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Hi everyone,
This is the first blog I have ever created so I thought i could tell you all a little about myself. Lets see, The names Jon. I've played for about 2 years online, mostly 25nl and below. My biggest cash is only around 65$, most recently was 34th in a 22$ mtt for $50 and some change. I hope to meet all of you and get some good advice from those of you ballas (see image below).


Looking Foward to Meeting all of You,
Jon




http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4645/dautbq4.jpg
lol baller.


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Alright so after losing all my money in February I took a few months off, and about 3 weeks ago I decided to deposit $50 and just start my roll all over again.

I've been playing NL2 until I get to $175, and today I ran hotter than god.

Yes, I realize that it's NL2.... but 10 buyins in <600 hands is still pretty good.

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3900/daylk7.jpg


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This thread is a few days old but everytime I read it I burst into laugher. The sheer audacity of the thread hijack is astounding, not just for not apologizing for hijacking the thread, but in completely ignoring that the thread is not his own.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/information/f/251191/1/Internet_Question.html


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So I went to the bank with the money I made from mig the other day. I was carrying about 255k in cash to deposit.

The teller ran the money through one of those little bill counters and it only took about 10 minutes to get all of it counted and wrapped in 10k markers. Before I could leave she had to fill out some info on me. Here is what transpired:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Daut/bankteller.jpg



As for poker, I've been running really well lately. I'm on about a 70k upswing at 10/20 and 25/50 the past 2-3 weeks, and feel I can play better than I have been. I'm probably going to play a lot in the upcoming weeks at all levels between 3/6 and 25/50 and really grind hard.


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I'm newly playing poker as a career. I've only been playing as my soul source of income for about 2 and a half weeks, so I'm very new. But so far so good. Just after I started I won the nightly horse event for 693 which was nice. To give everybody an idea of what kind of player I am, I am not playing at high levels. I'm grinding. I'm grinding at very low levels. You can find me playing the 1/2 - 3/6 razz tables at pokerstars and playing the low level sng's as well. I used to be a high school math teacher but got tired of the governmental influence in the day to day teaching, and am now doing this. I have my first child on the way (almost 2 months away!!!) and therefor really want this to work out. It would be nice to be able to stay home with my wife and the baby when she's on maternity life from her work. Anyway, I have been having a rough past week. I've been winning but not at the level i would like to. Also, I find that I am losing quite a bit in the morning and winning it back in the evening. First response to this is of course.... only play at night... but that's when the wife is home and I'd like to be able to take that time off if possible. Yesterday I sat 10/20 razz for the first time in a while and did ok making about 150 in the hour i played there. It was cool because i got to watch some of the top razz players on the net play and showdown the hands they played that way with. This morning i have employed a couple of things I learned there and it has paid off so far. Up about 60 in my first hour of play. I'll take it. Well, my mother is coming over to the house for a couple of hours, so I need to clean up. I wouldn't want her thinking her son just sits around playing poker all day now would I? :-)


Baltzman: I understand that this is in most cases quite a risky venture. However I have reserved some money so as to allow myself time to find a "real job" if months go by without the paycheck that I plan to send myself. I agree with you that most people should take quite a bit of caution before doing what I am doing as it can be a volatile way of making a living.


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July 24th, 2007

Today's summary:

http://www.coryland.net/uploads/pb072407.jpg

Commentary:

Very smooth session this morning. 6-tabled again. The toughest decision I can think of is my c-bet on the QQ vs. Axx board. Very questionable.

WOW PlayerS BEWARE!!

http://www.coryland.net/uploads/urreallyagirl.jpg


Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237309
How to Flop a Flush by golda98

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237310
I was re-raising this poor guy left and right...then I show up with aces

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237311
Goddamn, poker is easy as fuck.


Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237287 Grr, one hand away from a big session. MOFUNGUUUU! The chat is a result of this hand. Which happened the hand before. Consecutive aces no good

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237305
And the subsequent steam hand. A mild spew by my standards.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237306
Very very questionable c-bet. How often should I be checking here. COnsider the flush draw on board.


Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237312
Hmm...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237313 "3-bets light otb"

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237314
Hmm, kind of a questionable play here. Implied odds? Or...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237315

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237316
*sniff* it's a shame to see 85o get cracked like that. This is a 90% raise pre-flop for me though.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237319
Well-played friend!!


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We knew the weather was going to be bad this weekend, but everything from accommodation to sightseeing trips was booked in advance, so we had no choice but to go.

Our B&B inn was located in Ucluelet, a small town 1/2 hour drive from Tofino. Our original plan was to do kayaking right after we arrived on Friday, but the weather was too miserable, so we decided to postpone and hope that the conditions would be better Sunday morning.

We went for some seafood dinner, and some SNG pokah (both online and against each other) in the evening.

Saturday was the whale-watching and hot-spring tour. During our boat ride to the hot spring island we spotted a killer whale, some sea otters, seals, sea lions, and other wildlife. All that while I was fighting sea-sickness on the rocky boat in the rough ocean. The hike to the hot spring (Maquinna Marine Prov. Park) was relaxing, and the springs were supernice.

Sunday we went ahead with 3 hrs of kayaking. The waves made me sea-sick again -- I guess marine-sports are simply not my thing. I still put forth my best effort at the back of the double-kayak. Arielle seemed to enjoyed it. BTW I can't imagine how easy it would be to kayak in sheltered waters, such as Deep Cove, North Van.

Some pictures:

Conditions were never better than this
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1049/884221262_fa9e173a14.jpg?v=0

I just flopped a set of Queens in this $13 6-man SNG (bottom)
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Dinner, day 1: me slurping my seafood broth
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Interesting carvings on the wooden trail
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Arielle and I
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The hot spring
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1389/884221738_f4d0264317.jpg?v=0

Sexy boy
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1356/883404281_8b4da26b37.jpg?v=0

Dinner day 2
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1216/883404391_054891114f.jpg?v=0

Just an appealing mix of seafood
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1191/883404311_234db06ee0.jpg?v=0

Kayaking
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1318/883404573_53bcc851a6.jpg?v=0

I think I am exhausted
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1331/883404597_afa631f980.jpg?v=0

Next entry: Review July 17-24


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Ever since I was young, I’ve had a talent for strategy games. I would routinely beat my parents at Chess, Monopoly, and Mancala. When I was 8, a friend’s older brother introduced me to Magic: The Gathering. I spent countless hours and dollars building up a collection and playing. At age 12, I started playing magic competitively at a local card shop with a lot of success. I won a Junior Super Series tournament the following year netting me three boxes, an $1000 college scholarship, and an entry to the Junior Super Series Championship. I was introduced to poker through friends at the card shop. One day an older friend gave me a ride to Mike’s house (the owner of Savage Games) where I made $26 playing $.25/.5 no-limit and $.5/1 limit hold’em. I was excited that I could beat these guys and I had just started playing.

During summer I went to an all boys sports camp. The camp was filled with rich kids who loved to gamble. Over the course of camp I made $200 playing poker. The following summer I came back having read Mike Caro’s Book of Tells, and Super System. I had a tougher time getting action, but still was able to make $500. Clearly, there was a lot more money to be made in poker than Magic.

When I got back from camp, Mike told to me about online poker and I decided I’d give it a try. I gave him $50 to deposit on Party Poker for me. I started by playing the $5+1 sngs. I fluctuated between $30-70 dollars. I moved up to the $10+1 sngs because it was the same rake for higher play. A bad run in those left my account empty. Ever confident, I had Mike deposit another $50. This time it took about two weeks before I went bust. I deposited another $100, and this time, I won. I quickly made back my lost $100, and more. Over the next two months I ran my bankroll up to $700. I entered Marblehead High as a freshman. My mom was concerned about me gambling at such a young age, but she figured that I would probably lose interest. I moved up to the $20+2 sngs My bankroll peaked at $1000 and I had my first real downswing. When I ran bad, Mike ran good. He won a tournament for $14,000. I was intrigued by how much potential profit you could make in MTTs. I played a few without much success. One night against my better judgement I entered a $100+9 MTT with Mike. I have no recollection of the tournament but I guess I ran well finishing first out of 98 players for $2700.

