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For the HUD, is it better to be using "use session stats" than not, and just have the entire hand database for each player?

note: for cash games tables


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There was a time, once, when I, as a man, thought about the world and the possibilities. Looking down at my hands, the yesteryear's memories swirled and creased to become the man I am today. Somewhere, trapped within those memories was the time I wondered which possibilities would take root. Happenstance, Haphazard, Hogwash.


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-playing poker with some co-workers (maybe the other ppl think i'm trying to impress my co-workers but i dunno)
-game is 2/5
-i was playing pretty aggro and raising/cbetting lots of flops
-drunk guy gets moved to this table, i lose 3-4 small hands in a row, cause drunk guy doesn't fold to cbets
-i play much tighter now

drunk guy limps, weakish/tightish regish looking guy raises to 25, random fish calls, i look down at AKo 2 from button, i should

a) call?
b) reraise?

+ Show Spoiler +

edit: holy shit i forgot how to post relevant informations.


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Is it because of my fucking brain malfunctioning that i'm seeing waayyyyyy more monsters when trying to play 4 tables zoom robot mode instead of trying to play "smart" with only 2 tables ?

For 2 hours, I was trying to steal pots at CO, button and everything but everytime I was chasing any sets or draws, they would never fucking come.
Then when I went Terminator, everything were so great that I crushed the tables in no time (read at least +2 bi for each tables) in 1 fucking hour.

Hello brain, you sure u workin' good ? Or is that simply luck ? Or selective memory ? Argh.

Peace. http://i.imgur.com/QxR8tQh.jpg


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Hey ...

I'm visiting Prague for a few weeks. Staying in Prague 1 atm. Anybody around want to get a drink or something? I don't know the area too well.

Peter


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Hi All,

This is going to be a bit of a disjointed rando blog. Just letting you know now.

First of all:

Been listening to Beyonce's recent album. Love it. Great for drinking absurd amounts of coffee, cleaning up around the house and dancing ecstatically. Problem is, it is tough to top that high man. Been trying to recreate it for a few days now but coming off a juice cleanse not having coffee for a week and going on a caffeine, dancing, Yonce', cleaning house bender, life just does not seem worth living anymore...

SAUNAS!

Scandis!

Where you guys at. I have been trying to up my sauna game and it is lacking. Or maybe I am overcomplicating things. I just think of like a natural sauna in Finland or one of those sauna houses out in the country in Sweden and think, "Man! Those guys know how to sauna! I gotta travel over there and spend a few weeks just learning how to sauna!" Basically, I just went to the gym. Sat in the sauna with some gym bros for like 15 min. then I got out and took a shower and then went home. I felt amazing but it was way too cold outside and I was still super hot. Any tips, tricks, insights? I gotta up this sauna game to a respectable level.

Love and tolerance for the earth and mankind!

RiKD


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I don't know if poker has gotten harder in the last 6 months or if I'm just burnt out. I played some crazy HU matches last year and swung almost 10 grand each way. Results were that my lack of care for money due to HU made me play recklessly in 6m throwing money around, which didn't end well. I took a few months off and now I can't get my groove going, lost 2 flips this session and not feeling good about my game or edge. Maybe it's my patience. I seem to be forcing plays rather than letting them come to me. There's still clearly fish but I can't seem to beat the games as of yet. What are your experiences 200NL+?


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well. poker is getting boring so i've decided to open up a nail spa.
location is in florida, a lot of middle aged retired white women here that like to get their nails did.

i myself dont have any experience with nails but my wife is a nail tech and her sisters are and they want their own shop so why not.

Never opened a business before so going to try and use common sense as a guide and try our best.
Of course location of the store is the gonna be main focus/foundation of the business and we are looking hard for a good location.

Only thing that concerns my is they want to buy a previous nail salon so then it would be ready to move in already without having to do much renovations. this seems fairly common because it would be much more work to start from the ground up when starting a new business.

This means we are going have to rely on providing exceptional service because obv the owner before is not doing so well to be selling in the first place.

my wife and her sisters do exceptional work so if we can just get an upswing or heater then that would be great.











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does anyone know of a chrome app i can use that tells me when an article by a specified author is released on a news website??


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Last best poker month imo considering one single player donate me 2K/m since December and I dont see him again. Volume was very low compared to last month because there's very few regs left I consider profitable playing, I table selected harder and I had a long fever the last week. Also I took some 30/60 shot at the beginning that gone wrong (there's a -75BB stretch there in less than 200 hands), but managed to stay green . I collected 7500 vpp only

http://i.imgur.com/7Oc3bGa.jpg

Now I only have some intestinal pain from a week or so, so I'll have to table select even harder. Hope Im not celiac or something. Have to see a doctor if I dont improve

Books update:
1. Finished to read some training books ("supertraining" from yuri verkhoshansky, "overcome gravity", "superjoints", "relax into tretch" and "the naked warrior" from Pavel Tsatsoulin and "stretching scientifically" from Thomas Kurz)
If I have to recommend something is, dont read Tsatsoulin, he never talks about watching muscle soreness after stretching to be a problem. The big priority is muscle strenghtening of the muscles that are an obstacle to the splits. So there's a minimum strenght requiered before going into stretching imo or I'll risk losing standing balance/posture. So, deadlifts and light aductor leg flies are gonna be in my workout list and no more than 30sec stretches

2. Still reading "the black swan" from Thaleb. The guy is so intense and repetitive like if he was telling stories to kids. Dont think its a very worthy read


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Hello i would like to transfer 50$ from PS, to 5Dimes for sport betting.

