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Finally I seem to be able to win at NL25$ consistently, up 3 buy ins today and yesterday up 1, but I can feel my game has improved, I've arranged a little more my bet sizes and I'm playing much more solid and less hands than before, which is good.

BR : 1200$ (won a tourney)

I will play NL50$ now BUT I will still cash out all of my BR in some days, and I still dunno where to put the 500~700 (hopefully more if I win more on NL50 before cashing out) to take advantage of rakeback / promos etc.

I'm still undecided though since partypoker is so easy (or so they say, and i believe it so far), so any suggestions would be appreciated.


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Since my last post, there's been a massive roller coaster. I almost doubled my br then proceeded to lose about 1/3 of it.

It started with this

http://www.liquidpoker.info/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=172305 Give me that 260 BB hand

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/172405 oops committed myself

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/172406 that guy would donk me chips eventually

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/172407 Group effort

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/172408 Really thought he had AK

http://www.liquidpoker.info/h/172409 owned again

Right now I stand at 100 available, 13 in play. At least this provides amusement


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So the past couple days I haven't really been playing. Mainly because I've been talking to a few NL200 regs and we've realized that Mondays and Tuesdays just aren't optimal at the tables since every table is infested with regulars. So, to pass the time I've been playing some Starcraft!! Fun stuff eh? I found this new Abyss Server thing, and have been playing the ladder to kill time. I'm so sick rusty it's pretty sad.

Just played RaiNKhaN 3 games of Zerg vs Protoss and got my ass swept. This picture pretty much sums it up:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/EatingShit.jpg

Yeah I ate shit... So I'm going to be back at the tables tomorrow morning and hope that the games are better.


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Geees...... i hav 5days til my first final and hav 2 more that week; i spend 1/3 of my time looking at hands or playing sc (i blocked myself from poker for a week). its gonna be tough because I skipped most of that class and had to borrow notes from a friend. I think I need to pull the plug from my computer now. Plz gimme that backdoor flush!!!


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Thats right ladies n gents. 2 finals!
One from 8:30am to 11:30 so in like 9 hours and the other from 7pm-10pm.... no joke..fucking SFU

I have locked myself in the house for 2 days trying to study but I have done all kinds of random things... I promised myself I wouldnt play poker and I didnt but spend a good chunk on this site looking at hands... and actually thinking about theory math stuff behind poker...

I had a discussion with some1 about one of the thigns I read in Sklansky book:
You are heads up and cards are dealt between you and opponent.
Your opponent moves all in and tells you he either has AK or AA.
Now I know that there are 6 ways to AA and 16 ways to AK.
so 27% chance he has AA, 73% he has AK.

but this guy was telling me an Ace card is fixed so you either have 3/7 chance of getting AA or 4/7 of chance of geting AK. so (43% of him having AA, 57% AK)

I know his wrong but I couldnt prove him mathematically in time... we were on the bus. but I came up with this, which is alternate way:

The dude was telling me this basically:

Fixed Ace -> (3/7) to get another Ace, (4/7) to get King.

but there is only 4/8 to get Ace dealt and then use that path so divide his % by 2.

and add this

4/8 ways to get this:

K-> and (4/4) ways to get Ace.

So time well spent, next time I see him I can show him whos the king

but why do I do this, I can never cocentrate on school even though I am done for the year after these 2 exams... anyonelse has this syndrome/desease/ whatever you call it.



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These past few weeks from playing poker again has been a rollercoaster ride. Basically I haven't made any money for a month on 10nl. I couldn't figure it out, until yesterday. Today I tested out my new strategy/way of thinking and after 2k hands (even with a lot of beats) I managed to make 3 buy ins.

The single thing that helped me the most was stoxvideos. After watching it yesterday I finally realized what I was doing wrong. Something else that has helped me was from reading all these poker books. It allowed me to think about the game in the long run rather than immediate profit. I don't make the mistake of betting out 7x the bb with Aces and kings out of position... it's just negative ev. The last thing that I learned, which is the most valuable lesson is aggression. I constantly put pressure on my opponents by raising... I rarely call now... which is what Tom basically kept telling me all this time(though I know that I am making a few mistakes here and there by cbetting into wrong opponents). I know 2k hands is a small sample size, however, after playing these two sessions I can just tell that I'm playing a much more solid game.

