Poker, pr0n, and p0rk ch0ps (NSFW from page 4 on)

Hey peoples, this is the 2nd part of my God knows how many part blog process thing. My previous blog was just the beginning of what will hopefully be a long and profitable poker career (its looking pretty good so far :)). Basically what happened in the last one is I started out as a complete noobdonkfish (in poker and on this site) with $10 and turned it into the roll I currently have now, $636. That took me from 2nl to 25nl. If you want to read the whole thing, heres a link: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...00.html#872933

I gotta warn you, there isn't anything profound in there, or anything very awe inspiring. Its just a list of thoughts/brags/beats/randomness that one should expect from a micro grinder. I don't expect this one to be any different, and that is ok. I am happy with knowing that I have a few people who check in on me, and see how I'm doing and thats enough.

Ok, so poker goals for this op/blog are thus:
- Beat 25nl (ldo)
- Move up to 50nl at $1500-$2000 (will decide when the time comes)
- Achieve at least Platinum Star if not SN (obv this will be at 50nl)
- Grow as an all around poker player (learn some new variations/break out of NLHE dependency, this will come later this fall after boot camp.)

I also have a few life goals I'd like to talk about throughout the course of this:
- Graduate from USMC (Unites States Marine Corps) Recruit Training.
- Get a fucking gf. I like the single life, but its starting to get old, although having a wimminz around all the time might detract from poker... will have to think about this one... ;)
- Get a new job ASAP if the opportunity arises, this security guard BS is killing me.
- Just have a bad ass time in my apartment next year with 3 of my best friends. It might be the last 9 months as a "free man" I will ever have, I plan on going active duty in the fall of 2010.

Other then that, this thing is good to go. I'll make a new appropriate OP banner soon, I'm just too lazy this morning.


Later peoples!!! (And sorry about the tl;dr)

gl sir

GL....
Looks like you were fine the other day when I railed for a bit...

I was at 2nl the day before and tried to get onto a 6max table with an insane $/pot and just as I got there I am pretty sure that you had just left...I saw your name for a split second with some insane amount in your table roll....
So no...I am not a stalker, I just checked to see if you were back there b/c I suck at 6max, so I thought I'd watch but you are now at 25nl and don't care about us little fish anymore!

Hahaha, dude Vinland, you caught me and 5 other mIRC guys (4 of which are still FTR, one of them was spoonitnow) playing a "FTR only" 6max game. It was mostly for donking around purposes, and we played about 100 hands. I ended up ~$26 which is pretty much amazing, but I ran good right when I needed to. I won a 1000bb pot with 99 > AK AIPF vs spoon. Won a big pot with T8s on a K hi board AI on the flop when I had OESD + FD vs micro's top set. Other then that, we all just played super laggy and it was a lot of fun. I think i ran something like 62/19 (profitable? ;)).

Don't worry about me not caring about you 2nl, 5nl grinders. I was there not that long ago, and remember how much patience it required to get to the next level. It definitely is a grind in the early goings, but once I hit 10nl my BR just took off and hopefully it doesn't stop now. If you ever got any questions, or want me to sweat/rail you just shoot me a PM or something and we can something set up. I've already sweated wonderland and spotted some things he could def do better.

Later!

I'd say good luck but we all know luck has nothing to do with it!

epic work dude. keep it up and catch me up already!! best of luck to you in tonights donkfest.

Congratulations and good luck in everything life related!

play more hands ;)
nice work, keep on keeping on - see you at small stakes later this year perhaps!

I sure hope so, although boot will certainly cut into the odds of that happening. I'd like to be playing 50nl consistently by the end of this year though. That would be a HUDGE accomplishment for me. $10-$4k+ in one year is boc imo.

go-go power-dranger!

GL sir

OORAH!!!

ill keep an eye on this

Had a +2 BI day ($63) so a relatively good start to the op. Started out pretty shitty, but I managed to turn it around through some "decent' play and lucky cards. I'm not gonna lie, I've been on a heater from hell ever since moving up to 10nl and it doesn't seem like its slowing down yet. Hopefully SOME of this is my poker "skill" but we shall see when things cool down.

I'll also try to post a few hands here, and in the BC, although this will probably happen more this fall when I have HEM and a computer that doesn't suck ass, so I can actually go through my HH's and review hands, instead of digging through raw HH's (which I almost refuse to do, unless I'm SUPER motivated that day).

Thats all for now folks!

Gimme some of that mojo! I been running like dog poo this month.

So after the +2 BI day, I had a 3 BI loss the next night (last night) decided to call it quits before things got out of hand. *pat myself on the back* This afternoon I fired up some tables, achieved silverstar (w00t first time ever!!!!) and brought myself back from the -3 BIs. So things were going good. I should have done this before grinding tonight, but I'm dumb, so yea... I seen that Stars is having a reload bonus, so I took them up on it for $500 (I'll receive $100 when I clear 2k vpps (~18k hands). Decided to take a break for a lil while. Went out got some T-bell (mmm taco bell) and played some NHL 09 with a dorm buddy. Germany (me) > France (my buddy) when we played a game of nation vs nation lol. Although Japan (me) < Italy (him) before that. So that was fun.

Hopped back on the tables. Epic doomswitch for the first time at 25nl. Less than 1k hands (I had hoped to play closer to 2k+) and I had to call it quits. Just got super bitchslapped by variance. 860 some hands, WTSD 20%, W%SD 14% lol. Ez game imo. KK < 96o and the like. I KNOW I spewed off some of that money, I just find if hard to believe that it was ALL spew, just judging from my stats of 12/9 (like always) and my SD stats. I felt I was playing fine, but after losing $120 in a close to an hour, it gets to you lol. Especially when its the first $100 loss you've ever had, so I decided to shut down all my tables and live to fight another day.

That is something I could and WOULD not have been able to do when I first started playing poker. I'd be pacing the floor, ranting about online poker being rigged and whatnot, but I've come to realize the fact that you can play flawless poker (which I don't) and still have swings worse than this. I even hesitate to call it a swing, its just not large enough to justify that lol. I'm actually EXTREMELY proud of the discipline I showed in getting off the tables even though everything in my head was screaming "Just ONE more hand, we can get it back!" There is absolutely no need for me to keep on playing when something like this is happening, just take a break for a couple hours (or a couple days, however long it takes to get your head screwed back on straight) and come back and whoop some ass. Thats how you handle swings. Don't try and be Mr. Berry Badass and fight through it THAT night or session. You will destroy your roll (ask BooG). I'm content to just live and fight another day.

Just so you guys don't think its all doom and gloom (lol) I'm still looking forward to grinding tomorrow morning, bright and early (for me lol, which is about 10am :)), I hit silverstar, and if I can manage to stay at 25nl for the rest of the month and I manage to hit 40k hands like I planned, I'll be at goldstar (SHIP IT). Also, I cleared 91/2k vpps towards my bonus, which doesnt sound like much, but it makes me happy :).

