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2010 has come :
New Year - NOT Same Shit
Have to motivate myself to start grinding since im spending way too much these days.Dont know how im gonna do it but i always find a way.
I d wish things go my way this year as i dont feel like anything has gone my way last couple of years, but whatever i guess i should stay positive about everything and things ll get there eventually.Gotta say so far the year has been pretty good
Poker-wise year has started good euro/hr-wise so that has to be good eh ? Still i have like 5hrs played overally
Im not gonna set any precise goals since i find this pretty useless as i write most of them just coz they look like something good to do but i never find the right motivation for them.
So what im gonna set as a goal is to pursue to the end and hopefully reach all my real goals this year.


cliffnotes :
read you lazy bastard


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FU STARS
Yeah, fudge you mofos. The PS Sale gave me a strong reason to multitable again.
I made my SN requirement of 7500 VPP in 14 days while playing 1 hr during weekdays and full weekends.

But who am I kidding, I can't keep multitabling when I have a full-time job... there simply never is the energy to sustain it. Needless to say, I have a break even month and I managed to wipe out all my 5BB/100 winnings from 4 tabling and 1BB/100 when 9+ tabling during 3 hypertilt sessions, -6 to8 BI each.

I have FPPs I need to buy what I want and I already have SN threshold for this month... I ban myself from playing anything else than 4 tables for the rest of the month, and then I can only multitable when my SN is in trouble. And what if I feel bored? I will simply move up up to 200NL, or not play at all.

I will make 7BI at NL50, then take shots at NL100 and NL200 if it goes well. I can push it real hard as long as I keep returning to NL50 at $5k.


POKER PRO
I bought Tommy Angelo's book, but I have to say its less enjoyable than Ace on the river, and Tommy's series on DC, because it lacks continuity and is just a bunch of advice, without the awesome music.
It has some epic passages though, lets see one of them:


[...]When a professional poker player runs out of money, it's not a shame. It's just part of the game.
The shame is if you get calling to spread your wings and fly, and you approach the cliff, but then you back away, and from then on you wonder what it would be like to soar the wind, even for a little while, even if all you did was flail around aimlessly and crash.
Think of all the people who have set their sights on being a professional football player, or sculptor, or any other challenging career that comes wrapped in pain. Think of how many of them have 'failed' or 'came up short' or 'didn't make it'. Were those people wrong to be blinded by their passion? Were they wrong to chase a dream? Is it better to have jumped and crashed than to never have jumped at all?


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Its not possible for you to find out if you 'have what it takes' to go jobless and make living out of poker, except by quitting your job. You've been a poker pro for a while now, and you're being tested like never before. You're having the worst losing streak of your life by far. You bankroll is at all-time low. You're stressed most of the time and depressed the rest. Your closest relationships are either not as close as you want them, or too close. Your health is, well, its's all over the place, because you are.

But you love it anyway, goddamn you really do! You'd do it all again, even though now everything is totally fucked. You've had so many, many soaring times these last few years, just free, on the breeze. Waking up with not much, but plenty. Playing the game like the greatest player you have ever been. Stunning not just them but even yourself. New discoveries. New people. New places. New new new. What's next ? Who knows. Who cares. Who knew you could be so hungry and so happy at the same time?
Those thoughts fade, replaced by what's real. You're not soaring right now, You're spiralling.

Looking into the future, do you think you can predict how you will feel when shits hits the muck? What you'll do? Do you think you can predict what the world will look like to you then, as you look at it from behind a paycheck now? Do you really think you know which cards are coming?

Here's a catch 22 that has caught many. You can't play enough hours to get good enough at poker to be a pro unless you quit your job. And you can't afford to quit your job until you are not good enough to be a pro.
If only that dang job wasn't in the way, you'd have the freedom to really work on your game by playing whenever you want to and quitting whenever you want to and just bearing down on it, week after week, month after month. But if you had hat kind of freedom, you'd really be a pro.

