So i am living in some apartments in Tennessee and I signed a 13 month lease back in October. Which means my lease was up on November 30th but when I went to give my keys back to the office they told me they never got my 60 day termination notice and I had to pay them 2 more months rent. I had never heard of a tenant having to give the apartments notice if they had a lease for a fixed period, however when I went back and looked through my lease it was there. Ive been looking online but cant even find anything where people are even talking about 60 day termination notices from tenant to landlord. Anyone with legal knowledge know if this even legal or where I could find out if it is? All of the legal hot lines around where I live all seem to be for the landlords and wont tell me anything.
beating micro stakes my abridged short guide pt 1by mnj, December 07
basically making this guide because i had a pretty tough time getting up here and there and just wanted to make it a little bit easier for those willing and those dedicated or dumb enough to try out online poker
this assumes some minimal knowledge of poker. i also want to get across that i am not really an ass irl but i feel like the advice that must be given should be given as an ass.
so you've been playing micro stakes poker for however long. who cares. yea you're probably a break even player who can do fancy stuff like 3 bet bluffing and floating. but look at where it's gotten you. no where. play for days and days and days just to be a break even player. lol.z.
at nl 10- nl 50 everyone has a hard time folding preflop. including you apparently. it's simple game theory really. it's simple rock, paper, scissors. the opponents you face have an unbelievable retarded urge to call any 2 pf, and with any pair on the flop over multiple streets. ENGRAVE THIS IN YOUR MIND. how do you counter this? by raising suited connectors? lol. by incorporating a wide 3 bet range? lol. by bluffing? lol. by completing your ranges with balance? lol. by opening a really cool range on the button like J5o? lol.
stop playing retarded hands and just play strong broadway cards. some large percentage of the time like 80%, you are going to show a pair @ show down. it's important that these are quality broadway cards that can get value over 2 streets.
seriously why do you <3 suited connectors? because you can flop a pair of 7's with 78 on K73 board? are you gonna barrel that? so you can flop a flush draw loL? and barrel some flush draws to the river against calling stations?
the point of poker isn't to be cool, or unexploited or to feel like a man when you 3 bet. it's to win some fucking monies. who cares how you do it? who cares how polarized your ranges are? who cares how transparent your strategy is? if it works it works and you never have to move to lvl 2 play. just stay @ lvl 1 till someone else adapts or adjusts.
no one will. if they would have they wouldn't be playing micro stakes
a few random tips:
+ bet big and close to pot for value. usually ppl are gonna click call or fold w/e the bet size
+ call in position with as many pocket pairs as possible. 99-QQ can often flop an overpair as well as sets. sets at this lvl are wonderful considering how you will get paid by a variety of hands.
+ when you have the nuts on the river sometimes it will be hard to get stacks in. don't be silly and overbet jam. it is ABSOLUTELY crucial and important that you get good value on the river when the pot is inflated. mistakes post flop are magnified. ie you have AK on an AK355 board. the pot is about 50bb (you have 25 percent of your stack in). betting 35-40 bb is much better than shoving and potentially pushing a fish away. (although a fish prob calls here, not the best example but the point is to TRY your HARDEST for 3 streets of value. VARY bet sizing). A large percentage of your profits and winrate will come from good river bets. Consider the pot until the turn. you've seen 4 cards and you've only invested about 25 bbs. so even if you make mistakes on the flop/turn when you make a mistake on the river it can cost you 35-40 bbs. and these mistakes will be made by your opponents usually in the form of CALLING.
also if someone is giving you a hard time in general pick up your money and leave. don't have a dick waving contest with someone through the internet. and if you ARE going to stay because your actual poker skills probably suck, folding preflop is most likely a small mistake and calling and seeing flops tends to be much bigger mistakes. (mainly because aggression/initiative is unbelievable strong in poker. even over aggro tards can win a decent amount if no one adjusts)
so basically learn to vbet. and know when to vbet. and know how much to vbet. and then go learn some more ways to vbet. and completely forget about bluffing. ever.
I moved out of my house over the weekend. With my two mates. About 15 mins walk from the beach. The summer is here so it should be awesome.
