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    Quote Originally Posted by Bbickes View Post
    what i really want to discuss is the people who mass table the micros with little knowlage of the game. this is a really really really atrocious idea. i mean the point of mass multi tabling is when you get to the point where you platuea as a poker player, as we all will because lets face it the elite in this game are very very rare and chances are no matter how well you work at it you probably wont hit 10knl online, again not the point, where you start to break even so you drop down a stake and crush the level playing lots of hands and winning lots of monies as opposed to breaking even at a higher level. i mean to short yourself on time when making important decisions when you are just learning this situations and you don't quite understand what standard is yet is just going to completely cripple your growth as a player and lead to future frustration of a large amount.

    so my point is, there's no rush to play craploads of hands in a short time frame. reduce tables if you even begin to feel overwhelmed and think every situation through carefully. consider his range and how your hand plays against it. consider what he will do with that range to a raise, check or bet and consider what he will do with his range on certain turns and rivers. and then think about different ways to play the hand, you can come up with some pretty cool and creative lines if you think them through carefully. and even if you've reached near the peak of your potential remember there is always something to learn and taking breaks from multitabling and dropping tables to re-evaul your game can only be +EV.
    great post, thanks

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    and thanks again
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    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
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    bbickes is azn? lol keep up the good work


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    i am exhausted and getting sick i think so this is going to very very brief. i am still in big rapids till sunday mebbe so pics are going to be a bit lacking as well for the next few days. to keep this very short and brief and still retain some form of usefulness when grinding try to reduce distractions as much as possible. turn off your cell put AIM to do not disturb and tell wife/gf/frands to gtfo for a bit whilist u make da manies. the less distractions you have the more you can focus on the poker decisions which is only more +EV the more and more focused you are. also if you listen to music, i would suggest either something that relaxes you or makes you happy. leaning towards something relaxing but happy music is good now and then because most of us play far better when we are happy. like music can influence your play in more ways than you can imagine and it's best to err on the safe side and either listen to something that i talked about above or dont listen at all imo.

    also whenever you have to piss while playing the pokers do so at the soonest possible convience. it may be just me but my play freefalls when i have to take a piss and hold it for like 30 mins. so just passing along some friendly advice. dunno could but just me but def can't be -ev imo.
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    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
    csb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carroters View Post
    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
    csb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carroters View Post
    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
    csb.
    So you click their picture and then you get their money?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carroters View Post
    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carroters View Post
    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
    csb.
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    what does csb mean?
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    what does csb mean?
    Let me google that for you
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    i google it myself and couldn't narrow it down as there were hundreds of acronyms for csb

    casual sex buddy?
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    casual sex buddy?
    Nailed it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carroters View Post
    You know, bickies, your blog ain't half bad for an azn, jus sayin'.
    CSB
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    HEY FUCK YOU CARROTZ
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    lets keep the postcount itt to bikes. provide boobies or gtfo
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    1) Why is fat browsing Brazilian men videos' and 2) 1 is not a cop out 3) I'm sweetlemon69! who is this norwegian imposter
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    a friend of mine once said running bad is like getting kicked repeatedly in the balls by a mule. it's very true. running bad sucks. but again can't really do anything but shrug it off and try again.

    i've been running god awful piss poor lately so i'm going to talk about something non poker related.

    ok so let's talk about karma. not in the religious sense but in the view that karma is how i got here. like the culmination of the events in your life that brought you to this very moment. so when you look back into your past remember that all the events that have occurred, good and bad, brought you to this moment. and if it were not for the bad moments in your life the good ones might not have occurred at all.

    i was reading the asshole thread in the commune today and it saddened me a lot. call me a youthful idealist or whatever but i think it's pretty cruel to be an ass to people simply for the point of personal pleasure. i'm not gonna pick out anyone on that thread but there were some things that made me sigh a few times. with the world as bad of a place as it is today would it be too hard to do something nice for others or at least be apathetic and not make their situation worse? i could sit off and ramble quotes from famous people about improving the world but frankly it doesn't matter what i type. i'm not gonna pretend to be a self righteous bastard. i know damn well i am an absurdly cruel person but meh i try not to be.

    so i leave you all with this, kindness is contagious.

    this is one of my new favorite pictures on the interwebs so i'm sharing it with you all. oh also i'm going through a massive death cab for cutie phase. if you haven't heard them i strongly recommend them. i'd start with crooked teeth and i'll follow you into the dark.





    i could easily stare at this all day long.

