sooooo this is going to be a long blog (for my standards anyways). I have a lot of stuff I want to write...i'm in that weird type of mood and I haven't blogged in forever.
Anyways I began the school year (august) probably around 200 lbs. My roommates and I started to smoke the ganja constantly. In fact we became major pot heads. I'd find myself skipping all my classes daily to sit around the bong and play halo/starcraft/poker all day. Well as you can guess my GPA dropped a decent amount (=parents freak out). So we continue to smoke non stop and around thanksgiving I decide to make a life change. I went home for thanksgiving, bought a weight bench from craigslist and brought it back up with me to FSU. Turns out that it might have been the best decision i've ever made. I begin working out daily from the comfort of my own room and I drop a significant amount of weight (think like 40-50 lbs total now). I went from working out maybe 3-5 times before in my entire life to consistently doing it every day. Let me tell you that the change in your body is slow but if I showed you pictures from like 8 months ago it would be mind blowing. I know most people on here live a sedentary life style and I really don't want to preach but working out (at least running) can do so much for your body and mind. Now I joined a MMA gym and i'm taking boxing / jiu jitsu classes. Boxing 3 days a week and jiu jitsu 4 days. Like I said this change (not a huge one..just requires an hour a day and eating somewhat properly) will be life changing for anyone. I can honestly say i've never been happier with what i'm doing now.
School wise i've been doing a lot better and my GPA has re-stabalized haha. I stopped smoking weed (I mean i'll do it once in a while) and I no longer have that pot head feeling where everything slows down and you can't remember what happened yesterday. Girl situation...i went after one of my girl roommate's best friends. It was basically understood that we would be dating once she returned to FSU (fuck you distance). Anywho I completely fucked up that (I was running soooo hot). I suggest no one does the whole long distance thing. Although, it is slightly my fault but lets be real...all girls are bat shit crazy. I'll still never understand anything that went down but you live and learn. win some lose some lol.
And now we get to the fun part, poker. I've watched some good poker buddies turn pro while i've been chiefing on 25/50NL for like forever. And the story begins (about a year ago).....I had like a 6k BR on UB and I was playing 100NL. I had just gotten straate to agree to give me some lessons when I got to 200/400NL (wow I fucked that upppp). I cashed out my 6k in order to move to one of those sites that shut down and scammed everyone. Thankfully my parents stepped in and forced me to put that money in the bank (I hated having to do that but i'm somewhat happy I did now haha). So...after I cashed out I became a pot head and proceeded to never play. I think I lost my love for the game. I could play a session but I was so results oriented that i'd usually end up stopping 30 minutes in. I would play a session once every few days (...which is why I got nowhere). Luckily the whole get in shape thing put my life back on track and i've regained what I felt before I became a pot head. I've been playing for the past few weeks or so seriously and i've made like ~1k. Just moved up to 50NL and I feel my game is the best it has ever been. Working out has given me so much stamina and focus that I feel unstoppable at all the tables. At this pace i'll be at 100NL in a week or so. Damn i'm feeling good and I feel extremely fortunate.
Major shout outs:
MaxUT - dude has always been there for me. Whether we talk about poker or bullshit stuff in life. He's been such a good friend.
Oddeye - I remember when he was struggling with 50NL. Now he's a super baller. Thankfully he hasn't forgotten his roots and for some odd reason he still talks to me and helps me out (haha...just kidding ). He's also coming to hang out at the end of this month...we're going to blazeeee and play poker (open invitation to everyone...Tallahasse, Florida. Florida State University. Free place to stayyyyy). Did I mention he's an awesome friend, too? Also my love for zeppelin has been shipped to him.
Damn i'm running hot in life. I can't complain about anything (although I haven't gotten laid in a while...working on that).
Here's some music that I dance to while i'm dominating the tables:
That's enough for now..E.L.O is so badass. Amazing poker music.
One final note...i'll be trying to make a new post every week with some hand discussion, etc. I need to start improving my game again. I'm shooting for the stars.
i run break even last 2.5k hands at 20nl this sux so hard
i feel and know i've improved my game since then a lot but i cant beat this shit
hope im in a bad run or something ... till it ends all i can do is *wrists* & complain how life sucks OBVIOUSLY!
damn i hope to get to finish this month +++++++ just have to make like 11buy ins on 20nl no big deal just GIVE ME NORMAL RUN PLS DONT CRACK MY KK & AA WITH KT & Q9 & 83o
so just so i didnt waste ur time: http://www.dnes.bg/images/photos/0055/0000055391-article.jpg http://i.data.bg/08/07/23/1067805_orig.jpg
I feel like I start playing poorly after about.. 5-600 hands, I guess it could just be that I started off running good and that's why I feel that way, but it just felt like I was too passive and not paying as much attention as I should. Maybe it's an effect of all my tables finally kicking in (ie at the start of my session I'll be on 2-3 tables with 2-3 waitlists).
