Poker Blogs

up 7,1k already for september so im ahead of pace for my goal which is 10k this month. Running like 1k or so above ev, ship it. Rolled for 3/6 already on ipoker which i deposited like 4k on for 1,5 months ago or so, don't think ill play that until next month though. Hopefully i can keep this up obviously slacking with hands though, has 60k as a goal but already 7,5k behind that pace so ill have to hit the monstergrind very soon

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/71523.september.jpg


Comments (6)       read entire blog

Well, today i continued with the trend i got from yesterday. I'm going to play some more, but so far +7BI, running 4BI under EV. So def, not bad. Going to play some more later after I get some food and haze some pledges.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/287ff.Untitled picture.png


Comments (1)       read entire blog

Luckily this 4th place paid well

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/743fd.150r.jpg


Comments (6)       read entire blog

i'm a sports fan. i'm grateful that i can now watch football. because i was really getting tired of baseball.

btw how popular is american football outside of us? (specifically ca + europe)

anyway some comments:
1) weird 1st monday night football where both teams that should have won both lost =.= i feel sorry for the bills and the raiders.

2) when brady got the ball back with 2 min that was kinda fun to watch. i mean as soon as the pats got the turnover i pretty much just said "brady time gg." its really an amazing thing to watch. he's such a clutch performer.

3) i always thought t.o was a big douche but after watching the t.o show and seeing some more of his personality he doesn't seem to be as big of an asshole as the media made him out to be.

4) football seems a lot more even this year. i think lots of teams can reach the superbowl so i am excited for this season.

5) i'm a greenbay packers fan (as well as a brett favre fan although he's being quite an ass). i think the packers can do extremely well this year and i hope the best for mr. rogers.

5) favre looked good and i'm happy for percy harvin as well ( i go to uf). peterson can single handedly win games by himself. the vikings should be a potentially fun team to watch.

6) can't help but root for sanchez because of his sick stellar performance. such a joke that stafford gets the bigger contract. i hope sanchez can keep on performing at a high level. also i always like jay cutler's cockiness but he blew it up the asshole last night. please be stellar again.

7) the clear tier 1 teams i think are the packers/giants/pats/chargers/steelers and i think the tier 2 teams can very easily bump into the superbowl as well vikings/eagles/colts/ravens/saints

8) i think the cardinals/cowboys/titans have like no chance despite doing rather well last year.


and just a fun fact a friend texted me:
The following coaches are now out of the NFL: Tony Dungy, Mike Shanahan, Bill Cowher, Mike Holmgren and Marty Schottenheimer. Combined record: 4,512-175 (approximate). Meanwhile, the following coaches are still in the NFL: Dick Jauron, Brad Childress, Tom Cable, Wade Phillips. Combined record: 109-978 (approximate)


The best thing about football???

basketball season is right right around the corner^^

p.s congratulations to del porto i saw you win against nadal and roddick in the us. open series smashing the ball flat fantastically. it's great to see a different type of player competing in tennis.


Comments (5)       read entire blog

i need to move about 800 from ftp to stars and about 220 or so from cake to either site. if any respected LPers could help me thatd be much appreciated!


Comments (0)       read entire blog

Giving poker one last chance. I'm having biiiig problems controlling my emotions and hopefully sharing my results on a daily basis will help me keep my shit together.

I'd like to think I know the basics of poker. I can't afford to keep depositing money anymore after going bat shit mad and tilting my entire BR away every single week. So this is it. If I can't get my emotions under control I'm out. I'd hate a 9-5 job. I can't even start to describe how much it disgusts me, working 9-5, 5 days a week until I'm 65. I just don't wanna do it, but the way things are going I'm not really having much choice.

So here I go, starting at NL2. Will be 4 tabling. Wish me luck!

