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I've played 22k hands at nl200 now, and I'm feeling pretty consistently confident in my game and ability to beat this stake. This is a pretty big milestone for me and I'm proud of myself for getting to nl200. I feel like I can keep going up in stakes with a little time. 1/2 is a pretty big deal seeing as how I was the guy who basically spent 6 months full time trying to beat nl25 when I first learned of poker..

This month and through the rest of the year my goal is to get to 2/4, but I'll be happy so long as I put in good hours, keep learning, and profit a thousand or 2 each month. I'm hoping that no sick negative variance comes and shits on me (I've been getting the best of it for like 40k hands .. ).

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to talk in my hand postings as well as my friends who've helped me along the way and continue to do so:D!

(I know I make a gushy post like this practically every month but SUCK ITTTT)

nl200 graph with RARE EXPECTED VALUE LINE!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/756e8.22k hands at nl200.jpg

Time to relax and play some HON as I put in a solid 5 hours of poker today (hard worker I know.. sigh, it feels like a lot atm for some reason tho :/).


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Yup, on one hand I loooove russian micro players on the other utg limp/call c/c c/c c/c with 52o J22Ax yup fun.
My classes started - more interesting than the other year. Electronics and programing - good stuff.
Last few days I bounced off from a bottom and played 11k hands till today.
Running like 5.6 blind/100h (dunno which bb or BB is for big blind ), so step by step I'm going forward.
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It would be nice if I could get a scholarship, but I don't know how yet how to divide the time between sudies and pkr. Scholarship is like 450PLN ~ $160 /month for year, so for now it would me more profitable to study more than play, but if I play more, faster I will beat supermicro shitstakes and start playing nl25 and higher.
As for now, my plan is to play poker when I can, and when exams will start, to really really really study hard.
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I started to record my sessions. What I can say - I concentrate better on session because I don't want to mess anything up so no reading LP and no play with winamp and most importantly no checking cashier every five minutes when playing.
When done playing, I review vid first, take notes, then will discuss with friends. I think it will give me something to my game.

current br: 159
hands till now : 11150/50000

Stay tuned.




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So, last time i posted was some roundup of june which sucked.

The rest of my summer sucked pokerwise but was really fun non-pokerwise so meh its all alright.

To summarise:

June: Lots of hands, pretty much breakeven
July: Not so many hands, breakeven
August: Again not so many hands, won like 10 buyins only
September: Again really lame, breakeven

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/c0d28.winning by month.jpg

Took a couple shots at nl100 during july and august and both times ran like ass and had to move back down to nl50, where i continued to grind it out running like shit too but managing to somehow breakeven. Pretty much the longest breakeven stretch ive been on, like 100k hands or something for +5 buyins which is practically breakeven over such a period.

Deposit bonus of $300 free helped pad my role and the fact that i was playing fairly overolled for FR (nl50 with 25-30 buyins) meant it wasnt that stressful despite running awful.

Somehow after my break in september i start last week on like 7th oct and since then i ran nicely lol. crushed 10 buyins at nl50 in 5k hands then decided lolz move up to nl100. Finally it clicked and im back in the green on nl100 (and on pokertableratings which is very important).

October stats:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/48f52.october stats.jpg

June 01-> Now
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/19883.june-oct.jpg

So now im sitting on a healthy BR for nl100, about to get the 50k fpp required for the supernova $800 milestone bonus. So thats gunna pad my role a bit once i hit that (48.4k atm).

So yea all is well atm hopefully it continues like this too~


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actually i had a poker burnout some days ago ...

I played 12K hands in 4 days 10 tabling 6 max Nl50 having decent profits 525$+

5th day i started the session and begun with a nice + 110$ within the first 1030 hands
but then suddenly i got burned out , played liek a maniac and almost lost sanity ....
continued for another 3K hands or so playing like a monkey feeling like on drugs ...
ended the day - 200$

lolz never had this before ...

everything felt like completely unreal

playing too many hands too many tables can make u crazy

i took a few days off poker and returned today
8 tabling a relaxed 905 hands session on Nl506max doing + 109$
was actually up +220 at some point but then i stopped after this ridiculous hand.

