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Old 01-01-2010, 01:32 PM     Post subject: Highway to the dangerzone! #1 (permalink)  
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I decided to start blogging again with the new year... like everybody else it looks like.

I just realized that the best months I've had in the last year were when I was logging every session, so this is what I will be doing right here.

How I plan my sessions atm is - I set a timer for 1h and load up ~8 full tables and ~4 empty or short handed ones. After that 1h I sit out on all my tables when the blinds come around, sort for the good ones, take a break, do some exercise and then play for another hour 4-8 tabling.
If I'm playing longer it's usually because I have one or more very profitable games going, and then I'll watch trailer park boys post brags @ irc and keep playing those tables for as long as I think can play them profitably.

Starting this year with +$19151 in online profit and ~ +€2500 live.
Most of that money has gone into my new car, a new computer, an iphone, sushi (lots of) and general living expenses.
My online roll is @ $2800 atm.
I will be playing 50NL/PL at Full Tilt until I'm over 5k and feel like moving up again.

First session of the nu yehaw! gogogo!
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First session of the nu yehaw! gogogo!
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[00:30] <DC> daven
[00:30] <DC> on my hand?
[00:30] <daven> yep
[00:30] <DC> because I am drunk
[00:30] <daven> nice reason
[00:30] <daven> no further questions
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Thanks guys!

3h25min.
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mostly FR


This is the one that caused me the most headache today:
http://weaktight.com/1852011
Villain is 6/5/8 over 1k hands
33% fold to 3-bet.
let's assume 30% equity against a calling range
So 1/3 * 2.75 + 2/3 * ( (2/3 * -10.20) + (1/3 * 11.95) ) = EV -$0.96

Prolly an easier fold than I thought, even if I gave him a brain and a better steal range.

His ptr for lohlz: http://www.pokertableratings.com/ful...ch/johnyfilpo5

I need to start squeezing more. my squeeze% was always lower than my 3b%... so I still gotta wrap my head around that concept. Today my squeeze%=3b%
That's at least an improvement.
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My squeeze% is fairly low again at 2% - but after reviewing all the possible squeeze spots it seems fine. I could have 3bet 99 once in position, but other than that I had lots of offsuit aces, or the initial raiser was some 5%pfr bot opening from EP... and most of the time I was in the blinds with some random trash.

Ended the session a little too late. In my last hand I didn't see that the board paired twice at the end, and made a terrible vbet with 5's full on J57 7 J - even though I was just 2 tabling. Wasn't too expensive luckily.
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on first read i somehow got 'highway to the drangerzone' and thought this was going to be about military service etc...

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Unfortunately not doing so hot today. flopped toppest trips 5 times and top set once - lost all but one.

4h
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Played a 90/30, 17% 3-bet HU on an empty FR table for about an hour, and made some pretty bad mistakes... like c-betting... and betting my draws.
It's prolly not too big of a mistake because he could have called with worse highcards and I do want to build a pot in case I hit it.
But I double barrelled him a couple of times which was just pure tilt. He wasn't going to fold anything... ever.
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Dropped 3BI right at the start of todays session bringing me back to break even for the month, but continued to run like Jesus for the rest of the day for +12BI.

3h40min.
+$485

Will play another session later, but wanna post brag in case I blow it :P
Squeeze is up to 8%, and really nothing gay happened. I struggle a bit with when it's better to flat certain hands - especially small pair, sc's instead of raising... but you get so much credit pre and on the flop in FR games that it will be hard to get more value by calling against most players at 50NL.
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1h20min. yesterday:
+$60
Quit early because I felt a little weird.... couldn't focus.

today:
4h
+$195

Most of it HU... Could have been way more but I ran a couple of hopeless bluffs, getting snapped off with 23 for bottom pair on a 4 flush board on the river at one point. Could have made one or two hero folds.
c/c, c/c, INSTADONKSHOVE
i dun think 2nd nuts is good der

On the other hand bluffing with 0 Equity against my range seems to be all the rage atm.

