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if playing poker is not making you happy then dont do it, or at least dont put much volume in at and play just enough for a stable income. you are great poker player but if this brings you solitude, negative feelings, suicidal thoughts :f_eek:, then there is no point doing it. there is a lot to be said on the topic how to find the equilibrium between being a poker player and have a fulfilling life but we will continue this topic in munich :)

check this video, a Harvard professor is giving a speech on the topic of what brings us happiness. truly jaw-dropping

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

ps. come to brno again! we'll go out together with Opal and have fun, drinks, drinks, fun, fun, drinks in a mixed order . Opal is living with his gf so you can stay at my place.


opal99
Joined: 05.02.2008

Originally posted by silent21
ps. come to brno again! we'll go out together with Opal and have fun, drinks, drinks, fun, fun, drinks in a mixed order . Opal is living with his gf so you can stay at my place.

he can stay at my place like a week ago (or 2? not sure tbh) anytime ;)

Jozo: I hope you know it! I'm seriously sick at the moment and being very busy at school (test on Saturday and semestral project + theoretical part of bc thesis on Sunday), but you can come anytime you like! Just give me a call/write a message on Skype when you wake up and we'll come up with some plan for next days (but you'll have to help me with school :P).


TwiceT
Joined: 15.07.2007

Originally posted by silent21
check this video, a Harvard professor is giving a speech on the topic of what brings us happiness. truly jaw-dropping

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

adam smith, min 19:40 - 20:20 .... so much wisdom in it :f_love:


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

@silent: rly interesting, tho what exactly is the point? that i shouldnt have too many options in life in order to be happier? well, yea, but how can i achieve it?

@all:

posting this months update graph: well, what can i say, this month has been sofar a big BIG one in my life, full of emotional rollercoaster so i didnt want to play poker at all in this state. However! things did move drastically forward in my personal life now.. and i think i can only look forw to setting up very ambitous goals to the future coz it appears i might have finally found a deeper longterm piece. no specific info on this yet :)

graph:

i rly dont play NL2k regularly yet, just rly very very few hands, but next month deffo much more. I knew this month would be tough in my normal life so i was happy with 40k hands, and 20k wr.. so i think this is doable still coz have to rly put volume now /omg .. when u think of it: i am a pro i dont do basically anything apart from poker and dont even average 1k hands/ day.. =~2h of play! thats ridicolous.. must change that srsly. i also played not rly gr8 this month, usually A- or B level of play, but most importantly: i rly didnt play in mainstream hours which is terrible for hourly, i fe had just 1 session during weekends all together when the traffic is so fishy..

but yea, i had to settle down a bit, now we are ready for some action baby! :heart:


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

btw wanna rly thank everyone who supported me in my crisis, mostly Opal & TT /these guys should be prolly srsly paid for handling my real life swings :)/ tho anyone rly who just talked to me or posted anything interesting made it so much easier for me to get by those days.

so (bow) @ all. :heart:


It's really nice to see any human being return to happiness, so welcome back!


opal99
Joined: 05.02.2008

Originally posted by TheLastNail
no specific info on this yet :)

I bet i know what's a secret here as you're not on Skype for some time now ;)

congrats and good luck I'd say!


Originally posted by TheLastNail
@silent: rly interesting, tho what exactly is the point? that i shouldnt have too many options in life in order to be happier? well, yea, but how can i achieve it?

to clarify what i meant I will quote TT here - "mix it up". Just find something else to do together with playing poker because mindless grinding everyday and a lot of $ in the bank account wont really make you much happier person. Travel, meet new people, party like a rock star , get some other hobby and etc.

Anyway there is no need to continue on this, as I can see that your mindset changed a lot these days. gratz and keep it the same way

btw post some nl2k hands :f_p:


glad things seem to be turning around :)
keep me updated. hope it all works out and you live happily ever after


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

hey ppl

final review of month:

poker goals achieved:

1, enjoy the game very much /most important/ and am playing okeish.. didnt play drunk, didnt play tilted.. well.. i dont think i tilt anyway, but i did play drunk couple of times in the past :)

2, worked on my game /~70% of what i expected my guess or so/

- i failed at all other .. didnt work on my HU, didnt achieve neither volume, nor wr, didnt work on MTT skills.

