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Already posted results since it seemed so fitting. This, however, will be a long ass post containing some goals, a decent bit of poker discussion and a couple of hands. Some of the hands are mostly brags

First of all I'd like to say that I'm really, really happy about how this year has gone pokerwise. I've had 4 months when I've made more then 20k€ and overall I should be up about 100k€, probably a bit more. Can't look it up since I suck at pokertracker and have like 5 different datebases. I've lost like 15k in the stock market but my spending habits has been somewhat within reason. Next year I'll first do a semester of law school and then take the following two semesters off to study something else, probably like philosophy or something, and grind a shitload. For the first 5 months of the year, while in law school, my goal is to make 10k€/month and during the rest of they year I'll try to go for 20k€/month. I think these are pretty high goals, but they're doable and I want to get a lot of money out of poker during the next few years so I feel they're reasonable as far as goals goes.

I'll also make sure to work out a lot and eat good. I'll try to lose some fat and overall be really fit during mid summer at the latest. Right now I'm focusing on getting stronger and lose fat, but when I've gotten into shape I'll start running and try to build a lot of muscle. I don't need to be huge, but I'm really tired of not being in shape so we'll just fix that.

As far as poker goes I'm decently happy with my game right now, but it could obviously be a lot better. I don't 3barrel enough, I make a few to many bad calls vs people who just aren't creative enough to make complicated bluffs and I've got a hard time making big folds. Notice that it's a differens between big folds and stupid folds though. I'll work on that and I'll also need to either stop calling stuff out of the blinds or learn to play oop. I'm horribad at that. Right now I'm just trying to be raptor and just be a supernit in early pos and a spewtard 3-betmonkey in late pos. I'm also minraising the button now, which works really well since people really aren't used to it.

One thing that I think I do really, really well is valuebetting. I have a somewhat spewy image so people doesn't really like to fold against me and the last few months I've gotten really good at abusing that. An good example, vs a fish but still, might be this hand from last night:
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I know he hates to fold, and he seemed to donk things into me when he hit so I discountet a flush draw from his range on the river and an A on the turn, which left him with lower pairs and top pair from the flop. My riverbet is a bit small, but I think it might be better for him to pay that off. Vs an competent opponent that is probably suicide, but if people really, really likes to call you'll have to valuebet thinner.

Other cool hands:

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- 2 streets of value with K-high
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- pretty sweet bluff imo.
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- calling a shove pf, a little deep, with ATo.
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- I tried to explain for a friend why I called river and it basically comes down to me being a station and him repping really thin.

I also feel that I've gotten much better at figureing out peoples leaks and abusing them. Poker is still in a phase where most regs doesn't give a damn about being unexploidable but rather wants to play optimal in each hand. It probably gives the highest value, but unless you adjust you'll get owned by other good regs and random retards like me.

I'm thinking of buying a sweet new computer with 2 big screens and everything. Mmmm, rakeback. If/when I do this I'll probably see if I can 12 or 16-table 1/2 6-max just for fun. I might try to record it, or play a session 4/6-tabling later and record just for fun. It was a while ago I actually gave something back to the community.

I'd like to end this post by mentioning a few people from LP. Non-LP people who reads this can just ask me and I'll tell them how much I love them etc.

First of all I'm really happy Saki won that big donkament, he helped me out a bit in the beginning and said some things about tilt and shit that helped. I don't speak to him much but he seems like a really good person, get your ass to Uppsala man!

Gawuss will probably hit a heater soon and be the next polish mid/high stakes reg from LP. He's far too smart to be breakeven at 1/2 for long. Also really cool, for some reason I tend to either really like or really hate polish people. Weird.

Pinball - I promise to actually get my ass south of sthlm some time within the next few years so that I can hang out with you more, lol. I'm lazy though

Joe thx for letting me steal ur blinds all the time .

And for everyone who is currently in a downswing, or just feels like listening to a sweet song:

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Also up a bit in omaha

notice that this is real money, €, not USD.

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So I had a great HU session this morning (+8ish K€) and then a fucked up suckfest of a 6-max session later (-3 or 4k in like no time at all). This puts me on +~26k€ if I include rakeback and shit for the month. I'll try to limit myself to 2/4, 3/6, donkaments and some low limit omaha the last few days just too keep it that way and maybe get over 30k, which would pwn. PT-shot will come later.

Also, as of today I'm a millionare in SEK. Big fish in small pond, ehh?

