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only played 38k hands since july 1st (double vpp week) to achieve it


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Anyone played this? Watched a load of reviews on youtube about it and its pretty mixed. People complain about the controls but i mean im thinking of getting it for the PC and not the 360/PS3.

Im mainly concerned with gameplay/plot and want a good fun enjoyable game to play. I'm not sure really about this which is whats bothering me. I really cant make a decision if i want it or if it dont want it but i cant seem to get it out of my mind so maybe i'll get some replies to sway me either way

One of the reviews i watched (very good review, straight up):


Supposedly the dialogue is fairly basic and adolescent. A good example of this:


Im sure its fairly hilarious, not quite on the level of X3 Reunion. But yeah i generally find this stuff really funny even tho its pretty stupid/dumb.

Another game thats sort of caught my eye is Alan Wake. Its sort of in the same ballpark i think but its not due to come out for a couple months yet.

Any other suggestions of good/new/interesting games out atm for PC i'd be glad to hear em'.

Cheers,

David.


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I moved up to NL10 when I had 250, and at the start of this month I anticipated success.

Well...



So now it's back to NL5 for the moment.

I'm still commited as hell to reach my goal of reaching 625 for NL25 (BR management ftw). It felt so sweet to hit 250 for NL10 so I guess I'll nut in my pants when I hit 625 :D

No need for pity posts or anything. I guess this blog post is more to myself, telling me that it's only a temporary setback and I'll make it for sure. Or go busto trying, lol. Nothing to do but keep working hard. In fact I should work harder and watch all the DC vids I dled and put in more hours.

Next blog post only when I reach 625 and invite you to celebrate with me.

Here's to staying hungry...


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Well I played the main event today, It was pretty cool. I guess I had Larry Flynt sitting directly to my left. For those who don't know he's the inventor of Hustler magazine and such, has 2-3 body guards and a wheel chair made of gold. He was terrible though and busted out after limping every hand and eventually check/called 2k all in on a flop of A24 rainbow with a T7o.

Anyways, on to my story: My table was nice and juicy, bad players, etc, level one went ok I chipped up to like 23k or so with no showdowns. Level 2 was not going my way though. Every time I reraised a premium someone would wake up with something in the blinds and cold 4-bet and I'd be forced to fold. I managed to chip down to about 16k or so when the following happened. Frequent opener raised the hijack to 600 and I called on the button with 89cc. BB also defends. Flop comes down Tc4cJh, killer flop for my hand. Notes on the BB: terrible all around, will bet-call anything, has no understanding of hand value or ranges, also thinks that the game being slow (due to larry flynt's alzheimer's or w/e making him take like 30sec per hand) is a good thing because it keeps you from losing more chips...Anyways it checks to me on the flop and I bet 1,100 into 1900. The BB thinks a bit and calls, hijack folds. Also should be noted that the BB hesitated before checking the flop so I assumed he had some sort of strong hand that he's deciding to slowplay. The turn is an off suit 8 and the BB checks quickly. I go ahead and check behind, given my assumption that he's strong. The river is the magical Ace of clubs. He leads out 3k at me and I start trying to figure out how to get the most out of him. I decide that he's the type of guy who will have to big of an ego to lay down KQ or any set or top 2 on this board and decide to shove for 13k total. He sits back in his chair and starts mumbling, he says "what could you have kid? ...*tanks for 20-30seconds*..."

"Okay I call, I have the nuts." and he tables KQcc, GG main event. Hate slowrollers.


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Then you should hate McCain.



Obama recently switched his position on FISA and that pissed me off, and that was his first official "flip flop" that I've seen, but now they're trying to paint him as the biggest flip flopper in the world. It's such a weird argument considering how many times McCain has flip flopped - and it's a LOT. They're saying "see, you can't trust Obama cause he flip flops, so he shouldn't be president!" but the same argument works even BETTER against McCain. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.

Lemme try and put this into a different context. This is a weird hypothetical but it's all I can think of: It's like Elky and I were competing for the same job, and Elky started arguing that I wasn't qualified for the job because I played starcraft. It's true, I did play starcraft and occasionally still do. But he played a hell of a lot more than I ever did and he was a pro-gamer. If having a background of starcraft disqualifies someone for the job, he's a million times more guilty of it than I am. It's a pretty insane argument to make.

The crazy thing about what's going on now is that some people are actually BUYING this line of argument. By McCain's own logic he should be completely disqualified from the race for the presidency, and he's out there spouting this BS over and over again, and people are stupid enough to fall for it.

Oh yeah, I also gotta mention one other insane thing that just happened. McCain and Bush both opposed the new GI bill till the last minute, but when it passed they took credit for it! "No, we must stop this bill! What, it passed? Oh, I just want to say I'm proud of all the hard work I did to push this bill through. Your welcome!" WTF. That's some insanity. Who does that? What kind of shady shit is that? Wow. One thing I have always respected about Republicans is that they have some fucking balls. Sadly they always use em to push for shit I don't want. Damn Democrats are running on issues I agree with but they're a bunch of pussies.

Oh well.


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I'm a lucksack...



