Hello peoples.
Did you guys ever go through or consider one of them longer term staking+coaching deals?
What are the pros and cons of those?
There are people offering 60-90 chops with coaching even on 2p2, just wondering what you guys think about that.
I've had some unforseen real life expenses combined with a downer after a shot at nl50, even tho it's no issue I once again kinda have to play stakes lower than I beat comfortably because I'm a risk avoiding jew
Since I sent them out to test the waters, here's my results since depositing 50 bucks since coming back
This is Nov 2013-1st nov 2013 from $50 didnt save lines + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/VyC4sfd.png
graph from 1st nov 2013 for 2013 when I started playign serious
bb 2013 + Show Spoiler +
>be me
>be poker player
>move up to 2/5
>start winning
>making more money from poker than at my job
>but my job still brings in roughly a third of what i'm winning
>however, i could put more hours in at the table if i didn't have the job
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Apple cider vinegar, but has to be organic/raw 'mother' type diluted with plenty of water and some lemon, don't drink it everyday. Wouldn't add honey.
So I'm about to apply for a position as a prop player for a local casino. The casino is about 10 minutes away and I plan on it being my main source of income until I finish my nursing classes. I will probably be playing mostly 3/6, 4/8 limit holdem, and 4/8 limit omaha hi-lo, with some 2/5 nl holdem. I have been told by a recent hire that the pay is 9$ + 15$, so basically 24$/hr while you're playing and probably 9$/hr while you're just waiting around.
I'm currently a part time personal trainer that get's paid 18$/hr + commission but kinda getting burnt out/tired of the job even though I love fitness and gains.
Would you guys go for the job? Do you see yourself being a slight winner, break even, or slight losing playing in a limit format? Is it reasonable to expect making 2bb's/hr on top of the hourly so basically 32$ ish per hour?
A key thing from Canfield's book and his video is this a great mindset to have, at the poker tables or in life: Event+Your Reaction of the event = Outcome
Well no shit Sherlock you might say, but if you think about it and accept the mindset it only ever makes sense to always focus on the solutions and things you can change and virtually never worry/feel bad/even talk about events that happened that you have no control over. Like Variance. Or being broke. Or the news.
Basically it means you will be always positive, except when shit hits the fan and the best reactions also become hard and uncomfortable.
It is on a day like this one...by RiKD, November 14
a little later, a little earlier,
that you discover, without surprise,
that something is wrong...
That you do not know how to live and that you never will know.
You sleep, you walk, you continue to live,
like a laboratory rat abandoned in its maze by some absent-minded scientist.
But rats do not spend hours trying to get to sleep.
Rats do not wake up with a start, gripped by panic, bathed in sweat.
Rats do not dream and what can you do to protect yourself against your dreams?
Time, which sees to everything, has provided the solution, despite yourself.
Time, that knows the answer, has continued to flow.
You are afraid,
you are waiting. - Narrator (The Man Who Sleeps)
There's been too much talk about rake, hating pokerstars, and the games dying. We should all just watch some of the older seasons of the Simpsons. I swear I started watching some again because of old rebroadcasts on tv, but I don't remember them being so good/funny when I was a kid.
Some episodes off the top of my head if you want to get started:
-Season 2: One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
-Season 2: Bart Gets An 'F'
-Season 2: Dead Putting Society
-Season 2: Lisa's Substitute
-Season 3: Bart the Lover
-Season 4: Homer the Heretic
-Season 6: Bart's Comet
-Season 6: Homer the Great
-Season 7: Homer the Smithers
-Season 7: King Size Homer
-Season 8: Mountain of Madness
For myself, most episodes involving Mr Burns, Homer, Homer+Lisa, Bart, or Moe being the main characters usually end up being pretty decent for the most part.
On November 12 2014 11:32 ggplz wrote:
I think there are a lot of reasons. Some people just change nickname or move sites. Others can't keep up with the evolution of the game and go bust or get tired/burned out. Some finish University and go into real work. Also, i think generally people think of poker in a temporary and short term way so it's often dropped when other things in life demand more of them. I think there's also a sort of pre/midlife crisis people have between like 24-30 where they feel the game has or is meant to have ran it's course for them and they see something else they want to or feel obligated to do.
Just a few things about PS: PS games are just bad to play due to the rake, seat scripting, multi tablers everywhere and the fish to reg ratio. PS don't care about the quality of the games and no advertising budget in the world will draw enough players to feed 90+% regs 12+ tabling the site. I feel AMAYA care even less than PS previously did but with their massive debt they are so limited in what they can actually do as well. The thing is that the AMAYA deal kinda sealed their fate and not because AMAYA are bad but because what currently sustains PS i.e. the mass volume fish chasing nit culture will slowly die off but until it does they won't change. Sorry but the advertisement budget or whatever else people say justifies their rake paid is just plain wrong.
