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So today I played in the 500+30 Sunday Millions with some of my FPPs. I was running pretty well and only had my tourney life at stake twice with about 110 left. I win a big pot to put me to 250k and I'm in 38th place or something. My table is pretty soft too and I now had the second biggest stack at it. Then it happened...Comcast put the bad beat on.

Internet hasn't gone out in weeks, but now it's dead. I tried calling several people, but since I'm on the east coast they were all sleeping to get ready for work tomorrow. I call my dad, go pick up his laptop, drive to the nearest starbucks, but they are closed by now. I'm thinking it's hopeless, but I picked up a signal from a nearby Taco Bell and went and parked in front and connected.

By now 45 minutes have passed, I'm now blinded off over a quarter of my stack, and am in like 50th out of 67 or something. My M is about 6, so I wait a few hands and push 9To and get all folds, then next hand KK and get called by A4 (who had about the same stack size as me). 44x flop comes and it's like 61st or some shit for me. Not to say I would have won or anything, but ruined my day. Thanks Comcast. Done ranting now.


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My new play for balancing poker/social life/school as well as controlling tilt is to play a session for a set amount of time every morning and no other time. This way if im making the correct poker decisions Ill profit in the long run, I wont be able to randomly tilt away money if Im having a tough session, and poker wont get in the way of my homework or my social scene. Hopefully this will go as planned. Session should be 1-1.5 hrs.

I had a good 1 hr session today..

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6964/225075nljz2.jpg


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http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/336/feb25wr3.jpg

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice day! boohoo
anyway anyone telling me the players get better when u move up is plain retarded, the same fishes are playing there, they even seem worse, the variance just get worse, i actually gotta tighten up cuz a decent LAG style just won't work, there are far too many calling stations....

i'm prolly gonna move down cuz i don't feel comfortable playing NL200 with less than 30 buy ins now, i guess NL100 will do just fine for a while


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Last night I went to a friends house for a little homegame 2-table SNG, we played two, I won about $125..

Played a $75 MTT today, and obviously lost a coinflip late when I called an all-in with A9 and was no good vs KQ (KQ is NOT only the nuts online, but in live play as well).. the structure was pretty shitty towards the end:

8k chips to start..
100-200
200-400
300-600
400-800
500-1000
1000-2000 (!!!)

I was one of the chipleaders at the first break (after 500-1000) and I had 26k, was all excited for like 700-1400 or some retarded level.. but they jumped straight to 1k/2k and I was pretty shortstacked.

Called that allin for about 12k, and then was basically blinded out until my A3s in SB was no good to BBs JJ.


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So, I got back from the Casino after playing the freezeout. We were 80 people on 10 tables. Things went pretty well to start off. I stole some blinds, and was doing pretty good. At least above average.

I find 99 in late position. I call a raise of 400 (blinds 75/150). We are three in the pot. The flop comes 9-6-6, 2 hearts SWEET! I call a bet of 700, third person goes allin the guy who made the previous bet goes allin and I ofcourse call. The show: JJ, and AA. An ace came on the turn, and I had to leave the table 62nd place. Oh well thats poker.

http://www.fuskbugg.se/pub/misc/Pokerhand.JPG

My roommate wanted to play some cash games, so he sat down and played 20/20 (swedish crowns) pot limit. I didn't feel like it but I still registered and was waiting for a place at the table. After getting some money, I saw that they had opened a NL table (50/50). Roughly $7/$7.

So I sit down with $210, I take down a couple of pots so I get up to around $300. I raise (botton) to 400, I get a reraise to 1200. After thinking for a minute or two I put my chips in the middle with AJc. I flopped a jack and he mucks his cards (SHIP IT). So I'm doing pretty good now, I got around 6000kr ($840). But I seem to lose a couple of pots, and I leave the table with 4200 (almost $600). So I've had a pretty good weekend, +$600 (including friday).

Uhm, I'll probably get my UltimateBet account going this week, clear their bonus. As I said in the last two blogs; (any diets tips, please let me know:D)


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Hey Guys.

I've really been struggling lately. Well not struggling, more like swimming uphill. It's really been weird, my last like 6-8 sessions, I've dropped like 3 buyins very early in the session, usually within the first 300 hands. Then, I spend the rest of the session winning it back. This has happened this exact way in my last like two weeks of play. It starts like a nightmare session but it never ends like one. The worst I've ended is down like 1.5 buyins. But usually I end up +1 or +.5 buyin.

