Lemon

I finally standardized my play somewhat, using positional PF raise sizing and 100% Raise 1st on button vs regs and 50% on CO, I was even able to 9 table today for a couple hours with ease...good stuff.
I still got tilted a lot, but I never went on my usual rampage as the stress from work is gone, and I calmed myself down by a 5 min breathing break or simply took a nap and kept on rocking afterwards.

£2k means I am taking a 2-3 BI shot at NL100, as I want to avoid playing over rolled at NL50 for some bullshit reasons like in the past (I was scared of my tilts). I am a pro, there are no excuses now.

I also unfortunately made a Goldstar at Stars in those 8 days, so I just can't imagine I'd leave this wretched site now. I tried merge and ipoker, but my PC is so slow and the software tilts me so badly I can't play more than 2 tables at that bullshit (especially w/o tableninja).



P.S. Lol, look at TL nerds:
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=152273
(I knew I wouldn't get a response here ;o)

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Today I had the most hands played in 13 months.


At the start of the day I made a sick soul read against a tilted reg, but instead of a draw that I expected he did beat my A high
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I was really tired today, and played a too long session without break in the morning.
The result was that I simply Lagged it up hardcore, and was saved by the deck not to lose more than 3BI.
This went on for a couple hours before I took a break and pulled myself together. However as I do have a lot more energy since I don't work it never really got out of control, and I have surprisingly come out of this with a realization that I have been unnecessarily nitty all the time, especially in position.


I was raising every button, CO and like 50% hijacks when I was tilted, but I noticed that the regs don't adjust correctly at all, and the very frequent 3bets from blinds can be counterfeited by smaller PF raise size.
There was just one dude with LP Icon that adjusted correctly (who are you bitch), and was 3betting me 30%+ and there really is not much you can do about this apart from widening 4bet and calling ranges.

I took a sleep after that and realized that my aggro HJ-BU raises and 3bets are really profitable when reviewing my stats.


I just need to work on my 3betting in blinds, as with 30/28 and 10%+ 3bet stats I get called/played back at way too often.

Life update
I have luckily got an extension for submission of my student portfolio and 12k word report, I now have 8 more days for that and it takes a lot of my focus. Its first week at uni on Monday
Also, it was my GF's Birthday yesterday - we don't have families in here so it was just a cozy evening between the two of us.
I got her this auto rewinding watch (it rewinds as you wear it and move)
, pretty sweet and a lil' expensive stuff.

I also bought her a cake, made dinner, blew some balloons, got her a card a game for her DS some bubbly and got her a big ass flower bouquet. So I should get away with being an asshole for next couple months hopefully.

The evening had a really bad dent though, as we went to see Resident Evil:Afterlife 3D. I kinda liked the first 3, mindless fun for a sci-fi geek like me. This movie was the BIGGEST CRAP EVER, seriously the story was so retarded I just want to punch something only when I have to thing about it. Furthermore, there was a French bitch sitting right above me who pretended she is a freaking A class movie critic, and was very loudly telling her friend how brilliant the previous movie was and how great and innovative this one is.
But I had to hear it as I had to sit there till the end because I didn't believe that bullshit scene that was inserted a minute after the first credits was the last one. It was. And I really wanted to kick something. Hell, thats probably the reason why I was still tilted today...PLEASE DONT WATCH THIS SHIT EVER


Ok I end my random rant and blog update, please do expect more as I fall deeper into the gambler world ;o


EDIT: WEEE IM GOING TO A PARTYYY TONITE
I haven't been to a club in a year, I can't wait to get drunk, dance in a club like a proper douche bag and have a huge headache tomorrow morning.
<3 student life

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My 512MB Ram PC sucks ( Will buy new one when I will play NL100), so I need to purge some hands.
It will be also nice to have only hands after I quite my job from now on.

Here are hands/stats that I am purging:




COOL STORY BRO
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/855135

Pro Update
Its going well so far, and from the current progress is shouldn't be too hard to make the $20/day $600/month target at NL50 if I put in enough volumes, even without rakeback.

I had a rough longish session today, where I was cold decked for some 2 hours and didn't win a single pot, was forced to play some 17/15 and my red and overall lines bombed totally.
I still have remainings of the careless mentality where I call 4bets with K5s out of spite, and I will have to work on switching gears some more when I am not getting any hands (I have a tendency to play roughly the same amount of hands and tend to widen my range if I have a bad run of cards).