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    who is this imposter. being nice and a gif with big boobs? WHO ARE YOU
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    Quote Originally Posted by sweetlemon69 View Post
    who is this imposter. being nice and a gif with big boobs? WHO ARE YOU
    lolol good catch man....this is NOT the bikes I know and love...







    ...this one is way better!
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    salad study habits part uno. i promised i'd write about this so i'm going to talk about some now.

    everyone talks about studying the pokers and how important it is. they are correct its very importants. however, how you use your studyin time is also very important. looking at how u coolered everyone for stacks is not really important, as is looking how you got coolered for stacks is not important either. some of the most important things while studying are evaluating small and medium pots and pots you didn't even play in.

    let's start out with our bet sizings as these are the ones that are the bestest for the winrate. one thing to evaluate is your bet sizing and how your opponent reacted to it. did he snap call your bet or did he tank?, either a little or a lot. these are things to consider, if he snap called something to consider is you could have probably bet a fair bit bigger and he either is A) too stupid to notice or B) going to call pretty much anything you bet. now it's very easy to become results oriented in this so make sure you consider his entire range, what would he do here with weak pairs, weak draws, strong pairs, strong draws and 2pairs+. if he snap called your bet with the weakest of pairs you can probably bet a fair bit bigger and expect him to snippity snap with the majority of his range. or if you were bluffing and he snippity snapped and you think your line is good you can probably bet less and expect the same results, if he has a pair he probably calls and if not he probably mucks to any amount. ugh as i write this i realize what i just wrote is more relevant to current play while at the table. w/e it's useful and i'm not deleting it.

    while i'm on the topic of adjustments at the table i'm going to reference the classic live lulament. ofc i'm talking about the flooosh and the fd. if someone hits the floosh you will get the "OMG I LET HIM GET THERE FML RAGEEEEEEEEEEE" or if there is a fd "OMG I DIDNT WANT HIM TO GET THERE GAWDDDDDDDDDD" like i said there are certain people who don't fold any kind of draw and you can happily bet pot against these people or even slightly overbet knowing that they will call. ugh, i dont like where this is going and i lost my train of thought where i was headed with this to begin with. wait i remember now. ok so as i was saying you need to pay attention when your not in the hand to what others do with their pairs, draws, strong hands as well as the nuts. cause to be honest most people don't mix up their play. if you can understand what lines they take with the majority of their range then hand reading becomes much easier and consequently so does valuebetting and bluffing against that particular opponent. if you know it's extremely difficult to get him to fold any kind of draw, pot pot c/c when the draw misses. or if you know he folds his weak pairs to turn barrels a number of options becomes available either as bluffs or tiny tiny valuebets. if you know he minraises the flop with all his really strong hands you can simply just fold alot of stuff but your nut hands. the list goes on and on and on. point being pay attention to what everyone else is doing and instantly become a better player.

    for the people who were expecting salad study habits imsorry. i'll blog about them eventually







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    does this chick on the left live in a 3rd world country or something without food? nonetheless, still hot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro View Post
    does this chick on the left live in a 3rd world country or something without food? nonetheless, still hot.
    chick on the left is kinda weird imo...chick on right is like 10/10


    also good looks on the post, i gotta start paying attention moar
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    well like her face is hot but her body is pretty gross..below her neck she looks like a 10 year old
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    mooooooar (updates and pics)

    ship pg 3
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    Good read.

