In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : this has been proven to be the best form of feeding, so I don't really know what you mean Posted by percival09
babies bodies expect to be breas.t fed
adult bodies expect to be eating some meat
it's likely that those bodies will function best if they get what they expect
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : It doesn't matter how much other people do or don't donate, my £1 will be helping someone. It is guarenteed to make a difference to someone. It's not gonna stop people dying of thirst but it will cure sum1s thirst for x amount of time. In an election, it doesn't matter how many other people do or do not vote, my 1 vote will not make any difference at all. It's all or nothing in elections, win/lose. Chairty isn't like that. Posted by DOHHHHHHH
You earlier said something along the lines of, "a cow might survive a day longer but it won't save it" - donating 1 pound is the same thing.
Charities are one of my biggest annoyances these days, yes a lot of them do a lot of good in a lot of places, but so many of them are just another way to make money, I had a few friends who used to do call centre work for a few different charities, when they left uni, on a good week they could earn up to £500 just in commission from getting people to sign up for direct debits and arranging other people to do sponsorships etc, I'm sure i remeber last year the CEO of Barnados (or something like that) earned a £500,000 bonus because he hit a few targets in terms of raising money.... I tend to just give to local animal charities these days as you can see what the money goes on.....
I agree with you Jordz, it is quite worrying when I hear about stuff like that.
I just re-assure myself that all these things that happen must be +ev for the charity?
Say a charity receives £100 a week total via donations.
It employs 10 people to work for them to try and increase the amount of donations, and they are successful, each person bringing in £510 worth of donations per week.
They take a wage of £500.
The people/animals/research that benefit from the charity now receive a total of £200 donations, whereas it was previously only £100.
It's like in poker, there are often many profitable lines we can take. With the example you used, it's definitely not the most profitable line, not even close. But it is +ev.
Argh so much to comment on! Vegetarianism and Charities!! Two of my biggest bugs to argue (for btw not against) I'll be back when I've got time to write a proper post In the meantime, don't go off topic please Posted by mrsduck
Phew
No danger of topic change, poker is gg for the day.
Energy levels hitting the nut low. Feel abit ill on top too. Drained.
Get yourself a good rest, then go back to the quacks, Dohhhh. JFDI. Posted by Tikay10
and check with them before you start screwing around with your diet. bet or no bet you can't risk messing around with your body while they are trying to fix it.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : JJ - listen to this man! If I told you how unhealthy I'd been for the last 20 years you'd soil yourself. If you think your drinking was bad.. Even one day off the sauce and I feel amazing. What you're feeling is not right! Do as Tikay says and JFDI Ps - your story here inspired me to finally start to sort my own issues, and there are some very famous people who failed to get through to me! Posted by NoseyBonk
Thanks Bonk, and that's awesome news about your own changes getting going
The highlighted bit is the goal, bet it's pretty awesome when u wake up feeling like that.
Keep waiting for it to happen
re the docs again....
I've been on the meds about 6 weeks, I was told to expect changes after around 4, and there was a slight improvement.
Since then there's been a sharp downswing, but I'll see if it goes away before getting back in touch w/ the doc.
Will do 2 full months, she wants me re-tested after 4 so it sounds like she expects it to take a while to fully work.
Yeh but I'm not bothered about saving a cow for 1 day. Need less of em anyway innit. Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Only reason we have cows is to feed humans! Eating less meat would mean less cows would be bred
The way I see it is like this: We won the lottery when we born simply by being human (obviously doubly so the fact we are a human in a first world country) - but imagine what it would be like to be born any number of farm animals where there sole purpose in life is to be enslaved and killed at a young age for consumption? Anyone that has spent time with an animal knows that they are sentient and have a range of emotions so to inflict un-neccessary suffering on them does not seem right at all.
We have an "amazing" ability to detach ourselves from these things though. Not just that but we have been brought up in a way where it's accepted and the social norm to eat meat. My parents fed me meat and that was that... I knew subconsciously that they were animals but I just saw it as food and completely normal to eat. The propaganda of the meat industry is huge but most of us don't even realise it - what depresses me the most is seeing a children's menu in a place and everything containing meat (usually accompied with chips) with maybe the only veggie option being a cheese and tomato pizza.
Humans are selfish. Well; animals are too. But we also like to do things to help other people. Some more than others; is it selfless? Maybe a part of it is. But we do feel good about ourselves when we do something to help others.
