of October.
I am highly motivated to finish off SNE to get back to my girlfriend, family and life.
Here are some pics of my place, myself, girlfriend, dog and surroundings:
I was pondering my inability to perform even simple tasks that have little interest to me and began to wonder whether or not I had Attention Deficit Disorder, my life hasnt really changed in 6 years, so there must be a reason behind my lack of motivation and lackluster approach to finishing projects. Previously i had assumed this was a made up disease for kids who were all jacked up on candy and processed foods.
It would appear i have the 'Inattentive' version, where im incredibly easily distracted, lack focus, cant read stuff properly and procrastinate like a motherfucker.
So today i went to visit a psychologist who specializes in ADD assessment. She works alongside a psychiatrist to sort people like me out on the road to a more focused and 'normal' lifestyle.
I chatted for basically 1 hour straight, starting at primary school and working right up until now about my experiences in school/work, my families history and other stuff. She says im on the more 'extreme' side, but that was based on the answers I gave to a fairly subjective quiz, where i was a little concerned about underselling myself.
Im going again next week to talk further about my lifestyle and whatever else. Turns out caffeine is good for me and she recommended i drink stimulants. I had recently given up drinking caffeine because I used to drink about 2.5 litres of coke zero everyday for years and decided it was a good habit to kick. So i drank an energy drink today after i left her office, although i feel much the same.
Finally, i want to talk about something that grinds my gears:
PCs and PC Gaming: Not the games, but the hardware.
There used to be a time not that long ago when all PCs were a lovely shade of beige, then Dell started to make sleek looking black ones and people decided this looked better. Back then your PC was something to help with school work and use email and have a couple of games on. Your mouse and keyboard were pretty much the stock that came with the PC or a slightly more upmarket version of stock that you bought later.
Now days however, man has gone too far yet again. We have flown too close to the sun and our wings have melted.
PC Hardware is the most retarded looking stuff ive ever seen. Everything that is branded "ULTRA-GAMING" must also include flashing LEDs, the word "XTRME" and feature a million useless buttons and gizmos.
Look at this atrocity of mankind. It has RAPIDFIRE on the mouse button. It does not look comfortable and costs more than any person needs to spend on a mouse.
PC Cases now look like some sort of prop from a 90's sci-fi film. You have to have a window to see inside your PC at all time, and light shining from it. I get annoyed by the LEDs on my laptop, this would drive me insane.
This is not what i wanted to happen after supporting the gaming industry for many years. I have never wanted to look like this guy and somewhere along the line someone managed to market this to people as what an actual HARDCORE gamer looks like. In my day the less equipment you had the more pro you were. If you ever played CS youll know that everyone was playing on a PC at 20fps on a ball mouse in 640x480 on a 14" monitor - they played once per week for 15 minutes and it was all natural talent.
Laptops, have also succumbed to this new infatuation with colouring stuff in, but rather than gaming and their spaceship looks you now have to jazz your shit up by selecting one of a handful of pre-existing design templates to ironically show your individuality, and everyones at it.
When i bought my laptop, I thought it was all black, but its got gay silver swirls on it like something out of the matrix. Luckilly i dont have to look at the top and my hand covers the other one most of the time, but it still annoyed me.
CHRIST! That is offensive to my eyes. White and black are the only colors required.
My parents recently purchased a new laptop and i went along to help them pick. Eventually we landed on a Samsung one that was in the sale. Purchased it and took it home... It was pink. Instead of a brushed steel looking top, it had a pink top. Motherfucker. It wasnt really the salesmans fault since all the boxes look identical apart from 'pink' written in tiny writing on the label of on the side.
Needless to say they werent surprised we took it back to replace it, there must be hundreds of pink laptops on the scrapheap at Samsungs HQ.
This kind of thing should not be happening. I would gladly revert to beige in order to make all of this go away because im afraid of what the future might hold.
Im worried that eventually PCs will look something like this
Tom and I wen't to the Canadian FanExo last week. Lots of fun. We got pics with Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Eliza Dushku (Doolhouse, True Lies), Tom Felton (evil kid from Harry potter/Rise of the Planet of the Apes), and Hayden Panettiere (cheerleader from heroes). Going again for sure next year, will probably dress up as well. When I saw taking my picture with Eliza Dushku, her gf/husband Rick Fox was there. I knew he still works for the Lakers so when they finished my photo shoot I said "Hey Rick, tell Fisher to stop flopping so much". He laughed. Pictures can be seen below. Enjoy.
Day 4-10 240 Hour Challenge + Fantasy Football!!by Joeingram1, September 02
Whats going on guys, taking a break here in the middle of the day and decided to update the blog. Currently on Day 10 of my 240 Hour Challenge and at 77.04 hours, need to average about 8/day so I'm pretty much right on pace. At the tables its been win a bunch, lose, win, lose, win, lose. Can't really get anything going it seems like. WCGRider has been staying at our place up here fresh off his multiaccount accusations. I debated playing some HU on his account and pwning people up but didn't want to add anything to the rumors so decided not to lol. I'm on pace to play about 300k hands over the month but that might end up closer to 200k or 400k depending on a bunch of things. I'm actually up a little over 100 at the tables over the time span so I guess it could be worse.
