Poker Blogs

http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r424/attik34/jan2011.jpg

Good month. Would like to have not had the crappy finish but solid results none-the-less.

308 games played
20% ROI
+$390

I really just need to bee more focused and play. The more I play the more I'm going to win. I need to focus up and make volume happen. I should have ALOT of weeks that I get 200 games played and I've yet to do it. I just need to focus up and get volume in period.

Also going to get in shape. Slowly been working on getting out more. The getting a dog is helping, I'm really motivated to take him on walks and go play in the park and stuff. The constant snow that northern MO is getting is however hindering progress. Meh, Let's go February!



Comments (1)       read entire blog

Soooo Jan. was an interesting time.....

Beginning of the month I was feeling kind of meh, but I came into the new year with a resolution to wake up at 10AM at least every weekday. I succeeded at the beginning, struggled a little bit with it when I got kind of upset about running so bad at 1/2 in the early-middle of the month, but I pulled it together and I've been getting up right about 10am for about 80% of this month. I'm proud of myself overall, as this sleeping thing is something I've had trouble with since I was a young kid. I'm going to continue the 10AM shiznat.


About two weeks ago I decided to get back into Magic The Gathering. I played it like 12 years ago in middle school but hadn't touched it since. Its damn fun! And its a great way to meet new people and be social. If I keep enjoying it I am going to plunk down some cash and try to become an MTG tournament player on the side haha.

Well here is my nl200 is rigged evidence:
+ Show Spoiler +

NL100
+ Show Spoiler +

Overall
+ Show Spoiler +

Oh well.. at least it looks a lot better in BBs LOL!

All graphs are 92% 6max, nl100 is like 35% rush I think. Nice way to get some volume in.

I also played 115 hands of nl400 and won $431, SICK LIFE.



I wish I could of had an awesome month (ie if I didn't play nl200 at all...) and 1/2 was quite soul crushing at times, but I'm feeling better and my roll is surprisingly healthy. Some NL100 professional got angry when I 3bet him today and said, 'you taking another nl100 shot? , You should turn down the aggression', then he folded obv. I don't even 3bet that much..

See you at 1/2 next month...





Comments (13)       read entire blog

Being somewhat aware of the Poker universe, I've always had a knack for poker yet. . never really initiated myself to learn more than what I currently know about it.
Well actually to be honest I was more occupied with BW and gaming and whatnot so that took up most of my time rather then using that time to learn more about poker.
So now, bored of gaming in general (yes even though SC2 is out, I have no interest whatsoever. I enjoy spectating rather then actually playing it now. My interests and views have shifted dramatically over the past year.

So now I've decided to finally stop wasting my time with useless activities and poker up my life a little. Yes I am aware you can lose more then you win but it's a risk I'm willing to take.

Tonight on this lovely Sunday evening marks my beginnings in Poker. Currently I'm just playing [Play Money] tables while reading up on basic strategies and hands, news within the PS world and other related websites.

Since most members on this forum are from TL (as am I) I'm hoping people around here can jumpstart me and help me out with tips and tricks I should keep in mind/learn?

Would be most appreciated!
I'm going to keep updating a week by week blog from now.


Comments (6)       read entire blog

HOT OR NOT?

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1526/huhotornot.jpg

Also still got 500 on cake will take 470 on FTP and 480 on UB/AP


Comments (0)       read entire blog

I edited out the dealer messages because this plays out over quite a while, this thing would be unreadable and many pages long if I didnt. Otherwise its untouched.


Submitted by : atateconst

PokerStars Game #56830371114: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2011/01/30 12:14:39 CT [2011/01/30 13:14:39 ET]
Table Eurydike XII 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($12.50 in chips)
Seat 2: xaruto_kill ($7.83 in chips)
Seat 3: Anuka2010 ($6.71 in chips)
Seat 4: Lazybones90 ($7.44 in chips)
Seat 5: madrid AK ($6.53 in chips)
Seat 6: WF3lixW ($10 in chips)
madrid AK: posts small blind $0.10
WF3lixW: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $0.75 to $1
xaruto_kill: folds
Anuka2010: folds
Lazybones90: raises $1.50 to $2.50
madrid AK: folds
WF3lixW: folds
Hero: raises $9.50 to $12
Lazybones90: calls $4.94 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($4.56) returned to Hero

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $15.23)

   

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $15.23)

   

River (Pot : $15.23)

   

Showdown
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Kings)
Lazybones90: shows (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
Hero collected $14.47 from pot

