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I was on the heater of my life for a bit, but of course it slowly started leveling off. Also, I played 30688 hands of NL200 and won $6670.80 so no []5ptbb/100 for you nitpickers . My sessions aren't labeled as rush poker, but that's because I'm using FullTilt's hand history tool after every session since my client crashes once every 20 minutes and loses some hands. HEM doesn't list these imported hands as rush so I just delete all my hands and re-import them every session.

I've definitely started changing how I play, and I think that has mostly to do with the fact that FTP (or maybe just rush poker) seems to be much more aggressive than back when I played on Stars. A lot of lines where I would just insta-fold have become more trivial calls, and I'm definitely a lot more optimistic in post flop spots. One mindset that I've changed is I've stopped looking at some of my hands and robotically categorizing them e.g. "this is a midpair, I call his cbet". Rather, I will always keep in the back of my mind that any midpair can also be 5 outs to a very disguised hand (trips and random two pair), which gives me much more of a reason to call.

One of the difficult things that I've started to be less shy about are spots where I have to determine my FE against a polarized range. The hardest thing is when you run into the top of your opponent's range in a spot where you believe to have a lot of FE, but you start second guessing yourself simply because he had the hand (5bet shove against a wide 4bettor, he shows up with aces, maybe he just always had aces). But when I look back to all the spots where I decided to close my eyes and shove, I seem to be profiting. It's just very easy to be losing in a session and get faced in a polarized spot where you should make a stand, but then not having the heart to do it.

Anyway, enough rambling. This month was awesome, and hopefully next month I'll run even hotter .


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It's weird traveling cause I'll go several days with no net or TV and then suddenly I get somewhere that has CNN on and I get hit with a rush of crazy shit - terrorist bombings and now the pope was personally involved in covering up the pedophile priests... sick shit.

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One by one, as I predicted, the pathetic excuses of Joseph Ratzinger's apologists evaporate before our eyes. It was said until recently that when the Rev. Peter Hullermann was found to be a vicious pederast in 1980, the man who is now pope had no personal involvement in his subsequent transfer to his own diocese or in his later unimpeded career as a rapist and a molester. But now we find that the psychiatrist to whom the church turned for "therapy" was adamant that Hullermann never be allowed to go near children ever again. We also find that Ratzinger was one of those to whom the memo about Hullermann's transfer was actually addressed. All attempts to place the blame on a loyal subordinate, Ratzinger's vicar general, the Rev. Gerhard Gruber, have predictably failed. According to a recent report, "the transfer of Father Hullermann from Essen would not have been a routine matter, experts said." Either that—damning enough in itself—or it perhaps would have been a routine matter, which is even worse. Certainly the pattern—of finding another parish with fresh children for the priest to assault—is the one that has become horribly "routine" ever since and became standard practice when Ratzinger became a cardinal and was placed in charge of the church's global response to clerical pederasty. So now a new defense has had to be hastily improvised. It is argued that, during his time as archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany, Ratzinger was more preoccupied with doctrinal questions than with mere disciplinary ones. Of course, of course: The future pope had his eyes fixed on ethereal and divine matters and could not be expected to concern himself with parish-level atrocities. This cobbled-up apologia actually repays a little bit of study. What exactly were these doctrinal issues? Well, apart from punishing a priest who celebrated a Mass at an anti-war demonstration—which incidentally does seem to argue for a "hands-on" approach to individual clergymen—Ratzinger's chief concern appears to have been that of first communion and first confession. Over the previous decade, it had become customary in Bavaria to subject small children to their first communion at a tender age but to wait a year until they made their first confession. It was a matter of whether they were old enough to understand. Enough of this liberalism, said Ratzinger, the first confession should come in the same year as the first communion. One priest, the Rev. Wilfried Sussbauer, reports that he wrote to Ratzinger expressing misgivings about this and received "an extremely biting letter" in response. So it seems that 1) Ratzinger was quite ready to take on individual priests who gave him any trouble, and 2) he was very firm on one crucial point of doctrine: Get them young. Tell them in their infancy that it is they who are the sinners. Instill in them the necessary sense of guilt. This is not at all without relevance to the disgusting scandal into which the pope has now irretrievably plunged the church he leads. Almost every episode in this horror show has involved small children being seduced and molested in the confessional itself. To take the most heart-rending cases to have emerged recently, namely the torment of deaf children in the church-run schools in Wisconsin and Verona, Italy, it is impossible to miss the calculated manner in which the predators used the authority of the confessional in order to get their way. And again the identical pattern repeats itself: Compassion is to be shown only to the criminals. Ratzinger's own fellow clergy in Wisconsin wrote to him urgently—by this time he was a cardinal in Rome, supervising the global Catholic cover-up of rape and torture—beseeching him to remove the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, who had comprehensively wrecked the lives of as many as 200 children who could not communicate their misery except in sign language. And no response was forthcoming until Father Murphy himself appealed to Ratzinger for mercy—and was granted it.

