its like breathing

anyways, i played some serious FR today to rack up mad FPP's cause im going to buy maaaad stuff with them like ipod's and tv's and all that. i also want to get that chipset that nasty nazgul showed me it's dope. here's how today went.



if you guys want to be my friend check out
http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/id/1/user/20955
and let me know how you feel about some of those hands. i think they're standard but there is a few spots for criticism.

much love to all good night.

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so anyways finals are winding up and i probably did pretty bad this semester but i took alot of my senior classes junior year because im baller and i just want to take only 3 classes a semester next year and spend a lot of time on my hammocks. got a stretch of finals the next two days and then i move into my new condo which should be pretty sick. my roommate in the new condo is one of the first guys i met at university and he's a real cool person, his like existence is a conversation piece in the condo, he's that level of interesting.

anyways,
i've been limiting myself to 1k hands per day and i think it's working out ok. more time for school less time for tilt. also, after this marathon of finals ill probably take the weekend off from poker to move into the new condo but i would like to have some really good reading in the meantime. this is where you guys come in, i really need your help. if you LP'ers could just link me to any really interesting poker articles or forum threads online that you might have bookmarked or remember so that i can print out a few hundred pages of readings to do when its nice out and i want to be outside i would really appreciate it. theres really not much good poker literature in print so im just going to go to the library and try and print out everything useful i can online. special prize to the guy who sends me the article/thread i find the most interesting.

other than that just been on auto pilot cruising along, shout me a holler and thanks in advance for anyone who passes along some good reading, i'd really appreciate it.

P.S. I hide the stats because there's just too many lurkers. Want to know how I play feel free to sit with me.

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Hey All. Been just on the grind lately, running pretty poorly. The last two days have been brutal with awful suckouts left and right. Had a couple two-outers (set vs. overpair) for 300bb pots and some other random BS. Here's the obligatory stats and graph of yesterday's results.




And of course some gross suckouts:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/185937
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/185915
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/185364
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/185346

I've obviously been playing way too much full ring lately as is evident by my stats, if I played a little looser I'm sure I could have boosted my winrate, really dumb of me.

In other news I need to decide if I'm going to vegas this summer, and I also need to figure out how to dance a little better.

Any advice on life/etc. appreciated. Later.

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200nl full ring is just soooo easy. Played first session at it in awhile and it went ok. I actually won the most buyins I think I've ever won in one session, but it was unfortunate because I ran really badly. I lost a few set over sets which never happens to me usually.

I also find 200nl Full Ring regulars to be worse than 100nl regulars if that's even possible. Must be variance.

I caught someone tilting bigtime who tilted away like 600 to me with random K high bluffs, pretty lucky.

In other news, I posted some hot jams and everyone was trying to ban me and it just really upsets me because I'm kind of emotional and generally feel misunderstood. It sucks when you try to reach out to people and they bite you, you know? I just try so hard to help people out and make people like me but it never seems to work, I don't know what's wrong with me...




obligatory graph.

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LOCK UP YOUR KIDS, NOLAN IS BACK IN TOWN.

I played my first session at 200nl Full Ring on Stars the other day. I did OK, kinda ran blandly (Only had Aces once and it folded to me in the BB) and had some kinda bizarre "coolers". (AK vs A7 in a 3bet pot on an AJ7 board)



Fortunately I won alot of middle sized pots so things turned out in the plus. The games were kinda tough being a weekday, but I think with some weekend sessions I can sustain a slightly higher winrate. Hopefully anyways.

In other news, There are flagrant rumours going about that I am a Harvard student. These are not true, rather my University allows an exchange program where I can take a class at any University along the Amtrak train line (Maine, UNH, Harvard, BU, Northeastern, BC etc.) if my university does not offer it. So although I am a registered Harvard student, it is one class and is misleading. I apologize for the misunderstanding, I'm only a little smart, not quite mega smart.

Speaking of University, it's pretty hard, so if you're doing OK at poker and still in High School you should defer until you're done with poker to go to school because balancing poker/social life and schoolwork is difficult.

Also, if you guys could suggest some good movies to rent (one's I probably have not seen) I would greatly appreciate it.

And lastly, I would greatly appreciate any commentary on my PT stats, I personally think they are interesting and outside the realm of a typical 200nl FR player.

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I've been baller status lately.

Anyone who has ever been to New England, the weather is so absurd. It was 60 this morning, and theres about 6 inches of snow on the ground right now (midnight). So annoying.