    Please use a larger font size. Too tiny for my old man eyes.
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    i have nothing productive to say atm due to tiredness. well that's a lie i'm sure i can come up with something worth your time to read. i learned poker the tag way like every one did back several years ago and it worked very well. i still think it works very well. even so much as to say the nitty side of tag is probably still the way to go in ssnl. anyway along the way i learned a lot about being a lag and it really messed my game up at the time and tbh i still have some lingering effects from it because i didn't know how to apply it into my game and ended up spewing chips in a lot of spots where i shouldnt have which consequently lead to tilt and bad sessions and lots of lost monies. it also lead me to level myself into calling in a lot of spots in ssnl where i shouldn't have because i decided this was a great spot to bluff and he's repping a hudge hand or pure air and frankly a lot of people then and still aren't capable of making big moves with air at ssnl so that was a great cause of distraught as well and to this day it's probably why i hero call rivers a little to often instea of bluff raising or shoving

    so in conclusion, yeah playing lag is great and all that and tilting regs by owning them when they know they got owned is super fun but if you apply certain consequences to your game incorrectly the results can be disastrous. like poker career crippling/ never reaching your potential disastrous. so when you see someone make a wicked cool play c/ring 3 streets with bottem pair 200 deep ask yourself before you even think about implementing it into your game

    1. do i understand the thought process and current meta game situation that went behind making this play
    2. is this play ever likely to work at the stakes i play
    3. is this play going to be more +EV than deviating from what i currently know

    now i'm not saying stop learning all you can about poker. but for the advanced concepts and plays in poker simply put them on the backburner until you've got a nice solid grasp on the basics. and no if you are still at 25nl or 50nl you do not have a solid grasp of the basics.




    to swigs. im sorry i tried increasing the font size to 2 and i'm not a fan at all. zoom in i guess

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    seems to me a lot of people are trying to learn plo. this is good as plo is a great game to learn and if u want to ever take poker seriously for incomes its not a bad idea to learn plo. one thing i notice however is people dropping all the way down to 2 plo to learn. c'mon. lets be serial here. the amount you are going to learn from 2plo and manies made at 2plo is absolutely non existant. example say u played stud all yer life and suddenly want to learn nlhe. so u start at 2nl. how much do u expect to learn with people calling 3 streets with bottem pair, and open shoving 80bbs with Q9o. not much.

    to the same point, how much do you expect to learn from people 2plo. probably not much. BUT BB IM JUST LEARNING PLO!!!!one!!!!!1!!!! you have some kind of hold them knowlage and consequently know that weak draws and bad 2 pairs suck, then congrats u know enough about plo to skip the stakes where people dont know this info. phil galfond recommends dropping down a level or two when learning plo from yer normal hold em game and i think this is a fair assement. tbh if your at 25nl keep learning nlhe for a bit.

    if you are taking the time to learn a new game and tbh i recommend some kind of roll built from nlhe so when plo learning goes shitty, as it does some times, its plo everyone runs like 30bi under ev from time to time, you'll want somewhere to be able to play a game you have a much bigger edge in at the time and to gain some sanity back. which is why i think if your learning plo you should start at 10 or 25plo. granted rake completely blows but c'est la vie. atleast you wont be playing against braindead droolers and and u'll actually learn something. anyone can tell u that you dont improve playing braindead droolers you learn by playing better players. if no one is ever going to punish you for playing weak draws and marignal 2 pairs then ull never learn. also i'd recommend getting someone to sweat u who knows how to play plo and making frands with people who play plo is always a good idea as well. just dont pester them to high hell because that gets annoying. also i don't recommend mad potters if you are just learning plo.




