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Hey everypeoples, I hate my old ops, thus I'm starting a new one. I don't like the old one's for the simple fact that I'm so results oriented in them, and even though I learned a lot going through what I did, I feel I took the lazy route to get to where I am at.
It's time to start over.
It's time to do it right.
It's time to learn some shit for once, instead of autopiloting like a FPP pro lil homo at 10nl/25nl. It's pathetic.
Goals:
- Start with $150 on Stars
- Play 1 table of 5nl 6m until comfortable, add another table, etc, etc.
- Max number of tables I'm aiming for is 8 of 6m, but I'm going to take my time getting there.
- Fucking learn poker for once, instead of being lazy. Studying A LOT, playing less, earning more as a result.
- Get to 100nl/200nl by the end of the year, possibly get SN in 2010 (f u guys )
- Get some bad ass live coaching from Bbickes.
- Make mirrions.
WISH ME LUCK! (or be Jewish and don't )
List of Stuff to Learn/Relearn (will update/add to as I go):
[ ] PF opening ranges and flop play.
[ ] 3bet ranges PF and postflop play in 3bet pots.
[ ] Implied odds, reverse implied odds, and pot odds.
[ ] Baluga's Theorem (basically just learning to fold to raises after the flop unless I have a big draw with implied odds or the virtual nuts.)
[ ] Value betting more on turn and river.
[ ] Tilt/emotional control.
[ ] Expected Value.
[ ] Blind stealing, blind defense.
Edit: I changed my title in this because after talking to m2m online, I realized I have like zero self control when it comes to my tilt/anger nowadays. I have a feeling this comes from boot camp when I was a Squad leader. I didn't have to control my temper there like I would normally have to. If someone fucked up, I could just go off on them without even thinking about it, and after 3 months of doing it, I was pretty damn good. I made two people of equal age or older cry. Looking back, I guess I feel bad but it was there fault lol. But yea, so from now on, I'm looking to get my ish (damn you BooG) back under wraps.
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Good luck, sir.
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GL
Methinks 100/200NL and SN in 21 days will be a challenge though ...
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get your ass to big rapids wtf.
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Parkour to you!
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GL dude. Since I'm sure you'll be at 25NL in no time, shoot me for some sweat sessions if you're interested.
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12-11-2009, 05:39 PM
Post subject: Re: Wow I suck at Pokers... Time to fix that
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Originally Posted by dranger7070
It's time to learn some shit for once, instead of autopiloting like a FPP pro lil homo at 10nl/25nl. It's pathetic.
Goals:
- Start with $150 on Stars
- Play 1 table of 5nl 6m until comfortable, add another table, etc, etc.
- - - Get to 100nl/200nl by the end of the year, possibly get SN.
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how long you gonna be playing for .....SN playing 1 table 5nl in 3 weeks is ambitious
anyway GL and go wolves.
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G/L and remember what you told me back in May:
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Lol, keep your chin up dude. Rough times like this suck, but just keep putting your money in good, and the profits will follow. Don't worry about one hand, or one session. Think about (always be thinking about) the long run. It will definitely make you a better player. You won't care so much that your BR has stayed the same over the last few thousand hands.
Another thing: Try not looking at your BR for a whole week. Just get on the tables, when your done, get off them. No checking the cashier/sessions tab in HEM or PT or whatever. Just turn it on when you start, and shut it down when ur done. I guarantee that you will be VERY pleasantly surprised at the end of that week.
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I should change that so its 100nl/200nl + SN in 2010... You guys are such assholes lolz. <3
Bbickes, I'll be there mid January at the latest.
I played 5 hands last night and made 3c WOOOOOOOP! (lol Marine Corps).
I'm on weekend liberty until Sunday night, so I should be able to get some hands in this weekend. I'll keep this updated a bit more than my last one hopefully lolz.
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I'll pound your ass in IRC to keep it updated. Good luck man, when you work your way back up and are passing me we should do some peer sweats at whatever stakes it happens to be where we meet =)
Edit: Oh and congrats on getting this Marines shit sorted out, bring on the rest of your life imo
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Be gentle on my ass, please. 
