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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


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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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So I moved up to 5NL today. I noticed that people 3bet a lot more, at least in zoom. I'm still stuck in the 2NL mentality of only 3betting AK, TT + because there's no point in 3betting weaker hands as nobody folds. Like I said, people seem to 3bet more, and also seem somewhat capable of making folds when they are 3bet.

What's a general, good 3betting range to use at Zoom 5NL? Also I assume light 4betting has also become viable.


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Played 1/2 at a private game which is way higher than the online micro's I'm used to. I have played small Sit'n'go style games with friends in the past but this was the first time at "real" stakes.

To spoil the ending, I finished down a buyin, the friend I went with up 2, and confirmed that live players are indeed generally really bad. Even the good ones are weird. Anyway I had my friend on the left and basically the only player that looked good to his left. This put me in a miserable spot but hey, seemed like pretty bad etiquette to try and jostle for seats.

Also what is this live players obsession with straddling? Was nice accepting free money but playing with effective 40-50BB really fucked with my head. I'll adapt to this better next time and just make giant 12x or 14x raises over the limpers for easy flop shoves.

Anyway was a ton of fun and everyone at the table was really cool. 6 Hours went by much easier than an online grinding session. It's also insane just tipping the dealer and not paying casino rake. Def going back but it's just been bothering me whether I actually show profit with like 2-3 people better than me, some bad regs and some traditional fish. I hate being the fish and live bankrolls are hard.


I'm not the kind of guy to leave on naked women but I do want to leave this. Science Fiction can go fuck itself, Earth is so much cooler.

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I just talked to Jesus... He said, "What's up, yeezus?"


DOWNLOAD IT GO!!!!!!


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Speeding Ticket, 79 mph in a 65 mph zone, $204 fine. Does anyone have any experience reducing fines?


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So I tried to quit a session to "lock up a win". Lex said that was a leak so I said; "ok, I'll play until both fishes leave". Damn fishes just won't quit. Up 26k, hungry, tilted despite being up 26k (Thank you YOSSUFACHMEND or whatever your name is...) and the fish just won't quit. It's 7am in Sweden. I give up. Time for food and sleep. I'm weak.


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has anyone flown on the zero g planes?

https://www.gozerog.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Experience.welcome

$5k to go, which is cheaper than I thought. only 25x more expensive than the cn tower edgewalk


If you want to do it for free, submit an idea worth testing and nasa might fund it

https://flightopportunities.nasa.gov/


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