Cliff notes cuz this is tl;dr:
- Lost 3 BI's last night.
- Made it up in my first session today.
- Took advantage of stars reload bonus for $500 (I'll get $100 in bonus)
- Took my first big hit at 25nl tonight, -5 BI's.
- Shut down my tables at the first (ok probably 2nd or 3rd) sign of tilt.
- Hit silverstar today.
- Ready to pwn 25nl
- My stoploss to move back down to 10nl is $450 roll (not including the $500 that is in my BR from the bonus, I won't touch that).
- Looking forward to grinding tomorrow :). (not being sarcastic)

Here's my garph from the -5 BI session, just because this is as close as I will come to a tilt post (God I hope) and just to garner a lil sympathy :lol:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9263/tonight.png

Night all! Sorry for the long ass post!

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Originally Posted by dranger7070

That is something I could and WOULD not have been able to do when I first started playing poker. I'd be pacing the floor, ranting about online poker being rigged and whatnot, but I've come to realize the fact that you can play flawless poker (which I don't) and still have swings worse than this. I even hesitate to call it a swing, its just not large enough to justify that lol. I'm actually EXTREMELY proud of the discipline I showed in getting off the tables even though everything in my head was screaming "Just ONE more hand, we can get it back!" There is absolutely no need for me to keep on playing when something like this is happening, just take a break for a couple hours (or a couple days, however long it takes to get your head screwed back on straight) and come back and whoop some ass. Thats how you handle swings. Don't try and be Mr. Berry Badass and fight through it THAT night or session. You will destroy your roll (ask BooG). I'm content to just live and fight another day.

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NICE. I'm mentioned in your post! YES! Oh wait, I'm mentioned for the wrong reasons :?

But in all seriousness, good job leaving the tables at the first (or second or third) sign of tilt. That shows you've grown as a poker player (since you say you wouldn't have done that in the past). Sorry to hear you lost the 4.8 BI's...but it happens. As you said, you're alive and able to fight another day. That's more than some of us can say (hint, hint). Hopefully I crossed your mind at some point during the tiltfest (no homo :lol:) and said, "I do NOT want what just happened to BooG to happen to me." Maybe some good can come out of the bad that hit me. If there's one thing I've learned from my bad deed, it's that there's always tomorrow to win the money back!

As for the bonus, I'll also be taking part in that. Just curious, how'd you calculate how many hands it'd take you?

Don't let it get you down. Been there, done that. If you have to move down (hopefully you won't) it can be a bit damaging to the poker ego... at first. If you start playing with scared money, don't.

You made a consistant climb to 25NL without much trouble. Most don't. There's something to be said about that.

BooG to figure it out, you take how many vpps you earn per hand (at 10nl I earned around .03-.04/hand, at 25nl im earning .11/hand) then you divide the number of VPPs you need (2k for my bonus) by the number of vpps you earn per hand. So for me the equation is 2000/.11 = 18k or thereabouts (its like 18100).

If I have to move down, so be it. I have achieved many goals that I wouldn't have even thought possible, I understand so much more about this game than I did when i started (although there is always more to learn :)), and I'm an all around better player. Why would I want to jeopardize that by being too prideful to play outside my roll requirements? I've broken solid BRM before, it wont happen again, no matter if this continues until I have to drop down to 2nl, I will drop down. Its only a matter of time until I get back to my winning ways.

Thanks for the support guys. I'm glad they aren't just "aw damn, that sux dude" lol. Those posts tilt the shit out of me. I might go back through and read my old blog, see how far I've come, get my confidence back up.

Thanks again fellas!

(and yea BooG, no homo fo sho :D)

Honestly, I know you're playing to move up right now, but most of the players at higher limits, jump around a lot. If the 10nl games are really good and the 25nls have a lot of nits or are too high variance for your taste, play 10nl. There's nothing wrong with that. Bankroll limitations don't limit how low you can go. Ease yourself in to 25nl imo.

I cash out every month, so some times when a month starts bad I have to start looking 2 or 3 limits below the ones I normally play. Also, during the off-peak times, I usually play way below my roll. When it's all regs, go where the fishiest regs are. Go where you'll make the moniez.

Hey dranger, just wanted to let you know I think this is great. I started playing online around Jan. and you're blog seemed to be right on with what I was going through. I've been lurking on FTR for about 4 months now, and your blog (along with others) is why I decided to register and get more involved on here (give it up for 2 posts!). Anyways, keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing.

aw damn, that sux dude. gl.

Yea, it was pretty harsh, but I'm kind of glad something like this finally happened. If you go to my last post in my first blog, you will see that I never had a big downswing in there ever. I'm glad that I managed to pull through it without trashing my roll, and having the discipline to stop and move down when I should. At the very least I'll be able to take that away from this.

As for an update, I moved down to 10nl. First time (Wednesday night/Thurs morning) I had a rough go of it, ended up only down less than a BI, but it was pretty swongy. Came back today, ready to play solid, nonspewtard poker, and I did. :D I'm still winding down the session, but heres the stats:

2,763 hands
+$46
17bb/100

Can someone explain to me why I pwn 10nl, but suck ass at 25nl? ;)
Roll isn't hurting so bad anymore, so I'm happy with that, and the fact that I'm not playing scared money. If I lose a stack at 10nl its like, "LOL $10?!?!? BITCH I JUST LOST $150+!!!" :D

So yea, thats it for now, I'm going out tomorrow night with some friends to get drunk. (Jager Bombs FTW), and there will be some wimminz around, most of whom I've met and seemed to like me, so we'll see whats up there when the time comes. But other then that, time for sleeps. Laterz!

If you pwn 10nl so much why dont you just grow the roll to 30-35 BI and then go to 25nl...then losing a BI will seem to be relatively the same??

I'm on the iPoker network where it goes $10nl - $20nl, so I'm at $20nl but at the same level as you. I doubt very much that you suck at $25nl, but I would hope that you play less tables at your new level until you've got a feel for it. Maybe even single table for a week or two?

I've never seen anything in your posts to indicate that you are anything but a solid, intelligent, winning player (who could probably stack me blindfolded). There is certainly a noticeable skill gap between the two levels, but $25nl very beatable and I have every faith in you.

Bring on the TAGfish!

Hey dranger,
I thought I'd ask for some HUD stat advice since I'm just getting started with Holdem manager.
At 2nl (remember....2nl) what HUD stats should I have on the screen?
Right now I have VPIP, PFR, Agg factor, fold to cbet%, cbet% and 3bet...
I dont see much point in 3bet b/c at 2nl that usually means AQ+, JJ-QQ+, but I have it anyway.

