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I start like this every damn session for the last 10 days now >_<



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my average won at SD for the last 15 K hands is ~ 42 %

I start every session - 4-6 buy ins in the first 600 hands with a wonn atSD of 10-30%
then i grind back to breakeven ....

I am probably done with Unibet for a while >-<
Overall i profitet + 258 (390 $) € in 2 month on Unibet .... which is better than nothing but still sucks seeing how much effort i put in ...

i ll cash into stars
and try some Nl25$ FR





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Yeah, it's been a while since I've post here... nevermind though..

Quick recap, I've played until NL100, now in february I've decided that I will try MTTs for a while to learn something different.

In order to be succesful MTT, I've decided I will put max effort into learning process so I've got myself membership at savvy plus (which I've been told it has great tournament videos). So now I'm watching like 6 videos a day from CR or savvy, making some notes, reading articles and also applying little bit of practice, needless to say; that practice isn't that effective..but hey, I have to learn it somewhere right?
I also had to split up my BR between FTP and PS.. dunno if it's enough. I'm trying to find some good tournament pokerrooms.
One thing I'm not sure of is, whether SNGs are good practice for MTTs, because there are some points where it is same but many points, where it differs.
So what's my current plan? In february I will primary try to gain some knowledge by watching all savvy videos and some of CR ones. I will also try to play at least one or two 15-30$ tournaments a day, hope for some profit, but not counting on it.


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my biggest leak by far is my lack of discipline. if i make a stupid play i have the tendency to dwell on it and this screws up my concentration and rhythm sometimes for the rest of the session, this often causes a single bad play to cost me multiple buyins. i also lack the discipline to make myself play as much as i should, thus far this month i've put in a grand total of 4k hands...not exactly the type of pace someone should be keeping when supporting himself on poker.

unfortunately, unlike other leaks, i can't just tweak something in my game and expect to fix it or cover it up. needless to say, im lost. i'd like to hear some advice from people in improving discipline.


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I have been winning every month for the last two years until this year, where I hit a fat ass brick wall. Since January I cant win SH*t. I managed to lose -6k at stars, -4k at cake, -2k at ftp, and -2k at UB all in primarily nl400. How might this have happened if I have always been a winner before? Simple, the universal doomswitch. If you haven't had it yet you are in for a real treat buddy becuz it is a certainty just like death and taxes. Just make sure your ready for this bitch when it hits you because it can really mess you up.

Kinda speechless right now as this is my first doomswitch. Am I just running really bad? Have I been running lucky all this time and am finally running normally and I suck? Nah. Does all the fish being educated now have anything to do with this? Maybe.








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i was up ~2-3BI while playing this hands today ( they weren't in one moment played), i wasn't tilting, i was playing 4 tables and everything except music was off... and i still can fuck up like i started playing poker yesterday... i'm able to play decent poker wtf is wrong with me?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/401488

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Its been a while since i'v posted anything of intellectual substance, so here's my shot at attempting to be smart. I came to the realisation that even though profitable over my time playing so far, I have been just as much of a fish as any others.




I'm beggining to actually see on multiple levels while i'm playing. Although incapable of doing so on more than 2-4 tables. There's so much more to this game than you could imagine. As I begin to see betting patterns umong 95% of the players im facing, i'v realised that i too have simply only been playing my cards(only better). While patience and aggression are key factors in being sucessful, being able to accuratly put your opponents on ranges is what seperates a decent player from a good one. I honestly think i have to take one step backwards, move from 6-12 tables back down to 2-4 and make more difficult desicions during game play. I'm just finishing my session for the evening(or for right now) and i'v made back 4/12 buyins lost from friday night. I'm going to conitnue thinking about how I can improve my game because as of now, im very dissatisfied with my performance thus far. (not due to results, im happy with those)



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and crown/henn/hp

too good, up all night playing the embodiment of greatness in the form of a game


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Yesterday I entered the $2,000 NLHE event at the Wynn Classic with Myth and FrinkX. Rekrul for some reason felt inspired enough to play the tournament as well. So naturally I ran like absolute god with my table draw, as one entire half of the table was pretty bad loose/passive limping stations. The kid to my left seemed fairly competent though, but very tight. And you know what I do to tight regulars... More about that in a bit. Myth also drew an amazing table, but was unfortunately seated at the table that was to break 2nd. Rekrul easily ran the worst out of all of us in table draws. His table included PBDrunks, Bushman, and Mr.Smokey01. LOL GL HF Dan!

