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Aaron Davis and Tri Nguyen's "The Poker Blueprint"

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The poker scene has been changing over the past few years, and poker literature has followed suit. Of course, there's still "required reading," like the works of Brunson and Sklansky, but recently the shift has been to e-books. As a player who is relatively new to the game, I was very reluctant to get into these books for a few reasons. Firstly, I'd far prefer a physical copy of a book, and secondly, because I just didn't trust the credibility of the authors. Why should I take advice from a guy named SlowHabit over advice from the Godfather of Poker? Moreover, why should I pay $100 or more for a book?

With that said, e-books are the best way to improve your game besides analyzing your play for yourself, and are definitely where the future of poker literature is headed. Most authors are ridiculously knowledgeable of the players of which their target audience is comprised simply because they've been there. It's one thing to read Super/System and get Doyle's take on a subject, but it's a completely different experience when you know that the author of the book you are reading has succeeded in recent years by playing the same stakes you are now playing.

Aaron Davis and Tri Ngyuen (the aforementioned "Slowhabit") have teamed up to bring the SSNL community their book, The Poker Blueprint. The first thing I noticed in this book was that there was some very unconventional advice in the opening pages. In some cases, this advice was wildly hilarious because of the experience I've had with it and the truth it held.

If a player has a picture of his baby as his avatar, then he is usually over 30 and is almost always bad.

There is a small section dedicated to ideas of this nature, and besides being an enjoyable read, it carried over to the tables. To follow this section, there is an excerpt from an upcoming book by Tri that talks about bankroll management.

*gasp*

The obligatory bankroll management section featured in this book is the first time I've ever seen it recommended that you move up in stakes as quickly as possible. As poker players, we're all used to hearing things like 20, 25, 30 buyins being the standard for when you can move up. Tri's take on this concept, as well as his logic behind it, is very interesting and is definitely something a player should take to heart.

The book also contains an odds chart with percentages of hitting flushes, open-ended straight draws, etc. To me, this was one of the most valuable parts of the book. Aaron actually slapped me in the face by saying:

These situations happen all the time in poker...Learn the math now, so that when these situations come up again, you can focus your attention on his hand range instead of the odds you need to make a profitable call.

I had always thought it would be good for my game to memorize numbers like those presented in the book, but had never actually sat down and written everything out in order to commit them to memory. Aaron has done the hard part for you, and all you have to do is put in some of that good third grade level effort to memorize the chart.

The part on bet sizing was easily the most important part of the book for me. Obviously a poker player is always looking to extract the most value possible from his premium hands, which ideally turns into getting your stack in by the river. Aaron's discussion of bet sizing made the concept of getting it all in by the river very easy, and has consequently made my game more profitable.

While I feel I have discussed the book quite favorably, I beg the reader to not be led to think that the areas of the book I have covered are the limits to which the discussions of the book extend. There is far more information in the book than a review that is reasonable in length can hope to cover, and being priced much lower than a lot of e-books, there is absolutely no reason for a NL10 player to not spend 4 buyins on this book.

I can't guarantee this book will improve your game, but I can honestly say it improved mine and would recommend it to anyone who I feel is of equal, less, or even slightly more skill.

For more information, http://www.dailyvariance.com/ will tell you all you need to know. Thanks for reading and GL at the tables LP!

-Superfash // Jameson Edwards


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Hey LP...a friend of mine plays a decent bit of online poker, and isn't too great. He has potential to be a decent player, but kind of still has a gambler's mentality about the game, similar to what many of us had when we first started playing (i.e. poor bankroll management, going up stakes to recoup losses...). I'm going to start teaching him poker from the ground up, and I need your help on where I should start, and how to influence his mentality about the game. He's basically your average fish - when I watch him play his cards seem pretty face up. He's somewhat passive preflop, and doesn't want to scare people out of a hand when he's got a monster. I'm definitely going to have him read the bankroll management guide here, and maybe a couple more articles, if there are any you would specifically recommend. I'm obviously going to have him learn ABC poker, and to treat EVERY situation as standard until explicitly shown otherwise, in addition to proper preflop ranges to be playing, etc. He at least somewhat knows preflop ranges, though. I'll probably end up making a few Camtasia videos of my sessions for him, but I would like to see if there are any specific videos any of you could think of that would help a beginner. If you have any other opinions on how to start up with teaching someone, let me know.