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    theres nothing wrong with just dropping down as low as you can to learn what hands to open and stuff like that so you dont spew off 15bis at a higher level. you didn't address this at all in your post, you just talked about how playing against bad players doesn't make you improve, which is certainly false.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro View Post
    theres nothing wrong with just dropping down as low as you can to learn what hands to open and stuff like that so you dont spew off 15bis at a higher level. you didn't address this at all in your post, you just talked about how playing against bad players doesn't make you improve, which is certainly false.
    fucking nits
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    im something beyond nit. an exotic breed of nit. though im confident bbickes will show me the way later this week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro View Post
    im something beyond nit. an exotic breed of nit. though im confident bbickes will show me the way later this week.
    fight!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro View Post
    im something beyond nit. an exotic breed of nit.
    you're the gay african albino tiger of nits I'm sure...
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    if im supposedly african does that mean im black?
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    Finally read through all 3 pages of this beast. On the whole being nice thing, I did a good thing yesterday that made me feel like a boss. It's tl;dr and would just clutter up an awesome blog but totally get where you're coming from on the asshole thread. Being a dick for no reason just seems pointless if you don't know the person. I'm a dick to irl frands all the time because its funny and probably expected at this point, but they know its all in good fun.

    Great blog sir, keep up the great work! Once I get around to putting in some hands again I'll start flooding your ass with HHs in IRC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro View Post
    if im supposedly african does that mean im black?
    He said you're albino.
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    let's talk about taking time on decisions. everyone says how important it is to take time on decisions and they're correct though i'm not sure if they know why they're correct and in pokers its know the why instead of the what.

    there are several reasons you want to take time in you're decisions. there are several things to consider when the action is to you. first off you want to figure a range for your villain and then decide which of the options you have available to you are best for the situation based on that range. once you've done that take a few seconds to consider other ways you might play the hand and gauge how you think he might react to say a check raise instead of a bet or say an over bet instead of a pot sized bet. now bearing in mind you have to keep your deductions realistic or you will be fps'ing all over the place and that is bad. but taking time and thinking about the maximum bet you think he will call is always good and going over you're decision in your head will lead to better pokers.




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    for a long time in this blog i've advocated quite a bit of useful tips and ideas pertaining to playing solid good poker as well as the mental aspect of said interweb pokers, it is roughly the time where i should probably follow my own advices and take things off auto pilot. moving on up with bb starts today i suppose where i'm changing this blog from stuff to moar of bb writes down what he thinks every day.

    few things i'm changing about my daily regimen so to speak.
    first things first. moar discipline. along these lines are far shorter sessions. i'm changing it up to lots of 30-60 min sessions. i'm very well aware i have difficulty paying attention to things for a difficult time and most of the best part of my sessions are in the beginning where i'm focused and tuned in.

    second thing dropping tables down so i can carefully consider all options pertaining to pokers and focus on other players. i've been auto piloting for far to long relying on things that frankly aren't very good anymore.

    third things i'm going to start folding more to 3bs. brian townsend once said its really hard to make up for a rather large card equity disadvantage despite your massive skill advantage. i've know this for a long time and i've just continued to ignore it. time to change that as well.

    fourth a very dear frand of mine has long talked about how unbalanced my life is. it's very true. my life is extremely unbalanced. i'ma try to fix that this fall so that every downswing doesn't spiral me into irl unhappiness for extended periods.

    every journey begins with a single step and to all my homies grinding he who has already begun is already half done. also f u guys i'm posting wimmenz i rly like from now on.




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    it is really hard to play solid poker when hungover. if you can't guess why i hate you. but mebbe its just me and everything is slow and everything hurts making focusing on multiple tables rather difficult. trying to keep up with lots of villians and their tendencies is just a giant ass pain when the head is pounding and ears are ringing. so therefore i don't reommend you play poker hungover and if you must i'd recommend cutting down on the tables. now u might be thinking lol duh bikes, but u'd be surprised how many ssnl/msnl pros i know who play hungover every friday-sunday and consquently can't function at what is probably their a game and then they wonder why they 'run' like such dogshit on the weekends. hmm.


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    truuuuuu
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    today i would like to simply say how grateful i am for all the cool people i've met through poker and all my salad frandz from said pokers. you guys are awesome and without you i would not have learned or done anything near what i have done poker related. props to you all.




