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So I tried playing at work today (im so gonna get fired) without a HUD and constant phone calls and having to sitout randomly between hands to walk to other peoples desk's.


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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Man. I didnt even realize I was playing like this. The worst part, I copied the HH's to a thumb drive and loaded them up here at home, everyone I paid off was like fuckin 14/12 uber nits lol. Im like "jesus christ how could I not see that".

HUD = http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/5ff24.untitled.JPG for me.

So bad, so so bad.... Guess the only logical thing to do is install HEM at work.


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has started here in Nurnberg / germany

-1 C and its snowing outside
I need to make some serious monez now to be able to have a nice snowboard holiday in a few month




Today so far 1,7K hands - 2Bi ...
but i will make it back now after eating some delicious pizza

edit
made it all back and then lost a 160bb deep pot flopped set vs 1card FD....

omfg i am tilted

GL all

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I came, I saw, I donked out.

Hijack vs btn, I look aggro pre yet have folded to some raises post. AK TPTK on A57flushdraw. I 3bet call it off for 80bb, he has a set.
yeah, maybe I should learn from daut.

Met up with some other NZ ballers: brynesam, vic, R_i and played guitar hero.

Biggest brag, got a bag of gear:
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I'm going to look so cool walking into the local casino wearing all of this at once.
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not at all cheesy, the pokerstars shark
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last but not least the bag included the pokerstars branded girlfriend
+ Show Spoiler +

good fun overall, Appt organisers were really good people, esp nick.


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i am supertisious

yeah ..thats right something got in my mind if u belive something truely it will happen. So if i get chips in miles ahead KK vs JJ etc and i start to swet and see in my mind j comeing on flop it always comes.
But if i am relaxed and so sure my cards will hold it also happens. So yesterday i went local casino trounament after 2 weeks. Since i got roll on FT i havent played live. In my mind i was
so fucking sure i gonna win ..i had no doubt and anything. I fucking won chipped up realy fast ..chipleader all the way. I made one mistake on tournament. While every players are usually so straightforward
and easy to put on hand there was one player tonights final table ..who stole alot and was kinda good. I usually never 3 bet anyone on those tournaments since everyone raises they have it. But that guy bluffed
alot and showed all his bluffs what was stupid. So i first 3 bet he folded. 2nd he called flop came out Acexxx, i leaded and he fodled and i showed K8 in his face.
Next i got dealt 44 and i raised 3bbs and he 3bet me... its easy to let it go but since there was big chance he wanted to bluff me so i said those magic words allin. Then i saw QQ in my mind flashed i get set on river.
flop was nothing,turn was blank.I still had no fear at all ...i was so relaxed and the boom 4 on river.

1 hour later i won.

Online i havent played much then first week i doubled my roll. then now i just have played those 300 chip hyper turbos where i am doing good and up 100$ this week. I should really focus and do some big 25nl session and get my roll to 1k. Looked my stats on PTR. It shows my agression is maximum at 25nl population on ft, funny.
Atm i am sitting at 700$ so its not bad


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heres my final results for today

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haven't had a good day like this in a long time. first 6.7k (about) is all nl10, had a really shitty 2nd session as you can see. 3rd session, decided to take a shot at nl25 and only played 12 tables (from the usual 18 or whatever) and did extremely well, although i did run somewhat hot

i needed this day, i'm feeling confident about my game now, gonna start taking regular shots at nl25. also, since i was playing less tables, i was able to make better reads and stuff and was also 3 betting and squeezing a ton more so it feels good man.


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well knew i was runny hot this month so far and it couldn't continue forever. Glad i'm still up on the month (so far).


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I was super mega lazy in September but managed to win about ~$8k.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2bb4b.sept09.jpg

And this is how this month has been going for me so far (down about $5,5 or $6k).... -_-

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By the way, EPT Warsaw starts next week and I'll be there to play some cash games. If you'd like to meet, party or whatever just let me know.


Mike


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Whats up guys? Anyone planning on attending any of the events at Foxwoods in the coming month? Cash games should be pretty juicy and the events should have a decent draw.


