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Only a small update on my recent poker plans etc.

After 1 year of Poker and still not having made it i was thinking alot about what happend a few weeks ago.
I realized a few things :

1.) I will never make it big in Poker so i shall play more for fun than making fast money and i shouldnt set my goals too high
2.) I still can win some money even when i move up at slow pace
3.) maybe i should just play where i am a proven winner.

And thats the reason i stick to Nl 10 recently

Ive played lots of things in my almost 1 year poker career

Limit .10/.20 and .5.1
Nl 5 Nl 10 Nl 20 Nl 25 Nl 50 and a few hands of Nl 100
I played SNGS from 1.75$ MTTs to 10$ Mttts , 2$ 5$ and 10$ HU SNGS 16$ Mtts etc.
also played 3$ 5$ and 10$ tourneys

Nl20 and Nl25 have been what i played most the last months.
And to be honest even though i had lots of 20Bb/100 sessions on these 2 limits i am breakeaven longtermwise ...

f.e some older sessions

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/713/nl20noiqja1.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7383/pokerxg7.jpg


I am pretty sure i have an edge there concerning the pure cardgame skill ( i had like 30% of my sessions + 20/100BB there) but i lack lots of other things that keep me from winning big there. ( Like all the things around poker besides the pure game: Tilt control , Br management , moving down when loosing , not getting affectet by bad beats , playing A game constantly etc. )

for sure i ll give it another try when i am overrolled ! I know i can beat it and i have done it 2times for like 15buy ins in 20K hands each ...
but then when i got a downswing both times i totally broke apart and lost it all in like 5-8 k hands both times....
was so brutal combination of Downswing , Tilt and bad play.

So whats up with Nl 10
I have never lost any mentionable money on Nl10 ....
i had like 2x -2buy in sessions lifetime at it ... besides that i have like 50-70 winning sessions or so on it.
I was never ever in my life down more than 29$ at Nl10 in any session at any time.

I was always a big winner at Nl 10
And as u can guess my edge at this micro shit is brutal with 1 year of experience (4 month of Nl25/20 T_T)

where i am a proven losing player ?
SNGS and MTTs

dont know how much i am down at them lifetime but its probably like 200$ over a sample of 800 or so. with an average 5$-10$ buy in.
know thats not a big sample size but i suck at them since u have to win all-ins with the better hand which i don t.

SO my plans :

1.) play for fun more and never play when not in the mood + play on pokerstars since its the best software by far
2.) grind Nl 10 and dont move up even when rolled
3.) never ever play sngs again !

SO FAR

3 days of NL10 pokerstars
~ 2,5 K hands 60$ profit ~ 14bb/100

And a nice Pokerstars skin

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1694/neillyaasc0.jpg

GL ALL


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well heaters end, now it's back to the good 'ol sickness. lost a couple yesterday, tried playing today won just half a buyin after almost 4k hands. im definitely not playing my a game at 18tables no matter how hard i try. 12 for me is just enough that i can fold obv losers and can easily afford to stick it allin when i feel im ahead and not worry about constantly getting 2 outered. i think ill play a lot this week and see where it takes me. bye
im sticking to 25nl even though im rolled for 50nl though, coz i think it has something to do with me worrying about building a br for a higher limit and just watch it diminish at twice the rate, so playing 60bi for me i feel is very good, because im kind of paranoid when im just rolled for 30bi and the suckouts come. bye.


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After winning almost $100 yesterday, I had another baller day. This time, a slight bit more baller.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8823/pokergraphertodaylx9.jpg
Just need to win about $150 more to get back to $1k.


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This isn't really poker related so I don't know why I am writing this here, but I guess I need to just get it all out so I can clear my head or whatnot. The fact is that I am basically failing at life in general, and don't know what to do about it. Sorry about it being long too.

