So, I have a decent bit of experience with computers, but I built my computer about 3-4 years ago. I have a much better idea of what I'm looking for this time around. So, what's happened in the last 3-4 years in technology that I need to know about? How are the 6 cores? It it better to have more cores or fewer cores that have more processing power? What improvements in graphics cards are there? Are SSD any cheaper? Is it better to have one harddrive, that equals one terabyte, or multiple ones in some kind of Raid 0 configuration? Give me some suggestions on a custom CPU build. My budget is probably around 1000 dollars. I plan to use this computer for poker stuff, and gaming.



Here is what I'm looking at so far. Let me know where you would upgrade and to what. Also, let me know if anything is not compatible.

AMD

Motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131402

CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727

Video Card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127510

Ram:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277 (8gb)


Harddrive: Do I need something better if I'm going to have a huge HEM Database?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284


Power Supply: Do I need more or less power?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006

Case:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021


Intel

Mobo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128487

Vid Card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102908

CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070

PSupply:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005

Everything else is the same as before.

Hey I'm looking to play some 1/2 2/4 live games in the Indianapolis area. If anyone hosts or knows of any games, I'd love to join. PM me if you know of a game. Thanks

2010 is in the books. I improved a ton as a player thanks to my friends and coach. I played in my first WSOP events, and even got to play in the ME which was an incredible experience. I even got deep in the 2500 6m. It was down to the wire, but I made Supernova on pokerstars.

It still amazes me how many mistakes I make in a session. I currently have a plan to improve on my mistakes. I honestly think about 4-6 bb/100 lost due to mistakes, and quite possibly more. I'm currently working with Jared Tendler, and hopefully I will improve a lot of my mental game weaknesses such as tilt, and work ethic.

I would like to work with a few more students, so I'm going to lower my coaching rate to 75/hr. I primarily want to focus on players that are playing 50 and 100nl. I will work with students playing lower, but I feel at these limits, I can fix a lot of the common mistakes that are preventing them from moving higher.

2011 Jan Goals:

I want to start playing 2/4 soon.
60 hrs of poker in January
5hrs of undivided attention of video watching

2011 Year goals:

5/10 6m Reg.
Learn PLO
Play a ton more Headsup.

Good luck everyone. Hope everyone has a successful 2011. I would have made this blog post longer, but everytime I press enter, it scrolls my damn page back to the top.

So, I have always tried to get motivated and stick to my goals, but I always seem to not be able to follow through. Anyway, I'm gonna try to thing called Don't Break the Chain, and see what happens.

Hey everyone, I have my own private coaching forum. www.zaitsevcoaching.com I admittedly stole this idea from Grant. I've been looking to be more active in the forums in posting HH advice, so I have created my own forum, for my friends and students. This forum is available to all my current students as well as former students who have had 5 lessons or more. I will be very active in this forum and try to respond to as many questions as possible. I hope everyone that is a part of this will be extremely active. This is going to be a place to learn, have fun, and grow as a player. The site still needs some tweaking but it is running as of now. Anyone is welcome to come visit and view threads, but only students/friends are able to post. Oh and mad props goes out to gretchtastic who helped me a ton with this site.

What do you guys think? Am I running good or bad? Obviously I feel like I'm running bad, but maybe I'm not. Just want to see what you guys think.

So after a disastrous start to the month, I have made a nice comeback, thanks to the help of my coach. Seriously, if you are a struggling poker player, get a coach. Most people think they are over priced etc. but can you afford not to get coaching? I'm not selling myself by any means, I'm just extremely happy with where my game has gone and how I have improved as a player since getting lessons.

As many of you know I have struggled for awhile at poker. Part mental, Part spew, Part run bad. The worse I ran, the more I spewed, the more I spewed, the more I tilted. The worst part about it was that I was in denial about all of it. I remember saying retarded stuff like playing against too many fish is hard, or like he's so bad for calling down second pair for three streets which was probably correct given how much a spewtard I was. For some reason I was stupid enough to think that I didn't need coaching that I fell into the same trap many of you who refuse to get coaching. "What can a coach teach me that a video can't" "I have a really good group of friends to talk poker with" "Coaches are too expensive, I can't justify paying a coach x/hr" My students were smarter than I was. They were honest enough to know where they fell short and that a coach would help them improve. Meanwhile, I was being completely ignorant of my leaks letting my ego get in the way of seeking help.

I look back at this link and smile about it now. http://www.cardrunners.com/cr_forums/showthread.php?72164-This-guy-is-a-pro-Really&p=524879#post524879 Maybe we should change the title of the thread to: This guy is a pro!!!! Really!!!!! :) At the time, it really hurt, and stressed me out. It made me lose confidence in my coaching ability, and my place with the CR team. I smile about it now because I see the people who had my back, and I realize it was just a bump in the road. All successful people fail at some point. I persevered and I won't be surprised if another thread about how terrible I am at poker starts up again. Anyway, time for the brag.

I'm sitting at the airport with my hopes and dreams crushed. I'm disappointed in myself knowing that I could have done better. I would not care if I played my absolute best and came up short, but I got to the big stage and choked. As you can probably tell, I'm out of the main event, and I'm pissed. I made one major mistake and couldn't recover.

4 limpers in the pot, I pick up AQ in the BB and raise it to 700 at 50-100 blinds, 300bb effective. Young bad player calls, Old dude calls and I've seen him call basically any 2 suited. Flop comes AJ6hhh, I cbet 1500, young bad player folds, old dude calls. Turn Q, I have Qh, I bet 2000, Old dude calls. River, is a 4, I bet 3000 trying to get worse aces to call, he raises to 12k, and I puke in my mouth. Obvioiuisly the only bluffs he can have here are like Khx, but in reality, all of his Khx, is always suited. Because he'll never have a hand like K2o in this spot. Unfortunately, I made a major mistake in thinking he somehow was drawing to a K high flush when how can he ever have that draw? I made a terrible call and he shows K3hh. This pretty much left me with like 13 or 14k. And after that I lost flush over flush for another monster pot, and utg+3 or 4 opens and I reship 66 with like 18bb, and sb calls with QQ. 6 in the window............ Q on whatever the third card is called. And that's my main event.

Vegas was a blast, but I'm ready to be home. I miss my own bed, I miss my computer, I miss my monitor, I miss internet poker, I miss my gf, I miss my puppy, I miss not eating like complete crap. I'm excited for the future. I want to be a 5/10 reg by the next time I'm in vegas. I'm gonna work hard, and succeed. I feel like my mindset has changed. I didn't tilt once in vegas. I didn't tilt when I lost QQ to QJ, AA to AJ, I came back the next day and played the best 11bb poker I could. I didn't tilt when I lost QQ to T7hh aipf for an 1800 dollar pot. I'm opening up my poker world. I'm learning hu, and will learn some plo. I like playing hu b/c it's different and a change. 2010 has been going well so far, lets keep it up!

I've been playing a lot of live cash and tournaments this summer, and I feel like I have a pretty considerable edge over these guys. This is also the best structure and softest field so I'm really looking forward to playing it. I need to sell 50% more of myself in order for me to play the ME. Let me know if you are interested. I'm selling at 1.25 markup.

1% - 125
5% - 625
10% - 1250

Here is my 2p2 link also. http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/163/staking-selling-shares/revised-cardrunners-guest-pro-selling-me-1-25-markup-820033/