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october is bullshit, that is all

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haven't had a session where i felt like i was completely dominating the table in a while. up a solid 7.75 BIs after 3 hours.


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Hi, i currently have a 781x86 animated .gif banner and I'm looking for someone to change it to a 468x60 banner, but wanted the animations to still be there. $10 to anyone that can do that for me. Give me a PM please. I'm not too good with computers, so I would really like someone to do it for me.

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I had some accounts in the past that played with real money on 10$ tables and stuff, that was like 2 years ago. But I lost all the details + passwords of these accounts. I decided I might want to open a FTP account and play there as well, but without rakeback I'm never going to play it.

So my question, how do I get rakeback? Does FTP rly dont want new clients? : [

thanks in advance


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So random updates on everything:

Poker is going good. Played like 40k+ hands so far this month for a profit of just under 10k + rakeback. A lot of omaha which I'm learning very fast. Really excited about that and planing to put like 5k on some other site just to be able to play in more games since it's seldom more then like 2-3 5/10+ games going on at the same time on prima unless you get heads up action. Not sure if I can bring myself to leave my beloved Unibet though.

I'll start some courses soon so I won't be able to play as much in November and December which means that I'll have to play a lot this month to compensate for that. So far I'm ahead of my 20k/month goal since I took a break from law school but not by so much that I can just relax and say fuck it the rest of the year. Gotta grind!

Saw the Sweden vs Denmark game with some friends. Two guys from my hometown, two law students with their gf's and my roomie. After the game everyone chilled for a bit with some drinks and such and my hippie friend from back home took a gitarr and played and sang. The Wild Rover (NO NEVER NO MORE!) was a big hit. The we hit the town and people got lost if different directions but despite that I felt really happy and such despite actually dancing for a few hours. Got fairly drunk, tried txting the asian girl since I started to feel like a fifth wheel. My good law school friend P's gf J saw that and tried to read what I wrote, decided that I couldn't write like that and that I should probably be a bit nicer. I told her that I did respect her opinion a lot, however, I didn't care for it now but if I would every try to booty call someone I actually cared about I promised to first ask her opinion. Surprisingly enough she seemed happy with that. P approached me a few minutes later and asked me what happened. I told him that we had disagreed about the details of drunk late night text messaging. He seemed worried and told me that J always got her will through at which point I told him of the compromise and added that I would never dream of going against her suggestions since in this world I'm only afraid of 3 things; Death, Oliver Khan and her. He seemed happy with that. Got Asian girl to come over and took a cab home with her. I'm not really a fan of being drunk and sleeping with people at all but considering the alternative of going home alone or trying to pick someone up while in the state of mind I was in it was nice enough.

In other news I've started listening to Elvis Costello. He's fairly good.


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Pokers been goin pretty shitty latley, had a great month last month, but overextended myself after an $11.2k cashout playing too high in the MTT circuit, no excuses, I just sucked and kept making bad plays at wrong times, getting sucked out on and playing uber retarded, playing in some 109r's and 1091r1a's that i dusted left n right like a jackass.

By the time the volume of 70~200 MTT's were played in 3 days and I had won around 2k and lost about 9k for a total of -7k. I now have less than a 1k left online, and don't really care to play any tournaments at all or deposit anymore money, although I may put 2k on or something to expediate things, although I see no rush, other than getting to 200k VPP (have 180k now)

Fucking MTT...They are so gamble, puts greed in blood, I was attempting to be a fulltime MTT player, but I don't see it happening until I have atleast 45k saved

Cashgame is steady solid and is so much calmer and more relaxed. (Since I moved back to PA 3 weeks part time)

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I enjoy havin $ in the bank, have a very soft casino closeby, playing 1/2 there, its roughly $45-$60/hr, compared to vegas where its $18-$30/hr

I'm going to continue to grind live when its lucrative, and continue to play FR cashgames online, playing at 2 cent 5 cent and working up on 100 bi. I'll put $ on for some certain MTT's I want to play or be staked, but the fucking swings in MTTs are so huge and really fuck with my head.

