How to shottake

One of my favorite parts of poker and super fun/exciting especially if it's your first time at a stake.

My tip would be - Reduce the table count a bit and label label label the regs!

Anyone else have tips?


Bonus - best experiences with lsd?

Don't overthink it. Change it to bb view instead of $ if you can

don't overadjust. i think a lot of people move up and expect the new regs to be crazy aggro megamasters but, really, they're mostly nits still guilty of the usual mistakes.

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Might just be me but I play a bit more conservative than I normally do and will pass up high variance spots until I get comfortable at the new stake. Puts my mindset at ease.

Last time I used LSD was start of the year. I took 150ug alone during the day and listened to Pink Floyd-Is There Anybody Out There? The Live Album. Holy **** was that a trippey experience.

I remember the Ravens beat the Titans in the playoffs thst day. And I watched Lamar get interviewed on mute and he had had one of those gaiters they call them, it's one of those full head and face masks but with a big round opening for your eyes nose and mouth. And his lips were moving so fast and I remember thinking he looked like a damn teletubby.

Thats also the day I decided to stop binge watching true crime shows. Watching it on acid made me realize how sad and depressing these shows are and how the producers do everything they can to manipulate your emotions like the ominous droning music and interviewing grieving family members while they cry a river.

Also those shows like Drugs Inc and To Catch a Smuggler are all staged. It's quite obvious when tripping that its all fake. I still have about 100ug of that stuff plus around a quarter of mushrooms. Unfortunately if I were to trip I would want to do it completely alone and isolated from society and right now that is practically impossible with my lifestyle. One of these days.

In my LHE days, my goal was to continue playing the same style that had made me a winner at the previous stakes. And ya, over respecting the new regs is a common mistake. I always hated it when big winners at lower stakes moved up to my stakes since tbh there wasn't that much of a difference in difficulty. The decrease in rake fully compensated for the skill difference. So I just had to hope that they ran bad or self-destructed. The latter happened a lot.

It's important to understand that there are 2000nl games going on around the world that have more than one rec at the table. Many of us could profit nicely if we played in that game even though most of us play 10-200nl. The mid-high regs really don't want us to figure this out.

As I get older, the more I feel that inviting negativity and drama into my life is incredibly silly. We all have joint replacements, cancer, dementia, heart attacks, etc. waiting for us in due time. I am enjoying depressing shows, movies, and music way less than I used to. I am trying to finish the German Netflix series "Dark" which is excellent from an artistic perspective, but just a massive downer episode after episode. So I am really looking forward to Cobra Kai coming back next month where things are much more simple lol.

haha that's a good story, I did 200ug and just lied down in a field with my friends for 6 hours

I was watching highlights of Weazel1991's bankroll challenge. He's currently playing 10nl blitz on ACR, and some of the things people are doing make me wonder if the games on ACR are better now.

There was a hand in his latest highlights video

135BB eff. He opens UTG with AKs to 2.5bb, CO makes it 9bb, BB flats and he ships it.

CO calls with T7o and BB calls with T5o

Seconding this. Just stick to what you know and adjust naturally. It's still the same game.

I also table select aggressively. If you are used to 4 tabling 200nl you can probably find at least 1 500nl table that is as soft or softer than your usual 200nl games.

I've never done acid. We did shrooms a few times in college and it was fun. My brother in law goes to a lot of jam band concerts like phish and they candy flip. MDMA and acid. COVID has hit his supply chain a bit but I may do some acid with him at some point in the near future.

ACR was always pretty soft... it's just 10z. For sure ignition is softer but the games even at 200z were quite good.

That being said I think it was friends of stream just punting into him

I agree. I mostly just watch sports these days and keep things light. I do appreciate a movie or show that can pull off a dark and creepy atmosphere well. No Country For Old Men is one of my all time favorites.

Yeah I’ve said this before but I’m less interested in dark/violent things than I used to be. Squid game pushed it over the edge for me.

