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Join Date: Apr 12th, 2007 |
232 | Flashes of Brilliance We can find motivation in almost anything. The power of the internet and the instant transmission of information it provides is so powerful that entire communities can be inspired by the plight of a people half a world away. We can marvel at engineering feats that we may never get the chance to see in person. We can see pictures of the deepest depths of our planet. What may be most important ... Published: May 22nd, 2012 |
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Join Date: Sep 27th, 2006 |
69 | Take A Step Back: Sync Up (You’re Pushing Too Hard) Check out the first article in the series if you are so inclined / I've been desperate the way I've been playing. Too many hours, too many tables, it takes a toll. It's always inspiring to see the high-volume guys like Naza114 do their thing but damn – people don't have a real appreciation for how hard that is. I get so dazed after a couple of days. It was different when I started, I ... Published: May 22nd, 2012 |
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127 | Sunday fun day Today I went a paltry 0-9 in MTTs and I played a bit out of my BR in a couple. On any normal day no one MTT matters if I am playing with in my roll. Its easy to take a beat and keep going. But, today I enterer the $109 150k gtd and got very unlucky five spots from cashing. I called a players shove on the turn with a pair and the nut flush draw on a board that read 578ssc flop 6s turn. I had As6c ... Published: May 20th, 2012 |
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127 | YES I CAN! Believing in yourself is so important. When I used to help pool players improve one of the first things I would ask them would be to not let themselves say anything negative. Sometimes you may not be able to stop yourself from thinking negative thoughts, but you definitely do not have to verbalize the thought and give it life. I believe that just this step of not allowing yourself to say, I ... Published: May 20th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Mar 12th, 2010 |
127 | the saturday grind Cashed in 5 out of 15 MTTS today while making 2 final tables and getting a 2nd place finish in the $33 3k for the second day in a row. Both days I was a little unlucky not to win. Anyway, I had a great day overall and was happy with the schedule I worked out. I did not play any 100nl today as I was getting back into my online MTT zone that has been very profitable for me. I am starting to get ... Published: May 20th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Jan 22nd, 2010 |
23 | The week before a big summer of poker 051912 Ladies and gentlemen I am gearing up for my breakthrough year in poker. WSOP starts on 052712 with the casino employees event and ends with the main event on 071612. I am going to prob play everything NLH up to 5k and the main event and maybe PLO or limit stuff too. I got married on 3-6-12 to a beatiful woman and we are happy. We ran into a few speedbumps in the last 2 months but it's almost ... Published: May 19th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Oct 13th, 2010 |
3 | Queen10off's Blog 3: Chipleading WSOP Circuit & College Graduation So it's been awhile since I last posted a blog. After finishing a mountain of work at the end of senior year I have finally graduated college. Graduation was fun with family and friends - I came to realize graduation was more for my parents than for me and they really enjoyed it. Now I have an abundance of time to focus on poker, business, traveling, and whatever else. My roommate and I made the ... Published: May 19th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Dec 28th, 2009 |
2 | Back home? It was via Twitter (@ASAALpoker) that i stumbled upon PF today. I registered on the PF site some time ago, created my profile and even wrote a blog entry. Then, not sure why, i forgot all about PF. Well, i updated my profile, updated my Poker usernames and even entered a new blog entry - this one! Whilst entering Poker usernames, i realized that, although i feel my game has improved, that i ... Published: May 19th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Mar 12th, 2010 |
127 | And we be grindn Kinda moseyed around a bit when I got up and around today. Hung out in the poker chat room and started talking poker and then had a conversation with a friend thinking about going to the WSOP for the first time. At this time I hadn't started playing yet because I was coming off of a couple of less than desirable days and wanted to make sure I was ready and into if I was going to start. After the ... Published: May 18th, 2012 |
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127 | Playing within our means Why is it so hard to play with in our means' Actually, why is it so hard to live within our means' Is this human nature' I know almost everyone can relate to what I am saying here. How many times have you wanted to turn $100 into $1,000, $10,000, or $1,000,000' Its possible that you even got off to a decent start before taking a few steps back, and/or going broke making poor decisions' What stops ... Published: May 18th, 2012 |
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127 | One step forward, two steps back! I had a small setback today. I played 585 hands of 100NL and lost 33 bbs per 100 and 2 buy-ins. I also went 0-4 in MTTs and 0-1 in satties. Feels kinda like a big brick. Luckily for me I understand variance and am okay with booking a loser. I did watch most of a training video and read a couple nice articles that were helpful and will continue to work on my game everyday. I am still not certain ... Published: May 18th, 2012 |
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Join Date: May 16th, 2012 |
3 | The First Time / The Worse Time ... After many sessions of me playing heads up with my boss I realized I had way too much to learn. I kept on playing online with fake money and playing heads up with my boss for five or ten bucks now. I was basically hopelessly giving my money away and he obviously knew that, but to him that was not a lot of money so he figured it wasn't much for me either. Then one day after work, he said ... Published: May 17th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Dec 7th, 2007 |
