Bad Beats Therapy Session (2)

Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 Internet

The Beginning of Therapy

"It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell"
- Grantland rice

Living through your bad beat stories makes you mortal, at least human. That at least everyone is susceptible to the evil randomness of cards. It drives me crazy, really. You are sitting in, innocently waiting for your cards but what comes were waves that only know of creating splashes of terror.

It doesn't help if you bluff now cos they really do have the cards. This is bad when playing in tournaments because you can't stop, you are still in the game.

Sleeping Helps

Whenever it happens you will try to get even. A lot of thoughts starts to creep in and the first impression was that the poker room is rigged. Getting those cards over and over again seemed so impossible. It really does or it could simply mean your mind is playing tricks on you. But that cannot be. So the poker room is fixed! You will go crazy thinking about it.

Sleep over it. It will be hard but worthwhile. It will help reduce the strain on your head. Research shows having a good sleep improves concentration. Afterall, we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping you know.

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Bad Beats Therapy Session

Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2008 Internet

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All the games i played recently were up to no good. I was in need of some cure. Gladly this video came to my aide. It works for me. So before you get started cursing online poker rooms were rigged, sit back, relax and watch this youtube. Watch it over and over again if you must!!!

I can't stress this enough. Watch it repeatedly to get its full healing powers!!!

The one above is not really good. If you want to see what i see (i do mean crystal clear and superb stereo sound) click here

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Poker Digest Of The Day

Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 Internet

Stu Ungar says :

It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside.

Sometimes you feel like somebody is squeezing your nuts! You are left out bedazzled on what just happened. You thought you are playing the game and had all the stars aligned as best as it can be. It is not.

Had i known i'll be taken to the tightest table there are, i probably wouldn't be buying in. I don't know if you would say it was a tight table, to me it was. The game approaches almost middle-game where the payouts were close. What happened next was a series of take-it-or-leave-it sushi dishes served in front of you on a trolley tray. These array of dishes comes and goes for 4 blind levels.

That middle position player goes all-in and everybody elses folded. Next, another player goes all-in and everybody folded. Everybody takes turn to go all-in me included. The next hand comes and i'm thinking should i call or should i fold? Remember this goes on and on for 4 blind levels pre-flop and flop. Each levels are 12 mins, so you have 48 mins of all-in sushi fest!

You can feel the blood rushing to your head and each passing moment is like getting pounded on the head. Eventually this continues until 30 players are out. Eventually after that, i got knocked out too with 5 spots shy of the money. A breather finally and not a good one.

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Getting Contented With Your Connection

Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 Internet

At most effort you might get a decent enough internet connection for your poker games. What happens when you are not getting those at critical times of your game. Having a good internet connection is like a lifeline for any of your online poker games.

I was playing in a tournament where the disconnection happened and seeing in front of me holding pocket kings! I needed to bet this one badly or pushed all-in because am getting desperate with my chip stack. I was doing average before until when my pocket kings all-in move in a three way pot got cracked with pocket aces! Was so sure i am going to get rich now. It left me hovering around 1k plus chips.

You can go pissing yourself off seeing your top pair folded. Literally have to close the software and open up again. Playing a few standard games later and several hours into the game, i got my buy-in back with some interest. Nothing much you can do but you can say i was happy to get my money which is better than leaving it in the bank for a miserable small interest.

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Making Money While Away From Poker Postings

Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 Internet

I was away and did not catch some time to follow on with some posts here. Have been busy with other areas on a few other sites that i am having and also spending some time on the online felt. It is official now that i have finally reached three figures on one of the many poker rooms i played at.

It happened so fast, i'm not sure if i remember the sequence to how it happened. Bear in mind it started from zero figure.

All of a sudden, it just came that the reason the final table is so alluring and why everybody is always talking about the final table. You heard it in the tour and you hear it everywhere. But i thought it was over sensationalised. Final table is where the money is. Nobody would bother if you win yourself multiples of $10, $20, $30 or more. Not for me now at least. Final table is where you get the Big chunk.

If it is not hard enough fending off hundreds and thousands of players, you need to be the only one. The one to win it all. Unlike that, in ring games you have to be sneaky and literally put your hands in other players' pockets, grab their money, take it out and put it in your own pocket.

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BackgammonMasters Have Poker

Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 Internet

Before, it was mentioned they have backgammon for online games. Now, BackgammonMasters does offer poker games in the form of Texas Holdem Poker. As you look into their game lobby, you can find poker as one of the other games that were offered. At the time of writing, there are no players spotted playing poker there. Players that you can find available are mostly in backgammon games.

