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aight ima do this byrnesam coz hes full on baller and deserves his recognition

so night starts off like a bangin' thirsty thursday with me sippin' on some patron, not really just shitty vodka but w/e i drink makes the bitches go wild so i call it whatever the fuck i want. anyway bunch of dudes not cool so we bounce over to this dudes apartment

while there couple bitches show up and i spit the usual intro game to just set the pussy up coz they all want it u just gotta know how to take it from em. meantime im destroying beer pong and everyone's like asking for tips and shit and i shrug it off like a gangsta should and tell them to read my fuckin book and stop groveling like bitches.

got some fly hunnie's numbers there but its like obv and they just wish they could get a callback but no dice cept this one bitch who was like mega smokin def going to try to get into that

anyway we decide to mega crew shift to another party but as soon as we show up its like full on shitty music and stupid fucks so we ofc make the party non shitty for like half an hour but decide to gtfo coz fuck faggots who cant fucking drink and have shitty couches.

by this time im getting pretty smashed but the fuck that was holding my booze in his backpack ditched like wtf so i had to call his ass down and i tracked him down in some other house

got my patron and two mega pulls to get the night right and start my game up with some new bitches(freshman obv) that just cant wait to get this seasoned dick

there for like an hour and a half but decide to bounce the fuck out and head over to a frat coz its like really cool we hear

get there and its like 20 people max which is cool but like we go into basement and they have this awesome hookah and they are just going to town on it in this small ass room

oh and like 3 bitches in that room with 3 guys and they are all watching porn so its like pretty awkward to talk to them but w/e they pay the fuck attention when i talk

frat's coolish, we head back to apartment #1 and just chill for a while when dude busts out the taser. shit says 1,000,000 volts on it so you know its fking badass

it was like fucking huge like 3x the size of a normal taser but didnt faze a nigga like me i was just scared i was gunna break it coz im hard as fuck

get the good idea to tase eachother coz why the fuck not and so like i tell the dude to give it to me on the arm for like 2 seconds and he does and im like wtf not so long faggot and i get pissed coz it hurt and burned pretty bad

anyway he calms the fuck down and im all like "ok give it to me on the thigh but this time dont be a bitch about it and put your back into it sharon"

then he gets like mad i called him sharon but hes seriously a bitch so i dont care fuck him but he tases the fuck out of my leg for like 5 seconds and all my muscles fuck up and i clench up mega tight but still maintain my composure and when he stops im all like fucking do it already coz i made it seem like it did nuthin

pass out on couch obv and wake up semi hungover(forgot to drink water, beat #2) and have two burn marks on my arm and 4 huge ass burn/bruises on my thigh


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so this story starts last saturday:

was girl #2's birthday, i go to hers and then girl #1 turns up unofficially. Im fully like wtf, but love that 2 chicks be battling to ride with a pimp. When girl #2 is opening her presents girl #1 tries come sit right next to me and put her arm round me. I tell her NO FUCKIN WAY BITCH IM A PLAYA.

She asks me to "walk her home coz she has to make a phone call" i accomodate that and take her home, make out with her on the way, rub her cooch some etc.

I send her back to the party on her own becuase i dont want to be seen turning up with her.

She aint happy abut that but fuck it im not here to please a bitch.

I get back to the party and girl #2 is peeled out flat on the floor. I take her home and on the way she spews her guts up - its kind of hot. I get her into bed and she requests i stay and sleep whilst she does. I agree for like 5 minutes then bail out to play singstar.

2 hours later i wake her up. She comes back to join the group playing singstar. Girl #1 and #2 are in the room now. Naturally girl #2 tries all the usual trade tricks to make it look like she got me. I play a long a bit - girl #1 takes some motherfuckin notes on the subject.

We go to the fuckin city.

I swear to god i saw McLovin in the city. This guy was like 5ft tall - pale white with glasses. He was on a night out with these maori guys who were all 6'2"+ it was hilarious.

We dance at some club - i get my hair and back rubbed by some random guy - its pretty gay but i dont fucking care.

We get home at 5am and we all instatnly bail to bed - girl #2 says "ill see you later?" i dont know if she meant - come see me when everyones in bed - or "ill just see you about"

i choose the latter and bail to bed coz im fucked from busting sick moves to soldier boy etc.

I eat the cooch of girl #1 twice in 2 days. She doesnt seemed to please with the whole thing and now she being a cunt to me.

