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Schoolaments eating my time faster than pac-man eats dots

Actually, i just got drunk/high for monday/today and that really kills my drive to play poker.

However, I did manage 500 or so hands and here they are:

My Daily Statistics
500 hands played and saw flop:
- 19 times out of 85 while in small blind (22%)
- 41 times out of 81 while in big blind (50%)
- 47 times out of 334 in other positions (14%)
- a total of 107 times out of 500 (21%)

Pots won at showdown - 10 out of 22 (45%)
Pots won without showdown - 59

Starting Bankroll:
$75.70

Ending Bankroll:
$63.40

Whatever. I wasn't in exactly the best state of mind to be playing, but at least I didn't donk away all my BR, harr harr.

To make up for my lack of content and wit, here is an especially funny one-

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Havn't updated in a couple days, it being the weekened and all.

Lets see... here is what I did: Played semi-massive amounts of poker, took 1st in the live game I play fairly easy, played an ass-load of Halo2, partied with some friends, read an even bigger ass-load of Cyanide and Happiness comics, ect. ect... the usuall grind.

My cash game is comming along very well. I think things are starting to click, finally. Everyone was right when they said "you will get better if you play thinking poker". Also, with the help of some friends (old and new), my vision and understanding toward the game has changed a lot for the better. No doubt there is still tons of room to improve, but at least now I realize it --;

My Daily Stats

2000 hands played and saw flop:
- 54 times out of 263 while in small blind (20%)
- 156 times out of 261 while in big blind (59%)
- 219 times out of 1476 in other positions (14%)
- a total of 429 times out of 2000 (21%)

Pots won at showdown - 43 out of 88 (48%)
Pots won without showdown - 203

I realize my showdown a bit low, but at these limits you get a lot of free or relatively cheap looks at the river. I also took your guys' advice and have been playing less hands, although it still isnt as low as you suggested.

Starting Bankroll:
$37.07
Ending Bankroll:
$75.70


Also, because I like this comic so much im going to include a funny one from now on

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So I accidently left my wallet at subway yesterday. When I went back to get it, my money was gone. Had about $150~ in there. Fuck it.

With the help of a certain person, I've started to learn cash games from the bottom up, starting at NL 5. I took the transition from tournament to cash quite hard at first, but now I believe I am getting the hang of it. Hopefully I will be out of the .01/.02 tommorow.

Stats for the day
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1763 hands and saw flop:
- 158 out of 261 times while in big blind (60%)
- 54 out of 263 times while in small blind (20%)
- 189 out of 1239 times in other positions (15%)
- a total of 401 out of 1763 (22%)
Pots won at showdown - 48 of 106 (45%)
Pots won without showdown - 163

Starting Bankroll:
$25.00
Ending Bankroll:
$37.07

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Didnt play any online poker today. I wasnt going to play at all, but after getting done watching the movie "The Birth of a Nation" (Holy shit, I have never seen a longer, more boring, or more racist movie in my life) for film class, I by chance bump into a friend of a friend who is looking for people to come play poker in his nightly game.

I'm like, "Sure, I'll play. How much are you guys playing for?" to which he replies, "Just like $10." So about a half an hour later I am sitting at this guys' friends appartment watching womans wrestling waiting for the game to start.

When it finally did, it was all business for the rest of the night. I had played with a few of these guys once before and knew they were not too good. All I had to do was play solid and I was pretty much garunteed money.

And so it went, me folding away all my trash, stealing the blinds when I could, ect. Nothing super exciting.

[I dont feel like telling the rest of the story in detail. I was just practicing for english class anyway. Turns out the guy who was chip leader got QQ over TT once, AA over AK another time, AA against top pair, and topped all that by hitting a royal flush!. I was chip leader for the longest time until my AJ got busto by AT. That dropped me down to third, but I doubled up through second place a couple hands later, effectively putting me in second and him in last. It remained 3 handed for 2 hours, so we just decided to split the pot 40/40/20.]

I was please with my play, never really losing a big hand (besides AJ vs AT), and making some sick reads that would have been impossible online.

Overall, I made a few more friends, got access into an easy regular game, and built back up my confidence from losing most of my roll sunday. Hurray!

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Ahh, so I tried cash games today instead of tournaments...
bad idea
I lost 2/3s of my bankroll >.< It seemed like people were sucking out on me left and right, chasing things that they should not have been, ect. At least in a tournament, if someone sucks out on you, you only lose at most the buyin.
whatever
Back to grinding the turbo's tommorow, it seems.

My Daily Stats
Starting Bankroll - $226.46
Net Profit/Loss - -$140.05
Ending Bankroll - $86.41

I played in the LP tournament also, earlier today. I was chip leader when everyone combined for the final table, but made a few bad judgement calls and lost a few coinflips and got out 7th or something dumb like that. Congrats to my pall Meatball (Schmitz87), though, for making the money in both the tourny and the flipament.

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I wasnt tired, so I decided to just keep playing poker...

but I didnt feel like playing 6.5SNG, so I just loaded up 40$ into a NL200 6 handed table.

