Hello, I'm new to Liquidpoker. Nice to see a community here just for poker!
So anyway, I always wanted to learn to get good at poker and have been playing the 0.1/0.2 games on PS for about a a few months now.
I've been doing pretty well lately, never really having a losing session and earned about 20~ dollars. I felt really happy because it felt I can really be good at this game.
However, yesterday, I had my first bad run. It wasn't just a bad run, I basically lost almost all my profit.
I knew it was gonna happen eventually but for all my profit to go away in the span of 5-6 hours? =( Needless to say, I got pretty depressed and angry.
Ever since then, I looked up a few sites to see how to deal with bad runs but to no help. I just can't seem to detach myself from playing, especially because I know I shouldn't be losing to this level of play. (Not to sound arrogant ><")I can't move down the stakes either because this is basically the lowest stake.
I guess everyone here has probably been in this situation and I would like to know how you guys dealt with this. Any help would be so much appreciated.
so today consisted entirely of running into the top of everyone's range, or people stacking my sets with backdoor straights and flushes. villians getting it in with A high and stacking my QQ or KK, then losing their money to nits.
-15 BI days are always fun i guess. i should probably set a stop loss.
Posting this to immortalize my first three weeks at the 3/6 and 5/10 CAP games on Stars...and the worst monetary downswing [27k or so] of my poker career.
There's something strangely freeing about the helplessness one experiences during stretches like this...the recognition that this game, this gaining and losing of money, is somewhat irrelevant - it's not REALLY tied to my ability to experience joy or sadness in any given moment. That's only a half-articulated thought, but I'll leave it where it is.
Always cool to study Astronomy a little, I did this evening, thought I'd share =]
Galaxies
- 200 billion known Galaxies in the known universe.
- Our Galaxiy, The Milky Way, 12 billion years old.(Huge disc with giant spiral arms, and a bulge in the middle)
Born in nebulas, born in clouds of dust and gass.
* Pillars of creation.
* Around many of them are planets and moons.
(We humans thought for a very long time the milky way was the only one until 1924, until Hubble found out otherwise).
He found fuzzy blobs of lights, far far away, whole cities of stars, galaxies, way beyond The Milky Way.
Random Facts
- M87, a giant elyptical galaxy, one of the oldest in the Universe, and the stars all glow gold!
- Sombrero Galaxy, has a huge glowing core, with a ring of gass and dust all around it.(Baal Galaxy?)
- Galaxies are big, really really big.
Some distances and perspective
On earth we meassure distance in kilometers, in space astronomers use lightyears. The distance light travels in a year, which is just under 9,5 trillion kilometers.
- Our Galaxy is 100.000 lightyears across, which is just a small spec in the universe.
- Our nearest neighboer, Andromeda is nearly 200.000 lightyears across, twice the size.
- M87 is much much bigger than Adromeda, nearly 5 times as big.
- But all of these are tiny compared to IC 1011, biggest galaxy ever found. 60 times larger than our Milky way.
- The first stars formed 200 million years after the Big Bang ( 13,8 billion years ago).
- Then gravity pulled them together, building the first Galaxies.
Mankind's incredible tenacity and creativity
Whatever we see in telescopes today are things that has happened millions or more years ago, because it has taken the light as long to get to us. The feint smudges, formed 1 billion years after the big bang is the furthest back Hubble can see.
Until recently, humankind made Act, a 500 meter tall telescope, and the largest in the world. Act doesn't detect visible light, it detects cosmic microwaves, from the time the Universe was a few hundred thousands year old.
It doesn't just detect early Galaxies, it can see how they grew. The footprints of all the growth, from a few hundred thousand years till now.
Letting Astronomers see how they form and evolve: Stars form cluster, forms to galaxies, which builds into clusters of galaxies which builds into super clusters of Galaxies.
- In the beginning Galaxies looked like poo, random and bulgy, now they look awesome and perfect. Gravity, gravity shapes and molds Galaxies
Unimaginable Power
- There's an unimaginable powerful and incredible destructive source of gravity at the heart of most Galaxies. And there's one at the deep center of our own milky way.
- For years scientists wondered what could be powerful enough to change how a Galaxy behave, and then they found out.... A black hole, not just any kind, a super massive black hole.
* It eats gass and stars, but sometimes black holes consumes too quickly, and what they are consuming are dispatched back into space in beams of pure energy.
