I feel i played the best poker this month, at the beginning of the month i had 20 bucks in both poker accounts after my downswing and was on the verge of smashing my monitor. Fortunately my boy gave me some good support and told me i had to grind this shit through the good and bad times. My biggest leak was definitely paying off with TPTK and not folding enough when raised on latter streets. That has all changed.
In May i plan to grind out nl25 for a bit and see how it goes and possibly move up to nl50, as i am rolled for it once my bonus clears. I'm not working , and hope to put in a 100 hour month for the first time. I might switch to another site for another 100% bonus and/or Rakeback, but i really dont wanna make the same mistake i made before and move to a low traffic shitty site where im playing the same nit regs EVERY day all day, where the live ones at??
well, after april started off with a bang in the first week, the 2nd week killed me and i decided to take the rest of the month off. so it's going to be a down month, but i'm happy that i have some tilt control atleast.
overall april was a good month. i got a job now for the summer so i'll be in NYC if anyone wants to hit me up.
next month + this summer should be good for poker tho.
Yup, only played 12k hands and I'm a 12 tabler. I went through a bunch of hands and there are a few I played horribly, but I mostly ran bad. I checked my database and got KK vs AA 5 times and AA vs KK 0 times, so either people are soul reading me or I just ran a little bad O_O.
But anyways, I haven't been playing much poker because I've been working on the poker club I started at my school and other poker related things. Here's a few things I've been doing:
1. I emailed PokerStarsPartners (PokerStars' affiliate website) if they were willing to help provide for the club this upcoming semester, and they pretty much said they'd be glad to do so. Obviously I'd have to be promoting them somehow, so I outlined a small business plan and how I'd go about doing so. They said they were interested and to provide them with more info when the club launches next semester.
2. Emailed CardRunners support to try and contact Taylor Caby about the club since he's a graduate of my school. He quickly responded to me personally in only a few hours and said he was going to come down to U of I to give a speech for a business class. He also said it would be cool to meet up sometime while he was down. I went down there with rS.Wisdom (same school) and we met Taylor and chatted with him a bit. He's a really, really nice guy, and you can tell he is genuinely interested in any conversation you have with him. He said he'd be glad to help out next year, and even do some CardRunners stuff. By the way, what are some good vids to watch on the site?
3. Contacted the team that I work with for my site (great guys, you can look up their services at heathmont.net). They said they'd definitely be willing to work on a site for the poker club, so I won't have some ghetto webpage that I made via my own obsolete HTML.
4. Emailed Barry Greenstein to try and get him to come as well, since he's also a graduate of my school. He responded but he didn't really seem interested .
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Anyways, you see the poker club as part of the UIUC student organization here:
It's listed under Athletic/Recreation, and the club is called "Illini Poker Club". You can also see it if you look under the letter "I".
School is about to end, and I'm pretty much devoting this entire summer to poker. I'm going to be working on my own game, the club, as well as my site. I've been donking around at NL100 for a while now, but I just haven't been putting the hours in, and I've been cashing out a bit, something I thought I would never do until I hit NL200. You can expect me to become extremely active on the forums in about a month.
Good luck at the tables!
PS: For all of you who haven't read rockman's blog, gogogo
Proof that you can turn from a 24-tabler nutpeddler into a 8 tabling monster.
April Results, 1st month in Vegas!by Night2o1, April 30
April results are in! (Except for the big session I plan to put in today)
Vegas has been good to me so far. I definitely beat up on 2/5 a bit (but haven't been able to play it full time due to BR issues). I overall broke even on my 5/10 shots (but I ran teh badz).
Staying with Myth, and Frink for a week, has been a lot of fun even though the main focus has been grinding. I slowed down a bit this past week or so as far as the grindtrain goes but I will be hopping back on for May. I *have* to put in mass hours and hopefully have a huge month so that I can be properly rolled for 5/10 come WSOP.
Myth has been looking at looking at a WSOP house and has visited a number of them, I went to one of the choices yesterday.. very nice place. We're checking out another one today that has its own mini-theater, pool, spa, and pool table of course.. lol ^^
Hopefully I'll feel like writing more entertaining stuff this coming month, but this is it for now.
