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So I logged on to FTP today and found that I was chosen to receive the 500$ bonus. I was excited and immediately clicked 'accept', but I forgot that I did not have any money in my account.

So, I've decided to ask you guys for help. If someone wants to buy my account, I'll sell it for 400$ on stars. In addition to the 500$ bonus, my account also has around 1759 ftps and a ticket to the daily dollar

Or if someone is really feeling generous, they could loan me some money so I can unlock some of this bonus. I promise to send it back asap.


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How are the LP from NEw Zealand doing after the super earthquake?

http://www.canada.com/news/Earthquake...+hits+Zealand+USGS/3478982/story.html




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vicious aces
67.201.15.54:27015

usually has like 10 ppl during nightime, but now theres like zero ppl
but on average it does have decent traffic like 8 hours from now - hope to see some of u guys by then

decent english speaking players
dont insta kick ppl with 200 ping like me lol
maps are super standard de_dust 1 and 2, office
play for fun and i would love to frag a couple of lpers
no downloading of 98730489mb useless clan specific crap



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Just made a big big cash out and totally forgot about the upcoming wcoop so im looking to sell action for most of the 1k+ event.
recent tourney success.

90th in last years wsop main event with like 80% of my self
some 109 wins and lots of FTs
10th in ANZPT adelaide

Serious people pls PM me asap so i can figure out which events I can afford.

(Cashed out 150k and only have 20k online atm)


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Hello

So I have been a bit of a ghost for a while on LP. Have taken a break from poker, which was much needed, for my sanity. Depression is a battle for me, and now with medication I am starting to do better. I am working at a community college, which is okay.

The WCOOP is coming up. I have dollar signs in my eyes when I think of this. I am curious if anyone is interested in a staking deal for some WCOOP events, only the WCOOP events.


I want to sell 100% and have my take of profits be 15%, 17.5% of FT, 20% of a win. I think that is fair, if not I am open to discussion with someone who has a wealth of backing experience.

I have compiled a list of events I am interested in playing, as well as their date, time, buy in and prize pool. I would, of course, love to play the main event, but I think the best idea is to sell action across all the games, and the main event on its own.

I cannot get the chart to post well here, the formatting is all weird, so I uploaded a text file WCOOP Schedule

10% whamm!


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Omega Seamaster from 1965 (166.002) + a new HIRSCH leather strap
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Crown: Original crown with Omega logo in very good condition
Measuring 34.5mm excluding the crown

Give me an offer


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my $505 stars for your $500 ftp

looking to try some rush poker >_>

ill send first to known member


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stars cash only, ~07 forward, and with annotations

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do you see how the kid fought? this is what you will soon have to contend with at the tables.


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Just deep down I always knew...I am not good enough for this.
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I don't have enough discipline to enjoy what I am doing and to push myself to my max potential. Furthermore, I never really focused fully and despite the great rewards of meeting new people, getting results and new experiences every day when I look at my bottom line I feel like I haven't achieved much, my goals are still far away and financial reward is way too small for how much I get frustrated all the time and how much my health suffers.

So today is my last day. I must say that I am sad as more than a year long chapter in my life is over, and it feels like I didn't make an impact that anyone would remember some time from now.

It was a good ride with ups and downs, great fun and great frustration. I have learned a lot and will come out of the experience as a better, more experienced person. I will miss all who shared my journey and who provided me with support and advice over the last period, but now its time to move on.

Goodbye Lloyds Banking Group, hello poker and student life.



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Just tried out some NL200 rush FR for the first time today. And I've got to say I was quite impressed with how soft the games are.

Here's the graph for the mad LOLOLOL

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I've never had this type of non-sd rapage in my life before jesus.


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there is no need for me to take on any more risk at the table than is inherent to my playstyle which, even when dialed down, is still massively violent. this is my nature, to attempt to dominate my opponents for every waking moment of their lives, and for me to exult in my destruction of them. it's who i am.

i don't always need to do it. in fact, almost all of the time i can just do my thing and wait for my opponents to offer up a win. all that i have to do is be present to accept it. that's real, and that's intelligent and that's what it means to be a poker player.

oh, and there's that thing about matching your style to the format being played and working backwards from the objective. minor details such as playing a gigantic field donkament with the intention of winning the fucking thing starting right the fuck now and suchlike.

restraint. the word is restraint and to understand that it leads to stress and that the way to get it out is by fucking.