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So today I decided to learn how to roll my own shit, cuz iz getting expensive.

Step 1: drive to the closest asian foodstore and get the stuff. Buy way too much salmon.
Step 2: prepare rice and realize you forgot the rice vinegar.
Step 3: drive to another asian food store so you don't look like a complete idiot. Pick up cucumbers on the way because you forgot those too.
Step 3: Start boiling the rice and watch a tutorial video on how to roll something into a roll like a complete retard.
Step 4: Carefully seperate the cooked rice from the burnt crust at the bottom.
Step 5: Use the lords name in vain while you fail at rolling stuff into a roll multiple times.

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And I'm going to play live today... a friend is playing a turney, and I'll prolly play some cash.
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Yeah... despite a little too much sugar and wasabi they were surprisingly edible.


When I got to the cardroom at 7pm there were no cash tables open yet, so I joined the €20 tourney. Ended up finishing 8th - 7 places paid ldo.

4.5h
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Played one pretty interesting hand... analyzed it halfway through just now, but I'm way too tired.
Just making a note here so that I don't forget to post it.
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Fun hand because I want to shove turn when I never fold out better and never get called by worse.

I opened Q8 at the CO 7 handed for 2.5x, and both blinds called. relative stacks 30bb.
Flop: J82 (7.5bb)
checks to me, I bet 5bb, sb calls, bb folds

turn: J
sb checks

He called flop and checked turn very fast which I think reduces his Jx combos by a significant amount.

So there's 17.5 in the pot and we have about 22.5 behind.
His range is pretty much (stuff that he would c/ship the flop already subtracted):



drawing:
naked AK, AQ: 30
suited aces with a fd minus AKs: 8
sc's with a fd: 56s 1
9To: 16
79, TQ: ~8 (weighted to suited diamonds, hearts, clubs)
63 x 80% equity

I pwn:
22-77, 78, 89:
60 x 85%

He pwns:
AJ, KJ, JQ, TJ, (34 but weighted against, so ~10) 99, TT (12):
22 x 7.5%




Checking:
(63/145 * (17.5 * 0.8)) + (60/145 * (17.5 * 0.85)) + (22/145 * (17.5 * 0.075) =12.437EV


Shoveling:
Assuming that he folds his draws and everything I beat.
(63/145 * 17.5) + (60/145 * 17.5) + (22/145 * ( (40 * 0.075) - (22.5 * 0.925)))=12.1422EV

So in this scenario shoving is 0.29bb less profitable than checking.



Ok, so let's say I pull of a Daniel Negreanu and let's say he never has any Jx combos:
Nah, let's do that later lohlz
Should be more +EV then checking. I'll wait till the knobs from StoxEV send me a working regkey and then play around with it some more.
It would be fun to be able to quantify how few combos of better hands there need to be compared to draws to make a shove profitable when it's only purpose is to get draws to fold.
procrastination ftw!

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$0.25/$0.50 Ante $0.10 No Limit Holdem
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Stacks:
UTG ($50)
UTG+1 ($53.40)
MP1 ($50)
MP2 ($31.60)
MP3 ($114)
CO ($62.20)
BTN ($54.45)
SB ($90.40)
Hero ($88.05)

Pre-Flop: ($1.65, 9 players) Hero is BB
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.50, 5 folds, SB calls $0.25, Hero checks

Flop: ($2.40, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $2, UTG+1 folds, SB calls $2

Turn: ($6.40, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($6.40, 2 players)
SB bets $10, Hero folds

Final Pot: $16.40

SB wins $16.10 (net +$3.50)

Hero lost $2.60
UTG+1 lost $0.60









Funny comment in irc by I forgot who:

"Yeah, I'd fold that too."
*pause*
"Wait, you had a straight?"



Villain was typical weak passive with some % pfr and steal.
At the time I put his range on tons of spades, basically:

I'm pwnt:
Asxs minus A8s = 9
Qsxs: ~5
Tsxs: ~3 - let's give him one pair +fd combo that he calls the flop with
+3 xsxs whatever
TQo: 12
= 32

split:
7T 8T 9T TJ TK: 42



What I wanna know is what my ipwnz range needs to look like to make this break even.

