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Aaron Davis was so kind to PM me offering me to review the book "The Poker Blueprint" written by Tri Nguyen and Aaron himself.

More information can be found at http://www.dailyvariance.com/.


regards.


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I like.
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i just had my biggest day ever!

had a 15.5k day at 10/20 live at the bellagio. I almost busto'd my mini roll i brought here, was down to my last 2.2k from the 15k i brought with me. (i was in for 2.8k and got stacked and then rebought for my last 2.2k) and ran it up to 20,500 in about 5 hours.

pretty sweet result and definitely a brag but i feel pretty good right now. Also pulled the biggest bluff of my life, and a couple nice call downs.

definitely an awesome end to a vacation that was not too fun. The games at the bellagio tbh were actually pretty terrible. There were quite a few good players, including thewh00sel, Ooooohhhhhh (i think thats his name on stars?), a couple of pretty good live pros (and i think most livepros blow). Not many BIG fish at all. At one point we had a table that litteraly was probably as tough as an online 5/10 table (me and ohh agreed). Thankfully the table tonight was pretty decent, not AMAZING but certainly a pleasent change.

I go back to AZ tomorrow night so i gotta get some sleep. GOOD NIGHT!


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I need to get poker on track, hoping to make $2500 online in the next 3 months, and another 2-3k at the casino when i go in May (should be easy, somehow i stomp live play but suck online LOL, i think its because live i concentrate a lot more)

So if I make this goal (minimum of 3.5k profit before June) then I will go on a nice vacation somewhere (most likely Thailand).

So I am writing this to take poker seriously. no more 16 tabling and breaking even. I redid my subscription to DeucesCracked and I'm going to be watching a lot of vids and get myself back up to 50 NL by end of March and 100NL by end of April.

Wish me luck guys!


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This might be a record for me, 2 blogs in the same day


As I wrote about in my last blog my current roomate is moving out at the end of our lease in April and I am looking for a person to live with out here. I have talked to a few poker people through what I posted on 2+2 and have a few people seriously interested that seem like cool people. The wildcard in this whole process is that their is a girl from back home in Chicago/Indiana that I've known for a long time/has visited me out here before that really wants to gtfo of there and move out here. Everyone I have even mentioned this idea to has said no way it will work.

What I want to try to figure out here is what is my exact potential EV I lose/gain in having her move in. Lets set the pro's first. She said she will cook/clean/laundry/as much sex as I want. Now thinking about this aspect alone overall it is pretty big. First, I fucking hate cleaning and rarely do it. To have someone around on a consistent basis making sure everything is good, laundry is washed would probably make me feel alot better about myself and my surrondings. As for the cooking aspect, I think this would be absolutely tremendous. Would help me eat healthier/help body get in better shape, save money on fast food all the time, would enjoy the meals more, not have to worry about leaving the apartment. The sexual aspect obviously speaks for itself. I will say she is a pretty girl, nice body, good in bed and a pretty pleasent person to have around. Plus I feel like I will be making a big difference in her life as life back in Indiana pretty much sucks for her right now.



Now lets weigh some con's. First, we wouldn't exactly be "dating" but we kinda would be in a way. Therefore I'm sure bringing other girls home would be frowned upon from her vantage point. Also the overall bills here are around 1200-1300 total each a month. She has her own bills of around 600 a month so assuming she got some sort of waitress/bar job out here making 1k-1.5k a month, she would really only be able to pay 500-600 towards bills therefore sticking me with about 1800-1900 just to live here. I mean that is pretty fucking ridiculous lol. Also there is no guarantee that she can get a job making that sort of money right away so the first month or two I could end up paying more. In addition I have to factor in the possiblity of me just getting sick of seeing her as well which has been known to happen in the past.


