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Hey guys, gonna start playing live again this week and stop playing online at 99k VPP so I can always bump my status to supernova no matter how long I take off.
(until the end of year)

Also, I'd like to thank Guy Thomas (WoodBrave) - x-sc player and MTT extraordinaire, for all his help with MTT's this summer, giving me a deeper understanding to the 45-180 mans, and the bitchin laptop that you didn't want, this computer is so pimp and 20x better than my other computer, THANK YOU :-)

Hmmm, chillin at the house right now, everyones at some amusement park here in Vegas (some small one), prolly gonna watch a movie n chillax for the rest of the night.

I'll still be trollin from time to time and posting some key hands in the Medium Stakes Poker area whenever I have tough spots and need insight

Wish me luck LP, as I wish you the best and thank you for everything you've done for me so far;

Pics of some random drunkenness and fun in Vegas with my very own LP hero Jlost88 (LostAccount) and all the other great friends that have helped me come into form

GL LP,

Ryan


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I took a shot in NL25 and ended up down $10 or so after 6 tabling for about 3 hours. I lost about $130 in all-in EV though or so lol. All in all, I think I can beat this limit, so I will try again for the next week or so and see how it goes.
Anybody want to play some games of sc for $10 or so? I'll be in channel LP Bet as usual


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I just won one. SHIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=97461

had first day off poker today since turning "pro", lost 1.2k last 2 days at NL200 running 1.6k below ev =[, back to the grind soon tho!

gl at the tables


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Sitting at the airport in philly right now waiting for my flight back home to stockholm. I dont have alot of batteries so ill keep it breif. Vegas was a fail in terms of poker. I also degened it up alot more than I was planning to playing alot of blackjack roulette and baccarat. Fortunately I won enough in omahaflips against pinball to cover my -ev game losses. Overall I had a great time in vegas, it was great meeting everyone(to lazy to list everyone, you guys know who you are yo) and partying and eating great food etc.

Just found out that I got into medschool so I have like another month of freedom left before hell is unleached upon me. I have mixed feeling about this. I really really wanted to get in so I am very happy, but at the same time living with poker players was sick fun and I was aiming at setting up a pokerhouse somewhere nice if I didnt get in to school. owell, its all good. Its going to be great to get back home to sweden and just chill for a while, no drinking no vicious spending and no desert.


take care kids


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with the final 27 in place i've actually played with like half the remaining field at some point while i was in the tournament.

there were two people i played with who are short but i think are sleeper picks to take it down if they can double through.

i played a bunch with jesse habaak during the bubble. he was a really nice guy from north dakota and schooled me pretty good in one hand. he seemed pretty loose for a tournament guy and i'll be rooting for him coming in.

the other player i think could make a run if she gets a big stack is leo margets. i don't want to give too much away, but i'm pretty sure she's possibly the most competent female player i have ever played with/observed. i was absolutely floored by some of the plays she made and hands she showed down. it is her first wsop and shes on a sick run, it would be so sick for poker if she takes it down so im really rooting for her. she's from spain as well, which is definitely one of the smaller poker markets at present but has some pretty extreme potential, so i think we'd all do better to see her do well.

she has some crap blog where she is talking about her M and how she is exploiting her image. she started online as well, and if i had to guess, i'd say even if she is the first one out today it won't be the last we hear from her. i just can't get over how skilled she seemed to be, and how good she was at exploiting the fact everyone would think she was bad.

anyways, other than those two, i'm of course rooting for ivey because i think he's the best player on earth and i like to see someone i look up to do well.

i'm pretty excited for the final table, a lot more good players in the field than last year, should make for some good action.



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I've had much success rebuilding my bankroll at the $2.2 180 turbos. over the past 6 days i've played 622 sngs with 77%ROI - see graph.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/c2e6e8ef8a5a37c18f063647ffb8cb68.png



Now i'm thinking, Should i move up to the $12 180s or should i grind out another 1k sngs at the $2.2s...? I like the $2.2s cos it doesnt tilt me as much when i am 70% favourite to win a 50k pot and lose. I also have to take in consideration that I will have to cash out a lot constantly as i will be living in BKK again. Plus i dont need to grind vpps for my status anymore as I already reached Supernova this year


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$40, I send FTP, you send Stars.

Reputable only.

***** GOT AN XFER THANKS ***** ++ reps for blackjacki2, sent straight away


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So since I'm going to be running a poker club soon and I have to write stuff out, I've been writing some articles more so to keep track of my thoughts.