So blinds started at 25/50 and we got a 6,000 chip starting stack for this event. I took down a few small uncontested pots and built myself up to 8,000ish without anything too big. Then a weird hand came up, it got folded to me in the cut-off and I raised to 150 with 88, it gets to the big blind (was a young kid that looked like he might know how to play, esp since he repopped me, which no one does too often in these tournaments) who reraises to 450. He had his original 6,000 starting stack so I decided to call. Flop came down 4-7-Q rainbow, and he checked, so I checked behind. Turn came a K, he checked and I checked behind thinking it's pretty easy for him to play JJ, TT, AQ, AK, KK, AA in the same stupid / trappy fashion. River came an Ace, and he checked once again which made me eliminate AQ, AK, KK, AA from his range and make me think he had JJ or TT. So since my hand had no showdown value I decided to make a value bet looking bluff of 700. He quickly called and tabled AK... jesus wtf? Myth's table breaks and they move my good friend Poker Pro Ann over to my table! Blinds moved to 50/100. Next interesting hand I get into is vs the tight kid to my left, who kept getting frustrated that his limps were getting raised. Solution: Don't open limp? Tard... So I open T9o from the cut-off to 300 and he calls on the button. Flop comes 4-T-Q, and I check he bets 400 into a 750 pot. I call. Turn comes a A, I check, he checks behind. River came a 2, and I check yet again. He fires 800 into the 1500 pot. I check-raise to 2600. He slams his fist on the table and insta folds. I had to show him, and I never show my cards like ever, but this was just too funny to me, GG nit.

So they break my table and move me to yet another very soft looking table with the exception of the guy to my right who was this very nice older guy who apparently watched my ft win the other night. He seemed to know a lot about poker, and played use to be an online grinder but now only plays live poker because he recognizes that the games are x100 softer live. Smart man, smart man indeed... Two of the players at my table I played with during Day 1 of the $1500 event as well, one of which I had absolutely annihilated during the bubble since he was one of the short stacks while I was raising every hand. The table was easy, but the cards weren't kind to me... Blinds moved up to 100/200, I raised AQ and flopped Qd-6s-4s, c-bet and get a call. Turn comes 9d, I double barrel and he calls. He has spades duh... river comes 9s. I check, he fires 3/4 pot, I fold. Next, there is a limper, then the old man who was short stacked on the bubble in the $1500 makes it 700. I look at TT on the button and flat call. The big blind flat calls as well. Flop comes 4-4-8, they both check to me and I bet 1800. Big blind insta folds, and the old man calls. Turn comes a 2, he checks and I check behind. River comes a 7, he bets 2400. I hate my life... tank forever and it really felt like I only beat a bluff from this particular player. I took a count of my chips and realized if I called and lost I'd have 3200 left at 100/200 which is somewhat okay. It was just so gross that the pot was like almost 6,000. So finally I decided to make a sloppy call, and threw in the 2400. He showed 44 for quad 4's. That makes sense. So I'm at 3200. 30 minutes later I'm back at 10,000 without going to showdown. There weren't any key hands that went down, I just won a ton of small pots in good spots. Poker Pro Ann once again got shuffled to my table, along with a big stack that was sat to my direct left. Great. In the first orbit the big stack opened 3 pots, so he was most definitely a little aggro.