Summary
Total pot $15.23 | Rake $0.76
Board  
Seat 1: Hero showed and won ($14.47) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 2: xaruto_kill folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Anuka2010 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Lazybones90 (button) showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Jacks
Seat 5: madrid AK (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: WF3lixW (big blind) folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #56830958516: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2011/01/30 12:29:42 CT [2011/01/30 13:29:42 ET]
Table Eurydike XII 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($18.90 in chips)
Seat 2: xaruto_kill ($10.63 in chips)
Seat 3: Anuka2010 ($8.66 in chips)
Seat 4: Lazybones90 ($2.70 in chips)
Seat 5: madrid AK ($6.93 in chips)
Seat 6: WF3lixW ($10 in chips)
xaruto_kill: posts small blind $0.10
Anuka2010: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Lazybones90: raises $0.25 to $0.50
madrid AK: folds
WF3lixW: folds
Hero: raises $1 to $1.50
xaruto_kill: folds
Anuka2010: folds
Lazybones90 said, "wer ncohn paar gewonnen wär split pot"
Lazybones90: raises $1.20 to $2.70 and is all-in
Hero: calls $1.20
WF3lixW said, "oder so"

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $5.75)

   

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $5.75)

   
Lazybones90 said, "omg"

River (Pot : $5.75)

   

Showdown
Lazybones90: shows (high card Ace)
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Jacks)
Hero collected $5.47 from pot
Lazybones90 said, "so sinnlos"

Summary
Total pot $5.75 | Rake $0.28
Board  
Seat 1: Hero (button) showed and won ($5.47) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 2: xaruto_kill (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Anuka2010 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Lazybones90 showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 5: madrid AK folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: WF3lixW folded before Flop (didnt bet)

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/2789/sundaystart.jpg

Guess I have some gamble in me.


--EDIT--

FUCK - 0 cashes lol

bubbled everything =[ got deep in everything, played great, all traps backfired, nothing worked, wanna fucking /wrists

Sundaynofunday..
Ryan


Comments (14)       read entire blog

Hey LP.net, I am not very active anymore, but I still lurk around here from time to time, though I do not play any more poker. Last years shot went bad, I could not even beat NL25 anymore (but I did not play a big sample, I think I should still be able to crush it, but that is not the point here), so I completely quit poker and try to get a university degree... I am almost there, already turned in my thesis, will have 3 more exams in February and if everything goes well I am will be a Bachelor of Science in 4 weeks...

So this is last night story, it's a bit long, but maybe you will enjoy the read, it's not about sluts though.

At the moment I am doing a internship in Shanghai/China and last night me and some friends at first, one friend later went clubbing. I get a wage from my company which is very good for Chinese standards, but drinking, clubbing and girls take lots of cash away, I took my last money (about $50) and went out that night. My Chinese account was empty with that and I can not take credit off it.

My friend lives near my apartment, but not exactly in the neighborhood, but we wanted to take a taxi together back after having drunk all night long. At that point, I had already spend most of my money, I had about $8 left, enough to split the bill for the cab home. Anyway, my friend got to know some ho and he took a taxi for himself. He wanted to make sure he could start with the foreplay already. He knew about my situation, so he gave me a 100 RMB note (about $15),allowing me to take a cab, too.
Somehow because of my retardation, I lost that note in the club. Now that was bad, but I thought I would be able to get some cash from the ATM from my European account, that ATM is near my apartment. I got into the taxi and told the driver where to go. Shanghai is really huge, so it took like forever, and in the end the bill was at like $12 or $13. I told him that I need to withdraw cash (I do not speak Chinese, so I showed him my Cash Card) and went to the ATM, but it's fucking China, and nothing is working as it should, no cash for me after several tries.

Basically, I am fucked, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, I am drunk as hell and I am not able to pay my cab driver, so what the fuck do I do? I do not feel like cheating my poor driver and I know that $13 can be a lot to simple employees in China, so I went back to the cab, gave him my last $8 and said "Sorry, but I did not get any cash" what he probably did not understand as Chinese taxi drivers speak English very poorly, like most Chinese people. Then I took a run into the darkness... Holy shit, screaming wheels and and a pissed off taxi driver ready to run me over, he was really fast coming after me with his taxi although I started my run for my life in the opposite direction as he was standing. He was shouting hellish swears at me. My adrenaline started pumping.

Now you have to know that Chinese people are really friendly towards "Lao wai" or westerners AS LONG as they can extract money from you. I am convinced that they can become very unfriendly and unpleasant when they realize that you cannot be their cashcow anymore or even owe them money, like I did in that moment. For sure I did not want to find out middle in the night in some dark road. I did not know whether he was calling the police or colleagues or whatever, but I thought it is a bad idea to get caught.

