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after doing super well the first last part of may and first 2 weeks of june i hit a fucking brick wall and started getting raped in poker, both live and online. ran bad-ish online which semi tilted me to spew off 4-5 BI's on nl100. was able to get my head back on straight tho and recovered. had my first winning session today in like a week, even tho i ran 2 bi below expectation

live was pretty bad, played 3 sessions this week. 1/2 , bought in for 300, max 500. +280 first time just rolling fish , -200 2nd time after getting mid set owned by top two > bigger FH, and then -300 for the 3rd sesh when lagtard shoved JJ into my QQ and binked on the flop

so yeah, it was nice to have a winning sesh today. i was on pace for a 4-5k month, but guess ill have to settle for a 2k~ish month not incl rb =[


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... Because they make me hate poker in general mainly because the people who work together behind the scenes to run all internet poker sites decided at some point that I deserved to go on the official "lose-all-flips...seriousily-ALL-flips" black list.

If I fold an All-In raise, I win, if I call, I don't even watch anymore.

Here's what we have tonight. These are from 210 FPP donkaments 'cause god knows I wouldn't ever buy into one of these. And somehow I've managed to cash in 1 satelitte ticket, admittedly from my own bad beat suck-out etc.

From 2 tonight
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Typicaly really...no surprise.

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And in another:
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This one just happened as I was typing this blog:
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And okay....so I just had a few of them hold up, so I'll dry up the tears.
Flip coach needed though. ty!




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Well I havent updated my blog in forever, having mostly kept to myself as far as poker theory goes, perhaps because I'm on to a few ideas I dont want to talk about, perhaps to save myself the embarrassment of more fail posts. Regardless, what makes this update special is the fact that I'm actually posting results. This is a first for me, because until now I have never had results worth posting. I started this blog after reading about Daniel embarking on this 5 buyin bankroll strategy as a personal challenge just to see if he could do it. The idea being that since he only plays 1 table, 500 big blinds is plenty to play with. Well I also only play one table, so I figured what the hell, gives me new purpose in poker life.

Now I havent exactly kept true to this BRM strategy until this month, basically because every time I had some limited success I would take my newfound roll and use it for other things. Like suddenly abandoning the challenge and putting in time at the SNG's, or just taking the roll and making a legitimate attempt at grinding the micro's properly.

But before I go on to that, lets get on with business. My first ever results post! Why? Because it's the first month I have shown any profit! EVER!

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2614/overallp.jpg

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6752/thismonth.jpg


Now I'm sure i'll get some *eyes roll* responses because this hardly seems legendary. But 5000 hands playing a single table at a time actually take some work! So I WILL sit here and be proud of this as if I have accomplished something and I WILL consider this sustainable after a 30 day run.... FUCK YOU, LET ME HAVE THIS!@

And now, the coup d'état, drum roll please. My lifetime graph results. Rather than having much to say, I'll just let the graph do the talking. The captions pretty much sum everything up.

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7602/lifetimed.jpg

And lastly, the awesome sauce in all of this is that I'm almost out of my poker deficit. I had never lost sight of the fact that technically, I'm still down. I swore I would never let myself put on the horse blinders and forget about where I'm really at as I all too often see from those who have never shown a profit yet think they are the shiznit during their single good run of the week at one table.

So where do I go from here? Well, to be honest, I'm pick pocketing my own account here as I desperately need to pad my real life bankroll due to such shitty economic circumstances these days. I've had my salary cut a whopping 35% this year, and of course every other expense has gone nowhere but up. I'm grateful to still have a job, no doubt the result of simply being friends with upper management, since we have laid off about 30% of our workforce and they could let go of me if they wanted. The good thing is, at the stakes I'm playing, a single good session gives me all the cashout I need. The bad thing is, a single bad session means a drop in limits, or potentially blowing my poker career. I have an opportunity right now. I could embark on some training, make a real case for myself and play NL100. People can practically make a living at NL100. Or I could donk it up a little with fewer tables at NL200 even. But neigh, I feel the planets are aligning, fate is descending upon me, and that I have a rare opportunity here to thrust myself to a level where I can become financially secure just in the nick of time, like when my company collapses. I'm going to continue on this run, and hope to do something amazing here, beat Daniel to the punch, and get myself out of this rat hole called every day life.

So here's to another silly graph next month. If you dont hear from me by then, I probably blew it.


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are -ev

srsly.




