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Just a few things i learned during my 2years of poker with all the ups and downs.

Most of u know me , but for those who dont.

I played poker for 2 years and had a lot of ups and downs.
I made my way from Nl10 up to NL200 but never managed to become a regular there.
I was a small winner at NL100 6max and a semi decent winner at NL100 HU

Some weeks ago i decided that i overall fail at poker since i lack some characteristics a good poker player must have.

1.) I cant play long sessions for 4-5days a week . I always had the problem that i dont enjoy sitting in front of a computer for more than 2-3hours.
That has been my problem with starcraft where i only got C-
and that has also been my problem with poker ... and i guess it will always be a problem in this kinda things.
I have never been a computer nerd and i will never be
Playing computer games for longer than 3 hours bores me to death.

I am a very active athletic person and i love doing sports more than everything else in my Life. I just have a need inside my body to move and have action all day. Thats just the way i am.
Sitting in front of a computer for 6-9h a day playing poker without moving my body simply is not for me.
I get in a bad mood,feel bored and start to play bad/tilt after some time.

I played this game for 2 years yet i had only 2 month where i played more than 25K hands ...

Okay enough talk
here are some tipps.

1. BRM and Discipline are the most important skills in Poker

If u dont manage to keep a strict BRM in poker -> quit the game
There is now way u will ever succeed longterm being a degen gambler.

20BI for up to NL50 is the lowest amount of BR u shall ever have.
I suggest moving up to Nl50 at 25BI and moving down again when below 20,0 BI

Having a " up30/down25" BI BRM is also fine for NL10 NL20 Nl25 and Nl50

Nl100+

I really suggest u to have bigger BRM when reaching NL100
30BI is the lowest u should ever have imo ....
moving to Nl100 at 40BI/ moving down at 30BI is probably okay.

The reason for this is simple.
Allthough u still can make decent money at Nl100 the average skill level of a NL100 player increasd drastically. 90% of the regulars have a CR,DC or Leggo membership and only do small mistakes while having semi decent basic skills. Most tables only have 1-2 overagressive fish besides the regular: Low edge vs regulars + very agressive fish -> variance even at NL100 will be Huuughe.

2.)
It is extremly important to make the right longterm decisions even when u might lose a good amount of money shortterm.
Being 5-8 BI down over 10K hands Nl100 even though u play very good and are a decent winner is very common nowadays.

So if u have a small BR with only like 25Bi this will negativly effect your mood and your correct descision making !

Thats also what i have to say for all the guys who just recently started poker.

Always do the right descision without tinking about shortterm money.

In a 1K hand sample size your profits are ~90% luck and only 10%skill
In a 5K hand sample size your profits are ~ 80%luck 20%skill
In 10 K hands ~ 70 /30
In 20 K hands ~ 60/40
In 40K hands ~ 50/50

So if u read some decent strategy guides and play your tag agressive style at micros while focusing on correct descision making
-> dont even worry about your results in the first 10K hands.

In those short sample sizes the results are almost complete due to luck /bad luck !

The worst mistake would be to move up and play underrolled at higher limits just because u got a heater and made 15Bi the last 10K hands on Nl25.

The second worst mistake would be to stop making correct descisons and become a total NIT just because u are down 8 BI over the last 10K hands losing every flip.


3.) Tilt control
When u realize u are tilted -> insta shut down all poker applications !
If u only do 1-2 bad descisions while being tilted every session
u will lose 15-30 BI a month !!!
Being on 10 minute Tilt doesnt seem to be that big of a problem shortterm losing only 1-2 BI ....

But longterm it totally kills your winrate.
A player who never tilts saves ~ 150-200 BI /year compared to a player of exact equal skill who has regular tilt issues.
This is hughe !


GL ALL


side note played some relaxed 1,4K hands today 9 tabling 6max Nl25 and made + 75$
I will continue to play some pokerz every now and then when i need some monez



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So i played my first session respecting my BR.
I played a couple of hands on 2NL, and i found it boring so i decided to grind the 1.25 MTT sng over and over.
This worked well, i'm like in the money 70% of the times so thats pretty cool. I'll post figures later when i played some more.
Its hard to adapt to the microstakes though, i was used playing 25 and sometimes even 50 NL. Its both hard and easy.
People are so hard to read, many of them are like 50/15 or sth but you know.
I dont allow any fancy play either, i play ABC poker cause theres really no other way on these stakes.

My life has been pretty stupid this week but after all its not that bad.
I drove my dads new volkswagen against a post so that sucks. And my bike was stolen so that also sucks.
But me and my girlfriend are together 2 year today so thats pretty awesome. She hates poker though. Thats not awesome at all.
Peace


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See blog post below for reference.
I hit my goal of 40bi at NL25 so I played that for roughly 4 hours today. Got soulowned by a fish and overall ran quite bad/unknown spew somewhere, going to session review a bit later.

At least I know I crush nl10 and have that confidence back. I'm still confident in my nl25 game as I'm making good decisions, I'm just not getting the right results over a small sample size, as is expected quite often.

Honestly I only make these blog posts so I can keep checking my progress and just in case the WBCOOP decides to spring up. I never know when that is.

