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i just found out that my gf was featured in FHM,Maxim,Penthouse etc Magazines :D

pretty funny imo




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Been playing mainly 50nl and some 25nl. Been playing fairly short sessions mainly stopping when i feel im losing focus or getting bored, so no big winning sessions just +2 or 3 bi ones usually.

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July sucked pokerwise

~ - 1000$

August is very good so far

7 days played + 947$ mostly NL50 6max , some Nl50 HU


once again i realize how poker is such a game of Variance !
I eevn think that to become a succesfful poker player the most important thing ever is to understand how Variance in Poker works

GL all
<3

especially to the ones running bad


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Some poker content here, but not much and it'll all be in the end. Posted to much lately about how I run bad and blablabla so I'll mix it up with some cultural content! (I hate people who use exclamation marks like this, but I do it with some sarcasm so it's ok)

Music:

Normally I just write about music as far as culture goes, and I got some positive response to it so I'll keep that up a bit. This month I haven't found too much new music so far in August. I kinda like Smell of Petroleum by the Pogues, but I think it might just be because I'm fairly sure that is the song they play as into for "count the zeros" over at cardrunners. Not 100% sure though. Other songs I've been listening too lately is Fidelity by Regina Spektor, which is halfway embarrassing but it's kinda soothing. Richard Cheese's Jazz cover of NIN's Closer might be the most hilarious cover ever, Pretend we're dead by L7 is something like Nirvana meets Joan Jett which is nice since I really like Jett. Lastly I want to mention Here's to you by Bob Dylan's ex-gf Joan Baez which is a really nice folk piece and I dig rock and roll music by Peter, Paul and Mary (Peter is the dude who wrote Puff the magic dragon). Also, if someone likes stuff I write about, drop me a comment of a PM with some music you'd think I'd like, preferably something halfway obscure. I really try to widen my taste and it's hard .

As far as books goes I'd like to put out some somewhat easy to read, very good and not to long books for people who wants to get started reading a bit. I read A LOT of books and I find it really relaxing so I feel that I might have a good idea about what books are good to get started with.

Funny, easy and a classic

- Three men in a boat is pretty much Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, except written in 1889. I've read it maybe four or five times and it really helps when you're in a downswing or stressed out due to some exams or whatever. If you don't laugh out loud at least every 2nd or 3rd chapter something is really wrong with you. Not to long either, you can probably finish it in a couple of days if you don't have too much else to do. Written by Jerome K. Jerome, which is a bad ass name.

- Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck. My father has been recommending this book for me the last maybe 10 years or so, and I've ignored it since Steinbeck sounds like a really fucking boring dude. Come on, he wrote the Grapes of Wraith. However, this book is a really fun story about some alcoholic good-for-nothing friends, thieves and trouble makers. It's super well written and has some hilarious moments. Like when one of the characters has visited some girl who put up "far too much resistance in relation to her standing and reputation".

Classic, not so funny, really cool

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Basically a novel about a man who searches for meaning or something I guess? It's something like if a middle aged depressed German dude would Party with Raul Duke from fear and loathing and then write some weird story about his alter ego's search for meaning while watching a fairly weird porno including a Spanish Jazz musician just after having been to some kind of Mad Max-marathon. Or I could just give up and just tell you that you might want to read it, or you might hate it. I have no idea why I like this book.

Other, sci/fi, fantazy etc

Glory Road

Written by famous Sci/fi author Robert A. Heinlein this is fantazy for manly men. The hero fights the monsters, recovers whatever the crap important item for the universe he has to get and boinks the princess (who by the way is blond and well built, the hero had problems during some unnamed war in Asia since although the hookers were plenty he felt that Asian girls was to small so that he felt weird watching them, lol. As someone with a slight case of yellow fever I found this somewhat offensive). It's actually both exciting (not the sex part, Heinlein seems fairly perverted but his sex scenes arn't very grapic or anything), fun and makes you think a bit about what's important in life and such. Really recommended.

