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  1. This is where it becomes such a problem. How do you define primary source of income. When you say substantial, that may mean more than your ft job, and it depends on the eye of the interpreter whether this would be primary. Revenue Canada could certainly consider it a primary source if you elevated your lifestyle from it, or if certainly you made more doing it than your job. However I have heard of few definitive cases, and everything seems to be still on a case by case basis. One thing to be careful of, I have talked to several different accountants, and several have said "you have a full time job, so your not taxable", but having a full time job does not satisfy the test that poker is not your primary source of income. I mean surely a player making 50k from poker working at McD's should pay taxes on poker winnings, but some people assume a bit too much "I have a job therefore it shouldn't be taxable."Although I wouldn't want the casual player to be taxed on it, such as in the states, I would definitely love it if there were more clear cut rules in place regarding poker income from Revenue Canada.
    Ya, I agree that that it is not clearcut. For me, I still make more money with my FT job, and I could easily demonstrate to an auditor that I spend most of my time 'working' and am not 'in the business of gambling'.
  2. I have a FT job and play poker recreationally (I am Canadian)...I have substantial winnings in the last 2 years...my CA told me that my winnings were not taxable so long as poker was not my primary source of income. I found this reassuring, FWIW.

  3. it's pronounced "kee kay" as a spanish nickname its just spelled the samei get a kick out of people that will rail on with racist slurs because i use the asian guy avatar on ftp calling you slope gook or chinksame as the people that call me fat because they assume that is why i have a newman avatar
    I'm just gonna drop it, but I would err on the side of inconveniencing all the 'kee kay's who spell their screen name 'kike'.
  4. I'm not familiar with the term Kike, but how offensive is it? Is it in the same boat as the N word? I'm generally not a PC person, but I still don't use the N word (white FWIW, and I have black friends who don't rly care about the use of the word, but for some reason I still don't say it)
    On par with the N word.
  5. if you're actually offended then i lol at you sir.lighten up.
    I actually do not take offense easily and have never been one to complain about this sort of thing. This name however crosses a line, imho. Easy to dismiss I suppose when you are not the minority in question. Maybe I'm just bored today.
  6. I took offense to the screen name 'kike'. I am not interested in 'censoring' screen names, but I think that racial epithets are out of bounds, even if it is a 'nickname'. Here is my correspondence thus far with PS:*********************************> ----- Original Message -----> From: > Sent: 2009/06/01 12:15:05> To: support@pokerstars.com> Subject: > > >> >Hi. > >> > > >> >I writing to let you know that I take offence to the player name 'kike06',> as 'kike' is a derogatory reference to jewish people.> >> > > >> >Sincerely,*********************************** > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:12:22 -0400> From: support@pokerstars.com> To: > Subject: PokerStars Support - User IDs> > Hello ,> > Thank you for your email and for taking time to report this matter.> > We are sorry you feel this way about these User IDs, however I can inform> you that "Kike" is a very common nickname for Enrique, Manrique and most> Latin names ending in 'ique' and in this case this is the reason for the> User ID.> > I am sorry if this is of an inconvenience to you.Please let us know if you> have any other questions and we will be more than happy to assist you further.> > Regards,> > Aura> PokerStars Support Team*****************************************************RE: PokerStars Support - User IDs‏From: Sent: June 1, 2009 1:27:20 PM To: support@pokerstars.com I understand your explanation, however I feel that it is a horrible choice to allow an anti-semitic slur to be deemed acceptable because it is a common nickname for people named Enrique. Better I suppose to offend an entire ethnic population than to inconvenience all of the Enriques and Manriques out there. Good thing too that 'nigg**' is not a popular latin nickname as that too would have to be deemed acceptable. Please forward this e-mail to your supervisor. Thanks. Your loyal customer, > > > >> >

  7. Everybody instinctively wants to beleive that a man/grandfather could never do such a thing. When he tells a 'reasonable' account of what happened, we really want to believe him. But the man did something inappropriate with this little girl. Young children do not interpret and remember innocent behaviour in a sexual context. This is just not how they see the world. For this girl to recount sexualized behaviour to her family in this manner, something must have been inappropriate. This is why the authorities take it so serously. As time passes, children's thoughts and memories become re-organized, and so even the victim might start to doubt her own recollections and might even feel guilty about disrupting the family to such a degree. The perpetrators account might even start to seem plausible, and stories might change.

