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Hey everyone, I'm going to the Walker Hill Casino in Seoul at the end of this month, on the weekend of the 30th, and I heard there's a good run of tournaments and cash games that weekend. Is anyone going or has anyone gone to Walker Hill? Are the players there any good? I hear there's a guy who finished 29th in the WSOP main event and another guy who's made a ton of money and is considered to be the best Korean player in Korea (apparently he owns the poker room in the casino and wrote the first Korean poker book). It will be my first real live tournament [edit] by "real" I mean medium-stake--obviously not my first real tournament, but most of those are for $50 and under [/edit] (buyin is like $250~ USD?), but I think I can take it down. The competition in the town I live in isn't really strong and I've been crushing them pretty much every week since I got here 3-4 times a week. Is the competition much better in Seoul? How well do the good players there understand the game in comparison to an average pro?

Thanks for the info!


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someone somewhere recommended the tv series Leverage and i just watched the first season.

it is a comedy action series about 5 top class thieves who band together to do major heists (1 per episode).

it is similar to Firefly, Oceans Eleven and Stargate SG1 and revolves around the team working with their individual skills (impersonator, computer wizz, action hero, mastermind) to pull off scams and heists.

it is first and foremost "fun" (lighthearted comedy).

you can watch it on alluc/tvlinks/ninjavideo (tuduo/yukuo/megavid). Again this series is called LEVERAGE and you should go watch the first s1 episode NOW!!


check my previous blog entry for a list of "hidden gem" movies to watch


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A pretty successful month I just wish I could put in more hands... honestly it's my biggest fault right now by far and I fucking hate myself for it. What's the use of studying poker and playing well when I can't maximize that edge by putting in volume?

Also I think I'm going to stop blogging monthly results. I mean it's nice to post a brag month or whatever, but I think overall it'd better suit me if I kept exactly how much I've been winning confidential. It's nice to get support from people/my friends on here whether it be a good or a bad month, but those people will support me regardless of me actually posting a blog so it's whatever. I used to keep a month blog to kind of recap the month for my future self to look back on (since I rarely ever make a "what I am going through/thinking now" type blog anymore), but I can just do that offline on MS Word or something.

Regardless, it IS mid-year, so as a mid-year update I'm well on pace for 6 figures this year which makes me happy... it would easily be a lot more if I were a normal human being capable of putting in work though.

I have 2 WSOP events coming up, the 2500 event tomorrow and the Main Event. GL to me and everyone else playing unless you're on my table (no mercy imo!)


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Working on my game + run good = best month so far.

Played a mix of NL100 and NL150, mostly €-, but some £- and $-tables too. Made about €2450 with rb, played about 18k hands, play time; little less than 50h.
I also spent about 13h messing around playing some HU, SNG's, PLO, PLO8, mixed games and made another $300 with rakeback.

I'm very, very happy with my result, I think I have to play about twice as much if I want repeat this result with my true winrate (excluding rb).
But at the same time, I'm disappointed in myself, I should've spent 80h+ playing NL cash games, but I didn't even play 50h.

One session really stood out and was so fucking sweet, happened yesterday. I was running pretty shitty, like 3 barrel bluffed a guy for 200bb,
it was very unlikely that he'd call unless he had one of two combination. He had one of them (fd + isd) inside got there. Made some bad plays,
blah-blah-blah. Anyway, about 50min into the session I'm down about 4 BI. I encounter a fish playing over-aggro (45/37/4) making bad bluffs and bad calls,
after a couple orbits he stacks my mpgk with tpbk after raising flop and getting it in over three streets. I guess it was a bluff..? Time to quit..
But first I searched for him, he was sitting on SIX!! SIX TABLES!! So I get on the waiting list for all tables and tell myself I'm not quitting until he does.
I get in on all tables and start to rape him, a little over 3h later he quits. I've taken 5 BI's from him and I've gone from -€520 to +€250. TY!
when the fuck does something like this happen?? Big spewer playing 6 tables and does so for 3h+.

