I did a huuuuuuuuuuge overhaul of my game around hand 50k~ or so, but unfortunately while prior to that I had been mostly playing bad/running good, I started playing good/running horrible, but still really really happy with how I played the last week of the month, I fixed soooooo many leaks and September is gonna be sweet. Also cut down to 3 tables of zoom (had been playing between 4-6 zoom or 4-9 regular), in conjunction with the game overhaul.
Stake breakdown is... 99% PLO100 Zoom, but about half the losses are from PLO200 Zoom and PLO100 Hu.
Got about 28,000 VPPs this month, 32,000 to go before back to supernova. Won a couple of hundred playing live and there's some bonuses etc in there, but numbers are pretty accurate. I think this is the 2nd or 3rd time I have a losing month ever actually, and it's definitely the least concerned I've been about one (if the month had ended around hand 50k I'd have been depressed, but taking a deep look at my own game I just realized there were so many things I could fix, it turned into something really positive).
I spent a couple of days really examining some common opening ranges in PPT, which is something I've been meaning to do for a long time but never got around to. Gotta say it wasnt as difficult or tedious work as I thought it'd be, PLO ranges may contain a lot more hands than NLHE but PPT has some pretty good syntax.
Volume wise, it's a little lower than I wanted but still decent. Next month I'm probably going to go back to Sweden for about a month or so (prob towards the end of the month), hopefully get a drivers license, maybe Vegas after around IPL time, then back to Korea again. Going to shoot for getting the 32k vpps I need for supernova before I go, if I run decent it shouldnt be too difficult (I know I said that last time but hey, this is a lot more modest of a goal :D). If I have to move down to PL50 then it'd be harder but oh well - will just have to buy a laptop in sweden and finish it there.
Friend of mine needed a visa to China, couldn't get it in Korea so we decided to go to Hong Kong for the weekend. Had a pretty brutal first day ---
Some pre-info: My friend had to express re-new his passport as it had run out of pages, so we were due to pick up the new passport just a few hours before our flight left.
8 am: Wake up, get ready to go take BJJ test (first stripe white belt - I'm a fish).
11 am: Take test - scary as fuck, especially as I normally go to the evening classes so when at first I barely recognized anyone I wasn't feeling too at ease, but a bunch of familiar faces trickled in as time went on. Passed just barely, as did the other guy taking the same level test as me. Teacher asked me what I thought of my performance, I said soemthing along the lines of "I'm missing a lot of details, and whenever I have to do it left-handed I'm screwing things up royally". Teacher said "Agree 100% with that. Be better prepared next time!". Then turned to the other guy: "Exactly the same applies to you".
Tests are honestly one of the few things that make me nervous in life - like, I'm not insanely confident or outgoing or anything, but I don't actively dread most things... Tests will keep me awake at night. So glad I passed.
Come back, go to Seoul to pick up my friends passport from embassy, head to airport... head to checkin...... My ticket is NP, my friends ticket? "It appears it was cancelled....". After a long wait my friend has to basically re-book it on the spot (and gets a better price than me wtf, I booked in advance and picked a nicely priced one, wtf is this shit :D). Just barely make it to plane.
Arrive in Hong Kong, it's like.... 11 pm I guess? We get a crazy young HK taxi driver who has seriously 4+ phones all sitting in his dashboard and all connected to his head by various earpieces and what not. Crazy guy and also a bit of a hustler vis-a-vis tollgate fees but w-ever.
We get to our hotel, go to check in....... Ticket booked for 1 week from now. What..the....fuck? Friend re-books. We go to find an ATM and get something to eat, pretty tired by now. ATM eats my friends card. Does not give it back. I put in a random expired gym card, machine is like 'nah, i only eat credit cards' and gives it back... so apparently freak accident. We call support number and go eat, finally get through after 40 minutes on hold (looking forward to seeing what his phone bill will be after that). They say go bank and we can pick it up tomorrow.
Next day, wake up 6 am, get to travelling agency to apply for China visa at like 8:30~, head back to bank... Cute young bank lady is pretty helpful and calls around a bunch and determines that yeah, the card is there etc and let's go down and get it. Older bank manager type woman says hmmmmmmm, yeah the name on the card is your name, and you have a passport, drivers license, ID card, other card from the same bank and papers from said bank... but to be safe we're gonna ship this card back to canada, you can collect it there.
.............
So after 2 hours of this (bank lady #1 fought the good fight for us), my friend gets his card back. We go pick up the visa and do some shopping. Somehow vaguely disappointed with the shopping, I feel like we missed all the good spots :/ We checked out Times Square area, bunch of stuff along Henessy Road (SOGO, Jardine Crescent area etc) and some other random places. Feel like there could have been a lot more quality shopping with someone who knew the place a bit better.
So, Sunday we decide to go Macau for some poker. I've never played live poker in my life, haven't played Hold'em in forever, and my friend hasnt played in forever in general, but has played some live. When we arrived the first mode of transportation we saw was a free bus to the Venetian so we hopped on that, walked around til we found the poker area and sat down at a fresh HKD 25/50 table --- I guess that's like 3.5/7 USD). Probably the softest table in Macau that day lol
All fish except for 2 nits and they are basically 2 empty seats for all the hands they play. Unable to fold anything tho and keep paying the any-2-cards guy off monstrously with their overpairs.
One of the two nits was an old guy in a hoodie and headphones...
I don't know if any of you guys read the Live Poker guide by Rumnchess on twoplustwo, but in there, there's a description of a player type called "Old Man Coffee". Basically old man coffee is an older man who plays incredibly straight forward --- deuces is a limping hand, so I'll limp etc. This guy might have been slightly more towards a nit grinder than that, but when he busted out the starbucks I almost had to start laughing
Eitherway, this guy plays about 1 hand/hour at most, but will never fold top pair ever.
Finished up a little then went to eat at a really nice Brazilian steak house. Delicious o.o
Returned, got back to same table but completely different lineup: Old man-nit is still there, but the rest have been replaced by a bunch of very obviously chinese young-regs. We play 6 handed with them for a bit, until it fills up. One unpleasant retard - who thankfully leaves very soon - accuses my friend of string betting because the 4 chips he picked up to raise the river didn't all drop at th exact same mili-second (it was seriously dumb, the delay was infinitesmal). So 4k raise turns into a minraise. Might be a good thing as the guy talked himself into calling vs the nuts, but who knows.
This guy thankfully leaves, gets replaced by a Korean - we get to surprise him by saying we're from Korea too etc. Always fun. Anyway, funny hand happens.
Korean raises in ep A8s, old-man-nit calls AK behind him, chinese reg flats A3s. Flop A83, Korean bets, old man nit calls, reg raises, Korean calls, old man nit goes all-in. Chinese reg, who btw was a Chinese version of SaSe, complete with hat and everything, starts agonizing. Thinks for an eternity, and folds. Korean shrugs, calls.
Chinese guy sees old-man-nit has AK and goes crazy.
Not too much else interesting - had some run-good with A7 (kept flopping monsters with said hand), but there was one hand:
2 limps, reg in sb makes it 300, I 3bet in bb to 1k (we're like 8k deep or something). One of the limper folds and (accidentally?) shows an ace. SB makes it 2.3k. I felt incredibly strongly he had KK, considered calling for set+to bluff A flops, decided I was too likely to do somethign dumb on low flops and folded. Guy showed me KK, was so happy.
Got recognized at the table by some friends-of-a-friend, which was fun. Overall finished up a little bit, really enjoyed playing live tho --- really makes me 1) Miss hold'em 2) want to start taking some trips out to Walker Hill here in Korea.
Online this month has been meh - I feel like everytime I play badly, I run good and get rewarded, then when I play good I run like acid, part of poker I guess but still annoying to deal with, so much easier on your mind when you play good = win and play bad = lose. Down like 4 buyins or something in 30k hands.
Food in HK = amazing, one of the things i dislike the most about Korea is how difficult it can be to get a diverse selection of food... Korean Chinese restaurants generally only have Koreanized chinese food, and Korean sushi is on average pretty Koreanized too. HK had everything everywhere and that was sweet. Hong Kong also felt waaaaaay bigger than Seoul tho, kind of exhausting just being there. Want to go to Macau again badly, really hope the new table-cap law doesn't fuck over poker there....
I took like.... 3 pictures total from this trip because I'm the most horrible tourist of all time.
Was waiting till I got back on the grind till I posted my summer blog
Basically started 3 day drive home to Vancouver, fly to Vegas, Win bunch at 50/100 plo and take bobbys room shot and profit, fly to San Diego for a few days, Fly to Ibiza for 1.2 weeks and proceed to fall in love with raging/drugs/edm/potentially a person, fly to Barcelona with group I met in Ibiza, fly to Belgium for Tomorrowland which was one of sickest things I ever been to in my life as well, fly to Malta to visit ze german TimStone and bigasiga, get convinced by stinger to fly back home to Chicago for Lollapolooza, Rage hardddd there and meet a crew of people who are into staying awake until 8am and raging crazy style, decide to go out with them for a few weekends in a row and wake up questioning my life lol, debate investing in a nightclub, book place for 3 weeks in Vancouver with stinger instead, and leads to this graph of being back these first 3 days. Now I HAVE to write the blogs for this summer because its some crazyyyy shit
Didn't get many hands in today, I went with HerO to his GOMTV games instead, to support (he destroyed his up/down group 4-0 to get back to Code S), so I guess this concludes my first month of full time playing, even though I played some in June and July as well. Started at PLO25 and 50, played PLO100 for the last 1/3 of the month.
EDIT: Since I realize some people might not know this - I'm Liquid`Jinro / FrozenArbiter on TL, I've been playing SC2 professionally for the past two years and I retired recently and am playing poker again. August was the first full time poker month since...... probably late 2008 or early 2009 for me, and I didn't really touch the game at all during my time as an SC2 pro.
My volume increased a lot towards the later half of the month since I got my 30" monitor shipped to Korea and started playing some zoom as well (didn't really enjoy playing more than 4-6 tables on the smaller 23" I'd been using for SC2).
Approx. half the hands are from PLO100 (mostly zoom, decent bit of regular), the other half split between PLO25 deep, PLO50 deep and PLO50 HU (and various random hands like accidently joining Hi/Lo no limit tables and realizing on the river when you are about to hero call with your whatever hand that he just overbet the pot times two). Summary is up a bunch from PL025, down a bunch from PLO50 deep, up a bunch from PLO50 HU, up a bunch from PLO100
Got about 60k VPPs to go before I reach supernova - considering going for it in September, tho I'll be going to Japan for 3-4 days at some point. Will see! I think there shouldnt be too much difficulty in doing it even so.
So im going to tell you a story, prepare for the official byrnesam feel good movie of the year:
April:
Broke up with my Thai bride-to-be after far too long being 'long distance'
Over 1 year of living in some denial bubble, drifting along and distancing myself from everyone around me
Wallow in self pity. One of the lowest points of my life.
Engross myself in Ryan Gosling movies
Realize I live in a beautiful country with a loving family and hundreds of potential new friends
May onwards:
Claw myself out of my pit of despair.
Get involved in a new social circle made up of foreign travelers/students in Dunedin thanks to Silver)Z(. To which i would like to extend my most sincere thanks, because what followed were some of the best times of my life.
Went skiing in Queenstown, hiked to the viewing point at the top of the mountain.
^ thats me
Took this on my cellphone.
Suddenly, regular socializing during the week.
Looking forward to the weekends.
