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Tomorrow morning / Late tonight I'm hopping on a plane over to Heathrow to start my European adventure. I'll be landing in London Thursday afternoon.

I'll try and update my status via blog so if anyone is in the area and wants to meet up shoot me a PM or leave a comment, I'll have a skype phone and my laptop with me so arrangements should not be too difficult.

I'm pretty scared though, as I'm aware the rest of the globe is more or less like this:

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first 1k+ day..

playing good and running better since moving to 1/2, am 7.5ptbb since moving up (only 7k hands but still)

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8505/1kdaydv0.jpg


Frustrating hand when I moved up..

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Its almost exactly two months since i dropped down from nl400 to nl200 to rebuild, relearn and gain confedence. So far its going good, its no amazing results but im happy with the $ i make and i think i play solid poker most of the time just need to step up my aggression some. I think I will be ready for nl400 soon again (BR wise i've always been but i have this feeling its a jinxed level). Heres my results so far (like 10k hands and 1k profit is missing), havent played that many hands theese 2 months but i've noticed shorter sessions with just 6 tables have been good for my game:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4606/nl200janfebmarve3.jpg


Ok so in the last blog i wrote about winning a trip to play some WSOP events in LV this summer. Noiqpoker shipped me $4500 yesterday to book flight + hotel and the rest i get to spend on whatever i want. I will play No-Limit Hold'em Event 49 $1500 and No-Limit Hold'em Event 52 $1500 and will be in Vegas june 26th - july 4th i believe.

If anyone got tips on good hotels/casinos i would be very happy since i kinda have no clue (and other general tips would be great). I would like to stay in a nice casino that runs a good $1/2 NL game: Bellagio, the wynn, ceasars palace others? Also it seems hotel costs are pretty expensive and i guess it would cut the costs in half to be two so if someone is in the same situation as me and looking for a pokergeek roomie you can always send me a PM and we can discuss it. Im trying to bring some IRL-friend but no one is very into poker and its a kinda expensive trip so its hard Why cant i have more degen friends!

Oh well cya there!


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I skipped school today to play some HU. I played two tables with the same guy I took about 4 buyins off yesterday. It was a pretty sickening match. He is the biggest station I have played so far and definitely the weakest of the players that play full stacked, rebuys and plays long sessions.

Let me give you guys a quick rundown on how he plays.

Hes basicly a station. Hes playing 44/29/1 calling alot oop but decently agressive preflop 3-betting somewhat frequently. He never ever ever folds to 3-bets. I think he folded like 1 out of 50 this session, which obviously makes my 3-betting range for value alot wider. Im basicly 3-betting any A any good Kx and Qx. He calls with 96s, Q4s etcetc. He rarely folds when getting a piece on the flop but he isnt completely retarded.

Heres and example from quite early in the match when I still was 3-betting speculative hands and not strictly for value:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/403228

I was planning on firing most brick rivers but pairing the board, bleh now I know he calls with any A so I dont think its good.

Now, after this and a couple of other hands I had his style pinned down quite well. Its just that he completely owned me. Like, he always called the flop, ALWAYS! The times we got to showdown (which was pretty often) he had a piece. Be it mid pair or top set. And playing a station whos constantly hitting flops is really really anoying. I dont know how many of my 2-barrel bluffs got snapcalled/snapshoved. The times I made a hand I got paid handsomely:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/403232

But I just failed to make hands and he just blead me to death with calling flop and checking it down showing the best hand. I also managed to lose alot when I made the second best hand:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/403218

I did play a couple of hands pretty iffy, like this one I really dont know if i like:


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/403224


He was calling all flops and not giving my second barrels all that much credit so I decided I needed to 3-barrel him in good spots just because the gap between the amount of soso hands and hands he wants to stack off with is soo huge. Well, that didnt work out all that well:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/403222

I like my play in that hand. I think he peels the turn with sooo many mid pairs/Qx that will fold the river so I think its goodie.


I ended up down 3k to him before he had to leave. He said we could play later though which is really sweet, I feel I have a huge edge on the fellow and I will be happy to play alot with him.

I think the misstakes I made in this match was playing to loose and too agressive. I was pounding on him alot in position and raising over 50% of my hands. Basicly, I think I was too eager to make a hand and value town him and that made me play too fast and too many hands.