Still this is EZ life compared to the office and I can't imagine a downswing big enough to make me stressed like I was at peak times there.

I am taking a break for 3 days to write some 12k words report about my work, have a party on Friday and then I am back in the action.
P.S.
STILL TAKING BETS AGAINST ME - $600/month without rakeback minimum target on average - FREE MONEY IF YOU LOOK AT MY WINRATE HISTORY - we can work out sth long term for 3-6 months if you wish. Skype LP-LemOn

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Just deep down I always knew...I am not good enough for this.

I don't have enough discipline to enjoy what I am doing and to push myself to my max potential. Furthermore, I never really focused fully and despite the great rewards of meeting new people, getting results and new experiences every day when I look at my bottom line I feel like I haven't achieved much, my goals are still far away and financial reward is way too small for how much I get frustrated all the time and how much my health suffers.

So today is my last day. I must say that I am sad as more than a year long chapter in my life is over, and it feels like I didn't make an impact that anyone would remember some time from now.

It was a good ride with ups and downs, great fun and great frustration. I have learned a lot and will come out of the experience as a better, more experienced person. I will miss all who shared my journey and who provided me with support and advice over the last period, but now its time to move on.

Goodbye Lloyds Banking Group, hello poker and student life.

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FREE MONEY - ACCEPTING BETS AGAINST ME!
- I won $1k over 1 year period - now I need to make $600 (+rb) every month on average!
Skype LP-LemOn for propbets
http://www.pokertableratings.com/stars-player-search/doc.lemon

After 4 months of virtual inactivity, and 9 months of endless spewing after work prior to that, starting September 10th I will be officially playing poker as my only income!

As I have savings I need to make some $700/month minimum to survive while building my BR at the same time.

=$2500 including my $250 on FTP + those FPPs.

Limit: NL50
Move up: 2-3 BI Shots at NL100 at : £2k (excluding FPPS cashouts)
Move down: lose 10+BI at NL50
Switch sites: As soon as I make silver star and cash out my FPP riches somehow.
'clean hours' of play/week: 24-40
Study or talk poker/week: a lot, bitches.
Uni study/week: 24 hrs, more 1 week before exams and dissertation submission dates, none during holidays.


Alternatives: A) A well paid part time non-menial job with good experience for CV (higher priority than poker, well hard
to get.
B) A minimum wage ($9/hour) part time menial job, little to no experience for CV (easy to get, only if I fail
at poker and dip >£1k into student debt.


I HAVE BEEN OMFG LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SHIT FOR A YEAR NOW!
I have been a poker pro once - for 2 months at NL25 when I performed with a roaring success (2BB/100 @12tables back then and 50hrs/week played on average, check out my old blog posts xD). Lets hope it will be equally awesome this time.

I need to tie up my whole great but demanding work experience by writing a 12k word report in 10 days and handing over my job, but at September 10th I will be a proper poker hustla playing online (well, with some uni stuff), in a local pub and a casino (10min walk).


P.S. Happy to take some prop bets against me, Skype to discuss

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Awesome update in April right before I took a break!


So which Euro site is the most juicy and has decent rakeback these days?




P.S. I just dug out my April graph which made me to take on dota in April - All NL100/NL50.


Scary shit indeed, and I crumbled under the pressure

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In order to revive my motivation for poker, I decided it might be worthwhile if I actually try to play the real thing.
The only time I played poker in my life was when I was on a floor ball age 13 camp where we played 5card draw with pennies.

So last night I took £33, and headed for a casino (which is about 7 minute walk from my flat) to go for a freezeout tourney.
Circus casino Edinburgh
It really surprised me how the casino felt like any other entertainment facility, with standard pub price beer and food and large projector with football on. The card room has about 20 poker tables there, and had an internal league tourney, a stud tourney and a £1/£2 game running. The only bad thing was that air conditioning was broken, so it was like 30 Celsius in there - good for me losing weight at least, and free drinks all night were served to compensate.
Tourney
The tourney itself was a 'Second Chance' which I didn't know what the fuck that meant. Like an hour into the tourney I realized that the one yellow 50 chip I have is exchangeable for 3,500 chips, and if you keep the chip you can transfer even after you busto.
I had the standard problems at the beginning, always asking people for whats in the pot and how much to raise. Later in the tourney when I doubled up I had a ridiculous number of chips and it took me an orbit or two to actually know what the hell is in my stack, and I had this problem throughout the day.
I was also confused when seats were changed to other tables, but the biggest challenge was dealing.
Thats right, they do not assign dealers for MTTs, and who gets the highest card has to deal.