Therefore weighing these options I need to come up with a forumla to figure out if I should go the poker player route where I can still meet as many women as I want, hire maid/find a girl to cook for me. Or have her move in and live in a clean/cooking environment. I figure the cleaning alone can probably come to about $200/month, cooking $300-400/month, sex $500 month (this is assuming in a normal dating relationship I would end up spending the equivalent on taking women on dates plus the time taken up texting/driving/bs stuff). Now we factor in the negatives, I end up paying extra $600-700/month, $200-300 month with no other women.


So if I actually use this equation to figure things out it looks as if I about breakeven overall on the situation so basically I just need to decide what I actually desire for the next few months of my life. Getting better at poker while living with someone to play or having food/ a clean place and sex anytime.............

decisions, decisions !!!!!!!!!


Please if I messed up on this formula somewhere or am missing some key factors let me know. Feedback much appreciated and will be shown in the form of Pictures I have recieved through text messages on my next blog




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Deposited $50 on FTP to practice NL2 & improve my live play, snap tilt from all the minraising and min 10-betting preflop, and immediately give up. Play some NL10 rush, run up to $100, go to cashout, and pull a neilly and dive into NL50 HU. Boom lost everything.


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hey folks, hope pokers going well. canada won the gold, and it was a hell of a party night for us.

anyways, haven't been playing as much as intended.. am really considering trying to play husngs a lot - tried a few of them, and the competition looks quite soft. i dunno though, we'll see.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/786da.graph2.jpg

my roll is currently at ~1200 due to cashouts and whatnot. it's pretty nice to have some spare pocket change.

in other news - went to the military recruitment center planning to join as an officer - they told me i have to finish my last year before i can do a direct entry. which sucks big time, as i now know that i absolutely have to go back to school in september to finish up my last year.. shitty deal.

umm, besides that - the woman is being a huge bitch lately. so that's probably going to end very very soon.

well, gonna go smoke a bowl and watch some band of brothers. later guys, and gl


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Aaron has asked me to write a review of his new book, written in collaboration with Tri Nguyen. In the following days I hope to have digested it so that I am able to review it and hopefully inspire some of you to check it out as well. I'm looking forward to this unique opportunity.

More information can be found at http://www.dailyvariance.com/.

GL at the tables LP!


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If you saw my monthly graph for feb, you will notice my shit is like a fkin roller coaster. Every session, i play great, get up a few buyins, and at some point i just get doomswitched. EVERY SESSION. So frustrating playin good poker and then losing ur hard earn winnings to bullshit. These are just a few gems from today, too lazy to find more. THe last one was my last hand of the session I had already hit sitout next hand. Awesome.

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PokerStars Game #40628680146: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/03/03 20:10:44 ET
Table Cordelia VII 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: argzor ($82.90 in chips)
Seat 2: DreamGirly75 ($26.35 in chips)
Seat 3: Hero ($66.20 in chips)
Seat 5: thumbz555 ($53.25 in chips)
Seat 6: zbolt325 ($3.45 in chips)
thumbz555: posts small blind $0.25
zbolt325: posts big blind $0.50
DreamGirly75: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
argzor: folds
DreamGirly75: checks
Hero: raises $1.50 to $2
thumbz555: folds
zbolt325: raises $1.45 to $3.45 and is all-in
DreamGirly75: calls $2.95
Hero: calls $1.45

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $10.60)

   
DreamGirly75: checks
Hero: bets $5
DreamGirly75: calls $5

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $20.60)

   
DreamGirly75: checks
Hero: bets $10
DreamGirly75: raises $7.90 to $17.90 and is all-in
Hero: calls $7.90

River (Pot : $56.40)

   

Showdown
DreamGirly75: shows (a straight, Six to Ten)
Hero: shows (a pair of Queens)
DreamGirly75 collected $44.30 from side pot
zbolt325: shows (high card Ace)
DreamGirly75 collected $10.10 from main pot

