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http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2320#

"I think it is only through education that we can eradicate poverty. We can eliminate diseases. If we invest now in education the world will be a much better place for our children and grandchildren. And actually it costs less. If we wait until the problem arises and we try to solve it, then it is too big. The cost would be much higher. If we invest in education in a third-world country in particular and also where there's lack of education, lack of health care, they will be able to culture themselves. They will be able to protect the environment. It will also create new markets [which] will sustain the economic development and growth all over the world. But the world has to realize that together we can do many things. And we all are affected. We all should be concerned. That's why we invest in education here and that's why I think the quality of life, the sustainability of our growth and economic development, will solely depend on human resources in education."

--Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, UAE's minister of higher education and scientific research


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/4222d.through aug.jpg
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/12e66.report through aug.jpg

These are my results for this year. I played about half HU and half 6max. As you can see, running pretty well at the higher limits. Game selecting pretty well and playing when I feel mentally sharp and focused. Focusing on improving my game and building my br.


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running hot at the start of this month playing $13 6max turbos with 42%ROI :D I'm def playing very good as I am now continuously 8 tabling instead of playing sets of 12-20 tables for all my sngs.


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Well the summer once again nears its end. The summer was for the most part boring, though it had its moments.

This is the first summer in four years that i didnt have a summer job. I planned to only find a job in my field if anything and refused to work any $10/hr/minimum wage jobs that require no skill or brainpower. It didnt work out however, the federal govt offered me a position and then withdrew it after realizing they didnt have the proper funding to employ enough people to meet the job requirement standards over the summer.

Laziness took over with regard to the job search. My parents bitched at me constantly to get a job(even a shitty one) because otherwise i was doing "nothing" with my time. I eventually got an interview with farm boy.. and though i was quite sure i nailed it and couldnt have done a better job i ended up not getting a phone call back.

However, this deep down made me happy. I didnt want to waste my time with that shit. Why? Because poker over this summer has been more than i had hoped for. I am both very happy with my results and proud of myself for the work i put into grinding. I made more than i ever would with a shitty $10/hr job.

Here are my results over the 4 months since i got HEM(mid May to now).

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1788/summergraph.jpg


My laptop broke in the middle of august, so it doesnt include around 1k of winnings. So im up roughly 11k over these four months. Poker has paid for both school and will most likely buy me a new computer soon. Very very happy with my progess thus far since starting a little over a year ago with a $50 bankroll on cake(not including random sng micro donkaments on PS before that ;o).

Used to be very results oriented in the past and always bitched about how bad i used to run. Some days i still try to fight the urge to bitch because i have some pretty shitty days, but its really nothing more than part of the game and i have no right to complain.

May this final semester at University not derail me completely from poker as i intend to play nl400 once my roll reaches 15k again(previously was 17k but i had to cash out 4k for school :[ ).

/end.


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So in the past two weeks I've been attending some live poker events under the United Bar Poker Tour, where 5 nights a week they host free to play poker games at different bars every night. I've gotta say that playing live really kicks ass as far as the socialization part goes. They host two games a night, with two winners. Prizes as follows:

1st - 2500 chips
2nd - 1000 chips
3rd - 500 chips

Winners accumulate chips every night toward the huge winners tournament that is happening THIS SUNDay on september 6. I've been going for 2 weeks so other people have been accumulating for longer lol. so here are my results.

Finished 1st 4 nights in a row. One 2nd place finish. I've got a total of 9500 chips, with some chip technicality when I should have 11000. Chipleaders have about 15-20k. anyway, the players are pretty bad, others are pretty solid nits. With so little hands happening its hard to see what their full game plans are but over a 6 night sample things are beginning to get clear. I've kinda established myself as a monster on the table lol with people fucking flatting me in position n trying to win flops/outflop me. Even getting some hate/jealousy from the bad players while the tournament chipleaders are trying to befriend. The better players are definitely patient I'll give them that.

Its a $500 prize pool so first gets ~$250, 2nd $100 something, etc. I pretty much just attend for fun but winning will not be that easy. I'll let u guys know how it goes this sunday wish me luck!


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Well I just finished my first week of work, it was a very long week (55hrs) which is good and bad, lots of ot for $$$ but tiring as hell, just come home and sleep then rinse and repeat. On the other hand somehow I managed to fit in a few hours of poker mon,tues,wed nights....

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/78e28.ThisWeek.jpg

Oh ya I made just over $1100 cad this week @ work (~$1k USD) in those 55 hrs.

I keep telling myself that this job is good experience for an engineering student but in all honesty its not going to be relavent to any job I have in the future. Was thinking about playing poker for the fall (instead of taking a work term) after having a couple 10k+ months this summer while I was taking classes but didnt pull the trigger.. obv from pressure from my parents.


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Got it figured out thanks all.