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    we love you bbickes

    and we love the women itt

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    We have never met but I already feel as though you are my long lost azn perv brother.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BankItDrew View Post
    We have never met but I already feel as though you are my long lost azn perv brother.
    I KNEW YOU WANTED HIM TO MOVE IN!!! BOOM!
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    it's really easy to get frustrated with this game. esp when you have bad days/weeks/months. this is really where mental control comes into play. it's easy to say 'i'm a billion times better than these morans how the fk can i lose' but in truth it happens, i'm not going to explain variance. i can't really explain how important discipline and mental control is during these times. i mean it all goes down hill so quickly when you let your ego get in the way, first you start playing bad then the next thing you know you're playing at higher levels playing piss poor poker if you can't control yourself. this is pretty disastrous and i know plenty of people who would be absolutely crushing if they could learn to control themselves better. so remember when you have some bad days that poker takes awhile and you can't jump from 25nl to 1knl in a month. it's a slow process and it takes a lot of dedication and control as well. if you're not dedicated to the game and have a large amount of mental discipline then you have a very difficult road ahead of you. so remember take a step back and just remind yourself there is always tomorrow if you're having a rough go at it.

    i haven't updated in awhile so i suppose i should post some extra pics




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    sustained discipline comes easier to some than it does others (like you or I).

    The shorter sessions you've implemented on my recommendation are good for this imo. Thanks for reminding me how stupid I was for trying to play marathon sessions after I forgot my own advice
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    great post...one of those things you can never hear too many times

    also the girl in the bottom left gives me the creeps

    edit- the rest of them def make up for lost time posting terts imo
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    Keep on Keep'n on bikes. Stay positive my fran
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    Quote Originally Posted by philly and the phanatics View Post
    also the girl in the bottom left gives me the creeps
    don't let her daddy issues disturb you
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    changing the name of the blog to empire. sounds cooler than stuff. though stuff does sound cool in abstract but then again so does empire. it also sounds more douchey and pretentious which i find luls. meh on second though i'm keeping stuff. sometimes poker and life in general kicks you in the ass many times in a row. when sometimes its hard to continue all you can really do is try again. when your dreams are big you really have to remember that on days/weeks/months that go bad, if big dreams were easy to achieve then frankly everyone would be extremely successful. and thats what separates a lot of successful people from the ones who aren't so successful, they worked hard and decided the pain was worth the ends and went out and got what they wanted. now some had an easier time than others and some had shit just silver spooned into their ass but w/e if its not like that for you its not a huge issue it just means you have to work a little harder.

    when setting goals make sure you set big goals and then set micro steps that help you achieve those goals on a small basis. brick by brick empires are built and sometimes things flat out suck dick but happens. move on to the next step and keep going.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Bbickes View Post
    changing the name of the blog to empire. sounds cooler than stuff. though stuff does sound cool in abstract but then again so does empire. it also sounds more douchey and pretentious which i find luls. meh on second though i'm keeping stuff.
    lol for some reason this really entertained me
    Quote Originally Posted by Fnord View Post
    Why poker fucks with our heads: it's the master that beats you for bringing in the paper, then gives you a milkbone for peeing on the carpet.

    blog: http://donkeybrainspoker.com/


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    for the same reasons that it's difficult for me to blog when things are going bad its equally as difficult to blog about when things are going good. one seems like whining and the other seems like bragging. both are pretty meh to me. that being said i had something brought to my attention from a frand today that i've always known and never applied. i've thrown away a lot of good days by playing that one last session before bed or when i can't sleep. i never play great and things usually to always go poorly. so i'm going to stop doing it. also from looking at my graphs and various graphs and opinions of 2p2 frands we've concluded if we actually ended our sessions when we want to instead of waiting for the sit out next bb to come along we'd probably be thousands richer. this is probably due to the brain not wanting to think about poker anymore cause brain has decided sessions is over let's think about all the fun stuff we're gonna do and thus we don't focus on the pokers at hand and horribal decisions are made in the last 5 mins of a session often with catastrophic results. which is why i just completely started nitting it up to obscene proportions when i click the sit out btn on all my tables. this way i get my vpps and dont do anything incredibly stupid.



