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Stakes: NL25
VPiP: 19.31
PFR: 14.71
Hands: 435

Amount Won: $64.90
PTbb/100: 29.84
Hours: 1.25
MT: 4.33

Really short session, but at this hour most tables looks like nit-house and I am a little bit tired. Maybe I will play later.


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ok so here is how i was running for the past 4 months. so sick...

http://joeik.sc45.info/img/joe/poker_oct06_jan07.jpg


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Played 20min today.

Today: +$328
To date: +$8,639


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I'm not, but I've ran pretty ridiculously bad in the last oh 3 or 4 days. From 2600 br taking a stab at 100nl again, to ohhh maybe 800 left. Maybe 900. Somewhere around there.

I dont know what my plans are (as far as poker goes) for the next little while seeing I have a fairly reading intensive semester coming up, and seeing as how I am utterly incapable of beating 100nl for whatever fucked up reason, I may as well take a break.

More to come later


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Hi boys and girls. My name is Anthony Gonzalez and i live in Puerto Rico, I'm 19 years old at the moment and trying to make my way as a professional poker player for now. My goal for the end of this year, if everything goes as planned is $100,000 between bankroll and total cashouts (not including last years cashouts). At the start of this blog I want to say a little about where I am in poker as of this instant and some past on myself. Right now I have a bankroll of about $8,300 and am a 200NL player (going through a little downswing at the momentm but all is good). I have been playing poker online since December 31, 2005. And about a year and a half before that playing with friends, and even a little live experiance. I started with a bankroll of $50 online and built that up to where i am now, with about $3,500 - $4,000 in cashouts to date.

Currently I have taken a semester off from college to break and figure out where i want my life to lead me, as well as try to independentize(whoa i think i just made that word up myself from my parents, not because they are forcing it upon me ;they aren't infact they would like nothing more for me than to stay at home with them until i finish college, but I hate the thought of having to leech off my parents now that I am an adult. Though lets face it, I bet my mom will always try and buy me new shampoo for the next time I visit her, for me to take home... crazy mothers -_-; So yeah, since they are going to be moving to florida in a month or two and I am going to be staying in Puerto Rico virutally by myself living in my former weekday-only apartment which I used as a homebase for when i was going to college. I feel it was the best thing for now if I just figured somethings out like what I wanted to study and where. Also just enjoy life, enjoy the oportunities poker has givin' me, take advantage of being young!

I'm not going to clutter my blog with useless bullshit like I know a lot of people are, though I am going to keep my blog pretty up to date in the near future once I start finding out what exactly I want to be talking about. I have been planning to start a blog for some time now, but I didn't really know how to manage one or find a nice interface that I could figure out how to use easily. However, Liquidpoker has been so generous to offer me my very own blog to manage and I just registered this blog not two seconds after I read about it.

On my blog I'm probably going to stick to mostly to poker, but since i also have an actual life, I am probably going to post my fare share of stories, or address a topic thats been on my mind. Who knows what I might write in this thing! So in the near future once i start posting, I plan to keep it up regularly. I also think that I'm going to keep a record of some hands that I feel I would like to elaborate my thought process on them to further get into the habbit of thinking more clearly, so other people can also critique them, hopefully admire them too.

Thats all for now, this is actually more than I expected to be writing up at three in the morning


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My Story: I'm 20 yrs. old attending a small college in Iowa. I'm in my 3rd year going for a Biology major and Psychology minor. I plan to attend grad school for physical therapy. I've been playing poker since Summer 2005 and became serious this past summer. I've been donking around at NL50 6max for quite some time now and finally decided to get serious and quit doing stupid things like tilting and fancy play syndrome. I cashed my bankroll down to 1,000 around Jan 6th to "start over." Since that time I have been doing quite well.

I'll probably enter almost daily an update of my progess towards moving up as well as rewarding myself. My plan is to move up to NL100 once I reach 3,000. I could move up sooner, but I really think I need to experience the next 1,500 to get there before I move up again. I have played quite a few hands at NL100, but suffered a -700 night in mid-December and that crushed my confidence and I realized I wasn't ready.

