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PokerStars Game #36016949147: Tournament #229120016, $200+$15 USD Holdem No Limit - Level V (150/300) - 2009/11/29 20:09:11 CET [2009/11/29 14:09:11 ET]
Table 229120016 110 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Grintag (8150 in chips)
Seat 2: daddydumdoom (9950 in chips)
Seat 3: Nille79 (27375 in chips)
Seat 4: svetik-cveti (18755 in chips)
Seat 5: ptate1383 (10500 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero (10724 in chips)
Seat 7: criton75 (10425 in chips)
Seat 8: Luj0_1989 (16255 in chips)
Seat 9: mrtoad07 (8591 in chips)
ptate1383: posts small blind 150
Hero: posts big blind 300

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
criton75: folds
Luj0_1989: folds
mrtoad07: folds
Grintag: folds
daddydumdoom: folds
Nille79: folds
svetik-cveti: raises 477 to 777
ptate1383: folds
Hero: raises 1800 to 2577
svetik-cveti: raises 16178 to 18755 and is all-in
Hero: calls 8147 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (8031) returned to svetik-cveti

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $21,598.00)

   
Hero said, "gg"

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $21,598.00)

   

River (Pot : $21,598.00)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (high card Ace)
svetik-cveti: shows (a pair of Eights)
svetik-cveti collected 21598 from pot

Summary
Total pot 21598 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: Grintag folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: daddydumdoom folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Nille79 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: svetik-cveti (button) showed and won (21598) with a pair of Eights
Seat 5: ptate1383 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 7: criton75 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Luj0_1989 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: mrtoad07 folded before Flop (didnt bet)

Yesterday I went and played live poker at my local casinos. The regfish all hate me eventhough I try to act friendly to them... Guess they see me as some young lucky punk.

Anyway I managed to turn £100 into £550- mainly cos of stacking the most rude tilted reg twice with trips. When a guy comes to the table asking if everyone wants to play PLO... I'm the only person to refuse but ask to up the blinds to £1/2

Everyone says no but this old man says we can play HU and I agree. I'm not worried about losing the money as I can but I know HU is swingy and volatile so whatever I took the risk and busted vs him cos I ran like shit.

Just looking for comments on this hand:

Just started vs a passive old man. Likes to call a lot and not fold to small bets but doesn't show agression unless he has the nuts. I'd 3bet twice before and have a bluffy image (from showing weak hands when he folds). He folds to bets on scary boards a lot (like 4 to flush). He doesn't bluff ever IMO tho.

£1/2

£500 relative stacks
KK

SB -> £7
BB-> 28
SB calls 21

I've seen him limping in the ring game with small PP so I assume he must have a good pair or hi cards to be raising and then calling a 3bet.

flop: 872r
BB bets 20
SB raises 40
BB raises 100
SB calls 60

I misread pot size bcos chips were hidden under the notes so I thought I bet half pot. After he minraises cos we're deep I decide to 3bet to get value from JJ+ and make hand easier to play.

pot: 260
turn: Q
BB checks
SB bets 100
BB calls 100

After he instantly calls and seems very happy with his hand, I'm scared of a set. So I check and when he bets I think I'm beat but the pot odds are attractive.

pot: 460
river: x (blank)
BB checks
SB bets 100
BB calls 100

Pot odds...

660
SB has 88 (set)



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heading to EPT prague. don't expect many people to be out for it but if you're around PM me and we can drink much pilsner.




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Just finished reading slowhabit´s book. I think this book has a ton of information for the average SSNL, like me.

THE NO-LIMIT HOLDEM WORKBOOK: Exploiting Regulars By TRI "SLOWHABIT" NGUYEN

http://dailyvariance.com/pics/workbook-cover.jpg

There are alot of good examples of making moves postflop, taking into consideration the board texture and how it connects with our opponents ranges. There are also some good examples, like playing AQ oop in 3bet pots, wich i haven´t even considered playing that way and it has definetly helped to improve my game. Another thing, that i have gained from this book is to identify good spots for river bluffs, when opponents hand is pretty much faceup and he wont be able to stand the pressure.

To anybody who feels is playing solid, but to predictable poker and wants to add some gamble to their game I highly recommend this book.

thanks again to slowhabit for giving me this book for free

the clêaner


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hello the month is not over and my sample size is really not big enough but i think this graph is really cool lol.

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/5131/hyperznov.png

its all hyper turbos on stars either 87.72, 44 and a very small amount of 55s


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Looks like I might be taking a shot at NL100 again real soon

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/efa73.a.png


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Not a bad month...one of my best so far. Played cash at the beginning of the month about 8k hands of nl25 up about 10bi and moved up and it didnt seem to go to well at nl50 for me 2nd nuts vs nuts...set over sets and i just didnt put in that many hands of nl50 to get out of the rut play thru the downswing. Here is a nice little graph have a chuckle with me haha i know i kinda laughed when i seen it

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d7728.nov cash.jpg

After being pissed about the nl50 about halfway thru the month i switched back to playin some sng and mtts and scored some nice profit there as well...little under 4k wwwweeee go me haha

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/299d7.nove mtts.jpg

Im going to be playing mostly all mtts next month and hope to score a couple FTs and hopefully get 1 of the 2 goals i have set for mtts which is a 10k month as well as a 10k day and if i can get two birds with one stone that would be even better

well gl LP its time to go chill and relax for the night

B




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I'm still v well rolled for nl100, but I decided to mix it up a bit and see if I could just..reduce my stress for a while. Well I've never had great success at 6+ tables before but I really want to change that, and I want to figure out what exactly was breaking down in my thought processes when I had more tables up.

