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Started the day off with some cashgames at NL10 but got sick of how fucking horrible I'm running so I decided to join some donkaments.

Had a nice long tournament day, played in a few $4 180 man sit n go's and managed to place 5th in one, and busted in all the others just short of the money.

During the middle of the tournaments I joined a $5 tournament that was running on stars and got really deep. I ended up getting wrapped up with one of the other chipleaders in a massive pot, with my AA vs his KT, and well..I'll let the HH do the talk.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/250361

After this I was still fairly alive with 10x bb, when I picked up AQos in the SB. An UTG shorty shoves in, and I was 99% sure I had him beat so I called, only to see the big blind make the call behind me with KK. All was fine on an ace high flop, I thought..Turn K sent me packing to the big blinds pocket cowboys to take me out of the tournament to his two outer.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/250366

When it was all said and done, I finished 22/10xx, for $25. What a waste of 6 hours.
I've never felt so diminished as a poker player, this was literally the most frustrating day of my poker career.

Fuck this game, it fucking sucks.
Like putting 2k in my hands and taking it away at the last second.

GL guys.
Ryan (DReaMe)

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Well, tonight was fucking hellacious.

I managed to lose 6 buy-ins in 2 hours tonight, bringing my roll back under $400..

Whatever I did it just wouldn't work out..I'm going to be grinding on NL10 for the next couple days to get myself back to NL25 and go from there..

This session was fucking horrible.
I'm annoyed, pissed, angry, w/e.

This hand just about sums up my night;
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249839


GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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I started the day running really bad and dropped three buy-ins in the beginning, before the cards turned for me and I won back what I lost and a little more.

I'm really enjoying the dynamic on NL25 and will be playing here for the next month or so;

Heres my stats from todays session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1819 hands and saw flop:
- 132 out of 250 times while in big blind (52%)
- 58 out of 242 times while in small blind (23%)
- 129 out of 1327 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 319 out of 1819 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 49 of 84 (58%)
Pots won without showdown - 180

Getting closer and closer to Supernova, woohoo~

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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Small sample, only played about 8k hands this week and ended down 3.5bi. Today was pretty lame in itself, seemed like every time I jammed in good equity spots I would get there on the turn and they'd redraw on the river. I mean, it isn't bad beats or suckouts, just loving flips. For some reason it sucks more if you get there and then they re-get there rather than just never getting there, lol. =)

I'm trying to play a straight forward TAG game lately but I really hate it. It feels like I never get paid off because my image is so tight and now no one wants to take shots bluffing at me either. I figured it'd be an easy chip up, but I keep spewing so that doesn't help anything. Maybe nitty isn't for me, maybe it is and 8k isn't enough. It's certainly low variance which is cool, I guess.

A few fun overpair folds
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249263
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249266

And some good old losers
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249267 - Thin call in weird spot with TT. Ran this by a few people, feels like a call is OK.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249268 - I make a bad play preflop, continued by bad play post flop to a hit card that forces me to put it all in. I still feel a river fold is OK.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249270 - Preflop is horrible, post flop is even worse. My raise should be treated as value vs a call and a blocker vs an AI. Not good enough to fold there is sad..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249271 - Super thin call vs 3bet jam on flop.

I mean, all four of these spots I could have avoided but still not disciplined or good enough to do it. Maybe one week I'll get to make a post where its like "oh hey I played good and I won and I'm not living off rakeback" haha. Maybe, just gotta keep studying and grinding I guess. At least I have a day job.

Nothing else to report, just playing lots of hands "tight is right" and trying to stay positive. Maybe next week.

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Today I had a nice session on NL10 and decided to move up to NL25.

I've found my winning groove, playing at 14-16% (depending on how many hands I see in the blinds for free) and hope to make it to NL50 to stay for a good long while.

Here are my stats from todays session on NL10;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1897 hands and saw flop:
- 133 out of 261 times while in big blind (50%)
- 55 out of 262 times while in small blind (20%)
- 137 out of 1374 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 325 out of 1897 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 33 of 66 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 187

Happy to have found myself again at the table, and will start posting hand analysis from my sessions soon.

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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i just got home from thorladen's house. was really great seeing people play and talking this over.

anyway, i got my desktop up and running so im available for lessons. gave a short one to pooruser last night and I think it went fairly well.

sign up through the lessons thinger up top yo

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i just got home from thorladen's house. was really great seeing people play and talking this over.

anyway, i got my desktop up and running so im available for lessons. gave a short one to pooruser last night and I think it went fairly well.