here s the final graph for jan

remark no.1: i told u there s going to be action baby! today also won 4k+ pot on NL2k.. my 1st fullstack there.. also! i played the last hands during the weekend and its incomparably fishier! i rly MUST play during weekends as much as it goes.
remark no.2: many tables i play on are in € or pounds so its kinda innacurate
remark no.3: i did defend my loyalty status for some decent rb
remark no.4: yea, got the probs in pers life which didnt help my cause for playing more, overall i played solidly tho, so i am looking to future with prospects

real life jan: was superswingy with a sweet good ending :heart: yea i am in love :f_love: .. ve been waiting for her for almost 2 whole years. I am currently trying to book 1 of the short lastminutes to Paris for Valentines day :heart: hope it works out good even tho its rly challenging for me to be a man of action in real life.. the no.1 thing BY FAR to work on in my overall schedule now. I started to work out in gym, inspired by Opal's real life coaching, can summarize now that it rly does wonders as far as my energy levels are concerned. I dont have any serious take on it sofar, just go randomly ~2times/week. I can see now its enough for me to sleep ~6-7h now instead of the former 9-10.

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FEBRUARY 2010:

*is the shortest month of all and one with bm party, winter olympiad, valentines day etc.. so i should be somewhat more modest i guess

pokah plans:

1, since i feel brutal power now i set 40k for wr, lets see if i can come close to it
2, 60k hands
3, stop playing anything below NL1k (or maybe just play when tired a bit so not Agaming) till end of month.. reason: i rly feel that playing NL400 & 600 just spoils my game in the longrun and moneywise i dont feel thrilled at all anymore and am overplaying quite some .. fish there are so incredibly idiotic i cant comprehend it. All the time I think there must rly be some clue to the brainless spewing but there is none rly. It s then the case I cannot rly get into their mind at all and thats no poker anymore i guess.. This will lead to much more variance, but surely a LOT more pleasure for the game for me and much higher wr in the longrun for sure coz wanna attack NL5k till start of May if all goes at least 50% according plans.
4,work on HU, work on HU, work on HU! and play at least 3k hands on HU 400-1k vs a fully competitive oppostion
5, analyse plrs and let them have a gross time anytime when on table with me
6,try to get to some NL1k+ live game

-yea, i give up on plan on both practising or playing MTT this month.. i dont think there ll be time and i rly hate that kinda poker still so i dont feel ready.

personal: in short /tho it s more complex ofc: be helpful to society /still thinking abt helping with organizing those math camps for children/, be the best bf i can be, work on the responsibility part of my mindset esp, continue doing sports, enjoy meeting ppl

yea, i met some slovak poker plrs btw lately, coz finally regged on slovak poker portal too :) .. btw: they knew me (from ps)! i am damn famous :f_cool: anyway, it s gr8 to realize there are more ppl in their early 20ties who are earning a lot more than our funny president :)

gl @ tabs to all, may the powerrrr be with u


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

just got to randomly think of this association:

woman saying she is emotionally involved but isnt sure if wanting a relationship is like a pokernoob saying: "i am betting for protection", though when called he deduces he has always the worst hand..

ok, no more updates on pers. life i guess, just too chaotic to have a grasp on it, even for me.

and remark: the are just 2 reasons to bet: for value /to get called by worse/ or for bluff /getting to fold better/ .. also for gbucks, but anyway: if i want to get value and i get called, i should be happy right? :f_confused: :rolleyes:
..well no surprise women plrs are fish i guess.. except for purplefizz ofc! :heart:


TwiceT
Joined: 15.07.2007

Originally posted by TheLastNail
5, analyse plrs and let them have a gross time anytime when on table with me

anyway, it s gr8 to realize there are more ppl in their early 20ties who are earning a lot more than our funny president :)

:f_love: _love: :f_love:

@ 2 reasons for betting: better watch more phil galfond vids sir ...


