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But I love floggin molly and the poughes GHET ME SOME SONGS PPL!


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Feedback is appreciated!

Hand 1:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=736699

Hand 2:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=736704

Hand 3:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=736710

Thanks LP!


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Trying to learn PLO8, seems like a cool game and I heard the variance is lower than that of NLHE. Playing the 2c/5c blinds to get a grasp of it.

However, it feels like impossible to win so far. :O How is that possible, I mean those games should be soft as fucking hell I guess? Guess im just the most horrible player there lol.

W-ever, I really wanna learn it and become decent at it, should be so good to have a different game from time to time so HE doesnt become boring.

Lets see if I can do this.




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Thanks for the feedback.


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ran pretty bad this month like 20k below ev and am basically breakeven except for the small tourney I won which put me up a little lost 12k at 5/10 played really badly and spewed a ton also

I've decided I'm gonna make 50 bis at 3/6 before playing 5/10 again and leave 100 buyins online for w/e stakes I play since I'm a nit

schools starting up again in a few weeks going into the final year of highschool lol prob gonna buy a car by the end of the year deciding on either bmw z4 coupe or mazda rx8


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i havnt been playing omaha for too long but shouldnt ansett have won the hand with a K high flush?


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My Stats since I started Rebuilding:

Days Played: 15
Hours Played: 48.24
Total Hands: 20,683

Hands/Hour: 428.75
Hours/Day: 3.216
Hands/day: 1378


Fulltime Job, Fulltime GF I live with, no masstabling policy and supertight stop loss caused all this :/
Now I go to gym every lunch brake and get wasted once per weekend = even less hours for pokerz.
Did I lose the grinder status already?

At how many hours/hands per day I have to take it from my business card?


It sure does feel like I play very very little, I used to have 1000 hands/hour and 60,000 hands in the same period before :/





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How do I get it to work? It worked on Stars


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Offering money on PS for money on UB. Leave message here or pm.


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Looking for a roommate to live in Slough. I have one single room which contains double bed and wardrobe. The kitchen contains a fridge, cooker, dining table. Quiet area. PM me for more details. It's nothing special, but cheap and great for grinding + not in a bad condition.
30mins to London Paddington, ~1hour to Empire Casino (best place to play I think) where I use to go 2/3 times a week.
The rent is 320GBP p/m all bills included (council tax, water, landline, broadband) except electricity (around 50GBP p/m).





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So it seems that neteller does suck after all, and they are clueless about their own bank account verifying methods. I have 350$ stuck there that I would need for rent money asap, otherwise I have to break up my funds and lose interest.

I would need the help of someone who has propagandapoker or neteller account and could make a transfer worth 350$ to stars or moneybookers. I send first. I don't know about exchange rates, so you tell them Naturally, I would prefer a regular, trustworthy poster. If someone would be so kind as to help me out by the end of the weekend, I promise I will attempt to make a decent contribution to the boobs thread

Thanks in advance, cheers everyone


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hi this is my first month i play cashgame on NL10 in the past i only played sitngos
i had a very good start in august, but after 1 week it start dropping little downwards,
i got some tilt moves now and then, because of loosing to much and i go looser and dont tighten up.
i got a problem with loosing from SB and BB too, i have been loosing alot of it on the SB and bb, i guess i cant play pairs and big hands OOP...and i play way to many hands from small blind.
i play all PP profitble except 99 TT and 22
and hands like KJ/KJs/QJ/Ax/Kx i play loosing alot...
is there anything noteable about my stats?
some have tips for my stats from SB and BB plz?
http://members.lycos.nl/janalbertmol/NL10August.jpg


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Whine post.. you've been warned

Man seriously what the eff. Poker is pissing me off. I know I'm probably bad, but I'm not THAT bad. Why am I getting destroyed at NL2?! I'm playing ABC, in position.. fuckkk. I'm just frustrated. Maybe it's time to quit -_-.

On the bright side, my hand volume is low? There's still hope?
On the gay side, I'm running like 25 buy ins below EV now

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/12b4a.wtffffff.jpg


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P90x vs Me 2:0 for P90x

Yes, I am losing. I could only get through 2/3 of the first video on Wednesday and 1/2 of the day 2 video Today. Oh well, I'm not going to give up I'm going to keep doing it everyday until I can do the entire dvd set. for 90days +

I sweat like an animal though. My whole entire body is soaked in sweat... yeah its pretty gross LOL.

Poker has been going great for me since I've changed my game up a bit. Like I said previous trying to play less robotic and more intelligent thinking every hand through. Also, being extremely selective as to which tournaments I'm playing.

Today, I rocked Ongame for the first time in like 3 days. I've made countless deposites on that site and never won, and now I've been finally winning. Never ever give up folks! If you feel your game needs improvement watch instructional videos, read and post on the forums, analyize your game, record your results etc!

