I don't give much of anything back to this community, so here's a little something that may benefit those of you who take it to heart.
First of all, let's look at the obvious: we're seated for hours on end. What does that lead to? Think about it: your knees are flexed, so your hamstrings are in a shortened position and they, inevitably, will shorten. Your hips are flexed, shortening your hip flexors and your rectus femoris (one of your quadriceps; the only one that crosses the hip joint). This tightness will lead to changes in the kinematics (movement) at the hip, knee, and ankle (Kinetic Chain).
Your arm or arms are stretched out in front of you, probably mostly just the side you use for your mouse. At the shoulder, this is called protraction. This changes the kinematics at the glenohumeral joint (shoulder). Depending on how bad it is, how long you've been like this, etc. it can lead to impingement at the shoulder. A quick test for this is to take your hand and place it on your opposite shoulder, leave it there, now bring your elbow to the ceiling. You feel a pinch? You may also notice it in overhead exercises like military press, incline bench press, skull crushers, etc.
Scapular Protraction: http://figureathlete.t-nation.com/img.../2008/08-FIG131-training/image009.jpg
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Scapular Retraction: http://figureathlete.t-nation.com/img.../2008/08-FIG131-training/image007.jpg
So, if your shoulders are constantly protracted, then the muscles on the posterior (rear) side will be put in a lengthened and essentially weakened position (Length-tension curve), namely your rhomboids, middle trapezius, and lower trapezius. This leads to winging and tipping of the scapulae (your shoulder blades). Winging and tipping essentially lead to instability/pain at that joint. This also puts the muscles on the anterior (front) side in a shortened position, which usually then become more dominant. This is often referred to as pec or pectoral-dominance as the muscles generally affected are the pec major and minor.
Let's talk posture. I can pretty much guarantee that your posture sucks. No big deal, right? Wrong. Maintaining crappy posture throughout the day has a variety of long term effects. Depending on how much time you put in on your computer, having your mouse at a different height than your keyboard may lead to a functional scoliosis (lateral curvature of the spine). Additionally, flat back and forward-head posture are common among people who spend a lot of time at their computers. As you can imagine these lead to neck and back problems.
This is really just the tip of the iceberg to be honest. If there's a significant amount of interest in this, I may post some follow up stretches/exercises prescribed with the internet poker player in mind. If not much interest is shown, you can always google exercises, or go pay for physical therapy (chiropractors can't help you, don't burn your money).
Oh ... My ... God!! Yes!! If I could post graphs I would but I'm a noob and can't get it to work. Anyways so I was hanging out with my buddies last night till about 1 am and decided I feel good enough to play a NL 100 session. I usually use a 3 buy in stop loss but I looked at my cashier 25 minutes into the session and I was down $500. HOw? I don't even know... All I could remember was getting sucked out on for 2 of my stacks and where the other 3 went? So naturally I keep playing and a little over a hour later I'm down $1100 (Although this was my fault as I can remember I called off a 175 bb flop shove with a double gutter). So I go to sleep dreadfully. I wake up today and having a day off of work I decide to recover. Started off rough going up $200 and then down $300. And then I started shitting on people over and over and over again. I didn't really start making hands till the last couple hours of my 9 hour session today - Mainly just rebluffed a lot of regs and played solid against the fish and random. I just finished about 20 minutes ago and I made $1250 plus about $150 in rakeback. I can't believe I got out of this nightmare so easily... Ship it!!! So from last night and today's session stats are: 8.6k hands, $600 below EV, 20/15/4.5, and made $270 including rakeback.
Is 8k hands a large enough sample? Trying to figure out why I keep losing. I feel like I'm playing solid enough. Generally speaking these stats tend to fall in line with winning players dont they? Just seems like if I'm not getting slowplayed, I'm value betting the worst hand vs droolers in spots where I simply have to bet.
Hi guys, this is my first blog entry (2nd actually but 1st was about $ transfer) and i wanted to share my pkr experience with you guys :D.
I´ve been playing poker for more than a year now, gone up from nl5 to nl 25 and nl50 where i stand now, this month is going great so far apart from the recent downswing where i lost 5 Bis .
I usually play 18 tables stacked, this doesn´t give me much time (or none) to think about my hands while playing them, after my the sessions i usually review my missplays and see that im playing really bad in some spots i didnt even imagined, in spots where the stacks are going in i think i play most of them good after reviewing but the small pots which are pretty important i play pretty F***in bad lol and its not enough to review them, i need to learn what to do and how to react accordingly.
