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So after months and months of toiling and grinding out the micro stakes i'm finally getting results. Seriously fuck poker.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d18bb0b89509e1bbde1a8c4ff4d1125b.png

running at 8.77bb/100 over 11,838 hands. let's keep runnin this shit up.


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Plz

Nice heater today, though I've spewed the last 500 hands so its like erasing my heater..how stupid imo Just some spots that I should of avoided.

Tomorrow when I can deposit on Playersonly (cashing out pending from cake), I'm going to have a super-sick $1000 bonus to clear + 33% rakeback along the way. 56% rakeback is just so sick I can't get over it >< I'm going to try to grind out this bonus in 2.5 weeks in order to get myself playing again. The bonus will take ~60k hands, which is quite a lot for 6tabling. Pretty sweet bonus whoring deal though, and I'd love to fit one last bonus in after wards in feb.

Re-motivating myself to grind, I've just been really wishy washy since my failed nl100 shot on Sunday and I've only played 5khands since then /wrists

Nap -> 1500+ more hands is my goal for the day.

I butchered two hands so bad that I am embarrassed to post them, its like my brain just crapped out ^^
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/ccb8eaff600044f4bc0e9f910c338747.jpg



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what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do it.

...

i think i'm going straight up live. there was a thread about how much you could make playing live and idk if i'm being overoptimistic but i believe i can make at least 50/hr playing 1/2. i think it's even more profitable than the 2/5 game spread there since players are just so so bad.

like here's an example: this one hand i raised mp to 8BB (standard) with 99 and got 4 callers, including the button against whom I was about 300BB deep. flop came A37 and it checked through. on the turn i binked the magic 9, checked to me, and i bet 50... the button insta-raises to 150. i called and check raised him all in on the river and he showed 33.

same table, ep limps, btn limps, sb limps. i make it 18 dollars to go with AJo from the bb, ep calls, btn folds, sb calls. flop came AK7 and i bet 40, ep folds, sb calls. rag turn, i bet 80, he calls. river came another trash card and sb checked to me, after which i sort of glanced at him, which he interpreted as a check i guess and he insta flips over KQ... at this point i'm still allowed to bet so i pushed him all in and the guy tanked for two minutes before calling me. WTF? LOL!!!

anyways, the games get pretty deep at the 1/2 and you can buy in for half of the largest stack so it gets a little more profitable than you'd expect. in January alone i think i made 7k over 3 trips (including the crazy night at the beau rivage) which works out to a ridiculous hourly rate.

my car got totalled so i take the hour-long bus trip down to New Orleans for 12 dollars roundtrip (which is actually way cheaper than taking your own car) and i stay at a friends for the weekend playing poker all day. i play with a 2 buyin stop loss but i've never had a losing session in the past four weeks in January. when i'm up like 5+ buyins i flip for a hundred at the end of the session but i should stop. i picked black the last four times i flipped and lost them all wtf. i think i'm betting 410 dollars on the next flip and if i win that, i'd be up and i can stop flipping peacefully.

...

in contrast, online poker is just wayy too gay. those KK vs. AA twice-in-a-row, 23o > TT, AQo > AA sessions used to be fun but now they just don't cut it for me. i'd rather play live where those things at least FEEL like a rarity. online poker makes me feel worthless so i think i'll just quit.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/5f8fcc9fdfdeeb2b5bf8f8ae0a9ed14f.png

on a brighter note, i cashed in three of the last 11+Rs I've played so I might just play tourneys online.

good luck everyone!


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and it's only 2pm!

sometimes making a massive comeback almost feels as good as a winning day.

probably put in 2k more hands later this evening. SNE here i come


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Hello, some of you may remember me, the majority of you probably don't.

After a 1+ year hiatus, I've decided to get back into poker.

A little bit about myself.

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January 2006

I deposit $200 into PokerStars, comb this site, read as much as possible. Start building a decent roll.

August 2007

I start Poker Donors. I play my last hand of poker, and dedicate all of my free time to the site. I cash out my PokerStars account of $1,100 dollars, and vow to not play another hand of online poker while I'm the administrator of the site.

In total, the LP community donated over $2,000 (thanks in a very large part to Saki Saki) in a short 2 months of activity. It's something that I am extremely proud to be apart of. To this day I have 2 kids show up on my statement every month that I don't quite have the heart to cancel.