I've already made a thread in Main Poker about this, so sorry that I'm reposting the same thing. I think it's better suited to put this stuff in my blog, though. I would end up cluttering the main poker thread .

Any comments are appreciated.

Don’t be a nit! How to approach poker
edzwoo

Think back to when you first started playing poker seriously. What was the first thing you learned? It might not be the same for you, but the first thing I learned was what types of starting hands to play. I started off crushing the penny games simply by following a little chart and some restriction rules, such as not calling raises with AJ because it’s an easily dominated hand. We all had some sort of starting hand chart memorized at some point, and for good reason. Newer or bad players that don’t have this basic guidance are generally crushed in the long run by those who do.

This is something everybody can understand on a basic level. It’s pretty clear that if one person plays better hands than the other, the player with the better cards has an advantage. Many people will get mathematical and say a range of AQ+, 22+ has 67% equity against a range of any two cards.

Stop!

If you think that said equity advantage is the main reason why beginners must follow starting hand charts, then you are wrong. In fact, if you still follow a starting hand chart because of this reasoning, then you are severely limiting your winrate.

All poker players have to understand that there are three advantages that we can have in poker: skill, cards, and position. Having a skill advantage is BY FAR the most complex and important advantage we can have. Positional advantage and card advantage are both very simple to understand. Having position gives us more information of our opponent and allows us to close the betting (assuming heads up), and having better cards will allow us to win more often at showdown. It’s important that I reiterate this: the reason why beginners must follow starting hand charts and play only good hands is NOT because of the additional equity (card advantage). It is actually because they lack any skill.

To explain this further, a beginner without guidance will make MANY –EV decisions. Starting hand charts and restriction rules drastically reduce a beginner from making –EV decisions. Note that I didn’t say ‘mistakes’, but –EV decisions. A –EV decision is always a mistake, but a mistake can still be neutral or +EV, such as missing a valuebet or valuebetting too small. When a beginner is playing the penny games and is dealt AA, to nearly any action on any flop, turn or river, it is VERY HARD to make a –EV play. AA on the vast majority of the boards against the vast majority of players in the penny games will be the best hand. When we tell a beginner to see a flop cheaply with a hand like 55, we tell him he must shut down if he doesn’t hit a set. This restriction is in place because if he continues, he is very likely to make a –EV decision. In the end, when we grind into the beginner’s head that –EV decisions are bad, he will dodge them all be faced with only neutral and +EV decisions. This beginner is now… a huge nit!

You’ve probably heard the term before, but here’s my definition. A nit is somebody who is so scared of making a –EV decision that they pass up on many +EV spots. Nits pass up thin valuebets and fold many hands preflop because they’ve been taught the world will explode if they get anywhere near something that can be –EV. They still cling onto their starting hand charts and rules. This is where most people get stuck, and it’s because they’ve been winning money for a while and are afraid to change what they already know. In order to play the best poker we can, it isn’t a matter of simply avoiding –EV spots. It is just as important to make the best +EV decision possible when we can. For example, say our opponent is willing to call $50 on the river with a worse holding. If we make a valuebet of $20, we just lost $30 on a mistake. If we check, we just made a $50 mistake. Even though we did not make a –EV decision, we made a mistake equally as bad as making a –EV call for $30 or $50. It is very easy for us move on and forget these mistakes simply because we’re usually content that we won money in the end.

So knowing all this, how can you apply it? Here are several tips that will help you improve your game:

1. Eliminate the idea of a starting hand chart from your game. For those of you who use a heads-up display to play online poker, this means approaching a poker game thinking you’re going to play your 15/11 game. Your VPIP/PFR should NOT be a static number. Let’s say you are in the big blind and it is folded around to the small blind who completes. This player is a weak player who folds to any half-pot continuation bet when he doesn’t hit a pair, and when he does, he leads into your strongly. Knowing all this, with your skill and positional advantage is so huge that you should be raising without even looking at your cards. In fact, your PFR should probably be greater than or equal to how often this player limps in. Beginner hand charts are used to prevent us from making –EV decisions. The actual hands you play should be dependent upon if there are any +EV spots available. And there are a LOT.

2. Do not limit yourself to certain rules you have learned in poker. This is often referred to as ‘standard’ play. For example, say you backdoor the nuts against a bad player who you suspect has a holding he really likes. The pot is $30 and you both have $90 behind. Many players will not even consider making a 3x pot shove here even though it is clearly the best play, simply because overbetting is not ‘standard’.

