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Ok, so this is a little auto biography of my life up to now. I'm 22 years old and first learned the game from a friend. I laid down a flush and didn't know i had a flush and that cost me $5. I don't remember if he actually took it since he just taught me how to play that hand. Anyways, since then i gradually played more and more. The asians in my school really liked hold'em too and so we started playing regularly that summer at a friends club house. That's probably what did it for me. We had regular games of .25/.50 where we'd get up to a couple hundred in the pot. Some kids went a little crazy and since my town is fairly rich, some kids had literally hundreds of dollars to throw away in a .25/.50 game. Needless to say it was a great game and we all learned from each other that summer. We'd play up to 2x a day, get some Wendy's and discuss hands and then play again at night.
After that summer I went up to AC at the end of September. I remember i made the drive by myself with 100 bucks because i just wanted to play some cards and there was no where else i could play. So i drove down to the Taj which i got stuck in my head as the place where the action is at (Rounders). I remember my first hand being KJ and hitting the flop. I was stunned by the amount of tables and ppl playing. The game had $5 red chips and it was so new to me, even going up to the cashier and buying in and the lady asking how i wanted my chips. I had no idea what to respond with and just said i'm playing 1/2. I didn't have a fake ID at that point so i had an excuse made up that I had forgotten my ID in my car. Luckily i was in the game with no problem.
I played for what seemed like a couple hours, finally losing my hundo and i remember feeling a huge rush of emotions. For one, i wanted to take out another hundred cause i knew i could beat these shmo's. The 2nd thing was that this was the most i had ever lost at one time. The drive back home was long but would be followed by many more to come.

The next year i played a little bit during my senior year, couple times a month and made a few trips to Turning Stone and experienced playing 1/2 legally. They had $100 max tables so that seemed to fit my small stakes needs. The players weren't that good i remember and i knew i could definitely learn with this game. Throughout the year I also made a couple more AC trips with a friend and by the end of my senior year i knew that poker was the oxygen for my bloodstream.

I think that summer I played a lot in the city at a place called Straddle on 3rd ave(midtown). I played 1/2 and made a poker friend who played 2/5 and really knew what he was doing. He used to play 80/160 at Borgata and was a big gambler, which resulted in big swings and eventually going broke. I knew i didn't have any vices such as gambling on sports or table games so as long as i sticked to poker i thought i had a good chance. After that summer i had learned even more and was more determined to keep growing as a poker player. I had gone broke plenty but always found a way to rebuild and take shots and keep myself in action.
I was balancing going to classes at Rutgers (nwk) and playing poker when i could. I had still been categorized as Undecided in school and realized that this just wasn't for me. I had taken physics, calculus, and business classes all of which i passed but had no interest in. Then after my last semester i registered for some new psychology classes. I was kind of interested in this but at the same time my obsession with poker overrode my academics and i thought it was time to really put in some hours and see where this would go.
Everyone hated this decision but for me it was my only real option. Get out of class while i'm still not pot committed.
So i promised my mom i would work and save up money but quickly i began taking shots and playing in AC. I ended up going broke and found a job working at an architectural firm doing some office help and deliveries. The job wasn't bad and after 2 weeks i had about $400 and went to Turning Stone. I stayed with a friend who lives upstate and for 3 weeks i'd make drives to the casino. I didn't end up coming back to that job and instead kept playing in the city. I was doing well at first. I remember taking a shot at this club called Genoa, it was 5-5 and was the biggest game i've played in. They had 1500-300 buy in and 2k after midnight. There was probably around 20k on the table. I played that game for 3 days and had 3 winning sessions each of about $1k. I ended up paying back some debt that i owed to friends, my credit card bills and some money for rent to my mom since her rule was that i couldn't live for free and still had a 2kish bankroll.
This went on til the Fall of '08. I had been playing in new york and AC about 3-7 days a week, and had been winning enough to cover my monthly expenses (credit card + rent). I was successful in paying that but then i hit a downswing at the end of September that went on until January '09. For 2 months straight i couldn't win. Finally in December i began to break even and in Jan. had a couple winning sessions but ended up going broke and staying there. The downswing was a very harsh hit from reality and I went into debt with my friends, couldn't pay rent to my mom, and began making minimum payments on my credit card.
Then in February I got a job for 2 weeks working at CVS. The manager was a nazi and I couldn't handle it there. I remember going to AC with my paycheck and being determined to go on a run. I think i began doing okay but once again I was down to the felt. I played the 100+20 7pm at Borgata with my last $120 and finished +$1150, we chopped $8k 7ways.
With that money i paid back some expenses and debt but still had so much more to pay. I was down to $400 and tried again 2 weeks later in the same tournament. Finished $1080 after we chopped again 7 ways.
I also had a decent run from cash games (1-2 and 2-5 mostly) but eventually lost everything which was like $1300 2 Friday's ago. I took that hit really bad and realized I can't continue putting cash on the line that could be used to pay back the people who put me in their in the first place.

