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Last few sessions have been really lame. Today I recoreded a nice -4.5 buy ins. My last 5k hands I ran 10 buy-ins under expectation alone and my W$SD is around 45. lol I'm playing really well but I'm just getting coolered and setup like no other. My poker game has grown leaps and bounds these past few weeks though so I'm extremely happy for that and I know I'm killing NL50 and will continue to do so. I wish I wasn't running like ass or I'd be rolled for NL100 shots. Hopefully I can get my BR to $2500 and take some by the end of the year.

I'd post hand histories of all the suck outs and setups but that doesn't matter and it just crowds the blogs imo. I'm going to post some graphs. After 11.1k hands is when I read SlowHabit's new book. Take note of the HUGE difference in my red line. This book IS the real deal.

This is my November month to date:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/674f7.novmtd16th.jpg

This is since reading the book:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/65781.sincebook.jpg

I've already played almost 20k hands this month which is awesome because that's my regular monthly hand goal! I'm aiming for 35k hands.


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First of all I want to publicly apologize to my staker. I promised him I would play huge volume for a month and make us a nice profit and I pretty much failed that in every way possible. I started the stake off playing at least 4k hands a day, making good money and everything seemed to be perfect. I started to lose money (like -10 buyins in EV) and took a day or two off and got called for a job interview at a local computer place. They literally hired me and I started working the day of my interview. They gave me a gym membership, I enrolled in college, started studying to get certs, i started eating healthy and started to pump some iron again (which feels great).

My life literally took a 180 and I hate poker for the most part anymore and if I didnt have to play, I didn't want to. I have structure in my life now, and that is something that I've never had. I know he is upset with how things worked out and it's no ones fault other than my own because he was great to work with.

I think I'm done playing poker as a "grinder" for now, and probably forever unless i just fail @ life and become a 5/10 live pro or win a big tournament, but that's pretty unlikely. I've fathomed the idea that when or if i fail in life to the point of chronic depression that I would just live in vegas and spend my 5/10 profits on cocaine/heroine and do that until i OD and die inhaling a line off of a hooker's ass. The game is so much harder than it was 4 years ago when I started this journey and I never accomplished anything to begin with so why stick around.

I guess the game is pretty well imbued into my system and I don't know how I could ever quit but the idea of competing against 5000 other nerds trying to do the same thing I am where I don't put in the effort to keep up and waiting for a spot that happens 1 in 3000 hands to turn an edge is fucking retarded. I seriously would not suggest anyone to get into poker in the current and future state that the game is going to be in. It's never going to get better... I feel pretty cheated because I'm self taught and now people can pay some faggot retard who ruined the game $30 a month and make my winrate be dispelled into nothing. I want all of the time I spent studying the statistics of everything and figuring formulas for fold equity and shit back. All the money i wasted playing 60/40 as a newb to increase my hand reading ability, everything. Fuck you carddrunners and everyone teaching random faggots and not people you care about how to win at poker. I hope you guys rot in hell with your $30 a month dues and people start not watching your videos anymore because you are now a losing player and no one wants to watch you play so you get fired and work at mcdonalds because you dropped out of college.

I've wanted to get that out for a while now. Honestly though, that's my life update and when my body starts to look like I used to I'll post some results. Also, I don't plan on disappearing if that's what you was hoping for I'm probably still going to play poker casually and I just love this community as much as it hates me and I don't feel the need to leave. I think i MIGHT play a $200 tournament this weekend @ the local casino. There will probably be around 200 people in it with a good structure and I just don't know that I can pass EV like that up. Also, fuck the girl in the blog below.

That is all


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Sorry for sounding like a newb, but I have no @#$!%@$% clue how to upgrade my HEM into the pro version. I got the serial code, but have no where to put it. Some help plz, I just want to start playing already


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make it stop, nooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Can someone send a link containing the full fight video of pacquiao vs cotto please? My mom's birthday was on that day so i couldn't watch it. So uh yeuh, help a brotha out .

Oh and did you guys see the mayweather interview in response to the fight?

gawd, mayweather is a bitch that talks more than he fights


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Had a solid weekend volume wise, mediocre results wise. Played a little over 9k hands. Had a heater on friday and then ran pretty crappy on saturday and sunday. Oh well, still made some money. Sat/Sun I lost about half the heater earnings, hah.

Just have a few hands that I am 99% sure are coolers but wanted some outside confirmation. I think it might be partly the need to have someone else go "yeah that sucks" heh. But I'd rather be sure I'm not spewing.

Hand 1:
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Hand 2:
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I also just made a few threads with real hand questions that I'd love some feedback on:

NL200 Bet vs Missed CBet?

NL200 facing cold 4bet

NL200 Barrell the turn?


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I have $175 on AP I need to get to FTP. Can anyone help. Reputable members please.


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I took this shit, its a workout supplement that gives you energy and such.. and I'm fucking TWEAKING OUT I can't stop twitching or moving and I'm excessively giddy. AWESOME LOL. Just thought I would share.

