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So me and a bunch of guys got 2 houses for the summer. if we combined the players in them, it's a really sick collection of players.

The first house is bushman, smokey, ozzy, zeejustin, roman, and the second house is xTBCx (100/200 200/400 limit player), beatiful man, genius28, martine23, reddog, ahhh snap, and me.

In the first event of the WSOP, 3 of the 5 of us who played it made the final 2 tables. martine23 got 12th, steve (xTBCx) got 11th, and smokey is a total hero and won the event.

im gonna go out on a huge limb but i think smokey is the best NL tournament player in the world, especially live. He just plays every hand to the best of his ability and nothing ever makes him lose focus. He's inspired me to play better and I have played extremely well since day 1 of mandalay bay main event when he was at my table.

anyway, everyone from the houses went out to the FT to rail it. When it got down to hu a few guys made some bets with FBT's crew on who would win. Hu starts and FBT had a slight chip lead. Thankfully for smokey, hu started out in NL.

First hand, Smokey raised the button and FBT reraised from the bb. Then the following transpires:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Daut/smokey1.jpg

Basically smokey sits there thinking for 2-3 minutes before deciding to call preflop. The deliberate actions out of smokey are literally the scariest things in poker. Imagine sitting there for 2-3 minutes getting stared down by an unflinching extremely focused opponent and then he just calls PREFLOP.

No offense to greg, because he seemed to play really well at times, but smokeys presence at the table is really scary.

anyway, it was a pretty good hu match and bounced back and forth, and it seemed like smokey really had control of the NL portion of the hu match while the cards really controlled the limit part, whoever was running better at the time seemed to win, however, it did seem like greg had an edge on smokey during the limit periods. Fortunately he was able to win a few big pots during limit and come out on top.

its really great for the image of online players that everyone is doing so well lately. we're really taking over all the major tournaments, and have won the last few big ones, including mandalay and mirage.

im really happy for smokey and hope its a good start to the summer for all of us. here's a really cool picture taken after the win:

http://www.pokernews.com/files_en/reporting/winners/4663e71941706.jpg

back row: nat arem, me, pbdrunks, brandon schaefar and a beautiful man (hiding in the back right)

middle row: roman (empire2000), ozzy, buko, zeejustin, ahhh snap

bottom row: bushman, smokey, martine



As for me, so far this summer im doing alright. have broken even online basically, which stinks, but ive done alright in tourneys so far. I cashed for 35k in the mandalay main event, which was pretty disappointing considering the steep payout structure, and i got 159th in the 1500 nl event for 4700 or so. im playing the 1k rebuy tomorrow and i am really pumped to play it.

i have a funny story which ill post next week i think, me and ahh snap got totally owned.


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I'm fucked! I was just looking through some of my pics and I think i got a problem. I think the pictures speak for themselves. =(

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Wello hello again,
Its been a while, but its time for an update. Since last entry alot of stuff has happend but today I reached a new milestone.

Before That, let just say I had the best trip of my life going to Fiji and New Zealand. couple of days in Fiji in a nice resort then to New Zealand where we camped around the country, south and north Island.

We spent only 1-2 night at one place and just travelling around and doing all kinds of fun stuff. I was impressed by the amazing beaches in New Zealand. It is just dreamy. We just made 1-2 hour stops along the beaches unfortunatly but I finally took of my cloths and just ran into the water, which was stupid really with the waves there, but so temtpting at the same time. In Vancouver water is just too cold, I just had to do it.

tilted fish going for a swim:
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/n761955214_554262_4671.jpg

anyways as for poker. like I said I reached a new milestone. After hours of playing I finally hit 1k

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/Untitled-2323.jpg

I dont like to whine nad bitch about bad beats, but I must say I saw some pretty wild stuff. back to back. withing minutes. I am comming from a good run tho so I can manage for now. I still have 40+ bis for 100nl so hopefully I can stay at this limit cause I know I am one of the better players.

Incase you are wondering why I didnt post my good run and I did this... well it makes you feel better about your day doesnt it? dont lie now!


Anyways for now GG.

p.s.
6-max or FR?
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/Untitled-61.jpg

I almost forgot!!

Ok you know the ULTIMATE donkey who always gets lucky on the tables and ends up with a 2+ bis... how bad do you want to stack him when deep?

