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Ok i've been grinding on stars for a little bit on the cheap level finally built up a decent roll i have 122.00 on my poker stars acct that i built up from 8 dollars on stars beating all the fish on the really low levels...its time to move up i cant take playing low limits but i want to have a good br management on here i have about 36bi for a higher level and feel that its time to move up...the only thing here is that it will all be turbo tourney SnG not really used to playing any turbo's if anyone would like to chime in on any tips or hints on playing turbo SnG's and how to more often than not end up in the money i play 8 tables at a time so im a pretty tight aggro player waiting in the first 3 or 4 bl increases before loosing up on play other than that i play AA KK AK QQ only top hands and take adv of weak players in the early rounds other than that any tips please anyone feel free to reply it would be great

thanks all,
B


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Last 3 days:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/848699c2cfe886470c6db54d786cb501.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b87083453d8867ab8a627f1c87c9c937.jpg

Also played a short HU session today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b77427474509d3d88b36fad0a93c2884.jpg

A funny hand from today:

Submitted by : Pulda

PokerStars Game #15353233694: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/02/17 - 15:26:35 (ET)
Table 'Rhea V' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: lalobustu ($78.20 in chips)
Seat 2: Pulda8 ($52.05 in chips)
Seat 3: eternity888 ($88.60 in chips)
Seat 4: O-TiGreTon-O ($87.40 in chips)
Seat 5: Ace2908 ($11.25 in chips)
Seat 8: coach_lowe ($49.15 in chips)
Seat 9: mechanic 300 ($36.35 in chips)
O-TiGreTon-O: posts small blind $0.25
Ace2908: posts big blind $0.50
chas2148: sits out

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Pulda8
coach_lowe: folds
mechanic 300: calls $0.50
lalobustu: folds
Pulda8 : raises $2 to $2.50
eternity888: folds
O-TiGreTon-O: calls $2.25
Ace2908: folds
mechanic 300: calls $2

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $8.00)

   
O-TiGreTon-O: checks
mechanic 300: checks
Pulda8 : bets $6
O-TiGreTon-O: folds
mechanic 300: raises $6 to $12
Pulda8 : calls $6

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $32.00)

   
mechanic 300: bets $21.85 and is all-in
Pulda8 : calls $21.85

River (Pot : $75.70)

   

Showdown
mechanic 300: shows (a full house, Threes full of Kings)
Pulda8 : shows (a full house, Kings full of Aces)
Pulda8 collected $72.70 from pot

Summary
Total pot $75.70 | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: lalobustu folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Pulda8 showed and won ($72.70) with a full house, Kings full of Aces
Seat 3: eternity888 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: O-TiGreTon-O (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Ace2908 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: coach_lowe folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: mechanic 300 showed and lost with a full house, Threes full of Kings

[21:46] - Alex: nice blog post i like
[21:46] Caleb: i hate fayth
[21:46] - Alex: ur unlucky im not rich online anymore i couldnt resist, u look so cute
[21:47] Caleb: i look so cute?
[21:47] - Alex: its like a baby kitten all wet in dark thunder rain outside, cant let that die
[21:47] Caleb: wtf
[21:48] Caleb: why am i cute
[21:48] Caleb: gay
[21:48] - Alex: i wish i was as cute as u
[21:48] Caleb: how am i cute
[21:49] - Alex: well dunno, your skin is very clear and good color, your eyes are ok, your hair is nice, decent traits
[21:49] Caleb: im really pale and i have a big nose
[21:50] Caleb: wtf are you talking about


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First, before I forget! I NEED someone to trade/dump my partypoker money to for FTP/Stars. I currently have about 500$ on there, and would like to keep playing for a bit if someone is able to take the $ off my hands. The reason I said dump is because I currently can't transfer the money. My buddy made an account for me, under his mom's name, and apparently now you need to fill out some preferred player form to transfer funds. Well this form contains a ton of personal info, and he is not sure his mom will fill it out for him(she was aware of the account as she was recieving my rakeback = ) So, if he can't get her to, I would need to dump the money somehow. Shoot me a PM if you can do this, and it if you are able to take a decent amount of money, I could give a small % of the total xfer(i.e 5-10% depending on how much)

Well, FTOP's is finally over for me. I managed to cash in 2 events for basically nothing. My backer got 1/3 of his $ back, but I still feel pretty shitty. I would say I ran bad, but its mtt's so you cant expect too much I guess. Oh wells, I am actually glad its over now though.