Another thing to take into consideration is the architecture of Chinese streets. You cannot simply vanish into the night, because there are fences and walls everywhere, you are forced to stay on the streets and if you want to enter your flat (they are in compounds most of the time, which can only be entered through gates. And these gates are protected by watchmen 24/7. I did not want my new nemesis to know which compound I live in and running by the watchmen in the night would not be a good idea either, so I took another direction. He was still behind me, I could hear his taxi. I took several 180 turns to get rid of him. Luckily there was a small passage at some point which I entered. The taxi driver did not get off his taxi, he was an old fatty anyway, I knew I could outrun him and he did probably know it, too.

I started feeling safe for the moment but I did not know if he gave up at that point (I mean i owed him like $5) or he would try to get a manhunt on me, so I hid like for several minutes and felt like James "underground" Bond. Like a ninja-night-warrior I took peeks around corners to see where he was and what he was doing, sneaking silently around the buildings, even creeping on the ground to not get spotted by him or alerted colleagues/watchmen/w/e. My next concern was whether the driver would inform the watchmen around to look out for a young "yang guizi" that ripped him off. I took a walk around the block, always hiding in the bushes if a taxi would run by and got into my compound from the back side, that guard did sleep, in the end I was safe finally.

Now I have to watch out in the future when I take a cab here :-/




Comments (7)       read entire blog

I didn't fail on the NL 25 shot
http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz329/k40cheddar/NL25goodstart.png?1296371521

pretty much been 3bet bluffing more, double barreling more, and opening up my range a lot for image. Been helping so far to get paid off with better hands. Small sample I know, but it's a start.


Solid roll now. Need to be consistent and deal with the swings.


Comments (1)       read entire blog

Hello,

Thinking of purchasing a laptop for poker. Minimum requirements - i3 or equivalent processor. 4 gbs of ram, 7200 RPM HD. Windows 7.

http://www.buy.com/prod/asus-k72jr-x5...2-66ghz-with/q/loc/101/216885054.html

$700

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products.../Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z560-0914-42U-Laptop/

Another potential laptop

$500

Please let me know your thoughts on either and if anyone can find a better deal that I end up purchasing I will send you $5 on Pokerstars.




Comments (4)       read entire blog

http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r424/attik34/jan29.jpg

Pretty meh week. Glad what felt like a bad week ended pretty even. Played mostly 6's with a mix of some 12's. Feel like I ran pretty bad, couldn't get a win the second half of the week. This hand seems to sum up my FT's for the week

Submitted by : attik34

Full Tilt Poker Game #27724805482: $6 + $0.50 KO Sit & Go (215474665), Table 6 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:13:00 CT - 2011/01/29 19:13:00 ET - 2011/01/29
Seat 1: connman20 (31,032)
Seat 2: attik34 (28,023)
Seat 3: choneDbone (80,072)
Seat 5: cominatchayeeha (21,574)
Seat 6: RickyM99 (32,112)
Seat 7: kayfusha (28,081)
Seat 9: csr67 (49,106)
connman20 antes 300
attik34 antes 300
choneDbone antes 300
cominatchayeeha antes 300
RickyM99 antes 300
kayfusha antes 300
csr67 antes 300
connman20 posts the small blind of 1,200
attik34 posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #9

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to attik34
choneDbone folds
cominatchayeeha folds
RickyM99 folds
kayfusha folds
csr67 folds
connman20 calls 1,200
attik34 checks

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $6,900.00)

   
connman20 bets 2,760
attik34 has 15 seconds left to act
attik34 raises to 9,600
connman20 raises to 28,332, and is all in
attik34 calls 15,723, and is all in
connman20 shows
attik34 shows
Uncalled bet of 3,009 returned to connman20

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $57,546.00)

   

River (Pot : $57,546.00)

   
connman20 shows three of a kind, Queens
attik34 shows a pair of Kings
connman20 wins the pot (57,546) with three of a kind, Queens

Summary
Total pot 57,546 | Rake 0
Board:
Seat 1: connman20 (small blind) showed and won (57,546) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: attik34 (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: choneDbone folded before the Flop
Seat 5: cominatchayeeha folded before the Flop
Seat 6: RickyM99 folded before the Flop
Seat 7: kayfusha folded before the Flop
Seat 9: csr67 (button) folded before the Flop

moved to blog from general


(1/p)(Bexp[-x/p])= kq^2/x^2

I've been assigned this question for my chem class. If p, B, and q are constants, how do you solve for x??


Comments (26)       read entire blog

I just started playing poker again at 0.05/0.10 NL and was wondering if anyone can give me constructive criticism on my current statistics. I should also mention that I play 6max 20-50BB tables.

http://imgur.com/E3zAw.png

It seems that my SB/BB positions have the worst losses. How can I improve on this?

http://imgur.com/7lFC3.png

Thanks.


Comments (7)       read entire blog

But didn't get a single money from him..
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9995/fishv.jpg

+10 bi nevertheless.




Comments (2)       read entire blog

Sorry no graphs in here.