sign up through the lessons thinger up top yo

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ok so its 2am thursday night and im about to sleep, but out of the blue this friend calls me cos i havent seen him in a few months so hes wants to go out and drink and play pool and be merry cos hes a ridiculous hard-livin russian alcoholic

i dont have uni til like 1:30 tomorrow so i say sure whatever. he comes to my house in his car, my spidey sences are tingling and telling me hes already been drinking but he is famed throughout the lands for his composure so ill never pick it up until we fly off the road at 100kph into a ditch.. aaaaanyway

i get into the car and we drive up my street to the main rd to go to the venue of drinking, the end of my road is a no exit road but my friend being bad the bone as he is ignores the sign cos it aint no thang.. theres no traffic at all obv so its hardly an issue

about 2km up the rd we get the red/blue lights of doom in the back window and my friend remarks "oh, im fucked" pretty matter of factly, so i think "uh oh spagettios!", it should be noted that im actually finding this pretty funny of the randomness of the call to go out and the fact that the plan is clearly fucked now after less than 10 minutes. apparently we got pulled over cos of the exiting at the no-exit thing, so obviously thats a "fuck" pretty ridic unlucky that they saw that heh

so the guy breathtests my friend and hes more than twice the legal limit obv(LOL), and thats for fully licensed drivers... my friend is only a p-plater haha. so hes fucked.. he tries to talk his way out of it but that fails miserably. so hes gonna have to go to court but hes gonna a fat fine, lose his license + his parents are going to anally brutalize him and stop giving him money cos his job is working in his parents shop

aaanyway so they have to take him back to the station, so now im stranded, wearing a tshirt and its fucking cold so i have to walk home which takes me 20 minutes. i woke up kantoki from this site to bitch and tell him the story to him as i walked home cos he was on msn like 30mins ago so was prob still awake (he wasnt but fuck him hoho he can listen to my bullshit)

so here i am, it was 40 minutes from first contact to me getting back home and sitting in my comp chair... sweeeeet night out

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so today i decided to help one of my friends who is struggling with 100nl by letting him watch me play. (he was playing like 13/9 with 19% att to steal blinds).

i'm happy to say it went very well.



LOLOLOL.

Probably the word run ever hahahaha. Lost AA vs TT and AA vs AK aipf, had QT vs AQ on QQT board die in flames to an A river, and lost TT aipf vs a half stack vs 47 when the board came 23456. Oh man it was brutal yet kind of funny.

Hope my buddy isn't too results oriented.

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Such a frustrating day. I should be stuck probably 3 buyins, but luckily I'm only down $11 dollars. Still, when you're up over 3 buyins in the first 300 hands, and by 1000, you end down, somethings fucked up.

I'm really really focusing on improving right now, but man this game can be frustrating. Here are some key hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/246152 - Villians VPIP is really high, like 60s. I'm never good here, horrible play by me. I almost feel check fold is correct on the turn, but I know thats me being a pussy and results oriented.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/246153 - This guy is solid but very passive. My river bet is so bad its rediculous. I should of just check called or check folded. I think betting the turn is mandatory.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/246154 - Really misplayed this draw. I thought the turn would be a good spot to try and take the pot and it failed. My call was terrible, but I thought he'd stack regardless of what pegged the river if I hit. Bad assumption, and bad play.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/246156 - This pla<x>yer has a huge range and is very passive. I probably should of just checked turn so I can pick off a river bluff. A 4 is totally in his range here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/246157 - So, I've talked to a few people on this one and most people say this is always AA or KK. I've never taken the limp minraise line as a monster, but more of a small to medium PP ba<x>sed off of what I've seen and the playback at my image. I heard multiple people say huge hand, (AA most likely), so my thought of fold equity is very bad here. Very poor play, good result. He ended up having a hand which I should have FE against, but he made a good call I guess. I luck box for a buyin.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/246160 - This is very situational ba<x>sed. I don't know how I feel. I had a read, and I went with it. However, the best pla<x>yers I know are saying this is pretty terrible. I really trust their input so I think I got lucky and caught someone with their hand in the cookie jar, but either way it isn't winning long term just like with the Ad4d hand I have no fold equity so that too is bad.

Here is a thread on LP about the JJ hand: http://www.liquidpoker.net/informatio...JJ_in_RR_Pot_vs_Frustrated_(se...html

So over the hands.....

I'm really disapointed. I'm trying very hard to be as successful as my friends and peers but something isn't going right. Maybe I played these right, I don't know. We'll see what you guys have to say.

Of course, its pretty hard to compare myself to my friends when all of them are outstanding. I guess I should be taking that as a blessing rather than trying to feel sorry for myself.

Side note: Listen to the new saigon, it defines hot fire.

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I started the day off on NL10 not too hot, and lost a buy-in in less than 5 minutes. After that I started playing very well.

I've taken all sooted hands out of my arsenal except for on the button, and sometimes on the co with great implied odds.
I've also removed hands like JK in LP, AT in LP, and alot of other marginal hands I was playing.

My winrate is back to where it was a few months ago, before I was taking shots on NL100-NL200.

My strategy had changed slightly everyday on NL100 and NL200 until the change in strategy became leaks, which I'm trying to fix now, so I can become a solid NL50 pla<x>yer to stay.