BR: $50


Comments (13)       read entire blog

Comments (3)       read entire blog

I'm just making a repost because I posted this in my last blog entry but I posted it late at might and most people didn't get to see it. Made a new poker video for all you guys that want to move up to 25NL. I'm 4 tabling 25NL, 6max on pokerstars. Enjoy guys, the link is below. Tell me what you guys think.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=84NPE91N

Also check out my prior blog for 50nl 6max videos.


Comments (9)       read entire blog

Hello,

I suppose it is polite to present myself before posting, so...

I, like most of you, consider myself to be a student. Both life and pokerwise. I am, by human measures, relatively young, on my way to graduate this school year. By now, I am well worried by my future education. Having been talented to understand most of things at its basis, but not going any further in any of them caused (and still causes) me severe difficulties in decision making. I quite like biology, adore chemistry, having no troubles seeing blood -> I should study medicine. And yes, I would like that. BUT-- here in Czech republic, it takes you six years to become a doctor. Literally. You are glad to have like seven hours to sleep, some time to eat. The rest of time you simply study. I think it is pretty much the same everywhere around the globe. To sum it up, medicine costs you hobbies, friends and a it definitely won't bring you the fulfilling life of a student. You really have to know-- "That's what i allways wanted. Being a doctor is my commission." --This is what I am not really sure of. On the other hand, I like english, french and am open to learn new languages. I wouldn't mind to study them further. People say "no good". Everyone reminds me of the fact that english, as well as any other language, should rather be a medium than a target. Basically, I should choose a specialization. And I hell don't know what it should be.

I enjoy sports, rather individual than collective ones (I am a loner), recently I started running on a regular basis, it helps me to deal with lots of problems-- I recommend it to everyone. I played the piano for like nine years, not really learned anything, but I can play some pieces. I like drawing and painting, despite my drawings really sucks. There are few things I have done before, all of them slowly started to bore me, except poker.

-

Ad poker: I suck. I haven't ever been any good poker player, always bored by reading articles, searching for videos. Playing is just more fun. The main reason why I decided to drop these few lines here was to motivate me. I write this blog only for myself, because I really can't give advices since I haven't got any. All attempts to become a fluent, consistently winning microstakes grinder failed. This is a leap. I want to reveal myself, really THINK of my game, share my humble ideas and grow. I haven't got those precise "balla" needs, of course, I want people to admire me and blah blah blah, but I think I can be pretty modest. I also do not agree with most of poker players' excentric lifestyles. This life doesn't suit me. Poker is for me a mirror to myself, throwing all my frauds, mistakes right in my face. If I will be able to deal correctly with poker, then life will be much easier for me. I miss discipline, patience and wisdom. I tend to tilt, I am irrational most of time and my mood is a bit result oriented, which... just sucks.

I "grind" microlimits fullring (12tabling 9max 0.1/0.25$ at stars). I can say I am a winner, I play like 10/8 with aggresion of 2.5, beating the game for 8 BB/100-- when I am not on tilt. Tilt decreases my winrate to 2-2.5 BB/100. When I tilt, I tilt just badly, but there is a lot reading on chronic tilters so I believe you figure out what a fish I am. End of stories.

- My bankroll is (after a major downswing/tilt) currently at 25 BIs.
- Will play for maximum of 90 minutes per day, 12 tables.
- If even a slight sign of tilt occurs, I WILL stop after losing 2.5 BIs in a row (I know this can maybe sound unreasonable but it can prevent things).
- I will put a post in my blog every week, which will contain my game analyse, thoughts and questions.
- I will also post hands daily (five most interesting hands of the day).
- I will comment on other people's hands only if I will find my tip/advice/commentary good enough.
- I will do my best at other aspects of life. Every single thing is far more important than poker, this is a crucial thruth I believe many players (inc. me) underestimate.

That is all for now. I do not expect anyone read this all the way to here, if anyone did, I bow before him. I would appreciate any advices related to hands I am going to post/my game/stats I am going to post/anything else.

