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Betting Australian Rules- & sports in general

tedjam — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:10:10 GMT

Just a few questions guys

was wondering if any americans or europeans have access to betting sites that offer AFL football
I Just want to compare prices because the vig in oz seems absurdly high even though
there are plenty of legal online bookmakers, I can bet on BETFAIR too,

has anyone had any issues with using betfair for sports betting?

for example head to head is 1.95 v 1.85 excessive?

betfair has same game at 2.12 v 1.87 but a vig of 5% on winning bets
so adjusted its 2.01 v 1.78?? therefore its the same price regardless

can this edge be overcome in sportsbetting longterm?

Our Greatest Edge

JamesMa — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:31:36 GMT

Some music for you guys to listen to while reading the blog, a nice instrumental song I've been listening to lately ... Somebody can teach me to embed vids into a blog if they like I have no idea.

I was reading over my previous blog entries from years past and I thought it was pretty interesting to see all of the highs and lows that I went through, as well as the way I wrote and how I feel I've matured since then. I found it extremely therapeutic and would encourage others to do the same. Life is a long journey and its amazing to be able to look back and revisit past experiences and feelings. In the past, I had really only viewed blogging helping out by allowing me to gather my thoughts or share ideas with others, while never reflecting or looking back at my own posts. Rereading things, there's so many experiences that I had completely forgotten about and some stuff that I still can't recall even after reading about it. It's pretty cool to be able to look back and see the road I've taken to get where I am today so I'll definitely try to keep blogging in the future.

I was going over my past entries and reading over posts about the breakeven stretches or downswings I encountered... I remembered all the despair and stress I've felt from those bad downswings and how I thought things might never get better but somehow they always did and things always worked out...it was kind of empowering in that I'm still here and made it through all those rough times, giving me confidence that things will always get better no matter how bleak things seem.

I think as poker players, we certainly experience more than the normal person's share of highs and lows. I think those experiences though will make us stronger in the long run, and will benefit us if we choose to leave this game behind in pursuits of other ventures. Anyone who plays poker long enough has gone on downswings and know how difficult they can be to go through. It's not even always about the money, but just the aspect of simply losing day in and day out can really affect one's mood and confidence. But somehow we find the confidence in ourselves to keep pushing because we believe in ourselves and that eventually with hard work we will prevail.

And I believe that is one of our biggest edge's in life, we have experienced more rough patches than the average person and always continue having faith in ourselves to get back up again to strive for success. We believe in ourselves and that hard work will help realize our goals. I'm reminded of the quote from Rocky Balboa, "The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"

Poker and sports betting update

HighRoller85 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:43:03 GMT

Hi

Its been a couple of months since my last update. Because of a slow start last semester, I really have had to focus on my Master in Finance degree the last months before christmas. This work paid off by me getting my best grades ever last semster :)

So back to poker. Moved all my money over to Stars in late december to give sng grinding a try, mainly because I was running really bad at PLO and wanted a break. Got really sick of the autopiloting in sng in just a couple of weeks, so moved my roll back again in mid January to the sports betting site where I play PLO. After I moved back I have been crushing PLO again :)

On the side from party, school and poker I have tried to develop a sports betting strategy. I focus only on total goals scored in soccer and hockey matches, usually my bets are over/under 2,5 goals in soccer and over/under 4,5-5,5 goals in hockey. My results these 3 first weeks has been really good.

If some of you are interested in sportsbetting let me know and I can post some of my bets on the blog.

Thats all for now

yeesssss

salfi123 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:44:31 GMT

doubled bankroll in one of them silly tourney things. ship the cheeeeese

Week 5 - #2012rungood

yurk23 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:15:05 GMT

Hey there friends

Week 5 is over and we are moving into the second month of the #2012rungood campaign. I'm playing exclusively 10nl 6max in February and will reevaluate at the end of the month on whether to move up to 25nl or not. The week 5 graph will have a bit of 25nl and 50nl from the last couple days of January but all the 10nl is from February.

Week 5 Graph

Week 5 Stats

Until next time

A PLO HAND.

blackpuma — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:22:00 GMT

This is flop of a deep stacked table.
The player is 30/24/6.0. and is multitabling with deep stacks on multiple tables.

Merge - $0.25 PL Hi - Omaha - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $48.21
SB: $26.82
Hero (BB): $41.04
UTG: $25.00
MP: $17.50
CO: $73.64

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has 8:spade: 9:diamond: 7:spade: J:heart:

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.75, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.60, 2 players) J:spade: 7:heart: 4:club:
Hero checks, CO bets $1.06, Hero raises to $3.54, CO raises to $12.22, Hero?