Slowly a few people begin to leave as their trips in NZ come to an end.
Slightly bummed out, but decide to make the most of it with the people there and the time they have.
Go for a weekend trip to Te Anau and Milford Sound and do some hiking.
Go on said trip with a french girl who i hadn't known previously.
Get on well with french girl, become a little smitten.
Go out one of the following weekends. End up walking her back to her place. We share a drink in her kitchen and end up in her bedroom.
End up going to bed together in her bed
THIS IS IT BYRNESAM, YOURE IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. THE COBRA GETS READY TO STRIKE
Try all my best moves
and manage to get friend-zoned in the process.
Wake up the next morning and think...
At least i got to squeeze some T&A...
Things quickly fade between us. Back on that self-loathing and wallowing in my own despair. Feel like destined to be forever alone.
Attend social drinks function for work. Think its going to be shit, but figure i should make a celebrity appearance to boost the ratings. Have to sober drive - night turns out to be really good fun.
Meet girl there who I hadn't met before because she works Sundays when im off.
Give her a ride home (LOL BETA WHITE KNIGHT FAGGOT MOVE), she promises to buy me a drink to say thanks. General good vibe.
Take a shot and add her on FB. Get to chatting, she invites me out for coffee to say thank you. Scheduling conflicts prevent this.
Take a punt and invite her to a party i was going to attend later that week (on the day before my birthday)
She accepts
Attend said party, its alright, I don't really know the people there that well (or at all)
Talk to girl the whole time, getting on super well.
Party moves from the house to some bars in town, we go ahead of the others. Things go awesome at the bar, getting a little closer - bit of cheek-to-cheek action whilst we talk.
At 1:30am on August 24th (byrnesam's birthday) we decide to head home. Im driving her home. We park up outside her place.
LETS GET READDDDYYYY TO RUMBLE
Make the move, mission successful.
So there I was, 2 hours into my birthday, making out with a chick in my car with Motorhead playing in the background. It was one of those wonderful moments when you pause and think to yourself 'remember this moment, because its fucking awesome'
Shes not Asian
Shes training to be a doctor.
Im a 27 year old live at home, quake live playing, man-child.
We part ways at about 3:30am. I was at like day 5 of no-fap. Made it home with extreme blue balls and was actually in pain. Had no choice but to cure myself.
I get up a few hours later and go to work. All my co-workers wish me a happy birthday.
Go into the break room, they've baked me a fucking huge cake and a bunch of delicious savory muffins (not pictured)
Its amazing how much life can change in a matter of moments. I dont usually do anything for my birthday and this ended up being one of most memorable ever. So if youre ever feeling forever alone, just remember theres a planet full of awesome people and awesome experiences waiting for you just around the corner.
Several people who I respect and look up to have been telling me that I've been a bit of a pussy lately, for not giving PLO a shot!!(A couple have just called me that for no apparent reason as well, but that's not related to this post).
We can't have that, so now I've decied to give PLO a shot lol!! I think MiPwnYa pushed me over the edge, let me quote him: + Show Spoiler +
Why don't u give poker a try ? You seem to be able to understand concepts and reason on them fairly well, and you obv have time to spend so give the goddam game a try : ) + You're quite handsome.
The first month, Juli was just here and there. I just spent maybe 10% of my time on it, I started looking at hands, watched through the PLO episodes of Poker After Dark.
I think first hand of PLO I ever played was late Juni, so kinda fresh over all, and knew "nothing". Had to have the two card thingy explained over and over lol. But I used to beat 100nl when I was living out of poker 2-3 years ago. So I know "normal" poker quite well.
Anyhow, I felt it was a cool idea to make a PLO Diary, a weekly one. So I did that, I started it last Sunday, or Monday, not sure, think it was the 6th. So the scribblings from my Diary is for the entire week that has just passed.
It's not marked by days or anything, but when I think of stuff, study something, or have questions to myself or hands I'm proud of or felt I played terrible, I post them in the diary, sometimes lol.
I haven't posted any hands on the LP forum, don't want to clog up the site with Microstakes hands.
I 4 Table.
Here's for August so far, I +' all the minutes and divided by 60, 39 hours or so + Show Spoiler +
When I write, I seem to ask a lot of questions, I do that about pretty much everything lol. If you feel you've got a solid answer, tip, idea or you think you can help me in any of the questions you find in the diary, don't be shy. Copy the question, and then write your answer underneath. (Maybe be all cool like and make the questionz all like this, tilted to the side a little.But that's entirely optional xD
Maybe use that imigur imigur site for graph + stats
- Watched again
- Watched Durrr vs Ziigmund
- Talked poker with Erling for 30 minutes.
How do you make the popup window on hud bigger? When you hold over stats???
can you call with pretty bad double suited hand vs an open from a shortstack?
BP = Board Paired
FC = Flush Complete
SC = Straight Complete
- Watched Durrr vs Ziigmund
- Hmm, must be a good note to have on people when you think they rarely, if ever bluff. And a note when you think they are very capable of bluffing.
- LoL, I need to turn off chat, I can't help but get excited and want to fuel when people get mad, write in caps, or want to share a piece of their mind... Too much fun lol
- Watched
Ok, remember, DOn'T GO PLAYING ALL STUPID, and get too much affected by it, what I was looking for was good ways to play hands they hit, not that leveling shit lol
There seem to be 67 Phil Galfond Video's!!
25 Heads up
42 Not heads up (assuming 6max)
- Watched One of the first Small Stakes Phil Galfond vods, Jman socal HH Review
- Be careful with non nut flushes multi way, even when small bets and it looks like ur getting great odds
- Can it be good to fire, bluff on paired turns? Espesciall considering so often people are on F draws or Straight draws, and they just "omg fuck" when it pairs? Hum.....
OMG, so proud of my thought process in this hand yay
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6439120
I felt like it was a good spot to lead out, I had 9 outs + probably 4 good ones, plenty.
When I got a caller and a raise, I felt the first caller is on something that doesn't want to get it in now, and the guy who raised either have a sick draw or a set.
So after tanking I called, and I was hoping the other guy would call. He did.
When I hit the Flush, I felt he might fold if I shoved, and I didn't want to bet really small, have him call once, then fold if/when his warp missed. Since I had Flush, I felt it was more likely he had a hand like 2567ish, something like that lol, or two pair.
Or maybe a Flush, then he'd just shove and do it for me, so I checked, he quickly checked.
Now hoping on the river he will be more likely to call with a straight, since I checked the turn, or that he had a Flush, and I shove here instead.
MAYBE this is all super standard, and lolish, but I felt clever and smart for thinking like this lol.
What do you do vs shortstacks they 3b, and you've got like 345K double suit in pos, u call, stack flop, or fold? a little unsure
OMG, this session I just broke 500, omg omg, To think at once point I was under 200 Fuck yeah!! (Pardon my french).
This wasn't ment to be poker related, was just relaxing, and I came over this.
It's about Risk Intelligence, and pretty cool. Worth a watch I'd say!!
Hmm, I keep min opening hu when its vs ppl who buy in for 30bb, i wonder if that's smart, or if I should pot, maybe min with medium and crap hands and pot with good ones?
- Easier to determine someone's hand when hey make big calls xD
Hmm, is there any really good Blogs, that's kinda new and fresh, and kinda frequently updated by any good PLO players, 6max, mid stakes or a little higher? Plx pm or let me know if u know of any <3
Hmm, should you always limp if you see it can be multi way if u have crap hand but uve got a suited Ace?
How shitty can you call oop HU? What's the 50% middle hand in plo?
Owh, I like this play http://www.pokerhand.org/?6440184 YAy, I felt all cool n stuff, he flahed Top set and folded, which I felt he had yay. Felt all longple like...
Hmm after this sessions, I see I'm 41% vpip, but every table starts HU, so it's a bit off, I wonder where you can fix so you can see what your stats are when it's 5-6 people. And I wonder how much is seen as "ah, ok, that's a tight annoying bastard (but not too tight)".
- Seems like most of the bad players call with set when flush or a sc, and then tries to lead out weak xD
- Hmm, what do I do with bad double suited hands UTG and MP?? Open, Limp, FOLD?
- Seems often when we make a statement, write something, we "only" look for affirmations to back up our own claims.
In poker, maybe that means if you get annoyed or write "fucking fish", it's MUCH harder to realize, wait a minute, he might be kinda good lol. Or more subtle "Massive fish" and he's more timid, weak passiv buy in for half.
I felt it was a really good fold. My reasoning was one of them guys in there was really timid and passive, and for him to show so much strength made me wary. I felt that my J outs wern't there, since someone already had a low straight, or something. And that I might be drawing dead to the flush also. So felt it was a spot where noobs get it in, and I was being awesome and did a cool fold.
- Wonder what a good ritual is before you sit down n play, things to help u play ur A game
- Hmm, 10nl, maybe it's MUCH better to be REALLY tight, cuz of the rake, makes a lot of sense in my head atm.
- Hmm, a lot of bad regulars have a cool tell on the turn, it's usually pot or close to pot, if they get a straight, or something rly strong, or need to protect a set.
But when it's two pair, or a little something somehing, it's more in order like half pot to 2/3, and on a lot of rivers, a big bet gets them to fold two pair I think. I thought of this after this hand http://www.pokerhand.org/?6440574 where it felt I was beat, and that a small bet would be called off, but a large one would make him fold two pair. He tanked for 9 sec or so, then folded.
Ideas for some WEAPONs in my arsenal, from Eyespawn:
3-bet light mot en reg[2:59:01 PM] Erling Hartviksen: hvis du ikke har 3-betta han på lang tid (tight image)
[2:59:06 PM] Erling Hartviksen: og se om han gir deg sjukt med cred
2nd one: kan jo være å 3-bette light i pos
[2:59:46 PM] Erling Hartviksen: og se om han er weak mot det
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6441477
Guy is 31/3 over 320 hands, low AG 1.2 And I saw no stats for Raising flop, it just felt like a KKxx, which goes well with what he opens with, might be seeing ghosts.
But I tried to pay attention to the turn bet, and it came really really fast, I waited like 8 sec before I checked it to him, and my plan was to try and get a feel for it on the turn.
Ajaj, something felt off this sessions. Felt I started to play several hands badly. I'll post the ones I felt I sucked the most!! http://www.pokerhand.org/?6441567
141 sample size his first 3b, and I assumed AAxx, thought for some time, and decided to call, re evaluate turn, a bit annoying, cuz now I thought he might have two pair, and I was thinking, counting my outs, and I gave myself 15 outs, and I called.
Felt a bit silly when I saw his hand T_T 22/13 regular, but high aggression factor, and very low C bet, should have spoted the C bet earlier, maybe I'd have swayed me to fold flop.
When I get raised like that I instantly thought, shit, top straight?
Then I started thinking, very high aggression on the guy, 65/46 Vpip n opnr as well. 7,9 AF, hated it, almost timed out, but decided to pretend he was a spaz and had Two pair or a set, and I'd call the river if it didn't pair or hit T or J or pairs.
Blerk
We've been playing HU for a bit, I Felt he was bad, I guess that's not much of a read.
His turn bet made me feel he was quite weak, like some shit or something.
Then a check, I felt he checks to call vs a small bet, so I decided to try and make it look like a value bet, a straight, top two pair, set or something.
Maybe not try and bluff so much on these stakes, or just wrong oponent to pull it on.
