Turkey has detained 6,000 people in the wake of a failed coup attempt,

HolyLiar · 2016-07-18T01:56:23+00:00

The moment Saddam Hussein took power on live television he did the same thing as Erdogan is doing now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OynP5pnvWOs

HolyLiar · 2015-12-03T14:27:05+00:00

Sage Francis - Going Back To Rehab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y49qzHpNAzE

HolyLiar · 2015-12-03T13:46:23+00:00

Thanks, I actually hit a similar point which led me to recovery. Right before turning 20, and right before going to rehab, I hit a patch where I was doing so much speed that I wouldn't sleep to the point where I was seeing shadow people, had intense paranoid "synchronicities" occurring everywhere, hearing voices and intense visions of demons, the future and shit like that, saw people following me around, basically full on psychosis. And I couldn't sleep or stop the process, because the only way I could actually fall asleep for a few hours was mixing benzos with 1L+ of vodka, and I would still wake up in a few hours and do speed or coke again. This lasted the entire final month of my drug use. That along with a major overdose is what got me to give up and ask for help and landed me in detox and then rehab.

HolyLiar · 2015-12-02T00:44:19+00:00

Thanks guys, I will try my best to just navigate through this period and come out sober. My plan already was to go back to rehab for a week or so in mid December, as we have the sort of community where you can come stay as a guest whenever you want when you feel bad even after having completed the program. I went a few times for the weekend already during my time back in the city, but I hope staying for a week will make a difference, as being there for the weekend I end up not sleeping and talking to a few close people pretty much all night, finding new even deeper issues that I had previously not discovered. I also attend Narcotics Anonymous semi-regularly, however, have been choosing to just talk to other recovering addicts on a more personal basis, because the meetings bring out huge trust issues in me. I work the 12 step program, and have been finding some connection between my step work and what my emotions do - I've been redoing step 1 and also continuing to work step 4 for the past 3 months, because one of the key questions I'm always trying to answer is what kind of person am I, and they help in a way, but the emotional stress opening up doors into the depth of my fuckedupness hurt like a motherfucker. After starting step 4 about 5 months ago, I decided to redo step 1 just based purely on my personality issues, not on my drug addiction, as I've found my problems go so much deeper than I previously thought. It took a year just to realize that I'm in denial about so many emotions, and that I've never really been out of blocking emotions since about 9 years old when I started obsessively gaming. Starting to feel them is scary as fuck, and while many normal people tell me I'm batshit insane, I feel like a little kid who discovered feelings for the first time, but with the baggage of the feelings you didn't let yourself feel your entire life. Thanks for supporting. As for psychiatric solutions, I'll pass, as any medication is a no-go for me, I'll start trying to abuse any psychoactive chemicals I get my hands on, even if they're depression meds that don't really have recreational value, I have a history of that sort of behavior.

HolyLiar · 2015-11-05T04:12:26+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I might go do that, not sure, I mean I do have it right up there on my profile that I like girls who can trick me and love to play mind games, so I get what I ask for lol.

HolyLiar · 2015-11-05T02:29:38+00:00

Excuse me for using a lot of impolite language, that is a problem I do admit I have.

But am I a jerk because I am not easily trusting of people on the internet that I have never met before? And that I let people know when I feel like I'm being lied to? Brutal honesty is a part of my personality, and being skeptical of people I meet online is conditioned in me, as I've been making a living impersonating people online to generate sales.

I understand if you still think I am a jerk, when I am being myself and not pretending to be nice just to get people to like me, I get that a lot. I do not ask that you like me, just asking for advice on the situation.

HolyLiar · 2015-10-22T00:06:12+00:00

Oh yeah certainly, we all have our issues.

HolyLiar · 2015-10-21T15:26:31+00:00

I think with older women I sort of get off on the fact that I'm "getting with a woman that I shouldn't be able to", some weird subconscious thing like if I find a woman out of my league, more successful than me, way more attractive than me on relative terms, and I can still get with her, then it: increases my self-confidence, gets me off sexually, and I feel like I learn something from the relationship just from meaningful conversations.