Over like 30k hands now I'm running at 2ptbb or so.

I know this could be random shit luck, but I'm starting to doubt it. Anyone go through a run where this happened? I don't really feel like I play too awful, maybe make a few light calls I shouldn't but overall I think I'm playing fine, and isn't tilt supposed to come near the end of a session? Really odd, I'd love to hear what you guys think.

Also, check this hand out.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150655

I've run into this situation a few times. It's hard to put him on a boat because raising doesn't really seem necessary. I'm also usually hesitant to put him on the ten.

Any thought on this?

Anyways, Cheers and hope you all are running great.




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Didn't get in that many hands last night because it was Saturday, but played a short, solid session. Went down a bit early when I lost a bit with AK to a short stack (70 BBs) with KK. Normally wouldn't get it in with AK for that much PF, but he over-limped, then shoved PF, so I figured he was FOS. Later lost a buy-in with a combo draw (pair + FD + gutshot) to a flopped straight, and was pretty deep in the hole early. Managed to claw my way back up, stacked AK on a K-high flop with AA, then made a good read to win a stack with JJ. The biggest difference from NL $50 to NL $100 is the aggression level, but a lot of players just play really aggressively in marginal spots, which means they stack off a lot lighter. Ended up being a very nice session overall given the nice start.

Day 14 Totals:
+$164.70 in 797 hands of NL $100

Current BR:
$3,792

Overall Totals:
+$405.50 in 15,836 hands of NL $50
+$535.30 in 3,501 hands of NL $100
-$38.75 in 280 hands of $1/$2 Limit
+$143.90 in tourneys
+$244.51 in bonuses / RB



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Still recovering from that horrible downfall, but going ok. I was playing with 40+ buyins before that downfall, but with that and the small cashout im exactly at 31 buyins. anywayz here is the graph:
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/feb25.jpg

As for the topic title, well I was playing poker and listning to music the other night and all of a sudden i really felt like smoking a joint (Matilda Mother - Pink floyd was on)
havent done that since like 3-4 years ago...when last time i smoked it i had like a major panic attack... so I was never tempted until that moment... weird feeling really.

whatelse... its good to have vent. back on. another way to get distracted during poker sessions i guess.
btw, I entered loco and fayth channel by accident but since they were talking french i couldnt help to stay...
and yes french language does turn me on fayth.
loco sounds sexy when talking french..... ok too much
but yea sorry for the invasion of privacy i guess.

for now... peace
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/tiltedfish/marijuana1.jpg



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Hi Guys,

Been playing some BW again recently - great fun - and makes a great break from bloody poker! When i play a session or two of poker after a couple of days break in between i play much better. I can't be bothered much with Poker at the moment for some reason. Most of last week the thought of loading up a poker table was almost repulsive!

Anyway - i'm going to continue to donk up some BW with Kantoiki, Karma and some of my old BW mates and play a session or two of poker when i feel like it... I got FTP rakeback the other day - i cashed out almost a month ago. So i got $27. I decided to see how much i can make this grow to (ie; never deposit on FTP again and see how i go).

I got to $54 last night but then lost a couple of 10NL buyins to bad beats at the end of the session (we talking 100 hand sessions here!).

I think i might play $2 sngs until i get to about 100 then 6.5s from there. When i get to 250 or so i will start playing 25NL and see how we go. Kinda stupid really since i am rolled on my other sites for 50 or 100NL but w/e i won't spend a lot of time on it and i couldn't be arsed with poker much now anyway as i said.

I think i realised in the next year or so it's unlikely i will ever get to making big money so i shouldn't take it so seriously. Plus i just got myself a new job which will involve longer hours and more travel which will barely leave me time to spend with my family let alone poker... My new job i realised after doing a little math pays almost $500 a day which is quite sick really (brag!).

I'm going to post pics of my kids later and google earth directions tomy house as i mentioned in my first blog entry.

GL HF and if any 80-120 APM BW newbs feel like a game sometime PM me with your msn...


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So i played my first session on NL200, figured i shud give it a shot with a bit over 30 buy ins, at first i ran shitty, flopped mid set with TT on a 9TK flop and the guy called my flop bet with 67, turn came 8, i got stacked, then a few more bad beats.... anyway i tightened up a bit cuz they seemed to be even worse than NL100, more calling stations, donkeys and stuff... i eventually won everything back and some more
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4324/nl2001stxy6.jpg

also my sister is currently going mad, screaming like a fucking psycho cuz my parents won't let her go out, i had to say it, it annoys me, somewhat funny tho


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I Was thinking of moving my roll to a site with rakeback. Is it worth it, as I see many people still play on stars regardless, if yes which site do you recommend?