I'm a sophomore in Aerospace Engineering at Penn State's main campus, and for the last 3 semesters I've just sucked at school. I could get good grades at will in HS without even studying ever and I tried bringing that mentality to college, and obv it doesn't work. All I would do is slack off and party freshman year, not go to class, etc. etc., and I ended up with a horrible 2.22 GPA by the end of the year. This year I was supposed to come back and bring it up again, and my parents even told me that if I don't have a 3.3 for this semester that they would stop paying for college and I couldn't go here anymore (my dad figured out that I would need a 3.3 this semester in order to have a chance of getting into my controlled major). I was looking at my grades and used our GPA calculator to see what I could possibly get this semester, and I'm CAPPED at a 1.75.

It's the same old story - skip class if I just didn't feel like going, therefore missing Econ pop quizzes left and right; starting homework at the very last minute thinking I could do it and ending up not finishing it or doing a shitty job, waiting to long to start studying for tests, blah blah blah. The worst part about it was that the whole time I KNEW what situation I was in and wanted to do well, but I had the "well, I can take a break this ONE time" over and over and over again, until it got to a point where I just fucked up another semester.

I just figured all of the numbers out so my parents don't know yet, and I don't know how or when to tell them. I know they are proud to say that their son goes to a big D1 school and is training to be an Aerospace Engineer, and I'm proud to tell people that, and I basically took that away from them. Now I'm just another loser who failed at college and has to be a regular person. I don't want to tell them because I know it'll break their hearts, and that it will always be in the back of their heads when they are with me that "he could have been somebody, but he threw it all away" or something. Even though I know they'll still love me obv and even if they don't show it, I know it'll be there.

I just don't know what to do. I don't want to leave because I love it here, and I supposed to have an apartment in State College next year, so I really can't LEAVE the city for at least another 2 years or whatever, but I know I basically can't fix what I have already fucked up. There is no way (barring some kind of miracle) that I will be any kind of engineer, so if I want to stay in college I'll have to find something else. I was thinking of switching to Economics because I think it is very interesting and that I'd actually be motivated to do the work (since it is easier and all that), and because you can still make a good living on an Econ background. However, this doesn't have nearly the same prestige as Aerospace Engineering, and I know my parents are still going to be disappointed in me no matter what happens.

I think the reason I haven't been as motivated in school is because I really didn't want to be an Aerospace Engineer, like it wasn't what I REALLY wanted to do in life. If it was, I'd be motivated to do as well as I possibly could all the time, instead of just telling myself that and then slacking off the entire semester. Maybe I could have that in Econ, but I just don't know. TBTH, the only thing I have been motivated like that for is poker (lol).

I know I am only a penny player right now, but when I was at 25NL I had a good enough winrate to be making a pretty good hourly wage for a college student at like $15/hour. That's a decent living even at 25NL. Hell, I am making $8 an hour playing 2/5NL right now. I guess I realized how much you can actually make at poker, and I know I have fun playing it, and I know I am talented/skilled enough to beat it regularly. The only problems holding me back in the past were psychological - having big tilt issues, not being able to take losses and therefore chase them, not realizing the true value of the money I do make, etc.

I think I have improved a lot in these areas, so maybe I actually CAN at least support myself/make a small living from poker, but if I told my parents that they would just think I am a crazy degen and be even more disappointed in me, thinking I am wasting my life by gambling all the time. Because of this, I still want to go to school, but I know that school and poker won't go well together, especially if I am trying to pay bills by playing. Of course it would be a different story if I was back to at least 25NL or even higher, but that is beside the point. Basically I think I have to make a decision between college or poker, and go all out on one and forget about the other.

Over winter break I am going to play A LOT almost every single day, and I am going to come back in the spring and finish out the year. Depending on how well I do over winter break will help me decide my future in poker, and whether or not I think I can become a big winner and do it for a living some day. During the Spring semester I'm going to try and do as well as I can in everything at school and limit my playing time to maybe 1-2 hours a day, spending the rest of the time studying. However, I already tried doing that this semester, and look what happened...