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So... I just started taking advantage of the FTP 100$ free. Thanks to the LP people for that. I was going to do CDPoker 150$ free first, for obvious reasons, but had registration issues (their support told me to do it from a different computer, so I'll get around to that soon :o).

I'm trying to find a replacement for my job through poker. I have the free time to experiment with finding something else, poker or otherwise, thanks to a light summer schedule . I'm quite determined to replace this part time job I have that requires distant travel and requires me to wake up at 5 am every day. I really suffered from lack of sleep last semester T_T.

Anyway, that job makes me about 200$ a week, and the challenge is to replace that in 2 months. After these 2 months end I really won't have the time for work, poker, and my fall classes, so one of them has to go by that time :O I so badly want to quit that job :O Another reason for this is, I think if I give them 2 weeks notice about my quitting they will be pretty much screwed (I've estimated it costing them around 10-20k to replace me, since I'm the only one who knows how to do the work for my companies largest client, ever since the guy who hired me took a job in North Carolina.. I fantasize about them offering me a 4x pay increase and then turning them down cuz poker is going so well.

I think this could be pretty hard, however. Since poker has variance that can go for months, it won't be 100% clear that I can safely replace my job unless I do very well. So I think of setting this benchmark: 1k cash out while maintaining a bankroll of about 700-1000. So that is an average of about 33$ per day. But M-Th I'll be lucky to play 4 hours. In another week I might have a better idea about how realistic this is. I welcome comments on this part most of all (though I doubt anyone will have read this far ;( ).

This morning I was down to about 12$. Thursday and Friday I kept losing my stack to well known kinds of suckouts and I was afraid if it continued any longer I'd bust before the remaining 35$ of bonus released. ATM I'm at 115$ with 10$ of the bonus remaining. So +25$. The biggest reason for the change is I've been running better, but I do feel I've adapted my play well since yesterday. I've found playing a SnG while grinding the .05/.10 at FPT to help maintain a sense of reality. When things aren't interesting while grinding ring I start getting tempted by trash hands :O

Mm. I've got a headache from looking at the computer for almost 7 hours straight, so I've lost any capacity to make this blog interesting. I blame the fast speed of FPT, I can barely get away from the computer to hydrate myself... so TTFN.




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just spent 5 weeks in Vegas/minot ND
lost 8k in expenses/gambling

NOT A VERY PROFITABLE TIME but very fun


So i made a prop bet with a friend that I would make 10k this month.
5 days in I'm up close to 2k. Should be an easy win.

Also, I wanted to thank Midian for going over one of my videos. Always nice to get honest feedback from a pro like him. Sometimes I can get overconfident in my game and when you see the cold hard truth from a great player like Midian, it makes you realize how much there is to improve.

gl everyone

billy snider


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Another day, another -1400. Sick shit, 50/20/4s will always always out flop me, leading to sick instances of hulk tilt
brb setting grease fire in room


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I swear, u can't run worse against donks, like u do in the weekends sometimes. Godd reads, bad results = loss. Is there something like "cursed computer"? On the weekends, i travel to my mother /i live in my own house during weekdays, but i always visit my mom weekends/, and play on her comp. I never ever can run good, fuck, not even normal here ^^ I always lose 3-6 buyins here, dunno why. I have the exact same "poker config" on my PC what i have here, so that cant be a problem. Oh well, whatever

Today i continued this streak, lost 3 buyins, but i managed to win it back, so i'm happy

Hands like this can help too:
Submitted by : Ezekiell

PokerStars Game #18602068680: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/07/05 - 14:10:47 (ET)
Table 'Malzovia II' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Johhny Sack ($58.85 in chips)
Seat 2: paradox27 ($34.60 in chips)
Seat 3: AlbanyAces ($49.05 in chips)
Seat 4: Enberg ($80.45 in chips)
Seat 5: Ezzored ($98.50 in chips)
Seat 6: suckmyford ($14.90 in chips)
suckmyford: posts small blind $0.25
Johhny Sack: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards
Dealt to Ezzored
paradox27: folds
AlbanyAces: folds
Enberg: raises $1.50 to $2
Ezzored : calls $2
suckmyford: folds
Johhny Sack: calls $1.50

Flop (Pot : $6.25)

   
Johhny Sack: checks
Enberg: checks
Ezzored : bets $4
Johhny Sack: folds
Enberg: raises $36 to $40
Ezzored said, "oh god"
Ezzored : raises $36 to $76
Enberg: folds
Uncalled bet ($36) returned to Ezzored
Ezzored collected $83.25 from pot
Ezzored : doesn't show hand
Ezzored said, "lol"

Summary
Total pot $86.25 | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: Johhny Sack (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: paradox27 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: AlbanyAces folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Enberg folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Ezzored (button) collected ($83.25)
Seat 6: suckmyford (small blind) folded before Flop

Sooo my visa actually did start working again and i had a pretty enjoyable last days in Vegas. Came home 8h ago and is still really really tired, just gonna write a short tournament report for i dunno the purposes (maybe someone wants to read?).