Ok, last one, but I played really sucky this session, dropped lots of buy ins lol http://www.pokerhand.org/?6441581
When fire turn and he calls, I feel he ain't got the jack, since the jack would probably raise here, can be a set, but doesn't feel like it. He did the normal fish tell, wait long then bet, but I talked myself into calling. Not sure what I'd beat, just felt weird, what could call the turn I was thinking about, it was like he was saying he had a Jack or a set or quads, I didn't buy it. If he had two pairs on the flop, he'd surely fold on that turn. So didn't think it could be a boated 677
Usj, bad day, played some NL as well, was teaching my brother, and after he went, I kept playing for some hours. Bleh, went bad there as well
Down 10bi today!!
I think when I start to do some good bluffs, some good calls. I suddenly start seeing places to do more of it, or call more, and it can quickly turn from being awesome to being spewy. Not 100%, maybe a little results oriented lol.
- Hmm what about only writing note if you know how to extract money from whatever leak?
Our dad was going on holliday for a week, and we thought I'd be an amazing idea to surprise him with a Birthday gift.
The idea was to scrub down all his doors, then paint them with 3 coats (not sure why 3, but that's what people seem to have their mind set on). So me, my brother and sister payed for paint and thingy to paint with.
We estimated I'd maybe take a few hours lol, I went there 4 times this week, and last time I was there for 8 hours straight. So in total maybe 60 hours combined lol. (Was 9 doors, and one super difficult one, with glass n crap in it).
So, I was playing around in OpenOffice + Odds Oracle to figure out how to make a sheet to calc EV of calling 4bets (never really used OpenOffice before so this is all pretty new), and just as I was done... I realized there's a native function to automate this inside the Odds Oracle program already -_-
My problem? I'm getting a different answer for the EV from the Odds Oracle than I do when I calculate manually / with open office. Could anyone check what I've ****ed up?
What I enter into the Odds Oracle's PQL interpreter:
select avg(
case
when minEquity(hero,flop,0.3006)
then 42.75*riverEquity(hero)-(5.55+12.85)
else 0 - 5.55
end
) as EVCALL
from game='omahahi',
syntax='Generic',
hero='QQ33$ds',
villain='AA**'
Note: I don't know any PQL, this is cobbled together from a post by someone on this forum and some perusing of the FAQ (link: [url]http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=28772831&postcount=145[/url])
I'd really appreciate it if anyone could show me where I screwed up, thanks!
NOTE: Am aware that unless you set trials to some absurd number the % will fluctuate a little bit everytime you query (so the numbers I entered manually for, lets say, avg equity, will fluctuate slightly but the difference should be in the 0.02 range rather than 0.2)
I kinda want to revamp what I wear. i basically dress like a 15 year old high school athlete and its time to change that. i've tried to get my girlfriend to help a bit but what she likes and what I like are so far different that Id rather get some other opinions and form something thats more of my own style.
I searched some of the old threads on LP (http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/559749/Clothing_thread.html) but given how much people were recommending ed hardy and affliction shirts, I think it's safe to say that those threads are outdated.
I guess i'll just go over every part of an outfit that I need help with. I've got nice pairs of jeans, nice dress shirts, a good pair of sandals and finding cool sneakers is really easy. so i need help with shorts and casual every day shirts.
i mostly just wear t shirts. lots of jiu jitsu tees like these:
finding t shirts to wear is easy and i can do that either online or at a place like pac sun. finding nice polos and casual every day shirts is not. it doesnt help that i have a hard body to find shirts for. im 6'0 170 so im tall but pretty thin. muscle wise i have lean arms, a very small chest and a thin frame but well developed shoulders. so basically mediums are snug on me and really short while larges are the right length but are extremely loose fitting around my arms and chest.
any recommendations for nice casual every day shirts that arent t shirts and arent golf shirts? one big pet peeve i have is guys who dress like they are a professional golfer every day. looks really stupid to me. just as i imagine me dressing like im some pro mma fighter looks really stupid to them.
As of now I wear 3 types of shorts:
board shorts:
bball shorts:
very casual but not workout shorts like these:
but these really arent enough. any recommendations on other good every day shorts to wear?
i also have absolutely 0 sense of what kind of stuff matches together to the point that I probably come off like I have aspergers lol. what are big no-nos for matching shorts and tops? and what colors go well together or dont go well together?
I kinda want to revamp what I wear. i basically dress like a 15 year old high school athlete and its time to change that. i've tried to get my girlfriend to help a bit but what she likes and what I like are so far different that Id rather get some other opinions and form something thats more of my own style.
I searched some of the old threads on LP (http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/559749/Clothing_thread.html) but given how much people were recommending ed hardy and affliction shirts, I think it's safe to say that those threads are outdated.
I guess i'll just go over every part of an outfit that I need help with. I've got nice pairs of jeans, nice dress shirts, a good pair of sandals and finding cool sneakers is really easy. so i need help with shorts and casual every day shirts.
i mostly just wear t shirts. lots of jiu jitsu tees like these:
finding t shirts to wear is easy and i can do that either online or at a place like pac sun. finding nice polos and casual every day shirts is not. it doesnt help that i have a hard body to find shirts for. im 6'0 170 so im tall but pretty thin. muscle wise i have lean arms, a very small chest and a thin frame but well developed shoulders. so basically mediums are snug on me and really short while larges are the right length but are extremely loose fitting around my arms and chest.
any recommendations for nice casual every day shirts that arent t shirts and arent golf shirts? one big pet peeve i have is guys who dress like they are a professional golfer every day. looks really stupid to me. just as i imagine me dressing like im some pro mma fighter looks really stupid to them.
As of now I wear 3 types of shorts:
board shorts:
bball shorts:
very casual but not workout shorts like these:
but these really arent enough. any recommendations on other good every day shorts to wear?
i also have absolutely 0 sense of what kind of stuff matches together to the point that I probably come off like I have aspergers lol. what are big no-nos for matching shorts and tops? and what colors go well together or dont go well together?
I got this weird impulse, I'll try it once, so no need to panic or go crazy if it's not wanted or not looked kindly upon in here.
The idea is that I just do my normal day, but instead of just doing it. I write what I do, as I do it, and I add links to whatever I read, right after I've read it. Kind of like a journal I keep updating throughout the day.
Yeah, not sure what will happen, but I've just gotten up now, and atm (means at the moment, not ass to mouth) I'm scribbling on my whiteboard.
Starting the day off with 5 min of stretching, some water, some Multi-vitamins, a lot of B-x shit in it, some Oil (Udo's choice, I sometimes mumble to myself in a low voice, there's no choice quite like Udo's choice), some gingo-biloba pills, some celery, some C-vitamins, then some more water.
Then Breakfast, some "knekkebrød" with rye, the good shit with double layer of chicken on it, with cold water for drinks.
So after looking at my scribblings, I just sit down at my computer and I start searching for stuff.
Here's first I found:
It's a handsome guy who's all proper n shit who asked a pro Dr, health guy, and a dentist for the most common causes of preventable suffering and how to solve em. http://lifehacker.com/5927931/the-mos...-suffering-and-their-simple-solutions
I go make me some coffee, I don't like it too strong, I have a dash of “fløte” in it, just to feel special.
Read some stuff about sitting too much is very bad for you, I kinda skip over all the food bits and stuff like that since I'm so awesome in that area. I'm high master or close, high up there at least. But sitting is something I've done for o so much lol.
I sometimes get really excited early on, and then a few days after I'm like, waaat, I thought this was cool lol, I'm such a newb. So I'm gonna try it, now. I have to move my table first, find some cool music and try sum.
- Ok tried, used 12 minutes, since I had to stop the video and think here n there, but felt really cool lol
Notice I'm getting a little low on supplies, and I really want to go to the big supermarked, but that's a little bit far, well not far, I'm just lazy. But I've developed this interesting technique (not to be used with reckless abandon mind you very much). <--- I'm just making up cool slogans.
I noticed that when I nag at my brother to do me favors (stuff like, driving me to the super marked), the success rate isn't all that high.
And then afterward I ask someone else, for instance, my dad. Then the same thing might happen, although it's a little higher, I've got a lot of power and leeway here, but with great power also comes great responsibility. (I can just say I'm really sick, fake it, and It's 100%). But then I'll feel like an asshole, so I never, rarely, barely ever do that (ok has happened a few times, but then I feel really bad lol).
So I need to convince him in other ways.... But then again, the success rate drops by quite a bit =[
This isn't much of a problem anymore, due to my brilliant mind. I've only tested it for a month or two, and I don't think it's failed me yet. There's only one requirement for it to work. They both have to be home at the same time (my brother and my father), so what I do is, I tell my brother I really need to buy a lot of stuff, and I try lure him however I see fit. And I ask him if he could kindly ask my dad if he can do me the favor.
(And here's the trick), I've already got another copy paste ready, and I write something similar, but this time to my dad. So now I just have to time it, so I kinda have both's attention at the same time on Facebook, and voila. For some reason, when they both "do me the favor" of asking the other if he can drive me, they start some weird ego war, and tries to "win" or something like that (not 100% sure what happens, but it works).
Only bought amazing healthy stuff, feel free to pm me if you want more details lol. (I use a long time in there, I think, I lift things, shake them about a little, look at them in different angles, ask questions, read ingredients, kinda make it an event lol).
Ok, back to more fun, reading, note taking n shit xD
While eating I like to put on something light and something I don't have to pay too much attention too, so I put on some "approach women" thingy, from this channel. I ate complex pasta, chickecn, bacon, salad, and drank some water
I've always had huge problems watching that kind of stuff, I cringe, my body twists and turn, I make these weird facial expression, get so embarrassed and awkward when I watch people go up to random girls and start talking lol. So I'm trying to get that feeling away lol
A much better article here, Read it a few times, took some notes, u know, just bein a baller. It's about Beliefs that might be holding you back, going through some common ones and some words about shit that might help you get through em.
(Took some time, thought some, went around hanging up sticky notes all over, tried looking at myself in the mirror and talk, but got so shy, started laughing and ran off lol, "tomorrow damnit").
In between reading, writing, doing stuff, I troll on facebook, just skim through, slap some troll's here and there for good meassure. Nothing too serious, or over the top.
Had around 30 minutes where I've been chatting to my brother and sister, + 2 mates of mine. The topics were about training, what happens if the sun lashes some wind blabla (that's from a guy who's not that bright, but watches a lot of TV), and a little bit to the guy who's just like Loco, but he ignores me a lot, so wasn't much going on there.
Oh, I talked another 20 minutes, this time bout Philosophy. I'm very careful on who I talk Philosophy with, I don't want to listen to anyone, I just want to ramble about things I read and learned lol. Talked some about the first Philosophers, 620bc, what theories they came up with. Like one with a weird long name that starts with A, then some x and Anaximanderlalala or something, and his "student" allegedly, actually, I think it was his student that felt that "air" was crucial, since when air gets heavy it turn to fog, water n such, when it gets dry you get flames. And when people die they stop breathing, and the Gods were made out of air, stuff along those lines, fascinating stuff lol. Anyway, I digress...
Next I read this, I felt it was really scary at first, and that I was in a lot of trouble, since I've been sitting for most of my life. Article on how bad sitting was, and could be.
(Wrote notes about that as well, but this isn't about me posting my notes lol). http://lifehacker.com/5879536/how-sit...ur-body-and-how-you-can-counteract-it
Felt it could have been shorter, why not just "Stand up every hour, and train every day lol".