Here are some hands where I got beat, and some mistakes I made as well:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172015
Cooler number 1...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172025
I didn't necessarily put him on the straight but I reasoned to myself. Who would call a raise here? Only a guy with a straight... I think this call was justified, however, I may have lost some value by not min raising (or even pushing for that matter)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172029
I actually thought he hit this hand when the king came out... thoughts?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172036
AA vs AA both deepstacked and he hits his flush. Wow

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172045
I seriously think I played this hand extremely horribly. I knew I was beat but I couldn't lay it down. The turn bet was horrible as well. I should've checked it and evaluate for the draw... erkk.. I thought to myself. AK beats, me, AJ beats me, no way he's going to play like that w/ AT-. Two pair, etc... I basically make the same mistakes over with my TPTK hands

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172063
Another bad play. I had put him on AQ but that shouldn't be justified. His range can be anything. AK would've been more correct. Seeing that he bet 1 into 3 dollars I should've called and hope to hit my boat on the river (or even go unimproved with my two pair vs his... most likely ak holding)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172285
Personally I think this a good fold just because I'm facing two other players and I'm only holding TPTK. With the action that I'm facing I had a feeling that I was beat on the turn... thoughts?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172291
I'm posting this hand because I think I played the turn bad. I was giving him odds to call for a flush draw... thoughts?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172306
I believe I also played this hand terribly. The guy reraised me preflop. I only had a pair of tens. The turn and river bet pretty much gave me enough clues to tell me that the guy isn't bluffing with AK or AQ (and if he did have AK he hit on the river...)







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Yesterday went pretty well. It started when my shortstacking multitabling NL 25 dropped me from 75 to 30. I then clawed my way back up to 96 doing the same thing.

Today was quite an adventure. I decided to 6 table shortstack 25 on my shitty laptop screen and lost about 50. I shipped 20 to a friend so i wouldn't lose all of it and put the rest on a NL 50 table. It went well.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=172253 Ship it up.

Left that table with 40.

Then went to another table with some donk daniseri. Raised everything with ass and overplayed every hand. He had 100 dollars and blew it all, with about 32 going me.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=172253 good start

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=172257 did not mean to bet that much but good thing he is a donk

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=172249 i nearly threw my computer after the turn and river.

That's it for now. Have to do a good amount of work for my 2 math classes. More later.








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So I had a pretty decent day and made over $500. I got up pretty late, watched an episode of Rome, ate breakfast etc etc and played some poker. I got outdraw a couple of times and had one awful split pot but I still managed to win 3,5 buyins. Also my flop AF is going down so it's good news. Thanks to it I feel like I've got more control over my game, although I find myself in some tricky spots when I check behind or just call with some hands on the flop. In the evening I was supposed to have a private lesson with Andrew from CR (I won it long time ago). Everything seemed to be set up and ready, he could see my desktop, but Skype wasn't working properly and we were getting disconnected all the time. We tried ventrillo but again - sth was wrong and I couldn't hear his voice. We decided to postpone the lesson and hopefully we'll manage to do it tommorow. I think I can benefit a lot from this lesson as he'll be able to find some major leaks that I probably still have. I decided to play some headsup on UB as I didn't feel like starting a 6max session on Party. I opened 2 NL50 HU tables on UB and after an hour or so I was up $180. Had some interesting hands, made loads of good reads, maybe just one bad call for 40bb but overal I was very happy w/ my play.

Tommorow I've got to finally start preparing for my IELTS exam (yeah I know I said I'd start doing it today but there's always a good excuse to not do it lol) but I'm still going to play loads of poker every day. Also next week my friends are coming back to Manchester from their holidays so I'll probably go out a few times, spend too much money, get drunk as hell and won't remember anything from these nights. Standard.

And here are my stats from today and some hand histories:

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9316/1234hf4.jpg

1. Would like to hear some comments on this hand.

2. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172218
I dunno. Kinda tough spot. I felt like it's better to fold cause I have to put over $30 to get my $9.5 back. What you think guys?

3. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172221
Meh, I always pick up wrong spots for this move. Should've given up when he minraised and I'd save like $70. Villain was pretty aggro so I that that he's making this play with a wide range, most of which he'd fold to a 3bet. As played should I just check/fold on turn?

4. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172223
Villain was 35/4/3.5 after 2k hands or so. I don't know him well though, I only had a stat on him that he minraised and min4bet trips on turn in unraised pot. Was kind of worried about K6 and 66 but I thought that his range is wider here (he was quite agressive postflop) and he could easily call w/ AK preflop without 3betting cause his PFR is so small (AA was also a possibility). What you think guys? Should I have been more careful since I had this note on him? Ship it anyway.

5. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172225
Likey? Or should I play it differently? Villain was 42/14/1.5 after 150 hands.

6. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172226
I love minraising.

7. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172227
In this hand villain was a 3betting addict and his stats were 30/26/10 after 100 hands. I had a good image so I thought there's a good chance that my play will work. Likey?

8. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172228
That was a pretty weird spot for me. Villain was 32/7.6/1.25. Out of nowhere he openraised to 7bb (he didn't raise like this before) and I had no idea what to think about it. I didn't want to 3bet cause this way I'd put like $22 preflop and then like $30 postflop as a c-bet so I just smooth called on the button. Meh I really don't like this hand. Should I've just checked behind on turn? On the river I don't think I can beat anything except for other AK. All comments appreciated.

9. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172232
Ugly split. Villain was a 47/13/3.5 retard.

10. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172234
This was like 3rd or 4th time when I 3bet villain but he 4bet me for the first time so I was a bit worried. His stats were 46/14/1 after like 50 hands. I was even more worried when he checked this flop. I thought about betting but he'd prolly call w/ KK and QQ anyway. Turn seemed to be a miracle card but it only made me lose my whole stack. I was like 90% sure that he's got aces but still I couldn't fold it. And I think I wouldn't fold them now as well. Thoughts?

11. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172239
Not sure if my play was ok. What you think? Villain was 38/6/2.17 after 80 hands and he instacalled the flop.

12. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172241
Standard.

13. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172242
Thanks.

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Ok, time to watch last episode of Rome season 1 and download season 2. Any other tv series you can recommend? I've already watched Prison Break, Heroes, Dexter, Rome and Coupling (UK).


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Soooooooooo, inspired by midians microstakes challenge and the fact that neteller once again gave me the run-around, I decided to play some NL2.

Maaaaaaaaan.

NL2 is soooo eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasy. EDIT: Played a mini-session (had to stop cause I kept disconnecting), 193 hands, 4 tables, +2 buyins, PT BB 44/100 :D

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8093/nl2ks6.jpg

The NL10 I think is from a few 1 table sessions I did earlier, maybe some left overs.. surprised at the amount of hands.

I've now called neteller 3 times, first time they tell me to send in a copy of a utility bill - done.

Support person I talked to sounded like she was a native speaker.

Ok, nothing happens for like a week, so I call them again, get some guy who's played starcraft for 10 years, wont go into details but pretty funny. Anyway, he tells me they take 9 days to process this stuff.. Also native speaker.

9 days was thursday last week. SOo, I give them easter weekend too, and call them again today (well yesterday).

This time I get to speak to 2 different people - 1 indian sounding girl who speaks way too fast and on a way too bad phone, she then redirects me to some french sounding girl whose phone volume is apparently set to like 0, bleeeeh.

They say 16 days.

I just realized it's been 16 days already. I'll give them a day or two more, but I really dunno what I'm supposed to do, calling them doesnt seem to be doing me much good.

But since they said 9 business days (and I assume they meant 16 business days as well), I guess I'll make deductions for the easter weekend + the other weekends -_-



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Okay , thats definitely one of my main mistakes.

There are simply times when you shouldnt play Poker ...

Just 30 minutes ago i had to realize this again.
I am tired as fuck it was 0.30 am
i have worked the whole day

And all i wanted to do is watch some cool film or fall to sleep asap.
but no ! I can play some Poker ! SInce i ran really hot in teh afternoon i thought it would be easy gping again even if i feel like a Zombie being tired to death.

Yeha i was up 21$ today due to 2 h i played in the afternoon.
But i somehow managed to lose 29$ in almost no time just a few minutes ago.

