Kick, Push

See post below I've sold 16% so far, trying to get some more.

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I'll be playing APPT Macau in several days, it's a 40k HKD buy in which comes out to 5160 USD (as of right now, 1 HKD = 0.129008 USD xe.com). I'll be selling at 1.1 to 1, I've been told I should sell for higher but this is my first big international MTT so I don't think it'd be fair charging more markup. I also want to reserve a lot of % for my friends IRL here (mostly since they can pay me in cash), so likely I won't take THAT much % from LP backers but I'll gauge the interest. Just send a PM or leave a comment, I'll take stars or FTP.

As for MTT experience I've won the FTP 50/50 early this year for 12k, I've gotten 4th in the daily 80 on stars for 9k, and I mostly play during FTOPS seasons etc. I'm primarily a cash game player though, ID attackyoustack on ftp.

Unrelated: pretty lol, was crushing the 50/100 (equivalent $6/$12 USD) at the grand lisboa today until I realized they were charging max 200 hkd rake (20+ us dollars), what a giant rip off. lol liveaments.

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my 5/10 graph this year. not that many hands but good lord i just can't seem to get a break. already down 4k at 5/10 this month in like a few hundred hands wtf, would be up 3k so far if i never touched that cursed stake =[

my vow: no more 5/10 6max for the rest of the year unless i have a coach w/ me.

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UGh this is going to look SOOOOO BAD...



Quite possibly the ugliest graph I've had in a while. I look like I run ridiculously +EV, and well, that's because I did, which I'm thankful for because I did feel like I wasn't running well in the non-EV spots that aren't shown in the graph, but this may just be the musings of a luckbox. I had TRUE run good towards the end though (see 5k day entry below). My red line took a fat dump and just killed itself, and is currently nowhere to be found.

+13k Cash Results
+2k Rakeback
-4k Staking
= 11k month!

Pretty happy with how it went monetarily, since the one thing I wanted after last month's loss was a 5 figure month. I feel strange though, I'm not satisfied with how I'm playing and I think if I didn't run awesome this month I would be close to another shitty month. So I'm quitting the month early so I can spend the next few days just trying to improve a ton off the tables, something I honestly haven't been doing enough of.

I'm really excited for the rest of the year though, I'm going to be traveling Asia for the next 5 months, mostly for the APPT circuit. Let me know if any of you are going! August is also FTOPS 13 season, which once again I'll be dumping ridic amounts of money into just to try to bink something only to have my soul crushed as I get deep. WCOOP is in September as well, so basically the remainder of this year will be focused in tourneys, I should start studying .

Also wanted to give thanks to all the people that helped encourage me when my results are shitty. I'm going to write a big blog post in September to mark the 1 year anniversary of the time I wrote the blog post "MSNL to Busto". Some of these people include uptown, exhilirate, tianyuan, mikey, jolin, balloonfight, and a lot more. Your words don't fall on deaf ears

Year-to-Date Results:
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Caught up with my EV! 50k!

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my new best cash day ever


2/4 and 3/6, although 90% of the winnings are from 2/4 and just godmoding it up. what an incredible sensation, being on the winning end of coolers. today marks the first time i've coolered someone AA vs KK for deep stacks in probably the last 6 months .

im such a dirty luckbox, i feel a bit ashamed. but i hope this godmode lasts forever!

biggest hand from the sess:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/723170

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Kind of weird how counter intuitive this game is. I'm running well and I've made a lot this month (mostly 2/4, some 3/6) but the truth is I don't think I'm playing very very well (and it's sad to see my red line tanking so hard when I've historically had a breakeven red line). I've prided myself on the fact that, for about a year now, I've only gotten much much better each month, but I feel like I've stagnated recently. Hopefully I can change that soon and get back in the process of noticing vast improvements in my game, because that's prob the greatest feeling for me in poker (besides winning money ofc )

I also feel extremely guilty for not grinding as much. It's been a problem I've had for so long, where I have sooo much free time but I'm so shortterm results oriented that I don't want to "Ruin a good day" by playing another session if I have like 3 hours free, because I don't want to end up down for the day etc. etc. The reality is my implied hourly is like 100 an hour just by playing even 1/2 (which isn't my normal stake anymore), and yet I'm passing this up because I'm a shortterm results nit. I DEFINITELY need to change this and start treating this game like a true professional.

