I like "telecommuting" on Fridays, especially when it's raining and 2 o'clock and I haven't put on pants yet.
Many thanks to everyone who made it over to Kickered thus far. You folks rock.
I think I may take a bit of a poker break for a week or so, at least from ring games, likely just playing some MTTs and what-not for kicks and grins. Yesterday was a pretty ugly poker day, and I found myself much more tilty and pissed than I like. I don't like losing money, true, but even more than that I just don't like losing. At anything. At all.
I also need to get back to the grindstone, as far as other Webby endeavors I've let slide lately. I also need to motivate and start bombarding and and all contacts I can find at poker sites about potentially doing some freelance/permanent work providing content, helping affiliates optimize sites/set up blogs from a SEO perspective, and other stuffs. Doesn't take too many gigs like that to add up to a reasonable replacement for working in Cubelandia, and there's no reason not to start knocking on doors and see what happens.
In completely unrelated news, someone sent me a link to Zillow.com, which apparently just launched and is pretty cool, if you're into seeing the value of your home/neighborhood/city, but overlaid onto satellite imagery. Likely more of a fun toy than accurate data source but still pretty cool to play with.
I've been reading fiction again, mainly Philip K. Dick books, so far A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Pretty dang impressed so far, and I'm still not sure how it took me this long to get around to reading some of his stuff, as I was pretty big into sci-fi stuff back in the day.
Time to get back to continuing to not put on pants.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Yet Another Gotdamn Poker Forum
Yeah, I know. The last thing the world needs is another damn poker forum. But damnit, that's exactly what it's about to get.
Here's the link, for anyone interested:
Kickered.com: Yet Another Gotdamn Poker Forum
One thing to keep in mind that it's currently in the beta-ist of beta stages right now. Not much there. At all. So if you pop in and it looks like a ghost town, well, it is a ghost town at the moment, as it just opened for business yesterday.
As far as the ultimate goal, well, there is none. My hope is that it'll be a place for people serious about poker to, umm, discuss poker. Without all of the spam and pissing contests and other crap that populates other forums. I wouldn't call it a "private" forum exactly, but the goal isn't to have 172,182,182 members and to splash affiliate banners everywhere.
How will it be different than other existing poker forums? Umm, well, it really won't, at least in format. The key difference (hopefully), is that it'll be populated by all of you smart, savvy poker players. Which will mean that a lot of valuable discussion will happen, and that discussion will be easily accessible, instead of buried in comments on blog posts, or hidden deep in archives.
My first impulse was to make this much more exclusive, as far as inviting people to participate, and I didn't plan on publicly posting here about it. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought "Screw that". You're all smart, dedicated poker players, who can take part in a forum in an adult fashion. If you're reading poker blogs, odds are very great that you'd have a lot of valuable insight to contribute, or could get something out of even just lurking in a forum. So I'm throwing the door slightly wide open, and welcoming in as many people as possible.
In order to see actual posts, you'll have to register. Sorry about that, but it's one of the first lines of defenses against the spamrific bots out there.
As far as goals and expectations, I don't really have any. If it flies, and it's of value to people, superterrific. If it turns out to be just another forum that slowly dies over time, hey, that's cool, too. I definitely plan on investing a good bit of time (and possibly money) into it, as far as offering some cool prizes and promos and what-not, but I'm also open to the idea of it not panning out as planned.
So pop on over if you're interested. If not, that's cool, too.
Here's the link, for anyone interested:
Kickered.com: Yet Another Gotdamn Poker Forum
One thing to keep in mind that it's currently in the beta-ist of beta stages right now. Not much there. At all. So if you pop in and it looks like a ghost town, well, it is a ghost town at the moment, as it just opened for business yesterday.
As far as the ultimate goal, well, there is none. My hope is that it'll be a place for people serious about poker to, umm, discuss poker. Without all of the spam and pissing contests and other crap that populates other forums. I wouldn't call it a "private" forum exactly, but the goal isn't to have 172,182,182 members and to splash affiliate banners everywhere.
How will it be different than other existing poker forums? Umm, well, it really won't, at least in format. The key difference (hopefully), is that it'll be populated by all of you smart, savvy poker players. Which will mean that a lot of valuable discussion will happen, and that discussion will be easily accessible, instead of buried in comments on blog posts, or hidden deep in archives.
My first impulse was to make this much more exclusive, as far as inviting people to participate, and I didn't plan on publicly posting here about it. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought "Screw that". You're all smart, dedicated poker players, who can take part in a forum in an adult fashion. If you're reading poker blogs, odds are very great that you'd have a lot of valuable insight to contribute, or could get something out of even just lurking in a forum. So I'm throwing the door slightly wide open, and welcoming in as many people as possible.
In order to see actual posts, you'll have to register. Sorry about that, but it's one of the first lines of defenses against the spamrific bots out there.
As far as goals and expectations, I don't really have any. If it flies, and it's of value to people, superterrific. If it turns out to be just another forum that slowly dies over time, hey, that's cool, too. I definitely plan on investing a good bit of time (and possibly money) into it, as far as offering some cool prizes and promos and what-not, but I'm also open to the idea of it not panning out as planned.
So pop on over if you're interested. If not, that's cool, too.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Poker Stop Losses
After further reflection (and nudging from comments), I think my arbitrary number of 40 BBs for a daily stop-loss at 10/20 short is way too small. But if that number sucks, what's a good replacement?
If the last month of playing 10/20 short has taught me anything, it's that your bankroll is always quickly moving in one direction or another. Like, seriously quickly. I honestly don't think the 1000 BB bankroll number is conservative at all for that game, especially if you're playing aggressively and multi-tabling.
