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      <description><![CDATA[So yeah, I was going to rant about how I lost about 3.5 buyins yesterday and so would've been better off playing in the wcoop, but f it, online poker is gone, end life.

gg all, it's been fun.]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/793/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[WCOOP beat - I'm a dropnuts D:]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So, due to schoolwork and a stupid social bball tourny (that we won), I haven't been able to play any of the WCOOP events. This sucks because the only events left are the bigger buyin ones: $530 plol, $5200 horse, $1050 lhe, and the $2600 main event. 

I registered for the plo event yesterday, but now, 7 hours before it starts, I dropped my nuts and unregistered. In the end I couldn't justify spending half a grand on a buyin in a game that I'm only above average at.

I think the only reason I signed up for it in the first place is that it was in the right price range. I was set to play the 215 lhe and horse events last weekend, but that stupid bball tourny got in the way.

Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to grind and if I win $500 or more I'm going to deposit and play in the 1k lhe event. And win. Obv.]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/787/WCOOP-beat--Im-a-dropnuts-D</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[nl is ez]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1764/nlqw3.jpg" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/774/nl-is-ez</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[conversion]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I was planning to move up to 10/20 at the end of this month, but after reading a bit on 2p2 and talkign to others, the games above 5/10 are really drying up (even shorthanded).

So I'm changing to nl. Hopefully this won't be too much of a trainwreck.

I've played 3 days of 200nl 6max so far, and played ~5k hands with a +ve winrate. If I could stop paying off when I know I'm beat I'd be set. 

glglglgl me]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/770/conversion</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[On running good/bad]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[My theory is that you should play a greater range of hands when running well, and tighten up when runing badly.

I'm going to publish a book and set up a website based on this rule, and spam every poker site I can with it.

Thoughts? (on the theory)]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/735/On-running-goodbad</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Updates]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So yeah I haven't been updating this lately because my poker life has been pretty boring.

Lately my computer has been too slow to play my normal games on party (while running about 100 other applications), so I've been playing some small stakes plo while I've been waiting for a lazy mfer to order and deliver some new RAM.

THis is pretty much the only tough decision I've had over 3 days of pwnage:

Poker Stars
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
8 players
<a href="http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter">Converter</a>

<strong>Stack sizes:</strong>
UTG: $72.70
UTG+1: $32.25
MP1: $48.85
MP2: $19.45
CO: $40.65
Button: $80
Hero:  $135.55
BB: $63.15

<strong>Pre-flop:</strong> (8 players]) Hero is SB with T<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_diamond.gif" alt=":diamond:" /> K<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_diamond.gif" alt=":diamond:" /> 6<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> A<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> 
2 folds[/i], MP1 calls, <span style="font-style: italic">3 folds</span>, <span style="color: #cc0000">Hero raises to $1.75</span>, BB folds, MP1 calls.

<strong>Flop:</strong> J<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_diamond.gif" alt=":diamond:" /> 3<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_heart.gif" alt=":heart:" /> Q<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> ([]$4, 2 players[/i])
<span style="color: #cc0000">Hero bets $4</span>, MP1 calls.

<strong>Turn:</strong> K<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> ($12, 2 players[/i])
<span style="color: #cc0000">Hero bets $11</span>, MP1 calls.

<strong>River:</strong> Q<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_spade.gif" alt=":spade:" /> ([$34, 2 players[/i])
<span style="color: #cc0000">Hero bets $30</span>, <span style="color: #cc0000">MP1 raises all-in $31.85</span>, Hero calls.

<strong>Results:</strong>
Final pot: $97.7


I hated every river decision I had, so I just ended up potting it.

_______


In other news, I lost HU in my live mtt today, which sucked since I thought I dominated him HU.

I got him ai twice when I had a pretty huge edge, once with 4<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> 6<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> on a 469<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" />A<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> board when he had Q6 (river A), and when I had A<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" />9<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" /> on a 8<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" />T<img src="http://blog.flopturnriver.com/smilies/icon_club.gif" alt=":club:" />Jo board when he had QT (turn A, river 9).

So yeah, first would have been less than my normal hourly, but I still haven't closed one of these out yet. 0/4 sucks when you're the best player there.]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/725/Updates</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Day 2]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today was much much harder. Between 6-10 am I was ridiculously tired towards the end of my 4 hour waking period.

