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I'm so tired and frustrated atm, switched to PLO50 from NL100 after running bad and having a break-even month in 20k hands.

This month I've played 13k hands, -$100, only running $400 under EV but I'm also losing what feels like a ton on sets. How fuckin often can ppl hit their flushes when i have 1-2x pot left?? At least it's easier for me to take running bad on PLO50 than on nl100. It can turn around much faster + my edge is bigger.

I just need to put in more hands and work even harder, eventually it will turn around. It's just so frustrating and tiring to run bad for 2 months. But I'm proud of one thing, I'm handling running bad much better than before. It seems as if my mind is starting to emotionally accept variance. Which is fucking great.


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I'll trade SC coaching for poker coaching ! preferably tips on making +EV decisions in general and on playing TAG/loose-passive in cash games, as those are the only players i've seen at 1c/2cNL so far and also how to approach tournament poker in general.

im B- Zerg on iCCup and just started poker on 1/2nl on PS recently

otherwise ill just look around for articles
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the things I'd do to you!


I love married women. Also I love making 100k+ this year. This is the only place I can brag about that without being a huge dick. I honestly wish all of you the best life possible. Also, didn't smash with married woman X tonight, well whatever, new city, new girls tomorrow.

Run good everyone!


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For the nonprofit I work part time for, The PeaceJam Foundation: Sick 25k ship

Chase bank decided to give away $5 million via Facebook by doing online voting. For 1 month any non-profit in the guidestar database (over 500,000) was eligible to get a vote. The top 100 vote getters would take home 25k and move on to round 2. I found out about this when it first started and went crazy on trying to get PJ enough votes, and yesterday the results came in and we made the top 100!!! Ship it.

The next round is only the top 100 and starts on January 15th, lasting 1 week. First place of round 2 gets $1 million, and the next 5 get $100k. We're going for 1st place and I'm hoping LP can help get us there. So on Jan 15th I'm gonna start asking you guys to help out cause this money will make a GIGANTIC difference for PeaceJam. This is one of those rare times where you'll get to take minute and make a huge difference.

Anyway I'm super happy that we made the top 100 and that people came out to vote and support us. To get 1st place in the next round ain't gonna be easy, but I'm sure with the help of the poker and BW worlds we could totally get it done =)


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This is going to be a big, ranty blog full of moaning and uncertainty so if you don't want to read something like that, you should probably ctrl-f4 this tab now.

I'm currently going to a small college by my house because I didn't really apply anywhere since I was about 1 month away from going to play junior hockey. I'm on what is almost a full ride but my GPA is slipping and I'm afraid of losing my scholarship. If I lose my scholarship I can't transfer anywhere basically, but on the other hand I have no "conventional" interests - I've never been interested in having a 9-5 job or anything like that. Maybe it's naive or stupid but I don't know. Basically I think college is a waste of money because I don't want to live the rest of my life working a job I hate, and I can really only see myself going that direction if I'm to finish college and slip into a standard lifestyle. I have a lot of money saved up for a 19 year old but obviously not nearly enough to live on for more than a few years.

I'm sure a lot of you guys are in the same boat of not wanting a "real" job and being really uncertain with where the future is going to take you...any thoughts/experiences?


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Hey guyz whats up, I haven't been posting on the forums much lately at all but I have been playing a lot. So I came to a realization yesterday when talking to a friend because I said that if I had a paying job I would NEVER play poker again. Essentially, I would never have an urge to play, even if I made double the $$$ from poker that I made in my job. Anyway, lately played mostly 100 nl the last few months and my winrate is like 2 pt bb I would think, definitely not something worth doing for a living. I made 110k from poker 2 years ago while playing 50 hours a month and doing college, now I can barely make 60k with it being my sole commitment. I just came to the realization today that I would rather do almost anything than play poker, ANYTHING. I mean, if I was making 100k playing ssnl-msnl 30 hours a week, it still wouldn't be worth it ( I don't think).

The games are ridiculous these days compared to 2-3 years ago. Specifically, less donks, I think that is truly the only way I used to make my money. Now I play half the stakes, the players are twice as good, and my winrate is half as much. Fucking shitty. And the worst part is, is that I have gotten much better than I used to be. A lot of guys say that this is a stupid comment and that I just need to get better, well I think you guys just have a higher ceiling than me when it comes to poker talent.

