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since alot of people seemed to like my last blogpost about how i improved my game and what i think about improveing ur game in general i thought i would bump it for the ones who missed it that might find it interesting

also got alot of long comments in if some of u who read it when i just posted it is interested in some random addons to the post that can be found in the comment section!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=964894

as for march, i ended up turning a 10k$ downswing at start of month online into a 5k$ winning month wich felt very good after losing 30k$ live + 10k$ online as fast as i came home

april so far has been very kind to me, up about 9k$ so far and starting to feel very confident in my ability as a pokerplayer, im playing very good poker atm

glhf in april


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lately my sessions are usually only an hour or so long, but i play like 3-4 (sometimes 5) times a day, assuming i have the day free (i.e., no school or big HW coming up)

but what's better, having multiple short sessions or fewer longer sessions?


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2010:
[x] donk on a heater
http://imgur.com/QGATv.png

2011:
[ ] will still be around in 5 years
http://imgur.com/enlMx.png


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1st april is gone here in my country so do not worry.

http://www.splitreason.com/Product_Images/d33f1742ea9d.jpg
Here is the link to buy it http://www.splitreason.com/product/cad-comic/1060




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http://imgur.com/hrMlP.png

Best outcome ever, my friend who owes me money wins it :D (well, 2nd best, I was hoping I would pwn everyone and take it down)

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On another note, [x] sustainable story bro:

http://imgur.com/nJOVP.png

gg everyone


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So last month was fail as far as profits, number of hands, results in school and living healthy goes. Also a slight stock market fail. I'd say it was mostly my own fault but I can blame the lack of volume a little bit on having a ton of crap to do and the lack of profits on running 12k€ under EV. Also tended to be sick a lot, had a cold most of the month and managed to catch some weird ass eye infection which kept me from BJJ a while. And I helped my GF move, how such a small girl can have so much heavy shit is beyond me, and ad to that the she might've have had the most useless room mate in the history of the world and there was a lot of work to be done.

Fuck it, April's here and I plan to grind like a mad man. I've gotten 7k hands in today. Just a tiny profit. but I'm ok with that when I'm 10bi under ev. Trying to reach maybe 15k hands for the weekend, just to get the month started off good.

Ohh, and I stopped drinking (at least while in Sweden).


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yo LP

me and resident hero mezmerizeplz are tired of playing hon so much and want some people to play KOTH games with (winner stays, cycle in obs) and in general just more friends so sc2 isnt so barren

we are like high diamond/low master lvl and sick rusty and can only micro 1 unit! lol

caleb_012_@hotmail.com is my sc2 name add meeeeeeeeeee


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Goals achieved in March

- Played around 35000 hands. Good volume for me personally since I only play a couple hours a day.
- Hit the 1K milestone mark
- Successfully raped the shit out of NL 25
- Moved up to NL 50 and have a solid and consistent roll to be staying here for a while.

Goals for April

- same amount of volume or more
- 1K profit
- hit 2.5K bankroll milestone
- Get ready to start easing into NL 100 or be at NL 100 by the end of the month

graph
http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz329/k40cheddar/MARCH2011.png?1301677986

around 18000 or so is when I moved up to NL 50. It's been a little swingy and I'm running a little under EV. I'm still taking full responsibility for some of these losses and I don't want to use EV as an excuse because I know I make occasional mistakes. I feel like my biggest weakness is not folding enough in marginal spots. I've gotten better at extracting value with my good hands, now I just need to get better at not giving away value to other people. My mentality lately has been "you win what you don't lose". Whenever I look over my sessions there are always 3-5 hands that I could have folded and made almost a BI more in the session from preventing losses.

Anyway thats my story. Good luck in April to everyone else.



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What's up Liquid Poker? I've been lurking and occasionally posting random hands for a while, but now I decided to start a blog so that I can track my progress, get advice, and get trolled by you guys.

