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BUT MAYBE YOU DON'T RUN SO GOOD, SO YOU CAN USE THE...ALTERNATIVE ENDING!!!
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lol sick, here's my sessions from today. i played 2/4 6max for the most part, then i got pooruser to teach me for 2 hours, playing 5/10 fullring and HU. rofl:



ship!

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Thanks so much for all the support everyone. Good karma, for real.

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IMPORTANT EDIT: BRINGING THE NOISE IS THE PATENTED TECHNIQUE OF POORUSER. HE IS A MAN OF MUCH WISDOM, AND I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY HIM TO CONDUCT THE EXPERIMENT HEREIN DESCRIBED.

So I told my soon-to-be student, gawdawful, that I would be doing an experiment. I'd move to his stakes, NL100 6-max, for a short while, trying to improve my ability to annoy and tilt the aggressive regulars.

You know, do some really stupid stuff like...lead minbet the flop, and when raised, insta-min-3bet. I would also do stuff like 3bet to half my stack preflop, or min-3bet somebody 4 or 5 times in a row whenever they raised. My goal, as I explained to him, was to cheaply and efficiently build an image that made regulars hate me. I wanted them to target me and to try to force me to play large pots, when they were holding medium hands or outrageous bluffs. Regulars have gotten fairly good at playing ultra-standard TAG style where they 3bet a lot, cbet a lot, and snap off cbets a lot as well. So I want to throw them out of their element, play a weird, unfamiliar game and do things they're not used to, because my understanding of theory will overcome their stylistic solidity. Plus they're tilt-monkeys.

After explaining all this, gawdawful commented that he'll make sure to avoid my tables while I'm at his stakes. I said that would be a good idea. So when I began my experiment, obviously I sat at one of his tables. He said in the chat, "guess it's time to sit out "...but he kept playing.

It wasn't long before I took my first stack from him. He was raising a ton of buttons, to $4, so I was 3betting to $24 or more in the blinds. "Be a man and put half your stack in if you want to scare me. Otherwise, the noise is coming" were my thoughts. I could almost feel his blood boiling. He was steaming and he hated the fact that I was picking on him. I definitely made it clear that I had come to this table and sat next to him for the sole purpose of shitting directly on him. It was getting pretty personal.

It wasn't long before I won my first stack. So the following hand came up...I don't have the HH, but I think this is right. I have JJ in the small blind. gawdawful makes it 4 on the button, and I make it 24. He calls. On a queen-high flop, I check, and he shoves for an overbet. Obviously I snapcall and it's an easy ship.

I won another stack later, but can't remember exactly how. When talking to him on msn today, I commented that I can't believe he feel for my tricks when I told him exactly what I was up to. He said that it wasn't even my play, just so much as my existence, that tilted him. And now the funny part:

Corwin says:
i can't believe you fell for my tilt induction traps
Corwin says:
when i told you beforehand
Corwin says:
that i would be doing it
gawdawful says:
man you just need to sit down
gawdawful says:
fuck traps
Corwin says:
hhahaha
gawdawful says:
just be like, sup Kevin
gawdawful says:
its corwin
gawdawful says:
get ready to tilt
gawdawful says:
and gg me
gawdawful says:
faster to just transfer
Corwin says:
hahahahahahahahahaha
gawdawful says:
less embarrassing too
gawdawful says:
be like
gawdawful says:
thats just protection money
Corwin says:
roflmao

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Poker:
Poker has been going really well. At this point, I feel I've solidified my game to the point that I should almost never have serious bad runs where I make poor decisions in many large pots. The money is flowing well, and I'm running fairly neutral. I'm up about $1,200 in live-play after 4 days, and about $3,400 in online play after 7. I have been working on a ton of stuff, and both fullring and short-handed games feel great. I'm also improving at PLO, and I'm learning so much just constantly conversing with Daut.

My new group of full-time students for the latter half of the summer are also exciting. I think they are some good players with a lot of potential, and I hope to mold them into great players who will tear through midstakes in no time. My students who are just wrapping up their full-time coaching deals are mostly doing well. One has increased his bankroll more than 5x and has moved up 3 stakes in the past 6 weeks. I'm proud of all my students and I hope they continue to improve and crush their games.

