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got crushed at NL 25. Went -130 in 1600 hands, with -100 redline. Things were going well for 200 hands or so, then it seemed like I entered the 3betting / flop raising zoo or something. Also it looked to me like people were shoving it in at any possible opportunity, much lighter than at NL 10. This is a pretty small sample, so I don't want to do too much analysis yet, but man, it might be challenging to adjust.

Anyhow, the good news is I also realized there are a lot of donkeys at NL 25, but the bad news is I seem to be one of them right now.

Edit: Graph or it didn't happen!
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big baller in the house lmk


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I'm probably going to get a netbook since I'm on the road for like 10 weeks a year for basketball. Would a $200-$300 netbook be able to single table full tilt poker? I basically just want to be able to play big tournies like FTOPS and stuff while I'm on the road, I don't need to be able to multi table grind.

Example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152175

Also, if anyone can recommend a good one for under $300 that would be great.


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things were boring and impotent. now i have a raging hard on.


the "turk" is back! yea he's 6-10 and can shoot 3's. sometimes he dribbles too much and is too willing to take the big shot. he has me holding my breath, yelling and screaming. and occasionally blows me up with extacy. im glad we got rid of vince AND pietrus.

"old man" richardson. sigh he is so facking old. but another really solid 3 point shooter + he's really athletic. my main concern is if he can still pull the shit he used to be able to in his old age. i believe he's won the dunk contest once and continues to pull some impressive dunks from time to time.

gilbert "i have guns and will threaten to shoot you" arenas. definitely talented. followed in the footsteps of wade in the 0 guard position (looks for his own shot, passes out some 3's occasionally). definitely talented. him and richardson are definitely athletic enough. main concern with this guy is if he's coachable. if he will listen and follow suit. gilbert arenas is like the ultimate gamble as he can prob single handedly destroy svg's whole culture and defensive mind set by being a selfish little bitch. i wanna say dwight howard and nelson have alot of locker room/leadership presence. enough to overcome the retarded but talented idiot that is gilbert arenas. i wanna say he might be humbled and coming off the whole gun controversey may make him more mature and may divert him from taking everything for granted...but i can also see the potential for complete and utter disdain for authority... which svg requires, needs, to make the magic churn...

either way i'm fucking stoked since were no longer a dead team.


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Brag: Unstuck after down 7.5bi for the day

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Beat: Still stuck 18.5 bis for the month lol

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PLO: "Welcome to my crib"


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Bitcoins

Selling:
3.8 BTC / $1
Buying:
$0.30 / 1 BTC

genjix on PokerStars. Here's my old blog,
http://genjix.liquidpoker.net/

Can get reputable posters to vouch for me. Have done trades with Checkmater PS for $500 -> BTC who can also vouch for me (although doesn't post here). Done other trades but not with poker players.

Also accepting GBP (£) and EUR (€) wire transfer at rates set by xe.com. My EUR bank here doesn't get used often so I'd need to find out first before we xfer.



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nvm


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Need Xfer 100$ will send first to reputable members


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interested in getting into this genre. i just put Scandinavia in hopes of ppl coming in from all corners to defend their national bands w/ passion plus besides a little bit of random information and random samplings i am completely blind. to put it simple i'm looking for music that vikings would put on their ipods to trudge through blizzards and darkness to squat 1000 lbs (or pillage evildoers).


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down 75k in EV. FFS cant fkn win


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Olivia Wilde is the hottest white girl in all the history of white girls.

She has my heart...


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Some first time Vegas questions... I'm going to be staying at the Mirage. I won't have that much cash on me, is it advisable to use ATMs to withdraw cash from my checking account? What casino has the best 1-2 game? Any other tips or advice for a first timer?


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That's it. On 38 buy in downswing - 18 buy in under EV - of course that doesn't include all the times I flopped coolers. One winning session in 2 weeks. Gotta move down now and try to scrap together what I have left.


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Hey guys

I'm a mid-1500 pub player and I've reached that point where I don't think I can progress without a solid lineup of thinking, strategic players on my team. Nowadays, pubs are more like spins of the roulette wheel - sometimes I'll end up with a team that thinks about picks and other times it'll just be BH, Scout, NH insta-picked at the beginning of the game and I can't do much about it. This isn't including the number of times I randomly end up in a game with a bunch of Brazilians and I can't understand a word of what's going on.

I've checked out the liquidpoker channel but people seem to be idle when I check in. Other times, people are having their own conversations and it's a bit awkward to interrupt and ask for a game. If you guys have a time when you're down to play or if there are specific times when most active players are on, let me know. My HoN alias is Sanai, same as here.


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Hey guys,

Just thought I'd share what's been going on recently with me since I haven't been playing as much recently. This might be a little bit of a read, but I think it'll be interesting to most of you. I'm also just kinda bored so I might throw in some random irrelevant details.

I've been meaning to write all this out because of this thread: http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/935296/Your_poker_goals__.html

It just got me thinking, how many of you guys had a plan after poker, if any?

