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So i decided to rebuild my roll from $10 at the start of this month, like in schindlers list when the nazis have to rebuild that building because of the incompetent jew. Well i'm probably the incompetent jew, was making pretty terrible plays like calling with KTs to an utg+1 raise.

Anyway here's a graph. Im still getting further and further away from the ev line, which is pretty stupid to even mention, because things like that won't ever change no matter what you do.

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5016/evgrrrr.jpg


Micros is actually really fun. Because i can open raise with 7xbb size and people call with worse.

I saw a movie recently called "the room" and it changed my life, and perception on what could be done in cinema. This movie is amazing. I recommend everyone to watch it.

Also, i'm gona stop posting in these forums so much because my post quality is border mental retardation. Whenever someone gives advice to someone i will post the opposite a lot just to be different. It's like i post to incite chaos.

Hope to make it to nl25 by end of month. Then im gona shift my roll to a European website and grind $3k worth of bonuses once my roll is at $1k~


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Finally got my internet problem fixed when we switched to verizon. Started grinding again yesterday after only gettin in like 3k hands in the first 11 days. Sessions have been pretty standard. Heres some fun from today.

Just couldnt fold it even tho I wanted to:

Submitted by : YouGoTGoT

PokerStars Game #41105764333: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/03/13 13:44:36 ET
Table Gianfar II 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($50 in chips)
Seat 2: MehrTs ($50.75 in chips)
Seat 3: blarry1974 ($20.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Olyunchick ($55.45 in chips)
Seat 5: duda111 ($67.20 in chips)
Seat 6: monbeste ($104.35 in chips)
monbeste: posts small blind $0.25
Hero: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
MehrTs: folds
blarry1974: calls $0.50
Olyunchick: folds
duda111: calls $0.50
monbeste: calls $0.25
Hero: checks

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $2.00)

   
monbeste: bets $2
Hero: calls $2
blarry1974: calls $2
duda111: calls $2

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $10.00)

   
monbeste: bets $4
Hero: calls $4
blarry1974: folds
duda111: calls $4

River (Pot : $22.00)

   
monbeste: bets $19
Hero: calls $19
duda111: calls $19

Showdown
monbeste: shows (a straight flush, Seven to Jack)
Hero: mucks hand
Hero said, "lol"
duda111: mucks hand
monbeste collected $76 from pot

Summary
Total pot $79 | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) mucked
Seat 2: MehrTs folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: blarry1974 folded on the Turn
Seat 4: Olyunchick folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: duda111 (button) mucked
Seat 6: monbeste (small blind) showed and won ($76) with a straight flush, Seven to Jack

PokerStars Game #41106042188: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/03/13 13:50:14 ET
Table Gianfar II 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($50 in chips)
Seat 2: MehrTs ($50 in chips)
Seat 3: blarry1974 ($15.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Olyunchick ($50 in chips)
Seat 5: duda111 ($58.50 in chips)
Seat 6: monbeste ($148.85 in chips)
monbeste: posts small blind $0.25
Hero: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
MehrTs: folds
blarry1974: folds
Olyunchick: folds
duda111: raises $1 to $1.50
monbeste: folds
Hero: raises $3 to $4.50
duda111: calls $3

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $9.25)

   
Hero: bets $5.50
duda111: calls $5.50

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $20.25)

   
Hero: bets $12
duda111: raises $36.50 to $48.50 and is all-in
Hero: calls $28 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($8.50) returned to duda111

River (Pot : $100.25)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (two pair, Aces and Kings)
duda111: shows (two pair, Aces and Nines)
Hero collected $97.25 from pot

Summary
Total pot $100.25 | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($97.25) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 2: MehrTs folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: blarry1974 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Olyunchick folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: duda111 (button) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 6: monbeste (small blind) folded before Flop

I got banned from the high stakes poker forum by baal for disagreeing with him


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As some of you guessed from my last blog post...

takin some shit out of my distrib

rake 2 high fucking players 2 pathetic

they deserve more value weighted raping

these fuckers dont deserve the true distrib

expect miniscule cost to actual EV bb/hand as rake 2 fucking high

jeah


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Wrote an article. 10 points to whoever can guess what kind of drugs I am on!