I absolutely hate playing everyday, the times I used to like to play are like 1-2 times a week for maybe 4-6 hours. After long sessions I find it extremely hard to just relax. I think most of all is that I want something to be passionate about, and if I am not passionate about it (9-5 job) have it at least be somewhat easy. I think I just have a hard time fitting a normal social life into the framework of being an online poker player, I can't do it, I don't know how others do it unless they have many other friends that play online poker as well (I have zero, have almost never grinded with anyone).

So for now I don't know if I will be posting here anymore at all. If I continue to play poker it will probably be like 50k hands a month until I find something I want to do. I am 23 and am in my first year since graduating from college. I think I may want to go back to school for 2 years to be a high school teacher, or use my finance degree to get a 9-5 job right now(scary tho). I think the only real reason I played poker was because it was an easy out. I handled a transitional period in my life extremely bad (high school-college) because it was the first time in my life I didn't know what to do, it took me 2 years to get into a groove and be comfortable with where my life was going. But that was just a temporary relief, I now have no idea where my life is going again, and I really hope I make the right decisions quicker so I don't always feel like I need to make changes to make me feel satisfied with my place in the world.

I don't know how I will look back on my 4 years playing online poker, if it will be with regret or pride at making over 200k. I do think that I am glad I went down this road because it has made me a much better person because the game of poker makes someone understand themselves and their emotions so much better. I also think I know what I want from life much more, the value that is placed on social interactions is incalculable. I think I will be a much more unselfish person because of poker (as weird as it sounds). I also have much love for LP and think you guys almost always exhibit genuine humbleness and perspective, I think poker can have the ability to make people quite a bit wiser in a short period of time. I remember after playing for a few months I thought I was good and made a post in a guys poker hand thread saying something like "that is so fucking stupid" and Myth came in the next post and bitch smacked me by telling me to have some manner. That was one of my most memorable early times at lp because I learned a lot quickly after that.

So now I have 110k in my bank account that I saved up because I am so nitty irl : ) I think what I want to do is

1 figure out asap what I want to do with my life on a very long term committed plan

2 work out a lot

3 have a great time with my friends as much as possible, doing as many different hobbies as i can juggle

4 when I am not doing something really fun with my friends get to bed by midnight and wake up the next day ready to do something forward and productive with my life


Sorry for the emo post, but I am pretty down right now. I know these posts happen a lot these days, so please share your views as well, and potential criticisms too. I think it would be cool to hear other people's plan for the next few years of their life as well as your thoughts on poker after doing it for 3 or 4 years


And to leave an image so you can put a face to my screen name, here are 3 pics of me, Orange AnF shirt, guy, and red shorts about to jump off a 40 ft + waterfall in Hawaii this October (that is just one of the many things I am thankful for the opportunity for because of poker $$$ )

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Failing at not checking results when I know I'm having some incredible bullshit happening to me Going to work on it.. Part of the reason I checked today to make sure my roll wasn't in danger tho.

Bleh first 1000 hands I lost $1000 at 1/2 and had an EV of $0(edit: turns out I exaggerated the EV/misread the graph u can see in comments). It has continued this theme until the 3500th hand where I'm wrapping up my 4th session today at -$500 and an EV of $200. (I moved down to nl100 after hand 1000 at 1/2)

This shit doesn't need to happen every 3rd day in such extreme ways does it? Can't I just have a smooth week or two for once.. please..

Still feeling goodish overall, just so tired of getting slapped in the face like a dick biting whore everytime I start to have a good profit for a month or play 1/2.... naw mean?


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Are you a heads up reg on NL50/NL100? Then you are fucking scum. There is no more disgusting pathetic bottom feeding cowards than you in the entire poker world. ALL OF YOU. WITHOUT EXCEPTION. I MEAN YOU. I would prefer to let a shortstack have his way with my arsehole without lubricant and razors tied to his little cock than to kill your mother since that would involve being in the same vicinity as 50% of your genes.

