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With all the new updated ftp info these days, any takers on my ftp account. I have $802 USD in there. Only serious offers please.


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I would like to get some protoss coaching if there are some good players out there (which I'm sure there are). Let me know!


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Went to Bellagio yesterday and the games were pretty poor. Was up 700 after 3 hours and came home to spend some time with the wife. I've played 17 hours this month and I should be at 30. Plan on putting in 9 hours today and 12 hours tomorrow to try and catch up a little. Also lost another 200 online, can't seem to run good but at least I'm back into the positive overall.

99,913 to go!


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What is Durrr's PS name?


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35 Day Challenge
Hey Everyone, been a lil while since I have done a challenge of any sort, so I'll start one now since I have tons of time and should be grinding more.

(250 hr challenge over 30 grinding days)

I'm going to be playing NL25 FR + 2-3 mtts at a time. Aiming for 4,000 hands a day, and 2-4+ MTT wins before the end of the 35 day challenge.

Its 35 days, because honestly, I want 5 days off during this _atleast_. I'm going to push myself really hard and grind my ass off.

Hero Has some really good MTT's if you're playing in low selection, and becoming among the best in the Full Ring games is very important to me right now.

(Makes traveling to all mtt's lucrative in my current game state, becoming great at fr will pretty much always cover ne mtt costs)

(i'm currently a 3.33bb/100 winner outside HU on Hero, but dropped $900 hu one day so has me in the red.)

January : NL10/NL25 FR CG's + Hero MTT's

February : Pittsburgh Casino - 1/3-2/5 + MTT's + Hero

March : Frequent Pitts often, Foxwoods for bigger MTT's + Hero

April : "" same as above ""

May : "" same as above ""

June : Vegas / WSOP / Live Cash / Hero Poker
July : "" Same as above ""

August : with the USA under martial law, I plan to be out of the states for a long period of time if this isn't veto'd etc.
I don't believe in the reasons the USA are in the current state of affairs they are in, I would rather continue to play poker drama-free, which I will.

I plan to move to a beautiful area, Caracas, Cancun, Australia, or maybe a place like Taiwan again. We'll see in the coming months.

One thing I have realized, is its not worth living "anywhere" to play on stars, no matter what you make. If your outside your home country, you want to be where its beautiful, the women are fine, and you're freedom is 100% in tact. As an american, there are a few places I'd have to avoid, sad right? w/e. politians are gonna politate.

Also - if at any point I bust my online BR, I will scratch above aforementioned plans, and go play @ stars outside the USA staked as I did the last 3 months of 2011. ( was great and did very well, no worries either way )

br at start of challenge : around $600. I'll post graphs and results daily to my website (linked at bottom of my lp posts). i'm aiming for $2500. (thats just 200 hrs at nl25 fr @ 12.50 an hr) - not including rakeback. still 50 hrs more, should make more than 12.50 an hr (thats undercut imo) and i loooooove them MTT's!

Aim - 2500ish
Belief - 7500+

In August 2011 I had $30,000 in debt.

Went to Canada and MTT'd and did very well.

Whats left to be paid?

Artanis11 5.3k
AndrewBoccia 750
quocy04 400
david kent 120
li 2k
Reid 350
John 300


Goal to have these paid off before June with _atleast_ a 25k br to go to LV with.

$9,340 from freedom. Can see the light at the top of that huge hole I dug. Hopefully you guys can give me some good insight on my cashgame hands that I post. Thanks if you can, any and all skill levels.

Dawned upon me recently, I have lots of free time and a chance to build a roll n play stakefree in 2012. Carpe DIEM! stakes aren't bad tho, so no pressure either way :-)

Goodluck everyone,
Ryan Neilly - NeillyAA @ Stars/Hero


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From my 2p2 thread:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174...ailand-modeling-1149325/#post30774535
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Hey guise!
First off let me start introducing myself: I'm 22 (just turned 3 days ago) my name is Arthur and I'm brazilian. Just a few weeks ago I quit my daily job for a federal court in Brazil where I made around 40K USD/year. Other than that I work as a professional model and I make quite a good amount of money from that. My girlfriend is also a model, we are gonna be moving to Bangkok in a few weeks to work there as Bangkok is one of the fashion centers of the world, so we can make a lot more money there as models than here in Brazil. We are already signed with Bangkok Modeling agencies so that's nice.