I dont think its a terrible leak to play alot of hands against a station in position just because he will play his hand kinda face up to me, but never the less, I will on average have a worse hand than him postflop and playing worse hands against a guy who never ever folds is pretty bad.

So a lesson for me and for all you guys, when playing a bad station HU, this is what you should do:

1. Tighten up your raising requierments a bit. You will not need to to rely on picking up alot of blinds to profit of a guy who will pay you off always.

2. Dont c-bet too much. This goes without saying but you should definitely not c-bet too less either. Basicly, you need to pick good spots to c-bet. Not only just dry K72r type flops but also flop where your hand should have good equity. Against a guy who will flat with his entire playable range you need to asess how your hand is doing against his range, not just a couple of likely holdings.

Lets say I raise preflop and villian calls. Flop is 4s5s10d Im holding AsQx.When I bet the flop a stations calling range is going to be huge here. He will call with all sorts of 4x, 5x, 10x obv, flushdraws 66-99 and so on.

I still dont mind betting here. Simply because my hand still has great equity. I have two overs that will almost always make me the best hand.
I also have a bd flushdraws and a K or J gives me a gutshot. Basicly, there are tons of spots where I can fire a credible second barrel as a semi bluff and I have outs to make the best hand.

Now If Im sitting on like 33 here I will never c-bet. when called I have to shut down, my hand has two outs to improve and his calling range fucks me big time.

This is probably pretty obv to most ppl but I figured id write it up anyways. The key is, always try to estimate your hands equity against a possible calling range, dont just bet thinking "well, he only hits the flop 30% of the time"

3. Value town like a madman. Again, try and estimate a calling range and compare your hands equity against that hand. Sometimes you need to be betting second pair top kicker for 3 streets of value. Dont do this mindlessly though, thiiiiink! If you want to bet close to pot for value on the river, try to estimate if you beat 50% of his calling range. If you can think of enough random hands to make his calling range consist of 50% or more of hands you beat. BET FFS! Showdown is for pussys, also theres nothing as gratifying as getting thin value from a retard.

Now obviously Im not sitting calculating exactly what his calling range consists of, it kinda is a feel thing that comes automaticly with experience. It can really help to play around a little with maths though. If you are unsure if you should value bet in a certain spot, save the handhistory for after the session. Then do some math with ranges, calculate how much garbage he needs to call with to make a v-bet profitable, play around in pokerstove etc.

4. Be prepared to let go of hands. Now this is the hardest one, atleast for me. When you know someone is weak and you have no showdown value you just instinctively(if you are a solid player that is) want to bluff. Against thinking players its good off course. Against a guy who will call even though he is weak you will be bleeding money.

Patience is everything against a guy like this. Learn how to check/fold. Its a grind, but its hella profitable. This is what I will have to work on the most, I still find it very difficult not to bluff when my opponent obv has like 3rd pair.


Now I ended up doing a write up on how to beat the easiest opponent in poker but heh, hopefully someone will find this useful.

Im doing a radio show with a couple of friends each wednesday and we usually go out and get hammered afterwards so I doubt I will be able to play this guy again tonight and that sucks. Ahwell, there will be other days and there is plenty of fish in the sea.

Oh, and for any swedes that wanna listen tonight you can do it over webradio here:

http://www.shore.hik.se/

We are called Fredagsmust på onsdag and are on the air 18:00-19:00 tonight.

Take care folks


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I figured traveling through Vietnam would be a good reason to pick up my blogging again. I’m here with my girlfriend Melissa and there is just so much to see here that I can hardly talk about it all. We have been taking tons of pictures so far, I’ll try to pick the nice ones to show you as good as I can how we are experiencing the trip.

A small intro might be needed here, impatient ones scroll down for the pics. I met Melissa 4-5 years ago at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam when I was still a student. That’s about the time when I picked up poker as well. I came straight from Korea after staying there for 6 months for progaming, and when I returned to Holland I started playing poker before the school season started. We were both studying international business but true to my calling as a poker bum I dropped out about one year ago, after already slacking for a full year before that. Melissa is Vietnamese and has been in Holland for studying. Now almost finished with her master she’ll soon be trying to find a job there as well.