Jan. 15th Results

Hands Played: 1,453
Profit: $49.65
Bonus: $20.43
RB Earned: ~$18

Current Bankroll: $1556


Today woulda been a sick day of profit if I had not lost $180 PREFLOP to JJ when I had AA....oh well, just shows how bad people are.


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At the risk of offending rekrul and other anti-bloggers (i flatter myslf thinking he'll ever read this), here's my BLOG! so yeah about me and my poker 'career'. i started with $25 like november 2005 after reading grot's guide (like many ex BW nerds), and nut peddled alot.
i quit my job of a yr that month (not because i as going pro, but because i was huge lazy nerd) and got a pt job and playd poker in most of my spare time fun and cashed out whenever i needed beer money (few nights a week lol).
WELL SUCKAS thats all gonna change, cause im done cashing out, ima let it roll. went from $100 left on PS after i got back from vegas end of november to my 2.5k roll of now. I've played low stakes for so long ive developed a phobia of moving up, i still mostly play $25NL with over 100 buyins.
I'm working FT at walmart right now too so I can hit on the 17 yr old HS girls who work there but im cutting back my hrs cause that too much bullshit, not enough poker.


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I'm trying to get rolled for nl50 by the end of January (without rakeback), I have to make about $400 more to accomplish that after tonight. Played a decent session, lost a few unlucky hands, decided to tilt-push 77 when a shorty min-3bet me and he had QQ, so I stopped playing after that.

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1852/000lb6.jpg

Amount to go: $400
Days left in Jan.: 15
Avg per Day: $26.6

eZy.


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I'm down 1.3K this month since i've moved up to 200NL.

There's definetely a big difference in the play from 100NL to 200NL, but I still think I'm a good enough player to beat it consistently.

I think one of my biggest leaks is my play in re raised pots and making too many semi bluffs when it's obv that no one EVER has any fold equity against me.

Here's some hands I'm not sure about (any criticism is welcome):

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/131471
betting the turn ok? getting the rest in if he raises turn ok?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/131824
standard?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/131840
this guy had been 3 betting me very light in position; i always have the most problems against guys like this


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past few days have been really bad hope it gets better.
I'll keep this updated.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/capaneo/badrun.jpg
Graph of the bad run


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ok i first started playing poker in december 2005 with the lp.net partypoker promotion ($75). in december i was basically trying the game, but serious playing began in January 2006. I made my starting $75 into about 300 back in december and i though it was enough to start playing NL25. back then partypoker NL25 was uber easy (well it is still very easy, but before it was way easier), so i guess it really was enough and my bankroll kept going up fast. i cleared NL25 in about 3 weeks and i jumped it NL50 in the end of January 2006 with about $1250. There was quite a difference between NL25 and NL50 from my point of view - i was basically set farming with a lot of leaks obviously and people on NL50 were just much less willing to pay me off. still i managed to keep moving up, though much slower buyin wise than on NL25.

i managed to make my roll to about $2300 in about mid february 06 and i was considering whether or not to move up to NL100. i decided that i should keep playing NL50 for at least a little while, especially since my friend who introduced poker to me was still playing NL25 (he was prolly doing more on NL25 than me on NL50 though, or at least the same). So, i made a cashout of about $600 and kept playing NL50. But, my first big downswing struck me about that time. i kept losing and i was kinda lost. i actually dropped down to about $450 and i felt like shit. i decided to try and learn SNGs to have a break from no limit. so i learned basic stuff and i actually started making some money off them. I made my roll back to about $850 playing SNGs only + i cleared some reload bonuses which made my roll about $1050 total.

It was about end of march, when i decided that i could start playing NL50 again. So with my regained confidence, better state of mind and maybe some better luck i started winning again in NL. it felt good after about 6 weeks of losing.

April was an ok month, i kept winning on NL50, although my winrate was rather small, i was at least winning consistently. i made my roll to about $2000.