Blinds go up to 200/400 w 25 ante, and I get a little ballsy with the big stack to my left. It gets folded to me in the cut-off and I raise K2o to 1000 vs my weak blinds. The big stack on the button makes it 2500 to go. The blinds insta fold, and action is back around to me. I count out my stack and realize I have about 9,000 to reshove on him. Time to show this fucker that I'm the wrong person to be repopping light. All-in. He asks for a count and tanks for a little bit, but some of his mannerisms made me think that this was just some hollywood act he was doing to save face. Finally he folds. I show the duece. He gives me a pat on the back. After this hand, Poker Pro Ann gets a little short and reshoves as a squeeze over me and the big stack. I decide her range is fairly wide in that spot and call with AJo. the big stack folds and me and Ann run a 8k chip flip AJo vs her 66. She holds and that drops me back to 10k. An orbit later I pick up AA, raise to 1000 utg+1. The big stack to my left was replaced with a shorter stack who had about 6,000 total in chips. He reraises to 2700... sweet :D! Action gets folded back around to me and I look at his stack and realize he pot committed himelf so just put the chips in, he says "I hope I didn't get cold decked" as he put the rest in and turned over KK. "You got cold decked" I said as I turned over AA. Flop comes 2-7-K and I'm like UUGGG that hurts. Ann then says she folded an ace. And I'm like yuck! No worries, turn Ace, ZING I RUN GOOD!!! 1 outer for the win. River bricks and the kid gets eliminated and I get back to 16k. I lose a few pots that bring me down to 12k before my table breaks and I get moved to a new table.

Blinds were now 300/600 w 50 ante. This new table seemed to be one of the tougher tables in the tournament. The big stack definitely seemed to know what he was doing, and was running over this table. There were a few old asian guys who were fighting back, and reshipping it in on him which was nice to see. My 5th hand at the table, I was in the big blind with T3o, and the big stack raises to 1500, active looking asian guy calls, I reshove 12k all-in. Big stack insta folds and asian guy asks for a chip count before he folded. After this hand I went on a pretty hot card rush. Picked up JJ and reshoved over a short stack and busted his 77. That got me to 22k. Then picked up KK vs the big stack and turned a set, as I shoved over his turn bet and he folded. That brought me to 34k with the average around 20k with 40 players left. I picked up a few other pots and go my stack around 40,000 with 36 players left.

Then things went to hell...

Picked up AK, guy reshoves for his last 10k and I call. He has JJ and holds. Knocks me back to 30k. I then pick up 99 vs a 7k stack and call his reshove on me. He has AJ, he spikes an ace. Down to 22k. Then get reshuffled to a new table... back with Poker Pro Ann! And... who is this guy hiding in his hooded sweatshirt with over 65,000 in chips? Oh It's Mr.Smokey01... fuck my life. To make matters worse, he was running over the table and no one was doing anything to stop him. Everyone was playing dead for him... it was so sick. So I decide to take action before this gets out of hand. I repopped with T9o the first time, then a few hands later picked up AQo and repopped his raise once again. Both times he just folded. I really hoped that this might discourage him from open raising light... Nope! Fucking relentless, and it was just so sick that no one was doing anything vs him. And obv I can't just be trying to war Mr.Smokey01 out of spite, caz he's eventually gonna get fed up and decide to somehow own me. Anyways, I hovered around 20,000 as we went to dinner break with 30 players left. I get a salad and a prep talk from peachy on how to handle Smokey at my table.

Come back from dinner break with 400/800 blinds. Gets folded to the guy in the cut-off who shoves 7500 all-in. I look down at 88 in the big blind and call. He has J7o. Flop comes Q-K-J... yuck. Turn and river blank and I get knocked down to 12,000. I make a few small steals and get myself back up to around 17,000. Then with 27 players left, they reshuffled the final 3 tables. I sit down at my new seat to find Mr.Smokey01 w/ his hammer of chips to my direct left, and Bushman the left of that. ROFL... not running so good with table draws anymore. Running really really bad with table draws infact.

So first hand at our new table, I open KQo to 2k, and Smokey makes it clear that I'm not going to be able to open light and make the small steals I've been doing, as he repops to 7k. I fold. I open the next pot with AQs, planning on going with it and everyone folds. An orbit later I pick up A9s in the big blind, there is a limp utg from a weak/dumb player. Active player raises to 3,200. Old guy behind him calls. I shove 14,800 total from the big blind with my A9s as a squeeze. UTG folds, and the active player reshoves and shows AKo. Flop comes J-8-9 and I jump up and scream "HOW GOOD DO I RUN HERE!?!" Turn 7, river King. And I'm out Oops, jinx'd it. Out in 24th, 18 paid.