Is there anything else you'd recommend?

If you feel like you have to move down straight away after losing a few BI at a new level, then just grind 10NL until you're deeper rolled for 25NL, that way you can just shrug off a couple of dropped BIs rather than thinking OH NOES, 2 MOAR BIs AND IM BACK TO 10NL.

I tried to move up a few times and eventually got bored of moving between the two and waited until I had $750 before moving to 25NL, planning to move back down at $500. It'll be pretty hard to run out of room for error with a 10BI stop loss.

Anyway, gl dude. No doubt you can do it. Havn't seen you on MSN in a while but if you're ever around when I am just gimme a shout and I'm more than willing to set up a sweat / go through some stuff or whatever.

If it helps take the pressure off, you could play mixed sessions. I think I remember you saying you play 8 tables, well when you're on the edge of moving back down, play 6 10nl and 2 25nl, then if you're back to comfortable, play 4 and 4 until you're at like 35 buyins at 25nl, then just play 25nl.

It really is the same game with bigger numbers. If you're fucking up then it's in your head, if you're running bad then there's nothing you can do but keep playing your best game. Adjust to the players, not the game.

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Originally Posted by dranger7070

Can someone explain to me why I pwn 10nl, but suck ass at 25nl? ;)

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Cuz you're being a bitch and whining about one bad session :lol: . Knock it off you're doing great and you'll continue to do great! You and I have talked about riding the wave while it last. They all come crashing down eventually and then you have to get back on your board and pabble your ass back out to sea and find the next big wave...amirite?

FYI, I pop down to 5nl and 2nl periodically when I want to try something out. I've not had a loosing session yet doing it and it helps out the BR a little. Our good friend spoon plays multiple stakes as well.

Now get your ass out there and grind mutter fuker!

Lol thanks for the support fellas.

@ vinland: All I have on my stats are VPIP/PFR/AF/# of hands new line cbet/fold to c-bet and thats it. No need for anything else imo. But i have 3bet stats and all that garbage in a drop down.

@ sil693: Yea I haven't been getting on MSN too much lately while grinding (or AIM for that matter) it seems to keep me more focused when I dont have all that junk open, but ill def hit u up for a sweat sesh. Also, I lost 8 BI's at 25nl before moving down (well 8 BI's after I was up a few at first) so its not like "ZOMG 2 BI's MOVING DOWN!!!" lol. I think it was a good move on my part to move down when I did.

@ Lucofish: thanks for blowing smoke up my ass lol :). I can always use more of that imo. Also, I totally agree that 25nl (or 20nl) is easy as shit, I just ran kinda bad/spewed while tilting so I was kinda "forced" to move down. I have no doubt that I can pwn that limit as bad as 10nl.

@ dev: I kinda like the idea of a mixed session, I might try that out some time in the future... Also, when I lost multiple BI's it didn't really get to me that I lost $150. The monetary value doesnt get to me yet, even tho $25 is a lot to me irl. I just choose to think in terms of bb's and BI's. It makes losing a stack(s) that much easier and I think that has contributed to my success in moving up. Losing the money didn't get to me, losing a bunch of BI's at once, and no longer feeling rolled for the limit DID, which is why I chose to move back down even though I had 20 BI's for 25nl. I'll probably move back up after April is over if I am over $600-650.

@ Harley: True dat yo, and it was TWO sessions not ONE. :) Getchur facts straight before you start pointin fingers imo lol. I go down to the penny stakes every now and then to screw around if I don't feel like grinding, but I never really "work stuff out" down there. I just do that at 10nl nowadays. Theres more regs (who are terribad but they count lol) and they play their hands face up so you can see how doing a certain play in a certain situation works. You'll see what I mean soon enough I think.

Alright peeps, I'm gonna grind til work. Ill update tomorrow sometime (probably tomorrow night.

Laterz

Hey ppls. Had a 2.1k hand day today. Only 8,750 hands away from my 40k hands in April goal! w00t! SHIPIT! So anyways, about my day lol. Ran good (ldo) made +4 BI's. I was up to 6 BI's but hit set < set and KK < AA right at the end (which is what caused me to end my session before I spewed. So gg me.

Later on, I started talking to Outlaw about some stuff. Mostly about hooking up a sweat session of 10nl pretty soon. And somehow we got on the convo of SnGs and we got pretty into it. So much that I ended up playing 2 $6.50 9 man turbos. Busted out in the first one, finished 1st in the 2nd. So +$15 in those. Also, ran like god in the 2nd one lol. Sucked out SOOO many times it was sick.

So yea, roll is above $600 again w00t ez game. Swongs don't get me down for long imo :).

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Originally Posted by dranger7070

Hey ppls. Had a 2.1k hand day today. Only 8,750 hands away from my 40k hands in April goal! w00t! SHIPIT! So anyways, about my day lol. Ran good (ldo) made +4 BI's. I was up to 6 BI's but hit set < set and KK < AA right at the end (which is what caused me to end my session before I spewed. So gg me.

Later on, I started talking to Outlaw about some stuff. Mostly about hooking up a sweat session of 10nl pretty soon. And somehow we got on the convo of SnGs and we got pretty into it. So much that I ended up playing 2 $6.50 9 man turbos. Busted out in the first one, finished 1st in the 2nd. So +$15 in those. Also, ran like god in the 2nd one lol. Sucked out SOOO many times it was sick.

So yea, roll is above $600 again w00t ez game. Swongs don't get me down for long imo :).

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That was hella fun, definitely gotta do that again.

And you didn't really suck out THAT much.. you won a couple 60/40s and one 70/30 as a dog I think.. and twice it was as the big stack so that's standard.

Gratz on hitting $600. I had a +$1.90 day, but was down like $60 at one point... go me lol

Yea man, anytime lol. Idk, maybe it just SEEMED like i was sucking out all the time. And winning $2 is farking HUGE when you put in the context that you were down $60, so nicely played sir! :)

Played like 300 hands of 2nl 6max to donk around. Won like 26 cents. I worked all day and didnt feel like grinding, so yea gg me. I have like 7k hands more until i hit 40k. I have absolutely NOTHING to do tomorrow, so I plan on putting in at least 3k hands. That'll put a dent in it. Get about 1k hands in on Wednesday and polish her off on Thursday propbet thing complete. SHIPIT!!! Which is incredible considering I have been lazy as shit grinding this month. :/

Checking in on ya dranger. 40k hands is kick ass buddy, good job I'm sure you get there. I'm at 34.5k so far maybe I might see if I can power up and hit 40k. Doubt I will cuz I really can't load up more than about 8 tables at 10nl right now. But who knows. Anyhow keep up the good work!

Didn't play very much yesterday. Kinda disappointed in myself... :( O wells, like 5k hands to go, so no huge deal. At the very least, I can wake up tomorrow and open up like 20 tables of 2nl and robot my way to the win lmao.

