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Hey guys,
i just decided to start blogging here after lurking around for some months and posting from time to time in the low stakes forum. First of all i guess it's good to introduce myself to you.
I'm 20 years old and living in beautiful switzerland I'm studying medicine and swimming a lot to keep myself in shape. I just had my exams last week so i can finally put some real effort into poker. I started playing NL2 on stars like 3 months ago with a deposit of 50$. Meanwhile i'm playing NL10 and just took some shots at NL25 (it really is unbeatable ).

Well, what else can i say ? I guess my biggest leaks right now are being to aggressive with TPGK and not being able to fold straights/sets if they are obviously no longer goodand maybe i'm chasing flushdraws too much. But hell, what do i know, I'm just a bit tilted after losing 4 BI's at NL25 with set over set and a suckout !

guess thats it. gl to all of you !

P.S. on NL2-Nl10 i had a more or less breakeven redline and was winning at about 6bb/100 but since i started playing NL25 (about 8k hands) my redline is skyrocketing but i'm losing money at a rate of almost 6bb/100 since my showdowns are total crap i didnt change my game unless betting a bit bigger (2/3 pot instead 1/2 pot) if the board is somehow wet and i have like TP. Can this have such an influence? or am i over-analysing ? or not enough? damn, i just shut up now and get back at the tables


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Yeah. I can't just be flooding threads with my ramblings for review purposes. So i decided to kinda copy mariuslol and write any notes I have that I would like to hear feedback from in my blog. Of course, any interesting hands I think are thread worthy or that I really want feedback on I will just post of course.

But if I can get feedback on stuff in my blog, thatd be awesome too.


I think a big part of poker is reviewing your hands effectively // ranging based on reads. The two are inter-related I think. Problem is I have for many reasons, taken half assed approach to hand review. And so this is my attempt to work on that part of poker.


This hand is a hypothetical one from a thread i was reading...But I wanted to try to work on ranging it nonetheless for the reasons mentioned.


6 Max game, you are on the button. MP raises and you 3bet. He calls. 100bb stacks.

Lets say he is a 20/18 player that has a fold to 3bet of like 60%

Flop comes KT4 dd.

He checks. You bet 2/3. He calls.

Turn - Bet is better than check I am assuming? I would assume this because he can't have all too many Kings here, and theres probably more draws than made hands. Its just that I can't be compeletely confident because I am not sure what his 3bet calling range is here. How often does he show up with KJs and KTs here? What about offsuit? Do you put 44 in his range?

How many suited connectors // Ax suited type of hands can he have. I thought a decent estimate be a 56s - QJs and A5s-AJs... But what frequency do you think is an accurate estimate to apply to these type of hands? 50%? 25%?

And over a large sample, What type of fold to 3bet% would indicate he calls with suited one gappers?

Draws : 56s-QJs, A5s-AJs
Small Pairs : 55-99
TP : AK(How often??), KQ, KJs
Monsters : KTs, TT, 44, AK

In terms of the turn play...Lets say your reads on the opponent were that he seems the be aggressive with his strong draws, passive with his weaker ones.

you dont have any reads on how he plays his monsters vs TP type of hands.

Of his draws, how strong of a draw do you assume the opponent check/raises the flop with versus hands that he flat calls?

Do you assume he check raises with KQ, AK, KTs, TT, 44 the flop close to 100%? If this is read dependent, what type of read do you look for to know how this works?

Anyway I guess the moral of the story is bet turn is better than check turn cause his monsters and Kings are few and he can have JJ, and a ton of draws.





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this month has been pretty good. made about 2200 from playing nl25 and nl50. would post a graph but i stopped using pt3 and started using holdem manager recently so the graphs are kind of small samples. anywayz hope to boost the profit up higher in feb.


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I need somone who is good at excel to help me with a spread sheet.
I am totatly clueless and need help.

The formulas are probaly very simple, if I took some time I could probably figure it out too.

But I am too lazy, and therefore willing to pay someone to do it instead.


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ended up making about 500 or so playing nl2 nl5 and nl10. lost a couple hundred playing nl25. no graphs because i played a lot on my netbook.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate school


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Hi guys i programmed a game and i would like suggestion on how to make it more strategic.

this is a turn based game between white and black. white plays first, but starts with 54$ instead of black's 58$+3 (income when starting his turn).

The objective of the game is completly destroying opponement's wall.

There is 5 unit types:
#1 women (2$). This is what determines the number of people you can make each turns. The turn you make her, shes not active yet. For example if you start your turn with 4 womens, you can make 4 units.

#2 Peasant (4$). This is what determines your income. Every time you begin your turn, you get X$, which is the number of peasants you own.

#3 Wall (1$). This does not require womens to build

#4 Archer (5$). Explained below

#5 warrior (2$): These are what is used to attack. there is 2 attack options:
Fight: All your warriors will sacrifice themself against the wall. for each one of your warriors, one ennemy wall is destroyed, but you loose all of your warriors.
Hit and run: Your warriors will initially be killed by ennemy archers, but the survivors will destroy one wall each and run away. for example, if you have 10 warriors and ennemy has 3 archers, you will loose 3 warriors but you will destroy 7 of ennemy's wall.

When the game starts, everyone starts with 3 paysant, 3 women, and 10 wall.


The problem is that the game lacks strategy. its all about making sure its -EV for the ennemy to attack you by having enough wall/archer and making lots of peasants....
SO the game between good players usually last for a long time until someone clearly has way more peasants and eventually win

Note: i programmed a computer for it... it plays ok. if anyone wants to test it you can pm... however its not really that hard to beat whitout handicaps


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Not so bad... Could do better !
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/889/sanstitrejw.jpg
Peace !


