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Fucking finally won a seat to the WSOP ME! I hate steps so much but theres so few MTT sats so what choice do I have? Probably spent about 4-5k in sats so feels great to ship the seat.

I was so tilted this sunday cause I busted 15th in a ftp sat where top 10 got a seat and then proceeded to bust from the sunday mill in 45th gah

Ive been very undecided about going to vegas after I sorta quit playing poker, and I felt that if I was to go it would be to play the main event cause I think that would be a really fun experience. So yeah, looks like im going Gonna have to start looking at the wsop schedule to decide which dates to go, I wanna play some smaller events prior to the ME to get a good feel for live donkaments and for the fun of it.

See you guys in vegas!


BINK!


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Oh wow, it has almost been one year since I posted on this blog and played poker online. If any of you have been following my previous posts, I had one year to do whatever I wanted. I ended up working for a non-profit charity as an outreach coordinator for one year (I got paid since I'm staff). Great learning experience and most of all, I matured from it.

Since my contract with the organization has expired, I thought about poker again for income and decided to take a crack at it in the summer. I'll be starting at the penny tables again to get reacquainted with the basics and as time goes on, move onto uncharted territory (25NL+).

What's funny is that I forgot the name of this site and was trying to remember it for the past few days. I ended up chatting with an old friend who introduced me to LP in the first place and told me the link. I'm back!


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This is kinda funny and sad and scary at the same time. A kid put a fake quote onto wikipedia to see if the news media would use it, and they took the bait.

DUBLIN (AP) -- When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked. The sociology major's obituary-friendly quote -- which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 -- flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets they'd swallowed his baloney whole. "I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. "I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact." So far, The Guardian is the only publication to make a public mea culpa, while others have eliminated or amended their online obituaries without any reference to the original version -- or in a few cases, still are citing Fitzgerald's florid prose weeks after he pointed out its true origin. "One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack," Fitzgerald's fake Jarre quote read. "Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head that only I can hear." Fitzgerald said one of his University College Dublin classes was exploring how quickly information was transmitted around the globe. His private concern was that, under pressure to produce news instantly, media outlets were increasingly relying on Internet sources -- none more ubiquitous than the publicly edited Wikipedia. When he saw British 24-hour news channels reporting the death of the triple Oscar-winning composer, Fitzgerald sensed what he called "a golden opportunity" for an experiment on media use of Wikipedia. He said it took him less than 15 minutes to fabricate and place a quote calculated to appeal to obituary writers without distorting Jarre's actual life experiences. He noted that the Wikipedia listing on Jarre did not have any other strong quotes. If anything, Fitzgerald said, he expected newspapers to avoid his quote because it had no link to a source -- and even might trigger alarms as "too good to be true." But many blogs and several newspapers used the quotes at the start or finish of their obituaries. He said the Guardian was the only publication to respond to him in detail and with remorse at its own editorial failing. Others, he said, treated him as a vandal who was solely to blame for their cut-and-paste content. "The moral of this story is not that journalists should avoid Wikipedia, but that they shouldn't use information they find there if it can't be traced back to a reliable primary source," said the readers' editor at the Guardian, Siobhain Butterworth, in the May 4 column that revealed Fitzgerald as the quote author. "It's worrying that the misinformation only came to light because the perpetrator of the deception emailed publishers to let them know what he'd done, and it's regrettable that he took nearly a month to do so," she wrote. Fitzgerald said he had waited in part to test whether news organizations or the public would smoke out the quote's lack of provenance. He said he was troubled that none did. And he warned that a truly malicious hoaxer could have evaded Wikipedia's own informal policing by getting a newspaper to pick up a false piece of information -- as happened when his quote made its first of three appearances -- and then use those newspaper reports as a credible footnote for the bogus quote. "I didn't want to be devious," he said. "I just wanted to show how the 24-hour, minute-by-minute media were now taking material straight from Wikipedia because of the deadline pressure they're under."

Even though there was no source for the quote and it was on wikipedia, newspapers, tv stations and more all around the world ran the quote as if it were a solid fact. And this wasn't some tabloid shit, but papers like The Guardian. I guess it's not such a surprise as the quality of journalism has gone way down hill recently. But it's sad to see.


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Help, guys, pls. A friend of mine has d following thing: he has a PC and a laptop and on the laptop he has used Skype to write with friends about smoking weed and stuff. Now, his mother kinda heard about that (not important how) and she confiscated the laptop, which is turned off. After that, he is kinda fucked up cause he has to find a way to delete the things written on it. So he asks if logging in from the PC and changing the password helps? He did that while the laptop is still off so Skype there is turned off. The laptop has the auto-signing option ON and that sux. So, is there a way he can possibly make it impossible for his mother to see the weed stories and shit? Pleaaaaase, help, he is really desperate. The story is deep and can fuck him up big time .


