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Cant deposit on ftp anymore , But i still can on absolute for some reason. lookin to deposit about 200 on absolute and trade for FTP.


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was a steaming pile of shit
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i cant win

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so basically its almost all nl100, maybe 50k hands of nl200 and 50k hands of nl50

ive been living off rakeback only the last 8 months

stars obviously hate me and really want me to stop raking for them, or they have some kind of evil plan of me playing MORE since i have given up actually winning at this game, so since im not winning i should add more hours/tables to gain more FPP's

maybe thats their plan..

but seriously, i cant win, should i just end the pain? I still "like" poker, in some fucked up way, i like learning and i see myself as a decent thinker/smart guy, and i really think i could beat higher limits if i just could win some of the 80%+ pots

http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=1034
Poll: Should longple give up?
(Vote): yes obviously its not working out
(Vote): no, hang in there bro
(Vote): leave stars forever
(Vote): fuck being a winner, go for SNE


ive been whining alot the last months, ppl probably dont care and im probably just anoying but w/e, even fake sympathy feels good




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Thoughts
What is the most used concept in the thought of a winning poker playing? Ranges – this concept gets used whenever a good player thinks about a hand. But trouble is, thinking in ranges is not intuitive to the human mind: When sitting at the tables, around the button clicking and metagame and goofy avatars, its easy to just make blanket statements “he bet the river, I guess he has a good hand”
or worse to put the enemy on a single hand “re-raised and cbet the 338 flop.. I put him on AK, call. He bet the turn... I think he has AK, call. He shoved the river, well I guess he has AK, I call"

I 'knew' he was bluffing
What about an approach of actively thinking about specific hands that they could have.
Doesn't have to be complete, just keeping a decent number of possible card combinations in mind at the same time: train the mind to deal with uncertainty, and not to fixate on one thing. Specific Uncertainty!
Even better is to know “how big” each combo of hands is: getting even more specific, and looking at the colour of the suits! This tells you how many cards there are for that hand.

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Opposites day
Another thing that is very enlightening is to take the negative view: to look at some combos he can't have. Such as, a TAG player who flats the turn on a draw heavy board can't have the 2pair or set combos. The narrower his range can be made the more money your decisions will make.

Hard Wok Cafe
Practice away from the table: a high level of combo counting isn't usually possible in the heat of playing. By going through a few hands per day, physically writing out the combos to make it solid, we get used to thinking in this way, and can think in terms of a wider range of combos while at the table.


Blinds are now $1/$2
Button is at seat 2
Seat 1: AR - $297.38
Seat 2: mattspelman - $160.32___not playing fullstacked is a leading indicator of fishiness!
Moving Button to seat 1
AR posts small blind ($1)
mattspelman posts big blind ($2)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards
Dealing to AR
AR raises to $6
mattspelman calls $6___________being a fish, he will have a wide calling range: and it can even include big pairs
Dealing Flop
mattspelman bets $8___________his leading range will be fairly specific to him as a player. Leaving it wide for now:
AR raises to $32______________ [3A, 34, 3Qs,, 56,57s,95, A5,53s,, 98, 9T, 9J, 9K, 96s,, JJ, 88, 33,, 46, 47s, 68, K7d]
mattspelman calls $32__________that he called takes out some hands, like the -[95, 33, JJ] leave in 53 to leand some weight to the fishy slowplay possiblity
Dealing Turn
mattspelman checks
AR bets $64
mattspelman calls $64______________[3A, 34,, 56,57s, A5,53s,, 98, 9T, 9J, 9K, 96s,, 88,, 46, 47s, 68, K7d] very little folds to this bet
Dealing River
mattspelman checks_______________decidiing to valuebet or not, so try spliting is range into 2:
AR bets $195.38 (all-in)___________that which calls which is better, that which calls that is worse. that which folds just let drop away.
mattspelman calls $58.32 (all-in)____[ 56,57s,, 98, 9T, 9J, 96s,, 88,,]worse vs [3A, 34,, A5,53s,, 9K,, 46, 47s]better
Returning $137.06 to AR uncalled
AR shows
mattspelman shows

Gangster flow
We still need to keep our thoughts efficient. Too many combos and we will waste our timebank and block other possible EV+ thoughts. An extreme example is PLO: there are far too many combos to ever get specific here: we have to make groupings of combos. Yet some grouping systems are better than others: those that have specifically looked at the combinations that make up a range are more realistic, and hence lead to better decisions. As in Hold Them, we are going to have to group hands together somewhat at the table, but every bit of specificity can help us work out situations. E.g. if we have the Ace of the flush on the board, we can reduce a lot of combos out of their range. These situations don't come up every hand, but they are a legitimate way to improve edge. Doing combo counting drills can help shape your groupings to be more useful than just: nuts, bluff, medium.