As for July, I'm aiming for 50h, which will be pretty good considering the circumstances. I'll probably spend one week in Barcelona since I'll live for free.
A friend together with some other people are occupying a building with 15+ rooms in central BRC, they've lived there for 5 years, 5 more years and
the building is theirs. It also looks like I'll be moving from my hometown Örebro to Linköping at the end of the month. I have several friends already living and
studying there, so it will be really sweet.

Graph:
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gl ppl


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Hi liquidpeople,

Since this is the first post for my blog I'll introduce myself.

im 28 "wannabe player" from Slovakia.
I got married last summer.

I started play poker in summer 2007, i registered in our country local forum.
I was lucky and won partypoker quarterly freeroll (aprox 550usd.) and made a cashout 300usd from it.
Then i tried to play CG 6max NL5- NL25 , went busto and i thought its over.

After 2-3months i started to study more from all kind of free pokersources, deposit 50, bought PT2 and grind microlimits. At the end of 2008 after some cashouts my bankroll reached 2500k for comfortable play at NL50.

Nowadays i want to start playin nl400 6amx regularly, but i think i still have leaks at these stakes. Sometimes im trying bumhunt nL600 and nl1k but most of the time im furstrated and moneyscared there , especialy at nl1k ,

Last month i had a solid DownSwing -9k, but i think didnt play that bad.
In july i want to try another nl400 shot and then i ll see.

the main reason i want to start my blog here on lp : i really appreciate to discuss hands where i make mistakes with players who play same stakes.

thats enough for now ...



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Sticking to a steady diet of 100PLO 50bb and 100NL 50bb games. These games are super profitable and even tho the swings can suck its worth it. Good month for me since i didnt play much, this is an even mix of the 2 games mentioned above. And goddamn do i earn a shit ton of VPP's at 100PLO.

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have cake/FTP, need like $10-20
Will send first to reputable, if not you send first


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at the risk of being flooded with june wrapup blog posts, im going to bump this a few more times


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Recently moved up to NL25 but wasn't able to put in a lot of volume because I work 50 hours a week, but I finally got PT3 running thanks to my new PC so I can actually post graphs now.

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My main goal for July is to inch myself closer to taking shots at NL50 by just playing solid poker and keeping my tilt control in check.

GL at the tables LP!


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Yay, at last !
Actually started to play poker this month for the first time prolly in my life.Never had this amount of hands in 1 month before usually took like 3 months to do so many before rofl.


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Although my winrate isnt exactly good i feel extremely good about this month.I found many of my leaks and am in process of fixing them.I stopped being a lazyass and put some nice amount of hands
With the bonuses and rakeback minus the withdraws i ll be up about 1.2k eu which is pretty good

Going to take 50nl shots in start of July - i hope i run like god :D


P.S. Pound tables r sooo fuckin rigged


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Gonna be a brag post and probably long enough to say tl:dr.

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Sooo, today i decided to play some live poker. I went to a big casino here in lima to play a massive donkament. They had this 1 table satelite structure that looked real nice. (full of donkeys, top3 wins buyin+double rebuy, top4 gets buyin only).

Satelite 1: I decided that playing basic ICM (adjusted to the fast blinds structure, the starting chipstack, etc.) was enough to own all the donkeys and it went pretty well until we had 5 guys left.

Blinds 400/800 i have around 2.5k, 4th in chips. I get A8s in BTN everyone folds. Easy shove i thought.. BB thinks for a second and says "I am the chip leader so i can call this".

Villain calls with J9o (he had around 6k b4 calling). Flop comes QT8r.

i loled and decided to play a 2nd satelite.

Satelite 2: Again i play ICM and get to 5 left, close situation to the one of satelite 1, same blinds. I get AA on BTN with around 4k. This time the same donkey is on SB and instacalls my shove (UTG limped), shows KK.
Flop comes KK4 and i get pwned again.

Just when i stood up from my chair i recieved a phone call from my roommate saying that he is playing live NL100 on a poker room nearby. Since cash tables are my game i decided to recover my 2 lost buyins there.

I arrived at the poker room 25 minutes later. Nice place, cool people and food-drinks for free. I sat down with 100bbs and start playing a FR table.