Also, thinking about doing a mini-op thing next month before boot. Thinking about doing like a 30 sng (stfu I know its not much) sample of the 3.40's starting out 4 tabling them. If I get a good ROI in them, I'll move up to the $6.50 turbos. (9 man's for both ldo). Reasoning behind this is because I fucking want to thats why. Something to break up the monotony of the grind (even though I won't be able to play poker for ~5 months due to boot/MOS training after May :/). I'll still grind a shit ton (at least as much as I can, I plan on visiting with family, chillin with some buddies, getting as much ass as I can possibly get my hands on, and drinking some beer. All things I'll be missing for at least 13 weeks :(). just because I MIGHT do a SnG thing, don't mean shit. FR is still my bread and butter for profits.

Also, made a bit of an "impulse" buy this morning. I got to thinking about it, and decided to go ahead and man up and get another subscription to GS. I got a one month (kinda pointless getting 3 months when I'll be gone for 2/3 lul) FULL subscription, last time I only got micro. I plan on devouring pretty much every vid they have that has to do with 25nl, and sngs up to the 6.50 turbos. Will def check out MTT vids too. Reasoning behind this was, I've been doing really well lately, so I decided to give myself a "treat" with my winnings. (Kinda sad when a treat = more poker learnin', but what can i say? DEGEN FTW!!!)

Thats about it, nothing hudge to report. Time to wrap up this 40k in april. And get ready for boot. SHIP IT!

Update:

Got home from work, fucked around for a while. I saved my entire database onto a flash drive, then proceeded to delete it off my computer. With Poker Copilot (the tracking software I use) it starts to be a HUGE resource hog after like 60-70k hands, so I decided to fix the problem. I'll load them all in tomorrow so I can post my monthly graph, but it was tilting me too much during a session to have my shit freeze and then I time out on 12 tables causing me to miss a ton of stuff.

So after that, I hop on 12 tables of 10nl. I wasn't too optimistic about the session since the tables seemed kinda dead, but it went quite well. 1k hands +$22 for like 20bb/100 so still running ridiculously good at 10nl. After the session I played in a 70fpp satty to the Sunday 1/4 mil. Its really just throwing away feeps imo, but I figured what the hell. Ran like God, placed 1st easily. +$10.78 to the roll after selling T$.

So literally, one week after I lost $200, I'm sitting at pretty much where I was at before it happened. Not too shabby considering I moved down a level to recuperate.

I'll be posting my monthly graph in here after my monster grind session today. Pretty much I can afford to lose 5 BI's and still be fine as long as I clear 4k hands since I have a prop bet going for # of hands this month. Shouldn't be a problem though and I'm pretty eager to get it done, its been a lot of pressure (positive pressure) but pressure nonetheless and I'm ready to relax.

Thats about it, will post in less than 19 hours. Later!

Well, I would post my graph, but my internet crashed earlier, and I'm way to farkin lazy right now. It's in the BC if ur really that interested.

Heres a quick overview of April:
- Hit silverstar first time ever
- Played 40k+ hands (most ever)
- Made $369 in cash games alone (most ever)
- Took a shot and missed at 25nl (first time moving up there, and first time not succeeding in a move up)
- Happy with my play overall.

Now onto some new shit, aka May. Decided to 4 table 25nl, figure, its a new month, lets start things off right. I was going to knuckle down, play solid poker, take notes etc. Well, I did all that. I played tight aggressive poker. I only made one stupid bluff vs a station (dumb I know) that cost me 32bbs right before I ended sesh. (This is what me end it, I instantly knew afterwards that it was stupid, and therefore I wasn't playing my best.)

Anyways, did all that, played the cards dealt to me as well as I, personally, could have (imo). Still netted a 2 BI loss though. I'm not too terribly upset about it, I got coolered almost IMMEDIATELY after I started. AA < KK in a 4bet pot PF on a KKx board. AK < KK on an AKx two tone board. Both for 100bb stacks. Meh, I shrugged them off and got back to work. (Although, I'm going to post the AA<KK hand to see what others think in the BC, cuz I was kind of confused as to what to do.) I managed (through taking away pots when IP, and not spewing) to work my way back to -1 BI, but then I got unlucky with AK in a 3bet pot (didnt hit and villain shoved) a couple of times, and then that bluff at the end sealed it.

I'm going to try to set up a 25nl sweat session with someone who plays at or above it regularly, cuz jesus, I want to see if I'm really playing bad, or what. I don't feel I am, but I'd like some outside perspective. But anyways, all-in-all, not terribly upset with tonight. I'm gonna get right back on it tomorrow when I wake up and hopefully run a lil better.

Gratz on the good month. Keep it up!

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Originally Posted by dranger7070

Heres a quick overview of April:
- Hit silverstar first time ever
- Played 40k+ hands (most ever)
- Made $369 in cash games alone (most ever)
- Took a shot and missed at 25nl (first time moving up there, and first time not succeeding in a move up)
- Happy with my play overall.

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Outstanding my friend. Keep it up and good luck in May.

Thanks guys, yea April was pretty sicko lol. I hope May can match, if not be better, so I can leave on a good high note for boot camp. I would like to be solidly playing 25nl. Hoping to have a $1k BR by then is a bit of a stretch, but a man/boy can dream can't he? ;)

That's quite the dream for a man/boy like yourself. LOL @ man/boy. Sounds like a creature out of Greek mythology.

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Originally Posted by hangchiong

ill keep an eye on this

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i'll keep an eye on your new avatar

oh, yeah, and i'm watching the thread, too

nh and glglgl

dranger I found myself thinking about you today. Have you heard the many stories of the POW's who were held in captivity for many years and many of them reported improving their hobbies such as golf while being held in POW camps. They accomplished this by playing there game everyday in their heads. They would visualize themselfs playing perfectly. They would picture the perfect grip, stance swing etc. doing it over and over in their minds.
Well you could do the same type of thing while your off to boot camp and training. Also you won't have much in the way of bills so start building your "Poker library". Make a prop bet with yourself that you can read x number of poker books while your off the felt.
Would be an interesting experiment for you to do. Submerge yourself in studying the game. Master ranges etc.

Just a little food for thought!

Hey Robb fyi my partner at work was a class mate of the drangers avatar irw! She's now married to one of his best buddys.

lol the man/boy thing was something i came up with (although I'm sure I've heard it somewhere...) while sitting here. I'm 19, so depending on who you talk to, I'm either a grown man (ppl younger than me), or boy (older ppl, parents, grandparents etc). Thought it was funny.

And nice to see Robb's hanging around. :D Gives me a lil inspiration to not give up and donk away my roll.