Going home to San Diego today for a couple days, and will be back in Vegas on Wednesday.


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Submitted by : Svenman87

PokerStars Game #15861013053: Tournament #80285853, $670+$30 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/03/09 - 16:50:42 (ET)
Table '80285853 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: redpimpNL (2440 in chips)
Seat 2: redart (3020 in chips)
Seat 3: Svenman1987 (3445 in chips)
Seat 4: Poker18Munk (1595 in chips)
Seat 5: busto_soon (1730 in chips)
Seat 7: mwp74 (1270 in chips)
redpimpNL: posts small blind 100
redart: posts big blind 200

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Svenman1987
Svenman1987 : raises 400 to 600
Poker18Munk: folds
busto_soon: folds
mwp74: folds
redpimpNL: folds
redart: raises 2420 to 3020 and is all-in
Svenman1987 : calls 2420

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $6,140.00)

   
Svenman1987 said, "dfklsjdf biggest misclick"

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $6,140.00)

   
Svenman1987 said, "ever"

River (Pot : $6,140.00)

   

Showdown
redart: shows (two pair, Kings and Fours)
Svenman1987 : shows (two pair, Jacks and Fours)
redart collected 6140 from pot

Summary
Total pot 6140 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: redpimpNL (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: redart (big blind) showed and won (6140) with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 3: Svenman1987 showed and lost with two pair, Jacks and Fours
Seat 4: Poker18Munk folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: busto_soon folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: mwp74 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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2008 3/6 full ring graph .

up like 10bi in six max. haven't played much 2/4. i'm obviously struggling / doing something wrong. i think i'm going to move down to 2/4 or start 9 tabling the 6m and see if the change of pace helps.

i usually don't get too tilted but this stretch has been kind of brutal and i feel lost which is abornmal for me when dealing with a downswing so i dont know.

might take the month off as i leave for europe in a few days and don't get back until the 26th.

hmm.


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I have been the CL on and off the whole tournament. My MTT game is pretty weak because I never play payouts are:

1 - $25
2 - $15
3 - $10

All other places pay nothing please come RAIL! Fridaynites

Tourney ID: 46536

I mostly play cash, I just signed up for this donkament for fun. This is not a brag post btw. Just if anyone is bored.

***** EDIT *****

NEW CL OF FT!!

Submitted by : alphablend

***** Hand history (v1.2) *****
Hand ID 132333286
$0 + $0 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 08:11:09 09/03/2008 ET
Table 'Table 1235080', 10 seats max, Real money
Seat 3 is the button. Small Blind $1000, Big Blind $2000
Note: seat IDs range from 1 to 10
Seat 1 (playing) : laughter, amount $38601.79, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Seat 2 (playing) : guelph66, amount $44465.88, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Seat 3 (playing) : Story, amount $34439, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Seat 5 (playing) : Hero , amount $62689, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Seat 7 (playing) : kiskopasz101, amount $94172, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Seat 8 (playing) : picurka, amount $82529.33, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Seat 9 (playing) : Beware, amount $33103, amount bet $0, penalty (None)
Hero : Small Blind ($1000)
kiskopasz101: Big Blind ($2000)

Holecards
Dealt to Hero :
picurka: Fold
Beware: Call ($2000)
laughter: Call ($2000)
guelph66: Fold
Story: Call ($2000)
Hero : Raise ($12000)
kiskopasz101: Fold
Beware: Fold
laughter: Raise ($38501.79)
Story: Fold
Hero : Call ($26501.79)

Flop (Pot : $86,003.58)
   

Turn (Pot : $86,003.58)
   

River (Pot : $86,003.58)
   

Summary
Main pot $83703.58, Rake $0
Summary laughter: bet $40501.79, won $0, net $-40501.79
Summary Hero : bet $39501.79, won $83703.58, net $44201.79, HoleCards , HiHand [two pairs, queens and tens] , won $83703.58 from main pot