GG USA

vinivici9586 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:40:05 GMT

x-posted @ http://www.vincewille.com

Well, it's that time. i'm finally going to be moving to the Bahamas next Tuesday. I'm a little nervous about things going smoothly, and really hope i can get on stars ASAP.

A lot of people have asked me why it's taken so long to get back online. To break it down, I decided that I would wait until at least after the WSOP to consider moving. First, I was expecting to final table (epic fail), and second, I thought I needed some time off, and some time to let the dust after Black Friday settle.

It did settle, and so I had to decide what I wanted to do. I first pursued an entrepreneurial idea, which I ended up having to abandon, due to a lack of technical skills, and a lack of confidence and knowledge in the field. Instead, I decided to apply to graduate school in England (I'm a Belgian citizen, so can move there easily), and recently got into a Masters program for entrepreneurship (for next September). Throughout this time, I kept busy by putting in a little volume live, doing a bit of coaching/video making, and working on my poker stable.

The entire live poker thing was a weird experience. In the end, I came to one conclusion, and was left with one question.

1. Conclusion: People often try to equate a certain level of online poker to a certain level of live poker, but they're really so different that it's not really fair. I'd guess that 25nl is about as hard as 5/10 at Florida casinos, but in reality some regs at 5/10 couldn't beat 25nl, and probably even more 25nl regs couldn't beat 5/10 live. It's just different playing super multiway pots with deep stacks, and it's definitely an adjustment to be playing 30 hands/hour as opposed to 1000. Finally, I think tells are a bit overrated when people aren't very good, but I'm sure I gave off more information than I should have, and was overall too lazy to balance my mannerisms and timing in certain spots. A side note to this conclusion is I realized that soft skills such as game selection, tilt control, and overall managing your image and career are so much more important live than online. I think the key to live success is to run good in tourneys and have a fun image at the tables a'la Antonio Esfandiari.

2.. Question: I can't tell if they have a lot of money or no money at all. I would hear about guys making 100k tournament scores, but a lot of them (even some excellent players) were in make up, so they saw like 20k of it after they chopped with their backers. They would wear 4 figure watches, listen to music on dre beats, and sports gambool on the side, but I couldn't help but assume half of them were a bad downswing from busto If anyone has any insight in the comment section as to what the average live pro (grinding 5/10+ and hitting up the tourney circuit) makes from year to year, I'd be really curious. I asked in 2p2 once if it would be something like +200k, even, -100k +1m, +100k (for a 5 year stretch), but people didn't really seem to know.

So back to what I was doing since Black Friday. It took me about four months to figure out that merge/coaching or entrepreneurship or live poker wasn't right for me, so I decided to move to Canada in about September. At first, I was going to go with a few grinders from 100nl+, but then talked to a few of my buddies from high school about getting a place in Whistler to go skiing. Definitely an incredible idea, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I would have been really excited to blog about some of my adventures and take lots of pictures/video. However, they had jobs, and couldn't do anything in September or October, so we pushed it back to December. It really was only 2 months of waiting, and I was okay with this. Unfortunately, one of my friends ended up busting his knee right at the end of November, and he was going to bring the car to Whistler, and I was put in a really tough spot. He couldn't go, and ultimately, I thought I would be unhappy alone, so I bailed on plans, and unfortunately had to eat a few K on the property as well.

So I was back at the drawing board. I knew I had to get back on stars before I started school in September, but couldn't figure out how to do it in a way that made me happy. Thankfully, one of my friends showed me that a new company is offering high speed ferries from my local Fort Lauderdale to Grand Bahama. This was a really good opportunity because I can live alone, but easily shuttle back and forth every couple of weekends and see my family and friends in South Florida.

It took me a bit of time to find a place I liked, but I finally got one, and will be moving in Tuesday of next week. I'm going to make a point to go all out and enjoy the super bowl on Sunday because it's GG USA for me.

genting tour . star city brummy land

salfi123 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:19:59 GMT

well went on my first poker road trip for about 8 months, NEVER AGAIN (until next time)

hands not in particular order

loads of gay hands really. had some dude called julian thew on my table. got into an early big gay war with him due to his old image but it was really bad looking back at the day because he was just a massive station.
so blew 6k (hundo bigs running some dog shit bluff vs him)
anyway obviously with it been live poker and tard city and a 500bb (25k) stack to work with its only a small set back and i go about business and get my stack back into the black fairly easily just owning people in position etc

few gay hands among the day to note. 1st set the guy who peeled every flop and ran dog shit bluffs peels pre as per he only had a 90vpp so he most certainly has room for improvement on getting that vpp to 100percent . i always wonder with these people like what hand do they see as unplayable cause 84 off tug was very playable apparently and 105 on the button in a 3bet pot was also playable.
anyway flop top set 1083 ss i bet he calls .ace spades turn (NOT THE PRETTIEST CARD IN THE DECK FUCK U ACE OF SPADES)
anyway i bet the fucker anyways to juice the pot vs the clown and his holdings= he calls. river i check call some gay arse bet . oh flush nh sir.