And thats interesting Harley. I have a buddy whos pretty hardcore about poker (he doesn't post on here often though...) and I was thinking about asking him to send me HH's in the mail while I'm at boot camp cuz we get some free time every Sunday, so I could definitely work on stuff even at boot. I'll also ask spoon on IRC for some advice in practicing ranges on paper and stuff. Who knows? Maybe I'll be even better when I come back. :D

Thanks for the support guys!

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I'll also ask spoon on IRC for some advice in practicing ranges on paper and stuff. Who knows? Maybe I'll be even better when I come back. :D

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Here's what I did.

1. Set up a scenario. Example. You're the preflop raiser in the CO with TT. You get a call from the BTN TAGG who's 22/18 (I play 6max - stats would be different at FR). What's his range? The flop is AQ4. You cbet, he calls. What's his range? Plan the hand from like you should at the tables, what you'll do on the turn brick, based on his range. What cards change the hand. What you think he'll do with each part of his range. Then what you'll do against a card that hits his range.

2. Write down the range you expect EXACTLY. Unpaired cards are 1.25%, pp's are 0.5%, etc. I don't like dealing with suited combos, so I just add 4 so it = 1.25% like the unpaired cards. After you get whatever percentage you like, add in at least 10% "junk," hands just worse than you expect to account for stats inaccuracy and opponent lunacy.

3. Use the way you would play the hand as a basis for how he should, and see if there any places you can exploit typical "TAGG" play.

4. Vary situation. How does this change if villain is 30/10? Hint: dramatically. How does this change if he's in the blinds and we have position? Vary the board and rerun all the flop scenarios. You can spend 3 or 4 hours on one situation.

For an example of #2, let's think about a 22/18 TAGG on the button. He's probably a bit positionally aware, so let's say he'll call with about 10% of his hands and 3bet AK/QQ+ 100%. His 3bet range is part of the "18," so we ditch those hands. (I can explain where the 10% came from later, but it's based on the gap between VP$P/PFR. Ask if interested, but think about what those stats mean, first.) Now we build a 10% range of hands he'll flat with. JJ - 22 is 10 hands x 0.5 = 5% (4.5% actually, but close enough). AJ, AQ, KQ and KJ is another 5%. Add in some "junk," say AT, JTs, QJs. You still leave some room 'cuz different villains play different cards different ways, but you go from there, throwing out hypothetical boards, thinking about how he'll react and which boards he's got no equity on.

Do this with common scenarios you know you'll face. Turn it around and make you the flat caller, and the TAGG is in the CO as PFR'r. What should 3bet? What should you fold? What should you flat? How do each of your hands play postflop when you're on the BTN? How do they play oop?

Work on 3bet scenarios. Those are great at 10nl and 25nl because the ranges are so narrow, and you can find boards/action that just can't have hit villain, so you'll know when you can rep AA and when you need to check behind.

Hope that helps. Just don't think about poker while shooting guns or anything, ok?

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Here's what I did.

1. Set up a scenario. Example. You're the preflop raiser in the CO with TT. You get a call from the BTN TAGG who's 22/18 (I play 6max - stats would be different at FR). What's his range? The flop is AQ4. You cbet, he calls. What's his range? Plan the hand from like you should at the tables, what you'll do on the turn brick, based on his range. What cards change the hand. What you think he'll do with each part of his range. Then what you'll do against a card that hits his range.

2. Write down the range you expect EXACTLY. Unpaired cards are 1.25%, pp's are 0.5%, etc. I don't like dealing with suited combos, so I just add 4 so it = 1.25% like the unpaired cards. After you get whatever percentage you like, add in at least 10% "junk," hands just worse than you expect to account for stats inaccuracy and opponent lunacy.

3. Use the way you would play the hand as a basis for how he should, and see if there any places you can exploit typical "TAGG" play.

4. Vary situation. How does this change if villain is 30/10? Hint: dramatically. How does this change if he's in the blinds and we have position? Vary the board and rerun all the flop scenarios. You can spend 3 or 4 hours on one situation.

For an example of #2, let's think about a 22/18 TAGG on the button. He's probably a bit positionally aware, so let's say he'll call with about 10% of his hands and 3bet AK/QQ+ 100%. His 3bet range is part of the "18," so we ditch those hands. (I can explain where the 10% came from later, but it's based on the gap between VP$P/PFR. Ask if interested, but think about what those stats mean, first.) Now we build a 10% range of hands he'll flat with. JJ - 22 is 10 hands x 0.5 = 5% (4.5% actually, but close enough). AJ, AQ, KQ and KJ is another 5%. Add in some "junk," say AT, JTs, QJs. You still leave some room 'cuz different villains play different cards different ways, but you go from there, throwing out hypothetical boards, thinking about how he'll react and which boards he's got no equity on.

Do this with common scenarios you know you'll face. Turn it around and make you the flat caller, and the TAGG is in the CO as PFR'r. What should 3bet? What should you fold? What should you flat? How do each of your hands play postflop when you're on the BTN? How do they play oop?

Work on 3bet scenarios. Those are great at 10nl and 25nl because the ranges are so narrow, and you can find boards/action that just can't have hit villain, so you'll know when you can rep AA and when you need to check behind.

Hope that helps. Just don't think about poker while shooting guns or anything, ok?[/quote]

Lol, deal.

Also, thanks a million Robb! Now I can actually do something constructive at work tonight instead of watching Step Brothers again lol. But seriously, thanks. I'll probably copy all this stuff down (so I know where to start at/how to get them going) and print it out or something and work on this tonight, and see if I can get this down somewhat before I go to boot, so I can HOPEFULLY work on it while I'm there. I don't see why I shouldn't, considering we get an hour (typically) before sleep for "free time" (i.e.: get your shit squared away for tomorrow, write home if you want) and like 2-3 hours on Sunday for the same + religious services (I'm not religious so I can do this while sitting in a church pew lol).

Post something if you come up with something specific. I'll critique it if you'd like, or we could start a thread about it. Also, watch hands in your PT3 or HEM replayer to get ideas. Before you leave, you can do this: find a TAGGish reg in your database, preferrably with > 1k hands. Sort based on "went to showdown = true" and "final pot > 40bb." That usually gets about 10 hands that play out over multiple streets.

Replay the hands with holecards NOT showing. Stop on each street to put both players on a range. Pause right before showdown. If you can narrow a TAGG villain's rang down to 5 or 6 combos - and get it right, you're doing awesome with hand reading. Once you see a particular scenario with players whose stats are "typical" of the types of opponents you face often, use it to start varying the board, the flop action, position and so forth.

Jeez, I turn my head for 5 seconds and you make $450?

Nh sir.

[x] standard sir lol.

Just finished my 2nd session for the day. They were both pretty short. I started up and played only 3 tables for both.