So that's a $20K bankroll. Okay. You'll see different estimates from different pros, but the numbers I can remember seeing tossed around are that you should never lose more than 5-10% of your bankroll in any one day (which I think comes from the mouth of Lederer), if you're practicing good bankroll management. So that's $1,000-$2,000/day, as far as a stop-loss, which I suppose you should adjust as your bankroll grows/dwindles.
On the conservative 5% end, that's 50 BBs. Hmm.
I imagine there's a very good chance that the above estimates weren't taking the nature of shorthanded games into account, and speaking more broadly. Even so, if you look at the actual numbers, you're running in dangerous waters when your stop-loss is 10% or more of your total bankroll, methinks.
I think the real truth, lurking beneath this, is that if I'm even pondering setting a dtop-loss, I might instead rethink the whole idea of playing 10/20 short. I tend to be stubborn at times, especially when things seem readily apparent and I've worked hard at them, but the simple truth may be that I'm much more suited for full ring play. I'm barely breaking even at the 10/20 short games and definitely not fully situated in my comfort zone.
Those games are very juicy, indeed, but not necessarily juicy for all types of players, especially those who tend more to the tight side, like myself, instead of towards the gleefully-flinging-chips side. I think it's a reasonably telling thing that I've gotten much more upset in regards to poker than I ever have before, in the last month, verging on complete disgust at times. Which isn't much fun, really, in any way.
So, err, yeah. Rambling. I'll probably stick with a 50 BB stop loss for now, even though I know that's likely too small for the variance of shorthanded games. I'm still looking at all this as a working experiment, as far as setting myself up to grind away at whatever limit/game I settle at in a few months, when I slip the surly bonds of Cubelandia.
If the last month of playing 10/20 short has taught me anything, it's that your bankroll is always quickly moving in one direction or another. Like, seriously quickly. I honestly don't think the 1000 BB bankroll number is conservative at all for that game, especially if you're playing aggressively and multi-tabling.
So that's a $20K bankroll. Okay. You'll see different estimates from different pros, but the numbers I can remember seeing tossed around are that you should never lose more than 5-10% of your bankroll in any one day (which I think comes from the mouth of Lederer), if you're practicing good bankroll management. So that's $1,000-$2,000/day, as far as a stop-loss, which I suppose you should adjust as your bankroll grows/dwindles.
On the conservative 5% end, that's 50 BBs. Hmm.
I imagine there's a very good chance that the above estimates weren't taking the nature of shorthanded games into account, and speaking more broadly. Even so, if you look at the actual numbers, you're running in dangerous waters when your stop-loss is 10% or more of your total bankroll, methinks.
I think the real truth, lurking beneath this, is that if I'm even pondering setting a dtop-loss, I might instead rethink the whole idea of playing 10/20 short. I tend to be stubborn at times, especially when things seem readily apparent and I've worked hard at them, but the simple truth may be that I'm much more suited for full ring play. I'm barely breaking even at the 10/20 short games and definitely not fully situated in my comfort zone.
Those games are very juicy, indeed, but not necessarily juicy for all types of players, especially those who tend more to the tight side, like myself, instead of towards the gleefully-flinging-chips side. I think it's a reasonably telling thing that I've gotten much more upset in regards to poker than I ever have before, in the last month, verging on complete disgust at times. Which isn't much fun, really, in any way.
So, err, yeah. Rambling. I'll probably stick with a 50 BB stop loss for now, even though I know that's likely too small for the variance of shorthanded games. I'm still looking at all this as a working experiment, as far as setting myself up to grind away at whatever limit/game I settle at in a few months, when I slip the surly bonds of Cubelandia.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Just Slip Her a Mickey
As far as advice to hook wives/girlfriends/significant others on poker, I have none. At all. I took the contrarian approach of never, ever trying to infect her with the poker bug, not one single, solitary time, until ScurvyWife finally broke down and was like, "Okay, dumbass, you play all the damn time, why don't you teach me what this whole thing is all about, so I can mock you properly."
(She actually was more motivated by finding a way to mutually share our interests and spend more time together, but that's too damn mushy and touchy-feely to admit.)
Of course, if the SO in question is female, you could also slip her the following book, instead of a mickey: The Badass Girl's Guide to Poker: All You Need to Beat the Boys by Toby Leah Bochan
Yesterday was not a good poker day. Initiating stop-loss experiment immediately. Lamenting lack of working time machine so I could start said experiment yesterday. For 10/20 short, I'm going to stick with a 40 BB daily stop-loss, or $800. That's fairly arbitrary, and more based on the pain threshold where I start thinking, Damn, I've lost a lot of money today. That's gonestly a little low, as you routinely hit 50 BB swings either way fairly regularly playing 2-3 tables of 10/20 short, but it's a starting point, so we'll see what happens.
Mandatory work meetings in which absolutely nothing applies to my job are teh bomb.
(She actually was more motivated by finding a way to mutually share our interests and spend more time together, but that's too damn mushy and touchy-feely to admit.)
Of course, if the SO in question is female, you could also slip her the following book, instead of a mickey: The Badass Girl's Guide to Poker: All You Need to Beat the Boys by Toby Leah Bochan
Yesterday was not a good poker day. Initiating stop-loss experiment immediately. Lamenting lack of working time machine so I could start said experiment yesterday. For 10/20 short, I'm going to stick with a 40 BB daily stop-loss, or $800. That's fairly arbitrary, and more based on the pain threshold where I start thinking, Damn, I've lost a lot of money today. That's gonestly a little low, as you routinely hit 50 BB swings either way fairly regularly playing 2-3 tables of 10/20 short, but it's a starting point, so we'll see what happens.
Mandatory work meetings in which absolutely nothing applies to my job are teh bomb.
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