As a fan of the Arnold Conan movies, I went to watch the latest remake with high hopes and low expectations, since remakes tend to be bullshit.
This movie has so much testosterone in it I found myself giggling through the super pro male moments. The story was a bit different than the Arnold version but the movie seemed to drag out for too long. The action was good/ok, gory and loud, and there was a lot of titties : ). This movie didn't really suck, but it's definately not worth paying the full movie ticket price or waiting for dvd. I also would not watch this movie with your girlfriend or wife, unless she forced you to watch Twighlight with her or something, in which that case she deserves it.
I'd give this movie a 6/10 or if you prefer the star rating, 3 stars. Keep in mind, I'm probably the least harsh critic of anything.
I should play more Hold'Emby ToT)MidiaN(, August 19
Bit drunk right now and felt like blogging a bit, anyway, it's been a long time since I last blogged. Last time I posted, I was talking about how I was looking to play tons of PLO, make lots of money and VPPs and aim for SNE, pass my driving test, get a Porsche Cayman S and get sexy this year. Hasn't really worked out that way thus far. In April, I came back to Korea after leaving last September. I had lived in Korea for around about 2 years total time in between Jan 08 and Sept 10, but this time back was a little different. This time I came with Ket and we got a hotel instead of living in my own place. When I lived here, I always lived either near or with my girlfriend at the time, but we broke up in January, so it was a different atmosphere in April. Still, I hung out with her a lot, and truthfully, a large part of the reason I wanted to come back to Korea was to get back with her. In any case, all this time I spent with Ket and the ex resulted in a lot less poker, workout, driving related time, so I had put the back burners on a couple of goals, and completely destroyed any chance of making SNE by that point already. Not that I'm saying I regret it, but in some way it always feels depressing to set goals and fall at the first hurdle, like I wasn't even close to SNE or getting sexy by then.
As for my driving test, well, I failed my first attempt back in March, just before I came to Korea for the first time. However after 4 hours of lessons and a 2nd attempt in May, shortly after I left Korea in late April, I managed to pass. I still don't have a car though, but I am looking at a few cars. BMW 320d, Mazda RX8 R3 and Ford Focus ST-3 are the cars I've mainly been looking at. They're all very different, but I think I'll probably end up going for the boring, economical and comfortable choice in the BMW 320d, but we'll see how the next month goes. Going back home to England Sept 8th (My birthday) so will make the decision then, will see how poker goes, hopefully get some test drives in when I'm back and make the decision from there, maybe I'll even consider some other cars in the £10k-£15k price range if anyone has any other suggestions.
Anyway, I've actually been back here in Korea since late May, I left the day after my 2nd driving test and have been here ever since. For the first month I was mainly alone, stayed with the ex-girlfriend's parents for a few days and then found my own place. Some of her friends from the States stayed at my place, we all went to Thailand together for a few days and then we came back. Mid June, Ket came out again and we've been living together since, we're staying in some 2 room apartment in central(ish) Seoul. I's a fairly nice place, but nothing special. One plus is that it's quite close to my old apartment (7 minutes by taxi) that I lived in here in the past, so I'm familiar with the area and we end up hanging out in a lot of the old spots I used to hang out in. It's quite nostalgic, it reminds me of the good times and makes me feel quite regretful for ever leaving Korea and getting into a situation where I basically had to lose my girlfriend. Still, you do what you want at the time and obviously in the moment I wanted to be alone and play more poker, make lots of money, get SNE and all that worthless shit that actually means diddly squat. Oh well.
The "getting sexy" goal has not gone entirely to plan either. I mean, it could've gone worse I guess. After leaving the States in late Sept 2010 I weighed in at my heaviest ever - about 82kg (I'm like 176~177cm ish), after a month of atrocious eating in the States where I had gained about 7kg in 1 month. When I came back to Korea I was about 76kg and now I'm 74kg after 1 month of gymming with Ket so I guess it's some improvement, but it's pretty tough to get anywhere in Korea. This is largely because all the people I know here go out frequently, and this most often times involves lots of alcohol consumption and lots of greasy, unhealthy foods. Not that I'm saying that this is a bad thing, obviously I enjoy hanging out at good resutaurants and bars with friends having a good 'ol chinwag, but it's not exactly conducive to weight loss. It's ok though, I'm gymming a decent amount at the moment, showing some small progress despite the awful diet, and am confident that when I'm back in my home town I'll focus on this more and make more progress, but I mayaswell have some fun while I'm here afterall and not focus TOO much on the poker and workout grinding.
