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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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I have $475 stuck in my full tilt account that I would like to get on stars. I am willing to trade $475 on full tilt for $450 on stars to get his done quickly. Obv I am not a well known poster, but dj forever will vouche for me, as well we can do a series of smaller xfers


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Hey all

I need a trade of $500 from PS to FTP...Can do in 1 transaction to known LP'ers if not we can do in $100 increments...I don't mind small trades with multiple users either...PM me


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i run neutral ev! feel ive improved my 6max game a ton since the transition back to it from hu. i was playing so bad in the beginning its hard to look at some hands lol. hopefully everything continues.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/stimdizzle/asd.jpg


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/23c14.lolwut.png

nice session, and no no awful tilt spewing or anything, its just that nothing worked my way in all the session, sick my first time i loose 15 buy-ins in one sitting, ive lost 10 buyins quite regulary because of my ridiculously loose game but this is just crazy.

So acording to the laws of luck involving gambling and love, according to this graph im about to have an orgy that would make Caligula look like a monk.


oh and last weekend i faceplanted drunk and i needed stitches... FML


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was just reading 2p2 and my previous post made sense

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78/...ing/pooh-bah-redux-nit-clinic-564111/

10/8?? really?

"The 3 Golden rules of uNL"
"2. When Villian raises fold"

he seems to be winning tho over that 25k hand sample at 5ptbb mass tabling

EP: 88+ AQs+ KQs AKo
MP: 55+ ATs+ KJs+ QJs+ AJo+ KQo
LP: 22+ A2s+ K2s+ Q8s+ J8s+ T8s+ 97s+ 87s 65s ATo+ KJo+ QTo+ JTo+

i saw so many of these players today... even ppl playing 8/8! tight regs that also strangely 3bet a lot... whats our plan with 22 here? is flatting their raise gonna be profitable when we hit bottom set HU?


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Got a small propbet going down here, gonna try to make $1k at nl5 in a week. Read more here http://grindingfenner.blogspot.com/

Ill crosspost my daily updates to this site too when I begin.


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Looking for someone with money on UB to trade for my money on stars.


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Okay so here u go

I was a big fan of WC1 and WC2
I have finished the complete single player campaign of wc2 with both Orcs and Humans at least 5times.
I played a lot of WC2 over IPX Lan protocol with friends back when i didnt have internetz
I was a very big fan of Starcraft and played more than 4000 1on1 multiplayer games from 2003-2005 .. i was C- PGT ladder

In 2003 a friend of mine gave me WC3 + TFT since i wanted to test if it was worth buying.
i played the first 4 single player missions and then started a B.net game of TfT
The game lastet 40minutes and i had no clue what to do ... Didnt know shortcuts, heroes or any BO
I just chose orcs and spammed some orc warriors
i was never in danger the whole game but i somehow didnt manage to destroy his base
after 40min i got bored and quit

After that game i deinstalled WC3 and never played it again

Today on Amazon i bought a MMA instructional dvd that a guy who is part in the same german MMA community with me created
Its called NO-Gi grappling for MMA
While browsing through Amazon i saw some WOW commercials ( I never played that game) and decided that i might check out how much
WC3+TFT costs.

11,65 € for teh package.

Now i do finally possess an original copy of WC3 and TFT

Yay !

go me


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so i never really bothered before to use stats/hud... tried once before but it didnt just 'work' so i didnt care.

... well decided to use them today XD so sick, it gives you a real big edge. i made so many sick plays like stacking a 100% vpip fish with TT on Q8Q8x board when I front bet and he shoves allin on river or stacking off 3way with K8o on 8xx flop when I raised BB XDDD crazy, never ever do that before

Also I realised regs at my limit are a lot nittier than I realised. Guys I thought were solid/good were in fact like 12/11. I thought I was a huge huge nit but I'm actually pretty loose for reg at my stakes 17/15 usually, 25/20 during my sesh.

What are good stats u recommend? Theres tons in that tabbed popup (PT3). Atm I have VPIP/PFR/AFq


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So I played 2 sessions yesterday at 50nl. I started playing 6 tables in the morning and broke even over 2000 hands due to some coolers. Then started another long session in the night 9tabling. I played another 3700 hands, droping almost 9bi and breaking even at the end.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/ae047.graph yesterday.jpg



http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/caf98.yesterday.JPG


10 biggest loosing hands in descending order:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736185
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736184
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736182 (imo clear fold on turn vs uncreative tag)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736183
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736188 (tilt)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736186
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736187
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736190
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736191
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736192 (preflop was a bit loose call I think)

10 biggest winning hands in descending order:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736203
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736202
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736201
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736200
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736199 (I sucked out, but he deserved it for calling my 3bet vs his utg open with KQo)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736198
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736197
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736196 (his 3bet% from the blinds was 13% and 15%, so i was planning on making some moves postflop)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736195
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/736194


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must come down
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d8683.stupidgame.jpg

Nice tease Full Tilt. It was cool while it lasted.


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