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    Super important point bikes. Also, luzzzz the redhead
    [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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    Quote Originally Posted by mcatdog View Post
    lol at him sticking to any one game for more than three hours
    how has it taken me this long to post this edit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Donachello View Post
    Super important point bikes. Also, luzzzz the redhead
    ^^^this, esp the redhead part
    "Just cause I'm from the South don't mean I ain't got no book learnin'"

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    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.
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    Looks like Chelle as a brunette?

    Maybe too much beer
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    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.
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    one thing about is poker has its ups and downs. what we are trying to accomplish is to maximize the ups and minimize the downs. if you don't then this game eats you alive. so what i'm going to say is this; enjoy poker as much as you can and do all you can to make sure you maintain that enjoyment. sometimes you have great days where you made great plays that were rewarded with positive results and frankly you should do everything you can to enjoy that feeling. then there are those days that suck balls where you play like shit and run like shit. do all you can to brush that off as quick as possible and get back to playing good pokers. otherwise it just compounds itself. likewise with playing good compounds on itself, you make good plays eventually they work, your confidence and happiness increases as a result and you make more monies. ugh this is not the most useful post ever and i don't want to delete it because i like the message i just hate the way i wrote it. anyway make sure you enjoy poker and find happiness in it as much as you possibly can and you probably go far in this because the best people in any field are usually the passionate ones who find true joy in their work.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bbickes View Post
    for the same reasons that it's difficult for me to blog when things are going bad its equally as difficult to blog about when things are going good. one seems like whining and the other seems like bragging. both are pretty meh to me.
    Except for the shitty font I kind of agree. I get all these great ideas when I'm winning, except I don't want to stop grinding, then as soon as I downswong I think everything I have to say is dum.

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    poker blows balls sometimes. ie you run QQ into the 60/23's KK on 4 different occassions or you start the month out awesomely and then u lose every ai, flop nuts and bdf always gets there and they always have it. don't respond to this post i'm just venting and that is all.



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    what i really want to discuss is the people who mass table the micros with little knowlage of the game. this is a really really really atrocious idea. i mean the point of mass multi tabling is when you get to the point where you platuea as a poker player, as we all will because lets face it the elite in this game are very very rare and chances are no matter how well you work at it you probably wont hit 10knl online, again not the point, where you start to break even so you drop down a stake and crush the level playing lots of hands and winning lots of monies as opposed to breaking even at a higher level. i mean to short yourself on time when making important decisions when you are just learning this situations and you don't quite understand what standard is yet is just going to completely cripple your growth as a player and lead to future frustration of a large amount.

    so my point is, there's no rush to play craploads of hands in a short time frame. reduce tables if you even begin to feel overwhelmed and think every situation through carefully. consider his range and how your hand plays against it. consider what he will do with that range to a raise, check or bet and consider what he will do with his range on certain turns and rivers. and then think about different ways to play the hand, you can come up with some pretty cool and creative lines if you think them through carefully. and even if you've reached near the peak of your potential remember there is always something to learn and taking breaks from multitabling and dropping tables to re-evaul your game can only be +EV.



    For as little as I know about poker at this stage, I know there is so much truth in these words. And thank you for sharing them.
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    since my last post had almost nothing good in it. i say almost because holy fuck kristen stewart. fucking twilight ruins loving her. anyway let me talk about doubt. during everyone's career you will have a soulcrushing god awful downswing. usually this results from running range cold for an extended period of time. running range cold is running into the tippy top of everyones range at every medium/big pot spot. ie sets in every 3b pot and what not. and this causes some serious mindfuck. i really cannot stress how badly running range cold fucks with your brain. what it leads to is doubt. and doubt destroys good poker players. and i mean destroys, you start seeing the nuts everytime you get raised and thus making redic folds at absurd times. this makes it increasingly important to really check through hands to see if you either A) got lucky or B) got really unlucky or C) made the correct play. otherwise your head just spins constantly and as a result you play piss poor poker.

    many of u don't know this but about mebbe yeah a year ago i was crushing 200nl 6m and something strange happened. i started to break even over a decent sample. ie fgators style. for those of you who don't know who fgators is look him up. anyway i read a post on 2p2 that really crushed my soul awhile back pertaining to breaking even. written by clayton i think, could be wrong. anyway the point is i have lots of doubts now where as a year ago i was absolutely fearless. it's gotten really bad and frankly i guess today is the day i'm gonna start to try to make an active push to get rid of these doubts. or who knows mebbe i just suck. i'm hoping thats not the case.