In a foggy situation, it seems to me there are three guiding lights, each a different hue, they mix together and resonate to a spotlight that cuts through the fog where you shine it.
The first thought-lamp is about the past, its information gathering. A great wave, teeming with information-fish washes over us, that there is so much going on yet we understand so little, its passes quickly, qucik now! Grab instances of concepts!
Stack sizes and out position at the table, hey! these little fish will be useful, snatch them out of the wave, and stash them happily in your trousers. The action-up-to-now, small preflop rasie, a re-raise, flop check - whoa thats a big, easy fish, docily he goes into your shirt. take care to remember you have him there. That puffer fish! He looks bigger than he is but you need him. He is the players' tendancies, deflate him down to size, put him in your shirt. If he blows himself up again just deflate him again. There goes bet-sizing, he is good to have, a humble fish that serves well.
Crazy cloured fish, they are metagame and timing. Yes of course catch them, but don't take too much notice of their lively wriggling. They want to distract you from the big fish who will give you the most: that action-up-to-now fish in your shirt.
All of these really filter in the net to the 2: hand action, and tendancies, and they equal what he is representing, and that is a specific range of hands.

The kaedoscopic light that shows paths: creativity. Rasie call or fold. These are first and biggest branches of the tree. This thought wants to be in you, but it speaks softly, stop and listen.
Raise call or fold. Every branch is worthy of your looking along it... perhaps a golden treasure of EV glows out there on a higher branch?
Not all these branches are equal, fold is the last resort, it is a dead branch, it drops off the tree.
Raise is great. So much happens up the raise-branch. Branches of sizing, the smashing overbet, the impassive standard, the annoying mini-bet. Then spring more green shoots, chances to represent the tree-nuts, and win the hand. Every tree gives its everything for its nuts. So go up the branches where the nuts would most likely be. A call might lead to more nuts. It depends where you are on the tree. What am I representing?

The third is the light that binds, the seed of the star, I speak of the ONE GOAL. It is EV+ .
What good is your idle curiosity-goal, what good is your moments-pride goal. Don't let that super-lively fish metagame have much of your attention. Let all petty arrogances fall! Do not hold up the wrong light.
And who can forgive that you dull your star with your emotions? If it will not shine its brightest, then do not decend into the fog.
Stop, pause a moment. Blow on it, give it fuel, let this goal burn bright in your mind! POSITIVE MONETARY RETURNS. Give away nothing, let your star drive you. Though your sea of information gathering, through the kaliedoscope of branches, let only the best and most relevant resonate with this star! This one pluse! This focused beam builds and burns! EV+. ROI. POSITIVE NUMBERS.
That you must weigh and measure is the heaviest thing, but should you honestly evaluate it, should you realisitcly, specifically evaluate it, your one light will then: blaze. A Dazzling white light shall peirce the fog, and you will know where to step.
Then just summon the boldness to shove that hobgoblin blinking in your lightbeam

Three thoughts:
-Gather all the information fish that jump out of the table as the hand plays
-Starting from raise, call, fold; how can the branches of this hand play out.
-Pause; go over everything you just thought and filter it to a pure realisitc EV.
Boldly make that move



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Started off with a quick heater this session, managed to be up as high as 115 in less then 1hr 1/2. I really wished I stopped at that point but you know, you always want to keep going. Basically I'm not gonna go into detail because all of you heard the same stories. Basically fucking up 115/ retarded shit all at once + insane tilt rush/ down 100$.

Up until now I've been able to control my tilt where I just bitch about shit online but in a long time in a while I've tilted to the point where I started crazy spewing. I am really hating this shit right now.

Last hand of the session before I was like "OK, enough of this fucking bull shit"

Fucking villain maintaining 18% 3 bet and he has to fucking hit trips when I 4 bet and have a hand.