I do agree though, if you're fat, like 80kg and above, it's probably a lot more severe and important.
Small break where I listen to some music, jump around a little in the living room. I'm too shy to dance in public, but alone I do these weird tap with my feet kinda thingys, and I wiggle some, and I bounce, that makes me smile quite a bit. Also like freezing, holding a pose for x amount of seconds, then continue.
Decided to relax a little in my couch, listen to some History of Philosophy. Found this site, not sure if it's awesome yet, I've gotten to Heraclitus, epsiode 5, I think there's 90 + episodes
I've found 2-3 other pages who are better, more in depth, but I felt It'd be cool to just go through the history first, then delve deeper into the ones I found the most interesting. It's taken from this booklist.
Blackburn, S. – Think
Grayling, A. – Philosophy 1 and 2
Magee, B. - Confessions of a Philosopher
Russell, B. – The Problems of Philosophy
Scruton, R. - Modern Philosophy
Epistemology
Landesman, C. – An Introduction to Epistemology
Morton, A. – A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge
Pritchard, D. - What is This Thing Called Knowledge?
Ethics
Aristotle – The Nicomachean Ethics
Blackburn, S. – Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
Mill, J.S. – Utilitarianism
Singer, P. – Practical Ethics
Williams, B. – Morality: An Introduction to Ethics
Metaphysics
Descartes, R. – Meditations on First Philosophy
Garrett, B. – What is This Thing Called Metaphysics?
van Inwagen, P. and Zimmerman, D. - Metaphysics: The Big Questions
Philosophy of Mind
Chalmers, D.J. – Philosophy of Mind
Churchland, P.M. – Matter and Consciousness
Dennett, D. – Consciousness Explained
Crane, T. – The Mechanical Mind
Kim, J. – Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Nietzsche - The Antichrist
Plato – Euthyphro
Rosenzweig, F. - The Star of Redemption
Philosophy of Science
Bird, A. – The Philosophy of Science
Godfrey-Smith, P. - Theory and Reality
Ladyman, J. – Understanding Philosophy of Science
Losee, J. – A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
O’Hear, A. – Philosophy of Science
Political Philosophy
Hobbes, T. – Leviathan
Gaus, G. - Political Concepts and Political Theories
Machiavelli – The Prince
Mill, J.S. - On Liberty
Plato – The Republic
Rawls, J. - Justice as Fairness
Got some more food, some Turkey on rye bread, two slices, with some green shit on top.
Relaxed with watching some Tedtalks, then some Kripparian clips. (Not really played Diablo3 since May, but I kinda kept watching Kripparian, i think he's the most famous D3 guy). He's just so friendly and relaxing.
Have had Breaking Bad ep2 on for DL, gonna indulge in a little lol and crap for a bit.
(Oj, that episode had me enthralled, it ended in a blink of an eye, that was a pleasant surprise).
Let's see, what's next on my endless imaginary to do list!! (Not totally imaginary, I do write stuff at the start of each day, things I feel like "exploring", learning or what not, but I guess I maybe already said that up there lol).
Sleep, yes, lol, I've struggled with proper sleep, and a schedule for most of my life. But from time to time, I like to re-read, and try a few new things, and see if I can make something out of it, yeap.
Oj, this one took me quite a long time, since there were so many links to added stuff, like when talking about foods that help induce sleep, I had to google it, go through those and add those in. There were some more links, I like to click them and at least look at them, and if my spider senses tell me I have to read them, I swear, shake my head a little annoyed, and I have at it, like a bwauss.
Next one is more about relaxing, I see the first few things are about Yoga and Meditation. I've ventured into those areas in the past, but I forget doing it, get bored, or just stop thinking about it. But I did take classes for Kundalin Yoga, and I am pretty good at breathing meditatively. So doesn't hurt to take a look at some more.
That one kinda just leads to a lot of other ones. Ai ai ai, I need a quick break before I dive into it.
Meditation for idiots, or something along those lines....
On second thought, clock is now 05:00 in the morning, I've been up since 17:00, I feel I got some energy, not sure from where, so even though it's raining, I'm a jump on my bike, head to the gym, it opens at 05:00. Fuck, hurry, hurry before I change my mind lol. (Can already feel my mind is plotting some amazing excuses for me not to go).
Oh, I'll pm my sister on Facebook and check if she wants to come too lol, oh, and brush my teeth in case there'z sum cute girlz there. Oh, and get my water bottle n my card, ok, all set, yay.
Oj, almost forgot to blow out the candles, I light that shit when I'm relaxing or reading, not sure but I feel it helps in a way.
Rode my bike cycle to the gym, 10 min, warmup, 5 minutes, jogged for 20 minutes, light jogging, but got quite a sweat, for being me, I usually don't sweat much. 15 minutes with stretches and maybe 150 crunches in between the stretching. A total of 40 minutes at the gym, + 10min each way. I drank 0,7 liter there. Perfect xD
When home, I did that fun thingy you can do after you have worked out, like really hot shower, then cold, then lol about with it, just for fun, it's amazing. (Can't really do that when you wake up n stuff, or if you're just bored, or haven't been moving a lot, it just hurts lol, but it's just fun when ur all fired up).
For food I made spaghetti and I fried some tuna, nomnomnom, and then I added sum butter and salt, slapped some green shit on that bad boy and I was done... Yeaah
Important to note, while in between all this, I usually always troll (might have mentioned it briefly up there, but I suddenly felt an urge to elaborate), but I don't think about that consciously. Unless it's an elaborate (crap, now I used elaborate twice in the same sentence, shit, 3 times, I suck lol) one, and then it's never like I'm stuck, or not sure what to write or say, it's that I'm getting tingles, trying to decide what works best, and I edit, change things up, re-read it. But for most trolls, a sentence or under, it's automatic, yay.
Also when/if people message me when I'm doing something else, it's automatic trolling, 30% of the time I don't even notice I've trolled, and it's quite often people can comment or talk about some troll I've done and I'm not even realizing they're talking about that particular troll, or referring to me.
I think I've trolled since I was a little child, and it kinda always stuck with me. The self humoring thing, not sure where it came from. But for some reason I've always loved entertaining myself, I notice it often gets even more fun if I let 1 or 2 people in on it. Now a days I vary a lot, I can make it 100% obvious to everyone reading, or mix it up with having no one realize I'm trolling. (Not really sure if it's a troll then? I also never put the name Troll on it, I've always done it, and lately casuals, mainstream people, and people growing up have started doing it, but they do it just to “troll” it feels like. For me It's more like lifestyle.
The Trolls can be anything from bothering "friends" on facebook, to community groups on facebook, to more elaborate pranks on people on youtube or in games (when I'm gaming). Or when I'm social, they tend to get bigger and bigger (that's when it gets scary), I get so many ideas and impulses, so I'm often worried I might go over someone's invisible top. (I like to think that I try to get as close to someone's limit as you possible can, but not over it, and the few times It's appropriate to go over it, quickly jump underneath and calm it before whoever is getting troll realized I went over, I don't want people really upset. Anoyed, pissed, moody, entertained, confused, anything around there is pretty awesome.
I'm scrolling through my facebook, today I've not been that active, but I've written 34 troll comments.
It used to be a little more elaborate, since there's this awesome page called "Kjøp & Salg Mo i Rana". And virtually every house hold in our city is part of that group. We've just got 25.000 people in "my" city. And that page is just used for putting up shit, pictures of stuff you want to sell, then people write in the comments what they bid, talk, discuss, haggle.
A few days ago something awful happened though.
I've always been so careful and meticulous, but I got really unlucky, so I got banned.
Wasn't even that big of a troll either, maybe like a 5,0 on a scale of 10,0 on a casual-troll-o-meter. This elderly lady was trying to get hold of this small, antique sofa thingy (ugly as shit), and there were quite few comments in it. It seemed as if she was complaining, almost giving up, since no one seem to have one of those.
So I thought It'd be funny to go "Ohhh, shit, so unlucky, my dad had one JUST like the one in your picture, but our cat took a big dump in it, everything got smeared in poo. I think he threw it in the back of the garage after that".
And I thought that was it, and I was happily on my way further down the picturez. Looking for more good spots.
But then she sent me a PM, acting all crazy like "omg omg (ok she didn't really use omg), but she seemed pretty excited, saying that didn't matter, she could re-dress it or something stupid, pleading if she could buy it.
I got a little "ai ai ai", so to stall for time, I said "Aye, I can't promise anything, but I'll call my dad, he's at work now, but I'll let you know later in the day!".
But then it turned out she kinda knew who my dad was, and she called him instead....
Crap =[
(I think that's why I'm banned, I'm not 100% sure, but she went in a hissy fit n took away one of my favorite pass-time activity).
Some people just want to see the world burn.
Another good one is when someone takes a bad picture of something, let's say a couch, to make it simple. I like to go "hmm, it lookz pretty good, I'm a little interested, hmm... Could you possible maybe take another picture from the other side? (It's a little fuzzy)"
And if it's a woman, or a girl, they always comply LOL, and they upload more pictures, yay.
Then the game IS ON!! (Pretty obvious what's going on now), the goal of the game is to see how many times you can get the girl to upload another picture.
My record is around 7 or 8 times.
I also once got the girl to lay in the couch, but when I found out her boyfriend took the picture, I acted all moody in the comment and snuffed, said I wasn't interested (tried to make it obvious I was moody she had a bf).
Hmm... there is one problem with having this "affliction" (I think I can call it that, since I can't really control it lol, at least not at times, or I can moderate it at least xD). If I use my willpower to avoid 5-10 good spots, it just keeps getting increasingly harder, and eventually I'll pop. (Kinda like when I did that Byrnesam no fap challenge, suddenly I was watching with 30 tabs up, the most bizarre fetishes I've never been to, with a fap marathon, fapping for 3 hours straight, then at it again 1 hour later, by the evening I was genuinely concerned I might have broken it).
Where was I... Yeah, there... Ok.
I used to have over 300 friends on Facebook, now I'm down at 103. The first people to go were the ones who got easily offended, then quite a few fat people. Then a few old people. I had added some people I knew were religious, they all gone too lol. (Yay, thanks Hitchens).
But I think that's a good thing, in a way.
I do regret trolling too hard on a lot of the girls who were good looking, but you can't go around treating people differently lol, and besides, those are the one's who's most fun to troll xD
Am a little nervous I might lose one of the hottest I've got left on facebook, I did a troll on her last night, she uploaded a picture from her phone, and it was so dark you couldn't see her face, was too dark and blurry.
Not 100% sure what I wrote, but something along the lines of "ahh, that's maybe the best picture I've seen of you so far". (Stupidly mild one though, like I'm a little scared any shy to troll that one lol. I'm such a whimp at times lol).
Another deep form of trolling, I'm not sure if anyone but me will find this one funny. But you know those people who update their facebook 30 times a day, when they're moody, when they're tired, when they had a good cup of coffe, when they had a friend over, that they made some bread, the list goes on.
I LOVE answering those, as politely, and honestly as I can. Inquire further, or a smile, the most mundane, boring shit I can think of I try my hardest to write. Not 100% sure why, but it fills me with joy.
So, let's take "xxxxx" a xx girl, she does that shit nonstop. So when she writes like ""#¤"#¤ so mad, fuck men"
I instantly go "ahh, what's up? I hope no one is miss-treated you or anything".
Then she's free to write why she's angry... Not even exaggerating when I say, that sometimes those super tiny, mundane, invisible to 90% trolls has me in fits, sometimes I can even have tears coming down my chin. Can't quite the sensation.