We still have a few spots in our fantasy football league, its on Espn, 12 team, 300usd Buyin, standard scoring/rosters and draft is Sept 7th 6pst. Have a few pros of poker in the league right now, me, ballcup, wcg, aejones, craigthedeac. Luckily this is a fantasy football league and not a poker challenge so I might have a chance to win it, we still have a few spots left too so if your interested let me know. I'm going to escrow on Stars but will be able to do payouts either online or through wire/check if whoever wins is back in USA.
Wondering if any known lper is able to send my Moneybookers $25-30, so I can activate it instead of paying a huge international wire. Will send the $25-30 back to you through MB or I can do PS/Party.
Just came back from the local 5/10 game. There was a big fish on the table, most notable hand I opened 50 w/ and he 3bet shoves for 1.6k. I think for a couple seconds, call and hold vs ez game
And then I listen to him rambling about how I made a crazy call and I would be ahead once in a lifetime and if it were against anyone else I'd lose for sure. I acknowledge w/ a big smile on my face and take more and more chips from his next 4 stacks
almost got off to a good start to September but I fucked it up playing the worst poker I remember playing in recent times and am now down a small amount
substract -24k$ for 50/100 live and -10k$ in ongame and I got a breakeven month, oh well shit happens.
Pretty swingy month, but Im confident about the next one especially because filtering this graph I can see that I'm actually up at my regular 10/20 and 25/50 online games by 100k$, and I lost 100k$ between 50/100 and omaha, so that means I'm up for about 85~90% of the hands played, and I lost all of that taking shots so it's not bad at all.
Will continue doing the same, winning a lot (hopefully) at 10/20 25/50 and when I'm feeling confident I will play bigger and try another shot in Omaha.
Now for other stuff new Richard Dawkins book is coming out http://richarddawkins.net/articles/64...lease-15th-sept-the-magic-of-reality, hopefully I can get a copy as soon as I can as I'm loving his and Sam Harris work on religion, humanism, etc. They are very inspiring and I actually think I could be passionate about this kind of stuff, as I've always spend a LOT of time pondering about these subjects.
For the hardcore ones, I recommend
Skip Craig's stuff as it's just semantics and very technical logic (imo) and just listen to Harris, the questions are also pretty funny.
ok after i released my video (can be found here) ive done some freecoachingsessions with a couple of lp'rs to kinda get into the whole talking in englishwhilecoaching-thing and it feels pretty natural, i even tend to talk to much
ive done coaching in swedish before but the guys from LP that ive coached for free for a couple of sessions so far is Stroggoz, Highcard and Surprise and they all seem happy with the coaching, i asked them what they thought about the sessions to post their comments here but they all said such nice things it got kinda gay they can feel free to comment on the blogpost instead if they feel like they want to add anything!
but i think they really are happy with the sessions, and it felt great as a coach to feel appriciated and helpfull, and i found out i had more pointers/things to say then i thought i would
so i feel ready to take some students
my hourly this year is ~200$ and i feel like thats a good price for the guys over 200NL, if im getting a ton of interest and as time goes i might charge more as i evolve as a coach
but for now 200$ feels like a good price
and i kinda enjoyed haveing the session with surprise after all, since he is a microstakes player, it felt great to be able to help out with so much so im probably gonna be open to some smallerstakes players aswell even though i know ive said before that i dont want to coach people under 100NL as they can probably get the same help cheaper from other smallerstakescoaches
so i will atleast open myself for applications from smallerstakes guys, and ill charge 150$ for 100NL or under
with my coaching u will also be able to talk over hands when i got time on skype etc, and i think "my students" so far can give a +1 on this that ill be glad to help with questions on the side of the coachingsession
more information about me can be found deeper in this blog for those who want to find out more, its cool to ask aswell
on a sidenote, i also want to get PLO coaching from some1 good, im willing to pay a decent price for maybe a couple of hours sweat from a highstakeswinner, so PM me if ur up for it, prefered to be familiar with highstakesdeep aggro dynamics, as the games i play PLO now in easily gets 400bb deep, and are superaggro i want a coach who can handle that
as for results this month, month has been pretty good
35k$, and up ~6k€ ~8k$ on an italian site i play on
looking to start more grind on ongame in the future as 5/10$ action seems sick good there
43k$ month feels good in just 40k hands, normally i play 60k ish hands/month, so feels nice to book a nice one even tho ive played alittle less due to travels etc
(took scubadiving certificate this month, was awesome)
so cliffnotes:
200NL+: 200$
100NL<: 150$
(prices are for 1 hour)
hope to hear from you all!
cheers
(edit i changed it to 150$ for 100nl and down instead of 100$ for 25nl'rs, i just felt that 100$ would be to cheap as its half of my hourly)
Hello, I would like to get a stake for the 215$ 6-max of sunday september 4th, and for the 109 on september 10th. My roll being ~250 atm, I obv can't affort them. Let me know if you're interested in buying a %, or better offer!
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