Obligatory pic:
(Me and Her)

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Poker: Right now I'm a MTT grinder! In the past I've played a lot of cash games, grinded about 700k hands up to NL100 and broke even all the way. After trying a lot of different things I decided that MTTs is the only format I have a big enough edge to keep me on the grind and happy at the same time. Anyway, my goal is to give poker a real chance for the first time!

My goal is to make $20K USD in the next 6 months! I won't need that money to live cause modeling will be more than enough to make a living in Thailand. Some may ask why I'm doing this since I already have a nice source of income and the answer is simple: I love poker! Some difficulties I will find along the way:
-Will have to keep in shape, cause its essencial for my work
-Will have to manage a nice social life with my girlfriend
-MTTs schedules in Thailand will be crazy. Most of the big tournies will be running from 1am to 7am Bangkok time.
-Modeling will keep me busy 3 days a week tops, so I will try to grind at least 4 days a week, including sundays.

I'm planning on spending around $1.5K USD/month in Bangkok. I've been told that it's very cheap to live there and I will be splitting expenses with my girlfriend so I think that's a good budget to have.

Apartment we will rent: http://www.bkkcondos.com/bangkok-apar...ngview/listingID,3337/cmsrealty,user/

Obligatory graph:
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I will try to update this thread daily starting on January 12th. In the next few days I wont be playing cause I'm speding a few days in my parents city before moving to Bangkok. I'm arriving in Bangkok on January 25th! Wish me luck!!


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Yo!

Wanted to return to micro stakes nl5/nl10 and grind up to nl25.
Could you recommend me any site, that I should register? I was playing before on stars and ladbrokes but lb doesnt provide service in my country, dunno why.
I was aiming to play at microgaming skin, but my shitty pc wont install the software (not uni, nor red-something, nor nordicbet), I have acc at paradise too, but dunno what is going on with pkr these days.

Any advice?
Any particular site that isn't legit anymore?

And babes, enjoy:

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Thanks for reply ;]


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Hey what's up guys?

Short bio:
My name is Philip Sam ('BrocheN' on stars) and I am 24 years old. I have been playing online poker professionally for 3.5 years, and during this time I have achieved Supernova Elite twice; mainly through 100nl-600nl fullring. Since this is my 2nd time hitting elite, I've decided to reward myself with the PCA package.

Action:
I am selling up to 50% of the $10,300 Main Event with no mark up:
1% = $103
5% = $515
10%= $1,030

30% Sold
20% Remaining

References:
I am very good real life friends with YaDaDaMeEn21 (handbanana21), Fatdan44 and ChicagoJoey. I am sure they can vouch for my trustworthiness.

Notes:

Investors will only receive % of winnings. Any money or prizes made from anything except for cashing in the tournament is 100% mine to keep.
When I cash, I will pay out via Stars, cash at PCA or other methods we can come up with.


Payment
Stars: 'BrocheN' - (Canada)
HSBC or Wells Fargo (PM for details)
Cash at PCA
Bank Of America
Paypal
Check (PM for details)


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Didn't manage to get to the casino until ~6 yesterday, and only stayed for 6.5 hours, but made almost all my money back from the day before. Online I only played 300 hands and ran a few buyins under all-in ev.

Live: +3k
Online: -150

$100,450 to go, back where we started.


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Took a look on hero, had a dollar.

Play $1-2 HU SnG's. Ran up to $33 now.

My next blog will either be legendary or a sadface.

Lets see if I can make it up to $1/2 HU games!


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Initially I decided I was playing turbos only, and I think I can do it VPP-wise and I had some nice sessions.

Today I was just barely making the VPP goal and played some 60s hyper, did good, I think I should drop the 100s since they are just waaay too reg-filled and while I can crush their souls easily at the turbos, its not the same at these, and at lower I get to play some terrible fish that I should have too big of an edge.

Still running hotter than the sun at my normal games, just barely at 20k VPPs now. Super tired tho, lol, but I think I have it in me to just suck it up and keep going. I think this is what people like joeingram have in them, and what allows feats like these to be accomplished. All my friends who are regs at the same games I am think I am absolutely insane and think what I'm attempting is completely impossible.

Finishing pizza and going for another session.