"Ahh there, now all the snow's been plowed, phew, that was a lot of work, now I deserve some hot coco"
"Oj, you plowed the whole thing yourself, and you're a girl. I must say, I'm pretty impressed".
That last sentence there, is also a 100% troll lol. (Me trying to be as boring as I can possible muster).
A few things annoy me though, one of them is my sister, somehow she's become immune to my trolls. But that doesn't stop me from trying. I've probably tried 5-7times today, she hasn't bitten once.
Let me go have a look...
Ok, here's one.
She wrote her husband was making her kebab.
I reply with "Hmm, *Name of husband here* once told me I was a kebab. What you think he ment by that?".
And then just nothing!!
Grrrr
Ok, so this is just small trivial stuff. I'll show you guys a bigger one. It happened yesterday, so it's kinda doesn't fit 100% of "stuff I've done in a day". BUT I wrote one of the long replies in the troll today, so it kinda counts anyway.
Scenario:
A mate of mine who's pretty intelligent, (in a way he never miss- spells, he never trolls, he rarely if ever swears, always factual, very pessimistic, former nihilist, he's close to an exact replica of Loco, he only difference is that he keeps me around on skype lol, and that he sometimes talks back to me).
I've sat trying to get his attention for most of the day, but he ignores me a lot. So after trying various techniques I finally manage to annoy him enough to get an answer.
I keep pestering, trying to find out what he's doing, but he refuses. And I felt right away it was something he didn't want me to know, embarrassed, something along those lines. I think his correct words were "You're not mentally mature enough to appreciate blablabla".
This makes me open my mouth in amazement, I'm so intrigued right now, so interested I'm almost shaking lol.
I do my best at convincing him to tell me, I just lay at him. When this happen I start to write fast, really fast, I think I break over 1000 touch per minute or somewhere around there. I enter a flow state or something similar.
So after spamming he agrees to let me in on it, after I've "kinda in a non formal way agreed I'd not make fun of him, no jokes, no troll, no laughing etc". It's kinda in the air. (He's still probably moody about the time I got him to tell me how he masturbated, and he did this trick with his finger to stimulate his anus. It so caught me off guard, he was so 100% not the person to talk, admit, or even do that kinda stuff. Makes me smile each time I see his name, talk to him, or each time he says something profound or smart lol.
Anyway, he tells me there's this sub forum on Reddit for something called ASMR. (Let me just quote what that means, since I didn't fully get it myself).
"Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs."
And he had been enthralled, watching this girl preform simple tasks, or whispering, or clicking on wooden boxes, shit like that for over 3 hours straight.
He sent me this link, Where she's "preforming" asmr (I'm thick lol, I didn't realize she knew what she was doing, I thought she wasn't in on it, and just had vods up, and just got happy people was watching her shit lol).
Just click the link, watch it for 25 sec, then pause, then continue reading, watch more of it later if you want, not right now lol
Not 100% why, but the whole thing made me happy, I couldn't watch more than 1-2 minutes of it, even though she was hot lol. But I knew I had to pm her, and I got a pm back pretty quickly.
After a few pm's I got down to businiss.
And instead of talking about it as I have previously, I'll just go and copy paste. But before I can do that I need to explain a few things. (There's literally hundreds of things, but I'll go through some of the big ones).
I changed Celz's name to KimPim. Why Kim, is kinda "deep", but Kim thinks Celz is moody, and Celz don't like that, I always make nicknames for people, Kim is KimPim. A close irl friend of mine, he's 2 meters tall, maybe the kindest guy on the planet, or at least high up there. He's always kind, his best attributes is being tall and listening. Yes, he actually listens deeply, it's weird. He never gets into trouble. And when he walks around his coordination is a bit off lol. And he's one of my favorite people to have around lol.
(Very often when I need a name, I use his, there's also some history between him and Celz, that makes it even more fun that it says KimPim instead of his name, but no time to go into that now lol).
So whenever you see "KimPim" talk, it's actually Celz, and I've "edited" it slightly, given him some poor structured sentences + I give him some spelling errors rofl. And often when he's avoiding something, or being boring, I just "write what I feel he's actually saying" lol, so I'm making him look 70% more stupid, and by doing that I come out a lot better lol . But we're still kinda saying close to, hmm, let's see... 80% of what's being said in the convo, I've just edited and changed up a few things I felt were more accurate here and there.
The conversation starts from when he had just linked me the Youtube of the Asmr girl.
(This is my 3rd PM to her on Youtube)
Hey Fishka, or uhm, Fishcake (rolls better of the tongue). So from now on, that's what I'll call you.
I have something you might find interesting, and how I ended up "here":
A friend of mine who's far more intelligent than you and me combined often engage in these talks on skype. Then I made a weird discovery about him that I didn't know. He was into something called AIHO (Attention induced head orgasm), AIE (Attention induced euphoria), or simply "head orgasms"/"head tingles".
Obviously I thought he was fucking with me, and I inquired further, to find out what it was about. And he showed me to a whole reddit sub-group dedicated to it.
Here are the triggers (they'll be sure to make you lol if you didn't already know):
- Slow speech patterns, accents, soft-speaking voices and whispers.
- Lip sounds/smacking/eating
- Clicking sounds, brushing sounds, white noise, etc.
- Painting/drawing
- Instructional videos
- Watching other people performing simple tasks
Hmm, after having read this, I kinda feel... Wait a minute... SHE ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT THIS LOL...
Freak!!
But I already felt that, so it doesn't matter, no reason to erase such a warm and witty pm.
So instead I'll add a short transcript from the Skype conversation of when I found out lol:
[7/19/2012 8:19:02 PM] mariusaglen: Ohh, I still don't get it.
[7/19/2012 8:19:31 PM] mariusaglen: I clicked the link, it looks legit lol
[7/19/2012 8:19:33 PM] mariusaglen: Still feel it's really
[7/19/2012 8:20:19 PM] mariusaglen: creepy
[7/19/2012 8:21:27 PM] mariusaglen: Weirdo
[7/19/2012 8:21:30 PM] mariusaglen: LoL, it's like someone is trying to be as boring as humanly possible lol
[7/19/2012 8:21:32 PM] mariusaglen: Can't stop laughing, SPEAK, DON'T GO INTO HIDING. I'm not judging, just smiling n stuff
[7/19/2012 8:21:35 PM] mariusaglen: LOL
[7/19/2012 8:22:29 PM] KimPim: What, I don't want to respond to anything primitive. It's nothing wrong with trying to get the most out of an orgasm, it takes it to a whole other level by doing it this way.
[7/19/2012 8:24:07 PM] mariusaglen: I'm so confused, so you're fapping while you're doing the head orgasm thingy??
[7/19/2012 8:24:09 PM] mariusaglen: From that girl not doing much vod?
[7/19/2012 8:24:46 PM] KimPim: lol, you make me sound like an idiot
[7/19/2012 8:25:11 PM] KimPim: I could easily sit and watch her on repeat for hours
[7/19/2012 8:25:23 PM] mariusaglen: Meh, I tried, I had to fast forward
[7/19/2012 8:25:25 PM] mariusaglen: Started tapping my fingers a few seconds into it lol
[7/19/2012 8:25:29 PM] mariusaglen: Then I felt a sudden urge to write something
[7/19/2012 8:25:33 PM] mariusaglen: Wish I were as relaxed
[7/19/2012 8:25:35 PM] mariusaglen: and boring as you
[7/19/2012 8:25:39 PM] mariusaglen: and didn't need stimuli aaaallll the time
[7/19/2012 8:25:40 PM] mariusaglen: Awwhhhh
[7/19/2012 8:25:42 PM] mariusaglen: You're so lucky <3
[7/19/2012 8:25:45 PM] KimPim: But that's the point, I'm getting stimuli constantly, and a steady flow of dopamin. I'm erect the whole time as well.
[7/19/2012 8:25:48 PM] KimPim: Hah, you wouldn't belive that now would you.
[7/19/2012 8:25:58 PM] KimPim: You see, how much greener everything gets on the other side?
[7/19/2012 8:26:00 PM] KimPim: Without it being so
[7/19/2012 8:26:02 PM] KimPim: BIAS
[7/19/2012 8:26:41 PM] mariusaglen: Pffth, that's just an illusion
[7/19/2012 8:26:42 PM] mariusaglen: And why are we talking in English all the time?
[7/19/2012 8:26:47 PM] KimPim: Because you're too much of a retard whenever we change langauge. I prefer this one when speaking to you.
[7/19/2012 8:26:52 PM] mariusaglen: Oh ok
[7/19/2012 8:26:56 PM] mariusaglen: But couldn't you instead show some intereste in the book I've been trying to shove down your throat
[7/19/2012 8:26:59 PM] mariusaglen: Plzz
[7/19/2012 8:27:01 PM] mariusaglen: Easily best book I've ever read. Even though it took me a month, had to look up a new word on almost every page lol
[7/19/2012 8:27:02 PM] mariusaglen: xD
[7/19/2012 8:27:04 PM] KimPim: lol
[7/19/2012 8:27:07 PM] KimPim: No, I don't want to, I'm moody and I feel a little insulted. Like you're making a mockery out of my masturbation habits.
[7/19/2012 8:27:09 PM] KimPim: I'm just tired and want to feel good atm.
[7/19/2012 8:27:22 PM] KimPim: And no, atm is at the moment, not ass to mouth
[7/19/2012 8:28:14 PM] KimPim: Hmm, curious if a girl like that could trick me
[7/19/2012 8:28:19 PM] KimPim: So hard to see how people would be irl
[7/19/2012 8:28:25 PM] KimPim: Insanely easy to read people over the internet when they write, after a few minuts I can tell with 85% certainty
[7/19/2012 8:28:38 PM] KimPim: Can dissect the most out of their personality
[7/19/2012 8:28:42 PM] KimPim: If I see anyone irl, it's
[7/19/2012 8:28:43 PM] KimPim: 5%
[7/19/2012 8:28:45 PM] KimPim: 10%
[7/19/2012 8:28:57 PM] KimPim: Hmm, I should really get out more
[7/19/2012 8:29:16 PM] KimPim: And I should get a Facebook, I have a sneaky suspicion people are more into people who's got higher iQ than 99% of the people on the planet.
[7/19/2012 8:31:52 PM] mariusaglen: oj, let me read
[7/19/2012 8:32:02 PM] mariusaglen: I'm more street smart, and besides, you're not THAT clever. I once tried that thingy you kept suggesting about putting a finger where the sun don't shine. Never been more embaressed in my life
[7/19/2012 8:32:07 PM] mariusaglen: Didn't go outside for a week, and it still makes me insecure when walking about lol
[7/19/2012 8:32:11 PM] KimPim: Haha, I don't really dislike or think longple is a retard
Sendt til: Fishka19
After sending that I got a reply, where she was smiling, going on about "awhh you just wanted me to add you on Facebook".
I got a little flustered, didn't quite get it until a few seconds had passed lol. But that blindsided me, although it shouldn't have lol.
After that I got another PM, she was smiling again, saying she liked all the pictures!
After a few seconds I realized she had been on my facebook, looking through my pictures lol. So I sent back another PM
Hey wait a minute... What pictures!!
Now I'm almost a little flustered lol.
*Shakes head* (That's what I do when I shake things off)
Anyway, I have this AWESOME proposal for a video you should/could do. But you got to imagine it with me, shake your head a little, dim the lights maybe, or light a candle or two for max concentration.