When I play there I have to open 40+tables per session and start another 8-10 per session to find decent fish at low stakes. That's at low stakes, I mean, come the fuck on! Any reg with a brain will seek fish the same way b/c the rake will eat you up playing vs regs. That's NOT fun for players or the fish but that's how the rake structure makes people play. The structure of the cash games forces you to play non-competitively and that's just wrong.
What PS need to do to improve the games and make it better for players is to lower the rake at low/mid stakes to allow players to actually climb up stakes and allow weaker players to do slightly better. This will result in better midstakes games and more shot taking. You know, allow players to actually have a shot at becoming poker "stars"? They also need to cap the number of tables people can play to 4-6 and revamp their VIP system to be easier to climb (due to reduced volume) and to actually feel rewarding. That means the 10(?) fish 1 tabling your limit will be easier to play with too. The reason 12+ tabling became so popular was because there were enough fish on each table to justify it but now it's kind of evolved where the regs that couldn't multitable have mostly quit leaving mostly multi tabling regs. Since everyone is multi tabling, the fish are incredibly hard to find and play against and seat scripting grows in popularity every day, making it even harder. That means 1 person (not seat scripting) can search/compete on 12+ tables to find 1 fish whereas in days gone by it may have been only 5-15% of players were 12+tabling and the rest 1-6 with fish mostly 1-2 tabling in amazement. PS'll never make these kinds of changes in the near future though so your option is either crush HSNL or midstakes+ PLO, high stakes tourneys, go play eurosites or quit / do stuff IRL.
im quoting this post because it's the last one I saw, but it seems to be a common line of thinking. everyone who makes the argument "lower rake -> healthier games" totally ignores the fact many people who quit previously will re-enter because it becomes worth their time playing again, and many new regs will be attracted and successful in entering. sure you'll get a short term boost in your profitability and "health of the games" or whatever, but in the long run poker will converge to an equilibrium where only the best and hungriest players will be making any reasonable kind of money (it'll be mainly people who are too scared to leave their house or people in poor countries with internet access and at least some education but few other prospects, e.g. eastern europe, since these types have the fewest alternative viable options).
a situation where a mediocre person can make a decent living at poker is inherently unsustainable because the world is full of mediocre people who want to make easy money and poker has zero barriers to entry. in the long run it doesn't matter what you do to rake. lowering rake just attracts more new young regs prepared to throw their lives into the game and dilute out the easy money. point the finger at amaya all you want, but the fact is gravy trains need barriers to entry to last and a poker grinder doesn't have them.
Fact is, you can do ANYTHING you want to in this world.
Reality is - it takes EVERY RUDIMENT OF YOUR BEING, if you are shooting for the stars, not 9-5 and fun all night, it takes dedication, 15 hours a day, days off are 5-7 hour work days, constant hard work. Never good enough, can always be done better.
This is the fundamental flaw in the society that wants everything handed to them. There millions in the rat race. Only a few make it to the top. Why? Dedication. . I will play hundreds more hours this month and crush as much as possible, as I do every month, understanding there are so many others slacking. The "raises" are definitely worth it. I'd work this hard at any job to constantly RAISE.
Live your life with NO CEILINGS. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING, TAKE IT. (don't steal it)
You are in control of your own destiny, so make every moment count.
And for the love of god stay in the moment at all times and don't think. ***************
Most of us are do-ers, not thinkers. You're hands know more than your head ever will. **************
Trust Your Instincts, they wouldn't be there if they were wrong. Just saying.
Its 100% True, anything one man can do, another can do (within limits - weight, intellect, etc)
Making things happen is not the same as letting things happen for you, let the world guide you, don't force things. Nobody can control every situation in life and work. Laugh, have fun, and smoke lots of weed, or drink, or be a saint and just sit and smile
GL LP!
Won back like 1500 of 2k i was down this month in last couple days, ballinnnnnnnn
Fuckin lovin the game tho!
havin fun!
Maybe I hold?
I HOLD!
Yep, last friday I got a letter from my employer saying that my job is now redundant because they have cancelled the expansion project I was leading therefore our meeting tomorrow could result in my dismissal.
1.- I was living abroad - he is in the UK, he wanted to hire me expand his business in a foreign country. (my home country)
2.- Being the best oppty I had - I flew over myself and started working for them (we had arranged so that he paid for relocation costs however at the very last minute he turned it into a loan, not a grant. (we settled that as a misunderstanding but left me a bitter-taste tbh).
3.- Worked for him for 6 months in the UK (the only reason those 6 months existed is because he wanted to build on his current product so that once we expand we had a stronger beginning - I was agaisnt this but he insisted that I waited for him until everything was ready according to his plans and so he just asked me to help with whatever possible in the meantime).
4.- 6 months after he said it was time for me to go to my home country so we could start the expansion project.
5.- He paid for my flight (not all luggage/other expenses)
6.- 1 month after, he has now cancelled the expansion project. I spent money on the travels, I lost my tenancy deposit, etc.
I wish he had told me that while I was still there - so I could look for biz opptys in the UK given I had already invested in a fucking flight/accomodation costs.