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I think this is the one. Want suggestions on others though. Youtube linky. I really loved the movie when it came out earlier this spring and I think I'll ned to watch it again sometime. Not sure if it's good a secound time around though. Also, I'm playing like crap now when I try cash and I'm not really getting the timing down in tournaments either. Kinda sucks.


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Here's a mock up of the initial design for the watch i'll be getting for winning a scoop, it doesnt say POKA POKA POKA all over it so i guess it's not that bad for a trophy watch.

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yoyoyo

after my doomswitch about a month ago I put about 1/3 of my roll on this swedish site "svenska spel" to grind it up through the microstakes due to need of cash IRL. Building my roll for "bigger" games once again.

So i put up a goal to play 90k hands this month, so far its looking pretty good. im grinding like a crazy man, been playin like 7 hours/day pretty much this whole month. Def going really good.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/80c9168c6ed6d080a1086f6ad3b48974.jpg

running overall at ~ 25bb/100 at both nl100 and nl200 so im very happy with the results so far.

8sek = 1$

so 100NL is like $12NL and 200NL kinda like $25NL

alot softer playin these microstakes then playin on ipoker/pokerstars.

if ur swedish and microstakes player i def recommend you playing on svenskaspel to build ur roll for $100nl ++

My 90k hands in 30 days is looking really nice cuz ive almost played half of the hands in only 12 days. will take like 36hours break now and then finish this shiet goal up

also will start playing the NL500 (=$62NL) later this week as i reached a 12000SEK BR on svenskaspel now

I also want to mention that im making almost the same amount on $/hour in these $12 and $25NL games as i did ~2 months ago in $100NL on ipoker when i played there.

so my tip, swedish microplayers, try svenskaspel its so soft..

again ty theguru for tipping me about svenskaspel.

im so happy its all working out so easy building up the roll again
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almost feels like im superman pwning these donkeys up


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51st this time, small stepback after 36th, 32nd and 18th, one time pls?


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Keepin in real
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here's what i'm playing along with cash games. should be funnnnnnn

1:
may 31st
$1k buy in crapshoot

2:
Tue, Jun 2nd
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 7)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

3:
Wed, Jun 3rd
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed (Event 9)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

4:
Thu, Jun 4th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 11)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$2,000

5:
Fri, Jun 5th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 13)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$2,500

6:
Sat, Jun 6th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 15)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$5,000

7:
Mon, Jun 8th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 19)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$2,500

8:
Thu, Jun 11th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 24)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

9:
Sat, Jun 13th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 28)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

10:
Mon, Jun 15th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 32)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$2,000

11:
Tue, Jun 16th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 34)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

12:
Thu, Jun 18th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 36)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$2,000

13:
Sat, Jun 20th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 39)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

14:
Wed, Jun 24th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) (Event 47)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$2,500

15:
Sat, Jun 27th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 51)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

16:
Mon, Jun 29th
12:00 PM
3-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 54)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
$1,500

17:
The main event $10,000

so 17 events in total + cash games any time im not donkamenting



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Switching seats on stars can be a very tilting experience, especially if you use tableninja. While I love tableninja I do have this one complaint... see, I have it set to sit down and buyin on any table that gets opened. This is a great feature and saves a shit load of time and prevents the distraction of having to deal with a buyin on a new table while playing a hand. But if you're already on a table and sitting OOP on a fish, and then the seat to the left of the fish opens up, you're in for a shitty time to get that seat.

Part of this suffering is due to stars. You can just click the seat and move there (unless there was an upgrade I don't know about). You have to leave the table, reopen the table via the lobby, and then choose the new seat. That's a pain in the ass as usually it takes forever to find the table in the lobby and then when you leave you often come back to find someone else already took the seat and you have to just sit back in the seat you had before... and sometimes your old seat is gone too, so now you're off the table. Balls.

If you try that procedure with tableninja on, you could be in for more suffering. Tableninja likes to take empty seats on the right side of the table first, so if you were sitting far right and the fish is far left, and you want top left, you gotta turn tableninja off. Otherwise you just reopen the table and it auto sits you in and buys in for you on the far right seat that you had before.

This extra step sucks balls. Cause now I'm not only dealing with the pain in the ass pokerstars way of moving seats, but I gotta deal with tableninja too.

I tilted really badly earlier tonight because of this... I was 250bb deep on a table with only 1 fish on it, the rest were regs. The 1 fish was directly to my left. He managed to double through me and at the same time knock out the guy to his left. So after getting raped I thought "I am gonna take all his monies" and then I see the empty seat! YES, POSITION ON THE FISH! I hunt the table down in the lobby, turn off table ninja, exit the table, reopen it, and take the seat, and turn back on table ninja. Seems like a success right? Nope, for some reason PS decided that despite me losing like half my stack the previous hand, they think I left the table with 250bb and force me to rebuy for that amount. At first I think this is some sort of mistake, so I try to leave the table and rebuy again for the amount I had when I left... I turn of tableninja, find the table in the lobby, exit the table, reopen it and NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, a reg has taken the seat to the left of the fish.