Is it possible to graph a specific limit in HEM? Like for example I want to have a graph of my 1/2 life time. If not wtf? If so how do I do it? Thanks!


Comments (8)       read entire blog

i put up a decently high quality sc2 stream of myself

im a high masterleague player, who played BW since the beginning of time, was a nationalplayer for sweden for many years etcetc

anyways, tune in if ur bored sometime ill also play alot of good music!

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/RataNSWE

or http://www.own3d.tv/live/19963 where u also can find a couple of vods

~

(ps ive shipped another 4k$ when games were to good to not play in one night, so up at a 25k$ month!)

im pleeeeeeased


Comments (4)       read entire blog

Heyo,

I'm looking to play a bit on Full Tilt Poker just to get a hang of the games and I'd rather not spend days waiting for my Stars account to cash out. Would anyone be interested in a trade for my $50 Stars for your $50 FTP? Given my post count and non-existant reputation, I will be sending first if you are somewhat reputable.

Many thanks!


Comments (1)       read entire blog

I realize I haven't done an intro blog even though I meant too months ago. Just never got around too it after I got sick. Long story short, I've been playing poker the last 2-3 years and although I started playing strictly 12-tabling 6-max tables I now gravitate between 50/100/200 NL HU cash games and MTTs when I have a chance. I've lurked the site for the last two years and decided maybe I should give it a shot. Basically do cash on FT and MTTs on both when I have time.

Today has actually been the first good day I've had this week. I managed to get 14th in the $8.8 25K 2xTurbo on Stars, which actually got me incredibly pissed of as I managed to make Final 2 tables yesterday prior to meeting the Doom Switch. Luckily today I managed to place 5th in 11:00 AM $75 $35,000 KO on Full Tilt for a $2,275 take. At first I was upset I didn't make it higher obviously, but the irony of it all is that I should have came in 9th as I came in as the small stack.

About 5 minutes after the Final Table started, I had a serious case of the runs [wtf!] and literally had to bust out my best road-runner impersonation as I went to pay homage to the porcelain Gods. At any rate, I come back and hover over my folded hole cards [TT] and do my best "WHAT THE FUCK!" face. However, as I immediately see 2 separate players move all in with AA and AK respectively, I realized that maybe luck wason my side today. The rest was history.

The weeks been rather testing but I'm glad I'm logging time again. I've been able to log 48, 40, 60, and 51 tournaments each of the last four days [TY FT for Multi-entriments], which was more than I ever did which was around 30 on average whenever I had a chance.

Alright I'm exhausted gl hf and peace out.

-Zy


Comments (1)       read entire blog

Busy weekend so only playing some MTT's on Sunday. Going for a 5th cash in the turbo take down, cmon 500 bonus!

All 25PLO, need to play more hands next month im sooo lazy. If anyone wants to do a sidebet for motivation im down. Something small like $50 to the other guy if you dont play 60k hands.

http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t324/y0ugotgot/Jan2011.jpg


Comments (5)       read entire blog

Ok, so I've decided to put January in the books. My profit isn't great by any means but it's ok. Still more then twice what my parents does toghter, lol. Poker makes weird things to your perception of money. I've played pretty low and after two losing months it always feels good to turn it around. As far as the goals I put up goes I'd say I did so-so as poker goes. I put in the right volume, but not the right quality. I've started coaching a little bit and even though I havn't really got the hang of it yet it's ok. Slow but steady. I haven't watched enough poker videos, mostly due to some problems with my Bluefire subscription. I should probably fix the last part this weekend and the take steps to organise my life a little better.

Also I tend to see the girl I'm seeing right now for to many hours at a time. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that she's both fairly pretty and smarter then me. It's weird to actually have a conversation with a girl about anything remotely interesting (ie: not feelings) and stuff I actually have some use for in my every day life. It's fucking up my sleeping schedule even worse then poker though so I'll need to fix that.

As for the other goals I've started talking more to some interesting people, I've read two and a half book (but all by Pratchett ) and I haven't done enough BJJ. Investing is going semi-decent though, and I've been taking a lot of long ass walks and eating fairly clean. I'm down to something like 87-88kg from the 90 I started at in the beginning of the month so that's nice. I've also done reasonably well in school and managed to clean up my e-mail, rrs and facebook account a little bit so that I don't spend half the day figuring that shit out.

Overall I'll say it's been a very interesting and fairly productive month despite the fact that I've underperformed slightly. My plans for February would be to get my sleeping under control, figure out a good way to get a few hours of poker in most days without playing to bad and getting my bluefire account active again. I also hope to get a lot of BJJ in, I really start to feel that it's fun again.


Comments (9)       read entire blog

What video sites out there are good now days for a former biggamerollaballa winner thats now losing on nl10 (starting again after 123 years off poker)?:D


Comments (6)       read entire blog