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I couldn't fall asleep at 5:00 AM so i played a little. Won a 6.50 1 table turbo for $26. Played 3 NL25 full ring and 1 6-max on the side. Up about $5. Lost more small pots than won.

Major hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/176565 Had close enough odds and his hand was pretty obvious.

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/176566 guy bet way to scared, good thing ace landed on turn to slow him down and gave me another draw.

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/176569 Basically last hand of session, I even put him on AK or better, just wanted a semi-big last hand. stupid spew.

Overall: +25


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I qualified for the Full Tilt 750K guaranteed on Saturday night. I hadn’t planned on committing my day to poker but I woke up and lo and behold I wake up and we’re in the middle of a Noreaster. Oh well I guess I have to play poker all day. In the morning I had a few goals, load up a decent number of tables and qualify for the $650 WSOP qualifier. I entered tons of satellites for it and every $20+ mtt that looked good. Pretty soon I had up about 18 tables, a bit more than I had bargained for. I went deep in a bunch of the qualifiers without a score losing $80 sngs over and over again can get expensive. The $24 6 max double shootouts offer great value- and I eventually luck it up and win one.



I had a weird hand in the Sunday warm-up that I’m really not sure about. Probably bad.... you decide. I have 9600 (10K starting stacks) we’re relatively early in the tournament. Blinds 75/150 there are 3 limpers including the sb, I check. Pot 600. Flop is 256 off suit, it checks around. Turn is a 3 giving me the straight putting a spade draw on the board. I lead out for the pot and get min-raised. OK, first hard decision... The stacks are such that a push is a pretty big overbet- I’m not getting a 4 to fold... ever, and I get all worse hands to fold. But... it protects my hand and likely takes down the pot/ chops against the straight. A problem with this though is that the straight could also be drawing to a flush draw as well or have outs to a larger straight. If I reraise I have to call if he gets it in against me but it gives me value against a set/flush draw. Decisions, decisions. I decide to flat call and evaluate on the river. Ok, here comes the fun part. River is a 2. I check, and he bets 3100 into the 3000 pot. My thoughts- he probably would not bet a 4 like this. I think he likely has 74/ missed draw/ or a boat. If I shove he should be folding 74, like he has to... Opponent is an unknown so I think here is where the logic goes wrong, but in a $200 tourney most players are capable of making this fold. Also if he was betting the 4 he has to fold. I think raising all in/ folding here are both preferable to calling. I shoved, he calls 55... Doh



No big deal... I end up getting 2nd in a $24 tournament on Full Tilt for $1900. I was heads up against this absolute donkey. He asked for a deal at the start and I laughed. I came in with like 450,000 chips versus his 300,000. He was a passi-fish. I’m whittling him away and after like 6 minutes of play he shoves for 270K into my big blind I insta-call AJ, his K7 hits 2 pair. I battle back for a long time, I get chiplead again. He shoves into my big blind which 30,000 I call AK he shows A8, spikes the 8 obviously. Battle back eventually I shove over a limp of his where he had QQ I don’t suckout. Oh well.



Now its time for the majors. I enter the Sunday Million, Sunday Second Chance, Sunday Mulligan (all $200+15's), the $500+35 750K Guaranteed, and the $615+35 WSOP qualifier. I Bust out of the Sunday Million pretty early, bust in the 750K, cash in the Second chance but not for much... And I end up very deep in the WSOP qualifier and the Sunday Mulligan. I made some huge comebacks. In the mulligan I had a really nice stack of around 15K, lost an all in and was down to like 2500 I get back up to like 12K, lose an all in again, down to 1500. I again comeback and catapult my stack up. In the WSOP tourney I got very few cards the whole tourney but the structure is amazing, blinds change every 30 minutes. I was short the whole time. From 36-47 got their entry back, and top 35 got 12K packages. So I’m in 2nd place out of 16 in the Sunday mulligan (30K for first) and like 43/44 in the WSOP tourney, and there is blackness all around me. Fucking power.... The storm knocked it out. I call up Andrew who was very deep in the 750K guaranteed and explain the situation to him. He takes over the $650, and gets a buddy to hop in the mulligan. I get power back an hour and 15 minutes later. I run downstairs, turn on my computer and call Andrew. The bad news... Andrew busted 37th in the WSOP satellite. Fuck... But, Paul - Andrew’s buddy got 4th in the Mulligan for $10,500.



Andrew ended up busting 23rd in the 750K guaranteed for 3500. I paid Paul a tip for coming through in the clutch, and played some heads up cash before going to bed. All in all, ended up 14K on the night. Holla


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I'm usually not the type to be complaining about bad beats... so I just won't. I got pretty much destroyed today and lost a quick $800 in less than 1000 hands. Fun fun fun...