I appreciate the help, LP.


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Looking for a good demotivational line to edit in.


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Arrived at 11am with my group, got hammered, went to the pool. Returned to the room to get even more hammered, went back to the pool. Passed out in the room for 2 hours, woke up, got hammered again, went out. Next day I played 1/3 @ the Wynn for about 45 minutes, won $62.

Later went to the Venetian...
UTG guy limps, I iso with QQ and get a cold caller, UTG insta squeeze jams his 30BB stack, I ship over the top as the cold caller was drunk as fuck. CC mucks AJ, UTG turns over AKo, binks a K on the turn. A few hands later I limp along with 47dd OTB, 6 handed to the flop: Axx, everyone checks to me, I fire, pick it up, flip over 7 high. Very next hand I'm in the CO, pick up QK and limp along (super limpy table), flop comes Qxx no FD/SD, I fire again when checked to and get minR'd by a fish OTB, I consider shoving, but elect to call and ship any turn that isn't a J or T. Turn's a J and he looks super giddy. He bets 1/4 pot, I call. River's a T, he bets 1/4 pot again. I fold face up and he says I played it well and was ahead on the flop.

2 drunk brothers sit down and immediately start limping every hand with 50BB and playing fit or fold. after a few orbits one of them makes his first raise in early position to $10, I pick up QQ in the CO and 3B him to $40, he snap calls and tries to stare me down (where the fuck do these idiots come from?). Flop comes Axx and he tries to hide a smile but the hennessy he's drinking won't let him. Flop is checked back and he leads turn for $25 into like $80, I call. River blank and he bets his remaining stack (about $35) except for like 3-4 $1 chips. I tank and fold face-up. His brother returns and I hear him whisper AQ in his ear (both very drunk). Other than that, never hit any sets, FD's missed, AK missed every time. Finished the trip down about $170. =(

Other than that, one of the girls I was with got so retarded drunk that she started making out with random ppl on the strip along with the cab driver (14 ppl in total), then collapsed as she was walking out of the bathroom face down on the floor, which is where we found her upon returning to the room. Solid trip imo


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well come sun morning i will be on the rd to NC. I got a sweet beach condo 2 block away from the coastal shore line. I will have a nice beach and some lakes behind my house if i feel like walking outside and doing some fishing. Everything is all set up for my new place for monday so today will be the last night i can grind til monday. Its sad to say that almost my whole life fits into my small ass little sports car. Not looking forward to the 10 hr dr from PA but whatever 10 hrs and ill be living at the beach not a bad trade off. Ill post some pics when i get there and get everything all set up this is going to be a fun trip and one of the nicest places ive ever lived so im pretty pumped about it.

Well GL all LP
B


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I signed up for beta key 1 month ago and I think i got it. I'm not sure but i got an email from blizzard.

Congratulations! You’ve been selected to participate in the beta test of StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™.

To bad my pc doesn't run sc2, so it's for sale. Not sure how this works, I assume I just sell my blizzard account?
Let me know if you are interested.


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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


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Sooo now my computer is taking a shit (I'm @ a pc bang atm). I think it has corrupted sectors, but it already ran CHKDSK by itself. I guess I will do it again tonight and pray it fixes it all up. Otherwise, I will have to take it to one of these thai computer repair shops which I don't really have absolute faith in. I'll just have them reformat the son of a bitch and get it done with I hope.


(my prayer to the world)
Please let me stop running like such a legless, god forsaken sewer rat in every financial aspect of life. I'd also like to be reasonably OK at poker again, whenever it is I'll get to play again.
(end prayer)
I'm going to drown myself in HON for the rest of the day now.