As of right now im playing poker just for fun, i don´t really need the money because my fathers pay me my college and give me $ monthly, i spend poker money on things for myself like car-audio SC2 partys etc.. things i can live without (or not ), and my plan now is to buy a 24" monitor so i can reduce my tables to 12 playing tile or maybe less and start learning more from the game with less focus on the $.
My goal in poker is to move up until i think i can live only playin it, i mean... the average wage in my country is 550$ and the unnemployment is 11% and moving up so i dont think i can really just get a job and live from that that easily... (don´t get me wrong i want to finish my degree 4sure)
Maybe i will buy some CRunners/Dcracked membership dunno which one is better.
I would appreciate if u leaved some ideas thoughts about how to learn faster and really if its a good idea, i think this is a problem of many regs not only mine :S.
I would like to sell 75% of my action for the 6-max FTOPS event and the FTOPS main event. I need to sell exactly 75% and will not play if I do not sell it. My OPR has been posted many times in this blog. My account is TheRelapse @ FTP. No mark-up since these are substantially higher than my ABI, but the amount of fish in them will make me +EV. I have a deep run in the 750k (22nd) and the double deuce (12th), so I can get through some pretty big fields. My biggest win is the 50/50 for 11k.
Total buy in = $896 = $900 (I'm rounding it to $900 so i guess there is like .4% mark-up)
1% = $9
5% = $45
25% = $225
Must sell 75% or all funds will be returned and I will not play. Send Money to TheRelapse on Full Tilt Poker. Once funds are received I will confirm in this post. Thanks.
So I tried moving up to nl 10 and actually ran really hot, which was lovely and also boosted me significantly into nl 10 territory. However something went horribly wrong as I proceeded to lose 6BI pretty quick and then break even after that. Small sample, but 6BI down is pretty bad, I'm sure I can improve what I'm doing 10000x to minimise these losses. Still it could be worse.
It seems a little strange to me, there seem to be waaaay more aggressive fish at nl 10. I've been trying to tailor my play to the individual players and am also trying to practice and improve my valuebetting, however sometimes I think that I'm overthinking things and making it harder for myself.
I know that I'm terrible at dealing with 60/40 type aggronuts who 3bet about 20% preflop and raise a plenty postflop, but only if they are the ones betting. It feels like if I just try to wait for a good hand against them I end up spewing mountains of chips folding and when I do get a good hand, they shut down because I cbet or bet the turn and not them. Not sure what to do generally here.
Also I'm not sure how to deal with 10-15% 3bets from some guy in the small blind when I open otb and I'm more likely to just leave the table than to do anything about it in the game itself.
Lastly, I feel really uncomfortable 3betting for value with any of the unpaired hands. Even if I know they will call with worse preflop, if I miss the flop I have no idea whether I am ahead or not and don't really want to cbet bluff into a 3bet pot with A high knowing that they will call with all sorts of random pairs, but don't like the idea of check folding every time I miss either. You just don't hit top (or middle depending on villain) pair that often to make nice value money it seems.
My most hated thing of all is when I raise to isolate a limper preflop, get a call, limper checks so I cbet the flop and get called. We both check the turn and then he bets ~3/4 pot otr. I feel totally helpless to this and it happens a lot.
I think I need to sort out my thought process tbh, trying to remove these kinds of inconsistencies atm. I feel as if it should be simple to see what to do against each villain of a certain type in the micros but I feel confused instead unable to come to the right idea on how to play against them.
Right now I'm playing a mixture of 5nl and 10nl, but hope to feel 100% confident to move to playing 10nl all of the time soon!
Hello LP, I made a second account as I want to remain anonymous on this, but I frequent LP a decent amount.
I'm a fairly nerdy guy, and I don't have many friends, but the ones I do I spend a good portion of time with. Over the years, many of them have moved away to various colleges
My friend, after getting in a bad car accident over the weekend, died today of his injuries. I have been doing my best since the crash to tell myself he is going to be good as new, but now I have literally become emotionally frozen. I have no idea what to do...
I am extremely depressed atm. He was the guy I have been hanging out with, drinking with, playing poker with, etc for about the past year, and I don't really have any other friends left. I'm thinking about going to see a therapist or someone to talk to about it, but I don't think my health insurance will cover it and I don't have much money at the moment.
It is making me angry as I write to be even talking about this, because why should I be worried about how I feel right now? My friend is dead, and his parents are feeling likely just unspeakable pain. This makes me feel even worse, and very selfish. It is making me analyze everything that is negative about myself, and I feel more depressed than I have ever felt in my life.
Anyone have any advice on what I should do? Would really appreciate it right now. Thanks
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