Ohh yea, lost maybe 20k the last 3-4 days, still up a fair bit for the month (not sure since I don't track omaha, but it's low 5 digits) so I'll get some self esteem back by raping 3/6. I'll play 30k hands of 3/6 and 2/4 before I play high stakes again. As per normal for me I say that I'll move down unless the games are great, continues as before, run bad and get owned for twice as much as it should've been if I had just done as planed before I actually move down. Also, if I don't win more then 3ptbb/100 over that sample all do it all over again until I do.



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If anyone wants to do some I'll be in channal liquid on iccup for 5$ betgames

how do I edit titles?



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This is becoming a really bad weekend, pokerwise that is. Otherwise it's just great. So it's not a complete fail. This morning i was doing fine. Not really killing flops but taking down stacks here and there at a nice speed and then this fish i took a few buyins off a few days ago joined my table. In my opinion he is really really bad. BUT i think i must be honest with myself and admit that today he actually owned me really hard. I think in large part this was due to the fact that we were in reversed roles this time, right away. Last time i got up on him and he started spewing into me really really bad. I made a note that he is an erratic fish. He overbets with total air and sometimes even 3x barrels with overbets and all and like no equity given the board.

So last time my strategy was to make him spew and give him space, especially on dry boards, to spew off his stack to me. i wouldn't raise to protect my hand. even when overcards were rolling off. knowing that with his hand selection and all, it was very likely he was drawing dead. Also i had a little read on his betsizing and i was really in control of that match.
This time it was the other way around. I think the fact that i hardly connected with the boards played a role in it. But it was just impossible for me to win. I spewed off stacks here and there. Got it in with him all wrong. Which i think is partly my fault. His preflop hand selection is just awfull, he calls opens with like 70%, min or a little more 3bets like 37% and opens on the button with maybe 35% and limps a bunch maybe another 35%.

But when he is winning he doesn't stack off light. And that little piece of knowledge did not get into my brain today. I think i should have made some laydowns that i would never ever have made in our first matchup but i should have made now.

for example this hand i think in the 1st match he was bluffing here 80% of the time. but i think today maybe 30% or less and my calldown was spewy i regret it.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728074

don't mind this one so much. i tried to 3bet him on the flop because his range for these minraises is quite large and i wanted him to discourage from it in the future. i didn't bet the turn because i don't give him credit for laying down a draw on the turn. and that's exactly what i tried to fold out on the river. it's FPS though i think and this is absolutely not a line that's standard for me because i think against good players i will get destroyed on these flops, if i use this.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728073

this is pretty ugly. he was min3betting me 37% and i was just calling a lot and playing pots in position but here i decided to mix in a 4bet bluff also to create some history and to give me the initiative back because it was really hard to get respect from him in pots and i needed it because i wasnt hitting obviously i didnt gain much respect. turncard seemed perfect to barrel.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728072

very important example of a hand that would have been fine 1st session but i think now that he was winning it was my spew. regret it , it didnt help that a few hands earlier he took the exact same line when a second 9 laned on the turn and i held TP, that time i did fold like i should
: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728071

i think i can 4bet flops like this because we have a little bit of history and he can call with really low equity holdings, when he threw it in my face it really sucked but i think i have to call. didnt want to slowplay this because i think its too drawy.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728070

this was quite early on against him. i think its fine because this is typical him. trying to represent something that you hardly ever hit on every street and then having air. but maybe thats not so much him today hehe.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728068

last hand of the match. i dont know. i think i regret this one. last week he could have shown up with A10 or 33 or something but now he was up so much.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728066

i'm typing all this up in the train to amsterdam. i'm going to a movie festival. a french movie i think. if it's an good i'll let you guys know. and its arriving right now. so i have to go. but later i will update with some hands against him i won. where you can maybe see why i call him down in such a stupid way. definetely not my default. and results of today tell me why

oh whatever i'm happy i analyzed this. i only took out some of the big pots but seeing how i played doesnt make me happy at all. maybe i should put a stoploss in. but i don't like stoplosses when i am playing huge fishes. so often i have taken back 3 or 4 buyins and finally stacked them. one time i think i came back from a 6 buyin loss. thinking about it.