I'm thinking of moving when I graduate next year, in fact I'm set on it. Preferably to another country whose official language is english/spanish/french. Any non U.S. citizens got some suggestions? Information on cost of living/good places to pick up foreign women/transportation systems would be helpful.

Cheers, Sean.

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Hey Guys.

I've really been struggling lately. Well not struggling, more like swimming uphill. It's really been weird, my last like 6-8 sessions, I've dropped like 3 buyins very early in the session, usually within the first 300 hands. Then, I spend the rest of the session winning it back. This has happened this exact way in my last like two weeks of play. It starts like a nightmare session but it never ends like one. The worst I've ended is down like 1.5 buyins. But usually I end up +1 or +.5 buyin.

Over like 30k hands now I'm running at 2ptbb or so.

I know this could be random shit luck, but I'm starting to doubt it. Anyone go through a run where this happened? I don't really feel like I play too awful, maybe make a few light calls I shouldn't but overall I think I'm playing fine, and isn't tilt supposed to come near the end of a session? Really odd, I'd love to hear what you guys think.

Also, check this hand out.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/150655

I've run into this situation a few times. It's hard to put him on a boat because raising doesn't really seem necessary. I'm also usually hesitant to put him on the ten.

Any thought on this?

Anyways, Cheers and hope you all are running great.

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So I took the www.donkeytest.com poker test.

Some pretty interesting questions. It gives you a general score than breaks it down into 13 different sections.

My general score was 123, which I was pretty happy with.

Also interesting was that I scored 91% on small-mid pair play and like 98% on computational speed? Both of these were in the 99th percentile of like everyone who'd taken it.

In other news I score 38% on the tournament skills part. Weeeeeeee.

Not much poker lately, been incredibly sick .
Anyone in college who lives with 10 or more people, try being sick on the weekend, its a blast.

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Hey all. Ran pretty much break even over the last 25k hands at 100nl six max. (2ptbb/100 ) It's really getting frustrating. I'm having a tough time analyzing my play and finding any real leaks other than a few possible things preflop, although I'm really not sure whether or not this is also due to variance.

One of the greater challenges I think a serious poker player faces is not being results oriented but at the same time being responsible for their results.

Here's a graph of my most recent 2.5k hand session

The funny thing about it is over those 2.5k hands I didn't lose more than 60bb in a pot, barring one hand where I had AK lose to JJ AIPF... Won a few interesting ones though. Check out the hands from Feb 19-20 here: http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/id/1/user/20955

Some kinda interesting stuff, and a pretty questionable play with AK against a shorter stack. I decided he had to have a FD since he limp called and the second five came on the turn. Come to think of it, over-analyzing situations when I'm running poorly is definitely one of my leaks, but I've been doing a good job plugging it lately.

In other news, I've started polyphasic sleeping at the advice of Corwin the great. Not really, but I've been sort of doing it unintentionally.

Also, I'm thinking about buying a 30" and 20" monitor for my new setup (I'm building a new cpu). Anyone out there have any input or advice on any other monitor-related ideas. I'm nervous 30" will be "too big" or that maybe there's just better options out there. Any feedback appreciated.

LATA.

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Ahh, I've been playing pretty poorly lately and not running so great either. (Kudos to whoever called out the downswing in my earlier blog post). Fortunately I played a solid 2k hand session today and sorta broke out of it. Only recouped about half the losses though

It's been really cold up here, and I'm happy I haven't been called out to work the docks lately (I work for a commercial lobstering company from time to time, it's a friend's family run business so sometimes they're desperate and have me drive up since I go to school right near Maine). It would really suck and I'm all set financially thankfully. Plus last time I worked an 8 pounder snagged my right hand and ripped a good peice of skin off, I'll try and get a picture up later, but the scar looks kind of viscious.

Lately I've been all weirded out and thinking about life and stuff, I think it's because I'm approaching senior year of college and I really have to think about things seriously. My uncle is a hot shot CPA and called me today to talk about interning in Manhattan with him which would be interesting but is frankly fairly intimidating. I'm too hood for the real world.

Also, there's a really interesting thread over at 2+2 about some guy who is mimicking SBrugby's bankroll building strat (Start with 1k, play 100nl until 10 buyins for 200nl etc all the way up to 5/10.) I think it's interesting and I don't have the thread off hand but if you can find it it will be real interesting.

Check out my recent hands for todays session (Feb 12th), the tables were kinda nutty there is some real gems in there (Calling 4 bets with 35dd is standard?).

Cheers, Nolan


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