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it's been a while, time for analysing hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265552 - after turn frontbet i should know i'm dead as fish without water

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265553 - i thought: he's shortstack i can play this for his stack, but after a while: there's only straightdraw and i doubt he plays it agressively, so i think after flop raise i should fold

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265556 - hand before he lost almost 2BI when he had KK and some guy got lucky, i thought he was tilting...well i was wrong

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265558 - on turn i thought i was lucky, after he called i should shut the fuck up... but i didn't

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265560 - min-raise flop and win or give up, and i played like i'm scared and giving away intiative :/

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265561 - after flop i should leave it, cause if he called flop, he will call river :/

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265566 - so stupid of me, after my turn re-raise i should realize he has better T

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265568 again, tripple and me falling in love with it... i think i should bet less on turn and if he pushes -> fold

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265569 - i'm not sure if it's ok

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265571 - dunno if i can minimize my lose

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265573 - i guess i should bet less on riv so that fold to a push would be easier


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So a lot has happened since my last blog entry... I'm totally the laziest person ever when it comes to updating things. I wanted to do some more updates from Vegas w/ more pictures but Nazgul took down the WSOP Blogs so I kinda lost interest in doing that. I'm thinking I'm going to zip all the pictures I took (I'm such an asian tourist) and just make them available to everyone.

Some updates with me: I'm back in school! LOL I know... Kind of un-baller of me, but it's awesome. Yes I said school is awesome. I'm currently going to San Diego State University, and living in a new appartment complex 10 mins away in Mission Valley (another 10 mins from the beach) with my roommate Marshall28. Here's a quick list of pros and cons since I've moved down to San Diego:

Pros:

1. The whether is a constant 85-90 degrees, without fail. Around the beach it's around 80. It is constantly warm but not blazing hot. So perfect.

2. The bar scene here is amazing. On PB (Pacific Beach) there are two main streets where all the action goes down, and since San Diego is a huge college town (There are 3 colleges here in the same city, SDSU, UCSD, and USD) it pretty much becomes a very popular central gathering spot. The bars are right along the beach so... get drunk --> swim in the ocean. Ez Life.

3. The girls in San Diego are easily hotter than any place on this planet. I will bet bankrolls on this fact. You really need to come down here and see for yourself because my friends told me this before and I totally didn't believe them. No, it's 100% true.

4. Downtown is just so baller, with very Vegas like clubs and restaurants.

5. It's a 4 hour drive to Vegas.

6. [vital]Myth is an hour north from where I live. And I really hope he comes and enlightens me with his magical words of wisdom.

Cons:

1. The motherfuckers that work at the Fry's Electronics near where I live are all fucking retarded. Just bought a $1600 desktop computer yesterday and I specifically ask one thing about 5-6 times to the 2 different guys helping me: "CAN THIS COMPUTER HOOK UP TWO MONITORS?" And each time they both were like "Yes of course!". Well I open the box when I get back to my place and guess what! Video card only has one slot for a monitor. Freakin donkeys.

2. My new desktop computer has Windows Vista...

3. Right now I have no car, so I'm getting my friends to haul me around. I take the Trolley to school so that's not really a problem, but having no car really limits my freedom to when my friends can pick me up which kinda sucks.

4. The whole "Socal" attitude really blowz ass. My roommate has a bad case of it, where he thinks the world should be revolving around him. I've met some really nice people down here, but I really don't enjoy how some of them think that putting down other people is a cool thing to do. I think it's retarded, spread the love, and stop acting like a stuck up bitch who thinks you're the only one in the world with problems. And for Christ's sake SMILE!

5. I'm running bad. On a sick -$12,000 downswing at 2/4 & 1/2 the past month. Can't seem to do anything right. It's really funny. It started with me tilting hardcore vs asdf2000 heads-up thinking he was a fish, I guess I was wrong. Then when PokerStars opened heads-up tables I thought it was going to be awesome, nope wrong again! -$3600 of my 12k downswing comes from 1/2 heads-up. LOL... Obviously I was being a little sloppy after Vegas, (hey, playing with complete retards for a month straight can make you sloppy!) But now I'm back on track with my game and still can't get things to work for me. I need to find God or something...

6. I got homework, and a lot of reading to do. Sick life

Overall I love it though. If anyone is down here in San Diego and would like to meet me, give me a PM with some contact info. I'm always down to meet any new LPer's. Ok I will be updating this more often, and hopefully with pictures.


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hi fanz

last two days werent that good...from 500 to 360 coz of nl 20 and i dont know what happen but its sick one day up second day down,up,down and at the end down.
again nl 10 >.<

i think i should paly with more concetration and should not start to make moves at nl 20 :/

hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265539
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265542

argh... i think tomorow i will play with more concentration and dont try to make monstermoeves or calls

bye


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As expected 10nl 6max is a easier then Fira's mom in heat. So far I'm up a little over 15 buyins in 3 days. I have been running fairly well in big pots which has helped immensely. If all continues to go well I'll be moving up to 25nl in no time.