I come home drunk and hope to muck around at small stakes heads up. But NO! no such luck will I get the chance to donk off some money to an aspiring small stakes reg, cos the minute I fold my big blind I'M OBVIOUSLY WAY TOO FUCKING GOOD. I don't limp k3 on the button and OMG HE'S FUCKING DURRRR ON A SMURF ACCOUNT, QUICK RUN TO MY SISTER'S BEDROOM FOR A COMFORTING HUG FROM THAT SCARY PRO THAT WILL MAYBE TURN INTO A LITTLE FINGERING SESSION.

You even make up excuses. Saying bullshit like you have to go now you are just finishing your session or some shit. At least you could be honest. At least you could just say "I am a fucking bumhunting coward; I have done my entire poker effort by watching the first three videos in pr1nnyraiding which I will now follow with religious obsession, except I'll be somewhat tighter - like my arsehole used to be before my sister and her strap-on got anywhere near it, cos I am shit at poker and I'm too shit at life to improve at poker.

Quite honestly, in my 3 years since I first started mucking around with poker, you are the worst I have seen. Out of all the pathetic down-and-out nobodies in casinos, all the transfer request scammers, all the busto degens begging for stakes; out of all the scum that floats around the poker world, you are the lowest. It is something about your pernicious failure than to be anything other than the minimum. At least you could fail with glory or something. But no, you grind out $10 an hour (if that) and are too fucking coward to put yourself in any situations where you might learn something cos that might risk your precious fucking $10/hr.

And just to be clear, if you are a HU reg at NL50/NL100 I mean you PERSONALLY. Cunt.


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I recall a few people on Liquidpoker saying that there is no substantial variance at lower limits (uNL).

First off, that is total bullshit. It angered me just remembering anyone was stupid enough to even say that.
The past two days I've run 6 buyins under EV. However, this blog isn't to complain about bad beats or analyze the hands where I lost.

I'm trying to get more into poker. I started with $10 and am now around $750. My life earnings is over $1,000 but I've cashed out quite a bit. This December is really my first month where there is commitment to my game and putting hours in. However, the lack of people to discuss and converse with is kind of bothering me. My reviewing is pretty much me-exclusive where I'll page through my hands where I lost and analyze if it was +EV and how I could've played the hand better based off the knowledge I think I know. So, it is possible that through some time frame that I'm teaching myself bad habits without the help or review of others. All you NL25'ers fucking add me on MSN: Autumnsolace@live.com

But more discussion about poker. NL25 doesn't even have a real poker feel to me. My whole process behind it is robotic. Even though I only 6-table, there seems to be a simple enough formula to win at this limit. Lots of cbetting with hands that have some equity or draw, check-raising people with high cbets on dry flops that haven't hit their perceived range, and just play aggressively. I've been having a lot of fun just trying new things and learning more about poker. And I hit a pretty big session today after going through hell. Graph related.

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k folks I need to post here more. fukc


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In chess tournaments, all players, from tykes who have barely ceased to wear diapers, to seniors who have taken it up again, learn the protocol of quietly stopping the clock and seeking out a director. In bridge tournaments, where the median age is about sixty, an aggrieved player feebly calls out "director" at a volume slightly above the standard hushed table chatter, and helplessly waits for someone to show up. In Magic, the teenage pro screams "JUDGE!" and imperiously waits for his demand to be met. Poker players, generally aged twenty-one and up, tend to have the good fortune of having floor personnel nearby, and can call out for a director or floorman in a reasonable voice and it doesn't take long for disputes to be resolved.

Harbor no illusions, however, about poker players being sensible or having good manners; as a group, the way they play their cards and the decorum with which they address their tablemates should quickly quash any such notion. They produce significantly more cash flow for the hosts of their events than other gamers do, which inclines the staff to be more sensitive to their needs. In this regard, poker sits at an odd threshold between other kinds of gaming and other kinds of gambling. Poker brings casinos negligible profit compared to traditional casino games, but by comparison chess, bridge, and Magic tournaments as capitalistic ventures are a joke for tournament organizers, who tend to be motivated more by the love of the game and the service to their gaming community.


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First 90k hands are 5nl 24tabling, rest is 25nl 4table swongz after dogishead coaching. Going to England to visit family untill new years and won't be able to grind so this is the last day of the year for me! Hope you all run good and have a nice christmas and new years.

