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In the new article series "The Mental Game" we will be covering on of the most intriguing yet over looked subjects in poker. Most poker content focuses on the technical aspects of poker hands, but neglects what goes through your head to get to that point. The simple advice of don't tilt, don't play drunk, and never start playing angry/sick doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. Avoiding tilt is difficult because most people do it unconsciously.Have you ever wondered why after reading every poker book, every forum, and joining every coaching site you still can't win? The reason is because while all those resources are filled with great information they don't teach you the skills to use their techniques and destroy your mental roadblocks. Once I realized that some big pieces were missing from poker literature I branched out into other areas to find the answers I needed. I've read books on psychology, self help, meditation, hypnosis, body language, and pretty much anything else I thought might help. Some of it was pretty fruity, but there were plenty of gold mines that changed the way I thought about the game. I was amazed at how many times I could have substituted poker into a book about mental philosophy and it would have fit perfectly.Poker is a two front battle. You play against your opponents and you play against yourself. The truth is: Your brain is not wired to be a winning poker player. The way our brain thinks makes your default poker setting LOSER. That is why 95% of players lose money. They haven't realized that they need to go inside and flips some switches to change it to winner. In this series I'm going to share with you everything I've learned and created on the topic of the mental side of poker. Hopefully it will be the catalyst that turns all your poker knowledge into cold hard cash.Why You Play PokerBrutal honesty is the first mental skill you need in order to be a winning player. Be honest with others, but more importantly you must be completely honest with yourself. It is so easy to lie to yourself for a quick shot of false self confidence, but this is just building an ice palace in the desert. It feels good for a short time, but will eventually fall apart. If you lie to yourself about poker you will not be a long term winner. The majority of players don't have an issue with understanding the game they just ignore the holes in their game. The holes you have and your mental inability to fix them are constantly being exploited by your opponents. Instead of fixing them you just end up making excuses for your mistakes.I could write a whole article on honesty, but its better to just keep it simple. Why? Because being honest to yourself about your poker results and hands isn't a hard process. There are no crazy techniques to help you be more honest. If you are dedicated to making the most out of your poker play it should be easy. Just be conscious when you try to lie to yourself and never let it get any further. If you are unable to be honest with yourself and others about your poker results: Why do you play poker?One of the reasons I believe poker is so popular is it is able to stimulate so many different needs that it attracts a wide range of personality types. Think about all the different types of players you face each day. You have the maniac, the rock, the chaser, the bluffer, the professor, the boasting pro, the grinding pro, the sheriff, the math guy, the feel players, and all these range from 18 year old men to little old ladies. In any given game the 10 seats at the table could easily represent 10 different groups in the world population. The beauty is all 10 could be playing for 10 different reasons.In order to get your mental game down you first need to realize the true reason you play poker. Almost everyone I ask gives me the same answer "I play to win money". I've come to realize that almost nobody's main reason for playing is strictly to make money. The grinding pro is the closest to this mindset, but even he could be making as much, or more, money doing something else. He must have other motivation for playing. Let's take a look at some of the most common reasons for playing.* Love of action: The emotional swings from the ups and downs are very appealing to people who lead an otherwise boring life.* Competition - good: They love the spirit of competing against the best of the best and the respect that comes with winning.* Competition - bad: They love to crush the hopes and dreams of everyone they play. Destroying opponents can be a huge ego boost.* Freedom: A professional poker player has an amount of freedom unavailable in almost any other job.* Camaraderie: Home games and live casinos offer a place where anyone can go and be part of the group. People who are looking for the company of others often pick up the game for this reason.* Be a Victim: Some players subconsciously would rather lose to a bad beat than win the pot. The feelings they get from others pity is cheap oakley sunglasses worth more to them than the pot.* Seeking Approval: This fits in closely with Competition - bad, but also includes the "professor". He will tell you what he thinks you did wrong even if you didn't ask and even if it hurts the amount he can win.* Love of the Game: This player truly loves everything about poker. They love putting in time learning, the competition, and the money they have to show for winning.* Gambling Addiction: This is the love of action turned unhealthy. If you need to play higher and higher just to feel alive and don't care if you win or lose as long as you're in action you probably have a gambling problem. If you this is you please get help from someone such as Gamblers Anonymous.Those are only a few reasons, and as you can see cheap nfl jerseys some are healthy and some aren't. What you must do now is figure out why you play the game. You will have to be completely honest with yourself, as you might find you are playing for all the wrong reasons. To figure out why you play think back to what attracted you to the game, what makes you happy when you play, and what pisses you off? What was the high point and what was the lowest low? Do you know what you want from the game in the future, and are you taking steps to meet any goals? Answering these questions should give you a pretty clear idea of your poker motivations.I'll use myself as an example. I believe that I play for the love of the game. I remember first learning the game around the time the WPT came out. I had always enjoyed card games, and couldn't pass up such an exciting game... plus you could win money!I would play heads up matches with my roommate from 11pm till the crack of dawn. We started playing for money, but soon stopped once we realized we played just as hard without it. I soon found the 6 max NL games on Party and I was in love. The games back then were so passive we would have contest on who could win the most pots in a row. The record was 22.As time passed I started winning more and thoughts of going pro entered my head. Even before poker I knew I would not be the person to get a job they hated slaving out a pay check week to week just to make ends meet. Poker just seemed so perfect, like it was my destiny to play. At age 20 I moved to Florida with some other poker players. While there have been some ups and downs but 3 years later we still post great hands on the wall, have amazing poker discussions, and go crazy together when we are deep in a tournament or win a giant pot. I play poker because I love everything about the game and it allows me to live a lifestyle I wouldn't give up for anything.The reason knowing why you play is so important is that it drives every single decision you make at the table. Why do you think you make calls when you know you're beat? Well it's probably because the small chance of winning a huge pot out ways the obviously bigger chance of losing. If you said to yourself "Am I just making the call because I love the action" you would immediately be able to reconsider your action. This is the first step in actively questioning previously subconscious decisions.Spend some time before your next sessions thinking about this and watch what a difference it makes when you play. You will probably discover you were making plays on auto pilot not because they were right, but because of the emotions they generated. The sooner you start taking decisions off auto pilot and looking at them in an objective light the sooner you will be able to make serious cash. An even better benefit will be the ability to expand your enjoyment of the game. Poker is much more entertaining when you allow yourself to enjoy all aspects of the game instead of letting your subconscious restrict your pleasure. http://yhetrsilkroad.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-can-i-buy-cheap-real-nfl-nike.html| http://vindictus23.blogspot.com/2013/06/evrything-will-be-possible-in-google.html|

