Pls yell me you didn't brag about an hourly rate over one trip? It's perfectly acceptable to brag about an amount won on a trip, since running good always makes a trip fun, but actually calculating your hrly for 1 trip playing live poker and thinking it is indicative of anything is pretty lol.

Ok that post looks a lot more dickish than I intended, but I am too lazy to think of a more polite way to put it. Anyway I apologize.

lolz. It was pretty clear to me he was just reporting his runhot and not calculating a winrate qua winrate vis-a-vis his expectation in that game per se.

you're supposed to just say "What I have written here is rather complex and may take some time to process, but I am confident that upon further reflection you will see that it is correct." at the end of your post and it's automatically non-dickish and hilarious

Maybe he only played one hour in the 100 game...

yeah pretty clear to me too but I think there's an enchantment over the LC thread that makes posters unaware of the level of other posters.

Q: What did the Vikings have for dessert today?

I played only 30 minutes in the 100 vs. a lineup of BugStud, a guy who looked kind of familiar in a Newhizzle way, an asian woman I know is a decent player, an asian kid named Eric who kind of like Doug Kim, and two unknowns. I won $540 despite missing an obvious turn value bet to try for a stupid check-raise, and butchering two blind confrontations with BugStud. So clearly against a softer lineup and bringing my A game in the future should only increase that $1080 per hour rate.

As far as my weekend, I'm sure 35 hours is tremendously statistically valid. I would either win 2 racks in a down, or lose 3 over a few hours and then stay many hours to get back near even, out of those 35 hours most were spent down. I did set a personal record by getting stuck 3 racks (my entire weekend win on the table) in the 60 in an eyeblink, then battled back to a small win about 6 hours later. I left my A game in Arizona and at times tilted and played down to my D game level in some crazy games.

I've been told I need 500 hours at midstakes to estimate my real win rate with any accuracy, and I'm now there, so I'll be doing the math shortly.

I will say the Commerce is an amazing mess. It's incredible to have eight 80 games, a 60, a 100, and a 400 to pick from at once. The food was very good, the service spotty. The dealer abuse abhorrent. The crazy gamblers wonderfully frustrating. The beautiful asian woman were, er, beautifully indifferent to my charm.

And for the highlight of the weekend I met the legendary Mike l., which was like meeting Mickey Mantle, Abraham Lincoln, and Angelina Jolie all at once...

yea and i agreed with you. unless when you said unbelievable you meant unbelievably bad?

OK, 495 hours of midstakes (about half 40, half 20 with a smidge of 60+) says that I have a 95% confidence level in being a reasonable live winner. I'm doing it on a session basis, not sure how that affects accuracy.

hmm.

-Desertcat

session by session is fine. you just have to use a different formula to calculate standard deviation. you can probably find it in every 10th brucez post. but you are probably getting one of those charting programs to do the leg work for you.


also if i had known you were at commerce i would have sought out to hassle you for my $15k-$20k of losses on NICK. still a big part of my portfolio (i think you are out of it now though yea?) and has been a part since 07 i think when you first recommended it.

without a doubt you have cost me more money than anyone on this forum by far, but i still count you as one of the more valuable posters since i ain't results oriented like that...

Please come to Garden City and save the 20/40 game. If it breaks I will actually cry.

decided that oceans 11 hadnt made me rich enough yet so i didnt go to commerce. in their infinite wisdom they decided that spreading 1/2 would be a bad idea after about 6 weeks bc it would break the plyrs (considering how much i won they were probably right) but the last 2 weeks theyve spread a 50 (with $25 chips lol) that started saturday "morning" (ie friday night but like 1-2am saturday in reality) so i played 40 all week then that and about 6 hrs of my 22 hr 50 session was 5 handed everyone overs so 1/2 with miniblinds basically. anyway hand of the day altho not super interesting i enjoyed it:

7 handed no overs 50. utg+1 raise mp cc i call bb AsTc, flop 872 two spade we both call pfr bet. turn 5s we both call. riv 3o check to initial coldcaller who bets, in about .01 seconds i weigh the pros of calling vs raising and decide to raise, pfr gets the "i thought nobody had anything and we were going to check it down and i was going to win" look on his face then folds, coldcaller 3bets, i call, he has KJ hi i win.

i could post more hands but theyd all be bad beats like 5000 flopped sets no good including one that made me want to rip my cards in half and put them down the drop box. obv i won somehow but winning 5 bets when you were up 80+ bets 15 hrs into the session is not really that fun and in fact sorta frustrating esp when the session started at 9am after waking up at 730am and having gone to sleep at 530am bc you played until 430 am the day before ie 4.5 hr gap between 12 hr and 22 hr sess

im at commerce now for LAPC, any of you commerce regs want to take pity on a poor tourist and teach me the ways of this crazy place?

Drum roll....

Quit job moving to LA see you all in 3 weeks peace out

Haven't sold a share except for some minor amount when I needed cash a year ago. I have about 20% of my net worth in it.

clearly you should have bought lower

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NICK

fyp

Hallelujah, he's alive, Jeses has risen from the dead!

I see my hourly increasing already. Good luck bro, don't forget to practice your card throwing, new setup requests and slowrolls for the next 3 weeks. You don't want to look like a newb.

I think I'm at long last getting the hang of limit hold'em.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 Limit Hold'em - 4 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Pre Flop: (1.5 SB) Hero is CO with Q J
Hero raises, 2 folds, BB calls

Flop: (4.5 SB) T 6 9 (2 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB calls

Turn: (4.25 BB) 6 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls

River: (6.25 BB) 5 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Final Pot: 6.25 BB
Hero shows Q J (a pair of Sixes)
BB mucks 2 7
Hero wins 5.95 BB
(Rake: $0.30)

+1 having more people in LA to possibly hang with

I hope you like lasertag, bowling, and UFC. If not, just GTFO imo.

i ordered a new laptop online last night. ill really miss my old one, i liked it a lot. im sorry old computer, i didnt want to have to murder you but i really didnt want to play poker on that ill fated night and once i was stuck so much so fast someone just had to die, and i think it was better you than me. thank you for sacrificing yourself so that i could live on.

I'm thinking of getting the alienware m17x laptop

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5234

I actually bought more at the bottom last year. But over-all doesn't matter much. I'm probably never going to sell my shares, and have owned some for over 5 years. Every year this company gets more valuable, despite what the stock market would have you think.