Turbos
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Hypers
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This an update to "My re-entry into poker".

Yesterday I decided to compete in my local casino's 1/2 NL game. As I have previously stated, my goals going into this game were simple. Play safe, don't bluff, study the table, never be the first to limp in, always play in position. These tactics are very generic and although as simple as they appear to be should create a solid 1/2 player due to the level of skill presented by 1/2.

So there I am, walking into the casino seeing a lot of familiar faces from when i was a regular sitting down grinding 8-12 hours a day. Some players recognized me, even most of the dealers. It was nice to be in the atmosphere again. I ended up sitting down as some generic 9-handed table. Everyone's stack was actually quite small. The largest being 300-400$. Since the average stack was around 100 I wasn't able to buy in for the full 200 for some reason. I didn't question my buy in and just accepted it. There was a another table with much money at it with the average stack being around 300$. But I would have to wait for someone to be eliminated before joining.

On the the game!!

The first thing i tried to do was get the feeling of the table. My range of hand were quite high since i told myself to always be in position and value bet your strong hands. The rule everyone has told me was to never be the first to limp in. I'm not quite sure why that is. Why is it ok to limp in behind someone but not be the first. Anyways, the table seemed to be quite tight initially. The average pre flop raise was between 6 and 10$ which I thought was a bit odd and there were always a handful of limpers before each pre flop raise. I tried to eye up who if anyone would see this and decide to be the aggressive raiser trying to pluck these individuals of their limps slowly. There were two people at the table who were more aggressive than the others but when their hands were revealed they always seemed to have the nuts. I picked out 2 people who if i could, I would try to stay away from and steal any pots i could if they were not in the hand.

I always seemed to get mediocre hands just after the blinds. Hands like A,Q off suite, K,Q off, A,T off. Nothing incredibly strong but good hands if i was in position. When I had these hands I was always first or second to act pre flop so i wasn't sure to raise since i couldn't be the first to limp or just fold since i was out of position in this semi-tight calling station of a table. If I were to raise 10-15$ pre flop I was almost sure I would have gotten a few callers and put myself into a bad position being the first to act post flop. I would need to hit since a continuation bet would have just been called in my assumption. I wasn't aiming to steal the pot since my goal wasn't to bluff out the pots. But should I have just bet anyways? I decided to limp in (the first to limp in), already breaking one of my rules i said not to do. 4 Other people limped into the pot as well. I would have called a small raise but I feel I have already made a large mistake by limping. The flop however was incredibly good to me. Coming A,Q,3. I lead out with a bet of 10$ Since the pot was still quite small and the bet would attract any schmuck who plays Ace - anything. There were no flush draws. I got two callers. Turn was a Q. I hit the nuts. Unless someone had A,A I won this hand. Assuming no one's hand strength had changed too much since there weren't any real straight or flush draws i fired a 25$ bet. I got 2 folds and a re-raise to 50. After another fold it was heads up and I made the obvious choice and shoved. River was nothing and I took down the hand. He had trip queens with a low kicker. I doubled up quite fast even making a few mistakes in my play.


As the night continued I wouldn't see any other strong hands and continued to play tight and from position. I would limp in with my low pocket pairs and never trip up. On the button I would play suited connectors and any suited Ace. I never hit on the board and folded more often than not. The day was quite slow from here on out. I never hit any strong hands and if every time i was in position and thought about stealing the pot or tried to raise from my position there was already a raise on the table and my hand was quite weak. I tried not to get frustrated since I came into this game expecting this would happen.

Eventually I moved tables and sat down with players whose average of chips were around 300$ with the big stack having close to 1k. At this point the blind have taken me down to 150% from my double up early on.

This table was a bit more aggressive. The main chip leader was involved in almost every hand which was no surprise but what was a surprise was every time he showed down he had a strong hand. When he limped, he had what you guessed he would have. He was hitting and it was important to avoid him if I could. After an hour of sitting down I found myself in the same situation. Nothing but crap hands and nothing even close to a strong hand when I was in position. I was studying the table quite hard trying to pick up on betting styles and how the big stack played. I found a few players who I would consider calling stations and identified a few players who were playing as tight as I was. The big stack as well as 2 other players were quite loose. Limping in most hands and always raising from the button or a few spots before it. I never got involved with any hands but one or two due to my cards. I thought to myself If I should be trying to raise the limpers from position regardless of my cards since I have sustained a quite strong "tight" image. I however, continued to be safe.