First a brief introduction. I am currently a sophomore at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Around this time last year I decided I need to get more involved on campus and came across the Illini Poker Club while looking through the list of clubs. At the time I hardly played poker at all and was pretty terribad, but I did enjoy playing when I could with friends. I also did have some past experience playing some pretty nerdy card games, so maybe that's part of the reason poker appealed to me. So I went to a couple meetings, read some basic strategy powerpoints posted on the club's website, and started playing online at Stars. I got from NL2 to NL10 by being a huge nit, and then got stuck at NL10. At that point, I decided I was too impatient to play well on Stars, so I decided to move to Rush Poker on Full Tilt. I was still stuck at NL10-NL25 for a while, but I was actually improving with the help of edzwoo and friends, and by browsing forums and watching a bunch of videos. I moved up to NL50 and ran like 25BI below EV, but still rolled myself for NL100 just from rakeback. I was pretty unsuccessful at NL100 and took like 3 shots before deciding to give HU a try. Played a little NL50-NL100 HU and then started crushing Rush when I came back. In February I pretty much beat NL100 and NL200 starting from around a $2000 bankroll. I also quite my shitty job at one of the student dining halls in February In March I played like 90% NL400 Rush, a little bit of NL200 Rush while 6 tabling (where my redline drops lol), and a little NL100-200 HU. Here are my results:

http://i54.tinypic.com/95yk4x.jpg

This is a little motivation for all the micro grinders out there. As you can see, I was pretty much break even for a loooong long time at NL10-25.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2wd8xhk.jpg

I'm definitely happy with the money I'm currently winning, but I think it's time to move up. It's not just about the money, I just want to keep getting better and better. I think in April I'm going to get out of Rush and either focus on HU (starting at NL200) or just do regular ring games (starting at NL400) and see how far I can go. BTW, I have no experience with 6 max at all, but if I do regular ring games I might make the switch. Any advice on the transition from FR to 6-max or Rush to regular games?

Good luck at the tables!


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Dear TurboFish,

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They can suck my nuts srsly. Fuck these guys. I havn't been able to get a payment from them in over 2 months. the fuck is this shit.

anyone want ftp funds for stars or ub? although it seems unlikely people would want ftp funds atm ;o.


and of course now is the time they would not get their shit straight when i need cash the most ;(



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Recently I've watched the second movie about the so called "Skulls" in Brasil - "Tropa de elita 2" and that's the reason to make this post.
I have never been in Brasil, nor I know someone from there, but especially the first movie was way too brutal, to the point that I thought to myself that this is just for the movie and not what's really going on in Rio De'Janeiro, but when I've read the comments about the second movie I got the motivation to learn "from the inside" if the movie (especially the first one) shows the real situation?I mean - all the corruption and kills?People dying in the gettos without noone even care... For those who have watched the film, you know what I'm talking about, so - is this for real?And have something changed through the years?
-Leron


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Don't feel like playing anymore.. tired of all the bullshit. Been a long time coming ;-0


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I wasn't able to put in much volume this month, but what I did get to put in I'm relatively happy with. My graph is pretty much the opposite of every other one I've seen, my non-showdown winnings are the only thing keeping me out of the red.

I don't want to whine or anything, but most of my losing showdown hands are getting it all-in preflop with the best hand and villain hitting their two outers or runner-runner to flush/straights. I know this is all part of the game so I'm just trying to keep my head up and not letting it tilt me. The hands I'm not getting it all-in pre are winning so I think that's a plus since I am getting my money in with the odds in my favor.

