04-07-2010 07:06 PM
#76
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04-07-2010 07:44 PM
#77
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04-07-2010 07:47 PM
#78
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Can you let me back into the IRC chan, or at the very least the ftrbc one...in fact, just that one will do. |
Last edited by EasyPoker; 04-08-2010 at 08:13 PM.
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04-08-2010 02:26 AM
#79
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What are some of the better materials you have found regarding meditation? | |
04-08-2010 05:11 AM
#80
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I think people who are new to the idea or who are looking for something "practical" will benefit a lot from "Mindfulness in Plain English" which is available for reading online here Mindfulness in Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana or in PDF format here http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/mindf...in_english.pdf | |
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04-08-2010 08:31 AM
#81
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I think you're either being overly modest, or grossly underestimating your own ability/knowledge. Or, maybe you're just more prepared to show how much you know in comparison to other players. I don't know. |
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04-08-2010 09:39 AM
#82
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Spoon lives in the real world. Yea, he could probably play 2/4, 3/6, etc but his hourly would probably peak at 200nl, which is probably why he puts this stake down as the one where he thinks he should be playing. Also he's had experience at 200nl, I'm not sure about anything above that. | |
04-08-2010 10:44 AM
#83
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My hand reading and consistency and a lot of other things aren't where they need to be to beat midstakes right now. | |
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04-08-2010 10:48 AM
#84
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Meh, I know you give me shit cuz I'm a lazy mofo and I need to get my ass in gear, so it doesn't bother me really. | |
04-08-2010 08:14 PM
#85
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04-08-2010 08:47 PM
#86
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04-08-2010 08:51 PM
#87
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What did EP do? | |
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04-08-2010 08:55 PM
#88
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Lol, I don't actually know... |
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04-08-2010 09:20 PM
#89
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This isn't the place for discussing this. Talk to me on IRC. | |
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04-08-2010 09:25 PM
#90
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04-11-2010 05:16 AM
#91
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04-11-2010 08:26 AM
#92
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It's pretty well known you play poker for a living, and obviously you pay taxes on them. How do you go bout keeping track? What kind of % does the US take out for poker earnings? Any tax breaks? Do you take it to H&R Block or whatever like everyone else or do you have to do something different? | |
04-11-2010 08:47 AM
#93
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PokerTracker combined with asking PokerStars for a list of all of the bonuses you got during the year gets it done. | |
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04-11-2010 03:20 PM
#94
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If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? | |
04-11-2010 06:09 PM
#95
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How does one fix himself? I used to be unreadable when I played cards. My friends all told me so they complained because they thought I played a certain way but then in the next game I played differently. I loved it I won 95% of the time. Then they introduced me to some books they were reading after reading a couple I became aware of possibilites, strategies and so on forth. Now I'm totally readable and lose most of the time. |
04-11-2010 06:26 PM
#96
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Small sample size. Keep improving and get better. | |
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04-12-2010 12:22 PM
#97
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I've got one: Do you listen music while playing? Do you feel like it influences your game if you do? (might be a dumb question, but I really like to know) | |
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04-12-2010 01:26 PM
#98
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I listen to music probably 80% of the time I'm playing or so. I don't really do it so much to increase performance as I do to drown out other noise that's distracting for me. It probably does influence my game to some degree, but how and to what extent I don't know. | |
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04-12-2010 01:37 PM
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does your blood pressure go up when i sign into irc? | |
04-12-2010 03:17 PM
#100
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Can you let me back into IRC please? |
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04-12-2010 03:19 PM
#101
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Surviva, I think your 1.) and 2.) thing is something that is pretty much prevalent wherever you go. Some people are going to hate it and want to leave, some aren't. | |
04-12-2010 03:54 PM
#102
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I'm guessing you file as a professional? Do you do your taxes yourself or do you hire an accountant who is actually knowledgeable when it comes to internet poker? | |
04-12-2010 05:46 PM
#103
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Not really. | |
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04-13-2010 02:27 AM
#104
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04-13-2010 10:17 AM
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There are criteria that must be met, but there's a bit of a gray area as well if you have other forms of income. Search the 2p2 legislation forum for lots of discussion on this and other tax-related issues. | |
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04-13-2010 10:52 AM
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For someone who is new, but dedicated to poker and all that entails in terms of study and hourly commitment, how long would you say it takes on average to reach that "second level" where it becomes pretty easy to play anywhere from 25-100NL and consistently win? Obviously it is person dependent, but for example, how long did it take you and what was that aha moment like? | |
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04-13-2010 12:52 PM
#107
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It should probably take less than a year to be beating 100nl. For you specifically, I'd say your best bet is to keep doing what you're doing and don't withdraw any money, with equal emphasis on both parts. Now you say, "But I _______," and have some excuse not to get a part-time job or whatever to sustain yourself while you build your bankroll, but if you explain your baseball situation to your prospective employers, they will work with you for the most part. This is probably more important than you probably have a sense for right now. | |
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04-15-2010 09:55 PM
#108
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Try this i was checking it yesterday with the same questions. | |
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04-15-2010 10:10 PM
#109
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04-16-2010 12:44 AM
#110
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04-16-2010 01:50 AM
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flopzilla is pretty hot once you learn how to use it and the power it holds | |
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04-16-2010 02:19 PM
#112
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Why do you suck at poker? | |
04-16-2010 02:53 PM
#113
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04-16-2010 03:38 PM
