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Not making this too long.

Need a coach for NL20-50, willing to pay % of my winnings or any other agreement that we talk. I have flexible hours so i can adjust to your schedule.

I play NL20 at Ongame and im tired of not being able to beat it. I have a lot of time to play but losing constantly stops me from mass playing. (I play 4 to 6 tables 5max) and i can play 5-7 hours a day while taking small breaks.

Used to play nl20-nl50 at Ipoker but family problems made me cashout most of my roll and i had to start all over again. Played nl10 at ongame and went up to nl20 fast.

People from tlpoker.la can vouch for me, im doing this because i dont care about getting cash at the moment. I just want to improve and be able to play on nl100 in a couple of months if possible... i love this game so much but im tired of not becoming better.

I watch a lot of vids, have a lot of material from CR, bfp and a couple of more sites.. i just dont know why i dont improve.

This are my stats atm.

http://i54.tinypic.com/108g29u.png

Let me know if anyone's interested or if anyone needs additional information.

Thanks.



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Hey,

So I finally got out of NL10 (Thanks to Arirang for all your help) and I was doing O.K. at NL25 until today where I lost 400$ in 2000 hands.

I feel like when things start to go bad, it never gets better, it only becomes worst as I keep playing.

So I was wondering what do you think is a good stop loss I could set for myself ? Because clearly I'm awful at playing when I'm stuck.

The thing is I don't have that munch time to play poker, so I feel forced to play every seconds that I can because otherwise I'll never get out of this shithole that is the micro stakes. But then again if I keep playing worst when I'm losing I won't progress either...

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when I cashout
http://s4.postimage.org/4kewf937r/fishmagnetsarerepulsedp1.gif


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So last few sessions down little over $500, cutting my winnings at the stake to 200$. Running $931 under EV, so a little worse than I hoped. Had 2nd session with coach, and we talked over some hands of his. Overall good experience and hope to continue with him as my coach. Anyways I hope to get back on track and play better cards. Good luck have fun and good game.


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The Guest House
by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


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To take my mind off poker I decided to "trial run" a few games to take advantage of my decent gaming rig. To date, they have all blown goats:

1) GTA IV
2) Crysis
3) Crysis Warhead
4) Mass Effect

Jesus do they make good games anymore? TF2 is the only thing worthy of my significant gaming prowess these days. All I have left now is Assassins Creed, Gears of War, and Dead Space. Never played any of them, so here goes.


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If I play less than 4000 HUsngs this month someone here gets $100 (only ~1k so far), I'll think of something to decide who after I fail.

Update on mFTOPS, lost every single hand against a huge drooler, why do I still play on FTP, I know they hate me.

edit: obv giving it to known users only, not to freeroll-chasing newfags


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Winning 20 buyins at 2/4 is gonna take a bit longer than planned
I cant blame everything completely on variance as I've made some bad/questionable plays at times which will get better as I play more 6max
I've also been playing more tables than I've planned to so I'm gonna try not to do that as well and stick to 9

anyway heres the graph

http://imgur.com/Z4Mqa.jpg


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Lost to 58o.

Blinds were 300/600, had only 3200 chips, i'm on big blind, last hand before the lunch break.

Everyone fold to the button which raise to 1500, i've seen him play borderline, enough to say it was a real fish but folded a lot of hands after reraise before when we were on the same table before. He raised like a scared monkey, it's was pretty obvious he wanted to steal the blinds.

I find 56s SB fold, i raise allin to 3200 because meh, dunno, maybe because i wanted to leave after that.
Unfortunately he called. Seriously 58o ?

Whatever, the experience was pretty good though, surprisingly i didn't feel under pressure at all and everyone was cool with my handicap (i'm deaf) so they got patient whenever i was not sure if i heard the bet correctly or if they checked through.

After that i went to a cash game. Bought only 150e because i didn't really know how the cash games were being played. Blinds were 2/4e and most of them had bought only like 100 to 200, exception for the regs which were kinda high but i suspect they got it by playing the fishes.
Needless to say, it was extremely profitable. Ended up +150 in 2 hours. I was kinda tired, and my home was 1 hour away so i stopped it here.

Overall pretty good experience so far. Obviously because of the positive session but still, i was feeling really good both in the tournament and the cash game.

I'll probably try it again.

Now time to sleep, cheers and don't forget, don't tilt.






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Well it's another great year, last year ended with a 60 bi below ev run at 200nl, and apparently this year is no different.