Sweats sound goot imo (you too Gobbatino).
Thanks dude it'll feel good getting all this shit off my back.
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I would wish you luck but I'm Jewish.. (not really)
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OMG POKERTRACKER IS RIGGED!
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Alright first update:
Things have been going... ok. I've played a little over 3k hands and I'm about halfway to getting to 10nl. So thats goot. I played really, really poorly yesterday though, and ended up dropping a BI during my final session of the day due to tilt, tiredness, and spewing. So I'm really disappointed in myself for not stopping when I knew I was tilting, but it happens.
So this operation is supposed to focus on me mainly getting better at poker via studying and analyzing. I spoke to spoon about some stuff a couple weeks back and he thought my two biggest issues were
1.) Not putting villains on a range.
2.) Not completely understanding implied odds.
The first one I totally agreed with, but the 2nd one kind of caught me off guard and made me reflect on how I went about learning this game. Basically I kind of just flailed around in the BC, books, and other random stuff online + talking to ppl about poker, and I just tried to soak up EVERYTHING at once.
Which in a sense, that worked because I got a basic understanding of a lot of really important concepts, however I never delved deeper into learning new stuff about those because I was winning at a pretty decent clip at 2nl-10nl and to a smaller extent 25nl.
So with that said, I'm going to write up a list of things to learn/relearn and focus on ONE thing (or 2 depending on much they relate to each other, like PF opening ranges and flop play) and actually LEARN the concepts instead of just thinking I do. I have a feeling this will be so much more beneficial for me than anything else I've done relating to poker in the past.
I'll edit the OP to show the list.
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^Well written, sounds good, keep it up
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Ok, I moved up to 10nl with 20 BIs like I said I was going to, played pretty well for the most part I think, only 2 tabling for now. Then ant sat down, and I felt the need to wave my cock around like a retard because "ZOMG ITS SOMEONE FROM FTR AND I HAVE TO SHOW THEM HOW AWESOME I AM!!!" And pretty much blew most of my profits on a really dumb triple barrel bluff, which shortly after I quit and talked to ant about it on IRC and he linked me to a really epic thread at 2p2.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...74/index2.html (don't know if we're allowed to post links from another forum, if so my bad and delete if need be)
All in all, I had a winning session, but I'm disappointed in myself. Something really good came from it, though. Ant helped me realize how little control I have over my tilt atm. This is something that will be priority numero uno.
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I'm so irritated at myself right now. I just finished a session where i played fucking god awful. 10nl 6m isn't that difficult at all but I'm making it so much harder than it has to be. I'm running like 25/22 right now, which probably isn't terrible, but I don't think I'm ready to run that loose just yet. I'd like to tighten up and get down to like 18/15 and slowly expand from there b4 my head asplodes from trying to outplay everyone and their grandmother.
It's like I think because I'm at 10nl I need to start cock waving with everyone that 3bets me once. I flatted a 3bet in the SB with K8s vs BB and proceeded to try to bluff him off his 45s when he hit a 4. Why don't I ever learn???
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forget bluffing beyond c-bets and occasional appropriate pf 3-bets for a while.
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forget bluffing beyond c-bets and occasional appropriate pf 3-bets for a while.
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Basically this all day long.
So, I'm tired as hell tonight. I went to bed at 3am thinking I'd be able to nap during the day but nope. We have a 2 star General coming in on Wednesday so we had to clean, ALL DAY! So yea, I'm running on approx 2 hours of sleep and I likely have 2 hours of firewatch tonight, FML!
Since I'm so tired tonight, I decided in lieu of putting in hands and likely spewing and playing well below my A game, to just go through the BC Digest and Robb's first post in his operation and read some stuff on PF ranges and basic flop play (c-bets, etc). (Huzzah! Great success that I picked studying over playing.) So far at 5nl and 10nl over a (lolsmall) 5k sample I'm running 24/20/2.6 which isn't terrible I don't think, but I want to get back to the basics and slowly open up from there.