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I salute all of those people on LP that can actually beat small stakes. NL50 and lower is fucking hard... ihonestly cant run better than 6bb/100. i really feel like i could be high stakes at a higher bb/100 then small stakes, is fucking rediculous... so all of you on LP that can beat small stakes at more than 8bb/100 i respect you... medium and high stakes is much easier than micro stakes... and for those of you who play medium stakes that wish to comment on my blog, plz dont, go fuck yourself because im better than you are, just read and continue because i dont want to read ur bullshit post bc ur a joke, TY


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So as most of you know by now already, I won the Event #8 $1500 NLHE at the Wynn Classic last night for $98,700. This is easily by far my biggest day / tournament score / anything ever. Peachy staked me for the event so in total I made myself $49,350 which is pretty insane, and puts me up close to 75k on the year including my online wins. The final table was all I could ask for, here is how it went down:

I started with 188,500 which was good for 2nd in chips going into the final table. The chip leader was a man named Frank Kassela who had 253,000. There were 3 people hovering around 100k in chips, and the rest had around 30-40k in chips. Blinds at the final table started at 1500/3000. My game plan was simple, play a very solid / aggressive game, and don't do anything stupid. I started the first hand on the button, because that's where we left off at from the previous day. In the first hand, action got folded to Frank who was one to the right of the cut-off, and he raised to 7450. Bushman folded between us, and I look down at 87dd and pop it to 23,000 trying to send a message that it won't be wise to be opening light when I'm on the button. Everyone folds and Frank calls my 3 bet, flop comes 3d-4h-5h giving me a gutshot and a backdoor flush draw. He check/folds to my 35,000 c-bet and I move my stack above 200,000 with that pot. A couple hands later, Frank opens from UTG and I look down at QQ and repop once again to 24,000. He folds, and someone across the table makes a comment that I "came to play".

Our first bust out came when Jason Berry limped utg, and from playing with Jason all day before (he was the guy who check-called two streets with AK high vs me and check-folded the river) I knew that his hand was probably some weird marginal hands that he wanted to see a flop with. It was pretty clear he didnt know what to do for the most part, as he limped 3k from his 30k stack... Action got folded around to Bushman in the sb and he limped, and I checked my option with 64o in the big blind. Flop comes 4-4-5... ding? Bushman checks, I check, Jason shoves all-in for his last 25k. Bushman folds, and I snap call obv. Jason has A7s, and the turn drops a 2, and river drops a 8 and Jason was out in 9th. This pot moved my stack past Frank's and into the chip lead.

We played a couple orbits with me chipping up a little through a few blind steals. I noticed Frank had tighten up considerably from the previous day, although he could have been just card dead. During this time, Neal Matthews (who I described in my last blog post as the spewtard who dead straddled utg for shits and giggles) chipped up with a couple well-timed raises against Ray (Thay3r's ultra nit friend) and Chris Amarel (the loud mouth kid). Blinds had moved up to 2k/4k and Eillen Kelly found herself short stacked with 40k and chips and shoved all-in from UTG+1. Action as folded around to me and I looked at JJ... sweet. So I said "Call" without really thinking about the situation too much. This happened to be a clear mistake since both Ray and Chris were to my left in the blinds, and if I call I can't fold to either of their shoves anyways, so I should have just shoved to isolate. Well Ray, who had been the tightest player ever on Day 1 and basically folded his big blind every singe orbit to me, instantly raised all-in for 75k total from the small blind. Chris Amarel instantly jumped up from his chair and yelled "WHOA!" after looking at his hand. It was clear he had a pretty tough decision. He tanked for a good 5 minutes before folding, and I looked over at the rest of Ray's chips and told him I couldn't fold. I was really surprised when Ray turned over AQo??? Weird... he must have been sick card dead forever to decide to fight back in this spot with AQo. Eillen Kelly had 55, so I was in some absurd 200k chip flip. The board ran out K-8-3-9-8, which was such an epic hold as I knocked both Ray and Eillen out of the tournament.