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I won't be posting my graph because I'm lazy and this is not a results blog anyway, but rather a brief reflection.

Resultswise I played 50nl/25plo/50plo and ran bad early on in the month. I started redeeming my month a week and a half ago and ended up -$150. I did pick up $150 from the LP BBP rakerace so I'm up for the month after bonuses and rakeback.

This month, I've taken up a real life SC1 friend as a poker student. I've also staked him a $200 starting bankroll even though he has very minimal experience. I'm usually very conservative about these types of ventures but I have a lot of faith in him because he can put in the hours and was B+ on ICCup. This will a fun personal challenge for me and by the end of it I'll have some decent coaching experience as well as the satisfaction of my friend's success. I'm going to start putting in hands for my HU bumhunting stake starting this weekend so that should also be interesting.

Originally, that's all I was planning to do with poker this September. I've been actively trying to get involved in a lot more student organizations at my university. I was gonna cut down on poker and make the most of my sophomore year developing my networking and leadership skills. However, FTP is making me reconsider with a $500 bonus and only 21 days to clear it. It's a bit frustrating but I guess I can fit in some time to clear as much of it as I can.

On that note, I don't have any money on FTP atm so I'm looking to transfer 1k from stars to FTP sometime next week (however my pokerstars transfer limit is still at its minimum and I emailed them to increase my transfer limit but they declined so wtf). If anybody can give me more information on that, I would greatly appreciate it.

ugh this month is going to be a sick test of time management


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Hey, what's up everyone?

I thought I'd go ahead and give everyone a brief Vegas trip report since that's a way more interesting and fun read than the other stuff I'm going to post about. All in all, it was an great time. Myself, Bob, Mez, Doomer, Doomer's friend Shane, and Ket stayed at TjBentham's house. Everyone in the house got along really well, which was really cool. Before heading out there, I was kind of going through a really weird time and probably the worst depression of my life. It was a combination of many different things, some I don't mind talking about, others I'd rather not talk about. But anyway, the reason I wanted to say that was because I think staying in the Vegas house for a month was one of the best things for me in a lot of different facets. As far as poker growth, learning, and just motivation, there really isn't a substitute for living with just poker players every single day. Eat, sleep, and breathe poker 24/7. Doomer especially helped a bunch. Just about every day we would sweat each other and just discuss different lines, pros/cons to them, and just random new ideas and concepts. Doomer, myself, and Shane also went to play live at mostly the Bellagio/Wynn quite a bit. Live poker is just so LOL in so many ways. I've finally come to realize how unique and different it is to online poker. My results live were pretty disappointing. At the beginning of the trip, I wanted to make some money and get some confidence going before playing 5/10, so I started out grinding 2/5. In probably 2 sessions, I did pretty well and made 2kish. Around that time I was also starting to crush the 1/2 deep games on stars. That combined with getting sweated and always talking hands with guys in the house had my confidence at an all time high. I started playing 5/10 live and started to get back to the good ole 2/4 games on stars that I've done pretty well in the past at. I continued to crush online, while I sort've broke even/lost a bit playing 5/10 live. I still felt really good about the way I was playing and started to sit in some soft 3/6 and 5/10 online games. Well in short, I had a couple of nasty sessions at 3/6 where I had position on 3 or 4 huge fish with 200bb+ stacks and got crushed a few times at 5/10 live. Oh well....

So in summation for my results in vegas, I would say I was prob +$7k or so at my highpoint and prob finished the trip around even or maybe up +$1k including all expenses. All in all, I learned a lot and that's what's important to me. I now feel I'm once again a strong midstakes winner and will continue to get coaching from dzoo and jamie to try and improve and break into becoming a 5/10+ reg.

Now as far as degen/crazy nights go, we really didn't get too wild but had a few epic strip club nights with tj/KET!!!!/clay/dzoo/jamie/some of their houesmates. Pretty standard though and nothing too crazy happened (that I remember).