1 | The Legend of Tjmullen07 I am making a blog for myself and for you people for one reason, I wanna blow up in the poker world and get myself popular in the poker world. I am 19 years old and My goal In life is to become a pro poker player from nothing. I've done A lot of losing so it really just seems as if i'm a gambler addict to some and others I am just looked at as a shitty poker player with no skills and others ... Published: May 17th, 2012 |
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127 | OUCH I had to get a tooth removed today and that is never fun. I was able to do some poker reading while I waited at the dentist and found a few things I will use in an upcoming lesson. I really feel the last couple weeks of poker study and preparation for lessons has been really good for me and I know I can help the people that come to me. After the extraction I went to the casino for a while to ... Published: May 17th, 2012 |
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3 | Paperclips & An Office Desk ...after I got into poker I would always play at work which didn't help me out at all since I was working for commission only, but it was the whole idea of becoming better that everyone else at the table that kept me always playing. I didn't really care about the money, all I wanted to do was to figure out how to be the best, how to out play someone, how to mentally mess around with their ... Published: May 16th, 2012 |
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Join Date: May 16th, 2012 |
3 | Point A - The Event That Started It All To introduce myself I would like to share a little bit about where I come from, where I'm at now, and where I am planning and hoping to get to. My name is Javier Bernal and I am 27 years old, I was born and raised in Mexico, Tijuana, I came to the U.S. at 10 years of age. I did all my middle and high school in the U.S. I almost didn't graduate high school in 2003 if it wasn't thanks to an ... Published: May 16th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Mar 12th, 2010 |
127 | Tuesday Grinding I couldn't decide what I wanted to play today but after spending a couple hours in the poker chat and sweating in "1outerme" I decided to play some 100NL. I have been back playing online for a few days now and I have won at 100NL everyday and tournaments are always less consistent. After yesterday with losing in tournaments but winning at 100NL I thought I might spend some time playing 100NL for ... Published: May 15th, 2012 |
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232 | Tim Tebow Told Me To I’ve been getting shelled the past couple of weeks at the table, plain and simple. Since starting back up on the grind this is probably the worst stretch I’ve gone through. Times like these it gets hard to keep your head up and keep going. I know your told when you get into this business that you need to handle the swings and you’re not always going to get the best of it day in and day ... Published: May 15th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Mar 12th, 2010 |
127 | Monday Grind I played 7 tournaments today with no cashes but did make a couple buy-ins at 100NL. I was also able to reconnect with several guys from my old poker chat group when my buddy Tarzan4 invited me into his chat and that was a great reunion. It was cool catching up and grinding along my buddies. Today was a small setback for me after a decent couple days and in a way I think it's helpful. It could be ... Published: May 15th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Nov 3rd, 2007 |
4 | upset so my results are not being updated here, sucks big time!! emailed support, explaination : we don't track .BE , which should mean everybody from belgium isn't getting their scores updated!! guess it is just me and not worth investigating, even sent the tournaments id, 2 cashes in the headsup shootout on stars... both above 75players and prizepool above $500 so tell me why pocketfives, oh why'' Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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127 | Sunday I played another online session yesterday and was able to cash in 2 out of 10 tournaments. I was not able to make a final table but did have two finishes in the top twenty. I also played some .50/1 and was able to pick up a couple buy-ins to break about even on the day. Playing online again is awesome and I didn't realize how much I missed it. It is a lot different now and I am only playing on ... Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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3 | Three-bet, draw five and then overbet ship all in. I told myself I would blog every Tuesday. This is only my third entry but I feel like Tuesday rolls around so quickly so I have decided to blog on a fortnightly basis. As I write this I am sweating Marty play PLO MTTs wihle I wait for day 2 of the low SCOOP event 21. I designed this blog to state what I have studied during the week and what I plan to study, but during the SCOOP my life has ... Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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69 | Take A Step Back: Reflection/Mental Itinerary I need a restraining order against my brain. That guy harasses me like no other. If you do not like how self-indulgent most blogs are you should really not read this one. I love me some me, and I've been thinking a lot about me for the last couple days, and now I will write extensively about me. San Jose rainy season is brutal. Nine months of the year the climate in my suburb is like a warm ... Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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69 | Take A Step Back: Reflection/Mental Itinerary (Part 2) Well, the obvious conclusion you can come to is I've lost my edge. That came to mind a few months ago, but thinking the last couple days – it seems really valid. I've expanded my game in some frontiers with my study, but I've also been a little more complacent. Some regulars have noted I won't go off at any point like I used to, and now they rightfully feel like they can get away with more. I'm ... Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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91 | Players Club (Ventura CA) Log I haven't blogged in a while because I haven't been on the road since Feb. But I am in Oxnard, CA for a couple weeks on business. My primary objective this trip is golf. I brought my clubs and have played a couple rounds. I also found out about the Ventura Player's Club in a local rag and thought it would be a good alternative to driving 1.5 hours to Hollywood Park. It's a small, but fairly nice ... Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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Join Date: Aug 6th, 2007 |
