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Holla! Just got back from my 10 day trip to albany and new york city. Im jetlagged as fuck and struggling to stay awake right now T_T. Anyways, the trip was a blast, and I have gained some important insights about USA:

1. New York City rocks
2. All albany college girls dance like grade A prostitutes(AWESOME!)
3. Baseball and softball rules will forever remain a mystery to me(WTF!?)
4. DAMN its easy to eat yourself to death in the US. whoa!

So earlier today im sitting on newark airport waiting for my longass flight bored as fuck and decide to buy a bluff magazine to help me kill some time. I was pretty disapointed since most of the magazine was filled with ads and articles about tourney donkeys. Anyways, as i flip through it I stumble upon one article that seem to be interesting. Its about developing your play by always trying to put your opponent on hand ranges and try to make the best play given what you think villians range is. This is something ive been thinking about alot lately and it has helped me improve tons.

I thought the article was a really good introduction to this sort of thinking and MAN was i surprised when I looked to see who wrote it.

LPs own Ryan Daut! Hah! So sick to see an article by an lper in bluff magazine. Awesome job Ryan


After a 10 day break Im really itching to play poker! Im not going to play anything today though since im so jetlagged and tired but tomorrow I will finally get back on the poker horse again.


ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM

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Fuck. I just hate doing this. I logged on today and the fucking software was so laggy and anoying it tilted me istantly. I made a series of more or less bad bluffs and my villians kept making amazing calls (99 in a reraised pot on a K82 board etc)

I lost 11k in like 40 mins. These swings are not really a biggie on 10/20 i guess but its anoying when atleast half of the loss(probably more) could have been avioded. Fortunately most of my tilty plays where bluff pushes where i guess i had some FE and hopefully it helps my image or w/e. Still fucking sucks so much that im still tilting once in a while, it hurts so fucking much that i still can be this stupid.

Im a moron, someone please kill me.

Tomorrow ill drop down and 8-table 5/10 and lick my wounds.

Allright, time to reach for a beer and drown my sorrows.



vaginaface

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I finally got back home to my appartment yesterday. Spent a week snowboarding in italy which was extremely awesome. After that Ive been home at my folks playing on my kid brothers computer. Pretty anoying to not have pokertracker and only one monitor so Im glad that Im finally back.

Due to me being away and doing various baller stuff I havent played a whole lot at all this month. I dont really care though since the little poker ive played has gone really really good. I took a shot at 2knl a couple of days back and I just completely skyrocketed up, running sick good and destroying the game. Im proud to say that I was playing my absolutely best poker, it was an incredible rush to be satisfied with almost all the hands I played.

I was suprised by the poor quality of many of the players but Im going to hold of on my judgement until after my heater is over.

Im now pretty well rolled for 2knl but I believe its impossible, atleast for me, to play 2knl exclusively. There are simply just not enough games to be able to game select well so I will have to play a mix of 5/10 and 10/20.

Anyways, here are my april results:



In other news, Im leaving for the US the 4th of may. Gonna visit a friend studying in Albany and hang out in New York a couple of days. Hopefully its going to be pretty damn baller. If any lpers live near Albany/New York and wanna meet up just gimme a hollar.



grannypants!

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Havent updated this in a great while cause ive been kinda busy. Been a week in italy snowboarding and since then been home at my folks so dont have any pt stats or anything T_T

Ill make a proper update when i come back to my appartment after this weekend.

I just had to share my new record hand. I logged on tonight feeling really focused and with a br close to 70k i decided to take some shots at 10/20.

I was kinda suprised to see how many bad players there are on 10/20, allthough I have to admit there are some really good regulars that scare the living crap out of me. Add to that the fact that im obviously playing a little scared the first time and im glad i ended up for the session.

I was down a bit when this hand came up, I put him on exactly that hand and it felt really fucking huge to win a pot the size of what my bankroll was 3-4 months ago.

Submitted by : SakiSaki

***** Hand History for Game 5888765567 *****
$ 2,000 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, April 18, 19:17:42 ET 2007
Table Table 127833 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Wunder_Kind ( $ 6,004.50 USD )
Seat 3: Sambalele ( $ 8,972.94 USD )
Seat 6: SakiSakii ( $ 2,973 USD )
Seat 2: Oursecret ( $ 4,280 USD )
Seat 4: grlpwraa ( $ 2,000 USD )
Seat 5: partyjohan ( $ 2,068 USD )
Sambalele posts small blind [$ 10 USD].
grlpwraa posts big blind [$ 20 USD].