You guys know all this shit I don't need to preach.

In other great news I had this player named "Nickthegun" a player from Aussie sweat me. I never met him in my life but apparently he found my blog online and decided to look me up. Thanks for the sweat sorry I didn't perform well . I went bust shortly after the bubble after trying to make a resteal attempt on a guy with AJo against my KTo. I was really hoping he was weaker or that he would fold AJo.... Oh well.

Fulltilt poker has been beating me up and I desperately need a win on that site. Patience, patience, patience!

Anyways, if anyone sits sweats me in a tournament that I win, I'll give you money equal to the buyin but you have to be the first guy to sweat me. You can't expect me to cough up 20 people sweating me.

Life is just good, the diet is good the workout is good. I'm feeling good, I'm winning. I can't complain! Great month so far :D

Oh, I also wanted to show you guys this sick hand I played at a Final table on Ongame. I snap called this guys bluff, I just knew he was going to try to bluff at this flop. http://www.pokerhand.org/?4632821

+1310

http://tooyoungtogamble.com


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I am so depressed after looking at pokertableratings. Everyone seems to be losing/losers/not winning significantly. It's awful to see the truth I want all the people I like to be up 100k or something.

My PTR is kinda funny, my career peak is $777 and my best day is $1337 lolol.

anddddddd im up 2k in the past 2 days in about 4k hands playing nl100 hu 2tabling ship! My mind is so consumed with poker at the moment it's all im thinking about, I haven't felt this way since i started playing. I can literally play so long and be so enthralled by the experience it's sickening. A break from poker was awesome, I <3 the idea that I have probably 6 months before I would ever have to even touch a penny in my br to sustain and maintain life.

Anyways, I should probably go to bed. I have to work in 6 hours and then I have the weekend off to be alone and get massive txts and calls from all of my friends telling me how great of a time they are having while I'm alone in my room laying on my laptop... I guess the money is good though.

edit - !!! if you live in colorado springs I will pay sick vig for alcohol.


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EDIT: Keep in mind this blog is my online poker journal, a place to collect my thoughts. My wife says I sound like I'm offering coaching lessons. This is most certainly not the case. I simply speak in the vernacular because it's faster that way.


So I began playing some live NL200 lately. I'm way underrolled for this and have been debating on whether I should quit or not since I lack experience and am financially stressed at the moment.

I've toyed around with my own personal LAG strategy the last couple of months, derived upon nothing but my own assumptions on how people think and react to very specific conditions. Basically a poker playbook in my head for every single possible situation at the table. Due to my limited bankroll this has caused me to reconsider one particular poker philosophy, and that is your initial buyin amount. The idea is simple. What is the least amount I can risk to play a certain style, namely LAG. There are all sorts of variables to consider when you have money on the table, but I think the biggest one is what are the implied odds you are laying people with your stack. It does not take a genius for someone to have a marginal hand or draw, look at your remaining stack, and come to the "aw fuck it" decision. The question is where does this begin?

Shortstacking in an of itself is a rather complicated strategy, as is deep stacked play, at least if anybody else covers. A standard 100BB buyin gives you plenty of room to maneuver 3 streets of action without losing your shirt. But since 90% of poker is played preflop and on the flop, you can get away with plenty of standard poker moves without hitting the point of no return. This fits particularly well with a loose aggressive style as it is not your goal to be seeing too many rivers. With 50BB's you should still be able to make a preflop raise, iso-raise, or squeeze without putting people into awkward situations. You also still have room to bet, check-raise, or 3bet the flop, even in a raised pot, and maintain your FE and EQ in general. Depending upon how much preflop action there was the turn gets a bit complicated, but you shouldnt be in a ton of multiway 3bet or 4bet pots anyway so you wont find yourself here all that often. Most of your hands are going to be HU in single raised pots with enough ammo to fire 1 or 2 barrels and give up/stack off with the nuts. I think the worst situation you will find yourself in is making silly laydowns when you are getting 3:1 to call and people start scratching their heads wondering wtf you are doing. This could possibly result in a lot of unwanted action if you suddenly make yourself out to be bluffstar, but I digress.

The cool thing about buying in for half, is that you get double the buyins at your given limit (begin degen logic). That is my ultimate goal here. I want to play NL200 with 50BB's and still be able to play a solid game. If I could, I would certainly buy in full. It's always good to cover, it maximizes value, and unless you are a spewtard you arent in any particular danger of losing too much. I suppose playing halfstacked can also protect you from yourself, especially as a LAG player, letting you off cheaper when you make gross mistakes. But if a full buyin is +EV just to make sure you cover everyone at the table, well then all you need do is buyin for whatever everyone at the table has. I am going to assume that most live play involves less than 100BB stacks. I know where I do it does.

Anywho, we'll see how this goes. If I donk off half my paycheck this weekend, then I'm done. Shit, I'd rather just underoll myself for NL50 online than take hopeless shots at NL200 live.