Summary
Total pot $56.40 Main pot $10.10. Side pot $44.30. | Rake $2
Board  
Seat 1: argzor folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: DreamGirly75 showed and won ($54.40) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 3: Hero (button) showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: thumbz555 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: zbolt325 (big blind) showed and lost with high card Ace

PokerStars Game #40628678386: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/03/03 20:10:41 ET
Table Leona IV 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: txaskano ($38.45 in chips)
Seat 2: bombonieri ($25.40 in chips)
Seat 3: thumbz555 ($62.10 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($50 in chips)
Seat 5: rox8472 ($50.65 in chips)
Seat 6: Dahla88 ($48.75 in chips)
Dahla88: posts small blind $0.25
txaskano: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
bombonieri: calls $0.50
thumbz555: folds
Hero: raises $1.50 to $2
rox8472: folds
Dahla88: calls $1.75
txaskano: calls $1.50
bombonieri: calls $1.50

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $8.00)

   
Dahla88: checks
txaskano: checks
bombonieri: bets $1
Hero: raises $3 to $4
Dahla88: folds
txaskano: folds
bombonieri: calls $3

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $16.00)

   
bombonieri: bets $1
Hero: raises $9 to $10
bombonieri: calls $9

River (Pot : $36.00)

   
bombonieri: bets $9.40 and is all-in
Hero: calls $9.40

Showdown
bombonieri: shows (a flush, Jack high)
Hero: shows (two pair, Jacks and Fours)
bombonieri collected $52.15 from pot

Summary
Total pot $54.80 | Rake $2.65
Board  
Seat 1: txaskano (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: bombonieri showed and won ($52.15) with a flush, Jack high
Seat 3: thumbz555 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Hero showed and lost with two pair, Jacks and Fours
Seat 5: rox8472 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Dahla88 (small blind) folded on the Flop

PokerStars Game #40629661542: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/03/03 20:35:59 ET
Table Leona IV 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: txaskano ($38.55 in chips)
Seat 2: bombonieri ($17.35 in chips)
Seat 3: thumbz555 ($56.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($50.20 in chips)
Seat 5: rox8472 ($73.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Dahla88 ($62.95 in chips)
bombonieri: posts small blind $0.25
thumbz555: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $1 to $1.50
rox8472: calls $1.50
Dahla88: folds
txaskano: folds
bombonieri: folds
thumbz555: folds

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $3.75)

   
bombonieri leaves the table
tutz_aml joins the table at seat #2
Hero: bets $2.50
rox8472: calls $2.50

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $8.75)

   
tutz_aml leaves the table
Hero: bets $6
rox8472: calls $6

River (Pot : $20.75)

   
a23ssa joins the table at seat #2
Hero: bets $11
rox8472: raises $30.50 to $41.50
Hero: calls $29.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1.30) returned to rox8472

Showdown
rox8472: shows (a full house, Kings full of Aces)
Hero: mucks hand
rox8472 collected $98.15 from pot

Summary
Total pot $101.15 | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: txaskano (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: bombonieri (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: thumbz555 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Hero mucked
Seat 5: rox8472 showed and won ($98.15) with a full house, Kings full of Aces
Seat 6: Dahla88 folded before Flop (didnt bet)

"Congratulations!
You are now a RakeBackPros player and you will receive 27% rakeback on all your future play at Full Tilt Poker!"

Sweet, I have been emailing them to add rakeback to my account since DECEMBER...and received it today.

Better late than never, now I need to transfer my roll.





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Not many of these are running, but they seem fishy as hell...

Played some NL10 and NL25 this week where I almost exclusively played live sessions because mate invited some of his friends to play almost every night also ran good for me ^^

Stats so far (heater, HELL YEAH) -
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and I hope I can keep on running good.. not this hot but at least have less losing sessions.. they cause me to quit poker for a few days lately.. simply because I play .. my B game at best if i got crushed the one day and sit down the next day to play..

Live poker is really fun tho, deck is yet just a tiny bit rigged sometimes ^^


regards.