I told my mom how much I won that night and she got really scared. She decided that I could keep the money, but she didn’t want me to play anymore. I wasn’t really that concerned, and had no real intention of stopping. It just made playing a little tougher.

I started playing in the $.25/.50 6 max nl games with decent success. It took me awhile to adapt to cash game play but I incorporated my tournament strategy with prior experience in live games. Over the next couple months, I got my roll up to $6000 grinding cash games and sngs of all different levels. My bankroll peaked at $8000 but I began to experience higher variance due to bad luck. My edge was not as big compared to the small stakes I had been dominating.

Something clicked the summer before junior year. I went to Brown University to take a finance class for three weeks. During my time there I was able to play a ton of poker. I went from $4,000 to $7,000 after 4th place in a $30+3 rebuy during my second day at Brown. I ran really hot in $100+9 sngs. I played 4 at a time and had a ridiculous in the money rate. Some of it was luck, but I really was a strong sng player. Most players didn’t understand how important it was to not bust early on, and how important it was to stay aggressive on the money bubble. If I was the shortstack, I was always looking to take blinds. If I was a bigger stack (which I often was because I was good at accumulating chips in the early levels) I would push around the shorter stacks who were afraid of bubbling. That and really strong heads up results left my bankroll with a huge boost. The sng wins brought me to $9,000. I tried the $200+15's. I lost the first four I played. Determined, I entered another four, winning two and cashing third in one. At the end of my three weeks at Brown my bankroll was up to $14,000.

My bankroll peaked at $16800 before I hit another downswing. I lost at sngs. I switched to cash playing 2-4 no limit. I kept losing. I moved back to $1/2 NL and $100+9 sngs. I kept losing. I tried playing all different mtts with no real success. I’d heard about people getting coaching and decided that what I needed to improve was a coach. I read about Seal, David Eisenstein on pocketfives.com He had written several articles, and made great posts in the forums. I took several lessons with him focusing on MTTs and cash games. Even though I pretty much lost every session we played, I learned so much about the process- how to think about poker. After receiving coaching, I started doing well again. I got my bankroll back from $10,000 to $12,000 over the next few months. I moved up to $2/4 NL and in two weeks, I was up to $18,000. I felt so confident about my play and my success was amazing. I tried playing $3/6 NL and didn’t notice much of a difference in the level of play. Two weeks later, I was up to $25,000. I decided to take a shot at a soft $10/20 NL full ring game. If I lost 1 buy-in I would drop back down to $3/6 NL. I lost $800 that session. I switched to 10/20 NL shorthanded, and made $1800. I took those profits and put them on two tables of full ring where I went on to make another $2500. I played another shorthanded game the next day and over the course of a 2 hour session made $7000.

My success continued. Over the next month and a half I ran my account up to $90,000. $10/20 NL on Partypoker was interesting. It tended to be very aggressive with a lot of loose play. People would make extremely large 3 bets very often. I used my own style adapting to the loose players by playing an unpredictable TAG game. There were many good regulars but just as many donators. Party added the $25/50 NL games. I observed the tables a few times and saw that there was some fishy play. I decided to take a buy-in to the game. My first session I made $3000. $25/50 NL was a rollercoaster ride for me. I played $10/20 and $25/50 when the games were soft. $25/50 NL tended to play pretty tight. So I adapted once again with a very LAG style. When I ran well I made lots of money, and initially I did. My 18 vpip/13 pfr game worked... I made some insane reads, had good fortune, and saw my bankroll double. Then everything started going the other way. I had a my biggest loss ever, $38,000 in one day. Bad beat, after bad beat, after cooler. It was a bit demoralizing but I’d had big downswings before. I was playing good poker but these were sessions I was bound to lose. In 4 months I’d run my roll up from $10,000 to $180,000 and variance finally caught up with me.

When Party Poker shut down to U.S. players everyone panicked. Because I was underage I just wanted to get my money out. I paid 74% on the dollar and got the money in cash leaving myself a $16,500 roll to play with.