So right now i'm taking some time off of playing and working at Pizzeta doing deliveries for lunch and dinner. The hours aren't consistant and its not great money at all for now. Maybe i'll get better hours soon or can move up to a waiter but overall the job isn't bad. I'd much rather work at this job even if it may pay slightly less than a job which makes me miserable.

I'm still confident in my abilities and know that soon i'll be back at the tables. The competition is really not that tough now-a-days and i find live to be much easier than online- Dollar to Stakes wise. (5/10 live much easier than 5/10 online). I still have huge ambitions to learn more about this game and get better as a player. The only reason why people don't make it is because they're not good at losing, by that i mean they're not in control of their emotions. If you can't handle losing then you don't deserve to have it good when you're winning. That's just my basic philosophy.


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So it's monday again, back at the office for a new week of challenges. Have two really fun tasks to take care of right away. But felt like I had to write a blogpost first and take a cup of coffee.

So this weekend with Dusty,R87,Rednalluk among others were as always great. On the friday we just hang out at Red's place and drank a shitload of wine and beer, thereafter we moved to Dusty's place for some poker. Think all of us managed to win some, because there where two others who lost 500 respective 1300BB.

The Saturday me R87 and Jocke went to a Law-student party, was really nice. Got insanly drunk because R87 don't drink and I had to drink for him to since there were a lot of free beer and liquor added to the dinner we attended. Had a really great time.

On the Sunday me and R87 just played some poker online, have found a pretty solid play again and my confidence is becoming stronger. I'm once again showing plusstats for the month, about 2bi and I think the rakeback is at 8-10bi at the moment.

Now it's time to go back to work, have a lunchmeeting at Mcdonalds with my secretary in 2hrd. She's cool since she's the only one at the office who don't get embarresed by eating lunch at such a place.

Over and out

/MoL


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Yo!

Got more than 5 months poker experience?
Play limits above NL25?

You are officially qualified to coach my ass.

Mikogo / Skype

SESH TIME??!?!?!?! Anybody down? (I've had two sessions so far with a couple of members and they've been extremely helpful).


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http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/f10670ede3b6dd3543311438dd26edac6g.jpg
while i was out of my room my friend pimped out my keyboard.

It makes me lol every time i go to type, yet its tilting at the same time.
"lololFUUUUUU!!"

it also makes me want to play SC but I'm running good at poker so gotta keep the grind up ^_^_^


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to those of you who enjoy Tetrahydrocannabinol as well.