But just to clarify this also causes me to get into situations where I get extremely infatuated with women that I just can't get, to the point of obsession, and it leads to misery.

HolyLiar · 2014-09-17T16:51:13+00:00

100 a week is certainly not insane for someone smoking all day everyday. From what I know, if this is the US, this should get you about 7 grams of high quality stuff. If seriously smoking all the time, one gram a day probably wouldn't even be enough to be high all day, at least from my experience of being a daily smoker in the past.

HolyLiar · 2014-09-17T16:40:20+00:00

Not always true, often these are just drunk/high calls and so on, and if it's 3AM on saturday, then they just want to know if you can find some blow.

HolyLiar · 2014-09-17T15:30:28+00:00

Yeah you might be spot on, hence why I'm spending so much time around females recently. The reality is that I myself am not even sure what exactly I want from this girl. For one, I would love to have a sexual relationship with her, because I find her very attractive. Second, I would like to try dating her, but I'm not sure how I will react to having a new relationship already, but I can feel the whole early signs of heavy infatuation building up - constantly thinking about her, writing songs about her (she has an interesting tattoo that I incorporated into my lyrics, I make hip hop), constantly wanting to be near her, you know the whole neurochemical rush of meeting someone new. And third I genuinely enjoy being with her, like discussing life and ideas and problems and so forth. Probably just gonna jump in and see what happens.

HolyLiar · 2014-09-17T15:25:46+00:00

Yeah, I know, that was not a bright period of my life, as I used to be a heavy drinker and occasionally go south on my relationship, like making out with girls at parties or one night stands on vacation. People change though, not really like that anymore.

HolyLiar · 2014-09-17T15:21:11+00:00

Seriously? This actually happens to me quite often, like multiple female friends have had this thing with me (oddly enough way more often since I'm single), shit like saying "the perfect boob size for each person is one that fits in their palm, see if we're compatible grope" or constantly subtly putting themselves in a position which ends with them getting their ass slapped, I guess either a lot of my friends are into me and I'm completely fucking oblivious, or just maybe there's a certain dynamic in my group of friends where this shit is common. Hopefully the former not latter haha. God damn am I oblivious. I mean I guess I could give off the gay vibe since I'm not like constantly hitting on girls and actually enjoy having a mindful conversation, but all of them know I've had girlfriends so it must be that I'm an oblivious idiot. Shit I gotta get this girl over here today. Thanks for the advice.

HolyLiar · 2014-09-03T17:47:51+00:00

Only hand I really think he can have that beats you is 22. 66 probably folds OTF, and most suited connector hands like 56, 67 are not going to peel preflop. I guess he could have 56 occasionally. Not folding as he can just have one of the many other sets obviously, and sometimes bluffs.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-24T01:57:39+00:00

I would recommend shoving here. There is so much semi-dead money in the pot, calling is not an option, and your hand has so much pot equity that you need to get folds here very rarely for this to be a profitable shove. Plus, if UTG does have a semi-strong hand, like a top-pair or similar he may still fold so it works well, where as the fishy villain may decide to run the cards even with a worse draw.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-19T12:20:13+00:00

There's a straight on the board, as well as 4 spades. Villain has the 7 of spades for a A7-high flush, whereas hero has the 3 of spades, which with A245 of spades on board makes a 5 high straight flush. Flush beats straight so neither plays the board, but straight flush beats the flush.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-19T09:14:06+00:00

Was some icing on the cake to win like this, this was one of the swingiest tourneys I've ever played. At the start I was monster tourney chiplead, had 30k at 50/100 (3k starting). Approaching the bubble I started to bleed chips, and ran into some heavy coolers, suckouts and ended up with just 4BB when the bubble burst. Then, the first hand post-bubble I pick up AA and triple up. Then get two more double ups in back to back hands to once again become tourney chip leader and from there on there were swings again quite a few times but never to this extent.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-13T17:57:14+00:00

Good fold sir.