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OH GOD I HATE WHEN I DO STUPID PLAYS
I SHOULD BE A 10000000000bb/100 WINNER INSTEAD OF JUST 11.5bb/100
I SHOULD BE RUNNING 5bi's UP INSTEAD OF JUST 3bi's ON THE SESSION THAT I'M PLAYING NOW
JUST LOST A WHOLE BI ON A FUCKING PLAY
THAT'S SO TILTING

STOP SPEWING
STOP SPEWING
STOP SPEWING
STOP SPEWING
STOP SPEWING
STOP SPEWING


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Moved up to 9tabling 25nl . Crushhhhhhh . Already rolled to take shots for 50nl after 4 days of 25nl. Hard work paying off!

Today:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7444/9409stats.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2166/9409graph.jpg


Month:
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9972/9109to9409stats.jpg



http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2899/9109to9409graph.jpg

edit:
How do you get clean hh out of holdem manager? The converter fcks em up?


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Couple more pics i found of my car at the rally

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/3879817635_32aefaf732_b.jpg

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I've been sucked into the world of poker with iCCup being down and with a large amount of free time now that fall is coming through and my work is not as busy.

However, I refuse to just jump in. I am of the firm mindset that if I learn the theory behind a winning hand and the mentality with which I should approach the game, I will be far more successful.
So this is my starting point, and this blog will serve as my progress (and failure) journal as I delve into the realm of online poker.


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I've been sucked into the world of poker with iCCup being down and with a large amount of free time now that fall is coming through and my work is not as busy.

However, I refuse to just jump in. I am of the firm mindset that if I learn the theory behind a winning hand and the mentality with which I should approach the game, I will be far more successful.
So this is my starting point, and this blog will serve as my progress (and failure) journal as I delve into the realm of online poker.


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Just a little update, still 4tabling nl25, I feel comfortable here for some strange reason even though I'm losing over 5k hands. Gonna keep grinding it over the next few days atleast, will update in a couple of days.


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I'm a waste of oxygen, I fail at this game and I can't beat NL25 anymore.

So ill do what I can do best... play NL5 for the rest of my career LOL. I've probably become mentally retarded or something, certainly one of the worst players around here.

Btw I failed at O8PL too, busted my 50$ roll at FTP at the micros there trying to learn the game.

Well enough of the emo talk, here's my graphs from 2009!

NL5.
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3222/82885871.png
NL25
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/162/50614726.png

Have a nice day everyone and thanks everybody for the nice and helpful comments.


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SOLD OUT *****

Event #24 $530 HU

10% dahornnn/tiagoxdd
10% Mynyx
10% sjonnie
10% Minion
10% 2Vi3T_B0Y4

Second chance for event #24 $215 HU

25% Jonesy19
10% tiagoxdd


Ty everyone wish me luck!!
Best of luck to me and anyone else here playing the WCOOP (unless you r on my tables obv)


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hey guys

after playing sc for 3 years and being a teamliquid member, where i read alot about poker, i finally wanted to try it out and deposited 20$ on pokerstars 2 weeks ago. im mainly writing this blog because i dunno where else to ask some newb questions.

i really enjoy reading all the hand evaluation threads here, and im impressed by the effort and detail lots of users put in their answers. the outthinking and putting the opponent on a hand part about poker is what i think id enjoy most, although im getting the impression that one shouldnt use that aspect of poker at all, until you reach a certain limit. since the strategy most used at 0.2/0.5, which im playing at right now, seems to be call with anything preflop, check until river, call any size of bet if you got a draw, then bet half your stack if you got something, theres not much outthinking or holecard guessing one could do. although i only played about 30k hands so i might have got the wrong impression.

so my question is at which limit does it start to be profitable to apply these concepts?

also in lots of hand evaluation threads, the OP often posts the vpip of the villain. where does one get that information?

i guess that was all, id appreciate any reply



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What up all....
Long time reader.....Jon McGowan ( You might know him as JonnyCosmo) got me on to this site awhile ago, never had the time or wants to actually make a blog. Still dont know if I am doing it right.

I reached a milestone the other day. On Sharkscope, I am officially labeled as a SHARK! As funny as that seems, and Jon will say the same thing, I never thought I was good at poker. Just hit good hands at good times. I've been playing a lot of PLO HU SNGs, and lots of Satelite tourneys. When I win the satelites, I never can play in them though, as I travel from Sacramento to the Bay Area every weekend to see my gf, who is a school teacher down there. I got my own job, as I am in charge of $15 million sports complex, equipped with a field turf soccer field, 3 Field turf softball fields, a plaza style skate park, basketball gym, weightroom, racquetball courts, and cardio room. It is the premier sports complex of the Sacramento area. This leaves me little time to play poker, and unless I win big in some donkament, I will still work my job.

Anyways, gonna try and actually become a member of LP, and hopefully meet some of you in the near future. Only time I get to see Jon now is when he is home for thanksgiving and Xmas to play in my tournament that I host during those times. And to think, Jon used to be in our homegame, now he is playing big time.......


Mike


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