Finals start at 11:00AM PST, going to be an amazing series imo.
Thorzain, the dark horse terran of the tournament vs. Naniwa, the current dominating foreigner protoss. I would strongly suggest everyone, even you BW lovers, support teamliquid and check it out today
All invites have been given away. If you're a Mod/Green Star/Mr. Big Shot on LP, PM me and I'll see what I can do.
Doganos: Funfile sent
Cruiser: TVTorrents sent
Uick: Funfile Sent
GreenBastard: Funfile Sent
Kaboom: Funfile Sent
Whamm!!: Funfile Sent
Cleaner: Funfile Sent
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Wreckognize: Funfile Sent
jhyun: FF Sent
I have been fortunate enough to receive a new job while living at home this summer. I will be valeting cars at The Magnolia hotel this summer, in downtown Dallas. http://www.magnoliahoteldallas.com/dallas.aspx
It's an upscale hotel sitting under the Pegasus in the Dallas skyline. I'm the upscale valet/concierge.
I aim to make some money and invest it in certain areas for about 3 months work before heading back to school.
What I do when I make money is take whatever I need to save for and make envelopes. Currently I'd like a new pair of Oakley's, a refurbished slim PS3 b/c my old one is a piece of shit (also, i'm selling the old one for parts), etc etc.
So far I have...
*EDIT* shit i forgot that I invented something and am trying to save up so I can get a patent/produce my intellectual property. Gotta re-figure the %'s
Savings acct. 30%
Checking acct. 8%
Trip to Vegas 10%
Gas 15%
Oakley's 8% ($280)
ps3 8% ($200)
Invention 10%
That is 87% of my total income being store in some capacity. The other 10% would be daily spending money...
Obviously gas fluctuates so I am hoping to reduce that percentage and maybe put more into savings. Also once I have the money for the oakleys, I would eliminate that envelope, put the money left over into my savings envelope, and change percentages or add another item in.
Thoughts, comments, opinions?
Also, with my MAVS IN THE SEMI-FINALS AND MOST LIKELY FINALS *knock on wood*, you all should come get tickets and stay at the Mag. I'll valet your car for a fat tip obv
I can also get the hookup for many upscale gentlemen's clubs, or regular clubs like Plush. Also hookups at nice steakhouses in the area, etc. We are a full concierge
Help get US Poker running again!by NeillyJQ, May 14
Hey everyone,
A month after black friday, we have gotten our funds from pokerstars and still have 2 frozen sites.
The US government can capatilize hard on the $ capable to be made from online poker.
Right now is the best time to have your voice heard,
write your state congressman or president, or both.
Please, write how the shutdown of online poker has affected your life. How important is it for Americans, the economy, and what the US can do with the taxed funds to get out of the national deficit.
Its still legal to play online too guys - Hero's great atm :-)
Its one month in,
Lets get back rollin online boys n girls;
I hope you guys take this seriously,
Hero Poker is very nice for the time being, and potentially the long run, but we need more places to play, with peace of mind and knowing the legality is 100% in tact;
Thanks for your time,
Please write to them,
Ryan Neilly - NeillyAA
anyone drinking tonight and is a lone line my lonely ass and wants to talk about bull fkin shin hit me up, ill send you my facebook or wat the fucik ever
anyone drinking tonight and is a lone line my lonely ass and wants to talk about bull fkin shin hit me up, ill send you my facebook or wat the fucik ever
Portrait monitor setup & mouse pointerby the cleaner, May 13
So I set up my two monitors (dell 27") in portrait mode. doesn't looks as nice, but is much more comfortable to multitable, since i can tile 16 table comfortably and don't have to move the head so much from side to side.
Beside that i had problem loosing the small mouse pointer during play. i downloaded an awesome programm called bigmouse. it's just a very small programm that runs directly (no need for instalation) and attaches a giant red mouse cursor to the original cursor. For some reason you can't see it on the screenshoot, however the original cursor is still located at the tip of the giant red pointer so i maintain the precision while clicking.
quick questions... 3.32+R 180 mans on starsby ConquistadoR, May 13
hey. i know PS has changed the SNGs, but yesterday i played some 3.32+R 180 man turbos, but now I cant find them in the lobby anymore! Anybody knows where they moved or did they get shut down ?
im not really intending this to be a whine post at all... but i really cant figure out why i cant beat this site....when i was on stars i was crushing 50nl and i could marginally beat 100nl...
so long story short i put in 250 on RPM poker to play 25nl and just grind it up with my deposit bonus and 35% rakeback i thought id be rolled for 50nl in no time... boy was i fuckin' wrong.
i played about 5K hands in 2 days and im simply getting beat. seems like i cant stack anyone nor win many hands. iv tryed tightening up a bit and i tryed to fold more and play a more carefull conservitive style game but nothing seems to work. im playing 6 max and 5 of the 6 that i sit with at 6 tables are regs that i have 1K hands on already (thats alot considering i only have 5k hands) i know its a tiny hand sample but i think that this clearly has something to do with the US ban... iom a US plyer thats why i went to this site, and also 4 of the 6 players im at a table with ARE US players.
now is there a connection with the skill level and amount of regs with the poker ban??? am i just simply playing other 25 and 50nl regs that did the same exact thing as me? go and run to a small poker site???
I dont know, im annoyed i have a few houndred in prop bets with freinds and i dont think im going to be able to win lol.
just had to vent a little bit. feeling super frustrated with this broken ankle, been laid up in bed for 2 weeks now, spend about 10 days in the hospital after it happened, and im getting tight....