October 2007

I get a dog, I get engaged, I start a new job, my fiance and I move into a new place. I no longer have the time to administer Poker Donors, so I close the site. The work was a lot more than I was ready for: multiple ideas on where the money should be spent; exhaustively researching charity after charity; possible tax implications; hourly site maintenance/processing of transaction emails. I was basically overwhelmed, and had to cut out all of my side projects/hobbies to keep up.

It was a hard decision to close Poker Donors, because it had such a positive impact on a lot of people. I was once asked to hand the reigns over to a more resourceful entity, and I now regret the decision I made to turn that offer down.

*If anyone has questions regarding Poker Donors, please feel free to PM me. Or check out the thread here*

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Present Day:

Things have calmed down a bit, and I want to get back into poker.

Poker has always been a fascinating hobby to me, and I have been missing it. My playtime was early in the morning before I went into the office. There was something about jumpstarting your brain at the buttcrack of dawn that really got the day going on the right foot.

--

Anyhow, I'm looking for a new site - preferably one with RakeBack, and a deposit bonus.

I currently have 21,000+ FPP's on PokerStars, and it says I have to increase my member level to cash them out (?). So I guess I'll just start there for now. My plan is to deposit $500, and start at 25 NL.

Any advice on which poker site to go to from there? Once I'm able to cash out my FPP's, I'll probably be leaving PokerStars to go to a RakeBack/Deposit Bonus enabled site.

Thanks much!


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Sessions this month = 3
Hands played 1,400

Net profit - 1,6K

Pokerstars -400
Full tiltpoker -1,200

NL200 and Nl100

600 of that i lost by total spew when i played allthough i knew i should have learned university stuff....
I always lose big when i know i shouldnt play and should do something else

pretty good month pokerwise if u ask me
I played like 5 hours total so far

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/604423
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/604438


funny hand

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/604488


ship ^^

I have passed all university tests so far
only 2 more to come
i will return to pokerstars and maybe a bit FT in 2 days

Also i got HEM.
havent tested it yet but i am excited about it.
I used PT2 till this month which sucks and obv is a disadvantage esepecially in 6max/ring games.

gl all


EDIT
played 12 x 5+25$ SNG on FTP ( first poker action since 20+days) and profited + 21.75 $
i actually enjoyed it a lot lolz


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I was reading KRANTZ blog and came across this gem he linked.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/batman-street-poker-394442/

Its seriously the funniest poker related thing I have ever read.

HAHAHA


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if you do what games do you have? I'd like to play something while I'm playing tourneys cause 1-2 tabling fullring is putting me on life tilt


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Everytime i make a full house lately someone always over fills me its such horse shit, seriously fuck off with this bullshit /rant.


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Get your ass online on MSN =P kkthxbai !!!




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I've been starting to play SnGs lately (I started playing Pstars like two weeks ago) with some success. I initially started with playing the NL2 tables which was quite easy, but took a while to get anywhere. There has already been the incident twice where I went from $25 to like $6 from getting pissed and going all-in at all my tables. But now, for the second time, I'm climbing back with around $18, thanks to SnGs.

But a few questions - because I'm quite confused. SRSLY.

Are SnGs profitable? I'm playing the $1.00 + $0.20 buyins 10 seat. The top prize is basically $4.50 I believe. That means if I get first in one and not finish top three in another two that I'm pretty much barely going over even. Is this the type of SnG most people play? I know it can earn leaderboard points (I love leaderboards kk).

But also, I saw the double or nothings where if you finish in top half you get double of what your buyin was. I figured this was probably not as easy as it sounded since people probably play super-conservative. And I've never played anything besides the 10 seaters. Any SnG players want to share if this is profitable or should I just stick to cash? If it is somewhat profitable what are the specific SnG's I should be playing?

Thanks.


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After a couple days of mtt's and sng's, i found myself sitting back at 1k from 1260ish high point.

