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have been playing a game called rise of nations with friends over hamachi lately, and it's heaps of fun playing against the comps. if anyone here used to play it u should let me know so u can join hamachi and join in the action some time =)

http://i18.tinypic.com/6f74arp.jpg

In the past 60days i have around 5~8 winnings day.. Seriously i feel so crap it's beyond imagination. I started to play really poorly and even if i take a break for a week my game won't get any better and i feel depressed as soon as i see my bankroll.. Now when i lose 50bb i feel like i run fucking bad and wont hit a shit for another day =/

So Yeah, if any1 feel like talking or w/e just add me through msn

Ramses4180@hotmail.com

Will be a pleasure to talk since ill prolly take another week/month break -___________________- and will be working on my site prolly. If any1 can help with it would be great as well


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hi all, i have ftp, and i need stars. have traded with a heap of ppl on this site before. i can list the names if u want, but off the top of my head it includes lostaccount, Siro, iop, BEFO, BIGLou83, ErikQuirk, plus more.

i can send first if ur no risk. can also do any increments u want, even as low as $50/trade. if ur interested or want to ask q's let me know via pm. thx =)

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also thanks for all who replied to my coaching blog last post, i have got a student who i'll probably be teaching NL200 FR for, he used to be a short stacker at midstakes and yes he is german (pokerstrategy.com), but hey one less short stacker at least!

but i still mostly want to be playing rather then coaching so im going to leave it at just him for the moment, and see how it turns out

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So after running like utter shit for the last 6 days i finnaly start see the light..... and break even


Submitted by : killaherni

PokerStars Game #28834159825: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/05/31 14:16:32 CT [2009/05/31 15:16:32 ET]
Table Praxedis 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: killaherni ($202.90 in chips)
Seat 2: sharkforhart ($207.30 in chips)
killaherni: posts small blind $0.25
sharkforhart: posts big blind $0.50

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to killaherni
killaherni: raises $1 to $1.50
sharkforhart: raises $3 to $4.50
killaherni: calls $3

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $9.00)

   
sharkforhart: bets $3.50
killaherni: raises $15.55 to $19.05
sharkforhart: calls $15.55

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $47.10)

   
sharkforhart: checks
killaherni: bets $46.60
sharkforhart: calls $46.60

River (Pot : $140.30)

   
sharkforhart: checks
killaherni: bets $132.75 and is all-in
sharkforhart: calls $132.75

Showdown
killaherni: shows (a full house, Threes full of Deuces)
sharkforhart: mucks hand
killaherni collected $405.30 from pot

Summary
Total pot $405.80 | Rake $0.50
Board  
Seat 1: killaherni (button) (small blind) showed and won ($405.30) with a full house, Threes full of Deuces
Seat 2: sharkforhart (big blind) mucked

nvm


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sorry this was so stupid.....

PS: FUCK it


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If anyone wants an extra shot let me know i can play and will play for someone if they can stake me i will play for a cheap percent of like 10% or something. let me know i am playing some of the other sunday tourneys on my own. PM me and let me know if anyone wants to work a deal for any of the sunday tourney

Thanks
B


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I made about 10,000 hands of HU 20nl/50nl and eventually quit because of the high pressure im put under while playing.Today decided to play some HU again and in 81 hands i went on 5 buy in swing then instantly alt+F4ed the poker coz i would've tilted so hard.
The question i got is how do u HU players endure all that pressure ... I used to monkey tilt every time i d lose 2buy ins on 6max but now idc if i go on 10buy in downswing as long as i know im playing good.However HU variance is like 1000 times bigger and games r faster so i need tips of how to retain a calm mental state


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I haven't indulged in one of these vain articles of what they call blogs in quite a while, so I'll give an update of the past few months.

After busting out of ANZPT 2nd hand in Adelaide, I entered a side tourny ($1k buy-in) and won that for $20k, so that was a nice little bonus.

Following that score I proceeded to have my biggest online downswing ever, almost $40k, or approximately 50 buy-ins (400nl - $1knl) over a period of about 2 weeks, since then I've been slowly grinding it back. It's been a good learning experience, it's just painful to lose so much when I can only grind on avg 1-2hrs a day because I work full time & study. I'm about $10k off from fully recovering, so wish me luck.

In addition I won a WSOP ME ticket by buying into a Step 5!!!!, I'll be in Vegas from 26 June, staying at the Palms & flying in with Wobbly.

May:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/764843d25c13e3099d93f8b90bbcd277.jpg




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Nothing much to say about the tournament except for I was the chip leader at the table with 6375 in chips at the first break (started with 3k and 25/25), but proceed to lose 3 coin flips in a row after the break and everyone else but me was literally short stacking and forced me to flip with them.

Hand 1 (50/100)
UTG (a monkey) with about 4500 in chips opens to 250
UTG1, short stack shoved for 575
UTG2, another short stack over called for 450
Me (Mp1) looked down AKss, decided to reshove, then everyone including the pfr folded.

UTG1 had JJ, UTG2 had T6o...AKs...that's okay...i had pretty good equity in the pot...
obv didn't bink. oh well...at least it's not a significant big pot..

Hand 2 50/100
UTg folded to Mp3 (who was the major contributor to my big stack in lvl 2) opened to 250, he's been opening quite a few pots after the break.
folded to me in sb with JJ.
I looked at his stack and found him had only 2200 left, so I decided to try to get money in pre cuz JJ is obv ahead of his range.
I made it 750 and he shipped for the rest of his chips and flipped AKo...okay, another flip..

Flop came.. KQc4c...didn't improve...great, this really almost crippled me down to 3200 in chips..