42 times I win 3.2 = 134
32 times I loose 10 = 320
= -187
/16
= 11 times I need to win 16 to break even

I'm convinced that his bluffing range is microscopical.
I heavily discount JJ, and I doubt he'll bet that much with 99 but let's be generous: 3
KJ, K9 for 9x each maybe... but idk.
Like so often I don't think it matters wtf I do here.
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5h 20min.
+$3
Was up 100, then down 300 then back to even, then down 300 - wanted to quit, but decided that the tables were just way too good and ended up even.
Tables are still really good, but I'm exhausted.
Gotta get up in 7h too.
Will review tomorrow.
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Did not do a huge session review... it's all really pretty similar. Lots of hands that I could have played quite a bit better if I had not played tired or played less tables.

Short session today cuz I'll be going out and when I come home I'll prolly go right to bed... like balla

42 min.
+$157

A couple of funny pots against a reg who tried to go after me it looks like...
I tilt 50enell regs iunno wuts up wif dat.

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Do you ever think about it?... you heartless bastards.
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I think I'll start cooking quite a bit more. It's really not that bad, and instant noodles have lost the little appeal they've had a long time ago.

I'm useless scared tired and lazy.
10min. 1 tabling HU yesterday
+$44

What I have is the most pathetic type of poker blockage, and that is that I've been on such a hot streak lately that I feel like I'm destined for a doomswitch. I know it's hopeless and pathetic, but every time I log on now I feel like I'm going to loose a lot.
That, and I'm actually quite busy irl, which is kind of unusual for me.
The good thing: running hot has made me less results oriented. I haven't checked my BR in quite a while, so I'm positively surprised that after rakeback and bonuses my FT account is up over 4.2k again.
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1h
-$2
yesterday

today:
2h
- when I started writing this I was up 150, now I'm up 75...
now I'm up 110.... whatever

All pretty uneventful.

Entered the FTR HU championship. I book that as a win if I make it past the first bracket :P

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15th:
Played live with a friend.
-€30

16th:
3.5h
-$450
Ran pretty gaybad, promised myself never to play HU again. Yaawn agrees that HU is gay.

Yesterday: went indoor climbing, saw Avatar in 3d which was pretty sweet - no poker.

Today:
5h
+ $560
4-tabling HU with yaawn for 1k hands at the end for a little boost.
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BOOM!
2nd consecutive +10BI day.

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I've only seen that there's a new game mode and shallow-stack tables now. What I didn't realize was that they have shallow stack tables because they upped the min buy in to 35bb!
I have only played deep tables and some PL in the last couple of months, and I will continue to play deep, but now the normal tables have at least become an option again.

Not such a big fan of rush poker though. It will remove lots of non thinking bots off the regular tables, and all the good regs will stay.
But it will generate some press and get more people playing, so whatever.
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+$177

I would love to make a run for 3rd +10BI day, but I'm tired and I need to get up in 7h :'(

oh wells.

got over 5k today, but I'll stay at 50NL for a little longer cuz I wuf fiddy ennel and fiddy ennel wufes me!



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It's not a heater, that's how I roll!


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this session reminded me of when I had my 40+ consecutive winning days almost a year back. I was like omgz! Can't finish down now!
But anyway... games were really really good.

5h
-$1.5

Was down 480 at one point
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Played some more rush tables yesterday just to make sure I really hate them.
I do.
Then continued to play some PLO... I've started to read "PLO - Understanding winning play", and I'm trying to get into it way more. Combinatorics in plo still makes my head esplode, but I'm starting to understand preflop hand selection and hand values a little better.