10 | 7 Days Until I Hit the Road (WSOP) In seven days I will be packing up my jeep and making the drive from North Carolina to Las Vegas. If all goes as planned I will arrive just in time to pick up bigdogpckt5s at the airport. We'll head over and move in to our new house for the summer before going back to the airport to pick up aznAllin007 and DannyN13. I suspect we'll be having In N Out Burger for dinner! The grind starts the very ... Published: May 14th, 2012 |
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127 | Meanwhile, I am back! Well, I decided to deposit on Carbon Poker today. I have played on this site before but it was all off of a player transfer and today was my first deposit. Today was also my first full grind session since Black Friday. I entered a couple tournaments this afternoon and bricked out but picked up a buy-in at .50/1. Then I took a break and played some Tiger Woods golf but had poker running through ... Published: May 13th, 2012 |
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1 | 4-tabling and bored... Waddup interwebs... This is basically the first time I've written a blog since I was a teenager... and at the time, I was most likely was full of angst and took myself a bit too seriously so they were likely super frustrating to read or maybe even bit comical (for the wrong reasons)....... I've always wanted to start a blog, but since i'm a chronic and basically lack motivation or ... Published: May 12th, 2012 |
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127 | #TeamVariance101 Got reconnected with the Merge Network / Carbon Poker today and got my grind on! I played two tournaments and a few hours of cash tables. The play was about what I expected and I was able to pick up a buy-in or two. I also re-joined pokerXfactor training site and watched some videos. I am always trying to stay sharp and work on my own poker game, but today I was also using pXf to prepare for some ... Published: May 12th, 2012 |
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127 | 'I played perfect" I am sure you know these people. The ones that after a session or a tournament or liable to try and tell you they just played "Perfect". Uh, um, yea freaking right. Basically the best you could possibly do is play to your max potential or maybe try and reach the limit of your abilities. Not even Tom Dwan or Phil Ivey are capable of playing "Perfect". It is in the moment that they are telling me ... Published: May 11th, 2012 |
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127 | Let's GOOOOOOOO I am so ready for the USA to get crackin on this online poker legalization so some of us can get back to work. I guess we need to be happy that online poker is still legal in most places and that amazing websites like pocketfives is still going strong. Thanks P5's! We have to stay strong as a poker community and when poker is let back in the USA we need to show our love. Long live poker! Published: May 9th, 2012 |
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232 | Protect Your Cards, Because I'm an A**hole So this past week I found myself in an interesting situation. It was the first time in a little while I had encountered something completely new to me at the tables. Therefore I reacted without really considering my options as carefully as I should have. I reflected on what went down later that night and decided that not only did I feel like I handled the situation as best I could, but I was ... Published: May 8th, 2012 |
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3 | Blog Entry: Create Another I received positive feedback from my first blog entry. My favourite poker player (haha) recommended during the week to not just talk poker and keep it entertaining. So I asked, what do you want to read about' "I dunno, talk about your love life." Well, in terms of my love life lets just say I have been a bit card dead, although I did meet a Swedish girl on Saturday night. She wouldn't let me ... Published: May 8th, 2012 |
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6 | Days Before SCOOP Hello again! It's been quite a while since my last post so i thought id catch everyone up on whats been going on in the past few weeks. After a good start to april going deep in so many tournis, i went on a pretty bad swing for a couple weeks, probably loosing around 2-3k. When thing just seemed to keep getting worse i decided it was time to take a break and step away from the game for ... Published: May 1st, 2012 |
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232 | Setting Goals I’ve been trying to set regular goals for myself. Laying out milestones for me to achieve has allowed me to keep focused on the task at hand. Having a laid out track helps greatly. The problem is the nature of poker doesn’t really lend itself to being restricted to a straight and narrow path. There are probably dozens of ways to get to a particular milestone, each one of them valid in its ... Published: May 1st, 2012 |
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3 | Bog Entry: Create New I already have a blog. I started blogging a short time ago with the intention of expressing my thoughts, reflecting on poker concepts I had been learning and concepts I had been studying. Because much of what I wrote was private to me in terms of strategy and personal ramblings, I chose not to publish my blog. Essentially, I was keeping a diary like a 15 year old girl. Recently, I have been ... Published: Apr 30th, 2012 |
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69 | Full Tilt Buyout?!? (Part 2) There were always more lessons I could do, more videos I could watch, more HHs I could study, more videos I could make myself, more to do for myself professionally. There were a ton of things I thought were good ideas that I never did. Maybe playing MTTs on a site other than Stars, getting a bigger monitor, teaching my dog how to jog with me, renting a bigger place that was super secure, getting ... Published: Apr 28th, 2012 |