LP vs SB ~ 140bb deep

me small blind

Late position player is a reg who is quite agressive and we have some decent 3 bet history
He raises LP i have AQs in small blind and 3 bet him to 5.50
he calls
flop 7QX flushdraw
i bet he raises i call
turn Q

we get it in and he shows 77

lol fuck

well thats the pokerz

GL all




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For a micro stakes grinder (nl10/plo5) with lots of time to study and practice either of the games, which would you recommend at this point?

I've been playing poker for about half a year+ seriously now and have slowly turned profit in both games and have now come to a point where I think I should specialize in either of the two to make my learning process quicker.

I think I'm quite a bit better at NLHE than I am at PLO, I've played more hands on hold'em than omaha and obviously the amount of information that can be gained from reading books/forums is far greater in hold'em right now as PLO information seems limited. Compared to the competition at the micro stakes though I'd say I have about the same edge in both games.

The biggest reason I'm currently strongly considering PLO is that the game is still much younger in the way that it isn't as defined as NLHE is and because of that the competition should be quite a bit softer allowing for easier makemoneygogo activity. Variance scares me a little though, I've yet to go in to a huge PLO downswing so I'm not sure at all how I'd take it.

Thoughts? Would love to hear any opinions.






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Because nobody liked my nl5 shot, i decided to grind like a robot in nl2.
NewBsaibot may be right, i don't like the way nl2 is played, i guess that's why i get frustrated and/or busto everytime i try to play this limit.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6828/sanstitreji.jpg
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/9228/sanstitrehq.jpg
Only 4600 hands and already 5bi under EV. Not to mention the rake which is really hard to grind...
My pfr is low compared to the vpip because i'm so tired of raising smalls pairs in FR NL2 since i won't get any value from them even if i try to Cbet, or even raising them in late position (unless they all folded to me which is VERY uncommon).
Feel free to ask if you want to review some of my hands.


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i always do this when i'm about to move up a limit. there seems to be massive blogging so i hope a few of you guys do get to find this post.

anyway i always ask for a few tips on game dynamics and aggression differences/nuances although it's probably easier to just sit at a nl100 or watch/observe a nl100 table. it's sorta weird because i have lots of confidence in my game but nl100 actually intimidates me. i feel like most of the ppl at this level, have all done the same things i have. so therefore i feel slightly outclassed (as they have been at this lvl longer than i have). anyway yea. i've been putting this off for a while even though i've been rolled for it. i still don't have a hud yet which i probably need asap. can anyone sell for a discount? i'm willing to buy from reputable members. also i figure i prob need a dc or cr subscription sometime even though i effing hate watching videos :/ prob better for me personally to spend 50-70 on like 2 sweat sessions from someone who plays/beats these limits regularly. anyway that's all.

so yea any tips moving up to nl 100?


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Anyone ever had an issue with unstable internet? Mine has been going in and out every few minutes when I play poker, pokerstars lists my connection as 20%-80% for most of the time when it usually sits at 100%. It's been doing this for about a week now, tech support didn't offer any help other than to reset my modem. Anyone know what this could be? my ISP is COX

Also, does this have to be a problem with the internet or could this be caused somehow by my computer with a virus or a lack of RAM or something?


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Made my first 'real' deposit (not counting 50$ one time like a year ago that I used to donk off slowly) and have been running 3bb/pt over like 10k hands on FTP NL25 FR. I ran sick hot for the first few sessions but have leveled off since. Im starting to make better folds and am getting reads and trustworthy notes on a lot of players. Im sticking to 2 and 4 tabling for now since my robot poker 9+ table mode is a losing proposition right now. The first 50$ I donked off before was used to robot mode NL2 since it was so tilting trying to play cheeseburgers. W/e live learn abahlbhllhabhlab

Ive also been making some MTT days and am playing a bunch of the 5.50r, 3.30r, Daily Double, and Midnight Madness tourneys. Im cashing prolly 75% of the time but I keep running into a bad beat/cooler when I get deep and havent made a final table yet. I also cashed 3 out of the 5 Mini FTOPS events I played last go around but made a few bad moves deep and missed out on big money. I hope to pepper the tourney performances thread with a few take downs soon.

Im debating whether its worth it right now to buy HEM or PT3 while playing these limits. Also feeling pretty dumb that I didnt make a rakeback account when I first started.