My last hand was a bit silly. First to act pre flop I look at A,9 of diamonds, amazed to see something other than 3,7off suite let alone an ACE. The big stack was in position so raising right now i know would get called by him but in my gut know that i should not be limping in especially since i am chasing the flush and not a pair of aces with crap kicker. I limp in and cringe in my mind as I know this is a mistake. Mostly folds around the table until the big stack raises to 10 as expected and the small blind who was a tight player like me makes the call.
Flop comes Qd-Jd-9s. Quite a good flop for me considering I haven't seen any flop for quite some time. I check, hoping to see a cheap turn and get out of chasing for a relatively cheap price. I think to myself if raising was the right call. I could decide the going price as well as give an impression that im not chasing. But I am a newby and check. Big stack bets 20$ with a call from the tight player. I decide to call since I could hit a A,9, or any diamond and have a shot at having the nuts between the three of us. Turn comes 10s. Now I have open-ended straight and a flush draw. roughly 35% change of winning assuming my opponent haven't hit the straight right now. I check, big stack bets out a large 75$ bet. tight player calls. I take a few minutes to think it over. there is over 300$ in the pot, i have, in my mind about 17 outs. 11 diamonds, 3 kings, 3 eights. Maybe even an ace could hit. Wasn't sure. I decided to shove all-in with another 50 on top of that 75. I watch as both players call. [b]River is a J[b/], nothing for me. Big stack had a King and hit when the 10 landed on the turn and tight player had a pair of queens low kicker which was quite odd of him. I had a 65% chance to win before the turn but when the 10 hit, my odds to win vs the straight were 25%. I didn't think he had the king so in my mind i thought i was around 40%.

Tough games!

I lost 100$ which was fine for me. My first time back i spent a lot of time trying to learn the table and had a hard time knowing what to do when I had semi strong hands in first position like A,Q off suite. I didn't know to raise or limp and semi-aggressive table. When I was in position i never had anything too strong, no pair of faces, suited connectors or anything. I will be going back once design a little more structure in my games and being getting the kinks out of it.

Please help me out and post some good responses that I will definitely go over and do my best to adapt into my play style.

Any help would be great and I hope you enjoyed this article. I will continue to update each time i go back to the casino.






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Online results: -300, 1500 hands

Puts me at -200 for the month online. Had a good start @ +600 and just didn't win any more hands after that.

Live results: -3.1k, 7.5 hours
Got to the casino at 5pm and had to wait 45 minutes to get into a game so an hour of waiting between the 20min drive and the wait. Played from 1745-0115

lost 900 doubling someone up with AQ on A587K just bet/bet/shoving into their set of 5's when I thought they had a weak A, also doubled up a shorty with KT on TJQ, prob was a fold but he only had 500 so I ran it vs the worst hand to see, KQ.

then played the hand of the night versus a guy I've played with a fair amount. He is really goofy. Prob like 70 years old and prone to spazz out when he doesn't play a hand in a while. That condition had been met as he hadn't played a hand in an hour. Here's the HH:

villain ($5000) limps utg
CO ($1000) limps
Hero ($2200) limps 4c 4d
SB calls
BB checks

Flop (50)
4s Td 8c

sb/bb check
villain bets $140
co folds
hero calls
sb/bb fold

My read here is that he either has a hand like a limped overpair and is scared (25%) or a weak two-pair/top pair type hand (30%) or some complete garbage hand like a gutshot or something (40%) or has me beat (5%).

Turn (330)
4s Td 8c 3s

Villain bets 550
Hero calls

I think I took long enough on the flop to convince him that I had a ten or a draw or something weak, so I think he's gonna keep barreling here if he has nothing. I think he'll also bet if he has a stronger hand but I think raising would be a mistake since it looks really strong and my best bet is to just take a long time and hope he ships it on the river.

River (1430)
4s Td 8c 3s 9d

Villain bets 1200
Hero calls

Pretty lame card and he definitely looked happy to see it but obv I'm pretty under repped and beat all two pairs and spazz outs so I'm not folding.