Maybe I should stick to 4 until I get better..
I really tightened up out of position today as I think that's where I was leaking the most, that and playing trashy QQ/JJ type hands.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500500 - Not sure I'm deep enough to c/r the river so I elected to just bet it and hope to fold out 2 pairs or maaaaaaybe a straight.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500518 - He snapcalled the turn so I decided to call river, I didn't think he'd flat turn with just a straight draw that often..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500519 - Here's a situation I'm not sure about: I have extremely trashy jacks and a fish limps.. Can I overlimp in position or it just gonna be too spewy to play this hand as a pure setmine?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500547 - I hate these hands oop. Call/call/fold seems.. so weird. Call/fold seems terribly exploitable as well not to mention he's gonna valuebet bottomset on the turn. Call/call/call with no history or read on him seems terrible as well. I ended up call/fold which I immediately regretted.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500563 - I should probably make some really weird tiny bet on the river since he more or less never has a better hand here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500566 - I'm not sure if this is really terrible or really expert by me.. But I decided to bet turn as a bluff to get him to fold something like overpair+fd or a better jack+fd.. I thought for sure he'd get it in with a set on the flop but when he then raises this turn.. I dunnom, I think I'm drawing to (maybe) a jack so I fold. Is it better to check down? No idea how to react to a river bet tho.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500583 - I'm not sure if I should bet here because he's somewhat likely to have a queen if he had some kind of SD (say QJXX) or check because a flushdraw missed. He's like 80/1 something, and I saw him c/c bottom set+2nd nut fd on 3Q9 3 way before, then call a c/r and c/c a blank turn so he's not really one to play sets fast. Actually in this case I think he was worried he was behind because he thought for a while on the turn, dunno dont think he was slowrolling. Anyway I'm I thought if he had slowplayed a set he'd for sure bet here and I could c/r.. Meh I'm not sure if his river check is really expert or really bad.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500624 - Is the initial preflop call bad with a gap at the top? Once it gets 3bet, should I be at all worried about flopping dominated draws etc 3 way or just standard call (I'm thinking it's a very standard call but for some reason I made a weird fold..).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500628 - H m ~ I should probably be getting it in here considering stacksizes.. Would a lead be ok to try to get him off AA**? Maybe it's transparent but it's not like I have any fold equity once he bets anyway.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/500649 - Check/raising or betting.. On the one hand, someone could reason that it's hard for me to have a hand I'll bet all three streets with that loves this river and maybe turn something into a bluff and raise me.. On the other hand he did like to draw. On the 3rd hand, maybe he doesn't bet a weak flush.
Overall I'm down just under 3 buyins at 1/2 PLO this month, which is alright considering my relative freshness to PLO and all. There's a nice post on 2p2 about PT analysis (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=1729) and setting up categories in PTO (at page 2, I think, there's a list you can copy paste so you don't have to set them up yourself).
I noticed I'm down a ton with QQ / JJ type hands since moving up to 1/2, I think part of it is that they ran into quads a couple of times (JJ twice, QQ once) but it might also be that sets don't get paid off as well at 1/2 as at lower limits..
so after that dick bag ruined my br by telling people to call my bluff (i know him irl, he will receive that ass beating of a lifetime) i have to regather the troops and begin to rebuild the br to the monster (small monster) that it was. Basically, i haven't had a winning month in the last 2 months, and i think i finally figured out why. I am playing great, but its not me. I play best when i'm tight/aggressive. The big roll got to me and i was being more loose/passive. I can't play loose/passive...it's not the right match for me. I played T/AG the other night IRL and totally dominated by coming back from $8 and made a 150% increase from what i bought in with. Thats my game, and i'm sticking to it. All this "calling b/c i have outs" and "i'm pot commited" bullshit is going to end. I'm going to play better, post winning session, and fuck my financial status to pieces. Right now i'm financially embarssed. You know who my hero is on here?? Fuckin F4zI. Know why?? Dude spends like 50K on a purse thing and is like "i hope it doesn't get stolen" and you know what? he says FUCK YOU, i'm a baller, i can do this. If it gets stolen, i'll play poker for 10 minutes, cash out, and buy a new one". I always see him post shit like "i lost 10K today, but it's alright b/c in an hour i played 6 hu tables and am up 30K...cuz i'm a fuckin baller"
Thats going to be me in a year or two.
