I’m sad that people like David Icke make money

I have been downloading a lot of documentrys off of mininova.org lately.  There have been some really good ones like “This Film is not yet Rated“, “No Limit” and “The Root of All Evil“. I then got the first avi from this torrent. Its quite big so I didn’t want to download all of it just in case it was crap.  Thank god I think these things through.  Basically its this British guy David Icke, that goes around the world giving lectures about his “research”.  He claims (and has done for 20 or so years) that the world is controlled by an elite group of people.  These people have blood lines going back 4000 years.

He talks about Golbalisation and politics all being controlled by these group of people.  He says that all religion has been made by this group to fight against each other to keep the world under control.

He cleverly uses conspirisy theories like 9/11 and the war in Iraq, to gain support from people who like to question the social norm.  At the start of the talk he shows a slideshow of common photoshop images of Bush and other US presidants.  All of this gaining support and basically doing a comedy routine to get people to like him.

Then the really weird theories start comming out.  Like how 90% of the American presidants come from the same blood line.  Or how the education system in all delevoped countries it trying to teach kids not to express themselves through art.  Or the Christofer Colombus actually knew where he was going.  Another good one is the the CIA rigs up its employees that make the person dependant on some secret chemical.  Also he said that someone from the CIA told him that we have a cure for cancer and some sort of technology that creates “abundant growth of plants in deserts without water”. He goes on to say how banks lend us money that doesn’t exist.  He bases this on the fact that the money is not “taken out of their vault” but transferred electronically.

All the while pausing for claps from the audience.

Now I can see how some people might be inclined to believe some of this stuff.  Especially people that agree with his political views and anti-American views.  You don’t have to look much further to find some of his other views which he tries to slide into his talks towards the end.

The best one is a reptilian race of people, control the world from underground.

If you watch this guy doing a talk you can actually tell just from his body language that he knows his lying.  He knows what his doing and he knows that the 201 books his written are going to make him a lot of money.  It annoys me that people pay to see this tard and that he can make money off of people trying to be different and believing in stupid ideas.

Poker Goals 2007

1. Win a seat/flights etc into a WPT/EPT/WSOP event ( > $5000 buy in)

This is the most important goal for this year. Even though my bankroll isn’t really big enough for this, I’m sick of grinding out small wins online. So I have to super-dooper satellite in like the rest of the suckers. I think I’m a much better live player then online. I tend to get bored online. Playing live, I can sit and study people for tells the entire time. As this is one of the reasons I like poker so much, its not hard to see why I’d prefer playing like this. I also like playing against people who are better then me. The big live tournys have such better players (well at least some). Although I love being able to make money in poker, I also like the challenge of things which aren’t easy. Cashing in one of these tournys would not be easy.

2. Win more then $2000 AU in a tourny online

I’ve had some significant cashes online of late. Although none of them were real show stoppers. Just enough to help the continued growth of my bankroll. There have been a few times I have got top 8 in large tournys and got around the $250 mark with first paying $1000 – $2000. I really want one of these big pay days as I think I’ve some what paid my dues on the final table of these games. So many people can’t play final table poker. There have been several occasions where people bet into no side pots to push me off a hand when another guy is all in. I would have won the hand but instead the all in person won. Stupid shit like that really pisses me off.

3. Get to 2-3BB/100 in $1-$2 limit on PokerTracker for > 50,000 hands

I have around 2900 hands logged in PT for the year so far (at $1-$2 HE). Currently I am running at 1.3BB/100. This is after a sick 60BB downswing not to long ago. I’m happy with my play at this level and would like to consolidate this for 50,000 hands before I move up in limits. Getting above 2BB/100h for that period would really validate my efforts in poker and give me a lot more confidence that I’m not just an upswinging loser.

4. Keep a > 10% ROI for PokerStars SitnGo’s

Currently I am sitting at 128% ROI (Return on Investment) on Sit’n'Go’s on PokerStars. I get this info from SharkScope. I know I can’t keep this awesome figure up over the long run. It has only logged 20 games (most of which are the 180 player MTT’s). I make good money off these games (buy in limits around $10 – $20). There are a lot of people that don’t have any strategy for tournments at all. The mind boggles as to what some of these people think they are doing. Thats where I have been making my money and until some real sick beats knock me down I’ll continue to run good against these players.

So hopefully I can at least achieve 2/4 this year. I just won a seat into the PokerStars Sunday Million which unfortunely starts at about 9am on a Monday morning where I live. I can’t play in it as I have to go to work (oh how I’d rather be playing poker). When first prize is pushing the $200,000 AU mark its hard to pass up.

I refunded the ticket for $215 in PS “T$” which is basically money that can only be used to buy into other tournments. Who knows I might buy back into the Sunday Million while I’m over in Perth on holidays in Febuary. If not that, I will use the money to buy into lots of EPT satellites.

Multi-tabling Madness

Tonight I thought I’d try out multi-tabling some Holdem on PokerStars. I started out on the waiting lists for 6 tables. Four were $1-$2 Limit Holdem. The other two were .25c-.50c NL Holdem. I had a shocking 100BB losing streak earlier this week playing 50c-$1 NL. So I was keen to grind out some money to get me at least some of the way back to where my bankroll was.

As I started to join more and more tables I was getting more and more frantic with making it to the Fold, Check and Raise buttons for each table. The most I had multi-tabled before was 3 tables. Even worse, all the tables I was playing were high speed tables (dealing and blinds and decision time are really quick). At one stage I considered maybe knocking 1 or 2 tables off to be more comfortable. However I started to realise that because I had less time to make a decision, I found myself playing a lot better poker! I think when I play poker, I seem to want to outplay everyone on every hand. When playing limit this makes my problem even worse. My pre-flop standards went up very quickly (even more so when I had a good hand on another table). I think I’m way to loose preflop in limit poker. Hopefully this session has improved my game just from this one realisation.

I played all 6 tables for about 2.5 hours. I was up for the session (only about 20BB). I don’t know if playing limit and no limit at the same time is a good idea. I’d like to know if other people do this. I can’t see how people multi table more then 6 or 7 tables. At one point I had pocket 10’s, pocket Jacks, and pocket Kings all at the same time. I only won the Kings. I made most of the money on the two no limit tables. I think I will stick to 25c – 50c NL now. It seems like I can beat this level pretty easily so until I make up for the huge loss at .50-1, I will stick to that level.

Aussie Millions Schedule under way

Well the Aussie Millions has offically started in Melbourne and I’m stuck at work like a sucker.  I really feel I should be there.  It has nothing to do with the beat I took in my main satellite into the main event of the Millions.  It just seems like its my countries biggest time for poker where the world is watching. Its a time for aussies to have some pride in our poker.  I should at least be in Melbourne playing some cash games and maybe a smaller $1ooo buy in tourny.  A lot of the posters over at my poker forum site PokerNetwork.com are down there and posting about whats going on.

I’m really jealous of the action thats going on down there.  I’ve been running quite well in poker lately (both cash and tournys).  So its hard to know everything thats going on.  I’ll be watching a lot of the updates from different sites to see if any Queenslanders I know get anywhere.  Hopefully the Aussies can keep most of the money in Australia.

Good luck to anyone who is lucky enough to be there.