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69 | Full Tilt Buyout?!? I can't really wrap my mind around it. If Pokerstars purchases Full Tilt, if that truly is in the works...I don't know what I would do. My friend who works for another large poker site told me it was announced at his work place yesterday that the deal was real. I don't even want to think about it. I've been avoiding thinking about the last few days. The money was gone in my head. I had to ... Published: Apr 28th, 2012 |
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69 | Human After All I'm sitting here waiting for a student of mine to show up. He's half an hour late. I was a little annoyed by this until I realized its been a good couple months since this happened. Most of my students are pretty cool. I'm really lucky now too, I seem to have a lesson almost every day. Waking up to fresh coffee and hand history discussions with motivated young professionals is really keeping me ... Published: Apr 23rd, 2012 |
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69 | Triple Crown Jack Welch pointed out this morning that I'd won a triple crown last night when I won the iPoker 30r. I told him no, that all the prizepools had to be over 10k, or there had to be a 100 people, or for some reason I thought I didn't qualify. I hadn't really looked into it, but it had come to mind briefly before and I thought there was some reason I didn't qualify. Then he pointed out all the first ... Published: Apr 21st, 2012 |
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3 | Queen10off's Blog 2: A Few Hands Part 2 I realized that once I got to thinking about some introductory concepts and live poker strategy a few hands came to mind from my last sessions in Biloxi, Mississippi so I decided to turn this into a two parter. In Biloxi I play at the Beau Rivage, and there are truly some of the best games in the country down there. It's worth noting there is no max buy in - so games get really really ... Published: Apr 20th, 2012 |
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3 | Queen10off's Blog 1: Intro & Strategy Hello all - my name is Jay, and I am an about to graduate college senior and poker pro based out of Atlanta. This is my first blog, so first a little about myself. I have been playing poker professionally for about 5 years and have been a regular in many games across a bunch of sites. Early on I was a reg in the high stakes HUSNG's on Full Tilt, later a cash grinder on stars, most notably a MTT ... Published: Apr 20th, 2012 |
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196 | 12th Place/EPT Berlin/Day 3 WPT Hard Rock... I ended up busting in 12th place at WPT Vienna. I made a Cre8ive play where I cold 4bet and 6bet shoved 97cc into a cold 5bettor's pocket Aces. I had logic and reasoning at the time for why I made the play, and listened to my gut, but thinking back on it I really don't like it. After that hand I got my last 8bbs in AA vs AsQx and the board ran out with four spades and I lost. Unfortunate to lose ... Published: Apr 20th, 2012 |
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69 | All My Urges Going to try to blog more regularly, just as a way to keep motivated. I get a lot of positive feedback on pretty much every blog I write, so getting the results out there along with some daily thoughts is nice. It makes me stay competitive too, reporting each score. I've been a stomping a bit lately and I want to keep that up. I don't know if I'll post all these blogs on Pocketfives and Bluff but ... Published: Apr 18th, 2012 |
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232 | Poker: The Stuff Divorces Are Made Of Spending a lot of time in the casino you tend to see the same types of people. There are the guy who’re doing the same thing you are, putting in hours upon hours at the tables. You’ll see the “after work crowd” who like to come to the casino to get drunk during happy hour rather than head to the bar across the street from the office. My personal favorite is the couple. Yes the couple, ... Published: Apr 18th, 2012 |
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69 | Beach Drifting (Part 2) Got back home a few days ago. Scheduled 7 lessons for this week that I'm back, because I feel recharged. On Saturday went to one of my girlfriend's friends wedding. The bride seriously asked me before I attended "do you even own any nice clothes'" Guess I must really dress like crap when I'm in my office. Sunday I had another killer session. Been feeling really good when I played lately. I was ... Published: Apr 17th, 2012 |
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69 | Beach Drifting Hope you guys will like the momentary Jonathan Little takeover we have going on at Pokerheadrush. You can read a ton of great entries from his new book for free on the site. I hope you guys find his writing as entertaining and informative as I found it. Anyways, on with the regular programming... Sorry it's been a little while. The last week in Costa Rica was Holy Week, so nobody worked ... Published: Apr 17th, 2012 |
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1 | Million dollar Challenge Later today i will begin my quest to reach dollar off a $25 deposit.i will be playing only on pockerstars i will post daily reports and hands. you can also follow me on twitter @pokerlife_eric or you can also find me on google+. EE hope for some support and feed back if you like. Thank you and i will post later for the first details Published: Apr 16th, 2012 |
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196 | Day 4 WPT Vienna... I survived another day in the WPT Vienna Main Event. We started Day 3 with 67 players and after 5 levels of play (90 minutes each level) we are now down to the final 21 players. I am currently 5th in chips. Once 18 players remain we will redraw seats and play down to the final table of 6 players. There are a lot of good players left in the tournament and a few I still haven't played with. I will ... Published: Apr 14th, 2012 |
