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      <title><![CDATA[Better late than never.. Blog updated!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I have a lot to share in this update!

First my Bankroll (mis)management story…

I withdrew too much from my bankroll ($2400) for Christmas, leaving my bankroll short. I wasn’t worried because I only had 2 negative days last month. Naturally I didn’t have a single negative day after leaving myself with a short bankroll…

I had five negative days out of the next six, including my worse negative day ever.

I also kept trying to play at $200NL and $400NLrecover even though I didn’t have near enough money left to cover a swing.

All of that crashed my $2,000+ bankroll down to a low of $250!! (I normally play with about $4000 online)

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

That wasn’t a swing that killed me, it was stupidity!!

I know better than to do that, but still did it…. 

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

After that I finally smartened back up (better late than never) and moved all the way down to the $25NL game that was all I had the bankroll for. 

It was time to rebuild.

I then had ANOTHER negative day as I re-learned how to play lower limits again. After that, I was back in business. I turned my bankroll around and started the process of rebuilding. I figured that it would take me about 2 weeks to get back to my 2k bankroll.

I’ve more than doubled what was left of my bankroll, and I now have enough for $50NL...

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That’s when something really cool happened!

But first a little background…

I have always stunk at SnG’s.

I just couldn’t make a profit in them, and with everyone saying how profitable they were I really wanted to learn to play them better. So about a month ago I placed $100 into PokerStars just to learn to play SnG’s and MTT’s better. I didn’t think of this money as a bankroll, I thought of it as paying to learn to play better in SnG’s and MTT’s. 

Because it wasn’t a bankroll, I would be happy with it whatever happened as long as I learned enough.

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      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/Laeelin/236/Better-late-than-never-Blog-updated</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bankroll History... It's working so far... :)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One image is worth a thousand words, so, here it is...
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<img src="http://www.laeelin.com/images/11-05_Bankroll.jpg">
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As you can see, I was really short on hours last month, but thats how it goes sometimes.
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      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/Laeelin/92/Bankroll-History-Its-working-so-far</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[A fun hand from tonight...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hand #131993468  at table: Table TH 1218
Started: Fri Nov 11 23:35:57 2005

The Dode is at seat 1 with 267.77
firsttimer is at seat 2 with 131.85
Renato2004 is at seat 3 with 120.00
jeppecool is at seat 4 with 113.35
Sleepy Eye is at seat 5 with 101.05
todder is at seat 6 with 206.85
FatAnthony is at seat 7 with 94.00
Laeelin is at seat 8 with 226.80
broadacre is at seat 9 with 85.00
cltngrundy is at seat 10 with 92.00

Laeelin posts the large blind 2.00

Laeelin: 9d, 10d
broadacre: --, --
cltngrundy: --, --
The Dode: --, --
firsttimer: --, --
Renato2004: --, --
jeppecool: --, --
Sleepy Eye: --, --
todder: --, --

Pre-flop:

broadacre: Call 2.00
cltngrundy: Fold
The Dode: Call 2.00
firsttimer: Fold
Renato2004: Fold
jeppecool: Raise  6.00
Sleepy Eye: Fold
todder: Fold
Laeelin: Call 6.00  <span style="font-style: italic"><strong>Hmm, might get lucky</strong></span>
broadacre: Call 6.00
The Dode: Call 6.00

Flop (Board: 6d, 5h, 8s):

Laeelin: Check 
broadacre: Check
The Dode: Check
jeppecool: Check

Turn (Board: 6d, 5h, 8s, 3h):

Laeelin: Check
broadacre: Check
The Dode: Bet  8.00 <span style="font-style: italic"><strong>Hmm, is that a draw I smell??</strong></span>
jeppecool: Fold
Laeelin: Call 8.00  <span style="font-style: italic"><strong>If it's the straight draw I can take his stack if it hits, and take the pot if it misses, thats +++EV</strong></span>
broadacre: Fold

River (Board: 6d, 5h, 8s, 3h, 7c): <span style="font-style: italic"><strong>YES YES YES</strong></span>

Laeelin: Bet  32.00
The Dode: Raise  64.00 <span style="font-style: italic"><strong>Yahoo!! he had the straight, i'm taking a stack!!!</strong></span>
Laeelin: All in 
The Dode: Call 214.80<span style="font-style: italic"><strong>Thank you</strong></span>

Showdown:

Laeelin shows: 9d, 10d (straight to the Ten)

Mainpot:
 Laeelin wins the pot of 466.60 with straight to the Ten

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      <title><![CDATA[Ahh, the joys of living away from the city..]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Internet Options: <br>
<table>
<tr><td>Dialup</td><td>Disconnect Problems, Slow</td></tr>
<tr><td>DSL </td><td>Live to far from the local C/O.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cable</td><td>No Cable Provider.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Celluar</td><td> Laggy, DIsconnect Problems.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Satalite </td><td>Laggy, Disconnect Problems.</td></tr>
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As far as I know, this leaves only one (very painful) option... (anyone know of anything else that might be available at a better price? )<br>
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      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/Laeelin/54/Ahh-the-joys-of-living-away-from-the-city</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Me and my history...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I guess I should give some information about me, and my poker history so at least people can know where my posts are coming from <img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />
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      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/Laeelin/45/Me-and-my-history</link>
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