I don't know. I am just very disappointed in myself for fucking everything up and not living up to all of my expectations. The worst part about it is that I am a really smart kid and can definitely do all the work and cruise through college if I would just do it on time, but because I am just lazy and unmotivated I keep fucking things up. Hopefully everything works out. Sorry for spewing my guts out like this, but I just felt like I needed to get it all out. Thanks a lot for reading and putting up with my bitching.

Peace and GL,
-Joe


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I was a little dumb before, and very fishy. I think I fixed a few holes since then, and played 2 days of which I made about $80 at NL2 in about 3k hands.

This is from today, I started at 8:55 am and ended at 9:55 am just to see how much $ I could make in an hour. I was quite surprised on what I got. I played sickly well or I was on a sick heater. (probably the latter)

anyhow, here's my pt.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/eb7de4b82994473c7cd819fd0b9993ea.png

I'm back.


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The tuesdays are running live games in a bar with 100+R tournaments and cash NL200 or NL400, all in pesos ($1 = 3.14pesos) with lot of degenerate players that you cant read becouse are sick gamblers. I think that made me tilt, becouse the game flow and metagame is so different that my edge is not big enough to that games. Plus there was a lot of ppl smoking and the only think to drink was Coke, wich I dislike. That day I droped like 420pesos in flips and bad beats. Nothing really, but I find myself in lifetilt for the fishy comments and ppl telling me that I was playing much worst than the last time (I was supertight). I think I played bad, becouse I wasnt done with the game flow, but that's a matter of practice

Then came back to home and tilted $275 in 6 tables of NL200 6max. The following day, $1300 the same way droping from 11.5 to 9.23 BB/100 for NL200. I noticed that my perception of the games were affected, probabbly for the live games, but I dunno.

So, I decided to take a break of 2 days while tripping in acid

Then, I came back and did only +2 bi. Go back to the grinding


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completely uninduced, not sure what the fuck happened

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2a3c1d3ae5f089b20ff0eeed21a7f701.jpg


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Cant win vs stupidity... nl10 is full of shit, you raise a hand = all limpers call and will call until river no matter what they have & what you do... AA,KK,QQ, AK etc versus 5 people isnt a good hand anymore, i have no clue.
bad beat over bad beat, it's just unbeatable...

Submitted by : voodoouser

Hand #48600671-18836 at Hunlock Creek (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 14/Dec/07 21:38:23
emf85 is at seat 0 with $9.50
Hero is at seat 1 with $9.78
elt963 is at seat 2 with $21.43
otiethegreat1 is at seat 3 with $7.49
Chumpzilla419 is at seat 4 with $15.37
Mark_ is at seat 5 with $10
The button is at seat 2
otiethegreat1 posts the small blind of $.05
Chumpzilla419 posts the big blind of $.10

Holecards(Odds)
emf85: -- --
Hero :
elt963: -- --
otiethegreat1: -- --
Chumpzilla419: -- --
Mark_: -- --

Mark_ calls
emf85 folds
Hero raises to $.45
elt963 folds
otiethegreat1 re-raises to $.80
Chumpzilla419 folds
Mark_ calls
Hero calls

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1.05)

   
otiethegreat1 checks
Mark_ checks
Hero bets $2.50
otiethegreat1 folds
Mark_ calls

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $6.05)

   
Mark_ checks
Hero goes all-in for $6.48
Mark_ calls

River (Pot : $19.01)

   
(no action in this round)

Showdown
Hero shows
Hero has : two pair, kings and threes
Mark_ shows
Mark_ has : flush, king high

Summary
$1.02 is raked from a pot of $20.46
Mark_ wins $19.44 with flush, king high

Day 4 was f*cking awesome. i played 1771 hands and won 8 buy-ins. its one of the best pokerdays in my pokercarrer.
so here is the graph
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8090/day4graphnl25wk7.jpg

the luckgraph
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4368/day4luckgraphnl25du7.jpg

hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/336799
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/336800 8 high fd ftw
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/336801
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/336802 biggest pot what i have lost today

well i think i will move up to nl50 within the next 2 days
so gl ya all


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Well after finishing my exams I started playing a bit more uNL in my free time. Mostly just breaking even on stars and pissing around on everestpoker trying to make some free money playing their free sng's.

