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Ok, so I fell way short of my May goals. I know that there is a week left, but it's not looking too good. What is most disappointing isn't that I didn't achieve my buy-in goal, but that I'm not even to the halfway point of my total hands played goal (100k), which reflects a lack of work ethic and dedication on my part.

Poker is a tough game. And as a small stakes player, I need to be putting in the work if I want to improve and move up. Improving and moving up doesn't just happen. There's a process (or processes) to follow in order to achieve success (big or small) in poker. I have every tool (LP, HH posting thing, HEM, etc), every opportunity (I'm not having to work or go to school right now), and I have people to help my game along the way. So no excuses. If I'm not progressing on a consistent level, then there's only one place to point my finger.

I was at around 30 buy-ins in 35k hands, but in the last 5k hands I've dropped about 10-12 buyins, which is extremely frustrating. Unfortunately, I can't even say that it's due to downswinging.

I haven't necessarily run well in 100bb+ pots, but that's fairly standard. Everyone goes through stretches where they can't seem to win a hand after the chips are in the pot, or you seem to run into the tops of peoples ranges (LOL AS IF I CAN HAND READ AND PUT PEOPLE ON RANGES). And sometimes, even though I'm ahead and lose, the loss is a direct result of putting myself in a gross spot that should have never come up.

The main problem is that I've been spewing a ton in hands under 100bbs. These pots really start to add up over time. I don't even mind that I spew in alot of spots because poor play SHOULD lead to me learning. I do mind, however, that I repeat the same mistakes over and over instead of pinpointing these leaks and trying to fix them immediately.

Enough venting. To close out this last week of May, I want to play 4k hands a day (6-8 hours) and get better at evaluating my own game because that is a huge struggle for me. It's very hard for me to figure out how to plug leaks when:
a) I sometimes can't even identify the spot in which I'm leaking money
b) When I do identify a spot, I come to the wrong conclusion on how to plug that leak

So new goals (for every month):

-4k hands a day on days where I have the time (most days) with breaks after 500 or 1k hands (haven't decided yet) to find spots where I'm leaking money and try to correct my play.
-No buyin goals. While they're nice to have, they don't affect my play. My play affects my buy ins.

It's called a grind for a reason. Success in all things revolves around the "grind". It's the process by which we achieve goals and move on to bigger and better things. Nothing in poker is handed to you. You have to earn it. So until I wake up and I've turned into Paris Hilton, which I highly doubt will be happening any time soon, I'll be on the grind.

Sorry for the long boring blog. I just needed to get some thoughts down and clear my head.

gl LP,
-JT


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i've been playing more weird recently but Wtf yo

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mostly 600nl

whine this worked last time whine

random cool hand
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So I know we have a few financial gurus among the regular posters here at LP. I'm wondering if any of you have done the CFA level 1 exam, and if so, if you have any preparation tips.

So far I've worked my way through 72/74 chapters, doing all the practice questions in the book as well as the ones in the Schweser study notes.

I found 2 practice exams online but haven't been able to find any more as of yet. If anyone has a source for more of these it would be greatly appreciated.

My exam is in less than 2 weeks, so its uber crunch time.


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After the hand:
k4ir0s: you're trash

I said nothing during the match (im actually chat banned) and he says that out of nowhere. Real classy bro! Really dont know why being such a douche bag especially after coolering ur opponent.

If you really think Im trash tho, take a look at your lifetime graph, then take a look at mine:

You:

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Me:

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Im happy ur up only because of our match, good for you.

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i just graduated from college (university of texas in math: actuarial option) and am now going to take some time off and play poker for a living. i think poker has come at a perfect time in my life. i started playing towards the end of college and didnt take it extremely seriously until the last year or so when i was already pretty much done with my degree, so it didnt have a chance to have a negative impact on my grades and other things. and now within the last 6-7 months ive been able to make a decent amount of money, enough to let me feel comfortable taking this risk and making this decision. my plan at the moment is to continue playing poker and use the freedom that it grants me to enjoy life while im still young and have no obligations. ill do that until poker is no longer profitable or another reason stops me from playing and then ill try to get a job and start my career. i'd imagine poker might even be interesting to mention at interviews since a lot of the concepts such as expected value, variance, risk of ruin, random variables, etc are all relevant in actuarial work and would be easy to explain to anyone in the field.

i have standard asian parents and was pretty worried about how my mom would react to my decision, especially given her bias against anything related to playing cards and gambling. she was uneasy at first but was willing to listen and i spent about 2 hours explaining to her how it was possible to have an edge, that itd be super unlikely id ever go broke, variance, my results thus far, etc and she said she trusted me so im happy about that.

i really have to thank LP for everything. this forum and its posters have been essential to my growth and improvement as a player. theres so much for a starting player to learn. you just have to actively seek it out and ask questions and take part in the discussions. so thanks for everything guys.


