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« Reply #2355 on: April 26, 2013, 06:37:37 AM »

The fuck were you tonight? Games were incred at gala.
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« Reply #2356 on: April 26, 2013, 07:50:37 AM »

Just had the same thing...right hand side of my jaw is totally numb and my face is very lopsided :/

Cheesy

From eating protein based muffins?

no, dentist Cheesy

From eating dentists?
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« Reply #2357 on: April 27, 2013, 05:03:52 PM »

Can mods please unban Herbie. Nobody else reads this diary Sad
I read every update. The muffins looked incredible but I don't like banana :/

Your attitude seems pretty perfect to the poker life at the moment, do you feel quitting smoking has helped? How easy have you found it to give up smoking?

Theoretically a millionaire will pay you an equal wage for both graphic design and poker. How do you split your time between x and y? Do you just choose one?

When I first quit, there was a period of 2 or 3 weeks where I wanted to murder everyone and eat their corpses 'cause I was so incredibly hungry. In a weird way, after a particularly brutal session I can feel the same sensation somewhere deep down inside, like I'm suppressing a beast, and a cigarette would just hit the spot. The other 99% of the time, my head feels infinitely clearer and I feel my game has benefitted. My overall health is a thousand times better, my resting heartrate is lower, my lungs no longer feel like they're burning when I take part in cardiovascular activity, etc. Quitting was hard, but after you get over the initial craving it just seems to go away altogether.

As for the graphic design/poker divide: right now my design work has dried up a little, but that's okay because it just means I can spend more time studying poker. When I do get work, there is a deadline, so I make sure I hit that deadline and then can go back to focusing on poker. I can choose to miss a few shifts at the casino if I get particularly swamped with design work. So I guess it's all poker until I get work and then it's all design until I have no work. Smiley

If I made exactly the same hourly, I couldn't honestly say which one I would prefer. Design is like poker in the sense that you can really be on top of your game and "in the zone," for long periods of time, but when you make one mistake it can snowball and it can become no fun at all. I think it's slightly poker > design, but it's still either >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> flipping burgers.
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« Reply #2358 on: April 28, 2013, 11:42:30 AM »

In quite the opposite scenario from a lot of my sessions of late, last night I made a lot of mistakes and somehow won the money. I have the day off today to think about some hands etc. but I reckon I'm going to find that I was slightly wrong in just about all of them. It's a different kind of frustrating to getting the money in good and walking away with nothing, and I honestly don't know which I'd rather feel! Having said that, it's done now, hopefully I'll learn from it, and this time I was fortunate enough to walk away with the chips to allow me to keep playing and keep improving. On another day it would have been someone else getting it wrong and thinking they are brilliant because the results went in their favour. The benefit of conscious incompetence and all that.

What's your opinion Blonde? Do you feel worse after butchering a hand or losing the lot in a cooler?
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« Reply #2359 on: April 28, 2013, 11:58:42 AM »

Rasta seems pretty happy a lot of the time.
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« Reply #2360 on: April 28, 2013, 12:32:58 PM »

What are results? All about the performance and level of play
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« Reply #2361 on: April 28, 2013, 12:47:03 PM »

Do you feel worse after butchering a hand or losing the lot in a cooler?

Depends who cooler is to but on 9/10 occasions butchery.
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« Reply #2362 on: April 29, 2013, 05:14:55 AM »

Hello Sean, I'm a long time reader who hasn't posted in a while and finally worked up the courage to post. Did you play any interesting hands with a housemate of mine recently and if so I'd love to hear about them.

Please don't ignore this, I'm out on a limb here because I'm generally quite shy so would live a response Smiley

Thanks, Paul.
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« Reply #2363 on: April 29, 2013, 09:09:42 AM »

Lurker ITT
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« Reply #2364 on: April 29, 2013, 12:57:33 PM »

Hello Sean, I'm a long time reader who hasn't posted in a while and finally worked up the courage to post. Did you play any interesting hands with a housemate of mine recently and if so I'd love to hear about them.

Please don't ignore this, I'm out on a limb here because I'm generally quite shy so would live a response Smiley

Thanks, Paul.

As it happens yes I did. Almost as interesting as a hand I once played with your housemate's housemate PeeJay.
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« Reply #2365 on: April 29, 2013, 05:38:12 PM »

Hello Sean, I'm a long time reader who hasn't posted in a while and finally worked up the courage to post. Did you play any interesting hands with a housemate of mine recently and if so I'd love to hear about them.

Please don't ignore this, I'm out on a limb here because I'm generally quite shy so would live a response Smiley

Thanks, Paul.

Spill the beans. (damn accidental food ref. just always on the mind)

Sounds like it could be a fun HH?!
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« Reply #2366 on: April 30, 2013, 11:43:44 AM »

I'll just post it as a hand history without my thought process, mostly because I didn't have one, but in part because I tell too many smart people the contents of my brain and then they make a nice salary exploiting it. Buckle up.

DuskTillDawn Hand #2773850:    Hold'em No Limit (£1.00/£2.00 GBP) - 2013/04/28 01:32:38 WET
Table '63' 8-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: angryglassesnit (£829 in chips)
Seat 2: thevenue (£457 in chips)
Seat 4: cambridgealex (£787 in chips)
Seat 5: somegai82 (£134 in chips)
Seat 6: happyglassesnit (£792 in chips)
Seat 7: zerofive (£835 in chips)
Seat 8: russiannnn (£928 in chips)
russiannn: posts small blind £1.00
angryglassesnit: posts big blind £2.00
thevenue: posts straddle £4.00
cambridgealex: posts double straddle £8.00
somegai82: posts psycho straddle £16.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to zerofive [ two spades]
happyglassesnit: folds
zerofive: raises £39 to £55
russiannn: folds
angryglassesnit: folds
thevenue: folds
cambridgealex: raises £85 to £140
somegai82: calls £118 and is all-in
zerofive: calls £85
*** FLOP *** [ Two Diamonds ]
cambridgealex: bets £100
zerofive: raises £547 to £647 and is all-in
cambridgealex: calls £547
*** TURN *** [ Two Diamonds ] []
*** RIVER *** [ Two Diamonds ] [] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
zerofive: shows [ two spades] (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
cambridgealex: mucks
zerofive collected £1294 from side pot
somegai82: shows [ ] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
somegai82 collected £399 from main pot
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« Reply #2367 on: April 30, 2013, 11:55:16 AM »

*** SHOW DOWN ***
zerofive: shows [ two spades] (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
cambridgealex: mucks
zerofive collected £1294 from side pot



btw WTF lol.
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« Reply #2368 on: April 30, 2013, 11:59:35 AM »

need JB ITT imo
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« Reply #2369 on: April 30, 2013, 12:00:50 PM »

need JB ITT imo

Almost posted it in his thread tbh
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