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short session of NL 25 today

And i feel like NL 25 is scared to death when i sit at a table ..

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

I am absolutely raping the shit out of it.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2932/chokepokerzy7.jpg

GL ALl


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ok so august was terrible because of a 3K downswing.. it sucks to win so little but i'm still happy i was able to come back in the green.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/aE.OneManArmy/aout.jpg

some HU hands are missing because i played them on another comp. i finished about +300$ in those

i also ran a half marathon last week. completed it in 1h33 wich is worse than last year because im not in my best shape right now. i'm working on this tho, i'll train 5 or 6 times a week during university.

here's a pic of me at the finish line.. after 21.1 kms of running:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/aE.OneManArmy/1063-10347-5207-p.jpg

im completely pwning the guy behind me, he was far ahead of me 200m earlier


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Today was a weird day for me as I was up 5 bi and then was down -3bi and I end up winning the money back plus +4bi. I don’t know if I played bad or I just got unlucky but to me losing means im playing bad. I had some talk with some LP members that it would be a good idea for me to get rake back cuz I play so many hands and I would’ve double my bankroll if I had rakeback last month. I’m going to switch to FT when I get my 32” tv from pokerstar (hopefully soon).

September Goals:
Find a free coach for nl50/nl100 ( PM me please if you like to coach me)
Log in 150-200K hands
Get rakeback
Learn as much as i can


I played 8k hands today and im going to give nl50 a try and hopefully I do well playing at that stake.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/360/233aa8.png

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265344 overpair

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265345 AK

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265348 this is the hand i need help the most


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Im sure nobody is interested in my results, but what the hell here it is for august.
http://spets1.googlepages.com/aug07.JPG
Ive trasferred 300 bux to party and am working on that, but it is going slow. I do not have working version of pokerpatterns anymore so no graph. But as usual I started off well, n then came down to crush and burn. I dont know why this happens. But its annoying the hell out of me. I think i get too confident. Or maybe I run good at the start of the month and then luck stops.

Also new record:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265324

Anyway here are not so random pics
+ Show Spoiler +

Cyas



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The last two days have been great days for me.

First check this out;
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265231

And to whats up;

Yesterday I reached supernova, which I've been trying to do for the last few months.

Today I reached $5.5k, which allows me to cash out $5k via bank wire transfer (ty pokerstars support), and leave myself $500 + 650 bonus I'll clear in just a few thousand more FPP's.

Its been a mission since I started playing again to save enough to move back to Taiwan, to teach english part-time and play poker part-time from home. Now I can make this dream a reality, and start preparing to leave soon.

Its been a really tough grind over the last month, with tons of up and downs, and with LP's help I prevailed. WooHoo!

So, starting tomorrow, I'm going to cash out the vast majority of my bankroll for my airplane ticket, visa, and apartment in Taiwan.

I'll go back down to NL50 and grind back up the limits from there, which will be nice.

In the last week, I've grown 10 fold as a player and have learned the importance of strong preflop play, as well as putting my oponents to tests. But most of all, I started playing the calmest, most patient poker of my life.

So it looks like this is my last month in the good ol USA for a long while, I'll make sure I enjoy it to the fullest.

I learned a ton playing the 6max NL100 - NL200 games as well, which has helped me drastically when I went over to full-ring, handling the aggressive players and isolating / taking pots from weak PF raisers.

Heres my stats from tonight; (my last session on NL200 for probably 2-5 weeks)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1111 hands and saw flop:
- 71 out of 144 times while in big blind (49%)
- 18 out of 138 times while in small blind (13%)
- 60 out of 829 times in other positions (7%)
- a total of 149 out of 1111 (13%)
Pots won at showdown - 24 of 32 (75%)
Pots won without showdown - 87

And to all you naysayers out there that were saying "YOUR GONNA GO BROKE", the whole time I would never have let my bankroll go below $3,000, I was making an extreme concious effort to not go wrong where I did in the past.

Now its all about dominating, and NL200 is where my comfort zone was at, which is why thats where I played.

I'm gonna take the rest of the night off,

GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe) *still SuperNoVa!


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to celebrate the debut of khans antics on ESPN, heres 2 new air khan designs:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3231/khan26finallk7.jpg

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7818/khanchairfinalrh5.jpg


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Shit.

PS. I have FTP $ but cant get it out. Trade?


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So today I had like the worst session ever. I don't think I ever ran soo bad. The suprising thing is that I only lost 5 buyins at nl300 cause I though it should be more like 15. Tons of sick beats and setups topped with 1-outer:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265080

And stats from today:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3790/aassgj0.jpg

My BR dropped to about 12k I think. The bad part is that I'm gonna have to cashout like 2k since I'm coming back to the UK on 16th September.

