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So I played my first session on nl200 today. I was hoping that this time moving to nl200 will be different. But it was exactly the same as the last 2 or 3 times and I dropped $900.. I was completely card dead and when I actually had sth, turn or river was always killing me. I missed every draw, every double barrell didn't work. I only had one ~200bb pot (I lost it but I think I could've folded there). The rest were just small and medium ones. I'm pretty pissed off - not because I lost 5 buyins cause that's normal and happens from time to time. I'm only whining about the timing of this. Why does it have to happen whenever I try to move up to nl200? My roll dropped to like 5,9k so it's still pretty healthy for nl200 so it's not that bad. Now I'm gonna continue playing nl200 and I'll think what to do next if I drop to 5k. The game is easily beatable, I just need to get on the right track.

Ok enough of whining, I always feel bad after posting such stuff. Time to eat sth, watch an episode or two of Entourage and play an evening session.

Oh and Paris Hilton is going to prison for 45 days

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So yesterday I had my IELTS exam and I think I did very good except for the reading part which was definitely fucked up. Like one of the reading tasks was about the proccess of producing a violin and I couldn't understand about half of the words. wtf. But anyway I owned listening and speaking, writing - pretty good. Only worried about the reading part a bit but should be ok too.

And as I said before - I'm done with the exam so I'm moving up to nl200. My roll is 6,8k a the moment. If I go below 5k or I feel that I'm not ready etc I'm going to move back to nl100. But I hope I won't have to do so. It's the 3rd time I'm trying to move up to nl200 and I think that this time I'll be able to do it. I feel much better about my game, discipline etc.

Yesterday I went with my mates to see Spiderman 3 and it was crap. I mean I expected it's gonna be like this but I'm bad at finding excuses. Then we went to some pizza place and ended up at a bar and had a few beers. I got home and started watching Entourage. I mean I watched one episode on Friday, but yesterday I finished the whole season 1 (only 8 episodes though). I wanted to go to bed early but I just couldn't stop watching and finally decided to call it a night when it was like 4:15am. This tv series is pretty good. Not as sweet as Heroes or Prison Break but it's good to watch some young ballas. BTW - does anyone know what's the name of the actress that plays Ari's (Vince's agent) asisstant? Well all the girls in Entourage are awesome but this one has sth special and looks different - I recognise her from some movies but I can't come up with any titles. I'd definitely hit it. Oh and there was Jessica Alba in one of the episodes So at the moment I'm downloading 8 GBs of Entourage (3 seaons) and 26 GBs of Sopranos (6 seasons) so I'll have a shitload to watch. But it's getting scary when I start watching some good tv series cause I simply can't stop. I just watch like 6 episodes in a row, go to bed, wake up and watch 3 episodes, take a shower, watch another episode while eating breakfast etc. So yeah I'll probably leave Sopranos for the future.

Now it's time to really focus on poker. I've got nothing else to do until about 27th May when my friend is visitting me so I'm gonna just devote my time to poker. Loads of playing, browsing forums, reading stuff, posting hands, talking poker, watching vids on CR etc. May should be my best month ever in terms of poker. And I'm fairly confident it will be. Ok time to get out of my bed after watching 3 episodes of Family Guy, take a shower, have a breakfast and pwn some noobs on nl200.

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So I didn't play any poker on Tuesday. I went to this birthday party and first we went to some italian resturant where I had some fettucini alfredo pasta or sth like that. Basically it tastes like pasta from microvawe with the difference that it costs like 20 times more. We started drinking at the campus later but I was pretty tired so I got home pretty early. Boringaments.

Yesterday I played a morning session on i4 and I made about $80. Should've been more but I was talking on a phone in the end of the session and fucked up a few hands. Then I decided to play a session on Party and the agression was much lower than a few days ago. I played good, didn't get any major beats and finished up almost 3 buyins (too ashamed to show my nitty stats):



Nothing special happened during that session but I made a few nice moves in reraised pots and once in multiway raised pot.