So I read Robb's article "where the $$$ come from in microstakes nl" or something like that and he shows what hands give us most of our profit. I won't be following that to T, but it's a decent place to start. I'd like to be running somewhere around 16/14 for starters and open up from there. Since I'm getting coaching from Bbickes in the next month or so, I'd like to have solid PF + flop play down before then so we have something to build off of.
I actually feel like I accomplished something tonight instead of likely getting in like 300 hands and regardless of whether I won or lost money I won't have improved in any way, shape, or form so this feels really good.
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<BooG> u should be 'ing
<dranger> but u no posted in it to wish me luck
<dranger> therefore
<dranger> YOU ARE JEWISH
In an effort to be less Jewish...good luck?
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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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HUZZAH! Great success! You are hereby revoked of Jew status. (But srzly no offense to Jews)
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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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Spenda's Jewish?
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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...clinic-564111/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/69...l-50nl-367707/
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Thanks daven, glad to see you are doing well after listening to what I had to say, even though its the most basic advice ever lol.
Tonight I finally listened to myself too. I tightened up and played super ABC poker for the most part. Played a short 300ish hand session 3 tabling 10nl. Started out good, got stacked in a lol hand played badly by me vs a 95/19/3 feesh but still managed to profit. I feel like I played exceptionally well other than a few hands I feel I could have played differently.
I really like how things went tonight, and I hope I can continue this through to my coaching with Bbickes and he can compound what I've started, or totally tear down what I have, and build me up better than I was. CANT WAIT!
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*sighs*
I feel I've been playing pretty well lately, but I've made LITERALLY no headway, thanks to my most recent 10nl session. I was breaking even in it basically when I quickly won 1.5 BIs in quick succession. Had one table set up PERFECT, a 56/32/3 fish with a 36% 3bet to my direct right who i was 150bb deep with, the other table wasn't bad either. Ant sits down shortly after.
Maybe 25-30 hands later I'm forced to shut down my tables due to tilt. It's like as soon as he sits down, I go into super runbad. I decided when I noticed he was sitting with me that I wasn't going to play cock waving wars and wait for my hand. Well, I got it:
http://weaktight.com/1810965
I needed 23% equity to call the shove, I had ~28% so its a clear call, the raise is pretty standard imo. We have a fairly aggressive history together so I think its likely he's bet/folding turn a lot or shoving a lot too if he thinks I'm doing it with a pure FD with either hands that have some equity (FDs, Ax + GSSD, Kx, Qx) but I doubt its with very many PURE bluffs.
This next hand was about the most perfect situation I could hope for. Fish minraises and we're pretty deep so I should NORMALLY 3bet, but I have ant directly to my left who is ALWAYS squeezing when I call, especially since I've informed him the guy is a HUGE fish. (see 1st paragraph) Once ant 3bets and fish 4bets I'm done slowplaying, its time to go to value town. Flop is super
http://weaktight.com/1810746
I felt tilted after these two hands so I decided to shut down my tables before I managed to spew away more money. In both instances I feel I made the right play at the right time, but the deck had other plans. I'm still pretty irritated as I'm typing immediately after my session, but I can't be too mad since I got my money in WAAAAY ahead on the AA hand, and made the right play on the QJs hand.
All in all it was a pretty good session playing wise, but terribad in how the deck came out. I'm currently only up $4 at 10nl now, after 2k hands (lol sample) and its kind of frustrating, but I'm gonna keep plugging along.
I'm only 2 BIs below EV so I can claim I'm running OMFGTERRIBAD, but idk. It just FEELS like I am since I'm only able to put in so many hands a day. I've upped my number of tables to 3 of 10nl 6m, and I think thats my sweet spot for now. I'm able to get in an ok number of hands, keeps my attention, take good notes, have plenty of time for making decisions, etc. I'll probably go take a shower, rub one out, and play another session later.
GOGO GADGET RUN GOOD!
