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Game 3 Orlando @ Boston

Not sure what i want to happen. It would be cool if Orlando could win a game or 2 to tie the series and make it interesting again. But if they then lost I would prob be pretty upset. If Orlando loses tonight the series is over and there is no drawn out emotional heart crushing.
Herm, just had a random thought, who the hell is the celtics back up pg? i feel like rajon rondo never takes a break. i don't think ive seen nate play once.


poker wise i mixed in a table of nl 200 with my normal nl100 session and was really surprised that it was easier to beat than nl100. it's alot less randomly aggressive than nl100 which made it much easier. also everyone plays super nitty and it's really easy to run over them imo. i am no where close to good but holy shit it is fucking revitalizing to see for myself how bad everyone is @ nl 200 and nl 100. there has been so many people over the past few years who are much more talented than me give up or stop playing poker and have nearly convinced me as well to quit. but i'm looking at these tables and it still seems very easy. i guess fish used to chip dump back in the day. dusty was right, everyone is bad, no everyone is fucking bad, and therefore i will keep playing. i am no longer facing giants.


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Going to a masquerade dressed as "The Dude". Going to try to fit everything conceivably funny from wikiquote into conversation one way or another:

* I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That or His Dudeness... Duder... or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing.

* Well, sir, it's this rug I have. It really tied the room together.

* You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head. Luckily I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind limber.

* The Dude abides.

* Careful, man, there's a beverage here!

* This is a bummer man! It's uh...it's a bummer.

* Obviously, you're not a golfer.

* Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

* Walter, this isn't someone whose grandfather built the railways!

More ideas? (gotta have them within 40 min or so)



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Previously i had a standard office chair, but this was fairly uncomfortable and my dad had a Herman Miller Aeron in the room next door to my bedroom so i kept stealing that for my poker sessions. I finally decided that i needed to buy myself a nice chair as an investment for poker. I did some pretty extensive research and it seems the Embody (The supposed Successor to the Aeron) is the most well thought out and designed chair.

Was difficult to find anywhere selling them in the UK, and even when i did i had to wait 8 weeks to have it shipped in from america. It finally arrived yesterday and already i can tell its going to be worth it. The chair is very comfortable but more importantly it "forces" you into a good sitting position. Im currently sitting completely upright with good posture and its not remotely uncomfortable, its more comfortable to sit like this than slouch even. Considering it comes with a 12 year warranty the price tag really doesnt feel that steep anymore. I think without all the extras u cud prolly get one for like $1200 or something.

The fact that the chair itself looks awesome is an added bonus!

Couple quick pics:

Back and Spine of the chair
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/3eecd40f6a8693a3f491ac72da1ef338.jpg

Front/Seat
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0be2c32fa70de6082ffb385edf688c93.jpg

Anyone considering a new chair id honestly advise splashing a few extra buyin's and getting an embody, especially if you are a professional grinder.


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Started NLHE about 5 months ago. Before that had never played a single hand of holdem.

Here's the results. Did well at the beginning mostly because I was on vacation and not working so was easier concentrate.
Think I'm back to winning again.

My crappy red line is standard for NL5/NL10?

http://i.imgur.com/2EhqU.png


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http://i.imgur.com/8BEl6.jpg

no pics cos LP upload picture thing is broken

any1 know a good host?


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So I lost basically all of winnings I made in my past 2 live sessions. Im learning, so I can't really complain.

Anyway, a question I had is...Are any of you able to range limpers in a $1-$2 NL Live Game?


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slowly but surely recovering from my downswing.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/154febc1875fc04efef81007594e3c2a.png


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Can someone do this real fast? =D I can send first.


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So I played another session of live today.

