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You might also consider this as a view from me on $1/$2 Fullring.

Yesterday I went through a 5 buyin downswing, meaning I lost 1k.
Well, running bad is the best time to improve your game by finding leaks. This morning I read an interesting post by Daut saying that most players play their hands face up and this is so true.
I checked my Database and the biggest winners are also the biggest nits, and they do how they came to 1/2: by setmining. It's so fucking obvious what they are doing that I already leveled myself:

lets say a 14/10 limps UTG and I raise him with 97, flops comes A92, I cbet he checkraises me:

After a long session my thought process goes like this: "My opponent's play is so obvious and he has to know it. And he knows that a semidecent player (I consider myself as one) won't stack off on such a dry board with AK, so this is a great spot to bluff."
Watching at my hand I see second pair which makes it much less likely that my opponent holds 99, reducing his set range mostly to 22 and I call and my opponent shows 99.

Then I watch around the tables and all I see are regs like that or fish. The play is still the same as in the levels below, people are not bluffing in these spots and that's why Daut is so right. I have to meet a regular who will pull off a good bluff, haven't seen one so far.
The paradox part now is that people often make calls that only beat bluffs but just as I described bluffs don't play a role in these stakes.

So basically it's all a stupid orgy of donks throwing money at each other and all you have to do is figure out if you can beat their value range, which makes it quite easy to play once you understand this.
Yeah, I see some smartass coming and say that there are bluffs in the games, this is true, but those are either the 64/32/8 lagtards who simply spew around or some "I missed my flush now I bet a weak-ass amount on the river" type bluffs, but you will seldom to never see a well represented hand as a bluff.
Often I see a hand and think: "Wow, this is such a great spot to bluff", however, the regulars always have the hand they do represent.

Now, a reason being why everybody, especially the regs, is playing, let's say solid, but face-up poker is that you have to play like this yourself in order to beat the games.

Read the sample hand above and realize that when you try to outthink your opponents you end up leveling yourself and losing, simply said, thinking 2 levels above your opponent doesn't help.

Another thing that tells you your opponent's cards are bet sizes: Big bets (especially on the river) mean nuts, smallish bets, especially over several streets means very vulnerable hand.

Rethinking my play so far I realized that I always make money when I play ultra-nitty and not calling in spots where I think my opponent might be bluffing because it's a great spot to bluff, means that I am another of those regs, stacking the donks with my obvious sets.

ok, gonna continue grinding, already won back $500.

gl.


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Needs no further explanation!! We wanna see it over and over again.






Cya in the finals.


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Since i accidentally fooled Silver-z, who hoped to read about my poker goals. Especially for him im outlining them here:

Short term:
-watch an average of 1 instructional poker video per day for 1 month
-limit my cashouts to the absolutely necessary and get ready to move up (take shots etc.)
-carefully review my edge in holdem manager
-don't bluff off a stack early in the session (i noticed i have a tendency to do this)

Long term:
at the start of the year i set some long term goals. which i'm slightly behind on this year but no worries yet, stars rakeback also increases during the year and perhaps im able to move up. if i can't show significant long term improvement i rather spend a large amount of my time on other endeavours. so that's why i think its good to keep an eye on things. i'd rather not play 0.5/1 for years.
so i hope this motivates me not only to play but to learn also.

-like make 80k in 2008.
-100k in 2009
-150k in 2010




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Lately i don't know whats been going on, i have been playing a lot of different games and levels.

I have been playing 1/2 FR, some 1/2 6 max, some .5/1 6 max, .5/1 1/2 PLO, played some 2/4 HU and even sat in and stacked someone on 5/10 6 max. I also played a couple of MTT's $100 turbo and the $70 18k gtd, which i did shitty in. I am a fairly impatient tourney player, but once i get my head str8 i am good.

I don't know why i have been moving around, i think i have been playing so much lately that i am bored. I mean every day straight for a long time. I still havent organised tracker, i dont think i will as i leave for Dubai on August 10th...