Also im a bit confused, isn't he legally required to fucking return me back to the country he hired me in?
He also never gave me any written contract at all. But he was indeed paying taxes and had me employed "properly" as I got payslips with my taxcode etc.
To be fair, I was working from home all the time and barely did anything in the 8 months with some spreadsheet exceptions and stupid-ass work.
In the sense of hours worked vs my payment this was more than +EV for me every month - as I sat playing worms armageddon/starcraft/ did other paid work whilst he was paying me to work from home.
So whatever, fair deal? fuck it, I dont know. I guess I had an ideal job for a while - such things can't last forever can they?
While in the UK - I did all the potential revenue numbers and research on the project. I had warned him with MATH that while it was still a profitable expansion it would take longer and a bigger investment than what he had in mind to achieve it. He said it was fine.
I think he just got scared of going ahead with it because of his local competitors taking away market in his UK brand. But I also think he sent me away and then fired me this way to make it easier/cheaper for him.
What a dick.
Life goes on I guess - time for me to move forward with my digital marketing biz/consultancy.
what are some good sites to visit while working?by Into Infinity, November 10
i started my first "real" job as a business analyst back in september and i find myself not doing shit all day.
what are some good sites? need other sites to browse besides misc and bbv
poker related: playing nl25 again on bovada for dat dere side cash. keeping track in excel because pt doesn't work as far as i know. running at 10 BB/100. join me as i pray to the based god
taking a shot -live poker-by carlosdiaz, November 09
blinds @50/100mxn min buy-in 10k
13mxn=1usd so this is like playing 4/8
Session started pretty good for me, my third hand straddle is on, utg limps, I make it 1100 from utg+1 with KK, btn and limper calls, 3 way flop 898r, checks to me I fire 1800 they both fold. Was nice to be able to pickup a hand and show aggression at the beginning of the session, again I felt very comfortable playing this table even tho I'm not rolled as I'd like to play it but there was really no good players as I could see so far the level is equal to a nl200 table, or at least that's how I feel in that game, very small sample tho, the only con this table has is that dealers are damn slooow! but besides that the action is good, there are fishes around, and everyone's at least 100bb deep, rake is ok.
So after a couple of orbits I'm up a bit, the guy on my right was catching some good cards and he was vbetting his hands correctly, he's the only one I would be aware of and being in position was good, after an hour he racks up and leave with a good profit, I hear the table says something about another player coming they call "gringo" (that's how we mexicans call north-americans), so el gringo shows up and to my surprise I recognize him as he's a well known tournament pro, so in my mind I'm like.. wtf is this guy doing here? he buys in for 10k and sits right next to me, just his second hand he gets dealt he opens up to 400 from UTG, guy in late position 3bets to 1400, he quickly 4bets to 2900 *inside my head I'm thinking haha! this motherf*cker probably has air right now* but no, it goes insta shove call, kings over ases gg, he just turns and look at me with a small smile on his face like saying really?? I smiled back like.. yeah.. lmao.
A couple of orbits later we're down to 6handed and I'm thinking about leaving since most of the moneys from the fishes is already off the table, I pick up TT in the btn all limps and I raise to 800, two callers flop comes K73r I cbet and take it down.
One orbit later pro raises over a limper to 600 in the cutoff, I'm on the btn with Ac9c, my first thought was to 3bet and try to take down the pot right there, at this point I know he has the highest PFR from the table and I was confident he was just isolating the fish but then I gave it a 2nd thought and decided I didn't want to play a big pot and probably wouldn't know what to do against a 4-bet plus A9s plays good postflop shorthanded, so I didn't put myself on gay position and just call, even tho I think a raise was good also, blinds folds and limper (lose passive fish) calls. 3way flop J73r one club, fish checks pro tanks 5 secs and checks to me, I'm thinking it's a good spot to rep JX since I've been playing snug my image was good for me to fire flop and was planning on firing turn on any clubs or overcards if heads up, also their range will be very narrow if they go ch call on that dry board so it's easier for me to play the hand this way, I bet 950 into 1950, fish thinks a bit and call, pro acting very casually looking at some college football on tv calls as well (wtf no cbet but calling over?), turn is a Jd, again both check to me and I quickly realize how good that J was, I was giving up on most turns but not on that J, I bet 2100 very confident knowing they almost never have JX and since there are no draws I don't expect them to put the sheriff hat and call me down with middle pair or low pps, both insta folded, I left a couple of hands later, cashed out 15kish.
I'll be on Vegas next week, I'm planning on playing some wsopc low buy-in events @planet hollywood, hopefully get a good score that boosts my roll, also I'll be grinding NL1/3 2/5, if the run good is with me and I'm feeling confident with my game as I am so far I'll try a shot @5/10 but its all castles in the sky right now, I'll try to make a trip report when I come back, if anyone wanna catch up @Vegas just let me know, I'll be from Nov 12-18.
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