  8. Here's my humble 2 cents on the steps...The advantage of a skilled player in this format seems to be quite marginal.I've been trying for 3 weeks:In the first week I didn't really know that much about Sit'n go strategy. I played extremely tight, and I got 3 cracks at step 5. By week 2 I felt that my results were quite random, depending on whether or not I caught good cards at the right time and whether or not the flips held up, so i decided to watch the 10 part Sit'n go strategy series on Cardrunners. Some eye-opening concepts that I wasn't aware of, but...In week 3 it seems that applying some advanced concepts has made no difference because the other players are happy to call a shove for their tournament life on a flip. Open shoving AQs in the later stages and getting called by a similar stack with KJs or 22 seems to be standard. Applying ICM considerations seems to be a waste of time so far. My strategic advantage goes out the window when the other guy doesn't know that he's supposed to fold. I'm no pro, don't get me wrong, but...Sit'n go's are a real crapshoot imho. Any skill advantage seems to be negated by the inevitable coinflip that I seem to win, oh, about 50% of the time. I haven't been back to Step 5 since week 1.Anyone care to differ?

  9. Later on, it's not only about catching cards, a big part of sng's is using position and fold equity to your advantage. You can't just let yourself blind out at the 75/150 or 100/200. You have to take advantage of tight players and be willing to put you stack at risk a lot if you didn't manage to accumulate chips early. The longer you wait, the lighter you get called and if you end up having to shove garbage, that's not a good thing. But you are def right about the early strategy. The tighter the better. R0llin pretty much nailed the opening ranges.
    I hear and agree with what you're saying, but I often face a dilemma as to whether or not to be pushing/aggressive as the bubble approaches (5th place in Step 3) and risk busting out when I know that if I hang on a little longer I can be confident of: 1) reaching 5th place, and 2) getting at least one more solid opportunity to get my chips in good. Also, with the slightly more patient approach I have been getting my chips in good later on, but like you said, they call lighter (and sometimes suck out).
  10. I was more just joking about it being generally a good idea to GAIN chips rather than just sit back and watch :)Not advocating doing anything crazy early in a SnG; but if you just wait for Aces and fold until the blinds are big you are quickly in a shovefest and relying more on luck than anything.
    I'm thrilled to accumulate chips early, but I'm not taking big risks for tiny profits. By the time the blinds are climbing high I'm generally in the 1300 - 1700 range. Early on I take the approach that 'every chip is precious'. I'm learning that to occasionally limp or min raise is OK (which I would never do in most cash game scenarios).
  11. I start at step 3 (don't have the time to start with steps 1 or 2). I conserve chips until the blinds climb then try and catch some cards and make things happen. 1st week everything came easily...3 cracks at step 5 (out in 6th,4th, and then on my 3rd attempt I lost my internet connection early - gg me). This week I'm getting my ass kicked on step 3. Maybe tougher opponents or maybe variance. Bad beats on key hands coming out of my butt (AA<AT, AK<AJ, KK<77, AQ<A8)Anyone with opinions about optimal steps strategy? I feel like my approach is solid, but I'm not satisfied with this week's results.Thanks in advance.

  12. ...is so hard to do sometimes.Not sure if it is due to ego, being tired or tilt. No matter what it's due to I have to refrain from repeating the sames mistakes. I see myself making this error win I either raise with a medocre hand out of position or I miss the flop with a decent starting hand after raising pre-flop.The later isn't really the issue as I am able to get away from losing hands in position much easier than out of position. I may make a continuation bet and the odd second and third bullet but most of the time I can toss the hand if I dont improve or sense strength.When I am out of position and have hit a piece of the flop, on the other hand, I have a very hard time reading my opponents and making an educated guess on what they are holding. I have the tendancy to fire all three streets or make a stupid bet on one of the streets.It's as though I don't believe my opponents have anything and I get involved with problematic hands such as J10s UTG+2, like last night. Some what tigh table at the time and I have a solid image. 2 folds and the action is on me so I raise 3xbb with J10s, middle position player calls and BB called. Flop 1083(two spades), BB check, I bet 5 and MP raises to 15, BB folds. It gets back to me and I know I am beat but just find reasons to call, stupid ****ing reasons.Turn is the 9h. At this point I decide to bet enough to put him all-in (about the size of the pot), he calls with 88 and rivers quads. LOL, I'm so bad at poker sometimes.I play patient and thoughful poker for hours and end up making one bone head play and it cost me a winning session and a huge pot. Atleast I know where my leak lies and I need to pay more attention to position. Also need to trust my inner voice and just let the hand go when I know I'm beat.
    I have had the same problem but I recently read one of Daniel's articles with a quote that made a lot of sense...basically he said: 'If you never fold the best hand, then you really aren't playing all that well'.
  13. 18 guys...CA$800 buy-in...10 sit-n-go tables per person over 3-4 months...points awarded for finishing 1st-9th each week...overall winner gets WSOP ME buy-in + ~$2K for travel (etc...), and 50 or 60% equity in any WSOP cash (with the rest being allotted to other players depending on final ranking). Also there is a proposal that each player gets their $800 investment back in the event of any ME cash before the rest of the prize is distributed.I've got my own opinions about this proposal, but I'd be interested to hear what others think. Thanks in advance.

