Hey guys,
Been putting in some more volume. Internet's now fixed so that's not an issue anymore. Put in 110 games today in 5 hours, -$194. AA < KK for t55k and the CL with 11 left. So it goes. The roll's growing, which is nice and I'm working on watching some DC vids and really starting to think about poker (more than 15bb's deep...weird, I know).
I finished "The Great Gatsby" the other day and didn't find it that great. Everyone raves on and on about it. I started "Slaughterhouse Five" which is supposed to be really good too but I don't really like Vonnegut's writing style. It's really casual and sometimes he just comes across as stupid, or, at the very least, overly simplistic. I actually have a pile of books I want to read but haven't. They include:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Mind Gym
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Ender's Game
There are some others but hopefully I'll get through some of those this summer.
It's sort of annoying having put in 570 games 1/3 of the way through the month and have -$200 to show for it but that's the nature of playing mainly 180s. I did 888 last month and had 2k prof. so you can see where I'm coming from. Just gotta keep grinding.
Reasons pointed me toward a thread (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/36/stt-strategy/account-hacked-529537/) about a guy who's been a regular in the STTF forum forever. Apparently he's a really nice guy, plays for a living, and got hacked on Stars for 14k. He has a wife and daughter, etc so obviously this is devastating for him. People on 2p2 usually piss me off (with super short, unhelpful responses like "ez call" or just by being dicks) but SSTF has been surprisingly good about this. Everyone has expressed their condolences and they're organizing a 10+10 tourney (where the 10 in rake goes to kevstreet, the guy who got hacked). I'll be playing in it, so will Reasons. If I can't make it, I'll ship him some money. I just can't imagine what it would be like to lose 14k, especially when it's money he relies on to support a family. Just brutal. Check out the thread and the tourney.
Gotta watch the end of Airforce one. Also, congrats to wbmustang on 10k prof. Nice work.
Later,
Yodaddy
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Getting Some Volume In
Hey guys,
I've been getting some good volume in recently. I think I've played ~350ish games in the first week of July so that's pretty solid. I've been mixing in more 12/45s and less 2/180s so there's more variance (higher buyin + lower absolute roi). I was kinda pussing out before because it's nice to just learn one game and not have to be super concerned about bubble factors but I'm on a stake, I get more rake this way, and like Manhat says, "30% of $12 > 100% of $2." We'll see if I'm 30%...my guess is that I'm more like 15-20% tho it's really hard to tell. The play in 12/45s is pretty bad but I'm significantly worse at them than I am at 180s.
Work with Shen has really started to pay off and my HH's have had less and less mistakes. I'm still making some, to be sure, but far less than I was initially. Now, if only the results would follow...I think I'm breakeven over the last 900 or so games which is sorta frustrating. I think downswings/BE stretches force people to respond in one of two ways: Group 1 gets motivated by a downswing and grinds harder (think Lipo's marathon sessions when down). Group 2 gets a bit disenchanted and takes it easy poker-wise. I think I'm definitely more a part of group 1, but I can't totally commit to grinding b/c I have other stuff going on.
It'd be nice if I had a two week+ period where I could just grind and see how many games I get in and how much $ I make. This may happen at the end of the summer, after my research/job is over.
On a different front, I've thought more and more about next summer and have realized that I at least want to check out banking/finance firms. I know it's a long way away but I have to basically start getting my stuff together in the fall and plan for the interviews and all that they entail. To that end, I think I'll take at least Probability (if not, another math class in addition) so I can market myself as a math major instead of a phil major. It's sort of weird in that the difference is one math class but on paper, which looks better to a prospective employer?:
Yodaddy
Good Uni
Major: Mathematics
GPA: 3.9
or
Yodaddy
Good Uni
Major: Phil
GPA: 4.0
I'm sure all of these firms would take the math guy with a much lower gpa (as low as 3.5 I'm guessing) any day. Even though I think philosophy can be v. rigorous, the public conception of it is that it's a lot of bs'ing and dicking around. So even though I'm not sure that I want to be a math guy, I'll stick with it for at least one more class to set myself up for the summer.