second set was slightly more unusual 3rd hand at new table . in the big with 55 5way limped pot. start hand on 30 bigs with an utg limper. i bet flop 579r utg calls. turn ace check check river 6 he bets 5bigs out of turn and I'm like hmmm guess i have to call not sure what he got and can't really make some sick arse value raise . oh QUEEN 8 sooted wp sir nh u win.

then get last 20bigs in resqueezing . 3 with a 3 . I'm a lil more open to out an out gambling with twenty bigs just to try get a playable stack so i can chip up none showdown style and just run live poker over.

final hand get twenty bigs 20k in with 33 vs ace 9 and thats all she wrote. incidentally was 3callers of the raise so 50bb pot

few other notable hands i use live read skills and make a king hi call .(really should of turned my hand into a bluff and raised but called without enough thought) . he was bluffing with a better king hi . silly me :(

last notable hand i open utg 5 with a 3 of the same suit. love 53 deffo the best hand in poker and lets face it any hand that has potential for a steel wheel is worth playing when u have lots of chips and droolers to own.

flop ace king 4r i bet 1/3 pot and small blind 2x pots it. obviously him been a nit means I'm guna win this hand cause he aint got a set of fours with his sizing and i don't like to fold so obviously call flop cause i has potential for a wheel. he checks the turn when the 4 pairs and lets me have it with a bet . LESSON 1 kids don't fuck with me i might be a dinosaur but i got wheel cards init.

shitty blog but had to rant .

hand is still broken been wearing the cast a little bit but its really inconvenient . didn't get a wire in my hand not got time for such things gotta make $$$ january was a good month at the tables hopefully february can be another good month .

laters all take care and sorry for the shitty written blog but thats the salfi way .

January Giraffe.

blackpuma — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:30:36 GMT

First month of PLO 25NL 94% PLO 50NL 5% PLO 100NL 1%

I hope this month to finish watching all PLO videos on Leggo Poker.
Need to start discussing PLO more with other players or even contributing on the forums more in the PLO section. Overall I am happy with the process I made this month and finding my niche. Also was nice to become a Leggo Poker VIP and get amazing rake back deal, thanks to MATT. It pays to be a Leggo member.

GL to everyone in February.

January recap

Anthony18 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:56:17 GMT

Hey sup leggoland?

Thought I'd post a quick update on how january went.

Going by the a picture speaks a thousand words here's my jan graph

95% of it is 50nl and 5% some 100NL

Quite an annoying month obv, 14BI under EV and didnt run that great range-wise either.
Luckly I got on a semi-heater midmonth and ended up having a pretty decent winrate overall.

I estimate spewing around 20 stacks though, so like 100BBs per 1k hands which is a lot.
I get back some of it obv since it's not like I've put a stack in with 0 eq everytime but it def bothers me when I have these brainfarts spews during a session.

Those are basically the stupid calldowns/spewy bluffs which can really fuck up with your winrate.
Those moments when you click call and then ask yourself why the fuck did you call there? And then not being able to come up with a reasonable argument for it is unacceptable imo.

Def working on that, trying to play much more solid poker in feb.

Fixed the redline problem, last year I lost a lot w/o showdown, almost like 1BI/1k hands which is def waaaay to much.
Basically I started 3barreling more, DB much more and generally being much more aggro in pots I do enter.

Volume-wise I didnt play as much as I wanted to which tilts me quite a bit but had some school-shit and some other life random boring stuff to take care of so I can't fault myself too much I guess...

As far as the games go, uSNL and SSNL games seem really soft even on party games are very very good and ongame games are even better.
A lot of regs are pretty terrible and fish... well fishes gonna be fishes I guess but a lot of people seem to be super clueless about the game which is obv great :D

As far as goals for feb, I'm gonna try to play at least 30K hands, though I am aiming more for like 40-50k.
We'll see how that goes...

Aight, I'm gonna wrap up this very poker exclusive entry and hit the tables.

I'll leave u with The Cudder : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCLBGY0huVE

To an awesome feb!