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As you might or might know, every poker online site allows players to take notes on other players. Constantly taking notes on other players will give you an advantage in future hands and future Sit-N-Go games. I guarantee you will run into another player again that you took notes on in a previous game. You will see the same players quite often, even on large sites such as Full Tilt Poker or Poker Stars.When playing at the poker tables, what should you include in notes? You should cheap oakley sunglasses be looking for the best players and the weakest players. The reason for looking for the best players is you're looking to avoid the best players and take advantage of the weakest players. Here are some great questions to ask when analyzing players and taking notes.Are the players loose or tight? For example, do they always call often preflop with weak hands, or do they only play premium hands when they raise?Is the player aggressive or passive? Aggressive players will be constantly betting on the flop with nothing, cheap nfl jerseys raising often preflop, and playing many draws willing to invest a lot of chips to see if a draw hits. Passive players will continuously call bets.Does the player defend their blinds? Take a note on the player if you notice a player always folding in the blinds to a raise. You should take advantage of this and start raising in late position when they are the blind.Is the player winning or losing? This is a very simple note to take and it can help you identify exceptional and horrible players.Is the player playing clear-cut or pulling risky moves such as trapping other players or constantly slow rolling monster hands? Also, does the player like to check raise or bluff?Bet with only good hands?Fold with bad ones all the time?Taking notes is a valuable tool all poker sites offer and it almost always goes unnoticed. By taking notes, you will definitely see an increase in profits, and eventually you will be able to play Sit-N-Go's full time as a job.If you do not start taking notes and you want to make Sit-N-Go's a full time job, you will absolutely kick yourself for not taking notes. Online texas holdem has many great features such as taking notes and for FREE, why not take advantage of this? I mean take for example the world series of poker or the world poker tour, those guys study video after video of how people play. They see the same faces over and over again, especially the pro poker players. Sit-N-Go's only have 9 people at the table and on average if you stick to the same site, you will be sitting with at least 2 or 3 of these people that you have played with before. Even if you THINK your good at poker and do not need any more advice, PLEASE consider taking notes. It's a very simple and easy way to increase your skill level at the poker tables. http://yhetrsilkroad.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-can-i-buy-cheap-real-nfl-nike.html| http://vindictus23.blogspot.com/2013/06/evrything-will-be-possible-in-google.html|