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to SakiSakii
partyjohan folds
SakiSakii raises [$ 80 USD]
Oursecret calls [$ 80 USD]
Sambalele folds
grlpwraa folds

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $190)

   
SakiSakii bets [$ 130 USD]
Oursecret raises [$ 340 USD]
SakiSakii raises [$ 1,070 USD]
Oursecret raises [$ 1,720 USD]
SakiSakii is all-In [$ 1,693 USD]
Oursecret calls [$ 833 USD]

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $1493)

   

River (Pot : $1493)

   
Oursecret shows two pairs, Tens and Nines .
SakiSakii shows three of a kind, Threes .
SakiSakii wins $ 5,974 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Threes .

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Havent updated this thing in a long time so I guess I should. I ran really bad at the end of march and played even worse. I was tilting and making monkey plays all over, a pretty horrid sight. Fortunately I got my shit together and bounced back up a bit. Im at my parents house now so I dont have my PT stats but I think I ended up about 25k for March. My best month ever and Im really happy about my results.

Ive been cashing out quite alot recently since Im going to Italy with my brother on saturday but I have been doing well in April so far so Im still well rolled for 5/10.


It looks as if Im going to vegas this summer for the world series. Im sooo psyched!

I though about trying to win a seat but thats probibly just a waste of time. I suck at tournaments so I would have to play loads of sattelites or get lucky to even get a seat, + Im not that eager to play the main event anyways so I would probibly just end up selling the seat. I might aswell spend my time playing cashgames and earning the vegas trip that way. Hopefully I can get in on jonnycosmos house renting thingy which would be so so awesome!

God, this is going to be the best thing ever!


holla

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I think some people missunderstood my last entry. I wasnt trying to whine about my results and Im not pretending not to be happy about my results lately. I was just trying to explain how I completely lost the will to play poker for a while, and how its important not to build your life just around one thing. Im not an ungreatful whiny bitch so sorry if you interpertated it like that. Just remember, money isnt everything(HUH WTF!?)

Anyways, like I said, I took a break for a couple of days. I still frequented the forums and discussed poker here and there but tried to fill my head with other stuff and it worked out quite well. Also went to see my parents and brother over the weekend + meeting up with some good friends etc. Pretty damn baller.

So yesterday I got back to my appartment here in Uppsala and today I played my first session since my last blog entry. I think taking a break really helped me. Today I was in a really positive mindstate and I really enjoyed playing poker again. I was also running good so what else can you ask for?

March so far:


Also, spring is slowly emerging here in sweden. ITS SO FUCKING AWESOME!!!

I dont think one can really appriciate what spring means to most of us in this god forsaken country. Living 6-7 months in darkness with nothing but snow and freezing cold weather can destroy even the most cheerful individual. But once spring comes with warmth, sun and tanned beautiful girls everywhere its all fucking worth it.

YAYE!!!

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Uhh, havent played a whole lot of poker the last few days. Played some yesterday and everything went to hell. I didnt feel right from the beginning of the session and after getting flush over flushed twice and loosing some medium pots/coinflips I instatilted away one buyin before having the decency to quit with my dignity somewhat intact, but my bankroll suffering a -7k

To be honest I was sort of expecting this to happen. The last week I just havent felt like playing poker at all, and Im in a real crappy mental state when I do decide to play. I just havent enjoyed the game at all lately which obviously shows in my results. This has many reasons, but I think its to be expected. I have dropped out of school and havent done a whole lot but play poker for like two months which obviously wont work out for me. Starting sessions has also become a bitch lately. Game selection is alot harder to practice on 5/10(and also alot more necessary since there are tons of decent regulars just trading cash with eachother everywhere.) Its just so anoying to not be able to open up lobby and instantly load up 8 profitable tables.

I would prefer to have money on like 3 sites and play 3/6 and 5/10 where the games looks juicy, but this becomes such a hassle since
1: I dont have a huge fucking bankroll for 5/10 yet so I dont want to split it out over more than maybe 2 sites.
2: Due to retarded taxlaws in sweden I dont have to tax any winnings made on a site with its base in the european union, and since I prefer not taxing my swingy profits I need to play on some retarded cryptologic site or whatever.