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cant rail for realz cuz bossmedia is gay ^_^

still, 1/10 in 20€ rebuy with 72k with avarage of 28k

1 timeeeeeee, make up for running crap in CG, plzzzzzzzzzz GOOD MONTH 1 TIME

edit: busted 4th with JJ against A9.. FML

w/e, 350€ not to horrible..


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Brag: I saved 3 lives today.

Beat: i fainted/got sick

Donated blood, and got $10 gift card.




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Played a 3 hour session today...was the most swongy session i've played at 1/2 yet...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/4065071d9a2a88122fe40290ebb9c1f0.jpg

I made one bad river call but apart from that I think I played well...altho after being stacked like 6 times I was talking to myself and about an inch away from the screen lol

that's all i got for now,
laters


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LMFAO, i was jus reading up on Andy Bloch's twitter page and i came across this somehow...rick astley sitting between negreanu and sklansky....he's the one in white

http://yfrog.com/0x27bqj

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I'm leaving for Vegas on Friday (see below post) and my last day in the office @ the day job is tomorrow (Tuesday). The rest of the week I'm using to get ready for the trip and get my shit in order (oil change and tuneup, etc). I also like to use lots of parenthesis (which are these "(" ")" things) while writing, especially in this blog post.

Anyway, the point is that Wednesday and Thursday I have a bit of free time to throw in some coaching sessions, so if you're interested and play low/micros, read my coaching thread to learn more.


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LordAD85 goes to Showdown more frequently than 99.4% of the population at $0.5/$1 NL Hold'Em (2 max).
sample 10 K hands of tableratings Nl100 HU + 8,7BB/100

well i decided to play some NL100 Hu again for the next months since i dont have time for 6max grind at all.
So i was curious to check my PS stats at tableratings

I know they are not 100% accurate but this really surprised me a lot

rofl




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had my faithful laptop for like 5 years and i've never cleaned out the dust before...i figure i should since the fan's been chugging along a little loudly for a while now.

anything i should know before opening my laptop?


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So, here it is. My biggest leak of all and I've been trying all kinds of stuff to get over it and I've gotten a little bit better at it but I still tilt way too hard. Fortunately enough I often am disciplined enough to almost insta-close session and try and cool off. But that doesn't really cut it. Before I close I often get a few hands in that I play tilted and at times this can become very costly which obviously hurts my winrate a shit-ton.

Now I was reading Myth's post the other day at Edzwoo's blog and he explained how a winrate can easily drop to a break-even/negative while you are more than capable enough to beat the stakes by little mistakes adding up and stuff. Now I only play 25NL and 50NL and I think this is my biggest problem. I am actually quite amazed how I can sustain a 3 ptbb/100 winrate with how hard I tilt at times even over a large sample size. This sample size even includes several occasions from about a 12-9 months ago where I didn't even have the discipline to close down my session and just started tilting away buy-ins and wouldn't stop before I lost like 2-4 buy-ins on top of what I was down.

Now I obviously know this is extremely bad, I am even ashamed of it a little but the only way to improve on things is by being honest to yourself and trying to improve instead of just acting like it never happened. Now I am just asking for advice around here how other people that may have had big tilt problems improved on discipline and maybe got a way off getting back into a relaxed but focused state of mind very quickly.

I think for people to hopefully give good advice, I should explain my tilt since I don't think it's completely the same as the regular tilt. The thing is, I don't tilt (much) when I get a bad beat. I know I got in the money good, I am annoyed that I lost, sure but I don't play any worse. I am able to go, whatever, got in good, percentages, long run, all will be good.

The times I tilt and when I tilt badly is because I didn't get my money in good. Even if it's at occasions where I post my hand, link it to people or whatever and they tell me it was a cooler. I am always wondering, could I have folded, did I make mistakes on previous streets maybe even. And then the moment I found out I made a mistake, I start tilting... BAD !! I am big perfectionist, always have been in other aspects of my life and this totally gets me going. I think of myself, that I am not allowed to be mistake. I ask myself to do everything I do in a (near)perfect way. Now you obviously know poker is a game without perfect information hence you will always make mistakes. After that, you can ask yourself the question if the mistake was avoidable or not. Often it is, sometimes, it wasn't.

This is the hardest part for me. I have an extremely hard time identifying the mistakes I couldn't have avoided. I'm pretty much very result oriented. Whenever I get my money in bad, I always think of myself as making a big mistake and start hating myself. I don't have the confidence to say, well, that was unlucky but I played it perfectly even though I got it in as a 30/70 dog this time.

I could ramble on and on about this but I guess this pretty much sums it up and so, I was wondering if anyone has any good and solid advice on this and maybe can help me out a little. From own experiences or whatever.

