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| MAXIMUM FOUR TABLES! | ||
 That's how winners play; we convince the other guy he's making all the right moves. 
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"Once we reach a certain level of mastery, we see there are higher levels and challenges. If we are disciplined and patient, we proceed. At each higher level, new pleasures and insights await us--ones not even suspected when we started out. We can take this as far as we want--in any human activity there is always a higher level to which we can aspire."
Check out my blog here! "You are a degenerate Gaam-balur" http://www.philgalfond.com/lets-make-some-changes/
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| BooG690 |
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| So I ran pretty bad today. This caused me to tilt. I lost like four buy-ins. About one and a half of those buy-ins are due to my tilt. I still want to play...but I'm just going to restrain myself and study a bit. That's all. | ||
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That's how winners play; we convince the other guy he's making all the right moves.
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OK...so I'm broke IRL. I have no job, no sort of income, and can't take a full-time job since I will be returning to school shortly. Most of the jobs I find are full-time jobs. I've applied to be a bartender (I have no experience) and also applied elsewhere (check the Commune and see exactly what I'm talking about). That's a little preamble for what lead to this. I moved up to 50NL (I have the bankroll, no worries). I know I can beat it. I asked Micro for some help on three-betting and I've also watched him pwn the fish at 50NL. Watching with his commentary helped a lot. I've played a lot more this month because I feel a bit of pressure to make money from somewhere. When I had a job (I got the boot recently), I felt no pressure when I played and coolers/bad beats didn't bother me much. However, my whole month has went as follows: bad beat, cooler, KK < AA, tilt off money, rinse, repeat. I can't do anything about the first three parts, but SERIOUSLY with the tilt issues? I've played poker for a year and I'm STILL tilting? And better yet, I'm ALLOWING MYSELF TO SPEW OFF MONEY? This is unacceptable and disgusting. I must learn to deal with pressure. I've taken a two day break from poker. I hadn't really visited the IRC since I don't want to hear of it. I will start back on my poker journey tomorrow. But seriously, I have to learn to deal with poker a lot better. I guess I'm just annoyed since the bad beats and the coolers have been happening a lot more often than ever. However, this is simply because I've played more poker this month than I've ever played so it feels they are happening more often. People run really bad for 15K hands...and probably a lot more. I must learn to deal with this and stop being a bitch. I will be back at the tables tomorrow. |
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That's how winners play; we convince the other guy he's making all the right moves.
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Wow. So I read my last post in this thread and I'm quite happy with my progress. Not having side income made me put a lot of pressure on myself to make money with poker. It was a losing formula. Anywho, since then, I've gotten another job. I'm sure most of you know what it is...if not, search the commune for the funnies. I make a good amount of money doing it and, more importantly, I can continue my poker journey without unnecessary stress. I've posted a bit about my struggles with moving up to 50NL. Well, I think I've finally gotten a hold of the 50NL. I'm doing rather well this month and I'm in the process of thinking about the game correctly thanks to Tommy Angelo's video series on DC. I no longer see players as fish...they're obstacles. And what has helped me the most is that I'm not "better" than a player...I simply have a set of advantages over him/her. Anyway, I'm not going to post up my results or anything in this blog. No graphs to look at here. However, I am on the verge of cracking into 100NL, I think. I chased down a player on my buddy list onto a 100NL table a few nights ago. I did rather well and found the game to be the same as at 50NL. However, my sample size was small so I do not want to make any assumptions. We'll see how things go... |
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Thread revivals are fun.  I remember the text lol, glad can't wait to see the post where u movin up to the 200s! |
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| kiwiMark |
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| Be wary, readers, for in these parts is a very strong curse. | ||
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* dranger smells like bum piss and dog shit all over down there
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| FMLwin422 |
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Hey BooG, You are a very interesting blog going on here. I am definitely interested in your progress, and keep it up! You seem to playing pretty solid poker. Maybe ill see you on the tables sometime Good luck! |
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Check out my OP thread Operation: To Simply Get Better!
"I think it's pretty cool that a girl is so into poker. Any chance of us getting some nude pics?" <Carroters> "Dude, it's a chick......that plays poker. You any idea how much I'd pay for one of these?"
