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So June didn't go too well. Down ~16k or so. I actually lost 15k on June 1st then was eventually down about 25 at one point so except for that one day I mostly broke even which is fine. Summers have been historically bad for me over the years. I can't actually remember any summer that I had a standout month or winning streak. Not sure what it is cuz I know it's the most profitable time for most players. I hadn't been playing too much because I had been travelling back and forth to Vegas this month. Just got back from EDC on Monday and needed a couple of days to just relax, July is a new month though so we'll see what happens when I start back up tomorrow.

I'm thinking I'll probably go play the main event though. It's annoying and it's a grind but the payoff is just so big if you can get lucky and go deep in it. I'm not trying to put up the whole 10k myself though. I'd like to have about 1/3rd or 1/4th of my own action so if anybody wants to buy up the rest I'll sell it off at 1.2x. Send me a PM if you are interested in buying. Or anybody I know personally who is interested in swapping % let me know also.

I'm not having much success yet in PLO but I've also only been playing the game seriously for about 2 months now and maybe have played 20k hands in that time. I have been improving a lot though and I'm confident that improvement will continue. Certain guys who were giving me action when I first started playing have begun to refuse it to me so that tells me I must be doing something right. In trying to find action I ended up playing a number of different guys HU @ 5/10 and 10/20. Those shots didn't really go too well and were where I lost the largest amount of money during the month.

Still haven't started working with stinger yet since he's been so busy with bracelet bets during WSOP. I assume we'll start working on my game as soon as WSOP ends which I'm excited for since I really am focused on trying to improve and become as good a player as I can be. I'm just too good at this to give it up for anything else so if I'm going to commit to anything this has got to be it.

It's super difficult for me to make any kind of commitments and I'm always talking about trying to do different things and I usually have good intentions and want to do what I'm saying but don't seem to have a lot of follow through on them. Like I was saying I was gonna move to Vancouver but I feel like that's sorta changing now and I'm thinking of getting a place in Rosarito instead so that I can drive down and play poker Sunday through Wednesday and then come back to San Diego and still have fun here from Thursday through Saturday. I feel like that might help to provide me with some structure that I pretty much completely lack now.

I guess that's it for now.



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Terrible month. Didn't play at all first half of the month as I withdrew the majority of my bankroll to pay for my new car which you can see here:

http://i.imgur.com/izvXTBI.jpg

It's a 2008 E92 BMW M3 Coupe. 4L V8 with 420hp and 295lb ft. I love the thing. Don't love the 19.3mpg I'm getting so much, but I guess you know what you're signing up for when you buy one of these.

I did spend a decent amount of time watching/reading some game theory videos while I was unable to play so when I got money back online I started implementing what I had studied and started playing considerably different both pre flop and post flop to how I have been doing previously. As you can see below, it didn't work and I've ended up encountering a lot more variance which has ultimately resulted in my largest downswing ever in terms of buyins lost while playing 6max NLHE after 7.5 years playing (42 buyin downswing in EV). The main changes I've made involve blind vs steal position play, I'm defending a lot wider and I've made some pretty major changes to my 3betting and 4betting ranges too. Unfortunately my winrates from both blinds have declined significantly when compared to the previous months, so I'm probably just screwing up postflop way too often, as well as running very poorly in those spots. I started to recover a little in the last few days of the month, but wasn't close to rescuing the situation.

http://i.imgur.com/Hg4kOjQ.jpg

I will continue this pre flop experiment in July. Even if I have another bad month, putting myself in these marginal spots can only help me progress as a player long term, and hopefully eventually my winrates from the blinds will be an improvement over what it was in the first 5 months of this year. Relative to other regulars I suck from the blinds so I do want to keep trying hard to improve in those spots and don't mind putting myself in tough situations in order to improve in those spots.

Results for the month:
VPPs: 35,210.02
Cash: -$4,506.43
MTTs: -$15
Overall: -$4,521.43

Life wasn't good this month either and as a result of some high school style drama I will be seeing a lot less of one of my best friends, so it's almost certain that I shall be putting in a lot more volume in July and will hopefully get back to winning ways.


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When are there going to be dunks in this? 2 hours of jumpshots and layups isnt fun.


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Hey guys,
My room mate is moving to London and I have decided that within a month I'm gonna leave UK altogether after 8 years.

First choice is Czech Republic, I'm from there wouldbe moving back home, but don't wanna make any rash decisions.

I can make around $1k/month in poker so I can move anywhere I want for a while before continuing my career. Altough moving back home is the obvious choice as I can get proper jobs there very easy, are there any other cool and cheap places where you'd recommend for a few months or maybe even longer?

If there are any poker houses I wouldn't mind joining

Let me know your ideas, I prefer somewhere cheap obviously.


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Fucking stupid tournament fudkklv,xkdkfskdk,kcx,wd,sd,izjqasdqlks,dkl,xc,v


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Currently I run an old gtx 260

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-260/specifications


I want upgrade to GTX 760

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-760/specifications

How do I know if the new GTX 760 is compatible?

I looked inside in my comp and the GTX 260 is connected via 1 6pin x2 molex and there is no other 6pin coming out of my PSU

this is my psu

http://i.imgur.com/ddHazKn.png


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After 5 years trying to find myself, Im back. I feel like poker is the mental sport I needed to be sharp at life. Lot of things happened to me theese years
Im physically fitter, I live with a stable gf and Im emotionally more stable. Maybe having a son will be something that will complete me, who knows.

