Time for a blog?

Currently i am running decently, in contrast with past mothes where i had the shittest run of my entire poker career, i am running 200% times better. But i am a small winner, winning only like 1.5/2.5bb/100, i want to increase my winning rate so i need to losen up, i am curretly running on 16/12, which is too nitty, so i want to run smth like 19/13, 20/14. Today i tried one session to play loser, it's quite hard actually when you are 8 tabling, since it's hard to know where's the right spot to 4bet, con bet etc, since you can't observe you oponents that well. ie: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/214959
This hand vs Midian i thought i made a good move, i was tight in his eyes, he was lose, we were like 125bb deep, so i figured i would make him fold, but oops. Overally, today i didn't run too good, at first i could hit a shit, and i was pritty cold decked all the way.
Results of today:

June:


So far everything seems to be fine, hoping my losen up will be successful and i will be able to move to 400nl at the end of the month.
Also i will probobly leave ps after i will safe enough fpp for tv, i have around 45K, 30k to go =]
:no thumbs:

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Played whole day, won like 4 buy-ins then i turned on pokerstars got sucked out once, and went on tilt making hero calls with bottom pairs for stacks vs nits :D ended down for the day and feeling very stupid. I am already tired of 200nl seems i am stuck there forever =[. Not improving anymore, don't know why.. winning very poor just like 1/2bb/100, and playing like a nit after past few month donwswing. And this is pissing me off, have last exam on saturday and then i hope to get involved in poker fully.

Running 16/12 really sucks and it seems i can't loosen up while 8 tabling since i start lossing, so no clue what to do, i don't feel like playing less tables, because i find it very borring.
I am hoping to run atleast decently this month, and to finnally reach like 14$K and move to 400nl(sounds impossible). But most likely i will be crushed here, cuz simply i suck, but somehow i have to move up since i am lossing my motivation at 200nl =[
I split my roll to PS and PP, i have been running better than the last monthes but still playing poor and not winning too much, my total br now is like 10700, while it was 11.5K few minutes ago.
MY stats on PS, the software is great, but i will quit pokerstars when i will save 75K FPP for TV, and put all the money in some site to move to 400nl, still need to win atleast 3-4K before that, sound that will take quite a lot time for nit like me =[

It seems i can only make blog posts only when i am lossing or feeling down, when i am winning i don't bother making posts, i should stop doing that since it looks really stupid.
Atleast i had a nice weekend near the sea, looking forward for my next visit there.




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Since my last post i have only played like 1-2K hands, but yet managed to win 1500$. It's cool not to run shitty. I hope i will be able to keep it going. Today i was happy about two things:
1. Pokerstars and Fulltilt add moneybookers to they depositing list, this is very cool for me since it's the only way i can deposit. Gonna play some PS, i always loved, it always treated me bad, but still i love it. I cashout 500$ from pp and rb is comming to PS account so i will have a decent br for 50nl.
2. Thou i cashed 500$ i still managed to reach 10K br on PP, winning a thosand today.
I am very lazy lately, not putting effort to play poker and still winning, wtf..?? For 3 month i was putting so much effort and kept lossing, now that i don't give a shit about poker i start winning. Very odd, but great. I hope to put good hours during next monthes, when the university is done.


I hope my bad run ends here!

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On my last blog post i was telling that i need to change something. And actually did, now i play much less poker, just few hours a day, more if i feel like playing. Strange but now i tend to win more than i used, when i was playing long hours. Since the beggining of the month i am up 2262 over 10K hands, yes i played only 10K over 7 days, while before i used to play this kind of number in 2-3 days.



Now i am back to 9K br, i feel happy about it since i was down to 5100 at one point few weeks ago. It's strange, i feel/play better, more concentrated when my sessions are short(1~k hands). So now i try to play short sessions and during the peaks only. It helps me to have a lot of free time and fine winnings. I am not sure if i will keep on playing like this, i feel like putting more hours once i finnish my exams.
Also i was not satisfied with my stats of play 17/13, i thought they were really nitty, but now i think they are fine since i play 8 tables. I tried to play less tables(4-6) and maintaining a higher stats, it is easier when you play less tables, and make better moves against certain players. So if i ran 18/14(8 tabling)i would be satisfied. I think i do not raise enough on the button.
One thing about poker makes me very happy, i finalyl managed to get all my money out of UB, jesus crist, they can put you on tilt with their support and dumb rules.
So for poker i would be very satisfied if i could mantain 3bb/100 rate. I just want to pass 10K, then i will probobly take the loan from bank for my own flat.
I might get my rakeback soon, and i will get it to Pokertars, around 1k. So i will play here some.

Not much to add more, i hope i won't run like shit again and i will be able to fully recover from my downswing.

