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January 2010 Blog Posts (44)

Revising prior blog post -- OFFICIALLY and COMPLETELY done.

I took a few weeks off, read some books and strategy, reviewed my hands (and found I rarely made a 'wrong' decision)...

Well, tonight, my last $25 that I could put to poker, the same $25 that's been sitting in my PokerStars account, got lost on an all-in I hit by mistake.

Since I work a very crappy job, had to scrape for the $50 I put in, and won't be able to bankroll something I'm consistently losing at...

I'm done.

Best of luck to all of you, I… Continue

Added by Vodka on January 31, 2010 at 12:55pm — 6 Comments

Friendly Poker Invading any pokerstars game near you!

So I've decided to try out NL 5 Card Draw so I entered Newtowns NL 5 Card Draw freeroll Tourney.

I came 131 out of 6000 :D

I lost to a royal flush against triple 7s and double 6.

Oh and here's a screenshot below of me advertising friendly poker.net

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7950/pwningituponnl5carddraw.jpg

Added by kungfuanthrax on January 30, 2010 at 3:00am — 3 Comments

Help with Micros level 25nl to 100nl, simple accurate post

One of our own showed us this great post, and I thought it'd be great to pass it on, it should be viewed as intermediate, the "next step" after 2nl and 5nl and the videos Chiren80 is making you now :)

I'll continue to answer questions here, and bring info to FriendlyPoker.net to help everyone here.

Added by Wookie on January 29, 2010 at 9:20am — 1 Comment

Donk to ..well hopefully less of a Donk :)

Roar @ me is getting there on PS.

Added by Andy Jordan on January 28, 2010 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

TheWookieWay / ZomBParadox update on my blog

I'll make a bunch of blog posts here on a variety of intermediate to advanced topics relating to Poker. But for now, here is a link to my blog and the latest update on the WBCOOP touraments on PokerStars this week... I have cashed twice! Can I do the impossible and cash each and every day??

http://pokerparadox.blogspot.com
Poker Paradox!

-Wookie

Added by Wookie on January 27, 2010 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Adventures of Me pt.2

January 26, 2009

Start: December 11, 2009

Deposit: $10

2nd Deposit: December 18, 2009

Deposit: $10

3rd Deposit: January 19, 2009

Deposit: $20

It's been a while since my last progression post which was on the 14th. A lot of things have happened since then; I tried doing Cash games a bit and lost some money. Also deposited $10 on Full Tilt, playing 10NL Rush Poker(bad BRM) and made $50 in two hours and lost it all in 10 minutes. I've been kicking… Continue

Added by Chris"The Best One" on January 27, 2010 at 2:00am — 5 Comments

Stream, Visit US

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dontbejealousmo

Added by Patrick Schaffer on January 25, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

My race to Supernova, Week 3

Another week has come and gone and the grind is still going on. I'm very pleased with my results so far. The time, study and energy I put into improving my game has really paid off. Here's the graph for my progress so far, back at 50NL :

I'm pretty happy with it but it's a bit early to celebrate since 40K hands is a pretty small sample to determine… Continue

Added by Zapatos80 on January 25, 2010 at 4:00am — 14 Comments

The Grind Week 3

As you know I started the weeks at .50, when bust on it but Alex gave me a $1 and I've been grinding it in cash games and SnG so here are SnG Profits

1/21/10

PokerStars Tournament #234568328, No Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $0.10 USD

360 players

Total Prize Pool: $36.00 USD

Tournament started 2010/01/21 12:52:10 ET

Dear CTirpak,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 8.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 103.23… Continue

Added by Tirpak on January 23, 2010 at 11:05am — 6 Comments

Old Review

Old Review I wrote...

This is an old review I wrote for a hand-replayer. I still use it and haven't needed to search for another one.

*Zombie's Program Corner*

I love poker and I love programs that help me analyze and improve my game. In today's world is much easier to find leaks in your game and fix them. There is an abundent amount of sites and programs out there that can really help you. Most of them are free. If your anything like me you'd… Continue

Added by J L Bryant on January 21, 2010 at 9:21pm — No Comments

The after school special

First day of the semester today. Got home from school pretty late and didn't feel like doing much. Was just clicking around in PokerStars and happened to see that there was a freeroll satelite about to start. It was one of those with 9000 players and the top 72 got tickets to the tournament. So I thought it would be fun just to fool around with that for a bit. Didn't really expect much, but I sat as a goal ether to last one hour or be in top 4000.