The economy has obv. hurt a lot of investment firms but they offer a ridic high percentage of interns full time positions upon graduation and the internship compensation is pretty nice (someone I know is getting 11k from a top firm). I'm not saying I'm committed to this route, just that I'd like to check it out and it's nice to know that if I do a good job and like it, I can probably land something nice. It'd also be interesting to see math applied in the real world. The further along I go in math, the weirder and less applied it seems to become. Linear Algebra was really like this and I've heard it becomes more so in other classes later on. It's pretty cool (although I'm not particularly good at this kind of math) and it really makes me feel like I understand a proof/problem when I finally get through with it. I think a lot of disciplines spoon-feed students answers/ways to go about problems but math is one of the few that bucks this trend. It's like:
Econ 101:
Set Marginal Cost = Marginal Benefit
Find equilibrium
Repeat as many times as professor wants
Often the student doesn't have to really understand what's going on to do this sort of calculation; he's just being told what to do and following the prescribed algorithm.
Having said all this, I don't want to ditch phil just because of how it would effect my job prospects/resume.
I read a quote the other day that said "Make sure that every step you take on the ladder of life is one you enjoy." It went on but the point was that if you follow this, you won't find yourself in a situation you don't like. But it seems sort of simplistic to say "Just do what you like, that's all that matters." I can think of loads of scenarios where I do something I don't want to do for something that I'll REALLY enjoy down the line (or, to put it in more economic terms, where Marginal Cost > Marginal Benefit for a while and then MB>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MC). It's a sort of complicated issue but I guess it can't be that wrong to just follow your interests.
Thoughts?
Thanks for reading,
Yodaddy
I've been getting some good volume in recently. I think I've played ~350ish games in the first week of July so that's pretty solid. I've been mixing in more 12/45s and less 2/180s so there's more variance (higher buyin + lower absolute roi). I was kinda pussing out before because it's nice to just learn one game and not have to be super concerned about bubble factors but I'm on a stake, I get more rake this way, and like Manhat says, "30% of $12 > 100% of $2." We'll see if I'm 30%...my guess is that I'm more like 15-20% tho it's really hard to tell. The play in 12/45s is pretty bad but I'm significantly worse at them than I am at 180s.
Work with Shen has really started to pay off and my HH's have had less and less mistakes. I'm still making some, to be sure, but far less than I was initially. Now, if only the results would follow...I think I'm breakeven over the last 900 or so games which is sorta frustrating. I think downswings/BE stretches force people to respond in one of two ways: Group 1 gets motivated by a downswing and grinds harder (think Lipo's marathon sessions when down). Group 2 gets a bit disenchanted and takes it easy poker-wise. I think I'm definitely more a part of group 1, but I can't totally commit to grinding b/c I have other stuff going on.
It'd be nice if I had a two week+ period where I could just grind and see how many games I get in and how much $ I make. This may happen at the end of the summer, after my research/job is over.
On a different front, I've thought more and more about next summer and have realized that I at least want to check out banking/finance firms. I know it's a long way away but I have to basically start getting my stuff together in the fall and plan for the interviews and all that they entail. To that end, I think I'll take at least Probability (if not, another math class in addition) so I can market myself as a math major instead of a phil major. It's sort of weird in that the difference is one math class but on paper, which looks better to a prospective employer?:
Yodaddy
Good Uni
Major: Mathematics
GPA: 3.9
or
Yodaddy
Good Uni
Major: Phil
GPA: 4.0
I'm sure all of these firms would take the math guy with a much lower gpa (as low as 3.5 I'm guessing) any day. Even though I think philosophy can be v. rigorous, the public conception of it is that it's a lot of bs'ing and dicking around. So even though I'm not sure that I want to be a math guy, I'll stick with it for at least one more class to set myself up for the summer.
The economy has obv. hurt a lot of investment firms but they offer a ridic high percentage of interns full time positions upon graduation and the internship compensation is pretty nice (someone I know is getting 11k from a top firm). I'm not saying I'm committed to this route, just that I'd like to check it out and it's nice to know that if I do a good job and like it, I can probably land something nice. It'd also be interesting to see math applied in the real world. The further along I go in math, the weirder and less applied it seems to become. Linear Algebra was really like this and I've heard it becomes more so in other classes later on. It's pretty cool (although I'm not particularly good at this kind of math) and it really makes me feel like I understand a proof/problem when I finally get through with it. I think a lot of disciplines spoon-feed students answers/ways to go about problems but math is one of the few that bucks this trend. It's like:
Econ 101:
Set Marginal Cost = Marginal Benefit
Find equilibrium
Repeat as many times as professor wants
Often the student doesn't have to really understand what's going on to do this sort of calculation; he's just being told what to do and following the prescribed algorithm.