So fuck off odds/pot commitment, i'm ready to ball out of control, and play great poker, and hang out at the WSOP with Ket and Milkman and Elky, and get shitfaced and wake up 2 hrs later and play poker w/ the best and kick their ass. Donkeytest.com said my poker IQ is 104 which is not less than 70 which is above legal retardation, and thats the goal.
June And July (the months you can't spell without JEW) are over, it's August, I'm 21 in December, I'm going to run like a madman at the table, and play correctly, and FUCKIN BALL NIGGA!!!!!!
Cambria, my absolute best best best friend in the whole world, has cancer :[.
I just found out about 20 minutes ago so i don't really know very much. She had an odd growth on her lower lip and went in to the doctor and was called with the results today. You know, i know that lower lip skin cancer is very treatable, even curable in most cases, but it just kinda freaked me out.
My poor little Cambria is just all shocked and weepy. I know she'll be ok, but it just really made me think about how much i absolutely love this girl to pieces. She's just the nicest person in the whole world and she means everything to me. Seriously everyone on the forum needs to meet this girl someday because you'd all just aboslutely LOVE her. She's extremely friendly, has a great sense of humour, and has the BEST LAUGH EVER. She just loses it like ALL the time and like falls over from laughing. Frankly, hanging out with Cambria is everyone's top 3 favorite hobbies.
One of my favorite memories of Cambria is when she came to visit me in Kansas City one summer and we went to the nearby water park. We were in the wave pool and Cambria said something funny and just started to laugh like crazy. Of course, since Cambria has the best laugh in the world, I start laughing like crazy too. However, we were at the 12 foot end where the high waves start so we basically start inhaling alot of water and sputtering and choking. However, this makes us laugh even MORE. At this point, the lifeguard notices us and starts blowing the whistle at us because we're basically nearing the point of drowning from laughter. Since we were the oldest people in the pool by like 8 years, all the 8-13 year old children start pointing and staring at us as we are being disciplined by the life guard. Again, however, this makes us both laugh even more to the point where we actually get KICKED from the wave pool for safety reasons and we proceed to get out of the pool and laugh until we cry for like 20 minutes.
I haven't gotten to see Cambria in 8 months because she went to study abroad in England, but we still talk like 5-6 times a week. Every 6 weeks or so i'll get some really awesome surprise postcard from her with a chicken on it (anyone remember my earlier blog post about chickens?? well it was Cambria who got me into chickens!!). It's just SOOO SWEET that we still talk SO much but she still manages to do cute surprise things like send me postcards. SHE EVEN GOT ME A STUFFED BUNNY FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!
She's coming to visit me tomorrow (super yaay!!) and i'm really excited, but I really hope this cancer thing is totally tame and goes away w/o trouble. I love love love love love Cambria to pieces and really want her to be ok and, most importantly, happy as can be. Someone as kind, fun, giggly, and loving as Cambria deserves to be happy all the time.
Irl I'm faced with a though situation. Ever since I've moved to Uppsala I'm pretty sure I've won the "most sex partners in the household"-competition every semester. The first two semester I lived with two pretty asexual girls so that was kinda easy. The third semester I lived with a pretty cute girl and a friend of mine and I won to lowering standards, being lucky (they had a long term relationship over 2 months or so which slowed them down) and stuff. The last I lived with the cute girl and she had a boyfriend all the time so I won that one despite taking it pretty easy. I'm extremely proud of this.
Now my friend, who will move in with me, got laid the first fucking night he spent in Uppsala. Apparently with some girl he already knew and everything, but still. I think it'll be kinda hard to beat him and unless I get into a sick heater there's no way I beat him if he doesn't fuck up badly if I don't really, really push myself. As I see it I can take a couple of different ways of handling this situation.
1. Not caring. - Not gonna happen, I'm not grown up enough.
2. Dropping everything and go out partying every weekend and most weekdays - seems kinda spewy considering the huge impact it would have on my poker income and grades.
3. Just do a shitload of ugly girls - I'm trying to get away from this approach.
4. Become a more attractive person - wtf? Ok I can go to the gym, buy a shitload of nice clothes and stuff. Then what?
Also, I'm getting close to be a millionaire in SEK. To bad the SEK is worth like nothing. Gogo millionaire in really money before 25?