Worked it up to 125~ or so... haha. I didn't suck out or put terrible beats on anyone, just played solid.

Here are my stats:
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 112 hands and saw flop:
- 7 out of 21 times while in big blind (33%)
- 0 out of 20 times while in small blind (0%)
- 9 out of 71 times in other positions (12%)
- a total of 16 out of 112 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 1 of 2 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 22

I thought NL 200 was supposed to be kinda tough? Guess not

My Daily Stats:
Starting Bankroll : $145.16
Hands Played : 112
Net Profit/Loss : +$81.30
Ending Bankroll : $226.46

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I had a whole big message up before, but then I clicked on rainkhans thread to write shit and it erased everything. (Btw, congrats rainkhan)

Anyway, Im just going to summarize what was in here before:

Leg cramp of DEATH, no more money for food -> motivation for doing well in poker, ran good today (+$70~) then hit a cold streak (7 straight losses, all bad beats), signed up for LP.net tourny tommorow.

My stats for the Day:
Starting Bankroll - 136.36
Tournies Played - 18
Tournies Cashed - 6
Net Profit/Loss - +$8.80
Ending Bankroll - $145.16

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Here are two select hands from today that were kinda crazy:

Hand 1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ZaplinG
ZaplinG: calls 400
PapaKahn: raises 5365 to 5765 and is all-in
Classhill: folds
ZaplinG: calls 1405 and is all-in
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PapaKahn: shows (a flush, Ace high)
ZaplinG: shows (a pair of Aces)
ZaplinG said, "asjkdhajksd"
PapaKahn collected 4085 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4085 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: ZaplinG (button) showed and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: PapaKahn (small blind) showed and won (4085) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 9: Classhill (big blind) folded before Flop[/spoiler]

Hand 2
Dealt to ZaplinG
creamdog: folds
ZaplinG: raises 60 to 80
auctionguy: folds
Kaustical: raises 1290 to 1370 and is all-in
bdubhc: folds
JimmyG420: folds
72_Chevy: calls 1370
Den1974: folds
MtArarat: folds
ZaplinG: calls 1060 and is all-in
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Kaustical: shows (a pair of Aces)
72_Chevy: shows (a pair of Kings)
Kaustical collected 460 from side pot
ZaplinG: shows (three of a kind, Queens)
ZaplinG collected 3450 from main pot


There was also another hand that had a 7 way all in, but I didnt manage to save the record on that.

Anyway, hope to have fun in the tourny tommorow.

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Ok, so here's what happened last night. Because I did not have class today, I decided to stay up all night and play poker.

bad idea.

My total bankroll dropped down to around 20-30 dollars (from 72, or whatever it was) before I stopped playing. I was so tired near the end of this session that I was falling asleep during the tournament, causing me to miss hands/ect. I also suffered some rough beats (proof is my thread which now lives within the closed forum) as well that certaintly did not help.

Anyway, so I went to sleep around 10:00am. Woke up at 3:00pm on the dot and opened up two more tournaments. And then the craziest thing happened - I started winning again... a lot. I can almost feel myself getting better with every session. And boy, does it feel nice.

My Stats for the Day:
Starting Bankroll : $?? (I was tired and miscounted somewhere)
Tournaments Played: 32
Tournaments Cashed: 13
Net Profit/Loss : ??
Ending Bankroll : $136.37

I also broke my goal of reaching 800 FPP. I was going to get the book about bluffs, but now I have decided to wait for 1500 and get 'Ace on the River'. Unless, of course, someone can recommend me another good book that I can purchase now?

Oh, and be sure not to miss my poop thread.

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Accidently sent twice. Can mods close this? Or is there some way I can delete it?

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Woke up this morning around 10am, fucked around for a bit then started playing some more 6.5SNG. First two tournies yielded nothing, so I quickly got into two more. Took first in one and bubbled on the other. I had three papers due by 1:00pm, so I decided to take a break/shower then get to work.

All three papers were 1 page summaries of three different stories about 10 pages in length on average. It took me about 2 hours to finish, so I had no more time for poker.

Classes ended around 5 and when I got back I started poker again. Because I ran so well last night, I decided to treat myself to a 15+1 SNG. I ran into AA early on and dropped half my chips, but I managed to pull through and ended up taking second place overall (I should have had first, but the guy inhaled violently out). Anyway, the rest of the day was rather blah, so let me get on to the stats.

Stats for the day:
Starting Bankroll : $72
Tournies Played : 12
Tournies Cashed : 3
Net Profit/Loss : -$4
Ending Bankroll : $68.97

I have no classes tommorow, so I plan on just sitting around playing poker all day.

Oh, and my RA of my hall decided to have free food night tonight, of which I took total advantage of and ate 4 7x4 chicken tenders + 3 full cups of soda + 10 cookies + handfull of bbq chips. Im not a big guy (6'0, 140~ lbs) so needless to say I felt gross for the rest of the night.

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