its like breathing

last time i posted this i got cursed but i think the curse only works for the fiscal year so i'm nearly positive i can't possibly curse myself here.

as per usual, i did much better than joe this month.

as you can see, i made much more $ than him in NLHE.



I didn't put as much volume in as normal, because I spent a week playing live at foxwoods. I played a ton of 20/40 and 30/60 limits because the games ran shorthanded and seemed much better than the 5/10 NL. I realized that limit is probably the best live game. You can play many more hands/hour in general (not saying you get dealt more hands, but rather its appropraite to play more hands in this game dynamic than it would be in NL). Assuming my preceived massive edge, any game that allows me to play higher VPIP is probably best, so I think I'm going to stick to limit sessions whenever I play live. FW went pretty well, I made a decent chunk of big bets, but nothing crazy.

I didn't play as much PLO as I have in other months, but the times I did I was super focused and played close to my best PLO game (which is probably a good players D game, but I digress). I've been watching a lot of videos, and although I find little things I disagree with in every one I watch, I certainly am learning a lot. In a recent lefty vid he said there shouldn't be more than a ~5% disparity between VPIP and PFR at PLO, but he was talking about 5/10 games at the time I believe. At 2/4 there's pretty rampant limping and I limp behind a lot, so I'm hoping that's the reason for my semi big gap.

I'm a little leary of posting stats, but I dont have pokergrapher or whatever I don't think so here's my humble small sample size of PLO for dec.



I was a very marginal winner before this month, breaking even more or less over my first 50k PLO hands, so hopefully this will help me keep the ball rolling into 2009.

It's worth noting I'll always be better than Joe at PLO because he is a sick nit and could never handle the variance.

Anyways, I leave for PCA basically right after New Years, and it should be a nice vacation. I haven't qual'd yet for the event but I luckboxed like 3 sattelite tickets so I got two sat's to play today and an extra $650 W$ to figure out what to do with. If I don't qual before going I've heard the live qualifiers are soft so I'll prob set aside 3k for a shot in those, regardless I'm pretty confident I'll get into the event one way or another. I'm more focused on sitting on the beach doing nothing, as I haven't taken a day off from poker basically at all since last summer.

Anyways, hopefully I'll run into some of you at PCA. Take care.

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or so the saying goes. after being an epic bitch about that downswing yesterday i put in some work today and made a decent recovery. didn't go without f4zi pwning me for two days in a row though .



Woulda maybe been close to fully closing the gap if I didn't somehow lose AQ vs 44 on a Q92 board? Heroic superuser in effect for that guy.

I'm glad I pulled it out. Poker might seem fancy and complex at first, but like anything else it's all about work. You get out of poker what you put into it. It's nice seeing guys like K2o4 or whatever posting about poker for once, because if you follow the progression in his blog you can see how his results mirror the work he's putting in. Poker isn't always "fair" in this regard in the short term, but the real hustlers seem to be the ones who make it.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

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this graph itself isn't very impressive, but every time i got stacked it was always an overpair vs a FD. I went 7/7 in losing to them. Only one of the Flush draws had an over to my pair. Don't think I've ever had a session like that before.

The other 2 stacks were from std. preflop coolers, and maybe another bi worth of spew to F4zi's euro ass.

I threw a big party on FTP Today



here i'll include the month graph to make me feel better about myself.

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just misclick called a shove with AJo (at least I had a good hand!) in the 650 pca sat, saw villain had 22 and thoguht I luckboxed but then I realized someone also called in the BB with AK


lol, im a moron!

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every time i play live poker i ask myself why i bother playing live poker. i've never been bombarded by more idiocy/scumbaggery in my life. honestly, not allowing the scum to congregate in public should be the #1 reason for legalizing online poker, keep them at home.

today's highlight of ridiculousness came in a small pot. 5/10 game. one guy limps and it comes to me on the button with QTo. I make it 40. Doofus who is wearing a backwards visor and talking/acting like he's a foxwoods 5/10 regular makes the limp/call.

Flop comes Qc 5d 2d. He checks, I bet $40 and he calls.

Turn 9c. He checks, and I decide to check it behind cause I think he's pretty weak and I'll be more likely to get value on the river.

River comes 2s. He checks again, and I figure I'm right and he has A high or 66-TT maybe. I bet $100.

He proceeds to count out his stack, stare me down, recount out his stack, count out $100, stare me down, then finally calls. I flip over QTo. He stares at it and the board for like 10 seconds, then slams down QJdd and goes YEAH!!!!!!! BOOOOOO YEAH!! YES!! I JUST LOVE WINNING THE CLOSE ONES. YES! Then after he calms down from acting like he won the superbowl in a $300 pot at a 5/10 game, he starts saying to himself "I shoulda pushed it, I knew it! I shoulda pushed it!" as if I were somehow going to bet/call a $2000 overbet raise on the river with QTo.

I wanted to slap the dog shit out of that idiot.


I hate live poker.

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sometimes i like poker better than other times

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down 15bi in two days at 2/4 plo, poker EV says i should only be down $800 or so .

43% W$SD 4k hands

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As you can see here:



I did better than Joe this month. This is because Joe is a chump ass noob and he sucks.

Cheers,

Nolan.

Also: Pretty sick breakeven stretch there, huh?

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http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/7/Fight-533306.html


anyone know the story behind this one. this is pretty wild pwnage.

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