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Pokerstacks would like to say to LikeASet..."Fuck You"http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/cc4a7.SHIT.jpg

Not even that many hands 6-8 tabling, but it feels like a slap in the face. Sigh when you abuse passive players all day long then they kick you in the nuts with a cooler.

I hate when people river you then they leave...


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I threw a one hitter!!!! For those not familiar with the sport, that's good. Stats: 6 innings, 0 runs given up, 8 strike outs, 2 wAlks. 70 pitches. It would be longer bit this is from my iPod. Gl hf!!!


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bumping

i'll send first in increments

my $1035 for your $1000

EDIT: DONE... TY Gadget


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God I have no idea why I'm about to do this, I can just sense the doomswitch coming.

I've been running super hot in basketball betting so far this season and if you read the previous blog entry even my mistakes have been turning out in my favor. A couple people asked me about my strategy.

I have a simple program that gives me basic probabilities and over/unders based on a rudimentary algorithm. It gives me a starting point and from there, I incorporate my own instincts to make some picks. It surely isn't as scientific as I would want it to be and I plan on spending a lot more time improving the algorithm and putting together a more robust model. Ideally, the system would be working off a lot more math and a lot less of my own gut.

I know people out there have massive databases of information with stuff like referee's foul calling tendencies and they are probably a lot more +EV than I am. However, since I've got a ton of money on a ridiculous number of fantasy basketball leagues and I watch almost every single game anyway, I figured I'm at least marginally +EV, especially since I bet on matchbook where the vig (rake) is much smaller.

I swear, the minute I make my picks public, I'm gonna get doomswitched, but whatever, fuck it. here are my bets for tonight:

miami +105 $380.95 to win $400
memphis -134 $400 to win $298.51
Indiana +222 $180.18 to win $400

under 186.5 (NJ/DET) +102 $196.08 to win $200
Over 209 (Mem/Min) -105 $200 to win $190.48

Risking $1357.21 to win $1488.99

Wish me luck and may my heater continue.


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So I played poker with a couple of friends yesterday.

Some interesting hands

EP Limps MP limps. I Isolate with A9o. Two callers.

(The EP limper is loose/passive I say but in a diff way than MP limper. He is loose generally, but he is had some sweet pots earlier and has built a monster stack...So he is willing to gamble with alott of junk. The MP limper loves to limp and does so with most of his hands...Its hard to put my finger on exactly how loose his range is for limping, nothing too crazy but def v loose)

EP checks. MP bets like $9 into 1.30 pot on AQJ. He only has like $6 behind.

He cant have AQ, AK, QQ, JJ. So the hands that beat me are basically AT(8), AJ(6), QJ(9) KT(16).
I beat 9T(12), Anything below A8(8 each), QT(12), JT(12).

Its pretty close between hands the beat me and hands that I crush//am ahead of...So basically whether the call was correct//not comes down to reads. I still can't really figure out whether the call was good or not.

On the one hand, I have a read on him that he does NOT bet draws aggressively. On the other hand I also have a read that he often likes to slow play the nuts. Ex. I have seen him in a multiway pot where I iso raised with QTss from sb. He limp/flat called with like A3hh from EP. Button flat called as well. Flop was Lowcards//2 hearts. He checked his nut flush draw and when turn heart came he flat called (I bet after I hit a ten I think). Button flat called. Then he value bet river, where I folded.

Whether or not he would take this line with A8 and below, I cannot say.

Also, I have seen him tilt and spew chips when he is losing in a session in the past. (With some stupid calls, Don't remember any particular stupid overbets tho)

I call, and we get the rest in on the turn. (Hiding results)


Hand 2

I raise EP with TT. Caller from the big blind. Flop comes Q53 rainbow 2 spades. I bet for close to pot he calls. Turn comes non spade Ace. He dink leads for like 1/5 of the pot...I feel that he is really weak here, and tbh I dont think he has a Queen. I bet like 2/3 pot. He calls. River is a brick. I Shove what I have left, a pretty decent sized raise.

Anyway this hand was kinda interesting to me cause it raises an interesting question.

On the turn, can I be Bluffing and Value Betting at the same time??