I started playing poker when I was 18, and like most of you I played NL2 with a small starting bankroll (mine was a random free $5 Stars promotion). Signed up for LP and pretty much went through what most of you are doing or have done with posting countless threads/getting yelled at by TalentedTom/thinking about poker in the shower. After about a year or so I was playing finally playing NL100. Not really enough of a sample size, but I was winning at like 5ptbb over the first 100k hands or so I played and a had a lot of 10bi+ days. Probably was a massive heater, but I do think the games were a bit easier, or whatever I was doing was working really well against the player pool.

Anyway around this time I ended up dropping out of school. Before you guys say that's really stupid, I totally agree with you; dropping out just to play poker is pretty stupid. Actually, I just use poker as an excuse of why I dropped to make it easier to explain to non-poker players. In reality, I'm a pretty terrible student without the discipline to study or do homework. I'm pretty sure it would've happened if you substituted a random video game that made me no money with poker as well.

Rent is cheap here in Champaign. It's about $420 a month to live in a nice apartment. Overall, my living expenses usually amounted to about 1k a month. I'm a pretty frugal guy and I don't drink, so other than ordering food pretty much every day it doesn't take much for me to be pretty content. So in terms of actually surviving, I never really had a problem. I guess I did have the luxury of my family supporting me in case something happened or my bankroll got low, but I never had to resort to that.

So now it's the summer of last year now, and I got 3 other roommates and we subleased a pretty sweet apartment right in the middle of all the stores and bars for like $200/month/bedroom (hilariously good deal). Life was pretty good, but one problem that kinda irked me is I had no future. I'm sure a lot of you guys share this same situation, which is kinda the reason I'm writing all this. Since I didn't get a degree, I can't really get a job. Since I'm not getting a job, I'm also not really networking with new people either. To top it off, the biggest problem was my initial reason I dropped out of school, which is the lack of motivation.

See, when I was playing NL2, I had these aspirations to get to NL100 and NL200 and be financially independent. I did these calculations where I was like, "Woah if I played X hours a day, I will be making Y per year". So I'd play like 3-4 hours a day at the micros so I could move up faster. The major flaw is it wasn't the money that drove me, but the desire to live off of poker. Once I actually got there, I started playing like an hour every other day. Since I only really needed 10bi at NL100 a month to support my lifestyle, I usually would quit and just chill for the month after I made like $1500~. My biggest miscalculation was I wouldn't have the motivation to make money beyond what I simply needed. So yeah, just a quick warning to those of you that are grinding the microstakes and have very modest goals like I did.

Anyway, I had to think of what I was going to do with my life, cause I certainly wasn't going to live on school campus ordering the same double gyro plate everyday. I want to get married in the future with a nice house and stuff, and $1500 a month wasn't going to cut it. Of course, going back to school and getting a legit job came into mind, but I quickly realized I still had lack of motivation for that. Also, it kinda came to mind that the reward for getting a degree is usually being able to get a 9 to 5 job. If I can't even wake up for a 2pm class or turn in a homework assignment on time, I'd probably either be miserable or get snap-fired.

It didn't really take me very long to realize that as an online poker player I just want to sit at my computer, click buttons and make money. So with that I stumbled across internet marketing and eCommerce. Basically just running an internet business. So for about the past year or so, I've been studying a ton about internet marketing just like I did with poker when I was at the micros. And believe me when I say this, having poker experience really gave me a huge advantage. People without that background have to learn things like not being results oriented, handling tilt, understanding variance, bankroll management, etc. It took me some time to realize this, but everything made so much more sense when approached with a poker mindset.

So as you all probably know, Jason and I decided to start a little niche business about 6 months ago and split it 50/50. I've known Jason since high school, and we've actually both taken advantage of a ton of random arbitrage opportunities when we were just broke kids. The difference between us though is I hate doing something if it isn't efficient or boring, but Jason can just straight up go for something and grind it like mad. Dunno if any of you guys saw one of his really old blog posts but check this out: http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=824133. 16000 feedback isn't so easy to get.

Well with the holidays here, we're on a pretty sick heater with our sales, but even so we've been making enough to both be financially independent (and better than what I was making in poker). If you want a little bit of an idea of where we're at, we can probably pull off over 1 million in revenue (not profit) next year assuming we don't grow at all. We're actually growing ridiculously fast, so I think it's going to be MUCH bigger than that. There's definitely no lack of motivation on my end because even with all the work involved, it's a really awesome feeling at the end of the day.

One thing I would love to see is a Liquid forum for internet marketing. A lot of the forums for internet marketing are basically like twoplustwo; like 80%+ of the information is basically just fish giving advice, so as a newbie it's impossible to know what is good info and bad. I know for a fact I still have a hard time differentiating the good and bad advice. I was also wondering if I wrote some sort of eBook bridging poker into internet marketing, how many of you guys would be interested in it?


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working on my live game as of late. playing mostly at thundervalley in norcal. so far haven't been very consistent as i am online. will have a a lot of losing days from being annoyed of not playing as many hands as online then every once in a while ill have a big payday, which kinda evens it out. the players are still terrible live, i just need to put more hours before i can constantly beat the game. i think im getting the hang of it


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Why is everyone running so bad in December?


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Well i stoped playing Robot poker(full ring 20 tables) with rakeback in a attempt to play "winning poker"(heads up)

-17.33 bis under EV so much for winning poker lol

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whine again....party poker is rigged


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