Anywho, back to NL10 for the next bit as I've hit my 5bi limit for 25, but I'll be back at it fairly soon. I'm being kept accountable for playing 8 hours a day or at least studying poker etc.

Oh and I won my props from below's post. Ship it.


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Havn't been able to play live since my family is in town and the waits on tables r always ginormous. Thinking I should just take a break from all poker anyway with how online has been going.

live: -$600
Online:-$2.3k

With withdrawl I had to made I am now exactly even on the month. Managed to lose my entire profit in 5.7k hands..go me.



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best decision i've made in a while ...gonna watch some bluefirevids, find a way to maybe play live...and rebuild when I get back on Monday. Still have lost nearly 99% of confidence in myself but looking back before. Last month I lost 4k in 4k hands and my roll went all the way down to 5.2k. Hopefully w/ this break will allow me to refocus and come back able to get my money back before that happens again.


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The last couple days I've been logging a lot of hands and working on playing a bit more laggy which is actually improving my game immensely. It's also put me in a couple rather tough spots that I'm not sure how standard/spewy they are. In the two pots I have in mind I'm playing against a villian somewhere in the
35-40/27-30/15-18% 3bet range.

The first hand I raised mp with A/Qo got 3bet and flatted flop came Q/2/2 rainbow, villian bets $7 into $14.25 I raise to $24 and he flats. Turn brings 8 still rainbow he checks I jam he calls flips over Q/Q GG me. Now is this standard or spewy, if I'm calling a 3bet this is pretty much a dream flop. Should I slow down the turn when he flats the flop and re-val the river although I don't see how I can fold to a jam?

2nd hand I 4bet A/J in position board came J high he checked I checked back, turn didn't change anything he checked I jammed he called with K/K and I stacked off. This is a bit more spewy although the error was preflop, post I think it's standard. Not really if I should play this any different post flop or not? Your thoughts?


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So i recently found out pokerstars would actually send you every hand history you ever played on the website. I decided to put together my lifetime database there since i really wasnt totally sure how much i've made due to cashouts and multiple comps etc. Here's my lifetime graph over the last few years.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5701/lifetimeb.jpg

I'm pretty happy overall with how poker's went for me. I just need to put in more hands!


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Dammit i'm at work and i couldn't see it. #18 in MLB history.
Mark Buerhle of the Chicago Whitesox.
Gabe Kapler hit a would-be homerun but apparently it got robbed, so it was the 1st out of the 9th inning...and i missed it!!!
damn work.


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what is my little beautiful bunnies.

i've been away for awhile, due to personal reasons. my racist level has been dropping, but i believe i'll bring it up to competitive standards within the next week.

have been fucking the dog with regard to poker, haven't been playing at all - been more busy getting all kinds of shit for my new apartment in the city... and have probably dropped like a quarter of my bankroll on that. shitballs and vinegar.

also, buddy of mine from university/hockey/life is back from ontario for a few weeks, so i've been drinking way more than usual. in fact, i miss having solid shits. heavy prolonged drinking certainly has a way of fucking up my intestines. fuck you alcohol, you beautiful dark frienemy of mine.

so yeah, time to start grinding the shit outta the poker for a bit. apartment is mostly furnished, but still need a shitload of odd's and ends. never knew how much a fucking sofa set and bedroom set cost before. craziness.

anyways my little racist poker clicking dirty bastard friends, i bid you adieu


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its getting so tiering running like this month after month..

this downswing has lasted for over 3 months now and these 2 last days speak for themself..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/56d2eb4e847b9b2022ea311338c83c10.jpg

over 3 different sites now and i made some calculations and im 120 buy ins under my expected EV. over 3 months and about 200k hands.

im seriously thinking of suicide, its so enoying cuz im laying down soooo much time on this shit.

Im sure i have alot of leaks but im pretty sure i should be more of a winner on 25NL and 50NL then breakeven with EV telling me im a 15bb/100 winner..

fucking piss..




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I actually tilted while playing online, wow. Ran bad but obviously made it worse by tilting. Dunno what to do w/ myself atm, feeling embarassed & dejected about tilting over some nl100 buyins. I guess I will try not to grind live or online anymore today (pretty sure I'm going to fail at this as soon as I post this blog, I'll just play nl50 I guess). Really wondering why I'm feeling so emo'd out/easily tilted the last 2 days, guess its just a lot of frustration with poker the past week.. Being in such sick good games and just not having the deck cooperate in the smallest way.

I don't feel like I'm going to meet my goal for july/august and I'm probably going to have to push everything back another while. Continuing to miss my goals or expect that I'm going to miss them is slowly getting to me I guess. I definitely need to figure out a way to power back up, lol.

Bah, this whole entry probably just has to do with the *REALLY* shitty sleep I've gotten the past 3 days, as my schedule has flip-flopped every single one of those days. All of the above is probably just from my body & mind being fucked up from that.

