I will be updating this blog instead of making new ones every month. Wanted to stop blogging results because of superstition and that it just looks like I'm moaning most of the time but I am bored and I am going to update this to keep track of progress hopefully.
Played a long 6 tabling PLO session today. I still get confused when a couple of decisions have to be made at different tables at the same time. Standard -10bi downswing to start of the session didn't tilt as bad as I used to which was nice. + Show Spoiler +
I haven't played at all online for the past few weeks simply due to a) not caring and b) not having any time to do anything. I've been purposely trying to keep myself busy in order to keep from going insane. So far the jury is still out on how effective that is... I've been a pretty unhappy girl lately so the more distracted I am the better.
I got a second job which I work weekends at and it's been fun so far. Just retail. Main motivators for that decision were to meet new people, make a little extra cash (gas is RIDICULOUS right now and I don't have the most fuel efficient car), and discounts are always nice. In addition to that, I'm doing karate and working out a few times a week plus I started reading again. I also got my motorcycle learner's license and was thinking about getting a bike but everyone keeps telling me I'm going to die lol.
I've been playing at a weekly home game just for company and for something to do. My first few weeks were a little painful since I hadn't played for so long but I'm holding my own pretty well now. The funny thing is my ex goes to these games too. We still get along great, but for some reason when I do well he runs awful and when he does well I crash. Weird.
I've been really stressed out lately, what with everything that's going on in my life and, strangely, poker is kind of a destressor for me. Friends of mine who play for a living prob think I'm retarded for saying that but they're kind of retarded too sooooo yeah! I'm hoping to play a little bit more when I have time so I can stop playing the nosebleeds and head up to micros. Now if only I could figure out how to play properly! Knowing how impatient I am, I'll probably lose interest in a few days again and take another month-long break from online poker.
stupid feature in PS softwareby the cleaner, May 24
down 11bis today then this shit.
Email i send to pokerstars support. pretty much self explanatory. I'm posting this cause it might happen to somebody else. I made a 1 min video of a screen recording for PS support, can be downloaded here.
>> i was masstabling on pokerstars today and had about 10tables
>>open. i used the
>> CTRL+Y shortcut to get unjoin me from waiting list, when the
>>software started
>> acting strange. i would get dealt cards facedown. i couldn't
>>see my holecards
>> unless i would hover my mouse pointer over it.
>>
>>
>> things i have tried. i went into tast manager and forcefully
>>quit pokerstars
>> software and logged back in. this was to avoid having to
>>close the tables i
>was
>> on.
>>
>> tried rebooting my pc and log back on same thing.
>>
>> i quit the PS software and logged back in. without any other
>>software/scripts
>> running. same thing.
>>
>> please find attached screenshot i took.
>>
>>
>> kindly reply asap, since i have lost a ton of $$ today and
>>need to get back to
>> grinding
>>
>> best regards,
>> ingo
Hello Ingo,
Thank you for your email.
It seems that you have activated the new 'Hide Hole Cards'
feature accidentally.
'Hide Hole Cards' is an exciting new feature that will help you
play with your friends in the same room (for Home Games
specifically).
Activate or deactivate it by clicking ctrl + h or 'Options' -
'Table Display Options' - 'Hide Hole Cards'.
When this option is activated, it will only show your hole cards
when you move your mouse over them.
This is particularly useful if you are hosting a Home Game,
allowing you to play with friends in the same place without
having to worry about shuffling, dealing, chips, tricky side pots
or peeping pals!
If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to
contact us again.
Regards,
Andre
PokerStars Technical Specialist
yea that was it. wasn't aware of that feature. guess it's new. kind of inconvenient to put the shortcut ctrl+h, since the h is just below the y and might easily be confused with ctrl+y shortcut. and can become a nightmare when masstabling and you are not aware of the problem.
Poker is killing my social lifeby ManofFire, May 24
I don't really know how to explain it, but every time after a session I turn real quiet, and start mumbling instead of speaking loud + clear. It takes me like 6-7 hours to snap out of it and turn to the baller that I am, however due to the toll poker takes on me, I have lost many a girl friends.
)= Idk wut to do
Quit poker for two weeks and party like a maniac,
or play poker for two weeks and be a loser.
I can't do both!
