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Hello every1 on lp, my name is jesus cuellar, im a mexican and a reg in the latin version of lp. i dont post comments or hands here but i usually read a blog, article, interviews, etc before starting a poker session. i´ve been telling myself to be more involved in the international version of lp so my game would improve and i decided to start this by making a blog

Actually i play nl5, passed thru nl2 winning about 20bis, then i won a donkament for about 250 usd, then passed thru nl5 winning about 12 bis.. i was still overrolled because of the tourney, decided to move from stars to ipoker and clear some bills, that left my br in about 210 usd and decided to move up to nl10(maybe worst decision i could make because im kinda scared money and like being a br nit, makes me feel secure).

I was coolered and batbeated time after time after time, entered a -8bis downswing with my ev only on -3bis... back to nl5 (actually 4) still on ipoker. i still have 210usd of br since i have a bonus in ipoker so im actually kind of even. im up only 3bis on nl4 (still buying in with 5usd).

When would you consider it is ok for some1 like me to move up to the next limit? ive read a lot of br management strategies and articles, but still would like lp guise who have passed through this to tell me their opinion

tl;dr im dumping graphs and stats gimme ur advice
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Stars nl2 fullring
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/a16ba.nl2 pokerstars.jpg

Stars nl5 6max
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0017c.nl5 pokerstars.jpg

Stars stats
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/dd065.stats stars.jpg

Ipoker nl10 6max
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/554f4.nl10 ipoker.jpg

Ipoker nl4 6max
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/04bd0.nl4 ipoker.jpg
(sidenote on this1... today i was badbeated for a 400bbs pot =(, and the rest of the downswing is spew and tilt)

Ipoker stats (both limits shorthanded 6 max)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/67770.ipoker stats.jpg
i would like special help on nl10, eventough my ev is not as bad as the actual graph it is still down, and noticed i have a huge postflop leak when looking at my red line

ill start posting interesting hands and comments on lp international

gl every1 and gogogo


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Struggled to win a hand all day today, 'n I have a lil bit of spew going on too. I didn't have any trouble playing a lot atleast.. 5k hands today. I have decided to take a different approach and instead of having a minimum daily hand requirement I will have a daily hand cap and goal for a while. for now Its at 5k.. lets see how much I play tomorrow.

I somehow managed to lose 10 buyins in nonshowdown in 5k hands today. Luckily only down 180bb though. I don't even know or care about wtf is going on atm.. just going to grind and try not to be tilted until I'm feeling better about things I guess. Just have to be careful not to bust or w/e haha

my glorious month
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/60157.bleh13khands.jpg


going to go play some videogames now I guess :O


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Got a friend who wants to sell the 1m playchips hes grinded to try and start his bankroll, anyone want them?

write here or PM me


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want to move 125$ from FTP.I will send first to known members.


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Back to reality - my job started again.

Was really tired at work today, so I pumped up on caffeine at the end.
So I come home all mentally tired but speeded up at the same time, like a monkey on ecstasy.
Should have seen it coming, on the positive side I quit after 300 hands and not after 4k as usual when I hypertilt ;D

It was soo easy and so much fun over the holidays to just grind it up with a huge winrate when poker was all I was doing (While I had a breakeven month I made $2k in 10 days during the Christmas holidays while still running -ev lol).
I envy you poker pros so much for gods sake!

The usual boring stuff:
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Well, thank god I play with 100 BIs.


FIX: Rewatch Poker Enlightenment. I will not play until I have seen all 8 hours again. Think I have to watch it every month and I already ordered the book, as I am lazy to remember to do the couple things Tommy asked me to do in it.


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hello everyone my name is Eric,i'm from France,i'm a regular on nl 100 on stars and FTP

i created this blog to keep track on my progress,i will try to update at least 2 times

a week,i will post hands and ask for advices,i will try to bring also something to

comunity.

If someone is interested to talk poker let me know.

thnaks for reading and gl to all



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awful start, im gunna grind the 27s like crazy try and claw back some of the deficit! was hoping for a $75k year will be a struggle(i play sit n goes and mtts atm). reposting these videos cos they are awesome.







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its 5am and I can't sleep so I decided to hop on and play some 5/10 HU needless to say it didn't go so well and I proceeded to lose every pot though most of it was tilt/spew

school in like 3 hours tho so I can look foward to that lol

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need to move back from FTP to PS.will send first to known members


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need to move back from FTP to PS.


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Okay, so 2009 was my first year of serious poker. I made around 10k profit and went up to almost nl100 ish times before tilting hard in November and not playing in December.

I sadly lost 500 in Vegas on New Years =(.

But overall, my first year in poker has gone by really well. I feel like I understand a lot of hand ranges, and I can totally feel like I can crush nl50 and play nl100 well.

I started the staking + coaching deal, and so far the coach has been really helpful =). I def. learned a lot and I'm definitely a lot more fearless than before.

Here is January so far and hopefully I'll put in a good amount of hands in the future as well.

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take take take it


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do you think this is just a downswing?

or result change in play?

I switched to looser style...14/11, 13/11, 12/9, 12/10 past few sessions...up from 11/7. This is when the downswing started.

Or am I just getting unlucky?



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damn tilt heads up games fockkk dropped so many buy ins and killed my roll by 20%. i dont even know how i even got to that point or why i started to play heads up higher stakes. i only lost one buy in from 50NL and a buyin from 25NL and then i just went berzerk fockk and just started to play 100NL and 200NL hu =/ but got some of it back by playin nl25 and by some i mean like not much FMLLLL


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so i was just thinking.

Being a rebel turns you into an old fart that is grumpy and tells off the kids/teenagers/young adults how they are stupid. And how back in the days everything was real, had more meaning, was more serious and real problems were solved properly. Not the silly ways theyr are solved now.