I moved from Las Vegas, got a nice apartment that I'm still furnishing, a new car when I left Vegas (new to me)(that I wrecked into a sign..had to drive it home illegally at night because I was driving with a spider smashed windshield, some near death experiences happened, was nuts, tire blew out, couldn't see through windshield, was being towed down a hill in the rain with bald tires and a donut that blew 2 minutes after we started, and my windshield motor was fucked so I couldn't even repel the fucking rain -_- *happened 45 minutes from home*)

Turned 25 on the 3rd of the month, been blazin alot, relaxing at my new place, spendin time w/ alot of family and friends

(I was playin from bros house last few days when I epicly threw away 50% of my money in three days)

Meh, so you can OPR the results for a giggle if you'd like

I'm gonna go relax for a bit, smoke a fatty and prolly grind some tables

Fridays and Saturdays are my main work days now, 2 days a week in the casino and building on 100bi online (500bi rebuy MTT's/90-180 Man Turbo SNG's) - Some staked MTT's as well, might as well play them without any greed.

I may be hero'ing all the 162's and 55 70k some nights on stake, but playing on 100bi all the way up to NL100, knowing NL100 is my ceiling for now (atleast for 2 - 12 more months) (NL200+ tables are so packed full of regs and pro shorties, NL100 seems to be way more lucrative and much easier)

Mostly a live player now, 25-40+bi there, relaxing, enjoying the lighter side of life, not stressin pokerz, fuck it, fuck paper, fuck life, fuck it all, im just gonna relax and pwn n00bs at the casino and play online on 100bi. Get back to 10k whenever, and start cashing out online again, staying at NL100 until I'm confident that I'll be ready to take the leap to NL200 and maintain a solid 2BB/100+ winrate mass tabling.

So thats whats been goin on,
GL LP,
Ryan


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worst time to run so shit...

i was taking shots at nl400 at the beginning of this year. now i cant even win at NL50, and my br just dropped below 1k. so fucking pathetic.


and this is the time when i need money the most. Im broke and fucked up fuck this shit fuckkkkkkkk


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Warning: This post might sound like a brag!

I checked out the Audit function on PS and it came to my mind that it would be a great idea to figure out how much I have cashedout/Deposited at poker.
Im going to take this opportunity to update LP about what I am up to.

I knew I was up overall after playing poker for like 3-4 years doing Engineering at school. But after my school started to kick in badly in 2008 I thought that I would not have made money in poker in excess of 50K overall or something.

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I felt really encouraged looking at the results. Knowing that I never gave poker %100. School has been my no1 priority ALL THE TIME.
I am a mech engineering student currently working at Shell plant in Alberta. Doing my last year of school next year and I am well in the top %10 of my class(I am registered in this honor society stuff for whatever that means!)

So it felt REALLY good to know that Im up well over 100k at poker. Specially have it as my 3rd-4th priority. (after school/GF/family and all that stuff.)

I will never play poker professionally because average worker that I know at my current job makes more money at than a solid 400nl player will make. And doing a job has ALOT more upward potential than playing poker.


But other than being encouraged I was also stunned! I have NO IDEA what I have done with this money.
You have to keep in mind that with this money I didnt pay any rent. I didnt pay anything for school. And I didnt pay for my necessary expenses.

I get money from some assets that I have which my family manages and send me my share.

I dont go out. I HATE dance clubs/parties and I think its a huge waste of time. I dont spend ANY money on girls. I do travel around but not much. (like 2 EU/Asia a year.) Basically I dont have much money saved. Maybe at most 20k in my bank account in Canada.



Future:
The future Poker goal is to play poker from time to time but have it at low priority. Maybe even lower than before since Im about to get even more busy at my life. But Im not gonna stop playing. My first goal is to get even in PTR(-25k) by sometimes next year.


My job/professional goal is to make some big changes/corrections in the Shell Plant that Im working at by April.

Im also in the process of starting a Coffee Shop biz with my GF and a Real Estate Investment company with a bunch of friends. And also planning to do a very small import/export business to try-out/Renew some old connections(Less than USD1000).
I might update this space with the results on all those adventures!