Ok, what ya think of this....
It starts like most of your normal crap, you have everything in a low voice, you can do that clickety click clack thingy you do first, then show whatever you were clacking.
(So far, everything is exactly the same as your normal routine, bear with me, it'll get amazing in a minute. I'm just letting you know in these parentheses, since I've read somewhere that blondes have tendency for really short attention spans).
Anyway, where was I.
Yeah, you were doing your thing. Then you do another one (whatever you feel like, squirt tooth paste out of a tube or some shit like that).
Ok, and here comes the good part, this is were you become awesome. You move your head to the side a bit (so you can catch your audience by surprise), and quickly (but still with a little grace) you bring forth a trumpet!!!!
(Omg!!) and the best part is, you've already secretly inhaled a lot of air, and as quickly as you can, you put ur lips on that bad boy and blow to your hearts content. (Try and get your cheeks all blown up and puffy, it'll be cute, trust me, they'll love it lol).
Ok, that's all I got, what ya think??
Ps, if maybe you could fix it somehow that the Volume of the Trumpet is at least x4 as loud as the first stuff, that would be close to perfect I think. Just guessing though, so don't go hating on me if it gets too loud.
(oh, almost forgot, I quickly sent her another pm, with just a picture of a trumpet)
HEhe, here's her reply
To be honest- i used to have a fear from this kind of trolling when i just started watching asmr videos- to fully let go and relax because i kept imagining that suddenly there will be a scream or a.. Trumpet, in your case.. I don't know why i even answer- you are rude and you said my videos are crap, on my birthday.
Sendt til: ImDrizzt
The most important thingy in this pm is the end, look, it's amazing, she told me she had her birthday, yay.
But now I feel I've been a little "mean" but not too mean, but I should maybe throw her a compliment or two, that feels about right =]
Hmm, you might have a valid point there, Fishcake.....
What about bringing the Trumpet to your mouth (all sexy like), pretending you're about to blow it, but instead you vuscjhh (yes, that's a word) out the air all asmr'like right next to it (maybe show the guys a big smile, kinda letting them know, "I wouldn't do that to you guyz"). Hearts would melt, I'm sure!
Pffth!!! Me rude?? Young lady.....I'll let you know, I've been quite informative, helpful and honest. Even came with some well thought out, helpful ideas for your channel. It's not what the other person says that offends a person, it's how he or she chooses to respond to what's said. (Hehe, I just made that up).
Ps, pretty impressed by your English, usually people from Finland ain't all that great at it (but who am I to judge, I prefer perceiving), at least when it's written. (This here is a compliment).
Pps, I do think you're the heroine the Reddit community deserves,
but not the one it needs right now.
So you'll get trolled....
... because you can take it.
Because you're not our hero.
You're a Silent Guardian (silent talker)...
...a Watchful Protector (you check your comments an awful lot).
A Dark Knight....!
(Well this last one didn't really fit, you bein all white n stuff).
Ppps, (not sure if you're allowed to use 3 p's, but I'm feeling a little crazy today).
Whatever age you are, divide it by 2, and you have the age you'd have if you were to live on Mars.
Oh, and if you're still craving for more, you can multiply your "real" age by 7, and we'll know how old you are in dog years =] <--- friendly smiley
Have a good one, best regards,
Marius Parius
Sendt til: Fishka19
No idea if the last pm was funny, but I was in fits again, I think it might have something to do with my playlist. The dark knight end theme song was on, and I kinda just winged it at the end there lol.
Thank you Perkele. But why finn? I am israeli anywho, i was never ofended. And u said you have nice photos on FB good night KARIUS BAKTUS
Sendt til: ImDrizzt
I've not replied after this, look, all the smileys, she's so happy now. I feel I gave her a lot of value, and I like to just leave when I'm at the top xD
Ok, hopefully that didn't get too longwinded, I tried shortening it down, but that's a little more elaborate troll, what I mean by that, is that it takes more time, like an hour all in all, with thinking and writing (but it's not work, I'm having a blast, entertaining myself xD).
It's just "harmless" fun online, irl it can get worse, but it's very safe and stabil atm, since I spend most of my time alone, and have for quite some time. But it can quickly turn "ugly" when I'm sociable lol.
For some reason, when someone calls me, if I'm not focusing, whatever the person is saying, I reply with the oposite. Someone ask me something, I answer something else, I know the answer, I say I don't, I don't know the answer, I pretend I do and make up something.
Can do a quick example. (When I write things in parenthese, I'm just explaining, not things being said in the conversation)
My dad calls me
Dad: Hey, what you doing?
Me: Smoking pot (I've never smoked pot, maybe 6-7 times 10 years ago lol)
Dad: What.. I thought you said you cut that shit out (He thinks I've been on and off for years lol)
Me: Yeah, I know, but I kinda started a little lately. Michael was by, and he had some, and I hadn't seen him in awhile. (Michael is my brother)
Dad: WHAT, HE SMOKES AS WELL
Dad: "Long drawn out sigh" (Like you can tell he's getting flusterd)
Dad: Well, it's your life, I can't tell you what to do and not do
Me: Hehe, you did get really mad when I pretend I was gay
Dad: "#¤&¤ Can you be serious for one second, stop with that nonsense (Here I let him "take me" in a joke, or being silly, this balancing of my range helps my actual bluffs work close to 100% of the time)
Dad: Just wanted to check up on you, your phone's been off for a week
Me: Yeah, I don't really like phones
Dad: Stop being silly, you used to be on Facebook all the time, but not lately
Me: I kinda prefer how it was in the old days
Dad: What do you mean?
Me: They used Pigeons, the wrote letters and had them deliver it
Dad: Stop being silly
Me: No, it's true!!
Me: Would be cool if we used drums
Dad: .......
Me: Or smoke signals maybe
Dad: I'm hanging up
Me: Noo wait nooooo
Dad: Good bye
Me: Noooooo "clark, he hangs up" ooooohhehehhehehEHEHEHEHEHE *evil laugh*
"Then a shrug" and a "throw phone in sofa"
Fuck, this kinda dragged on. I've got a few more articles to read through, and I kinda got lost in this lol.
I wonder if I'll just leave all of this in the blog article, without proof-reading or checking anything. Just have it as it got streamlined when I wrote it. Yeah, I think I'll do that =]
Our mind really likes setting up traps for us. Features of our mind that are meant to help us may, eventually get us into trouble. Unless we're aware of them. These traps can hinder our ability to think rationally, leading to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions.
Now on to a list of the most harmful of these, and how to avoid each one of them.
1. Anchoring Trap: Over-Relying on First Thoughts
“Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? What's your estimate?”
What if we were to ask same question, but use a different number, 90 million?
Without fail, everyone estimates concomitantly higher than the first suggestion in the last one.
Lesson: Your starting point can heavily bias your thinking: Initial impressions, ideas, estimates or data “anchor” subsequent thoughts.
This tarp is particularly dangerous as it's deliberately used in many occasions, such as by experienced salesmen, who will show a higher priced item first “anchoring” that price in your mind.
What can you do about it?
Always view a problem from different perspectives
Think on your own before consulting others.
Seek information from a wide variety of sources.
2. The Status Quo Trap: Keeping on Keeping on
We tend to repeat established behaviors, unless we are given the right incentives to entice us to change them. The status quo automatically has an advantage over every other alternative.
What can you do about it?
Consider the status quo as just another alternative.
Know your objectives.
Avoid exaggerating switching costs. (They aren't as bad as we tend to assume).
3. The Sunk Cost Trap: Protecting Earlier Choices
Any sunk cost is already payed, and it shouldn't influence your decision.
What we can do about it?
Be Ok with making mistakes.
Listen to people who were not involved in the earlier decisions.
Focus on your goals.
4. The Confirmation Trap: Seeing What You Want to See
Looking for information that will most likely support your initial point of view – while conveniently avoiding information that challenges it.
This confirmation bias effects not only where you go to collect evidence, but also how you interpret data: We are much less critical of arguments that support our initial ideas and much more resistant to arguments against them.
No matter how neutral we think we are when first tackling a decision, our brains always decide – intuitively – on an alternative right away, making us subject to this trap virtually at all timez.
What can you do about it?
Expose yourself to conflicting information.
Get a devil's advocate.
Don't ask leading questions. (When asking for advice, make neutral questions to avoid people merely confirming your biases).
5. The Incomplete Information Trap: Review Your Assumptions
Renathe is an introverted gurl. We know that she is either a salesperson or a librarian. Which one do you think she most probably is?
Most people will be tempted to say librarian. Sucks that this reasoning is dead wrong =[ (uuuu)
We usually think of salespersons to be outgoing, if not pushy. So this makes sense to us.
We “forgot” or neglected the fact that Salesmen outnumber librarians about 100 to 1. Before we even consider, we should have assigned only a 1% chance that Renathe is a librarian. (That means that even if all librarians are introverted, all it takes is 1% of introverts among the salesmen to make the chances being higher for Renathe).
Overlooking a simple data element can make our intuitions go completely astray. (We keep mental images, simplifications of reality, then make the jump to conclusions before questioning assumptions or checking whether we have enough information or not.
What can we do about it?
Make your assumptions explicit. (Don't take a problem statement as it is. Keep in mind that for every problem you're using implicit information – your assumptions. It's usually not hard to check the validity of assumptions, but first you need to know what they are).
Always favor hard data over mental simplifications. (Be a little careful to not over-rely on our preconceptions, such as stereotypes. When given the choice, always prefer hard data).
A thinking tarp
Slows down personal improvement
Can easily make people waste their whole lives on
What is it?
Something that you've already spent and that you won't get back, regardless of future outcomes.
Some examples
Bad overall life decisions:
Persisting on an unfulfilled job or career, just because you invested so much time in it? Persisting on a bad relationship, just to “make all those years worth it”? (Maybe some of the saddest cases of the sunk cost effect). Since people literally waste years – if not their whole lives because of it.
Bad financial decisions:
Refusing to sell something at a reasonable price, just because they spent so much money on it. Gamblers who won't quit, claiming they need to make back the money they've already lost.
Bad Everyday Decisions:
Ordered too much food, eat it anyway despite being full. Keeping useless clutter in your home, since you payed for it. Watching a bad movie to the end lol. The examples go on and on. The consequences for each of them may seem trivial at first, but if you think about it, we make these mistakes so often that they add up pretty quickly.
Why Do We Fall Into the Tarp and How to Avoid It
1. We Want to Make the Investment Worth Our While
“We have a genuine interest in making our efforts worth our while”. We don't want to feel that we spent anything in vain – time, money, anything. However, even if we know deep inside that our approach is wrong, we still have trouble abandoning it.
Solution
Cut your losses and move on! (LOL, ok, kinda anti climatic, but whatever works I guess).
2. We Fear Failing and Looking Foolish
We live in a success-oriented culture. Cutting losses means admitting you made a mistake, if not in public, at least to yourself. Our egos will always try stubbornly holding us to your commitments, so we don't need to admit our imperfections. If you made a public commitment, you're even less likely to break it, as there will probably be a lot of explaining to do. (That's one thing I got going for me, I don't go out much, so dun have to hassle with that haha).
Solution
Allow yourself to make mistakes. Quickly admitting your mistakes is really productive and more awesome than trying to “save face”.