I was groggy for much of today. You know the feeling you have when you just wake up - you're disorientated and feel a little weighed down - that was me for a lot of the time today. Mostly because I [b[was[/b] just waking up most of the time.

Because of this my day was pretty boring. I didn't risk playing poker with the way I was feeling - today there would have been 3 ways to lose a pot: folding, losing to a better hand, and falling asleep at the computer.

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      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/691/Day-2</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[PSE - day 1]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's 5am now. This feels so wierd.

The first day of PSE was pretty uneventful, as you'd expect. I only fell asleep once or twice during my power sleeps. 

Day 2 is supposed to be a killer, from what I've read about others' experiences on PSE.

Pokerwise, I managed to play about 1.5k hands at 3/6 (breaking even) and I just played almost 2k hands 8 tabling 1/2 at Stars to start on the bonus.

Quite a few people have asked me why I'm doing it. One reason is that I'm not getting enough done during the day, and increasing the number of hours that I'm awake seems like a logical way to increase my output without compromising my laziness/leisure activities.

Another reason is that it should be easier to manage my day through 4 hour time periods, rather than a whole day. I'm about the world's biggest procrastinator (Hamlet has nothing on me) and I think I can cut down on my time spent effectively doing nothing this way.]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/689/PSE--day-1</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[bleh]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just lost the biggest pot I've ever lost, in terms of BB's

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (5 handed) <a href="http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php">Hand History Converter Tool</a> from <a href="http://www.flopturnriver.com">FlopTurnRiver.com</a> (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

<strong>Preflop:</strong> Hero is BB with T<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />, T<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/diamond.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />.    
<span style="color: #CC3333">UTG raises</span>, MP calls, Button calls, SB calls, <span style="color: #CC3333">Hero 3-bets</span>, UTG calls, MP calls, Button calls, SB calls.

<strong>Flop:</strong> (15 SB) 8<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/heart.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />, T<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" />, 3<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" /> <span style="color: #0000FF">(5 players)</span>
<span style="color: #CC3333">SB bets</span>, Hero calls, <span style="color: #CC3333">UTG raises</span>, MP folds, Button calls, <span style="color: #CC3333">SB 3-bets</span>, <span style="color: #CC3333">Hero caps</span>, UTG calls, Button calls, SB calls.

<strong>Turn:</strong> (15.50 BB) 9<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/diamond.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" /> <span style="color: #0000FF">(4 players)</span>
<span style="color: #CC3333">SB bets</span>, <span style="color: #CC3333">Hero raises</span>, UTG calls, Button folds, <span style="color: #CC3333">SB 3-bets</span>, <span style="color: #CC3333">Hero caps</span>, UTG calls, SB calls.

<strong>River:</strong> (27.50 BB) Q<img src="http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif" alt="Image" class="bbcode_img" /> <span style="color: #0000FF">(3 players)</span>
<span style="color: #CC3333">SB bets</span>, Hero calls, <span style="color: #CC3333">UTG raises</span>, <span style="color: #CC3333">SB 3-bets</span>, Hero folds, <span style="color: #CC3333">UTG caps</span>, SB calls.

<strong>Final Pot:</strong> 38.50 BB


They both had flushes. I didn't tilt after this, I was more dazed about the size of the pot that had just slipped though. It's hands like this that have kept me at breakeven for the last 4k or so hands. I'm not worried. Hands will begin to ho ..]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/687/bleh</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Polyphasic Sleep]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In 2 days time (Tuesday the 20th) I will begin experimenting with Polyphasic Sleep.

Basically this means that, instead of sleeping for 8-12 hours over the night, I'll be sleeping around 3-4 hours. To do this, I'll sleep for 20-30 minute intervals every 4 hours. This is also knows as the Uberman sleep schedule

I'm doing this mainly to get more out of each day, and also to try something new. I'm all for trying things that not many have done before.

If you want to read some articles/blogs on Polyphonic sleep, look at these:

o<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep">Wikipedia Entry</a>
o<a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/information-list-of-polyphasic-sleep.html">Article</a>
o<a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/">Blog on PS</a>

I'll be blogging about how I perform in everyday life during this sleep schedule as often as I can.

gl for my exams tomorrow.]]></description>
      <link>http://blog.flopturnriver.com/post/midas06/683/Polyphasic-Sleep</link>
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