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whatevet its not the end of may yet, but I just want to make a blog before I lose it all or something

So started off the month switching to pokerstars and I really don't see why you guys love it so much ok it was decent but the bonus literally takes 9 times as many hands to finish as full tilt according to my calculations plus no rakeback so it doesn't make sense me? graph:

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ran really decent at 2nl (don't laugh) but still don't see what you guys see in it anyway

Switched back to full tilt poker using my mother's credit card (lol) and getting rakeback + bonus so literally 10% it took off ps bonus 100% ftp bonus yay plus 3 months free cardrunners and omaha manager eventually after 100 mgr...

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this last surge you see is rush poker soo much fun and every hand is a theoretical vacuum to me no dynamics strangely I think I do better in this setup unfortunately

If any of you have powerpoker then please help I won 3.60 in a freeroll then was told I would not be recieveng rakeback because of other account in doyles room been playing mostly druml in this account with extremely good run hehe

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haven't blogged in some time not much of a blogger and nothing really note worthy but figured this could go up

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Big ups to Gitm.Ace


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So I am barely playing any poker these days and decided that I'll play tournaments instead of cash games because with the miniature volume of hands I'm putting in there's no way I'll make any money from cash games, but if I can win a big tournament I'm in business. Better value for the time I put in since I've been playing usually 1-3 tables and only 1-2 times a week.

Was only playing big massive MTT tournaments and kept making it into the money but busting out in the top 50 or so of thousands of people. So I decided to try some smaller SNG's and played 4 last night, won 1 and got 2nd in another. Fun stuff.

I've also completely changed my playing style compared to what it used to be. Since I'm playing less tables I'm much more focused on playing by feel than by preconveived rules, and I'm going with my gut to make reads which have been right about 95% of the time so far. Made some huge bluffs and huge calls. I think this strategy is so ideal for tournaments cause I'd usually float through a tourney around avg stack size and try to go harrington style of being an overall nit. But the problem was that once I got deep and the blinds were up it was always hard to keep my stack solid cause I wasn't making enough moves and didn't have a stack that could take much risk. this new strat had my stack fluctuating all over the place but in the long run it would grow. Pretty awesome.

Anyway it was a lot of fun. Just felt like ranting a bit about it =)


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i moved house friday to be with an internet friend, we got drunk watching purepwnage then went out.... cant remember A N Y T H I N G that happened but

1) a flatmate said he went out for cigarettes and found us crawling around on the floor for 20 minutes in the street at 4am

2) i woke up with a broken foot

god fucking DAMNIT. you have no fucking idea what agony this is. CONSTANT fucking pain. i cant walk....i cant do fucking anything.

we just got back from a clinic where they gave me crutches but it takes me 10 minutes to get up the 2 flights of stairs in the apartment and i almost have a heart attack at the exertion.

i cant go to the shop coz i cant hold anything. im gonna try to do some laundry but iono how. i cant even bring a glass of water to my room.

im supposed to be getting a job and shit asap. this is so fucking terrible, i can only imagine how pissed off the flatmates/owners feel about having to deal with a cripple in their house.

before i got the crutches i had to crawl to get to the bathroom, how fucking bad is that.

dont drink


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Hey was wondering if there were any kind hearted people out there who would like to help a noob get better at poker (I don't have money to pay). Now I am not saying coaching me like a student just giving me a slight nudge in the right direction would be great as well and if you would go further will that would be awesome but yeah so thanks if you want my msn or anything feel free to pm me or respond in here!


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dunno when will this crap end
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Poker = One vs the rest of the world
Why discuss your game plan with the enemy?


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dropped down to NL 5 at beginning of May to learn how to tighten up and grow some discipline. Ran way above EV the past 10 days but at least EV is still about 7 BI. Overrolled and moving back to NL 10 tomorrow with a clear head.
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No need for words

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I've been unhappy with my lifestyle as of late and I heard a lot of good things about this workout from some friends who are all about fitness so I figured I would give it shot. Some background, I've been a lazy ass doing virtually nothing for about a year now so naturally this was probably the best idea ever.......fml. So I popped in the fitness test disc just to see where I'm at, try and get a feel for how bad of an idea this actually was. Well Shaun T answered my question very quickly for me, it was an extremely bad idea. I made it through the warm-up and 4 exercises of the fitness test before I keeled over in an effort to die. To an avail, I was to exhausted to actually die. I've come to the conclusion that I won't be starting the actual workout for a couple weeks while I attempt to do these on a daily basis until I can atleast remain on my feet for the entire fit test. Maybe I'll get my fiancee to take some pictures of me getting the Shaun T express bending me over for your entertainment. More to come.....


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