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Tonight was fun, I managed to get a microphone hooked up on ventrillo for the first time, before I was just able to listen to the audio of others, so it was nice to be able to speak too.

Unfortunately, my 56k is pretty slow, so it was pretty choppy when I was talkin over vent, still better than nothing though. After watching DooMeR's session for a couple hours I started my own, but couldn't manage to get anything going and lost two buy-ins. I lost to 3 different two-outers on the river, as well as a couple other sick hands that were unavoidable.

Heres my stats from tonight;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1694 hands and saw flop:
- 99 out of 223 times while in big blind (44%)
- 37 out of 218 times while in small blind (16%)
- 149 out of 1253 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 285 out of 1694 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 29 of 57 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 182

Pretty annoyed, hopefully I can take down 1-2 of the 2700 FPP SnG's tomorrow for a nice profit, Got around 5k in my account waiting to be used.

I'm enjoying NL25 alot, and know that I'll start pwning it alot harder soon. Its weird, but I seem to never have a winning session on sundays, I wasn't even going to play tonight but after obbing doomers session it put me in the mood to pwn some.

No need to post any HH's here, they were all bad beats other than one hand where my kings held over top pair with a gutterball for a 2/3 stack.

Oh, I was also moving into a new apartment back in my hometown, but didn't sign the contract with the owner and have decided to move back to Taiwan to teach english. ($20/hr is sick nice, along with tons of perks that go along with being a foreigner living in asian society). I'll be leaving the USA the week of my birthday (Oct 3 - Oct 10), and plan to live in Taipei for atleast a year. I lived there in 2002-2003 for 9 months, but was a bit too wild at that age and had some drug problems so I came back to the states. I've grown alot since then and kicked all the drugs, and plan to do things right this time around. Its going to be damn nice to get back there.

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

12,100 FPP til SuperNoVa *at this pace, with 3,500-4,000 hands a day 6 days a week I'll be a supernova by my birthday, weeeeeeee~

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This morning I decided to move up to NL25 again, and hopefully run a little better than last time. Well, I did just that. I started the day on a heater during my first 1,000 hands winning 4~5 BI, and maintained winning when the heater was over.

I played my A game today, and was feeling extremely comfortable back at NL25. The downswing/ice cold run I was on actually helped me the more I think about it, as I managed to get just about all the leaks out of my game.

I'll be looking forward to playing another week or two at NL25 until I move up to NL50 to stay, which I couldn't be any happier about.

Heres my stats from todays session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 4611 hands and saw flop:
- 317 out of 618 times while in big blind (51%)
- 113 out of 620 times while in small blind (18%)
- 339 out of 3373 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 769 out of 4611 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 113 of 182 (62%)
Pots won without showdown - 392

My mistakes from todays session;

vs $strust84$ - He had reraised me light in position the orbit before and I folded QK, this time I called him, and couldn't manage to drop my QK. This was one of my two mistakes from todays session.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253507

vs ozyman - ozy opens and i call w/ QKs getting 3/1. I was betting the hand to protect vs any straight draws and get value from any Jack, and couldn't find a fold for the price I got on the river. QK really cost me today, it sucks, I need to drop it from my game, atleast OOP.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253493

vs TeddyKGB90 - This hand was about the equivilant of a slowroll. I limp my sooted connector expecting to get in without a raise, which goes fine. Flop the stones, and have teddy flat my 90% psb with a gutterball and he hits on the turn. To make matters worse, he hit in runs me while I had position on him and almost definately would have won my money back from him.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253488


Some of my best hands from todays session;

vs True Raider / Heraclio - This was by far my best hand today. I flop gin and have the EP better on TPTK, with a donk behind me that calls to hit a backdoor flush. Obv since I was running great he hits the backdoor flush draw, and AK shoves to protect vs the open ender + two flush draws on board. If thats not good enough, the guy on the backdoor flush calls his stack drawing dead as well. Weeeeeee~