Yeha yesterday in MMA train i probably broke my thump ( not completely but part of it)
Well as said i had a pretty long break from MMA due to university and poker ...
Nowadays everybody at our Training beats the living shit outta me
But i will work hard and eventually get back into shape soon.
I want to be in TOP shape and realease a Tornado of Destruction uppon my buddy Royal_Rumble when we fight again <3
Also seems like ATTACCA whos from Germany, doesnt live too far from us and furthermore is interested in MMA.
So maybe he could join our training sessions
I think it will probably need some time till i can fight again though
would be great to know more people from Liquidpoker in Real Life
Pokerwise today didnt went too well ...
basically it was me against the dealer
but in the end i won
This + 189$ in RB and Bonus = 1013$ profits in August
I think one of the big improvements i made in the last months as a poker player is that i hardly tilt anymore.
This has enabled me to make lots of nice comebacks lately
So i am happy
***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 395607255 *****
PL $0.05/$0.10 Omaha - Wednesday, August 06, 15:59:19 GMT 2008
Table Death 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: ktuuj ( $70.44 )
Seat 2: MrEthan ( $21.83 )
Seat 3: jacks2go ( $10.60 )
Seat 4: Hero ( $47.98 )
Seat 5: boune ( $24.31 )
Seat 6: sQr ( $12.18 )
ktuuj posts small blind [$0.05]
MrEthan posts big blind [$0.10]
Holecards Dealt to Hero [,,, ]
jacks2go folds
Hero raises to [$0.35]
boune raises to [$1.20]
sQr folds
ktuuj calls [$1.15]
MrEthan folds
Hero raises to [$4.90]
boune calls [$3.70]
ktuuj calls [$3.70]
Flop (Pot : $14.80)
ktuuj checks
Hero bets [$10]
boune folds
ktuuj raises to [$44.80]
Hero folds
Returning uncalled bet [$34.80] to ktuuj
Summary ktuuj wins $33.06 from main pot
************ Game 395607255 ends ************
i think hes good enough to make this play with weak hand b/c its obv that im having AAxx
but dont know if hes capable of making big bluffs, he told me that he was holding JJxx but i dunno
Submitted by : ShLiM
***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 395545737 *****
PL $0.05/$0.10 Omaha - Wednesday, August 06, 12:48:34 GMT 2008
Table Death 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: stevieq ( $23.29 )
Seat 2: ktuuj ( $7.21 )
Seat 3: JoeBCN ( $25.20 )
Seat 4: Hero ( $23.67 )
Seat 5: botafogo1 ( $26.12 )
Seat 6: Illuminator ( $8.05 )
stevieq posts small blind [$0.05]
ktuuj posts big blind [$0.10]
So McCain and his people have been on a crazy smear campaign against Obama over the last week, two specifics being their ad comparing him to Paris Hilton / Britney Spears and now mocking him for suggesting that people keep their tires properly inflated to reduce gas consumption (check Nascar's webpage, they've been saying the same thing for a while now just like all the other experts). McCain decided to mock the tire inflation idea and this is how Obama dealt with it:
That's what I love about Obama - he handles these types of ridiculous attacks with humor and common sense. And for the record, inflating your tires properly and getting regular tune-ups DOES increase your gas mileage and save you money. Do some research and you'll see it's true. And McCain recently caved and agreed.
In case you missed it, here is the paris/britney ad he is referring to:
EDIT:
ROFL, Paris Hilton did a response ad which is hilarious! She's never done a single thing which I liked at all till this, which was pretty fucking funny.
joke
Poker is the best thing that can happen to a former broke student
okay seems i can keep the insane pace i had at start of July
since i played on different sites under different names i did draw a kinda accurate graph instead of posting 3 different seperate PT graphs
looks like the start of JUly
with rakeback and Bonus this is + 887 $
I blacked out my name cause i also posted it on another site where i dont want to be recognized
so hopefully
1.) i play more hands this month
2.) can keep the winnings this time
For those who dont understand why i didnt post the hand history, i have asked Titan to send me yesterday and i'm still waiting ... Anyway it is a quality bad beat.
99.5% vs 0.5% on the flop
I think if this fucking monkey was playing with me IRL i would have punched him in the face. I can understand to loss here vs 77 or KK but not vs QJ when this retard raised on the flop with NOTHING.
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). He's also coming to hang out at the end of this month...we're going to blazeeee and play poker (open invitation to everyone...Tallahasse, Florida. Florida State University. Free place to stayyyyy). Did I mention he's an awesome friend, too? 
Also my love for zeppelin has been shipped to him. 
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