I'VE TRIED!
alright so, this entry is about how i can save $$ so i can travel, but i'm going to post a brief recap of the past month or so to give it some context:
in early april i got a full-time job delivering furniture. i had actually decided quite some time before that i was finished playing poker for a living, i was just slow/lazy in transitioning out of it. my plan was to use the job to at least breakeven with monthly expenses, and play a little poker here and there to put in savings. once i got to a certain figure (around $10-20k, depending on some things), i would go travel the world, which is something i've been dying to do forever.
well, as we all know the very next week happened to be "black friday". so, life goes on...in a way i guess i was lucky i decided to get the job when i did. the job is whatever, it's a small store, 10 employees total, i like everyone pretty well. except the one other delivery guy, who i have to spend most of my day with, who happens to be a total shit head. i am a very laid back person irl, and routinely went of my way to cater to this downy who literally spends half the day talking about how much he hates his parents, and freaks the fuck out (in front of customers no less) at me when i don't already know how to do something that he was instructed to train me how to do -.- we are both 23 btw
one day when we were delivering to some guy's trailer home, as he was backing the truck into the guy's driveway he side-swiped the bumper on his car. he's a pretty hot-headed hypersensitive freak so it never occurred to me that he wouldn't notice it since it was pretty obvious (although the damage was minor, just a bit of paint scraped off the car), and i assumed he would do whatever he deemed to be appropriate. usually if i make some kind of suggestion he just gets angry (not that i care, except for having to listen to his bitching). so after we finish carrying the furniture in and headed back out towards the truck, i say quietly to him "ummm, you know you hit this guy's car right?"
then he goes ballistic and goes in and tells the guy that i failed to report the "crash" that he made (lol). the guy takes it surprisingly well, later that day the store's insurance contacted him and everyone lived happily ever after. on the way back to the store his face is beet red but he doesn't say a word to me, then when he walks in he yells in front of everyone "i'm done with you!!" with some drool running down his bottom lip and storms off...the manager (and everyone else) is understandably confused, so i explain things to him, and later he talked to the other guy once he cooled down.
the manager is a good guy and i respect him, we get along fine. he told me that even though it probably seemed unfair given the circumstances, that if both of us couldn't work together and it came down to it, he would probably have to keep the other guy because of his experience, he has a CDL license, etc. he said if it came to that he would have me do some BS work around the store until i could find another job, i told him i understood completely.
that was on a friday. fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, mr. schizo was over it by monday, and it was back to business as usual. a couple weeks went by filled with awkward silence, but relatively trouble-free. then came the doomsday. it was a thursday, which meant we were doing out-of-town deliveries. this day was a particularly long route, we were going to be covering about 500 miles. we'd just finished our second delivery. it was only 9:30am (we started at 7), but i asked him if he wanted me to drive to give him a chance to rest, but he said he would be fine.
about 10-15 minutes later i notice the truck heading over a bit over the line to my side on the right. this happens all the time and is pretty much unavoidable when you're driving 8 hrs/day on boring country roads, and i didn't think anything of it. but instead of correcting like every other time, it kept going and pretty soon it was on the grass which slopes down towards the ditch/slough and i turned my head to him and yelled "DUDE! HOLY SHIT!"
i guess he must have dozed off or something. he swung the truck back over to the left where it careened on its left wheels, then re-corrected back to the right. the momentum was too much, and we rolled over into the slough. as it was rolling over it just felt like the most insane rollercoaster ever, i couldn't really see or comprehend anything, just my own body vibrating rapidly. then for a few seconds water rushed into the cab and everything was black. i felt like i was going to die at the time, but it was weird. i was kind of scared, but mostly my feeling was "out of all the people why does this moron have to end my life", more of an annoyance than anything. maybe i was in shock or something, idk.
then everything stopped and i could open my eyes again, and i realized all my limbs etc seemed to be fine. the water was up to my chest. the front window was broken so i crawled out of that. we were heading west, but somehow the truck managed to end up facing east. the truck was sort of semi-floating at a 45 degree angle in the slough. after i got out i checked to see if the other guy was ok. he was delirious at first with a bunch of incoherent mumbling, but eventually he was able to tell me that his leg was trapped between the steering wheel and the gear shifter (his leg was underwater so i couldn't immediately see it, but the steering wheel was still visible. i started yanking on the wheel as hard as i could until he was able to free his leg. the wheel was actually bent like halfway around his leg lol.
