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Poker Network by tutz_x, June 13


Hey guys!
Poker is one of my main interest atm, so I would like to increase the network of poker players I have contact with. Doesnt matter the limit you play, or if you play cash games or mtt's, I think we can always add something to each other.

If you are interested in make a new poker related friend to discuss hands, sweat session, or anything, get in touch!
My facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arthuraml
Skype: arthuramlima
MSN, Gtalk & Mail: arthuraml@gmail.com

Facebook is the one I use the most and I'm almost always online there. I dont use MSN much.

See ya


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Verizon crippling phones? by NewbSaibot, June 13


So I'll be starting my new job next week and need to get my own cell phone since my current employer pays for mine. I went to a verizon store to get a feel for their offerings and noticed something strange, every single phone except the iphone was practically unusable. I was only looking at high end android devices by HTC/Samsung/LG, phones I have played with before outside of verizon's store and was quite perplexed at how utterly FUBAR these phones were behaving. Choppy frame rates, shitty scrolling, super laggy on input, homescreens a complete mess, every single possible widget running at the same time. I know customers fuck with phones all day but when compared to the iphone it seemed like they went out of their way to make non Apple devices look as crappy as possible in comparison. Has anyone else ever observed this?

Anyway gonna buy a new HTC Sensation 4G this week as soon as it's released on Tmobile. Little nervous about the ATT acquisition, but I figure by the time they begin dismantling Tmo's 4G network that I'll be due for an upgrade anyway and can safely migrate to the new network standard without wrecking my 4G functionality. The big concern for everyone is that since 4G phones have to have special receivers to operate on that part of the wireless spectrum, that ATT will change everything and basically turn every non ATT phone into a brick requiring you to renew/upgrade to get a working phone again.


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Cake poker cashouts? by Drakk, June 12


i wanna deposit on cake but idk if i can cashout, has anyone cashed out and gotten there checks from them plz


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Help plz by impact69, June 12






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Eminem & Royce Da 5'9 feat Bruno Mars - Lighters by TheHuHu3, June 12





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1317$ on FTP for 1250 on PS. by anon, June 12


1317$ on FTP for 1250 on PS.

PM who interested


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phew recovery ! by the cleaner, June 12


I played 11k hands today to clear the 200k vpp bonus on pokerstars. Made some stupid spews along the way, but finally recovered.


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My paypal, your Heropoker by PillPoppin, June 11


anywhere between 100-400$, the depo method for that site is giving me migraines.

I'll send first to respectable folk, otherwise you send first.

EDIT: Not tryin to scam anyone. I honestly didn't know paypal was reversible for 3 days. If you are legit reliable, I'll wait 3 days..


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I'M A CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by tutz_x, June 10


FUCK YEAH, GOOD STUFF




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Rap Battle (USA vs SWE) by iop, June 10


Fast forward to 3 min.




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HOW?Positivity during sessions by Spitfiree, June 10


How do i get out of this emotional loophole im into while im playing poker? Im not sure if i run like shit or just play bad anymore. Every time i stick my money in even as a major favorite im absolutely sure i ll lose maybe thats why im running ~40 bi below ev last 70k hands. Tried having a nice long break from poker but that didnt seem to solve my problem. Ideas ? How do you deal with the insecure periods during your huge downswings ? Share



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Update-10 days by LemOn[5thF], June 10


Hello LP!

It's after my session, I did what I had to today so I decided to write a small update on what's new.

Monitoring
I am not good at it, and I need a more structured and categorized system, but I do it daily, and at least in the evening/next day morning when I have one of my weak times I got this form for each day and put in food, time eaten and then what I did like poker/gym/exercise. You can see the bank form here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwrEcqGbtyFKMDBlYjMzYjMtNGE4Yi00ODBhLTgwOGEtYTRkYmJkMzU5YmY3&sort=name&layout=list&num=50][/url]
There is also a planning sheet, where I have the week divided into days and slots, but I find it hard to use it right now, it's just too much fun doing what I like during the day to spoil it with rigid planning, but I will definitely have to start using it.