We're also lazy. If we can do something to help with minimal involvement on our part than great. Giving £2 to charity? Easy. On the other extreme: Going to Syria to help out the refugees in some form or other? Incredibly difficult. I'm in incredible admiration to people like Alan Henning (RIP) - However, not wanting to detract anything from what him and others do/have done: Would you do it if you had a great job and in general felt successful in life? Or would you only do it because you felt you had little purpose in life and so wanted to do something to give you a purpose and help others at the same time? The less we value our current life, the more likely we are to want to get involved in something to help others.
For me, becoming veggie was relatively easy; before I met my GF it wouldn't have been because I thought I didn't like any veg - now I love it! And the fact there are meat substitutes everywhere is again a huge help; without that, I think I would have craved meat too much. Being vegan on the other hand is a lot more difficult. Sooo many things contain dairy products that it's ridiculous. My lack of cooking ability (unless it concerns veggie full english) just makes it impossible because there isn't much in the way of vegan ready meals.
Anyway, that's enough of the rambling :P I just had to post it now before I forgot half of what I was going to say!
(great way to start a diary entry, I bet you'ze can't wait to read on )
For the last few days it seems the only reason I wake up is to eat.
Within 2 hours of waking I was already looking forward to a nap, which whiped out the whole of the afternoon, 2pm ----> 5pm.
Up, eat, and now I'm ready for bed again
Anyway the purpose of the update, is I did manage to play some poker, around 2 x 300 hand sessions.
It's really hard to motivate myself when feeling rubbish, so it doesn't take much to make me quit the session eaither.
Results dictated by 2 big hands, as they will be over tiny samples, both of which went against me.
The first one may be interesting, it's certainly a non-standard line. I think
Seat 5: Dogh ( $3.44 USD )
Seat 6: Mnogoryk ( $11.79 USD )
Seat 1: MotorolaMpx ( $3.08 USD )
Seat 4: PeteGibbons99 ( $10 USD )
Seat 2: do 63 ( $22.88 USD )
Seat 3: sts444 ( $10.23 USD )
Dealt to PeteGibbons99 [ As Ac ]
Mnogoryk raises [$0.25 USD]
do 63 folds
sts444 folds
PeteGibbons99 calls [$0.20 USD]
Dogh calls [$0.15 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, 5s, Kh ]
PeteGibbons99 checks
Dogh checks
Mnogoryk bets [$0.50 USD]
PeteGibbons99 calls [$0.50 USD]
Dogh folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
PeteGibbons99 checks
Mnogoryk bets [$1.29 USD]
PeteGibbons99 calls [$1.29 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
PeteGibbons99 checks
Mnogoryk bets [$2.80 USD]
PeteGibbons99 is all-In [$7.96 USD]
Mnogoryk
Utg villain is a very solid reg, probably 1 of the tighter ones. I have 2k hands on him and he plays 18/14 with 5% 3b. Only 8% vpip from utg.
If I 3bet him sb v utg he isn't going to make many, if any mistakes, so I thought I'd take a chance on the short stack in the BB doing something aggressive. If not, meh, we can do things post flop.
Any thoughts on my river x/bomb?
I looked at the hand after, and I'm not a fan of it anymore, due to how much AK I block.....
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2nd big pot was just tilting. Like I don't know what the guy is doing.
He hadn't got out of line at all before this hand, I've never seen him before but he's on 3/4 of my tables and seems fairly abc over small sample.
I am small blind v his BB. 130xbb deep.
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to PeteGibbons99 [ As Ts ]
carol_dvx folds
microscop folds
PeteGibbons99 raises [$0.25 USD]
Bodling raises [$0.80 USD]
PeteGibbons99 calls [$0.60 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 5s, Jh ]
PeteGibbons99 checks
Bodling bets [$1 USD]
PeteGibbons99 raises [$3.10 USD]
Bodling is all-In [$11.24 USD]
PeteGibbons99 is all-In [$9.12 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6d ]
PeteGibbons99 shows [ As, Ts ]high card Ace.
Bodling shows [ 2h, 3h ]a pair of Threes.
I guess good read, "bro".
Pretty annoying to work hard to get the graph going up feeding on small pots, cbets, thin value bets, tough/thin river calls etc and then just get crushed by big hands going against me all the time.
I don't normally moan about run bad but I'm tired and grumpy so it effects me more
Out for the day again tomorrow, hopefully I feel in the mood to play my first proper session of the week tomorrow night, get this bankroll moving forward again !!!!
Hand 1, is he so tight that he wouldn't bluff catch your many missed draws? Hard to get value from an uber-nit, but given the line think you have to go for it.
Hand 2 is why you will always will in the long term.
The hand histories don't seem to be going down very well in here, even my posts about cricket get more replies.
Appreciate you giving your opinion.
When I looked at the potential calling range of the villain in hand 1 it became clear I'd made a pretty big error due to all the combos of AK I block, which are probably the main hand we are looking to get value from.