Do like Socrates and think differently, become proud of admitting your errors (haha, poor longple, who doesn't make mistakes). Change your attitude from hiding your mistakes to actively exposing them. (This is actually sick advice, I always feel a warm wind when I do this in front of people, but it wasn't consciously, I just suddenly felt like it).
This might make you feel defenseless and uneasy at first, but once you get used to it, you'll feel invulnerable to harsh criticism.
Instead of focusing on the sunk costs, take pride in recognizing the cost associated with sticking to the old approach.
3. We Become Attached to Our Commitments
After we decide to do something, we feel attached to what we committed to. And the bigger the commitment, the harder it is to let go. Plus that it's a human trait to be overconfident in everything we set ourselves to do will pay off. We're biased when we evaluate the probability of success of already-made commitments. (This is known as overly optimistic probability bias).
Solution
Be aware of the natural bias, evaluate the status quo as it was just another option, rather than the frontrunner.
Try your best, detaching yourself emotionally from past decisions.
“Zero-based thinking”. Forget about the past, and consider this very moment as your “point-zero” in time. Act like all you have in the present. (Cool trick is to pretend you've just woken from amnesia, or a really, really bad hangover). This helps focusing on your current situation, instead of clinging to past decisions that would drag you down.
4. We Lose Sight of Our Underlying Goals
Get too preoccupied by how much time and effort we put into something, that we lose sight of it's relevance in the greater scheme of things. We become attached to the means and forget about the ends.
Solution
Always mindful of long-term objectives. Don't get caught up in justifying your current actions.
Let Go of the Past, Move On
Greatest example of sunk cost is that you pay with your own time, can't really reclaim that time. So no point clinging to the past, make the most of your life right now.
******ANOTHER UPDATELOL******* Added link to a post about the 10 Negative Emotions
******UPDATELOL****** Added a link to a thread at the bottom
Heya!!
I've got some thoughts, so I'll try my best and filter through them as coherently as I can.
Liquid poker!!
Great site, awesome and stuff. HOWEVER!!! Lately... It's been kinda shit, for the first time I got the same feeling as I get when I notice I'm about to type in "Facebook" up in the left corner there.
That's not good, not good at all. So when that happened I started squinting with my eyes, I became all thinky!! (Yes, that's a word, I looked it up).
When I open Liquid and I see a new long post by Longple, Ket, or people who write equally impressive posts I get quite excited and happy, I look forward to it, and I usually don't start reading right away. I get all comfy, get drinks and want to make sure I read it properly and take it all in.
I think this is because posts like that brings substance, depth, value, whatever words you want to use. That's what drew me to LP in the first place. I don't like communities that are too big, dislike not recognizing names, what they're like, what they typicly write like, traits, humour, shit like that.
Lately (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure some of you will even if I'm not wrong lol) I've noticed more and more posts I consider as "noise", just crap, nothing of value, blogs so poorly written you're worried you got a little dumber just by looking at it, stupid trolls, ego boosting n whatnot. (I just took all the rage here in one go, from here on out it'll be a lot brighter and cheerful).
I even contemplated, toyed, played around with the idea of maybe not visiting LP in awhile after I saw that last D_Smart_(random letter here which I can't remember) post.
But that'd be the newbie thing to do. What have I done to lp to contribute lately? LOL, nothing, I just lol in some posts here and there, or try to be sarcastic, funny or throw in a little irony here and there. Blerk!!
So yeap, this is my own call to action post. Time to contribute a little more to Lp, or die in the attempt to do so =]
I'd love to maybe fill some General forum slots with whatever I feel like writing about. I've not been lazy or anything, I'm maybe a little egotistical, I usually just read/write stuff for the sake of doing it, and it's all mine, mine, mine, and I store it away somewhere.
It does however make me feel a little......... After awhile, and I do get some sort of rush, feeling of accomplishment when I do share, sharing is caring longple used to say.
And my logic is this; If I just try to do whatever I can to help, share ideas, take up concepts, throw out food for thoughts to the community, imagine how awesome if more people ship in with what they're good, or excell at, share their knowledge, stories n crap like that. (Like Puerto, he ships in his thought here and there, and he's doing his own thang with the MMA thingy). I think It'd be quite amazing, imagine 5-6 KET posts in a day? (Not that they all have to be written by Ket, but same quality).
Ok, getting too mushy. I'm a run in the hall, grab some notes and start making posts in the general forum RIGHT NOW xD
Oh!! And when I'm done, I'll add links to the first few posts I make in this Blog, right underneath my rants, until the blog get knocked down from one of the other featured posters, yeap.
This might be my longest post ever reading it again now, but if you use twitter and like to interact follow me on their as I spend most of my time on their now and talking to random people, way more fun for me nowadays to read on there. Also I misspell a few words later down when I went into beast writing mode and just going to keep it like that, sorry to the spelling pro's out there but i don't know how to spell identify on the fly well lol
I need to do a blog recap of last like month and a half, I dont think I ever put up my pic from when I met the legend himself Phil Galfond. Super nice guy and was fun to hang out with. Stinger was staying at my place for a weekish during SCOOP and told me he would take almost all my action if i wanted to play 25/50 and 50/100 again, was grinding 400-1k at the time pretty happily and enjoying the low stress/variance. I decided sure why not and lost like 7bi at 50/1 and made a bit at 25/50 but still fucked with my head a bit just seeing the big drops in my graph lol. This was first time Ive ever sold any piece of anything in cash games so felt kinda bad losing someone else money but then felt little bit less bad when he bossed it up for like 500k when he was here and kept going on about how he needed to get to Vegas to go bracelet hunting and then of course wins a bracelet, can't even describe it but such a beast/machine/legend. My May graph was looking okay but I actually ended up down a bit (like 10kish) when I took out what piece Stinger had of me and was first losing month in awhile so felt pretty meh about that. Was hard to mentally adjust to playing 1200 dollar and 2000 dollar pots one day and then getting it in good and losing 20k pots the next, even if it was essentially playing 5000 dollar pots, I think I could get used to it in the future but at the time last month I was just like ahhh fuck this shit. Grinding midstakes is just so much less stressful, although lately this month I have been loading up every single table and just battling, which is going away from the strategy I employed the first few months of this year that allowed me to make so much money. First 5 days of the month I was playing with like 20 percent 3b 24 tabling, just batshit insane, chatting everytime I lost a hand and putting myself on tilt. Finally a few days into the month I banned my chat and am on like a 20k upswing since, still mass tabling though but play like infintely better not spazzing in chat and putting myself on tilt. I'm kinda just passing the time until I decide to leave Canada, not even sure what I'm still doing here but the hint I can give you is there may or may not be someone of the opposite sex persuading me to stay longer.
I made this blog for a reason originally and that was to write a bunch about ways to identify player types without the use of PTR but I will post some pics and graphs first.
This is my May Graph, as you can see there is a like 110k drop in there which was over a few days time span, not even sure what percentage of that was mine and really don't even want to think about it anymore. Stinger had like 45kish (more or less not sure right now) so ended down money. Also ended down in buying pieces for SCOOP and playing High plo scoop but actually ended up about 20k in live cash and up some buying pieces of stinger so actually might have had a super small winning month when take it all into account but dissappointing nonetheless.
A random pic of me and Phil G
So at some point in time over the past few months I kept using a goal of buying a new car (ferrari) as a way to motivate myself to keep playing and making money. I decided to start looking more into that over the past month and debating buying a car in canada for a few different reasons. I was thinking of staying here longer and was going to just say fuck it and get one for a few months and then figure out resale later or importing into usa at some point or who knows what. I have alot of money in Canadian dollar right now in my bank and with the conversion rate not so hot in my favor I thought this might also work if I was to head back to the USA and was planning to buy a car anyway. Alot of my friends on 2p2 and fb gave me their inputs as to the idea of doing this and most said it was dumb/idiot thing to do which probably is true but I was moreso looking at it with a way to reward myself for the hours and hours of grinding I have put in to give myself the dream car I have always said I was trying to make money to afford one day. Knowing I could always resell it if for whatever reason and would continue to play poker online and still make money. I still have been going back and forth on it now but have kinda decided for the time being with potential move back to USA and then trips to Vegas and Spain that I can put off buying a car and see where my head is at come August and see where I decide to ultimately settle down at post summer. With that said here is a pic and video of my test driving an f430
Player Type Color Coding
I want to write about the EV of buying pieces of people that you are friends with and in the marketplace but will save that for a few days from now as I want to write about what this was intented to be about before I lose the passion to write. I only get this feeling once every few months now so want to take advantage of when I have it. I always have thought one of my strongest edges this year was exploiting the weaker players by intedifying their specific areas of weakness and devising what works best against that type of play. I was game selecting pretty hard for awhile and by doing this and only playing 1 or 2 tables at a time you naturally focus in more, with having position on the fish all the time you would end up paying more attention to their play and figuring out certain lines they take with certain ranges/hand strengths and could then figure out ways to best exploit this. Alot of the really bad players were semi-regulars in a sense so if you can be really fast at seat selection you will end up playing with these guys often. Also with the use of PTR and looking at stats you could then pinpoint more exact the type of player a new fish was and have a better plan of attack because would have played against a wide varitey of fish already and learned in what areas to exploit. Without the use of PTR though its kinda like a big pandoras box for me lately in idetendigiyng new fish types and figuring out where they fall on the color coding scale. I use a color coding scale of about 12-15 colors ranging from The WORST OF THE WORST aka the -80ptbb players aka the ones you would play even 2 to their right sometimes (julia, rafedu, few others) to the guys you just want to avoid playing with because their winrates are awesome for a reason (eire, cleaner, lautie). I don't ultimately think those 2 specific colors matter to much because the WofW you can usually tell almost immeditaly by their stats/plays they make but its the other 11 colors in the middle that are the clusterfuck to figure out and learning how to idetify better and faster will ultimately give you a better edge on the competition and make you more money.
Luckily for me I have a base color down for most of the people I play vs 2-4+ and I'm happy I do. There are some random people that you never really notice or remember that I PTR'd before who would show up with like super awesome winrates over a good sample who I coded accordingly with just looking at their stats would think they are random player. I can kinda do a bit to avoid these players now and look to exploit others. Without PTR though this is impossible so I have been trying to figure out other ways to do this but haven't really stumpled upon anything besides HEM research and intent attention while at the tables in the forms of notes and what they showdown. I have some Fishy/weaker Reg color codes and those came in handy so much when playing against, these are the breakeven or slight losers who play really often and sometimes multiple tables but you seem them make plays like getting it in with Weak SD/Weak FD/Dominate draws in spots where good players would never do because they know their equity is never going to be ahead vs the range of hands you are getting it in with. These are just fundamental errors some make because they overvalue certain hands still and at some point after losing enough with them you realize (you do win alot with these hands too sometimes which justifies you to keep playing them that way). When you see regs make plays like this over time that is a big indicator of this color and then you can adjust accordingly when playing bigger spots with them and knowing there range is going to be wider then a better player. You can also expect this type to make alot of smaller mistakes in other pots and get to showdown a bit more/wider so can barrel them off the weaker part of their range and also valuebet thinner. Post PTR i think this player type might be one of the easier to identify for me personally.