The trip starts off at Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) where her parents live. The trip was going to be long, about 13 hours in the plane and 17 hours from door to door. We were leaving in the late-morning and having a completely messed up sleeping rhythm I figured it would be a good idea to skip a night before getting on the plane. After falling asleep during takeoff the next moment of consciousness came 8 hours later when we there were only 2 hours left before transitioning. Solid start so far.

First night in Saigon we met her parents and went out for dinner. Her mother had already come to Holland once before so that was at least a familiar face. Back home there are no good Vietnamese restaurants so this was my first experience with Vietnamese food. The dinner was fun and her parents were really nice and wanted me to try everything. I’m returning from this trip fat from overeating or skinny from eating healthy.

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Melissa, me

Jetlag is usually pretty good for my rhythm (unless its Vegas where waking up too early is a sin) and the next day we woke up at 7am after a good nights rest. Today we’d be meeting Phuong who has been Melissa’s best friend since they were very young. She’d be bringing her boyfriend for dinner and her cousin who she said played poker as well. Meeting poker players through non-poker players is always a bit sketchy. Usually whenever someone says they are a poker player alarm bells immediately go off inside my head. People who think because they are beating the weekly homegame that they are actually good at poker, but in reality don’t know the difference between diamonds and spades (diamonds are better). It was a relief to hear Sai (Phuong’s cousin) 24 tables on stars and is actually not much different from the crowd here at LP. He had even heard of LP that was really fun to hear.

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From left to right: me, J.J. (Phuongs boyfriend), Sai (cousin), Phuong

So by now we crossed the city these last few days a fair bit and the streets here are just something else. There are about 10 times more mopeds on the streets than cars. At first seemed like complete chaos, but after riding on the back of the moped with Melissa driving it is starting to look like these people actually have some idea of what they are doing. That doesn’t mean they intend on following any traffic rules but it is something. The way traffic works here is that if you want to cross the street or take a turn you dump your vehicle in someone else’s way and hope they stop. Everyone is anticipating this drives kinda slowly. I didn’t get to take any pictures of the traffic yet but we are returning to Saigon at the end of the trip and then I’ll be the ultimate tourist making pictures of the traffic.

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it probably takes more than 5 minutes to fix your electricity, common sight in the city

On the third day we planned to visit the Vietcong tunnels in Cu Chi. This being one of the things I was looking forward to the most I was really excited to go here. Might be that there isn’t so much to just a tunnel, but to live, sleep, fight, and eat in it is mind-boggling. Cu Chi is about two hours removed from Saigon and an agency in the city arranges tours, so we took a bus with them from Saigon early in the morning. After about one hour the bus stopped for a break at a huge handcraft shop outside of the city. Usually all you see in the city is tiny stores and a lot of the stuff they sell is lower quality tourist stuff. Here you entered into the working area where you could see how everything was being made, and then went into a larger part where they were selling everything. This shop has some of the nicest decorative items and we will definitely be returning here to bring half the store back to Holland.

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In Cu Chi they had a big area functioning as a museum for the tunnels. Our tour started off with showing the traps the Vietcong used. If anything qualifies as sick then this is probably it. They show some crazy inventiveness in terrifying the enemy by using simple traps. They had a bunch more but here’s a few I remembered the use of.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0302.bmp

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0303.bmp

Spinning trap, both sides are camouflaged and spin around a middle point, first guy falls in then the trap is ready for the next victim

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0311.bmp

Rolling trap, enters your leg multiple times while you get suck in

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0312.bmp

Sticking trap, step on the wooden panel and 4 spikes enter your leg from different angles so you cannot get out

After a quick course through the traps they took us to a tunnel where you could go in yourself. The tunnel was cemented and widened for fat tourists so it’s not really the same, but it gives you a good impression of how it would feel to live in these things. At first you are excited to experience such a thing but once you start crawling after 10m your legs start to hurt. The air is thick and breathing is harder than normal. A bit further you need to go on all fours (which was always the case in the original tunnels) and things become even harder. Eventually after 60 meters you are anxious to get out and physically exhausted. After coming up I was sweating all over and felt like I just played a football match.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0317.bmp

Posing

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0318.bmp

Reality

After spending 4 days in Saigon, meeting the family and going to the tunnels we flew to the North of Vietnam to visit Ha Long Bay. At the time of writing this blog we just returned from Ha Long Bay and arrived at our next location Nha Trang. Ha Long Bay is without a doubt the most beautiful natural scenery I’ve seen so far and that is not just in Vietnam but I really have never seen anything like this. I can’t really describe it deservingly but here’s a quote of something I read that translates my feelings nicely.

