I have an MMA fight coming up on March 15th in Petaluma Ca. Anyways today I got a call from one of the organizers and he asked me what entrance music I wanted and I'm totally drawing a blank so if anyone got suggestions toss them my way, if you got a link to the youtube of it even better!
In the near future - vegas and deleware will be playing together compacted legally, with legal cashouts in either state borders. You will have to be in those states (altho you won't have to live there)
New Jersey (AC) will most likely join up....hopefully.
I'm sure bwin.partypoker/borgata will be wanting it.
This bill PASSED within 24 hours.
This is kinda sweet, I've been back a week and I've been telling ppl not to expect legal online poker for like 10 years (at least outside LV and NJ)
cmon baby lets hope this starts a good roll, theres been a lot of "news" lately, maybe this will push other states.
California also has 2 bills on the desk, they are looking to deal there first hand 1/1/2015. With 38 million people, they have not shown any interest in sharing player pools.
some info for those who want to know.
theres 3 main legal sites that will be open in LV and Delaware
Happy for you guys that were tied up on FTP too, hope all goes well.
DFS Statistical Model Up and Runningby Gadget, February 25
So I've been working on a statistical model for projecting fantasy points and I finally have it working to give me some basic numbers. I have a lot of stuff I still plan on adding, but for now it is using all the info I've been using by hand for the past few months. I don't want to give out all the specifics of it, but it takes the fantasy points per minute of each player and multiplies that by a number of factors based on the matchup that day. I manually input the number of minutes above/below the players season average of minutes I think they will play that day. This gives me the ability to account for injuries on a daily basis. The best part is it takes my ~2 hour research process daily down to about 15 minutes, giving me time to look at things a bit more in depth. Here are my top picks at each position for today with my projection:
I've decided to write up few things about bitcoins in each of the blogs. To monitor how it goes.
25/02/2013
bitcoin price on bitstamp: $483 crashed hard.
btce is currently down for some reason.
mtgox just died. alot of people lost money it seems.
a bit of turbulent times for bitcoin.
other crypptos getting more publicity because of improvements over bitcoin.
The absolute most tilt in live poker for me is how slow people act and fuck around. Just insta-throw your hand up when you get called. None of that, " I as bluffing/weak shit, just flip yours man so I can muck." No, fuck your cunt.
There should be a live poker movement: Be a man, show your hand
So as some of you probably know, Kate Upton did a photo shoot in Zero G with Sports Illustrated. My step-uncle is a co-founder and flight director for Zero G and was on the flight.
So I'm a little bit sick (having a cold...) and being in no good shape for long poker sessions I've spent a lot of time making stupid bets on the next UFC event.
It's a bit like when you look through the hands of a session and you just go "WTF was I smoking!?".
Let's just say that I have a fair few parlays and I really need Ronda to win by submission, Maia vs RoryMac to go to a decision and that Sterling guy to win. Also at least one of Pyle and Assuncao needs to have their shit together and win.
Not sold on most of my bets, my bet sizeing seems bad and overall I'm not real happy with how I've played this event.
OH WELL, it's better then trying to play poker when your sick at least, lol.
Next dumb decision is to go to the casino tonight. I'm not in the mood and it's probably not a good way to get rid of the cold, but my gf really wants to go so I'll tag along I guess.
Good thing that I've been running fairly good online the last few days. To bad it's just low stakes and very little volume. Next month will be better.
Hey guys, remember when I went to buffalo and did that 1k and got 3rd for 16.5k (4th 3rd ok 3rd )
well they are running a series again - if you are in the area or are going let me know!
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Do you enjoy playing a poker tournament? This is the first good tournament series....in a while.....for everyone in our area! Buy-ins are affordable, big first places, everyone sign up, i want 1st to be huge in everything!
The phone and the tablet cost me around 900$ and basically the purchase cut in half my BR. Its freaking awesome that I can have fun, relax and earn money, with which I can buy luxury items, which otherwise I wouldnt have bought.