Hand of the day:

Submitted by : JonnyCosMo

PokerStars Game #9472434669: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/04/17 - 16:57:06 (ET)
Table 'Janacek II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: JonnyCosMo ($200.10 in chips)
Seat 2: buchdogg ($164.60 in chips)
Seat 3: CLONEHEAD ($224.80 in chips)
Seat 5: lrpoker ($184 in chips)
Seat 6: powerpill ($208 in chips)
JonnyCosMo : posts small blind $1
buchdogg: posts big blind $2

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to JonnyCosMo
CLONEHEAD: folds
lrpoker: folds
powerpill: folds
JonnyCosMo : raises $6 to $8
buchdogg: raises $14 to $22
JonnyCosMo : calls $14

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $44)

   
JonnyCosMo : checks
buchdogg: checks

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $44)

   
JonnyCosMo : checks
buchdogg: checks

River (Pot : $44)

   
JonnyCosMo said, "i swear i run worse"
JonnyCosMo said, "than everyone"
JonnyCosMo said, "in the world today"
JonnyCosMo : bets $178.10 and is all-in
buchdogg said, "haha"
buchdogg said, "AA?"
buchdogg: calls $142.60 and is all-in

Showdown
JonnyCosMo : shows (four of a kind, Queens)
buchdogg: shows (four of a kind, Queens)
JonnyCosMo collected $163.60 from pot
buchdogg collected $163.60 from pot

Summary
Total pot $329.20 | Rake $2
Board  
Seat 1: JonnyCosMo (small blind) showed and won ($163.60) with four of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: buchdogg (big blind) showed and won ($163.60) with four of a kind, Queens
Seat 3: CLONEHEAD folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: lrpoker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: powerpill (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

The first day after my win, things did not go great.

My first hour session went ok, until this happened.

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/175708 In my topic, it appears 75/25 in favor of my play, more thought are welcome.

1st Session:-$13

My second 3 hour session was kinda spewy. It started poorly until these hands against a player on tilt(which I had told to not play so he could cool off).


http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/175776 Nice

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/175778 I like my turn bet, I think I played it well. As played, the river push seemed like some bluff and it worked out.

After some spew/respew at sngs I ended up even.

2nd session: ~0

Last night 3 hour session, was not good. It started with me down 18 and my friend who plays NL200 helped out. We played well but there were some suckouts and some idiotic hero calls at NL10. I was down another 15. I then played some NL 25 and went up about 25. After more terrible luck at some $6 SNGS(33>QQ with 3 on river and A7>99 with 7 on river(flop was 754) i ended up with the same amount as before NL25 started.

3rd session: -$33.

I then self-excluded myself for 24 hours at about 4:49ET, 10% to prevent tilt and 90% so I could study for my 3 exams on thursday and friday. Didn't really study and ended up thinking about poker haha.

We have no class on Wednesday so I plan to get up and play a little, prolly the $5.50 turbo MTT. Maybe some NL10 and NL25 with some $5-6SNGS.





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I still can't get pokertracker to work and I expected it to be working when I switched to NL50. However I still get an error in the chip count which prevent me from important hand history from the folder. Sucks cause I could be posting graphs and shit. Oh and apparently FTP isn't cool because it's hard(fayth sayings) so I might stick around UB for a shortwhile, even tho I wanted to do the bonus.

Took me quite a while but at least I learned quite a few valuable lessons, also I'm starting to learn the math and try to stick with it. Hope my 1k last forever.

GG GL HF



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Im playing bad and running bad lately. Vicious circle. Heres the past couple days:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8837/333pj6.jpg

I think my flop AF is too high, i should chill out with the cbets a bit, im being a monkey.
Anyways:
I have one more final coming up so im gunna take a few days off from poker to prepare for that.

So long.


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Daut/ship_main_event_seat.JPG


there was a layover too (only had 9420 in buyins) so stars just handed me 1580.

i run so good


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Stopped the multi tabling 5 tables shit where i play in 1 ms and dont have any read

Now i try to 2 tables and focus, and feels soooooooooooo much more profitable

This evening was my best so far, 100 ptbb / 100 hand at NL 25

weak tigh players, min bet players, and too many callers when i raise (and of course i had lady LUCK)

short stack that are ultra loose (i think that is the funniest thing seing a short stack limp in every pot)

my new read is : insta check on flop = (sometimes) check raise

Players always try to somehow make like they got a hand when it is a real check and so thinks for some secs

see the SS :

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/7499/goodnightkk7.jpg

hard hand of the session :

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176292

call here ? No read on the player



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Lately I've been running bad and havent felt like posting. I've been playing pretty bad and doing monster moves to win some $$ but I think abc poker woulda spared me ~7-10k. Anyway I hope it was a good lesson and I'll solve my downswings in a better way. So today was a turnpoint for my badstreak, awesome. After ~150 hands I were up 2,2k and had a bb/100 at 270. Sustainable? Oh yes.