My read on him is that he is bad enough to call with ANY GUTTER and any pocket pair in this spot, which I think he has alot of the time. (Fwiw in the session I raised EP once with AA and KK and he called from blinds with 66 and 55 and he stacked me after hitting a set twice...He was a really short stack both times).

So on the Turn I am value betting against a ton of junk hands. And although his dink bet//body language made me feel he is weak here, its reasonable that he can have queens here. And against Queens, I can bet the Ace, and barrel any decent river to bluff against that part of his range. So on the turn, is it possible to be Value Betting his gutters/pocket pairs and bluffing vs his Queens at the same time??







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It was fun while it lasted...

well not really for me,

off to the slums...


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Anyone want to stake me for the NL stuff during the FTOPs. Will be willing to play as many as I can fit in.. has to include that 2600 dollar buyin 2 day event.

Msg me, thanks.


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idk whatever


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playing some lowerstakes to regain confidence. absolutely teared through some $20's in a small samplesize. standardly nothing goes wrong there. i even hit a royal flush.

at the $30's im also having really good results.

measures i took so far:

1 tabling only. (this always pulled me out of cahs HU downswings.)

i watched some Jackal video's on hu sng's and as all his sng content they are great. i watched some video's from other videomakers on hu sng during my downswing and i think they actually hurt me more then they did me good. i think i adjusted the wrong things from my cash game style.

also getting control on my game back. i start to be able to see where i might have gone wrong. also i think my cash based style caused part of the downswing.

confidence is for 75% regained. the money isn't yet as i only put a toe back into the $50's again yet confidence ----> money



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2009 ended over a month ago but I haven't summarized it yet. I'm well aware of my laziness and being a procrastinator and I didn't really do anything about it during the last year. I got coaching from D_Zoo (we still have one session left) which made me think more while playing but the number of hands I put in (about 160k) was too little of a sample to see any huge improvements (plus I obviously underestimated the knowledge I had been given and didn't use it for long - the reason for this is naturally my lazy nature and ignorance...god I hate myself for that). I made a few attempts to move up in stakes which could have gone a little better but I failed and I'm still a 2/4eur NL regular.
I do regret having played only 160k hands but I don't regret (most of) the things I did when I was not playing. I spent a great deal of time with my friends, which made me realize how awesome they are, I visited many cool places like London and Amsterdam, I finally turned 18 and started playing on accounts registered to my name and I partied a lot due to the super-sweet-18-parties wave - I must have been to at least 30. I definitely grew up as a person but this could have been done without passing on progress in poker.
That's why I'm going to completely change my attitude towards it in 2010. I've already started analyzing my game, watching coaching videos on a daily basis and playing more. I'm about to graduate from high school (I've already had my prom night - pics in the next update) and pass the final exams called 'matura' in Poland. I'm in the middle of my driving course and it's very likely I'll have my first chance to pass the driving test in 2 weeks.
The current year started great by me going to the Bahamas with my cousin (update soon) but I lost some money on that trip which was not so cool. Luckily I had my best day ever (+3,3k eur = $4,5k) and ended down only ~2k eur but that's just because of the money I had withdrawn in January. Oh, I forgot to mention that December 2k9 was the best month I've had so far: +10k eur. I'm going to beat that multiple times in 2010 though .

2009 graph
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Best day ever
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That's it for now; In the next post I'll write a brief report from the PCA. Stay tuned !!

Best of luck to all of the poker players,

Mike


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bankroll just got pooped on but its np, I'm going to have hardcore beautiful grinding ahead of me for the next couple months (except for weekend partying), cuz I'm staying in chang mai for atleast 2 more months O_O

How things go poker-wise will determine if I make it to vegas.. but I think I will be able to make some good things happen so long as my place has solid internet.