5 minutes later a really good TAG sits down to my left and buys 100bbs, since we are friends from back when i was a live grinder we start talking and having fun.

around 20 minutes later im sitting with 150bbs and he has around 120bbs. A fish on MP with 100bbs raises to 4.5bbs and i flat on BTN with TT, TAG calls on SB.

Flop comes QT7ss, TAG bets 3/4 of pot and the fish calls. I dont wanna risk it so i shove. TAG looks at me for a little while, laughs, shows me KQo and folds. Fish instacalls.

"Im such a good player" he shouts, shows QQ.

"Hey nice hand, it happens" I replied. got owned and get 50bbs back.

Next hand i get JJ on CO. Didnt got time to rebuy back to 100bbs. Samefish raises 4.5BBs, i just call.

Flop comes: K73dd

Fish checks, i bet around 3/4 of pot and he instashoves me shouting "oh come on your so tilted and that diamond is not coming".

Indeed i was tilt, but still something told me he didnt had that K. "I call" announced and he showed 88.

"Im such a good player" i shouted with the stupidest voice i could make (obviously making fun of him).

Turn card 8, river card 2. He smacks the table and starts shouting about how good he is.

I just turned to my left and said to the TAG "Wow this IS my day", he laughs and i rebuy for 100bbs.

Couple of hands later i get JTo on CO, 5 guys limp and i limp, TAG says "lets have some fun" and limps, BB checks.

Flop comes Q98hh, TAG bets 3/4 of pot, the same fish from before raises, another fish on MP2 calls the raise.

"Ok, this is my chance and i CANT be that unlucky". I think for a little while and shove. Samefish instacalls my shove and the second fish starts thinking for a while.. all of the sudden he shouts "lets fucking gamble" and throws all his chips to the middle of the table.

Samefish shows: 98o
Secondfish shows: K2hh

Turn 9, river T and i get stacked, AGAIN.

Now, the purpose of all this bullshit is to ask you guys this question. Would you keep playing based on the fact that you actually CANT run worse?. Or will you make a standard stoploss and leave the place with a smile?.


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I'll be selling ~80% of myself at 1.15:1 for the main event.

1% = 115
5% = 575
10% = 1150

If you need any references for reputation, I've got a bunch of those. I don't have any recent tournament results, but I'm very confident that I have a pretty massive edge over the main event field. Payments to bigbobm11 on ftp, gecko, city hamden. For stars, bigbobm11, city east granby.

sold:
ket - 5% (sent)
timdawg - 2% (i sleep in the room next to him so sent)
pinball - 7.5% (sent)
tenbagger - 1% (sent)
iop - 2% (sent)
wakamaru - 1% (sent)
TheHuHu3 - 2% (sent)
jubert69 - 1% (sent)
rush - 3% (sent)
tj - 10%

total -34.5%



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June

Good things:

Won money
Crushed 5/10 NL
Learned a lot - I feel my NL game might be back on pair with the best it's ever been.
Put in decent volume considering I spent the first week in Bulgaria and two weekends with my parents.

Bad things:
Didn't win as much money as I wanted
Got crushed in omaha
Did not play as I hoped.

Goals for July:

60k hands minimum, preferably mostly 5/10 NL.

Get better at poker again. Last month I studied the game for a few hours and learned a decent bit. I need to keep that up.

The 6 first months of 2010

I'm not playing as many hands that I had hoped for, but I'm up approximatly what I had hoped for. Well on my way to another 6 figure year (this time excluding rakeback) so if I keep this up it'll be my best year so far. I'm very, very happy with my results on 5/10, both PLO and NL, but unfortunatly I've lost a fair bit of money higher due to everything from bad luck, bad play and worse game selection. I think I'm getting the hang of some of what's wrong though, so I might get that to work out better soon.


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First of all, Netherlands wins, then Spain wins (if they lost id lose 50$ to player999), then i just played some sit and go just like old times 15 months ago, but only the 12$ 180 mans and 45 mans, none of the 6.50, which i used to grind too. and i ran somewhat well i guess.

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The month started very hot playing only headsup,dropped my job to only play them, then i started playing bad again i guess. I think it was night2o1 that said something about sample size, and I guess he was right

so anyways i played a lot of husng + hypers 22$ in order to get back to gold star at least, and get enough fpp for the turbo takedown, where i went down quite early.