Oh, and coaching. I never advertised it on LP, but since it's the trend these days I might as well just mention it although I've got a busy schedule coming up. I've coached many players, specifically at the micros and lower stakes. I never advertised on LP because I don't feel like my results are as marketable or my name is as credible, so most if not all of my students have been from word of mouth only. So I'm not going to lie, and filter/edit my HEM results to show that I'm some 5ptbb bad ass over 500k hands, but I do think I have an extremely good foundation for Micro stakes and 100 and 200nl. I've even written an entire series of powerpoints dedicated to beating micros up to 100nl, which I use for micro limit students. I'm also a previous student of aejones so the theory I teach is not just some random standardized stuff off of 2p2 but with actual game theory application to it and an entire way of approaching poker applied by many high stakes players. But I'm not going to go out of my way to try to get students because it doesn't matter much for me, but if you are interested, and gauging the amount of interest, I can possibly set something up. I coach 100nl/200nl players for 125/hr, and cheaper for micro students in group setting.

Also a fun hand
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/720819

Basically the only hand he can ever do this with for value would have to be a hand like AQ or KQ with a flopped fd, whereas this is a lot more indicative of AhXx missing. I also don't think I'm folding out a lot of his pairs so I feel a check is > bet, but once he bets, c/r > c/f >>>>>>>>>>> c/c (obv )

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Since June


July

I've been running well as of late, and I'm proud to say that my downswing is over, at least monetarily speaking. Hopefully I'm at what is at the tail end of a roughly 100k hand break even stretch . Thanks for all the encouraging comments especially throughout June when I was having the worst month of my life.

Went to Vegas for 4th of July Weekend, made only like 200 there but I played drunk 4/8 limit @ Venetian with two of my friends at 4 AM and it was probably the funnest poker-related thing I've ever done. Everyone needs to try that once in their life (it's amazing how long $200 will last you in Limit too lolol). Staking-wise, my main horse has been underperforming (I even witnessed his supreme run bad first hand), and I have no horses currently in the WSOP ME :[. It looks like I'm going to end up booking a severe loss as far as WSOP summer staking goes, but oh well.

What's on the mind now is APPT 2009! I'm gonna try to attend as many as I can. http://www.appt.com/tournaments/ for the schedule, anyone else planning on going to any?

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Didn't play a lot of hands in June because I spent most of the month depressed and wondering what sort of disgusting, inhumane crimes I may have possibly committed against Howard Lederer's family to make FTP hate me so god damn much. A lot of points in this graph makes it look like I was tilting like a monkey but I definitely was not. So after rakeback and tourney deductions included, I have roughly a -5k month making it my first losing month all year.

Quick 2 sentences of complaining:
It's honestly fucked up how some regs have it so god damn good, on the good side of coolers and flips consistently, everything just goes their way while I struggle to even get action anytime I have a decent hand. I especially loved how there were many times in my month where I thought I was beginning a heater to rostucko but the next day instantly dropped thousands again, this game REALLY loves toying with my mind.

AI PF EV graph this month:


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So as you can see a lot of the losses were from 5/10. Stats might be skewed for 2/4 and 3/6 because I've been playing a lot of CAP NL lately (as I'm clearly no longer a winner at 100bb poker). I sort of like the game, it's higher variance so I don't know why the fuck I'm playing it given how I'm currently running but I feel like I can adjust a lot better than most regs at MSNL playing cap and there's a lot of fish. I'm currently working on a guide discussing the adjustments from 100bb to CAP, it's 6 pages long so far, but likely no one will ever read it because who the fuck would want to play CAP :/

I'm going to Vegas tomorrow, for 5 days, mostly for fun (can't play tourneys cuz i'm not 21 nor touched by angels). Hopefully July will be a bit more redeeming, and by that can I at the very least just ask for my god damn EV back plz ftp? Maybe my horses will bink WSOP ME for a bunch, who the fuck knows. God I hate poker so much right now.

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Well the downswing was 37 buy ins deep but I think it's reversed! I hope I can keep this up and maybe be even on the month.

I'd also like to say.. RIP mr. red line.

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but still more losing, whatever. down 6k at 5/10 in 600 hands, jesus christ. going to grind this shit out at 1/2 and 2/4. hope to report back at the end of the month at even and up in rakeback moneys!

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