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Haha dude I feel you so much right now. My poker life timeline is: run good (15 hands), run bad (15 hands which feels like 500), Tilt spew/overplay (45 hands). Rinse and repeat. All i can say is just stick with it god knows I need to.
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I'll probably go take a shower, rub one out, and play another session later.
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Why do you rub one out first then take a shower? It should be vice versa, gross.
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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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I'll probably go take a shower, rub one out, and play another session later.
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Why do you rub one out first then take a shower? It should be vice versa, gross.
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In the shower!
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Ldo it was in the shower sir. I do it before I wash up, jfc. USE YOUR BRAIN SIR
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Who'd you think about?
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My avatar, an ex gf, some chick off of Alpha dog, and Stax's old avatar.
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Hmm... just spotted something in a 2p2 thread that I think I will implement tomorrow. It was a screen shot of a wait list with a bunch of pink tags where pink = 20bb stacker. This would ldo make it easy to table to select to avoid short stackers, and when your table started to get filled up by them it takes one quick glance to close it and find a better one.
So, I'm going to gank m2m's color code for the most part with a few tweaks:
- Pink- 20bb stack
- Green- Fish/donk high VPIP/low PFR/low AF
- Red- Aggro, 3bets a lot especially from blinds or IP
- Purple- Regs that adjust
- Light blue- Regs that don't adjust
- Yellow- Unknown/default
This is pretty general, and I'll probably tweak this as I go along, but this is a pretty easy guideline to follow I should think. Will implement tomorrow!
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I only rob those who have something worth stealing imo. Consider it a compliment.
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dude. If u don't want to play with shortstackers, tick the box in the holdem game filter that says [ ] 50bb min. ez game
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I needed 23% equity to call the shove, I had ~28% so its a clear call, the raise is pretty standard imo. We have a fairly aggressive history together so I think its likely he's bet/folding turn a lot or shoving a lot too if he thinks I'm doing it with a pure FD with either hands that have some equity (FDs, Ax + GSSD, Kx, Qx) but I doubt its with very many PURE bluffs.
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do the villain on a range thing and stove your equity vs his range, rather than against the cards he ended up showing. Turn raise is strange.
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This next hand was about the most perfect situation I could hope for. Fish minraises and we're pretty deep so I should NORMALLY 3bet, but I have ant directly to my left who is ALWAYS squeezing when I call, especially since I've informed him the guy is a HUGE fish. (see 1st paragraph) Once ant 3bets and fish 4bets I'm done slowplaying, its time to go to value town. Flop is super 
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i find that flatting AA/KK and relying on a squeeze is causing me to see flops multi-way in single-raised flops more often than is ideal, and even more annoying is that the original pfr ends up with an incredibly poorly defined range that makes life a lot harder than i like.
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dude. If u don't want to play with shortstackers, tick the box in the holdem game filter that says [ ] 50bb min. ez game
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Lol, obviously this is always an option, but idk. It's nice to not have to play JUST 50bb min, fast tables all the time. So many more fish on the slower tables, just gotta dodge the 20bb douchers. All the "regs" load up on the 50bb min tables so its kind of counter intuitive imo.
@daven: Yea I totally agree with you on the first hand. I think (know) a lot of FPS comes into my game when I'm playing another FTRer. It's retarded but idk. I was planning on leaving but blah, that one table where I had AA I had that fish 150bb deep. Ah wellz. I agree that just 3betting myself would be good, but I know how aggro ant is when I limp so I figured my chances were good of getting at least HU with Ant in a 3bet/4bet pot and maybe get the fish stuck in between our raising. My plan worked lol.
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Ok so, I'm looking through my HEM positional stats (my sample is so small its gotta be close to pointless but I decided to take a looksee anyways) at 10nl and I spotted some... interesting hands from the SB. Here's a few. If I don't spew like a tard, I'd be up so much more than I am right now.
http://weaktight.com/1816705
Note the table chat at the end of this hand, I was clearly tilting and I obviously didn't realize it at the tables = I've been slacking on checking my status as to how I'm feeling at the tables.