I have my financial situation sort of covered already so Im in no real rush to play tons and tons of hands. Im going to take a break from poker for a couple of days and do other things. I might play some donkaments and maybe try to sattelite into the WSOP which would be awesome.

I truly believe that you need a balanced life to be a winning poker player, and its really necessary to do other stimulating things except playing and thiking about a cardgame all day. Hopefully I will enjoy a couple of days of reading books, working out and playing the piano and if it all goes well I will be back at the tables tearing it up in no time.

meh, now this turned out like a long rant post about nothing at all really but w/e.

Results from March so far:




GG

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Lately alot of ppl have been asking me what has enabled me to move up so quickly recently. Ive been reluctant to share my secret for quite obvious reasons, but I have come to the conclution that I owe to much to this community to keep this secret to myself. I could say its because Ive been playing lots and lots of poker, constantly focused on improving and killing leaks, practicing good tilt control and table selection.

But that would all be a lie!

Truth is, my success hinges on one thing and one thing only.


MY AWESOME GANGSTA FULL TILT GEAR OBV!

How can I not flop sets wearing this?


WOULD YOU DARE TO BAD BEAT THIS HARDCORE GANGSTA?



There you have it, my secret to success. Pretty baller huh? Since Im always wearing my awesome FTP gear I will run infinitely good. Stats for march so far:




The cute thing about these stats is that the 1knl hands are probibly the result of 10+ sessions. I just cant play epic sessions of 1knl. If I win 4+ buyins it feels like sooo much monies so I have to quit so I dont tilt, and the same thing happens if I loose 4+. Hopefully I will get used to the amounts in a not too distant future. Still very happy about the results though. I have basicly already reached my goal for march. I did set a pretty modest goal though, and I cheated and moved up to 1knl early.


Nigga please

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Im kinda beating myself up for not putting in more time to this game. My goal was to play 80k hands this month and Im not playing nearly enough. Ive just become alot more concervative about my mindstate etc when I play. I want to be really fresh, full and 100% comfortable and concentrated to play, which means I stay away from the tables a big part of the day. I also stared to practice alot more game selection just the past few days, and during the day the 5/10 games are just not very profitable. All of these aspects show great results in my winrate, but I want to get more hands in, and I will have to work on that. Theres just so much money to be made and it feels like a waste to just sit around and not get disgustingly rich.

Yes, I did play some 5/10 today. I know I said I wanted to wait until I had a 50+bi roll for it but awell. I felt really good about my game and saw some juicy tables so I hopped on and It worked out pretty well. Aslong as I practice table selection and try to stay away from the toughest regulars Im sure I can be a winner at these games.

My session today (both 5/10 and 3/6) ended up somewhat well. Im actually up 1k more on 5/10 than what pokertracker displays since I made a "table transfer".(anyone know how to delete 3 hands from PT database?)

Here are my stats for March so far:



My cold is nearly over, I just have the anoying cough left. Might be going out tonight, hopefully not making the same misstake as last weekend and wake up in hell again.


doodoo

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Well, thats not really true. More like "my god complex>me". I played 2 sessions of 5/10 like two days ago and ended up stuck 7k. I played really bad though so I deserved it. Lost some coinflips and tilted a bit, which I havent done in a long time so that kinda sucks. I think I have an edge in the 5/10 games, but its probibly not a big one and Im not comfortable with the amounts yet so Im just going to take it slow and keep playing 3/6.

I was just getting better from my fucking cold during the weekend but on saturday I went to see this guitar player with some friends, had a few beers and woke up next morning feeling like hell. The days since then have been horrible. Ive basicly been sitting at my computer, dressed like a fucking eskimo and still shivering and coughing like hell. Havent played alot of poker at all since I havent really felt focused.

Just finished a pretty big session though, the first one since this dreaded cold fucked me over big time.

A real roller coaster session, I took some pretty horrible beats but still ended up in the green which makes me feel really comfortable about my play and my future in the 3/6 games.

Made one really good read against this overagressive-lagtard-always-3-betting-from-the-blinds-fuckhead
We had a real war going on here and given the previous action I was pretty sure he shoves even worse hands than what he had:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/154714

One of the sickest calls ive ever made. I feel like pooruser.

Stats for march:



My goal for this month is to build a comfortable roll for 5/10 (50bi+) which should be more than doable if I dont hit a cold streak.



COUGH

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