I'm starting with 05c/10c... I won't build a separate roll, but I do want to make sure I'm winning at the micros before playing higher. I'm down 500-ish at plolifetime, but that includes lots of HA where it might have been worth getting in even as an underdog at plo... prolly not though.

deep games with antes and PLHE have been my main game for a while for a couple of reasons. When I open any PL table, I have notes and thousands of hands on half the table, and I'm playing against the same 5 or so regs on 4 to 8 tables which is great because the dynamic and history is the same in so many pots.
That and the massive multitabling shorstackers (although not a problem anymore, hooray!) stay away as well as lots of the bot regs for whatever reason.
The ante games have been pretty dead since the rush tables... I'm praying that they'll come back because they had a lot of regs play out of their comfort zone - the game plays about 1.5x higher - and almost everyone makes adjustments that make little to no sense.

So I've lost 100-200 at rush yesterday... dunno exactly because the hands don't get tracked.
I'm happy to see that there are a lot less people playing it than there were the first day. I think even the fish will start to hate it once the nutcampers take them apart. Nutcamping should be very profitable atm... you can probably play KK+ and show a significant profit. But it's just a stupid stupid game. There's an infinite number of things I'd rather do than grind rushpoker.
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24th:
5h
+$258

yesterday:
4h
+$177

I should do session reviews but right now my schedule is:
9-14 wurk
14-19 home improvement shit cuz I'm moving.
then napping for a bit, and then grinding and trying to get the best out of my B- game.
I wouldn't have done that a couple of months back, but right now I feel like a kid in a candy store. There's soooo much dead money on the tables.



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UTG crs2051 ($42.05)
UTG+1 Aresius ($19.50)
MP1 Patron5 ($34.50)
MP2 Cologne79 ($29.65)
MP3 natalsJunk ($26.75)
CO Hero ($115)
BTN viagem ($50)
SB Caught One ($49.50)
BB DizzieRascal ($50)

Pre-Flop: ($0.75, 9 players) Hero is CO
crs2051 calls $0.50, Aresius raises to $1, 2 folds, natalsJunk calls $1, Hero calls $1, viagem calls $1, 2 folds, crs2051 raises to $1.50, Aresius calls $0.50, natalsJunk raises to $2, Hero calls $1, viagem calls $1, crs2051 raises to $2.50, Aresius calls $1, natalsJunk raises to $3, Hero calls $1, viagem calls $1, crs2051 raises to $3.50, Aresius calls $1, natalsJunk raises to $4, Hero calls $1, viagem calls $1, crs2051 calls $0.50, Aresius calls $0.50

Flop: ($20.75, 5 players)
crs2051 checks, Aresius bets $0.50, natalsJunk raises to $1, Hero raises to $12, 1 fold, crs2051 folds, Aresius folds, natalsJunk goes all-in $22.75, Hero calls $10.75

Turn: ($66.75, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($66.75, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $66.75
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Hero wins $63.75 (net +$37)

crs2051 lost $4
Aresius lost $4.50
natalsJunk lost $26.75
viagem lost $4
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Old 01-27-2010, 12:12 AM #34 (permalink)  
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was up 250 after half an hour and then went down to 40 almost exclusively in non-showdowns. Spots were pretty obvious... 90/17 c/calls flop and turn and then donks the river for full pot when the obvious draw comes in... and repeat... 5 or 6 times

Oh well, just had some french guy c/c c/c, donkshove 2nd pair that he hit on the river... so idk... maybe a new CR video is out and that is all the rage atm
Might have been for value since he made his pair on the river... who knows... he's running 98/27 @FR over 170 hands

edit... another l/c pre, c/c flop c/c turn, donk 3/4 pot on the river with 88 on QJ5 2 2
I called with AJ because he had taken that line quite a lot.