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196 | Day 3 WPT Vienna... I've made Day 3 of the WPT Vienna Main Event. The internet in my hotel is awful and I haven't been able to access updates yet, but ironically blogging is working at the moment haha. Someone told me I am 3rd in chips with 64 players remaining. I finished the day with 395,500. Hopefully the internet is fixed in a short while and I will be able to research my table. I know there are a lot of really ... Published: Apr 13th, 2012 |
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196 | EuroTrip... Hello Internet blogosphere. After months of silence I am back. This seems to be the status quo for me as of late. I continue to tell myself to update the blog with more than just poker ramblings or what’s been going on with me. I have much more interesting thoughts that cross my mind on a daily basis, but I rarely use the blog as an outlet for that. The last few months have been a mixture ... Published: Apr 12th, 2012 |
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232 | Did You Piss Yourself? So karma has a funny way of working sometimes. When I started this blog the original conception was to tell funny stories that happened to me on both the virtual and brick and mortar felt. As I began the ritual typing of my keyboard again last week it seemed like the crazy people started coming out of the woodwork at Foxwoods. Maybe I’m just more used to it but I’m very rarely surprised by ... Published: Apr 9th, 2012 |
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2 | Poker Results + Books + Recent Full Tilt Poker article I haven't bin happy with my results lately, pretty much for the past year i've bin running really terrible. For the last couple months i've bin going over hand histories and taking advice from a lot of MTT regs to work on my game and most of them will agree im really unlucky in situations. I really hope things pick up soon because i'm going through a huge downswing..sigh I started reading ... Published: Apr 9th, 2012 |
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23 | Pre WSOP 2012 * Getting ready for a great summer of Poker * No longer driving a cab * Got Married on 3-6-12 * Got a 2012 BMW 535I M * Will be playing alot of Poker * Will be investing and getting into the real estate sector * Will explore Stocks and other Investments Not really a blog but hey Aloha Published: Apr 9th, 2012 |
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1 | April 6th 2012 2:05pm About to start heading over to Harrahs New Orleans. Either going to win 3 buy-ins, lose 2 or play for 12 hours. I'm focused. I'm ready. Goals: 1. Don't over value pairs. 2. Pay attention while not in the hand. 3. Periodically re-assess if the table I'm at is optimal Published: Apr 6th, 2012 |
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1 | Hand History Review 1 Hey guys! I'm new around here, quick presentation: Arthur, brazilian, 22 years old, live in bangkok, model, grind small stakes mtt's whenever its posible. Have been putting more volume lately, I want to improve and make some real money from poker. I have 52k in winnings and 17k in profit. Here is a Hand History Review made by myself of myself playing (lol) playing a 3+R 25k gtd @ PS ... Published: Apr 6th, 2012 |
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232 | Breaking the Silence Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. There have been a handful of instances over the past few months where I had some thoughts, started writing a blog post, and then after about a paragraph or two would just run out of steam. Without the everyday adventures of online poker I guess I have a little less to talk about. With that said, it’s not like I’ve been loafing around ... Published: Apr 4th, 2012 |
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6 | ZoOm ZO0M ZOOM Hey everyone, I'm a few days behind on writing this entry, so ill try to remember everything thats been going on in the past few weeks. In my last post i talked about going deep in several tournaments, feeling really good about my MTT game, but just missing out on several big final tables! WELLL,, that ended Sunday I made the HOTTER 33 final table where i finished in 7th for approx. ... Published: Apr 4th, 2012 |
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69 | Spew Thinkin' (Part 2) My dream when I got into this was to just make enough to have a place to sleep in Seattle. I hoped to have a girlfriend that I was chill with. I just wanted enough money to pay for my round or to get a pair of jeans I wanted. I just didn't want to grow up to be on food stamps anymore. I didn't want to be known as the broke one among my friends. I never thought I'd live in condos in Seoul or beach ... Published: Mar 27th, 2012 |
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69 | Spew Thinkin' I remember when this game was so simple. I woke up in my dumpy apartment in Seattle, I ran eight miles, then I came home and played tournaments for 12 hours six days a week...and I loved every minute of it. I never played a buy-in over $50.00 but I still ran up a huge roll. When I felt like it there was a whole college town and inner city community college to hang out in. Smoke, check out some ... Published: Mar 27th, 2012 |
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6 | Deep Runs, Late Nights Since my last post I've continued playing mid stake MTT's and SNG's, mostly turbo and the daily Big and Hot tournis on Pokerstars. Ive gone deep in a few things pretty much everyday, and somehow only have one Final Table finish (Barely). In a 25$ hyper turbo after just making the final table i shove AK over a cutoff raise and he calls of with A8 and wins! Like i said, barely a Final Table. ... Published: Mar 20th, 2012 |
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69 | Less Attached Someone sent me a blog I wrote when I was 20. It said if at 24 I was still doing the same thing I would quit poker. Well, I'm a liar. I got the money I thought at the time I would soon deserve. What I didn't realize was holding onto what you make in poker is the whole point of being professional. Until now, I've been a kid who is good at cards, and has traveled the world on that skill. I've ... Published: Mar 17th, 2012 |
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69 | Get Into It This Time (Part Two) I've never gone this hard in poker, studying this much every day, and never drinking or smoking because I want that feeling of complete sober calm. I know other players can drink seemingly every night and still play killer sessions the next day but my body is just so weak when it comes to substances, I get wrung out and tense so easily. I'm feeling so damn on when I get the right amount of sleep, ... Published: Mar 13th, 2012 |