It is bad moving around so much and i am fortunate not to have been stacked playing out of my bankroll. But if i didnt, i think i would have titlted on regular stake due to sheer disinterest and playing for the hell of it.

I posted a few hands. I sit about +$2500 today and forked out 180 bucks on MTTs.

I don't think i will post for a while, as they are boring and not effective without tracker stats and graphs... Boo Macs... If someone with a mac reads this and wants to help me. I am keep to sort it out...


Good luck, take it easy.

My good friend came 2nd in the stars 20k gtd for $3.5k, in a field of 1200 or so. I am really happy for him, as he has been playing a lot of SNG's and taking shots on MTTs but hasnt had a great result like this so far so shoutoutz!!




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Should I or should I not? I'm playing NL10 right now and my BR is $285. Should I buy it? for the PAHUD?


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LOl today i met an old schoolmate at a party
we were pretty drunk and talked about poker
and he was like : i am the shit i rule live poker ...
and i was like : have u ever played online ?`if no , i will challenge u HU
He said : he hasnt played online but he is pretty good live and he is a hughe winner playing his friends and he would accept every Hu challenge

we agreed on Nl100 euro HU ...
match ends when someone is up 5 buy ins ...

i am not sure if he will really show up ...
but i definitely will

well i am not that good of a Hu player
but i have some nl50 and some Nl100 Hu experience
Besides that i play 1-3 hours of online poker every day.
I have a pretty sick 8,5BB/100 winrate on Nl50

his achievements so far are some 15euro live sngs that he plays 2-3 times a month ...
he hasnt played online and he is a winner at 5euro live cashgames with some friends ....

i dont know if this will ever happen , cause he probably will reailze 500euro is more than he thought when he is sober
but if this will ever happen i ll do a report here

lol

gg


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br is up to 1900 after a week of 25nl starting with 650, and winning 4bi at 50nl just earlier. i also won 130th place at the supernova freeroll which gave me about 85 bucks more. ship ze moniez. i think i wont be redepositing my whole BR back in stars up until i reach 6k, which by then i will stay at 200nl for good and have like 60bi for it. Ive got 4k more to grind up to the end of the month. wish me luck. tee hee. gonna play some more 50nl later.
its really great that im starting to beat 50nl now too, it's a little tougher obv than 25nl, and it takes me a while before piling up the buyins unlike with 25nl,but i think i now have enough skills and confidence to crush this limit soon enough. playing this exclusively the whole week before moving up to 100nl again. yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


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I decided to give the iron man freeroll a shot this month since i got in the 20k gold freeroll. I use to always get the extra medals but for some reason i didnt feel like doing that this month. A few of the players at my table weren't there so the rest of us had to get a bit creative in stealing the blinds. I felt like i should have stolen a bit more than i did but oh well, theres always next month. My last hand was kinda shitty. nothing i could do about this so i really don't mind at all.

Submitted by : C Huuustle

Full Tilt Poker Game #6824968871: Gold $20,000 Freeroll (50743333), Table 32 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:06:15 ET - 2008/06/14
Seat 1: KKChristianKK (3,990)
Seat 2: abce (1,605), is sitting out
Seat 3: Magic75 (2,080)
Seat 4: onewyse (1,380), is sitting out
Seat 5: Pokerdossi (5,155)
Seat 6: C Huuustle (1,510)
Seat 7: Marvelous80 (1,620)
Seat 8: BB_defender (1,050)
Seat 9: villus (1,430), is sitting out
Pokerdossi posts the small blind of 40
C Huuustle posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #4

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to C Huuustle
Marvelous80 folds
BB_defender folds
villus folds
KKChristianKK raises to 160
abce folds
Magic75 folds
onewyse folds
Pokerdossi folds
C Huuustle raises to 520
KKChristianKK calls 360

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1,080.00)

   
C Huuustle has 15 seconds left to act
C Huuustle bets 160
KKChristianKK calls 160

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $1,400.00)

   
C Huuustle bets 830, and is all in
KKChristianKK calls 830
C Huuustle shows
KKChristianKK shows

