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ToT)MidiaN(  United Kingdom. Aug 11 2009 22:56. Posts 5070 | | |
Hello dear reader. My buddy d.Apollo left my place on the 6th August after a 2 month stay and since then I have to stop drinking alcohol. I've had gastroenteritis since leaving the Phillipines about 3 months ago, it's supposed to simply go away by itself, and although it's much better than it was I still get stomach pains now and then after drinking or eating particularly oily foods. I went to the doctors a few weeks ago and they told me that the problem left a scarring in my stomach which continues to get inflamed every time I drink alcohol or eat oily foods and that I have to stop for an entire month. Naturally this was not possible while d.Apollo was here as he is a king of birding and alcohol consumption and I followed him on many a night out. I find myself wanting a drink very often, it's frustrating but I know I have to do this because my birthday is the 8th of September and I want to be able to drink by then without problem, and especially since I have some guests coming around that time.
Poker this month has been pretty damn awesome, I've played a total of just over 1 hour of poker and have made enough money to satisfy myself for the month despite playing so little.
Obviously winning every flip, coolering people and getting called down by weak holdings when I have the goods.
It's nice that I 10k last month playing just a few thousand hands and being up 7k this month playing only 400 hands, because I really am not enjoying the game again. I think it's because of that long stint pissing around on 100nl, 200nl trying to make my stats pretty and being tilted a large majority of the time playing poker. It wasn't fun and I regret that I wasted so much time doing that, and I'm paying for it in more ways than one. Firstly I made 0 money playing 60k hands at those limits, when I should've been playing higher limits and most likely actually showing profit over 60k hands of 600nl, 1000nl so I missed out a lot in terms of $ made, and also the fact that I don't enjoy poker because of playing those limits means I play much less poker now also, again impacting on money made. So I'm really happy that I've been able to make 17k in the last month and a half because I really shouldn't be making much at all considering I've put in like 4-5k hands over that timespan.
Since I have so much free time due to not going out and the lack of interest in playing poker I've been playing a lot more StarCraft. I'm finally beginning to feel like I'm improving somewhat and I hit B+ on iCCup with a 68% winratio yesterday playing ONLY Korean players. I literally dodged non Koreans because it's tilting to play in a laggy game and they're also less good on average, and as I would like to improve I'd rather play the Korean players and have tougher wins and more losses in order to improve than try to get A- with a prettier winratio and not struggle that much. Too many people do that nowadays and I really don't think it's much of an achievement to get A- unless you only play Korean players. A lot of Korean A- players, even with 50% winratio are better than all but the top 5~ or so non Korean/Chinese players, and it sickens me to see people like lastshadow boasting an A- account with a good winratio just because he dodged a shitton of Korean players. Try playing against Koreans exclusively and I bet that guy wouldn't get past B rank, and if he did he would have to play a shitton of games and would have a shit winratio.
I've also restarted playing a little bit of diablo2 on the asia server, it's the game that got me into online gaming as much as I did and I kinda love/hate it for that reason. I can't play StarCraft all day and I'm bored of WoW also so I'll continue to play it a bit here and there when theres nothing else to do. Something else I did to pass some time lately was download an emulator and play some super old games. I finished double dragon the original yesterday, I used to love going to the arcades to play that game when I was like 8 years old haha, feels so funny to play that game like 15 years later.
I'm moving apartments on the 19th, moving into a 2 bedroom place with the girlfriend, but with seperate bedrooms. We both like our own space, time and privacy so that was the reason for that. Anyway, the place is bigger than the 1 room studio apartment I'm in right now, has a nice enough living area and is cheaper than where I'm at right now. It's also only a 10~ minute walk from where I'm at now so I'll probably still be going out to similar places which is a major + for me as I really like this area.
On the 29th I'm going to Japan for 2 days with Susie to meet up with Manifesto7, who stayed at my place for a few days not long ago (His blogpost is here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99096¤tpage=3). I have to leave Korea every 3 months because I don't have a visa and that's the excuse to visit Japan, but I'm looking forward to trying out some real Japanese food, staying in some luxurious hotel (pictures here: http://www.fushioukaku.co.jp/english/) and seeing the differences between Japanese and Korean culture.
Have a drink for me~ Cheers 
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is your turn agression always that high ? |
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ToT)MidiaN( United Kingdom. Aug 12 2009 00:31. Posts 5070 | | |
Hm over fairly large samples my turn aggression is a little under 4 at 400nl and higher, it appears to be quite a lot lower at 200nl and below for some reason, more like 2.5-3 there. |
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Critterer United Kingdom. Aug 12 2009 00:31. Posts 5337 | | | |
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Achoo Canada. Aug 12 2009 01:39. Posts 1454 | | |
HOLY SHIT DUDE DOUBLE DRAGON ARCADE BEST GAME EVAH DO U KNOW U CAN GET A MACHINE GUN AT THE END IF YOU PLAY WITH SOMEONE ELSE HE CAN GRAB YOUR HAIR GIVE U KNEES AND THROW YOU THEN U END UP ON THE BLACONY AND U GRAB THE MACHINE GUN AND U CAN USE IT TO KILL THE BOSS EZ ! |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Aug 12 2009 03:19. Posts 5647 | | |
wow, I know alot of people whose lives would improve if they caught this disease! |
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rogier Netherlands. Aug 12 2009 03:46. Posts 1528 | | |
why dont you pick up omaha if youre bored with poker  |
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HighTimes Lithuania. Aug 12 2009 07:22. Posts 76 | | |
you've always got pot instead of alcohol :| |
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d.Apollo United Kingdom. Aug 12 2009 07:42. Posts 741 | | | |
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ToT)MidiaN( United Kingdom. Aug 12 2009 08:13. Posts 5070 | | |
| | On August 12 2009 06:22 HighTimes wrote:
you've always got pot instead of alcohol :| |
Not in Korea. It's illegal to the point of being deported if you get caught with it |
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