As far as cash games, they have been going fairly well. I am still playing 100NL 6m and 100NL HU. For some reason my sessions have been extremely swingy, more than usual I would say. I have been running fairly decent I would assume since I am up 5.5 buy ins at both 6M(over 2750 hands) and HU(over 1250 hands), so 11 BI in 4k hands is pretty good. I still think I am not playing as well as I should be. I think I am a bit of a calling station which I need to look into and work on if it needs fixing(could just be variance obv). I am getting a lot more comfortable in 3b pots I think. I am getting better at controlling my aggression on all streets, and finding more spots to take down pots. Overall I still think I really need to keep working on my game, especially because I am playing 100NL and should be crushing it. Sometime this week I am going to spend a day going through my pokertracker analyzing hands. I will post them all in my blog after.

I do plan on playing a minimum of 12,500 hands this week, and pretty much every week from here on out(if my schedule allows it obviously). I feel my biggest problem in the past is not playing enough(along with playing out of my comfort zone bankroll wise.) Hopefully I should be able to do this every week.

So, to reiterate my new years poker goals:
- Focus mainly on my NL HU and 6M games, as well as PLO
- 12,500 hands/week(or ultimately 50k/month)
- Dont tilt
- 50 buyins before moving up levels
- 2-4 Buy in Stop Loss (depending on how I feel about my play at that point)
- Analyzing my game more(hand review, watching cr vids, etc)
- Ultimately be playing mid-high stakes by 2k9(unless I find I am not good enough, or can not beat them for as much as lower stakes)

In other news, it seems my pneumonia is gone, finally. I should be able to start working out again which will help my mood tremendously. I am also going in for A.D.D. testing this tuesday, which hopefully will result in a prescription for adderol.

Anyways, im off to study

gl

Pat


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nl2, i sit down with $120 which was about the average chip stack. i start on the button, 9 hands in on my SB, aces, i raise to $12 preflop (2 callers), i shove on a board with 2 spades on it, get called by a set

gg


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Best day in a long long time. Ive been destroying the hu tables all day with undiscriminating rage. I havent played one good player on ipoker hu yet. Some of the weaker regs have started refusing to play me which kinda sucks but I will get by. I busted in the ftops main event after like 2-3 hours. I was playing well imo but I was card dead throughout the donkament, failed a couple of steals and all of a sudden I was short and shoved AJ into AK. I swapped 10% with pinball and hes still in it so Im hoping he will take it down.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4249/hufeb3lg0.jpg


Hårda bud i Mellerud


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My day (2 separate sessions). It's amazing how well things can go when flips are really 50/50 and overpairs actually hold 80%+ of the time. This was also hilarious too, and I guess this had to happen in my favor eventually. Last time I was involved with something like this it was AA vs AA and I obviously lost .

Submitted by : PanoRaMa

FullTiltPoker Game #5295249704: Table Gateway (6 max) - $2/$4 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:30:20 ET - 2008/02/17
Seat 1: AttackYouStack ($974.40)
Seat 2: RecessRampage ($780.20)
Seat 3: Jhys1010 ($410.80)
Seat 4: pnyffe ($404)
Seat 5: balleklorin ($790)
Seat 6: Girlsgonewild69 ($400)
pnyffe posts the small blind of $2
balleklorin posts the big blind of $4
The button is in seat #3

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to AttackYouStack
Girlsgonewild69 raises to $14
AttackYouStack raises to $48
RecessRampage folds
Jhys1010 folds
pnyffe folds
balleklorin folds
Girlsgonewild69 raises to $150
balleklorin is sitting out
AttackYouStack raises to $974.40, and is all in
Girlsgonewild69 calls $250, and is all in
AttackYouStack shows
Girlsgonewild69 shows
Uncalled bet of $574.40 returned to AttackYouStack

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $806.00)

   

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $806.00)

   

River (Pot : $806.00)

   
AttackYouStack shows a flush, Ace high
Girlsgonewild69 shows a pair of Sevens
AttackYouStack wins the pot ($803) with a flush, Ace high
Girlsgonewild69 is sitting out

Summary
Total pot $806 | Rake $3
Board:  
Seat 1: AttackYouStack showed and won ($803) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: RecessRampage didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Jhys1010 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: pnyffe (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: balleklorin (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Girlsgonewild69 showed and lost with a pair of Sevens

First of all, let it be known that I'm worthless. Secondly, I don't think I can run worse than I have been in poker, im pretty sure ive cashed in one tournament out of my last 30+ tournaments. Sorry to anyone who staked me, I promise i gave 100% of my effort and tried my best because i need a score in something more than anyone right now.