This dude would call ANYTHING preflop and chase anything and would hit it.
until the hunter became the huntee!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205586

oh this felt good.... words cant describe it. Not because it was the biggest pot I have played online (I have won a bigger one in casino) but because it was the guy who has all the nasty notes on him but gets away with it.










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Dropped 1/2 my roll early last week so i had to drop down to 25nl. I've never played lower than 50 nl before so this is a first. Its gonna take a lot of discipline to stick to this lvl and not tilt, but i have no choice.
Heres my graph from my first 2 sessions. Im only gonna play ~800 hands/session 6 tabling atm.
When im off from work im gonna try to play some more.


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r262/albonycee/graph.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r262/albonycee/ScreenShot003.jpg


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Today was a nice day, took a small break and started a cash session.

Started playing deep on NL25, got about 2,000 hands in before I started to feel a little fatigue, I played roughly 12 hrs today.

The cash session didn't go to bad, only finished up 1bi, but could have definately finished up 4 or 5.

Tomorrow night is going to be pretty special for LP, as our very own Daut44's WPT win will be televised on the Travel channel. Don't miss out, I'm sure it will be hella entertaining watching all our fellow forum users, and Daut44 applying his great game theory and reading abilities on TV! Tom, Rain, Can't wait ^^

Going to go over a few key hands, any constructive crisism is welcome;

vs Fleury - observation is that he's a bad player playing shortstack on NL25, his small raise screams draw or nuts to me, so i just put it in. risk reward was great here, rarely he has a better hand imo.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206332

vs LowLead77 - The pot was opened with pedro who plays fairly aggressive and likes to raise weak in late position, I raised here OOP hoping to take it down PF, but was called by LowLead whom I read for JJ/QQ.
A high flop came out, with his stack being so small I decided to attempt to take him off of any PP. He reluctantly made an "ok" call, only to be ran over by my outs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206328

This hand pissed me off kelly sucked out on me 3/3 today.
Guess that happens when you always have the best hand vs a donk like this, right?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206322

This hand pissed me off, Put him on a weaker ace than me on the flop, now that I think about it, I should have just shoved flop, no reason to fold this here imo. Agree shove is best here?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206316

Weeeeeeee! This guy just can't fold
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206308

Happy birthday to me~
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206300

Such a drawheavy board I was sure he was on JQ/J9, shoving here is always best? Figured he has me beat here about 20% of the time, dangerous to check though..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206279

vs svDadon - This guy sucks. I can't really believe he would have any ten to call the reraise w/ OOP, so his range to me is Quads - AA/ AK AQ. Flat the flop n hit gin, no reason to raise from here having this guy donk into me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206273

Sams one of the only other players at the table w/ a stack over 1bi, I have 1.7bi's.
He has only seen me play high quality hands so far, I think QQ was all. I decide that I'm going to take him off of his weak hand any chance I have here, and repop PF to isolate and instill fear into him. Flopped the joint, put him on nines or tens and looked to maximize value. Obviously I didn't do too well of a job, any advice on a better way to play this hand postflop?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206276

vs shakeNbake24 - Put villian on a strong ace or medium high PP when he flatted my raise, as I was multitabling *had 12 goin at the time*, i misclick minbet flop, which set this up. Can't really take any credit for playing this well, just worked out.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206274

Multiway pot - Tough spot - This pot was very tricky for me. JC's range was narrowed down well, but Riverqueen86's range was TT-AA/AQ-AK (I thought), as he shoved over me I was going to call his raise because it was so small, then out of the blue JCA shoves me in? zlikeomgwtfm8~! Obviously a muck now.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206273

Well, gonna watch some WPT episodes, get baked n enjoy the night. My first winning session in a week was very welcome and look forward to many more.

Hoping to improve more tomorrow and hopefully have a nice day as well. Please post any constructive crisism about my hands, I realize there are holes in my game, which I intend to plug asap.

Thanks and GL to everyone !

Ryan (NeillyAA) (31,792 FPP til Supernova)


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I hit 200 yesterday on stars and withdrew and moved over to UB to take advantage of the RB and deposit bonus. I've decided to just one table cuz multi tabling on UB makes it all over lap so i moved up a lvl to NL25 and am just doing 1 table.