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Wow. It's been such a long time. I've really slacked off on my blogs...and poker. I stopped taking poker as seriously as I should. There are a bunch of things that have factored into this: 1) Not as a brag, but I've been making good money this Summer. With my $0 debt, I've been able to pad my bank account pretty well. However, this has lead to comfort. Poker became less important to me since I had less of a desire to make money through it. Sick, huh? 2) My mind is weak. After a couple of bad beats, I'd hate the game. I'd detest it. Sadly, I would suck at quitting my session and more bad things would happen. I am allowing my tilt to creep back and I hate it. I've decided to withdraw a large portion of my bankroll and start back at 50NL (perhaps a bit of 25NL until I get back in the groove). I've ordered Elements of Poker which I hope will help me with controlling my emotions/mind/etc. I will work on taking more breaks and quitting my sessions at better times. My past few sessions have been marathons and there is no reason for this. For starters, I will not allow myself to play more than an hour without taking a break. I will remove myself from the game both mentally and physically (those of you that've read Elements of Poker may be very familiar with this). I will also work on quitting my sessions at better times. Recently, I'd almost never quit when I was up and always went "one more round." This must be stopped. I will analyze my cost-benefit to staying at the table and decide based on that (will losing X cost me more than winning X benefits me?). By cost, I obviously mean negative emotions, tilt, etc. By benefit, it will be the positive feeling I receive from winning. Whenever I feel the cost is greater than the benefit, I will quit. I will then examine and analyze why I felt this way and work on tweaking the way I think about this as I go along (again, from Elements of Poker). Lastly, I will be studying again. Mostly reading new threads (in the SH forum), hopefully posting, and analyzing my own hands. I've ordered Dan Harrington's new book to get me back to the basics. This is in an effort to fight the first reason of my laziness. Even without the money, I always loved learning poker. Its the perfect combination of math and psychology. Additionally, I will be playing more live poker. I feel a combination of live and online poker will keep me focused on the game. Obviously, I will focus more on online poker but, for variety, I will mix it up with live poker. Hopefully these steps get me back into the game. I hope to update this blog soon with more positivity. I will be start playing poker again on Monday and will be reading all weekend to prepare myself for my first session. LATER! |
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| Carroters |
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| Glad you're back into the pokers brah. Good luck getting the groove back, I'm here for a sweat, just hit me up. | ||
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| BooG690 |
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Well then. I haven't updated this bad boy in a while. I'm going to try and regularly update this blog monthly (at least). Anywho, onwards with the update! I began August by playing some 25NL. I shot through that and am now back to 50NL. I've been playing at 50NL for the last two weeks and am pretty comfortable at these stakes. I will be building up the bankroll to get myself to 100NL. Obviously, while doing this, I will be studying my problem hands, analyzing on my own while asking for help if I cannot think up a range, don't understand some theory, etc. This month went very well and I feel a lot of it was my commitment to NOT CHECKING MY SESSION RESULTS. I checked them once a week (Mondays). I reviewed my hands on Mondays. This worked out great. I tilted less during sessions since I was not trying to win money back when I was down (I wouldn't really know exactly where I stood). Also, previous losing sessions did not affect me since I did not know if they really existed. Anyway, I would suggest this to people that feel checking session results leads to tilt. I was speaking to Dranger a few days ago and he mentioned his dabbling in PLO. He told me all about his reasoning and I became pretty intrigued with at least learning the game a bit. I decided to invest a bit in learning the game. I will be watching videos and reading a book to get myself started. I have some leftover money on PokerStars which will become my PLO bankroll (it's like $200 or so). I will probably start at 5NL and work my way up. However, this will be taking a backseat to NLHE. My main focus will be NLHE with PLO mixed here and there. A lot of the reason I cannot focus on PLO is due to a prop bet Kiwi and I have chosen to partake in. Like the famous BC Volume Goal Prop, we have set goals for ourselves. If we both make it (or both don't, for that matter), neither loses anything. If either of us fails, that person owes the other money (I don't really want to disclose the amount without Kiwi's OK). I will be shooting for 60 hours this month. If I make it this month, I plan on propping again next month for a bigger number of hours. Hopefully everything goes well this month. I still have a lot to work on, which is a good thing. Improving, studying, analyzing, and working on my mentality is what makes poker such a beautiful game. It's a lot of the reason I want to pick up PLO (I enjoy learning new things). Anyway, that's all for now. Bai gaiz! |
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in b4 KIWI VS BOOG prop thread (dooo ittt imo) but good luck boog keep us posted, especially with the plo life |
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| kiwiMark |
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It's a blowjob, guys. He's gonna owe me a blowjob. My goal's 90 hours by the by, as I don't have school like boog does, but am currently sick. |
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* dranger smells like bum piss and dog shit all over down there
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| BooG690 |
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Surviva and I had the bright idea of doing a grind-a-thon at his apartment. I'm currently at his apartment and will be grinding all day. |
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That's how winners play; we convince the other guy he's making all the right moves.