I also have a pretty big dilemma. I dunno if I should get a job. This is going to be my first year at the uni (Manchester). At the moment I play nl200 and nl300. I've already paid for my room upfront so I need monies for food, academic stuff, drinking and going out, socializing. I think that like $1200 a month would be enough. And I'm pretty sure I can earn it every month just with rakeback (I get 60%). What do you think?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=395
Poll: Should I get a job when uni starts?
(Vote): yes you lazy mofo
(Vote): wtf lolz? just play poker


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I slow wining my money back.Two buy ins + today.

P.S -i h8 my school.Today 7:00 -16:15 tomorow 7:00 - 18:00 blehh and cherry for end day after tomorow 13:00-18:00

Enjoy your free time! bye!


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So I played a 2 hr 40 minute sessions earlier today where I dropped like 3.5 buyins in the first 20-30 minutes and it took the rest of the time to recoup and end with a 22 dollar profit....baller. Here are some of the more noteworth hands. I ran 19/16/3.6 during the session which is alittle bit tighter than usual. Frustrating session, but in the end atleast I made money.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265009
This was the begin of the downswing, obviously nothing I could do, just bad luck.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265010
Played this one pretty poorly. Thought maybe he was squeezing and we had been going back and forth on the 3-betting and thought maybe he was squeezing. It was such a small raise in hindsight oop that it didnt look like a squeeze.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265011
Probably should have 3-bet preflop and defined my hand better. After I just called preflop I turned into a donk calling station and got seriously valuetowned. Playing this way where do I fold it? Can I really fold the turn? or is just the river a fold?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265013
Shortie who was a donk calling station, eventually stacked him and he put it in pretty light, but i dont think anyone plays this different right?

Here are some of my bigger winning hands
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265016
Top Two. I was sitting 400bbs deep and him 200bbs deep, i didnt want to get raised obviously. But just valuetowned him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265017
Here I stack the donk, only a matter of time
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265019
Hit a flush draw on the flop. Bet the turn or take a free card? I took a free card and eventually still got in.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265024
Intersting hand. He had been 3-betting me quite often and I had been folding to them I think every time. I was in position with a drawy hand and decided to call this time. I totally float the flop and get the best card for me on the turn to give me a monster draw. I push and he folds. Probably not the smartest idea, but once in a while i think its good to mix it up.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=265025
Raise a good hand oop and continue a king high flop, in which a shortie calls. I hit a great card for me on the turn and even though i have zero fold equity, i got to put him in.







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I started the day off at NL100 and was running extremely bad "WHAT THE FUCK" bad, lol.

After winning back alot of my loses, I was looking at the NL200 tables and saw most of the tables were full of half-stacked donks.

I pondered on playing with the NL100 players grinding for there rent money, or playing with NL200 half-stacked donks and took the better choice.

During this decision, I told myself if I drop below $3k I'll move down to NL50 6max during the day and NL100 at night.

The session started out with me dropping to $2950 and a decision. I decided to play a little longer, and if I lost anymore I would drop down immediately. Luckily for me, the tables stopped abusing me and I finally swung up.

This was a great day for me, I learned how to play the dimension at these tables very well, and crushed on multiple tables. I finished the day with a $1,308 stack on one table, and multiple $400 stacks on others.

I'm going to continue to play NL200 6max, with great table selection and try to avoid as many regs as possible.

Heres my stats from today;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 2619 hands and saw flop:
- 169 out of 499 times while in big blind (33%)
- 64 out of 499 times while in small blind (12%)
- 155 out of 1621 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 388 out of 2619 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 62 of 102 (60%)
Pots won without showdown - 408

and a few nice pots;

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/265021
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/264988
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/264953
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/264943

I'm having as much fun playing now as when I just started out, and look forward to learning to beat the NL100/NL200 6max games everyday.

Time for a break,
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe) *SuperNoVa


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So a brief background on my poker career. Started playing in small 5 dollar games on the side at college. Got addicted and 2 years ago started playing on the internet. Started playing 5 and 10 dollar sit n gos and right away was pretty successful and moved up to 20 to 30 dollar sit n gos. I was playing alot and my schoolwork suffered so I quit for a while, but could not resist the lure. Finally switched from PokerRoom to FullTilt when their Mac version was released last year. Continued with sit n gos and small tourneys, had a couple decent cashes, and was eventually playing 100 dollar sit n gos regularly. I struggled with the variance and eventually was shown the light of cash games and now play only cash games with a few tourneys on the side. Started at NL50 and moved to NL200 pretty quickly. Spent 2 months there and had trouble with tilt control and bankroll management. Im playing NL100 on Pokerstars right now. Have been following this site for a couple months and am going to try and post alot of my sessions here and any constructive, destructive criticism is welcome.


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