One night however, I will have a hard time ever forgetting. I would for sure say it was one of the best nights of my life It started off with all of us going out to eat at some sort of asian type place at the Palms with hopes of getting into the Pokerstars party later that night where Snoop Dogg was performing. I don't think any of us had tickets to get in but we were just hoping to meet up with some sort of connection there. Well if my memory is correct our good friend Peachy Keen was able to get Elky to pull some strings You da man Eric (thanks to Elky as well). So Shane is able to sneak me in using Bob's ID (Bob you da man as well). We go inside of Rain and start getting drunk right away and by the time Snoop came on around 1am, kush filled the air as I was legitimately shitfaced. Shane, Bob, and I were together while everyone else was scattered throughout the club. So Snoop comes on performing his old hits like Gin and Juice and newer ones like Sexual Seduction. I was very drunk and enjoyed them all.
Well towards the end of his performance is when the night starts to get good. I'm sort've dancing by myself (lol), just enjoying the performance and the whole time this girl behind me in like rubbing up against me. I sorta just ignored it at first and thought it was kinda weird. Then she started to tap me on the shoulder, so I turn around and say what? She yells something... I don't hear her.....she yells again....I still can't hear.....finally she says, "CAN I GET IN FRONT OF YOU?" haha...im like yeah sure. she gets in front and just immediately starts grindin on me. So we're dancin and having a good time, then another girl (a rather large one, who i had lots of trouble moving around when we were trying to get to the front of the crowd), grabs my hand and lifts up the girl's dress (who im dancing with) and puts my hand right on her ass.......YES lol. What sucked though was that this was towards the end of the performance and when he was done the whole club cleared out very quickly along with the hot girl I was dancing with

The night continues on however and our group reunites with Clay and everyone else who are playing blackjack and drinking. I would say around 20 min after that I see 3 really tall black guys walking past us. One of them was wearing a Washington Wizards shirt and I immediately realized that they were here for the NBA Summer League that was going on in Vegas at the time. Then I look up at their faces and I know one of them right off the bat, J.P. Prince. He played basketball in college at the University of Tennessee, where I went to school at for a few years. Me being a drunk idiot, yelled out his name, ran over to him giving him a hi-five and screamed GOOOOOOOOO VOLSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! From what I remember he was loving it but who knows haha. Here is a picture of him:

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Literally right after that while Bob and I are laughing hysterically at what just happened, some guy almost bumps into me. I turn around and he pats me on the shoulder while smiling and says, "Hey buddy" or something of that nature. I look him in the face and it's Mark.........................
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CUBAN!

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He is the controversial billionaire owner of the NBA team known as the Dallas Mavericks who is always giving the referees shit for those who don't know.

And I finished off the night by continuing to drink and play blackjack where I finished up $200ish or something. Sick night

That's it for Vegas....

I just moved into much a nicer, more spacious apartment with two good friends from high school in Knoxville. Still having a bit of trouble with a few things but I'm starting to get settled in pretty nicely. I wanted to post an update sooner but my laptop got a really nasty virus and I've been strugglinggg to get rid of it (on a friend's now). I ended up taking it to a computer repair shop and they fixed it along with 100 other viruses that the original one spurred up. I had to pay a one time fee of $100 with no guarantees that the virus wouldn't come back. Obviously the first day I get it back, the same one popped right back up It happened both times when I went to a site to download some new music. Oh well, guess I won't go back to that site. It's pretty weird though, because I've never had any problems with that site or my laptop in general in 1.5 years. Maybe someone on here could help me out. The virus is called "security suite" and basically acts as an anti-virus software and proceeds to block anything and everything. Really gay.....

Anyway, on the recent poker side of things, everything's been going really well. In the past few weeks, I've had 2 final tables, both in $100 rebuys. The first one I took down for $6k and the other I finished 4th for $6.8k after running pretty terribly at the end. I also won a seat in a $260 sat for the WCOOP main event worth $5.2k. I will want to be selling probably around 50-60% of myself in that and hopefully bring out my inner Sunday Mil luckboxing to hit a big score in that If you're interested in buying action for that I'll be selling at 1:1 like always, so just send me a PM if you want some.