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69 | Get Into It This Time When you look for an escape in this game that's all you end up getting out of it. I haven't blogged in a bit, life's been kind of hectic. I got moved into my new place. I'm pretty happy with it. There's an office, a library, a big living room, two big bedrooms, bigger kitchen then I had before, washer/dryer area, storage closet, and a big garage. Everything is pretty close, so I can actually ... Published: Mar 13th, 2012 |
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6 | So Close to Greatness On every sunday of the week, poker players around the world sit down and play for countless hours in the biggest tournaments online. Today, Pokerstars celebrated a 6th Anniversary Sunday Million, with 6mill gtd in $$$, and 1 million to first place.... THATS ALOT OF MONEY$$$$... 1 million for first, and only a $215 buy in .. prettyyyy crazy i know. So, just like the other thousands of players on ... Published: Mar 11th, 2012 |
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10 | My first trip report I've been back for almost a week and should have done this a long time ago but I'm sloth like. I landed in Reno at 1 p.m. and made it to the Peppermill in time for a 2p.m. $50 tourney. Mentally I wasn't prepared for the structure, blinds went up every 15 minutes and it was kind of equivalent to playing an online super turbo which I hate so instantly I was a bit tilted. Hung pretty much even for ... Published: Mar 8th, 2012 |
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10 | WSOPC Recap I've recovered from my trip to Atlantic City for the World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Casesars. Had an amazing time hanging with the crew up there! Several of us made nice runs and cashes in tournaments, which was great to see. And, of course, it was a blast railing those guys. While I had an amazing time, poker could have been better. I think all of my big hands and bust out spots were ... Published: Mar 7th, 2012 |
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6 | 20k in MTT cashes/Micro Millions So its 1:38 AM and i just finished 3rd in a $5 hyper-turbo on stars for $260, putting me over 20k in MTT cashes on pocketfives in my first year of playing online poker :) Although, my bankroll has been struggling in the past couple of months so hopefully things are turning around and March will be a good month !! My main problem is bankroll management, so i decided to set some table and buy ... Published: Mar 2nd, 2012 |
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69 | Insomniacs Dream Too (Part 2) Sometimes I get back in my old habits of, "I don't care about this man I just want to grind and go home." But I gotta make an effort to drop that. I gotta get into it, surround myself with my craft. I've never cared about other players before. You can't learn anything from that though. You have to watch other HHs. I went from not watching another player's hand history in years to watching ... Published: Feb 29th, 2012 |
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69 | Insomniacs Dream Too -$10K on the weekend or something. Fun. See, drop out of school kids! Poker is fun and easy! I played bad in a few spots, but for the most part I can excuse myself. I just had one of those weekends where I couldn't hit water if I fell out of a boat. Well, except for in my house, where I ran into actual water. As if God wanted to give me a sign that moving from this house was a great idea ... Published: Feb 29th, 2012 |
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10 | WSOPC Atlantic City On March 2nd myself and a bunch of friends (bigdogpckt5s, RonFezBuddy, TTwist, Cougars4444, etc) are heading to Atlantic City to play a couple of World Series of Poker Circuit Events. Should be a fun time, so if you are heading up there towards the beginning of the series, make sure that you say hello. I'm also super busy gearing up for this summer's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We have ... Published: Feb 26th, 2012 |
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10 | Pre-trip trip report, have prepared with Thundermonkey at the local pub Finally I get my first poke her fix since BF and my first real trip that centers around poker. I live in the middle of Idaho in a small resort town and have not had a viable place to play poker in a long time. Sure I've played a little on lock since BF but lock just plain tilts me. I started playing on line in late 2009 and managed to grind $3500 or so including rakeback and bonuses. ... Published: Feb 26th, 2012 |
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1 | Transitioning into my new job at P5s Training Well, it is not a new job per se, but more of a shift in roles at my current gig. Long story short, in addition to my current role at CR/HM I am also now the Brand Manager at PocketFives Poker Training. This all went down a couple weeks ago and I couldn't be happier with the challenge afoot. My main duties are to run social marketing, manage our stable of video producing instructors, schedule ... Published: Feb 26th, 2012 |
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69 | Grind Fortress Secured Felt real good to bang out a solid day of work yesterday. I put in five hours of one-on-one lessons and got a bunch of videos done for Pocketfives Training. I slept maybe four hours of good sleep the night before, but somehow that made me feel sordid energetic the whole day. I think I did some good work. I sure seemed to scream at my students more. In the end, it's just nice to work a day and ... Published: Feb 25th, 2012 |
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69 | delirious/starting I woke up at 5:00 AM today. I don't know why, I just couldn't feel like I could sleep. So I got up and started writing business emails and working on Pocketfives vids. Thursday is typically my day to get business things done, so it'll be nice to have the extra hours. I got a couple lessons and the WCOOP series to finish for Pocketfives Training. I was trying to shoot it and upload live videos for ... Published: Feb 23rd, 2012 |