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    Much Love for you last post. Poker is easy when you are beating a game and running decent. It gets about 500 x harder if you aren't beating a game or running range cold as you put it. Doubt --> less volume --> bad habits.
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    I live that post every day BB. Around december last year I was beating $100NL for quite some time and was playing full time on a semi-tight BR. I made my move to $200NL and had no problems, but I left myself short in BI's over Xmas and ran into exactly what your talking about. I have been seeing ghosts and running horrible at the same time. So much time spent on trying to get back to where I was. I really feel like I needed to learn all over again
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    Does running into AAxx + NFD count? If so I'm totally in the boat too. If not I totally suck.

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    playing against the ge00fish. a very strange and difficult multi headed monster to play against. itt i offer tips to slaying the beast. the first ge00fish many will encounter is the A game ge00fish. where he is not stoned or frustrated. in order to combat the ge00fish type 1 u must first realize on the flop he is going to flop the nuts. and if u do not get the monies in on this street, lee will punish your lack of bold and aggressive play and allow him to keep his nuts. so in order to combat this you must MAKE BOLD AND AGGRO PLAYS. which he will see right through but lee rewards aggression and lets you suck out on him and let's face it ev is a useless number. example QT2 rainbow. you get the 89. you must c/rai on a single raised pawt. he will snap u off with AQ, but lee rewards you with the J on the turn. or ge00fish 4b's you and you 5b shove the big lick 69 of red. he will indeed flop an A but lee smiles upon u and u runner runner a flush.

    the second head of ge00fish is the stoned ge00fish. who is slow and nitty. here you must surprise him and make big bluffs that confuse him so much that he time's out with all his sets and straights. an example of this is when he has a set and the river fills the flush. SHOVE. and he will be so confused he will time out and fold. again u must have balls the size of the moon to attempt a monumental bluff of epic proportions.

    and finally there is the 50bb ge00fish. at this point shove over any of his opens. because he never wins aipf's. ever. doesnt matter if he has quad ACES preflops. you'll straight flush his ass. however if a short stacker beats u to the shove i'd recommend folding because short stackers run like god ldo. if you do as i say and follow these instructions you will here far outcries from canada with the words of PIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. or FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKK or perhaps a fist smashing into a desk.

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    i've run out of cool stuff for me to talk about so i'm just gonna talk about my day for the time being. i had a really cool idea last night and i've forgotten it so it eventually will come back to me.

    in the mean time today i sat down and played like it was like umm 1.5 years ago or so. meaning i played a lot of fr today and for some reason don't feel fatigued or anything at all. mebbe this could be for a plethora of reasons but mostly because i find FR to be a lot less stressful, dunno why just is. worse oppenents, tighter ranges, who knows. anyway back to what i was trying to say i felt like i didn't play great the first half of the day but played much better the second half. people are really fucking nitty. i can't really emphasis that enough. but like the halirious kinda nitty where if you 3b them alot they start to make absurd defends and redic call downs for no other reason than "IMA SHOW THIS LAGTARD I FUCKING CALL" is quite luls. like 7.8k hands for -1bi =( i kinda ran redic bad on euro tables and redic good on USD tables and thus lost cause euro > usd. c'est la vie. i'm really happy with some adjustments i plan on making and that's all i'm gonna say about that. in irl news i keep blowing off this girl i really like cause internet pokers is really important if i want to move to canadia when/if drew has a vacancy. of which i'll prolly regret this cause she's really cool/hot and can some how stand my complete awkwardness and lack of social skills.








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    oh dat kiwimark
    [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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    moar of girl number 4 imo, hot as fiyah

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