10ish days ago i restarted playing a couple sngs and I ran SUPER FUCKEN HOT, which lead me to play more, and my graph just skyrocketed.

Gonna go on vacation next week, hoping i dont lose the touch while im off.

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Nice "coming back to poker" month imo, im very happy with my decision atm.

Go spain, plz brazil lose!


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so basically i wanna get a tattoo, definitely NOT in english, and i was thinking either in some type of eastern asian...maybe chinese or japanese symbols. i want it to say "happiness comes from within" i can design it myself i just dont know which language to get it in and/or how to translate it. i obviously dont wanna get something and have it be wrong. any help in the right directions would help. thanks.


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Anyone know a good program to send text messages from my computer to a cell phone in the states (on vacation in Mexico). Thanks!


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I wanna play some diablo need an original and LOD keys - can only do Moneybookers transfer


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Spoiler-free guide to some stuff I watched recently. I went through 70 pages of "hidden gems" etc threads and some of those are here.


The Idiots
Absolutely fucking fantastic film about a group of people who decide live their lives completely without inhibition and in the realms of psychosis, in a disturbingly self-destructive fashion. One of the best movies of all time.

Exam
Cheesey simplistic dialogue brings together eight candidates for a "top secret" job in business. They are left in an empty room and have to determine which one of them is fit for the job. A little reminiscent of The Cube and tries to be a "mindfuck" movie so is worth watching.

In Bruges
Two hitmen with quirky personalities are sent to Belgium to await their next orders. Worth watching but don't expect anything mindblowing.

K-PAX
A man is admitted to a mental ward claiming to be a tourist from a more advanced planet. captivating and keeps you guessing till the end. An absolute must-watch and may become one of your all-time favourites.

Let the right one in
Spooky film about a boy who meets a mysterious 12 year old girl. Recommended about 10 times in the tlnet movie thread. Film is SWE so watch with subs (the dubbing is ghastly).

Kopps
Lighthearted SWE flick about a group of redneck cops who try to find a way to stop their shitty police station from getting shut down. Was more watchable than I thought it'd be but not LOL funny (except one part at the end!).

Everything is illuminated
Harry potter kid fucks off to rural Ukraine to track down a distant relative. Starts off upbeat but gets depressing pretty fast, focusing on people's uphappy war-time history. Might be your cup of tea (would help if you can speak Ukraine as a quarter of the movie is unsubbed).

Eastern Plays
Atmospheric slice of life movie about 2-3 young Bulgarian men living in Sofia. Nothing happens in this movie, and I enjoyed it nethertheless.

Memento
Guy with no short term memory capability tries to track down a killer by leaving himself notes. A classic.

She's out of my league
Man-chick-flick that isn't funny or interesting. Gets worse as time goes on and I turned it off with 2o minutes to go (maybe I missed some serious mindfuck ending? At one point you think there's going to be an awesome twist but it turns out to be massive phail).

500 Days of Summer
Man-chick-flick that is soooooooooo fucking awesome. Entertaining nomatter who you are.

Threads
Very old movie filmed in the style of a BBC documentary. Shows the lives of some common people in Sheffield before, during and after Britian is nuked to oblivion. One of my alltime favs.

Band of brothers
This is a 10-part series revolving around a platoon of men sent into war. Each episode is a self-contained mini-movie with some continuation (people being promoted or dying etc). Get a bag of weed and set aside 1-2 days to watch this asap.

The boys and girls guide to getting down
Fun comedy/pretend documentary following young persons' "night out".

Alice in wonderland (2010)
Aghh this was so bad I seriously didn't enjoy it.

Braindead
Comedy gore flick about a "nice guy" who finds his mother turned into a zombie and then tries to look after her while the world goes to pot around him. Literally the goriest movie you have EVER seen. No other movie comes this close to making you feel physically ill, and its all in good humour. Don't watch this alone, you will just end up feeling sick.

City of god
Epic movie about gang warfare in south american slums. Shows some really shitty culture (little kids with guns are evil).





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