That said, I watched The White Ribbon last weekend and it was incredible, and I also recently read and loved blood meridian, which is very dark/violent

ok my picks last time were a bust, but I'm still gonna carry on:

POTD: Purdue -11. kenpom says Purdue -9, but kenpom doesn't factor in injuries, and a ton of FSU is injured

EV line is out of the red in 100nl! Next stop, the moon!

Nice, congrats!

The EV line can't pay my bills.

I haven't done LSD in something like 40 years. I kind of miss it.

you haven't progressed enough

Never too old to free your mind. I do prefer a psilocybin trip though. Doesn't last as long and way more introspective.

I’ve never done psychedelics but my girlfriend did shrooms the other weekend while camping and had a great time. Planning on doing it with her soon

they are deeply misunderstood due to lazy portrayals in media

a general rule of thumb is that you're in the driver's seat and can shape the experience into how you want it - ie unless on a mega dose (not recommended) you won't get much visuals randomly unless you are "looking for them" ie this is why tie dye and psychedelic posters were so popular because people wanted flowy things that could be easily stared at and manipulated

visuals are mostly of the kind of where things flow like liquid but maintain form - ie the couch is moving like waves or electric pulses running across it not actually morphing into a dragon and flying away like shown in film

i've once seen musical notes flow across a bar on lsd once but that was about it for the truly abstract stuff commonly portrayed

because you're in the driver's seat, the quality of the experience is wholly up to your current mental state and surroundings - if you're stressed out and/or around people you don't like the experience will suck

so make sure you're in a good head space and surrounded by people you'd sleep next to in the same room with your money clip on the counter

also, take just a little bit your first time and wait, if you're still feeling good after an hour feel free to step it up a little but honestly it's preferable to just take small doses first couple times so you're accustomed to the experience before it gets too big

camping/being remote is ideal - it's a far better experience if you're outdoors but it's really awful being around regular people when you're tripping hence why it'll be more pleasant if you don't need to interact with other people who aren't on the same plane as yourself - this isn't necessarily true with lsd, which is a far less introspective and far more social trip

i could go to a bar or party on lsd and most likely enjoy the experience, if i were on shrooms it'd be pretty miserable unless everyone at the party were on it as well

standard phases are:

1. prep - make sure everything is settled and you won't have to do anything for many hours
2. take it
3. wondering why it's not working, worrying you got a bad batch or need more
4. am i tripping? nope
5. still don't think you're tripping but everything is now much funnier - you and your friends will likely be giggling non stop at the drop of a hat
6. visuals start kicking in
7. mix of social/introspective
8. visuals start fading
9. deep introspective period where you'll find yourself analyzing all things from why the manner you tie your shoes is not optimal to realizing you love your girlfriend or you're too old to have roomates, etc etc - these are sometimes trivial but often you'll agree with the realization the next day
10. come down - don't feel so great - best capped off with some weed and sleep

smoking pot along the way tends to help but i'd avoid alcohol since your judgment is already pretty off

lsd is much more clear, you feel sober whereas with shrooms you're very visibly impaired as it's literally poison coursing through your body much like alcohol

i prefer shrooms but lsd also a 10/10

I like a nice glass of wine.

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nice bump

It definitely feels like a bygone era of 2+2 when posts like that were more frequent. On the Scandinavian poker side of things, one time I was in Vegas (I think around 2010 or 11) playin an early morning session at the Aria. It was 1/3 with several drunk Scandinavians jet lagged and fresh off the plane. Many pots were $6 straddle, $15 blind raise, $30 blind raise. I was down like 3-buyins at one point, then I shoved $300 OTB with KJo, got called by both blind raisers, board ran out A-high no pair for me... and I won. Greatest table I was ever at.

There was some low stakes pro in the game who was constantly complaining whenever they slipped up and spoke in their native tongue. I wanted to throw him out myself. At one point though the craziest of the crazies bet big on the turn into him. He tanked for a long time. Finally one of the others called the clock on him and he eventually folded the NFD face up and king crazy showed bottom pair. Douchey pro threw a fit about the clock call and bitched that if he shoved he could have gotten a fold. The rest of the table erupted with laughter at the mere mention of it.