So here's to chang mai

/quick update


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Flying back to America tomorrow for a week or so I can't fucking wait because I miss the homeland way too much. Small update because I just wanted to share some garphs, and to also announce my plan to bink an FTOPS this coming season oh baby

Today's session: I don't know, maybe I'm just destined to be even or lose 1200 today, such a fitting cycle today:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/fdgfdfd.png

The month so far has been going well, I was up a lot previously but I guess the heater just evened itself out.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/020610.png

GL everyone


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is what happened at a party i went to tonight

you may or may not recall i once blogged about someone getting stabbed at a party i was at. well, it happened again tonight. so 2 of the last 3 parties ended in stabbings

my city has been in the news about violence 3 times this week... random shooting near my house, city worker gets jumped by like 30+ high school kids, and now this.

what makes me disappointed is not how bad the city is turning, but because i was about to get some. as in, girl on me, says brb gotta get something, right after she leaves the room the music cuts and the dj is like "yall gotta leave, the party is over" and this crazy yitch comes out the cuts screaming WHO THE FUCK WOULD BRING A KNIFE TO A PARTY

anyways. today is LE SIGH


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Recently have not been spending near enough time around poker. Current in a prop bet w/ gororok for winrate and am getting RAPED. Anyway been some ppl complaining bout running bad and doing bad etc recently so figuring I would offer my services to help get me more involved w/ poker. Not offering myself as a coach (i am not near qualified or know enough to be a good coach) but if anyone wants to send me hand histories with questions or if you wanna do some sweat sessions sometime for free (me sweating u or u sweating me, don't care which) PM me ur aim or msn. For a graph of me or what stakes just PTR uberpwnage314


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(For the fellow strugglers)

Going from slight winner last year, doomswitched towards the end, transitioning into the new year becoming break even player with rake and then becoming a losing player even though I'm learning more and more about poker. Obviously I got a millions of leaks still to plug and issues to get over but fuck, I really want to start winning again badly...

Shitty Dec, Jan, and Feb is starting to turn out the same way. Isolating fish 10000 times a day and not flopping anything lately, plus the other usual stuff when people say "they run bad."

Tomorrow's a new day. Just gotta work harder and keep an eye out for the mistakes i guess.

Got some rage issues too, gotta find a way to calm myself down in some spots.

Nanonoko, Exhilarate, Northface,

send me your powers



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Good evening, LP.

Been alot of whine blogs and very little updates, so I've been thinking for a while about posting my recent results but either got too lazy or too busy. Finally found an excuse as I've just final tabled a small 2.5k tournament for which the prize purse was roughly 4k~. Led in the chips at some point, after a terrible first hour, losing half of my stack twice when getting in with the best hand. Managed to make it into the bubble as the 3rd smallest stack (top 100 paid) and then doubled up twice to put myself right back in the middle of the pack and work my way up to the final table. Busted 3rd for roughly 530$ CAD (363 Euros) after turning a straight vs two pairs and playing it slow but not folding to a re-shove when his two pairs became a boat on the river. Sucks that I was so close to shipping the whole thing but still sick happy as this cash more than doubles my roll I'm a NL10 player and am now sitting on 30BI for NL20. Not gonna move up yet as I've only recently moved from NL4 to NL10 and still moved down when losing a few BI at NL10 (shits so random). Somehow, I run an amazing 40bb/100 at NL4, but an abyssimal 8bb/100 on NL10, although I am on a small sample. I'll probably take a few shots on NL20 anyways and test the waters a bit

mandatory tournament screenie
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f0ce1.tlobby.JPG

Bankroll: Before-After
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/36a81.br1.JPG
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/eeb15.br2.JPG

Graph from my db since I moved to current site, 16k hands in about a month =/ Gotta kick up the volume but things have been nice.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2f7ad.cggraph.JPG


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pm me if interested

i send first to long-term posters


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OY*(#&@T^UIDGHIOPUWH ECOPIUGEUILHNLRJHiop; fucking pain in the ass*@#^WYGHHJKLHNSDJKLADBHLSJKADHJKASHD:KLASD
omahaaddon plus reformat 2 desktops plus new serials aIOYOPUDHKL:JHNC P@#O*E$(#YNIO PN IJFKL:DSJF:KL M F FD


plus how the hell does one move the postgres install to a different drive than c/prog folders, the reason i bought a hd is to not mix it with os then hem just fucking sneaky installs it without even asking where i wanna put it. fml


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