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*sigh* blog title typo.... *break the MOULD*

finally, breaking the mould in 25nl, been running horribly bad since I moved up, constantly breakeven on the fence but finally made my first decent footstep back into 25nl for the first time since November! I haven't withdrew at all in a while now which is sick good, hopefully I can continue this and get back to where I used to be and further Obvioulsy not going to go into too much detail because month is soon to end and that will just ruin my month update



Feels good!

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Run bad.
Breakeven.
Run good.
Repeat process.

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Hey, I still have £72.16 left from the £250 gift certificate on amazon.co.uk. Is any1 interested in any items, ill be able to get them sent to your house?

**UK players**

Add me on msn or PM me

apollooo@hotmail.co.uk

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Hey just updating some of you as I have been asked to make a blog post explaining whats up and why iam in 10nl again etc.etc. Ever since my last blog, I recieved an offer to be staked for 10nl because I was wasting time in 2/5nl apparently, I accepted, I don't normally accept decent sized stakes. Anyway I just finished day4 playing in 10nl.

Day1



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Day4



I have been running quite shitty recently, breakeven/downswinging a lot. I have started battling against my tilt issues which were pointed out by people in my previous blog on how to control them, as you can see on my graphs, that I have coped with and still carried on! I upload most my hands and beats, hoping to be pointed out when obvious bad plays are invovled!!

Basically all I have done in January so far is play poker, working on my own fitness/weights, healthy body, healthy mind, after WCG colonge, I lost ALL my fitness LOL =) Here is my 2/3 month graph, I withdrew around $120 because I needed the cash and thats why I got staked.



Month graph invovles, 2/5/10nl.

I am currently sitting at around 35buyins for 10nl and soon to be hitting 25nl again... Shutup+grind y0

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Shut up & Grind D1 - 1c/2c $84.14 = $101.01

Shit day.

I was up $55 at one point today, then a string of bad beats came, I didn't tilt and guess I should be happy I made $20ish playing 1/2c :S:S

2morrow 2/5c.

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After my rant in my last blog, I went out last night, blew some steam, had few beers, socialized and just bascially chilled out.

Today iam going to start the 'Shut up & Grind' challenge as such, where I'll post up my bankroll improvements/daily stats/graphs.

I start today at $84.14, obvioulsy playing at 2nl and moving up at a standard 20buyins working on what people have commented on in my last blog, thanks for comments btw. x

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Yo.

I guess most of you have seen me post around in lowstakes or seen some of my uploaded hands. I have ONE big massive problem/leak in my game and I need help/advice to wipe it clean.... I sound like a clown posting this but I won't to improve it and its holding me back A LOT.

Ive been playing poker now since late August 08 and my current bankroll is $84.14 My story.

I started grinding 2/5/10/25nl quite succesfully, I turned my bankroll from $40 into $1120 by mid november and I was playing 50nl then all of sudden my poker world turned up side down and I haven't been able to cure it since. I went on sick downswing, from $1120 to around $700, playing 50nl until I dropped out, then sprialled down in 25nl and was on sick tilt and couldn't snap out of it. I ended up withdrawing my roll of around $700 and thought to myself, chill, watever $700.

I stopped playing poker, 1week later, I got staked with $20 to rebuild... which I did, I regrinded to around $440, ran bad, tilt kicked in, dropped down to $280ish, withdrew it in mad rage and stopped playing again. (leaving $20 in my account)

Around mid december, I got the feelings again, loaded up pt3/stars and started playing again, turned $20 into around $290, ran bad, sick tilted, withdrew again.

January 5th, I think to myself, OK. New year, I think I want to try and get back to where I have been in the past, ive railed 25nl/50nl regs and even give my advice and it works out quite sick good and stuff, but iam stuck in micro limits... I tried to grind again..... I got staked $20 from 50nl reg and he told me not to "withdraw again you fucking degen" kekekeekeke. I turned $20 into $200 in 4days playing 2/5nl, I go into 10nl, ACTUALLY run bad and drop down to $150, iam on tilt, I lose few more buyins in 5nl, I ship back the staker $40 for his troubles and now I am sat with $84.14. I haven't withdrew it

Iam a sick degen and need disclipine and help with running bad which tilts me so easily, its my biggest leak. I think I am comfortable to say that I have the skills and knowledge to do well, but tilting is destroying my game.

Here is my december/january life story, please leave any feedback, advice that could help me out, or just leave a comment saying quit poker -.-

Thanks

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Hey n00bs, been a while since I last updated my blog and few people from msn have asked me to do so, so I am!!!

Last time I updated my blog, I had just beaten 25nl, had trouble in 50nl and now I will continue with how I have been recently, life and poker.

Well shortly after my last update, I spent a weekend in London with EA in Trafalgar Square, doing some Red Alert 3 public bashes lol, played on stage and met lots of cool celebrities. JK and Joel, McFly, Kelly Rowlands, The Automatic and few other bands which I hadn't really heard of them before. Because I was playing on stage and against the public for set periods I was considered an "Artist" which gave me a VIP pass so I could get into the celebrity tent T_T free bar ftw!!
Every night we went out drinking with a free tab (from EA) which was sick good, because its deadly expensive in central London to drink rofl. Anyway I included link below if you wanted to check the event out.

http://www.electronicarts.co.uk/PagesView.aspx?id=11927

Straight after this event, I was taken to Coventry for Multiplay i35 where I met up with fellow team mates, dignitas and Team UK, where we all hung out, drinking and playing games/poker. I spent few days just wasting time because I was waiting to leave for Colonge, Germany. Unlike every other team.... we DIDNT fly out.. we got a TEAMUK bus rofl and drove to germany.... including a ferry over the english channel zzzzzzzzz Very lame lol.