I owe my parents 600 dollars, I can't find a job anywhere because i live in a rural piece of shit town with 800 population and there aren't a lot of local opportunities. I also owe albonycee $50 which I have at the moment but haven't paid him for whatever reason, so i'll probably do that after i post this even though I really can't afford to take the hit to my br.

I also somewhat wrecked my truck last night, I was at my old highschool gym playing basketball with other graduated people and after I got out it was really dark out and raining really hard. This combined with my illegally dark window tint makes it really hard to see and as i was backing out i hit the back fender of a camaro with my door (ugh)

I can't afford to get that fixed and my parents really came down hard on me about it and everything else and how im worthless and stuff. It sucks when they are right and you can't do anything about it.

I probably could find a job, but I have too much of an ego to keep harassing the people who have interviewed me and stuff. I hate my life so much right now and I really don't wanna lose my truck.

I'm gonna try to start playing 5k + hands a day in an effort to do something, but mch like neilyl I have a hard time ever pulling these things off but im pretty much in dire straits and it's this or nothing.

I sure would love to heal the stress and shit in my life, it's killing me.


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they told me I cant use pokerstars to send them money so I need $250 on fulltilt anyone wanna help pm me

I'll send first to someone with decent amount of posts


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running at 18/15/3 and 36% win at showdown T.T
started today off at hand 760 -$100 in the first 6 hands

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/148c1441ff2a3aa20a897ff26ae0106a.jpg


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Since my past two blog entries been fairly depressing i guess a happy update for once would be nice! Not only is moving down to nl200 to rebuild confedence going pretty well (running 2.5 ptbb over 30k hands which im ok with) but today i had my first BIG donkament score. The 10 highest people from a ladder today played a 10man Sit&Go with some great prizes:


http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4066/wsophollaut8.jpg

SHIP!

So a $7500 WSOP package which i believe is some 5k event + 2500 for the trip! If i find a good deal i may sell my donkament spot but either way i will be in Vegas during Wsop!

Lastly thanks to Dzoo who was railing me and giving advice during the tourmanet! <3


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Woke up today very excited cause I was going to have a nice tournament schedule:
-$215 Sunday Warmup
-$256 FTOPS#19
-10k fpps $2M Turbo Takedown
-$11 Sunday Hundred Grand
-$215 Sunday Million
-$535 FTOPS Main Event

But given of how bad my run is I'm 2 inches away from a emotional breakdown, cause I've been running awful since my $20K win and dropped about $8K in the last 20days and nothing that I can do would make me feel better or run better. I feel like I am playing my best game but things just don't go my way.

In cash games, I'm not going to make a deep blog analysis, except for they love to give me KKvsAA, AK can't beat QQ, my QQ won't hold vs AK, etc.

In tourneys, Stars just won't let me cash, fuck their AKvsQQ with 10ppl for the bubble.

Sunday tournaments recap.

Sunday Warmup
I'm destroying my fucking table:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386951 - T7s is always good against cdbr3799 in a 8-2-2 rainbow flop.
and everything goes to the trash in 2 hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386917 - AdKd vs QhQs in a JdTd4h flop (38k pot)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386930 - AKo vs A5o. bigstack donk minraises, A5 moves in (i dont blame him) and runs into my AKo.

good fucking game

FTOPS #19
Standard card dead before the 1st break. 99 runs into KK. best hand holds (fucking miracle)

Sunday Hundred Grand
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386925 - flopped nutflush vs guy's two pair. My play probably sucked.

$2M Turbo Takedown
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386924 - AKs vs 99 and QQ. A-x-x flop. Obv didn't hold.


Given this. I'm not going to play the Million and FTOPS Main Event. As I said, I'm fucking demoralized and even though I should not drop these 2 tourneys cause of my bad run, I'm going to do it. Going to keep my poker game regulated in the next days. And gonna have to implement a lose-stop unless im running good (which dont seem to happend soon)...

Alrite take care.

Oh yeah, and please visit my city: http://pakispakis.myminicity.com/tra
Thanks


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Brag: Hu is still ez, sustainable?

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Beat: My computer has broken down. I tried reformating it but I cant even manage that, somehow the computer just blacks out just as the installation program is about to start and I have tried this with several cds. I have given up for now and ill have to settle for my awesome dell xps laptop.