The final piece of business I want to get to in this blog is coaching. Coaching is something I've thought about getting into for a long time but for whatever reason I never did. I myself have been coached by many different people including mez, dzoo, jamie217, and adam001. I can say it is without a doubt worth it. That isn't to say a lot of the time it isn't worth it. There are plenty of coaches out there who don't know what they're talking about or can't even beat the games their students are playing, are not very good at articulating their thoughts to others well, and are wayyyy overpriced. These are some of the reasons why I am confident I will turn out to be a good coach. Although my cash results have been pretty poor lately, I am still VERY confident that I have a big edge in the games I currently play and will try my best to prove that this month. I also feel that I am pretty good at explaining my thought processes pretty well and I post advice quite frequently in the Mid-Stakes Forum. Another part of my coaching that I think a lot of people will enjoy will be the price. Since I have never done this before, I'm going to start out charging only $50/hr. I'd rather not get into profit sharing or anything of that nature but I think you will have a hard time finding a good coach for this price anywhere else. Once again, I'm still trying to get settled into my apartment and fix my laptop ect, so I will not be able to immediately start booking sessions with future students but I hope to be at that point within a week or so. So if you're interested or would like to find out more about me or my coaching, send me a PM.

Here is my PTR for those interested in coaching : http://www.pokertableratings.com/stars-player-search/timdawg888

If anyone has any questions pertaining to my PTR, feel free to ask me about it as well.

Thanks for reading guys









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Hello everyone.So the deal is this.I am mostly a live player but for personal reasons gonna stay a LOT of time at home for the next 1-2 months, and for my bad got only 100$ to invest for any purposes during that time.Thought about purchasing SC2 but I'm too easly addicted to SC and more important I would like to make some profit during this time so...what do you think is the best way to use these 100 bucks so that using the vast amount of time I could get the best win/safe ratio.I'm 1 max 2 tabling sine i'm used to live plays..Ok, I think this is more than clear, I wold be happy to read some good advics.
Thanks in advance
LSD...


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- 50k hands (SUCH A FUCKING SICK VOLUME FOR ME WOOOOT)
- 3k profits (2.6k stars / -300 bfp / +600€ live)

motivated a bit again.. but i dont think i can keep up this volume..

ill be happy when I manage to hit Supernova by november still 28k to go!


lets hope for a nice september!

gl guys!


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Being mormon, I can't look at porn or nudity. So I have to get creative.



That's why I invented "bubbling". Hard to explain so just scroll down:







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best threat on internet in recent times
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Somebody has to do it to all the pics in my blog!!!


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From this point on I am eliminating all negative influences from my life.


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My friend is hosting a Swedish exchange student and the student is organizing a live NLHE cash game for all the Swedes in the program and my friend's friends (i.e. me).

Any tips on how to outplay these guys?


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Oh well, haven't played much since my last entry because of school and too much partying/being tired (all random excuses). But today I felt relaxed and ready to jump into the action. Unfortunately, my client was upgraded to the "resizable ipoker software" (or whatever you wanna call it), which means that my MiniMaxMod didn't work anymore. For you who don't know, it's a modification program that makes the software a lot more playable. Not gonna make this sound like an ad, but it is really helpful and multitabling becomes a lot easier because you have a clean surface, you can use your mouse in many ways, ie. right click and you pot it, use scroll to adjust betsizing and so on...

Anyway, I decided to play anyway, started with 4 tables to get used to the software and then added 2 more. Session was a bit swingy (felt so), and I ran really good in the sense that I stacked a lot of people when I hit my set/flush etc. Did some preflop mistakes and stupid bluffs in spots where I shouldn't, but it also paid off in later situations! Also noticed some different patterns between NL50 and NL100; people seem to 3-bet/4-bet a bit more, and are less reluctant to get it in light. The regulars seem to adjust their preflop-raise sizing a lot more. Saw many people 2x, 2,5x in CO/BTN, and not only w/ garbage hands but also good hands.