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69 | All I haven't been playing much lately. I had a pretty meh Saturday where I played a full schedule. Guess it had to happen sometime. I was having two weeks there where every day my backers and I had to keep redoing chop reports, because I kept just running amazing. Now, I strung together two losing sessions, about time. Sunday I didn't even play. My girlfriend had a performance she'd been working ... Published: Feb 22nd, 2012 |
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10 | WBCOOP: Linsanity Poker & $5000 What do "Linsanity", poker and $5000 have to do with each other' That's a good question, but before I answer that let's give a brief recap for those who have been living under a rock recently and missed out on "Super Lintendo". 588492 Jeremy Lin the unheralded Asian-American point guard sensation for the New York Knicks has become the feel good story, not only of the NBA but of the whole ... Published: Feb 20th, 2012 |
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1 | 'Meh' - Frank's Poker Pro Endeavors "The American Dream is getting up in the morning and doing what you love every minute of every day and making alot of money so you have the freedom to make those choices, to me, that is the American Dream." - Phil Hellmuth Now I'm not exactly a huge Hellmuth fan but he nailed this one. This quote was the opening line from a poker documentary my college roommate found called "No Limit". I love ... Published: Feb 19th, 2012 |
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1 | Marriage and Poker Being in the farthest corner of the world doesn't help when it comes to poker, in that I mean the timezone is not naturally positive to a good marriage. I like to play in the evenings and the australian leaderboard has tourneys which start at 6pm thru to 11pm - the time when us married blokes are supposed to sit down with the missus on the couch and have a cuddle after a hard days work. So ... Published: Feb 19th, 2012 |
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69 | Matter. Anti. Matter (Part 2) The last 20 sessions or so I've played, I think 60-70% of them have been profitable. Of course, I'm running well, but I can fine tune my game really well with huge HEM databases. I can fold A-Jo to a cutoff open with 17x and I know when to shove 7-4 suited for 26 BBs. I've done the math, I have 1k hands on you, it's done. Live....uhhhhh, well hell, I've played fifty hands with you, I think you're ... Published: Feb 18th, 2012 |
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69 | Matter. Anti. Matter I don't think I want to leave here. Common sense is telling me that it's time, but there's nothing more chill in Costa Rica then walking down the mountain streets. The air is cold enough to remind me of Seattle. Below my street, the lights of San Jose spread out in every direction, everywhere you can look. It's nice here, it's relaxed. People wave to me when I go for my jog. The dirt roads are ... Published: Feb 18th, 2012 |
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6 | WBCOOP So the WBCOOP is coming, most of my other posts have been in open discussion sections where i've talked about downswings, 180man sngs, and other topics. If i won the $5000 i would use some money to take a trip down south, and the rest i would use for poker :) With the SCOOP coming up in a few months its always good to have some extra cash for all the great tournaments running on Pokerstars. ... Published: Feb 16th, 2012 |
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232 | So Apparently Im a Woman Its been a while since Ive had a really funny story coming from the casino floor. I actually started this blog off with a couple of stories; one of them being how there was a gentleman who literally lost his pants at the table. He got up and suddenly had nothing on but his tighty whities down below. This time around things were a bit less graphic, and I was actually the center of most of the ... Published: Feb 16th, 2012 |
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1 | What I would do if I won $5000 WCBOOP best blogger prize First of all I would do a backflip! Then I would use the $5000 to fund a proper bankroll and start playing poker properly, no more buying $35 VISA's for $41 at 711 and buying in 2-3 times a month. No, that would give me the bankroll to keep my money on there, play proper tournaments and start my career as an online poker player. Finally would have the bankroll to absorb the downswings and could ... Published: Feb 15th, 2012 |
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10 | Healthy Poker - Getting In shape for the WSOP Hey Guys, I have posted a few Blogs under my user name TheSplash18. I am starting a new blog, the focus of the blog will be on my work with a variety of professionals and specialist advisors to get me in mental and physical shape to make a serious run at this years WSOP in Vegas...basically I will be trying to practice what we preach. Hopefully the content here will be of interest and help to the ... Published: Feb 14th, 2012 |
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1 | Just my story I could not decide where i should start my blog. 2plus2 is full of trolls and i hadn't registered on pocketfives yet. So i decided to give it a go. I'm not really someone who posts on forums, let alone discussing hands for pages on end. I rather read a pokerbook and play my own game. Anyway, i wanted to introduce myself but i'll just keep it a little anonymous for now. There is no one on this ... Published: Feb 12th, 2012 |
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91 | San Diego Poker Log (Part II) 8 FEB: Viejas Casino, Alpine, CA. $30 Buy-In I won't get into too much detail. I was fairly active, but not dragging in pots. By the time I move tables, I was down from my starting stack of 5000 chips to a half of that amount. Blinds were already up to 400/800. I called an All-In with AJ and had a 3rd caller. First shover had A2 and third shover had AK. The dude to the left of me (who folded) ... Published: Feb 12th, 2012 |
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69 | eAger 4 The Blade :D There's two programmed languages in my head. First one I call affectionately "incapable loser." I hate this guy. I would like to write a long list of everyone who helped contribute to this voice in my head, but that seems boring and whiny. I've tried for years to bury this person I can be. It seems lame to obsess over what creates the negative mindset. When things go wrong, I often blame ... Published: Feb 9th, 2012 |
