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Weekends huh?

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Feeling like a monster.

Never ran as good as these 30 first games here, but then I dunno wtf happened. At the low point there I told my buddy "I'm only gonna sleep when I'm up 1k+". Craaazy swings.

This one reg "TrueBelive" scammed me when we decided to chop one sng and he won and didnt send the money, so today I sat at his table to win it back. He didnt rematch so I chased him and won 6 out of 6 matches vs the scumbag. Last one was so awesome, karma is a bitch heh?

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PokerStars Game #51194887656: Tournament #321710269, $55.00+$2.50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2010/10/16 15:23:37 AT [2010/10/16 14:23:37 ET]
Table 321710269 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: TrueBelive (1820 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1180 in chips)
TrueBelive: posts small blind 25
Hero: posts big blind 50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
TrueBelive: raises 50 to 100
Hero: calls 50

Flop (Pot : $200.00)

   
Hero: checks
TrueBelive: bets 150
Hero: raises 200 to 350
TrueBelive: raises 1370 to 1720 and is all-in
Hero: calls 730 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (640) returned to TrueBelive

Turn (Pot : $2,360.00)

   

River (Pot : $2,360.00)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
TrueBelive: shows (two pair, Kings and Nines)
Hero collected 2360 from pot

Summary
Total pot 2360 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: TrueBelive (button) (small blind) showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and won (2360) with three of a kind, Nines

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PokerStars Game #51194944519: Tournament #321710269, $55.00+$2.50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2010/10/16 15:24:44 AT [2010/10/16 14:24:44 ET]
Table 321710269 1 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TrueBelive (1080 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1920 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 50
TrueBelive: posts big blind 100

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises 1820 to 1920 and is all-in
TrueBelive: calls 980 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (840) returned to Hero

Flop (Pot : $2,360.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $4,520.00)

   

River (Pot : $4,520.00)

   
Hero said, "KARMA"

Showdown
TrueBelive: shows (a pair of Jacks)
Hero: shows (a pair of Kings)
Hero collected 2160 from pot
TrueBelive finished the tournament in 2nd place
Hero wins the tournament and receives $110.00 - congratulations!

Summary
Total pot 2160 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: TrueBelive (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 2: Hero (button) (small blind) showed and won (2160) with a pair of Kings

So far 63.5k VPPs:

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So i yesterday i played like 12 hours straight after work. In end i was falling on table almost to sleep. Dunno how many hands i played. 9 tabed all the time..did some some breaks.

I spew AND do some stupid plays 2 much to move on. I am slaping myself then i spewed some 7 or 12$ away. I think i won 30 bis total and lost same amount in tonight and yesterday play. I really need keep myself out of troubles and fold to 3 bets.

Yesterday got silverstar now 700 fps left to play to goldstar. I hope that if i keep myself out of trouble i should get my roll up. Atm i have been swinging 700 to 500 back and forth back and forth. Also i have been getting tons of bad beas. Tho i put one bi bad beat ALso KK vs AA situation.

Plan is to get bankroll to 1250 then try my skill on 50nl. Tho i tried 1 short session on 50nl 1k hands and left as small winner. I know this coulda ended bad but did not.




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So i yesterday i played like 12 hours straight after work. In end i was falling on table almost to sleep. Dunno how many hands i played. 9 tabed all the time..did some some breaks.

I spew AND do some stupid plays 2 much to move on. I am slaping myself then i spewed some 7 or 12$ away. I think i won 30 bis total and lost same amount in tonight and yesterday play. I really need keep myself out of troubles and fold to 3 bets.

Yesterday got silverstar now 700 fps left to play to goldstar. I hope that if i keep myself out of trouble i should get my roll up. Atm i have been swinging 700 to 500 back and forth back and forth. Also i have been getting tons of bad beas. Tho i put one bi bad beat ALso KK vs AA situation.

Plan is to get bankroll to 1250 then try my skill on 50nl. Tho i tried 1 short session on 50nl 1k hands and left as small winner. I know this coulda ended bad but did not.




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Was in Amsterdam for 2 days watching the Holland - Sweden game. The game itself is a bit blurry, I got fairly drunk. Needless to say the whole day was awesome. My thoughts on Amsterdam itself aren't high (no pun intended). I thought the city was fairly shitty, too many coffee shops, the people in the coffee shops looked like stoners (oh really???) or homeless people. Did not see the Red Light. Went to a nice part of the city the last day and had a few drinks.

One of my best friends and two Swedish police officers in Amsterdam
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Awesome stadium (Amsterdam ArenA)
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2 friend that I saw the game with
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Got a bit sick, so I'm taking it easy this weekend. Next football match up is FC Barcelona vs FCK (Copenhagen). Poker, not really been playing at all. No time I'm afraid


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my favorite time of the year :D

perfect prelude to the holidays winning extra fries and shakes and maybe, just maybe this will be the year i can snag boardwalk + park place. gl everyone



also random question, in your opinion how hard is it to reach nl 2/4? (nl400)


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new show on hbo thats pretty awesome. it takes place in atlantic city right when prohibition takes effect. it centers around atlantic city and a super corrupt politician played by steve buscemi. its pretty good so far.

best part about it is....

OMAR COMIN

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Apparently there's an interview with me from UO Valencia up on like pokernews Lithuania or something like that. I can't find it for the life of me, anyone having better luck?