I entered senior year of High School. I had my friend deposit $5,000 for me on Pokerstars. In 3 weeks I ran it up to $28,000 playing $2/4 NL, $3/6 NL, a little $5/10 NL, and winning a $50+5 MTT for $6000. I still had my high stakes itch. I decided to give $25/50 on Stars a try. The results were bad. I lost $8000 before moving down. The play was a lot stronger than party $25/50 NL. I dropped back to $3/6 NL where in the next couple weeks I got the account back up to $30,000. I took a shot at $10/20 NL where I lost another $4000. I dropped to $5/10 NL had an upswing followed by a big downswing. I moved down to $3/6 NL and kept losing. I got so frustrated with cash games at this point that I decided to switch back to my old moneymaker sngs. I figured that I could make some consistent money in sngs even if it wasn’t as much as I could from cash games. I stupidly played an $1000 hu sng, a $1000 sng, and several $500 sngs. Lets just say they went poorly. I decided to multi-table $100-$300 sngs. I played up to 16 sngs at a time. I lost and lost and lost. My good sessions were tiny wins, and my bad sessions lost me several thousand dollars at a time. I wanted to see if I could make the pace for supernova elite, but realized that sngs were no longer profitable. Over 1100 sngs I had a -6% roi and lost a little over $25,000. I had to re-deposit cash that I had pulled as profit and exchanged my fpps for cash. I made a little money back in cash games, and I vowed that I would never again abuse my bankroll. I would not try to make the big time faster than my bankroll allowed. If I was going to take a shot I would be strict about it. During this time I looked for ways to increase the bankroll, and one of those was poker coaching. I started small but over time got some rep and a few students. Since switching to Stars I had played 130,000 hands of cash netting $5000. This period was one of the most frustrating and toughest times for me. During this time though, I met John Anhalt who asked me to come in as a coach for the website PokerZion. I had thought of making my own coaching site I was perplexed. It sounded like an exciting business opportunity.

I finally started running good again. On April 15th I had two nice scores. I finished 2nd in a $24+2 for $1900. Later that day, I took 4th in the Sunday Mulligan $200+15 for $10,700. On April 22nd I won a WSOP package in a $200+15 double shootout for $12,000. This was a huge boost to the bankroll. Two days later I got 11th in the Full Tilt 1K Monday for $2800. I was pretty disappointed because I made an aggressive play with a big stack that ended up busting me. I shrugged it off and won $2000 in a $200+15 Bracelet Race. Though I was doing well in MTTs cash continued to go poorly. I saw my MTT profits shrink. On April 30th I won my second WSOP package in a $200+16 double shootout. I had a bankroll again

The same pattern continued... Cash still sucked. I had some good sessions, but mostly losing ones. I had several multi buy-in downswings. Luckily the same pattern of MTT success continued as well. I played the $200+15 rebuy on May 7th finishing 5th for $10,200. I was literally having a $10,000 + score a week. Over the next month I didn’t get to play too much. I worked with some students, hung out a lot with friends, and developed content for PokerZion. Cash still went bad. I would play and lose, I had moved up to $5/10 NL where several buy-in downswings really hurt my profit. I qualified for the Jun 17th $500+35 Main Event qualifier on FTP. I ended up winning a seat outlasting over 3000 people (top 138 paid) taking it down to win my 3rd 12K package. On Jun 29th I took down Fifty-Fifty on FTP for $9700. This brings us up to present day. I am looking forward to making a boatload of cash at Turningstone where I am playing the Empire series including the $5000 main event.

Russell "Loosefer" Blattberg



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The session started with a jolt and a quick slap to the face with this - I think the turn call is questionable but he was extremely aggressive in the early hands and I needed to take a stand:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237191

Realizing that I was up against a crazy crazy player, I stabilized with this:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237184

Then, I started to pound pound pound with the following two hands.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237185
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237186

As I tried to seal the deal, fate intervened in his execution, requesting an extension on his pulverization:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237172

Finally, I stabilized and gave him the one-two vulture-mass tank combo for the win.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237188
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/240954

He left, broke and spirit broken, after the intense 248 hand battle.


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I've been taking shots at NL400, but my last one ended poorly - my double barrel semibluffs ended up bricking on the river, and I constantly was running into my opponents upper hand ranges. I ended the session -2.3k, which isn't bad as it's only 6 buyins.

