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Ok. So. What's the whole hype about Avatar? I'll give you that it was a pretty fun fantasy movie. But... I feel like the obsession with Avatar is tantamount to what Twilight is to girls...(OMGZ COOL DRAGONZ I WANT ONE!!!11!!one)

Lol. And as for Xblink, sure I know everyone is saying he's on a sick heater and he just slipped through the net of variance by playing his entire roll the whole time and bagging it up. Apparently he started through his last $11 on a MTT sng and won. And BAM next time you know, he's acing it up with the big boys up at 100/200. But if you look at PTR, I honestly don't understand how he can go all in preflop with hands like Q9 suited...and win?? Is AP really that soft??

Update with my own personal game! I'm responding to everyone's comments (and thanks for reading btw!) and asked responded with questions to your comments as well. So if you've been commenting, please read my responses too! I've hit my $100 at NL2 but paid off my very kind benefactor who lent me the $20 to start off =P. (Thanks edzwoo). So now I'm at a $80 or so roll again and about to move up! The only thing is...I'm about to hit the end of the road with my HEM. =(
And I sure as heck don't have the bankroll to withdraw and buy the program haha. Thinking about DL'ing PT3 for its free trial to last me a while but can I shift all the stats over...?

Overall, getting more used to the pace of 16-18 tables FR. My VPIP/PFR has dropped from around 35/19 when I first started to ~15/10. Before playing online, I've never even heard of stats like VPIP/PFR and even right now, I'm not very clear on which numbers mean what range of hands played. Am I a nit? What do the stats say about me, if anything? What numbers correlate to "fishy" and what numbers (at higher stakes) say more about regs? I figure if I have the tools to see the numbers, I want to know how they interpret players.

And ofc. Graph.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/5e96a.NL2Dec2709.jpg

GL to the tourney players on Stars today!


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Well im like 11k VPP's away from my 200k milestone since i had to go away for 4 days over xmas, just got back home and now i gotta get these vpps before jan.

Since the FR games are likely going to be somewhat tighter cos of mass nits doing the same thing as me i estimate its going to be like 40k hands or something for 11k vpps...

So it will be a fun next few days, hopefully nothing goes wrong. Literally just got in now, gunna chill for a bit, watch the rest of the man utd match then grindddddddddddd


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A belated Merry Christmas to everybody. Why is it so cold in Europe?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/3476b.25001 to 50k.jpg

Switched databases from PT3 to HEM and sites from Pokerstars to Full Tilt/Party. Moved up to 100NL around hand 16000, and I'm trying not to be so stationy and spewy.

Time to go eat some leftover carp and potato salad. Good luck at the tables.



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First day on FTP:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/a816c.swwing.jpg

Thank you, i have to move down. Fuck this shit.


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Well, yesterday I got a few hours to play some sit+gos. I tried a few, from the smaller 18/27man sit+gos to 45/90mans. Well it turned into a complete fucking disaster. I had like 18 sit+gos going (Stacked), and I played complete and utterly terrible. Could not focus enough to make this amount profitable. So after that fuck up. I cut down the amount to 6-10 so it was tiled on two screens. Didn't exactly play brilliant. Realized I do not play particularly well in the smaller sit+gos.

So today started grinding the 180 mans. I made a ton of profit on these in the past, and stopped when I probably should have continued grinding. Tried the cheap $2 turbo 180mans, but wow, these are just brutal. I am getting my hand in good preflop or on the flop and getting smacked in the face on turn/river faaar too much. Its not variance as such, it is just players call TP ANY kicker all in in these, and so many times keep getting outered. Fucking brutal.

Also I do not think I can play these turbos particularly well. Been searching the internet for any good guides on how to dominate the turbo 180mans. I think my problem is I am shoving my stack in too early. I mean I am used to MTT play where 10-15bb is like shove or fold. But in turbos I think you gotta hold out bit longer than that, because peoples calling range is sooo fucking ridic wide its practically any 2 in the deck, usually suited, even if it is for the tourney life too. Its crazy. So, I dunno. Staying away from the turbos for a while yet.

Not made any significant results yet. To be hounest its been pretty dam poor. But I feel much more comfortable in these $4 180 man sit+gos, there are still plenty of terrible players, but its not AS crazy as turbos. So grinding these plus all the micro MTTs.

Schedule tonight (GMT):

18:00 - $5.50 - 20k GTD
19:00 - $11 - Daily 30k
19:00 - $3.30 - 1.5k GTD
19:15 - $3.3+r - 50k gtd rebuy
19:45 - $1 - World Record $300k GTD
20:30 - $11 - Sunday 1/4 Million GTD

Playing $4 180man SNGs amongst all this too.


Gonna not post any hands or results this week. Untill it is over, and the look at the damage.