Today I played on i4 again and was running fuckin hot for the first hour or so. Hitting sets left and right, donks paying off with garbage etc. Then I played and ugly hand:

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***** Hand 606442333 *****
0.50/1.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:24:10 PM
Table TH 136 (Real/Cash Game)
Seat 1: lorky (72.35)
Seat 2: brakpytan (241.50)
Seat 3: Louise@ (13.95)
Seat 4: Kummisetä (160.40)
Seat 5: rozmi84 (355.99)
Louise@ post SB 0.50
rozmi84 post BB 1.00

Holecards(Odds)
brakpytan
lorky Fold
brakpytan Raise to 4.00
Louise@ Fold
rozmi84 Raise to 10.00
brakpytan Call 10.00

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $20.50)

   
rozmi84 Check
brakpytan Check

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $20.50)

   
rozmi84 Bet 10.00
brakpytan Raise to 43.00
rozmi84 All-in 345.99
brakpytan All-in 231.50

River (Pot : $73.50)

   

Showdown

Rake: 3.00 Total Pot: 480.50
lorky Fold Win: 0.00
brakpytan Straight to the king Win: 0.00
Louise@ Fold Win: 0.00
rozmi84 Full house Win: 480.50

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So yesterday in the evevning I was pretty tired and didn't want to play no-limit holdem cash games. Instead I just felt like goofing around, playing some donkaments or sth like that. But I decided to give pot-limit omaha a go. There were some nl10 tables on FTP but I figured nl25 will be better and I wouldn't be bothered much even if I lost like 4 buyins. It was the first time I actually played omaha (play money doesn't count) except for the couple of times I played it in a mixed live cash game (no-limit holdem + pot-limit omaha) but I was usually just folding as I didn't want to get involved in awkward spots with no idea where I'm at. I know the rules and I'm aware of some very basic concepts like low flushes usually no good, underfullhouses, bottom set might be not good, 2 pairs are usually mediocre etc etc. But I had no idea about the betting patterns and how to play different spots. But I think I wasn't that awful and I made 4 buyins ($100) in like 2 hours or so of 2tabling so it feld pretty good. I've noticed that it's pretty easy to get people off the hand with constant agression. In the end they started playing back at me a lot but I guess it's normal. I might get involved more into omaha if I'll become a nl200 or nl400 regular in holdem.

Here are some hands so if anyone plays omaha I'd like to hear some comments on certain hands and my general play:

1. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184484
I guess it's not standard? But this guy was bluffing a lot so I thought there's a good chance I'm ahead.

2. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184486
Ship it.

3. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184487

4. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184489
Meh, I thought he's got like AAKQ or sth and I can get him to fold his overpair. But sucking out was good too.

5. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184493
This guy was really active so I thought that I'm either ahead with my 2 pairs and if not I still have a flush draw.

6. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184494
Not sure but I think I was bluffing here.

7. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/184496
Now I think it was a very bad call in omaha. Should've folded.


I also had some other fun hands that I forgot to save but whatever.

Now I'm going to study for ~3 hours or so I'll try to do the whole sample IELTS test (listening, reading, writting and than I'll talk to myself for 15 mins). In the evening I'm going to some birthday party (dinner at a posh restaurant and some clubbing later) but I think I'll don't get pissed and get home early as I want to calm down a bit until the exam. I'm not sure if I'll be able to play today, probably not (unless b-day will suck and I'll get home very early). But a one day break will be good.

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So April is over. The month started pretty bad, I was playing bad, had no discipline, running bad etc. Later on I've tightened up my ass and decided to really focus on my game. Started watching more vids, posting hands, browsing forums, analysing hands etc. And most importantly - I was playing way more solid. Full focus during session etc. I played about 30k hands during the month and I didn't play for the first few days and I've been 4-5 tabling so it's not bad. But in May I want to put more hands but it's not gonna be easy as I have my exam on 5th May so I gotta study a bit. Then in the end of the month my best friend from Poland is coming so we're probably gonna party a lot etc. But I'm aiming at 40k hands, 4 tabling only probably.