Majestic and mysterious, inspiring and imperious:words alone cannot do justice to the natural wonder that is HaLong Bay. Imagine 3000 or more incredible islands rising from the emeral waters of the Gulf of Tonking and you have a vision of breatheaking beauty. Halong Bay is pure art, a priceless collection of unfinished sculptures hewn from the hand of nature.

We took a couple hundred pictures at HLB, or at least I took some and Melissa took hundreds. My next blog will be on our three day trip through Ha Long Bay.

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That’s it for today hope you enjoyed it, here’s a few random pics to end with.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Nazgul/Vietnam/IMG_0337.bmp

at what point do they start calling these lobsters?

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fighting for ice scream against 13 year olds at an all you can eat ice cream buffet

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jack-fruit

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snake wine



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well the past two weeks have been terrible. i think my mindset has a lot to do with it, running like horse shit doesnt help, but i feel ive recovered psychologically more than the the money lost. im still just happy it hasnt totally destroyed my BR, coz god knows how hard i tried to keep from tilting and keep on playing at 100 or 200nl. damage control has been great though, ive limited losses to around 14 or less BI after almost two weeks of running into ridiculously setup scenarios, and surefire tilt suckouts. ive thought of moving to another site, but bah, that doesnt really help me in my current state of mind. well tomorrow im redepositing at pokerstars and playing back at 100nl where i really belong. im still overrolled for it, and i thank god im such a BR nit for that. well tomorrow's another day. wish me luck and goodluck to all you guys too. peace.

the good news tho is that im close to 60k vpp. so my target of making supernova by end of april is still on. how i would just love to reach that and take it easy the rest of the year, coz ive never really gotten to supernova, i usually moved sites after running bad at stars.


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Looking to trade money from an IPN to another, willing to either trade my CDPoker money for the equivalent on Titan or vice versa. If you're interested reply to this with contact info or mail me fe.fcnz@gmail.com

I basically wanna combine my whole BR into one, if you have about 100$ on either of these sites you have enough, my total BR is under 100 on both tables


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Lately pokerwise I been playing well but not doing as good as I am playing,if you catch what im trying to say...

Todays session was pretty sick in first 800 hands I was up 6 buyins to finish the session up only 2 1/2 buyins,because of many bad beats and coolers and stuff,but its pretty irrelevant overall because when I see the plays these people make it just makes me more vigorous to punish them for their incompetence.

Lately I've been buying a lot off stuff...Cool shoes,T-Shirts and not to mention me and my friends drank for about 5 days in a row,basically my schedule was go out get drunk either at his apartment or somewhere outside,then go home sleep and repeat the process tommorow.Playing poker 1/5 days because in first 8 days of the month I put in 15k hands so felt like taking a break.

The reason why Im writing all of this is because I realized I can literally live like a king in my country with a stabile poker income of 2-4k a month which I already sustain...But the thing is I realized if I just chill raping fish on NL50 at some point in my life I will start wondering "what if I moved up" etc...So!I decided that when I hit 5k this month Im moving up to NL100 and not cashing out anything.

Thanks to everyone whos supporting me on this forum,I really do appreciate it,but overall 3 people who have helped me the most of all are definatley Radiohead,Erling and the one and only Myth!

So overall im content,altho a bit bored cuz of the lack of hobbies in life atm,but I'll fill that gap eventually and I'll be "complete".

Here are the stats of March so far.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5273/marchpn3.png

P.S. Thnx to PU for commenting on two of my hands,can't believe someone like him takes the time to check out the hands of lowstakes grinders kekekeke.


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I've been meaning to get it for a while now but kept forgetting and procrastinating. It took me a while to figure out how to get it to work but its a pretty useful tool. Today I started out bad down a bit over 3 buyins but managed to start playing better and catching a few hands. The only questionable hand I played was this one http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/402951.