Anyway, my mom has been in town for 7 or so days now. Today we're going to hit up craftsteak and then goto Carrot Top's show, which is supposed to be really good. I'm pretty excited to go see his show. After that I will try to get a normal sleep schedule for a couple of days and see if I can get my head back on track :D

I almost want to post this pathetic graph haha. I killed all of my online profits for the month (7 nl100 bi) so over the 4k hands I've played this month, I'm officially a rakeback pro


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Leaving for Orlando tomorrow for disney world. I'm leaving at 3am so i'm going to be grumby as hell since i need my 8-10 hours of sleep or i go nuts. I'll try to take lots of pics.

I also watched 12 rounds today, and i'm not sure if I liked it or not. Maybe need to sleep it over to make a decision. Poker wise, I think i'm going to stick to 200nl for as long as I can, much weaker players and 8 table, since thats wha works for me.

What else, oh yeah, wanted to get some more posters at PokerMuscle so the site can have more content so i'm looking for people to post on the site. You would need to post 500 times on the site, start a minimum of 50 threads and I give you $20. Posts need to be minimum of 20-30 words. No time frame to complete, so take all the time you need. This offer is for all LP members

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Played NL2 tonight with a Mike Matusow lookalike. When I first sat down I said to myself "holy shit its Mike Matusow." I gave him a good hard look and realized it wasn't actually Mike Matusow, which I kind of already knew since Mike wouldn't be in some random Florida casino playing NL2. As the night went on, the resemblance becamse more and more amazing. First, the guy's VOICE was the EXACT SAME as Mike's. His blow ups were the exact same as Mike's. The groan he would make when he would call a raise and then someone would reraise after him was amazing. He claims to have met the real Mike Matusow and that even Mike Matusow's own mother says they are really similar. He says he is working with the poker room's management to bring Mike Matusow here sometime in late August.

Either way, from the moment I sat down he spent the entire night complimenting me for some reason. He kept repeating that all he wanted to do was win one pot from me because apparently I'm really really good. It took him $200 and 3 hours but he finally won a small pot.


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Submitted by : nlloser60

PokerStars Game #30769558494: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/07/22 22:21:08 ET
Table Kniertje 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($439.50 in chips)
Seat 2: RJMDREAMER ($141.15 in chips)
RJMDREAMER: posts small blind $0.50
Hero: posts big blind $1

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
RJMDREAMER: raises $3 to $4
Hero: raises $12 to $16
RJMDREAMER: calls $12

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $32.00)

   
Hero: bets $25
RJMDREAMER: calls $25

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $82.00)

   
Hero: checks
RJMDREAMER: bets $100.15 and is all-in
Hero said, "i have aq"
Hero said, "btw"
Hero said, "if 9 easy call"
Hero said, "nh i guess but i have to call"
Hero: calls $100.15

River (Pot : $282.30)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (a flush, Ace high)
RJMDREAMER: mucks hand
Hero collected $281.80 from pot

Summary
Total pot $282.30 | Rake $0.50
Board  
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($281.80) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: RJMDREAMER (button) (small blind) mucked

Well i gotta go to belgium and denmark in the next week for COD lans, staying in the hilton in antwerp (sickooooo) then in some shit place in denmark but still, on this weekend there is a festival near antwerp www.tomorrowland.be , anyone going ;>. Might be crackin down on sunday with some guys then off to denmark, then home, then time to actually play proper poker and take it alot more serious than i have before!!!!!!!!!!!.
peace out lp
glglgl


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you can also choose annie duke.


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i think i am bluffing too much. today i probably cut my hourly in half by trying to push people out of pots. the problem is at nl25 when u get raised and know theyre bluffing, when u 3bet they will BOOM shove with their 44 and ur AK is no longer good.

i dont think they do it for value or know theyre bluffing. it just seems so random lol. i dont think they realise/think about it

anyway good day so far


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Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]

PokerStars Game #30760891725: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/07/22 17:52:46 ET
Table Mentor VII 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($50 in chips)
Seat 2: knlmwq ($50 in chips)
Seat 3: V@to$ LOco$ ($53.50 in chips)
Seat 4: rebakj ($34.90 in chips)
Seat 5: Invencible-T ($51.80 in chips)
Seat 6: seratchi82 ($16.65 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.25
knlmwq: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
V@to$ LOco$: folds
rebakj: calls $0.50
Invencible-T has timed out
Invencible-T: folds
Invencible-T is sitting out
seratchi82: folds
Invencible-T has returned
Hero: raises $2 to $2.50
knlmwq: folds
rebakj: calls $2

Flop (Pot : $5.50)

   
Hero: bets $5
rebakj: calls $5

Turn (Pot : $15.50)

   
Hero: bets $15
rebakj: calls $15

River (Pot : $45.50)

   
Hero: checks
rebakj: folds
Hero collected $43.30 from pot

So I randomly decided to get into some sort of motorsport and I picked Rallying. I dropped 20k for a pre built rally car + a bunch of spares, a trailer, and a tow vehicle to get to events and i'll be out racing within the next few months. Should be fun. I'll post pictures when the car is delivered on Saturday.

ttyl blog


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long time i didnt blog,

mh nothing special when it comes to poker! iam nerding dota here and there some rl and stuff. atm iam looking for someone whos into seo (search engine optimization) if you know smth about it pls contact me via pm with your msn, skype or icq contact!

thank you alot

lucas


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