ROCK OUT WITH YOUR MATH OUT LP




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This shit is crazy. A big storm caused this sinkhole to open up in the middle of the city. This is after a sinkhole took a house + family in Canada a few weeks ago.

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Hi I'm looking for $120 paypal for $130 PS. Thanks.


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Edit: Done!
ty whamm! for quick and easy transfer~


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It has tightened up a bit lately (tho still sick), but here I'm hovering at 789,xxx hands EV line. My EV at that point was $4197.xx

Now..........

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Here we have my actual winnings at 789,xxx hands. You can see its @ $3366.xx.
This is strictly 10nl, so its roughly 80 BI's below EV.

Looks like its tightening up a bit, so hopefully I have some heaters coming!!


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TITS!


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i try to open HEM and i get a message that says, "the following error occurred when trying to load the database: unable to read the transport connection: And existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host."

wtf does this mean?? and more importantly, how do i fix it??


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After my recent bout with running bad, while also playing pretty terribly in certain situations, I played NL25 rush to get my rakeback above 500 for the free deucescracked account from LP rakeback (lol liquidpoker plug), and everything just clicked.

Ended up going on an 10BI heater(started the day losing a few BI at NL10) after being just absoloutely crushed by the limit a week ago. Lolfishluck or me playing well? Really dont care, guess I will find out later. Just happy to be on the +side for the first time in a good amount of hands

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meh, 107th out of 3458340958345 players QQ < K8 for a measly cash, u know the story. Oh well, $1500 on Wednesday let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO


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at the cow palace outside of san francisco. Grimiest rave i have ever been to easily with condensation rain falling from the ceiling and saw at least five people OD. Too packed to move they probably should have sold less tickets but still pretty sick.

Boyz noize set was beast. Benassi disappointing. Armin van Buren was good to see live (not going home might have been the best beat all night).

Hadn't heard of infected mushroom before but they were a live band that did psytrance beats from Israel. Only saw their first song before leaving but they were pretty sick.

Got the blunts and molly in safe and didn't get wrapped so it was a good night but its 2 days later and im still feelin a bit sad from Mdma


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Last time I did a session review I wrote off a lot of my losses to bad beats, and they sorta were, but at the same time I feel I may have been overplaying a lot of hands, namely the TPGK type stuff. I ingeniously sorted my HH's by those hands in which I won money, and those hands in which I lost money. My winners are sets and flushes. My losers are TP, or a quality PP like JJ or QQ that gets outdrawn.

I figured raising small PP's and SC's is really a deception tactic reserved for table precedence, after you have grinded it out with some regs for awhile you need to mix up your play. Since rush is like playing a bunch of new faces, theres no deception in raising a PP. The only hands calling a raise by an unknown are hands that are just folding on the flop unless they improve, or I'm gonna get 3bet by a better PP. Might as well just limp most of my playing hands and just raise AJs+ and JJ+. And when I flop TP I need to keep some pot control in mind, namely value betting 2 streets and checking river a lot.

These adjustments have resulted in the following playstyle. I played a slightly shorter session by instituting a stop loss and this is where I ended up.

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We'll see if this is optimal or not. I've been doing some thought analysis on it and at least at these limits where theres very little 3 betting or iso-raising, it does indeed seem to make a lot of sense. And these results are in perfect tandem with my session review, all pots won from sets and flushes, and a few TPTK stuff mixed in but not for stacks.

Honestly, I feel this is how I should always run at this limit. 72 wintrate may seem unsustainable but every time I'm in a pot I assure you it's with the best hand.




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Gave some EV back this month. Wish I got to play more but was on vacation for like 2 weeks (where I barely played but still lost several g's haha). 8k this month which isn't bad, ~4k from cash, ~4k from tourneys/bonuses, etc. I got Supernova! Finally reaping those rewards. WSOP started, I'm selling action feel free to look at the past blog post if you're interested. Not much else to say for the month, haven't had consistent winning success lately maybe I should stay away from 5/10 and stick to 2/4 3/6 for the time being bleh.

Probably going to full-force start PLO later this year when I move in with my friend who's a really good plo player. If anyone at low/small stakes plo wants to talk hands, strategy, theory, blah blah pm/reply with your aim/msn

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IDK what to think, at least my EV line is going in an upwards direction for 30k hands.. lol

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Last 12k hands are nl50

Hopefully it won't come crashin' down, I am going to take it easy and stay at nl50 until my roll is a little padded and hopefully my graph starts being more convincingly winning.




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