Anyway december graph + year graph
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I'm hoping 2010 will be a great year for me, going to try sort my life out in many ways other than just poker. I believe I have grown up a lot this year even though it has 99% been a waste. Roll on 2010!


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Hi all

I am looking for my first own snowboard.

Last year i got the 03/2004 Nitro Storm lend by my cousin
Ofc this board was very old and had traces of use all over it.

Now i am searching for a nice but not too expensive snowboard + bindings
somehwere in the range of 250-450€
Main mission is to finde a board that is nice to handle , decent in cruising down the mountain and able to do some easy/simple tricks every now and then.

There are dozens of boards+binding in this range but hardly any review on the quality of them.
Most stuff i read in internet forums is like either :
everything lower than 500€ is bullshit quality

or

The 500€ boards are bullshit and not really notable better than the 300€ boards




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hey guys,

havent updated blog in awhile. i've been grinding it out recently at 100nl 6max, playing like a 19/16 nit and table selecting like crazy.

im making an ok bb rate doing this, played about 45k hands, but feel like i dont have much of an edge on the regulars at this stake.

i want to improve my game, looking for someone with some experience coaching this stake to help me loosen up, play more like 24/20 and start crushing regs.

please let me know if that sounds like you, or know someone you can recommend!


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Hola (thats spanish for hello),

Pretty good week for me on the poker front. I grinded back about 10 buyins at 50NL and about 6 at 50 PLO total. On Tuesday I took another shot at 100NL and I won about 3 buyins and then another 1.5 buyins in a short session yesterday. Hold em is actually going well for me since im running decent, PLO on the other hand is doing its best to make me quit the game. Its not easy getting it in as an 80/20 or 70/30 favorite in PLO, yet everytime one of these fish make it happen for me, they hit it on the river. Very frustrating. I will say there is alot of money to be made at low stakes PLO. I'm usually the only person at the table 3betting more then AAxx, and I take down almost every pot with a cbet. Even when i do get played back at I can be sure they have the nuts/2nd nuts. Easy game. If real estate is about location, location, location, PLO is about position, position, position.

Almost done with work before some xmas vaca time. Friday, monday and tuesday I'll be working out of my house (aka getting paid to play poker, aka getting paid to get paid) and then my vacation starts wednesday and I'm off until after new years. I have alot of family to visit around xmas plus my girlfriends fam. We also have plans to go to Atlantic City one night, and might even hit up mohegan sun for new years. Definitely going to enjoy my time off and just relax, grind, enjoy being with the family/friends. I have an uncle thats fighting pancreatic cancer right now and its very aggressive, hes only 61 and theres a very good chance this could be his last christmas. If theres anything I realize in all this its that life is short and it could end tommorrow, so always enjoy the time you have with ur loved ones and the important people in your life, never take anything for granted. Anytime poker isnt going ur way and you get upset/angry, be thankful for the things you do have in your life, and suddenly poker wont seem like such a big deal anymore.

I wish everyone at LP a happy holiday!




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I haven't blogged in a long fucking time, and with good reason, personally i was planning to just post poker results and not talk about anything else, but then i realize that no one else in the world (other than my coaches and people i talk poekr with) will understand anything about poker. This is going to be a long fucking post. You've been warned.

So, lets begin

I play mainly FR. I've been coached by the biggest 1/2 winner on FTP last year... I've also been coached by a very successful and respected MSNL player who is now playing at 5/10, 25/50 at FTP. Both these coaches have told me that i am extremely capable, and SHOULD be beating the stakes they taught me at (nl100 and nl200), respectively. SO CLEARLY I SHOULD BE WINNING LOTS? ehh not so much, but its mostly my own fault. I made 60 BI at nl100 over 100k hands (while running 20 bi below ev) after getting coached and was very happy with my progress. I started taking shots at nl200 and broke even, which i was fine with. My new coach taught me alot of new moves and things to look for - exploitable leaks that ALOT of "solid" regs have, and i started playing with certain lines and trying out new things. This didn't work very well and i lost a bunch in the learning process.