Some cool hands. I am sitting in the 6 Seat. Guy in the 8 Seat is a Young White Guy.
He has a neat haircut, pretty preppy clothing...A pink polo that is fitted and "nice" pants, a metallic, silver watch. His girlfriend is preppy as well, and is pretty good-looking. He seems like a guy with a decent job that knows a little bit about poker. But I don't think he's very good...I've seen him open to like 4x once or twice, and there was a multiway pot where he led from the blinds. Also, when the waitress asked if anybody wanted a drink, he requested a "Cornoaaa with Lime Pleaaase" in such a girly way haha. He is the baby-face type. Just based on profiling, seems like a person I can run over a bit.


I think Seat 10 was the Button. Anyway I'm dealth AhJh. I open from EPish I guess to 5x. The dude calls and we also get a caller from the Blinds. So the pot is roughly 30. Flop comes 7 5 2 R. Anyway guy from the Blinds Check. I think about it and though its dry I just feel alot of times I'll get called from Ace Highs and Pairs, and I can probably try and show down. I check. The dude Bets like 15. Guy from Blinds Folds. I think about it and I think he is stabbing at the pot a ton of the time here. Im getting 3:1 on a Call. But if I do call I'll be OOP and need a plan. I decide I'll call, and if I hit my A or J I'll just play for my card value. If a good card comes on the turn for me to make a play, I'll do that. If its a bad card, I might Check/Fold. Turn comes a 3 Putting a 2 Flush Out there. I pick up a Gutter, and still have outs on my A and J. I feel like the guy is pretty weak on that flop and If I make a Big Bet I am able to rep some werid hand like 33 or a straight (They probably can't hand read well and I think I have just the image of an aggro online kid). So I decide a check/call Lead Turn line is a cool so I led out for 50 Into 60. He quickly folds. I show the bluffs then head off to lunch! Haha that was a sweet feeling.


I sucked out hardcore one hand. I had AdJd I opened EP. (There was so many fishes at the table I defintitely get called with worse). Anyway, an Asian guy that is slightly over weight to fairly new to the table min-3bets me to 20x. We Pick up a caller from the blinds. I call getting 5:1 odds, hoping to pick up a strong draw or spike an ace. Anyway Flop comes Qx Ts X(Spades). Anyway the guy in the blinds check. And I just decide, I'm going to make a crazy play at this pot, lol. If I give the guy who 3-bet a range of AK+,JJ+, He has 11 nonspade AK, 3 QQ, 6 KK, and 3 AA, and 3 JJ. He has exactly 1 PSB left, $60. I felt if I shove he folds his 11 AA and 3 JJ. So I win the pot like half the time, and I do have an Ace out against KK and I have a gutter against his entire range. I dont have a backdoor flush draw, but whatever! Anyway I just put that guy all-in. He calls. Guy in Blinds fold. Turn comes a Jx and River Ks. I make my straight an announce I have the nuts. Guy turns over Trip Queens.

Karma comes around to bite me back though. Theres a new player to the table. He JUST sat. He is a hispanic guy with "Trendy" Glasses that is slightly overweight. He Opens to about $22 Dollars. He only has about $70 or so behind. Super Fish from Late Middle Position Calls. I wake up in the blinds with AcKd or something like that. And I just figure this guy based on how he looks probably opens pretty wide here. Just the fact that he opens to $22 first hand, I just feel like hes openeing widish there (Since its just a retarded open...Its either he wakes up with a sick strong hand first hand AND is the type that plays super exploitive with his bet sizing on those hands, or he is just clueless...in which case AT LEAST AQ is in his range... Not that even if its a standard opening range I don't ship. But I felt thattt much better about it. I ask how much he has and then I raise to $100. He decides to call with JTcc. The super fish folds. He Spikes a T on the turn and I lose the pot.


The hand I won a bunch of money on was when I opened QTdd really early on in the session. I cbet a Diamond, Ace high board pretty big and I got Called from this old guy. "Post-Game Analysis" of the hand, this guy reallly really really was suspicious of my aggression LOL. Turn was a low card, Heart Brick. And I checked and he checked behind. River was a low card Diamond. I shove like more than $100 dollars or something and he calls with Pocket Deuces LOL.

I won a decent amount of money for the session, which is nice.