My graph is missing some money here somehow, but whatever, I've had my biggest month evarz. Next month's goal is 10k and not to spend half of it :/ LOL. I REALLY need to win 10k+ so I'm crossing my fingers and rubbing my lucky rabbits foot.
my first table was amazing........first hour i moved up over 80k then our table got broken up. unfortunately, it got broken up and i got moved to the chip leader/the heaviest chip table. i ended up being on the left of entropyxx lol. so table is pretty bad for me. im around 45-70k for 3-4 level of blinds there and the dinner break is coming around. seat two makes standard raise i and i make call in sb with a 10 hearts. flop comes k q 4 clubs. check check, turn is a 2 i put about 11k into a 15k pot, he calls. river comes 5. i bet 24k leaving me with 19kish. it goes about 7-9 minutes for him to call and i show nothing and he shows 9's. i feel pretty pwned. i mean is that line terrible ive showed down 1 hand in 4 hours of play which was kings.
next hand i have 9's and entropy raises to 6500, i raise all in for 19k and bb calls but doesnt mean to and the director had to be called and what not but he calls anyway flop A 10 4 turn Q river blank..........bb has kj entropy k10 doesnt matter im out. vacation starts tonite
came in like 220ish over all i feel good about my play. i did have some blunders but no regrets.
School is out... Time to Grind. + April.by SmokingDough, April 30
I wrote my last exam last night and it went alright. I was pretty happy going into exams this semester because there was no way I could fail any classes going into them so I wasnt sweating it as much this time around... I like that feeling lol.
But now that Im done school I have A LOT of free time on my hands. I dont have a job right now and dont really want to get one so Im going to play a shit ton of poker to make up for this and hopefully get some great results along the way. So the goal is to play atleast 4+ hrs everyday. I should be able to do this no problem. I will for sure be taking breaks during this time and stopping when the tables are no long good. Bum hunting ftw.. lol.
April was a fuckin headache for me. I was on pace for having my bes tmonth ever but then I got pwned by variance and went on a big downer which was not fun at all. I think I ploayed pretty well through it though and things could of gotten a lot worse. I guess I cant complain that much because I still ahd a pretty great month but it really should have been A LOT better.
So book the $870 month. Pretty decent considering the downer but I for sure would have past the 1k month which would have been my biggest winning month in poker ever! Cmon MAY!
Recently Ive been playing a lot of Full ring poker. I had a friend who plays higher then I do and always told me I should focus on playing Fullring because its a pretty easy game with low variance. I decided to take his advice and try it out. So far my results have been pretty good and Im enjoying myself. The problem is the site I play on never has more then 10+ FR games going at the level I play at so sometimes I have to play in the lower games which I dont have a problem with either. Hopefully this change goes well.
Well, I don't know if I'm even gonna play today, maybe a little bit, I was pretty busy this month with appointments and shit for my new house, had to go shopping for a bunch of stuff, bought a SPA, a 13k sofa and tons of other stuff. My uncle came over to check out everything we would have to change/fix in the house, we're going to redo the kitchen and basement's bathroom entirely, I had to get an appointment with a notary as well, anyways..... I still had time to play poker and considering how busy/lazy I was I'm really satisfied with my month as I'm currently at +121k
making 2009 at +406k so far, ahead of pace boys! :D
Here's my graph from partypoker, it says 21 days cuz I got back from Vegas on april 8th and couldn't play on party in the USA, I also won a bunch on cake and pacific, deposited 12k on ipoker and am now at 23k.... finally I tried ongame and the site sucks ass so I'm cashing out (basically every showdown tilts the fuck out of me cuz it seems like the software is slowrolling me everytime) and well I cashed out everything from betfair cuz I wasn't getting any action whatsoever anymore and I never really liked the software http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/1720/partyapril.jpg
I know I said I will play tight ABC at NL25.
I will not. Monkey style 32/30 9-20% 3Bet with a 4bet bluff here and there seems much better against most people as they are
1) Multitabling Nits
2) Monkeys themselves, who are not used to other monkeys
3) High VP Fish I raise wide range in position against them but once the flop comes and I miss I don't invest a cent.
4) Solid observing players against which I am forced to play solid myself. But if they go by stats they might not realise I am not so loose against them and it might give me a slight edge. However I met 2-3 Gold Stars where I felt that I don't have an edge anymore and people like this are a big challenge for me as they knew very well how to adjust.
Its the path of high variance, and a path that I am not very experienced at. I still make big amount of mistakes and my skills are challenged at all times, but I believe it pushes my poker skills forward.
Just to show you some fun Monkey v Monkey hands:
Hand1: My line seems weird? That was my intention. I bluffed this 40/35 guy a lot, and sometimes he saw my K8o, 35s kind of hands on board with 0 outs. After being down roughly $5 to him (but still up at the table thanks to the nits) I wake up with a monster.
His range here? Random.
I did my best for my line not to make any sense and first let him bluff turn, and than make it look like an obvious illogical bluff myself. I try very hard for my bluffs to make sense at all times and bet only when its logical for me to have a hand, preferrably in small pots or at very obvious spots, but the aggro NL10-NL25 players don't seem to realise this, and even the tight players try to counter aggression by aggression a lot.