there were a couple vehicles that had already stopped and an ambulance was on the way. the whole time i felt, miraculously, almost completely fine. i had some scrapes and bruises, but they seemed like nothing, i guess because of the adrenaline. the other guy was clearly in worse shape than me and when the paramedics came they were focused on him for the most part. he was a total dick to them, which can probably be excused given the situation, but i was still put off by it.
when the doctor came in to check on me in the ER, he told me i had an abrasion on my head that i hadn't even noticed, but other than that i seemed to be fine. they didn't even do x-rays, just hooked me up for some blood work, gave me a tetanus shot, gave me some pain meds and sent me on my way. despite the other guy having the worst of it, it turned out he wasn't seriously injured either, just that leg that was bruised up a lot.
the accident happened on a thursday. i took friday off and was back to work on the following monday. he took the entire next week off. on wednesday of the week after the accident, i noticed my right side hurting around my ribs. it felt fine most of the time, but if i tried lifting anything, or even bending a certain way, there was a pretty sharp pain. it hadn't bothered me at all on monday and tuesday, and i only noticed some minor pain there on the day of the accident. i told them about it and for the rest of the day i stayed in the shop and just did whatever was needed. i checked back in with the doctor, he told me it was probably something from the accident that was starting to heal and got re-injured from lifting furniture, so told me no heavy lifting for a week. he also had me get x-ray'd, although i wasn't sent the results until this past Friday (the 20th), over a week later (???). x-rays said there was some curvature of the ribs near the spine but didn't sound like anything serious.
so for the rest of that week (Wed-Fri) i stayed in the shop and did whatever, assembling tables and chairs and shit (which i would actually prefer doing instead of delivering but it's not an option). with wed-fri being light work and having all of saturday to rest, i felt fine on sunday and decided to go to the gym for the first time since the accident. maybe not the best idea in retrospect. my side started acting up again. i called them monday morning and told them i wouldn't be coming in to work. same thing tuesday. tuesday night i took some pain meds, which i hadn't taken since the day after the accident, and they completely knocked me out and i didn't wake up wednesday until like 4pm. same thing happened thursday and friday, which were kind of a blur. that was this past week.
i'm sort of surprised they haven't called me yet. i guess this either means that they're very understanding, or that they fired me and i don't know it yet. guess i'll find out in a few hours when i go to work today! i'm pretty torn about it anyway, i'm not really excited about going back to work with that other guy, i'm surprised they didn't fire him but i guess having someone who's worked there a couple years and knows how to do everything is a pain to have to replace. i was considering quitting anyway, i just don't look forward to having to apply and wait for another shitty job and wait for a response while my bank account gets drained in the meantime.
anyway i still just want to make enough money to do a bunch of traveling and don't really give a shit about anything else atm. right now i'm thinking about using couchsurfing.org to save on travel expenses. if i could save up 10k and somehow generate a passive or semi-passive income online while traveling (even 1k/month would be better than nothing) i think that would be enough if i'm frugal. after that, i'll go back and finally finish me degree and go on to something more productive, but i need to get this travel bug out of my system. if i can't get that to work i'd probably want to save more like 15-20k (i have like 4k now -.-)
during the past couple weeks i've been looking into internet marketing/e-commerce and trying to see if there's any viable options for me to make some money there (as a side-income, i would still keep a full-time job for now, whether it be my current one or something else). so far i've written some articles at textbroker.com just to see what it's like. i made like $40 for a bunch of articles, probably avg like $5-6/hour -.- i don't really see how writing freelance articles like this can be used to make a living, but i know there's people who do it. part of the problem with textbroker is just that there's not enough article requests most of the time.
i've looked into SEO and starting a website but it seems like once you get past the basic principles, there's just all kinds of books on the subject, lots of different opinions, it's hard to know what's legit and what's not, but maybe that's just my perspective since i'm new to it. i've considered trying to find some kind of niche to target, but i just don't know if there's enough of a chance to succeed to make it worth the effort since i'm starting from ground zero. idk, if anyone has experience making monies on the internet outside of poker feel free to share your experiences.
well that's about it, thoughts on what i should do wrt the job situation, or how to make monies online, or fml are welcome.