GOt my own room and queen sized bed, hope to bring few girls back here, haha.
In other news my 6 months probation is finished at work. So now I can slack around and not get fired. Should be cool. Job's ninetofive and gest boring sometimes, but its starting to kick off, so hope it wil get interesting soon.
Also going to thailand over christmas holidays for two weeks, should be a blast.
Anyways. HAve a good one everyone, next blog with pics yea.
Hey guys, short and sweet blog. If any of you have already read Carthac's latest blog post this is going to look somewhat similar, but I will also be writing a review shortly of "Dynamic Fullring Poker". I think Carthac wrote a good summary of the expectations of the book, and I will be posting a review here too shortly from an nl10'ers perspective.
Asked to review a poker e-bookby Carthac, December 06
Hello again everybody!
Last blog post was about a situation with my situation of trying to teach my father how to play poker, in mostly a casino FR setting as he is technologically behind and has trouble using computers. I myself play 6-max online, so I am not quite accustomed to the differences in full-ring play.
Received some good feedback, but one e-mail in particular was from a guy named Tri. Tri Nguyen, as some of you may not know, was the co-author, along with Cole South, of "Let There Be Range," a fantastic e-book that has become one of the top poker reads for current day online play. Tri e-mailed me after reading my blog and asked if I would read and review his new e-book that is coming out, "Dynamic Full Ring Poker- Beyond the Basics." I responded that I would be honored to do so.
I am going to read and review the book, and do my best to get my father to read it as well. From quickly looking through the table of contents, the book reviews full-ring pre-flop hand selection, isolating certain opponents, various player types, 3-betting, squeezing, check raising, etc. etc. It appears any question you may have about more advanced strategies in poker, this book covers it.
I expect to learn quite a bit, and maybe my father will read it as well. I'm not quite sure yet, as he reads a lot but has never read an e-book. If he doesn't, maybe I will have to break out the white board to explain the concepts to him Now my next problem is trying to find time to read this monster 353 page e-book while still playing poker and studying for finals...Oh yeah gotta find time to sleep too :/
Quite the reasonable price too, and it is currently on sale for $97. Compared to other e-books on poker that I have seen go for close to 1k, this is a steal.
I will write up another blog post when I am finished to review the book and give my thoughts, feelings, etc. on everything it covers.
Happy holidays everyone, and remember to take some time off poker and spend it with your family
live pokers,how do they workby Dogan0s, December 06
Hi LPers,
been playing alot in both stars and in a EU donk site.
managed some 2.5BB/100 in nl100 in stars and just stopped since
my winrate in that Eu donk site is like 10BB/100 or so..
Been 1 month since Greece added poker in casino's and i went today for the first time to play in the 2/5 table.
what i saw was ofc way different from online , but ppl with live expirience , what am i supposed to do with hands like AJ/A10/KQ and 99 and below pairs ?
I raise like 40 and get 4-5 callers.sometimes they even call pf with JJ+ and just push the money in in every single board with no overcard from their pair.
Is it better to get way more passive pf and just limp with AJ/A10/KQ (AQ aswell ?) and just aggro with nuts or strong hands since they are prob gonna pay me with worse?
Been on a blog posting spree, but I guess this month is full of brags. On August 30th I wrote
I'm close to about 100k in earnings this year but I don't want to graph it until I actually have 100k in pure cash profit without counting rakeback and tourneys. Hopefully I can make it because I've always wanted to have a $100k graph within the same calendar year (I always make a new database after each year).
I got disgustingly close at one point: 99731.89 then the poker gods decided it'd be funny to engage the doomswitch, and I shot down to ~79k almost immediately. That was a pretty depressing time. But I'm glad to say that I've started running well again and I've finally done it :D. I know sickos like Andrew Song and Fayth post 100k graphs within a single month but this is unprecedented for me, especially considering the small amount of hands I have on the year, so this really makes me happy. I made a pretty farfetched goal last year of hoping to make 200k in 2010, and while I'm nowhere near that, for once in my poker career I actually have this nice feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment.
had to cash out a bunch of my roll to buy christmas presents as i've been jobless since october but i've started playing a bit again. feels good to be back on the grind.