Finished my last final yesterday, graduating this Sunday. Feels awesome to be done with school, although I'm going to miss a lot about the college life. Finally have some time so I figured I'd write the next installment of my business story.
This is a continuation from my last blog post about how I got into e-commerce. If you didn't read my last blog, I basically sold coupons on eBay, made some decent money, then my account became suspended. I'll pick up where I left off.
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When I received the suspension, my account had almost 16k feedback and was worth $1k - $5k on the internet black market (yes, it exists). However, the value of my account doesn't even compare to the fact that there was still so much money to be made from the coupons and I was basically excluded from the market. I purchased AuctionStealth and joined AskPin to learn how to make a new account on eBay after being suspended. eBay actually has some very impressive multi-account detection methods. For example, if you open an email sent by eBay, there is always a hidden picture somewhere in the email that your email client has to download off the eBay servers. By doing this, eBay is able to track which IP address you are downloading the picture from and essentially they will know which IP address you are using to read the email. So if I opened an eBay email sent to my new account while using the same IP as my suspended account, eBay will know that both accounts are under the same IP address and that I created a new account. So to get around this I created a completely new identity. New bank account, new PayPal account, new credit cards, new address, new IP, new name, the works. It worked for about a month and then my new account became suspended again, I have no idea how they figured me out. I made a third account but this time I was suspended in less than two weeks. I was pretty devastated at this point.
Nothing happens for a couple months. I'm making some money here and there with blackhat methods, but nothing concrete and nothing that gave returns nearly as high as my coupons did. September rolled around and with midterms looming in the upcoming weeks I was focusing more and more on my studies. As the first semester of my junior year came to an end, edzwoo made a decision that completely changed his life and mine. He bought a $1 Airsoft gun (cue dramatic music). Even though edzwoo had been much more involved with poker than he was with e-commerce, there were still a few wholesalers that he had accounts with. One of them sold really cheap Airsoft guns. We had talked about getting some Airsoft guns for fun and since they were only a dollar each, there really wasn't a reason not to get them. So edzwoo spends something like $5 on two Airsoft guns, when they arrived we could tell that these guns were complete crap. They weighed as much as a plastic fork and were so inaccurate that you'd have a better chance of hitting the target if you just threw the BB pellet instead of shooting it. Regardless, we set up some coke cans in the living room to shoot. Our third roommate joined in and surprisingly, we had a LOOOOOT of fun shooting random things in the apartment. Right away, I decide that I have to get my own Airsoft gun (and of course show Ed up by buying something that's a million times more awesome than his guns).
After doing some research I decided to go with the UHC M1911, which is an amazing pistol and for anyone that was interested in purchasing an Airsoft gun for the first time, this is the one I would recommend. The gun is nice and heavy, extremely accurate and a 1:1 scale replica of the M1911. For about a month, everytime my roommates and I were in the kitchen heating up food, while we waited we would just pick up a gun and shoot some cans. Our floor was covered with BBs and we had to tape cardboard over the drywall because everytime we missed and hit the wall instead, the BB would leave a nasty little dent. We had a dartboard target with an adhesive covering on the front that would stick to the BB and keep it in place after each shot. This way you can tell where your shots land and we became increasingly better at sniping the bulls-eye with my pistol. We were having a lot of fun with my gun. Little did I know that buying the pistol would be the most +ev decision I had ever made in my business life.
November rolled around and edzwoo was talking about how it'd be pretty cool if we sold Airsoft guns on eBay. We threw around a few ideas but I wasn't very interested at the time. Shortly after Thanksgiving, edzwoo and I were walking on the quad when talk about selling the Arisoft guns came up again. Again, edzwoo talked about how we should try and enter the Airsoft market. We had done some research by this time so our discussion was a little more organized than back when we were just tossing ideas around. I definitely thought Airsoft was a good product to sell, but I had a lot of concerns about partnering with edzwoo. However, we've been friends for close to seven years by then and if I was going to go into business with anyone it would probably be him.
I didn't intend to stop writing here but I'm really tired and need to get some sleep. I'll try and finish this up next week.
What do you do when you don't know how to playby ManofFire, May 12
a hand in a tournament?
Holy shit, this has never happened to me before in my over 1/2 million hands in poker:
Anyways I had a wrap in plo and some guy shoved all in with 4 people waiting to act after the shove (was in position.)
I called out of frustration with the logic being you can't win if you always fold, and if the other players fold (lol fuck me this is omaha) the dead money will be worth it.
Turns out 1 other person called with the same exact hand as I do and I have 20% equity for a tie. I don't cash even though I was 3 away from it and I'm just sitting there thinking I'm the biggest retard in the world.
Was wondering how you guys deal with being retards, or do you just fold when you get into uncomfortable spots w/e.?
Hey guys, I've been playin around on Hero Poker and Black Chip Poker (Both on the same Network) and the games are very good. The software is good and I hear we may be having some great updates in the near future. (crosses fingers)
Be smart with your funds in the beginning, although everything seems safe 27 days after the DOJ owned us Americans.
Deposit your base bankroll for your limit - every $400-$1k+ you win cash out, keeping the same br online. This way if something were to possibly happen, atleast your profits will be coming to you.
It is still legal to play poker online, just not the depositing etc.
Playing over 12 tables can be very tilting on the software (while making one decision, another hand may fold/check unintentionally because no auto-timebank), I reccomend 1-12 tabling for anyone that plays 1-24 tables on the regular.
It's just pennies, but this is just fucking bullshit. I should not lose almost every fucking game. I can actually win pots in cash games, but any SnG or MTT? Fuck no, it's the law I should only fucking lose. I'm so fucking close to calling it quits.