As for some poker results, this year started fairly well. I was up about $35k in cash games by the end of March and looking towards an easy ride to a $100k+ year on the tables and whatever else in rakeback, but a recent $20k+ downswing in PLO has fucked that idea over. I've ran pretty shit at $2/$4 and $3/$6 PLO overall, but on top of that, I've definitely let it get to me a bit too much aswell and have ended up playing some very poor PLO at times and spewing a lot of money. That's the thing in PLO, the variance is massive, and even if you're a big winner, it's only gonna be so long before you experience a big downswing, and how it effects you is going to make a huge difference to your long term winrate. Unfortunately, this is definitely the worst downswing I've experienced buy-in wise in my 5.5 year career of poker and I've definitely let it get to me too much. God only knows what I'll do if this continues for another 50 buyins, but let's not hope that happens. I think I have a reasonable edge in the $2/$4 PLO games on Stars, almost every table I sit at has 1 player with <3BB/100 winrate, and often times there are 2 players that are that awful, and yet I still can't seem to win. PTR is a little off with my winrate, I think it says I'm down like 8.1k total in $2/$4 PLO at the moment but in actuality it's more like -$5k and I'm almost breakeven in terms of EV, but even still, the games seem so soft that it's hard to take that I'm even "breakeven" in terms of winrate. I'm sure it's just variance though.
Hold'Em wise, things have gone much better. I'm above $1/hand so far in my database, though as a sidenote, this is just my laptop and I'm missing some hands that I lost when my laptop blew up in Korea, thus losing whatever hands I played from late May-late July when it blew up and I don't have the HHs from my desktop. That being said, there's not many Hold'Em hands missing anyway, infact, there's about $2k in profit from Hold'Em games missing, mostly from a 5/10Euro game I played where I won $1.5k in about 30 hands, unfortunately Ladbrokes won't send me the hand histories in a format I can import which upsets me a little cause I'm quite OCD and like to keep track of my actual results and not just stare at some half-true numbers.
I also won a $109 NLHE headsup tournament for about $7.6k and came 7th in a $500~ PLO 6max SCOOP tournament for about $5.6k so I'm prob up like $10k~$11k in tournament winnings on top of this, about $14k-$15k in rakeback/bonuses so far, and probably another $4k-5k in cash game winnings that are either lost hand histories or on my desktop. Probably about a $50k ish year so far all inclusive, which is definitely better than the last 2 years but not really what I had planned at the beginning of the year, still, there's a few months left, I feel like PLO is very beatable and a big upswing is just around the corner and Hold'Em games are still beatable, I'm def gonna get sexier when I get home, I've passed my license and will inevitably get a car when I get home, so things can only get better and I'm gonna close in on the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year.
Cheers,
maybe I'll blog again by years end, I do blog pretty infrequently though!
Feel like there's been a wave of quality, cool blogs and I hate to break the trend, but I'm getting desperate here. Does anyone know how to fix the seating on Hero Poker tables so that your own avatar is always in the same spot? I know this was asked by Night and answered on a different thread, but we both can't seem to find that thread anymore lol.
I like starting out everyone of my recent blog posts with the same line: It's been a while since my last blog post. But this time I can't really attribute that to laziness. Been hard on the live poker grind ever since Black Friday! Games are good! Still trying to figure out ways to play online thou. Most of my online poker grind time at home has been replaced by Starcraft 2 / Heroes of Newerth. Like many other poker players I know, I've also been looking elsewhere for new sources of income. I guess they call it "diversifying your portfolio". Started staking some good friends in some of the live games, which is nice because when I come home from a soft game it still feels like I'm grinding the game. Also, putting a lot of time and effort into a website that will be launching later this year. More on that at a later time
In the meantime, check out how good I'm getting at golf...
Golfing at Night!
Golfing during the Day!
Here is 4th of July from our deck in San Diego:
On a side note, I sold out and signed-up for Twitter so follow me @pokercosmo
Just played a random mtt and binked :)by Drakk, August 17
While i was watching the very deceiving Dota2 stream I decided to touch my poker account for the first time in a decently long time, single tabling a turbo mtt while watching the stream inbetween 2 server crashes, and binked it no sweat really. http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2842/poker17aout.jpg
Hey guys, I'm starting a group conversation on Skype where we can hopefully always have 10-50 people online. (6max and MTT grinders plz)
We can talk about hands and have multiple perspectives etc, teach each other and grow as players.
We can also shadow each other and help each other in other ways. (blowjobs, junglemaning, u get the jist, etc)
I recently started taking 6max seriously again, am loving it, and realize I have a long, long way to go, this is just another step that hopefully does pan out well;
so ya, if ur grinding merge in the states like so many of us, and want to talk about hands n stuff, send me a PM and i'll get you in our skype convo.
Stars players are all welcome too, and MTT'ers are welcome as well.
I tend to share screens and teach ppl mtting free often, and love to go over hand histories of mtts as well. so def get in there if your an mtter too.
Link to my video online - removed from my website - [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20935198[/vimeo]
If question is stupid sorry just wondering if i could save the 80$
I have previously bought Microsoft office word 2007 for some school stuff when it was mandated, so I bought the student deal for the big 4 for like 50$ or w/e have the disc's and product keys etc.... Can i load that onto the new Macbook Pro or am i gonna have to go buy the Iworks for the 80$ or w/e it is??
edit: i need to figure out how to actually make them playable here w/o it just being a link :/
edit2: Some funny fb statuses from a friend of mine.