#114
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What's the leak that most people overemphasize when they shoudn't? | |
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04-16-2010 03:53 PM
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04-16-2010 04:22 PM
#116
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Good question. I'm not really sure. One thing I do see a lot of people doing is worrying about playing against tight opponents when it's not really that big of a deal at all. | |
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04-16-2010 06:07 PM
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Maybe I should explain that I'm not on the spoon hate train. | |
04-16-2010 06:33 PM
#118
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04-16-2010 08:00 PM
#119
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Yeah man. | |
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04-17-2010 11:32 AM
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I'm at a cross roads. There's a Denny's on one corner, and an IHOP on the other. Which should I choose? | |
04-17-2010 12:12 PM
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Go down the street to the grocery store. | |
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04-17-2010 01:59 PM
#122
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04-17-2010 02:53 PM
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I think I've always been somewhere between 13/10 and 17/14. It's much more dependent on the tables and seat selection and so on than a lot of people seem to think. It's sort of the same for 3bet %, so this is a difficult question to answer. Over my past 21k hands of 50nl FR I've been 15.17/12.65 with a 2.36% 3-bet. | |
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04-17-2010 04:37 PM
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OK, I played a coupla hundred hands 3 tabling 6m last night, and my brain is poker-dead. I get dealt AJ and I freeze. Is this a good hand? Oh, wait, position or something matters. And yeah, the guy next me in the CO is a nit. That probably means something. |
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04-17-2010 05:39 PM
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04-17-2010 05:55 PM
#126
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I'd suggest start back playing at 10nl for a week or so since you seem to be unsure and then go from there. | |
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04-18-2010 02:40 PM
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what is your opinion of me? |
04-18-2010 03:02 PM
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I have no idea who you are, so I looked at some of your past posts. I'd say if you don't make $100/hour in 2010 then you did something horribly wrong. | |
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04-18-2010 03:13 PM
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04-18-2010 06:30 PM
#130
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trolling freetrollers
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we've barely played any hands together (my handle starts da_ven...), however: |
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04-18-2010 07:04 PM
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^ I'm not spoony, but ezgame climbing in thailand. If your girlfriend is setting herself up for a life of academia, conferences in europe and North America will become pretty commonplace, whereas slightly more exotic places like thailand seem to rarely manage to get the funding/organisation together to host a conference, nor do they seem to hold much appeal with academics. | |
04-18-2010 11:37 PM
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04-20-2010 07:52 PM
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Spoon more of a wish than a question really. What would you think of a project where you came up with coricullum for "Poker Math". Something that starts out for the very basic (such as myself) and helps to build the skills. Like a series of worksheets etc.? Any interest?? | |
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04-20-2010 08:29 PM
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04-21-2010 03:48 PM
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04-21-2010 04:15 PM
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Awesome. | |
04-21-2010 04:16 PM
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I can't believe we have a BC mod that min raises AA preflop....wtf spoon? | |
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04-21-2010 04:18 PM
#138
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I'd crack open an Oreo until I got a soulread on the opponent... THEN... I make my move. | |
04-21-2010 04:41 PM
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I chugged 2 beers and then the Time Bank went off and I threw my laptop through the wall |
04-21-2010 04:43 PM
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Powerful play. | |
04-21-2010 04:46 PM
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It was better than spazzing, at least it seemed better at the time. |
04-21-2010 05:20 PM
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That hand history makes no sense or otherwise I would have tried to answer your question. | |
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04-25-2010 11:16 PM
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How many hands do you think it should take (on the average) to win 20 BI's at a specific level (i.e. 10NL, 25NL, etc)? |
04-26-2010 12:59 AM
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A few things. First, your win-rate in terms of big blinds per 100 hands drops drastically from around 2nl to around 10nl. Second, you should be increasing the number of buy-ins you want at each level. So if you wanted say 20 buy-ins at 10nl, then you should look to try for 25-30 for 25nl, and 30-35 for 50nl, and so on. | |
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04-26-2010 03:35 AM
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Thanks for the advice. Wow, I've never thought of my 'tilt' in that way, but that's probably spot-on because I'm dealing with those type of issues in other facets of my life. |
04-26-2010 12:01 PM
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All-in EV is a tricky topic. On one hand it shows you where you "should" be at over a sample, but on the other hand there are a lot of other things that contribute to how good or bad you're running. For example, if you get AA vs KK 20 times in a 1k hand sample, and KK vs AA twice, you ran good in that aspect, even if you happened to lose 1/2 of the AA vs KK all-in preflop, which would send your AIEV way off. | |
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04-26-2010 12:31 PM
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I had a shit awful run of bad play/runbad at 50nl from Nov-Jan and lost about $1500 (~70%) of my roll. I decided to take off February, and self excluded/self banned all my poker sites and 2+2. I also took off March because my head wasn't right and I still couldn't play the game. I had about $750 left in my roll, and finally decided to put it back on FTP a couple of weeks ago and start grinding again. | |
04-26-2010 08:47 PM
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Just move up whenever you feel comfortable. Be that when you have 20 BIs, or when you have 200 BIs. You can't be afraid of losing a BI so however deeply rolled you need to be to make that happen, grind 25nl until you're there. | |
04-26-2010 10:40 PM
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You didn't move down before you lost 3/4 of your bankroll. That shit hurts, and that hurt led to you missing 2 months of play. Right now you're scared shitless of 50nl because you associated it with all of that pain. I suggest you combat this by moving up to 50nl when you have at least $3000 (I'm really wanting to suggest $5000) and move down to 25nl if you lose 10 BIs. | |
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04-27-2010 12:22 AM
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Yeah...that's kinda the $$ figure I had in mind when I was thinking about grinding out 100k hands before I even considered 50nl again. Another 100k hands at 4BB/100 is $2k, which would put my BR at over $3k. | |
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