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still can't get my table load high enough, at least not without exploding my brain with 5 different HU opponents.

from here it's either A) add in 20bb min tables and calculate the effective stack every single time i want to play a hand, nevermind actually playing it, or B) improve HU play, cutting into VPP earning time, or C) play bigger.

ok, gna play bigger. whenever a limit jump is feasible, nevermind reasonable or intelligent, i will take it. go big or go home. what's the worst that can happen, i have to drop down and go on to vaporize the smaller game?


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- im not good at donkaments at all, luckboxed 1 sn freeroll years ago that was it
- how can i convert this to monies if ever without playing another day at this goddam site
- electronics shop is good, but i fear i might get taxed by customs here which is a bitch(happened before)


oh and in before 50 teddybears


OH and i need like 6k xfer my stars, your FTP.


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it was so weird

i didn't run particularly well

i didn't get my stack in a bunch and win

i just took what was there

i think this is what i was working towards


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yo


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Need some FTP moneys

Willing to pay 30 on Cake for 25 on FTP since Cake is lame

Respected posters only please

P.S. I have people to vouch for me if you need it!


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I have a tilt problem, a game selection problem, a bankroll problem and a poker problem as a whole.


I've actively been chasing the dream of being unemployed. Poker has somewhat provided this for me. Although i choose to have zero responsibility and zero commitments. I currently live with my parents, i have no car, i have no cell phone, i simply exist. I do have...debt.

As things stand today, i have exactly 1000 dollars to my name. My goal for the year is to raise my standard of living through poker.

Within that wide goal there are many smaller goals.

1) Tilt way way way less
2) Own a car
3) Own a cellphone
4) Rent a place
5) Have at least 20, 000 in the bank

I will be updating regularly, once a week on my progress financially. As well as adding additional blogs to recognize each and every time i tilt in hopes to see how i can improve on my greatest leak.

Day 1 of a new me, wish me luck!


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Now I'm talking about actually fishing, with fishing poles and baits etc.

Can anyone offer any suggestions on what pole(s) are good to start off with? Also what's the least amount of supplies I should get? I don't know which weights to get, lures, hooks, etc.


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A friend of mine posted this blog with a link to 18 immediate effects of the Health Reform bill. I liked his post so here's some of it or go read it all at the first link.

As many of you know already, history was made on Sunday with the passing of comprehensive Health Care reform, and yesterday when President Obama made that bill the law with his signature. After almost a year of working to overhaul the Health Care system, voters, volunteers, community organizers, activists and politicians brought the change that so many needed. For the 14,000 people who lose their health insurance every day, this is a huge victory. For the 32 million people who will now have health insurance, this is a massive victory. For our nation that has been fighting for Health Care Reform for nearly 100 years, this is historic. Fear and lies have ruled the Health Care Reform day ever since it was proposed by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt. The rumor spread by opponents back then was that it was a secret plot by the German Empire to take over the United States. Fear and lies won and the measure failed. When a health care overhaul was proposed by Democratic President Harry S. Truman it was destroyed by a rumor that the “Red Army,” or the Soviet Union, would be marching across our land. Fear and lies won again. When Bill and Hillary Clinton attempted to pass a major overhaul of the health care system, it fell flat on its face due to a particularly nasty lie, the “rationing of care,” which meant that the government would have a say as to when a sick person should stop receiving care. Fear and lies won by a landslide. It should come as no surprise then, that the opponents of our generations push for health reform tried every lie in the book. They took a page from Teddy Roosevelt & Harry Truman’s day, saying that it was a socialist/communist take over by the governmen. Next thing you know, Obama will be telling you when to sleep. They took a page from Bill & Hill’s day by conjuring up the catchy notion of “death panel” that would decide when you grandparents would die. Even comparisons of Barack Obama and Hitler were drawn in attempts to “kill the bill.” This time, thankfully, fear and lies lost.

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Have an account where you can invite a friend, so in a way, 2 keys in one. I'm from eu, so eu.

Whisper pm, selling to highest bidder after a few hours, send on stars kinda thing.

GG


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if you still got it pm me w/ price ._.


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