This i arrived to by thinking: What do rebels like to do?

Well, they like to rebel against stuff. So this mentality is practiced by rebelling against new policies introduced by the governments (which is usually not a bad thing cos governments are dicks and want to abuse population). Then they start to rebel against new ideas put in by philosophers which do not agree with their early life knowledge, understanding and prejudices. They rebel against new technology developed etc etc etc.

So by the time you reach like 60-80 you begin to rebel against anything new and therefore becoming and old fart that complains about everything.


anyhoo cheers





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decided to play some omaha today. was obsing a friend play and there were a couple of complete retards just spewing like crazy, calling 3b's oop with garbage etc. i quickly logged on and sat at all of their tables. now i'm not omaha expert, but i was 99% sure i was better than these guys as long as i was getting the $ in dominating their draws, etc.

ran into quads twice, and then everything went downhill from there.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/13de7.lawl.jpg

good start to january.

made a nice lil note on my clean new whiteboard

"no more omaha"


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-10bi in 437 hands

KK vs aa twice AA vs KK on Khi board once etc

realized I have 1k less than I thought in my extremely meager bank account, had to spend $515 on glasses/contacts today, and my roll is down to 4k

so easily life crushed I am


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Here's part 2 of my notes from Tommy Angelo


Right Thinking

position
anticipation
door A door B
reciprocality
the rake
the rules
lopping off the C game

(play when ur most awake, most energtic, don't eat a big meal so on).

"Losing less is a form of winning."

Examples of C game: Playing too many hands
(Become aware that ur in C game, ignore all D rank hands.)
Find out where your bars are, and remember them when you feel on ur c game. And never go below.


door A door B (applies to any betting decisions).

Always have 2 options, betting or checking, not saying one is better, but you always wanna be looking, which one is better.

- Have the concept of seeing everything as a choice. (You have an option)

- Look for every little bit of edges you can find (site, table selection, rake deals so forth).


Position

- "There's really only two positions. There's last, and non-last."

(Like,4 way multiway, 2nd to last isn't in position).

- Whoever is last has huge advantage, not 2nd to laste.

- It doesn't matter if you don't understand position, it's so fundementally profitable to be last, comparing to be non last.

"Acting last is like taking a drink of water. We don't have to understand why it's so good for us to know tht it is. And the benefits are unaffected by our understanding of them".

- Adjust ur betting strategy, in a way that results in you being last more then them.

Positions crushes dominaces hard (AT vs AK blabla osv). Dominance is overrated.

Example: if one guy in last pos has KJ, early pos has KQ, chances of a K actually hitting the flop is same as a set. And when it does happen, the late position guy will lose a lot less than he would if he was oop, and win a lot more when he hits.


Anticipation

- The only thing you need to anticipate is a bet or a raise.

- In theory, if you're good at anticipating, you'l Never ever ever ever ever.... be surprsied.

- If your oponents check, you bet, and he check raises you, if you right then and there have to make a decision, didn't see it coming. You should have already decided.

A) It will make your bet better (When you already considderd he might raise).
(Or if you told yourself, if he check raises, I'll fold)
It's easier to let go, but if you get surprised It's really easy to get sucked in or make a mistake.

"Plan the street."

Ps, It's really really hard to not get surprised (omg omg now what)

- Takes a lot of training, it's a big emotional spike, and by anticipating it, you're ready, and more focused. Repetition, focusing on that task.

* Makes your mechanics eerly scripted

anticipation = better betting and less tilt


The Rake

"Separate the rake as a business expense."

- The rake is huuuuuge


Rules

"Don't think of any rule as being good or bad, or right or wrong."

- When we have resistance to our rules somewhere else, it throws us of. "Mind noise" and that can have only one effect on us.

- Don't wanna sit at a casino thinking "ffs, that is a dumb rule"

* Be in complete acceptance. Adapt to new rules (buy ins, bettings, blind structure, so forth). (Avoid creating a negative state in your mind).

- Righting thinking is, avcourse there is gonna be new rules here and there. The rules is the rules.


Goals and Targets

- People have a tendency to not want easy goals, because goals should be hard to obtain. So people then tend to set goals which are unobtainable, because then it won't matter if you don't make them, because it's so far fetched. (I wanna play perfect poker, I want to never tilt.)

- People want to avoid hard goals they could in theory be able to reach, but don't want to feel like a failure when they don't reach them within the given timelimit.

"Just because you don't hit a target doesn't mean you're a failure."

Methaphor: If you throw a log in the ocean, then like to throw rocks at it, sometimes you'll get close to your target, sometimes you'll miss and sometimes you'll hit

Success or failure is detrimental to a poker player.

- Much better to think of whatever sort of projections of things you hope to happen in the future, of targets, you aim, sometimes you make it, sometimes you miss it. (You pick up another stone and go at it again).

Goals have an inherent time frame that takes you into the future (We don't want to be in the future). We wanna play our A game NOW!!.

Targets: "Playing this next hand well, or saying the right things" Targets can be in the moment.

" A target can be a constant stream of present tense attempts."

- The word targets leans us to right thinking, and goal takes us to all the places we don't want to be.


The four noble truths of C game

- C game exists (I you're gonna be a poker player, you're gonna have a c game. No way around it)

- the cause of C game. Desire, attachment. Exactly the same cause of all suffering, and rears it ugly head in poker and causes C game.

"Only when we truly understand the cause of C game, can we move to the third noble truth. Which is how to end it."

- The cessation of C game: How to end it, how to be unattached, how to be not full of craving.

- The instruction. (The eightfold path). The instructions which digs right to the heart of undoing the cause of C game, which then will undo the C game.



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