More spewfun with antman:
http://weaktight.com/1816707
The reason for the l/min3bet was he mentioned earlier in IRC while we were playing if I did that it would be pretty luhlz, so I ldo oblige and proceed to triple barrel off half my stack. :/
This next one is questionably spewtarded. Guy is 52/26 with 15% 3bet (only over 61 hands though :/) so its kind of meh. But he's 50bb, more than likely lagtarded = ok...?
http://weaktight.com/1816713
This next hand, guy is 27/3/1 with 75% fold to c-bet over 112 hands. Initially, I thought bet flop, check turn was best, but m2m thinks that checking flop and c-betting turn is much much better, and I have to agree. River bet is just mucho retardo.
http://weaktight.com/1816715
Ok, so there is my embarrassment for all of FTR to see. I seriously need to stop r/c when I'm stealing so much. I've lost 3 BIs in the SB alone over my tiny sample, mostly due to spew. If I would just r/f like I SHOULD be doing, I'd be in the green 4+ BIs instead of just shy of +1 BI. HUGE difference imo.
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It's truly amazing that when you make truly standard folds, that all three of your lines (the red, blue, and the all important green one) go up. I folded a FUCK TON today, pre and post flop, and I scraped together a pretty good session. I'm extremely pleased with my play today, hopefully this will continue!
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Haha, looks like you should probably not play ant so much since he seems to insta-tilt you :P
As for the spew, we all have it. It's the one main thing other than tilt that makes people losing poker players. I can't even tell you how many times I have done what you did in hand 1 haha.
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[00:29] <daven> dc, why not check turn behind
[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
[00:30] <yaawn> ^^Lol
Problem officer...?
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Yea, ant is my arch nemesis now. 
Alright, so last night I was talking to m2m on Skype and we were just kinda shootin the shit about poker (ldo) and we got around to the new changes in 2010 for Stars' VIP program. The changes are pretty nice, and if you haven't seen them, you should definitely check them out.
Well, I was getting kind of frustrated with 6max, not because I wasn't winning, because I was, but it felt like I was just luckboxing and it wasn't very enjoyable for me. I don't know what it is about FR, but I'm just comfortable being there, and I'm not even that nitty lol.
I've played two sessions since going back, one last night and so far one today. Both have gone extremely well. Not because I was running good (I was probably running averagish/slightly below EV) but because I just feel like I can hand read there easier (ranges are tighter so thats an ldo) and I have some hands on quite a few of the "regs." It's kind of lol that they haven't moved up since March/Aprilish, but at the same tiem kind of sad, that I'm back down there.
I think I'll be playing FR until the forseeable future. But the same goals still apply and I won't be just auto botting my way through poker just because I'm playing FR. I'm going to start posting my 3 biggest losing hands in the BC and try to find out what I'm doing wrong in those spots, or if they are just coolers. Should be interesting what we find. 
I think on the first I'll post my yearlong graph for 2009. I was looking through HEM and I noticed some interesting discrepancies from before boot camp and immediately after I came back. Its pretty funny imo.
Happy Holidays everyone and hope y'all run hotter than the sun over the break!
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Alright Xmas is past, didn't get to spend it with the fams, but no biggie, I'll be home in a couple weeks. I've played some pokar since the last update ldo, and I've run lolhawt and kinda bad + play bad. (different sessions ldo). Had a huge upswing a few nights ago, ran like jesus on speed, and had a good time, tonight I made two super spewy calls, and it cost me about a BI, and I got the nut flush AI on the turn and villain rivered a FH. I also played super super bad on top of that. Just mashed buttons so I ended session early so I'm proud of that.
Got 4 days ahead of me that should be nothing but poker, so we'll see wtf I can do with that. Pretty excited for the new year since the new changes are kicking in. I'll be posting some 2010 goals in here at the appropriate time.