Tonight i get text from this chick who lives with the american chick. This chick in insane hot.

Whilst there we sat around the kitchen. twice she decides to sit on my lap. This is intense coz she is like off the scale hot - ill accomodate her sittin on my fucking lap. That shit is saved in the spank bank for eternity.

We decide to go out to the city next weekend - This is allllllllllllllll good. I told her we were going to a strip club coz its how i do.

I roll to girl #2's house after that coz the intensely hot girl was going home this weekend and needed to pack.

I roll to girl #2 and she getting ready. I get to see her in bra and shit and its all fucking gravy i tell thee.

then they decide theyre not going out and theyre "going to watch movies"

Im like "i might just cruise"

and she gets all mad at me and walks inside without saying goodbye to me

FUCK YOU BITCH ILL FUCKIN KILL YOU

CUNT

Women are hilarious.
Im going to go to the room of girl #1 right now. If anything good happens ill post a TR.

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/7383/yeahniggahv1.jpg
on the fuckin left obv

here a picture of the intense chick what sat on my muuurr'fuckin lap
this picture really doesnt do her justice but what'err

she fiiiiiiiine

im lookin forward to next saturday and takin her out the town show her how a fuckin balla roll

JUST A LIL BIT - A LIL BIT OF THIS

A LIL BIT OF THAT

GIRL SHAKE THAT THING
YEAH WORK THAT THING
LET ME SEE IT GO UP AND DOWN


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It's been forever since I've updated this, but I haven't died, or fallen off the face of the earth. Poker's only been so-so lately, but life is good...


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Had a AWFUL session just pure bullshit repeatedly over and over, every cbet of mine i missed flop and got raised, constantly sucked out on over and over, cooler after cooler, one of the most horrible sessions ever.

To make it worse i actually tilted a buyin away on a retarded semibluff where i had no equity, i had oesd and a pair but it was obvious he wasnt folding but i smashed that allin button anyway and there goes a buyin. Fuck.

Its been a while since i can actually remember tilting like that but it just got to me, after this hell session im now on an 8 buyin downswing in total and my BR is at a low of $568. Not good.

Oh well i got silverstar back again which is all i wanted, and ive got 15,000 FPP, only 2k more for the ipod nano which is what i want. I think i might say goodbye to pokerstars and find somewhere with rakeback after that.

Anyway gl and remember not to tilt =[


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I have been flooding the hands box with my mass hand uploads cause I'm too lazy to click that little box saying not to make it public. I think this is probably annoying so from now on I will try to be less lazy. Damn extra mouse clicks. Is there a setting to change the default on that check box???

First day playing since leaving Costa Rica. The flight back was horrible - 16 straight hours of travel cause we had to fly to Miami, then Houston, then Denver. Was supposed to go through Chicago but we missed our connection. Thank god, I really didn't want to add those extra hours. Was too dead to play yesterday but today after a nice day getting caught up at work I got in a session tonight. Came out ahead again with a 3 buyin win, but man did I ever leak all over the place. Raising a little too much PF with marginal hands. Got a long list of losing hands and only a few winners. And I don't think that any of my losers helped me get the winners... no image building or anything of that sort.

Been on a nice streak overall though. Hope it keeps strong so that I can hit $750 and move up to NL25 with 30 buyins and a nice cushion. I think I'm about ready for it, but am glad to take a few more sessions to plug up these leaks before making the move.

Went on a holiday for the past week starting on sunday evening with a couple of friends down to Torquay which is a beach town.
Was awesome fun, we stayed at Karma's holiday house for the first 2 nights before moving into a place of our own as his family were arriving.
Drinking, beach, drinking, late lunch, drinking, driving to a random tourist place, drinking, dinner, drinking some more and sleep were pretty much the schedule for our days there.
Spent the last night drinking too much far too quick and Luke/Karma ended up wasted by 7.30 in the evening (pictures will be posted later) and I joined the ranks of the defeated 30 minutes later (pictures unlikely to be posted up by me but probably posted up by Karma in his blog).
Anyway hopefully I feel fully recovered so I feel good enough to go to a friends place to watch the AFL Grand Final tomorrow. GO GEELONG!



nigger.


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Since I havent updated my blog for a long long time, I feel like writing a summarizing post about poker and stuff from the beginning of this year (2007) till now and my plans for the rest of the year.