To become a good enough at playing poker to make a living playing poker requires a tremendous amount of poker playing, poker thinking, poker talking, listening, reading, and writing. There isn't quite enough time in a normal life to hold down a normal job, maintain normal relationships, and be a poker monster.


Cliffnotes for lazy Eastern Europeans
- You can't go pro unless your quit your job.
- Is it better to fly and crash or not to fly at all?
- Although poker is cruel and a whore at times, only few that actually went for it 100% wish they'd never tried to give it their best


Personal notes to the above

Being a poker pro is awesome. Its so awesome its hard to grasp for me. I never really had the knowledge and didn't know why am I doing things until about 2 months ago. I never had time to play by then - only in the afternoons and on the weekends.

The problem with that is that you have a very limited time to play poker. So you play, you don't quit and you don't study, and whats maybe even more important - you don't think about poker when you try to be the best/do your maximum at your job.

Then the 14 days break came during the Christmas. Boy that was awesome... All I did was think about poker, live poker and breathe poker.
I could quit whenever I wanted, do something else BECAUSE OF POKER - Its very important that you relax properly and I just took my GF to a cinema or for a dinner for that reason, or I simply went to gym after reading an article and having it on my blackberry and reviewed it on a treadmill.
I watched 3-4 videos per day and I 4 tabled only, and I played when I felt like it. Huge fish keeps rebuying? Cool, I don't go to sleep tonight. I don't feel 100% ok? Sweet, lets do something fun that will make me feel better, I have all the time I need for playing.
I would just do whatever and I always got these random cravings for the game. I felt fresh and full of energy, I put in an hour here, an hour there, and it always came to 6+ on average per day.


I am now very strongly decided - I will finish my placement, I will try to get by by playing part-time during my last year of university starting September, and then, if I still feel my passion for the game, nothing will stop me from giving it 100% no matter what.





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just played 10 4man HUsngs. lost this: + Show Spoiler +

and another one, and won the other 8.

8/10 4man HUsngs, 22bi profit in one hour. i feel like a monster. im good at HU. im happy. thats all.

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after running around 21/18-19 for xxx k hands over 2 years i seem to nit my game up.. atm im at 17,8/14,3 over 15k hands at nl25 sh

seems to work out well tho


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Ok so out of 4 different exams I took last week I'm fairly sure I aced one, passed on, probably past a third and fucked up a forth. For the last one I just tried to read stuff that looked important (was like +800 pages of stuff for it, and considering all the other stuff I had to pick and choose) and picked the wrong stuff.

Started watching a fair bit of ”Black books” which is a great TV-show, mostly thanks to this guy:



It's awesome! I really love the show which is kind of ironic since I try not to drink much anymore. Probably going to give up everything except maybe wine (but only with food) and whiskey, which is God's gift to to Irish and Scottish, and co-incidently the most awesome thing made on those otherwise God-forsaken islands. Dunno how long I'll hold to that but whatever, trying to get in shape. Hoping to lose 15ish pounds or so before the summer. Will be doing BJJ or Thaiboxing 5 days a week which is really awesome and I'm eating super healthy right now. The interesting part is if I can keep it up...

Anyway, here's a clip from that show:



Other then that I had the first lecture on my economics class today, and man, those student are stupid. At least the ones tries to answer questions. My roomie said some stuff I've made fun of him for all day and he was probably the least retarded as far as statements goes. The teacher tried used an example that was clearly to show one specific point he'd talked about for 10 minutes and the next 15 minutes are spent listening to retard ass students who starts a sentence with; ”But if...” and tries to change the example just to show fuck all. I've said my fair share of stupid crap in law school, and heard even worse, but if someone tried to pull that crap there I'm fairly sure the teacher would just ask him to either shut up or leave. At least most of them.

Poker's going decent, not really taking off but I'll probably have a solidish month. Lot's of swings though so can't say for certain. Omaha is a cruel game but I'm getting the hang of it, or at least some of it. It's ridiculous how fast I learn, mostly because I (like almost everyone else) suck something horrid at it to begin with.