You think this guy is on tilt after these hands?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206238
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206288

fun day with deposit bonus finished at 289.66...rake is a bastard in this site




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had to cashout almost my entire roll. after a week of busto, i'm now looking for a stake to play $5-10 sngs on stars/absolute.

here's a graph of my $10+1s on absolute from 05/07-05/28. ended at 33% roi.

i can put in a lot more time now that school + summer course are done with.

http://www.tcnj.edu/~shaw6/apstake2.bmp


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I playd my first big session in ages today. about 3k hands.


/boring aggro text/

2,5k evrything went fine. some minor suckouts but overall my hands held up and i was killing the idiots on my tables.

then i ran into one weird guy. limpcalls evrything suited, raises A6 over 2 ppl on AKT board, folds getting 6:1 etc.

he calls me when i try to pick up a big pot beating NOTHING but a bluff( no he didnt outthink me or anything that moron just htought his hand was good). i get pissed and start smacktalk. some hands later he cracks my aces with 52 on 42729 rainbowish board. im still cool. next time he sucks out against my trips with his great limpcalled 83s. now im pissed. table starts jumping on me(all morons except one guy who was just pissed of cause i kept telling the fag evrytime he made a bullshit move that he sucks. stupid of me ya but i was deadmadcrazypissed)

other table a loose moron steals blind i repop out of bb T8s cause hey im pissed and i want to crush this fuckfish. i flop my draw and bet out. he minraises and i shove.he calls. with bottompair fives. deuce kicker. i ofc dont manage to hit one of my bacrazzillion outs and im even more pissed. so hes now me new target no1. table empty hu i run over him till i bluff into his 3outer straight he just made and i instahit the reset/power button of my computer and proceed to punch into the wall.

blablabla


/END of boring aggro text/


short version:

Variance: first 3k+hands session in like 6 or more weeks and it was fun overall and im confident again.

Beat: i tilted away ~3-4 buyins against total monkeys.cards helped them still im dumb as hell and shouldve quit when i noticed im going into a blind mad donkstomping rage.

Brag: im still up 3+ buyins for today


other stuff:
-i get enough weed tomorrow to keep me calm for the next few sessions.
-departed is a fucking good movie.
-i have more sex atm then when i still had a gf. ya im cool.
-girl i had sex with wrote me a sms that she wants to try out buttsecks. ya im cool²
- i started to play wow cause i can play on a friends acc. the game sucks in so many ways(fly from one town to the other takes 9 minutes? WTF I DONT WANT TO LOOK 10 MINS AT MY SCREEN WITHOUT BEEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING FU BLIZZARD) but its so mindnumbing and stupid that its a decent timekiller.

if u read all that pls write me a thank you or fuck you for stealing ur time/helping u kill time.


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Sweet, so I decided to start a random poker blog to start keeping track of my sessions, and discuss my play in various situations. This is mostly for myself, but if people wanna read and comment thats even better.

So a little history...
I started playing poker online about 2 years ago, and have been banging it out at the lower limits mostly on Party Poker. I worked up my 50 starting bankroll to about 2K before losing half in a hurry and then cashing out. I stopped playing for about 6 months, then Party decided to give me a free $75 . I started playing again at 25NL on party, and worked up to 200NL in a month, while building my bankroll up to about 4400. I was playing above my roll, but I was willing to drop down if I took a hit. Of course I did, I suffered a weekend of retarded bad beats and lost more than half my roll. After dropping down levels and losing more because of bad beats and monkey tilt, my bankroll was down to 100 again. Back to 25NL weeeeeeee.

So I am back at the grind again, and my roll is up to almost 650 now and I'm playing 50NL. I'm gonna grind out another couple hundred there, and move back to 100NL and try to build a decent roll there. I find the games at 100NL are very very good at Party, as long as I can stay off the tilt wagon when I get a bad beat, which seems to happen too often lately.

Will post some hands later


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2 outs 2 outs 2 outs 2 outs flush vs flush
crap lik that
but im up 80 cool :D


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My blog for some reason doesnt work, ppl cant view it. Sorry for this problem, hope lp fixes it.


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So I took the night off last night after FTing 3 $4 180 man SnG's and only finishing w/ 5th 6th and 7th losing QQ vs JQ,KK vs AJ, 88 vs A6

Woke up today ready to own the world, and started trying out the 350FPP-2700FPP $216 ticket tournaments (for sunday million), FT'd 5 of them and got 1st in one, and top 4 in one where top 4 qualify!