River (Pot : $3,060.00)

   
C Huuustle shows three of a kind, Kings
KKChristianKK shows a straight, Ace high
KKChristianKK wins the pot (3,060) with a straight, Ace high
C Huuustle stands up
KKChristianKK stands up
abce stands up
Magic75 stands up
onewyse stands up
Pokerdossi stands up
Marvelous80 stands up
BB_defender stands up
villus stands up

Summary
Total pot 3,060 | Rake 0
Board:  
Seat 1: KKChristianKK showed and won (3,060) with a straight, Ace high
Seat 2: abce didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Magic75 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: onewyse (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Pokerdossi (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: C Huuustle (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 7: Marvelous80 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: BB_defender didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: villus didn't bet (folded)

Short update.
Finally there is a youtube up with the goals. For anyone interested who missed the Netherlands - France spectacle. France was very good the 1st half. The Robben goal is stunning!!! My jaw dropped at that..




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This will be my first poker update in ages but I finally have something to brag about:
Past month:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2b40ce57c0bb3f25ba334138f0e9e7ea.jpg

as you can see I play a very loose aggressive game, and it seems to be paying off.
ship it


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I'm looking to move 2000 over to Fulltilt from stars. I did'nt have rakeback before on Fulltilt now I do so if anyone can help me out it would be appreciated. I'll send first, and I'll pay 50 for whoever can do this. Only people with alot of posts/have done transfers before that have went well obv.


Thanks



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How is it fair, just or even likely that you can build up three BI at a HU table and have someone destroy you in 15 hands by donking off and getting lucky.

Sick life.

I hate people who cut and run on a HU table and don't at least stay and try to consolidate their win. It's as if they know they aren't good enough to face off in a long game but rely on luck, not skill to hit a BI and run.

Incidentally my dog won't come near me when I am playing HU on a bad run against cut and run artists. Something about loud outburst and fear inury from me throwing things.

Seriously though anyone else get frustrated by someone who shorstacks at a HU table gets by half of his BI and then cuts. They sould be banned for poor etiquette or something. As Hook said "Poor form Peter, poor form!"


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so i ran horribly this morning -4 bi. get on again tonight -2 bi, but stick at it and make 6 buyins back to get even.

then in the space of about 300 hands these happen:
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60/13 - + Show Spoiler +

34/25 - + Show Spoiler +

anyway, poker can suck my balls for now. i just put in the longest session ive ever played (4,000 hands 4-6 tabling), fuck.

edit: you know the most fucked up thing, i know that its standard and it has to happen in poker, its variance, whatever. but i still get so angry over it and i still take it out on others. gg me.


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+76,80 $ on Nl50 today

yay i am 8,5BB/100 on Nl50 6max now in the last 13,5 K hands ...
shiiiip

really dont know , if its even worth to update blog ...
but mainly i am doing this to keep track of what happens for myself rather than entertain other readers

so BR is ~ 1,950$ again


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I'm moving up. Today one of my tuition students came to my house trailing dandruff.

"Where's your test paper?" I asked, trying to ignore the fluffy white things covering my floor.

"Couldn't find it," he said, scratching his head vigorously. Several strands of hair followed the dandruff. The he started rubbing his arm. Balls of dirt came off and joined the hair.

After he left I swept the floor and moved up immediately. I've got to make more money than he's paying me so I can get rid of him, pronto.

And so far, NL25 seems pretty much like NL10. Which means I suck at it... but when the going gets tough, the tough think of dandruff.


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Heard iPoker is alot softer and the "rakeback" is better for micro-stake grinders like myself
http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=640
Poll: What would be better for a Low-Stake Micro Grinder
(Vote): Pokerstars
(Vote): iPoker
(Vote): Both Suck, choose another

oh, and if iPoker is better.. could a trusted member help me transfer over there? im currently on Pokerstars =]

p.s. i was going through my Photobucket and saw this... it made me laugh
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j295/Devildog138/steveirwin.gif


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