On everest last week
I think I got up to $.80 from the sng plays and decided I'd be a AA/KK/AK nit in the ring games with my entire BR. Eventuly I was bb and got to see the flop with my 62o flop came down 262 I pushed all in for .70c, got a caller who rolled over 64s turn was 4 and river was 6.

It wasn't all a waste of time tho as I did learn a lot. I believe my opponent reading
skill has improved from all the sng's because I couldn't load my hands on PT (I Don't know why they just didn't register.) so had to use my brain and my heads up play has greatly improved as well.

After that I was to lazy to start over so eventually I'll just make a deposit and play round on everest but for now I'm back at PS.

On PS Iv been playing fairly standard nittish in NL5. My bro gave me some coaching the beginning of this week. It helped and during the week I was making decent wins.

This morning however I lost almost $10 of my $75BR. I decided I was probably on tilt so went to town and bought some crap. I got home and concluded it was too hot for underwear so now going commando I got back on my 52k internet and started playing again, And in almost an hour and a half I was back to my $75.

This once and for all shows underwear = bad.

Stats since exams

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3641/1512er6.jpg


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I finally played a session where just everything went my way. I hit hands left to right and ppl payed me off every single time. God ive missed this feeling.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8017/decemberrungoodem8.png

Also, Ive finally been made green star here on lp. Damn its so pretty I almost cried.

SHIPSHIP


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Today, I knew.
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5595/pokergraphertodaydp1.jpg


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VPPs collected 35,591
VPPs to go 8,260
Todays graph (missing 500 hands and 50$ in profits, they seem to be gone)
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8495/day14500handsmissinghs9.jpg

2 week graph
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7620/supernovaquest2weekgrapfx8.jpg
As you can see the last week has been mad swingy, the result of getting a little worn out and variance catching up with me (I was running verrrrrrrrrrry hot) + the poor play of yesterday didn't really help me.

Ended the day losing KK vs TT allin preflop so that sucks, but had a bunch of really nice hands before that so I can't really complain

I'll probably be done with this by Monday, which is sweeet. Maybe I can even finish it off with a sunday-monday morning marathon




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Get ready bitches


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so i read jonnycosmo's blog about flying over canada from detriot, michigan, and i thought to myself, hm maybe i can ask this trick question to a friend of mine!

mike from 707 (11:34:52 AM): if you were in detrioit michigan
mike from 707 (11:34:55 AM): and flew south
mike from 707 (11:34:57 AM): just straight south
mike from 707 (11:35:05 AM): what is the first foreign country you'd fly over
friend (11:33:21 AM): first foreign coutnry?
mike from 707 (11:35:24 AM): yu
mike from 707 (11:35:25 AM): p
friend (11:33:26 AM): if i just kept flying south
mike from 707 (11:35:30 AM): yeah
mike from 707 (11:35:32 AM): straight south
friend (11:33:46 AM): um i know canadas to the north
friend (11:33:49 AM): but would it be canada

at first i was like, hm maybe he knows the truth... until:

friend (11:33:53 AM): because if you flew
friend (11:33:55 AM): straight south
friend (11:33:59 AM): wouldnt u miss south america?
mike from 707 (11:36:25 AM): um
mike from 707 (11:36:26 AM): are you serious

really?


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So i've decided to play poker again after a good 3 month break from going busto. I've decided to follow Chris Fergusons Bankroll managament and it works well and makes sense to me. So the rules I have set for myself are.

ABC poker duh.

no more then 5% of BR in play at any given time.

no more then 2% of BR used for MTT entries per day.

at any given time a table reaches 10% of my bankroll I move to another table.

Started off with $100 and just grinding out the NL4 on cake poker.

BR at 114.

Peace


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I just recieved this:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3712/20071214665xh0.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/805/20071214666mf0.jpg


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