I write everything each day, and then do review once per week to look for patterns, what's good and what's not, when I was tired, energized, and I write down things that are good and that are not, you can see the list after a mere 1 week here:
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Food
In the first week it was my standard - I had about 4 hours when I actually felt good in the whole week. I binged several times, once even on vegetables - I ate so much until I felt ill, but the next morning didn't feel as bad as usual and I actually could do stuff

A great help was GGPLZ here on LP, he knows his stuff. I actually drafted two big ass PMs and they got deleted, sorry for that David.
He pointed out and I have confirmed something weird - I seem to have adverse reaction to dietary fat. Every single time I wrote down the 'brain fog' state that I often have (fatigue, fog like feeling where my eyes de-focus and it feels like I am not in my body, and I feel generally low) I have eaten more than a drizzle of dietary fat, and it happened even after eating fish and avocado and olives, or the healthy fats.

It works without fail The same reaction doesn't happen when I eat carbs, including sugar when it has low amount of fat. I did some research and there were no studies really showing a correlation between consumption of healthy fat and bad mood, but fat is what I am avoiding apart from minimal amount on stir fries and omega oil supplement in the morning, and I feel so much better on days when I manage to avoid eating fat.

I also found out I need to snap bomb myself with simple carbs in the morning to get started along with a vitamin supplement and omega oil. My GF bought some soy coconut milk with quite bit of sugar in it, and it works great to give me the kick in the morning I need.


I also eat regularly, and I have to since my monitoring sheet has columns for food and it just sucks writing down 'SKIPPED' since this is my no.1 commitment. So far it happened just once, today when I was enjoying my poker session and hand review too much (and I finished all bananas last night). After doing the review and finding about the fat as a trigger this Monday I went out of control just once when I went with my girlfriend to the city and there was this new American bistro open. One hot dog with cheese ensured that my whole afternoon was fucked up, and I followed it up with a large mocha at Starbucks, 2 double cheeseburgers and 2 fried chicken stuff and coke at McD. But the regularity is working great, and it sure does feel great to not truly binge for 4 whole days.

I also went on to follow GGPLZ's advice and loaded on fruit veg munching. Two things that I really love are mango and bananas. Local supermarket sells bananas at some £0.68 or $1/KG so they are dead cheap and a large mango costs just £.87p. I actually allow myself to eat bananas in between regular meals, as keeping blood glucose levels steady is very important for balanced mood, and bananas are also good for serotonin (see lower section).

I also try to always keep water next to my desk and drink a ton during the day. I read some literature and I am actually supposed to drink some 3L of water every day (Including that from food)

Exercise
I found a great routine that is both fun and challenging:


5 Min dressing room: think about what I want to achieve, specific exercises and imagine performing them

7 min warmup: 4 min some cardio machine, 3 min movements and stretches that mimic what I'll do in the session

20-30 Minutes: Circuits, 45s perform one, 15s break, 45s perform another one, 8-10 in total. 2 min break and go again.
The only rule is that the exercises should work large muscle groups, and include need for balance if possible. I got about 30 different things I can do from various magazines and experience, my improvisation or this workout:

This is great for weight loss, overall fitness and it's a brutal cardio. I always finish with shadow boxing with weights to show that bastard in the mirror who's boss

10 Minutes: Isolation moves into failure. This I do for fun and for that confidence boost, I usually do biceps and bench press, but I plan to add more exercises once I get bored of these two (hardly ;P). Basically you use as much weight that forces you to be unable to do 10 reps and you fail somewhere, this creates microtears in your muscles and speeds up growth.

5 minutes: ABS
5 minutes: stretching. This is well important but so easy to skip when you are exhausted. I do this in the pool sometimes, and it's always nice to go for a swim and Jacuzzi. When I don't go to the pool after session I at least use hot and cold water several times in the shower as that relaxes your muscles.


This routine doesn't fuck me up completely and gives me a good balance. I used to do 1min and 15s in the circuits but it was too much for me, so now I am hoping to just do more circuits (I can do 2 now). Doing the isolation moves and ABS after I catch my breath from the circuits also ensures that my muscles are properly warmed up and ready to pump to exhaustion.