Anyway I learned something good today. There was a young online-player that was pretty solid to my direct right. He seemed like a nice guy. Anyway he was really good at paying attention to all the hands at the table. So this motivated me more to do the same. And I realized he was better than me at doing this than I was. So I worked on improving on processing information during observation. I think I develop a decent "technique I guess" to think more efficiently about how the players at the table play. I'll practice this in later sessions, as it seems sort of promising.


Also, I played online for 1 1/2 hours this morning. Strangely my VPIP PFR stats were nittier. 34/28, 13.4% 3-bet over 185 hands. I was just taking what the table was giving me. And I was playing profitably. I'll be honoest I like playing alot of hands. And it makes me sort of sad to see me playing nittier LOL. But of course I will just do what I feel is most profitable at any point in a hand. Anyway my after my blog posts about developing aggressive style, my win-rate at online have been pretty good actually. Esp considering I lost ALOT of "Relative Money" in some seriousssssssss spews that I know I am much much better than. Once I get good enough, I'll start adding more tables, etc. Its going to be hard balancing practicing online and live at the same time, while also making time to study poker. Fwiw my brother is here for the week and once he leaves I'll have alot more peace and quiet to get into a good routine.

Anyway its always nice to blog after live sessions. I love the personal feeling of recounting my hands. Doubt many of you will have read this far. But to those of you who did I hope you enjoyed it somehow. I'll be strangely impressed by anyone who says "FPS on the AdJd Hand"...Just cause they took the time to read that, lol. FWIW I completely forgot about AA being possible when I made the play. (Completely discounted AQ But Iono I thought that was fine. Might be a ranging-leak but Iono Its an aggressive discount but its "Possible" that he never does that with AQ). Anyway yeah. Cool.






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So I do read the articles hear but I don't really see any (maybe I am just being dumb/blind) but are there any articles for advice on these (or videos).

Now by tournaments I am meaning tournaments like 2$ buy ins and stuff (I do only play micro as I am a noob ). Any advice is appreciated as I do enjoy those tournaments more then just playing with actual money thanks in advance!


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Hello nerds, I joined husng.com, well at first I need to start off as a blog and make some videos which I'm pretty horrible at

check my blog at http://www.husng.com/content/heads-sit-n-go-blogs even though I haven't written ANY yet but feel free to check it out, gl folks




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A semester of BJJ

So soon my first semester of BJJ will come to an end and I'd like to do some reflecting on what I've learned and gained from it. It seems as if a lot of poker players have taken this sport up the last few years and the inspiration from them really helped to get me started and I figured that if someone gets inspired by this post it'd be a cool thing.

First of all I'd like to state that I have very little talent for this sport, or I might just be generally out of shape. Not sure which one just yet but I find it ridiculously fun so I train 3-4 times a week and I do improve a lot. However, the level I started at was really low. Poker comes naturally to me. Never really studied the game much and mostly played by instinct for a long time and even though I plan to change that this summer due to me being sick of not figuring out NL2k, I'd still consider me very talented in poker. This makes BJJ a nice change of pace and I feel how it humbles me and makes me a better person.

So, what have I gained from this so far? I'll make a list:

1. A bunch of new friends and acquaintances. Probably at least one who'll prove fairly useful one way or another and a bunch of people I'm really happy to know because they're various degrees of awesome, impressive, fun etc. Many of these from groups I'd probably wouldn't interact much with unless it was for the sport.

2. Much better shape and looks. To be fair I'm still fairly out of shape and I've got a long way to go to a six pack, but losing a fair bit of weight, getting much better conditioning, being more limber and probably stronger in at least some ways is a big plus in my book. Highlight as far as comments on this came from this foreign exchange student I've been seeing who had been away for two months, came back and drunkly started to comment on how I should start drinking heavily again otherwise I might find someone prettier then her.

3. Balance in life. Now I don't care nearly as much about losing 10k unless I can't have a roll within 24 hours. Learning new shit, getting a good work out in and not thinking about other crap is really good for my mental health.