Overall realizations are that playing PLO/HU/MTT's/SnG's tilt me and get me chasing loses, which lead to some degenerate decisions. Therefore I completely cut these games out of my repitore and will be playing ONLY 6max and Full Ring until I'm rolled for NL200 (and most likely I will just cut these games out of my game plan for good, I mean, the results speak for themselves)

Also put in a lot of thought and realized how stupid it is for me to stick to mostly FR when my winrate @ 6max is SO much higher, so instead of playing 75% FR and 25% 6max like i've been doing, I'm switching that up to 50-80% 6max and some FR when I want to just sit and nitbot (when im not too focused ill play FR)

So heres my stats from todays first 2 sessions at 6max;

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 3813 hands and saw flop:
- 248 out of 688 times while in big blind (36%)
- 124 out of 679 times while in small blind (18%)
- 303 out of 2446 times in other positions (12%)
- a total of 675 out of 3813 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 101 of 180 (56%)
Pots won without showdown - 689

Obv running fairly well, and playing close to my best as well, all my hands are posted on the LP, its easy to see where I started back at NL25 and stopped MTT's and SnG's.

Heres my charts of NL25 so far (6max and full ring), I took a couple days off cashgames after getting sidetracked w/ MTT's/PLO/SnG's. Those games are not close to being profitable for me in the long run (maybe SnG's are but the variance they bring is NOT welcome in my game)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/55203f40e78c8d2653703150e7b8e472.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/577b9b1accd938887c8871618cb39875.jpg

So i took yesterday off and restarted this morning at 1001.13.

BR now $1361.73, I do expect to play more today and hopefully hit 1500 or 1600.

Kind of disappoints me, the bad decisions I made earlier in the week with PLO / SNG's / MTT's has cost me from being at NL50 right now to still being at NL25, but some serious realizations about long term profits were made, and you'll see me mostly on the 6max tables for now on, I mean seriously, another couple days to a week and I'll be at NL50, then a week or so from there and I'm at my goal (NL100)

Anyways, keep an eye on me if you think I'm gonna make any mistakes!

If you spot me playing a MTT (other than the $11 200k gntd on sundays and the fpp saturday tournaments (goldstar 100k, siver 20k etc), which are mostly a waste of time, but one stroke of luck in these donkfests could boost my roll so big, i think its always worth the time/risk) or a sunday tourney ($55+ plus which I get staked for sometimes) then I will ship you $25!

If you spot me playing PLO before NL200 then I'll ship you $25!

If you spot me playing HU before NL200 then I will ship you $25 as well!

Therefore, anyone who spots me playing HU/PLO/MTT's before I'm at NL200 by my bankroll guidelines will get $25!

(This excludes any tournaments I'm staked for *if staked for a tournament, it will be posted in my blog or the first HH of the tournament that I post on LP* and the sunday 200k.)

GL LP,
Ryan

QFT - Rehabs a bitch - whamm! (But I believe I've come a long way, and will atleast come close to achieving my yearly goals)

PS - Fayth's ballin half month of play for 100k, and his house was really inspiring, no matter how well or not well I get along with him, hes really inspiring.



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Somebody teach me how to win one of these!!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f3ab56d6204f511301c35f526b98389f.jpg

final hand: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/619674

Can't feel too bad about it, this money means alot to me!

x


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Not a January update cuz I'll put in some more hands these last couple days but...

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/012809.png

For those that saw my Mt Everest Graph (below), this is what has come of it. HALFPIPE GRAPH FTW


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Taken care of thanks.


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So there is this girl I work with at school that I have become really attracted too this year, but the situation has become so fucking complicated and confusing that I don't know wtf to do anymore.

We met last semester and got really friendly after a while, and eventually we starting having lunch together after work and then every day. At first she was just a friend to me, but after I got to know her a lot better I started really liking her. She's a really sweet person and really cute, and she's also really flirty. We went out a few times and I got the impression that she was interested in me too, and she even brought up sex a lot around me (even told me the life story about every guy she had ever slept with and how they were apparently all assholes).

But a lot of times when I asked her what she was doing she would just make some dumb excuse or literally just not know what her plans were, but not want to commit to hanging out with me. So I didn't know if she was just really busy all the time because she was taking 19 credits (even though she loves to go out and party on the weekends, which I also asked her to do often and she always found a reason not to). I wanted to keep asking her to hang out or something, but I also didn't want to ask every other day and look desperate or anything and turn her off or whatever, either. She is also terrible at replying to messages or answering her phone, so a lot of times when I try to contact her I don't even get a reply. It actually started pissing me off at one point that she would keep doing it.