Still a little disapointed in myself, I tried a retarded steal in the last one i played, with 4 to go behind a monkey that was limping weak during the two table period..this time he limped with AQ and out ran my 89.. (had 5k stack at 600/800 blinds in MP), if he folded I would have had 7200 and had a good shot for first, since the 300 and 500 fpp tournaments only pay to first place.

Feeling good now, alot of stability has been re added to my BR. I'm going to continue playing these SnG's til my FPP's are gone, the fields are just ridiculously soft, you should try em too. So far I've spent 6k FPP for $430.

PS - I K.O.-d [NC]Yellow (LifeisJust) in one JJ vs 44, and lost vs lifeisjust in another KK vs AQ (he rivered ace)

Oh, I got a new keyboard yesterday as well as a nice paycheck that I wasn't expecting. Got to see my brother for the first time since January too~

Here are the key hands from today :



Important pot vs Pete - this was a tough call, he was sitting on his stack for a while not really getting out of line, but shorthanded I have no choice and figure at worst im 25%, could be 60% though, so I call
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205951

KO Yellow - pretty self explanatory
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205980

Final hand of the 375 FPP Qualifier (36 ppl) He just sucked out on me taking me from 39k to 28k, Figured he was trying to build a rush and steal the blinds, repopped and smashed it on the turn~
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205974

Last hand of the 2700FPP Qualifier (20 ppl)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205984

GL to everyone, see ya on the felt


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I've been more agressive lately on my tables, and looks like it makes wonders. But the line is thin between being a good agressive player and a maniac, sometimes i just make dumb plays like the session this morning where i think i was semi-tilting due to one of the first hands i play.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205950

I didn't bet turn and get sucked out on river, when i lead a pot and the guy just call, i always think he's setting a trap or he's far ahead and let me bet for him so he can extract more value off me. So i give him infinite odds to draw his hands and get outdrawn on river, wow i hate playing oop.


Here's something i'd like you guys take time to explain if u don't mind:

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7927/statsnf9.jpg

These are stats from yesterday session, can u guys explain it to me ? PF AF ? Vol put in pot ? folded SB to steal ? Won WSF ? Appreciate it.

update: second session was nice, i basically broke even after 1.5k hands and went on a heater and called it a night since ive been playing 8 tables for 2.5 hours:

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/2714/fuseegi1.jpg

Feels good when u know your game is improving, hope i can maintain 10-15bb/100 hands during june. I can reach a solid br for NL50 at the end of this month hopefully.


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May 16th - June 4th, 2007

Today's summary:

http://www.coryland.net/uploads/pb060407.jpg

Commentary:

My run at 50NL was short-lived.

I'm now hovering at the 1K mark, and I've decided to drop limits. Although I told myself I wouldn't give up until I hit $750, I felt I was just spewing money away.

twotimesopt gave me some BR advice that I'm going to stick with, and it's this: if I ever start a session with 20 BI's, play 50NL. If I have less than 20 BI's, stick with 25NL. So expect to see me roller-coastering between 25/50NL over the next few weeks.

Over the past month I've lost a little bit of focus: hardly posting here, not updating my blog, playing only 3.5k hands. Poker has taken a backseat to some RL distractions that have recently come up; least of which is my desktop taking a shit on me, so I'm forced to 4-table (sans PT/HUD) on a weak-ass laptop. But life is starting to level out again, and I'm going to make a serious effort to keep focused on my goals for the month, which are:

1. Play 10k+ hands.
2. Make a video, pay to get it analyzed.
3. Become a 50NL regular.

Anyhow, here's some meaningful content:

http://www.coryland.net/uploads/highschoolpolevaulter.jpg
Old enough to pee, old enough for me!!

Top winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205935
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205936
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205937
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205938


Top losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205931 Lots of history, but still very spewy.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205932 Started a thread about this hand, and got - rightfully so - flamed.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205933
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205934 Check/min-raise = power. Believe that.

Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205939 This smack-talking fag had my number the entire session.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205941 Booyakasha
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/204098 Sick overbet
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205996 EZ


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Soo...