The hardest tier for me to get a handle on right now is that like 5-10 range (using 1 amazing-12 worst scale). These guys were insta easy to give a base color with PTR because they would range from -7ptbb to like -35ptbb and could label them right away and then if you started to see them more often could go more indepth in their game but as a standard you wouldn't see these guys that often but sometimes often enough where their tier might matter (ie: you have 6 games going and a new game pops up where a 5/6 tier with 50bb doesn't provide that much value and is slightly +ev when trying to focus really hard on the other games with more EV/Value where before you could identify these types right away but now you have to play with them to figure it out). The ability to identify these players as quick as possible and be right about it I think ultimately is very valuable. Their are some guys I just leave as undecided fish for a few session because I really just can't fuckin tell where they fall. There are some 70/8 players who really never stack off and with PTR before this was easy to identify with winrate/stats but now your like this dude is playing 70 percent, he has to be terrible, lets color code him this and insta sit/be on the lookout. In reality this guy is a slight losing player who doesn't provide that much value compared to others who in the wrong table dynamics you might be even losing a bit/high variance spot. Going from the 8-10 tier is kinda difficult for me to establish right now too because the difference in even those 2 for me from what I have seen is immense sometimes. The 10's with their winrate are the types sometimes to just say fuck it preflop and gambool it up with any 4 cards therefore letting you adjust accordingingly and get it in for value wider. Where'as an 8 will still play pretty snug preflop in those same spots but is going to play pretty poorly postflop and get it in bad on certain flops. The problem for me is distinguishing those 2 types quickly because their stats tend to be similar and without paying alot of attention you just group them as one but your still missing out on spots to exploit them and win their money when looking at it like this. I'm still working on ways to be able to distinguish a 5 from a 9 but honestly not working hard enough right now as I have kinda checked out on the whole bumhunting aspect when playing midstakes.
I do have similar viewpoints on identifying regulars and giving an appropriate tier for them but I don't really feel like writing to much anymore so will have to save that for another time. Ultimately anything I have just said really won't mean to much to the mass tabling beasts that can play in any lineup and have an edge for the most part (mipwnya, lautie, rivalzz (debatable him). But I think there are alot of people that just kinda go unnoticed with not so big edges that if they were able to identify player types better/more efficent/faster could make themselves more money. Writing this was kinda just my way to figure out for myself my thoughts on the current spectrum of things and get some feedback from other people on some things they look for or ways that helps them accomplish this better. I know alot of this might seem like holy fucking shit why are you thinking about this shit so much but this is basically the strategy I used besides running good to make me 450k lol which I have gone away from. The basic idea to minmize your variance/hands you play/spots you get in vs the really good players (in and oop) and instead focus a majority of your efforts on only the weak player in the lineup and how you can take his money the fastest and most efficient and be on to the next one. Since I have less confidence right now in my fish finding ability I instead have reverted to my old strategy of just playing any seat/any game/as many as possible but luckily for me I am a much better player now then I was before when I used to do this and I can achieve some level of success doing it but with higher variance/swings.
I probably missed saying some things because my mind went elsewhere but will re-read this few times over the next few days and add in anything I may have not said or forgot to write down. I have a tough time lately verbalizing/writing anything I think out lol
O yea graph for June since chat ban so far, basically 24 tabling/playing anyone HU, lot of the big drops are from losing alot to the run good god regulars that never lose at HU deep tables
Thanks for reading guys/gals
ket/baalim fuck off still applies haha nah, i like you ket. baalim seems okay too
Everyone who reads 2p2 for hours a day is soooo bored right now and trying to find something/anything to read and occupy time so maybe I should be blogging more as a way to not only keep myself busy but maybe keep someone else busy for 2-5 minutes as they read/interact. This is Day 2.5 of my Workout/Diet prop bet and I am excited to eat the salad sitting in front of me right now. I found a salad bar/juice place that is supposed to be the healthy place the yuppies of Yaletown here in Vancouver go to, for a make your own salad and some fruit its 15 dollars lol, but whatever. Before I go to the gym to start my workouts I usually walk down the street to the healthy/most expensive grocery store known to man and buy a pre-workout "drink", 2 big bottles of water and then a post-workout "drink". I have no idea what exactly these pre/post workout drinks do but I trick myself into thinking they might be good and it is another good way to spend 14 dollars per workout I have found. My bank wire hit my account from Pokerstars and I don't really need more then 5k to live off of so now if I ever think about buying something, I just buy it. I really haven't spent to much money since my 400k upswing besides on getting my teeth healthy/looking better and maybe 10k-15kish on clothes/accessories (watch) so I think I'm doing good so far on that end.
Here is pic I took yesterday for beginning of workout prop bet, I took some with shirt off to gauge progress but I probably should keep those to myself and to various ladies lol
In my last blog I wrote how I was playing poker for PTR (tracking results site for noobs from fb) glory so to say and that once PTR stopped working that I didn't care anymore and lost a bunch of money. Someone said this is first step to failure which if you look at my results for the first 4.4 million hands that is confirmed because I think I have always been like that. I never really played to make alot of money, as long as I had 10k to be able to grind with and pay bills I was happy and fine. Something kinda changed during this last grind challenge where I realized I should stop being so -EV in what I was doing with my pokertime and do what I needed to do to win money. So I decided to stop playing 24 tables and play 1-4 tables because I knew thats what I had to do to be +EV and obv the results show for themselves. Once I won 100k that first month I was tempted to just not put much effort into it anymore but the thought of running up my PTR graph as high as I possibly could and the glory/excitement that comes from that came into my mind and provided me that motivation I needed to keep going. This sounds ridiculous to some but thats how I think about it and not really sure how to trick myself into changing that thought process. My goal before PTR went down was to get to 1 million profit on there and ever since it went away I've kinda been racking my brain and wondering around for a new goal and finally found one with my workout/diet prop bet, gives me something to focus on. Sounds even more ridiculous now that I would have stayed in Canada and kept grinding to try to get to 1 million profit for the sole reason of making my PTR graph look more awesome and not for the 1 million dollars itself lol, here is obligatory screenshot of final PTR for me
Lets get to what this blog post is all about. How is it to live in Canada and the process that goes into it. The original question was from NewbSaibot and he said
I'd like to hear more about life in Vancouver. I know for awhile you were living in a 10k/month penthouse or something, but for the avg joe how affordable are the nice areas of Vancouver? How is the weather year round? What other considerations should someone make if moving to Vancouver? Basically I'm really interested in living there for a variety of reasons, and because I've heard nothing but good things about the city. Overall, could you see yourself living in Vancouver forever? Or are there certain factors which might drive you back to the states?
Man this is a great question and I'm sure there are so many people that never left the USA to relocate anywhere for a number of reasons. I will write a little bit about my experience here so far and if anyone has anymore questions feel free to ask. I'll just start by going through the questions he asked. When I originally moved here we picked a place that was 5.8k/month sorta penthouse
This was obviously unnecessary but me and ballcup thought process before moving here was lets just get one of the sickest places we can because who knows if we will ever be able to again. So even though I was busto and rent per month was more then what my starting bankroll online was we decided to go through with it. I guess I had a lot of confidence in my ability to build it back up. I think Vancouver is affordable in the nice areas (Yaletown, Downtown, Gastown) for the average person who is relocating for poker. I would assume most people doing this have some money and are good at making more money from online poker and can afford it. I think the average 2br is anywhere from 2k-3k depending on how nice and for 1br you can find somewhere from 1.5-2k, I've been in alot of places downtown in these areas of town and they are all basically the same thing. Nice view, patio, in good shape. I came from San Diego where i was paying 2.4k/month in rent for myself so I was pretty used to these prices but for people coming from other areas this is like a what the fuck/holy shit type of thing. I think you may be able to find a bit cheaper prices in West End and Coal Harbor areas of the greater downtown area but I think prices will run pretty similarly. I would never come here and live outside of the little Island Vancouver sits on when you look on the map but I know you can find cheaper accomidations if it is that big of a deal. The weather here year round sucks, it is never warm out until yesterday, for the last maybe 7-8 months it has been a combo of cold/rainy/miserable outside. Good for staying inside and grinding but bad for going outside and enjoying. I'm not really too sure what other considerations one would make when moving up here, I guess knowing other people is good. I knew 3 people from our Vegas house that we moved up here with so always had people to hang out with even though I was busto/depressed when moved up here for the most part. We did meet alot of new people right away and if you open yourself up you'll be able to make new friends pretty easily. I would say I became pretty good-really good friends with 4 people I met in Vancouver that play poker. People come and go though which sucks but the opportunity is there to meet some people if you are here for a 3-6month time span. I think the city is beautiful, I live in Yaletown right now and it is great for walking anywhere and finding a ton of food options. When I lived downtown it was even better for finding 100s of different food options. If you are the rare poker player who likes to meet women you will have no problem doing this. I think I have met/been out with around 15-20 people and have probably tried like a 5 out of 100 to meet anyone in that regard. The crowd in the town is interesting, basically a mix of white people and asian people. Some indian/brown people scattered throughout but that is about it.
I think I could see myself living in Vancouver for a long period of time but taking many vacations. I have felt like a prisoner trapped in Canada though for most of my time, I know many of my friends have left and come back without issue but since I have had my car here I always felt a little iffy about flying out and then for some reason not being able to get back into the country so I chose to just stay here. I originally had a 3 month visitors visa, I applied online for an extension for 3 more months and got that mailed to me and then I applied again online for 4 more months and was approved again, thats how I was able to stay longer then the 6 months everyone on the forums talks about. It was a super easy process and one I would recommend to anyone looking to legally stay up here longer. I kind of want to write the Canadian government a letter for letting me stay so long and make all this money lol, I actually think I might do this. The wantingness to keep writing is kind of fading away right now but I think I hit on alot of important things/main topics people ask about often so if anyone has anymore they want to know go ahead and ask.
Going to eat now and get on with the day but if i feel like blogging more today or something comes to mind then I will
That cheating account yousseff ahmed wasn't present at my tables today and it showed in the results. Still need to do a downswing recap which I will get to in next few days but I cashed out most of my roll and left myself with 100BI for 2/4 with playing some 3/6 and 5/10 and bit 10/20 but ran bad at 1k/2k so just focused on 400/600 till I won some BI's then moved back up with better game selection and month has gone well so far. I was starting to think I sucked for a bit when I went on downswing but realized that when your playing high stakes against really good players, the variance is high and your going to lose, I basically went on a 200k upswing playing in those games so a losing sessions was inevitable to happen. When PTR went down I really didn't care about losing (lol logic) and played 3 handed with phil g and eireabu at bunch of 25/50 and that did not go so hot. Was 3b way to much and didn't adjust and lost a few BI, but at those stakes thats alot of money so went on like 80k downer online but won 25k live so wasn't insanely bad but felt it was time to cash out most of my roll and drop back down. Without ptr there isn't anymore glory in playing high stakes, when you won before you would have a sicker graph but without it no point. 2/4-5/10 more then enough fun and players are not as good so makes it easier to win.
No 2p2 still, wtf going on lol, i just keep clicking on my gmail, twitter, facebook over and over and over and nothing ever changes, so boring. I started a workout prop bet along with diet prop where I can't eat fast food or drink soda and have to be in the gym doing something everyday for the rest of my time here in Vancouver. I was planning on leaving before the end of the month to head back to Chicago for a few weeks, then to Vegas, then to Ibiza for 2 weeks. Pretty excited to see what kind of results I will have and how my body will change because my diet is probably as bad as anyone around and I drink like 10 cans of soda a day. Will be interesting challenge. Going to be doing bunch of twitter stuff this month @joeingram1 Could use some more people to follow/interact with on there besides porn stars
Here is graph for month so far, big drop is the yousseff session and then went to sleep, refreshed my mind, woke up and put in work.
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