Oh yeah!

Im leaving for dealer school in Tunica around the first week of November. Ill be going to the Casino College of MS thats next to the Harrah's (i think). I dont really NEED the school seeing as Ive been dealing on and off for a local bar poker league for a few years now. It was actually decent money for a second job at night. Plus I got a ton of live practice in before I starting playing the live 1/2, 2/2 games out in ATL. I have a few friends that deal the WPT/WSOP tourney circuit right now and theyve been urging me to give the professional thing a try since Im still out of school (going on like 2 years now!!! ARGH!!!). I also happen to be an excellent dealer. Im just really hoping that this little certificate I get and the job placement programs they have will help me score a job fast. Im hoping to get a gig in vegas, san diego, or foxwoods after Im done with their program but that is sounding like a long shot. The guy who owns the place was telling me my best bet might be the tourney circuit but we'll see. Anyway, if any of you LPer's are in the Tunica area and want to grab some drinks and/or help me take down some rednecks on the felt feel free to give me a PM. Woteva...jakey's...yellow shirts, etc.


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been absolutely doomswitched on ftp this month, cant show down a hand ever. my session history is just a page of red, have not won ONE session yet

http://users.tpg.com.au/yifanz//mid+oct.jpg

moved abit to cake and playing 50nl there, breaking even + abit (though still severely underolled)

p.s. if anyone wants to swap their cake money for ftp please pm me!


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are rough....

I got told firmly to "fuck off" by a middle aged woman trying to barge past me.

I promtly told her to fuck off and she tried to get the guy next to me to start a fight with me, i told her to fuck off again and then security kinda popped their head over the fence as she tried to get me thrown out for standing in my place.

Then later (my gf was stood infront of me) another woman tries to barge through (we are like 2 deep from front fence) my GF kind gives a stiff shoulder and this woman gives her the mad stink eye, and like a baseball umpire i decide thats it for this bitch, grab her shoulder and yank her backwards.

Security guard taps me and tells me no, i say "wtf" and go about my business.

Honestly, ive been to so many metal gigs and shits never breakin down into verbal fights.

These women need a fuckin sweep kick.

The first womans drunk ass chode husband nearly got his ass kicked a bit later after they tried to barge through again, he got thrown out the 2nd time. Wish he was close enough so i coulda given him a swift jab to the face and called his woman a dried up old hag.

Awful people.

Apart from that gig was sweet.

Fergie is a babe


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I've been watching this show Dollhouse nonstop today and finally decided to give it a rest and play some actual poker around 11pm or so. I need to clear this 4k FPP bonus and get closer to the 600k milestone so I decided to 24 table some nl100 6max. Haven't really played a long session at nl100 in awhile and basically was just playing nutso for awhile. I didn't look at my HEM till about 8k hands in to see how much I was down and I was stuck a lovely 13BI lol. So I decided to start trying and stop watching movies/talking on AIM and recovered in about 3k hands. Was a pretty overall boring session for me as I wasn't really trying to make money at first but just pass some time and get in some hands.



Graph for the session

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/358d1.dayyyyy.jpg






And graph for the month now lol, pretty fkn ridiculous

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/fc25e.dayyyyy.jpg


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for 2 hours nowim messing around trying to get either one of them to work. i read all the manuals i can find but my problem isnt answered anywhere. i also made a post in the pt3 forums but they couldnt help me. i use pokerstars and configured it properly, my hand history folder is full of .txt documents with my hands in them. pt3 and holdem manager recognize pokerstars and they also recognize all the .txt documents but they dont extract any hands. i tried automatic and manual hand extract but nothing works, i only get the message 85files found(the .txt documents), but 0 hands extracted. i reinstalled both of the programs twice but that didnt help. any ideas what im doing wrong?


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had a pretty good session today. lots of player dependent reads. playing fewer tables and keeping an eyeout for the fish was pretty +ev. was able to make some light call downs, felt like i was play some pokah.

anyway just checkin some lines

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standard fuuuuuuuuuu spot. i'm wondering if anyone ever talks themselves into a call here. it would be kinda sick if a retarded set played it this way with a cheap stab on river. about 3:1. that implies i only need to be good here 25% of the time righT?