518 hands +2 BI's. + I got paid from lockpull for prop bet, so BR looking good.

Stars is having this thing for may where for 500 fpps you can get $8 directly deposited into your BR, another one for 1,000 that gets you $16 ($24 total) and ANOTHER one at 10k fpps for $160. I doubt ill get the 10k fpps (only 400 in my account right now :() but I can easily get the other two imo and ill def try for the $160, but its not likely.

Other then that, nothing new. Haven't slept in about 20 hours, so time for some sleeps. Night all!

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Stars is having this thing for may where for 500 fpps you can get $8 directly deposited into your BR, another one for 1,000 that gets you $16 ($24 total) and ANOTHER one at 10k fpps for $160. I doubt ill get the 10k fpps (only 400 in my account right now :() but I can easily get the other two imo and ill def try for the $160, but its not likely.

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Whoa whoa...where'd you hear about this?

Edit: Wait, just found it in the store. Pokerstars has to tell us about these things!

I got a PM from Outlaw telling me about it. Just go look in the Stars VIP store under Bonuses.

I was excited when I heard about this because I don't have anything in my stars account and it requires silverstar. *sigh* Maybe I'll just use my points on books or something.

Sucks dev :(

Anyways just finished a 2 hourish session. Started just playing 25nl starting my own tables, all that jazz. I profited about $20 in 132 hands, so thats pretty good. So then, I have this d-bag (jk buddy <3 u) friend who wanted to see who could make a better bb/100 with him playing 5nl and me playing 2nl. He played 6-8 tables and I played 20-24 tables (lol) from 4am-5am. I WHOOPED HIS ASS!!!! 53bb/100 (26.5ptbb/100) over 1300 hands for a profit of $14. EZ game. How did he do you ask? Well, he pretty much sucked monkey balls and lost a $1 for the session lol. Funny stuff.

Anyways, BR is at a new all time high (SHIP IT!!!) with me hitting $800 today. WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! Needless to say, I'm in a good mood. :D I'm telling you guys, this starting your own tables thing is fucking MONEY. I got a guy to 5bet shove me AI with Q9o (thats wut he had, I had AA rofl). EZ game. If i wouldn't tried a multi street bluff (stupid I know :() I would be up closer to $50 for the day at 25nl. O wells, live and you learn.

I'm probably going to be up for a while, might do another session in a lil bit. Hopefully it goes as good. :)

what sort of mac have you got . If its an intell based one have you thought about Virtualisation and running windows on the virtual machine.

8 bills! Sweet! No stopping you man. It seems like you've got the goods. Attention to detail, discipline, and patience. Seem like good qualities for a marine. Wish you well.

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[x] standard sir lol.

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lol you used to be so humble :)

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Haha ur gonna make me feel bad lol. I was obviously kidding. ;)

But yea, pokerz continues to go well. BR is up to $872.08 so I'm loving life lol. 1032/2000 VPPs cleared toward $100 bonus, so pretty eager to get that cleared. I might just hit $1k BR after all if stuff keeps going well. :D

Today was possibly the SWONGIEST session of poker I've ever played lol. But its cool, ended +$ so I like it. :)

Dranger...you are an animal. Keep the heater goin'!

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Haha I don't understand how tho. It's not like I have this "magic formula" thats allowing my BR too skyrocket the way it is. It could be a heater, but I hate to put it all to that too. I like to think SOME of it is my "skill" lol. ;) But yea, I totally agree, this is frickin disgusting. I'm almost sad I have to leave for boot at the end of this month. Makes me wonder what I could do with a whole summer of solid grinding... O wells, I got all next fall/winter/spring. :D

I gotta work today, so probably no grinding til after midnight, but I plan on reading Robb's Practicing Ranges post in the BC and working on those while I'm there. I feel getting a better understanding of ranges will seriously improve my game, and its something I can work on while at boot when I have "free time." (Time to write letters and stuff)

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Dranger...you are an animal. Keep the heater goin'!

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Haha I don't understand how tho. It's not like I have this "magic formula" thats allowing my BR too skyrocket the way it is. It could be a heater, but I hate to put it all to that too. I like to think SOME of it is my "skill" lol. ;) But yea, I totally agree, this is frickin disgusting. I'm almost sad I have to leave for boot at the end of this month. Makes me wonder what I could do with a whole summer of solid grinding... O wells, I got all next fall/winter/spring. :D

I gotta work today, so probably no grinding til after midnight, but I plan on reading Robb's Practicing Ranges post in the BC and working on those while I'm there. I feel getting a better understanding of ranges will seriously improve my game, and its something I can work on while at boot when I have "free time." (Time to write letters and stuff)

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Careful practicing ranges, imo. You might get better at poker.

[x] heater continues

BR is now at a ridiculous $974. Last night was my single most profitable session ever, also one of my shortest.(< 1000 hands) I could/would have continued if my internet didn't crash. :( But yea I was pretty stoked about it regardless.

I've also cleared a few more VPPs towards my bonus (did I mention i <3 25nl for the vpp rate? :lol:(you have to remember I grinded 2nl for fucking EVER)). 1120/2000 so 8k hands and I will have free monies deposited. I have a little over 1k feeps sitting in my BR right now as well. It will soon be the time for me to decide whether to buy the instant cash credit, or to continue playing the 210 fpp satellites to the 1/4 million. I have on ok ROI in those right now, cashing 4/10 so idk... I think it would be more +EV for me to continue to grind those, but we shall see. I mean why pass up free money? Especially when I can get a BI for my level for a mere 1500 fpps. I'll wait til the end of the month to decide tho.

Also, awesome, awesome, AWESOME post on hand ranges Robb. I can really hop on to the whole chunking concept. I didn't really work on them a whole lot at work yesterday, I just messed around with Pokerstove ranges and stuff (slacking I know :/) but I feel I need to a better understanding of what a certain % means in terms of hands.

Thats it for now, I gotta clean my dorm today in preparation of moving out tomorrow or Saturday. ugh We haven't cleaned this hog pen since we got here lol. Should be interesting what he find. ;)

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[x] heater continues

I just messed around with Pokerstove ranges and stuff (slacking I know :/) but I feel I need to a better understanding of what a certain % means in terms of hands.

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grats on the heater - poker sho' is fun some days :P

Most of us start with Poker Stove to get an idea of general hand strength. Note: Stove ranks hands according to Hot/Cold equity, or all-in preflop equity. They rank each hand against 3 "test" hands, but I've never found out which 3. Why does it matter?

Think about postflop playability as you're looking at the rankings. In EP, compare AJo vs. 22. The stove will tell you that AJo is in the Top 8% or 8.5% of hands and that 22 rings in at 60% or so. But 22 is playable postflop: whatever equity it has beyond the flop is obvious and easy to play. Sure, AJo in many places is a much better hand, but knowing "where you're at" can be difficult especially oop.