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

Originally posted by TwiceT

@ 2 reasons for betting: better watch more phil galfond vids sir ...

everything in the post was just meant metaphorically.. i am betting all the time for no reason anyways :f_biggrin:


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $6(BB) Replayer
SB ($1,918)
BB ($1,077)
UTG ($600)
CO ($600)
Hero ($767)

Dealt to Hero 8♠ 5♠

fold, fold, Hero raises to $15, SB calls $12, fold

FLOP ($36) A♣ K♠ K♣

SB bets $18, Hero calls $18

TURN ($72) A♣ K♠ K♣ 2♦

SB bets $36, Hero calls $36

RIVER ($144) A♣ K♠ K♣ 2♦ 6♥

SB bets $144, Hero raises to $288, SB folds

Hero shows 8♠ 5♠

Hero wins $429

trip to Paris confirmed.. weee, then Munich /just got to know its already next week from Opal today :) .. lookin forw to some parties and live gaming exp.
i rly am a bit tired from poker lately /not that i would play a lot, but i actually analyse, read articles, view vids etc quite a lot, so its a bit too much for now.


arisko
Joined: 23.09.2009

Wow! That's a nice bluff. Can't really say I understand this limit :) I play NL10 lol, I would never pull that off. When you bluff like this, do you already plan to do it from the flop and just wait for river or was it just gut feel??
I think this is the most interesting blog to read when it's actually updated, but I guess you don't feel like it much now... :(


Originally posted by arisko
Wow! That's a nice bluff. Can't really say I understand this limit :) I play NL10 lol, I would never pull that off. When you bluff like this, do you already plan to do it from the flop and just wait for river or was it just gut feel??
I think this is the most interesting blog to read when it's actually updated, but I guess you don't feel like it much now... :(

The fact is the guy cold-called preflop, so he likely has something like a medium-weak ace, or a KJ-KQ-QJ (btw, I'd like to know how you feel about the Kx during the hand) for non-balanced range, and PPs and SCs as a balanced range.

If so, the flop is good for villain and I guess TLN decided to barrel the flop as a CBet, where PPs and club SCs might call, and he's trying on the turn and the river to get rid of those plus a weak ace as turn and river are insignificant.

Please tell me about my analyzing as I do not play midlimits and I'd like to know if I think with the good mental pattern there. These are good exercises that sometimes help understand what's happening in the lowlimits.


TheLastNail Topic starter
TheLastNail
Joined: 30.05.2008

hey, ppl: abt the hand: well it was just as a practical joke or so, to minr river as a bluff :) .. well the logic is pretty much str8 forward and simple: ve been pretty new to the table, but knew all other regs, so quickly realized villain was a massive fish. no to lead AKK board it needs sth special: either an extremely good plr which range is heavily weighted towards value /coz mostly vs tags cannot extract more than even 1 street of value if they happen to have just weak Ax. Hence a rly good reg can lead her with fe KQ /can be in his cc range from blinds/ 3x to get max val from worse Kx or from some strong Ax which are too stubborn to let go. Since he is a bad plr tho, all this discussion is pretty much worthless. ---> He never has here anything stong, most are just gutters QJ,QT,JT, or pure air, very rarely weak Ax. He is very agro uncontrolled maniac, and obv i like to float vs such ppl coz their own agression is just immensily killing them. And i like to be the one preparing the rope for them. In the hand, by river ntg changes from flop, i would give up on Q,J or T, everything else just means he didnt hit his gutter and now the question is how much to raise so that he folds. I usually raise a bit more in this spots just so ppl cannot reship over me with Qhigh .. but i didnt have any history with him at all, so wasnt totally sure abt if he is maniac enough to play say A6o like this or sth.. therefore just minraised, so that if wrong and called i dont lose much and i create hyperfishy image for him, which is also an extremely important factor here. Say, even if i might be called by his ~5% of top range i ll just get by far the most action from him and i need this dynamic, coz notice: he has the absolute position on me on the table, so unless he wants to play pots vs me, he doesnt have to :( ..

more abt pokah: 2days ago played an MTT of pokerstrategists for a ticket to London Open 2010.. was prolly my best career finish .. sth like 50th from ~1100 or so.. anyway: i was hovering in chips in betw 10th-20th pos for most of the time in the latter stages. I noticed 1 pretty strange /to me/ plr which was a chipleader at our table and also overall i think, i was 3rd in stack at the time at the table and decided to double up through him coz if i managed to do so i would be a pretty clear chipleader overall and its just the 1st place that counts right? /tho there were some financial too.. but just symbolic.. like 2nd place was 1k, overall prices just 5k i think-the ticket was important!/ .. ok so back to the hand: so we were abt 55 left in the tourney and i was abt 15th, he /the chipleader/ opens utg+3 to 3x bb /tho it was with antes, so adds up to sth/ i had 22bb stack afair, or so.. he had a bit more than 2x more than me, i saw him spewing a bit in last few hands so decided to just call my KJs. The board came sth like 346ss so i had flushdraw+overs. i c, he bets almost pot quickly and i decided to shove over that which was quite a sizeable raise but figured out, he can have ntg a lot, so i have fe, and even if called i am pretty much flipping with almost anything.