Thx for any replies

Limit: NL10
BR: $295


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I have been playing NL25 6max lately since I cashed out $550 to pay some bills. Here is a graph of my last couple days.

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/1349/24thhg7.jpg

BR: 808

NL50 once I hit 1,000


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Hello, so I' ve played nearly 8k hands on NL100 and starting to get an idea of what the competition is like. Felt really lost at the beginning, see topic:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/informatio.../Need_NL100_FR_help!_(LONG_POST).html

Found out that I really needed to change some things:

- Table selection: on NL50 FTP I just sat at every possible table, and everywhere there were donks. There are some extremely nitty tables that are not profitable on PS. Right now I'm just always looking up the fishes, and hopefully they will stop sucking out on me soon enough .

- Be as agressive PF on NL100 as on NL50. I guess the new amounts of money scared me off alot of profitable spots to reraise preflop. Especially because my good NL50 run didn' t progress to NL100, which increases the danger of playing scared poker (-EV).

- Something new for me is pot control. Still not sure whether it's best to use, I' m so used to the ' MONSTER POKER ROAR BET POT ' mentality, will be hard to turn the switch. I guess it should help me to avoid playing big pots with mediocre holdings, and avoid being in too much tough spots.

So it's time for me to perfect my game more and it's even more time for me to win some more coinflips / 60-40's and win some confidence / money --> I also find I make better laydowns when winning, so I really hope I get into that positive circulation soon!

I' m also thinking about moving back to FTP and play NL100 there for the rakeback (just a bit worried about the amount of players there). Either that or clear another $600 deposit bonus, on UB or something --> I' d like to try clearing that on 6max, as 6max seems so much more fun to play.

But, first I need to crush NL100 on PS, I hate unfinished business and I' ve just started!

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I haven't been doing well this month. At one point after an ugly session i actualy wanted to cash out my bankroll and start from scratch.
And like usually after a cold shower like that i start playing well again (you can tell me if you don't think this is well).

Today's session stats

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3614/pt24022007ad0.jpg

PP graph and PT stats for the last 3 days

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/983/pp2224022007ta8.jpg

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6643/pt2224022007sx5.jpg

If i would only be able to mantain this win rate.
The only bad thing is that i can't play more hands without starting to tilt like i did in this hand when i had enough of this guy's raises:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150226

Today I had some bad beats...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150230
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150233

... and some bad plays but i will not show those obv. (crossed my mind that some of you can find some of the hands i posted as bad play ....oups...my bad if so)

Hands i won:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150236
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150239
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150242
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150244
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150246
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150249

Now i'm going to play the VIP $20,000 Weekly [100FPP]... wish me luck.


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After my sweet first day back at NL $100, Thursday didn't go quite so well. I went down a bit early with TP + NFD with AJ against a guy with AA that smooth-called PF. Later lost a set over set in a reraised pot to put me further in the hole, then lost with AK to a donk's AQ, all-in PF for half a stack. Overall, it wasn't too bad a day, don't feel like I played poorly, made maybe one misread with 99 on a ragged flop against an aggro player, and ended down less than 2 buy-ins.

Friday I took off from cash games to play some tourneys during the day. I went deep in a $20+2 $2k guaranteed. I had great position at the final table, directly to the left of a huge donk who was playing 60/15 and had luck-boxed his way into the chip lead. Of course, when I finally made a hand, top two with AK, he folded to my flop bet. Ended up busting in 6th for $130 when I shoved A3 from the CO, SB called with 66 and the 6 on the flop ended my chances (though I did hit trip 3s). Busted early in another $20+2 with a set vs. a flopped flush, and busted on the bubble of a $1 rebuy.

Day 12 Totals:
-$162.30 in 1,560 hands of NL $100
+$87.56 in bonuses (UB points for cash)

Day 13 Totals:
+$83.90 in tourneys

Current BR:
$3,628

Overall Totals:
+$405.50 in 15,836 hands of NL $50
+$370.60 in 2,704 hands of NL $100
-$38.75 in 280 hands of $1/$2 Limit
+$143.90 in tourneys
+$244.51 in bonuses / RB


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"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser" or what the heck that smart dude said. Well, today I'm a happy loser. I'm down about half a buyin but I've actually played really good. A few coolers and not that many good hands but I think I lost the minimum and won the most on most hands. Maybe I should've laid down a set vs a obvious flush but I was getting like 1:3 odds so it didn't really feel that great. Also, I'm up like 1k USD on zee stockz market the last month or so :D


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Day 51 - No poker.