That said, I've got a list of every Top 50% poker hand listed according to its poker stove ranking, plus another with some adjustments I made based on playability. I know a couple others who have done a similar thing. Once you have that chart, you also gotta remember that different hand strength applies to different situations.

Example: Flat calling range vs. preflop open-raising range. Every feesh knows how to flat call with small/med pp's, so those are "top" or "always include" portion of my general flatting range, followed by AJ/AT and some broadways, then followed by other stuff (read dependent). With the open-raise range, I put in the AJ/AT and broadways first, then med pp's, then some weaker broadways and Aces, then the small pp's. And remember with the flatting range, it starts beneath whatever we think he'll 3bet with. Sometimes my flatting range estimate starts at AJ and sometimes AK - just depends on reads. So that changes the bottom end, too.

Or you can learn to calculate SPR and use this handy trick I've learned: whenever the SPR / 2 and truncated + cosine(0) = prime number, you just shove all-in. Works every time, and you don't have to fart around with doing work and learning stuff. So w/e.

[quote="Robb"]

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[x] Example: Flat calling range vs. preflop open-raising range. Every feesh knows how to flat call with small/med pp's, so those are "top" or "always include" portion of my general flatting range, followed by AJ/AT and some broadways, then followed by other stuff (read dependent). With the open-raise range, I put in the AJ/AT and broadways first, then med pp's, then some weaker broadways and Aces, then the small pp's. And remember with the flatting range, it starts beneath whatever we think he'll 3bet with. Sometimes my flatting range estimate starts at AJ and sometimes AK - just depends on reads. So that changes the bottom end, too.

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How do you allow for stack size Robb. Say a shortie open raises early UTG and full stack Tagg calls on the button are you still going to keep the small pocket pairs in the TAG's calling range when he doesn't have set odds or are you going to put some suited connectors in instead

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How about flip a coin , heads shove all in, tails fold , on its edge call.

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Or you can learn to calculate SPR and use this handy trick I've learned: whenever the SPR / 2 and truncated + cosine(0) = prime number, you just shove all-in. Works every time, and you don't have to fart around with doing work and learning stuff. So w/e.

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some very elegant and simple algebra tells us that spr is useful re bet sizing. e.g.
what size to bet to leave villain/me pot size behind after a call?
x = % pot
spr-1=3x

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How do you allow for stack size Robb. Say a shortie open raises early UTG and full stack Tagg calls on the button are you still going to keep the small pocket pairs in the TAG's calling range when he doesn't have set odds or are you going to put some suited connectors in instead

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That's read dependent. If I think the TAGG is capable of adjusting (correctly) to a shortie, I might alter my range. Honestly, you'll see a bunch of dumb asses at 25nl and lower who will set mine with only 6 to 1 or 8 to 1 implied odds, which is HORRIBLE obv. SC's don't have any better implied odds.

What we should see more against shorties is 3betting with Axs and hands not easily dominated. But of course, we don't. So we have to figure out a flatting range when flatting is about the worst idea against a thinking shorty. So we watch the shortie turn them upside down and shake all the money out of their pockets and note what shows down. That's all you can do sometimes.

What you can do is stay aware and try to figure out what cards different people will play in different situations. Once you have some idea of what they have, then you can calculate bet-sizes with SPR, TnA, GFY, or WTF ever that you like. :P

I thought after I posted that I cocked up in that against shorties you want to be going for top pair type hands so presumably its the Ax and Kx hands to add in instead of the suited connectors/

You're OP got hijacked bro. LOL.

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Who's OP is this, btw?

Lol indeed BooG. Nah its cool, interesting convo is something that rarely happens in my ops rofl. But yea, so update time.

I had to clean my dorm in prep of moving out in about 7 hours lol. The only hands I got in today was a series of 4 $3.40 10 man sngs. Got totally gayed out in those things. Couldn't win when I was ahead, couldn't hit a 16 out draw, couldn't win a race. 0/4. I busted 9th, 7th, 6th, and 5th LOL. I suck at sngs imo.

Other than that 0 pokerz has been had today. I'm going to fire up a session right now until before I go home, so hopefully it goes well for the last time I'll play in the dorms. *cries* :lol:

Can't remember if it went good or not which is pathetic. Whatever, it must've since I didn't get on here ranting about it lol. I played in the FTR $100 freeroll on Full Tilt tonight. First one without 12230429842043 freetrollers in it, which was a +. Took down 2nd for +$30 ship ship ship. Oskar helped me out and I got it transferred over to stars account. Also played in a 2.20 90 man sng. Got 23rd with K9 < AA. I was blind stealing as a short stack. How does the BB always manage to have AA when i do this? It baffles me lol.

Anyways BR is sitting so close to $1k I can taste it. I might fire up some 2nl tables just to get me over lol.

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Can't remember if it went good or not which is pathetic. Whatever, it must've since I didn't get on here ranting about it lol. I played in the FTR $100 freeroll on Full Tilt tonight. First one without 12230429842043 freetrollers in it, which was a +. Took down 2nd for +$30 ship ship ship. Oskar helped me out and I got it transferred over to stars account. Also played in a 2.20 90 man sng. Got 23rd with K9 < AA. I was blind stealing as a short stack. How does the BB always manage to have AA when i do this? It baffles me lol.

Anyways BR is sitting so close to $1k I can taste it. I might fire up some 2nl tables just to get me over lol.

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GOGOGOGO

One request before I start my post: fix your banner link! It links to your old OP. I had to click an unnecessary two times to get my lazy ass here.

ANYWHO, congrats on placing second in the freeroll...I guess you were lucky I wasn't playing. I'm sure you'll be at 1K by the morning...BRAVO!

(Now get your ass to boot camp so I can zoom right past you!)

JOKES!

UPDATE DIS BLAWWWWG

Nothing to update really. :/ I haven't been able to grind lately due to shitty home internetz. I've just been donking around really. Playing random tournaments. I placed 7th in a 10 cent 360 man for a monster $1.30 score. SHIP! Playing 4 DONs at the moment. Me and m2m are gonna play 3 MTTs later tonight. Will update if I take one down. Haven't busted the 1k cherry, but I'm ok with that. Still hovering at $990, so I'm happy.

And BooG, DIAGF imo. I'm too lazy to switch it over right now. Maybe after boot camp lol.

IN BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT

CONGRATS SIR!

(I won't say what it is yet though..I'll wait till you post)

Dude I am so freaking tired. My girlfriend is coming over early tomorrow (I mean, today) morning. And I'm gonna be so tired. All because SOOOOOOOOOOMEBODY had to do so freaking well at a tournament that ended at 4 in the freaking morning. I hate you for making me lose 3 buy-ins at 3 am. ENJOY YOUR DAMN BANKROLL BOOST OF 23.9%. JERK.