Then i started to run bad. Not "run bad" as in OH MY GOD MY ACES KEEP GETTING SUCKED OUT ON, my AIEV was pretty standard (only liek 5-6 bi below ev) . It was moreso spots where i would be like "okay, in this spot, villain has this range, and only this hand beats me. by the line he's taking and my image , i should be good here a large amount of the time". then i call, or shove, and get raped by the nuts. This happened over about 25k~ hands or so, but was enough to severely cripple my roll. To date, i've lost about 20~25 BI at nl200. which sucks.

I've since moved back down to nl100 and find the amount of fish SO much more plentiful. It's insane how many bad players are at these stakes, how unbalanced they are, and how they decide that turning hands with SDV into pure bluffs is +EV IN SOME SPOTS.

So yeah, i'm very disappointed in my poker results so far. I've withdrawn alot and paid for coaching, so i went from about a 12k~ roll to around 4k. I'm going to be putting in about 50-70k hands at nl100, 9-10 tabling , focusing on making good decisions and nothign else. Hopefully this downswing will turn around and i'll be able to make 30-40 BI and take a second shot at nl200. I'm extremely disappointed and a little depressed, but i know that i possess the tools to be able to beat nl200.


So why else do i think i havent been winning over the last 3 weeks?

Welps, running bad doesnt help, but isnt the be all end all of excuses. I probably wasnt playing my A game because, i had the FUCKING SWINE FLU for 3 weeks. I decided that playing poker while sick and tired would be a good idea, and subsequently my bigggest losing sessions were during this time period. In my mind i'm "playing fine", but subconciously im playing horrendously and dont realize it because im too tired to make concious, thoguht out decisions. Also, i was eating like fucking garbage (tired and sick), not eating enough, and exercising nowhere near enough.

I've said this so many fucking times, poker + emotional control + health = do well. If one of these pieces is lacking ,it all falls apart, ESPECIALLY for me. The fact i was out of shape, tired all the time, eating liek garbage + running bad = i deserved to lose alot.

To add on, i bombed my finals (i only ended up getting a B+ in one course which i feel i should have got an A in), and got a fucking F in calculus (i somehow apparently bombed the final...). I've taken calculus THREE fucking times. I'm on academic probation this year. What does this mean? B+ + F = not a high enough gpa to stay in university = i get kicked out.

So i mailed the dean and both my professors to see what the fuck happened to my tests, and hopefully i can work something out to get my life straightened out. I am 100% sure once i get my life straightened out i'll be able to win in poker, get straight A's in school, and succeed at life again ultimately. These past 3 weeks have been fucking brutal for me.

guys- never, EVER stop exercising or eating well. It can do nothing but be detrimental to your poker career, and ultimately, your lifestyle. seriously. even a 20 minute walk and eating more vegetables instead of fast food or sleeping in will help you so, so so much

If you guys have made it through this rant, thanks for reading, maybe share your thoughts if you've gone through something similar.

GL at the tables and life gentlemen. I wont be making a blog post again until i've gotten back on the right track. Here's to hoping for a post within a couple weeks.

Merry xmas and gl again

-wils


p.s cliff notes

-i dont think i'm the best player at 1/2 or nl100, but i def think i can be a winning player
-lost a bunch online via running bad a bit, but mostly from being sick and deciding to play while extremely fatigued
-basically on a small life downswing
-ALWAYS EXERCISE AND DONT EAT LIKE SHIT, when your lifestyle sucks, everything else will suck as well, poker included. nothing but bad things come from sleeping in and eating garbage

-_-~


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My last shot has been pretty bad, but I cleared a bonus and have moved my BR up a good amount.

I am taking a few days off and will then start getting back into NL 25.

I have been interested in learning more about the math behind poker, can anybody help me find some articles that range from beginner to advanced. I'm sure i'll pick the theory and math up pretty quickly.

Thanks


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Pretty frustrating...
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Lose like 5bi to the same guy that keep getting good cards. He had like 60/15 stats and i couldn't get a single fucking money.

So i had to move down to nl5 pwning it badly and came back to nl10 pretty fast but still have some money to recover...
Gah.

nl5 is way easier than nl2 and nl10, but i want to win on this limit cauz i don't see any point grinding nl5 forever.

Hope it will be better tomorrow...


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I love u stars
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