That pot put me up to about 420,000 in chips which was over half the chips in play. The next elimination was Chris Bush (aka Bushman) thank the lord caz he was clearly the best player at the table, but never had enough chips to do anything. Action was folded around to Frank Kassela in the small blind who limped in? Bushman obv shoved from the big blind for 40,000 and Frank limp-calls off 36,000 more with T5o. Wtf? Bushman tabled K2o and they were in a race... until the flop came down T-5-5 leaving Bushman drawing near dead. Sweet, good play Frank! You're my hero! Bushman obv doesn't suck out and gets eliminated in 6th.

The next elimination was bitter sweet. Neal Matthews had been a thorn in my side all of Day 1, running like fucking god just to get to the final table. So when he table got 5 handed I started to pick up the pace and raise more, hoping I could get myself into the situation I was in over the summer when I won, where I had a massive stack and kept raising every hand and they just rolled over and died for me. Well Neal was the last person on earth that would let me have my way. In a hand earlier, I raised A8s from the cut-off and he called in the big blind. Flop came 3-5-9 rainbow and he check-called my c-bet. Turn dropped a 6, and we checked it through. River came a Q and he lead for pot. I thought about raising for a few minutes then dumped my hand and he showed A5 thinking he bluffed me. Well action got folded to me on the button (and at this point I was raising every button), and I look down at TT, which was like the fucking nuts to me. So I raise, and Neal obv calls from the big blind. Flop came Q-Q-T and I almost wet myself. Neal then leads for pot, and at this point I'm thinking "ROFL POOR GUY IS GONNA GET WAXED" as I flat call. Turn comes a 3, and he insta shoves and I do my fastest Phil Hellmuth snap call ever as I jump out of my seat. Neal tabled A8dd, drawing dead with a flush draw and is busted in 5th.

We were now down to 4 handed as blinds moved to 3k/6k. I raised my button, my cut-off, got a walk in the big blind, and raised my small blind before Chris Amarel decided it was enough and repopped me preflop. This was the first time someone had repopped me preflop since I 4-bet butt fucked Dutch Boyd the day before with the K8dd. Atleast someone knows how to play back. I insta folded, since obv my image was waaaaay too bad to do anything creative there and Chris was a really sick tight player for the most part. The next player we lost was Craig Rice, who was a really nice guy that I talked to all the day before. Overall, he never gave himself enough of a chance to double-up and win. He got into a flip vs Frank, AK vs 88 and ended up on the losing end, out in 4th.

A few hands later I raise KQo from the button to 15k, 3 handed and Chris Amarel shoves for his last 68k. I called and Chris tabled 88. I told him I was running too good for him to win this. So when the flop came 2-3-5, obv I was in a little shock. Wtf this isn't suppose to happen? I'm running too good to lose a flip. Turn comes a 3, and I'm still like 'huh? This is new?'... but ofcourse, river drops my King ball and eliminates Chris out in 3rd place. For as loud as he was during the final table, and the day before, he was very nice when he busted. Going into heads-up I had 550k in chips, to Frank's 250k.

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Before heads-up started vs Frank Kassela

My player read on Frank was simple: He was a live donkey with a limited understanding of how to play a good game of poker. A good example of this is when he knocked out Bushman with the T5o. At the same time, I told Myth the day before that I really felt Frank was dangerous since he was very fearless, somewhat creative, and makes random bluffs. With that said, the heads-up match started very poorly for me. In the first 10 minutes, it seemed Frank was winning every hand that went to showdown. I was still very comfortable while playing him mainly because he only raised his button 50% of the time, and limped it the other half, while calling almost 100% of my button raises from the big blind. Anyone who knows anything can tell you that playing that way is a recipe to get served. It got a little frustrating that Frank was hitting all these pairs, and I was completely card dead for the first part of the heads-up match. I had dropped to 325,000 at this point and Frank had about 475,000 with most of Frank's chips coming from the following hand: I had 76dd and raised button to 18k, he calls. Flop comes Kd-4d-9s, he checks, I bet 28k he calls. Turn comes 8c, he checks and I bet 70k and he SNAP calls. So I'm like uggg get there one time? River is the Kc, he checks and I tank for a few minutes trying to decide whether or not I wanted to fire the 160k on the river, and finally came to realize that I can just give this up to him and find a better spot. So I check behind and he tables 43o...jesus christ, fucking station, my 6 and 7 were live outs too? What a sick hold