First time I was on I just gave up, but the second time (18 people to go or so) I was forced to do it. This was the biggest fail, where I had to burn some 7 cards which I turned face up and my shuffling was by no means a proper shuffle, and I had to ask how many I burn at every street (its one lol ;D). Still a good experience, and it clearly just takes practice.

My performance
I was playing standard bronze pokerstrategy level chart poker. I probably made a mistake at the beginning when an old (and pretty annoying) regular raised pre and cbet almost AI on flop for 40bbs, and I called him off with jacks. (AA)

Since then it was push or fold for me almost all 6 hours, I played like 2 hands postflop the whole tourney lols.
Probably the funniest moment was when it was 16 to go and I had A5s in the sb with 13bbs - very very standard push. But as the regs are total retards and they love to talk I did something I learned to do - pretend to think heavily for 1-2 minutes while waiting for something retarded from the bb.
And it came - dude who previously folded to my 5bb Small blind shove and showed me an ace told me to fold in a very interested manner, a thing he has never done before. I giggled inside, turbofolded, and the mofo showed KK :D

The number of obvious reads that can be seen even with my 0 experienced eyes was ridiculous, the guys are always chatting about what they have, they love to show cards for some reason, and one dude was particularly funny when he all of a sudden check raised for the first time and became *really* interested in the darts on projector behind us and his drink when he always kept staring at the table in the previous pots.
He had a nut straight ofc -.-
Technically the people are retarded too, it seems to be standard to limp fold utg with 4BBs left with almost everyone, and to fold to 1k chip into 10k pot on river where there were no draws on turn.

I ended up pretty card dead in the end and I was coolered by a 12bb dude with AQ vs AK bu v sb to keep me on the shortstack till the end. I shoved 44 for my last 5big blinds/some 60k chips to end up 7th in a field of 60-70 and $100 cash.

Not bad for a first actual play of poker in my life.

Playing life
I got a new motivation for online poker, and pretty strong one. Life poker is so much fun, and the £1/£2 game running there is super juicy. 3-4 bad regs (the very same that limp fold with 4bbs left in a tourney), old geezers, and an old lady who burned some £800 that night while I was there.

This is awesome and I want to play in that, but first I need to build roll online to afford it. I think the people are so bad I can play with some 12BI comfortably - my motivation is now to make that online as I will never use my own money to play poker.

Although I will probably get a part time job in September (I need some sales or customer contact experience, as I would like to get into a Management Graduate scheme with one of the major banks after I graduate - I work in Finance dept right now with internal customers only), I can totally see myself being a pro with combination of life and online poker - it really breaks the stereotype and life poker forces me to think about shit before I act.
The obvious negative of live play will make it close to impossible to make as a student aiming at a 1:1 degree (70%+ average mark from all subjects) - the tourney took 6 hours where I busted in 7th place, and would take 7.5hrs for the winner, and the best cash games run between 10pm-3am in the local casino it seems.
I will probably have to wait until my planned gap year when I finish my degree to do proper 24 hour grinding sessions, but it sure seems like lots of fun -.-

Thanks for reading,

Random pic of of Kate B. for those who stayed with me:
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This is obviously before she became famous and rich - she couldn't even afford a bra back then!

P.S. For my fans: Here is to your request from the last blog + Show Spoiler +

It was totally a lame brag btw, how can a perv like me not like that :D
my gf:


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Thats right, she came 4am drunk from a party I didn't even know about and demanded sex, twice.

I feel violated and dirty, and couldn't even work properly today as I was so tired.

What should I do?

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-9BB/100(-18bb/100) over 7k hands at NL25, NL10 and now NL5.
I am satisfied with my game so far, tilting in 2 hands over the whole sample despite the slightly below average results, and I feel really good mentally.

However I need to work on my ABC once again - right now I identify a 50VP table with all complete retards, I decide to play as nitty as humanly possible...and It still comes to 21/18. Goddamn you HU habits-.-

So this weekend this chart taken from lowest level will be my friend, and I will stick to the 'minimal' table.




P.S. I haven't played Dota in 6 days weee, feels real good right now :D

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From now on I am a rock. I use logic only. I am Spock (the original series one).

I dare you to make me feel emotion with your comments!

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