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heh....i dunno why i didn't bet the turn...(i sorta remember thinking i didn't want to get check raised and blown off here)...but TT JJ would just check river right?

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i also feel i havent improved in any way at the pokers this year...

...just wanted to share my pain. lol


glhf at the tables


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Ok so im 1/4 thru clearing my bonus and it just feels that this stuff is designed to tilt haha the best is when someone calls your bluff and the red timer ticks 3 times then shows your beat after you think youve won and fistpumped n shit.
Anyways the players here are horrid yet im still an idiot that sometimes donks around in HU plo out of my roll for sure.
Anyways just getting my thoughts out as its 2:20 am, got to be up at 8 for college and will probably go bed around 4-6 cos im a degen retard when it comes to sleep & college
ill post graphs n shit later mebbe
ps anyone know how to get ongame hands out of PT3 text hh to work on this site? wont work on hands ive tried :S
pz lp







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for those who do or dont give a sh*t, here is my graph
Notice how sh*t it is running on 20bi trying to move up and this happens lol http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/9d8c9.fun times.jpg

if anyone would be kind enough to sweat a sesh sometime id be greatful


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I'm tired of turning fpps into cash and then losing on the bubble in the 3r after having a huge stack or whatever, sigh.

anyone want to stake my retarded ass? I'll post some graphs i could find from my old monthly result posts or alternatively you can look @ my ptr where i am a donk over an insignificant amount of hands on stars. Or you can look at my sharkscope where i raped sngs over a huge sample as my first real success in poker.

I dont really wanna play anything below nl25. I'll play mtts like from the $3-20 range or $12 180 mans or wtfever, i don't really care im just tired of making like 1 cent an hour and then losing my 100 cents after what seems like an equivalency of 100 hours of work.

ps - i don't care what you think fayth, or loco, ive beat every limit ive ever played, i don't feel like doing it again, i want to cheat a little, ok?

SO if someone wants to make some money on a risk or whatever, I'm not going to fuck you over, i'm not going to mislead you, i just want a jumpstart and i don't have any money that i can spare to deposit onto a poker site at this moment. I doubt anyone wants to stake me for nl50 or nl100 but that would be optimal, regardless, pm me if you're interested.

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Maniac (yeah I mean him this time)
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Fish (I was considering shove on the flop to look cool, his raise was SUPERSTRONG)
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All this and other stuff led to this.

(Retard I know)
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I almost cracked the Matrix as I now fully understand that variance is the one and only reason why anyone but the casinos/clients can make good money out of poker, but I still can't control my spewy heart.
I feel like I am on a great way to recovery though and one day I will not get tilted at all.



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Weak tight fish (On the turn I fold out pocket pairs that he would call flop with, he didn't fold so I am like cool c/f when he fires the super transparent blockbet I have seen him do with crap before :D)

It was most likely -ev play as I didn't have appropriately large sample to be able to put this villain away from the NL25 median of players with these stats, but w/e, I am not here to win money, I am here to learn.

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And tamtadada....

GREAT SPOT TO COLD 4BET BLUFF AT NL25
First time at limit below NL50 I must say.
non-spewy tags, position, blockers, some postflop value - I got it all baby, I though it would be a sin not to 4bet.

raiser: 32/23/1 /80% fold to 3bet
3Bettor: 19/17/3/ 8% 3bet who was 3betting 'In the field' a decent amount.

Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]

PokerStars Game #33959242227: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2009/10/12 18:43:24 ET
Table Agassiz VIII 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: PonceP ($36.15 in chips)
Seat 2: ZavtraYtrom ($52.85 in chips)
Seat 3: DoC.LemOn ($33.60 in chips)
Seat 5: psychopato ($31.90 in chips)
Seat 6: JohnBellens ($30.85 in chips)
DoC.LemOn: posts small blind $0.10
psychopato: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards
Dealt to DoC.LemOn
JohnBellens: folds
PonceP: raises $0.75 to $1
ZavtraYtrom: raises $2 to $3
ppppp788 has returned
DoC.LemOn: raises $4 to $7
psychopato: folds
PonceP: folds
ZavtraYtrom: folds
Uncalled bet ($4) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $7.25 from pot