Some hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/595802 <- Showing newcommers that prima is full of retards like me
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/595736 <- nice equity on flop. Funny herocalls later.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/595721 <- My biggest winning hand so far.

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http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/594523
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/594527
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/594532
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/594543

Play vs some really bad opponents. Got coolered and made a couple of spewy plays, but then I just went for straight equity in everything and pwned the shit out of people. Ended the session up a couple of bi.

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Good times:

- Made 5k€ yesterday, my best result for a single day ever I think.
- I'm reading "The cat who walks through walls". It's as good as any book Heinlein has written. And I've read a few.
- 10€ SNG's with friends today. Might be fun.

Bad times:

- My grades suck.

Other stuff:

I'll probably join Liberala partiet, a very small Swedish libertarian party which, if I recall correctly, got 2 votes more then the party headed by this grand old lady in the last election.

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Ok so I won my biggest pot every with JKo like 4 months ago by drawing out top2 with a straight draw. Today this went down:

Submitted by : DustySwedeDude

** Game ID 2324103512 starting - 2008-12-20 21:40:05
** Watching TV 2 [Hold 'em] (10.00|20.00 NL - € Cash Game) Real Money
- Reidson sitting in seat 1 with €4649.00
- OMGUSUCK sitting in seat 2 with €1990.00 [Dealer]
- shen sitting in seat 3 with €3079.00
- Utregfan sitting in seat 4 with €5510.50
- Dustylove sitting in seat 5 with €2371.00
shen posted the small blind - €10.00
Utregfan posted the big blind - €20.00

Holecards(Odds)
   
Dustylove raised - €61.00
Reidson folded
OMGUSUCK called - €61.00
shen folded
Utregfan folded

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $152.00)

   
Dustylove bet - €120.00
OMGUSUCK called - €120.00

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $392.00)

   
Dustylove bet - €300.00
OMGUSUCK raised - €999.00
Dustylove went all-in - €1890.00
OMGUSUCK went all-in - €810.00

River (Pot : $4,010.00)

   

Showdown
Dustylove shows:
OMGUSUCK shows:
OMGUSUCK wins €4007.00 from the main pot
End of game 2324103512
Everybody with me; one time:
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Mother mother fuck. Mother mother fuck fuck. Mother fuck mother fuck.
Noise noise noise.
1 2 1 2 3 4
Noise noise noise.
Smokin weed, smokin weed .
Doin' coke, drinkin beers .
Drinkin beers, beers beers .
Rollin' fatties, smokin blunts .
Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts .
Rollin' blunts and smokin um'
<>
15 bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand .
If that money doesn't show then you owe me owe me owe.
My jungle love.
Oh e oh e oh .
I think I wanna know ya know ya ... yeah, what.

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Don't wanna post in HS because the hands are fairly simple and I feel stupid for spamming that part, heh. Want comments on these:

1. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/591150

Just won a decent sized pot the last hand, we're about 130bb effective and Villian is unknown but I got the impression that he might be on the aggro side. Not necessary good, but aggressive enough. His 4bet is kinda big, and I get sick good odds for a shove but do people really bluff with that bet size? I've got 35% vs QQ+ and AK. Does he play TT-JJ that way? Standard shove? If not, do I need to flatcall pf?

2. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/591141

I'd probably fold flop like 70% of the time or so, but as played what do you guys think about turn and river? He shouldn't have that many boats and I don't see him calling more then maybe 50% with overpairs. Villian is a new TAGish reg who doesn't seem to spewy.

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Finished the exam (and think I did good) in 3.5 hours. Didn't see anyone go before me so I probably was top5 or so in speed at least.

Went over to a my friend Simon's, me, he, his girlfriend, my roomie and a another guy called Jocke then went to the liquor store and bought some beer and I added a bottle of champagne for 80€ or so to the shopping cart to celibate. People kept talking about how James Bond apparently drinks that kind and I got a little bit tilted cause I felt like a retard. Shouldn't bought a different bottle.