Been making my way through Slowhabit's book, uh, slowly, but I'm almost done so I shall fulfill my review commitment! To be honest I really don't want to, because this book is pretty good and I don't want anyone to know about it

Past couple of days I've been feeling really good, I feel like I have a large part of my discipline and confidence back. Hopefully I will be able to have a nice "I'm back in the game" blog by the end of the week.

Wow this stuff is hardcore, I haven't taken it since I used to work out so my tolerance is completely gone haha. I recommend NOXPLODE for those of you who have been working out for a couple of months and are ready to push yourself a bit. I won't be taking this stuff again until I've been in the gym for a couple of months myself ^^


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Is it just me or is checkraising the only way to win those tournament ?
I mean, sure when the flop is like 2 colors, i find it rather rewarding to check and check behind and hope it's not a scary card on the turn?
I don't know, i've played like 50+ tournaments at low stake, and the fishes, even though they're missing a LOT of value by not betting here and there, they do love to check raise..
The tournaments where i've been the most succesful so far were when i check raised some of hands even though they could have had some straight draw or flush draw or scary figures (not all of them at the same time).
Keep in mind that i'm noob at mtts, but sometimes whenever i try to do a value bet they check raise out of nothing and that annoys me as i've to think everything from scratch and sometimes it hurts me...
I just don't understand how those players bet nowadays...
Or do i have to check raise from time to time to vary my style ? Even when there's a possibility of draw ?
Gah. I think i need to read something before my head explode. Just read Baluga/whale and it's nice, but i'm not sure it really works on nl2... >_<


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Gawd I just moved to nl100 and I just realized I have to spend 80$ to upgrade my HEM (Small Stakes) to HEM Pro. Fuuuk. They don't have a simple upgrade pro add on for HEM micro stakes, or am I just brain farting and reading their upgrade list wrong. Stupid HEM...

I hope I don't tilt at the hunned also...
Prolly will..
Maybe...
Ionno...
Shieeett.......


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Don't worry, no need to pm pav, you were probably just at one of my tables in the last two hours.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/87d22.dayofrape.png


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I just randomly woke after falling asleep trying to watch my 'horse' in the FTOPS ME. I saw he got 9th and got very happy. I am going to get a decent payday! But then I read through the thread of the site I know him and I saw he was 4/9 and I got a little disappointed. Stupid FTP doesn't have observed HH so I don't know what happened yet.

It's funny that tournament players complain about essentially everything unless we win the tourament. We don't think about all the bad beats we put on others to get to the final table. Sometimes, we just have to step and think of all the good that had to happen for us to even go so far. When you bust, be angry but immediately thankfult that you even got there. Also, JoeDeertay had a decent run in FTOPS 24, cashing for about 786 with 5 KOS. Congrats. I had 15% of that. All and all a profitable day of staking and I am going to be thankful I was able to make money by essentially doing nothing. I am just randomly rambling, back to sleep.


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Hey all,

I'm playing the 1k+100 event of the BCPC tomorrow and I'm selling some of my action if anyone wants at .9/$.

Meaning that $110 CAN(CANADIAN DOLLARS = .952 USD)gets you $110/$1100 * 0.9 * whatever I win.

Takers so Far:
Freak 25%
Housemate 10%
Other non-poker friend 5%

I'm gonna sell up to 60% so that least 20% up for grabs if there are any takers. Transfer to Kingkoopa2 on stars by tomorrow 12pm PST if interested. $55 CAN minimum.


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started off the day running like ass at 3/6 NL losing 6-7 buyins while being up ev wise and getting coolered a bunch

took a break went out to look at some condos and get food

then shit really hit the fan when I started playing 2/4 plo

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1a9d8.abcd1234.jpg

so basically this is my worst day ever - 14k or so gonna have to take a few days off and not play plo for a while


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november is baddd
it's getting harder and harder to put in hands, confidence getting bulldozed etc etc
love this game

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d2333.fg.jpg


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Really happy with how I'm playing. Expect some more FT railing in the near future. Unfortunately finished final 2 tables of 150R on FTP and deep but nothing exciting on stars in some other shit today. But be wary...big things are happening


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I don't get into math barely at all when playing poker. I know all the basics, but I'm not one of those guys that calculates standard deviation of bad runs and things like that. In fact I usually just skip over any mathematical equations or references while browsing poker forums. So I have been running terribly for 2 weeks and it got me to thinking, someone tell me if my thinking is correct.

If I run terrible for a week, lets say I am the most unlucky poker player in the world for a week (I'm not saying I am, just for this example). Then for the rest of my life there is no guarantee that it will ever even out. All that is guaranteed is that I should run at EV for the rest of my life after that point on average, not factoring the previous week into that average.

I'm wondering this because in my head I tell myself, just get through this bad run and you will eventually be rewarded with a good run when in reality I dont think that is true at all. The past doesnt affect anything and from the present I am in fact never going to be rewarded for running sickeningly bad for 2 weeks while still playing pretty good poker.

Also, I have a 19" HP laptop with a nvidia 8500 go vid card. will it be able to run a 24 inch monitor at max res?


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November graphs:

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p99/ilovecatsmorethanyoulovecats/g1.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p99/ilovecatsmorethanyoulovecats/g2.jpg

...
well then.

edit: last 5-6k hands are hu


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