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Right guys, think a real effort to book up for Dublin needs to be made. Hotels etc will just keep getting more expensive, even if just 5 of us book at the start, at least we have a place for the others to book at later .

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Winning Poker Players

04Aug09

Pinched from somewhere.

Winning poker professionals all have a few characteristics in common—other than being 100% winners. Despite being described as tight aggressive players—the truth is that winning poker professionals rather display mastery over certain aspects of their craft—and always adapt this knowledge to suit the environment they’re playing in.
Professional poker players make sure they master four indispensable aspects of their craft; math skills, discipline, psychological skills, and absolute clarity on the risk vs. reward aspect of all poker games.

Math skills
Not something the general populace is often expert at, basic math skills, and sometimes an innovative mathematical ability seem to occur across the board with professional winning poker players. They understand percentages, statistics, ratios, and probabilities to a large extent better than non-players. These skills contribute to poker players making the best use of their cards, the hands dealt to them during the course of the game.

Math skills are the most basic requirement for a poker player—without them it is no use even trying to learn the game.

Discipline
Discipline isn’t a trait unique to poker professionals; winners of all walks are disciplined in their thoughts and actions. For poker players, they must discipline their thoughts of losing, as well as act like winners at all times. For poker players, the old saying that success breeds success rings true as only thoughts of winning and disciplined practice will keep poker players on the straight and narrow to winning.

Further disciplined players know how to adapt their skills—they are not rigid rule followers but rather thinking players for whom it is more important to be flexible and adaptive than stuck in their ways.

Discipline for a players means knowing when to quit and not getting caught up in chasing an elusive buck. Winners never follow blind trails—nor do they think they’re perfect. Every poker player worth his or her salt knows that a mistake lies in wait somewhere.

Psychological Skills
Psychological skills are probably the hardest to master after self-discipline. Sometimes it’s far easier to influence yourself, than influence others.

Much of poker opponent psychology rests in a players’ ability to empathize—put themselves in the other payer’s shoes. Only then can the player ever hope to predict opponents’ moves. Some poker games rest on mathematics, others rest on nothing but one player pitted against another in a battle of wills and minds.

Clarity on the risk vs. reward in poker
It is at this juncture that many novice players lose the plot—it’s no use learning the game—knowing your opponents inside out and having Einsteinian mathematics skills—if you don’t understand how risks and rewards balance out at this game.

Winning poker players are willing to take a risk if the reward is worthwhile, and only if the reward outweighs the risk. They also make sure that they’re not robbing Peter to pay Paul. Only rank amateurs even think of using the rent money to up the ante. In general, good poker players prefer to not take huge risks; most ‘all in’ calls are reserved for the movies. It is, however, a poker players rule that if he can’t afford to lose his entire bankroll—he shouldn’t be playing at all.

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Florence and the Machine- You’ve got the Love

03Aug09

Can’t find a official video, so we’ll have to make do with this:

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Happy Birthday Retardla.

01Aug09

As title states, happy birthday.
Have a good night at PowerHouse.

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Buzz’s DTD Trip

01Aug09

sat 200 on 1.2 and worked up to 350 until this hand

i look down at AA on cut off, pop it to 9, button calls, big blind calls, both have me coverd, flop Q103. i fire 24 and both call. turn 2. i fire 100 happy to end it now, button passes, big blind tanks and ships, i snap call knowing im good, 8 on the river, and insta flips q8 for riverd two pair, a nice 750 pound pot an hour into the trip.

let off a bit of steam on 50.1 with a few flush draws hitting against me i find myself at 400 down for the trip.

move back over to 1.2 with the last remaining 200 in my wallat and flopping the nut straight with 2 dimonds on board, 1 player calling down to the river, i check river and he puts me in, instinct told me he didnt have the flush draw and i grew the balls went with my read and my straight was good, got me out of the hole a little bit woohooo!!!!!!

won 120 pound playing 1 card up one card down poker aswel so got myself just about out the hole i was in!!!!just baught into the 300 game aswel feeling a lot better about myself than i did an hour ago.#]

dom also got himself out of a 500 pound hole after hitting two full houses in a rowand doubling up both times and hit n waddled away straight after like an absolute douche bag nob cheese and out of his very large hole aswel!!!

all in all a horrible night but finished on a high!!

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