Then about halfway through the semester she starts hanging out with this other guy and even brings him to lunch with us all the time and starts paying more attention to him, so I obv see him as my "competition" or whatever. Then she invites me to go out partying with her on Halloween, but doesn't tell me he is also going to be with us. At one point she leaves her phone at some apartment and we are walking back to get it, and when she goes in to get it we stay outside to wait for her, and this fucking guy literally just says, "I got dibs" and I'm thinking wtf is this guy saying and play it off by wishing him luck or whatever and he says that he's "already in" or some bullshit. I kinda figured that anyway the way they were all touchy feely all night, so I was ready to give up on her, and I actually backed off for a while.

Then after a while she starts paying a lot more attention to me, he just disappears for whatever reason like 2 weeks after she supposedly met him, and then she even starts asking ME to hang out and gets really flirty again. We hang out until the end of the semester, and I become a lot more attracted to her now because now she has opened up to me a lot more and we just spend a lot of time together, almost like we are "together" but it's not "official." So, I decide I want to make it "official" during finals week, preferrably in person because I think emails and even AIM are cop-outs for that sort of thing, but I can't get her to come out until like the day before we are supposed to leave campus because she was studying or testing all the time (and I was too, actually =P). I want to do it before we leave too, because I have a bad feeling about the way she is and what could happen if I spend a whole month away from her in Jersey while she is in Texas. We were actually supposed to go out the sunday before we went home, but her dad came up the day after finals and fucked it all up. Anyway, she went home without me saying a thing.

So during break I try and call/text her and she goes back to not replying to me. I wish her Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and all that and get nothing back, except a late happy new year that was probably sent to everyone in her phonebook anyway. Anyway, we have one kind of awkward texting convo a few days before we get back to school and that's it.

So anyway, we get back to school and I realize that she's working like 4 shifts with me during the week and has a class with me, so I go on facebook to write on her wall asking her if she is actually in my class, and I see that she is now in a relationship. I also see that she befriended this new bf of hers the day after christmas. So then I'm kind of pissed and actually kind of sad, because I really want to be with this girl and now it's all fucked up. I decide that we can still be friends or something and I'll get over her eventually, so at least I got a good friend out of it.

But now, even though she has a boyfriend (who I also learned is her ex-bf, who she had been "on and off, mostly on" with for the last 3 years, with a 2 year stretch in high school or something. Oh, and btw, she is a soph and I'm a junior), she is even more flirtatios than ever and wants to spend as much time with me as possible. She asks me to go everywhere with her and hang out all the time, and is not only answering all of my messages but even calling me and shit now.

I just don't understand any of this. I don't know shy she is doing it, but for some reason it is giving me what I feel like is some kind of false hope. I really have no idea if she likes me or not, but I feel like there is still a chance, and if I just don't try going for it then I'd be giving up. I'd feel like I'm lying to myself if I just tell myself that I don't have feelings for her and keep them to myself, because I do, and even though I've known all semester that she has a bf I'm still not "over her" (if that even makes sense, since I was never "with" her, but I guess you know what I mean). I feel like I should just get it off my chest and tell her exactly how I feel, and then just let her shut me down so I can be 100% certain that there is no chance...and who knows, maybe things could end up going my way anyway.

However, I feel like if I do tell her and she ends up really liking me and wanting to be with me or whatever that I might not be as happy with her as I think I'll be. The whole time I've known her I would second guess whether she is actually the right kind of girl for me, because there are some things about her that I don't think would be a good match for me or whatever. I just don't want to be with her and have it be a waste of time when there are 20k other girls on campus for me to meet. A few of my friends thinks that she justs likes the attention and isn't right for me, and at times I think they are right, but there are also times when she is really nice to me and just makes me genuinely happy to be around her.

I don't know. I'm probably just being a huge over-emotional pussy about the whole thing and should just call this a "one that got away" story or something, and please tell me if I am. Anyway, I just wanted to vent all of that out somewhere, so if you actually made it this far, thanks for reading (I had no idea it would be this long lol).

GL all
-Joe



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After (too) much work, I'm done with NL10 and after the 3rd try, NL25 is treating me well at last.

NL10 overall graph

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/36e69cccb3f96041900874552815d63b.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/4aabe4b4883615020b0c5033fa220476.jpg


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