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253385

vs Friday027 - lol this was such a great gift, thanks!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253502

vs Niumoney - I call his raise oop with 99 and flop a set. I check raise the flop to get value from any AK continuation bets and to build the pot vs any overpair. It works and I hang his aces. Although when the river came out, I really felt like he must of had a set, luckily the king didn't help him and I scooped the pot though.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253482

vs Paschano1 - I open raise 99 in the shorthanded game and get called IP by a player I was giving some respect to. Standard continuation bet w/ my boat on the flop and he calls. Turn puts a potential fullhouse on board with me having quads (hehehe), I bet it out again like any A would do here and he minreraises with his newfound flush draw. I call to trap and instacheck river and watch him shove into my quads. What a pretty site this was.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253481

vs Babar1 - limp in my pocket pair and didn't really expect him to have an ace here so I check the flop. He donks it on the flop and turn, and I check raise the turn trying to make it look like im on a low pocket pair playing back at him, not believing he has the ace. Unfortunately for him, he did have the ace and I take a nice 2/3 stack from him.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253477

vs Ruthores - One of the only coolers I had to face today, I was happy when I saw the hands face up for the first two seconds, then realized he straightened out on me and took this away, sick life.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253475

vs Allmistkik - This was pretty standard, allmistik gets greedy and doesn't protect his hand on the flop. I turn my set and we get it in asap.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253438

vs Canafrican - Don't even ask me what this guy was thinking, this is the beauty of NL25, every once in a while we get one of these guys throwing money at us. Weeeeeeeee~

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253427

vs Serif13 - A few hands before this serif called my JJ preflop with K6s and minreraised me on the flop. He caught a pair on the turn and bet out 40% pot and checked river behind me. Knowing this, I assumed he was pretty maniacle at the table without a strong strategy backing his play. When he flats me on the flop here, I figure he would have reraised with the 9 after his play before, so hes either on a draw or a float. The turn he minreraises, which really screams set at me, but knowing my opponent from the past hand I can make the call, and getting such great odds on the river its an instacall (although I would have called him for stacks here for sure).

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253426

vs TannerMC63 - Alot of people just can't figure that someone would have a high pair on the button. Fortunately for me, he is one of them.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253389

vs Tonny/Flash - This was a nice rush I had this afternoon, back to back aces at the same table. Obv I play it differently each hand to get paid & it works beautifully.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253397

vs Heikeangel - standard BB vs SB hand, he plays back at me on the flop which definately lets me know he has an ace, but I couldn't see him limping an ace stronger than A9, so I flat his reraise. He lays me extremely great odds on the turn, fearing he had flopped top and bottom pair, or middle and bottom pair I just flat, expecting to call a sizable bet on the river. Then Yikes, I smash two pair and get roughly 80% of his stack on the hand.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253385

This was definately my most enjoyable poker session in a long, long time. Hopefully a good sign of things to come, and has stabalized my bankroll to stay at NL25 for my future sessions.

I finished the day doubling my bankroll, playing tight, solid, 15-17% poker all day.

Very happy to call it a day now,

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

12,330 FPP til supernova, whaaaaaaaaat!

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Tonights session was hell, like usual. I played 1700 hands of break even poker due to the fact that everytime I doubled up, I got coolered.

I finished down 1.5 BI - bringing my roll to an even $300. Looks like I'll be stuck on NL10 for the rest of the weekend unless I can heat up tomorrow, we'll see.

Its been really frustrated working my way back up the limits this time. Pokerstars just won't let me run well, day after day, its getting so sick.

I'll be at NL25 soon, and when that day comes, it will be so sweet.

Heres my stats from todays session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1699 hands and saw flop:
- 105 out of 227 times while in big blind (46%)
- 53 out of 228 times while in small blind (23%)
- 120 out of 1244 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 278 out of 1699 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 38 of 67 (56%)
Pots won without showdown - 170

Heres some sick hands from today;

vs Doowap - check this out;

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253003

vs Bugyhunter - Avoiding the bad beat

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/253007

vs alpacapoop - Really figured him for TJc or smthing like that here, this is sooooo fucking sick.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/252979

vs JorgeBlasini - Standard set up jobby by pokerstars, flop me Pair+FD / turn him set / river me two pair

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/252974

vs Onipaa - so obvious hes on FD here, this ones sick.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/252960

vs Aurianna - KK vs AA - kinda cooler, I can't fold this at NL10 vs plaxyers that stack off w/ TT+/AK

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/252904


So all in all, pokers annoying again.
Should get better in time, we'll see.

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

-- PS - 12,980 VPP til SuperNoVa --

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Woke up this morning and started logging a quick session in, and have been running alot better. I doubled through a few players and took didn't bluff at all.

My winrate has been increasing alot lately, and I've mad back most of what I lost on the ice run I was on.

Heres my stats from this mornings session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 469 hands and saw flop:
- 34 out of 71 times while in big blind (47%)
- 10 out of 68 times while in small blind (14%)
- 24 out of 330 times in other positions (7%)
- a total of 68 out of 469 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 11 of 14 (78%)
Pots won without showdown - 35

Going to go eat lunch and take a break,

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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After dinner I decided to get back on for one last session of the night, and played confident focused poker for almost three hours. The session went well, as I kept playing by the raise/fold mantra, with a few exceptions.