Hand 3 (75/150)

guy who won the flip opened utg2 to 400, a new guy who just sat down 1 orbit ago..seems tight and had about 6500 in chips called, folded to me otb and looked down AQdd. I knew i couldn't fold this cuz there were too much in the pot already (400+400+75+150=1025), I only needed to win 1025/3200+1025= 24% of the time to make my shove profitable. So I shoved and pfr folded but the new guy tanked for a min and reluctantly called with TT...nice, another flip, one time plz?

Flop brought 459 and obv I couldn't bink when I needed to...out on the first event I played.

conclusion: I believe I played this tournament very well but just unfortunate to be on the wrong side of the variance. Looking forward to next week's event.





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Well, after depositing 600 on FTP i started playing on FTP nl25 to clear some of the bonus.

Now i'm up 10 BI in FTP and up 10 BI in PS, making + 20 BI on nl25 in the last 3-4 days and after around 20k hands. I'm playing pretty well recently, as my play style has definitely loosened up a bit. I just feel like i'm crushing these ppl's souls.. which is cool.

I am running above ev on FTP so it evened out of the horrible -ev from PS. Cleared 20/600 bonus and i'm going to stay on FTP until i finish my bonus. Yep. Here are some pictures.

Soon I will go back to nl50 and rape some more ppl's souls there, although i'll prob. tighten up a bit and play ~9 tables instead of 12.

Overall i'm -100 in ev total running at around 6BB/100 combined with ~7BB/100 in ev over 20k hands

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/132c2bedc92f6ee39b213f56fcd3e486.png

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/7c4b6ce6d23da5293c3623c97e53c90b.png


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Ugh. May was hell. I played like asshole and ran about the same. Most of it was definitely my fault. Need to work on not being a station or getting it in when I know I'm behind.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/676ed0936f84e730ced6caafc7e47df4.jpg

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On the plus side I'm awesome at halo again.


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Need someone to design me a 728 X 90 poker rakeback banner. Something that looks professional. Looking to pay $25. Give me a PM if your interested. Thanks.


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I ran pretty well today. My first session was nearly +5bi, and I felt that I played well. Definitely can't say the same for my second session, though. I ended that session down about 2bi, making about 3 bad calldowns.

The important thing though is that I actually had a winning session, though. And a pretty nice one at that!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/50ef203e1c2fb6da11144e345f0dddcb.png
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/95555d2ab427eb27d9ba4f3786528c6c.jpg

I'm also trying to make good of my ridiculous image at these tables.

GL


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hey boyz,

I just took down the $55 buy in tourney on pokerstars.....the final 3 players chopped and i walked away with 7.5k, and the other two walked with 7.1k each, but i got the win overall as well, as i took out the other two players...check it out

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/018e4be7964319332959b8f3c761264e.jpg


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What do you do when you know you can't win? No matter what you do. That is what today has been like and the previous three days. Every time I rebuild. It beats me right back down. I have over 80k hands now between FL and NL and I'm a loser by a couple hundred dollars.

I just don't get it. Anyone else in this world who runs like me would have quit long ago but I don't. Is this a mistake? Do I run bad or am I just bad?

EDIT: I just officially quit poker and cashed out the remainder of my roll which was $783. My roll was $1600 5 days ago. Here's a life time graph of my hands from HEM:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/9ac83c1451e219a06e74643f3f7e28eb.jpg

GL Everyone.


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currently at Turning Stone Casino & Resort.

Up $450 at $1/$2.

Friend won bad beat jackpot for $50,000
I was at the table.
Got $3,125 for being at the table.
Friend gave me 10% ($5k)

Up $8,575

/brag

will post pics/write up on tuesday/wednesday when i get back home.


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fact


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v-v-v-variance fest

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/may09final.png

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/may09stats.png

I ran good at 2/4 but got absolutely destroyed elsewhere, resulting in a mediocre 2ptbb winrate for the month of May. Not bad though, a week ago I was questioning as to whether or not I'd even profit on the month (that and where the FUCK my red line was going)..

+6k Cash Game
+~500 Donkaments
+2k Rakeback
= 8.5k on the month.

Taking the last couple days off, except for the Turbo Takedown (gonna win me a Cayman). I found out I have some cavities too, they don't hurt but I can see them, ugh. Haven't been to the dentist in like 6 years, no one ever told me I was supposed to keep going back for checkups, wtf mate?

So we're a month away from the half point mark of the year. The extent of 2009 has been what I'd considered myself an actual full time professional (although god knows I don't put in the hours of a true full time pro), after deciding to take an extended break from school. I have to say I'm satsified with how it's been going so far. I wanted to make 150k this year and I'm behind pace on that, but I'm up around 55-60k on the year already which is the amount I made in 2008. I feel like I can still hit 150k seeing as how at the beginning of the year I was playing mostly 1/2, and now I'm playing anything between 2/4, 3/6, and 5/10. I played 10/20 this month which was awesome as I was able to luckbox a stack, lolol. Additionally, I feel like my overall growth as a player just keeps making HUGE leaps and bounds each month I play and devote myself to the game. I think it's one thing to be able to play this game well, but it's another to be able to inherently understand the game and its psychological factors well. Mastery of both is probably the recipe to high stakes success.

Some interesting hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/693802 - 4bet pot deep, two streets call down with bottom pair
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/696062 - Just a cute Q-hi hero call, not a big pot or anything though
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/697094 - 10/20 hand, always nice to 3bet bluff oop and flop the nizzles and cooler a reg

My June goals will pretty much be the same as my May goals. At least 40k hands and at least 5 digit income. I'd like to take this time to give a shout out to Bttech86/Ben86/Ben Tollerene whom I mentioned I was backing for his extensive WSOP schedule, as he's beginning that schedule now (today is Day 1 of WSOP series). I have 7.5% of him, so I hope he binks!

GL guys.

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