Regards, req


Comments (10)       read entire blog

I just wonder what does 'ul' means?
I saw more and more people saying that in the chat box when wining a hand.
I hope it's not meaning 'you lose' because it would be so lame.


Comments (12)       read entire blog

[on facebook]


Comments (10)       read entire blog

Oh september, I was supposed to bust my ass grinding the whole month except for this last weekend (well, thurs - Mon), but instead my stupid stupid friend convinced me to go camping with him, so I'm going to be gone from this Wed - Tuesday. (<3, shitbag)

So its kind of crapping on my poker/real life goals.. and thus I am changing my sept. goal to hitting 20k very well-played hands while 4tabling. I really need to stay on the ball for a couple of solid months soon though, and get my ass up to nl200-nl400 sooner rather than later if I want to call myself anything resembling a success though. I'm also once again spent wayyyyyy too much money this month.

And so to alleviate that I'm leaving Vegas in 2 weeks for an unknown number of months, to go back home, where friends and new people from all over the U.S. won't be visiting for their vacations, and in what is a small aside to the amount I spend with friends.. my basic living expenses will drop by 500-1k a month... Thus saving me from going busto from having too much damn fun

Anyway yeah, I have been working on getting my game back on track and I feel like I've made a lot of progress (and pray I haven't just ran good ) in the past 3 weeks or so. Starting early october I'm really going to be pushing this and getting myself to midstakes online as I am really sure I can handle it with a bit more improvement, I just need to get my thumb down on my bankroll since it keeps running away from me.

This month has been a little bit swingy, and I haven't played much, but here it is:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/fb628.sept15.jpg


Finally I want to give a shout to everyone I've met and have communicated with on LP.

P.S. sorry I spam commas so hard, my writing is on approximately the 3rd grade level these days.


Comments (11)       read entire blog

6 and 8 tabling nl50
'
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d14b6.Untitled picture1.png

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/78abe.Untitled picture2.png

still got got girl issues tho, but this def. helps.


Comments (7)       read entire blog

well, here it is. its all ive really been able to focus on in the last few weeks(didnt spend THAT much time making it, just, i mean, ive been really out of it), played 0 hands of poker in september. this is a trancey mix made to fit on an 80 minute cd, if you want to download it, you have to rate it. its (almost)all really new stuff, some of it is set rips, please bear with my lack of awesomeness >_<

http://www.mydjspace.net/mix/view/id_1346/

fwiw i still finished august +7k 65k hands ~2.5ptbb so, my poker self esteem is alright for now!

also fwiw the tv was replaced a few days ago finally, and it seems to be okay! :O


Comments (3)       read entire blog

Comments (4)       read entire blog

Some thoughts i typed up

"System - an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system" - from dictionary.com

Systems. Everything can be considered as a subsystem of a larger system. Except for one. The universe. It is the largest system that contains every other system. Galaxies, stars, light, gravity, planets, electrons, quarks, ducks etc.

Every subsystem has inputs and outputs.

Lets think about the Earth System. It has inputs and outputs. Inputs are light and other electromagnetic waves, gravitational forces, space junk etc. Outputs are everything else. Trees, animals, rocks hot girls etc.

Every of these systems has inputs and outputs. So do animals, so do humans. Compared to the universe the earth system is very insignificant. So what makes a human system so different to animal system? Both have inputs and outputs, both are utilised by the earth system. Why do you think we are more important of a system than say cows?

Aight not to bore you any longer I will produce some of the more finesse outputs of the human system so that the male part of the human system can enjoy.

http://spets1.googlepages.com/hottest-girl-on-the-net.jpg

http://spets1.googlepages.com/ec_o.jpg


http://spets1.googlepages.com/WBW-Babe-1182719N.jpg

Shoutout to tenbagger - stop gettin it in AA vs my AK pf ;p



Comments (9)       read entire blog

This is a funny story I think you guys will appreciate.

