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  <title><![CDATA[ok, the real reason I'm updating my blog...]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-12-11T19:22:30+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[....is this.

It is on the subject of improving your game.  

I expect to get some negative feedback because of this, but whatever.  If you choose to berate me because of this post, make sure it's because you don't agree with the PRINCIPLE of what this guy is saying, NOT because it is written with a huge degree of hostility and NOT because you want to be politically correct, and that some people are largely incapable of objectively looking at controversial issues.

I did not write this.  I do not agree with everything written.  I do not think it applies to 'newbies' of the game that don't really know the basics or what to think about/look at when analyzing a hand.  I DO agree with the general principle when referring to advanced or even semi-advanced poker players.

link: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=8373677&amp;an=0&amp;page=0&amp;vc=1

post: 
[quote]Ok, I have a question; most the people that post on this particular forum looking for feedback are pretty intelligent. More intelligent than most the people that respond to their posts? Definitely. I don't understand WHY you people post. It's retarded. LOL HOW DO I PLAY A SET OR TPTK OR 2 PAIR IN THIS SITAUTON. What, you can beat f4cking 10/20nl+ but you can't work this [censored] out on your own? What, someone knows your own table image / the flow of the game better than you do? You people are f4cking retarded, you're sitting here waiting for some illsuive panacea that never comes, you're waiitng, refreshing the HS forum, waiting for some new SECRET PANACEA TO GIVE YOU THE NEW SECRETES TO BEAT THE NEXT LEVEL OF POKER. GUESS WHAT RET4RD. The only way you're going to get better is by analysing the hand yourself within the context of your game style. YAY CTS NEVER FOLDS A SET. YAY SAMO DOES. WHO. GIVES. A F4CK. You're smart enough to work this [censored] out on your own people. And your answer will be better than other peoples.

The ONLY reason I can see for a HSNL forum at all is a) bragg ..]]>
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  <title><![CDATA[variance is awesome]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-12-11T19:09:50+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[Updated December Graph:

<img src="http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7527/december11ax7.jpg" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />
Most of the more recent stuff is at 5/10.  Up 5k today.  holla]]>
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  <title><![CDATA[December graph]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-12-04T03:32:24+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[<span style="font-style: italic">This is my December
This is my time of the year
This is my December
This is all so clear
This is my December
This is my snow covered home
This is my December
This is me alone</span>

(I just so happened to be listening to linkin park when I made this post and felt that it went well with this.)

I don't care what anybody says, this is impressive, especially for a player who's main game is 2/4.  Feel free to say how awesome this is in the randomness thread (community), Lukie's guarantee (shorthanded NL), or my blog discussion thread (blog thread).  

<img src="http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8149/decemberox5.jpg" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />]]>
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  <title><![CDATA[mwahahahahaha]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-11-20T22:34:34+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[/brag

<a href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&amp;Board=mlplnl&amp;Number=8124618&amp;Searchpage=1&amp;Main=7879352&amp;Words=lukieplaya&amp;topic=&amp;Search=true#Post8124618">http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&amp;Board=mlplnl&amp;Number=8124618&amp;Searchpage=1&amp;Main=7879352&amp;Words=lukieplaya&amp;topic=&amp;Search=true#Post8124618</a>

/endbrag

I've been playing an incredible amount of hands lately.  I am fairly confident that I have the entire theory of poker figured out (and I'm not referring to the book that I have never read).  I may start posting these in my blog or possibly in the forums or my commune thread.  Of course I will give hands as examples and such if I actually do make a real effort to start up my blog again.

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  <title><![CDATA[Back by popular demand!]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-11-08T00:47:37+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[It is amazing how many people have told me that I need to start writing in my blog again.  Whether it be the poker content that can't be beat, the sarcastic/brutal writing style that I have, or my documented successes and demises, it seems like people enjoy it.  

As such, I felt that I would make a post in it, or something like that.  First topic:  AK is not the new AA!!!

To be clear, there are times when putting a 4th raise all-in with AK is a great play.  An example of such would be at 100bb eff stacks when a very agressive opponent opens on the button, and you repop him from the BB with AK, which you have been doing for a wide range.  Button puts in a healty 4-bet, which he has done a couple times now.  Push your AK and be happy about it.

Now, make it 150bb deep, where UTG opens (even in a 5-handed game), where the guy has folded to all of your 3-bets thus far, and it becomes a HUGE spew play, nothing less.  Expect to see KK/AA here a ton.  

Don't be that guy.  If you want to be 'that' guy, practice spiking aces on the flop.  Getting them on the turn or river gets you bonus points.  

PokerStars Game #6938122997:  Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2006/11/08 - 00:29:23 (ET)
Table 'Tatjana' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: tops10 ($576.80 in chips) 
Seat 2: travnikstari ($640.65 in chips) 
Seat 3: Lukieplaya ($679.70 in chips) 
Seat 4: harrry k ($518.35 in chips) 
Seat 6: strazin ($356 in chips) 
harrry k: posts small blind $2
strazin: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Lukieplaya [Ac Kd]
tops10: raises $9 to $13
travnikstari: folds 
Lukieplaya: raises $32 to $45
harrry k: folds 
strazin: folds 
tops10: raises $110 to $155
Lukieplaya: raises $524.70 to $679.70 and is all-in
tops10: calls $421.80 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [4h Jh 8c]
travnikstari said, &quot;i need you tops&quot;
*** TURN *** [4h Jh 8c] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [4h Jh 8c 3h] [Qc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
tops10: shows [Kc Kh] (a pair of Kings)
Lukieplaya: mucks hand 
tops10 ..]]>
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  <title><![CDATA[holla]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-06-26T01:21:55+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[So I've kinda gotten back in the groove the last 2 days of playing.  Hadn't really played any online poker in about a week and half before.  I played some 1/2, won some money, lost some money, yadayadayada, and when all was said and done, I felt like I was playing well and was up a little bit of money.  

