Degenerate Diaries: The Chronicles Pt. 2

[tight4better]

The fuck were you tonight? Games were incred at gala.

[corkeye]

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

From eating protein based muffins?

no, dentist

From eating dentists?

[zerofive]

Can mods please unban Herbie. Nobody else reads this diary

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.

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.

[zerofive]

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?

[kinboshi]

Rasta seems pretty happy a lot of the time.

[rfgqqabc]

What are results? All about the performance and level of play

[tight4better]

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.

[PeeJay]

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

Thanks, Paul.

[tight4better]

Lurker ITT

[zerofive]

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

Thanks, Paul.

As it happens yes I did. Almost as interesting as a hand I once played with your housemate's housemate PeeJay.

[Mitch]

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

Thanks, Paul.

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

Sounds like it could be a fun HH?!

[zerofive]

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 [ ]
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 *** [ ]
cambridgealex: bets £100
zerofive: raises £547 to £647 and is all-in
cambridgealex: calls £547
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] [] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
zerofive: shows [ ] (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

[tight4better]

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

btw WTF lol.

[TL900]

need JB ITT imo

[zerofive]

need JB ITT imo

Almost posted it in his thread tbh