On non-workout days I just go for a run or swim when I feel like it. On Monday I had so much energy that I couldn't stop myself but to go for a run


I also always try to do something in the morning, just 5-10 minutes to get me started. Variety is very important for me so it can be jumping jacks, sex, a brisk walk, shadow boxing, swimming etc. just something that gets wakes me up and starts my metabolism. I'd usually wake up, do the dump, put on contacts, wash my face, get some quick carb boost like the coconut soy milk or a banana and supplements and then I am onto the the small excercise before the rest of my breakfast.

Serotonin and dopamine
I did a lot of research into this, as I think lack of serotonin is one of the triggers for my overeating and compulsive behavior
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Basically you need to do the things listed and find things that make you feel good/generate serotonin and schedule time for them throughout the day. Not doing this is why you see so many poker players burnout, and it can be very hard at times. Besides eating, this is my main non-poker focus.


Poker
I had one of the aha moments in last days, when thinking about this:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/973442/Your_scripts_.html and observing my play and train of thought. Basically through the few years I played the game for fun and because I just love observing people and finding patterns I became completely detached from my own range and my own play and especially hand strength, and hand strenght is often very low in my thinking scripts and many times not even there at all.

I saw what I did and e.g. I called Q8s to a 3bet against an unknown, and got stacked with a retarded line. Or I spewed against a check minraise and showed river with total air. My immediate standard reaction is not ask myself what my play was, but thinking completely about villain, his motivation, how can I exploit him and adjust etc. My intuitive thought process starts with metagame, villain's range, his likely thought process, often my mood and only then there is space for constructing my own range and playing my hand relative strength. When this happens the whole feedback loop simply disappears, as I don't scrutinize my game, I have no standard and I only focus on villains.

I turned for help to a video a series I just glanced over previously, but that is so amazing for a guy like me. It's Amateur to Pro, and the student is Lee Davy. He was playing on the side of his job, was watching all videos out there and was a fan of Giggy.. and he was also breakeven FPS monkey. He quit his $100k+ job to play poker and write about poker, and the series is about teaching overall solid ABC game to a guy like him.

It builds on the following principles:
• Select cards pre-flop that have great postflop barrel possibilities (they have a lot of equity).
• Dominate others, and avoid being dominated (very important).
• Avoid marginal situations that make no money.
• Look in database, and if a hand is not profitable and you don’t know why, just remove it from your range until you find out why.

My notes on first two are here:

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It's amazing that I take a ton of notes, can feel what players think, but without thinking about my own range composition and hand strength first it's like trying to build a skyscraper on muddy soil.

I disregard the advice of many, and I play 6 tables and add more when I have energy, and what I am focusing now is not new amazing concepts, not taking more notes, not high stakes videos, not how to exploit villains with creative lines, but how to play fundamental poker with the above principles, and with focusing on my thought process always starting with 'what hand do I actually have' and then the rest . I balance the potential lack of focus by off the table work, and I do a lot of it, after every session.

I also put in a small journal just for poker, where I write down mistakes, hands, advice, successes etc. and I have it always open. It's just 2 days so far but it's nice to have this and I will include it in my weekly review (Each Monday I can't touch poker, and I just to chores, go explore Edinburgh and do review of my sheets)

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Blog
Apparently people make some small amount of money blogging? Also a couple guys on DC said that besides some future potential income a blog is like a business card. I got loads of data and let's face it LP blog is hard to categorize and for frequent updates, so I will try to find some free time to set up a professional looking blog in the future, one that's +ev to write in my free time, and I will also use it to publish my psychology research related to poker when I have time for it, and spend a couple hours per week working updating it at least with my weekly reviews. LP blog would be too crammed and nobody would read that stuff anyway

Job
As planned I applied for some part-time jobs. I want to work 2 days per week to cover my rent and avoid compulsive grinding where I don't focus on fundamentals. I am going for nothing demanding, a couple festival jobs that include meet&greet, and some customers service, and I am trying to find a manual job outside, but I am not sure where to look for those. It would be free Serotonin, Dopamine AND money
I want to do this until at least I beat NL50 for a good winrate with a solid bankroll again, and when I do and poker hourly will be near normal job I will just do a day of volunteering every week to maintain my social skills, and to also feel good and feel like I am contributing. I am far from being there yet though.