Submitted by : LikeASet

Flop (Pot : $0)
LikeASet: bets $7.25
AidenRoot: calls $7.25

Turn (Pot : $0)
LikeASet: bets $18.05 and is all-in
AidenRoot: calls $18.05

Showdown
LikeASet: shows two pair, Queens and Jacks
AidenRoot: shows a full house, Queens full of Eights
AidenRoot collected $62.45 from pot

Summary
Total pot $65.45 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: AidenRoot button showed and won $62.45 with a full house, Queens full of Eights
Seat 2: gnobbern small blind folded before Flop
Seat 3: Aseno Norasi big blind folded before Flop
Seat 4: jwd5 folded before Flop didn't bet
Seat 5: julien25 folded before Flop didn't bet
Seat 6: LikeASet showed and lost with two pair, Queens and Jacks

So I'm playing in a charity game, 1/2 NLHE. Table is pretty fishy and I'm up and down a lot over the course of the session. Eventually we move to a different table so it's full ring. After a few hands I pick up pocket 7s UTG+1. I open 4x and get 4 callers, UTG+2, MP, and BB. I'm sitting on 250, UTG+2 has roughly the same, MP has ~100, BB easily covers table. No reads since I had almost just sat down at the table, but it was much more aggressive than the other table.

Flop comes 7s6s3h and I'm all LOL. BB leads into me for 20 and I raise to 60. UTG+2 folds, MP calls, BB shoves. I snap call, MP snap calls. BB shows 54o for the nuts and MP shows 98o for an OESD. Turn KD, river Qd.

This is easily the biggest pot I've ever lost and I'm simply in shock that BB showed up with 54o. I don't think there's anything I can do here but snap call because he's doing the same with 88+, 66, 33, maybe even AXss.

I don't know LP...I just don't know.

GL at the tables.


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Been on ftp 1 week since transfer from stars. I got creamed in rush and ran great at 6max

I like rakeback

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exactly 1360

msn is starcrudph@yahoo.com
skype is peeceeboi


gotta know when its time to give up stars. sites not been too great to me for quite a while now lol
plus the absence of the 24tabling in other sites helps with that constant temptation to do it.


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Last night admist drunken 500bb 1/2 fr at the local casino my younger brother offered me 15-1 odds 15k-1k, that Ron Paul or Peter schiff won't get elected president or that Ron Paul gets asassinated I win bet.
I believe the worse things get the more ppl will search for answers the more they will start voting Ron Paul. Especially when 2011 will be huge economic fail of a year. So I took the bet . 1000$ Ron Paul is president 2012.


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Id generally consider myself on the unorganized side. I noticed I am really inefficient at getting myself to review my own hands and my database in general.

What do you guys do to analyze your hands and improve outside of the game?

Also, does anyone has an excel template for EV calculations with some advanced ones that I might not be familiar with they wouldn't mind sharing??




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Ok, I've been thinking of doing some kind of boku87 type challenge for myself where I try to grind a roll starting from $100-$200 and playing 45 and 180 man small buy-in tournies for fun. Obviously it's not fun to start playing in those 10 cent tournies, so I'm going to skip that garbage lol.I'll probably do this in like the next week or something, and will be blogging results with HEM graphs or whatever for some entertainment. Not looking for action or anything, just thought it'd be cool to blog my results.


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So I am updating this once before May 11th just to show some progress I made half way through. I was going to quit poker and started Feb with a $150 roll or something like that and had a magical month where I made $2300. Unfortunately, winning never ever lasts long for me since poker hates me. I have lost every single session I have played in March. And my car fucked up so I had to cash out $750 of my roll which now leaves me with $400. Anyways off to the real life goals....