Yet, not so long after the purchase, I sat down to play an MTOPS event - dont want to go in details, but it was a series of brutal badbeats (8-9 70/30 80/20 lost in an hour or so to runner-runner straights/flushes), which put me on a tilt and I was heavily upset. Even if I was right to be upset, after a while I was like:
WTF brain, you are upset cause you lost 40$ worth of BIs due to badbeats, but earlier you bought some cool things for 900$ which hopefully you'll get to use a couple of years and for which you earned the money from the same game - you are effing retarded.
Moral of the story - I need to not worry so much about badbeats, because I know they turn around in the long-term, but on the moment I let them to get to me and influence my game. I am now thinking to switch off the show cards option when you go all-in or just switch the windows to not care about cards that run out. Will have to figure out a way though to take notes of people stacking off light, etc.
So after taking a year off dealing with a broken hand and an annoying divorce I finally got my life and training back together and have an MMA bout coming up March 15th in Petaluma California.
So I had a really bad DFS day yesterday. The Cavs/76ers blowout hurt my lineup a lot, the spread was Cavs -4 so I consider that to just be variance. I was facing a bunch of blatantly sub-optimal lineups for $50+ h2h's, so it kind of sucks that my lineup under performed so badly. That is going to happen from time to time though. Today should be a good day. Lot's of games, and none of them stand out as being exceptionally good value. Narrowing down my list of players was harder today than it is most days, here are my top 4 at each position:
PG:
Lillard(7500)
Curry(9900)
Thomas(7900)
Mills(4800)
**I like Rondo but I'm avoiding due to the trade deadline tomorrow at 3pm
Next time I play live poker and a flush hits on the river I am going say, "let me check my hand...", lift my actual hand and stare toward my palm. "Ok, allin".
After a certain period of time playing live poker I reach my threshold of feeling disgusting from handling the chips of dirty, degenerates. If it weren't for the hand sanitize dispensers near by I would wear OJ simpson gloves, I mean micheal jackson gloves.
Sell me 1/10th of a bitcoin? by HungarianGOD, February 17
There was a site I wanted to try out that just used bitcoins (The state I'm in doesn't allow brovada -_-) and I was wondering if somebody was willing to sell me a small amount of bitcoin for paypal transfer, just enough to mess around on the site to see how I like it. The smallest amount I'd want to buy is 1/50th of one. If you are someone who posts a reasonable amount I'd be happy to transfer you the paypal money first.
If anybody wants to, just let me know. I don't know much about how bitcoin works, I am just tired of not being able to play online to improve at all.
Got back a couple days ago to the states after 6 months up in Canada, happy to be home. Was the biggest rollercoaster I've ever been on.
the trip was going really well, I was making like 1.2k a day for 45 days, then i got way to egotistical...
i forgot how to play from my heart for a long time. =[
Pretty much debt free though, did a good job on that while I was up there which is a great feeling, just a few to john and artanis left
Around January it was my last rent payment (2400 move in and 1200 a month - security covered 4th month on the 4 month lease) - I was struggling a lot, had very little confidence at the table, and had very little food.
I was questioning everything in my life. I sat there and played way above where I've ever played for about 45 days, after that I was playing like a fckin n00b and just lost direction.
Things were shit.
I had like $400 online and rent due in a week.
I managed to get to $1400 and get rent paid, and kept $100 on an rebuilt, knowing there was no reason for me to even be there, other than 60 days rent paid in downtown Ottawa when I was just about broke.
Everytime I won - I was sending my debts out - I kept nothing, John (jlost88) was my backer, he was astonished that i kept 0-10% of what was coming in, but a man on a mission, is just that.
So ya, I flowndered around with very little confidence, didn't have my medication, was having trust issues with the group of poker players I moved up there with, it was shit.
so long story short.
win 45k (got like 20ish of it) paid off mostly (only positive)
brag about it and started playing from ego.
Struggle for 2-3 months.......was making $50-$150 a day and cashing out food money etc.
I got really fed up - it was like day 105 of the downswing, and I stopped playin for a while, the game was making me sick, there was no passion or joy.
After taking a lot of time off, I came back and had a lot of fun again, was playing well, and playing 6max, MTTs and lowstakes PLO - to keep the game fresh and fun.