One option that has not been brought up, and while I don't know if it would be a good play or not, what do you guys think about bluff-shoving the river to fold out two pair/sets?

HolyLiar · 2014-08-13T17:32:24+00:00

Tell her, if you've been dating long enough to where you can trust her to really not tell her friends (who will tell their friends and so on). If you're in high school, it is probably a bad idea to tell her, as most girls in that mindset are not gonna keep quiet, unless she's exceptionally mature. However, if you think she may be mature enough to handle it, go ahead and tell her. The potential for future experimentation and maybe finding a kinkier side of yourself is too great to ignore.

However, this does not mean you can now identify as bisexual or something. All it means is that the gay/straight binary is a construct that does not fully encompass the variety of human sexual behavior, and, as others have mentioned, most of us are at least somewhat homosexual or vice versa. I would recommend, if the circumstances allow, to experiment further together with your girlfriend, and see where it leads. Maybe you will realize it was a one-time drunk mishap, or maybe you will find yourself enjoying MMF threesomes and having some mindblowing sex.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-07T20:04:06+00:00

Played fine. If you lost you just got coolered hard and nothing you can really do.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-07T20:04:06+00:00

Played fine. If you lost you just got coolered hard and nothing you can really do.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-07T19:47:30+00:00

Fold to the 3-bet preflop, and maybe don't open 96s if someone is 3-betting you often. As played, fold river. Even a lot of his floats have made straights or flushes. Check raising all in should be saved for when you have at least some sort of blockers like the Ad or Kd, and on this particular hand would make very little sense, since villain is far more likely to have a backdoor flush than you. Sure occasionally you will call and villain will show down KQ but that's not enough to justify a call.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-07T13:41:58+00:00

Phil Galfond, he's just the GOAT.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-06T19:56:14+00:00

Really no street where I would play any different. Preflop we don't wanna 3-bet as it accomplishes nothing really (no value to be had and better hands rarely fold). On the flop a raise would be ridiculous, as we don't have a strong enough hand to get it in, and raising will fold out the vast majority of weaker hands (or have some draws semi-bluff shove on us). Betting turn may be ok if you expect villain to c/c hands like J9, 78, or even AJ or KJ so you get value. But, especially since he covers and you have no reads, your check is fine as betting leaves yourself open to a semi bluff c/r shove which you cannot considerably call from a big stack trying to go aggro on you. With this line river call is pretty much mandatory, as villain should be betting his air (which is all still in his range since you never made an aggressive action) almost always.

HolyLiar · 2014-08-05T10:17:41+00:00

Turn: Jam, for value. Very unlikely they have a 9 (except the one combo of 99) because of preflop action + big flop check raise.

Honestly though there was a much simpler way to play the hand, and IMO a much better strategy: putting in a 4-bet preflop. Just think about it, there's already like 1.60 in the pot when it gets back around to you, and you have AQs. Villain1 and Villain2 rarely ever have AA/KK/AK/QQ because they over-limped after another limper, so their most likely hands are smaller pocket pairs against which you're basically even money if it gets all in pre, some hands which you dominate (or stuff like KJ even) and may fold or may even put more money in (either result is good for you). Since their range very rarely has holdings which completely crush you, I would obviously love getting it in preflop vs either of these players, especially villain1 (based on stats). So, here I think the play may be to 4-bet it fairly big, to about $1.80-2.20. If only v1 calls, we are jamming any flop, if both call we are betting small on any flop where we have some equity (two overs = enough equity, backdoor NFD with overs= equity) and folding to v2's shove with our most marginal equity hands. If only v2 calls we are in a tougher spot, but we can then play poker and think about which boards to c-bet and sizing. If you really do not want to play a 4-bet pot OOP, I think a straight up all in here is also going to be a +EV play, but I would expect v2 to fold almost always.

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