I think what he was doing is he thought he had the best hand all the way, but he didn't like c/calling the river, so he bet.
He just doesn't think about calling ranges.

c/c c/c, donk is such a strong line... I kind of like it. should try this on some reg with something random once


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Old 01-28-2010, 01:52 AM #35 (permalink)  
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was up 250 after 30 min. then this hand happened:

$0.25/$0.50 Ante $0.10 No Limit Holdem
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Stacks:
UTG ($50)
Hero ($119)
CO ($96.15)
BTN ($100)
SB ($38.95)
BB ($105)

Pre-Flop: ($1.45, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1
1 fold, Hero raises to $2.35, CO calls $2.35, 3 folds

Flop: ($6.15, 2 players)
Hero bets $4.50, CO raises to $12.50, Hero calls $8

Turn: ($31.15, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $24, Hero calls $24

River: ($79.15, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

Final Pot: $79.15
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CO wins $76.05 (net +$37.10)

Hero lost $38.95


He's 30/25 over 200 hands though I don't know how much of that is FR, and 80% fold to c-bet in position 20% raise in 20 spots.
I don't think 3betting the flop is such a great option. On the turn I was so sure his range was super strong based on the bet sizing, and obviously I had it COMPLETELY backwards. I would have never put that in his range.
I knew I wouldn't be able to let that go, so I took a break. An hour later I fire up a couple of tables again, because I thought I just need to get more volume. dropped 3BI really fast, spewing pretty badly and making one pretty atrocious fold with 2nd pair against an overbet shove on the turn... which was such a clear call based on reads.
Should have played µPLO instead.

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Based on recent history I see that I could 10x my winrate by cutting my sessions down to 30min. per day

Gotta hold back with cashing out no matter how much I really really want a HD projector, so I can move back to 100NL next month.
It will be pretty tough to match my 50NL winrate, but if I want to get to 200NL+ any time soon, I'll have to move up.
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stoploss quit.
I've made one pretty terrible shove where a solid reg isoe'd then overcalled a min 4b by some maniac. Should have set off my Aces alarm... it did, but I wus like... I don't have that kind of read...
*shove*

Then a call against another semi-solid reg... when he raised my river v-bet pretty big when all he was repping was a backdoor flush... but he's never bluffraising the river. No 50NL FR reg is bluffraising rivers to be exact... I do, but I'm a monkey... Other than me and some maniac feeesh nobody bluffraises rivers at 50NL FR
So that was fairly terrible.

lost one 600bb pot where idk if it was fine... I called an MP open with AKo, maniac 3b very big, and MP shoved.
I know I would shove extremely wide there, but generally people tend to play way tight 200bb deep. Turned out to be almost worst case. maniac also had AKo, and MP had JJ.
What I like to do there usually is hit my flush, but no such luck.
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played some micro rush just because everyone in IRC is going on about how profitable it is and whatnot.
I still don't see it. It seems like everything I know about poker has to go out of the window and needs to be replaced by playing extremely tight.
I'm 30/25 @6m... at rush 6m I think you need to play 12/8 from UTG to CO, and min-open every btn and every sb.
As soon as you get into a somewhat complex situation (like post flop omgz!) you're down to mashing buttons.
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played some micro rush just because everyone in IRC is going on about how profitable it is and whatnot.
I still don't see it. It seems like everything I know about poker has to go out of the window and needs to be replaced by playing extremely tight.
I'm 30/25 @6m... at rush 6m I think you need to play 12/8 from UTG to CO, and min-open every btn and every sb.
As soon as you get into a somewhat complex situation (like post flop omgz!) you're down to mashing buttons.
rush is boring more abc than the start of the alphabet. I refuse to touch it after i played all stakes simultaneously the first day it was out (while still technically grinding 25nl) and managed to lose a bunch of 80-20s at 100nl. So I quit on principle. The principle that losing money sucks balls. Well, at least it kept you off my tables - and seems as though muzz has disappeared too
 
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Well, at least it kept you off my tables - and seems as though muzz has disappeared too
oh hai! if you PTR me you can obv see how bad I'm running/how much I suck at 100nl FR. But alas, I play mucho rush and have heaters

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How do u gaiz all get rush graffs?
My HEM doesn't track it at all.

I think it's a blessing in disguise that I run bad at rush... if I was running hawt, I'd have to justify to myself why I'm not playing it... because I can't imagine playing it for a longer period of time. That and a month of rush would prolly have the same effect on my game as taking a month off... maybe even more detrimental.

