I figured out that what was poorly designed was the brain power of the installer. The box that my house was* connected to stood in the shade in the southeast corner of my lot. The brain-deficient installer put the cable across the yard to install the splitter on the southwest corner of the house, where it gets the direct sunlight during the hottest part of the day. I had a family emergency where I had to make flight reservations one day. Having no internet or phone, I MacGyvered an ice pack over the box and duct taped it to the wall. Viola**! Instant internet.

Comcast has since told me that my new dwelling's address does not exist. If I didn't know better I might have agreed with the poor schmuck***. Then they told me that the service has been installed. I finally got a service guy out today who told me that the tag in their box says that service to that particular location has been disconnected since 2011. (****)

* Past tense. I recently sold the house. Not because of Comcast though.

** It tilts the **** out of me when people spell this as Wallah, which in Arabic means "I promise by God," or Marathi and Hindustani for " Indian surname or suffix indicating a person involved in some kind of activity, where they hail from or what they wear."

*** Yes, I used this correctly.

(****) Not an objectionable word; just four asterisks.

very solid post ^

i must however add that

viola = musical instrument

voila = exclamation of 'look at this!'

^. Yeah, it tilts the **** out of me when people get those two confused.

First time at Bellagio. Playing $10/20.

Very first hand post BB get 99. UTG open, BTN cold calls, I call.
Flop 855. I check, UTG bets, BTN folds, I X/R, UTG 3B I call.
Turn Ko. I X/C.
River To. I check he checks and rolls QTo.

Edit: also random NL player gets pulled aside and gets a stern talking to by the floor and encouraged to not engage the other player trolling him.

2 hours later seat 2 gets a bad beat(?) when river completes flop flush draw but seat 1 wins with 64o when hits his flopped OESD. Seat two rips his cards in frustration and we have to wait for a set up.

Down about 8 BB's.

Pretty standard IMO, right?

Pretty much except you should be down a little more, amirite?

and viola is also an old name for a woman here in Denmark at least. funny (like what they called our grand grand grandmother)

+1

Ya got me. Finished down 15BBs.

On the bright side got to play 6-7 handed like two thirds of the time.

Oh, we believed you when you said 8BB. It was just a good game like that always gets you crushed.

Huh? No I didn't think you didn't believe me. I was just laughing saying y'all death-switched me and I lost more during the session.

Today got carded by the floor person and presumably got berated (under his breath) by Sam Barnhart. Well worth the 1BB loss for the session.

New Goal....Book a losing session and feel okay about it.

I have a hard time accepting defeat and will go on a 6hr session just to breakeven.

Not worth it imo when I'm only playing micro stakes lol


...Book a losing session and be contempt I didn't go busto like I would have playing bigbet games

fyp

You need to stop being invested in session results and care about how you played. Figure this out and then tell me how.

advice, start your hm/pt - proceed to play - after session ended you close the pt/hem while closing all your tables. - after that you simply get up from the chair and go do what you need to in life. come back later rinse repeat.

BigBadBabar convinced me to put HUD over $ amounts on the table and to use auto rebuy to keep going. On Bodog some sort of tiltblocker to cover $?

Agreed. Most helpful setting I've used to improve my play.

On bovada, so not sure if tiltblocker works on that site

but...

I can put some duct tape on my monitor!

Relevant imo:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/35...0-post-149007/

Losing with a smile on your face is an acquired skill.

Also relevant: special thanks to Howard Beale:

The most important takeaway from this post is this imo:

I make it a point to always say "nh" in the chatbox when I lose a big pot. This one thing has helped me to deal with the beats more than any other thing. At first, I would cringe as I typed. Now, years later, I'm still saying nice hand and although I may still get frustrated at times, it helps me to remember that it's just a game. There are much worse things that could happen than losing money.

A half court shot at the buzzer may be quite lucky, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't say "good game." Being a good sport may be tough at first, but the more you exercise this part of your brain, the better it works.

Looking back on childhood, I remember catching a whole baseball game that ended with us losing to a walk off home run. I worked so hard that whole game only to have my hopes crushed by one swing of the bat. Being the catcher, I was first in line to shake hands with the opposing team. We lined up, shook hands, and that was that. I went home and exploded into tears in my pillow. The lesson was an important one that I still think of sometimes when my hard work goes without reward.

Poker is no different. You can work really hard on your game and execute perfectly on the felt only to have the cards fall in your opponent's favor. Getting past this hurdle is quite important to your development as a player.

solid post Bob!..will have to add that thread to my list of must-reads

I'm not sure I would agree with the biggest winner point... kind of an interesting claim

It's basically true if the standard deviations are large relative to the difference between the averages of the winners and losers.

Just for intuition, you know that if you take two draws from a standard bell-shaped distribution, you expect one of those draws to be higher than the mean. So the highest winner is usually going to come out higher than the expected mean. And as you increase the number of draws, your expected highest value only gets larger. So if you have lots of losers and only a few winners, it's likely that the volume of losers will drive the average "biggest win" larger than "biggest win" among the winners.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/35...cement249.html

I was wondering who wrote all that, i.e. did Mason write about himself in the third person? Who writes that stuff about books before they're published?

Bovada was nice enough to give me a free $10 so I played my first LHE in over a year.... It was quite fun.

How much did you lose???

just enough to entice me to maybe deposit so I can move up to where they respect my raises