Paul Simon Tickets- A New Title

Paul Simon has long been remembered as half of the famous folk-singing duo of Simon and Garfunkel. Now the man behind “Mrs. Robinson” has a new title to add to his repertoire. The Boston Berklee College of Music has recently named both Simon and actor Christopher Guest as members of the board of trustees at the school. The appointments of the legendary folk singer and the actor, most well known for his portrayal of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 rockumentary This is Spinal Tap, will help boost the school's reputation across the genres of education, songwriting, performance and film. Paul Simon has been awarded several Grammys for his work and has two scholarships in his name at the university. He was also given an honorary doctorate from Berklee in 1986. For more information on Paul Simon's tour schedule, be sure to check out http://www.stubhub.com/paul-simon-tickets.Paul Simon's beginnings in the music industry started in the 1950s, although he did not achieve widespread attention until the mid-1960s. When he initially teamed up with Art Garfunkel and the duo released the album Wednesday Morning 3 AM in October 1964, it flopped. It was chock full of ambitiously great ballads, such as “The Sound of Silence,” “Bleecker Street” and the title track, but not much interest developed until the former song started receiving radio airplay. Simon and Garfunkel, the ‘60s songwriters as we know them today, were born.Over the next five years the collaborative team dominated the charts, with Simon emerging as the songwriter. After several successful albums and high praise from critics, the pair split up in 1970 after the release of their best selling album Bridge Over Troubled Water. The album captured the mood of the public: uneasy, unsure and troubled by the political, social and cultural setting of the era. Both bold and reassuring, Bridge Over Troubled Water still pleases with tracks like the title song, “The Boxer,” “Cecilia” and “The Only Living Boy In New York.”After the break-up Simon focused on his solo work and emerged with a Grammy-winning record in Still Crazy After All These Years, which hit the stores in 1975. During this time, a pair of Paul Simon tickets was selling out like hotcakes as fans soaked up his superb songwriting and singing abilities.After dominating the charts, Simon took his time before delivering up another outstanding set cheap oakley sunglasses of songs in Graceland. The album became his biggest selling solo work. It was unique in that it combined his own songwriting talents with the mbaqanga music originating out of South Africa. The free-flowing magical style of poetry that was presented on this extraordinary album included some of Simon's biggest hit songs like “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” “I Know What I Know” and “You Can Call Me Al.”Paul Simon is still recording and performing and has not lost a bit of that natural creativity. For many, he is still that gifted poet who singlehandedly brought us the well-known soundtrack to the hit film The cheap nfl jerseys Graduate. http://yhetrsilkroad.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-can-i-buy-cheap-real-nfl-nike.html| http://vindictus23.blogspot.com/2013/06/evrything-will-be-possible-in-google.html|

Paul McCartney's New Album Electric Arguments

Paul McCartney's newest album was released in November of 2008 but it's not exactly a Paul McCartney album. It's officially an album by the experimental music group called The Fireman. Hopefully you are now intrigued and are wondering what in the heck I'm talking about. And you should be intrigued if you enjoy interesting music that stretches the boundaries of "normal" song arrangements.So who is The Fireman and what do they have to do with Paul McCartney? The Fireman is a duo consisting of a producer who goes by the name Youth (his real name is Martin Glover) and a former bass player for a certain influential 1960s band named Paul McCartney (ah yes, how did you guess?)If you haven't heard of The cheap nfl jerseys Fireman before that's because they have only released two previous albums which haven't gained much widespread attention. One of which was basically a remix album (1993's Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest) and a second that was a psychedelic, almost entirely instrumental, ambient album (1998's Rushes which I highly recommend.) Neither of these albums were very publicized and neither made the charts in the UK or the US.Their newest album, Electric Arguments, is a shift for the group in that it has been more heavily promoted (and it did enter the charts in the US and the UK although only at #67 & 71) and in that it includes songs with vocal melodies & lyrics rather than pure instrumentals (in fact every song on the album features vocals.)This is very exciting for McCartney fans like myself who have greatly enjoyed McCartney's more experimental tendencies (such as the tape loops on "Tomorrow Never Knows," the second album from The Fireman (Rushes,) or The Liverpool Sound Collage.) Finally we get to hear the combination of McCartney's songwriting & singing talents (and his vocals sound amazing on this album) combined with his experimental musical ideas.It's a thrilling ride especially when you consider the rather psychedelic notion that this is the same man who basically gave birth to many of the musical styles of today. This 66 year old man who has seen the music he helped give birth to develop into many different styles of music. And here he is in 2008 still producing inventive original music. It's truly a beautiful thing if you are into music for the art of it and not for the scene (yes I'm looking at you Pitchfork Media.)One of the really great things about this album is the way that McCartney stretches his vocals. On each song they sound completely different than the song before (or just cheap oakley sunglasses about any song he's ever released in the passed.) There's a rawness to his vocals that is really exciting to listen to.There's a lot of different styles of music on Electric Arguments from ragged rock (track 1 opens the album with a noisy Led Zeppelin-esque rocker) to quiet acoustic music (Track 2 "Two Magpies") to spaced out hard to describe electronica inspired music.One of the highlights for me is track 6, "Light From Your Lighthouse" which features probably the weirdest vocal on the album (and that's saying quite a bit.) It's also probably the catchiest song on the album. It actually reminds me a great deal of Ween which is a very good thing. I don't think a lot of people realize how inspired by McCartney Ween actually are. It was Paul, after all, who was behind of the "genre pastiches" with The Beatles ("Rocky Raccoon," "Honey Pie," "When I'm 64," "Back In The USSR.") By the way, if you are more of an old school classic rock fan and you've never heard Ween, I recommend you check them out. Start out with something like White Pepper so you don't get scared away!All said, I think Electric Arguments is sure to go down as one of the best albums of 2008 and as one of the most essential albums in Paul McCartney's solo career. http://yhetrsilkroad.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-can-i-buy-cheap-real-nfl-nike.html| http://vindictus23.blogspot.com/2013/06/evrything-will-be-possible-in-google.html|

