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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.

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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

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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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Yes, yes they do.

Hey Guys, what's goin on I'm Matt and welcome to FLUX, a spot to find some new music to fill your otherwise quiet afternoon and evening. I listen to mostly House and variations of house such as minimal, progressive, fidget, electro and tech house. I also enjoy proper techno, some trance, and very seldom some Drum N Bass. Hope you enjoy.

For this volume, I'm going to upload some new tracks i've been listening to lately as well as some classic sets I enjoy, both new and old.
I will try to provide download links as well as stream links, but this will not always be the case.

Progressive:

This track was just released on www.beatport.com, but this version was ripped from a recent Armvin van Buurin ASOT, anyways, I'm really enjoying this one recently.


Another recent release on www.beatport.com, really enjoying this one lately and this track has been spotted in sets by several DJs at the moment.

House:

A new remix of an old classic by Armand van Helden, this remix by Starkillers really is quite funky and adds a new twist on an old classic while still remaining true to the original production.

Sets:
These sets are all available to be streamed for free by www.mixriot.com, a site I have been a member of for many years and pay a nominal fee (30$/year for unlimited downloads).

Deadmaus EM 2008-07-19
for any Deadmau5 fan that hasn't heard this before, his Essential Mix from 2008, which won him over so many fans outside of North America.

Sasha EM 1996-07-28
considered to be one of Sasha most mind blowing sets, although he has dozens, this one stands out as one of his finest along with the sky club sets.

Nick Warren Kiss100 2009-03-06
This is Nick Warren's Digweed Transitions set from this past March. Nick creates incredible melodies and harmonies only few are capable of mastering.

Check Back regularly for new posts and updates as I will try to make this a weekly thing, Enjoy!



HOT AZN GIRL SAYS BYE!


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FLUX is a place to come every week to find electronic music, both new and old for your listening pleasure. Feel free to post comments with sets/tracks you enjoy and I'll do my best to provide feedback/promotion towards tracks that are deemed worthwhile by the masses. Anyways, hope you enjoy!


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Not playing this abomination of a game until i graduate from university.

Its one thing to run bad almost every session, but its another to run to the point of statistical impossibility in terms of bad luck that ive experienced these last two months.

I just.. refuse to take it anymore and i need to take a three week break from this game. Im just so sick of getting 2/3 outtered every 4/5th hand and losing every single pot that im ahead. Im just not going to endure the emotional stress of having to deal with my bad luck for awhile.. its enough. There are only so many times people can say "focus and be patient" or "improve your game" because eventually youd think that even if i was playing bad that a bad beat would swing my way eventually, but it seriously never happens(yes, i realize everyone says this when they are angry, but i wish i could emphasize it more - I am serious - I literally can not remember when i sucked out with a 2/3 outter since the summer - which was my KK vs AA preflop).

Anyway, whatever! Enough of my self pity over this shit. I think this time off is going to be really worth it. All of my exams are coming, not to mention a few gigantic papers so i really dont want to have to deal with any stress this game may cause. It may help me to really look at this game and realize what i want to achieve with it in the long run anyway.

Ill still hang out here until then though. Good luck everyone.



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So I realized that updating my blog on a weekly basis is just too much work. I really wanted to get some pics of the beach house I live in now (moved in at the end of August) but I lost my camera which sucks. Anyways, Evan and I moved up stakes in life and now we live in the WindanSea area in La Jolla with TeeJayOrTJ. Other than that life has been chill past few months. There are a ton of online poker players (Like 20-25 players that I know of) living here in San Diego and a bunch of us have taken up golf, so recently I've been golfing atleast 1-2 times a week which is a blast except for the fact that I'm averaging losing ~$500 in prop bets everytime I go out with the boys. I'm a sick betting fish apparently, but atleast my golf game is improving. First round of golf I shot a 180 (I'm sure most people would just give up counting strokes, but I wanted to see how bad I really was) but now I'm averaging around 125 strokes from the middle tees which is nice. I've even shot my first legit birdie already!

Been playing mostly live the past 2 months and been crushing until the last week of October where I pretty much ran like dog shit and probably didn't play my best while running that bad. I had a set goal on what I thought I could maintain monthly at Palomar (the cardroom I mostly play at in San Diego) and I was on track until my very tragic last week of October. Sucks to run bad on one of the very few times the No Limit game runs with $10/$20/$40 blinds. Lucky for me, my next door neighbor is | Scubba | the cap NL wizard, and watching him play & crush Ivey at $500/$1000 cap NL got me motivated to play online once again. Actually ended up learning a lot about playing vs short stacks from watching one of his sessions and listening to how he thinks about the game. So far thou, my own online en devours have been slow, as I feel like playing live vs mostly fish has set me back on the learning curve. Been watching a bunch of videos and studying up so hopefully I can return strong! Other than that, I got myself into a relationship and it's cool caz my girlfriend is basically awesome in everyway. For some reason, my mind set is on such an even keel no matter how bad or good I run and I feel it's mainly caz of her.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/B03.jpg
Left to right: Girlfriend's roommate, Girlfriend, Me

