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So I had AAxx All in as a huge favorite today 5 times and lost every single time. As a result I was pretty pissed and did not play my A-game for a reasonable amount of my session even though I still managed to fold the QQxx vs AAxx on an AQ2 board . Settled down in the afternoon and eventually managed to get a grip and find my A-Gear. The result is that I avoid my first losing day in 1 month, 10 days, and still counting.

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to take a meaningless quote from my favorite movie, "but the good times couldn't last forever"

im waiting for it to be over and now am growing increasingly concerned that im just on a huge lucky streak and not learning anything

..edit.. i almost forgot, i hit this really sick hand where i was playing limpy like i was talking about in my last blog post. i misplayed it terribly but i limped into the nut 9-K straight WITH the royal flush draw against a guy who had decided to limp KK for set value and hit his set

its my second royal this week..

Submitted by : rockman255

PokerStars Game #18751333506: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/07/11 - 20:19:21 (ET)
Table 'Nihal' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Estoque ($10.25 in chips)
Seat 3: txtrophyhunt ($5.90 in chips)
Seat 5: hamdiu ($11.40 in chips)
Seat 6: Vandach ($5.25 in chips)
Seat 7: rockman255 ($10 in chips)
Seat 8: Igrok1555 ($1.95 in chips)
Seat 9: Learchey ($7.05 in chips)
Learchey: posts small blind $0.05
Estoque: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to rockman255
txtrophyhunt: folds
hamdiu: calls $0.10
Vandach: folds
rockman255 : calls $0.10
Igrok1555: folds
Learchey: calls $0.05
Estoque: checks

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.40)

   
Learchey: bets $0.20
Estoque: calls $0.20
hamdiu: calls $0.20
rockman255 : raises $1 to $1.20
Learchey: calls $1
Estoque: folds
hamdiu: raises $1 to $2.20
rockman255 : raises $3.30 to $5.50
Learchey: folds
hamdiu: calls $3.30

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $12.80)

   
hamdiu: checks
rockman255 : bets $4.40 and is all-in
hamdiu: calls $4.40

River (Pot : $21.60)

   

Showdown
hamdiu: shows (three of a kind, Kings)
rockman255 : shows (a Royal Flush)
boloboy-2 joins the table at seat #2
rockman255 collected $20.55 from pot

Summary
Total pot $21.60 | Rake $1.05
Board  
Seat 1: Estoque (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: txtrophyhunt folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: hamdiu showed and lost with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 6: Vandach folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: rockman255 showed and won ($20.55) with a Royal Flush
Seat 8: Igrok1555 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Learchey (small blind) folded on the Flop

Last night i sat up to 6 in the morning playing a ftp donkament and ended up cashing for like $200. FML. Only got about 6 hours of sleep so tonight I was really tired but I decided to play some donkaments anyways cause I felt like it. Got pretty deep in a few and just busted with 24ppl left in the last donkament for no money and now its 5:30 FUCK DONKAMENTS.


Good news is, I feel like Im really getting better at playing this stupid form of poker so I will probably play a few sundays tomorrow and win them.

GG LIFE


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Good News: Flying out to vegas on thursday with dad+brother, shud be mad fun shippit

Bad News: Just got raped by nl25 in 15 minutes, -$110, 2 sets crushed in like 80 hands, totally ridiculous. Winrate cut in half over the last 8k hands in about 15 minutes, totally sick.

Cba typing more im pretty tilted right now.



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After a shitload of hassle, I finally picked up my monitor and completed my setup.

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Penguin:
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so, here i am on a so-called regular day, im up like 6.15 over 1,213 hands and running 2.5PTBB/100 at the moment. im kind of in a crabby mood from this because of a few hands i terribly misplayed but at the same time i am happy because i am still beating the limits(god forbid i cant beat nl10, right?)

anyway, heres what i perceive to be massive crushing errors i made where i lost something like 100BB in each situation; i guess given how obvious the first and third are, i should be happy with my play today as long as i can correct retarded errors.

ive also noticed im developing some bad habits like floating around in unraised pots a lot more than i should be, although it seems to be kind of profitable to mine for sets and straights in nl10 because people constantly give you great odds postflop, raising for amounts like 10-25% of the pot very consistently. i need to kill this bad habit but i guess as long as im aware of it. and the damage it can cause, as below.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/482462 (the millionth time i learn my lesson not to play connectors in the play-your-cards NL10 bracket)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/482425 (arguably not a terrible fold based on only knowing that the repopper was a huge station with like 20VPIP 2PFR <1AF)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/482401 (as played i 4bet 3.30 or so and called allin, failing to improve against AA)


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It's been like two months since I've blogged. Not much was happening. A lot of boredom, saving money, grinding micro stakes--- Which I happen to be very bad at. I did discover the main problem I was having, and am finally back in the driver's seat as it pertains to my poker career, that problem was PRIDE. : [