Variance: I managed to qualify into ftops main event in a 12k fpp sattelite. Even though I hate donkaments with a passion Its going to be pretty fun to play this one and prices are huge.


sumprunk


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Its really bad month for me.Lost 8/9 of my bankroll over 17 days thats like 40 buy ins... Mostly coz of suckouts had bad plays too though. Still cant believe it from 20nl i ll be starting on 5nl next month ( since i wont be playing till end of month ).I should be going on 50nl not going down by 2 limits.Well i cant really be pissed at anyone ( thought i sweared the stupid prima software really really much i got sucked out exactly 7 times IN A ROW by a 2-5 outer IMFUCKINGPOSSIBLE ). Honestly i have no idea nor desire to play for some time now i wanted to get to 50nl so badly that i lost my bankroll coz of stupidity mainly not taking breaks when on bad run and so on...Im still concidering retiring i had 2 bancrutes so far wont handle a third one that would mean i would have to play Freerolls all over again building bankroll from the dust.Doubt that anyone would stake me for 20nl.Well thats pretty much everything i had to say i know u dont care but i feel better ty.



P.S. i d be really thankfull if someone links me to a guy that owns low stackes 5-25nl with more than 10bb/100 ( lal that used to be me last 2 months) so i can have a look through his hands


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Notice stack sizes and people that went to flop with us. Input?

Table 'Ascanios III' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: BamseAK ($164.15 in chips)
Seat 2: JMP300z ($406.95 in chips)
Seat 3: RebuyFoolAA ($440.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Bober1 ($215.35 in chips)
Seat 5: baaard ($217.95 in chips)
BamseAK: posts small blind $1
JMP300z: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RebuyFoolAA [6c 8c]
RebuyFoolAA: raises $4 to $6
Bober1: calls $6
baaard: calls $6
BamseAK: calls $5
JMP300z: calls $4
*** FLOP *** [5c Jd 4c]
BamseAK: checks
JMP300z: bets $21
RebuyFoolAA: calls $21
Bober1: folds
baaard: folds
BamseAK: calls $21
*** TURN *** [5c Jd 4c]
BamseAK: checks
JMP300z: bets $60
RebuyFoolAA: calls $60
BamseAK: folds
*** RIVER *** [5c Jd 4c 6h]
JMP300z: checks
RebuyFoolAA: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
JMP300z: shows [Jc Ks] (a pair of Jacks)
RebuyFoolAA: mucks hand
JMP300z collected $211 from pot
JMP300z said, "67?"


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Last Quarter I met a famous European actor who runs a hedge fund firm in Hong Kong. He receives free advisement from Suneil Mahindru, one of the best advisers on the globe. These guys got me 22% return on my money last quarter and are the real deal.

So why does this matter to you? Well, I set up a direct transfer from my poker account to my investment account. The principal is 98.5% guaranteed (if the portfolio loses money for the first quarter in history, you only lose 1.5% for fed fund charges) to the point of an Asian market collapse. The guy that runs it is intrigued by poker, so he set up his own poker account. We worked out details from there.

So if anyone wants to start investing poker $$, let me know. It is a good way to get rid of some of the short term risk of a big bankroll.

P.S. I know I wasn't going to post on LP anymore, for those who read the chaotic thread. But I like LP aside from a few ass holes. And Nazgul was kind enough to apologize for some of the mods actions. So I will continue posting.


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I played 3 sessions this weekend. After the first one, i sweared to God i won't play a hand next weekend. I ran so bad, that it's unbelievable. If i had a hand, everyone folded, my cbets didn't work, and after a couple of coolers/bad beats, i quited. Oh, i forgot to mention: this was a shot to 25NL, 4 tabling, i had 20 buyins. I ended up -2 BI on Saturday. I set a 3 BI stop loss for myself, so today morning, a loaded up PS, to play a bit. I guess i'm on a heater Evereything worked well, bluffs were good, calldowns too, u know what it's like, don't you?


I'm in a bit hurry, cuz my gf comes to me in a half an hour, so i just paste some stats+graph, and a few hands.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/196065d1805ae8efba9d11450373eb95.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/8912aba577c1cb3698583a52f94c3aee.jpg

The hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386805 99 bluff

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386766 AA vs KK, standard?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386386 biggest pot lost

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386829 just reraise, not shove?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386832 raise river?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386834 again, reraise or shove? i didn't think he had something, i had him all the way imo

Good luck everyone, see you at the tables!

ps.: gl Gastjuh, u ran like shit on all my tables


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just had a 1hr, 4table session and was running pretty badly, flopping top two against bottom set and whatnot, but made some fantastic calls against the right people, and just overall playing very well. Staying loosish aggresive through my whole session and keeping the pressure on. I decided to stop and thought i was down on my session but happened to be up a buy-in!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/98578afce155cef5f170fe8045add9ae.gif

off to work

cya



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