Friends:
Daut is definitely one of the most solid friends I've ever made. He's a great, patient, generous, level-headed, easy-going person with a good sense of humor and a great outlook on life. He's a lot of fun to be around, and obviously a huge asset for me in improving my poker game.

Mig is a nit. But he thinks everyone sucks at poker, which is cool. Although he has no respect for any other poker player, he never talks about himself or brags about how good he is. He's not arrogant or cocky, he's just ruthlessly unforgiving of others' mistakes at the poker table. All joking aside though, Mig is also a lot of fun to hang out with, but not so helpful for my poker game .

I spent several hours talking to and playing $1/3 NL with RaSZi yesterday. He's been playing $10/20 at the Wynn, and killing it. But he was bored and his game was bad, so he came down to my micro-stakes table to donk it up and get drunk. He tilted the table really badly, drastically increasing its +EV for me. Big thanks to RaSZi for getting those geeks to ship me so much money. He's a hilarious and very fun individual, and he likes to talk poker. I am hoping to get to spend a lot more time with him while he's here. He's a really good live player and I think he will crush very high stakes live for a long, long time if he wants to do so.

I also met up with LURPED a few times at the Wynn, and I think he's been playing $5/10 and $10/20. It's been a long time since I last talked to him, but he's a poker player through and through. He just has this air of "grinder" about him. I haven't gotten much chance to talk to him seriously, but he is about to buy a house near here. Congrats to him on that, and I hope his land value skyrockets .

Stories:

Here are a few cool hands I have played so far:

1. I am like $800 deep at a $1/3 NL game at the Wynn, and my opponent has about $500. I have 55 in middle position, and I limp after 2 other limpers. The button makes it $21 to go, folds back to me, and I call. Flop is Q56, and I check/raise a $60 overbet to $180. He calls. The turn is a 6, and he has about $300 left. This player is an old guy who has been trying to abuse me in position a lot, so I just bet $120 and leave him room to shove, instead of putting him in, knowing that he'll think he has more leverage to show strength with a weak hand if I just bet small now. So he does shove, instantly, and I of course snapcall. The river is a K and he shows TT. LOL, ship it.

2. RaSZi was sitting directly to my right, and was ultra deep-stacked with like $2,400, and I had about $1,000. He had been playing something like 50/45, but very serious and solid postflop. I hadn't been stomping on him much, because he has a lot more experience in aggressive deep-stacked games than I do and I know his superiority as a player means that I can't get too out of line -- I need a fairly tight image to make plays at him. Having this image, the following hand ensued. He raised over a limper to $15 in the hijack, and I made it $45 on the button. Folds to him, he calls. Flop is AA2 with 2 diamonds, and he checks. I bet $60 and he starts grumbling..."see, if I start bluffing on flops like this, I don't know if you can start floating me to re-bluff," and folds. I show Qc5c. He says he hates me. I mumble that I'm not sure whether I need to bet $60 to get a fold there, and he says..."oh believe me, you do. Otherwise I will absolutely stomp on you. Trust me, if you bet weak, I'll be the first one all-in and you'll be doing some math."

3. Villain is about $650 deep, and I cover by a mile ($1/3). He is sitting a few seats to my right, but the people between us have been sitting out a lot. I have been absolutely shitting on him non-stop since he got there. His friend is sitting directly to my left, and both of them are wannabe-TAG kids who think that they're good image players. They make a lot of mistakes, but I don't doubt that they're winning players in this game.

In one important hand we played earlier, I had ATo and raised over his limp. He called. The flop was K67 with two spades, and he check/called about 2/3 pot. It was pretty clear he was drawing in this hand, because there is just no other type of hand he could have that wouldn't protect itself on this flop. The turn was a blank, like the 2h, and he check/called another 2/3 pot bet. The river was some dirty card like the 9s, and we checked down. He showed 54dd for a busted stupid straight draw, and I showed ATo and won the pot. He grumbled, "ace high?! Psssh...I could have gotten you off that SO ez."