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Goals for April:

Poker:
- Put in some more volume (this may not be too much more since I'm extremely busy from like 9am - 11pm most days with school and work)
- Get to 5NL (I think I should be able to do this as I'm not too far away now, and I think that another 4k+ hands per month should be able to get me to that goal)
- Figure out more features of Free Poker DB (can't afford PT3 or HEM right now, and its the best I can do)

Personal:
- Finish out my undergrad career strong (This is going to be my toughest month of college by far, so just trying to buckle down and remembering whats more important)
- Hit the gym a little more (been only managing one/two days a week if I'm lucky)
- Get some more interviews (the 3ish I had this month went well, but still need to keep my options open)

Good luck to everyone, both in poker and in real life,
Think_


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Since I failed the 4k games for march, created a PLO tourney tonight @ 10 PM ET @ stars, winner takes the hundo, PM me for club info.


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These don't last long, but a solid $8 gamble!
www.woot.com
GOGOGO!


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Im looking to do a fun propbet with someone that plays 25NL on PS. Basically most profit for April wins, winner picks the PS avatar the loser will use for May.





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swongz
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r124/SpicyChicken626/poker/march.jpg

$1080 Profit
$761 rakeback
$1.8k total

Bad Beat: I sent my noob friend $500 and told him to short stack 24 tables of 50nl the night of the 60billionth PS hand. He loses $250 of it and I'm just like w/e send it back. Instead he says nonono I'm gonna play 10nl and grind it back up for you. I tell him whatever you do, don't fucking waste your time grinding 10nl and just send it back. So he goes to play 100nl and loses another $170. I'm gonna beat his ass

Apparently I've only been getting 18% effective rakeback on FTP since the switch to contributed which sucks.

In other news, after my 2.4k drop at the end I started playing LoL and I'm pretty addicted. Come play with me


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So first real month of being back at the tables has ended. Looking forward to the coming months.

This month's results. Not gonna post graph cause its lulzy.

+$4,589 live cash
+$1,113.52 online cash
+$366.88 rakeback
-$400 roulette/blackjack

Total = +5,669.4

Looking to hit the tables hard next month, move up to 100nl online and take shot at some 5/10 live.

Theres a $50k freeroll at my local casino in May, and you need to play 60hrs live to get a seat, so will probably be playing a bit more live in April.

Also gonna try to win a seat at the main event this year. satellites have started, so looking forward to trying to grab a seat.

Good luck in April everyone!


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I decided to switch my sng grinding from Cereus to Hero Poker. One of the main reason is because Cereus just does not give a f*** about their players and their recently revamped leaderboard screwed their high volume sng grinders. Hero's software is actually much nicer than Absolute Poker, regardless of the fact that Absolute has 4-5x more players on Hero. It just shows how much Cereus cares about their players.

Anyways, I've been playing on Hero for only 2 days and have yet to learn how the site works exactly. I'm like a level 36 recruit now as they emphasize their VIP system to be like the leveling system on MMORPGs. I'll be grinding A LOT more starting now so expect more graphs and posts. Here's my graph so far. These are $5-$35 super turbos(u start off with 10bb)

http://imgur.com/RYaGV.png

That downswing was just due to bad play. I was on a heater and just decided to go rambo mode and chase draws and make insane bluffs. Well, thats the result of winning tilt. I'll continue to post my results and hopefully, I'll be on Sharkscope's leaderboard for most profit on Merge's network as well.


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http://imgur.com/wVUAc.png

+8.1k online grind
+3.3k rakeback
+2.2k online MTT
-8.2k live cash

= +5.4k month. Like february, saved the month on the last day w/ a MTT score (biggest online score so far) 45 months on the green and counting.
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Failed the volume tho due to college mostly, gonna set the same goal for april. I guess I'll just make a PLO flipament for the $100 on my home game club this weekend, PM me to get in (if I don't recognize your name then your in).

On another note, live 5/10-10/25 is super soft, and I run super bad. Gonna take a break from those esp after downswinging almost 40 G's on a car. Totally worth it tho, wish I would stop getting speeding tickets but I can't help myself.

SNE looks more and more impossible, I'm 100% on making it to the 800k milestone, and I'm not sure how much more you get if you make it all the way but I might stop there since its so hard when I have a lot of rl shit to do.
VPPs: 152,675.57


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