Well that's about it for the update. Next week I got my Graduation Ceremony where I will get my diploma and say byebye to University (thankfully my GF studies for Masters until October so I can keep abusing the library. I read about 5 books on nutrition and binge eating in the last 2 weeks, and there is a lot of interesting stuff there that relates to helping with poker/balanced life and mood ). I must say I am absolutely loving this, and I got loads and loads off work ahead of me, but it feels like I am on the right track and getting my life back.


P.S. One thing I have to say is that you guys shouldn't write down LP as a strategy forum just yet. If you put in the work you will get the answers, and I have to thank all you great people like GGPLZ, Tom, Gororok, Evilsky, Oly, Patti, ROb, Sunny, Sroggoz and everyone else who spend their valuable time replying to hands and giving away free advice and more. DC is good for theory and some great discussions, Pokerstrategy is paid to give professional advice, and there is a lot of stuff on 2p2 but there is nothing like LP when it comes to closeness of the community. Plus the ROFL Thread makes you feel good and it is very healthy if you spend a few minutes each day(not hours as it's a free serotonin boost. Remember, scheduling time for what makes you tick and feel good is very important


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Legal online US poker sites? by billy5000, June 10


I just wanted to get some things straightened out, specifically on the subject of online poker in the US. About two months ago, the US gov seized the top online poker domains.

Now, does that mean only those top sites (pokerstars, fulltilt, etc) were restricted to US residents? Would I be able to legally join an alternate poker site?

Sorry, I've been busy with other things and just found out about this news.


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Austrian and Czech vacation by matdon460, June 09


So I'm going to Austria from the 12th through the 19th of June. During the week I will be staying in Poysdorf a village in Austrian wine country. On the weekend I will be in Vienna. Basically I'm going to be on my own during the week while my friend works in the Czech Republic so I need shit to do in either Austria or the Czech Republic. I was thinking about taking a day trip to either Prague or Salzburg.

I know we have a lot of euros on LP and I would like your guys recommendations.

Here's the hotel that I'm staying at during the week in wine country:
Hotel Veltlin

and the Vienna hotel I'm staying in: https://www.marriott.com/hotels/trave...ing-school-renaissance-vienna-hotel/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna




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is this +EV? lol by tutz_x, June 09


Thankfully I managed to get my money off FTP before the Ivey scandal, but I just received $19.89 of remaining rakeback and the minimun cashout amount is $50. So I have to put $30.11 to complete $50 and then try to cashout... Should I try this? I feel like FTP will screw me... anyone want to trade? I want PS.


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1317$ on FTP for 1250 on PS. by anon, June 09


I have still some money to trade from FTP to PS.

Pm who is willing to earn few bucks, i can use only MB which isn't working and others will be able to cashout freely.




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Paypal please by SoC, June 09


After doing about $100 (can do more/less to suit what you need) will obviously send first as I'm relatively unknown on LP.


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lol hu by drone666, June 08


NastyDrone mucked
> juarnes2 wins €197 with a Straight, Nine high
(9d 8c 7d 6h 5s)
> NastyDrone brought €95.80 to the table
> NastyDrone posted small blind (€0.50)
> juarnes2 posted big blind (€1)
> Game # 3,945,054,273 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards (Ks Jd)
> NastyDrone raised for €2
> juarnes2 folded
> NastyDrone mucked
> NastyDrone wins €4
> juarnes2 posted small blind (€0.50)
> NastyDrone posted big blind (€1)
> Game # 3,945,054,377 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards (6c Ks)
> juarnes2 raised for €1
> NastyDrone folded
> juarnes2 mucked
> juarnes2 wins €3
> juarnes2 is sitting out the current game
> juarnes2 is sitting out. If he/she does not come back in 300 seconds, he/she will be removed from this table. If you want to wait for juarnes2, please sit out as well.
NastyDrone> sick rat
juarnes2> i have to go eat srry my man is calling me
NastyDrone> sure lol
juarnes2> we can play again in 30 if you want
NastyDrone> fag hit and runner
juarnes2> you want or not
NastyDrone> I'll be here