Now for the hand in question. The villain has been limping a bit too much, and I've raised in position the last 5 times he has limped. So he limps this hand, and I make it $15 with A7o. He calls and we're heads-up. Flop is 272 with two spades, and I have the As. He checks, I bet $24, he makes it $66. I call. Turn is the Qd, and he bets $160. I go into the tank for a bit and finally shove for about $400 more. He gets a disgusted look on his face and starts counting his money. He thinks and thinks and says to himself, "ugh, I think this is a call...how can this be a call?" Finally, he folds, disgusted.

He left not long after, and had been gone for a while. His friend came back to the table and at some point asked me, "hey, what did you have on that hand where my buddy made that big turn bet? Sevens full, right?" I replied that I of course didn't have sevens full (and by the way, I would have butchered it if I had that hand). I said I had A7o, and he was stunned. "So you WERE making a play at him then? He had king jack of spades." I explained my play of the hand this way: his friend had shown down a few strong hands before, and every time he had been very still, with very little signs of emotion in his body language, and his eyes were generally looking at his opponent's chips and hands. He took standard aggressive lines, so his betting was irrelevant. But his body language was key.

On the flop in the hand above, he was a bit fidgety and his eyes were fixated on the board more often than not. He was sort of rotating back and forth in his chair a lot. I knew on the flop that he was either semi-bluffing or playing some kind of hand he was unsure of, like a small overpair. I felt that 55-66 might fire again on the turn, but probably weak, 88-99 would probably play about the same way but maybe a little stronger, and TT was very unlikely anyway because I'm almost 100% certain he raises that preflop. But a ton of hands with two spades make a lot of sense, like JTss, 98ss, etc., while the middle pairs are possible but unlikely. So I am not looking to jam on the flop, because I can't possibly induce a mistake on the flop, unless he folds a combo draw (which I doubt) or he folds an overpair (which is a slim possibility). So I have to call because I am ahead of his range anyway, I have a nut redraw with the As, and I can get more value when I'm good, or induce more folds from better pairs when I'm not good.

When the turn was the Qd, he looked at it very quickly and instantly reached for his chips. It was the most cursory of glances. I knew immediately that he couldn't have possibly re-evaluated his hand or his play when the Qd came out. Therefore, it was a meaningless card for him. Thus he can't have the Qs. I know that he didn't think that far ahead on the flop, because he isn't that smart. If he had the Qs, he would hesitate for a second on the Qd turn. He just reached for chips. After his bet, his body language screamed that he wanted me to fold and just get the hand over with. So after he bet $160, I knew I had the best hand, but I had no idea which cards on the river would be bad for me, except spades obviously. Because of that, I couldn't let him have the betting lead with so much money behind on so many possible rivers that killed my hand. I'm not sure that calling down isn't the best play, but I shoved and that's why.

It took a lot fewer words to say to his friend, but I really stomped on that geek pretty hard. Owned.

More updates later!

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So, as some of you may know or may have guessed, my plans for taking a trip to Europe this summer fell through. My friends are idiots, and they want to take a Contiki guided tour instead of staying with all of you fine gentlemen, so I told them to fuck off. I’ll take my own trip later, and THEN I will ask you all again whether I can bum it up at your places. Thanks so much for the offers though, and sorry I can’t get to see you yet!

But on to the good stuff. So, I’ll be spending this summer in Las Vegas instead. My uncle has a house there, and has offered me a free room for as long as I want, so I will most likely be there from the middle of May to the middle of July. I’ll be playing and teaching poker, as well as working for Liquidpoker, full-time, and generally just living an extremely baller lifestyle, doing whatever I want whenever I want. Also, I will be degen’ing it up at strip clubs a fair amount, because I am awesome like that. However, strip clubs are horrible for one’s bankroll, so I need to practice moderation.

Furthermore, I am working on a wish list of items I want to buy, either with cash or from the PokerStars FPP store, by the end of the summer. If anyone has any suggestions for additional items, and/or substitutes for the ones I’ve listed, please let me know!