4. Pretty much stopped drinking. I think I've gotten drunk two times or so this semester and had a few beers a handful of times. I'm fairly sure that this will contribute to my long time health and better results both in life as a whole and in poker (no more losing 6-7 bi on 10/20 HU hungover!)

5. Gotten better at keeping calm under pressure. Now I actually try to figure out a way to get out of it instead of going into panic mode every time some 100kg dude is laying on top of me trying to rip my arm of.

Stuff I've learned.

I'm much better at grappling now then I was when I started but I'm still not as good as I though I was. (“I'm a big dude heh, that little guy can't do shit against me! Lol...”)

BJJ is damn cool and some small dude with good technique can easily out-grapple a much bigger dude. 60kg girls are dangerous despite appearances and never underestimate skinny dudes if they look self assure.

While grappling. Keep head tight to body and elbows in. Don't get flat on back. Try to grab stuff to be able to have some control over people's movements. Underhooks are cool. Don't panic. Hip movement is key to everything. Easy is good. Advanced shit gets messed up as soon as you get tired.

Triangle chokes are cool, but despite general awesomeness they're probably not the best thing to try from mount or the back unless you actually know what you're doing.

When in doubt: pull guard. If not possible, just keep things tight and grab something. If at all possible, make sure they can't move their hips or head.

While attacking; try to get cool angles. When defending; try not to.

Big guys are often slow. Don't get their weight on top of you and you'll be fine.


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1. i'm too emotionally invested in the magic. it pains me. i should prob leave emotional investing to random movies/tv shows since they have happy endings. paul pierce you are such a flopping bitch. gl 2 ray allen, kednrick "the scowl" perkins and r.r (tehy should just go ahead and give him most improved)

2. i think i'm starting to really enjoy poker. i really want to get good at this game. i realize i'm terrible. i realize the regs at .5/1 are all terrible. i'm kinda hoping to talk to someone about fixing alot of my pf leaks. in a nutshell i used to call with pretty much any 2 cards in position (specifically on the dealer) because at nl25/50 you have a great deal of implied odds and you don't get squeezed as much. i kinda want to discuss/go over hand ranges with somebody else who plays nl 100 as i feel i have pretty poor understanding of card value. i also do not understand raising QJ, A9 in the blinds vs a button open (and lots of other similar concepts). but i really am starting to love this game. and more importantly i'm starting to believe i can actually get good at this game.

i hate including graphs. especially meaningless graphs over short samples but i'm only including these to be taken semi seriously. i never take offense to comments as it's never bad to double check but i grow tired of hearing advice from not-so-great-regs. i remember a long time ago when i first started, i used to get some questionable advice which used to really hurt my game. i guess props to collegesucks, talentedtom, conquistador (from cook islands i think) who used to give me the best advice back in the day.

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3. i just recently graduated college with an econ major and feel very unsure of my future and have no idea what to do. i applied for many jobs but can't seem to land one. any advice would be appreciated. i feel very weird about my college experience as i used to be really competitive @ high school and graduated top 10 in my class. but with college for many reasons, i could not maintain my focus nor take it seriously. i kinda want to go to grad school as i believe i can be really successful but i do not want to repeat the same mistakes. sadly finally understanding and beating nl50 was more fulfilling than graduating college

4. anyway i feel like naruto, extremely hopeful for the future and hope to crush nl 100, 200 and 400 some day~


also i recently watched "5 cm per second" which may be conincidentally the most beautiful thing i've ever watched


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because so many ppl dc


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Poker's been kind of dull these last few months. I am getting bored of the grind, anybody out there want to stake me for a day of 45 and 180 mans? Split profit 70/30 in your favor, no makeup. I have about 20% ROI over 5-6k games in 45 mans, and 45% ROI over 2-3k games in 180 mans. I just recently reset my sharkscope, so I'm unblocking it now to get precise numbers. PM if interested, or reply here, I know some LP sicko will want to do this


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So I haven't really been paying much attention to the UIGA but I was hoping someone could just tell me how it would affect me.


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