So, I started off in January playing NL100 @ partypoker after recovering from a 2-months-long downswing.
I played well and probably also hit a heater, so I was able to rake solid money and move up stakes pretty fast. My good run continued over the course of next months and I was ready to move up to NL1k by the end of May being properly rolled for it (50+ buyins) even after some (minor) cashouts. I had my best month in march when I made over 33k.

But then June came and I started to run pretty bad and also the competition on NL1k was way better than on NL600 and NL400. Although I didnt want to admit it back then, I was probably only an average player there, maybe a small winner when I wasnt tilting.
I also had some problems at the university, I was close to quitting my school, but I managed to force myself to pass the exams, so I can continue. Now I am quite happy I didnt quit.
So, I lost quite some money during June and July, not a big deal, but enough for me to reconsider playing NL1k even though my BR was still quite safe for playing it. So I returned back to NL600 and NL400 in the second half of July and began slowly winning again.

In the end of July, I left home (and poker) for my 2-months-long trip to the USA. It was a pretty cool trip, we managed to travel all around USA, visiting like 40+ states, almost every big/interesting city and most of the national parks. I played a little poker when in the USA, some of it live in Vegas, where I lost a bit and then when I bought a new laptop - I won some, but nothing important.

A few days ago I came back home. I started playing poker again and so far I have been doing solid. I guess the break from poker helped me as I calmed down pokerwise and dont need to play for thousands of dollars every hand to not get bored (dont take me literally, but I guess you know what I mean). If I can keep the winrate I got since returning home, I might consider returning back to NL1k soon (if I feel like it).

As for my future plans - I and a few friends of mine (who also play poker) have decided to rent a house together temporarily. Its not 100% yet, but if everything goes as planned, then we might be moving within a week. Then we shall see if it was a good idea or not I hope it will help us all to get better at poker.

As for poker, I plan to grind NL400 and NL600 combined as my main stakes, but if I continue doing well and get the confidence, I will probably try out NL1k again within a few weeks. I set myself the goal to reach 6 figures BR before the end of year, which seems to be a reachable goal - neither too easy, nor too difficult I would say.

I guess thats enough for now. I am not sure how often I will be updating, probably not too often, so glhf, till next time!


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I've been asked alot why I'm shortstacking NL200, and theres a few factors to why;

I feel more comfortable on a $100 buy-in
The Salamanca casino near my house has $100 max 1/2, so im used to it.
The players aren't that great
I can sustain a nice winrate there


Heres my stats from today;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 2741 hands and saw flop:
- 139 out of 414 times while in big blind (33%)
- 70 out of 406 times while in small blind (17%)
- 199 out of 1921 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 408 out of 2741 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 64 of 125 (51%)
Pots won without showdown - 328

and the night session
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1107 hands and saw flop:
- 57 out of 154 times while in big blind (37%)
- 26 out of 154 times while in small blind (16%)
- 71 out of 799 times in other positions (8%)
- a total of 154 out of 1107 (13%)
Pots won at showdown - 21 of 38 (55%)
Pots won without showdown - 149

And a little graph

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/636/sessopmjf1.th.png
GL everyone,

Ryan (DReaMe) SupaNooooooooova


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BankRoll Monkey - Adventure

Recently I discovered my forgotten $80+ on Stars and decided to turn it quickly into something decent.

Here's the setup:

The idea is to start right at nl25 until I make $200. Then I take 'one buy-in shot' at nl50 (at $150 I go back down, rinse, repeat) up to $400. Then I take 'one buy-in shot' at nl100 up to $1000 which is the goal. If I fail at the beginning, so be it. Before the chorus of BR puritans jumps down my throat, I'll just say that I have a separate BR at other rooms of more than $1.5K (that I can easily shift via moneybookers), so I'm not playing underrolled.

I've already started and up to this moment:
- in 3 days made up to $200+
- moved to nl50 right into a cooler (bad beat + bead beat + ...)
- went back to nl25 to rebuild
- right now BR = $189

soon to take another shot


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In my last post I spoke about having problems paying off sets. I made some post on this site's and other forums and talked to a few people along with reviewing my hand histories. I came up with a simple set of rules to avoid paying off sets. Obviously, you can never avoid them all, no matter how good you are, but these few guidelines have worked well for me. Please note, that I play NL100 6-max at the moment, so my observations are based on that game.

1. LOOK FOR ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
Sets do not come along often, but when they do people try to make as much money as possible off of them. This means that your average player has to alter his or her typical behavior when playing a made set. Look for these changes.