[X] Get a job as a waiter
[X] Get back into going to church every Sunday
[/] Find car insurance and replace brakes/struts
[ ] Research grants/loans/financial aid for school in fall
[ ] Figure out where I would like to go to school
[ ] Get back into working out 3x a week and be able to bench 280
[/] Bible reading 3x a week and back to praying every night
[ ] No more smoking weed
[X] Drinking is fine as long as does not interfere with any goals
[/] Save up $1500
[ ] Stop smoking cigarettes

So of my 11 goals I accomplished 3 of them and am half way on 3 more. Focusing on the school aspect will come very soon so that is no worries. However, stopping cigarettes and weed was much more difficult than I expected. Oh well wish me luck that things keep on going up for me (atleast in life, fuck poker).


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I want to play 4,000 hands this weekend.
Am I crazy? Will I go mad in the process?

Well, I started off nicely today, amassing 350 hands during one hour, but there was a decent amount of HU and 3 handed action included. 3,650 hands remaining, which is roughly 12 hours during 2 days, tomorrow's freeroll not included. If I do it, only 3,500 further hands will remain until I finish my mad challenge of playing 30,000 (THIRTY THOUSAND) hands in 45 days.

I will blog about my epic struggle and update this post. I am also thinking about moving in Chiren80's footsteps, and hopefully this sick hand marathon will help me get a PS pro status!

If I finish this, who knows what I will do next? 35,000? even 50,000 hands per month? Setting up a webcam channel and showing off my Asian GF for no reason? Only sky is the limit.


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Looking to buy a SC2 beta key/account, must be US. If it's on an account I'll just use it for the beta and upon release give you back the Battle.net info for the account if you happen to have other games attached to it. PM me details.


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if I do one fking time it turns around so fking hard on me ~~

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What is up blog readers! I made a promise to myself that I would update this more often so here we go.

My roomate search is hopefully going to be over soon so all that stress about finding someone will be off my mind and over. I'm talking to a few people currently and am pretty sure I will go with a guy over the girl from my last blog, but not 100 percent sure yet. Just need to get whoever I pick approved to move in and then it should be all done. Weather is starting to get nicer out here too which has been pretty cool. Get to hang out at the pool and work on the tan/be outside rather then sitting inside doing nothing. I met this 18 year old Persian girl who just moved to USA a few months ago and we went out on a date the other night. Seems like it might have some potential, and by potential I mean she is 18 and we all know where that leads to lol who knows. Seems like she could be an odd fellow though



My god-mode at PLO has finally ended. I've been 24 tbling plo50 to try to get better at the game/get hands in. I was running like god for the first 35k hands but these last like 5k hands have been fucking brutal and pretty sure I lost back all the profit I was up. Whatever, fuck that crazy game, I think I may just give up on it or load up plo10 when I want to play. My results at NLHE are just sooo much better that it would probably be a pretty big leak if I keep playing PLO. I mean, it did ruin my life kinda a few months ago lol.

I've actually started to get back into playing fullring now. I analyzed my FR game from the past and changed a few leaks I had and am doing alot better now. What did I change about my game?? It is actually a rather large change that I'm sure the regs who play with me will notice but I don't want to give it away lol. I wll probably play nl100 until I make a little bit more and then stick with nl200 for awhile. Im still off and on about going for SNE this year. Some days I am super motivated to play and get SNE and then other days I just want to lay in bed and do absolutely nothing. Usually a trip to the gym always gets me in the grinding mood for some reason and I always come back and play some. Pace for SNE after this month is around 240k vpp and I probably will end this month around 150k vpp but could be more depending on how hard I work. I'm still confident I can get SNE pretty easily but I just don't know if I have the work ethic in me right now. I really don't want to do anything lately, no poker, no fucking random women, no going to bars, no driving around, I really need to snap out of it somehow but it is tough when you have limited people to help. Back home I always had a bunch of friends I could hang with and feel better but out here its just hard. I really was/am contemplating moving back home but I just think I would look at it as such a big failure, plus the drive is 35 hours long. None of those things I want to look foward to at all. I will probably just give another roomate/6 more months a shot and see how things go over the summer, who knows??


Whatever, fun to write. Going to try to go to sleep so I can wake up and grind the pool tomorrow lol, Thanks for reading



Joey


VPP: 112k


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