Mind Games

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by trombini
I am close to stream too. I play NL25 Zoom on PS.
I wanna pass content of cash games and have fun with the followers.

I believe that I will start a blog (in English because I am Brazilian) here in the community.

What do you think about stream?

Hi trombini,
Streaming has helped my poker quite a bit -- especially NLHE tournaments.
As I play, I outline my thoughts on the hand, and my plan for it -- which I didn't do enough of before.

Streaming is going to require a decent internet connection and a decent computer.
With my own computer, I had quite a problem when starting.
First off, my computer had a build up of dust inside -- it would overheat and shut down. Not good.
Once I got that fixed, It still got quite hot -- up to 80C quite frequently. My computer was just using the original motherboard video system, and it was not capable of rendering video frames fast enough to stream -- so the stream was lagging, and the CPU and GPU loads were extremely high.
I purchased a used high-end graphics card, and all seems OK now.

Before streaming for yourself, I suggest watching a variety of them.
The best of them are both entertaining and instructive.
https://www.twitch.tv/vanessakade has a great stream, lots of giveaways, homegames on pokerstars for a wide variety of variants. She's funny too.

Some others worth watching:
PokerStrategy.com members:
https://www.twitch.tv/upay4dinner
https://www.twitch.tv/metalmonkeyps
https://www.twitch.tv/maugr1s (me )

Non-holdem good streams:
https://www.twitch.tv/PokinStar (NLO8)

Non-pros worth watching most of the time:
https://www.twitch.tv/ArlieShaban
https://www.twitch.tv/4cid
https://www.twitch.tv/pokerbrahs
https://www.twitch.tv/ericcollier

Pros:
https://www.twitch.tv/kevinmartin
https://www.twitch.tv/PokerStars
https://www.twitch.tv/easywithaces

Have a look around, and see how they lay out the stream, how they brand themselves and so on.
upay4dinner does a great job of branding, for example -- he's got a great logo, and uses it well.

I look forward to seeing the blog!
VS

Wow!! Thats great.

I'll watch them.

Thank you for advice.

Almost a week ago, I began to experience discomfort in my left eye.
This happens from time to time, and I have ointment that <usually> makes things all better.

However this time, over Saturday and Sunday, the discomfort turned to outright pain that didn't diminish during the day as it usually does.

So Monday I hauled my arse to the ophthalmologist.
He froze my eye with some topical anaesthetic drops (yay!) and installed a therapeutic contact lens.

Apparently I have a recurrent corneal erosion

I think something else is going on as well, since I've never had one take so long to heal.

The worst part of it is, I can only play poker for short stretches.<sniff>

Cheers,
VS

Sorry to read that, Vorpal. Hope you get well soon.

Time to change for a bionic eye I'm afraid !

Indeed there are @Harrier. Where I am from we have no such fancy things as television. I still enjoy a night infront of my phonograph

I have been saying on stream for the past month that "I need another monitor".
On the night of the 31st, I saw an ad that said if I ordered before midnight I could get 10% off on a 27-inch gaming monitor -- which was already pretty inexpensive.

So now I haz 3 monitors. Pics when I get it all set up.

Today's stream was a treat...
 Cashed several tiers up in the 888 Wild surprise for $2.00 -- plus a $2.00 surprise gift.
 Finished 2nd in a $3.50 PL 5-Card Draw 6-man Sit-and-Go
 Finished 2nd in the $1.10 PLO8 tournament on PlayNow.com after being down to < 1 BB early on
 Had a positive result in both the NL 25 and NL 100 5-Card draw cash games
 Won 10 hands of NL 5 (Hold'em) on 888 to earn another Wild Surprise ticket
 Completed the GGPoker daily mission -- that makes 7 this week, so I can play the freeroll Sunday with 10K starting stack.

Only problem is that this was a spur-of-the-moment stream, since I was sure I would not be back in time. This means that almost nobody saw it.

<sigh>
VS

How´s your eye?

Much better thanks.
I went to the ophthalmologist on Wed, and got the good news that it is nearly healed.
Should be all OK by next appointment next Wed.

VS

Awesome! So you can binge-grind now ♠_biggrin:♠_ugly:

Congratulations for everything ♠_drink:
Your mind may have reached a new level of thought

Now he can solve GTO by thoughts alone ♠_ugly:

Nice to hear, good Luck at the tables

Originally posted by Primrose6789
Now he can solve GTO by thoughts alone ♠_ugly:

And only at level 1966 and level 1969 -- I think

I bust out of nearly everything today, so I used the time to turn a picture of Truckle into an avatar for PokerStars and GGPoker -- and any other poker room that pulls their head out of their -- now where was I going with that thought?

OK -- who or what is Truckle? I hear you cry (or rather, I imagine I hear you, but that is not important now.)

The verb is actually was. Truckle was a 1954 Dodge military truck.
It's official designation is M152 CDN. Here's some idea of what it really looks like.

I purchased Truckle (I wish I had thought of Trucky McTruckface, but hey -- in 1978 we weren't nearly that cool -- and we pronounced it "gnarly" and thought we were cool).
Where was I? Oh yeah -- I got Truckle in 1978 at an auction in Chilliwack (no, I didn't just have a keyboard accident) when the Canadian government closed the army base there.

I wanted a Jeep. They had none. But they had two of these beasties.
It was a sealed bid auction, and I submitted a bid for $1500 on either of the two of these trucks. I was awarded this one, and it became part of our family -- we drove it for 14 years. Much of the time it was our only vehicle. Hard on gas, maybe -- but you can get one stink of a lot of groceries in an M152 CDN.

This is the photo that became the avatar. Unlike the ones linked above, this one was mine...

Note: The avatar is much smaller
You can see the avatar in action almost any M, W or F at roughly 20hrs UTC on my stream (see link below)

Enjoy your week, and best of luck at the tables...
VS

Thanks so much to Harrier who took the woesome travesty of a photo and made it look cool.

I tried some Allin-or-Fold Omahahaha on GGPoker today.
One of the followers of my stream suggested that it was a good way to accumulate points quickly.

In his words:

"it can be very swingy but if you know what your equities are its beatable"

Well, I think I know my equities well enough, and I did win 41% of the hands I played:

But after 300+ hands I was a mere $1.52
Swingy? You bet...

If it weren't for variance, this game would be boring...
VS

(I need that on a T-shirt too)

I went to the eye doctor today -- all is well. My eye has healed, and I don't have to see him again for 3 months.

Next step is prevention.
I have an ointment I will use nightly as before, but I'm going to wear a plastic shield over that eye just to be sure.

<whew>
VS

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I went to the eye doctor today -- all is well. My eye has healed, and I don't have to see him again for 3 months.

Are you sure you eye works that well then ? ♦

Glad to hear it of course

Glad to hear, that you now can see clearly when you outplay the fish

Well on the other hand, fishes are so easy to blind counter
It's more against regs that you need to keep your eyes open

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I went to the eye doctor today -- all is well. My eye has healed, and I don't have to see him again for 3 months.

Next step is prevention.
I have an ointment I will use nightly as before, but I'm going to wear a plastic shield over that eye just to be sure.

<whew>
VS

My dad had to do that a couple of years ago. He had a benigne brain tumor removed, everything went well but he couldn´t close his right eye.