This year at 200
http://imgur.com/JUKtl.png


Can't even win on 100 NL
http://imgur.com/Qk1iV.png


Overall year
http://imgur.com/OjoOO.png

Last 12month, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, even with hundreds of thousands of hands
http://imgur.com/kYMvl.png

Yea I don't know, just felt like venting some


Also I'm sure this gap is because I fuking suck like fayth suggested, my overpairs or sets never hold god why do i suck so much and have no skill



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So I haven't updated my blog in like 7-10 days since I have been on spring break since then. A couple big things have happened since then. We won our first round game in our conference tournament which was pretty huge since it meant I wouldn't have to make up my tests until after spring break. If we would have lost I would have had to go back to school for 2 more days. We lost our next game in the final four of the tournament to the #1 seeded team.(We were the 6 seed).

In between the game we won, on a tuesday, and the game we lost, on a saturday, all I had with me was my netbook with no HEM or anything. It's a 10.1" screen so when I tile 4 tables they overlap. Very bad conditions for poker. So on the day after our win, we traveled to the next game and one of my teammates got the sickest ipod game ever. I think its called tiny wings or something like that. It's so much fun and I played it the entire day, basically non stop. I wanted to keep playing all night but my hands were getting sore so I decided to late register for the $32k multi entry at 10pm EST. 4 tables with no mouse sucked, but was trapped in a hotel room for the rest of the night so I decided to play anyway.

I busted 2 entries sometime after the 2nd break, money bubbled one entry, and ended up taking it down with the final entry. It was pretty insane. It lasted until 6am and we had shoot around at 8am. I tried making a deal heads up because I don't really like playing HU with 30BB for 3.5k, but the guy was in mute mode, so I won 1010 vs AK for 1st place. I had him about 1.5:1 in chips at the time. I didn't take a SS of the lobby so here is the opr from it.

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo228/m3gaedke/32k.jpg

Also, I went to a charity poker room thats about an hour from my house and played a $30 tournament. They told me it would have between 30-40 entrants when I called on the phone. It ended up having 20, and the prizepool was $450. Thats like 25% rake which is pretty insane. The structure was 100x better than I expected but for some reason they decided the payouts would be $300/$100/$50 for top 3. I started the FT at about 6th or 7th in chips. At 500/1000 level some guy kept raising to 11,500 and folding to my 23k shove. People are really bad. I ended up winning. Offered to chop with the guy heads up and play for $50, but he had no idea what I was talking about so we ended up playing it out.

This is probably my longest blog ever. I'm going to be selling a small % of my action next sunday I think. There is a 2 day event and the miniFtops MET ME which I'm slightly underrolled for. It will probably be something like a 1k package that I sell 30% of. Let me know if your interested, I'll post the specifics later this week.

Lastly, the Heartland Poker Tour is making a stop at Soaring Eagle Casino which is about 3 hours from my house. The ME is 1.6K BI with around 120k for first. I'm thinking about trying to sattellite or get staked for this as well. PM me if you would be interested in staking me or if you will be playing in it. Apparently it gets near 300 entrants.

Thats about it. I'm going to play MTT's all day tomorrow and then go back to grinding 90 mans with MTT's mixed in all next week.


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fml as soon as i got home my parents put me to work cleaning acorns from the backyard.

Definitely a plus yesterday as I won $165 on the one armed sluts on the casinos on the way home. I have a blackjack fund that i put $115 towards (now up to $275), and $50 will go to ftp so i can feel more comfortable playing the micros confidently. I like having atleast 20 BI's at the level i'm playing at, so once i'm up to $100 i'll move to 5nl, shouldn't take too long. I've been playing very well, however i am missing out on all the information i could be getting by using HEM, or pokertracker, which brings me to my next question...
Which software works best/most efficiently? I feel i could be making much more informed decisions if i had some background information on certain players... Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!!




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I'm currently in south korea.

I've been searching for a while now, but I can't seem to find anything online detailing where SC2 is hosted (address) and also a timetable showing when it will be screened live.

Any ideas?

And also, where would I get a timetable for starcraft 1 etc

Thanks for help.





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This last year I've been running so bad on nl 25 it's unreal. So bad that it's really depressing. It has tilted me so bad so I've also been playing worse, but still. I've practically just been going up and down between nl10, and im SO sick og nl0 (where i've also been running pretty bad, but atleast im still on the plus side) I just want to vomit. It's starting to get really depressive. I'm just never gotta get out of the micros it seems .

anyways here's my ev graph for nl25:
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/7342/nl25downswing.png
I'm over 40 bi under ev, and yes I know I havent been playing that well on nl25 all the time, and I'm only bare on the plus side in ev. But it seriously tilt the shit out of me .