Happy New Year


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Since the banks dont work past 4 days they didnt transfer my money from MB to Electron and im out of cash in the Electron already.Im also sick and cant play poker coz i ll just lose cash which is obv. -EV so can anyone pay my WoW account for a month - 13 euro i will give him the cash in Moneybookers in next ~6hrs ( thats how much it takes for the money to come from poker to mb )
Would really appreciate it


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Im crushing NL5 atm. Im really rolled for NL10 with 35BIs, but every shot of NL10 always end up pretty bad. I usually drop back to NL5 after two straight big losses. I guess theres a few big differences that I still need to adapt between these limits:
- There seems to be way more short stackers in NL10. You dont really see many in NL5
- 3bets happen more often

I saw the previous blog and though it would be a good idea to compare my stats between the my two limits.

NL5
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d238b.NL5.png

NL10
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1afde.NL10.png

Holes I see atm:
- Need to 3bet more often in both limits
- My pfr is pretty low too o_O
- Need to steal blinds more
- Probably folding too much in NL10, red line is pretty shit

Stuff im not too sure about:
- Should I be playing more hands? Maybe looser on the button (~20% like NL5)

I know sample size isn't that much better but if anyone can find anything else please let me know thanks :D



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my friend doesn't have credit/debit card so i wanna transfer him funds
but it says i cant because he needs to have prior.. deposits
+ for some reason that gift certificate thing isn't working for me, so.

- is there another way to transfer
- Is it ok if i log in his account and deposit directly? ( pretty sure it's not)
~30$ USD


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this was todays session. i was 6 tabling 10NL.

i know i have shit loads of leaks. mybe the numbers can help me narrow down where to look? if something sticks out let me know =)


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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/280/dec09graph.jpg

So after a bad start to the month, Stars gave me a nice boomswitch. I'm still running under all-in EV and getting more than my fair share of QQ < KK/AA, but every time I sit down at a table, there seems to be a 50 VPIP calling station on my right. My bluffs have been getting lots of respect and my value bets looked up light. It's been a very nice end of the month. Of course, my volume blows and I'm still kinda scared to play NL100 (damn it's full of short stackers).

Next year I'm definitely going for Supernova and planning to get 600 VPPs/day and play 1500-2000 hands of NL100 (4-6 tabling) a day to achieve that. I should hit SN by July, which will be even easier if I can move up to 1/2 before then. 200k VPPs is the goal for the year, but planning that far in advance is somewhat unrealistic. If I suck and put in half that volume, I should still make Supernova by the end of the year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year LP! May next year be fun and profitable.


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pretty deep in a tourney, 6.5k entrants, 725 left....what do u do?
i only have 20 hands on this person so its not even worth posting stats...raised 1 or 2 hands only, hasnt played many hands

Submitted by : biabiaflexer

PokerStars Game #37225200208: Tournament #241010496, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XVIII (500/1000) - 2009/12/26 17:14:11 ET
Table 241010496 435 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: lNormaJean (31320 in chips)
Seat 2: Jetom (30564 in chips)
Seat 3: hellraiserQ9 (34610 in chips)
Seat 5: Golf5.:R32 (22425 in chips)
Seat 6: vicsi23 (27398 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero (49724 in chips)
Seat 8: TheTyfoon (34586 in chips)
Seat 9: eduardodufas (48448 in chips)
lNormaJean: posts the ante 125
Jetom: posts the ante 125
hellraiserQ9: posts the ante 125
Golf5.:R32: posts the ante 125
vicsi23: posts the ante 125
Hero: posts the ante 125
TheTyfoon: posts the ante 125
eduardodufas: posts the ante 125
eduardodufas: posts small blind 500
lNormaJean: posts big blind 1000

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
Jetom: calls 1000
hellraiserQ9: folds
Golf5.:R32: folds
djgeter is connected
vicsi23: raises 4000 to 5000
djgeter has returned
Hero: calls 5000
TheTyfoon: folds
eduardodufas: folds
lNormaJean: folds
Jetom: folds

Flop (Pot : $13,500.00)

   
vicsi23: checks
Hero: bets 7000
vicsi23: raises 15273 to 22273 and is all-in
Hero: ?????

I've booked a trip to thailand, I will arrive Jan 15th and return Feb 16th. Anyone over there? Anyone been there? Any advice or thoughts are welcome!

Also check out this e-book I found earlier today, its really good http://www.artoftravel.com/

more later


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edit: done


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yep just pm me


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If only this were sustainable for a few weeks....months....sessions?? Lol.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f8249.Merry Xmas.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/9644b.Merry merry.jpg


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it looks pretty good. story is about a world where people dont lie, then this guy ( guy from the office brit version) is the first one to invent lying, so far its pretty funny 5mins into the movie...


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It seems that winning at poker isn't appreciated by anyone. Other people don't get any value from your success. In fact, they get negative value from you. The less big of a winner you are, the more the others will enjoy the game. In that light, winning at poker seems so selfish, so unproductive, more like being a parasite.

I'm worried about this and I think I could be much more motivated if I could clear this issue out.

What are your thoughts?


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Edit: All booked!

25% Steal City
20% Fayth
10% MuckDude
5% Ket
5% SakiSaki
5% Schoua
10% StatusUp


Sorry to the people who wanted to buy a piece, my friend took all I had left!


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first time playing in 2 weeks after I moved into my new place and lost 4k pretty shitty day


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merry xmas lp


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