3. If you are going to make a bet or raise for value, start with the maximum and work your way down. Remember, the maximum is whatever is left in your stack, not the size of the pot. As ridiculous as it might sound, if you are dealt AA and there is a limper, first think about the merits of shoving on his limp, because sometimes it’s actually the most profitable play. DO NOT start off thinking you are going to isolate him with your 4 big blind plus 1 big blind limp system.

4. Do not ‘auto pilot’. Auto piloting is when you make a decision without giving it any thought. In any given spot, you must first assess if you can make +EV decisions. Folding should only be done when you go through every situation and realize they are all –EV. This is crucial to improving as a poker player, because you are constantly trying to push all your edges, and will learn more in the process. Auto piloting will not help you learn.


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The movie was entertaining but WHY DID THEY CHANGE SO MANY LITTLE THINGS that would of improved it, like how the unbreakable vow isn't made with snakes but random little laser beams WTFLOLBBQ.

Everything is over now! Sadface


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[]not run like shit


...........only 18 buyins under expected this month great start.


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[] Lifetime goal: Run like artanis in flips
[] Lifetime goal2: Play like djforever on 6max
[] Lifetime goal3: Play HUs like Fayth
[] Goal for 2009: NL200 till the end of 2009
[] Goal2 for 2009: Make 200k vpps and buy 2k milestone
[] Goal for june: try to be break even and [ x ]make 50k fpps which I need to buy June 2,4k instant cash bonus (down like 1k already ).

1 failed, 1 done, rest not even close to complete, ty.


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down 4 BI in 3 Days... going to take a break for a bit...


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I just talked with a friend of mine from HS and he's got the info on a handful of underground poker games. I don't think any of them are literally underground... unless they're hosted in someones basement (har har... ok no more bad jokes). But I was just expecting some home games that were consistent but it sounds like a full out Boiler Room type of operation. They've got dealers, waiters, food, drink, rake, etc. I wonder if there will be a steel door like at Teddy KGB's place.

I definitely wanna play more live poker but I wonder if this is a good idea. Concerns:

1) I have no idea how illegal this is, but I assume it is illegal. I figure if it's just some random home game it's really unlikely that cops would come, and if they did it would be easy to get out of. But since this is a type of casino set up I have a feeling I might actually be taking a slight risk. Probably not a huge one, but hell what do I know.

2) Rake. I have no idea what is fair rake or how to follow that shit. In Vegas it was a total mystery to me. I don't want to be getting myself into a situation where I will get rake raped. What should I be looking for?

3) I don't think this is a huge concern, but I feel like my risk of being robbed will hit its peak if I go to one of these places. I've never really worried about it before cause I mostly play online and the live games have either been at real casino's or home games with friends. But this will basically be me by myself with a bunch of people I don't know at a location that is probably pretty poorly protected. Luckily it's in Boulder CO so that reduces the risk cause people around here just aren't criminals very often, but I think this is probably the type of crowd/situation that would attract the few that we do have. I am probably worrying too much about this though as it's really unlikely. I guess I will actually have to watch the dealer for once to make sure he's legit.

4) I wonder, will the quality of play actually be good here? Home games are always filled with donks, but this sounds a bit more serious. I dunno if it will still be full of fish. Probably, but I wonder.

Despite these worries I'm definitely gonna go. There's a smaller NL100 game that I will check out first. If that goes well I'll try the NL200 game. If that goes well I'll try the NL300 game. I don't know if there's anything higher than that around here right now.

Any advice is much appreciated!


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So cashed out a little and am going to vegas for a week. Going to leave on thursday and arrive on thursday night. Partly to attend Evolution (big ass fighting game tournament) but mainly to just have a vacation with friends. Probably will be playing some poker as well.

Hopefully I'll run into some LPers. Cheers~


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So yea, I'd like to be more comfortable with my live game. I came up with a plan. Everytime anyone tries to talk to me about anything remotely related to poker, hands or whatever I'll try to quote Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness, because after all, is there anyone even remotely as bad-ass as him? Here's a couple of examples from imdb:

"Well hello Mister Fancypants. Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things, right now: Jack and shit... and Jack left town."

"Come get some"

"Hail to the king, baby"

"Honey, you got reeeal ugly!"

"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun. " (maybe change the gun to the chips or whatever and Good/bad to Aces/Air)

When I think about it sounds so incredible stupid though. How can that be?

Havn't played much last few day. Breakevenish today due to faggot (aka TAG-reg) sucking out with A8s vs Ako on 10/20. Been watching a ton of MTT-vids and I feel I've learned a few things. Played some limit on FTP too. Pretty fun, but really swingy.