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Health Care Fit for Animals

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/opinion/27kristof.html?em

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: August 26, 2009

Opponents suggest that a “government takeover” of health care will be a milestone on the road to “socialized medicine,” and when he hears those terms, Wendell Potter cringes. He’s embarrassed that opponents are using a playbook that he helped devise.

“Over the years I helped craft this messaging and deliver it,” he noted.

Mr. Potter was an executive in the health insurance industry for nearly 20 years before his conscience got the better of him. He served as head of corporate communications for Humana and then for Cigna.

He flew in corporate jets to industry meetings to plan how to block health reform, he says. He rode in limousines to confabs to concoct messaging to scare the public about reform. But in his heart, he began to have doubts as the business model for insurance evolved in recent years from spreading risk to dumping the risky.

Then in 2007 Mr. Potter attended a premiere of “Sicko,” Michael Moore’s excoriating film about the American health care system. Mr. Potter was taking notes so that he could prepare a propaganda counterblast — but he found himself agreeing with a great deal of the film.

A month later, Mr. Potter was back home in Tennessee, visiting his parents, and dropped in on a three-day charity program at a county fairgrounds to provide medical care for patients who could not afford doctors. Long lines of people were waiting in the rain, and patients were being examined and treated in public in stalls intended for livestock.

“It was a life-changing event to witness that,” he remembered. Increasingly, he found himself despising himself for helping block health reforms. “It sounds hokey, but I would look in the mirror and think, how did I get into this?”

Mr. Potter loved his office, his executive salary, his bonus, his stock options. “How can I walk away from a job that pays me so well?” he wondered. But at the age of 56, he announced his retirement and left Cigna last year.

This year, he went public with his concerns, testifying before a Senate committee investigating the insurance industry.

“I knew that once I did that my life would be different,” he said. “I wouldn’t be getting any more calls from recruiters for the health industry. It was the scariest thing I have done in my life. But it was the right thing to do.”

Mr. Potter says he liked his colleagues and bosses in the insurance industry, and respected them. They are not evil. But he adds that they are removed from the consequences of their decisions, as he was, and are obsessed with sustaining the company’s stock price — which means paying fewer medical bills.

One way to do that is to deny requests for expensive procedures. A second is “rescission” — seizing upon a technicality to cancel the policy of someone who has been paying premiums and finally gets cancer or some other expensive disease. A Congressional investigation into rescission found that three insurers, including Blue Cross of California, used this technique to cancel more than 20,000 policies over five years, saving the companies $300 million in claims.

As The Los Angeles Times has reported, insurers encourage this approach through performance evaluations. One Blue Cross employee earned a perfect evaluation score after dropping thousands of policyholders who faced nearly $10 million in medical expenses.

Mr. Potter notes that a third tactic is for insurers to raise premiums for a small business astronomically after an employee is found to have an illness that will be very expensive to treat. That forces the business to drop coverage for all its employees or go elsewhere.

All this is monstrous, and it negates the entire point of insurance, which is to spread risk.

The insurers are open to one kind of reform — universal coverage through mandates and subsidies, so as to give them more customers and more profits. But they don’t want the reforms that will most help patients, such as a public insurance option, enforced competition and tighter regulation.

Mr. Potter argues that much tougher regulation is essential. He also believes that a robust public option is an essential part of any health reform, to compete with for-profit insurers and keep them honest.

As a nation, we’re at a turning point. Universal health coverage has been proposed for nearly a century in the United States. It was in an early draft of Social Security.

Yet each time, it has been defeated in part by fear-mongering industry lobbyists. That may happen this time as well — unless the Obama administration and Congress defeat these manipulative special interests. What’s un-American isn’t a greater government role in health care but an existing system in which Americans without insurance get health care, if at all, in livestock pens.


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**** PLEASE KEEP THE LOL OR BET IS IMPOSSIBLE POSTS TO MY PREVIOUS BLOGPOST, I WANNA TRACK HOW MUCH POTENTIAL ACTION THERE IS HERE ****

5nl, $1k, 1 week. I will be playing on stars where it is possible to buyin deep for $10 at the 5nl tables.

Wow, I didn't expect all the people wanting action. Unfortunately I don't have anymore money to bet and this was just supposed to be a small better that formed from an argument on IRC. I mean its crazy how much action I could get if I had the money to take these bets, as I'm fairly sure I could do this too.

Maybe I'll grind a BR up and then take this bet more seriously with an escrow and more solid rules etc.

edit: Seriously thinking about grinding this month out and taking up to 2-3k in action, if youre interested in taking this up next month say how much youre willing to put up next month. I will even webcam and get a decent escrow and maybe a judge for this.

Also since everyone thinks this is so impossible, I will probably be offering 2:1 or 3:1 odds (betting 200/300 to win 100)


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