I haven't been posting for a long long time but I've been really busy. First I went to Wick (Scotland) to visit my father and we had some good time. Then I went to Edinburg to visit my friends from my high school back in Poland. We got sooo wasted and I had to catch a morning train. I woke up at 9:30am or so and I was still pissed. This was like my worst train journey ever. I was back in Manchester around 6pm and at 8pm me and my friends were going to some flat party in a posh district of the city. Basically we brought like 3 bottles of wine (which I hate) but the girls that were organising this party bought a shitloads of alcohol. Everything you could imagine. So once again I got really pissed and had a fight with my mate in the main square in the city centre but it was more like for fun. The only problem is that it was raining and when I got back home I was all wet.

The very next day I had to pick up my best friend from the airport as he was visitting me in Manchester. OBviously I overslept but luckily his flight was late so it wasn't that bad. We had a great time. We went out a few times and we were eating out almost all the time so I'm afraid I gained a few kilos. Not good before the summer but I think I'll start working out or sth to get in better shape before hitting beaches.

Yesterday I came back to Poland and I'm sooo happy. I'm gonna spend here like 3,5 months so it's going to be great. This week I'll be quite busy as I need to meet with everyone etc etc so I won't be playing much poker again ;/

For the last 2 weeks I haven't played much but I managed to put in some short session where I won some money (except for the short nl200 session where I dropped 3 buyins in like 20 minutes but it were all beats and setups). I don't have time to post any hands or stats right know. I'm not sure about my results from May but I guess it wasn't that bad and I made a bit together with rakeback. I hope June is going to be awesome, I just need to get back into the game, watch a couple vids on CR and hit the tables. I'm hoping to finally play 50k hands this month but we'll see how it goes.

Right now I'm gonna pick up Kapol from LP from the railway station and we're gonna play some live cash games today so it should be fun. Tommorow I'm going to the restaurant with a few friends of mine and later on we're going out to some club. This week should be really good and I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer. Holla


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I'm setting a new goal for June-Aug to make over 20k at .5/1 and 1/2. Going to start putting in more hours and getting more sleep so i can play my A game. I also have no more debt and i don't have any bills to think about. I'll keep you guys up to date with my progress. So i'm Starting today, so i have 20,000 to go.


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I'm setting a new goal for June-Aug to make over 20k at .5/1 and 1/2. Going to start putting in more hours and getting more sleep so i can play my A game. I also have no more debt and i don't have any bills to think about. I'll keep you guys up to date with my progress. So i'm Starting today, so i have 20,000 to go.


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GUESS AGAIN I DON't LOOSE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.yoeri.net/zion/freak.jpg

ZION FTW

GINGER KIDS PIMPIN IT UP


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Played like three session today and did really well. Just tied up a session that went like this:

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2457/mondayqn2.jpg

My two sessions from this morning actually went a little better. June's off to a ballin' ass start. It's unreal how ridiculously lucky I got today. Set up a bunch of people and had some mega donations from the guppies. I like having standout days like this because they help me pull through the really bad stretches. I was playing breakeven poker for the last week and it was starting to irk me a little so this is a great break from that trend.

Enough about me though, I was browsing some of my favorite hot jam sites and came across this ill jam:
Termanology - So you wanna be harcore

The jam was real tight, and the name of the MC really stuck out to me. I decided to check him out on Wikipedia, and the guy is from my hometown! I was pretty shocked. The pic of him is the style of dress that like everyone in my old neighborhood rocks too it was a pretty LOL moment. I remember this guy from when I was younger trying to become a rapper and thinking it was a little LOL but it appears he really made it. I'm happy for him and it's cool that a guy from my 'hood is out there doing it. Mass. isn't known for putting out much good music and being a big music fan I'm really happy about this.

I also checked out a Lil' Wayne song, I'm really not much of a fan of his but this song is really experimental and I think it's cool too see him messing around with different styles. This song is weirdly uplifting and depressing at times if you listen to the lyrics. Lil Wayne new hot fire!

Beyond all that, I'm just balling it out in my new place. Some friends of mine who recently graduated my University just moved into the area, we went out for a few drinks tonight and it was a really nice time. The bar scene in my new city is really pretty sick. A lot of really posh places with balling ass leather couches everywhere and small dancefloors, its definitely my scene. It's also nice having some old friends in town to go out with. With all the poker playing and being on my own for the first time really I've been really out of touch with my friends, it's something I'm trying to work on.


Looking forward to a really great Summer. God I love Summer. I really think I get seasonal depression . Boo Winter.

Hope everyone is doing well,

Cheers.


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