A. The villain is a solid player who you can generally trust to play his hand for what it is. If he called PF and now he is starting to play his hand in a manner that suggest he has a monster (either reraising or calling where he should not be), he probably has made his set and thus has you beat.

B. The villain is a loose-passive calling station. By his nature, all this person ever does is call. If he starts betting or, worse, 3-betting you post-flop, you should get out of the way. You can count on him having at least a 2-pair.

C. A player who is OOP and has been check-calling you all hand suddenly bets out on the river. Chances are, your top pair is no good. This person does not want to rely on trying to get you to bet into him/her and is taking the matter into their own hands.


These guidelines are what I have been using and they have been working for me, though I still need to get better at not paying off hands that turn a better hand than me. For example, I raise PF with AK and the flop comes 28K. I bet, a loose player calls. Turn comes an 8, I bet, and this player starts playing back at me. Since he is a calling station, 8x is a large part of his range, and I need to take steps to cut my losses if that is indeed what he was holding.

For next time, I will work on the issue of bankroll oscillation. When I look at my graph of profits versus hands played, while there is an overall large positive trend, there are a lot of oscillations that come from situations where I make big mistakes with big hands. My goal for next time is to come up with a strategy to minimize the value of my mistakes when playing big hands. When playing, I have a high steady win rate that is only brought down by big hands where I make large mistakes. I will work on decreasing the downswings in my play by focusing on trying to reduce the cost of these mistakes.

Please feel free to comment. I look for both feedback on my findings as well as suggestions for the problem I am working on now.


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Just put all my hands into one database today and got a total graph of how I'm doing..

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5453/allhandsvd4.jpg

I mean, clearly, casino is right I suck, but I definitely am good enough to win. Hopefully this shit turns around pretty soon.


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haha so i decided to play a couple k hands in between class following yesterdays heater. i think they're all still on tilt from last night

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5536/untitled3pf9.jpg

posted a few notable hands today maybe ill link them later gotta run to class.

also as per usual you have to click comment to see the pic or go here: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5536/untitled3pf9.jpg


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I was just watching this documentry about sex tourism in thailand

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/6216

when i came across this exotic beauty.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9371/thaibridewo3.jpg


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Hi Nits:

Made two more final tables tonight, a $33 freezeout and a $55 6-max. Got 2nd and 6th respectively for a combined $2,175. Also got 18th in a $109 freezeout for $267.

Another good night, +$2k-ish.

I'm too lazy for screenshots tonight, so here's the copy/paste of the congratulatory emails.
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PokerStars Tournament #61820197, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $30.00/$3.00
411 players
Total Prize Pool: $12330.00
Tournament started - 2007/09/26 - 23:00:00 (ET)

Dear nutshot2,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $1,898.82 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 355.62 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
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PokerStars Tournament #61820189, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $50.00/$5.00
158 players
Total Prize Pool: $7900.00
Tournament started - 2007/09/26 - 22:15:00 (ET)

Dear nutshot2,

You finished the tournament in 6th place.
A $276.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 138.61 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

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In other news, I finally have PokerTracker so I'll have some fun graphs etc to put up here soon.

Good luck sirs.

nutshot


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Played live today at my local casino for the first time in a few weeks (1-3 PL is the main game they spread), and had one of my worst runs ever. I had AA cracked three times and KK beaten twice.

First hand I sit down, I pick up KK in MP and raise to 20 over a few limpers. SB pushes for 50 and I call. He shows A4o. Ace on the flop.

A few hours later, with me around breakeven for the night, I pick up AA on the button and raise to 15. 3 callers. Flop comes T95 all hearts. I don't have the Ah. Checked to me, I bet 50, SB c/r all-in for about 120. I fold, and he flashes Kh2h. Not sure about betting this flop. Check behind maybe, but does that mean we're pretty much surrendering the pot?

Not too long after, I pick up AA again, and raise to 15. 3 callers again. Flop comes J95 rainbow. Station UTG bets 60, I raise to 200, he calls AI for about 160 total. He turns over AJ and rivers a J. This one sent me on big-time tilt, as I had been targeting this guy specifically, c-betting him a lot, even though I knew he would call me down light, just to set up a value extraction like this. A whole night's work gone to a 2-outer.