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Im offering coaching to HUsngs and HU mtts. I feel like I have a good knowledge of the game and could help struggling low stakers a lot.

HU sngs graph:
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HU MTTs graph:
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Basically Im charging $350 for:
- 2 hours strat discussion/HH review through msn
- 2 teamviewer sessions, me playing one and you the other

($100/extra hour)

Not exactly my student but friend that I helped a lot (started w/ him at ~game 1500 @ $6 HUsngs):
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PM me.


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I know there are other ways to put HHs into a typical blog (blogspot.com e.g.) but I like the HHs at LP. Is it possible and how hard would it be to put them in the same format on my blog - can I add some HTML to each blog, is there a way I can just use [HAND=805XXX], etc?


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1h session another - 6 BI

-> 17BI loss in 6 K hands NL50 WTF ....

cant even believe this happend.
2 BI of that is from tilt since the last 20 minutes i simply couldnt stand it anymore.

rest is just setup after setup after setup.

I lose every AA , KK
I lose every set
every flush
every straight

no big hand of mine preflop or postflop is ever good T_T

fu pokerz


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Were not kind to me today. Have run godlike for the best part of a week then today I timed out twice in tilt inducing spots /wrists and kings and queens hated me.....filtered below. Oh and after flopping an obscene set% in the last week - not one single set today in over 1000 hands.

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Oh well - next godmode switch please - I was enjoying that. Like this:

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PokerStars Game #40594381086: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2010/03/03 3:39:27 CT [2010/03/03 4:39:27 ET]
Table Aquarius II 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: superfash ($10.96 in chips)
Seat 2: 3ddyCutz ($11.88 in chips)
Seat 4: la_brujaa ($3.06 in chips)
Seat 5: cinco55 ($5.60 in chips)
Seat 6: labrille ($5.63 in chips)
superfash: posts small blind $0.02
3ddyCutz: posts big blind $0.05

Holecards
Dealt to superfash
la_brujaa: folds
cinco55: folds
labrille: raises $0.15 to $0.20
superfash: raises $0.45 to $0.65
3ddyCutz: folds
labrille: calls $0.45

Flop (Pot : $1.35)

   
superfash: bets $1
labrille: calls $1

Turn (Pot : $3.35)

   
superfash: bets $9.31 and is all-in
labrille: folds
Uncalled bet ($9.31) returned to superfash
superfash collected $3.20 from pot

Summary
Total pot $3.35 | Rake $0.15
Board  
Seat 1: superfash (small blind) collected ($3.20)
Seat 2: 3ddyCutz (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: la_brujaa folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: cinco55 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: labrille (button) folded on the Turn

Hey guys here I go again....

I want to invest some £200-£300 ($300-$450) for a PC, just a base unit. I want it with Windows 7, and shipped to UK. Used or new.

I want SC2 to run on that thing if possible if I decide to try it out one day, and apart from that standard nerd multitasking (HEM/10 Chrome tabs/ HD film/2 Poker Clients open antivirus in background, all at the same time.

Can somebody tell me what to look for and where to get it?

This is an example of what I could get for £250 on ebay:
Chip Type: intel pentium processor E5400 Processor Speed: 2,800 MHz
Memory (RAM): 4096.0 Hard Drive Capacity: 320 GB
Brand: Medion Primary Drive: Daul Layer DVD / CD ReWriter
Features: Graphics Card, Keyboard, Mouse, Operating System, USB Condition: New


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Hello all, welcome to the blog! First I want to say that I am looking for a new roomate out here in San Diego starting May 1st. I made a thread on 2p2 about it which is located here if your potentially interested

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/102...-poker-place-starting-may-1st-725593/


Life


Let's see what I have been up to lately. Seems as if my main focus lately has been hitting the gym and enjoying the pool out here. My physique is coming along rather nicely and I am excited for summer to roll around so I can start pwning up the women. I would post a pic but who wants to see a guy with his shirt off anyway lol. Since I suck at blogging regulary I will give the people that actually read this a little bonus Date Trip Reports. For the people that read my dating challenge trip reports, some of these can be pretty awesome IMO. As some know, I broke up with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. After sitting around sad for a few days I decided to get happy again and go on a date or two. Now I will write about one.