peace.

ok back from the movie festival. the movie was pretty funny. it was about a bunch of women who lose their jobs at a factory because the bosses close it down and then they pool their severance pay to hire a hitmen, who is an utter failure. it was kind of a dark humour.

i promised some hands that i won, here is a hand that shows how erratic he can be:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728061

and though i think its fine he plays this hand for stacks, it shows you something about his defending range.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728063

here he makes a calldown that imo is really bad. the board is way too drawy too calldown this light? maybe it puts more semibluffs in my range but really.. i think its not good. i think he does this a lot but sometimes turns his hand somewhere in a bluff when he senses weakness or something.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728064

i'm at Central station right now, waiting for my train to depart and i don't have any more hands on my laptop but i might look into this match more when i get home.
peace.

ps your advice is always appreciated.



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After todays session i think i def. need to move down once again hahaha. NL5 here I come for the 283198237981 time. Back to multitabling 15 tables without thinking.

i love this game. no, i actually hate this game. im not even tilted, i just feel plain nothing.


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i think i push myself to hard when it comes to poker, everything under 20bb/100 is like a complete failure in my world on the low stakes as i play, and i always put down mosterous amount of hours..

looking at my last blogpost ive been running really bad aswell and its gotten to my head so much that i havent played to good either, wich leads to me really feeling like crap cuz poker is something really important for me nowadays.

Im not working either, so im just living off microstakes wins wich makes me not being able to move up stakes as i should/would like to. Especially now last months when i havent won as much as i woulda liked..

Lowering my goals, playing less = less stress.
Played a couple of sessions with a much more calm mind the last 3 days and it feels great.

cant control how i run, and ive been in kind of a lifetilted, blindish state of mind lately.

I also will cut down on my cashouts and just try to live a little cheaper for some month to really try and not feel stressed out over how much im winning.


will hang out with ex gf tonight, we are kinda close to getting back together. I really dont remember why we broke up in the first place anymore since she is really awsome and really loves me.. + shes hot (imo atleast)

feels good to be seing her again, have missed her alot last couple of months. also i can get my mind of poker for once.

pic of her doing some damn pose, just realised i dont have many "natural" pics of her even after 3 years of being a couple rofl
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i run crap and still plays nl25 but atleast im getting some of the good shiet tonight :D

suck it biatches!


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Before going to see it I'd heard some mixed reviews. A few of my friends had told me it sucked (friends who aren't Harry Potter addicts), but I'd also seen lots of film critics saying it was the best Potter movie so far. Of course most everyone who was a Potter nut who'd seen it said it was good, but some of those same people actually liked Goblet of Fire.

So I went to the theatre last night with low expectations, and were they ever disappointed. I'm not positive yet, but I think that this was the best Potter movie so far. It's definitely the best out of the last 3 which were made. I feel like there has been a strange progression in how the movies have been made. The first 2 were very feel good kiddie movies, and all the cast was still in the young cute stage. The 3rd movie puberty hit and the director of "Y Tu Mama Tambien" took over the series and made it darker. I always liked 1 and 2 as fun, feel good, pretty close to the book movies. #3 I liked as a movie separate from the books.

After #3 the series went into the dark direction, and the director for #4 tried to take it further but in the process lost ALL of the good stuff and changed everything making without a doubt the worst Potter movie. Then #5 they started coming back to the book, adding more dialogue and character building scenes and focused less on lots of long fancy scenes with excessive special effects. #5 was good but not great. So I always thought of the first 2 as their own different genre and didn't compare them to 3-5. And out of 3-5, obviously #3 was the best.