Day 52
Stakes: NL100
VPiP: 16.90
PFR: 13.22
Hands: 870

Amount Won: 102.47
PTbb/100: 5.89
Hours: 2.25
MT: 3.53

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So, I'm going to play the NL500+100kr Freezeout at the Casino tomorrow with two friends. Goal: Getting in the money. 80 players, top 9 get paid.

So as usual we had our "after work" yesterday, lot's of beer, wine, cider and pizza at work. Then we played a poker tournament. Buyin 100 swedish crowns (~$14). To my surprise we were actually 24 people, top 3 get paid. So at my table I was playing very aggressivly. We had 3 tables with 8 players on each table. I only knew about one player on my table, my boss who is a solid poker player. Anyways, I eliminated 5-6 players by myself on my table. So things were looking pretty good. Key hands from the first table; A10c on the button. My boss sitting under the gun raises to 500 (blids 25/50). One caller, I reraise them allin. Both of them call, my boss shows AJoff and the other one shows KQoff. My lovely 10 comes on the turn. I had taken out 4 people prior to that hand, so I had a good amount of chips now.

Down to two tables now, since I had such a chip advantage, and I wanted to come itm so I tightened up my game (doesn't work with beer). Stole acouple of blinds, then I tried a bluff where this danish poker pro whom instead doubled up. He is a $15/30 $25/50 player if I remember correctly. So we are down to 3 people, and I got about 35% the danish guy had 50% and the third guy had about 15% of the chips. I let the third guy double up on me, so I'm very shortstacked, but I find AQoff in the very next hand and go allin. Both of them call and check it out with 22 and KQ. I find my Ace on the river and I'm doing ok again. So the danish guy takes out this other guy and he has a 3v1 chip advantage. We steal a couple of blinds, but he finds 66 and I find A2s, no ace came but I still won 800 swedish crowns.

Some people were playing cash games, by this time I was fairly drunk but I thought what the hell. So they were playing 1/2 blinds with a min buyin of 300kr (roughly $50 and the blinds are ~0.10/0,25). First couple of hands I couldn't find anything, so I basicly folded. Until I found KK under the gun, I reraised up to 12. 2 callers. Flop came 2-8-8 rainbow, I check he bets I call. Turn came a K, I check again. He goes allin with about blinking ' insta call! I probably doubled my money, another hand that I found was AJoff where I raised and 2 people went allin with 60kr, I call. One person had KK, the other had 910h. flop came 10-8-6. a 9 came on the turn, and ofcourse a 7 came on the river giving me a staight. We were only 3 people playing, and on them wasn't that good. But once again I had to sit down with my boss. The final and biggest pot of the evening. my boss had been making these crazy raises, like in a 20-30 crown put, he would make a bet of 200. Since it was dark and I am colorblind I had trouble with the colors of the chips, but my boss had trouble too and accidently raised up to 55 instead of 15. I call with K4s (it felt right at the time). Flop came 5-3s-5. I bet out 300kr, just like he had done. So he started discussing with this guy from pokermagazine what hand I could have. They probably went over the hand for about 10 minutes, putting me on a AK, AQ. I knew he had 3, so I started to trashtalk a bit, in hope that he would fold. He pushed, and I was committed so I called. Turn 2 of spades, river 8 of spades - giving me a runner runner flush so a little over 1000kr in that pot to me
I left the office with 1700kr (~$240) in my pocket - after buying in for ~$14. I met up with my roommate and some of his friends, grabbed a couple of beers and went out. I spent about 700kr on taxis and various shit, so I have 1000 left.

I played 30 min of poker on the internet prior to the poker tournament and won a sh sng $10+1 (my speciality) and I 2 tabled NL10 and made about $50.

Oh, and if some still has someone "diets" or a weekly food schedule for eating healthy I would be very thankful


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well I lost a sidebet and now I have to change my avatar to something milkman made for donald... search me on ps to see it I have to have it for the entire month of march.. well you know what heres the image sucks for me lol


http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4671/gdfdfaz6.jpg


March is of to a bad start lol
gg donalds noob
KK > 99 =(


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