I'm going to cash out some and continue playing on NL200. After that NL4 debacle, I took a day off from poker (been playing Need for Speed: Carbon on the XBox360, pretty fun). Also, I hit the driving range to start my golf learnings...I couldn't get any lift / direction / consistency with my shots so I definitely have a lot to learn. My uncle thinks I should love it, but we'll see.

I just played a short NL200 HU session "just to get back into things", and it ended up being a pretty crazy session (my HU always seems to..)


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wow this day was horrid to say the least. beats kept on coming. made 2 bad calls due to tilt then went spiraling down to 6bi. jeez ftp can't give me a break even on a good day lol
drove me a little crazy i admit. hope tomorrow's gonna be a little better.


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Today i've went up 8 buyins which is great, and come 19th in the $1 rebuy out of 435 so that aint too bad, dissappointed i didnt final table, but i got card dead and had to push with KQ vs chipleader who had AT.

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6731/sessionvd7.jpg

Some hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237123 <--- deepstacked get set on flop vs his AK top pair
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237124 <--- flop FH with QQ vs trips.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237126 <--- flop set over set, QQ vs 22.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237127 <--- JT 2 pair on flop, maybe shoulda folded vs 3 people but went with it.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237128 <--- 44 flop set vs guy bluffing with OESD.



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Today was the first day I've started to Grind 50 NL with my new found roll that I gained from placing in a $10+R tourney a few days ago.

I 4 Tabled the majority of the day and it was a hateful roller coaster ride. In the first 1,000 hands I managed to lose 3 buy ins and Spew out another 3 buy ins. Then I Spent the next couple hours trying to repair the damage I had done.

I slowly crawled back up and was able to finish at down a buy-in, but thanks to the +$40 bonus I unlocked my roll l only took a 10 BB hit.

I think the main reason for my tilt stemmed from the long session requiring alot of concentration and I was unused to the mental stress, and the stress it puts on the eyes.

I thought it was also fitting that AQo, which over my past 10,000 hands has the my worst net loss, won me over 3 Buy Ins today and was my Big winner :D

Next Blog I plan to have alot more info with a much better setup. Also some cool pictures.


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http://www.sitefights.com/community/art/gawdawaful//bad.jpg
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236876
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236845
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236830
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236827
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236903
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236904
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236907
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236908
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236909
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236910
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236911
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236912
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236913
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236914

comments on hands if you have constructive criticism and such


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I think I have leaks =<

my pokerev graph for NL50 -

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2971/nl50pokerevgraphfl4.jpg


Also my last blog post was during ME final table and got 2 reads! Go read it please


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So after all of my traveling to vegas and being a lazy bum and stuff i'm back home ready to grind. I decided prima poker is not for me, I just can't stand the software or think while i see the software, but the games do seem very soft compared to stars and stuff, and if they updated their software to something more like fulltilt or stars i'd definitely be willing to play there again more, but the software tilts me too hard.

I now have two goals..
1. Win an MTT. Something I've never done. even milkman won an MTT <3 and its been on my list of things to do for a bit but i'm going to do it. I've gotten to multiple final tables, but I don't nkow if i've ever done better than 3rd.. apparently i suck or something.

2. Grind 10/20 and 25/50 and make $1,000,000 before the end of the year. I also want to move up to stakes above 25/50, but since stars doesn't offer 50/100 that might be sorta tough. I think this is going to be a tough goal because I have trouble staying on track, but hopefully somehow i'll motivate myself.

Another thing I'm interested in doing is traveling to europe, not quite sure where I want to go yet, but some place with a casino. I plan on doing this sometime before late september, and I think it would be cool to get some LPers to go and play in an EPT event or something similar. Basically I want to be able to play some live poker since I am still under 21 and was pretty restricted at vegas.

Gl all,
Clay


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Ok so I'm now unemployeed, not like I really had a job previously. The league I was playing in ended up folding giving pretty much 0 notice. I did real well so they are trying to find me a place to finish this season out, however, this late in the season it won't be an easy task. With no place to stay I decided to go to Turning Stone and hangout, so far so good. Played a 21 hour session on Saturday for a +4k net. Hopefully I continue playing well while I wait for a phone call. Also I think I may head down to Seneca for there tournament series coming up.


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