Even after four months in the red, I was still so hellbent on the idea that I was so much better than the fools at 50 and 100nl and even 200nl that I could play 37/33 - 33/28 and own their souls. God, I make so many mistakes. The other issue was I became so complacent with my attitude and general gameplan that I just started opening a bunch of hands, c-betting every flop, then giving up when called or raised, or double barreling when I had a good hand. I tried to win every pot and stack anyone I was in a hand with at any time. Wow as if it's a wonder I struggled through the first 6 months of this year. I think a lot of the delusional confidence and pride came from the fact that I was still coaching a friend who was struggling at 400/600nl. We had a lot of discussions about game theory, evaluating hand ranges, perceptions of ranges, and hand reading. Immediately after that he started killing the games. In just one sweating session I ended up making him like 6k in 3 hours at 600nl. I dunno, he had a ton of confidence in me, enough to pay me to help him, so it kept reverbing in my mind that I should just do what I was teaching him. This just doesn't work at micro stakes. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Micro stakes isn't real poker. There is almost zero psychology to it.

So anyways, FINALLY I swallowed my pride and just screwed down to a 18/15 game at 50nl and 8 tabled it up. Ended up being able to move up in like a week and a half because I was winning something ridiculous like 15bb/100. So I moved to 100nl. Was there for about 3 weeks to a month, 8 tabling playing 20/17 for the most part, other than certain occasions where I would 4 table and play a bit looser. And now I'm up to 200nl, been there for about a week, up something like 4800, playing my old 25/20 game. I still don't even think I'm playing that well, not as well as I'm capable of, that's for damn sure. I guess one of the biggest things I learned through this recent forge upwards is that to beat the micro games, all you really have to do is NOT SPEW and avoid marginal spots. LOL, avoiding marginal spots is basically the antithesis of my normal game, maybe why I struggled so much. When I stopped playing that crazy laggy game and just tightened down, the results were basically instant and immediate. It's amazing how easy it became. I suppose anyone could just chalk it up to running hot or whatever, but at this point there's no way I can prove to anyone that even if I keep winning for over 100k hand stretch that it's nothing more than a heater. LOL I think I've decided that basically everyone is result oriented at their core. If in general you don't win, you suck. If you won for even a HUGE sample you suck, it gets to be to the point that it's so ridiculous that people who once respected my game decided to tell me how terrible I am and how I just got lucky. ANYWAYS enough ranting about that, I just think it's interesting how people respond, it also says a lot about a person who thinks something crazy like that.

Anyways, in the spirit of continuing to swallow my pride, I've hired myself a coach, one who's been extremely successful w/ other players, so I'm very looking forward to that, beginning in August after WSOP. At some point in the future, after I can show a longer period of success, I'd really like to get back to coaching microstakes myself. I have always enjoyed doing it even moreso than playing. Hopefully that's something that I can re-materialize a little bit down the road, maybe when I am back at 2/4.

And lastly, in addition, I've developed an excel spreadsheet outlining the money I owe to credit cards and others, showing how I'm going to pay it back, as well as begin saving 20% of my cashout every month. At this point I have no other choice but to be responsible.

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Thanks for reading, and GL,
Marshall28




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Just some random astronomy pics from the NASA astronomy pic of the day website. (use CTRL + mouse.scroll to zoom in or out)

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I am about to finish up a poker session(i have strict timelimits when playing ring games- if you arent capable to be strict with time, what can u be strict with- poker addiction is 1 step away) when i lose an all-in with QQ against AK. He makes a AK high flush i make an AQ high. Looking at the clock i see that there is only 10 minutes left. I go "OMG gimme good hands!"

AA, KK twice, QQ twice and JJ twice.

LOOOOTS of money.


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yes i am

fucked up a passwort thing today >-<
now account frozen for some small time
i can t play and i almost go insane atm ... just because i cant play Poker for maybe 1-3 days ...

lol

not sure if this is a good or bad sign ...

this is my first day without poker for like over a month ...

edit :
I am a degen ...
cashed 100$ into stars ...
played Nl100 HU bought in for 60$ on table
sittkng at 349$ now .. lol


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Went to Cedar Point with 3 guys from 2+2 (gtpitch, stepbangin and mayo) yesterday, the trip report can be found here. Don't really have anything else to say because poker's kinda sucked lately but life is pretty amazing.


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As my winrate plunges like a supermodel's neckline, I can't help but think of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene I, when the Prince of Morocco says

If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
Which is the better man, the greater throw
May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:
So is Alcides beaten by his page;
And so may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.




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Brag: Killing 200NL currently after starting out -3k to start the month...here's tonight

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Brag: SUPERNOVA yay

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Guess I have to keep killing cash since Mike keeps raping fucking MTTs.