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fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

down on like 60k hands. Not because I would be running so bad (partly that too tho) but because I just play so fucking bad. Unreal how fucking terrible I can be. I mean its like I'm on megatilt all the time. god. I know very well that Iam just doing monkey crap and so on but my play seems just out of control. Well cashed out 2,6k and forgot about moving to nl200, I think I'll have a break and then utilize the "myth-method" of starting from nl10 and then not moving up untill I have made 10 buyins on each level.

Other than that, life is probably better than ever. Its summer (which after finnish winter is so awesome), and I was just accepted to study economic- and socialhistory, which is even more awesome. For most readers its probably sounds silly that I'm so happy about starting my studies, but finnish university system is quite unlike US or France or whatever: studying doesnt cost anything, and one has to qualify throught a selection exam. 2,5 months of studying (i now know the table of contents of "human web: a bird eye view of history" by heart) luckily did pay off, and I was well in the top 12% accepted in

but yeah, definately time to get my shit together

oh and if someone (preferably > nl50 user) wants to talk pokers and so on feel free to add risto98 (at) hotmail.com


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***** Hand History for Game 13391711024 ***** (Full Tilt)
$25.00 USD PL Omaha - Tuesday, July 14, 04:20:20 ET 2009
Table Delhi (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: Tempos84 ( $37.08 USD )
Seat 2: Justin Bosche ( $26.67 USD )
Seat 3: Buck History ( $26.12 USD )
Seat 4: itsNugen ( $24.93 USD )
Seat 5: catfish28 ( $21.72 USD )
Seat 6: omg_you_suck777 ( $35.80 USD )
catfish28 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
omg_you_suck777 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to itsNugen [ 8d Kc 4s Kd ]
Tempos84 folds
Justin Bosche folds
Buck History folds
itsNugen raises [$0.85 USD]
catfish28 calls [$0.75 USD]
omg_you_suck777 calls [$0.60 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, 3d, 9s ]
catfish28 checks
omg_you_suck777 checks
itsNugen bets [$1.25 USD]
catfish28 folds
omg_you_suck777 calls [$1.25 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
omg_you_suck777 checks
itsNugen bets [$5.05 USD]
omg_you_suck777 calls [$5.05 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
omg_you_suck777 bets [$7.57 USD]
itsNugen calls [$7.57 USD]
omg_you_suck777 shows [Tc, 9d Qs Ad ]
itsNugen shows [8d, Kc 4s Kd ]
itsNugen wins $28.78 USD from main pot
My reasoning here was this could easily be a busted flush draw, and if he had a straight, it would have been a very well hidden straight, hence he would have bet more for value. But i also had two blockers for a straight, making it less likely to have a straight. He indeed had a busted flush draw. Opponent himself was a 55/8/1.6 but only over 88 hands.


Second hand

***** Hand History for Game 13391905474 ***** (Full Tilt)
$25.00 USD PL Omaha - Tuesday, July 14, 04:29:34 ET 2009
Table DePaul (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: gynni ( $23.55 USD )
Seat 2: itsNugen ( $28.33 USD )
Seat 3: i_smack_u ( $10.55 USD )
Seat 4: The Feed ( $25.00 USD )
Seat 5: gullfrisk68 ( $18.46 USD )
Seat 6: EzRGood ( $45.45 USD )
EzRGood posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
gynni posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to itsNugen [ 2h Ks Kd Jd ]
itsNugen calls [$0.25 USD]
i_smack_u folds
The Feed folds
gullfrisk68 folds
EzRGood raises [$0.90 USD]
gynni calls [$0.75 USD]
itsNugen calls [$0.75 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, Kc, 3h ]
EzRGood checks
gynni checks
itsNugen bets [$1.50 USD]
EzRGood calls [$1.50 USD]
gynni calls [$1.50 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
EzRGood checks
gynni checks
itsNugen bets [$4.00 USD]
EzRGood calls [$4.00 USD]
gynni folds
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
EzRGood bets [$15.50 USD]
itsNugen calls [$15.50 USD]
EzRGood shows [9c, 7h 8s 6h ]
EzRGood wins $44.18 USD from main pot
itsNugen doesn't show [2h, Ks Kd Jd ]

A horrible call by me on the river. This hand happened about 5 minute after the first, so i really didn't think it through - first i have 0 blockers, and so theres more straights in his range. Second, he bets the entire pot - making it look a lot more like value(especially considering i probably have a strong hand). His stats were the same as the first player - but bet sizing and BLOCKERS made a difference here.

All in all, i learned my lesson. I still finished up a buyin, but could have been 2....







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