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So after my $75 -> $575 went terrible due to running $50 under EV and just tilt throwing the rest away via coolers/donkaments/boredom, I took a few days off and restarted This put me 400VPP behind my gold target, which was fine as I had 4days, until I remembered I had guests and ended up on a 3day drinking session

So up I wake today with a 3day hangover and 220VPP to earn at the micro's.

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Is there anyway to manually "start/stop" sessions with HEM, my $/hour is fucked up as I play say 2k hands, take a break for 20mins, then play another section. But it counts the 20mins in myminutes played

Madotary rungood graph -

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10bb/100 on both Nl2 and Nl5.

20/13/5 stats. In 1.6k VPP I get $100 rakeback, so will probably smash Nl5 for 2weeks now, then move upto NL10 and start moving up stakes and stop robot grinding 24 tables :D

PS: Did anyone watch boxer v rain? INSAANNNNNE TvT, 1hr 10+



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title mistype - how to post the stats with your hand histories?

ive been watching you guys do it forever, but havent grinded cash in a long long time so it didn't matter

now i'd like to add those and start adding hh's again to get advice, that i need in many spots..

feel stupid, should be common sense since i been on lp forever, just never had to do it

thanks for your help guys, sure its simple lol...
Ryan

On a mission. Heres my final goal.

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MvC3, what a dumb/random game.

Fuck Justin Wong/ Ricky Ortiz.

Hope Daigo wins SSF4AE

Hope Sanford wins MvC3

Hope Michael Angelo wins Mortal Lolbat

BlazeBlue - You playing your girly games again?

Tekken - Don't really pay attention


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Hi,

I bought the new macbook air this week and it works great and all but I'm not very familiar with mac. This is my first mac and was wondering if there are some must have applications out there that i dont know of


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Brutality!

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I'm starting to see a pattern lol. All my graphs are the EXACT same, winning winning winning winning, lose (everything).

Sickening


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I dunno, weird month. Had a very bad day yesterday but overall I've made a decent amount of money. Ended up winning probably ~15-16k€, 4, from cash games, 7.5 from various bonuses and the rest from tournaments. That's the third winning month in a row, and the first decent month in a while for me. Ran fairly decent overall and some of the sessions I played really well. Some I played really bad.

Happy with my mtt-results and play and I'm happy with how much I've learned, I've really evolved my game a fair bit opening up a little in some spots, tightening up a bit in others and overall started doing a lot more hand reading and hero-stuff. Got a decent amount of hands in too, so that's pretty good.

I know most of my leaks, now I hope I'll fix them.

Edit: The Strikeforce event made me cry. Abomination!


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Im thinking about playin the whole series, it's like 14k~16k without the rebuys and the high rollers and some weird limit games, wondering if I could sell some action. I'm not a tournament player but I've played 5 big live tournaments and final tabled 1 of them, got ITM in 2 of them, also won a 320$ on stars for 50k and some other final table at fulltilt for 27k. Keep in mind that I only play tournaments very rarely. Some other small cashes.

Wanna see if theres some interest, hopefully would like to sell a big % to few people.

My motivation is the WCOOP ranking stars hold for the whole series, I wanna see if by playing most (all) of the tournaments I can have a chance of ranking high. If enough interest and action sell I could start thinking about the highrollers and the underground games like badugi etc

EDIT: Got bad news, I just realized Ill be back in uni for september, fml, will post updates when I know my uni schedule with the tournaments I actually can play. Thank you all for the interest tho! got much more than what I would've thought

Im such a fish ;(


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Read blog post below--

With a $8 rakeback (that I discovered today, lol) I play on grinding Turbo micro HU SnG's until I have a roll for NL25 HU again!

I get a little twinge of adrenaline every time I shove preflop and get called LOL.

@ $30 and climbing--


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I'm dealt 69o a ridiculous percentage more than i should be (usually get 1 every orbit)

playing 3 tables and just got dealt 29o four times in a row, 3 of them all at the same time.

get similar hands so often i usually have some at a given time.

am i being cooky? or is there something wrong with this shuffler?


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Hey guys I got a month or so before school starts and no job so i decided I might as well do something that I enjoy and that *might* be useful, so I decided to start playing poker semi-seriously.

With only 40$ on PS i figured I should start at 2NL and work my way up from there.
So after 3 days and being up only 3 dollars, I decided I wasn't patient enough to grind it out and decided to switch to SNG.

After 4 days of 8-12 tabling (bout 80 games a day) 1,50$ turbo and turbo knockout STT, I'm up to 115$ and now 8 tabling 3,50$ turbo sit n gos.

I have 2 questions.

First of all I'm using the 60 day trial of pokertracker, but there's something wrong with it, reports my net winnings for STT at 31,40$ but I'm up at least 70$, plus i lost about 10-15$ at MTT so it should be around 80$, do you have any idea why it would report my net won so low?