I'm not sure how much I made this month as my PT is a bit fked after reinstalling my windows. But together with rakeback it was about 1,5-2k which is not bad considering how much I spew at the beginning of the month. I hope that May is gonna my best month ever and I think it should be easily achievable. I'll be playing loads, as I'll have nothing else to do. Also my roll is now about 6,3k (like $300 more to come from rakeback on FTP but on 15th May) so I'm gonna play nl100 till my exam and then move up to nl200. I'll start playing 2-3 tables for the first day or two, just to get a feel. Shouldn't be much of a difference. I need to remember to play the same game I played at nl100. Last time I tried to move up I was thinking the level of play would increase a lot and was playing too fancy, giving too much respect to my opponents etc. Hopefully it's not gonna be the same this month. I don't have any financial goals but I think I might be able to pull about 4-5k together with rakeback. We'll see how it goes. I also want to start browsing more forums and posting, as there's a lot of great advice available and it would be stupid not to take advantage of it.

Ok enough for now. This post might be a bit chaotic but I don't feel like re-reading and editting it. Holla

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So yesterday in the evening I played a session on some other poker room and managed to win like $250 back so it wasn't that bad of a day. Got some setup but on the most part I was hitting loads of flops. Some of the highlights of the session:

1. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/183804
I check this flop from time to time. This was one of these spots and it went pretty well. I'm not sure if I'd make this call without an 8 on the river, but I was like 90% sure that he's on a total bluff, rather than valuebetting a weaker hand. Luckily I was right.

2. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/183807
He must've been on a massive tilt.

3. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/183808
First attempt to 3bet light and I get punished right away.


Ok time to play some poker - it's last day of the April so it'd be nice to have a nice winning session to boost up my winnings for the month. And I promise I'll study a bit as well today.

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So yesterday in the afternoon I played a short session and dropped a buyin or so. Today I decided to get back to PartyPoker. I haven't been playing there for like two weeks and people there are getting crazy with the agression. 80% of the players are 3betting light constantly and 4betting light becomes more and more popular. I had a really hard time adapting to this game and played bad in a few important hands. I also had KK vs AA once for stacks and some regular beats. I should've finished playing earlier when I was stuck $200. I wasn't playing well and wasn't focused but decided to play 15 more minutes and dropped 2 more buyins. It shouldn't have happened.

I need to work on my discipline and control and ability to quit at the right time. From what people say such sessions like mine today are very standard (4buyin? wtf?!) but I think they're happening to me to often. Usually my winning session are like 1 or 2 buyins up, but when I'm losing it's usually big time (2 or more buyins). I need to work on the mental side of my game as session like the one I've just had really dissapoint me and hurt my confidence. But I realise that these is just the everyday thing in poker and I can't just whine cause "omg I lost 4 buyin". Obviously I'm not saying that I couldn't avoid today's loses as I most probably could. I just need to start handling these swings better cause they really hurt my confidence a lot, especially when they happen after a good session. Maybe I get too confident after winning a few buyins and I start playing differently? Dunno. I'll probably play again on Party in the evening but if the games will be so agro again, I'll probably think about moving somewhere else. Seriously, I've been playing on FTP for the last week and it was sooo much easier and way more steady. The variance on Party is much higher IMO and the games are tougher.

Ok enough of whining. Time to tighten up my ass, watch some vid on CR, browse some forums and get my monies back.

By the way - is there anyone here who's playing Party nl100 at the moment? Do you have the same feelings about the agression in these games?

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So two days ago I had a pretty bad session where I dropped 3 buyins. Some setups, some beats and some bad mistakes. Yesterday I decided to play only 4 tables from now on (as I've been usually playing 6 lately) and really focus on the tables and watch all the action, trying to figure what my opponents have, their betting patterns, hand ranges etc etc. I played really good, had some beats but still won $150. Today I decided to finish clearing my reload bonus on FTP and play ~1,5-2k hands on FTP. I went on a nice heater - biggest one I've ever had. In the first 200 hands I stacked some donks like 3 times. After 400 hands or so I was up like $350 and wanted to call it a session but I figured that I need to play more if I'm running so good. And it was a good decision. Even though I got stacked like 3 times I still won over $700 in 1,7k hands which is my best score during one session I think.