With bussiness I was doing sport arbitrage betting and grew a decent bankroll, but it seems to not be so good anymore today. I had some other bussinees failed, so I decided to give poker another try

I know its not probabbly the best time to. I've seen a lot of NL400-NL1K playing NL100! and people doing the 3b or fold in NL50? When I've seen it first time in NL400 back in 2008 (but I think NL100 are not very good turn+river today). But I did not care. I decided to learn other games.

I learnt the basics of almost every game and decided to specialize in Stud hi lo. Oh man, its like going back to the 2000, no tracker, same regulars every day, bad players. And you need only a small sample size to know your new opponents. Tournaments are full of fish as well. So, now I can say I'd play up to 10/20 if there are any fish or 2 weak players. But good games dont run very often so Im trying to specialize at Razz now and who knows what then. Razz sems to have a lot more weak players than Stud hi lo, but it takes more time to win becouse pots are small and plays are automatic.

Next game in my list: Stud hi


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Today, I will be playing ONLY 9 handed SNG's (TURBO) on BOVADA. My starting bankroll is $20. I will practice proper bankroll management by always starting the day with a minimum of 20 buyins.

I play 4 tables at all times. I will be keeping track of games played, profit, and roi.

Stay posted!

GL ALL

Shawn K


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Hey everyone, have been creeping on LP for several years so most of you probably don't know me. However, I have learned a great deal from this website and have become a winning poker player as a result, so thank you all for that. I know it may seem sort of selfish that I do not give back by participating in hand discussions but will try my best going forward.

At any rate, am going to Las Vegas with my girlfriend and have been there just once before a few months ago. Would like to stay at a hotel that has a nice pool/poker room. Currently, I have a reservation at the Mirage. I played at the Mirage, Aria, and Bellagio on my last trip and Bellagio seemed to be the best as far as the poker room goes. Any suggestions where to stay for my 1 yr anniversary with girlfriend? Again...need a place with a nice pool! With your suggestions, please tell me why or why not to stay at Mirage!

Oh, I play 1/2 NLHE and I will post pics of gf lol since I know pics are welcomed on here.

Thanks for reading!
Aaron


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Sup ya'll.

Its been a good week.

I bought a car. Blue Mazda 3 brand new for 21.3k. Paying cash - saved it up. Gonna pick it up this wednesday.
Couple days after I bought a car my promotion finally came through.
Got promoted at work and now getting 75k/yr.
Grinding about 40hrs a week per work, sometimes work on weekends, but i get paid for those extra.

With the car it was pretty much impulse buy. Well sorta. I always knew i wanted mazda 3 cos its so reliable and cheap for the value you get. But I had friday off work and it was end of financial year so there's alot of discounts going on. I wasn't gonna buy for next couple of months but my dad goes why don't you buy it. So I called up a few dealers got feel for the price and just went and bought one.

Anyway heres some cute animals


http://babyshow.me/eoe/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/nmlcoXh.jpg


http://babyshow.me/eoe/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/pH909cx.jpg


http://babyshow.me/eoe/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/vtBWh.jpg








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Hey guys,

I have been watching a lot of videos online, mainly through academicearth.org. But I don't always have internet access. So I was wondering if you guys have any method to view youtube videos offline.

A few things to consider, I would like to be able to put in multiple URL's instead of tediously download individually (although this may be the only option). I would like to be able to view videos from multiple devices such as phone, tablet pc (once again if possible).

Thanks for all recommendations


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**SOLD OUT

Gonna sell 40-60% of these things for tomorrow
$3.3k in buy ins, will play the ones below and fill with a few others depending on rebuys

1.2:1, so:

10% = $396
5% = $198
1% = $39.60

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...dGhfcmpBTGpaelRrWUhvOXRtZ3lwYnc#gid=0

ship to hneves182


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I would really like if there is "favorite hands" section , next to "my hands" , so you can save all the hands that you like. What do you guys think ?


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Edit: Ok, got one group full now, working on another one. Keep sending requests and I'll keep expanding. For some reason a bunch of people with very little PLO experience wanted the deal too so I'll probably end up making a cheaper option if 2-3 additional guys wants it. Like, some basic stuff for maybe 60 or something instead of 100.

EDIT: Everyone need skype and a decent head set. Make sure you can talk with decent quality. I'll also need a working(ish) E-mail for google docs or whatever it's called.

Ok, so I've gotten a couple of request for coaching.

I like the idea of coaching, but there is one big problem. My hourly playing cash is reasonably high, although I'm not exactly sure how high and I have limited time. Thus I need to make a decent amount of money from coaching for it to be worth it, but at the same time I'd feel dirty trying to take 300US/hour or something.

The obvious solution is to be more effective which means coaching a bunch of people at the same time. I'm sure everyone who would want coaching from me would get a decent amount of value from that and if I get 100 USD per person for like 2 hours it's still a decent hourly. If I then can reuse that lesson with other people later I'll save time and up the hourly.

I'm also slightly intrigued by the idea of getting it going as a small scale business. It looks much better if I ever want to get a real job and it'd be easier to say that I have my own company rather then go "I play poker on the internetz, lolz" whenever someone asks what I do for a living.

I have the first lesson in my head, it'll be called "Stuff I think is important" and be about a bunch of concept I'm fairly sure I'm getting more right then most other people. It'll probably be around 90-120 minutes. I posted some stats a while back if that's something anyone is interested in but for the most part I'll just assume that everyone who reads this and would want coaching from me knows who I am.

Cost will be 100 USD for the session. First 5-6 guys who apply will get in for the test run. I'll do it with people I know or who has +300 posts before other people.

I'm not going to check my LP-inbox over midsummer so it might take a few days before I get back to anyone after today. Feel free to ask questions.


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