Just got off the phone with my mate. He says its been raining non-stop in his area for 3 days and his wife has done nothing but stare at the window the whole time. He says if it keeps raining for much longer he'll have to let her back in the house.
If the zombie apocalypse ever happens, im just going to surround my house with outward facing treadmills. I should be fine.
Please put this on your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who has been eaten by dragons. Dragons are nearly unstoppable and, in case you didn't know, they can breathe fire. 93% of people won't copy and paste this, because they have been eaten by dragons.
edit3: need opinions. where should I put the 2nd tv?
i had 45% on BTN; in this month ( 40k hands in the graph above ) i changed it 35%: http://i.imgur.com/Rn7fZ.jpg
and i play now 4 tables only trying to make as many notes as possible
i must srlsy butcher many big pots to loose like this over large sample or do you see some major flaws in my PF play from stats?
and i choose tables with at least two fish, so maybe i just donk know how to play fish lol
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Busted Sir $100.00 USD
Seat 2: Danie_slot $186.70 USD
Seat 3: plspaythxbye $123.85 USD
Seat 4: Hero $78.95 USD
Seat 5: bojica $50.90 USD
Seat 6: JordyHansseN $111.55 USD
plspaythxbye posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
Busted Sir posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
Danie_slot posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
plspaythxbye posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
Hero posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
bojica posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
JordyHansseN posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
43/29/47 4 60 hands,
thought he can play his draws like this too and will bet them cause the guy behind is 66/35 for 100 hands, so since i checked turn he'd like to take the pot
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: TESTSIEGER $48.90 USD
Seat 2: Hero $66.20 USD
Seat 3: ezozezo $51.25 USD
Seat 4: JOFFY9 $67.65 USD
Seat 5: g_oxidizer $138.00 USD
Seat 6: letz play $85.45 USD
letz play posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
TESTSIEGER posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
TESTSIEGER posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
Hero posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
ezozezo posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
JOFFY9 posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
g_oxidizer posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
letz play posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
24/19/32 8 1.1k
cold 4bet cause he 3bets a lot, its BTNvsCO - regvsreg, maybe i should think that we are deeper and he will be not folding so easily, not sure if i should even bet turn
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $56.90 USD
Seat 2: lcla31062314 $130.15 USD
Seat 3: t.mara $56.20 USD
Seat 4: Eran4444 $132.15 USD
Seat 6: gordinho AM $52.15 USD
lcla31062314 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
t.mara posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
Hero posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
lcla31062314 posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
t.mara posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
Eran4444 posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
gordinho AM posts ante of [$0.10 USD].
45/10/54 6 80 hands
this river is a fold to min-r but i just couldnt do it and also i should bet more to make it look like a busted draw, and bet more on turn since there are so many draws and he is in possition so he will call a lot prolly
Finally started to play poker again :Dby theoneandonly, August 16
I am so happy right now, I was finally able to start playing again on the cake network. depositing money to day felt sweet!
I am going to try to take poker somewhat more serious this time instead of just a hobby and mtt playing.
I deposited $50 today and planned to do the following:
Play nl0, if I lose 2 BIs move down to nl4 until i reach $50 again. Move up to NL25 whenever I reach $200.
I also will get some hours of coaching and will be buying either PT3 or Holdem Manager... whats better for the micro limits?
..Anyways, I played about 1 hour 4 tabling NL10 I was so happy!...up 1BI. People are still monkeys at this level.
I hope to stick to my plan, I have matured a lot in the last couple of years, and really worked on my discipline in my whole life. ( for example i took serious my diet and exercise and lost over 50LBs, still working out ), got real wiht my italian classes, etc. So I really think Im finally ready to start grinding!
I am starting to think black friday was a good thing for me. I had to better myself by getting a higher paying job, and keeping the one I had as a part time gig on the weekends. With the large income boost I created a second bank account and began saving money for a live poker bankroll. I began playing about two weeks ago and have only had one losing day (which was actually my first session). The games are so good that it is actually pretty hard for me to lose. Mainly because the donks don't know how to value bet their hands. Also I play late at night and almost everyone at the table besides me is intoxicated lol!
It has been killer though because I am working 60 hours a week and then when I get off I go play poker every night for 6-8 hours which leads to 4 hours of sleep at best. Down the road a little bit I will certainly leave my part time job. For now though I will suck it up because I am banking pretty hard.
The quote unquote "regs" in these live 1/2 games couldn't break even in a 5nl game online if their life depended on it rofl! I have only seen 2 people in the games that I felt had a clue what they were doing. And just from talking with them at the table they are former online players.
liltle charlie was sitting in his chair watching the math class when mary throws a little papper ball in his head. chalie looks back at mary and she says: "headshot"
charlie dicided to get back at her so he took a book and threw it in her face shouting: "facebook"
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and also i should bet more to make it look like a busted draw, and bet more on turn since there are so many draws and he is in possition so he will call a lot prolly
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