The plan in the pipeline as heard was its multi player Texas Holdem Poker platform will be integrated into remote gaming terminals targeting remote gaming markets. This will be done for betting terminals in coffee shops, bars and other entertainment hotspots. How they intend to make this a realisation, i do not know.

I believe how it works is that, potential players will have the option of swiping their credit card for instant play. They will be able to create an account and access their poker account anywhere along those terminals. They will be able to perform several transactions, just like using computers to do it at home, only now they will be using the terminal touch screens.

It seems the site has big plans and intends to have something similar to most online poker sites these days, where there are casino games as well as poker games.

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How Does Click2Pay Works

Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 Internet

Click2Pay is a third party method for depositing and cashing out from online poker sites. It is a new method which is getting more popular. It support many countries only not US registrants. It has an easily identifiable logo and you can see if a poker room support Click2Pay just by looking for their name. To get started, just fill up your personal details by clicking 'join now' at the top left of their navigation bar. Just choose to use your credit card as the payment method and you are good to go.

You will receive a call shortly after. You will hear a british accent voice talking to you for verification of your Click2Pay account. Once you answered the necessary questions, your account will be activated and can start on making deposits to your favourite online poker rooms.

Your deposits will go through instantly in under a minute. You don't have to transfer the money to make sure you have enough in your Click2Pay account. You just have to go to your poker room and make a deposit instantly (this is only if you already have a Click2Pay account). Well i prefer to create an account first before going to the poker room. But you can do the same from your poker sites as you will be redirected.

One point worth taking note is not to leave any money in Click2Pay account as you never know what will happen to them.

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Layla Kayleigh Voted Top99 Women

Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 Internet

AskMen.com has recently compiled Top99 most desirable women in 2008 and a WPT poker hostess has make the cut. Ranked 33 from over 5 million votes, she managed to represent poker among the many actresses and models with the likes of Ali Larter from Heroes, Natalie Portman from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and many more others. It was fun seeing the pages marinated with comments from readers on the women they like.

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BackgammonMasters Game Lobby

Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 Internet

The only connection that probably relates a game of backgammon and poker could most best be represented by Danish profesional poker player, Gus Hansen. He is one of the most feared poker players due to his aggressive style and known to have brought in his experiences from backgammon to his poker games.

BackgammonMasters would want to offer similar opportunities for playing online backgammon to players. It had just revamped its game lobby design and added several casino games together with the ever popular blackjack game. It seeks to cater to online players that plays casino games and would have similar interest to playing backgammon.

The most closest relation to poker since their integration of casino systems is blackjack. A blackjack game may not match the intense game of poker, it does have its own basic rules that a player can learn to apply. It is a simple game. Perhaps a simple analogy would be to equate it with draw poker as you are basically drawing cards.

Although the number of players there would not equal most online poker rooms elsewhere, it does offer several attractive freerolls for backgammon games that beginners can try. And if all else fails, it is just a freeroll game.

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The 3rd Poker Malaysia Championship

Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2008 Internet

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Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2008 Internet

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It Is An Auspicious Day

Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 Internet

On a certain day on a certain year, certain people of relatives and families receive a small red packet. You will be hearing firecrackers sounds creeping through every crack and corner of your room. Conversations getting louder. Laughters merrily sweeps through your left ear and out the right. There will be shouting. There will be screaming. It just won't stop.

You will see people all dressed in new clothes particularly red in color. You see old people. You see young people. And you see people between old and young. What am i talking about? It is the auspicious day of the year and it is Chinese New Year. Happy Chinese New Year 2008!

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The Return Of My Postings

Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 Internet

Yes, i know it's been a while. Finally able to catch up with my drinking sessions after a long dry spell last year. When the opportunity comes, i took it and drank as much as i could and still be safe for driving back home although i really really want to empty the restaurant's whole beer kegs. I suspect they don't have much beer content. Somehow, not sure why i ended up falling sick two days later.

That aside, have been quite busy with developments elsewhere. Some of the online guys might have already know. Nosy bastards! To those whom i made agreements with, i hope you keep your promises. The rest of the readers, just stick here, it is probably the better place to be.

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Savebuckets For Finding Deals Easier

Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2008 Internet

A little about the site Savebuckets is it allows you to search for many different type of products online. It brings to you the prices of the products you want in a convenient manner so you don't have to look around for deals. There are many categories to choose from which easily satisfies the general demographics of online buyers.

A quick search on their search bar for the keyword poker brings in several pages of results. It ranges from poker posters, PS2 poker games, poker books, poker videos with the like of World Poker Tour episodes and others.

The prices come in pounds so you will have to do the conversion before making purchases if pounds is not your main currencies. It is a place you can find deals not only poker products but mp3 players as well. There are many mp3 players on display on their results page with varying brand names. If you fancy.

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