Here's my nl10 graph, which is also pretty bad in ev terms too, but I'm pretty satisfied with it though.
http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/7914/nl10monies.png

could be worse, but is it normal to have swings like this? Or am I just a really unlucky guy?

And sry for making such a whine blog, but I just needed to get this off my chest.

*Update*
Pics should work now.


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Hey guys, I've made a 30 minute MTT Video. Grabbed a random one out of my video folder that had 4 tables;

http://www.mttlife.com/

watch it and let me know what you think;
the videos a tad old, you can kinda tell where i know better now aday in a couple spots

Hope you enjoy,
Ryan Neilly (NeillyAA)


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Just got my table draw for the bounty shootout today and went and got picutres taken for the bounty chip that you give to who busts you. Buyin for it is 10k and get 2k for each bounty, 40k for winning first table and final table is 10k for each bounty and 171k for first place


Hopefully I can get at least 1 bounty and not 0 it out.


Have position on my fellow sne grinder george lind, should be exciting. Starts in about an hour, can follow along at www.pokernews.com




lol i was only joking when i made this post



Table 2
1 George Lind III
2 Joe Ingram
3 John Hennigan
4 Ali Eslami
5 Allen Kessler
6 Joe Serock
7 Dr. Sameer Al Janedi
8 Dennis Phillips
9 Alex Wice



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The game is too sick and I am not very good at it at least if my ev line was looking prettier but no, easier to tilt for me as well...
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I have played around 47000 hands of PLO and I'm down $570 after being up around the same amount I am doing something wrong and I switched back to NL again lol

Playing both games at the same time and was break even at NL but then this month I started to win a bit. The two sharp swings you see are some 50nl.

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My bankroll is finally at 2K since I hit 1K in oct it was at 1,7 then down to $600 at one point and I almost moved down rakeback has kept me in it and I'm going to try and play more 50nl soon. Slow painful climb lol I think I need coaching at some point but not yet I guess.

Sharkscope also has me down around $570 in tournaments which are my ftps and iron man points should I just do the safe thing and use everything on bonuses?







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So I decided I'm going to label all my little progress journal entries with - [limit] just so it looks nice and sorted when I go through my blog posts. These will be about whatever random hand histories or poker theories that have been going through my mind. Take it all with a grain of salt though.

So I've played 3 sessions since my last blog post, and I'm going to try and space them out so I don't make too many NL25 blog posts before I move up to NL50 (unless I go busto lol).

http://imgur.com/c79IH.png
http://imgur.com/nZWCM.png

Swongs! I'm probably going to have to get used to 5-10bi swings in short sessions if I'm going to play this loose. If it starts feeling massively -EV or too hard, I'll probably tighten up or cut down some tables to think a little better. For now I'm having a lot of fun though. Cliffs of the three sessions (starting with the -6bi):

First:
-Jammed for value into a lot of sets
-Jammed as a bluff into a lot of sets
-Got jammed on my bluffs a lot
-Did not backdoor random two pairs enough with my crap hands
-Didn't win any important all-ins

Second:
-More big pots shipped out than in

Third:
-Played 4 tables only and let my poker club sweat me.
-Almost all bluffs worked.
-Big pots went a bit in my favor.
-Happy that I didn't look like a donk and lose in front of everyone.

I posted two hands that I felt were somewhat educational/interesting:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/959808/NL25_3bet_pot_KK_on_A_turn.html - Awkward spot against likely straightforward villain. I think a good solution is to 3bet this person very aggressively until I don't feel awkward at all on that turn.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-foru...ish_overbet_on_coordinated_board.html - I think we often tend to overestimate our equity on these boards.

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Anyway I wanted to go over this hand:
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Fun little hero call. I think a lot of people will just give up turn, but you won't have much FE on this type of board texture since everything is basically two overs. A good standard to go by is assume fish are going to flat your cbet with two overcards so you need to adjust by value betting extremely thin. You could call the turn bet a thin value bet and just to protect. River I check because I can't really vbet anymore, and call because I don't think villain would randomly do this with midpair or worse. His range to the river feels like it should have a LOT of air, so much that it overshadows the times he rivers a 9 or slowplays some type of hand. So I think a call is justified.

I was writing up a long blurb about betting weaker hands, but I think I wrote a little too much and got really off subject, so I'll save that in another entry.


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