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Moved up to 25nl in Aug.

I still play all the games below 25nl.

Ive only been playing 5-6 hrs a week because of Uni.

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Hopefully I move up to 50nl by December.

Lets goooo MICROS!!!!!!



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I went ahead and made a purchase this morning as I had some new money to put to work. After some deliberation, I decided to initiate a position in Vodafone (VOD) at $28.49 per share this morning.

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Vodafone is a telecommunications company based in the UK with 400 million customers in over 30 countries. Not only does it operate with a significant presence throughout the Middle East and Europe, it operates throughout developing countries in Africa as well. Beyond that, and perhaps most importantly, Vodafone owns a 45% stake in Verizon Wireless. This significant stake gives the company a large position in the United States making Vodafone a truly global company. It is also important to note that Vodafone is entirely wireless in its business, so it is not held up by the decline in popularity of land-line telecommunication and is ready for the future.

The stock currently sports a dividend yield of ~5%, (not including "special dividends" which brings it up to 7% for 2012) and has raised dividends each year since the year 2000. While Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) may look just as attractive as VOD at first glance with their high yields, you will note that both Verizon and AT&T are taking on debt to increase their dividends each year, while Vodafone recently decreased its debt to $36 Billion. Compare that to $42B for Verizon and $60B for AT&T and VOD starts to look much more attractive. With a P/E ratio of 12.87, VOD is attractively valued. It's payout ratio (the % of its net income paid out to shareholders) is 94% which seems high and unsustainable, but it isn't uncommon for a telco company or any utility to have high payout ratios as a lot of the money flowing in is profit for established companies. And compared to the 261% payout ratio of AT&T and the 231% payout ratio of Verizon, again you can see VOD is a much more attractive option.

With the European Debt Crisis staring us in the face it might seem scary to initiate a position in a primarily European company, but I think that Vodafone would soak up a lot of market share in the event of a collapse and is currently well positioned for the future. I'm happy with my purchase and am looking to deploy some more money to work for me later this month.

Current Watchlist:

General Dynamics (GD)
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
Walgreen's (WAG)
Medtronic (MDT)
Emerson Electric CO (EMR)
Chevron Corp (CVX)
Phillip Morris (PM)

Disclosure: Own VOD, MDT, EMR, CVX, PM


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(+ few last days of august)

Didnt figure out how to merge with my hands from Ongame, won 10 stacks there as well - but to hell with it.

Poker is fun

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mostly zoom 05/1 6max


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Just got money on Lock. Been working on improving my game at 20nl.

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graph starts on the 12th of september

goals for october:

grind a lot of hands
get rolled for 50nl


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Starting grinding again in august at NL50 and played NL100 all september on Lock Poker.
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Ran 9 buyins under EV for the month, I always run bad when I take shots.

Gonna try to put in about 2x volume this month, hopefully I run better :D

GL in october to everyone


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Since I'm back home in NYC no more pokerstars Decided to give cash another go around. Last time i played 5nl and 10nl for about 60k hands or so i think. Was winning but just gave it up for the sng grind again since I prob needed the money. Not sure why actually. Anyways this time around i have no other options to distract me( I guess i could grind hypers or dons but meh)

Decided to try 6m this time around. I've always done fr in the past.

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Started on the 24th. I prob could have gotten a bit more hands in there. I been mostly 4 tabling. 6 at sometimes so not really getting mass volume or anything. Looks like im actually running god and should be losing. Which is weird b/c i remember breezing through 10nl last time. Not sure if its b/c its 6m or games got better. Most likely its me having tons of leaks. Ill see after Oct.






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Got some 200s going and even some 300s but last few days were some scary swings so I'll focus on 100s for a lil longer, I can 100% take any swings there. Still, best month ever sng-wise, and thats only playing when I was on a break from WCOOP. Put in only 71.3 sng hours so pretty ridic results, and running below EV.

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MTTs sucked though, played some today and can't win rly

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So ... ~8k + ~16k + ~3k + ~6k from zach = ~33k? Almost as good as last month ... Now only If I could just get in more than 40 hours.


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After a not so good August (lost around $2k online, but luckily played live a bit and made some profit), I put in quite a decent volume online in September and things went ok. At least in cash games. Tournaments sucked, lost almost 1/2 my cg profits during the wcoop series. Had one deepish run in 6max plo, but ended up 24th which was worth almost nothing obviously.

Anyway, cash games results:

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Its mostly headsup, with a bit of 6-max too.

Next month I am hoping to get in about the same volume or possibly even a little bit more (which is gonna be hard though, its almost 180 hours of play time). I will also play more 1/2 and should things go well I might start playing a bit of 2/4 too, but lets not be too optimistic. Just hoping to get similar results like this month.