* This is called Quasar, when they find one, they know the center has a Super massive black hole.
- The black hole in the center out of Galaxy is gigantic, 24 million kilometers across.
* Even though, Earth is in absolute no danger, since Earth is 25.000 lightyears away (trillions of kilometers). So the earth is safe... For now....
Dark Matter
Super massive black holes may be the source of huge amounts of gravity, but they don't have enough power to hold a galaxy together, according to the laws of physic, a galaxy should fly apart. Why don't they?
Because there's something out even more powerful than a super massive black hole. It can't be seen, and virtually impossible to detect, but it's there. And it's called dark matter, and it's everywhere.
- Scientist are discovering that dark matter doesn't just hold em together, might have sparked them into life as well.
- They think dark matter was created into the Big Bang, and that dark matter became the seed of the Galaxy, even though they have no idea what it really is and no idea what it's made of.
- They think that dark matter weight for weight make up for x6 as much as all other matter in the Universe.
Recently it's been detected in deep space, it bends it, in a process called gravitational lensing. Allows us to detect the pressence of dark matter. As a beam of light is travelling towards us, if it passes by dark matter, it gets deflected around it by the gravitational pull.
Triggers the birth of galaxies, and keeps them together, scientists call it, the master of the Universe.
Unfathomable vastness
Scientist have come so far, they've built almost the whole Universe in a super Computer. Here you can't see individual Galaxies, can't even see clusters. But what you can see is Super Clusters, linked together in filaments, in a vast cosmic web. One finds a cosmic web which lights up all of the Universe, making the Universe looks like a gigantic spunge.
Each of the filaments is home to millions of Galaxy clusters, all bound together by dark matter. In the simulation, the dark matter glows along the filaments.
Dark matter effects where in the Universe Galaxies will form, holds together the whole superstructure of the Universe, binds them in clusters, and clusters in super clusters. All are locked in a web of filaments, and without it, the whole structure of the Universe will fall apart. This is the big picture of our Universe.
It's a giant cosmic web, and hidden deep within one of these filaments are our Milky way.
Dark Energy
In recent times, the last decade scientists found something new, kinda scary. Dark Energy, far more mysterious than dark matter, since we don't have the slightest idea what it is or what it's doing. Like space has little springs in it, make things repell eachother and pushes things apart.
If Dark Energy wins vs Dark matter, it make Galaxies spread apart and push things away from eachother. But that's not going to happen for a very very long time (trillions of lightyears).
Fantastic time to live in
We're extremely fortunate, life has only evolved on earth because our tiny solar system was born in the right part of the Galaxy, any closer to the center, we wouldn't be here. Since life there is extremely lively, radioactive.
To far away from the center would be just as bad, ain't as many stars, we might not exist at all. We're not to far, not too close, perfect distance.
Endless questions to ask, and mysteries to solve. More and more scentists are focusing on Galaxies, it's amazing time to live in, where we're making the most extraordinary discoveries imaginable
The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, and since the bigger of galaxies crashing eats and consume the smaller, Milky Way will lose. Which is doomsday of our own Galaxy, but according to Astronomers it'll be amazingly beautiful.
February went quite well. Didn't get to play as much as I would have wanted, but in the end the bottom line was good. Right now also Chicago Poker Classic live events are going on. Played a $350 tourney there, but got knocked out after not getting too many cards and then losing two flips in a row a few hours into it. Going to try to satellite into the $3k main event--I usually do quite well in sats, both online and live. It's a really nice series of events with very good structure, so plenty of opportunities for skill to come into play.
Mostly for myself, I've been having troubles with it for quite some time. I figured if I studied it some, took some notes, got it in my blog It'd help me a lot.
1 - Get a schedule
your body thrives on running on a routine; erratic sleeping sessions will interfere with your internal "biological clock". For some people, and depending on work and routine, a very short rest in the afternoon (the Spanish call it the siesta) could help alleviate drowsiness some people experience during the day. But make sure not to oversleep.
2 - Be mindful of what you have eaten or drunk before bed
* Stomach should not be too full, but not too empty.
* Digestion doesn't work well while asleep.
* Do not eat heavy foods a few hours before sleep (But not go to bed on empty stomach either).
* Caffeine sits in the body for 8 hours, so no tea or coffe in the evening.
* Drink 2l or more of water a day. Hydrated body is awesome.
* Alcohol may make you feel sleepy, but will greatly reduce sleep quality.