I then took 3 days and binked out a few tournaments (hadn't even paid for my ticket home yet on the 8th or so when I cashed out) - first day I invested 133 with helviti from LP, we won 1400, 2nd day we invested like 200 and got back like 100 each profit, 3rd day we both got a few hundo too. we tried the SM and a few other highstakes good ones but they didn't pan out. lost a flip for like 80k, just knew he was weak, river ace, w/e.
Got home and been a lot more relaxed, have made some big adjustments, i play cashgames mostly now (but i do 1-2 tournaments a day that are soft and pay well on ACR) and just work for $20 or so an hour at cashgames til I become one of the best. I played like 90k hands of CG's on stars, 50k hands of 1/2 zoom and did really well, I feel very confident in the games, although I'm just rebuilding at NL25 now. Always 4 tabling cash or 1-2 tabling MTT.
In life I haven't met any single cute girls recently, but have cleaned my act up a ton. Quit the clubs for about 4 months, quit any hard drugs, same timing about 4 months now, feel way better everyday.
I started working on my nutrition, feeling I have some deficiencies in some areas, i think this is going to help my life a lot, luckily my brother is a nutrition guru, that really helps.
This is a class stoned neilly ramble
#neverpreview
Ottawa was a really nice city.
I learned that 60-200bi is never close to enough for MTT's...FMl...lol.
I became a cash grinder and changed my mindset 100%, had tons of coaching which I am super thankful for (John, Marshall, Forhelviti, CasinoCasino and my local buddies up there)
I really love the new Iveypoker site, the videos are extremely stellar. feel more confident everytime I watch a video.
I binked a $6 1k (1.4) today - kids can eat. (oh wait, no kids)
I went through more emotional stress, maybe even semi trauma during that last trip. Thats my last trip ever out of the usa for more than a month or two for poker. I just go to hard, I feel like im in a time constraint and have to be grinding 24/7 or something. idk, im slightly degen if im losing too. if im winning, im always in very good control and most people don't understand this. i think its a chemical imbalance or something in my head. not like i can go to my doc and say i ate tons of lsd and mdma over the last 10 years, then he wouldn't give me xanax lol
things got pretty scary up in canada a few times.
i was ballin pretty fckin hard and playing sooo amazing - i was playing on like level 10 about a month in (or whatever just a high ass level) - i had to take a few weeks off waiting on my meds, came back and was at like lvl 4 - expecting to come back at lvl 10. that was fckin terrible. was stressing over the 1st places too much.
i hate tournies.
i spent 4 years on mtts.
ive played poker like 10 years.
im just like a 1/2 - 2/4 6max grinder at roughly 1bb/100....
I have a great tournament skill.
Nowaday I'm gonna grind online mostly, Casino Fri and Sat night and MTT sundays, and ya, like a 6r and one of the "bigs" at ACR each day
About moving to play poker, I just wanna get an apartment here, do what i say above (get a 6 month lease) - hopefully do atleast a 30k wsop schedule - if I have a good summer, move to Humbolt County - Grow green legally and play at night.
When my br gets back to 2500 - I'm starting a 1 year timer. If I don't have 30k saved after all lfie and bills paid in 12 months, then i would go back to school and play on weekends.
I'm going to push it harder this year than I ever have. Hopefully I don't fuck up. About 500 pros tell me everyday I deserve huge wins (exaggeration but god its said a lot to me) - I've been cleaning my life up and working really hard and studying life a beast to just be the best beast ever.
thats a true ramble.
been a long time since I posted.
I got back a few days ago, I hope to ski 1-2 times and keep grinding a lot, I just want to get an apartment here I think..........but my friend offered me a great room in las vegas for $350 a month which has legal sites plus bodog and acr...and i'd be close to the big good live mtt's which will give me more opportunities at winning them. - gonna try to relax til 5k or so and make a decision then...
Fira - I've had some weird poker dreams man. One night I was walking from las vegas to my house, then barack obama and i were in the air parachuting to the earth, as i landed, i walked the land, and went over a hill, and Greg Raymer was there. His wife was super nice, they took me in, we had a great meal, and I stayed the night at there house lol.
Also, had a dream I was at the table with my dad and JohnnyCosmo and Elky (i think) - I had like AA - it was a FT and like everyone went all-in and I had AA and held, then JohnnyCosmo ran infront of the Trophy and stole the picture! I think they gave him the $ in the dream too!