It felt really good to finally have a session like this. Boosted up my confidence a lot. I was running good but also targeting fish with some strict table selection. Thanks to it, after like 3hrs of waiting to stack a huge donk this hand came:

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FullTiltPoker Game #2307148652: Table Maroney (6 max) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:13:38 ET - 2007/04/28
Seat 1: CasaJJ ($192.30)
Seat 3: Moneysnatcher6 ($97.20)
Seat 4: murling ($379.60)
Seat 5: SneakrFreakr ($260.25)
Seat 6: Muffinmuncher ($29.90)
CasaJJ posts the small blind of $0.50
Moneysnatcher6 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #6

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to SneakrFreakr
murling calls $1
SneakrFreakr raises to $4.50
Muffinmuncher raises to $15
CasaJJ folds
Moneysnatcher6 folds
murling raises to $51
SneakrFreakr raises to $164
Muffinmuncher calls $14.90, and is all in
murling calls $113

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $359.40)

   
murling bets $215.60, and is all in
SneakrFreakr calls $96.25, and is all in
murling shows
SneakrFreakr shows
Muffinmuncher shows
Uncalled bet of $119.35 returned to murling

Turn (Pot : $551.90)

   

River (Pot : $551.90)

   
murling shows a pair of Queens
SneakrFreakr shows a pair of Aces
SneakrFreakr wins the side pot ($460.70) with a pair of Aces
Muffinmuncher shows Ace King high
SneakrFreakr wins the main pot ($88.20) with a pair of Aces
Muffinmuncher is sitting out

Summary
Total pot $551.90 Main pot $91.20. Side pot $460.70. | Rake $3
Board:  
Seat 1: CasaJJ (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Moneysnatcher6 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: murling showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: SneakrFreakr showed and won ($548.90) with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: Muffinmuncher (button) showed and lost with Ace King high

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Ugh as everyone who's still using Neteller probably noticed they closed the Neteller Card. And this was the way I was always using to withdraw my monies. I could obviously withdraw them to my bank account but here's the problem. I've registered Neteller with my Polish address and my Polish bank account that I've already closed. Now that I moved to the UK like half year ago I've got a new address and a new bank account. I've already emailed Neteller to change my details but they're not anwsering. And I need to withdraw some money pretty soon and I had no idea how to do it. Finally I found a way - I deposited some $ on i4poker and even though I've registered there with my Polish address and deposited money using Neteller I was able to cash them out to my UK bank account. What a relief. lol netelleraments.

I spent like 4hrs in the morning trying to figure out how I can withdraw the money. Now it's time to play some poker but I'm not sure if it's possible cause my broadband really blows recently. Meh, everything is going wrong.

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Ugh.. So yesterday I went out with my 2 Polish friends, 2 girls from Holland and USA and a English/Turkish guy. We started by drinking some vodka with bitter lemon, then we had some straight Malibu and finally about 11:30pm we left to the club. On the bus we had some gin but it really tastes like shit when you drink it straight. Bleh. We got off the bus and headed to the club. The bouncer asked me for an ID so I showed him one and he was like "Hmm do you have a student ID?". So I said that I don't have one and he said "Ok". So why was he even asking? Anyway the party was called "Sex with robots" but I have no fkin idea why. Maybe it's just because of the music cause it sounded like playing on Commodore64 or Pegasus. So we started having pint after pint and I have no idea how many we had. The party was pretty shit but we had a good time anyway. On my way back I obviously had a kebab with a can of pink rubicon. I got home and I felt so drunk that I just wanted to fall asleep as soon as possible. I felt like I wanted to puke but somehow I managed to just pass out quickly.

I was waking up like 15 times in the morning cause I was sooo thirsty. So I drank over 2 litres of water and I finally woke up about 2pm when my friend phoned me. I wanted to watch a new episode of Heroes but my damn laptop didn't want to switch on. When the Windows was loading it would simply freeze and I couldn't do anything about it. Tried to use Windows CD and repair my Windows but my laptop would simply switch off in the middle of this. Somehow when I tried to switch it on for the 10th time it worked. But it's working a bit slowly now and the same is with my broadband. Any ideas?

So I started watching Heroes with a terrible hangover and the worst headache ever. Don't know why cause I haven't drunk that much yesterday. Maybe it's because of mixing everything. Whatever. So while I was watching Heroes I had to go to puke like 2 times. Strange thing is that there was no kebab in it. Just the water I drank in the morning. I'm totally fucked and it's 4pm now here and I still can't get out of my bed. Probably no studying and no poker today. Not good. I'm not drinking for another week or so. Maybe even till the exam.



Well at least I hope so.

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