So the DOJ screwed up a lot of peoples shit. So no surprise but i am at a loss of what to do. I am in a tough situation right now. I'm also sure other people have had to make similar choices. I am somewhat forced to leave the country in order to make what I consider acceptable money for my future. But my girlfriend cannot leave the country because she is trying to finish college. She has a year left but a year of downtime in this rapidly changing game. Is an eternity. not to mention the opportunity cost for that time wasted. Unfortunately the only scenario that makes sense because of VPNs being no good is for me to get a place somewhere and grind. And then come visit AZ frequently. If anyone knows of any other work arounds that would be helpful but the plan i am debating with right now is to roomy-up with someone in canada and just grind a ton of poker, and then come visit for 1 week out of the month.
Any input would be appreciated. whether its about logistics of moving to canada, other ideas for my situation, offers to live with one of you. Ect ect ^_^ plz help a brotha out.
In Canada, it is Victoria Day weekend meaning that the fish will be coming in droves to Casino Niagara. I went on Friday with $200 cash to check out the 1/2 tables. I promptly lost my roll in about 30 minutes due to some overplaying my hands (TPTK and sets losing out to draws). I withdrew another 100 and lost that within 15 minutes. I should have quit by now but I realized that I wasn't playing horribly and the problem so far had been some crappy luck. I withdrew another 100 and recouped all my losses and came up $100 on top.
I don't want this to look like a brag post but rather a demonstration of how bad players are at casinos. I'm not even close to being a good player but the people there were just horrible. Raising 6x+ the BB in any position was common and it would not be uncommon to see all-ins every few hands. All I had to do was wait for a nice hand and punish the people drawing when I hit.
Overall, I was very satisfied with how I played and hope to return within a month or so. The live poker tips in the articles section by Myth actually helped quite a bit as well.
whats up with the sit n goes... blinds start off at 25 / 50 starting with 1500.. is that normal for poker sites? cuz the one i played on started with 5/10 with 1500. damn variance keep going up and down shts stupid
*Gaiking - sorry it's not out on torrents yet but I'll def be waiting for this 80's japanese big robot remake
*The informant - (stars Mat Damon, host of "the soup" and some other familiar names lol)Another one of those mock bio narratives about an employees naivette in accidentally involving himself in a federal investigation of a fortune 500 company he works for, decent enough funny movie directed by steve soderbergh
*Chicago Overcoat - Old italian lieutenant pissed off missing the "glory days" takes a job to hit 3 witnesses handed by the boss about to be tried, he pisses everyone off in the process and goes on apeshit tilt and kills everyone lol, watchable and fun.
*True legend - Visually very appealing, story is standard, kinda updated look, but towards the end there's like a stupid twist which is totally unrelated to the plot but what can you expect. I dunno what to say Still no regrets watching it, but honestly once the "revenge" scene is over, please turn it off to avoid watching the unecessary "bloodsport arena" twist in the end, its so grossly filler material it's not even funny.Watch from beginning to 3/4 of the movie, then goes from awesome movie to shit van damme levels in the last 20mins so avoid the part after the final confrontation between hero and villain.
*13 assassins - Former Shogun samurai gets hired by shogunate advisor to assassinate despotic and sadistic successor of the shogun, he rounds up 13 of the best samurais he can get to do the ambush in a small town against 200 soldiers who protect the convoy. Starts off really slow for about an hour and 15mins, then from thereon its 45 minutes of swordfighting. Cant really say I loved or hated it, just ok to burn 2 hours with.
* Disappointing Priest - stupid movie wrapped in eye candy and overused movie plots and characters, priest is the same actor and character in Angels and Demons (warrior zealot albino monk). Vampires and storyline from blade,underworld,daybreak - dont waste your time watching this in 3d because as dumb as it sounds, there are absolutely no 3d scenes in this movie - so you and your GF will just look like idiots wearing those glasses because watching it without them will make you vomit.
TV
enjoy
*Louie- Louie CK, what else can you ask for? Hilarious observational comic , cross between Seinfeld and Chappelle
*The Shield seasons 1 to 7- Don't be gay and watch this already if you haven't yet. This is one of those shows you should have watched if you own a television, its intense as fuck and itll keep you hooked till you finish the seventh season.
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but I'll def be waiting for this 80's japanese big robot remake