I hope you guys have been well, I had to take a lil time off from LP, my ego gets goin sometimes, its a love/hate.
So I have been thinking that invention of Bitcoin is as revolutionary as creation of internet or the wheel. I am a huge advocate of digital currencies.
Now i think it might be all a conspiracy theory! We don't know who created the bitcoin! Was it aliens? Was it government? Who The FUck Was it? Why stay anonymous?
A new digital coin (cryptocurrency) has come out few weeks ago, it is called Huntercoin.
Basically what it does is. A human/person must be doing something on the computer on internet to earn these coins, say play a game, collect digital coins. It's the future of humanity. Enslavement is imminent.
>Human Mining – Control Hunters to harvest coins in another dimension using strategy, time & teamwork.
>1 Minute Block Times.
>Dual Algorithm –SHA256 + Scrypt. Each algo has separate difficulty, both targeting 2 minute blocks. Both are Merge Mineable.. See http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Mining
>Total 10 coins Per Block – 1 to the miner, 8.75 onto the Map.
>Crown of Fortune – 1 Unique Item on the map which will generate 0.25 HUCs per block
>When a Hunter harvests coins and brings them back to a spawn area, the coins will materialize in their wallet, Miners will receive 10% of these ‘banked’ coins (TAX)
>When a Hunter is killed, 4% of the coins they held will be taken by miners. The rest will be dropped to the ground.
>Hardware Miners should receive in total (over time) ~20% of the Block Reward (2 Coins) + Player Death Taxes.
>42 Million Total Coins
>Retarget Every block based on last 2016 Blocks (for each algo separately) – PPC Style
>Can be considered a basic decentralized P2P Massively Multiplayer Online Crypto Currency and Game, which takes place within the block chain.
>Includes all relevant features of other crypto currencies.
>Integrated Client Chat – Player can chat per block.
>Serverless (open source and decentralized)
>Starting cost per Player is 1 HUC
>View the in game World Live (currently showing closed beta world and oldish client) http://192.81.209.210:3000/
The other interesting thing from this coin is that these creatures or "characters" that will be in the game, that try to collect these coins will be the closest thing to real life people. I have read some of the strategy to collect these coin. One person on the forums says:
"It's quite addicting to play, but you will be playing all day for any kind of pay out. Also self-destructing hunters are annoying as hell. In the end I found best strategy was to have a vanguard and rearguard, as well as manually controlling my hunter on return to base to succeed."
You can already see taht the game strategy is evolving just like human society has. People collect resources to provide for the community. But there is another choice. To steal, rob, form gangs to control and even maybe make poeple pay tax later on! Jsut build a gang. An army of these "bombers" and demand everyone pay tax for you to protect them.
So basically there is a chance of the game to evolve so far that the game character will be "alive" making all the human decisions. It will be as if he is alive and aware of what he is doing. He might even have a brain and think that he has free will, because all the decisions he makes will be thought out and will make sense in his own brain.
My solo guitar virtuoso album!by Sliggy, February 16
Hey guys! This year I'll be releasing my first solo album entitled "The Judge."
It'll basically be a guitar circle jerk but it's my first virtuoso album and it will feature a few somewhat notable names in the modern metal / prog world.
Since it's all-star weekend in the NBA I have had a little extra time on my hands, most of which has gone into working on my statistical model I plan on using next year for DFS. I also had the time to compile all my stats so far for my ~4 month DFS career. Here's some graphs/charts for those that may be interested.
http://i.imgur.com/AdaONLg.jpg
This is from a starting BR of $200 with a $200 deposit bonus. I have only been playing close to optimally since half way through January, so keep that in mind. Also, that huge dip at the end is the $1200 error I made by forgetting to set my lineup.
There is a little bit of a breakdown of what game's I'm playing and my ROI in each. My next blog entry will likely be a very basic tutorial on how to approach DFS since that seems like it would help the most people.
Also, if you do not have an account on Fanduel and I have helped you get into DFS in any way, use my referral link https://www.fanduel.com/?invitedby=therelapse&cnl=da when you sign up. Be sure to search for a promo code as well. There is always one that will give you deposit match up to $200. Thanks guys.
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