  14. Been sailing along beautifully for a couple months...things are happening the way they should...occasional bad beat, but that's understandable...then BOOM, suddenly everything is upside down, bad beats are non-stop one on top of the next...crazy improbabilities one after the next...freakin' doomswitch...Just needed to vent, thanks for listening...please move on.

  15. You understand that a coinflip is awesome when you're already getting odds on what is a monster pot, right?
    At the time I felt/hoped/believed that the odds were right to call, and I did. In analyzing things in this thread, I started to think that I must've been a huge dog to win (i.e. coinflip being the best case scenario). Seeing the stats/odds laid out it seems clear that the odds favour a call.
  16. Just to be clear, I wasn't questioning any of your analysis AK, just looking to clarify some of the bits about the range.Hero is getting 2:1 to call the shove, so, yeah, he should call.
    Board: 6c 7c 8cDead:  	equity 	win 	tie 		  pots won 	pots tied	Hand 0: 	58.705%	  57.99% 	00.72% 			 21814 		  271.00   { JJ+, AcKc, AcQc, AcKd, AcKh, AcKs, AdKc, AhKc, AsKc, AcQd, AcQh, AcQs, AdQc, AhQc, AsQc }Hand 1: 	41.295%	  40.57% 	00.72% 			 15264 		  271.00   { TcTd }

    Thanks for the analysis.
  17. Okay, as for the actual hand. Do not 4-bet and fold to a shove preflop. There's no shame in losing a buy in with TT. Just 4-bet, click the call button when he shoves and hit a set.As for the flop, I don't hate raising the flop, but you need to know what you're doing to a shove since he's going to shove a trajillion percent of the time. I just raise-call because no one ever has anything heads up and the percent of time he has an overpair + higher flush draw is offset by the amount already in the pot.
    Fair enough, thx.
  18. You know I meant AK or AQ with one club.He's flipping vs that and vs red QQ. He's killed by black QQ though.
    Taking everything into account I don't think that I had any business calling his shove...a coin-flip (at best) for stacks generally doesn't appeal to me (edit: I suspect this thinking shows why I shouldn't be playing high stakes hu), and I guess I got caught up in this particular hand. If I knew that he was loose, then maybe.Is my flop raise really that bad if I plan on folding to a shove? In hindsight, I would be 4-betting pf and getting it all-in if necessary. But given the current scenario, folding to a flop bet seems weak. Calling doesn't help me either.
  19. As someone said, if you're asking this question, then you almost certainly should not be playing 5/10 HU.Early on in the match, against someone who seems aggressive and capable of possibly making moves preflop, with TT, I'm just 4betting and calling a shove. If you're not ok getting it in for your stack, you DO NOT 4-BET this hand.As played, on the flop, you get it in here with a weird amount of equity against most players and it's probably not a mistake to get it in, but you are flipping a TON vs AcKc or AxQc or whatever. And you're often dominated by JJ+, with or without a club.If you had to do it over, I'd 4 bet to 265 preflop and then the hand plays itself.I have no idea why you're raising this flop if you're not instantly calling his shove.
    I agree that I shouldn't be playing 5/10 hu...I would definitely be on a small stakes table if I was planning on becoming a hu player/specialist, but that being said I do occasionally find myself playing hu on a full ring table (I think that the original post gives the wrong impression that I am doing hu training on a 5/10 table).I did call the shove..he had KK (no club)...a 9 on the river gave me the pot (sorry for no conversion, i don't have access to the HH right now).
  20. I guess it depends on what "he played 33 aggressively" means. Was there a lot of raising pf or what? If he's overvaluing hands, then I'd probably call. I'd reraise pf to $250 and be willing to get it in if he's overaggressive. I think Zach and a few others that play HU would be better at answering this. I think the bigger mistake is raise/folding the flop, your hand is strong and has showdown value, if you are raising it's in an effort to get all the money in, not to "see where he's at".
    I appreciate all of the feedback. With the 33 hand, he wasn't 'over-aggressive' so much as he over-called on the flop and turn. Ultimately, I didn't have a meaningful read on this guy and certainly didn't have a sense of his 3-bet or 4-bet range.I guess my original question related to whether or not my additional outs (inside straight draw, and non-nut flush draw) justified a loose call assuming there was a good chance that he was ahead.
  21. please note I do mean to offend you whatsoever, but as cool as it is that you are playing 5/10 with the questions you seem to have about HU, maybe you should move down in limits when practicing. Or get a friend or someone here to play you lower etc and trade notes.If he shoves to the 4 bet, with no notes, I'd say its a fold. Until you get some info on what he is 4-betting etc with probably a fold
    No worries...I'm a full-ring player but will occasionally play someone hu while waiting for a table to fill-up at 2-4, 3/6, and very rarely 5/10.
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