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And it couldnt come any sooner for me lol,
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easily my worst month ever by far, before this my worst month was like -3k, I definitely did not play well and all my shots went poorly as did plo. April I will probably just look to 6 table 3/6 for most of the month and try and get back to winning ways lol.

Im also going to NAPT Mohegan Sun in a couple days so hopefully I can just win that
It's finally gotten warm here in Southern Ontario which means golf season is back! I just played my first 18 yesterday and I'll probably go again this afternoon, feels so nice to get back out on the course.

I also finalized our Vegas house for WSOP, staying in a 10k sq foot 10bdrm Vacation Kingdom should be really sweet. Should have a good group of guys too, Myself, Dzoo, Adam001, Nutsinho, Kingsofcards, Altrum Altus, Jem87, Victree, Gregy20273 and Luckyfish... heres some pictures of the house.

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Is a joke. I had a bit of fun donking around playing rush PLO10, went up 12 BI, ended up -4 BI.

Like for example, I got it in deep with a set, wrap straight draw, and flush draw, and did a fist-pump + chair-spin and then looked on my screen and saw I lost the hand. Huhhhhhhhhh...??

But hey, its Omahahaha. (lol )

For those of you who play PLO as your main game....how the heck do you handle the variance?? I think I'll stick with NLHE ;P




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Best of luck to everyone in April.


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msg me here ill send first to reputable lp.


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I lost a lot. 2nd losingest month ever.


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100 PLO 6m (not showing 1/2 or HU for fear of doomswitch):

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And my Day 41 results of P90X for up and coming website http://www.myhealthworkout.com/ :

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Day 1:

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Edit: Month wasn't quite done with me ....

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I am just a casual PLO player having played 125k hands in the past 2 1/2 years or so mostly at 50PLO. I want to play more and actually take a real shot at becoming good. Sessions like today are just mind-bogglingly frustrating. Stuck 6 buy-ins today and although my all-in EV was terrible I feel like for the first time in a long time I played very poorly regardless. Lots of small mistakes that added up over the course of the session + a couple high variance lines.

Anyways here is my All-in EV for the day as calculated for my winning and losing hands based on the percentage chance to win each hand at the point where all the money was put in the middle. Killahenri thinks he runs worse than me. It's hilarious because if I take all 125k hands I can almost guarantee I am between 30-40k below where I should be in terms of percentage to win the pot x money in the point at the point of All-in when it's just simple math. Today alone I'm stuck almost 12 buy-ins in All-in EV. Disgusting.

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Hi,

i'm selling my SC2 beta account (EU).
PM me with your offer (i'll check my pm box tomorrow).
Paiement on PS, MB or PP.

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i have been 2 tabling 25NL for the last few days and its great.

but today i purposly sat a 2 tables full of regs i have more than a few houndred hands on.

i lost more than 3 BI in about 3 hours and they are all hands that went to far.

i dont think for 98% of my hands, and the other 2% my brain says, MASH KEYS.

fuckin bullshit.