Getting Back To The Guitar – Music Theory Basics (Part 3)

We can continue on like we did previously in a continuous circle of our fifth notes of each new scale until we find all the major scales. So we started at C Major, went to G Major which had one sharp, then to D Major which had two sharps, A Major, which has three sharps, and so on. Write out all the notes of each of these major scales on a sheet of paper and keep them in front of you to determine a song's key, or to know which notes to use within each key. Now, you can play any note on your guitar, go up two frets to find the next note in that key's major scale, go up another two frets for the next note, then one fret, then two frets, then two frets again, then two frets again, and then one fret, and you will have just found out the major scale for that beginning note. Pretty nifty huh?Now we will get down a little deeper into the harmonies of each note in our scale, which chords to play, and which chords were used in pretty much every old rock and roll song. We can place a number value on each our C Major scales' notes and learn another new formula that shows each notes' harmony. We will start at C and call it 1, number fake oakleys the next note D as a 2, E as a 3 and so on, from 1 to 8. This is another formula you can just take at face value, memorize, and then apply. Here is the formula and then I will explain after: 1-Major, 2-minor, 3-minor, 4-Major, 5-Major, 6-minor, 7-diminished, 8-Major. Taking our new numbered valued system where 1 is C, 2 are D, 3 is E, 4 is F, and so on, we apply our previous formula to each of those notes. Once applied, we now know the notes in cheap oakleys the scales' harmonies by playing the specified chords. This would mean that the chords for the key of C would be as follows: 1-C Major, 2-D minor, 3-E minor, 4-F Major, 5-G Major, 6-A minor, 7-B diminished, and 8-C Major again.In old rock and roll, the first, fourth, and fifth chords where used as a main chord progression. So play these three major chords in any key, and you will have a basic progression. The 5th chord is known as the “turn around chord” that brings you back to your first chord, or a different chord cheap ray bans to lead into another verse, chorus, or bridge. Many old love songs included the 6th chord, known as the relative minor chord into the mix as well. Now this becomes a numbers game. You write out your major scales as we learned before, apply the number value and major and minor chords accordingly, and then mess around with those chords to come up with your own progression. Hopefully this short series was helpful to some people, keep on learning and playing fake oakley sunglasses guitar.

Getting Back To The Guitar – Music Theory Basics (Part 2)