This was my 2nd wcg event and I enjoyed this one a lot more than Seattle for some reason (even though the hostel sucked balls), met some cool people, through my constant drinking week in Colonge because I didn't want to compete in my standard cnc3 tournament lol. Met loads of SC players through midian and hung out with mondragon/elly/lilsusie/midian basically every day. I was even dragged to the TL dinner/drinks even though i dont even have an account on the site :D:D:D I met quite few people from here as well, if any1 remembers me ^_^

Overall, wcg08 was really good week and I drank lots and had super fun timez!!

Right.... well into poker..

After WCG08, I felt almost embarrased at my preformance in the tournament because pre wcg I didn't care but being at the event made me change my mind about playing games and I couldn't concentrate on playing poker anymore Not sure if any gamers who are reading this have had that feeling before but its not good.... I therefore cashed out my roll LOL?!? and starting gaming seriously again.... Until about a week ago.. where I was like LOL wtf is the point gaming, so -EV especially since EA RTS games only have one big tournament a year, wcg... When I cashed out, I left myself $20 just incase something like this happened....

One of my big weaknesses in poker was bankroll management mainly struggerling to move down and taking to many agressive shots, I also have other weakness, tilting to fast which is because of the above. In my restart of poker, I took all this into consideration and have been concentrating on improving my game from the start... I don't really care about making mass $$$ just improving my weaknesses and making $$$ will come naturally.

Here are my graphs since my restart of playing poker, I am aiming hopefully to be deep into 25nl and pushing 50nl by the start of January.




I remember reading NeillyAA blog about his 25k challenege and was really proud of what he was doing until he went and busto/lost most his efforts in 100nlhu ;@ But just like to say wp for lasting while you did

Ive been talking to quite few people on msn about poker recently and would like to shout out to Mcturnbull and Roseeker as ive been speaking to them every day and they are very interested in how I am doing and moving up. Hope I can continue my run because I am feeling quite good about playing poker again, very motivated to get to where I want to go....

Hope I didn't bore you to much, thanks for reading =) CU around

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Havent ever really had to post about problems when moving up but this time I think I have to since I have no1 on msn to talk to about it... So just looking for some advice and pointers...

I have been rolled for 50nl 3x now in past few days and busted out moving down back into 25nl and having to rebuild from there... In 25nl, I am running at like 6bb/100 over large sample, like 30k sample but I don't understand why I am having trouble in 50nl? I seem to get tilted easier and spew off a lot more than I do in any other limit, has any1 else had similar troubles?

I just moved down into 25nl again but have to leave for football in the next 10mins so I will rebuild when I get back and hopefully be ready for another 50nl shot in the next few days but in the mean time I would greatly love some help from some of you.

Thanks, if you want me to upload some stats or something which would help you understand more of my problem, let me know then ill upload when I get home.

Thanks again.

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Hey liquidpoker users and other viewers!! Just sitting down before I hit couple of dexter episodes and thought id update you with my progress so far this month!!!

At the start of the month, I was playing 10nl and set myself a couple of goals to finish by the end of the month... So firstly, I will just go over them. Below are my listed aims for October.

1. Main one obvioulsy is push for $500, which would mean gaining 28buyins over 31days which should be possible!!!
2. I am concentrating on 4tabling 10nl, really getting a feel for players/table (I don't have or use ingame stats) I want to improve my game, not robot it out, quality not quantity!!!
3. Post more in the forums, I feel this will express my opinion instead of keeping thoughts to myself, and then hopefully be corrected when out of line in thoughts.
4. Really concentrate of identifying LEAKS... I already know of a few and already started the plumbing work!!

Now I shall just quickly go over them.

1. This was certainly raped quite easily... My bankroll is currently sitting at $1014. I took two shots at 25nl and just starting my 2nd shot at 50nl, so I really surpised myself with my progress here.
2. I have been playing mainly 4tables of 25/50nl concentrating on players, fish, stats and like I said, simply improving my game. Thanks for midian as always, with his help, I certainly have changed from a 8/8 nit.
3. I post around more, some stupid topics (neilly $3rebuy :D) and I read/post in the lowstakes forum, so this has gone well also!
4. Identifying leaks, midian again helped me out here. I know I still have leaks in my game and its far from being stable for 50nl play, trying hard to vastly improve this aspect of my game at all times.

As you can see, things are going rather well for me this month, I have had my share of downswings, break even patches and heaters... and because of the amount I play, it happens often which you will see in my graph in a minute.

Ok... gunna hit up few graphs of this month!!! Please comment on what you think and slag me off for mass of hands.






In real life, I haven't really done too much this month, midian came up and stayed at mine for a week over my birthday which was cool, lots of beer/drunkness and money wasted on pool/itbox machine/ and basically crap, funfunfun. I went to see Oasis live last night in Cardiff which was pretty fucking sick. Class band, class show, well worth going!! Haven't really had much luck on the birding aspect of life since I been concentrating mostly of my football and poker So that sucks ;D

I am attending an EA event in London next thursday and then going into Coventry for i35 (UK LAN) so ill be around to chill/talk/game/poker it up if any1 is around and interested in meeting up!! Then after that, I will be flying to Germany for WCG where I will fail at my tournament because of poker lolz. I guess thats about it... OH LOL ONE MORE THING.

I was driving home last night from Oasis in Cardiff, and ran over a Badger... doing about 60-70mph, 2mins later, tempterature gage on my car started beeping and it rose up.... FUCK.. badger raped my radiator -.- Not cool, had to get break down recovery guys out to pick me and mate up ROFL...

GG GL GG

Any1 interested in talking poker or general chat, hit me up on msn: apollooo@hotmail.co.uk

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