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Ok so, Spoon basically called me out tonight in IRC about how much I study and how seriously I want to take poker. Despite the title of this blog and the list I've drawn up, I still do little to no studying of poker a week. MAYBE 4 hours a week of study tops. I can claim that I don't have time during the day, which I guess I could make the claim that I can't access a computer, but I have poker books, I can get pen and paper to work on ranges, etc. So thats no excuse. I'm not going to go on some big rant about this, because Spoon again called me out on this, I'm all fucking talk. I'll quote BooG, "you can't just talk about it, BE about it." Basically, walk the fucking walk, don't just talk the talk. From now on, I'm gonna take poker like a professional would towards any other job. If I ever want this to be any sort of meaningful income, now is the time to start working towards that goal.
Also, new avatar!
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gl dude. sounds like you have the same sort of problem as me. hit me up on msn anytime. and before you tell me, yes ill come into irc more!!
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dranger7070
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ZOMG its sil! It's been a while since I've seen you around these parts sir, good to see a post by you again. I'll hit you up on MSN for sure.
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If you want to put in more time and enjoy it, I say go for it. But, I wouldn't beat yourself up if you want to approach it more leisurely either. As long as you're having fun, that's the main thing.
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If you want to put in more time and enjoy it, I say go for it. But, I wouldn't beat yourself up if you want to approach it more leisurely either. As long as you're having fun, that's the main thing. 
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I would enjoy poker no matter how I looked at it I think, but this is something I really want to do, and be really good at it. The only way to get past 25nl is to actually put forth some serious effort towards learning, which I haven't since I first got interested. At the very least, I would like to be making $20k/year as a side income, and to do this I need to become more dedicated towards everything about the game.
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Happy New Year everyone! Here is my graph for 2009. So lol that I'm $4 short of $1k year, but this isn't including my hands at FTP or bonuses or MTT/SNG wins so I'm actually up ~$1.6k on the year. Kind of disappointed in the results, but thats taking into account 3 months of boot camp, withdrawing 90% of BR, etc.
Here's to a $10k+ and Supernova in 2010.

Big dip is total meltdown/runbad/playbad at 50nl then 25nl.
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Dr. Anger, I would kill for a year like that. NH. I've no doubt that you will study and progress and make Spoon proud, if that's possible.
I have a long ways to go, but "eventually", I hope to get there, too. Happy New Years! GoGogo!
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Going with my 'new' thing of learning, I'm rewatching "How To Master Full Ring" by CodeRedRulez from Grinderschool. I'll be watching each video, taking notes, etc. I'm going to stop multi tabling so heavily. I think I'll get bored if I play less than like 12-16 tables, but ffs when I play that many I get excited or some shit and I end up spewing for some stupid reason. 6-10 tables should be adequate for putting in volume and learning.
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So, I played like 700ish hands today, was on subtle tilt basically the whole time, made some super bad call downs, bad c-bets, etc, etc. I quit after a while due to frustration and I knew I was tilting. I decided to actually do some studying instead and not play until I felt like it, be it tomorrow, or next weekend. I ended up studying for 2.5 hours total today. I reviewed some hands, watched the first two parts of How To Master FR, and reformatted my HUD.
Tomorrows plan of attack:
- Rewatch Part 2 as I just kind of coasted through the last half with almost no notes.
- Watch Part 3.
- Finish reformatting my HUD.
- Review some more hands.
- Memorize certain ranges for certain %'s in pokerstove. (It's ridiculous I've been playing for 15 months and I haven't done this yet.)
That last one, is something I think almost every person JUST STARTING OUT should be doing as its probably going to be your best bet to figuring out ranges. It won't be exact, but the majority of the hands for two 17/10 players are going to be similar.
Also forgot to do this (none are poker related):
New Year's Resolutions: Get back into college, make up for missed parties from last summer, make some new friends, keep the old ones obviously, get a decent job, be able to run 10 miles nonstop by the end of the summer, get my bench up to 250lb by 2011.
Right now I can probably run 3-4 miles nonstop, and my bench is probably 170ish. Clearly I have my work cut out for me. I plan on losing this little bit of pudge I got going on around the midriff and swelling up the upper body. Ez game sirs.
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