Here is my graph:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/5e5bd33267370cea9cf142fe5b9b1615.png

Biggest mistake made in the session was probably this hand:

Submitted by : SpasticInk

GAME #2414818207: Texas Holdem NL $0.50/$1 2010/09/02 14:14:51
Table Brock No DP 50 bb min
Seat 1: maxkvo $133.03 in chips
Seat 3: SteelWheelBike $64.75 in chips
Seat 5: katja1989 $101.50 in chips DEALER
Seat 6: frogscantplaypkr $100.40 in chips
Seat 8: Hero $294.97 in chips
Seat 10: Pacmaan $140.30 in chips
Hero: Post SB $0.50
Pacmaan: Post BB $1.00

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
maxkvo: Fold
SteelWheelBike: Fold
katja1989: Raise NF $2.00
Hero: Raise NF $8.00
Pacmaan: Raise NF $25.00
katja1989: Fold
Hero: Raise NF $294.97
Pacmaan: Allin $115.30

Flop (Pot : $321.97)

   

Turn (Pot : $321.97)

   

River (Pot : $321.97)

   

Summary
Total pot $434.27 Rake $3.00
Hero: Shows
Pacmaan: Shows
Hero: wins $154.67
Pacmaan: wins $279.60

GAME #2414921165: Texas Holdem NL $0.50/$1 2010/09/02 15:56:41
Table Aprelevka No DP
Seat 1: ILoveNatalia $101.50 in chips
Seat 3: BlueSpoon1 $28.90 in chips
Seat 5: Hero $187.55 in chips DEALER
Seat 6: katja1989 $149.90 in chips
Seat 8: HIPERPOLLO $30.00 in chips
Seat 10: magne99 $125.80 in chips
katja1989: Post SB $0.50
magne99: Post BB $1.00

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
ILoveNatalia: Fold
BlueSpoon1: Fold
Hero: Raise NF $3.00
katja1989: Call $2.50
magne99: Fold

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $7.00)

   
katja1989: Check
Hero: Check

Turn (Pot : $7.00)

   
katja1989: Bet $4.00
Hero: Raise NF $14.50
katja1989: Call $10.50

River (Pot : $36.00)

   
katja1989: Bet $18.00
Hero: Raise NF $70.00
katja1989: Call $52.00

Summary
Total pot $173.00 Rake $3.00
katja1989: Shows
katja1989: wins $173.00

GAME #2414933571: Texas Holdem NL $0.50/$1 2010/09/02 16:08:18
Table Woodford 50 bb min
Seat 3: katja1989 $184.78 in chips DEALER
Seat 6: BRSupplyx $124.70 in chips
Seat 8: Hero $178.42 in chips
BRSupplyx: Post SB $0.50
Hero: Post BB $1.00

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
katja1989: Raise NF $2.00
BRSupplyx: Fold
Hero: Call $1.00

Flop (Pot : $4.50)

   
Hero: Bet $3.50
katja1989: Call $3.50

Turn (Pot : $11.50)

   
Hero: Bet $8.50
katja1989: Call $8.50

River (Pot : $28.50)

   
Hero: Check
katja1989: Bet $17.50
Hero: Raise NF $80.00
katja1989: Call $62.50

Summary
Total pot $186.50 Rake $2.00
katja1989: Shows
Hero: Shows
Hero: wins $186.50

GAME #2414936747: Texas Holdem NL $0.50/$1 2010/09/02 16:11:22
Table Aprelevka No DP
Seat 1: Bianconerr0 $30.00 in chips DEALER
Seat 3: amansador1 $30.00 in chips
Seat 5: Hero $136.00 in chips
Seat 6: katja1989 $185.97 in chips
Seat 8: HIPERPOLLO $31.50 in chips
Seat 10: magne99 $105.13 in chips
Hero: Post SB $0.50
katja1989: Post BB $1.00

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
HIPERPOLLO: Fold
magne99: Fold
Bianconerr0: Fold
Hero: Raise NF $3.00
katja1989: Raise NF $9.00
Hero: Raise NF $28.00
katja1989: Raise NF $185.97
Hero: Allin $108.00

Flop (Pot : $213.97)

   

Turn (Pot : $213.97)

   

River (Pot : $213.97)

   

Summary
Total pot $318.97 Rake $3.00
Hero: Shows
katja1989: Shows
Hero: wins $269.00
katja1989: wins $49.97