First date I went on was with a girl from the online dating world. She was 27, divorced, had pretty face, nice smile, interesting facial piercing but..............she was a little bit bigger . Can't be perfect right? Since I was just coming off the breakup I figured I had to get back on the horse at some point, why not now! We do the usual messaging back and forth online then exchange texts for a little while. She thinks I am good looking, I figure why not give it a chance. We setup a first date for the movies to see Valentines Day. Normally I would not pick a movie as a first date but to be honest I figured the less I have to see of her, the better. Movie goes fine and then we get some yogurt after and engage in the usual first date conversations. I'll be honest I started to question what the fuck I was doing at some point in time but I figured, give it a chance, only live once, etc. etc. Finally the night ends and I give her hug goodbye rather then the kiss she was going after .

We text a little bit over the next few days and inevitably the topic of sex comes up. I tell her me and my ex sex life was subpar and she assured me her game was on point. Obviously this leads to the whole prove it, blah blah blah talk that comes from that opening. She sends me interesting pictures that actually make her fuckable (pics on request obv). She then tells me that she has to be exclusive with a guy to have sex with them.....I ask wtf she is talking about and she says we have to be in a relationship to have sex. I reply with "okay....". She says that wasn't the answer she was expecting lololol. She ends up coming over the next day and the topic of sex and being in a relationship comes up. I explain to her that for me to date someone she has to be good in bed. I tell her that I cannot be with her unless I first find out she is good sexually, she thinks it over for a bit and says that is actually smart and a good idea . The next 20-30 minutes were never to be remembered for me. She did not look like the pictures and during it I just wanted to stop and say plz gtfo now. I just close my eyes and hope for the end though as to not be too much of an asshole. The final straw came when she got on top of me lol i was like listen I have to stop. She asks "Why?". I say I just cannot handle it anymore and you are too good..... 10 minutes later I am walking her out to her truck and give her a hug goodbye. She text me/calls me that night but to no avail. 3 texts the next day and no response by me. Finally a few days later she sends me one last text asking how I am doing lol.......


Man I sure do love writing these things, I don't like to hold anything back lol if you guys like this one I will write about the 2nd date I went on next blog. Also since everyone I talk to tells me I need to blog more often I will give 50 dollar freeroll to the first 3 people to quote this part of my blog along with some good first date ideas.



Poker


February was probably my laziest month ever when it comes to poker. I basically took about 15 days off from not playing 1 single hand and worked out/lounged around the pool all day. I must say I felt pretty great and when I did start playing again I did pretty well. I was pretty content with my current living/money situation and didn't really feel like putting in much effort on the tables. When I found out that I would need a new roomate and potentially have to pay more money on my end, I realized it was time to get my ass back in fucking gear and start playing again. I came up with a few prop bets just to get me back in gear. The first one I took action on was being top winner at NL25 for the month. Alot of people asked me why I would do this? I really don't want to take the chance of having a losing month at like nl100/200. At NL25 there is 0 percent chance I can have a losing month there, I also wanted to put in some practice for my potential 10k at NL25 in 1 month prop bet I am looking to do. I also am doing another side challenge where I have to make 100BI at any level PLO for the month.


So far at NL25 this month I am about +550 playing mainly FR with 1 6max session mixed in. The games there are so ridiculous lol. I should win the prop bet I have to be top winner at NL25! I am also like +2BI at PLO for the month so only 98 more to go there


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Thats all I really want to write about for right now, need to go get some sleep and then wake up tomorrow and do it all over again, hopefully I find a roomate

Thanks for reading


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