After sitting out of the game for a while to calm down, I reload and pick up KK pretty quickly in the CO. Tight player UTG raises to 10, folded to me, and I 3-bet to 35. He calls. Flop comes A33, 2 diamonds. He checks, I bet 45, he c/r AI for 80. I'm getting about 6-1, but I still think calling here was wrong since I'm a 9-1 dog if he has an Ace. I do call, though, and he flips over Ac7c. Turn is another diamond, giving me flush outs, but the river bricks. Should I have even bothered to c-bet this flop, given how short he is. Is checking behind better and folding to a bet? (although, as it happened, I still call or bet the turn when I pick up the nut flush draw)

Finally, the night is capped off when I pick up AA in LP. I raise to 20 over limpers, and get two callers (guy who just cracked my Kings and station from earlier). Flop comes T75 rainbow. Tight player bets 25, station calls, and I raise to 100. Tight player calls. Turn is a blank, he checks and I put him in for about 140. He thinks for a while, then says, "I think you have AK" and calls, showing QhTh. River is a T, gg me.

Overall, I finished down about €800, which is quite bad for me since I was underrolled enough for live games like this already (I had about 10BI before tonight). I know it's bad BR management, but this is the smallest game offered in my city and the game is so soft that it's almost impossible to resist. I am now left with the choice of shortstacking at this game or giving up live play completely and concentrating entirely on online until I've built enough of a roll that I can cash out to use live.

Speaking of online, I had a pretty good session last night, getting back most of what I'd dropped in the previous session:

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd230/beethreekay/27092007.jpg

I'm quite happy with my play from this session. I didn't make too many stupid mistakes (except a one or two bad decisions with big pairs PF), and I felt I brought my B+ game, if not quite my A game. I also ran good, which helps too.

Some of the highlights:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281646 - Probably the first time the bet/3-bet line has actually worked for me

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281647 - This is how you play quads

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281648 - Sucking out on the slowplayer

If I can keep this up, I'm confident I can be back at 25NL within a week and back on the road to poker success...if only variance behaves itself...


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hahahha. i decided to play some hands before i went to bed and was playing my standard game but i think all the regs had been playing for hours probably and i noticed right away a few of them seemed to be on mega tilt (one guy who normally has like 7 pfr was running 40/30 for the session and raising 6x+bb preflop every so often). Anyways I think I helped add more tilt and played some pretty hilarious hands.

Oh, I smoked all of them. AS PER USUAL, YOU HAVE TO HIT COMMENT IN ORDER TO SEE THE PIC

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee259/seannolan34/Untitled3.jpg

Hilarious hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281642 - LOL maybe I should fold!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281633 - Not the most standard value shove in full ring

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281624 - Probably my favorite.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/281615 - Open to advice on how this was played.


Well, gotta document the good times so when I get smoked I can remember I ran well once despite sucking at poker.




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I just spent the last hour going through every hand I've played since Sept 1st. I looked specifically for hands where I had gotten all my chips in, or someone else had gotten all in and I called, and then I proceeded to lose. Yes, this is the "NewB Gets Stacked" edition of the blog, and it's pathetically long. The good news is that the majority of these took place in the first 2 weeks of the month, and then it slowed down to where I barely found any in the last 7 days or so. I think it means I've learned from those mistakes, but it doesn't hurt to see them again. Wait, actually, it does. It hurts a lot. The stupidity you will witness below is monumental.

So enjoy seeing me get pummeled left and right. You'll find many bad plays, several bad beats, and a hell of a lot of money lost if you just browse below!

its now almost impossible not to play at a bad beat jackpot tables on UB (80% of the tables)

im really pissed

fuck UB


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So last year about this time i decided to try and build a huge bankroll by only playing HU SNG's. I set aside 400 and decided to start at the $22 level and move up levels after I reached +10 wins at each step. In all seriousness, my goal was to reach the 5.5K level and try to build up to 100K.

So i breezed through 22, 33, 55 and was sailing through 110 when I hit a wall and just free falled back down to square one. One month of building fell apart in 2 or 3 days. Not fun.

Well my HU game is miles ahead where it was last year, so I am deciding to give it a go again. I have been particularly motivated because i have been on a ridiculous heater where i've won something like 30 of my last 33 HU SNGs. Not to mention my nice finish in the HU WCOOP event.

So i am once again going to do this '100K Challenge'. I have decided now though to only move up when I have 25 buyins for the next level. So i'll set aside 400 or so to start this and begin at the $22 level.

i'll keep ya'll updated on my progress.

and here's a picture from last new year's:


http://thumb18.webshots.net/t/59/659/8/42/44/2415842440081332558NztTrE_th.jpg


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