Peace and GL!
Anthony

January Recap and Learning vs Winning

yurk23 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:30:02 GMT

First month of 2012 is in the books and it feels good to be playing regularly and enjoying it. I definitely felt discouraged and uninterested during parts of last year about poker. Now, I feel like I'm coming from a place that is hungry to learn, get better, experiment with lines and plays, and just have fun. It is a game after all and I'm not playing to put food on the table so why get stressed out? I think I put a lot of pressure on myself in the past when it came to poker and I'm a competitive person by nature so losing and being result oriented bothered me more than it should have. It's definitely a fine line to walk, since being competitive and hungry to win is a great motivator to get better at the game.

Though there is a difference between being hungry to win and being hungry to learn. Focusing on winning in poker is such a double edged sword, when you're winning you definitely feel invincible and can really play your "A" game when you're rolling. Though, when deviation hits and you run into a bad stretch, you can really beat yourself up and allow your negative results at the tables spill over into the rest of your life. I want to be someone that is driven by the desire to learn. Where the results in the short term do not affect my attitude and every mistake is an opportunity to learn something. Sure, results matter in the sense of validating what we've learned but it's only in the long run that we can acquire validation of our play. Being a part-time player, its easy for me to look at the short-term and question everything I think I know and make drastic changes. I tend to define the "long run" in terms of calender time instead of hands played because I don't get the volume that others achieve. That's a view that needs to change for me personally when thinking about the long run and how to measure my own growth and understanding.

Cool story bro....

January Graph

January Stats

2012 Goals
[ ] 125k Hands of 6max = 9,030 Hands Through January
[ ] 25k Hands of Heads Up = 1,249 Hands Through January
[ ] At minimum, taking shots at 100nl by the end of the year = Not yet ;)
[ ] Make top 50 on the UGL leaderboard @ PTR at least 1 month at 25nl or 50nl = Not yet ;)

Until next time

jan results

pokerkid — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:17:12 GMT

im happy with my work ethic so far this year ive only taking like 3 days off this year. i played and study tournaments for about 7 days, it was kinda of fun, a nice change of pace. i won a few hundred playing them and i now feel confident in my tournament game. but here are my cash game results so far this year.

ran full houses into quads 4 times, just didn't work out for me so far this year. the bad results haven't really effect me much. just gota keep playing and stay positive. my bankroll is now 1000 euro, once i get to 1200 il take a another shot at 100nl, just got done with a minus 5bi session at 100nl. so im gona go for a walk and get back to grinding 50nl.

good luck :)

January results - update

jamjam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:30:11 GMT

Yo Leggo!, 2nd blog and just updating with my January results etc.

Online poker - January went pretty well in terms of $ wise, volume wise was ok but not 100% great, aiming to play around 600games p/month..

just before the start of the year i kinda planned to aim for Supernova 200k (which is just double the required points for Supernova alone). tbh i dont know in much detail about the full vip program and im not 100% focused/concentrating on reaching that goal as a must or whatever but just think it would be pretty cool to do so. So im a little 'behind pace' after 1 month but as said im not bothered to much about it.

Sharkscope stats for January:

1st stats line is only SNGs and 2nd line is overall games

also to note i got a small return ($xxx) on having % on dougiedan678 in a TCOOP event (#15 or #16) which he bust 30th AT vs K3:( to go like 8/29 with some crazy final table prizes.

TCOOPS (turbo championship on stars) - went reasonably well for me (not losing overall) although i didnt play very many around 6/7 and for the size of fields and crazy structures it was good fun going semi deep in a couple and railing friends who also did.

Live poker - think i only played once live and it was a local game run by some family and friends in a nearby hall which runs weekly but i dont go tht often.. its just a simple 100bb tournament usually 2tables, with 10-18players and buyin is only �15(around 24$). the overall standard is obviously not great but its a great laugh and good banter and chill out time with a few beers and with people you dont see all that often and of course playing cards. ill post a few pics as its easier to relate to, couldnt find any decent 1s but ill throw a few random 1s up anyway..

the famous 'GEEGEE' basically the heart and soul of the game

Me and GEEGEE, no idea what hes doing.

Final table of a slightly bigger local game at the same place tho

Other stuff - Didn't actually get up to much else in January outwith poker and work had few small nightouts here and there but nothing major, also had football(soccer) training 3x a week still as std, but as the weather is so bad here atm our games have been constantly postponed week in week out since November or something which is very ball busting. February should be a bit more interesting as ive got a few nights out organised including different things which im looking forward to.

Also noticed since i started grinding blogs on leggo that most members like cars etc so here is mine! i dont have any decent pics of it just a random 1 taken from my window a while back lol.

Will update next month unless something crazy/exciting happens in the meantime:D!!