Sooooooo a few hands later... He limped the button and I checked my option with 53o. The flop came 4s-6s-7s for a flopped straight on a monotone board. I checked to Frank who bets 8,000. I check-raised to 25,000, and Frank insta-called. Turn came Qd, I lead for 60k and he SNAP calls once again. River is 2c, and I jam all-in for 255,000 into the 180,000 pot. He think for about 4 seconds then calls. I table my straight and he's is just hating his life as he shows me 8c7d for 2nd pair no kicker. Sweet stack off. He then continues to complain about how good I run for flopping a straight in a limped pot etc... This pot cripples him to just over 130k, as I had about 670k at this point. He started making some over aggro shoves all-in on top of my raises and c-bets and chipped himself back up to 180k. I was just waiting for my spot to bust him, because with the way he was playing, I definitely felt like it was coming soon. That is when I made a somewhat big mistake. He raised to 18k, and I looked down at AKs from the big blind and reraised to 54k. He insta-called my reraise and the flop came 2-4-8 rainbow. Instead of checking here, I decided to make the most retarded c-bet of my life knowing full well that he wasn't folding. I bet 75k and he insta shoved. This play was so preplanned, and I knew it. He wasn't giving my c-bets any respect at all and definitely was making plays at them all match. I thought about calling for a few minutes, but again, I decided that I can find a better spot and folded, which put him up close to 300k again.

I win a few smallish pots and chip him down to 225k, until finally I thought I had won the tournament when I had him all-in on a A-3-K-8 board. He check-raised the turn all-in for 108k more after I double barreled, and I decided to make the call with AT. He tabled A5 thinking he had the best hand? Nopez, HOLD ONE TIME DEALER!!! But it was not to be as the river dropped another 8 chopping the pot. Boo!!! We traded pots for another 10 minutes before the final hand of the tournament came up:

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The board in the final hand of the tournament

I raised to 18k with Qh8c, he called from the big blind. The flop came Qc-2h-8h giving me two pair. Frank checked, I bet 25k, and Frank snap called. The turn came Jh, Frank checked, I bet 60k and Frank check-raised to 140k leaving 80k behind. I felt a little gross about this as Frank could easily have had a flush here or a hand like QJ. I still wasn't really in the mood to just make some massive laydown here esp vs a player like Frank. It got even prettier when I looked back at my hand and realized that I had the Qh. I shoved all-in and Frank snap called which made me feel pretty sick, thinking he had to have the flush to call that fast. Nope, Frank tables Jc2c like it was the nuts. I show him that he was drawing dead on the turn yet again and close my eyes. River comes a Qd!!! SHIIIPPP IITTTTT

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Right after my Q8 holds on the last hand

Frank was a gracious loser, although I heard him continue to complain to his friends about how good I ran. I kind of thought it was clear that he just fucked himself in our heads-up match. We played heads-up for well over an hour, and the entire final table was over before 7:15 which was a little over 3 hours with several breaks. After signing an assload of tax forms and id shit they shipped my $98,700 in chips (obv I've never held so many 5k chips in my life) as well as my trophy. Some photographer took a bunch of pics and that was it.

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Me & my sick trophy

And after that I went back to the hotel with Myth and went to sleep. No I didn't party, obv these tournaments take a toll on your head. I'm actually saving my celebration for when my friends from SD come out to Vegas next weekend anyways. I played the $2,000 NLHE today, and did not run nearly as good as I did in the $1,500. I'll write more about it tomorrow, but basically I played as well as I could for 8 hours and busted in 24th place when 18 pay. zZz Fucking Smokey and his big stack annilated my table. Ok, later!