I continued playing NL50 in may and i also started giving MTT and especially rebuys a try. i actually had some shortterm swings in may, but i made about another $1000 (and part of it in MTTs). but i also made a cashout so my roll stayed at about $2300 or so.

i planned on finally moving up to NL100 in the beginning of June, but i wasnt doing really great and i basically moved nowhere in the first half of june. my br was about $2400 when i finally managed to have a "major" success in MTTs - i won a $5+$1 rebuy tourney and cashed $2880, which was more than my actual bankroll back then. i cashed out part of it, but left most of it in my account. so, with my bankroll at $3800 i finally jumped up to NL100. i run decent in the beginning, it actually seemed to be very similar to NL50. i managed to make my roll to about $5000 by the begining of July.

Then July began and i of course didnt have that much time to play poker since i travelled some etc. but when i played i wasnt really doing any good, so i was about break even for the month (maybe up like $300 or so).

I had a little more time to play in August, but i kept running bad, well i probably wasnt improving much at that time, so my game stagnated. the results were corresponding, i only made like $500. again, i cashed out some, so my bankroll remained somewhere around $4800.

In September i set myself the goal not to cash out any more before i move to NL200. i planned on moving to NL200 with about 6k. but things werent going as planned and i made no more than about $1000 in september.

So i was still playing NL100 in the beginning of October. I actually decided to cut off my number of table from 8 to 4-6 and try and improve certain parts of my game. this actually paid off itself + i hit a very nice run and my bankroll was going up fast. when it was at about $7500 i finally decided to move up to NL200. and i continued to run good. overall i made more than $5000 in october which was very very good, i almost doubled my BR. i cashed out some and had my Bankroll somewhere around $9000.

But then November came. In the first two days of november i managed to lose about $1800 and i decided to move back down to NL100, although my Bankroll was still ok for NL200. yet, i kept running like shit and this time i really thing i had some extremely bad luck at least in the first two weaks of november. my game definately suffered a lot by this. i kept doing bad for the rest of november and basically broke even for the second half of the month, though i think it was no longer due to bad run but due to my bad play for the most part. so down $2000 for the month.

I hoped it would get better in the next month, December. yet, it became even worse and again i lost a lot in short time. i wont go to more details but basically i run bad and played even worse and i lost another $3500 in december. i was really getting desperate and i asked some people for advice. TalentedTom and Donald were kind enough to discuss hands live with me while i was playing few times. some people on the forum also gave me some good advice, so i managed to find several big leaks in my game.

I think i changed my play quite a lot in the end of December 2006 and beginning of January 2007. My results started to get better since the New Year. I dont think my luck changed that much, yet i started winning again and so far i have been winning constantly, didnt have a losing session for 2 weaks at least. actually i hit a heater today and made about 10 buyins on NL100 my BR now is almost $8000 and i think i will be moving back to NL200 soon.

Uh, it got little too long omg...


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Ok, just finished a 2k hand session ending up down 4 buyins. I cant beat this game anymore. 200nl on FTP has turned into a fucking pf 3-betwar, I cant handle it. I didnt save any hands this session cause I was just pissed off, doesnt really matter. The only big pot i won was a suckout where i pushed QdQx on a low flop against AA and hit another diamond on the turn.

Im moving down to 100nl tomorrow, to lick my wounds and conserve the little selfrespect I have as a poker player.


Man this game is brutal...


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no


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because i think it can motivate me to do things which i want to do, but don't want to lose time to do it, because it's not pure pleasure

i'm too much into hedonism i think, i should change it

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Kmeetcheetz - that's how u should read my nick


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Hi

I’m 19 years old, I’m studying law at Uppsala university and I’m running so bad that I think that I would probably fit into the special olympics. That’s not that bad thought, I’ve been running really good for a month and a half before this shit so I’m good anyway. I do spot some leaks and stuff too, which obviously pwns.

Anyway, I started playing poker during the last summer and I put 50 USD into party in the middle of august. 2 weeks later I went to law school and by then I had figured that I could probably pay for beer with my pokermoney, which worked out great. I’ve actually invested some of my winnings too, Uranium for teh win! I drank far too much last fall so I got out of shape, made out with a hideous woman and got a scar on my cheak when I accidently fell asleep on my bike. Funning thing was that I woke up the next morning, one of my flatmates walks in on me and screams “OH MY GOD! IT’S BLOOD ALL OVER YOU!” and she was kinda correct. I was bleeding like a fucking pig when I crashed into my bed and it had kinda made big spots of dried up blood all over me and my bed. I looked like I’d been in a fight or something. So… I’ll try to take up some sport and play more poker this semester. I'll try to 4-table at least 2 hours/day for the most part, except when I've got some exams or such.

