the money that goes to backers is taxed as their income, not yours.

It's weird that casinos now give out those forms for tournament winnings... however dealing with my CPA he specifically said that staking deals are part of your gambling wins/losses... so you do not have to take care of the entire tax burden. Just make sure you CYA and have documents/brief paragraph that you both sign so that you can prove it in an audit.

just got this laptop for heads up on the road..thoughts or things to amend?

ThinkPad W700 - 1 Yr Depot Warranty

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Display type: 17" WUXGA 400NIT TFT 1
System Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M 128-core CUDA parallel computing processor 1GB (dedicated) 1
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Keyboard: Keyboard US English 1
Pointing Device: Ultranav + Fingerprint Reader + Pantone Color Sensor + WACOM Digitizer 1
Camera: 1.3 Megapixel Integrated Camera 1
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System expansion slots : Express Card(54mm) + Express Card(34mm) 1
Bluetooth: Integrated Bluetooth PAN 1
Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapters : Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 (AGN) with My WiFi Technology 1
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pfunk .... is this a standard plo cooler ... i know its 6 buy ins each .... or is this avoidable with QQQ?

I think the c/r with the set of queens on that turn is pretty bad.

cut it into a 13" and you'll have something transportable because as it is it prolly weighs 20lb

does upgrading processor, hard drive, ram, etc add to weight? i was under the impression the weight didnt change..thinkpad's arent that light, but i mean they arent complete monsters and i do want to play poker.

Weird, I don't even know you but you seem to know what stakes I play?

Maybe you can explain what game flow is? It's usually something bad players use when they don't know how to actually play a range in a situation.


Fine, don't use them.. What do I care. I extract a very small % of my income from making 2 videos a month or w/e (and haven't made more than 2 videos in the last 3 months)..

Isn't gameflow completely tied in with ranges anyway? I'm confused as to the debate kinda.

Like when gameflow = this dude just lost 2 big pots to suckouts = he's tilting and his ranges have changed. And then when gameflow = this guy just stacked me and suddenly seems to be locking it down and nitting it up = his ranges have changed.

I mean maybe I'm totally lost, I just feel like ranges and "gameflow" are not mutually exclusive or anything, to me I always think of gameflow as just an intrinsic part of determining ranges. (especially HU where winning/losing a couple of big pots often does change someone's behaviour much more than it does at 6max).

what training site do you coach for? whats your handle?

p.s. I've always really liked Isura's strategy thoughts precisely because I feel like his read on people's ranges is very good, and I think training sites are definitely getting worse and worse but Isura isn't part of that degradation. Been a while since he has made many vids but I remember thinking they were quite good and I think slamming him is pretty silly here.

edit for hobokes, he makes vids for Leggo as Isura

is pokertableratings almost 100% accurate? my HHs werent getting saved for a little while after i wiped my comp and i was thinking about using that to track winnings.

pokertableratings isn't even 50% accurate.

id like to think im aggro enough that its just a cooler. its prob close though and some things he maybe could have done differently.

stars will provide you with any hand you ask for

ft I think does a decent job with this as well

just email support and say "i need my hand histories from date x to date y"

i agree

You assign hand ranges based on all available information you have. Game flow is one of those pieces of information.

80% accurate for me
think it's only missing about 40k/175k hands for me

lololol

i mostly play on ftp because 1) i am part of 'full tilt/superpoker brazilian team' and 2) i don't know other good sites.

ipoker and partypoker are good sites? do you know any other euro site? i heard small sites are bad because sometimes they broke and you lost your whole bankroll! some friends who used to play in this sites tell me that...

would be nice if you help me saying what site is good to play. you already said 2 and i apreciate that, thanks bud, but do you know any other site? thanks.

isn't a cooler. villain overplayed a ton his hand. he should c/c turn...

btw nh thatpunk. also, if you don't mind, whats your sn on ftp?

i assume i was kinda rude saying 'lol, thats why you still play 1/2'. sorry about that mate! i was tilted after losing two 700bbs pots in 3minutes vs the same guy.

btw you don't know me because i am nobody at poker world and i know you and what stakes you usually play because you are 'famous' at 2p2. i remember when i used to play freerolls/play money and i used to read 2p2 and i remember you posting here. =p

thanks for the reply

i cant imagine calling that a std cooler on a KQ42r board where 550bb go in.

party, ipoker, ongame, and maybe everest...if not amercian, you'd get by far the best heads up games at those 4 sites compared to the american sites

any betfair regs on here?

never watched any of his vids or played him ( i dont think ), I guess I am just quick to slam training sites any time that I see to be a good shot at doing it. Also I agree with your previous post about gameflow/handranges. I guess the definition of game flow hasn't been and never will be clearly defined. Just for some reason to me everytime I hear something like "it's all about hand ranges" or " gameflow is something made up by bad players to justify -EV plays" it just makes me imagine the person saying these things as a robotic player who nerds out on pokerstove and has no understanding of all the psychological aspects of a HUNL match. But yeah possibly isura and I just have different definitions for these terms and he actually does incorpate my version of gameflow in his " its all about hand ranges" type of style.