Secondly, I've seen a lot of articles have different opinions, what do you think is a good number of Buy-ins to move up?




Ah and while I'm at it, at what level do cash games start being a little more fun? I don't really like the 0,01$/0,02$ because it seems the only winning option is to be tight as hell and wait it out because everybody is calling as soon as they have suited connecters or any rag ace. Plus it's kinda hard to take a 6 cent raise seriously sometimes.









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There is that guy on my table playing 20/20/20 with 20% squeeze with the name twentybets

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touhg it was funy xD
duno if he is trying to keep his stats at that number :OP


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I wanna go back to god mode please :/


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Been doing more sports betting lately using Bodog. Was wondering if there was any better alternative for US residents? Recommend plz


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i have run pretty bad. With funds stuck in full tilt, the shit is obv harder to digest.
I cant rly say im playing my A-game but i sure could use some of that run go0O0ot.

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meh


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Gonna take a shot at $25/$50 HU tonight on Hero for $1165.

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Rofl wtf no I'm not Actually I just figured since nobody is really bloggin bout shit these days, I might as well provide a worthless life update. Meh, why not.

So I has a job now, which mean I can has poker money. I mean I've always had a job, kinda funny to put it that way, but considering how worthless and boring it was it just felt like nothing. I mean hell, I used to 4-table rush at my desk. Says a lot about my job responsibilities. I still maintain I always got shit done, and now that I quit I still get emails/texts/phone calls from upper management begging for assistance with things. Too bad mother fuckers, thats what you get for reducing my salary by 30%, and then keeping it there for 3 fucking years. Hey stupid shits, I'm the fucking I.T. guy, I know how much money everyone else is making already, and you FUCKED ME. Anyway I had been looking to quit probably 2 years ago so it's not like I just accepted it and kept it to myself this whole time.

So I got a new job which is sorta kickass and sorta boring too, but it pays more so whatever. The fact that I'm blogging about it right now should tell you something. One good thing though is that since I'm no longer fixing problems for people, but instead being tasked with various objectives, the job is a lot more mentally stimulating. I work for a university now so the vibe is also much different, since pretty much all I see is a bunch of fine ass 18 yr old pussy walking around all day. Goddamn it's rather difficult honestly. The best thing is just the boost in my resume credentials that a position like this offers. See I only intend to stay here for a year or so, because I'm just so fucking bored of where I live.

For starters I'd like to live in a poker friendly state, even though I dont play that much poker. I just want to know the options are available, but mainly because I just like live that much. I'm kinda slow I guess so 1-table is all I can really focus on. Since so many of us are ex-gamers, I was a 1st person shooter, not a Starcraft'er, so that might give you a little insight into how I approach strategy/competition, and why I'm not naturally talented at a game like poker. But I just really like people and being social, I like the physicality of holding cards and playing with chips, I like eating a burger and having a beer at the table, and my mood is entirely different live vs online. Honestly, it's probably the best poker environment for someone like me since I get off on it.

But of course it cant just be all about poker, since I'll have to have some kind of job first, and a desirable place to live. There arent that many non-degen poker cities honestly so it's gonna be tight. We're even thinking about moving to Canada because Canadians rock, and I'm starting to get disgusted with the United States. Vancouver is the only city I'm even remotely interested in though, so it's either there or nothing at all. I think with 1 good year of employment here, plus all the other shit I have on my resume and I'll be a lock for employment anywhere in the U.S. It's kinda funny planning my departure a mere 6 weeks into new employment, but that was always part of the end-game anyway, no matter how comfortable I get where I'm at right now.

Beyond that, poker has been hugely "MEH!!" as always. I just dont put in any volume, mainly because I kinda always expect to lose. Such a weird conflict of emotions, because here I describe how much I want to play, but then once I get the chance to actually sit down and play I avoid it. I won a freeroll for $600 on Hero a few months back, and after cashing out $200 my bankroll is down to $100 or so. I lost about 10 BI's playing NL25 HU, 1 silly shot at NL200 6max, and I think a little at omaha just because I had never played omaha before. I actually paid for a couple of lessons in HU just because I've always wanted to get into it, and the money seems good even as low as NL25. But with a shattered bankroll it's hard not to play scared. I'll probably start buying in for 60BB's or so since thats all my competition usually sits with anyway and hoping I can apply what little I've learned in 2 hours of lessons. I'd gladly buy a ton more HU coaching but because I'm not sure if I'm smart enough to actually get the hang of it I want to kinda take it step by step before investing $1000 into something I'll never use.

Anyway thats about it I guess.


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hey guys, if theres any good nl100+ 6max regs that would like to learn mtt's, we can swap a couple lessons and i have around 30 videos you can have too

let me know if anyones interested, looking on taking my 6max game to the next level. starting to understand some things i hadn't ever understood, i want to keep having eurekas and become sick solid at 6max.