Even if he calls AK all the time, there are only 6 combos of AK left, whereas there are 10 combos of sets (and he has them all)....
If we throw in KTs, it takes us to 9 combos of stuff we beat, still not enough to make it a value shove against 10 combos of hands that beat us, and he probably folds AK too so we should remove some of them and it looks even more bleak.
So yah, I think just calling is best.
(he had 4 sevens)
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More misery today.
Didn't end up going out due to stuff outside my control, so I played a little poker this morning and lost.
I was really annoyed at myself getting JJ in bvb against some reg.
He 3b to 12xbb over my 3x open and then 5bet to 47xbb over my 26xbb 4bet....
Like, how bad does he think I am if he's trying to make me fall for that?
Well I did. wp him
JJ < AA.
I was annoyed and tired again and obv quit.
Slept all afternoon again.
Watched a cracking rugby league final, followed by an even better darts final, then fired up another 888 10nl session.
Ran worse than I can remember running for a long time.
I admit my confidence in these games is very low.
My motivation to play them due to physical handicaps atm is very low.
My ability to play anywhere close to my A game for any length of time is very low.
Add in the deck being cruel to me and I literally cannot win.
It's just impossible. I can't grind through it either,
It's probably another nut low for the diary in terms of morale, enthusiasm and confidence.
#Whenwillitend.
I doubt anyone is interested, but I'm now running 20 buyins below ev over 33,000 hands at 10nl.
I really don't want to moan about run bad, but I think most people would struggle to overcome that.
And I guess, if I really had to, I can turn that into a positive when I'm still up 9 buyins over that sample overall.
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Anyway yet another planned poker night ends prematurely and I retire to the pit shattered mentally and physically pre midnight.
I will try again, to try again tomorrow.
Roll = £1067.46
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Edit* on the positives, I submitted my order for 100 quids worth of veggie specific food today.
It was an interesting experience, and at times very tilting. Asda don't make it very clear what is veggie and what isn't.
My fear when taking on the challenge was always having to be overly careful about what is and isn't allowed. I cba with that. So I went with the "if it hasn't obviously got meat in it, it's fine", line.
I'm sure it'll be worth it come Monday evening and I'm tucking in to my vegetarian beetroot and goats cheese roast.
IMO you are being terrible hard on yourself , you have made a really big lifestyle change and like most things these things take time. While setting targets re hands are great but while your body and mind adjusts I feel you are putting too much presure on yourself. It can't be easy to play anywhere close to your A game if you don't feel well (running below ev can't help for the mind part). Remember you saying that you don't rely on winnings for income so maybe set lower targets till you feel better.
Would comment on the cricket but being from the other side of the pond only see when we are playing in the WC.
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Reminds me of http://reg-charity.org/
Quorn gravy should be illegal.
The Dohhhhhhh health kick continues. Can't be a bad thing.
Just need you to see sense & reduce these spasm-inducing eye-watering marathon poker sessions now.......
Get yourself a good rest, then go back to the quacks, Dohhhh.
JFDI.
If I told you how unhealthy I'd been for the last 20 years you'd soil yourself. If you think your drinking was bad..
Even one day off the sauce and I feel amazing.
What you're feeling is not right!
Do as Tikay says and
JFDI
Ps - your story here inspired me to finally start to sort my own issues, and there are some very famous people who failed to get through to me!
The other night I was hovering over a nice acca - Wade and Taylor to lose. Didn't take it.
We're also lazy. If we can do something to help with minimal involvement on our part than great. Giving £2 to charity? Easy. On the other extreme: Going to Syria to help out the refugees in some form or other? Incredibly difficult. I'm in incredible admiration to people like Alan Henning (RIP) - However, not wanting to detract anything from what him and others do/have done: Would you do it if you had a great job and in general felt successful in life? Or would you only do it because you felt you had little purpose in life and so wanted to do something to give you a purpose and help others at the same time? The less we value our current life, the more likely we are to want to get involved in something to help others.
For me, becoming veggie was relatively easy; before I met my GF it wouldn't have been because I thought I didn't like any veg - now I love it! And the fact there are meat substitutes everywhere is again a huge help; without that, I think I would have craved meat too much. Being vegan on the other hand is a lot more difficult. Sooo many things contain dairy products that it's ridiculous. My lack of cooking ability (unless it concerns veggie full english) just makes it impossible because there isn't much in the way of vegan ready meals.
Anyway, that's enough of the rambling :P I just had to post it now before I forgot half of what I was going to say!
(great way to start a diary entry, I bet you'ze can't wait to read on