So my friend came over to rail my session and give some donk tips, really worked. After he came I rushed even more. I ended up about 16 buyins wich is a new record, woho!!! Last one was of 13buyins at nl200 last summer. Anyway my irl badbeats wont stop since my virus infection wont leave me alone, it's harassing me day as night.

pokeroffice stats:http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6052/n1mu1.jpg

And some hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176232 OMG QUADS vs my most loved spewer. A pokerhand can't get better.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176225 this guy spewed like 3-4 buyins at me. I shaked his hand, took his money and said "ty!" in the poker chat.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176100 this guy spewed pretty good as well


Brag: http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2866/n1rz5.jpg
I'm plzreaload, sitting 'n' ballin with a nice bunch of $$$


Sincerely,
Viktor


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Ok, I've had a bad day. Lost like a buyin or so but I was up like 2.5 so it's not that fun. I've had a big amount of set ups (flush over flush, set over set in a reraised pot) and all kinds of stuff. Really annoying but since I'm not down more I guess I should be greatfull.

Anyway, I got PA HUD but I can't get it to work. Do I have to configure poker tracker in some way so that it imports the hands while I play or something?


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I made some stupid calls(i think), which cost me at least 2 buy-ins.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176212
I made my hand pretty transparent(kk,AA) yet he raise over the top, which can only be AhKh orAhjh(but i highly doubt flush draws since he only calls and never raise with them) or QQ, kk. any chance i could have folded??

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176226


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Finally got my money back yesterday night, at like 5am, after talking to some guy who reminded me of the creator of http://www.endofworld.net

Wee.

I then tried to deposit into UB but UB says I don't have that much money! So I look at my account and see that it's in EURO.

Google gogo, and I found a post indicating that you need to change to base currency dollar.. Fortunately it turns out I miss-read that post and that in my own stupidity I had failed to take into account the transaction fees.
Oops.

This led to me screwing myself out of like 50 deposit bonus dollars (maybe more, dunno) cause I deposited a smaller than maximum amount at first ;D

Anway, I decided I'd 1 table for a little bit, until I got used to the software.. I ran disgustingly well, so good in fact that I felt guilty and had to stop.

Started the session off with this (ok, so it's a dozen hands in or something)

Submitted by : TianYuan

Hand #40567820-81722 at Janesville (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 17/Apr/07 11:26:20
conman_30 is at seat 0 with $9.48.
littleBB is at seat 1 with $47.03.
TianYuan is at seat 2 with $28.25.
Moneytaker7 is at seat 3 with $21.
AAjprenAA is at seat 4 with $16.30.
The button is at seat 0.
littleBB posts the small blind of $.10.
TianYuan posts the big blind of $.25.

Holecards(Odds)
conman_30: -- --
littleBB: -- --
TianYuan:
Moneytaker7: -- --
AAjprenAA: -- --
Moneytaker7 folds . AAjprenAA raises to $.50.
conman_30 folds . littleBB calls . TianYuan calls .

Flop(Odds)

   
littleBB checks . TianYuan bets $1. AAjprenAA calls .
littleBB raises to $4. TianYuan re-raises to $13.
AAjprenAA folds . littleBB re-raises to $41.50.
TianYuan goes all-in for $27.75. littleBB is returned
$13.75 (uncalled).

Turn(Odds)

   
(no action in this round)

River

   
(no action in this round)

Showdown
littleBB shows .
littleBB has : full house, deuces full of queens .
TianYuan shows .
TianYuan has : full house, queens full of tens .

Summary
$2 is raked from a pot of $58.
TianYuan wins $56 with full house, queens full of tens .

Today's summary:

Commentary:

Top 3 winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176121
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176122
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176124

Top 3 losers:

Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176125 ??
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176128 What do you think? Hate/Love/REALLY HATE? If you're villain, what's your calling range against me here? (villain is 15/10/3 over 400 hands; I'd call her/him a reg)

Okay, i made a nice session today, played real good and managed to make +3BI , lost all the profit on 3 major hands: 2xKK and AA. Is it ok to go broke here ? i would like some advices from you guys.

First hand:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176095

Scary board, i played this one pretty bad and pot-committed myself like an idiot, river was an ez fold. Could have saved sum cash here.


Second hand:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176090

Villain is a donk, making bad calls and being too agressive. I put him on AQ or AJ. Is it ok to go broke here ?


Third hand:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176102

He played pretty solid so far, very tight so i guess i should have c/f on river, especially with that Ace on the board.


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Monday was an up day for me. Got up at 5 am and got in a two-table sng with a $6 buy in and quickly donked out. But I had time before work to try again, so I got in another. I played well, got good cards, and sucked out when I needed to enough to build a nice chip lead. But it was getting near time to go to work and I hadn't even gotten dressed yet. So I sat out with five of us remaining and a huge chip lead and got ready for work. Before long I hear the sound of me being blinded off in heads up play, so I came running back to the table to find my opponent with a 3/1 chip lead. It takes just six hands to come back and win. Not a big win, but it still feels good. After work, I finished 3rd in another, and managed to come away a little ahead.