Cheers,
Joe


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So after a depressing two weeks of losses finally had a good run. My last session of the month today had a ridiculous 6.84bb/100 over 823 hands. Need to remember times like this when you get s**t on over and over and post loses of -4bb/100 + and you just want to throw up and quit life. Only made about 23 units overall but no longer want to cut myself! (j/k)
Guess the lesson to be learned here is that making proper decisions based on ev will prevail even when it feels like you are being owned.
I know I am still guilty of chasing losses and spewing off bets when stuck, but I guess this is one of those things that makes poker hard.
Hope everyone had a great month!


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I did a huuuuuuuuuuge overhaul of my game around hand 50k~ or so, but unfortunately while prior to that I had been mostly playing bad/running good, I started playing good/running horrible, but still really really happy with how I played the last week of the month, I fixed soooooo many leaks and September is gonna be sweet. Also cut down to 3 tables of zoom (had been playing between 4-6 zoom or 4-9 regular), in conjunction with the game overhaul.

Stake breakdown is... 99% PLO100 Zoom, but about half the losses are from PLO200 Zoom and PLO100 Hu.

Got about 28,000 VPPs this month, 32,000 to go before back to supernova. Won a couple of hundred playing live and there's some bonuses etc in there, but numbers are pretty accurate. I think this is the 2nd or 3rd time I have a losing month ever actually, and it's definitely the least concerned I've been about one (if the month had ended around hand 50k I'd have been depressed, but taking a deep look at my own game I just realized there were so many things I could fix, it turned into something really positive).

I spent a couple of days really examining some common opening ranges in PPT, which is something I've been meaning to do for a long time but never got around to. Gotta say it wasnt as difficult or tedious work as I thought it'd be, PLO ranges may contain a lot more hands than NLHE but PPT has some pretty good syntax.

Volume wise, it's a little lower than I wanted but still decent. Next month I'm probably going to go back to Sweden for about a month or so (prob towards the end of the month), hopefully get a drivers license, maybe Vegas after around IPL time, then back to Korea again. Going to shoot for getting the 32k vpps I need for supernova before I go, if I run decent it shouldnt be too difficult (I know I said that last time but hey, this is a lot more modest of a goal :D). If I have to move down to PL50 then it'd be harder but oh well - will just have to buy a laptop in sweden and finish it there.


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I haven't posted here since 2011 and I really haven't posted anything productive here since 2010. But seeing as how I keep lurking here I might as well keep posting some stuff here.

So, 2010 I graduated from college. I spent 3 months during that summer playing poker, playing golf and spending a lot of time with my friends back in California. By the fall, I started my new job as a trader in Chicago. The transition period for me was good and I found a lot of cool people at work to hang out with. I currently been rooming with one of my work buddies for the past 2 years. Overall, as time went on and on I played less and less poker. When Black Friday happened I left a bunch of money (bunch is relative i guess) on the poker sites so that I would be able to play with it whenever I felt like it.

Unfortunately leaving money on FTP was a bad idea haha. But in the grand scheme of things, it was basically a drop in the bucket.

So progress through 2011, I met this girl online and we have been dating ever since. She is wonderful and makes me feel more complete as a person. Needless to say my personal life has been pretty good as well.

Going through 2011 and realizing that it's almost the end of 2012 I feel like the poker has been such a long time since I played seriously. I still look through some HHs out of habit and I still check some of the threads that seem interesting but life for me has really moved on. I am fortunate for all the lessons that poker has taught me. How to avoid the degen life style, how to analyse situations and at the end of the day how to self reflect and self improve. I am really happy to have been part of this community where I have met really good people.

Poker has taught me some great lessons and I think that I will always cherish the time I spent grinding away at college and struggling at the 10NL tables. Reflecting on it all, the money and everything really is so much less important than the other positives that it left me with. I don't plan on playing too much poker in the future and in fact the other day on my vacation I was playing 10/25 in Monaco. I definitely felt like I was no longer one of the better players at the table. That was quite a humbling experience as well. The basics were still there of course, but the small mistakes piled on and I definitely didn't feel like a winning player.

In the future I guess I'm going to be one of those fish at the high stakes tables that you guys make money from. But being a fish is a good privilege to be able to have.

TLDR:
Played poker in college
Does trading for living now
Happy to have played poker in college
Thinks poker was helpful to rest of life skills

BTW if anyone has any life/career questions or advice they want to share please don't hesitate to PM. Until then I'm going to burrow and lurk again.


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