* Great foods in the evening, before bed: milk, turkey, yogurt, ice cream, peanuts. Since Tryptophan helps the body produce serotonin in order to relax.
3 - Keep the room dark
* Avoid any kind of light, pull curtains across the blinds, LED clocks, computer lights so forth. Also really hard to go back to sleep if exposed to bright light.
4 - Change your sleeping position
* When on your back, have a pillow under ur feets.
* When on your side, have a pillow in between your legs.
* Avoid sleeping on your stomach, it's shit.
5 - Exercise
Your body wants to recover, if you've not exerted yourself there isn't much to recover from, and it might distrupt your sleep.
* regular exercise can make your sleep deeper and more restful.
* Don't exercise right before sleep.
6 - Weird circumstances
* If outer circumstances, problems in life etc. are on your mind. Start meditating.
Random tips
* Keep the computer off 1 hour before bed
* Chamomile tea supposedly doesn't count when it comes to tea in the evening
* Don't sleep too long, shoot for around 8 hours. Too little or too long will make you grouchy and tired the next day
* Avoid having on music or TV
Put in a decent amount of volume in February I think...would've liked a bit more but with school and a girlfriend I'll take the just under 3k hands a day that it comes out to. Definitely my best month ever, as I made almost $400 playing mostly 10NL and about 14k hands of 25NL in the last couple days of the month. Made Platinumstar and have my eyes set on Supernova now that I have the roll to be grinding 25NL a lot. I'm actually pretty close to getting to take shots at 50NL, and I hope to be trying that by mid-March. I've mentioned before how proud and excited I am given my history of basically being a loser degen and donating to microstakes fish all across teh interwebs, but having almost $800 in my bankroll as of right now is kind of putting it into perspective for me that my perseverance and hard work have paid off. Being a losing player for so long is really hard to come to terms with, and it's very refreshing to have a positive graph to look at and be proud of. This may seem like a brag, and I guess it kind of is...but please forgive my elation with my results in light of the fact that I lost for almost a year before having a decent month like this.
As for March, I'd really like to start taking shots at 50NL by the middle of the month. Realistically I'll take a shot once I have about 25 buyins, although I might go against that and try at 20. I don't plan on making Supernova by the end of the month, but I think it's definitely realistic to say I can make it by the end of April. With that said, I have 89k VPP to go, and I'd like to get that down to about 45-50k to go so I'll be on pace to break it by the end of April. I'm done using the 4,500 FPP $50 releases, and am going to begin just hoarding them in order to get the 250k FPP $4000 releases once I hit Supernova. I figure by the time I hit Supernova I'll probably have right around there if not more considering I'm making about 2k FPP a day at 25NL, and will definitely be making more at 50NL. For the first time in my life, it's "when I hit 50NL" as opposed to "I really hope I can get to 50NL."
This is the biggest tl;dr I've ever written I think, but if you made it this far, I thank you for being interested enough to read through this and wish you (and the rest of LP) the best of luck at the tables, as well as in life, in March.
+4k rakeback
+1.7k online grind
0 online MTT
-2.4k live cash
-3k live MTT
= +300 month. 44 winning months streak continues thanks to luckboxing MTTs on the last minute (still ran bad there tho, was so close to making like 10 FTs yesterday). Shouldn't have played live, it's rigged, but LAPT was fun, met urubu, Baal, dumped some money at 25/50, and overall had a great time. Gotta start grinding for real this month, gonna try to reach 200k VPPs, gotta stop being so lazy. Also moving up sucks, gonna stay at 100s forever. Higher stakes are rigged, retards run even hotter up there.
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
ive been supernova last year then i didnt play this year (2kvpps so far in 2011), when do i lose it? it says i lose it at Feb if i dont maintain 7500 vpps each month or did i misinterpret the whole thing? im still supernova now and its march 1 here already.
yep back to silverstar now haha. gg
problem solved
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thanks to luckboxing MTTs on the last minute (still ran bad there tho, was so close to making like 10 FTs yesterday). Shouldn't have played live, it's rigged, but LAPT was fun, met urubu, Baal, dumped some money at 25/50, and overall had a great time. Gotta start grinding for real this month, gonna try to reach 200k VPPs, gotta stop being so lazy. Also moving up sucks, gonna stay at 100s forever. Higher stakes are rigged, retards run even hotter up there.