Well... 3 hours later and I was still in… Continue

Added by Philip on January 20, 2010 at 1:45am — 1 Comment

Quick intro from a micro/low MTTer :)

Hey all, just a quick intro from me. Been playing poker since early summer 2009, started with freerolls and have run it up quite nicely. The 2+2 forums and watching winning players has helped me out most, along with good bankroll management.

SNs are MasterofRNG on both PS and FTP.

Some graphs here of my progress.

Some goals for the… Continue

Added by Anthony on January 18, 2010 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment

The start

So yesterday I played my very first real money poker. Well I did play in the Gunnies world record satellite, but then I didn't know much about NL Holdem, so that went balls. Finished 177 of 766 and only 70 got to the main event that round.

I have been playing Holdem on and off for a few years tho, but only fixed limit play money. And it has maby been like 2-3h every third months or so.

A week ago I started reading about NL Holdem, got hold of some books and sites on the Internet.… Continue

Added by Philip on January 18, 2010 at 11:30am — 6 Comments

My race to Supernova, Week 2, Day 17

Whew, what a week it's been. I spent about 10-12hrs last weekend studying, reading forums, watching leakbuster videos and analyzing my game. Then I wanted to practice all this new stuff so I went on 4 tables of 50NL normal speed 6-max. However it was just so ridiculously slow for me after 24-tabling fast tables that I quickly went back to 24 tables FR but normal speed instead of fast. I wanted to practice all the stuff I didnt do before, that is calling down lighter & bluffing more. The… Continue

Added by Zapatos80 on January 18, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

How many of you guys play on Full Tilt?

I was thinking that sometime this week we could find a way to host a private $2-5 buy -in tourney on full tilt for the community :) It would be alot of fun...btw i HATE pokerstars.lol

Added by BF-WhizKid on January 17, 2010 at 11:35am — 7 Comments

The Grind Week 2

As you know I started the week with $1. and Ended this week at .50 so I was down 50% but here are the lists of cashes

1/11/10

PokerStars Tournament #231270180, No Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $0.01 USD

990 players

Total Prize Pool: $9.90 USD

Tournament started 2010/01/11 22:45:12 ET

Dear CTirpak,

You finished the tournament in 11th place. A USD 0.10 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

1/13/01

PokerStars Tournament… Continue

Added by Tirpak on January 16, 2010 at 11:16pm — 4 Comments

Chiren's live freeroll winnings.

Here I will post my winnings in Chiren's freerolls.

PokerStars Tournament #232125537, No Limit Hold'em
Freeroll
670 players
$100.00 USD added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $100.00 USD
Tournament started 2010/01/16 19:00:00 CET [2010/01/16 13:00:00 ET]
You finished the tournament in 79th place. A USD 0.27 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Added by Glitch on January 16, 2010 at 10:28pm — No Comments

NEAR THE BUBBLE. - CHIREN FREEROLL

PokerStars Game #38259434131: Tournament #232125537, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2010/01/17 7:04:21 AEST [2010/01/16 15:04:21 ET]

Table '232125537 42' 9-max Seat #5 is the button

Seat 2: raipparane (34638 in chips)

Seat 3: avalonas (10630 in chips)

Seat 4: zews22 (21320 in chips)

Seat 5: Narkotronic (555 in chips)

Seat 6: Panch0_88 (8445 in chips) is sitting out

Seat 7: n0rg3. (5953 in chips)

Seat 8: proshiet (5986 in… Continue

Added by Darren on January 16, 2010 at 10:08pm — 2 Comments

New Computer!!

A hassle it has been...

I've been in dire need of a new computer for some time. I'm not one to go to Best Buy and just pick one up. I'm very picky when it comes to spending money on electronics and want to make sure that I'm getting something that is going to last. When it comes to computers I usually build my own.

I am focusing this year, so I thought I'd go ahead and spend some money and build a nice machine that can allow me to run as many tables as I can handle. It has… Continue

Added by J L Bryant on January 15, 2010 at 7:33pm — 2 Comments

My freeroll winnings.

PokerStars Tournament #228840381, No Limit Hold'em
Freeroll
24066 players
$2000.00 USD added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $2000.00 USD
Tournament started 2010/01/14 19:15:00 ET
You finished the tournament in 2390th place. A USD 0.18 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Biggest earnings: $2.30 @ NAPT Webcast Freeroll

Added by Glitch on January 15, 2010 at 4:00am — 10 Comments