LOl i played so bad that i couldnt even believe its real.
Actually i was so tired that it felt like i was watching someone else playing Poker ...
I was so absolutely not focused

Args i want my money back ... T_T

Lol i was up 21$ damn dollars today ...
now i am down - 8 $

I hate this so much.

I fell like i made big Progress the last weeks but i probably forgot that my main weakness is playing Poker when i shouldnt.

LOl i have lost at least about 300 $ TILTING and playin whithout being focused in 2007


I am so angry right now.
Args grpfl


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Heres 25nl this month. As you can see i really need to play more hands.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/8354/25nlld5.jpg

Also, this is what smoking does to you kids:
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/4107/cashoutiv0.jpg

Notice 1$ from floofy? drawing contest, ship ship


Anyways, i played a 11$ 180 on a whim yesterday and ended up taking second for $360. Point is I have enough cash in my wallet to not have to cash out for a couple weeks, and I have 20 buy ins for 50nl.

So gl me, will post progress soon.



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I can never run good at the FPP satellites I swear... today I played the 1 table 1500 FPP satellite to Sunday Millions and doubled up on the first hand with AA. I proceeded to lose every race and busted on 6th.

Fucking donk raised A9o UTG 6 handed and proceeded to call a push from BB (me) for a good 70% of his stack against my 77. Flop comes A 9 6, gg me.

Last night I lost money on cash games too. I played bad and ran bad and spewed more jizz than Peter North in a cheap porn flick. Today I want to gamble more, but I have a final tomorrow that I desperately need to cram for. Talk about a dual bad beat. To make matters worse, I need to finish the exam 1hr early to get home in time for the playoff game. Fuck life fuck school fuck me fuck fuck fuck

I'm obviously uncreative the use the only curse word I know umpteen times. But fuck you for having a fucking problem with that.

good luck to you all


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Today's summary:

Commentary:

Top 3 winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172000
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172001
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172002 Slow-played rockets for the 1st time in a few sessions.

Top 3 losers:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172003 The beginning of the end. Not beating myself up over it, but if there were ever a time it'd be possible to lay KK pf, this would have been it.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172004 SPEW OF THE MONTH
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/172005 Ever a GOOD time to min-raise?

Hands of Note:

It's only fitting that my first blog entry comes in the midst of a terrible run of cards for me. A little background - I just started playing 200NL full ring in late January 2007. Before that, I was a micro stakes grinder, but I was a complete nit and I really didn't know how to play.

After plugging some initial leaks in my preflop game, I reached a comfort level with in mid-February. I'm still a very tight player but I'm much more aggressive preflop, especially in position. I proceeded to run fairly good for about a month and a half, making $5300 from mid february to late March. That's pennies to most of you but I have a full time job so my poker time is very limited. I was pretty proud to have made that much money playing a few evenings a week.

Fast forward to April, and I'm running like horseshit. Here's how I have run over the last 2 weeks:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7580/ptoo6.png

Obviously there has been some bad play in there, but for the most part I'm just getting raped in the big pots by either coolers or horrible beats. Last night, I played a 1500 hand session, and the biggest net $ I won in a hand was $30! I could not flop even middle pair, and I had about 80% of my continuation bets thereafter called or raised, and the only time I had a hand, everyone either folded immediately or woke up with the nuts.

Certainly this latest run is not the end of the world, since it could be a 10-15 buyin downswing that I've heard stories about. And 13K hands is basically nothing over the course of an entire year or whatever. I think the key is to just keep plodding along and try to make the best decisions at all times. At some point, it's gotta turn around.



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http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9197/1020ni0.jpg

hope i can keep it up

im now properly rolled for it


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removed cuz it fucking huge

msg me if you want it


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I've recently been involved in a few staking deals and one teaching deal. I have a couple live tourney deals, had one online sng deal, loaned a friend who plays donkaments a little money to get him started on cash games and i'm teaching someone PLO.

My two live tourney stakes are in Ari "bodogari" engel and Corwin "mig.com" Mackey.


Ari has played 10 tournaments so far and already made a 63k score as well as a cash in the LAPC.

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


Mig just started playing in his first live tournaments for me. In his very first one, the $2500 event at the bellagio, he has made the final table and is currently in 6th out of 10. 1st place is 220k.