Hey LP, been a while since I blogged so I figured I'd get one in here;
Spent the last few months getting my life together after an insane 6 months living in a party house in LV, was good times but took its toll n my roll.. ;-)
Boredom was creeping in harder and i was feeling more stagnant day by day after moving back to my hometown. Something needed to be done. Watched every pokerstars.net biggame (<3 scott sever or however u spell his last name)
Got my inspiration and won the 11r.
I cashed out a fat 6k+ chunk, paid back a couple debts and left myself a lil to grind up. Taking that 6500 and getting a nice 1 bedroom apartment near the strip and going to play live 3-4 days a week.
MTTs sundays with FPP buy-ins from grinding. (40,500 to play warm up mil and the 2nd chance)
6max cash games online, 40 hrs 24 tabling (graph located below)
Now this is a job with sunday bonus and im pretty confident im gonna take down atleast one sunday in the next 365 days =) top 100 in warm up 3 times in about 10 tries, thats the most likely, warm ups so sick soft too tho. that fcking mil is full of land mines though, lil tougher to bink that fucker.
Some may ask why switch to 6max after a year off of 6max and a losing PTR Graph, this is an extremely valid question.
After going through some insanely large swings in mtts, i've learned tilt control very well. i'm in much more control of my ego now and realize playing hu is silly gambling, where i always want my edge. I can make a large amount doing this, be in correct mind for casino and have live roll too and still play MTTs. This is what we call having our cake and eating it too. I went through some serious mental overhauls in the last couple years and have learned a lot, i've been very solid in the cash arena for the last year.
A few other reasons;
A. to stay in cashgame mindset
B. the games are soft and hourly is nice
C. Can have more of a life and get laid more and drink more
D. I can stop sessions after a few hours, opposed to 20 hr mtt days
E. Never have to be staked again
F. god i can go on all day ;-)
NL50 / 1/2 - 1/3 live + sunday majors and a few random mtts on the side for now, if i make great hourly @ NL100 / 2/5 i'll play them at 12-15k when the games are soft, if not just play nl50 / 1/2.
300/day = 100k a year, seems very do-able this way. Add in SUndays and random MTTs, very exciting =)
Ticket is bought to arrive in Las Vegas on 12-10-2010, if anyones out there definitely get ahold of me here or fb or w/e
3rd times a charm for vegas, first time won 25k and left, 2nd time left with 1.5k and had the time of my life, this time im doin it for work, doin it serious, and goin to the top of live cash / mtts / working hard to reach the mid limit games in 6max.
Gonna be livin it up hard in the city too, just avoid those damn rhinowned nights etc Easy to have a blast in vegas for $100-$200, don't need to go blow umteen thousand, although easily done, i'll let the true ballers ball for now on, til i hit my wsop :-)
nl10 progress+month so farby Gigabeef, December 05
Have ran well and feel like I'm actually understanding these limits and playing well too.
Currently 4tabling and table selecting extremely hard, things have gone damn well tbh. I moved up to nl10 at the start of November and got hit around a bit after initially running really well, which affected my confidence a bit, so moved back to nl5 even though I was super rolled for it to make myself feel comfortable again.
Well I am glad that I did, because once I was feeling confident again and had built some of the money back that I had won and then lost at nl10, I tried again with much better results. I read through some really epic threads about the microstakes again, the responses to my last blog post helped greatly and something seems to have just clicked into place for the time being and I feel like I'm really being extremely concious of what everyone is doing around me at the tables, not tilting or calling bets where I am obviously behind, playing in position FAR more than oop etc. One thing that I have been putting active work into is double barrelling on good turn cards which has been going great so far.
I don't have a massive sample but I do feel quite strong in a lot of situations now at nl10 and have faith in my BR management to be able to keep learning and improving and hopefully take some shots at nl25 in the near future!
