http://bejamin.liquidpoker.net en-us Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:15:00 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1122908 Bejamin1 A decent start to the month. Not much to say really except that I need to continue to study as much as I play. I'm still a leaky ship in a lot of ways but I'm slowly learning and improving. The biggest thing for me is maintaining my focus, I'm pretty terrible at playing long sessions. A little more volume and a few less mistakes would go a long way :)! Grindy grind LP! Obligatory Graph: [ur... Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:15:00 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1122908 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1121715 Bejamin1 Well graphs are always fun, it's been a good start to 2015. I'm still just trying as hard as I can to make sure I take the time to study as much as I play. Despite what Lemon wrote in his blog, I think it's an important aspect of the game :). I guess the difference between us is that I'm not constantly trying to re-write the rules of the game as he might describe it. One thing I've noticed over... Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:04:35 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1121715 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1121269 Bejamin1 Well, what can I say to sum it all up... Poker in 2014 was very up and down for me. I decided to start playing again sometime in midsummer and the made the choice of going full boar for the first time ever. The experience has been eye-opening to say the least and I have gained a whole new level of respect for players beating NL200/PLO200+ on a consistent basis. It takes a certain type of a pers... Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:52:32 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1121269 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1116259 Bejamin1 September was a was dramatically busier for me. The first few days were a whirlwind of drinking and socializing as students flooded back to campus and we welcomed our new grads to the program. My thesis supervisor decided now was a good time to start getting serious about me finishing my research which might have had something to do with me requesting weekly deadlines that take roughly twenty h... Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:52:21 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1116259 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1114345 Bejamin1 Lets face it guys, I'm a bit of a tilt monkey. What I mean rather... is not that I spazz around like a monkey on my tables when things don't go well, but instead that I simply let myself get way too emotionally affected by the results of this swingy game. My worst habit is the seemingly addictive sequence of checking my cashier page on a regular basis. As if registering my overall bankroll is s... Sat, 06 Sep 2014 19:07:35 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1114345 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1114057 Bejamin1 Well folks, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. This month was a real struggle for me mentally, but having climbed the mountain I feel much better now that the calendar is passing into September and I can put August behind me. Even if the results were not what I would have wanted, I did experience a tremendous amount of growth in my game. At the beginning of the month I came in feeli... Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:46:28 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1114057 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1112576 Bejamin1 Just over two months ago now I made the decision to start putting some serious time into poker. I decided I no longer wanted to use my free time spent at home on a less productive hobby. I play for fun and for the excitement of piecing together the puzzle of how to become a consistent winner in today's poker climate. One really interesting and yet disturbing trend in my game that I've noticed o... Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:27:58 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1112576 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1112215 Bejamin1 Well, the BR now stands at a somewhat acceptable 2030. I'm working my way through learning 25PLO. At some point recently things started to click as I made major changes and thought I'd figured it out. The last 3-4 days though I've seemed to lack the same strength of focus and maybe that's why it hasn't been clicking as consistently. I find the hardest challenge in learning to beat this game is ... Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:11:49 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1112215 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1111306 Bejamin1 Well, PLO25 continues to roar along. I've played 15k hands this month which is half decent for me. Trying to step it up so that I can play at minimum 60k hands a month whilst working for the government & continuing to push through my Master's degree. Things are starting to come along in my game. Right now I'm just focused on picking apart all the different spots and learning to use my HUD m... Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:57:12 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1111306 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1110999 Bejamin1 Well, my battle with PLO25 continues. I quickly deconstructed PLO10 and decimated it, but PLO25 has proved a more worthy foe. I'm not the best PLO player out there. I'm not even much better than most average ones. I just treat each session like a math testing lab and try to figure things out. I think my game is finally coming together. It's been 1.5 months, which is longer than I thought it wou... Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:10:20 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1110999 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1110427 Bejamin1 You know, it's really hard to beat PLO25 in this move up if I'm going to have to beat 10pt/bb rake, and 10pt/bb bad-beats. In today's session, I lost 7 buy-ins to EV in 700 hands. That's 1 buy-in for every 100 hands. You know what that works out to? Fighting against 50pt/bb per 100 hands of bad beats. Great. Fucking great. That puts me down about 60 buy-ins of EV on my move up. About 28k hands ... Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:05:43 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1110427 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1107815 Bejamin1 I've recently begun playing poker again after a relatively long hiatus. My story in poker is like many of us. I was good enough to earn money back when the games were soft and I was lucky enough to box a few tournaments to turn in a decent haul for my time invested. Then when Black Friday hit I stopped playing because I'd recently transferred most of my roll to FTP. I'll preface this with so... Wed, 14 May 2014 18:24:31 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1107815 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1044405 Bejamin1 [url=http://imgur.com/fwqAS][img]http://i.imgur.com/SWy9r.jpg[/img][/url] [url=][img]http://i.imgur.com/vnmH3.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/8B1co][img]http://i.imgur.com/RFESq.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/Pmpkr][img]http://i.imgur.com/0OUzR.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/bpfJo][img]http://i.imgur.com/9PByN.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/pGiDr][img]h... Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:10:23 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1044405 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1039922 Bejamin1 I had to laugh when I saw this after clicking on the lobby link this morning. I wanted to see if there would be any double VPP weeks although those are truly a thing of the past nowadays. This is what I found from Pokerstars tips about Milestone hands. Milestone Hand Tips: Play on more tables - If you are able to play on more than one table at a time, you will increase your chances of being... Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:20:35 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1039922 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1023159 Bejamin1 As you are all well aware, the overlay is huge in today's Anniversary Sunday Million and any decent poker player should be +EV. I don't have the roll to play it but I will offer myself up for a stake. 70/30 if you're paying the full ticket 60/40 for me if I'm paying half my way PM me quickly if interested as it starts in 30 minutes. Bejamin1 on stars Mostly a cash-game player but I... Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:07:39 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1023159 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1017680 Bejamin1 Just kidding! It was a trap! As I'm sure a few of you are aware I recently posted a rather embarrassing whine blog, my apologies to those it annoyed. It was a moment of frustration borne out of losing a significant portion of my roll through short-term EV. Many will simply state you shouldn't play with a short roll in PLO but I've firmly come to believe that escaping the rake trap is far mo... Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:09:47 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1017680 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1013970 Bejamin1 I've recently started playing PLO again after a two year absence. I've got a full-time job so I don't have a tremendous amount of time. My goal was to just focus on learning and not care about the results. At times my emotions still get the best of me but I'm getting stronger at dealing with it. Knowing I don't care about the money and I can just approach poker as a hobby certainly makes it eas... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:39:05 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=1013970 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=934106 Bejamin1 I know this is a Poker forum but a good few of us are hockey fans on here. I thought I'd start re-posting my daily hockey blog here in case anyone was interested. If you have any Sens fans feel free to link them to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flyers Soaring High - Sens in the Middle Peter Laviolette probably has to pinch hims... Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:13:01 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=934106 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=930598 Bejamin1 [URL=http://img28.imageshack.us/i/roflmaog.jpg/][IMG]http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6150/roflmaog.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=http://imageshack.us]ImageShack.us[/URL] Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:34:40 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=930598 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907761 Bejamin1 So yeah I logged into Steam yesterday and apparently this game Alien Swarm is available for free. It's about two gigs and pretty good. Kind of like left for dead with Starcraft sized units. Plays online with four players working as a team to survive and tackle each level the same way as in Left 4 Dead. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:59:48 +0000 https://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=907761