Really, anyone thats been a solid winner over the last 12 months~!

Mtts are high variance and my br isn't large enough to sustain the swings, i like cashgames as building br for mtts, and to play on days i don't have a lot of time. I'd like to learn to beat up to 1/2 itlr....im a career winner up til nl50 in 6m. nl100+ has given me problems in the past, although my last 2 nl100 shots went well, i still consider nl50 my ceiling

I'm a decent 6max player, I currently play 31/25/8.63b fold to 3b 73%

I tend to overvalue some top pairish hands sometimes and have some leaks that i am 100% sure i am unaware of. - maybe many more than i even realize..

Also, alot of blind on blind situations like AJss hands, i tend to trap myself into losing like 60bb pretty often

I need a coach for like 2-3 sessions atleast.....

Hope someone is willing to trade, I know a ton about MTT's and many cashgame players are new to MTT's and I could help them dramatically on teacing them all the different nuances and explaining in detail

ok thats it, kind of a troll post, but its important to me and i hope to be able to make a sustainable winrate in the nl100-nl200 6max games, and play mtts at nighttime. been wanting this for a long time now, but kept trying on my own and i just fail on my own or something idk

GL LP,
RYan





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im stopping over in Icheon for one night. Arriving at 5:40pm on satruday 30th July . Flying out 9:50am next morning.
Is there anything to do? Watch live starcraft?? Watch those korean girl bands? Whats there to do? Hotels?

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Anything?

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So I traded for some Hero $ earlier, got $100, and was just playing around on NL25 HU, which I find for the most part to be really really soft. Really quickly into my first session, and a couple of check/raise all-ins later (most of which are snap called with the nuts or TPTK against my FD/SD) I find myself with only $33 left.

Then I seem like I cant lose, run it up to $250 or so (oh baby, going up 10 buyins) and play this massive fish at NL25 who I take like 4 BI off of in maybe 50 hands.

He sits out and I'm just browsing on the HU tables when I notice he's sitting on some NL100 tables. Same guy. And I'm just licking my chops, thinking "Oooooo free monies".

You can see where this is going...

I had told myself that I was already underrolled for NL25 HU, and if I did well I would not move up AT ALL until I was fully rolled for NL50 HU (meaning 20 BI). I've always done very well at HU online in the past, but always had BR management issues. No moving up. No matter what.

So what do I do? I sit down at the NL100 table and he posts his blind.

YESSSSS. HE'S PLAYING ME.

AK, 4bet preflop, he calls. Flop comes KJ3. He checks, I bet, and he snapjams over. I'm like FIST-PUMPING CALL right then because I know I'm good and he flips over QJs. Rivers a Q.

I'm like -.-

About 20-30 hands later, I'd chipped up a bit and we were both with $170 stacks.
QQ, 3bet preflop, he calls. Flop comes Q56. I bet he calls. Turn is a 8. I bet he jams and I'm thinking REVENGE!!! SO SWEET!

He flips 77. Rivers a 4.

At this point I'm like --> http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/ph...al/000/154/726/loading.gif?1311796710

Im mega-tilted and absolutely fucking refuse to leave the table and acknowledge that I've lost money to a huge lucksack. The only way I was leaving the table was if either of us went bust.

...That's a very bad idea btw, challenging a known lucksack to a who-busts-first battle when you have 60bb left in your BR. He KO'ed me soon after.

And kids, that's what happens when you play HU massively under-rolled, even if you think its way +EV.


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Since I don't visit 2+2 at all, I'm disappointed that LP seems a lot less active. Obviously, after Black Friday most Americans have nothing to talk about. This is in stark contrast to Teamliquid - if there's a controversial topic, the thread balloons to 15 pages overnight (a little TOO active, IMO). The whole aura here has gotten a lot more gloomy.

I played pretty much exclusively on FTP, with ~90% of my net worth stuck there now. I have been silent since I didn't want to induce fear-mongering (looking at you, Whamm!), but yeah, the situation sucks right now. Since I don't have any insider information on this, there isn't much else for me to comment or speculate on.

I have been playing on Merge (level 70 Barbarian, yo!). Does that make me the most powerful Hero on Liquidpoker? It's alright but really needs an influx of new players. Above nl200, there is little traffic and it is comprised of regulars. Perhaps that just is a sign of the stagnant poker economy (at least in NL). Girlfriend has been grinding on Stars - apparently < nl100 is good, nl100+ not so much.

Tonight, I'm heading to Macau for 4 nights to renew my Taiwan visa and live poker. There isn't much to do besides gambling and saunas so this trip is going to be mostly business. Going to be playing 20/40 HKD at the Lisboa and will try out the Wynn this weekend. If this trip goes well, will strongly consider attending the Red Dragon which is in early August. Will write a trip report when I get back!


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