November at nl10 (shots at nl10 and trying again after moving down for a bit): + Show Spoiler +
Played donkaments today. Bubbled 2 nice FTs. Finally won the $22 HU tho, after top 3ing it like 15 times, winning it was a pride thing + Show Spoiler +
Mixed feelings about it tho, I wanted to win
But this pre-FT hand makes me feel better + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : player999
PokerStars Game #53753230456: Tournament #342011046, $150+$12 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XVIII (2000/4000) - 2010/12/05 2:42:39 AT [2010/12/05 1:42:39 ET]
Table 342011046 41 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: mocama (30704 in chips)
Seat 2: 2b2o (143690 in chips)
Seat 3: Hero (106021 in chips)
Seat 4: fedim28 (88397 in chips)
Seat 5: gernas10 (181674 in chips)
Seat 9: batcashaut (103653 in chips)
mocama: posts the ante 400
2b2o: posts the ante 400
Hero: posts the ante 400
fedim28: posts the ante 400
gernas10: posts the ante 400
batcashaut: posts the ante 400
Hero: posts small blind 2000
fedim28: posts big blind 4000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
gernas10: folds
batcashaut: raises 5224 to 9224
mocama: folds
2b2o: calls 9224
Hero: raises 96397 to 105621 and is all-in
fedim28: folds
batcashaut: folds
2b2o: calls 96397
Showdown Hero: shows (three of a kind, Jacks)
2b2o: shows (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
Hero collected 226866 from pot
Summary Total pot 226866 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: mocama folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: 2b2o (button) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 3: Hero (small blind) showed and won (226866) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 4: fedim28 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: gernas10 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: batcashaut folded before Flop
Father wants to learn to play pokerby Carthac, December 05
Hello again everybody
So my father, for his birthday, decided that he would like to get better at poker. I was kind of hesitant at first, as he possesses some of the WORST possible habits as far as general poker goes. He loves to chase draws, he tilts very easily and wears his emotions on his sleeve. When he tilts, he plays way too many hands, and loves to make blatant bluff raises with absolute air. On top of this, he does not stop at 1 buy-in. He is willing to put down 2-3 BI to attempt to chase his previous losses. His mindset, as the best I can explain it, is one that if he started with 200 and made it to 400, but then left with 300, he views it as walking away down 100 dollars.
Even though I knew all of this, he still expressed to me that he really wanted to get better at the game he has played (horribly) for so long. I am a micros grinder, and have a poker coach myself. I know basic stuff, but do not have the deepest well of knowledge yet in the game. My strategy was to make him a huge nit for the time being, then graduate on when he understood more and if he really wanted to stick with it.
I begun teaching him, even bought him Skylansky's book, and tried to talk through hands with him. It seemed like he was listening, but nothing was really sinking in. I let him play a few nl10 FR games on my acc on stars to become more accustomed, and he could not even control himself there as I would catch him playing random garbage from terrible positions. When I asked him about it, I felt like a school teacher disciplining a child about not doing their homework, which I was not comfortable with. His response was "I got bored." I explained to him why he shouldn't do that, why it is bad, etc. etc. But once again, it seemed to go in one ear, and out the other.
For his 50th birthday, my mother decided she would do something special and invite our family and friends to go to the casino, so he could play poker, we could all eat together, and just have a good time. My mother and father are not poor by any means, but are still on a tight budget. My father went to the casino, and I tried to get him to play a limit game, but he opted to try and play NL200. Once the cards did not come fast enough for him, I believe he fell back into his old habits. Ends up he loses 500 dollars, as I guess he snuck to the ATM at some time, and is the only one that does not have a good time at his birthday. Add this to the dinner bill they insisted to pay, as my mother had budgeted money for this, and I believe they are down about 650 tonight. I was told later on that my mother and father were fighting on the way out.
So my question to you all, after tonight, should I try to continue to teach him if he asks, or should I simply cut it off and hope he stops playing, as he typically becomes very frustrated about poker and stops playing for a long time after he loses. His lack of self control and emotional stability seems to be a complete mismatch for a game like poker, and I do not want him to continue losing money when my parents are already on a fairly tight budget.
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Now my next problem is trying to find time to read this monster 353 page e-book while still playing poker and studying for finals...Oh yeah gotta find time to sleep too :/
Easy to have a blast in vegas for $100-$200, don't need to go blow umteen thousand, although easily done, i'll let the true ballers ball for now on, til i hit my wsop :-)
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