BALLS

Anyway, it takes a LONG time to play 1k hands while 3-4 tabling. I think I just played about 4 hours straight and got like 1.4k hands in. damn.


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since i'm in a good mood today

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if i made your night better, pay it forward yo




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do you have any dreams?
has playing pokers lead to destroying your dreams

[x]mine


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Just lost probably 5 80/20 +'s
lost 5 coinflips, didnt win a single pot over 20bbs and am in total down 1500 or more.

just spilt a glass of water all over my laptop, life is stupid i hate everything.


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So before I tilted off the last of my roll furiously attacking micro stakes players with the false assumption that if my hand is 2% better than theirs then I stand a good chance of winning at showdown, I decided to do something even more stupid, play HU baby. Now HU has always fascinated me, even though I have like a total of 500 hands in my lifetime at it. What few adventures I have stepped in have left me feeling like this could be my bread and butter one day, mainly because I get so hyper involved in every hand (which is what tilts me) that a game like HU feeds off my desire to really probe each and every single hand played. I had been warned the game is a variance fest, and now I see why. I decided to take my 3 BI's to the NL50 HU tables, and I courageously grinded my way up to 1.2 BI's vs some guy, feeling like I was doing everything right. Unfortunately I got coolered to hell twice in a row and BAM, bye bye chiplead. Wow, all your opponent need do is double up once, and suddenly he is a tremendous threat to your stack. So I left with like 9 bucks to my name, however not depressed. Whenever I blow my roll like this I suddenly get this new found level of respect for the game, and a sudden desire to regrind from the bottom up.

So back I am at NL2. I'm only playing 4 tables sine well, thats all I can afford heh. I definitely looked over the responses to my last blog, looked at what I was doing, and literally just straight out reversed it. Everyone basically said "do the exact opposite of everything youre doing now". Interestingly I'm not finding myself getting bored, nor am I pissed when I see ATo was the best hand in a 4 way pot against a bunch of idiots who got it allin on a gutshot and bottom pair. I simply abide by the motto of JLIG, "just let it go". I've had 5 winning sessions since, most of which are less than 1 BI days, however this also does not bother me. I used to be obsessed with the idea that I needed to piledrive my way through the limits the way you 10k hand-a-day grinders do it. Now I am simply satisified if I had a winning session. I even quit after a few hundred hands only being up about 15-20BB's, and oddly I felt proud about this. My goal at this point is to simply have winning session's.

So I've doubled my mighty bankroll to $18, which I guess if you think about it is pretty oustanding, because it's DOUBLE my bankroll. And im not shortstacking or anything like that. If I could double my bankroll at NL200 in a week that would be pretty brag worthy, so why not at NL2? Oh well. With a certain rakeback affiliate I use they now autocash your RB to your account every week regardless of the amount. At NL2 this is a godsend as it really helps replenish those micro losses. I should probably keep this to myself, but I also intend to embark back on that Negreanu 5 BI strategy where I move up every 5-6 BI's at the low limits. This could result in another "humbling blog update" in a few weeks but heh, so be it. I think as long as I can keep chill, and realize better hands in better spots will come better days, I can stay afloat.

That, is all....




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lost 10% of my BR under 1500 hands
won at showdown about 28% almost all hands with big pots were really locks too
aaa vs quads again, qqq vs aaa on turn plus teh sickest beats evar
zero seks past month, plus none in sight for the next coming months
haven't started investing/reading up on my stock market journey up to now coz pokers was too good
was really planning on 24 hour lock just before shwong started and just play when d_zoo coaches me tonite

good news:
coaching was paid for already using my winnings so far ( freerollz ftw yay!)
im still up like 400 for the month
didn't tilt at all during the whole process, felt sucky only after it happened obv
i still believe that poker is not rigged
kinda detached from winning/losing/br lately, just thinking about the games and how to beat it
planning on going to the gym coz poker obv sux right now
this was not a single tilt session, split into two sessions, so i didn't really technically go on monkey tilt coz there was at least a 10 hour interval and didnt really tilt before playing

overall life is still good, i still feel something great's about to happen. funny how a split second decision can alter your whole perspective on everything in life and what you do, next time i make a life read ill just go with it and live with my decision. gl people.




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Been playing HORDE a bunch in the evening, don't like w/ randoms very much. If anyone is interested in playing gimme your SN or add me on XBL - TalentedTom


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