If anyone has any suggestions as to what stats to put on PAhud other than the default or what you use feel free to post it.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/c918b560e0505d74467b733b3677a9d8.jpg

I was gonna play a long session but pokerstars crashed so I just went on to do other stuff.


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so i'm pretty bad with computers but I need some help. I have this laptop and I reformatted it without backing up any of the drivers. I reformatted using windows XP. In the system summary -> system information it shows a list of "problem devices" with the error code being "The drivers for this device are not installed"

they are

Ethernet Controller
Multimedia Audio Controller
PCI Device
PCI Modem
USB Controller
Video Controller

(although the usb ports worked when i plugged in my mx518)

I think that if i can somehow connect to the internet it will auto install the missing drivers although the drivers for the modem/internet card or w/e aren't there so that isn't working.

I could use a flash drive i think but i don't know exactly what hardware this computer has inside so I don't know what drivers to dl.

Suggestions?

Do I have to bring it to a specialist to fix it?





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After my hu deep stacked nightmare mentioned in my last post I have only been playing 6-max, with poor results. I just really cant get shit going for me even though most opponents are pretty bad. I guess thats just the way it is sometimes, I have also played when I havent been entierly focused so that could have an impact on my result.

I also think almost only playing HU for like 2-3 weeks might have fucked with my 6-max game a bit. Im to loose and call down too light/bluff too much etc. Gonna have to change that. Im probably gonna play a 4 tabling session later on and try to find my way back to a solid game.

Anyways, today I decided it was time for my HU comeback. It went really well. I think I played really good and made a couple of solid reads. Plus most of my opponents where very weak in a low variance kind of way, loose/passive/bad. It gives you such a rush when you are winning, feeling great and just play really good. There was maybe one or two hands I was uncertain of other than that I like how I played the hands today.

Hand of the day:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/402690


This guy was actually not that bad, but I ran good against him and I think he played a bit too passive and picked bad spots to be agressive.


Stats:

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3218/mars5zx5.jpg


zing!


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Been 2 weeks since i requested to withdraw my money
still nothing

+ got my entire br there

fuck

/whine


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Hey guys, this is my first blog post so I wanted to introduce myself a bit before touching onto anything. The name's Francis but my friends called me Frank. I currently reside in Sherbrooke, Quebec (yes, I am french-canadian). Quick story for those of you with Starcraft background, I actually wore the XDS tag just as my fellow frenchie Guillaume Patry (Although he doesn't know me, I played Counter-Strike for XDS). I hear he plays poker professionally now too :o Apart from that, I have been playing poker for fun for about 2-3 years, played about a dozen live games (I actually have never lost a tournament or left negative in a live cash game) and played online with play money alot. Just started a BR with the 50$ bonus on IPN, barely over so far but I wanted to play a good 10k hands at micro to get a feel of playing with my actual money. I will try to keep the blog updated with my status, funny stories and my online findings.

Now that I've introduced myself, here's a story from today!

Epic comeback in the 7,500$ GP Rebuy NLHE Tournament on IPN.
So I decide that cashgames are boring at the moment and that I should play a tournament. My choice stops on the 7,500$ GP Rebuy (5$+0.50). I sign up, along with 553 other players. I start with AA (woohoo) and double up first hand. I then slowly build up my stack to around 40k when things go real bad.

Theres about 100 players left and as I said I have about 40k in chips, being 3rd on my table. I make a decent call but get unlucky on the river and go down to about 20k. I then play a bad hand about 3 hands after that I lose on showdown and remain with 300$. At this point I know my tournament is over. The blinds are 500/1,000 and I am on BB. I somehow win that hand with 4 players in it and climb up to around 1.5k, just to go all-in on the next hand and triple up to roughly 5k. 2 hands later I triple up again to 15k and somehow I seem to be back in the game with maybe enough to last until after the bubble. Well turns out well after the bubble and about 25 minutes after I was down to 300, I am up with a stack of 208,000 and chip leader of the tournament!!!