Now we have Half-Blood prince. While they cut out a lot and changed a bit, for the first time since #3 I wasn't really angry about the things they cut out or annoyed by the things they changed. They kept lots of smaller side story stuff that other movies usually cut out, like the Weasly twins new shop. There was a lot more funny dialogue and focus on the fun character developing parts from the books which made me care about them so much. Most of the changes were smooth and I approved of them, like the way they changed the kiss with Ginny and Harry - to do it the original way would have added a bit too much screen time when the way they did it in the movie was just fine. They also finally brought back qwidditch (Sp?) and did it very well.

And most importantly, the director FINALLY got Dumbledore under control. He wasn't as good as the original actor, but this was the first movie where I liked him. In #3 his role was so small that it didn't matter so much that he sucked, but in #4 and #5 he was one of the major things I hated. I really hope the same director for #6 is doing all of #7, and I'm pretty sure that's the case.

There were some things I didn't like but it's actually a pretty short list. First and worst was the way they changed Xmas - the attack by Bellatrix and Fenrir was STUPID. Made no sense and was obviously just thrown in there cause some hollywood producer asshole felt like they needed more action. I wish they'd used that to have the mtg with the minister, but I guess they did take that entire line of story out of the movie. But I'd rather that they just ended the xmas scene with Lupin leaving and no fight, and then used the extra time to do the ending right.

That's my second complaint - the ending. Overall as far as a changed ending I think they did an ok job. But I think they should have done it right cause it would have been MUCH better AND it wouldn't have added too much more screen time. The tension at the end of the book was so high and intense and I wish they'd brought it to the screen cause it would have made the movie great. Plus it would have been awesome to see everyone having an epic battle in hogwarts.

Overall while watching this movie there were very few times where I was thinking "wtf they left that part out" even though a lot was left out. They did such a good job of picking all the most important things and keeping them in, and a lot of the stuff was very true to the book. I definitely liked it and am excited to see #7.


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-15bi's, 10bi's under expectation. Believe it or not I was so soulcrushed earlier today that I was ranting @ Panorama about seriously just cold turkey quitting the game - even though my brain understands that a 15k hand sample is literally nothing and doesn't mean anything.... (except for the very real possibility that I plain suck)

I was definitely playing pretty bad @ the beginning (albeit also running megabad), but of late I'm honestly confused what is going on.

I'm not sure whether I'm playing well or poorly; the fact that I've "learned" to c/f certain rivers depending on villain action "should" be +EV decisions, yet the fact that I have no confirmation of this just messes with my mind. The nonstop coolers, suckouts, setups, and ESPECIALLY villains hitting draws (or 2p, trips, etc) when I manage the pot based on what I believe to be their range is making me doubt my ingame decisions right now.

I wish I knew whether or not I'm actually playing well, that's really all I ask at this point. Worse is the fact that I 4-8 table (actually recommitted to playing only 4 now), so volume is low, variance is high, and it causes even more confusion over the reliability of my percieved results thus far. And when I tilt-increase my tablecount, robot mode ensues and ofc it's a disaster b/c Uptown-robot is a spewtardcallingstation catastrophe lol.


Conveniently I'm off of a 1 week vacation so hopefully clearing my head off in some remote island will help when I get back.

Cheers LP, run 10000x better than me plz X__X


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I bought the Holdem + Omaha version of HEM yesterday for $145 but can't really get it to work properly so I've pretty much given up and stick to PT3 so pm me if interested


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i could really use a heater soon.


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According to the toyshop; "Scarface is an unforgettable icon of money, power and extravagance, with Al Pacino's mesmerizing performance as Tony Montana—one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film."
Now a guy from MAKE magazine (love that shit) used Mezcotoys Al pacino doll's to make a snowglobe depicting Tony in the final scene of Scarface. Gunning down everything in sight in a blizzard of snooooooooooow. Here he explains how you can create this yourself. I think it's pretty cool.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/make_projects_-_giant_freaking_snow.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

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here are the total results of yesterday's play, including the hour i played before heading out to barbecue at a friend's house. Food was really good and we had a few beers at his balcony. Which was all very relaxing.