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Just got this in my email:

From: Serge G. Date: Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:53 AM Subject: Financial Post Story To: penpa@peacejam.org IT IS NOT A SPAM, but if you received that message second and plus time JUST CLICK ?DELETE? button and have a nice day. Don't feel bad, please understand original Scarlett's family very desperate to shut down that humiliating antichristian "actress" clones line career development. Hello dear Ladies and Gentlemen! I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson ?actress? actually is a clone from original person Scarlett Galabekian last name, who has nothing with acting career, surname Galabekian, because of adoption happened in 1992. Clones was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original person is very nice (not d**n sexy),most important - CHRISTIAN young lady! I'll tell you more,those clones (it's not only one) made in GERMANY - world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity. But warning! Helmut Kohl clone staff strictly controlling all their clones (at least they trying) spreading around the world, they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones, so be careful get close with clones you will be controlled as well. Original person is not happy with those movies, images, video, rumors and etc. spreading on media in that way it would be really nice if we all will try slow down that ''actress'' career development, original Scarlett will really appreciated that. Please remember that original Scarlett Galabekian family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created in it was and it is stolen. It all need to be delivered to authorize personals control in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Original Scarlett never was engaged, by the way! Her close friend Serge G. P.S. CONTROLLING ACTIVITY OF ANY CLONES IS US MILITARY OPERATION. Check also here: http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2008/10/warning_stolen_biological_mate.html H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more. These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and many other countries, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.

And my first thought is, duh, I've known about these clones ever since I first learned about this guy:

http://www.kotaku.com/images/2006/05/hitman_front.jpg

I'm pretty sure he was made in Germany too.


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It started with my usual 9table grind NL5.

Than Genjix came and sat on majority of my tables (to my left of course ;o).

Some nice pots emerged and we played even HU for a while, great experience.Than some of LP guys joined the party and NL5 turned into NL100 for a while.


I had a great time, I even bluffed a lot and people actually believed me. Thanks Neilly, Crown, Genjix and Donald for showing me how awesome poker at higher stakes is and hope to see you at my tables again

The Bluffs:
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Must See cuteness: vs Crown
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hand I like
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Hand where I got owned by Crown's chat mesage:
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I have seen that I can play semi-decent lag and its fun too, so I will now split my sessions into 4Tabling open style with 3BB+X PF raising and my usual 9table+ 4BB+X grinds (thanks Crown for the advice)



P.S. Apology: Sorry Genjix for saying I am sick of your style, everyone plays as he suits and thats why poker is so much fun. Cheers for the games. (Lets go HU again sometimes, it was fun but but too short ;o)


P.P.S BRAG: I ended up 3BI ;o


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So I never liked playing on FTP due to horrid interface + limits were too high, even though I had a rakeback account. I caught a horrible virus the other day and had to restore my pc from a backup months ago and I had my little FTP icon still on the desktop, so I fired her up just to take a peak at the nosebleed stakes, and what do I behold? They now offer NL2 tables! I think everyone agrees that with rakeback you can actually self-sustain and be break even for quite some time even during a downswing. I'm like $2 from being able to cash in $50 in rakeback to my account so I'm going to try and make FTP my new home for awhile. Back then I used to 20 table FR and doing this on FTP sucks. I think they limit you to 16 or something (I 2-6 table 6max now), there were zero quality multitable tools available, and I was constantly finding myself sitting out on tables from missed action b/c their crappy software never brought the table to the front. The whole experience was just too tilting so I stayed on stars, who's FPP + T$ cashout courtesy of TL.net is just as good (hell maybe even better. Every week or so I can cashout 10 bucks through here playing those Sunday turbo's that payout the top 6 winners).

So my FTP BR is $50, and my stars BR is $110. I might, MIGHT dump my stars roll over the FTP so I can donk it up again playing NL25 or some retarded shit. But for some reason whenever my roll reaches critical mass like $20, I suddenly go into smart mode and only play limits I can afford. I grind myself out of the hole, then take 3-4 buyin shots at higher limits and pray for a good streak to lift me out of uNL for good. Hasnt happened yet. But it will still be interesting to see how long 27% rakeback can keep me afloat even during hard times.