Let's pick right back up where we left off. With every major key, there is a certain pattern that is followed in terms of half and whole steps. Taking a look at cheap oakleys a C Major scale—we will start with this key because it has no sharps or flats to confuse one with—we can see how many half and whole steps there are in between each note. Starting at one C and going up C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C by applying this simple formula that every aspiring musician should memorize, we can tell how many half and whole tones are in this scale, and therefore knowing how many frets between each note so one can play the scale effortlessly. Here is our “magic formula”—it may not make much sense at first, but will come in handy later—W W H W W W H.What this means in plain English is whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. What this means in even plainer English is that in the C major scale, the intervals between each note is as follows: between C and D there is a whole step, (because there is a C# or Db between them), between D and E there is a whole step, (because of the D# or Eb between them), between E and F there is only a half step, (because there is no such thing as an E# or Fb; notice on a piano how there seems to be a black key missing), between F and G there is a whole step, and so on and so forth.C D E F G A B CW W H W W W HNow when you see any major scale, you can know that if you start at the root or tonic note (if it's an E major scale the tonic note would be E), there are two whole steps, then a half step, three more whole steps, and then a final half step. How does this help us now? Using something called “the circle of fifths” we can find out every major key and the notes that are in it.Starting again with C Major, there are no sharps or flats, so it would be from one C to the next knowing the intervals between each note. Now, we go to the fifth note cheap oakley sunglasses in our C Major scale, which is G. Now we write out G-A-B-C-D-E-F-G and we can see that it follows our previous W-W-H-W-W-W-H formula except at one point. We need to have a whole step between E and F, and a half step between F and G. The rest of the scale is in line with the formula. So to do this, the simplest way of remembering this is when we find the fifth note of C (which is G), and then write out that note's scale, we put a sharp (#) on the second last (or seventh note), which is the F. This would fix our problem by making the interval between E and the new F# a whole step, and cheap ray bans the interval between F# and G a half step.From there, we keep following our previous step, by taking the fifth note of our newly created G Major scale—which is a D—and writing out the letters from D to D again, but this time, we keep our F# from our previous scale. So the D Major Scale looks like this: D-E-F#-G-A-B-C#-D. Notice how the second last note—the C—is sharpened to fix our problem we had before, and the F is still sharp. Now we go on again ray bans outlet. Try it yourself, take the fifth note of the newly made D Major scale (hint: A), write from A to A, keeping our F# and C# as before, and sharpening the second last note (it's going to be the G this time.) Next lesson will deal further with our “circle of fifths” and I will show you which chords you can play in each key to start your own chord progressions—the base of every song.

Fascinating Information About Kung Fu Movies

Kung Fu movies are a unique genre of action film with huge international appeal. Also known as wushu in China where this art form originated, the flicks represent a fascinating aspect of that country's culture and history. Following below are some interesting bits of information pertaining to this fascinating style of action movie since it's early days.The very first fake oakleys movie resembling a modern martial arts flick was made in China in 1928. And given that it takes about 27 hours to watch from beginning to end, it was shown in 8 serial episodes. During the 1970's however, this type of movie spread from Hong Kong, the source of modern kung fu flicks, to the international community.The original wushu films featured a literary tradition invoking elements of the mysterious and sword-fighting. This evolved into more mundane stories with lots of unarmed combat. Conventionally its heroes were common folk that were nevertheless chivalrous and sided with the oppressed and the poor, fighting to avenge or defend the rights of the ordinary population.Today most if not all the actors and actresses are genuine martial artists, and the authentic fighting skills on display appeal to audiences all over the globe. Keeping track with the shifting tastes of cinema goers the films have evolved to the point of showcasing stylized yet breathtaking acrobatic moves, including the more coarser urban type of gangster motif. The use of comedy, near life-threatening stunts and contemporary urban backgrounds have helped to boost it's appeal in the popular imagination.It didn't take Western film makers long to realize the christian louboutin sale potential of these movies and it's appeal to foreign audiences. Especially when gorgeous Asian female actresses with serious martial arts skills began playing leading roles it propelled the genre to new levels of popularity. Many Hollywood movie stars became involved and even influenced lots of young cinema goers to take up training in the martial arts.It's perhaps typical of this sort of flick to feature fight scenes involving many people. This naturally makes it very challenging to shoot, hence the need for lots of equipment and having highly skilled martial arts actors on board. And even though the scenes are choreographed and rehearsed many times before the actual filming starts, it nevertheless requires tremendous skills to pull off the moves which awe cinema audiences.Traditionally directors and producers paid scant attention to narrative ploys common to mainstream storytelling. Plots were generally means to showcase combat moves. And the same could be said about character development, or fake oakley sunglasses it's lack thereof. But the modern versions have caught up and plot and character are as much a consideration as the fighting sequences.Modern technology has helped to elevate the status of kung fu movies to new heights of film making. Though some fans may find the use of computer generated special effects distracting to the authenticity of older flicks, it still fascinates the fans to no end. Hopefully these bits of information help to clarify why these films continue to be global hits tory burch outlet today.

Fantasy Stories, A Genre For All Ages

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