So I'm in a 10.80 NL double or nothing and this guy insists on re-raising his pair of aces three hands into the game. He loses about 700 and starts crying about the other guy playing 78o and hitting the flop, instead of just realizing he's a moron for betting him back and forth. He argues with me all game about how bad I am and how he's the second coming, and how "we'll see where you guys are and where I am at the end."

He goes all in with pocket 8s after he sees a flop of 4AA with the other guy having 6Q. The river lands a Queen, of course, and the guy is eliminated in 6th place-just low enough to not make anything.

The kicker? The guy who beat him on the last hand was the guy who took him for the 700 in the 3rd hand who I was defending all game. Massive lols.


Comments (14)       read entire blog

if any of u saucy lads are familiar with TF2, you guys are familiar with the hat drop system.

Every 4 hours, and 17 minutes of play, you are given a 3.5% chance of obtaining a hat. hats are purely cosmetic but look fucking awesome ROFL.

Now for all you math nerds, you guys realize just how low a chance of getting a hat is. Some people play for hours and hours on end, or idle in dormant servers for the 3.5% chance every 4 hrs and 17 min.

I found 3 hats in one week , I DONT KNOW THE MATH BUT SOMEONE CALCULATE IT.

oh and i made like 8 bi today, ship that

umm...

school is good, not as hard as i thought it would be. just need to focus and grind it out.

gl


Comments (2)       read entire blog

So... I just started playing NL25 and I'm already thinking about moving up to NL50. When I moved to NL25 my BR was already over 1k and I wasn't sure if I should move up or not but when I asked u guys what I should do basically everyone said that I should move up and that in the future I should move up with 25-30 bi's. Now my BR is over 1.5k so today I decided to take my first NL50 shot opening only 4 tables. Well I think I played very well, but a couple of suckouts made me end the session half bi down when the EV says that I should be almost 1 bi up. That didn't afect at all. I closed the NL50 session and played some NL25 that I really feel like I'm dominating.

the worst suckout of my first NL50 session, keke
Submitted by : tutz

***** Hand History for Game 32838082577 ***** Poker Stars
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 14, 03:37:13 ET 2009
Table Kamenyar III Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: mpretto $19.00 USD
Seat 3: jimbbobb $49.50 USD
Seat 4: tutz_aml $57.85 USD
Seat 5: MrXEQ $61.05 USD
Seat 6: Hectorino78 $8.25 USD
jimbbobb posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
tutz_aml posts big blind [$0.50 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to tutz_aml [ ]
MrXEQ folds
Hectorino78 folds
mpretto raises [$1.50 USD]
jimbbobb folds
tutz_aml raises [$4.50 USD]
mpretto calls [$3.50 USD]

Flop (Pot : $9.75)

   
tutz_aml checks
mpretto bets [$14.00 USD]
tutz_aml calls [$14.00 USD]

Turn (Pot : $37.75)

   

River (Pot : $37.75)

   
tutz_aml shows
mpretto shows
mpretto wins $36.40 USD from main pot

so my bankroll has been on the edge for the past couple of months and i decided to give hu sngs a try as they apparently have the loosest br requirements of any game that i can play profitably.

while searching for more information about the game, i found this awesome GTO strategy that every stt or turbo sng grinders should know, if they don't already. i'm putting this on my blog so that it's less likely to get distributed ^^ but i still wanted to contribute something

SAGE System

note from spamz0r of 2p2: "Also note that this is far from optimal play. If you think villain shoves tight your calling range should be a little tighter but you can shove wider. Basically (since it only works for 6bb's or shallower) this is just a crapshoot and it's almost a "push any two cards" and hope villain folds. 6bb's is really nothing, and you barely need fold equity preflop to make shoving ATC ev+ because there's already 1.5bb's in the pot. Some higher stakes winning players actually DO shove ATC in these spots because villain will often have a way too tight callingrange."

EDIT: LOL as soon as i post something about SAGE i find a better thread

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58/...t-heads-up-sage-nash-chubukov-560408/


Comments (2)       read entire blog