Grats on 4th place out of 2k btw :D

Ok so, me and m2m played some MTTs last night. I managed to go deep in one that started at midnight. Hit it up for 4th for a finish of $239. I EASILY could have taken it down, but 45 < K3 on KK23A flop and the dude crippled me. Next hand I was out 77 < KQ. Its all good though, like xpaand said, HUDGE BR boost. Puts me well over the 1k mark. ($1,231 imo). Other then that, pretty uneventful evening lol.

okerStars Tournament #162033476, No Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20
1992 players
Total Prize Pool: $3984.00
Tournament started 2009/05/13 0:00:00 ET


Dear dranger7070,

You finished the tournament in 4th place. A $239.05 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 301.75 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tour.../leader-board/


Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.

Thanks for railing all you guys on IRC.

Sick score dude, well done!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...months-478033/

Here's motivation for you dude.

GL w/ your attempt.

Nice work!! Ready to kill 25nl cash now.

Nicely done.....
Wish I was watching.....oh wait I'm sleeping by that time.

Figures I had to get off to go to sleep...wish I could have done the announcing! Congratulations buddy...well over 1K now.

When are you going to boot camp again? :-D Justttt kiddinggg...

SHIP IT!

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/534...2zrasxb.th.png

I'll be posting this along with my total graph to date in the BC with a bit of a summary if anyone is interested.

maybe black out the name/address stuff... there are some creepy old men on these forums (*cough* bigred *cough*).

Good show, good job, GL!

Now that I know your address...I'll be getting back at you for all those momma jokes.

Don't open any suspicious packages brotha.

lol old address ITT. I just haven't emailed PS to change it or whatever. I'll be letting them know when I cash out.

Didn't feel like making another post right after this last one. Heres that thread in the BC.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...35.html#884723

Holy Shit. Nice work

Your play money account totally sucks.... WTF are you doing?:lol:

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I play HUflip4rollz with my play mannies, that is actually close to an all time high lol.

gg sir. congrats!!

Nothing much to update, really. I haven't been playing too much poker the last couple of days, and when I have it's not been for very long. Just trying to enjoy myself before I ship for boot in 8 days. (I go down to MEPS to check out my medicals and stuff on the 25th, plane leaves the 26th.)

Went out last night, got drunk, it was fun. Cock teases ftl, tho. It was out at this house I always partied at in high school, fucking WEIRD being there again. Bunch of people that were two or three grades below me were there. I felt like a pedophile checking out some of the girls, but SHIT did they grow up lol.

Went to the casino on friday night. Didn't stay long, my table broke down somehow, it was gay lol. I played 3/6 LHE, and holy shit, was it soft. Like, 1/2 NL is pretty terribad, but thats NOTHING compared to LHE lol. I made like $28 in those two hours, so nothing huge, but I could have raked a lot more if the table would have stayed filled. I probably could have made a killing playing shorthanded if I was more used to it, but I didn't want to sit there and waste money just because I couldn't adjust properly.

Thats it for now, I'll probably update a couple more times before I ship.

You're an asshole for taking my woman.

I didn't take her, she came running to me imo. :D

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UGH, in the middle of a session right now, but have to post this to remind myself to not be a colossal douche from now on. Been playing a really solid, nonspewy game so far tonight and it had been working until this.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($68.10)
BB ($23.75)
UTG ($30.85)
UTG+1 ($16.15)
MP1 ($17.25)
MP2 ($13.75)
CO ($25)
Hero (Button) ($27.90)

Preflop: Hero is Button with http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/9c.gif, http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/8c.gif
1 fold, UTG+1 bets $0.75, 2 folds, CO calls $0.75, Hero calls $0.75, 2 folds

Flop: ($2.60) http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/ts.gif, http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/5d.gif, http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/7s.gif (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($2.60) http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/3c.gif (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, CO checks, Hero bets $1.70, UTG+1 calls $1.70, 1 fold

River: ($6) http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/5c.gif (2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $4.20, UTG+1 calls $4.20

Total pot: $14.40 | Rake: $0.70

Just reminding myself to NOT DO THIS STUFF WHEN I HAVE ZERO FE!!

if you are going to play SCs like this then fold them preflop.
Bet the flop.
check the turn as played.

if you are going to play SCs like this then fold them preflop.
Bet the flop.
check the turn as played.

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Originally Posted by daven

if you are going to play SCs like this then fold them preflop.
Bet the flop.
check the turn as played.

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Agreed.

Ok guys, its about that time for me to go to boot. I leave Monday 11am EST and I won't be back until at least August 21st, or as late as early October. I've gone around and said "goodbye" to a few of the guys I've gotten closer to/talked to the most and instead of going to EVERYONE'S blog, I figured I'd just put up one in here.

It's been great getting to know all you, and I appreciate you all following my boring trip through the micro's so far, and hope you all come back when I get back here. I look forward to seeing how much you all have developed and be jealous of your monster BRs cuz I know you all are gonna pwn those fish while I'm gone right?

Its been a short 8 months since I've joined FTR and an even shorter 6 months since I started my lil blog at $10. Its been an interesting adventure, and I've learned so much from so many ppl here that it would take too long to thank them all, and I'd probably leave half of them out.

Special thanks to m2m, Boog, and HarleyGuy. Its been fun grinding and talking poker with you guys. Another thanks to Stax and spoon for talking poker, teaching me things that would take me forever to find out on my own, and for just being cool to the "new guy" in IRC. Its been fun shooting the shit and talking about more than just poker.

And nibbles, you and me were the first 2nl grinders on FTR that I seen. You were probably my first friend on here and I hope you are up to 10nl or higher when I get back.

To everyone else, I'll see you all in a few months. I'll come back ready to whoop ass and grind hands so be prepared to see my BR shoot up like mad in November. :D

A few notes to myself:
- When my roll gets to 2k+, and I've played 30k MORE HANDS of 25nl after boot camp, I'll be taking 1k and moving it to FTP for the deposit bonus and rakeback.
- Once the bonus there is cleared, I will take the 1k I took from my roll and put it back on stars along with any money I won while playing on FTP.
- The rakeback + bonus money will be used as my "Bonus Whoring" roll. I'll be using it to bounce around from site to site collecting the deposit bonuses and whatnot.
- I will continue to play on stars 25nl until my roll is good enough to move up to 50nl. I will be making gold star as a minimum each month. The bonus whoring roll is only secondary to my Pokerstars roll.
- Once I've gone around and collected bonuses until I'm bored, or they are all used up (fucking US restrictions lol) I will cut that roll in half and put one half on pokerstars and take the other half and pocket it. It will more than likely be my first "withdrawal."

Alright folks, thats it until I'm back on here. See you all in a few months!