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T8Suited Canada. Jul 01 2007 02:35. Posts 1276 | | |
I really wonder at times why I play poker at all.
I am a graduate student, and I don't make a whole lot of money, just ~$1.4k Canadian per month. But I hardly spend anything, either. Therefore I have yet to find an excuse to cash out a single dime out of my poker winnings (other than deposit bonuses).
I have got a promising academic career in front of me. In the next half a year or so I need to write a good thesis and produce a couple more world-class chemistry papers to wrap up my degree. So why am I staying up late, at times until 4 in the morning, just to play a card game?
And why do I get so much pleasure for beating my lab-mates in our 3 or 4 times per week, $2 buy-in tournaments?
Therefore, and unfortunately, I must conclude that winning at poker satisfies my ego more than my financial need.
I guess poker for me would be a productive leisure activity, better than going to a movie, playing pool or pitch & putt golf, because it makes rather than costs me money. Otherwise I shouldn't really be playing that much.
But poker is such a fun game. I am a fun-loving person. I don't know.
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The latter part of the week was mildly productive. I pushed my bankroll over 4k for the 1st time ever. I had a brief, slightly losing Thursdays session, but my long Friday night session was satisfactory. That night my bankroll started at 3900, peaked at 4190, but I then lost a whole bunch with loose calls, AA vs set, and an unsuccessful 12-out flop semibluff. Obviously it was time to quit. I ended the night with $4030+ (+$130 over 1.8k hands for 7PTBB/100).
Hands from my sizzling Wednesday session:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/220026
KK, AI on a Q76 board. On a bad day my opponent would show up with 66/77. But here he had TPTK instead, and he didn't improve.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/220027
QTs vs AA, turn A gave opponent top set and me the broadway straight. He went broke.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/220028
Again, on a bad day opponent will show up with something else. But here he shows up with the only reasonable hand that I beat.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/220029
2 pairs with a suited gapper in a raised pot.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/220030
Funny push by my opponent with a busted gutshot, into my turned full house.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/220031
Value push was called by a donkey opponent with the underhouse.
Nothing spectacular on Thursday. Here are some Friady hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221774
AA, doomed when opponent setted with his 99. I pushed this river because it counterfeited many 2-pair hands. Of course that was just wishful thinking on my part.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221775
Monstrous pot with a turned ass-end straight that held up. Assassin7 was a multi-tabling regular, and he took forever to call that turn push.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221776
AJ, outkicking trips. Pwnage.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221777
AK, limp-reraise, flopped trips turned full house. Skeptical opponent called my value push.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221778
I had 113 pocket pairs and flopped only 2 sets the entire night. This was one of them. Another value push was called.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221779
Another AQ vs KQ outkicking TP. I called down only because opponent was a donkey. Again I was lucky opponent had the only reasonable hand that I beat.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221780
A fun AA hand.
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be a lover not a hater  |
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u got a 4k br and ur still playing nl50? pls move up sir |
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