And my most importantly, my new life goal is to not spend one dime without giving it a second thought.

Anyway. Plz leave comment if u care. it encourages updates!
Also on a short news site. Peter Schiff is going on a floor tour with Rick Santelli!!! CNBC is probably going to make a 4-5min piece out of it which is going to be amazing to watch.




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Here's the situation:

- 5700 br approx left (debt -free yay!)
- sucking hardcore 24 tabling 100nl, longest downward spiral in years. gaaaaaaaaaaaaah
- i have like 47kvpp to go before milestone for 3kusd ( fuck pokerstars vpp cocaine obv)
- im thinking about switching to 6max and/or moving sites
- thinking about getting like cheap coaching for 6max if ever i switch
- really confused what to do in spots now, i dont know what limit/game type i beat anymore, seems none i guess lol

from that data: analyze the best course of action for me please, a lot of you guys are def smarter than me, so any input would be greatly appreciated.


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So I've noticed that ever since I stopped obsessing with my results and focusing entirely on playing well, I have had less of an urge to blog about poker. I used to do lots of posts with graphs and stats and hands and blah blah. If I had a good session I wanted to tell the world and I was obsessed with admiring my graphs and bb/100. If I ran bad I wanted to tell the world and show them my EV graph and how much I SHOULD have won.

Now I don't care about any of that shit. I play a session and the only thing I check is how many hands I played cause I like to try and do at least 2k a day. But I never force myself to keep playing to hit 2k or to stop playing cause I hit 2k. It's just a general goal. If I start tilting after 200 hands then I quit and if I don't get mentally together again then I don't play anymore that day. I rarely ever check my BR and only occasionally look at graphs and session results. Usually I check HEM about 1 time a week but I've gone a month without looking at my BR or HEM graphs/results.

Wow, I went off on a tangent there. My point was that even though I wanted to get back into blogging, I have very little to blog about. So I guess I'll talk about non poker stuff.

I just got back from a week long trip to Washington DC which was awesome. I was there to work on a conference that my dad was holding but it doubled up as a chance for me to see some family. My GF came with me and we spent as much time at my grandma's house as we could where we ate the best food ever. She used to be a private chef for lots of fancy people in DC but she's retired now and her #1 customers are me and my brother, and now my GF too =) So that was awesome. The conference was fun too.

This was the first time I actually drove in DC cause usually I'm only there for xmas and when we go out it's a family thing and my uncle usually drives. But since we were working I was driving a lot and the first few days of driving in DC were insane. That place has the craziest traffic laws and confusing roads and aggressive drivers. It's like LA aggression while driving in a maze. Most locals I talked to said they hated driving in downtown DC and that they avoided it whenever they could, lol. But after a few days I figured out enough that I was able to get around smoothly.

Now I'm home for a week during which I'm trying to play lots of poker. Before I went to DC I was in the best mental zone for poker that I've ever achieved in my entire life, so I was a bit upset that I had to go spend a week working long days with no poker. I spent yesterday getting caught up with other work stuff and today I finally got to play again. First session I was scattered and played badly, but the second session went much better. I'm getting much better mental control which is my main focus right now. I'm excited to play every day till the 20th, when I will be going to India for about 10 days. Another conference.

Having some friends over for games and maybe some poker tomorrow night. Then Friday dinner with my dad and Saturday an office bonding party. Lots to do and loving everything. I think that might be part of why I'm not so into blogging lately - nothing to complain about!


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Finally made my first FT in a big MTT. And to be quite honest i thought I played well. Considering i dumped off like 1 million in chips in a typo mis-bet when down to 2 tables, I so easily could have busted quickly after that, but kept my focus and built my chips up. The players were soooo bad. So tight, I was stealing blinds left right and centre, with no problems.

At Final table, big hand that set me back was 99 vs KK. I opened 2.75 bb and he shoves over top and i have him covered by about twice, and insta call. Maybe a little too hastey, but cant see how I can fold that vs short stack. Lessons learned.

Pretty happy! Now gotta win a MTT!



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