It's 5:20 am right now and I'm in another sng, so I better get back to it. Wish me luck lol


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First I'd like to post my graph from April so far (includes only nl100 6max on Party):

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5356/aprkx7.jpg

Anyone out there on nl100 having swings like mine? Oh and just on a side note - there's no tilting involved in these 17k hands.

So two days ago I played a session on Party where I decided to loosen up a bit. I was running almost 22/18 but in the last 400 hands of the session I was completely cold decked so my stats dropped down to 20.5/17. But I'm still happy with it. Also I managed to get my flop AF below 4 which is quite optimal I think. My Att. To Steal Blinds also went up which is good. I'm also defending especially in BB a bit more but I still feel quite uncomfortable playing more hands from this position.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3633/17489415xq8.jpg

Yesterday, right after I received my full withdrawal from FTP, they sent me an email saying that as their dear customer I am eligible for a $300 bonus and I've got 14 days to clear it. So I decided to deposit 1k there and clear my bonus and leave. So far I've played about 1,8k hands and got $60 from the bonus. I'm getting rakeback at the same time so it's good monies. I was playing pretty loose during the session and my stats were as high as 24/21 but later on I wasn't getting any hands and people were limping and raising all the time so I was just giving up. But I'm still happy with my game as I'm opening up a bit and this combined with controlled agression makes it much more comfortable way to play for me.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7164/12902575va8.jpg

I also noticed one thing. FTP is soooo passive comparing to Party nowadays. The level of agression is much higher on Party and so are the swings. But FTP software and players out there are sooooo slow that it's just painful to watch.

Yesterday was quite busy for me as I had a few things to sort out in the city centre and I also had to do the shopping. Now I've got to go the uni to put forward my application for the accomodation for next year and I should probably shave my beard and go to the hairdresser cause I look pretty similar to this guy:

http://www.greatwigs.co.uk/shop/media/wigs/14331_Caveman_Wig_Beard.jpg

Playing poker ain't healthy.

I don't have time to post my hand histories now but I'll spend some time analyzing my game later on. I should probably study for like 2 hours today but as usually I'll end up playing poker instead. Or maybe not? We'll see.


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I dont know how or why I did it but I played 8k hands in 10hours in 2 sessions seperated by an hour...
Capaneo style: (except he usually finishes 10 buyins up, fucking luckbox)
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/Untitled-1.jpg

how the hell did you play 19K in a day? you are a sick man, man.


took a break after that shitty downfall. I had some bad beats, but never got tilty... i did get tired tho and lost of my patience a bit, but I stopped mainly because I was getting sick... it was like 7 hours infront of computer...not use to that.


so 100nl so far:
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/Untitled-2-2.jpg

on another note, I got my grades and my GPA is 3.00 for the first time in 5 years... thats right 5 years of university, but obviously im getting better.



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so here we are from 4/7/2007...just had a minus 4 buy in session GRRRRRRRRRRR! anyways...ya




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I would like to talk about two things at this point.

Mainly it was just one thing: really great people.

Yugless

He (or she... capaneo told me Yugless is female sorry if it's not true, but you never told me anything about it Yug ) PM'ed me couple days ago and told me that we could practice some to be able to beat NL25$, can you imagine my thrill?

I basically let my girlfriend wait for 1~2 hours of our date and got set into a couple tables commanded by Yugless advice. I made 50$ in a matter of minutes , thank you very much Yug, you were very helpful and I understood the basics very well, and you even made me some money .

Hope to talk to you soon on msn


Capaneo

Aha now onto this other great fella. I PM'ed him asking about freecoaching, ready to get myself non-replied, told-to-fuck-offed. Nevertheless he just asked for my MSN and was just ready to get on with the class, even though I told him I didn't even got money yet to NL25$.

We shared ventrilo and some program I think it's called CrossLoop to share our screens, and he was there beating the crap out of NL25$ while commenting to me about his hands and decision. Great session but too short, so he even told me about some other classes on another time!. Talk about generosity

Really I wanna thank you both very much guys, made me the much more vitalized to try harder at poker even though my family is very much against it 100%. But I will prove them wrong



Secondary thing I wanted to share

Lastly on another note, I wanna talk about how fucking great is PokerStars. Been on NL10$ today with just 70$ and after couple hours I was sitting in 4 tables: 1 with 18$, another with 20$ and the last two with 40$ each. I wasn't even running that good (seriously) getting bad beat all in a couple of times, but still a nice session for being my real first one.

So I hope things go like this everytime on PS (I know it can't never be this good, but it's good to hope for it).

C ya at the tables and good luck to all




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