@MTT plrs: was that a good play? in retrospect i think i might have just waited and play a patient game and avoid him, but w/e i played a lot of cg tables at the time and i was in a mood to gamble it up for a chiplead now rather than wait to not have the chippower anymore.

i was a lot shocked when he snapped me with A4o. /i had a tight image at this table since i came there i was just involved in 1 hand i think from ~15 or so/ .. i didnt improve so i went home. I hope he didnt win it coz from my perspective thats kinda horrible from him, but again, i didnt study MTTs at all and i still suck a lot tbh, so maybe his play is ok given he can afford to lose and still be in top10 overall stacks ?!

@cg: i didnt post any update coz of this: dont know if anyone noticed it, but i ususally post graphs just after some pretty good or at least mediocre session. I dont post when i am running badly or sth and the reason is that i dont look at session results at all and try to keep my confidence high by analysing a bit and reassuring i played the best. These days i run into rly a lot setups vs me esp vs fish which was frustrating a lot. Fe, on NL1k i tripled up one fish just allins pf within 1h: JJ vs QQ /was squeezed.. is splashy agro plr vs which JJ is a waaaay ahead of his range/ , KK vs AA and AK vs QQ .. ofc soon after he donated all money to all other regs so we were playing deep with basically my money on the table .. incredible, how can 1 maniacish donkey have so many favourable setups just vs me?! but ofc, i ll get it all back and more _evil: vs him just managed a more symbolic revenges, 1 AA vs KK and then ownament postflop ofc in almost every small pot. I am very happy abt my recent play, have a big edge overall over regs so still feel positive abt making this a huuge month. was up ~7k in first 2 days, from then on just rly ntg spectacular

@other life: damn, realized how everything is aging. Havins sorta philosophical mood these days with my upcoming 24th bday. I dont rly feel good, must say for the first time in my life i realize i am acutally not a child anymore.. probably .. having my own flat to care abt and pay all the bills etc for myself,just living completely independently, do all shoppings, clean everything, take care abt flowers, do washing up, ironing and meals sometimes makes me rly wanna cry when i see some boys with schoolbags on their back in the afternoon.

would also like to know your take on the subject. So the question: do u feel old?! or: at what point in your life did u realize u re getting actually older.

btw: also taking more attention to elderly lately coz it rly interests me a lot, and i sadly feel like i am gonna be soo helpless like them 1 day. Need to have a wonderfully caring wife i guess to take care of my frustrations from long deaf ears, blind eyes, shaking hands, bent back, no tooth, malfunctional bladder at nights and just a bad bad temper&memory, only dementia in its finest..

omg.. 4ever young, i wanna be 4ever young! :rolleyes:


nice analysis on the hand. practical joke ftw!

what you need are wonderfully caring children too bec they should take care of you when you and your wife are old. or at least that's how it goes here. :heart: and move someplace sunny so your bones and joints wont hurt as much. :f_grin:

when u leaving for Paris? sounds so romantic. i hope she is well pleased. :heart:


About MTT : I guess he called you as a bluff catcher, as he probably had the same overall analysis that you had (he just tried to make n°1 or nothing I guess). So I don't think his call is that horrible, expecially if you were both less than 25BB deep.

About life : simple think, though I think you might find it usefull. Get a girl! She would shine on your days. Partying and all that stuff is good, but it's not daily, and if it is, you're probably bored with it. And other thing : do you make some sport or work out or something? Getting competitive in an other domain than poker is always good, especially when you play a lot of poker as you do.


Originally posted by TheLastNail having my own flat to care abt and pay all the bills etc for myself,just living completely independently, do all shoppings, clean everything, take care abt flowers, do washing up, ironing and meals sometimes makes me rly wanna cry

get PA! it should be really cool


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