Also I'm like halfway sure that some girl I'm getting to know either is a ghost or has like a secret identity to protect her from crazy stalkers. I will update if I encounter ninjas.

Happiness rating: 7.4.


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http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8928/88730879.jpg

Needed that. Gotta shell out 3k to various people because they are full of fail and are basically fucked without me. last time im doin shit like this. feel like im gettin taken advantage of but its family and thats what they'd do for me. right? right?

assholes


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Sigh. I just ended my session running 6 buy ins below EV sitting to the left of some of the biggest fishes ever. Felt like nothing was working and I just tilted near the end of the session because of it, so obviously I decided to stop.

Like this punk trying to give me a full buy in with K high...
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I thought he'd stack with any 6x there and apparently he's cool stacking with worse. :/

Regardless of this session, the month has been pretty good. I should be putting in more hands, but I've also been working so sometimes it's hard to grind when I know I'll just be playing my C game tired instead of resting and playing better later.

My bankroll is at 310 (it was 360 earlier ) and I'll start taking occasional NL25 shots around 475-500. For right now I'm gonna exercise, take a break and then come back in like 45 min to grind some NL5 to get my confidence back. I know that soon I'll need to hire a coach or get a strong player to sweat me because I feel unconfident in my game... I'm trying to play ABC but also think creatively at the same time... but there's clearly spots where I'm not playing optimally and I know I'm not thinking about every hand correctly. Honestly I kind of feel like I've just been running good recently.. which is why I know I need a coach or strong winning player to sweat me.

Anyways, here's the graphs...
Today's session NL10:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/cc990.gayness.png
Around hand 1600 I was all "sweet I'm coming back!" :/


This month:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/e4960.month.png


Stats:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/cccd0.untitled.PNG

Anyways, that's it for now .


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/84515.fps and run bad.jpg

I love running 4 bi below ev and then trying to get fancy at 25nl at the same time.

Oh well. pause, breathe, realign, continue.


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Everything has gone quite smoothly so far, though on the 2nd night I was here my uncle and I were chillin on the sidewalk drinking some beers at 4am when a street fight erupts 10 foot away! These fucking crazy thais are brawling, knocking over 4 street vendor carts and 3 motorbikes. They fall onto my uncle and I and our little plastic chairs just collapse, and one of those little thai palms half squished my right nut GOD DAMN IT. Luckily, I was running a pretty good buzz so the pain was dulled, and as of now I'm completely recovered from this dramatic incident.

Also, I should probably see some actual historical stuff soon. Baby steps.



ps brett, I still have no idea where I'm going to be when you arrive..will keep u posted.

pps I'm sporadicly using lan-cafe computers, so no one do any xfers with me or anything until feb 15th or unless you know me well and we can confirm somehow. just a warning


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So I'm only a few NL10 BI's away from being rolled for NL25. Are there any tips you guys have for moving up? I know there's a lot more regs in NL25. I'm gonna prob play 9-max for 4 or 5 buy-ins to see how it is.


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Sorry for two blog entries in the same day, but I had a good NL100 session (this being my 5th shot at NL100 so I'm pretty happy that I'm finally doing well, at least so far) and I needed to put up the world blogger logo anyway. I ran really hot, managed to stack 4 players in 3 pots, all at the same table, in less than 10 hands (I don't think I even played the hands too optimally). Ended up sitting at the table with 5BI :-). I know this is nothing extraordinary, but it made me feel good. Finished the session with a solid 4BI.

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i feel stars giving out shitty vpp rates for micro/lowstakes fr players are having a negative effect on the games lately. i have played a lot of tables wehre people are just so super super tight thus giving vpps shit value. i used to get .20 per hand 50nl and around .10 at 25nl, now its like .12 for 50 and .08 for 25nl which is ridiculous. benefits will only be felt after a fucking year of playing this shit lol. i hope i can find another site to play at but all this shadiness in online sites is kinda risky.
that or switch to 6max or god forbid....PLOL haha

check out this jap 60's horror classic, great horror flic even now



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I'm just a lowly silverstar right now playing NL25 putting in less than 20k hands per month, but I'm going to try and start putting in a lot more volume and never play out of my BR or in games that games that I'm not good at (sngs lol). I'm going to try and work on areas of my game that are def weak, which include bluffing, barreling, image awareness, getting thinner value, squeezing, bluff catching more, and tilting. Also staying focused and being aware of what is happening in hands, since I usually just afk autopilot through hands like i'm macroing in starcraft or something, often forgetting who the PFR was, if the pot is multiway, or if there is a shortstack in the hand or something.