> Dealing Hole Cards (8s Kh)
> juarnes2 raised for €1
> NastyDrone called for €1
> Dealing the Flop (Qc 9c 5d)
> NastyDrone checked
> juarnes2 checked
> Dealing the Turn (7d)
> NastyDrone checked
> juarnes2 checked
> Dealing the River (Qh)
> NastyDrone bet for €4
> juarnes2 called for €4
> NastyDrone shows One Pair, Queens, with kicker card King
(Qc Qh Kh 9c 8s)
> juarnes2 mucked
> NastyDrone wins €11.40 with One Pair, Queens and kicker card King
(Qc Qh Kh 9c 8s)
juarnes2> gg now im really hungry
juarnes2> and you cant acuse me of hit an running
NastyDrone> lol ?
NastyDrone> played 10 hands more
NastyDrone> what a faggot
juarnes2> come on man why canty you just be friendly
NastyDrone> sure
NetworkMod210a> Please refrain from using obscene or abusive language or your chat may be disabled.
NastyDrone> give my 100 euros back
NastyDrone> and I'll be friendly fag
juarnes2> chillax mate anyway im to good nfor you you know that
juarnes2> yoiu should be happy i only took 100euro
NastyDrone> sure
NastyDrone> that's why you running lo
juarnes2> yes
juarnes2> because im a good person
NastyDrone> makes complete sense
NastyDrone> you are better than me
NastyDrone> and running
juarnes2> ok dude laters and gl in poekr and in life
> NastyDrone posted small blind (€0.50)
> juarnes2 posted big blind (€1)
> Game # 3,945,063,250 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards (8s 5d)
> NastyDrone raised for €2
> juarnes2 raised for €7
> NastyDrone folded
> juarnes2 mucked
> juarnes2 wins €13
> NastyDrone brought €3 to the table
> juarnes2 is sitting out the current game
> juarnes2 is sitting out.
juarnes2> ok now im really gone srry for al the bs
NastyDrone> sure
NastyDrone> run
juarnes2> i just wanne have fun no hard feelings
> juarnes2 posted small blind (€0.50)
> NastyDrone posted big blind (€1)
> Game # 3,945,064,138 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards (3h 3s)
> juarnes2 raised for €1
> NastyDrone called for €1
> Dealing the Flop (4c 4s 2s)
> NastyDrone checked
> juarnes2 bet for €3
> NastyDrone called for €3
> Dealing the Turn (4h)
> NastyDrone checked
> juarnes2 bet for €9
> NastyDrone called for €9
> Dealing the River (8h)
> NastyDrone checked
> juarnes2 went all-in for €199
> NastyDrone went all-in for €86
> €113 returned to juarnes2
> juarnes2 shows Four of a Kind, Fours
(4d 4c 4s 4h 10d)
> NastyDrone mucked
> juarnes2 wins €199 with Four of a Kind, Fours
(4d 4c 4s 4h 10d)
> NastyDrone brought €100 to the table
> juarnes2 is sitting out the current game
> juarnes2 is sitting out.
juarnes2> you see
juarnes2> you did it to yourself mate3
> juarnes2 mucked
> juarnes2 wins €1.50
> NastyDrone brought €0.50 to the table
> juarnes2 is sitting out the current game
> juarnes2 is sitting out
juarnes2> gg gl mate im done hehe i was just kidding i wanne play you any time any stakes but for today im done smoked to much


/screenpunch


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june 20th by spets1, June 08


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Going to San Diego by iop, June 07


Which lpers are there, and not in Vegas and want to go out?

I know Frinkx is bull dozin in Vegas.

Greetings from the Second City
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