I was aiming for the top5 prizes at that point but two arguable calls, high blinds and playing a bit too aggressive got me a 17th place and 72.37$. Not bad for my first real money tournament ever! :D


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Submitted by : jase

PokerStars Game #15905479572: Tournament #80504616, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (600/1200) - 2008/03/11 - 14:31:58 (ET)
Table '80504616 6' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: Dredgeeee (48401 in chips)
Seat 5: Jgush (83170 in chips)
Seat 6: xghjase (27519 in chips)
Seat 7: LEQUI S.L (18238 in chips)
Seat 8: guillote (40059 in chips)
Seat 9: mejadog (52613 in chips)
Dredgeeee: posts the ante 125
Jgush: posts the ante 125
xghjase : posts the ante 125
LEQUI S.L: posts the ante 125
guillote: posts the ante 125
mejadog: posts the ante 125
Jgush: posts small blind 600
xghjase : posts big blind 1200

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to xghjase
LEQUI S.L: folds
guillote: raises 1800 to 3000
mejadog: folds
Dredgeeee: folds
Jgush: folds
xghjase : calls 1800

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $7,350.00)

   
xghjase : bets 2400
guillote said, "eat this"
guillote: raises 34534 to 36934 and is all-in
xghjase : calls 21994 and is all-in
guillote said, "upppsss"

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $56,138.00)

   

River (Pot : $56,138.00)

   

Showdown
xghjase : shows (three of a kind, Eights)
guillote: shows (two pair, Aces and Tens)
guillote said, "lol"
xghjase collected 56138 from pot
xghjase said, "eat what idiot?"
xghjase said, "nice try"

Summary
Total pot 56138 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 4: Dredgeeee (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Jgush (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: xghjase (big blind) showed and won (56138) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 7: LEQUI S.L folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: guillote showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 9: mejadog folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Reputable people only. Helps if I've heard of you and you have a decent postcount. Willing to transfer first in increments of $50. Whenever is convenient.


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Since i was fed up with 6max on Unibet
I searched for some alternative

I had 2 possibilities in mind.
Either play Nl25 FR on Pokerstars
or play low limit Heads up.

Ipoker and Fulltilt were the only Sites with low limit Heads up tables.
So i cashed into Ipoker playing some Nl4 heads up to get started.

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Rake is just ZOMG >_< and i think i d would be completely - EV if not villians dont know even the basics of poker on that level.

First match was over relativly fast.
After a few hands i figured out villian will check Top pair on flop and then bet big on Turn no matter how drawheavy the board is.
he will check // check if he has nothing or a draw
and he wont bet out himself ever on flop ...

this is what happend

he got A6 i got J8
Flop A8Q
he checks i bet he calls
turn 8
he bets i 3 bet he shoves

gg


2nd Villian was even worse.
He played exactly like an open book and after 50 hands i sometimes called for fun just to see if my guess of his hand was right .. when i assumed i was behind.
I was right 100% ....

He always did the following.
Preflop : absolutely no concept ! sometimes he raises 83o sometimes he limps pockets ... but he never 3 bets
Flop : he always checks .. no matter what he hit or what the board is he always checks flop 100%
he will Fold to a bet with air ... he will call with A high and a medium hand + he will also call with a strong hand

turn : if he called with a monster he will bet out turn 100%
if he called with a good hand he will check/ call turn
if he called with a weak hand he will check/call turn

river : if he called with a good hand on turn he will now bet out river // 4 bet big // shove river 100%
if he called with a weak hand he will check // call

he played this style 100% and never made any exceptions during our whole match.

he was very easy to exploid since he only bet out with very good hands but check // called a very big range of medicore staff.

was fun.


GL All


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Hi again,

Went to the GUKPT last week. I started on Kets table but couldn't fold KK preflop cos I'm a fish and busted out, of course Ket went on to win the thing and take £120k (240k dollars). Well played Ket ofc, no surprise though it's about time he took a big score, Nuros went to obs the final table with him and said it was awesome.

Heads up's been going pretty well played some 5/10 as well, and been running so well and the fact that there hasn't been any real soft 10/20 25/50 games running that i've been pretty content playing quite low:

Here's an update of my stats since I got my new computer (3rd march I think)
(ps i've got to play like 3x as many hands as what I am playing it's quite pathetic)


http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/478/11marchstats2nz6.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1227/11marchgraphup2.jpg

Just need to get lots more hands in than i'm playing!

played some real good regulars at 3/6 and left a little up so thats a good boost too. gonna try to put in like 4k hands by the end of the week cos i'm real busy so not going to have time to pretend i've even got a chance of doing more than that.

Keylek.



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