GL ya'll
Brian


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Here she is boys... my first real goal that i am going to work on.
Basically, in Texas, you can go out and get a CHL (concealed handgun license) when you are 21. I'll be 21 on December 13th, and my goal for poker is to have enough money (600 dollars or so) to pay for my CHL class and a pistol. The one i want is the Desert Eagle's little brother...the "Baby Eagle". It comes in 9mm, .40, and .45 caliber. My time frame is until january...thats when my buddy turns 21 and we are going to take the class together. so 600 bucks by january, cash out except for like 50 bucks or something, and build the br back up =)


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=) =)

won a $3 dollar 27 person sng, 30 bucks, sooo if i have 400 to go, i'm already like 10% there!!!

w00 h00

And some gun quotes to end the blog...

"Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater."

-- Peter Venetoklis


As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.

-- Jeff Snyder


If guns kill people, than pens make spelling errors.
-- eightfouro

have a wonderful poker night =)


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poker: the bipolar sport.

i had 2 -2.5BI days on monday and umm, wednesday or something. and felt like shit.

and then today i ran good and here i am. except im not ecstatic or anything. its umm, the attribution error where i think im responsible for doing good so im not happy for being lucky. anyway, i hope i dont get doomswitched and hope i meet my $600 goal soon. ($418 now)

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Started off playin a session in the evening, wow what a bad session. I seriously couldn't win a hand it was unreal, unless i got my money in with the absolute nuts they would find a way to suck out/cooler me. Dropped $-114, coulda been a lot worse but i think i played really well and handled my tilt nicely. Only one hand i think i shoulda played differently really meh.

Then played session #2 and it went okay, pretty slow and boring, ran bad again but not sooo bad. Ended up like +21 so that was coo.

Then session #3 was a lot better, started off 4 tabling whilst chatting shit about the nl25 players to midian, some really funny hands,then he went to bed and i opened up 2 more to finish the session 6 tabling. a couple of sick coolers and a suckout for stacks meant i didnt quite recoup all my losses. Ended up +83

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b2f35f42b2c1c33fb65a7f5b1ec6b619.jpg

So overall it was an almost breakeven day. I played an extra session which is good though too.

-$10 on the day.

Hopefully tomorrow goes betteeeeerrrrrrrrrrr, gl all


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so I've been playing only HU at NL100 for the last 2 days and I find it much more enjoyable than 6max

little swingy today tho 1-2 tabling most 2 tabling

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Efficiency is an idea I've been dissecting for a long time. I feel in a constant battle against time to accomplish something, to learn, to achieve. Is efficiency healthy? All things in life require balance, so efficiency must as well, and thus productivity must be sacrificed for well-being and mental clarity.

I have proposed experiments for studying efficiency. For example, I desire to take a year off after CEGEP and attempt self-education for a year. However, much discipline is required to make the time worthwhile, and not waste it away. I need to test such an experiment this summer, to make sure I will not waste a year of my life stumbling around the world, travelling and seeing much, but learning only that I know nothing.

The things that currently interest me are literature, music, poker, my lovely girlfriend, and pot. I don't know whether it is safe to list pot as an interest, but let me analyse the idea more clearly...

I have been smoking pot for almost two years now, but only in the past months have I been smoking almost daily. Like all things, pot can be abused, but I still believe it is a relatively safe drug.I generally don't notice the side-effects, because during the school year I am a productive person, but this summer, pot has slowed me down. I rarely exercise anymore, I don't do much in a day, and my of my goals for the summer remain untouched. Therefore, it is necessary for me to take a step back and clear my mind.

This Sunday, I will quit pot for a week. I am going to make myself a schedule for every day, which includes poker, reading, exercising, and relaxing. I need to focus myself on achieving something, or otherwise, I will feel worthless in mid-August.

However, I do not think pot affects poker in a strictly negative way. I think there are lots of benefits to playing poker high; I've attempted it myself, at 1/2 FR while 24-tabling. Results vary - it is sometimes extremely profitable, as it allows for tiltless, unwavering, observative and careful play. Pot is affecting my life in a negative way in that I am unable to do much throughout most of the day since I just sleep for half of it. What would be interesting, however, is to smoke only when I play poker.

There are lots of jumbled thoughts here. A small update on how I'm doing: I haven't made any FTs or gotten 1st in any big tournaments yet, but I busted pretty deep in the 40k GTD today (45th), so I feel I'll get there by the end of the month.

Further, I'm getting my monitor tomorrow, and I'll post pictures of my setup and my luckbox (a little stuffed animal I got for my girlfriend, whom we have originally dubbed Penguin [he is a penguin]). It has helped my suck out massively in today's tournament, and I ever make a FT, he'll be with me.




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