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| dranger7070 |
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Gross. ... ... ... ...pics? 
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| He's currently cooking me dinner atm. Do I owe him anything for it? | ||
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That's how winners play; we convince the other guy he's making all the right moves.
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| kiwiMark |
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| Please say it's lobster | ||
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Here's my second blog update of the week. In case you missed it, here's the first. Anywho, poker has been kicking my ass for the past two months. I have a ton of room to improve and I have dedicated an entire month (November) to doing so. I need to learn how to study, review sessions, and talk poker with others. I used to love learning the game when I first started but that love of learning has faded. After two losing months, however, you seem to understand that it's time to get back to basics. To help me refocus and get back to basics, I've gotten a coach. He's a winning player but more importantly, he explains his ideas rather well. I have my first session tomorrow and am rather excited to start. I will be re-reading Theory of Poker and an eBook that I've gotten. Also, I will be watching more videos...especially now that I'm done with my important exams and will only have poker to study (for the most part). I may start posting videos of my gameplay now that I have a program I can record and edit videos with. I will make one and pending the response I get from others, I will re-evaluate and perhaps post others. The road to improving begins here. I have a million resources at my disposal (as does everybody here at FlopTurnRiver). I plan to use them and begin to make real money playing a game I love. |
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Nope, still can't find Dranger's offending post. Nice blog. |
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Well then. I haven't written in this damn thing in forever. As some of you know, I ran away to Costa Rica for two months in January and February. Costa Rica was fucking awesome. I got my TEFL certificate and chilled by the beach for all of February. I can officially stand up on a surfboard and did a couple of sick expeditions. I'm applying for a spot as a summer camp counselor in Spain or England which would be awesome. I will be in Korea around September teaching English for a one-year contract. BAM! Life on the up and up. My dream of seeing the world is coming together. I arrived at home on March 7th and jumped back into poker on the 9th. I chose to "ease" myself in at 50NL...but found out I was totally lost. Whenever I take a long break from poker, I totally forget how to play. It's sad really. I swallowed my pride and went back down to 25NL. I really hated the idea of it since I thought I was done with that stake, but I had to do it since I couldn't beat 50NL at the time. I spent a couple of days at 25NL and did quite well. Everything slowly came back to me. I climbed up to 50NL and ran quite hot. Once I thought I was ready, I made my way back up to 100NL. I used PlatinumStar as a goal to get me to grind out a good number of hands. I ran crazy hot and got back into my groove. I played for about 80 hours this month which I think is a good number considering a missed about 10-11 days at the beginning of March. I should be a shoe-in for Supernova granted I keep this pace. Here's the garf:  It was my best month ever. Hopefully April proves to be better. I have a few sessions with Carrots left from before I went to Costa Rica that I'm really excited for. LET'S DO THIS. |
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Today I took a nice night off from grinding. I've been grinding relentlessly trying to get some rakeback and earn an iPad. I'm not sure how everybody does it but grinding this much gives me cabin fever. I've been grinding about 6 hours a day and doing OK. I've been running pretty bad and am now about breakeven for the month. Considering how much I was down, it's not so bad. I still have the second half of the month to make it up. Everything else is going pretty well. Once the weather gets nice, I should join a Muay Thai gym again and get my ass in shape and give my life a bit of structure. Of course, this is the plan...I just gotta make sure I stick to it. Anywho, time for me to get to bed. I think I'm gonna grind a good bit tomorrow to at least win $100 in some rake race. <3 to all |
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"Once we reach a certain level of mastery, we see there are higher levels and challenges. If we are disciplined and patient, we proceed. At each higher level, new pleasures and insights await us--ones not even suspected when we started out. We can take this as far as we want--in any human activity there is always a higher level to which we can aspire."
Check out my blog here! "You are a degenerate Gaam-balur" http://www.philgalfond.com/lets-make-some-changes/
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