Thanks in advance, Kilay


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http://www.wimp.com/dannymacaskill/
some sick shiet.. unreal


as for poker if u read my last blogpost ive receovered very nice today after yesterdays gayness, won 12 buy ins in 3000 hands today. This month has been crazy.. swingy as hell.

but check the vid out imo, its art


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Oops, I mean "Viva Las Vegas"

Stupid commercials got me all confused.

Anyway, heading to Vegas at the end of this week and starting to plan out the trip. I'm going broke man style, driving there and bringing a sleeping bag to do some couch surfing. Have a friends place to stay at first but I'm hopeful to find some LPer couch to crash on so I can be closer to the action. If you have a couch (or floor) available please let me know.

I'm driving out on the 3rd and planning to hit up Frinkx's house party on the 4th with the hope of meeting a bunch of LP guys at it. Then I'll stay for at least a few days and maybe a few weeks depending on how things go, and by that I mean if I run good or bad. If I run bad I'll have to make it a short trip. If I run well then I'll stick around longer.

I'm planning to just have fun with the fish @ the NL200 tables cause I don't have much live practice and no BR to play any of the tournaments. I figure there will be such juicy tables that I should be able to clean up if I don't run like shit. If I can run well @ NL200 and get to meet/hang out with a bunch of LP people I'll consider it a great trip.

PM me if you're gonna be in Vegas so we can meet up!

On another note, coaching is going well. I've got about 5 students that I'm working with and several more who have shown interest but haven't had time/money to start coaching yet. If you're looking for Low/Micro stakes coaching check out my post from before here. I enjoy it a lot and so far I think I've actually been able to help a few people quite a bit (or maybe that's all in my head, hehe). I'm definitely gonna keep coaching people for a while and I'm glad I decided to finally start doing this.


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Overall, who has a greater edge, feel or math based player ? Which style are you ?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=876
Poll: Are you Math or a Feel based poker player
(Vote): Math
(Vote): Feel

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Anyone wan't some cake money for either pokerstars, partypoker or full tilt money, pm me


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To clear this up.. I didnt bust any stake - I just messed the first up and since that one I had no more stake.

Read Post below.


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You know those days - you didn't get enough sleep, your head hurts, your neck is blocked and you feel terrible.


This was one of these days, when I should not play poker, or at least limits above NL2, as anything can get to me.

This time it was about 12BI I lost to shorties.




And then came something that always lurks in the shadows- denial -.-
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Well, no harm no foul. 1BI down which is great considering my present state of mind (The usual-paranoia, strong hand=ship it, doing stuff because I feel like it -.-)

And tell you what, it was fun, and the 1BI loss was offset by FPP exactly in its value. Ship the VPP, and next time I will start my brain before I start my sessions. Maybe.



Now its time to watch LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS
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Since I moved flats: (NL10+NL25 -I had higher win rate at NL25, NL10 really really hates me. I also played NL2 for 500 hands and ran really hot 80BB/100 there ;o)


The flat period where my red line starts to go up was my experimenting with Monkey Style which was very helpful for me. Had I not done that I would easily reach the 3-4bb/100, but it was great for my learning and it changed the way I play a lot. I now try to have the red line at least at 0 (the downward sloping curve at the beginning was my standard to date)

I really regret I had to do the withdrawals, as I would have been at $1700 now instead of $900 and have comfy roll for NL50 shots :/
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Ok guys, WSOP ME starts July 3rd, I'm going to see if I can sign up on the 4th for day 1 group b if possible

So far I've sold alot of %

Don't forget - 1% = 95$ (instant +ev since I am ITM over 10% itlr on OPR and top 50 on the TLB - was #30 this morning but missed the sundays due to a ton of grinding / learning this weekend with the boys

Woodbrave - 20% - confirmed

Anonomyous - 20% - doesn't want this posted for some reason - confirmed

You'llCallme - 2-5% - confirmed

NeillyAA (Me) - 10-35% depending on how much I sell - confirmed

nickson - 1% - confirmed

kapol - 1% - confirmed

hneves182 - 1% - confirmed

quocy04 - 2% - confirmed

omnipotent-king - 1-5% confirmed

Faith - 5% - not confirmed

F4Zi - 5% - confirmed

Also, at 95k VPP and close to Supernova, can't wait!
I have big plans for whoring the $1,500 bonuses.

Does anyone know how many hours a week it will take at NL50 to make 100k FPP w/ Supernova status?

GL LP,
Ryan



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