Having said all this, I don't want to ditch phil just because of how it would effect my job prospects/resume.
I read a quote the other day that said "Make sure that every step you take on the ladder of life is one you enjoy." It went on but the point was that if you follow this, you won't find yourself in a situation you don't like. But it seems sort of simplistic to say "Just do what you like, that's all that matters." I can think of loads of scenarios where I do something I don't want to do for something that I'll REALLY enjoy down the line (or, to put it in more economic terms, where Marginal Cost > Marginal Benefit for a while and then MB>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MC). It's a sort of complicated issue but I guess it can't be that wrong to just follow your interests.
Thoughts?
Thanks for reading,
Yodaddy
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Getting Better
Hey guys,
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been pretty busy between math research, my shitty job, and playing. I'm getting pretty comfortable with my 180 game and FT stuff. Here's my July:
Yodaddy379 888 $2.39 $8 39% $2,118 Super Tilt N/A PokerStars <1Mths SNG Only
Not bad, especially considering that I've been playing mainly 2s and 12s. I've been posting my HH's with Mentors and getting some help from Shen which has been really helpful. 2k's not a bad month so hopefully I can get some good volume in in July.
July Goals:
1) Play mainly 180s.
2) Keep posting HH's
3) Get sessions with Vers/Shen
4) Get over 1k games
4 shouldn't be hard it's just that I have a bunch of other shit going on. In other new, I've finally set up my 30" monitor/PC/scripts and it's so convenient. Debustifier is great and I have yet to set up my HUD / SFSO but I've been able to 16-18 table (occassionally getting up to 20-tabling) which has been pretty nice. Instead of tiling, I've been using 4 stacks (a custom setup) and it's worked well. It's nice not to squint to see stack sizes/player names and the script makes sure I never sit out so that's not an issue (it was before).
In other news, I'm somewhat excited for the fall. I may not take any more math (maybe just probability). There are some cool phil classes. One of them is "Measuring Value" and it's basically decision theory applied to ethics. It's a grad-level class so we'll see how much work that is but the professor's good so it should be interesting. The other phil class I really want to get into is called Rational Belief. It's about when we can believe certain things and when we can't. Here's an interesting question:
Is it reasonable for two perfectly rational people, given the same information about a topic, to hold different beliefs about it?
I'm taking a few easy classes too so it shouldn't be a super tough semester like this past spring.
Anyway, Wimbledon's on and Roddick's at 3-3 in the fifth with Hewitt.
Gl,
Yodaddy
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been pretty busy between math research, my shitty job, and playing. I'm getting pretty comfortable with my 180 game and FT stuff. Here's my July:
Yodaddy379 888 $2.39 $8 39% $2,118 Super Tilt N/A PokerStars <1Mths SNG Only
Not bad, especially considering that I've been playing mainly 2s and 12s. I've been posting my HH's with Mentors and getting some help from Shen which has been really helpful. 2k's not a bad month so hopefully I can get some good volume in in July.
July Goals:
1) Play mainly 180s.
2) Keep posting HH's
3) Get sessions with Vers/Shen
4) Get over 1k games
4 shouldn't be hard it's just that I have a bunch of other shit going on. In other new, I've finally set up my 30" monitor/PC/scripts and it's so convenient. Debustifier is great and I have yet to set up my HUD / SFSO but I've been able to 16-18 table (occassionally getting up to 20-tabling) which has been pretty nice. Instead of tiling, I've been using 4 stacks (a custom setup) and it's worked well. It's nice not to squint to see stack sizes/player names and the script makes sure I never sit out so that's not an issue (it was before).
In other news, I'm somewhat excited for the fall. I may not take any more math (maybe just probability). There are some cool phil classes. One of them is "Measuring Value" and it's basically decision theory applied to ethics. It's a grad-level class so we'll see how much work that is but the professor's good so it should be interesting. The other phil class I really want to get into is called Rational Belief. It's about when we can believe certain things and when we can't. Here's an interesting question:
Is it reasonable for two perfectly rational people, given the same information about a topic, to hold different beliefs about it?
I'm taking a few easy classes too so it shouldn't be a super tough semester like this past spring.
Anyway, Wimbledon's on and Roddick's at 3-3 in the fifth with Hewitt.
Gl,
Yodaddy
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