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91 | San Diego Poker Log 7 FEB: Viejas Casino, Alpine, CA. $20 Buy-In with $10 RB/AO. It's rainy season in Paradise. The weather must have scared off people as only 30 players show up. Starting Stack is 4000 chips with my Re-Buy. I am at a short table with 5 players. I elect to lively it up with a lot of first-in vigorish type steal attempts with relative junk like Q3, K5, and J4s. It doesn't pan out too well as I get ... Published: Feb 8th, 2012 |
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4 | Change of Direction This weekend changed some things for me. I decided to load a small amount onto Intertops (Cake) and Carbon (Merge) and give it a run.I was mildly successful,playing in a few Guarantee tournaments, final tabling 4 times, winning one. But I am way more a cash game player, so I decided to go a different direction. So as of now what I'm gonna do is build a bankroll by playing micro stakes. I plan to ... Published: Feb 8th, 2012 |
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69 | $25k Sunday Wow, that was a trip. I felt really slow on Sunday. I don't know why but I just hit a wall. I didn't sleep well or something. I was getting more frustrated with myself by the minute. I couldn't...put my thoughts together. My feel was just off. My girlfriend saw me getting pissed and said "stop registering" so I did. I unregged everything for the last four hours of my session, except the high ... Published: Feb 7th, 2012 |
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232 | The JV Circuit The poker world as it turns out is a very big place. Most of us got interested in this industry from one of a few tent poles. We saw Chris Moneymaker win the WSOP ME on a $40 online qualifier or we watched Rounders and got very interested in the prospect of playing cards for a living. Whatever the case may be, the poker world has a lot more going on in it than people think of at first glance. ... Published: Feb 6th, 2012 |
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69 | I'll Be The Tin Foil In Your Microwave I took a refrigerator box out of my storage and put it in front of the windows in my office. Normally I liked the view of the nature but lately the sun has been shining right in my eyes. I don't know if my neighbor cut down a tree or what, but it was driving me insane. My office looks more like a geek hang out now but it seemed to be conducive to productive play. I took Monday off because I ... Published: Feb 2nd, 2012 |
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4 | Day One As I said in my previous post, it's gonna be a daunting task trying to build a $100 bankroll purely from freeroll cashes. For Day One I cleared $1.50. I played in 5 tournaments and here are the results: Bet On Line $50 Freeroll 6/1352 = $1.50 Bust Out w/ Kd6d all in pre-flop on the button short stacked whiff on board Bet On Line $10 Turbo FR 510/861 = 0 Bust Out w/ AcJh Called all in on ... Published: Feb 2nd, 2012 |
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4 | Starting From Scratch A couple of years ago Chris Ferguson ran an experiment that was based on the idea that you could start off playing freerolls to build a bankroll. He's a fantastic player and rolled up a substantial bankroll that way. Since this is my first foray back to the online scene since Black Friday I intend to conduct a similar experiment. My goal is to build a bankroll to $100 simply by cashing in ... Published: Feb 1st, 2012 |
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4 | Playin' in da Quarter and Beyond I've been playing live cash games and tournaments for the last 15 years and of course like most it has serious ups and downs. I love it and it is a huge part of me. I just moved from the French Quarter of New Orleans to the Denver, CO area and as usual I find it crazy how much the way the game is played changes so much from region to region. I went from playing every night @ Harrah's New Orleans ... Published: Jan 31st, 2012 |
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2 | How Positivity Can Elevate Your MTT Game (Part 1) Tournament poker is demoralizing. Countless times we play great poker for hours, even days, only to have it blow up in our face over the course of a few hands. It gets to a point where we wonder if there is some type of hex over our cards, or maybe the site were playing on is rigged. The consistent misfortunes deep in tournaments often weighs heavily on our attitude and makes us expect bad ... Published: Jan 31st, 2012 |
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69 | Harvesting Normally my life is pretty sweet but lately I feel like things have been really clicking. I'm going on $100,000 in cashes for this year so far. I don't have much of that money because of what a crap year last year was, and the hundreds of thousands I lost on Black Friday, and live makeup, and other fun things...but I got enough money to take care of my responsibilities and also be secure. I ... Published: Jan 31st, 2012 |
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6 | Poker Life is Very Lonely I've been feeling pretty disconnected from the "real world". I find it hard to make good friends. I've been finding it hard to relate to non-poker players and even some poker players I can't really relate to. I'm not really the type of person that likes to spew in clubs and show off. I'm a pretty boring, nerdy type of person. I love Starcraft 2 and DotA 2 I'm not going to lie...Maybe, my problem ... Published: Jan 30th, 2012 |
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91 | Scottsdale Live Tournament Quicklook After my recent score, I played two more tournaments. I'll just present some key highlights here: Date: 24 JAN, 2012 Casino: Fort McDowell, Fountain Hills, Az Tournament structure: $5 Buy-in for 2,000 chips, $5 rebuys and $20 Add-on for 20,000 chips. (75 Entrants) Summary: The first thing I want to discuss is my tournament selection. Though fully aware that you "get what you pay for" when you ... Published: Jan 30th, 2012 |
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