Then I told myself, self, you can't be playing 1/2 for the rest of your life.  You need to make it in the big time.  Now I know 2/4 isn't the big time, but it's a start, so I played some of that.  +3 buyins or so then I decided that after a few thousand hands for the day I should quit now before I lost my concentration.  So tomorrow I'm gonna be back there.  I'm also going to start up a party account very soon and perhaps start playing over there on a part-time basis.  I'll probably start at NL50 or NL100 or so and get used to the site and hopefully within a day or so I'll feel comfortable playing 2/4.

Also I'm going to make a Winstar trip report, which should have some poker content (we played all day for 3 days straight basically).  

Tomorrow, 2/4's going dowwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn...]]>
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  <title><![CDATA[simply depressing]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-06-14T03:01:55+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[Tonight probably wasn't the smartest time to move up to 2/4 again.  I was kinda tired from the day and I started late.  Plus I always start my sessions off bad.  Ugh, dropped almost 3 buyins in total and I'm down to about 12.8k from about 14.1.  And I only played 1400 hands.  

Also, I'm starting to hate pokertracker.  This goddamn program constantly freezes when I try to open my NL ring stats.  Like I wasn't already frustrated enough, jesus christ.  Anybody have this problem?  What about pokeroffice?  

Anyway, I hate this program.  I want to show some HH's but this bitch has frozen on me about 20 straight times (no sarcasm), so I give up.  ]]>
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<entry>
  <title><![CDATA[this game is discusting]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-06-13T03:56:45+00:00</issued>
  <modified>2006-12-11T19:22:30+00:00</modified>
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  <![CDATA[variance, donk plays, bad beats, tilt, cold decks, endless frustration, and for some reason i keep coming back. 

I'm not sure which was more swingy tonight, my bankroll, or my quality of play.  Regardless, I finished off stron.......... errr scratch that, I was finishing strong, then I dropped a couple stacks on simaltaneous hands on different tables.  Yeah, full stacks.  

Anyway, in a day where in my first session I went something like from 14.3k, down to the high 13's, up to the low 15's, and down to about 14.6k.  then this session, again, back down to the 13's, then back to around 14.7k or so.  And I'm back down to a bit under 14.1k.  

Anyway, I knocked off 2400 hands this session, and I end the day down a few hundred bucks.  Which is unfortunate because I left so much money on the table and spewed MANY buyins away being an over-aggro donkey, trust me.  soo many hands to show, maybe later though.  ]]>
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<entry>
  <title><![CDATA[what a load of crap]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-06-12T17:22:42+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[I started this session up about a grand, then I lost about $800 of that (and surprisingly quick).  So I'm chillin at almost 14.6k in my stars account.  

Final table of the $109 I played today paid, so obviously I felt Q5s was a good enough hand to bubble (10th) with.  I'm such a donkey.  

I'd love to post some hands, but frankly, I'm pissed, tired, agitated, etc., so maybe later.  I think I'm going to take tonight off from poker. 

I played 5440 minus however many hands I played last night (I never closed my stars client).  So I think that's about 2000 hands or so if I remember correctly.  ]]>
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  <title><![CDATA[Making money is fun.]]></title>
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  <issued>2006-06-12T10:45:49+00:00</issued>
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  <![CDATA[THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED LAST NIGHT AT AROUND 3:30 AM OR SO.  APPARANTLY I DID NOT USE THE 'POST' FEATURE, SO IT'S BEING POSTED NOW, ABOUT 8 HOURS LATER THEN IT SHOULD HAVE.  THAT IS ALL.  



Just got done playing another 3350 hands of poker.  Now before any of ya'll start bitching about how I need to go outside, I did the following today:

-slept in
-trolled around FTR for a bit and did other random stuff like made food, talked to people, etc
-worked out
-went to my mom's for dinner and took my niece for a walk.  And there was this fine girl outside by her pool/sidewalk with what appeared to be her little sis or whatever, and they came over and talked to me.  Shoulda got the number, but she mighta been too young.  I'm gonna guess 18 which would be fine, but I'm known to overshoot just a tad so I played it on the safe side.
-got some sushi at the awesome japanese place
-played poker (lot of shorthanded/heads up, probably played 5-6 hours).  
-umm now I&quot;m making food and I'm gonna watch a rerun of the dallas v miami game (don't know anything about the game yet, and if I go on FTR and read the results somewhere I might throw a fit).  

Also, got my BR back up to around 14.3k.  In other words, I'm tearing 1/2 apart.  Eventually I'm going to start mixing 1/2 and 2/4 tables, I think.  But seriously, when you take your bankroll from 16.5k to under 9k in a matter of a week or so, you tend to be hesitant about these things.  Such is the case for me.  


Time for a few hands...

Ok this hand needs some 'splainin.  This table was getting wild.  Chicago Al was just straight up pwning people, but the game was playing really loose and donkish.  Getting stacked with an overpair at 150bb deep, especially against someone that limp/calls, check/raises, and pushes the turn generally sucks very hard, but I thought it was +EV at the time.  Meh, set, whatever.  F him.  

BTW my pokertracker stats on this guy:

229 hands, 33/13, +$1852 which equals a +202ptb ..]]>
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