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Pretty decent past few days, been slacking on updating the blog though. Had to deal with some distractions that cost me hours too.

Did 4 hours on wednesday, made about 320 so it was a nice win that day. Some friends showed up and I spent a few hours with them, had to put my foot down and say I had to work though. That's not something I would have done before, I only would have done about 2 hours that day if I didn't do that.

Thursday though I only ended up doing an hour, did some things with the girlfriend and then we got invited to a party. So I never really got another chance to play. I could have handled it better, but the distractions got the better of me. Live and learn.

Today I have the place to myself, girlfriend is visiting her grandma. I got about 5 hours done. Really crap day though, ran bad basically. I was getting annoyed with the slow leak of money to 70 vpip types who kept sucking out with 62o type hands when poker shortcuts messed up and it put me all-in pre with AJs. Of course someone had AA and insta called and ganked me. That tilted me pretty hard so I stopped. That's definitely a one in a million occurence since I have millions of hands and it's never happened before, fun! Afterwards I was really thinking about getting some weed and not playing anymore. Stayed strong though and did another couple hours

I'm going to make sure I update the blog daily, even if its a small blurb. Also want to start posting some hands.


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Guy sits at every table (i'm trying to start 50bbs) and takes max time every action... fish start complaining and leave the games

please hurry and busto quick again so i don't have to see u at any more tables

/rant


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i just dled HEM for the 15 day trial, i finished setting up everything but when im sitting on a table i cant see the stats next to the players names

the first thing i do when i open HEM up is press on Start Auto Import and then sit on tables, heres some SS's of what a few of my settings look like to see if i did anything, ive also read the HEM FAQ's but it didn't help

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WARNING: this blog entry might contain ribberish about bad beats and rigged live play. Read at own risk.

So I am in Gothenburg now with cousin and we decided to test the casino here. In an earlier post I have said that 2/5 in Vegas almost was as soft as Swedens 20/20. I think I have to take that back!

The night started out as it should. 4 people limp, I raise and everyone folds. 50 times in a row :-) I think I doubled my stack the first hour in only raising pre and CB! I played around 60/55/4 and completely destroyed the table. Nobody even tried to do anything :-P It was really crazy how much value it was.

Then something happened. It all started when I lost a decent size pot with ATv AJ on a AA5ss72 board. I couldnt win one hand the worst might be when utg raised (first time in 3 hours so I put him only on AA/KK) I call with 99, so does button and SB. Flop comes Jh9h8x. Utg bets, I raise and then button sits and swears for 3 min and finally shoves. Utg then swears and finally folds (KK he said). I call, button shows AJ ("thought I was bluffing"). He is rewarded with turn 8, river J.

Then a strange hand came. A pretty good player 3b from SB very big, since I didnt know what to make of it I call with AdQd. Flop comes 9c7d6c. He instabets something weird so thought he was completely empty and call. River is 2d and he puts me AI for like 3k. I almost followed my plan and get it in. But then my stupid-gay-idiot brain started rabbling about that he wouldnt be stupid enough to do this as a bluff (dusty you know what Im talking about). So I finally fold and he shows ATo, having 5 outs against me.

That almost started tilting me. But not really, I think I am healed from that! :-)
I won some more $$ at pawning the table before my final big pot for the night. I raise utg w KK, button squeeze and we see a flop of K62r, get it in and his AA spikes an A on the turn. I didnt want to reload at that time and got my last 1/2 stack w 2pair+flushdraw and lost against a straightdraw.. Why not?

To summarize it: value is crazy but bring the lucky boots if you want to win!
(ps. Promise not to whine in a while! :-P ds.)


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