HOWEVER. I'm going to do a little goodbye-rush session as a discipline exercise...
I'll play 6m rush and play QQ+, AK for an hour. Just for the heck of it.
No, I won't steal, I won't press the call button.

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discipline exercise...
lol

Who would have thought you loose money THAT quicky when you don't play any hands.
I held out for about 15 min. then I opened JJ on the button. Soon after I decided, I had to keep min-opening buttons, otherwise I'm broke on all tables before the hour is over.
Got AA once an KK once and never saw a flop. Quit after 30min.
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oh hai! if you PTR me you can obv see how bad I'm running/how much I suck at 100nl FR. But alas, I play mucho rush and have heaters
nice rush! you should keep playing it, i prefer you there than at my tables
ptr doesn't show how much i suck at rush, but it does show the high volume upswing of the last ten days. Up $3.3k at the tables and another $1k in rakeback. Hell, maybe i should give up my day job. Oh, that's right....

also - oskar, HEM does track rush - mine does anyway. Go to the sesion tab and filter on table = whatever the rush table is named
 
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For sure.
I wasn't going to say anything because you told me to shut up about it... but nobody is going to listen anyway
Games are better as they have ever been in 2009. Doesn't matter what you play.

Today it imported all my rush hands - including the ones from 3 days ago. Dunno what's up with that.

today:
2h
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Up 300, then down 150, up 100, down to 20.

Reviewed all the big hands from the 9BI downswong in the middle, and none of them were really terrible.

Quitting now because I'm not in the greatest shape anyway. Was a busy Sunday.
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Looks like imma get one though

Took a shot at 100NL, and it took me back with open arms.



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built up a $2 stack to $100 HU, and then he quit and registered for a $3 sng. That's why I'm quitting. That's the one thing that still tilts me: getting hit and run on. Another guy that hit and ran me was Jack Little who apparently is a big winner at 5/10 HU, but doesn't play any hands, and if you don't call every hand oop and open limp your buttons, he doesn't play with you. He was up $4 on me after 12 hands, and decided he had enough.

I don't understand Iron Man.
Either I'm missing something, or I didn't qualify for ANY iron man level again.
Doesn't really matter because you either get bonus medals which are worthless, or you can get into a freeroll which I won't be playing.
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I don't understand Iron Man.
Either I'm missing something, or I didn't qualify for ANY iron man level again.
Doesn't really matter because you either get bonus medals which are worthless, or you can get into a freeroll which I won't be playing.
I get between two and three hundred in value (bonuses you can buy) every month from iron man medals. I also cashed the freeroll once without even signing in to ftp. Maybe you're missing something.
 
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I don't get it... maybe it's because I'm only playing 5 out of 7 days, and they want you to log in and at least play a hand every day.
I don't have enough medals for a $100 bonus after 12 months and 200.000 hands



I'm only in my 3rd month? What's that supposed to mean. I've opted in almost a year ago.

I've paid over 10k in rake!

last month:



what am I doing wrong?
I've had months where I've made 3x as many FTP's and I didn't qualify.
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I'm only in my 3rd month? What's that supposed to mean. I've opted in almost a year ago.

I've had months where I've made 3x as many FTP's and I didn't qualify.
consecutive means in a row. Meaning that November 2009 was probably low volume on FTP for you.

this loyalty scheme is a days based one, so you could clock as few as 50 points a day for 15 days and get a status, or 6k points one day (me, Feb 1st) and it doesn't mean shit in isolation - except for an extra 60 medals for hitting 6k points in a day, but i digress

re medals - you get them for:
1 - high volume hand days, as per Jan 21st - see that little number 5, you got 5 medals that day.
2 - monthly status, and this varies depending on how many months you've been involved. For me, monthly ironman is worth 500 medals, for you it's 120.
3 - freeroll vs extra medals - your call

i've got close to 8k medals, just over $1500 worth. It's not a bad wee promo/rakeback supplement. As well there are the 6monthly bonuses based on # months/iron man level - but you have to hit a level in june/december to qualify
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