I've started to solve some of that, so here is my graph of 12-16 tabling nl50 so far.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b4145.nl5012khands.jpg

I'm really in awe of my red line. Being at this stake again, I can really appreciate that I *have* improved immensely as a poker player over time. It gets me back into feeling like I do infact have an edge over these other players and that helps me think about variance better.

Its also really sweet to have so much hand volume and rakeback even though this is only 11hours of play. I figure I will just leave myself without a plan right now and with any luck I'll be moving back to 1/2 soon.
:D


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Who's going? I know Gawuss will be there but blizzy wouldn't come.


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/df04c.serious.png

honestly i just dont get it, i haven't won a fucking hand since friday. im down almost 20 BIs.


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me being too lazy/tired to play poker atm does anyone have 2k10 for xbox and want to play a few games? pm me your msn or something


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KK < AA 10000 times
AK < AA 10000 times
AK < KK 10001 times
AK < any two 19999 times

-450 in MTTs today..

busted top5 chips for both the million 100 seats gtd. against setups with randomly one of top5 stacks at my table... AA
KK<55 when he opendonkshoves JT4 flop and turns a 5...


Im done fr today.. I also seem to have lost all my skill in cashgames i keep getting raped even on nl25 where I ran the last 35k hands over 6.9ptbb


love this game..


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Just finished a session playing mixed 1/2 and 2/4.
Better results today but yet not great, glad though to be up during cirumstances.

Gonna go out to drink some, better than poker!




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Rages a lot but can't help it.

Sorry world.

Down lots of moneyz.

Probably promise myself no SF4, WarCraft 3, COD ModernW, etc...

I just want this vip shit out of the way.

LP give me strength!


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Well overall level was pretty low

Well i think thats due to being an MMA event with helmets ( how gay)
had 3 fights and ddidnt even get 1 single scratch


1st fight
was a small russian guy 19 years old
i slammed him 3times then gnp him till i made an armbar from mount -> minute i did the armbar bell rang ....

2nd round i continued gnp -> easy descision victory


2. fight destroyed teh opponents leg with inside lowkicks 1st round


3. final fight
opponent 31 year old chinese mexican ?
GnP him into nirvana 1st round


ALl videos saved and will be uploaded soon.
Overall competition in my weight class was ridiculously bad ... ( but i guess thats due to helmets being allowed -> more bad fighters join)
Also i hate helmets cause u cant see too good in them + they take away so much of the punching power

gl




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between getting sucked out on every river, losing every flip, getting every cbet raised, or getting coolered everytime i have a good hand, i just wanna fucking break something. preferably a wall.

oh yeah, took a nl50 shot. obvious fucking fail because people just love to flop the nuts against me.


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Sup guys,

I'm not going to stop blogging here, but I'm starting a new blog geared toward people who aren't poker players. It's going to have less poker diction and more detail, and probably just some random life updates unrelated to poker.

Here's the link: http://www.edzwoo.com/

I got a lot more detailed in my blog, but here's a quick report of what I wrote:

Went to charity casino, won $200 playing 1/2.

Another friend named Alan is bluffing like every other hand. Girl to my left tells me she doesn't like him. She moves tables and Alan moves tables too and tries to take the seat next to her and she just says "No" without Alan even saying anything.

Mid-forties Korean guy (could have passed as my dad srsly) that kept implying that he was a great poker player tells Jason Chinese people are uglier than Koreans. He counters saying at least he's better at poker, table laughs, Korean guy shuts up for a bit.

Afterward, Burger King dollar menu because that's how I ball.


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Hello LP world, I am thinking of doing this prop bet of playing 50k hands in 1 day with a....wait for it.... POSITIVE WINRATE. As most know my longgg sessions are usually because i am stuck 10-20+ BI but I like a challenge and want to give this a shot. Would be doing it at nl25 where my results so far are subpar. Want to bet with 2.5-1 odds which are really good considering I think it should be more like 4-1 but I Want action! I also will be webcamming the whole thing in my attempt to SET OFFICIAL WORLD RECORD for it, or at least according to pokerstars

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2009/ru...world-record-on-pokerstar-061731.html

The funny thing is, in july I played a session of 41000 hands (down 22BI) which is more then this "record" setter played of 40107 hands. Seems like a pretty bullshit record

Let me know in comments or PM if anyone is interested in betting against, thanks!


This is the thread on 2+2 for it

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/...op-bet-action-breaking-record-644584/




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I am currently filled with joy. So much so that I am about to cry out of happiness. And the kicker is I just lost 10 buyins hahaha! I of course was very upset and disappointed like always... But then I just started thinking of things I am thankful for. I am so fortunate that I can play this game and win or lose 500 in a day and not have it effect my life. I am so thankful for my family for bailing me out and giving me a place to stay when I was dead ass broke, with a mountain of credit card and student loan debt and no job. I just accepted my situation and realized how lucky I really am. I could be out on the streets or something if I didnt have good parents. Instead I have a good job and the ability to win long term at a game that I enjoy. I release my pride and ego tonight and just revel in how good I really have it. I truly am free at last.


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