Villain shows Qd Jc
Hero shows sadface

And that was my day. He proceeded to talk about how 9's always come up in baccarat and how he always bets big when he needs a 9.
103,300 to go!


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Why am I still ridiculously shy with women when drunk?

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2011 was a pretty good year for our company and we're really excited about what will happen in 2012. Despite eBay fee increases and new restrictive selling policies, we still came pretty close to our sales goal. This was our first year as an official S-Corp and we got a pretty strong start. We branched out onto Amazon in October which gave us a nice 100k in sales for the holiday season. Overall, for 2011, we did $948k in sales which is just under our $1 million goal.

There were a lot of roadblocks on the way. Mainly rising eBay fees and new policies that really restrict the way we operate. PayPal decided to hold $20k of our money hostage for no real reason. Amazon is increasing their fees in the first quarter of 2012 as well. Along with a hundred other issues that came up over the last year that whittled down our profits. Early in the year we predicted that we were easily going to do over $2 million in sales at a ~50% higher profit margin than our current profit margin. But by May, with all of the changes on eBay, we knew that wasn't going to happen.

However, $948k is still pretty good by our books and our current profit margin, although a lot less than it was at the beginning of the year, is still more than enough to keep us motivated. We got a trade show in Vegas coming up in March and by the end of August, we'll have moved into a permanent location either in the Midwest or in California. Once we get things going, we're going to start importing directly from China. There are a lot of things we're excited for in 2012 and although there's definitely going to be a lot of unpredictable setbacks, we're hoping for at least $2 million in sales by the end of 2012.

Looking back at 2011 I realize that although there is still a ton I don't know about the business world and e-commerce, it's unbelievable how much I learned over the last year. edzwoo keeps saying we should write down what we know so it would be easier to train new employees in the future and who knows, maybe in 30 years write a book about our experience

I remember buying our first storage shelf about a year and a half ago to help organize our products. We were getting to the point where we just had too many boxes lying around and needed a better way to store our products. This was when we had less than $3000 in merchandise so one shelf was enough at the time. After assembling the shelf and putting some stuff on it, I took a few steps back to get a better perspective of what I just did and man, I felt SO legit. That was when I started to feel like what we were doing wasn't just a part time thing (I was still in college at the time) but rather something I could do as a career.

A few months later we had a CPA on our payroll and a lawyer setting up the S-Corp for us. I thought having to buy storage shelves for business purposes was pretty sweet but getting incorporated was really amazing. We were now a legal entity and we even had shares of stock. It was pretty awesome.

A few months after that edzwoo and I flew out to a trade show in New York. Felt pretty legit handing out business cards and wearing a badge with our company name on it. After a day or two though, we realized that we were one of the bigger companies there. We were actually bigger than a good number of distributors there too. I don't think anyone there took us seriously though because of our age. Most of the buyers there would inquire about products in quantities of 10 or 20. Because the way we operate requires that we move products really fast, we usually purchase items in the hundreds and thousands. And usually when you purchase in those quantities, wholesalers will give you a price break or a discount of some sort. But very few of the sales reps at the show knew if they could give us any price breaks so we couldn't tell if certain items were worth purchasing. Either way, it was in New York and we had a blast.

I know how everyone on LP love charts and graphs, so here you go

eBay - the red bar isn't accurate and for 2010, we didn't really focus on the business so it's not a very good comparison

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Amazon

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tl;dr
it was a good year


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Woke up real tired yesterday had little sleep managed to grind out what I needed to do, was a real swingy day managed to win around $400 so not like the 1st day bit I will take it . Think I played like 6k hands making the vpp count at the end of the day like 8k, which puts me a little ahead.

Played today and played pretty good played 4k hands which was pretty good as I had a driving lesson and a footy match so was kinda busy, finished $800 up and putting the vpp count at just under 11k.

Super motivated at the moment with everything not just poker, football, golf basically anything I do. Sucks my football team aren't the same and don't put 100% in, I need to find a better team anyway. I'm pretty sure that I play at a much better level then most of the players on my team.

If your lacking inspiration/motivation watch this saw it from someone else on 2+2 you have probs seen it before but this is my first time watching it enjoy....http://youtu.be/7X38PCf7kao

run good people


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Sup LP, please hep me out here.

I need to trade 326T$ for 322$ on Stars.

Doc.LemOn

reply here or send me a pm




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