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Hey guys,

Thanks to a few LP'ers and the LP community in general my game has finally reached NL50!! To you higher stake players its probably like "you have a long way to go mate" but I'm happy I finally made it this far (took my bloody time -_-)...Anyway I started this month on NL25 and was taking like my 6 or 7th shot at NL50...failed once or two more times...then middle of the month I took my 8th shot...and yeah it went well I guess...It's still over a small sample of hands but I think I have this time around haha...8th time lucky!...well considering I was running like $800 something bad over 20-30k hand sample is pretty disgusting imo but yeah this month I ran a bit above EV about $150 on NL50 and my BR sky rocketed...by the last couple of days of the month I was taking a shot at NL100...which I'm extremely happy about...I've only played for a very small sample...so it will really depend on how well I do next 2-3 months...

Here are my results for this month

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/5aa7522e0538140976981c749bf2a7d0.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/13fcf1dfe74e443133f73c15b2b6af55.jpg

PS. Just curious how do people add spoilers and stuff? =S








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I didnt make an update for quite some time, so here it goes.

April
April wasnt a great month in poker for me. I didnt really played much and when I did, I didnt play great and ran bad. All in all, I lost a bit of money, nothing big, in total -$6,470.

May
In May I returned back to Unibet after a couple months because I wanted to stay in the Unibet CZ/SK team, which required some activity on my part. I also wanted a change, because I wasnt quite winning for some time, so about halfway through the month, I deciced to do a lot of midstakes multitable grinding (8-9 tables), which really isnt my style, but I needed a change. Sadly, the results kept being poor no matter what ever change I did. Partly I ran bad, but partly of course I wasnt playing my best game all the time and there were about 2-3 sessions in which I definately should have quit way sooner and save myself a couple thousand.
Last thing why this month ended up to be the worst month of my poker careeer so far was my shot at NL 50/100 Heads-up against an Italian semiregular, against whom I was clearly +EV, but sadly the one big hand of the match up ended up to be a huge suckout against me, where I lost a 19k euro pot with KK overpair + 2nd nfd against just a str8 draw allin on turn )(http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/690722). NL 50/100 is way above my normal limits, so this was quite a hit for me, but yea, I took the risk voluntarily and fully aware of it, so no problems, wasnt even too angry. What I was angry about was the fact that he didnt want to give me more action soon after that.

Here is the screenshot of the month:

http://www.pokergamers.cz/joe/maypoker.jpg

It is in euros, so it is over $20k lost online in May, but at least I ran decently in small live tournaments in a local casino, so I made a bit of money playing live. My final score for May is -$20,345. It is by far my worst monthly score ever.

June plans
For June, I have got some poker travelling planned. First, I am flying to Vegas, coming June 2, but staying only till June 19. We have a house rented with a couple of friends from Czech Republic. My plan is to play about 4-5 smaller WSOP tournaments, prolly the 6-max tourneys, then a 2k freeze or 2 and then maybe 1 plo event, dunno yet. Other than poker, I also want to party a bit and maybe meet up with some of u LiquidPokerians and simply have a good time. I am definately looking forward to Vegas time. Only 2 days left till my arrival

After coming back from Vegas, I intend to go to Barcelona for the WPT Barcelona tournament (5k euro freezeout). I have never played poker in Spain before, so I am quite curious how tough the fields will be there. Tbh I expect quite a lot of weaker players there, but really I dunno. After the tournament is over, I probably want to stay a few days in Spain on the seaside somewhere at Costa Brava, just relaxing etc. I have been there last year and its pretty nice there, so I am looking forward to coming there again.

Thats probably about it for now. Maybe one last thing - I will probably be looking to sell some pieces of me in at least some of the tournaments I have planned, definately in WPT Barcelona (5k euro is quite a lot for me, would like to sell like 40% of my action). So if any of you are interested, leave me a message in comments or pm me.



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Day 0: 31.5.09

So I start with my daily reports today. Every day I want to write short thread about what I was doing and how I played. My two month long session is going to start tomorrow. I start at NL50(6max)and today I have installed software at I will play - Betfair. At the beginning I want to pay more attention on theory and watching instructional videos. My main sources are CardRunners and PokerStrategy.com.
Today my account on moneybookers.com wasn't working so I couldn't transfer my bankroll of 1000 USD on new account at Betfair. I will do it tomorrow. Today I have also watched first video of Brystmar's five part series on CardRunners and tomorrow I want to continue. I also want to read some strategy articles on PokerStrategy. I'm doing this because of I had exams in school and some other stuff to do and I almost couldn't play on-line. This way I want to refresh some basic theories and again play good and continue improving my game. Tomorrow I want to watch video from CR about Holdem Manager and after that set HM up.

That's all for my introduction and tomorrow it will begin.



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Is friggin awesome. I was having a hard time in nl25 and today i played some nl50 HU.
Maybe its cause its sunday and theres lots of fishez but i guess i did pretty well:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6287/nl50hu.png

Combined with my HU tourney victories this makes me want to never play 6max again.

Fun hands today:
River check FTW!
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Bad turn/river?
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Long time till finally bust the fish:
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Busted 400ish out of turbo takedown,made some money this month running at 2.1BB/100 which is pathetic imo.

Got a girlfriend tho,shes a kirsten dunst lookalike plus quite fun. So I win.

On a sidenote I think I'm developing a alcoholism issue, but its fun doing it so I'll probably continue with it.

Also D_zoo is such a great coach,his awesomeness is well really fucking awesome,Artanis also rules and lets not forget VanDerMeyde.

<3 Dan.


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-$6600 profits
-35k hands
-Completely nl200 now, 1/3 of my hands this month were nl100 though
-Moved into my new house
-Didnt get laid
-Gained 6lbs somehow wtf, i literally eat nothing hardly and stuff. I need to quit drinking


I'm playing in the $250+18 monthly on cake, first is 50k, one time baby!


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Lots of tilting obv but i feel like my style is opening up a lot and ive tried so many different things. Some worked some dint. When i was tilting i kept calling with like QTsuit at bb or like 78suit or 3bet... then i gained my sanity again and started folding again. I highly reccomend using PTR.com a lot to determine your play vs people. http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6219/may2009.png

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Won a satellite to get into the million dollar take down. Was doing pretty damn well and now I am fucking steaming.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/698316

This guy had been pushing a very wide range.


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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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get excited... more blog material below! lol
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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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