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It started very nice i have won like 2k in first few days, when usuall shit hit me again. During 3-9th of April i lost 20bi, was very sad about this, but i put crazy hours and managed to get it all back. So in 28th i was very happy finally having green number on my PT. But i was happy too early, because there were 2 more days to go. On 29th i lost 1000$ even thou i think i played the best poker during this month, and today i came motivated to get my green numbers again, but luck was not my side. I started off session lossing a set up. I had 99 on AA9 flop, turn came 3 and he had A3 in raised pot. Then i lost to shorty's suckout and that emmediatly put me on tilt. I was mad already but still played decently then i lost a hand with combo draw and to some random shit. So another day 1000$. Lossing 10bi in 2 days seemed to be. But not to me. I am so fucking tired of this game. Past monthes all i was doing is hitting downsings and recovering nothing more. I feel so shitty now that during the last month of the day i am down 2K for month. Well i might be not a very good player, i agree, but still i capable of beating 200nl just i run so fuckin bad. Those set ups and suckouts are just killing me. It's so disappointing to put on avarage 8hours a day of playing poker and be still down. Now i have a lot of things undone, stuff for university and other shit just because i wanted to recover on poker, but didn't manage to. I feel that this can't keep going on like this, i can't handle anymore. Poker ruins my mood and motivation for doing anything else besides poker. I really don't know what i am going to do next but i need some changes, this shit is just making me crazy. I wish those golden days would come back where i was able to win 4-6K $ per month without putting too much effort. Poker pissed me of lately.
Well i am still happy that i found this game, i have cashed out like 20K$ during past half year. I still have like 17K$ which i saved for the flat, but now i am stuck and in need of some changes. This can't keep going on.
Few days ago i was offered by my dad to invest all my savings in some bussiness, and i am thinking about doing that cuz i don't feel like winning anymore anything on poker, those past month i have been hoping to fully recoverd but didn't manage to.
Thanks for reading my lame blog and bye.
oh and in the morning i got my rake back on ub and decide to give a shot at 50nl and yet i managed to lose 200$. That was some donk fest and i kept getting sucked out my backdoor flushes and straith made by underpairs, so my morning was already ruining by this shit and now i lost another 1000$ on partypoker, i guess my game and lucky really sucks

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So things are as always, not running too good, Muhweli is still a dickhead and nothing has changed.For poker almost everything going the same as it used to. I am still running poor, getting quite a lot of coolers, but started to win again. Since my downswing i play really tight/scared poker and i hate it. Whenever i try to losen up i lose big amounts. Still a lot to work on to improve my game, sucking quite hard =].
When i moved to 100nl i was actually surprised to see bunch of 200nl regulars dropping down with me and playing 100nl. The gap between 100nl and 200nl is quite big on partypoker. I had fun times again, just because the players are weak/passive and it's easy to play them. Won like 13buy-ins over 19K hands on 100nl boosted my br a bit and gave a shot at 200nl again. Firstly i ran fine, won few buy-ins but then wasted it all and was down few hundreds. Today i gave another shot and i am up 650$ for today. But also got a lot of coolers and there were moments when i was tilting.
Magic- http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/177933
Very ugly cooler, 95.5% to win and yet i lose:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/177925
Muhweli being very rude and not liking my missclick-read:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/177916
Magic 2#- http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/177892
Disappointing set-up- http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/177891

Anyway thing are a bit brighter since my last post when i had left 5300$, now my br is 7150$. Still not feeling safe with it and need to reach atleast 8K$ to be confident on 200nl.


Besides poker

Since i ran very poor past monthes and my basketball season is over i decided to workout a bit. When i first started i weighted 73KG, now i weight 80 (after 1.5 month) and my aim is to weight 90KG before next basketball season. So i still have around 4 month to gain 10KG.
Also this helped me to play better poker, when i come back from training i feel very healthy and tilt-free, i waste my anger by working out and it helps to play calm poker, i suggest for everyone to exercise daily.

Not much more to say, exams are comming and i won't have too much time during next few weeks but i am hoping to win some money back during this month.
Peace

update: had another session, down 1000$...
i don't feel like playing this game anymore