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this is just a list of hands to show my friend, comments are welcome on any of them if you would like to take some time to look through them :D

Hands that are likely spew:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=400968
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400970
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400972
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400984

Hands that suck:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400974
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400977
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400978
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400979
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400980
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400982
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400986






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this is just a list of hands to show my friend, comments are welcome on any of them if you would like to take some time to look through them :D

Hands that are likely spew:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=400968
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400970
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400972
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400984

Hands that suck:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400974
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400977
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400978
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400979
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400980
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400982
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/400986






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For the most part i think it went pretty well. I played the lowest stake($1/$3)(which my grandparents staked me for as a going away present because i'm shipping out in late May for the Marines). This wasn't my first time playing at a casino and i usually get REALLY nervous when playing with people i don't know live, which i would think made me play bad. This time was completely different, for some reason i for the first 45 minutes i was pretty card dead(best cards i got was AQ and AJ, both raised and taken down with a cbet). EVERYBODY at my table loved to limp except two COMPLETE stakes who had about $600 behind them(max buy-in at morongo was $100).

So after about 45 minutes of not getting anything i finally get AKs while sitting UTG, i raised to 12 got 1 caller. Flop came A-X-X rainbow(x's are randoms below Ten) i waited a bit and checked. Villian who would usually bet if people checked to him did as i thought and bet $8, thought a bit and called. turn was a Jack. i bet $15 into him, he minraised me(they love doing this at casinos for some reason) so i pushed him all in, he thought awhile and called, mucked when he saw my AK, now sitting nice with about $230.

Another 30 minutes went without really picking up anything except low pocket pair, which i would limp because they're would be like 3-5 limpers before me :. I finally took a 20 minute break to see how my grandparents were doing walking out with $201. they said they wanted to do slots a bit more(my grandma miraculously always comes up playing nickle slots, its ridiculous, she was up over $250). So i happily returned to the poker room and sat back down at the same table re-buying in for $100 again. After about 3 revolutions (about $12 away) i picked up Pocket 3's, again was forced to limp because of the 4 limpers infront of me(i was sitting on the Cut-off) Button calls, SB calls, and BB minraised. 3/5 people called(2 retards folded) i called, Button called, SB folded.

Flop came A-3-9. The BB bet $8, everybody insta-folded, so i smoothe-called, and so did the button. Turn was a 7. BB checked, so i bet $15, Button called, BB thought about it awhile and finally folded. River came was a 6. No flush draws, feeling good that i have the best hand. Btw the Button was a HUGE retard who bought in for $40 and sucked out on some guy and doubled up, lol he was some 55-year old Hispanic-Bum looking guy, who kinda smelled.(i would have NEVER guessed he played poker if i saw him on the street). Anyways i bet and he went all in. I insta-called showing my Set of 3's. He showed up with 4-5 offsuit, rivering his gut-shot on me.... I immediately called him a retard and got up and left, walking away from the poker table up $1, lol.

Basically i don't know why i wrote this, just felt like expressing myself through the majesty of writing, hahaha. Anyways even though i only came up $1 i had fun for the 4 1/2 hour session i played and felt like i learned alot.

*End Rant*


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2 midterms, tons of video games since my new pc, and the stats are out
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obv playin on 400nl with shitty winrate is still a lot of $. lol. guess thats a good reason to move up. u dont barely need 1/2 the winrate to make lots of dough at 400nl.

i got a wireless keyboard also. i dotn get how some ppl live with it. when u type in #s sometimes there is lots of lag and every chance for a mistake it has lots of $ involved. meh.

also i was plannin to play and prolly finish elder scrolls oblivion but i heard its gonna be so -EV because it takes soooooo much time =/

lol. so many pointless stuff i wanna do are -EV now because poker is just mucho $$$$$$$$$$$ =/


also... no more lag!!!!!!!! i havent had any issue of lag from database or poker clients since new pc. so ship it. runnin on vista 64bit also

def goin to be playin a ton next week. takin other ppl's advice and workin out so i can increase my stamina for long poker sessions. just think about it. just 10k hands a day at 2ptbb/100 could make me a miwwionaire in no time.

zomg

ship

it

plz

not sure if i wanna get a treadmill or a bike. but i ordered some pushup bars from amazon for $20. dont wanna spend on expensive things w/o considerin all the options.



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