Lately I have just been playing very mechanically and just putting in the minimum effort needed to eek out a mediocre winrate by just eating up fish and playing a very vanilla game vs regulars (3 betting light in obv spots, cbetting in good boards, raising cbets in obv spots), never really getting out of line or ever pushing the envelope. I often take lines that are safe and easy to play, even when I know I am sacrificing EV. For example; a reg opens UTG, and I'm in the UTG+1 with AA, instead of flatting I just 3 bet, knowing that it's so obvious I have KK+ here since I am ridic unbalanced in spots like this, but not caring because it is ridiculously easy to play AA in a 3 bet pot and I don't feel like dealing with sets and crap. I barely even use my HUD anymore since I'm just following a simple strategy I've made myself that produces winning, although weak results. I did the same thing when I played SC, just blindly used a conservative BO for every MU with zero adaptation or innovation, but who needs strategy when you have over 200 apm and way better mechanics than others at your level. I'll never get past the C ranks playing like this, but w/e I can beat most of my friends and win 90% of obs games on US east, so I really have no drive to get better than this. I mean, I'm playing 16 tables while I type this, probably unknowingly playing HU on a few of them and missing tons of +EV spots, but who gives a fuck, I'm up 3 BI because people throw money at you at microstakes like people throw games at you at the D rank on iccup.

Hopefully making myself achieve supernova at NL25 and below will help me develop a decent work ethic so I can start making decent progress. Money is a good motivator, but I think MORE money + fun is an even better one


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so old but so gooood


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last 4-5 days ive been averaging about 50 bux with rakeback but mainly its becuz i was trying to incorporate 3b light and 4b light to my play. at first it was a bit shaky but i think i got the hang of it and know what particular spots to use those betting as well as squeezing. but ne wayz heres the graph.

http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac245/flushaa/117111.png

http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac245/flushaa/11710.png

i think im running hot so hope it keeps going.

anyways a hand question. is this a bad spot to 4b bluff? this guy is 20/17 and 3b/11 over 438 hands and hes been 3b me a lot on this table so i thought of tightening up or trying 4b bluffs, trying to figure out when to use it ^^. my stats are 26/15 so is this bad or is it ok to do? and is my betting size right for 4b bluff?

Stage #1858332062: Holdem No Limit $0.25 - 2010-01-17 13:23:22 (ET)
Table: OAKLAND (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - SEZAMOS ($35.40 in chips)
Seat 6 - HERO ($24.40 in chips)
Seat 1 - CH3RU ($24.35 in chips)
Seat 2 - MORITZZ ($33.34 in chips)
Seat 3 - SUICIDERYLTY ($36.05 in chips)
Seat 4 - WISLAKRAKOW ($6.36 in chips)
HERO - Posts small blind $0.10
CH3RU - Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Js 10s]
MORITZZ - Folds
SUICIDERYLTY - Folds
WISLAKRAKOW - Folds
SEZAMOS - Folds
HERO - Raises $0.90 to $1
CH3RU - Raises $3 to $3.25
HERO - Raises $7 to $8
CH3RU - All-In(Raise) $21.10 to $24.35
HERO - Folds
CH3RU - returned ($16.35) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
CH3RU - Does not show
CH3RU Collects $16 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($16)
Seat 1: CH3RU (big blind) collected Total ($16) All-In
Seat 2: MORITZZ Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: SUICIDERYLTY Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 4: WISLAKRAKOW Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 5: SEZAMOS (dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 6: HERO (small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS



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