We get some burgers and start a homegame with me, Jocke, Simon and rommie. 1/2 SEK, I won like 700 or something. Biggest pots included 4betting AKo and flopping Jxx that gave me a flushdraw and getting it in for 200bb and spiking a K on the river vs AJo. Funniest was probably when Jocke opened UTG for 7, Simon made it 27 on the button and I squeeze from the bb with 82cc to 82. We're both like 800bb deep or something. Flop 863r, no club. I decided to go for pot control and check, Simon checks behind. Turn 2 rainbow, DING!, I bet 120 and get called. Pot is now about 400 and river falls a 6 counterfeiting my 2p. I check, Simon bets 400 and I start bitching about how life's not fair, I fucking hate this god damn deck and that live poker is rigged and destroys my soul. I do this for a few minutes but later decides that he's not having a QQ+ hand because he'd probably 5bet that pre, he doesn't play 99-JJ like that cause he's stuck and stuck Simon can't spell pot control and he's not having a 6 because no one gets trips in 4bet pots. So I called and he mucked. I also won a big pot on vs roomie when I valueraised 2nd pair on the river on KxxxQ and called his bluffshove. Then he owned me with TPnK vs total air for like 250bb or so bvb on a superdry board.

Went to the pre party, met a lot of law students naturally, got hit (somewhat hard!) on my arm 2 times by the hostess just because I pointed out that even though shes good looking in a classical sense she's not someone I'd consider hot but rather cool in a general sense. She's cute though. I opened said bottle of champagne and the fucking thing exploded over half the kitchen, and like half of the damn thing got out before I figured out that I maybe shouldn't hold the bottle upside down over the sink. Also, it tasted like crap. New theory about champagne: The prettier the bottle the worse it can taste and get away with it without anyone complaining. Sorta works like girls :/

We would've had to wait like 2 hours to get into "Snärkan" so most of the pre party, or maybe half of it, ended up in "V-dala". A bar. I wanted stuff on bottles brought out to us and I didn't feel like standing in line. Girl behind bar wasn't appreciative of my need. I told girl that I couldn't accept such outrage and gave her a couple of bills and told her to keep bringing us stuff we looked like we could need until it looked like we'd had enough and then take the rest as tip. Girl changed her mind. Actually think she was somewhat honest about the deal too, don't think she took more then like half of it as tips and everyone got drunk as hell. Got called over by a friend at another table and got orders to "take care of" someone named Katarina. I have no fucking idea about who Katarina is. I don't know any Katarina and frankly, unless she's Russian, it doesn't sound like the name of an actual hot girl. Didn't bother me though, promised to take care of said girl and then I sat down next to a dude who told me about his mafia connection and a girl I went to class with who's nice enough. I immediately noticed that she looked really good when you're drunk as hell. Spent good 15 minutes staring down her cleavage before Jocke came to the bar. Talked to him and got even drunker. Then I think the bar was about to close and people talked about another party. Decided I loved life to much and tried to phone black girl (TM) and inquire if she wanted to do something, you know, just hanging out. Not quite sure if she answered, don't think so, and also remembered that she lives in Lund which is probably a good 7-8 hours away from me if I really tried and spent a lot of money on Taxi fares. Annoyed by this sick beat I decided that I couldn't be bothered with this anymore and needed to sleep so I went home. I really like black girl. She's an attention whore, drunktard, compulsive worker and has absolutely hilariously shitty taste in boys(friends). I'll probably end up marrying her.

I need to better pace my drinking because I lose all motivation to do stuff other then look at boobies and drinking more after a while. I also feel that I should tell people how wonderful they are.

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The one and only exam of this year. Big, nasty and since studying is for girls I've only watch Ivan Drago clips on youtube as preparation. After that it'll be poker for a couple of weeks and hanging out with my family and a couple of old friends. That be great. But before that it's big ass party and I haven't been out since Halloween. I assure everyone that it'll be epic.

Also on sick tilt from that law-thingy the presented about poker. Gotta read it sometime.

Grateful list:

1. Our forum Degen, who posted "It's good to be king" on his blog a couple of days ago. Sick song.
2. My friend S, for giving me notes on stuff for my exam.
3. Whatever dude invented "how I met your mother", sick show.

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1. Just because you know how to exploit a horrid regular you won't make money of him unless you actually stick to your game plan.

2. There are definitely some retards that manage to be winning players at mid stakes. Poker is not even close to dying.

3. I hate it when I don't play my A-game. The only thing that gets me more tilted is when someone I can't take any decent money off (we're in a micro stakes home game/he's not playing/whatever) says something that really shows that he didn't get any part of a hand, thought process or strategy at all. If I'm already annoyed when I hear this I won't be able to play good for like an hour.

4. Any thought process involving "he'll for sure have figured this out by now!" or "he can't possibly be that fucking stupid" involving passive regulars are bound to lose me money.

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