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Few days ago i was whining in what a awful spot i was with 8100$ bankroll, after few days of playing putting a lot of effort and playing long hours i managed to lose 2K more, and now my br is 6000$, which means i will have to drop stakes soon.... This is really dissapointing and depressing, it seems the more effort i put the more i lose. Today was awful i lost 1300$, it was some sick day from the beggining of the morrning. I started of my session being down in 10 hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172349
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172350
Then everything got worse, i got few more coolers, after which i started tilting but somehow won some money back, then i went to the university. After university i was calm again and ready to win some money back and then i hit a "FULLHOUSE" of bad beats, cold decks and setups.
Now i am sitting with my 6K left, playing some crappy software, which was suppose to be soft(but which is actually full of regulars that share the fish and fishies are dying fast), feeling very gloomy and confused not knowing what should i do next. Should i move back to UB? Should i search for some other software or should i stick to partypoker or should i cashout what i have left from my 16K. Lossing 10K$ in 3month is really depressing espeacially for Lithuanian.
I really hope i will get back on feet somehow and i will be able not to drop down stakes, but at the moment i really sad and confused, because i put so much effort and time past monthes and all i got was stress.
I probobly should take some time off poker, but i know that tommorow morning my mindset will be possitive again and i will be calm again and ready to play, so i might give a last try before dropping down stakes.
Sometimes it's hard to express yourself, the way you feel when you play 8 hours a day, hoping to win some money back and you end up lossing more.
Besides Poker:
Today i read Cosmo's blog and he mentioned new broodwar ladder, i immediately went there and lost 4 games in a row , but it was fun anyway.
Damn it sucks to be me since i am lossing at everything
Peace,
Arvydas

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First of all hello, i haven't updated my blog for awhile now, but today i feel gloomy and i don't feel like playing so it's time for an update.
Past 3 month:
So around 3 month ago i had around 16K $ on Ultimate bet, everything was great i was running decently around 4bbs/100, i was planning to move up stakes once i receive my rakeback which had to boost my br even more, but then it all started, i started running terrible and lost around 4K on UB, then i cashed out some money and decided to move to partypoker. During that time i had a break of like 1 week, because my cashout from UB took 2.5 weeks (lol) and i had written like 14~ letters to support before i finally got my money. People were telling that partypoker was really soft(which isn't any softer than UB), but once i started playing i ran into another terrible run where i lost few more thousand and i had left like 7K$. Felt really bad lacking of br and not being able to start winning again. I started seaking for leaks, started picking tables with less regulars and tried to avoid tilt and autopiloting, then i was on a long break even period. And since beginning of April i hoped my luck would change. The 1st of April was great: i lost 700$ in the morrning but played whole day and finnished being up 1539$ it was first day during 3 month period where i ran good. During these days i had a lof of free time and decided to dedicate my all time to poker to get back on feet, but sadly whole week i was rollercoastering over 30K hand and today i lost 1K$.
So now i am sitting 8131$ being very dissapointed with my past monthes and not feeling like playing poker.
Apart poker:
So last 3 month poker isn't going well, but since september of 2006 i managed to save 40K litas, which is a bit more than 15K$ for flat. The flat that i want cost 100K$, and it would take ages to save for it, so instead i was planning to buy cheaper flat for 50K$, i planned to take loan before summer and start living on my own with my gf, but now when poker isn't going that good i am not sure about my future plans.
What can i say i feel sad and this post is borring but i am too tired for anything more.
Also i bought new wheels for my car, sorry for the poor photo i don't have any programs on this comp =[

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FUCK THIS GAME HONESLTY :d:d:d:d:d, 20 MINUTES SESSION WAS GREAT THX YOU:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143635

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=143619

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143637
some more greats hands are missing since i turned off PT before the last import

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Yesterday i was sure i would take a break from poker, but today i came back from university and really felt like playing. So decided to give a shot. First short session was good i was up 3 buy-ins, playing very good, i was really satisfied with my play, then after 1 more lecture i had another session, where i won one more buy-in, but the play was rather poor, made some really terrible calls, for what i hate myself . And i have just finnished my 3rd session of the day,where i lost 1 buy-in, played decently i guess. It's the time that UB usually has a high number of 1/2 nl tables, however now there are only 4 tables full of decent regulars, and only 0-2 fish at the table sitting short stacked. So playing is really EV- right now , since you won't win money from regulars easily. I am really lost. I think it's time to leave UB, there are too many regulars that eat the money of fish very fast and number of new fishies isn't high enough.
Overally i up today around 800$, which is great since i ihad some dry streak, but still played rather poorly in some situations. I will post the hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143205
played this very fishy, i was confused on flop since he overbet it a bit, so i miniraised, then he minraised me back( shark fight), i called and he instantly pushed on turn, i really felt he was weak(low pocket pair?, flsuh draw?)w/e i thought i had been ahead there. But overally i hate the way i played this hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143208
Another very very stupid call, this guy is good reguler, i really felt like he was semi bluffing with a draw, but didn't had the balls to check raise all-in him on turn, but still called the river. well what can i say my play is really poor nowadays.
There rest loses where some small setups, so i don't really care about them. Winning hands are some standart, the only i liked were these:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143211

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143212

Today is a bit brighter than few last days, but still i have a decision to make, should i leave UB or not, i am leaning towards leaving but i don't know where to go, i would go Partypoker, but i don't feel safe having illegal rakeback, when PartyPoker has some rude history for their actions taken agaisnt some players.

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