DoC.LemOn: bets $21.95 and is all-in
ghosttfacee: calls $11.55 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($10.40) returned to DoC.LemOn
Showdown DoC.LemOn: shows (two pair, Aces and Threes)
ghosttfacee: mucks hand
DoC.LemOn collected $46.20 from pot
Summary Total pot $48.55 | Rake $2.35
Board
Seat 1: Zigotha (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Shakhmaty folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: LeMeilleu786 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: ghosttfacee mucked
Seat 5: Kaiypoker (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: DoC.LemOn (small blind) showed and won ($46.20) with two pair, Aces and Threes
Just a fun hand. This guy was stealing around 40%, so I started to 3bet him with anything semi-playable like A2o, any single gapper SC KTo etc. And he was folding, alot. Than he couldn't take it anymore and he started 4betting me All-in. 3 times I folded, but than I made my stand: + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #27656850307: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/04/30 14:37:06 CET [2009/04/30 8:37:06 ET]
Table Leonid V 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: toyahbabes ($30.55 in chips)
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn ($35 in chips)
Seat 3: pollala ($30.85 in chips)
Seat 4: ajeff89 ($12.75 in chips)
Seat 5: Pyynikki ($26.75 in chips)
Seat 6: VLADRAKULA ($27.90 in chips)
DoC.LemOn: posts small blind $0.10
pollala: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to DoC.LemOn
ajeff89: folds
Pyynikki: folds
VLADRAKULA: folds
toyahbabes: raises $0.50 to $0.75
DoC.LemOn: raises $1.65 to $2.40
pollala: folds
toyahbabes: raises $28.15 to $30.55 and is all-in
DoC.LemOn: calls $28.15
Showdown DoC.LemOn: shows (two pair, Aces and Queens)
toyahbabes: mucks hand
DoC.LemOn collected $58.35 from pot
Summary Total pot $61.35 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: toyahbabes (button) mucked
Seat 2: DoC.LemOn (small blind) showed and won ($58.35) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 3: pollala (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: ajeff89 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Pyynikki folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: VLADRAKULA folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Anyway my first year at uni (I came straight to second year) ends in one month.
Just got an essay with my usual 72% back (I had 3 modules last semestre, all 70-75% Overall mark, I could push it harder if my standard for 3k words essay was not one to two days of semi-studying and preparation for exams two days perhaps) is coming to an end and exams are in one month.
Than I have to find myself a job as I am going for an Internship next Uni Year,I had an interview with Sun Microsystems today and couple more are coming up, wish me luck ;o
The start of the month was amazing, very promising.
I ran really good at NL200 smashing everything. About Half way thru the month
I decided to stop playing when i was about at my peak because i was lifetilted (due to some events)
and i could tell that I am not going to win. Its that feeling I get.
Well I was bored so i decided to play more and as i played more i started to play bad and run bad
as you can see from the graph. Its pretty fuckin disgusting. So i kept playing and kept loosing
and running bad, so i thought if i stop running bad i can win at NL200 but it wasnt happening
and i jsut started to play worse.
I am still lifetilted so i cant play my A game so im cashing out to 3.5K and gonna play NL100
till I hit 4k again and then ill take shots at NL200 hopefully lifetilt will pass by and
ill crush NL200 again.
Okey, I've thinked alot about this with my deposit. On fulltilt Ive got a no deposit bonus I can play with, so there I don't need to deposit. I can use it as a drunk-poker site or something.
My research has shown that the Swedish State got a disgusting good rake! Only 2,5% which corresponding a rakeback on 50%. My deposit still is $100 (800SEK) which is 8 buyins on the lowest stake 0,5/1SEK. Around NL10 or NL12 if it has existed.
So I think that will be my place in the first months and then when I've got a good bankroll I will move to a international site where its more traffic.
For about the past month and a half now, I have been watching something broadcasted every Wednesday called Freedom Watch.
lol I know I know, good chance the very title of it just shunned out alot of you. But that imo is a good thing as the one's that stay aren't the narrow minded.
*Please note this is NOT the same Freedom Watch lobbying organization that was supportive of Bush. It has nothing to do with that and is something entirely different.*
This is a show moderated by Judge Andrew Napolitano.
I admit I was taken aback when I first started watching this show because I thought to myself, "Who is this gangster?" but this man knows his stuff inside and out and is solid as a rock. Hell he was a state Supreme Court Judge after all. I was obviously showing my ignorance.
Here's an intro to the Judge.
I say moderated because unlike the video above there is lots of discussion with people on the show and a big part of it is based/controlled by the viewers. You can twitter your questions/thoughts/advice to be said towards the end of the show live or you can email your opinions of what you think is important or who you would like to see on a future show. Basically the viewers help with the direction of the questions and flow of the current show as well as the upcoming one.