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Enough money to go to Europe this summer which I should have if I stop downswinging so epically.


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NL 100 shot went... Oh well not good
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Back to NL50, and most likely until my holiday in may. I have completely lost composure and focus on the tables, and the whole shot was my B-C game with some 10% A game - back to usual.

I kinda didn't have a goal or a plan, and the successful pokering in 50 days before the shot took its toll on my stress levels and real life too much. I was late to work quite a bit because of reading articles, watching vids and reading LP, my healthy eating goals disappeared and I became too attached to my winnings.
The result was a typical burnout, which is simply impossible to avoid with stressful full-time job when I become too attached to poker. And it came right about the time I moved to NL100.

Maybe there are people who can be winners longterm and work hard, but certainly not me, a simple fat lazy person with limited capabilities.

I dunno what the fuck happened to the important goals - Building health and Fitness to be able to grind heroic sessions when poker will be actually my income, I became obsessed with the game once more neglecting everything, which led to - oh what a surprise: much worse performance at the thing I am obsessed about.


My only April poker goal is to make 7,500 VPP, care much less about poker and get myself together

I signed for a Spinning class on 7:30 AM before work on Friday, and that should be a decent start to get me back on track.


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Fleh, my mindset is still fragile and thus a disgusting runbad is not what I need right now.

But of course, that's what I'm getting.

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I figured a 18% of bankroll stop loss was a solid idea so I'm done for the day.

Down 6bi & 8bi in EV since my break ended, lols.

Worse runs have been documented in the past. I know.

Hmm I made some spews today, biggest one was in a spot where I planned to x/r semi-bluff the turn if I improved. I did improve, but when I was facing the turn bet his bet sizing was a clear tell that he is never folding. I still semi-bluffed and got it in really bad 160bb deep. Need to trust my head more..

God damn it I really, really don't want to be someone who folds under pressure.

Lastly.. ship the awesome purple EV line.


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I won one! 90-man $3.30 turbo deep one. Cashed for ~$78. Also ran pretty damn hot considering I didn't really get sucked out on and won most of my flips.

Mostly applied M-shove charts and exploited uberlags since there was plenty of preflop play throughout most of the levels as average stacks > 12bb. I'm now rolled for NL25! Moving up the micros...doodee doodee doo

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Ok so second blog post, I've been trundling away playing .01/.02c and have built my roll to around $100. Took a few shots at .02/.05 here and there after about $85 which has mostly gone well so far, but I've only really been playing on tables that I think have totally terrible people. I am still swapping back and forth between 0.02/0.05 and 0.01/0.02 depending on how the tables are, so I'm not exclusively playing 2/5 just yet.

In my last blog post someone mentioned that you can get HEM by signing up to different poker sites with a deal, and I was just interested as to how that works tbh. From looking at the offer, you get a kind of redeemable e-voucher thing to buy stuff in the HEM store and some of the sites give you more than others.

Would stars be best to sign up with to get this voucher? As far as I'm aware (I don't play on Stars), all of the Stars bonuses and rakeback etc come from actually playing there and getting volume rather than affiliate orientated rakeback like FTP? Is this right?

Also the Stars token is only $75 credit whereas HEM itself is $90. However the small stakes version is $40 which is totally coverable by the voucher, and I'm not going to have to worry about moving past .25/.50 any time soon at all, so I'm not entirely sure what to do.

And if I get HEM this way, that does give a full copy of HEM and not some lame crap like I can only use it on Stars or something? I'm just kinda dubious because there is usually a catch to these things somewhere along the line.

I'm not really that desperate to get it anyway, yes it would probably help but I don't think I really need it yet however I'd like to be able to use it in conjunction with reasonable note taking that I do regardless and it will let me analyse my game better for the future too I think.

Cheers all!


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Hey, I need some money on AP. I'm willing to send first on Stars or on FTP. I'm only going to trade with reputable players. Please help if u can


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