I am willing to give a bit more, maybe 55$ or more.

Ideally i would like to deal with someone i can trust.

you can contact me via PM on here


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Its always worth a chuckle reading some of your comments on here to my blog. If it was spam I would do it more often....think about it guys.....anyway... let us look at the three main online poker tracker metrics of VPIP/PFR/AF stats. These stand for “Voluntarily put $ into the pot” (VPIP)….. “Pre-flop raise percentage” (PFR) and “aggression factor” (AF). The VPIP stat measures how often you place money into the pot by way of limping, raising, calling a raise or completing the small blind. In short then it measures how loose or tight your online poker style is. The PFR statistic is pretty obvious regarding what it means but the aggression factor measures post flop aggression.

Some years ago when tracking software first came into vogue then there was a greater disparity in opponent types in online poker than there is today. There is a big and very important reason for that and it can be summed up in two words…….better education! Your average online poker opponent will be well versed these days in all of the basics and advanced basics of the game. This means that their VPIP and PFR stats will be similar to other players at the same level. For example in full ring games then most players fall into a very narrow band of VPIP and PFR which kind of makes these stats much less effective.

The aggression factor is a metric in online poker that measures vital post flop aggression. As a rule then the average tight-aggressive or loose-aggressive player will be more aggressive post flop. However this is a metric that has less significance in no limit hold’em than limit because it is often correct to go into pot control in no limit and so checking and calling is often the right line to take. The AF metric is of much greater use in six max games than full ring where more players are aggressive post flop.

So the bottom line is that if you play online poker and you are not necessarily statistics orientated then you would be much better off playing full ring games than perhaps six max games or heads up games. Because you will be doing much more folding in full ring then it will take your opponents far longer to get meaningful sample sizes on you and this is especially the case when it comes to play on the river for example.

If you game is heavily statistics based then you will find that six max may be where your greatest strengths are because this is where you will be able to get the biggest edge over your opposition.

One key set of metrics in online poker that are just as important whether you are playing full ring, six max or whatever are your 3/bet stats along with those of your opponent. This can also be tagged along with your fold to 3/bet stats as well which indicates how often you raise and fold to a re-raise. The key reason why this is important in games like no limit Texas hold’em online poker games is because play in and around the blinds is far more aggressive. So the bottom line is that you need to learn which metrics and statistics are important in online poker and which are of lesser importance and then focus on the more important ones.

Carl Sampson plays online poker at www.888poker.com



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Hi All,

Sometimes I just need some Nietzsche in my life: that crazy, brilliant, bi-polar, psychotic, sick, son of a bitch. I was feeling the love, strength, and hope and felt like sharing from the heart. Nietzsche's heart to my heart to your heart:

Of Reading and Writing

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

It is not an easy thing to understand unfamiliar blood: I hate the reading idler.

He who knows the reader, does nothing further for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

That everyone can learn to read will ruin in the long run not only writing, but thinking too.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by the heart.

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of joyful wickedness: these things suit one another.

I want hobgoblins around me, for I am courageous. Courage that scares away phantoms makes hobgoblins for itself - courage wants to laugh.

I no longer feel as you do: this cloud which I see under me, this blackness and heaviness at which I laugh - precisely this is your thunder-cloud.

You look up when you desire to be exalted. And I look down, because I am exalted.

Who among you can at the same time laugh and be exalted?

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at tragedies, real or imaginary.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

You tell me: "Life is hard to bear." But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignations in the evening?

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and assesses of burden!

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

And to me too, who love life, it seems that butterflies and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them among men, know most about happiness.

To see these light, foolish, dainty, affecting little souls flutter about - that moves Zarathustra to tears and to song.

I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

And when I beheld my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: it was the Spirit of Gravity - through him all things are ruined.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter. Come, let us kill the Spirit of Gravity!

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Frederich Nietzsche, pp. 67-69


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what do you guys do for supplements? i am not asking in reference to bodybuilding, although i exercise, but for being better generally, healthier - less dying, more/better energy, whatever. i don't know much or where to start. i know vitamins exist but do you just grab any multivitamin? or can it be like water poisoning where you wouldn't expect it but it's bad to take more than you really need? i know there's fish oil, i saw cranberry extract, i know melatonin is supposed to be a legit sleep aid. aspirin for heart?

I have no background with this so I want to sort out things that have no effect and things made by people like Deepak Chopra... what do you take or what have you had success with?


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Time to spend,
A couple of grand.

http://i.imgur.com/mmmo5c0.jpg


Here for 1 year on working holiday visa. I'm traveling around for now, to cities that interest me, so I can decide where to settle down and find a job. Yeah, probably English teaching, seeing as it's hard to find anything with computers or engineering with only conversational level Japanese skill.

Finding some underground poker games would be fun though.


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when i beat someone HU and they tell me i've ruined their lives, beg me for chips, i say no, they tell me to kill myself. it was for play money btw.


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Hey guys, After Caesars blackballed Pokerstars for a few years keeping them out of the US, they have teamed up with them now that they are under Amaya. They are going to aggressively be pursuing many bills etc.

heres a good link.

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/02...rst-discusses-caesars-stars-20699.htm

This could be sweet.

Also on Pokernews you can see that Cali is doing a lot having 3 tribes now willing to allow pokerstars and 2 opposed, when it was 0-5, things are progressing, and another bill was put in today although its just a start for the year as it won't do much imo.

GL guys,
Ryan


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