Here is most of our poker group down here at dinner for Clayton's (Leggopoker Clayton) birthday:

Oh and Halloween @ Hardrock in downtown San Diego -->

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Tinman (CosMo), Lion (TeeJayOrTJ), Scarecrow (gordo16)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/B05.jpg
Bonnie (Bonnie), and Clyde (VITAL MYTH)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/B06.jpg
Scarecrow (gordo16), Balloon Boy (craigthedeac), Pharaoh (ktrieu)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/B08.jpg
Ron Burgandy (Scubba)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/B09.jpg
And again...

Ok probably not gonna touch this blog for another update in another 3 months. Weeeee!



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these sessions are going to be the death of me

fuck 1/2 on ftp, jesus christ

up 1k in 1.5k hands, playing well and picking apart the bad regs / fish

500 bb deep, i iso a utg limp minraise from a reg who tries to do funky stuff with 99

one flatter in the sb K94 rainbow sb checks, utg raiser checks, i lead, sb calls

turn 5 sb checks, i lead , he calls

river 5 im like oh my god LOL AK PLZ? YESSSS he check shoves over me and shows KK GOOD HAND SIR

then JJ on J102r v AQ 400bb deep each, ai on flop retard binks on the river to destroy my good day and bringing me back down 3$ for the day

so ragedASFO0FVZXIOVBZOIVBZXV


down like 4k in EV over my last 50k hands this is stupid

/RGAEGAEGAGAEGAEG


at least i get rake back

FUCK

SO ANGRY
A
SNPZXNPNZBBBBBBBBBBBB


EDIT:

i'm calm now after i ran outside for a while. i looked like a retard just rage running into the wind with my hoodie on flapping all over the place. WHATEVER IM BETTER NOW

and i guess some ppl are right, just need to focus on playing good and not worry about results....just sometimes its easy to steam when you're like LOL EZ GAME!! :DDDD and then for the next 5 mins you get shit on by the deck. D:

TY everyone


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So when I restarted this blog I promised to grind back to 400nl and stop merely playing the minimum to allow me to be a drunk drug addict. Well after 2 days I went and partied for a week solid. I just really don't have the motivation cos I find 200nl very boring and I don't really need the money and I am very bad at focusiing on the future; delayed pleasure and all that. Anyway, I couldn't find an excuse to go out tonight so I grinded hard. 6.3k hands is a lot for me since I only play 6-8 tables. Here is my graph:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0069f.sundaygrind.png

I'm quite pleased with it. At the beginning I got about 6 buyins above ev, and then went on a sudden bad run to two buyins below. Now I know how irrelevant this is, but I am very pleased that my level of play did not deteriorate at all in that little run. I'm now only 8 buyins away from moving up, but I'll probably withdraw maybe a k beforehand. Whatever, I think I'll move up next weekend.

There are some interesting hands from today:


This is a play on the river you just never see other regulars make, but I think it's trivial. Almost his whole range is not calling.
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This is a bluff in case it's not obvious. They have very few tens in their ranges and I don't think they can call very often without one imo, and I give myself sick odds.
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I didn't get ev lucky today, but it's fair to say I got very lucky to get in many good spots against sick idiots; luckily my image helps these get paid off extra.
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4bet/folding AKs pre for 100bb lol. Exhilarate agreed with me here so it must be ok cos he's good n stuff.
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Nothing much else of note really. I'll have pictures in the next blog entry, promise.


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So i stopped blogging after every session but im still going to post updates so i can have a nice little log of everything!

November so far has been mixed, started out running horribly, broke even for 45k hands or something, ended up like 18 buyins below allin EV as well as all kinds of ridiculous coolers, including set over set over set on the flop, and getting KK vs AA no less than 7 times in a 4k hand session, i won 1 of them though so EV doesnt lie!

Anyway last week has been good though and ive hit a bit of an upswing, im still ~13 buyins under EV but cant complain when my winnings r goin up!

Already played more hands than last month (my previous highest volume month!) so im well on track to log a really high volume month!

Im going for the $2k milestone and need a little over 50k VPP's to do it which i should make comfortably if i keep the pace up, which i intend to!

Enough spam, resultz so far:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/6f9e4.november 2weeks.jpg


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Another 5k day! Twice in one month is a record for me. Month has been going very very well so far.

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Spent today also playing a bunch of tournaments, not so successful so far but I'm still in two including the FTOPS ME and sunday 2nd chance. Hopefully I can follow up this blog entry with a 500k day blog post :D

edit: lol cursed, just busted out of both tourneys 5 mins after posting this.


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