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Hey guys,
since it seems to be ok anyways , here it is again:
two friends of mine just recently moved together in a shared flat and now there is a contest where they can win an awesome prize:
-living rent free for a year
+ getting stuff from the local supermarket chain worth around 6000 $
+ a huge party in their flat getting sponsored with around 3000$

all you have to do is to "like it" on facebook and u can even win some stuff too if they should make it to the round of 5 (they are 7th atm) though i dont know about the prizes if you dont live in switzerland

anyways, it would be huge favor for me and them !

link: http://apps.facebook.com/m-budget/wg/378#


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AFter that 1k post, i played 1 table of 50nl and promptly lost 2 bi's with kk v aa and 8 10 vs k10 on a 10 10 x flop. It actually would have been 3 bi's but my other kk v aa was saved by the board making a straight.

so i went down to 25nl and got a kk v aa, qq v kk, aj v a4 when the 4 hit on the river, overpairs vs sets, me not ever getting a set, and just getting horrible boards with every single big hand.

Down to 780 now. god damn.

the good news is that i didn't really make any horrible plays, maybe losing so much did make me barrel and cbet less than usual so i need to fix that, but otherwise i didn't shove or do any tilt monkey things that i usually do.

sighhhh, damn poker


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found one, we start tonight
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So I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these/thoughts. I was thinking they should be profitable and something I could use to add volume. I was messing with the Ultra turbo ones, just using a chart and doing ok with them. Any other advice/experience with these?


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Lacking volume, poker is just so boring
Especially when I'm winning.

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The last hand of the day was nice, fag running his mouth for no reason got punished:
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graph speaks for itself
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3 BI till I'm rolled for .1/.25



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edit: sorry didnt know this was not ok


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dropped 11k yesterday and I'm even on the month its been a pretty swingy 2 weeks and since I'm going to bcpc in a month I'm going to stick to 6max NL only till then which is about a month away and I'll post a graph then


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Man, girlfriend + piano lessons + poker is hard. Add in the fact that I waste time doing stuff like playing random games on the side, and I don't know how I even manage to survive. Bought a new laptop a month ago, but then procrastinated about getting HEM up and running because it tends to be such a pain in the ass to set up, so I didn't play any poker for three weeks or so. However, about a week ago I finally got HEM working and I've started hitting the SNG's and $4/$8 8-game again, hitting the 50k VPP mark for the year today. I'm up close to $3k in that time. I also uninstalled MTG Online yesterday, to reduce pointless distractions.

Obviously my supernova goal is trivially easy at this point, thanks to getting up to the $60's. So I think I need to focus on just playing a lot. I can use the milestones as little motivators, but it would be irresponsible, I think, to only just barely make supernova by the end of the year. Also, Carol and I have agreed to break up, but at the moment, I'm not planning on moving out until after the semester ends, so I can focus on school, and so I will be able to devote a decent amount of time to apartment hunting. So I think that it would be wise to make it before the end of the semester.

I definitely need to live alone in a house or apartment, not rent a room or have a room mate. I need the freedom to play poker, practice the piano, and go to concerts on my own schedule. Barring the unlikely event that I meet a liberal atheist female who likes poker and classical music, I'm going to need to be single in order to do the things that matter to me. C'est la vie, although I'm not completely giving up hope.

WoW is very tempting with Cataclysm coming out next month. I've never tried to figure out what my hourly winrate is all that precisely, but I should probably do that soon, so I can estimate how many hours per month WoW would take away from poker, so I can calculate how much playing the game generally costs me (hint: it's more than $19.95 per month). I guess I should remember the general principle: My obsession with games and my perennial difficulties in life finally started to resolve each other when I discovered poker. Although poker isn't huge loads of fun like it was when it was fresh and new, I keep myself playing by reminding myself how much better it's made my life, and how tough my life was before it.


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Brief History:
I sold play chips on pstars for $40 about 3 years ago. I grinded it up to 3k in cash games on pstars. Switched my roll to FTP about 2 years ago and have been mainly playing tournaments ever since. My BR at its peak was 20k after winning the 50/50 on FTP. Now im back under 1k due to cashouts and losing a bunch in HU cash games. My notable finishes are winning the 50/50, $100 30k 6-max, 32k GTD, 12.5K GTD like 5 times and a 22nd place finish in the sunday 750k. I was a mid stakes mtt regular and would like to return to that level with your help. here is my opr.
http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/...7F18C0434BC8BA5CE56B945FE811.html?t=2

I would like to be stakes in <$20 tournaments for the time being. I am a proven winner at these limits. PM me and we can discuss the details of the deal. I would be playing between 20 and 50 tournaments a week.

I have good BR management, I'm an honest person, and I have made transactions and staking deals with members of this site in the past. PM me if your interested.


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So my grandma is basically the archetype older lady with a nice chunk of money in the bank who is very vulnerable to financial scams. She keeps joining pyramid schemes and trying to do it like some kind of honest business.. she is that sucker who really believes in these scam multi level marketing, buying gold bullion, bad investments, stuff like that.

And I just don't know what the fuck to do. The scammers immunize their victims by infecting them with self guilt when they inevitably fail to recruit more suckers to these obvious scams. I live at my grandma's right now, and there's a guy here right now selling her on another thing that sounds extremely like a scam. I try to be very off-hands about my grandma's financial related stuff.. it isn't my money and shit obviously, but how long can I stand by and let these dogs continue nickel and diming her to death?

I've tried to show her the facts when it comes to pyramid and multi level marketing schemes but she doesn't want to listen to me over the smooth-talking people involved in these schemes.

Basically, I dunno what to do, I might of already gone as far as I can without overstepping what would be considered respectful of my grandma's decisions and again I just don't know what to do.


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