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+10BI days in 500 hands dont we?

wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


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http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5603/nl25deep.jpg
(Please note this is nl25)

So I found this huge fish that was just opening 10bbs and stuff and owned him hardcore. Big hand: + Show Spoiler +

Actually run pretty bad at the end and gave like $100 back to him but its all good. Still a nice adition to my already nice run at nl25:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/34/nl25graf.png

*The big upswing at hand 4300ish is me playing a very tilted Rainyday at nl200


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Just got a new luckbox at wal-mart, The Kanami Luckbox

$3500, on sale for $2750

go get yours

GL!
Ryan


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Poker is very weird for me lately, having huge swings but not rly moving from place, today i won a 10$ satelite for 190+10 350k GSOP event on Ongamenet network and busted 1700ish out of 2000ish, i rememberd why i hate tourneys. I am starting to transfer to shorthanded poker more because fullring is boring the hell out of me. I concetrate more on playin hands correctly, and getting most value out of marginal spots. And fullring is much of a hit or fold fest when u are thinking about folding KK preflop and when u dont, u are like wtf why didnt i fold it preflop it was so obviouse he had AA. But the biggest thing i hate about ongamenet is the number of players on each table. There are 10 seated Fullrings and 5 seats shorthanded. I think 10 is way to much for poker game, and 5 is too little, 6-7 is optimal for me. So i am thinking about changing site and getting some nice Bonus up.

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This is me stuck on nl50
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/45564fb6f0c8f6f23afca8b45fa2867d.jpg

This dog is protecting my wins!!!
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This is my virtual girl...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/399875884c786a6ff86adc5d95f8b0fd.jpg




Cheers!!!!



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playing long sessions when u feel good and are motivated is very important !

Thinking like

Oh i am up 100$ after 30 minutes, i feel good and relaxed lets quit and call it a day = -EV
or fuck i am down 150$ after 30 minutes despite playing good -> quit session

is very -EV in the long run.


I play okayish , and just got unlucky -> fuck results -> continue grinding = very very +EV

One thing every new player must realize to become succesfull with pokerz

todays graph
9 tabling Nl50 6max at FTP

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8633/finallynl50session.jpg

run very bad whole session except for the last 30 minutes

+128$ for the day
i am happy

allthough i play lower than i played in the past i think i improved a shitload as a poker player
( my cardgame skill probably didnt change .. but everything that has to do with taking poker serious improved by 20miles !)



off to bed now
cause 6h i have to get up again

tomorrow University >-<

GL ALL


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So I have reached the mass of $550, exactly the ceiling that many sites will match with a bonus.



I love Stars, but this bonus would be a great boost, and I can always come back right?
FullTilt seems very similar and it has 100% match to up to $600 bonus and 27% rake back.



The Only thing that keeps me from doing this is Tableninja. I got used to it so much... Is there anything similar for Full tilt?

Do you think its worth it?
(You know me and my massive BW-like volumes ;o, I don't think it would be for too long)




P.S. I'd play NL10 SH there until $750, than NL25 (Are the blinds 10/25 or different?)



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Warren Zevon was the man and quite possibly one of my top 10 favourite song writes of all time. He also seemed like a really cool and in some ways weird dude. This is a clip from his last apperence on Letterman;



Dude knew he was about to die and still joked around about shit. Pretty nice.

Some songs:

Mr Bad Example



The Hockey Song



Also, if you have spotify or something check out Roland the headless thompsson gunner, lawyers guns and money and I dunno, whatever else you can find.



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did my first session in a long time and poker feels real fun again! I played solid, surprisingly, since I didnt think I would do that after this long stretch without poker.

Best thing: I did some dusty-hands!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/675512 - have played some with him and his line didnt make sence
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/675513 - I tilted this guy pretty good 2 minutes before after a nice play.. guess this is the definition of a "Dusty-hand"!

I just love when they donate money


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new university shedule 9am-5pm every day

means wake up at 7.20am -> arrive home at 6.30pm


lol fuck that shit...
But obv i wont quit 1,5 years before i have my degree


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