Just to name a few of the guests so far they have had people like Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente, Ron Paul, Daniel Hannan and Lew Rockwell on board.
Discussions primarily stick to liberty and the overreaching federal government. A few things discussed that I can think of off the top of my head would be things like the propping of the housing market, the bailouts, Republican and Democrats being one and the same, economics 101, The Constitution and the rule of law, torture... and people getting arrested or beaten for standing up for their individual rights. And what's really cool is unlike anywhere in the mainstream media, you don't just have some reporter being the host on these topics, you have a fucking Judge giving his insight onto the rights and wrongs. If you start to watch this show regularly you see a HUGE difference. This show Freedom Watch hits upon things going on in this country that actually have importance imo.
Also I know how alot of you feel about FOX and believe me I understand. Know that regardless of the little things you see that say FOX, this is not a mainstream FOX show and it is not aired on cable (as far as I know). Again as far as I know it only has the FOX label because it is broadcasted from within the FOX building and is nothing like the mainstream. It is completely different than anything else by that network that I've seen to this date.
Since this show is not big league funded (and you can tell) it has glitches from time to time. I believe they are even using skype for their phone calls. Personally I think it's good to see how they have to workaround the glitches. Also with it's structure it has tons of impromptu moments which I really like and prefer.
For example here's a moment on the torture issue..
Tell me how you really feel eh? =D
To end, I'm going to call this blog "My Response" because it apparently seems that after seeing the master tonight, alot of people have their Obama Kool-Aid cups refilled and so I want to try to start posting a weekly blog here with this show and hopefully the issues within it get discussed or at least seen. To me it is definitely worth watching and worth the work and at least me expressing my views constructively will do me good.
I'm sure I'll have to remember I said that ^^
So im playing meh 1/2 NL omaha home game and the following hand comes up....
Hero: $240
Seat 2: $70
seat 3: $49
Seat 4: $320
Basically the table had run quite standard given the fact we were playing short handed and no1 had done anything crazy. One more note, most of the people in my homegame are crazed drunk degenenerate gamblres.
So Seat 4 is the BTN and the hand is dealt....
Im the Sb and im dealt JJ24 with a heart flush draw. Seat 3 calls and Seat 4 raises the pot to $7. Pretty easy call for me cause im thinking... Seat 4 is as fearless as chuck norris and wont let a hand go, so im just set minning.
To my surprise the other 2 players in the hand call, and this raises the pot to $28.
Flop J109 two diamonds.
So im fisrt 2 act and decided to check given the aggrasion of the table. Now the funniest of things happens, after I check Seat 2 decides to fire $10 into the pot and Seat 3 does the standard "Ohh i wonder, what shall I do, I have QK" and shoves all in, which re-raises $63 total. Here is where the funny part comes up. Seat 4, the bigstack decides to just just smooth call the $63 bet. Now im thinking, sweet i can shove all in and get called for $210 aganist a lesser hand, prolly a flush or if im lucky enough a smaller set. So I pop the all in, Seat 2 calls and Seat 4 calls. Before we show cards the turn card is dealt, bingo 10 of hearts. Know we all show and i go -Warning never attempt this at home- Sweet does anyone have quad 10s and all go no, so i start graving all the chips and Seat 4 syas... wait i have AADD. Then i say to myself fuk i just jynxed the devil out of myself.
As I shout and predict my own demise BOOM river A. I just ponder what I did wrong as I watch the $599 vanish into the mist of my thought to haunt me.....
/Wristes FML gg AskjdNASDOAIJSdoasdoiajs
going to let this soak in, taking tomorrow off so i can have a 10k month on the record books , and gonna work with thestoryteller on his game. (unrelated to last blog post :X)
final stats 185.22 hours played 102681 hands mostly 8-tabling NL100 FR, about 80% nl100fr 20% nl200fr near the end
cheers LP, cheers to edzwoo, dryath and everyone else.
He's delusional. He can't communicate his ideas. He behaves like a spastic fish at every opportunity.
His non-interventionist policy is so 18th century. We are no longer on the fucking Mayflower and it does not take a month to cross Atlantic. Hello, Mach 5. I can now fuck with you from half the world away.
His Constitution-obsession is retarded. Hello, 3/5ths clause. The Constitution is not divine writ. It is completely fallible.
His political career, according to Wikipedia, got its start when the US finally cut its remaining ties with the gold standard... "After that day, all money would be political money rather than money of real value. I was astounded."
I guess his heart is in the right place and in some sense that puts him ahead of approximately 534 other Congressmen, but he's still retarded. The unadulterated adulation in the UIEGA thread is so misguided, but if he and his cohorts deliver the fish I guess I'll probably forgive him because I'm results oriented like that
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