Heres my stats from todays session;

1st session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1063 hands and saw flop:
- 63 out of 140 times while in big blind (45%)
- 20 out of 137 times while in small blind (14%)
- 63 out of 786 times in other positions (8%)
- a total of 146 out of 1063 (13%)
Pots won at showdown - 17 of 35 (48%)
Pots won without showdown - 79

2nd session;


During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1540 hands and saw flop:
- 102 out of 208 times while in big blind (49%)
- 35 out of 209 times while in small blind (16%)
- 93 out of 1123 times in other positions (8%)
- a total of 230 out of 1540 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 36 of 60 (60%)
Pots won without showdown - 132

Going to take the rest of the night off,

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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I can't handle this shit anymore, FTP here i come ! i will subscribe through LP.net to support the site since its teh shit.

I won't whine here on how much i've been sucked out on and how river is rigged on PS and BOOHOO OOOO /cry/cry/cry T.T whining done, cya !

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I've spent the last day or so analyzing alot of the hands I've been playing, and decided to reshape my game back to the old, with the added knowledge of learning how to play very aggro and how very aggro pla<x>yers think, I will be consistantly playing at 13-15% (runnin good?) and going back to the ABC st<x>yle that did me so well from the getgo.

I will indefinately be opening my ranges up IP the deeper I get vs other deepstacked pla<x>yers, but other than that I've just found opening with so many of the hands that I've been opening with lately is just, well, a spew.

So, be expecting to seeing alot of solid ABC poker out of me, and alot of high premium hands being posted on the board.

NIT life = winning life = less stressful life
(for me atleast, I'm definately no SakiSaki thats for sure)

I'm pretty much just writing this as a personal reminder that I can see everyday,

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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August started off not good so far for me. I had a really bad short term spree at $200NL which made me move back to $100NL again which was a bummer. Not a huge deal, it happens. But I ran my roll a little thin so if I run bad at all at $100NL I may move down to $50NL.

I keep telling myself its all about grinding it out, so I'm trying to learn to 12 table right now. I've also became pretty passive with my roll requirements. I'm moving down at 40buyins for the last level and up at 40 for the next, which is unlike me but whatever. But I mean, its no bigs. If I can pull a good roll for 2/4 by the end of the year I'll be pleased with myself. If not, okay no big deal.

I've been discussing a lot of "out there" theories with Pawel lately and thats been pretty good. I really feel like the kiddo respects my game and obv I have a ton of respect for his. The thing I love about it though is he likes to play a low variance game while I like to play a high variance game and it makes for seeing both sides of the coin easy and interesting.

I've also been talkin to Moloch a lot. That kid is solid. I haven't thrown a HH past him yet where he's woke up with the wrong answer. Oh well, adaware shipped his roll away so hes busto now. [[RUMORZZ LOL]]

Alright, thats about it. I've been posting on LP a bunch lately and browsing 2p2 but for some reason have been avoiding CR.

Golf sidenote: My swing is still terrible but Greg has been helping me a ton. I left my driver in my buddies car so I won't be able to hit the range this weekend since I have 1.) no car and 2.) No clubs. I need to get my new bertha and odyssey ordered since I'll be playing Kayak here in a couple weeks for the first time in 8 years! I'm juiced!

One thing I want to rant about: This PokerEV shit has to be just about the most annoying shit ever. Every fucking knob job wants to post pictures of their graph "OMG I TOOK SO MANY BEATS" shut the fuck up and grind it out no one fucking cares. Badbeat stories, NO ONE CARES.

Alright, peace out. Here is my sick 12 table setup if anyone cares, holla.

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Don't have much time, but had a nice day today on NL10.
Played for a few hours and managed to win some BI's.

Started off hot but ran really bad for the last couple hrs, but still managed to win alot when it was all said and done.

Todays session was in 2 parts;

first parts stats;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 725 hands and saw flop:
- 50 out of 99 times while in big blind (50%)
- 28 out of 96 times while in small blind (29%)
- 49 out of 530 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 127 out of 725 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 24 of 34 (70%)
Pots won without showdown - 76

second parts stats;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1450 hands and saw flop:
- 111 out of 198 times while in big blind (56%)
- 37 out of 194 times while in small blind (19%)
- 112 out of 1058 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 260 out of 1450 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 22 of 55 (40%)
Pots won without showdown - 132

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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Had time to put in a nice session this afternoon and played pretty well.

Made a couple small mistakes but nothing major, and my reads are getting as good as ever.

Ran pretty bad though and broke even today, hopefully I'll be able to win some tomorrow;

heres my stats from todays session;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1680 hands and saw flop:
- 104 out of 222 times while in big blind (46%)
- 42 out of 226 times while in small blind (18%)
- 133 out of 1232 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 279 out of 1680 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 34 of 70 (48%)
Pots won without showdown - 143

hard to earn fpp's down here, still 16k til supernova

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)

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i started playing poker today instead of going to uni, I blew 5 buyins in less than 10 minutes so fuck that. I took out my annoyance by cleaning my room because obviously it needed to be done lol... it took ~4 hours but its nice to not have to step over piles of shit and put on clothes with relative confidence that there isnt rats or something nesting in them

if you were wondering why my room and all my possessions suck it's because i cbf getting new stuff. that couch really needs to go =/ i literally threw out about half my stuff lol... i have a super awesome plan to go to ikea but itll never actually happen

may this serve as motivation to you all

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