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

Corwin Mackey raises to $8,000 preflop and Joel Casper makes the call. The flop comes AJ8 and both players check. The turn is the A and they check again. The river comes the Q and Casper bets $10,000. Mackey puts him all in and Casper makes the call. Casper turns over K10 for a straight but Mackey flips up AA for quads. Mackey rakes the pot and eliminates Casper from the tournament.

So sick.


Earlier this year I was staking rainkhan in sngs. We had a buyout option and he did so well in the first week that he bought out. Since then he has won a few online mtts and has won 5 (yes thats correct) main event seats.

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


My buddy randallin has been just destroying online mtts (particularly on UB) the past 3 months. However, since he is backed by bax/sheets he cant really play any cash games. So I gave him a few k loan to get him started at 1/2 nl. He beat 1/2 so bad he was up to 2/4 by the 2nd day, and he has since won at least 15 buyins there.

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


Finally, I'm teaching my buddy Corwin (tecknowledgy on stars) PLO. He's really bright and he picked it up really quick and now hes beating the game at like 19ptbb at 1/2 plo. What a sicko.

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



As for me, I've been playing well in NL lately. Things turned to shit in PLO though. I lost most of my 60/40s 40/60s and intermittently played like shit and lost all my 20/80s and 10/90s. It really sucks when your gutshots get cracked by sets and AAxx overpair all in on the flop doesnt hold up against the nut straight.

I'm still very confident in my PLO game but im going to take a break from it for a while and maybe play some 3/6 5/10 and 10/20 plo instead of 25/50 until i start playing well again. Maybe I'll ask my student for some lessons cause hes murdering children at 1/2.


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losing day! down like 600 in a few hands. soon i wont be able to play nl 100 anymore. i just wanna kill somebody. fuck poker, fuck it right in the ass

the combination of my UFKCIUNG bad luck and tilty reactions is incredible good. i cant believe that, i should jsut have cahsed out all of the fucking money that i had 2 weeks ago..

i dont know what to do anymore, no amtter what i do i cant win I JUST CANT WIN. its driving me mad. i should fukcung get a coach maybe. i just dont understand that, i was once a decent winning player and since this motherfucking xyear started im just struggling and tilitng and sucking that it is ridicolous and painful... =[[

end of my rambling :/


for those of you, a graph of a few months before 2007, back then where i still was a winning player.
thxhttp://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5294/20062007ma0.jpg
i never have been muuuuuch of a tilter,well sure i have, and always have had a lot of temper, but why am i like this now(DONKEY FISH RETARD), and how could i manage to become such a bad player?`??? i dont get it, really. you guys saw my graph from this year, seems like this graph and the other one i posted were played by 2 completely different persons, aight? i wanna become my old self again! =(


if you got any comments feel free to post them, flame me, motivate me,whatever everything is appreciated,


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Today I pretty much failed my tax exam (in my standards). Im praying by some rediculous stroke of luck that I get a B in the exam. But in reality I'm more in the 50-69 range...

So when it was done I was so relieved I went and smoked the cronz at some guys house. Watever, came home about an hour ago and played a session high.

I made some rediculous plays by putting people on ranges. However when I was wrong it cost me alot. I started off jumping up 1 buyins then losingit all slowly. I made a few horrible plays but much less than the times before. Also gotta say the bad beats are a mofo...

Here are some interesting hands that came up...

Aj vs shortstack callin the 3 bet preflop...i dunt know what i wuda done without the A on flop though[url]

[url=http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171750]AJ vs straight Made a bad read
KK miniraised on turn forgot to all in [url] I missed a chance to push turn thinking I went up against something stronger...I forgot to push all in like I usually intend to

[url=http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171751]AA 3 barreled shorty all in

QJ vs KT bad read

4 cards to a straight call a bluff only to TIE pot...


AK misses flop after strong reraise...eek expensive

this time KK misses flop after strong reraise...also expensive

Double barrelled the wrong guy

lowest pair

[hand=http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171766] 99 get screwed on river[/url]


Ah5h gets me in trouble

[url=http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171760] also did this to me[url]

Im gettin bored so I'll maybe post some more later. All in all a less than stellar day...

**next time I think I'm only gonna post interesting sessions where I learn somethign


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