$1500 NL event 49: Lasted 20 mins in this my first live-tournament ever, great indeed! Not much i could do tho, i played 2(!!) freaking hands and i was out... Starting with 3k stack and 60bb deep. I get AA raise it up to 150 from cutoff, btn and bb calls and flop comes QQ9. BB check i bet 200 into this pretty safe flop, btn folds and bb calls. Turn is a blank 3 and it goes check/check and then he donkleads 400 on a K river, bleh spot, what do i beat? But the aggressive internetplayer donk i am i obv call the 1/2 pot bet and he shows a Q and im down 800 chips.

I blind away ~200 more and have 2k left when EP raise it to 200, MP guy calls, i look down at QQ and 3bet to 800, pretty much comitting myself if not the extremest of gay flops comes out. EP folds and MP guy flatcalls again, Flop comes Kxx and he checks to me. Im never folding at this point but checking behind and getting it in on turn may be a better option? I give him a change to do something stupid on turn and bigger chance he calls with 99+ perhaps? Oh well i shove it rigth away 1200 into 1900 and he snaps with AKo, gg.

At least I lasted longer than Cosmo that i met in the hallway right after!

$1500 NL event 52: Lasted a solid 5h in this one! Played pretty perfect all the way imo just didnt get the chips i needed in the end. Best hand was me raising AJs EP, loose/aggressive guy calls LP and tight american livenit calls from BB and flop comes Qd2d2x. BB checks and i fire a 2/3 pot cbet and the loose guy calls and BB folds. Turn comes a J and i check to him and he bets, preeeeetty thought spot. I have just over a miniraise left over his bet so its my tourmanet life on the line, i think for like 4 mins and then ship it in and he instafolds 55.

Last hand i have an OK chipstack but still, blinds moving up fast and you get short really fast, i have like 35bbs i think. I get AA and raise it up and the same loose/aggressive guy (who actually is pretty good postflop player, but hes really to loose at this point playing almost every pot) calls from BB. Flop comes K92 rainbow and he leads 1/2 pot. I mean at this point his range is wiiiiiiiide and he can practially have anything, and i need more chips than just his 1/2 bet with the blinds going up this fast so imo theres nothing else i could do than to slowplay this hand some. So i just calls and the turn comes a Q and he bets 1/2 pot again. I try to look weak and think about things for 2 min and then goes all in and he snaps with his J10 nut straight. So he got his 4-outer, i still think i played that hand pretty perfect since i needed to get the most chips possible at this point, but i never play tourmanets so feel free to tell me if im wrong?

Vegas was a nice experience, but im still glad to be home. Its a very hectic city and way to hot for my taste and you burn $$$ way to fast on a shitloads of things

Event 49:




Event 52:




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There's a local band called the "Flobots" that we've worked with at my job for the past 5 years or so and recently they've hit national scene. They're a bunch of great people and their music is awesome. I just saw that they did Leno and got a great response, which makes me really happy to see. I really hope they keep doing well cause they all have great hearts and they've been very gracious and giving in all that they do.

Here's the Leno spot which is worth watching cause they are awesome live. They give a great performance and sound just as good on stage as in the studio. (Fuck, youtube won't let me even link to the leno spot, here's the only thing I could embed)





They're shooting a new music video tomorrow here in Denver and they've invited everyone at my work to come down and be in it. Should be fun!


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So in July I played:
49 hands @ NL300 winning 32$
1766 hands @ NL200 winning 839$

HEM take NL200$ and NL200E together, but so far I played only on $ tables.

Graph:


Now time for some hands!

Something I haven't seen in few months, multiway allin pf!
Even sicker I hold up
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This hand is even funnier, opener is a good reg and caller is a 17/12 nit or sth, so I squeeze, being called by the nit.
I put him on mPP now or high SC, so I take a stab at it, he calls. A on turn is perfect card for me so I just shove my shit in and he mambo jumbo instant call. no suckout now!
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Standard twopair vs set
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Again panzergus a pf total monkey, he call with everyshit he can have. so i doublebarell him for value, and shove river for his value of 2 outer xD
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This hand I butchered hard, Villian is a 15/12 nit, so he's SB calling range is obv. After he bet pot on turn, I raise and he reraise my instant reaction was set of freaking 4's, but obv it's me so I tanked the shit out and started to put him on hands that I beat (that was hard, took me like 30 seconds and after doing it I shoved). This is even worse, because he TANKED (yes, against monkey like me) and almost folded saying "hehhhh, SET OVER SET!!!;//////"
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This one is actually an interesting one. Villian is a good reg, we 3bet each other a lot (he 3betted like 3 my UTG opens at this table in a row and i folded everytime). Most of our hands go like this - raise, 3bet, fold or raise,3bet,call;check,bet,fold etc. It's first time I 4bet him. But he call it (so im 90% sure he don't have AK).
Board comes really low 5s2d4h and i Bet out 65 into ~100 i think and he calls, turn is an 8 and i shove 95$ into 240$ pot.
I think that I really screwed it up here. Much better option would be c/shove flop trying to represent AK/AQ or sth. And maybe get call from worse PP or what would be cool just a fold.
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