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have been swingy and wierd

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f6f8453027e2be96b303a06059dd8376.jpg

the plan is to fix supernova by the 10th february, will be np aslong as i grind 8 hours/day.

and after that i "only" need to clear the 28k VPP 4000$ bonus and i'll be done.

after that i will start taking it chill w less tables and try to play more 1/2


gllllllllz0r


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pokerwise, January wasn't that great; but I had a lot of fun!

My parents came to visit me in Bangkok for 4 nights and then my parents, my gf and me flew down south to an island called "Koh Samet" for 3 days.

: google images: http://images.google.co.th/images?rlz...oup&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCsQsAQwAw

facebook pics:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4516838&l=948f5cf4c0&id=671035228

Then just as my parents flew to India my brother came to visit me and basically did the same thing for a week (taking him around bangkok then going to Koh Samet.

I basically only put in around 115 hours of poker, mixture of $6.5 and $16 18 mans. Around 15 hours less than I had planned


http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/fbfae.DisplayGraph.png_jan.png


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/61350.EV.png

$1087 + $857 (FTP RB, PS bonuses, etc) = $1944


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Hey guys,
So January was my first month played almost entirely at $1/$2, and I managed to achieve some impressive results. After almost 100k hands there I can say that I think I'm a long-term winner there, and have no plans to move down any time soon I was away for 10 days in January, so hopefully I can put in more hands in February and catch up to SNE pace.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/e393d.jan stats.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/ecd9c.jan.jpg

That's it for now,
goodluck everyone in February,
Dean




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http://api.ning.com/files/p5H7N8Ot6oN...GgOJE*-DnnQeiGcF6OB7OJ0rJ4/LOLCAT.jpg

See? No lie, here is my January

This is becoming a pattern... I started January 12+tabling because of the PS Sale, and ended the month with a loss of $200, taking me to break even with RB. I was tired almost always when playing poker and I stopped enjoying it at the end. I shall not multitable, stars are just evil.

I have also bought a 'Secrets of 100% healthy people' book and found out that I have seriously imbalanced blood sugar levels (The symptoms of which are weight gain, waking up tired, being tired in the afternoon and need for caffeine or something sweet after meals).
I will try out the low GL diet recommended in the book, its seems very simple and very realistic. Unfortunately that also means cutting caffeine completely - god help me.

One of the patterns of healthy people was also spirituality (mind over body baby -.-), and this coincidentally intersects what Tommy Angelo was advising for poker players. Apparently the chemical reactions triggered by bad feelings get stored in your brain and recalled when the situation repeats. Makes a lot of sense with when you look at kids not burdened by negative emotions at all and then you look at the angry grandma on the bus - the negative emotional stuff just keeps adding up and often prevents rationality.

So I booked me and my girlfriend for a 5 hour introductory session to meditation next Saturday, should be fun.


Februrary goals:
Go ahead with the low GL diet, Play 4 tables at least 50% of the time, 6 tables the rest and I am allowed to masstable only in last 5 days if my SN will be in trouble. Get some sweat sessions going again. No monetary goals.

Long term goal remains the same: $10k BR by the beginning of September,$20/hour winrate, be physically and emotionally fit to play 7-10 hour sessions with 5-10 minute breaks on a regular basis 4 days per week while studying 3 days per week for 9 hours each day.


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Unstructured post today. Turned 21 yesterday, grinded out the last bit of VPP til silverstar, and went on a spiraling downswing. A quick analysis of my losing hands tells me that I am willing to call raises on the flop a bit too easily. Talk about doomswitch :D. I will start over with a clear mind in february. Anyway, graphs:

January
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/ce8a5.january2010.gif

Overall
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/48928.january2010overall.gif


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is a month


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Looks like I'm ending January about even.

[x] Make $40 playing SNGs exclusively
[x] More volume - 2 hours a day minimum*
[ ] Place in the money in a large tournament (1000+)
[ ] Win 1 or more live SNGs at the local charity games (130 payout, 30 buyin)

Didn't get a chance to play any of the live SNGs in January because of schedule conflicts, missed the money on a big tournament (2k payout to 1st) by like 5 people or so. I like the volume I've been putting in but I have to put more effort on reads into my sessions and stop making donkey calls when I have a hunch I'm beat.

February goals...

[ ] Build BR to $100.
[ ] Develop higher level of proficiency at PLO by playing PLO almost exclusively.

I'm keeping away from the tournament scene because I feel I play much better in cash game scenarios. A lot of the money I've lost in order to break even has been buyins to SNGs, where I just don't feel comfortable playing marginal hands and somehow always found myself shortstacked. I only lost 1 HU when I made it that far, but I'm definitely sticking to cash.

gl at the tables lp


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Swingy redline as usual especially when it comes from nl5 nl10
Started out badly with kinda loose agressive stats until the end where i nittied it up a bit. :/
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Like any good rollercoaster, started by jumping up a quick 10k, bad sessions left me at -15k, shot back up to +4k or so and finished off down $2,500 or something silly. So breakeven from October until now it seems. Hopefully the wheels haven't fallen off completely and I can make something happen in the next few months.


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Does anyone have any experience with a Camtasia-esque program for Mac OSX, preferably a free one? I'm looking to record my sessions so I can go back and analyze them very easily and a program of this nature will not only allow me to do that, but also to potentially upload them with commentary and hope to get feedback. Thanks.


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