Cheeerio;)

online bad live worse

tedjam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:15:48 GMT

decided to play a $200 live tourny bad structure average stack was 10bb after 4 hours
100 runners i finished 14th 9 paid
i played really well considering these hands from 35 left

KK<88 he flops a set but only a psb on flop
99 aj<1010 alinpre
aq kk then i shove kqs for 7bb utg and lose to ak oh well

its tough playing off my own moneyand losing ive worked really hard on my game and Im playing really really well just cant get that score to ease the pressure. so im torn between playing a lot cos im playing really well online and live but losing $$$ or stopping for a bit and losing my momentum and everthing ive learnt over the last couple on months, nothing makes u sharper than playing imo.

if anyone reads this my advice to you is this PLAY AND LEARN CASH not MTT

Long time no blog

flippity — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:14 GMT

Yo people

Finalllly there are 2 new vids out, this time about deep 6max play.
I am really looking forward to continuing the series, and i really hope for some cool discussions about my general approach (hopefully there is some horrible mistake in it).

Without further ado, lets post some cool hands:

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 4 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BTN: $200
SB: $247.80
Hero (BB): $203
UTG: $295.10

Pre-Flop: A T dealt to Hero (BB)
2 folds, SB raises to $6, Hero calls $4

Flop: ($12) 9 J 7 (2 Players)
SB bets $8, Hero calls $8

Turn: ($28) K (2 Players)
SB bets $18, Hero calls $18

River: ($64) 4 (2 Players)
SB bets $42, Hero raises to $171 and is All-In

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BTN: $204
Hero (BB): $305

Pre-Flop: K 8 dealt to Hero (BB)
BTN raises to $6, Hero calls $4

Flop: ($12) J 5 K (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $8, Hero raises to $24, BTN calls $16

Turn: ($60) 5 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $42, Hero calls $42

River: ($144) 8 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

Results: $144 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
BTN mucked 4 3 and LOST (-$71 NET)
Hero showed K 8 and WON $143.50 (+$73.50 NET)

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

MP: $495.40
CO: $368.50
BTN: $204
SB: $200
Hero (BB): $455.70
UTG: $202

Pre-Flop: T T dealt to Hero (BB)
UTG folds, MP folds, CO raises to $6.40, BTN raises to $21.40, SB folds, Hero calls $19, CO calls $15

Flop: ($66.40) 7 5 2 (3 Players)
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN bets $41.70, Hero calls $41.70, CO raises to $347.10 and is All-In, BTN folds, Hero calls $305.40

Turn: ($802.30) A (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($802.30) 3 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $802.30 Pot ($3 Rake)
CO showed 7 A and WON $799.30 (+$430.80 NET)
Hero showed T T and LOST (-$366.50 NET)

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 3 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $200
Hero (BB): $569.15
BTN: $200

Pre-Flop: Q 9 dealt to Hero (BB)
BTN folds, SB raises to $6, Hero calls $4

Flop: ($12) 2 6 9 (2 Players)
SB bets $8.20, Hero calls $8.20

Turn: ($28.40) 6 (2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $20.55, SB raises to $62.90, Hero calls $42.35

River: ($154.20) T (2 Players)
SB bets $122.90 and is All-In, Hero calls $122.90

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $400
UTG: $200
MP: $170.05
CO: $216.90
BTN: $200
Hero (SB): $200

Pre-Flop: A 5 dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG folds, MP calls $2, 2 folds, Hero raises to $10, BB folds, MP calls $8

Flop: ($22) 5 3 4 (2 Players)
Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: ($22) 6 (2 Players)
Hero checks, MP bets $20, Hero calls $20

River: ($62) 3 (2 Players)
Hero checks, MP bets $140.05 and is All-In, Hero calls $140.05

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $196.80
BB: $415.55
UTG: $393.45
CO: $333.65
Hero (BTN): $291.35

Pre-Flop: T A dealt to Hero (BTN)
UTG folds, CO raises to $5, Hero calls $5, 2 folds

Flop: ($13) T K Q (2 Players)
CO bets $10, Hero raises to $30, CO calls $20

Turn: ($73) 4 (2 Players)
CO checks, Hero bets $62, CO calls $62

River: ($197) 9 (2 Players)
CO checks, Hero bets $119

In most of these hands i actually didnt know that much about my opponents and acted on feel/population-reads. TT obv was a sick tough call.
Havent been playing too much in the last 5 weeks, and i am probably running about 3k below EV. Didnt really learn anything life-related apart from: MATHS IS FRIGGIN TOUGH, MAN!

I would end this post with a graph, but i have no clue how to upload that, so just imagine some weird green lines and a red line thats slightly below 0, and the thick green line is about 0 and the light green line is like +3k$, and its about 48k hands.

Cheers.