Before I knew it, I was playing better than ever with multiple tables over 3 buy-ins.

I was sucked out on a few times too, but all in all, this was a great session.

Stats from the session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1781 hands and saw flop:
- 115 out of 242 times while in big blind (47%)
- 52 out of 244 times while in small blind (21%)
- 144 out of 1295 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 311 out of 1781 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 44 of 65 (67%)
Pots won without showdown - 202

Off to bed, I'll be playin tomorrow.

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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I've been falling back into my groove and playing raise or fold poker (with the exception of 4/1 with sooted hands and my pocket pairs. Its brought me down to 12-14% and has me playing very confident poker.

I'm having more fun and expect my winrate to continue to increase daily.

Heres my stats from tonight;

ing current Hold'em session you were dealt 940 hands and saw flop:
- 46 out of 130 times while in big blind (35%)
- 16 out of 126 times while in small blind (12%)
- 58 out of 684 times in other positions (8%)
- a total of 120 out of 940 (12%)
Pots won at showdown - 12 of 27 (44%)
Pots won without showdown - 108

I ran pretty shitty, having a few sets flopped against me in the matter of a minute, and flopped an underflush for a stack in a raised pot as well.

Finished down 1 buy-in but am playing great, hopefully tomorrow will go better.

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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Today I started off on NL2 and played for an hour, and was playing well. I decided to move back up to NL10 and ran really well, but had a couple sick coolers at the end of the session, as well as 1 mistake which cost me $10.

At the end of the session, I finished up almost 2 buy-ins. I've stopped worrying so much about the % I am playing, and started attacking all the +ev at the tables. I'm starting to feel like my old self again at the table, and hope to continue my way up the limits.

Heres my stats from todays session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1889 hands and saw flop:
- 126 out of 259 times while in big blind (48%)
- 44 out of 250 times while in small blind (17%)
- 152 out of 1380 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 322 out of 1889 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 43 of 64 (67%)
Pots won without showdown - 160

And here are the mistakes I made today;

I just couldn't find myself to give him enough respect to lay this down...pretty obv he had me beat now that I think about it.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/251593

In this hand the villian just shoved allin the hand before to steal the blinds, and had a feeling he was making this play lightly. Figured w/ the amt of chips I had, and he had, he would auto-muck hands in this range.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/251573

I couldn't find myself to fold this, even though its pretty obvious the only hand he would reraise here is JQ, since 99% of the time he won't have AK/KT/AT here (most would raise preflop)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/251513

Heres my hand of the day;

Villian was raising often and felt as if I was a large favorite PF. Thought he might have flopped the joint but I'm not mucking this.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/251523

Well, I'm off for the day,

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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Well, after 3 days of running extremely horrible (about 25 hours of play), I ran into a heater on NL2 today.

I picked up about 100 high premium hands and alot of pocket pairs to go w/ it. Was very satisfied w/ this session because it brings me one step closer to getting back to NL10.

The mission to NL50 continues, and I feel as if I've smoothed out all the kinks in my game.

Heres my stats from todays session; (remember it was heater)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1686 hands and saw flop:
- 164 out of 254 times while in big blind (64%)
- 67 out of 253 times while in small blind (26%)
- 144 out of 1179 times in other positions (12%)
- a total of 375 out of 1686 (22%)
Pots won at showdown - 56 of 92 (60%)
Pots won without showdown - 135

1-2 more days on NL2 and I'll have a healthy BR for NL10 again.

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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I've been on a 3 day downswing and watched my BR decrease from $500 to $160.

I'm moving from NL10 to NL5 to ride out the downswing and rebuild. What a sad state time for my game, hopefully I can work my way back up the limits soon when this downswing ends.

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I started a session tonight on NL10 tonight for a couple hours, which was filled with tons of bad beats and sick coolers.

Although I managed to lose 1.7 buy-ins I feel as if I've made progress in my game to start playing my best again.

If I ran halfway decent today I would have definately won alot, which gives me alot of hope for my future sessions.

Heres my stats from tonights session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1234 hands and saw flop:
- 76 out of 162 times while in big blind (46%)
- 40 out of 164 times while in small blind (24%)
- 73 out of 908 times in other positions (8%)
- a total of 189 out of 1234 (15%)
Pots won at showdown - 20 of 43 (46%)
Pots won without showdown - 93

Its been really tough the last couple days, hope I can heat up soon..

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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