“Downswing ends, Dusty becomes really happy and makes out with ugly girl”

“Dusty tries NL100 again, fail horribly”

“10 reasons to turn gay” (face it, I could just translate it)

“Why I love Talanted Tom despite his face”

“I hate hangovers”

*random thing about some shitty situation in poker*

/ Redhead



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Hi, my real name is in fact, Chase Fedina, for anyone who didn't know . I have always hated making up internet pseudonyms, they always sound retarded after a month or so, so I said fuck it and just used my real name. Im 19 yrs old btw, and just started my BA so I can transfer to the school of business at the university of Alberta. I probably wont blog much, my life is far too boring lol.

But anyways... Yeah... i'm a SNG donkey. I used to play STT's, but cashed out my roll for tuition and pretty much started over in september. I struggled with bad play, too many cashouts, playing stoned, etc for almost the whole semester so I didnt really go anywhere. In late Dec i started to get my act together again, stopped making unnesseasry cashouts, and now am back on track with about 1k to play with. I play some HU SNG's, but mostly 11$ 45 man and 27 mans. They are easily beatable for at least 50% roi (i havnt really kept great records, but i think thats a conservative estimate). They take a long ass time though, and 10$ was the highest buyin. BUT last week stars made 22$ and 33$ ones! fuck yeah! Just as i get rolled for them too!

So i banked about 600$ last week, which is not great i guess, but alot better than i had been doing all semester. It feels great to actually be making some progress. Anyways, i plan to play these until im rolled for the rebuy MTT's and the sunday mil, then throw those in the mix and see how I do.
But, im getting deep in my SNG-a-ments so I should be going.


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I've always been told that life is about loving and having friends that to/for love. I've never experienced such. When I think I do, a few months later reality strikes and realize that it isn't love. The more someone gets to know me the more they back away from me.
Poker is a nice outlet for despair. It makes me feel alive and gives me some joy, and almost even, a purpose. And I can guarantee that poker will never turn it's back on me.
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"I needed to talk to someone, and I was alone. This is my habitual condition, by choice... or so I tell myself. Mere acquaintanceship leaves me unsatisfied, and few people are willing to accept the burdens and risks of friendship as I conceive of it." -Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye


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Stakes: NL25
VPiP: 19.90
PFR: 14.03
Hands: 955

Amount Won: $57.50
PTbb/100: 12.04
Hours: 2.22
MT: 4.86

Decent day, only thing I didn't like was running with KK into AA twice (overall lost 1,5 buyin on that). But whatever.


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Stakes: NL25
VPiP: 14.37
PFR: 11.88
Hands: 160

Amount Won: $11.20
PTbb/100: 14.00
Hours: 0.53
MT: 3.38

What a bad day! I don't know why, but my postgres database just crashed and I couldn't revive it ;(
It sucks, because I lost all my stats, but that's not the worst thing in it. I lost all my datamined hand histories, so I will need to mine them once again.


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Stakes: NL25
VPiP: 18.11
PFR: 13.90
Hands: 784

Amount Won: $79.00
PTbb/100: 20.15
Hours: 1.67
MT: 5.16

Back to reality aka end of rush.
I have to admit - I didn't play my A game, but it's NL25! Maybe it's just balancing that good week (I don't remember, when I had winning sessions for more than 3 days in row - yes, it's true).

Update:
Even tho I'm stubborn donk and played more poker, I couldn't break "the curse of day 10". I hope tomorrow's day will be "in green"

Oh, one note to me - I need to raise more PF!

Stakes: NL25
VPiP: 17.14
PFR: 12.06
Hands: 2.719

Amount Won: $63.30
PTbb/100: 4.66
Hours: 6.38
MT: 4.81


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