#1: New Computer Chair
Name: The Aeron by Herman Miller
Price: $949
Description: This chair is apparently a spectacular distributor of pressure for maximal comfort. It also has angle- and height-adjustable arms, which is crucial for me in chair selection. It also comes in three different widths, which is awesome, because I find most chairs to have the arms far too wide, accomodating large people. While I may be fat, my arms just don't stick out that far . Awesome chair!
Link: http://www.hermanmiller.com/aeron/

#2: New Computer
Name: ?
Price: About $600
Description: I just want a new computer with decent processing power/RAM so that I can run PT/PAHud/multi-tables lag-free, and decent video support for the two new monitors I want to get.

#3: New Monitors
Name: Samsung 24” LCD Monitors from the FPP Store
Price: 136,000 FPPs
Description: What is there to say? Awesome dual 24” setup coming up ASAP.
Link: http://www.pokerstars.com/fpp/store/electronics/samsung-monitor-244/

#4: New Speakers
Name: Bose Companion 3 Series II
Price: $249
Description: These speakers are excellent. DAy[9] has them, and they have extremely good bass and high-quality crisp sound, and they’re simple and compact. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Link: http://www.bose.com/controller?event=...ENT&product=companion3_computer_index

#5: New Cell Phone
Name: LG VX8700
Price: $229
Description: This phone is basically as accessorized as I want. It has an MP3/WMA player and a 2.0 megapixel phone, and it’s compact and looks cool. I don’t really know anything about phones, so I’m particularly interested in anybody’s comments about this or another phone that I should look at. My carrier is Verizon! It’s also been suggested that I should wait for the release of iPhone…anybody know if this is supposed to work with Verizon? Also, anybody think it’s worth it to switch to Cingular for this phone?
Link: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/st...dPhoneId=2971&changingCompletedOrder=

#6: Plasma HDTV
Name: Pioneer 60” Widescreen Plasma HDTV from the FPP Store
Price: 270,000 FPPs
Description: Sick, 60” plasma HDTV. There’s just nothing to really say about this, it rocks your socks off all day long. This is a lot of FPPs though. Once I achieve SuperNova it should still take 2 months or so. Given that I’m already getting two monitors and barely have enough FPPs now to get one, I think this one will be a long time coming. More like a Christmas gift for myself, I think. Problem is, though, that I can use my FPPs soon for sick cash bonuses when I surpass Supernova. Dilemma!
Link: http://www.pokerstars.com/fpp/store/electronics/pioneer-tv-60/

#7: Balvenie Scotch
Name: The Balvenie Portwood 21 year-old
Price: About $200
Description: The Balvenie is my favorite label of Scotch that I’ve tasted so far. It is rich and intense with flavors of caramel and sherry, and I’ve loved every bit of the DoubleWood 12 year-old that I have already. This will be a brilliant addition to my collection.
Link: http://www.balvenie.com/shop/portwood.html

#8: MacAllan Scotch
Name: The MacAllan Sherry Oak 25 year-old
Price: About $375
Description: I sampled this unbelievable whisky at the Luxor Steakhouse in Las Vegas on my birthday in March. Its richness and complexity floored me. I could not believe the delicious flavor bouquet it revealed. I was stunned and almost never want to drink a different Scotch again. I absolutely must have this in my collection.
Link: http://www.themacallan.com/range/18yo.html

Total Cash: About $2,600
Total FPPs: 406,000

I prioritize the above items this way. I need a new computer first, so that’s what I need to get ASAP. After that I think I need the new cell phone, followed by the chair. Then I need the new speakers and then the new monitors. Then the HDTV, then the MacAllan scotch, and finally the Balvenie. So how about a schedule?

Today: April 15
$600 computer: May 1
$229 cell: May 8
$949 chair: June 1
$249 speakers: June 8
136,000 FPP monitors: July 1 (current FPPs: 72,000)
270,000 FPP HDTV: November 15
$375 MacAllan Scotch: December 1
$200 Balvenie Scotch: January 1

And that closes out the year! This actually seems doable. The FPP items might be a bit tough to manage, because I don’t tend to play a lot of tables.

What else can I get to enhance my baller status? Don’t suggest watches or cars, I’m already set with a watch for now, and I can’t get something with a monthly payment (except maybe new cell phone service) until I get my student loans paid off.

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