Sorry its been so long since i posted here, i've had plenty of non-poker stuff going on. I don't want to get into it but i've had some health issues and long story short its intruding on my poker life. The upside to this is that if i was working at a normal job i almost certainly would have been forced to quit by now. I have worried in the past that at some point, poker is going to pass me out, its evolving at a rapid rate and every day there's more 16 or 17 year old prodigies discovering poker for themself. But in the last couple of months my fears have mostly been put to rest, basically it seems that(knock on wood)every time my opponents advance a step i have always managed to advance at least as much, i don't know how much longer i am going to be able to keep this up but i certainly hope i do like Nicolak has done and just keep getting better and better the tougher the games get.

I need this more than most of you guys reading this since i have no qualifications and no formal education. So my main mission now is to find something to invest in and not have to worry about the sky falling in the poker world, i was thinking of opening a cafe or something but i dunno, i guess time will tell, and for now i think i can just keep doing pretty well at msnl. I think even in 5 or 6 years time i should still be able to beat 200nl, and for the time being i am crushing mid-stakes, i feel like there are no 5/10 regs who could crush me(though it is hard to define a 5/10 reg since a lot of 10/20 regs and even 25/50 regs AND HU PLAYERS are moving down to 5/10 because its basically the biggest game on FTP that runs regularly.) And i am not sure but for someone who does not table select i would say i may have one of, if not the highest win-rate at 3/6 right now over a more than 100k sample (correct me if i'm wrong).

It feels like recently my thoughts on other players have been confirmed that every one i play with on a regular basis i see make blatant errors in their play, this makes me feel great about my own game, its when you don't understand whats happening that you can start to worry. You'll notice from the graph i am posting that my red-line is not as crazy-high as it usually is, i think i am doing an ok job of sacrificing some red-line for the good of my over-all WR. Obviously its not a big sample, 31k hands (unfortunately that is all i could get in for the last 2 whole months) but i am still proud of it on the whole





Couple of fun hands i played recently, this one was vs quiness, he is a solid reg and i feel like c/c'ing the flop is fine to do now and then, i was planning on c/raising at some point, i think if the river bricks i shove, but as it played out i would say he felt pretty pissed for not getting my stack.

Full Tilt Poker $1000.00 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
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Hero (SB): $2814.50
LifetimeUpswing (BB): $1270.00
Quiness (UTG): $1000.00
porktom (CO): $1000.00
michel230899 (BTN): $1279.00

Pre Flop: ($15.00) Hero is SB with J J
Quiness raises to $30, 2 folds, Hero calls $25, 1 fold

Flop: ($70.00) J T K (2 players)
Hero checks, Quiness bets $40.00, Hero calls $40

Turn: ($150.00) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, Quiness bets $120.00, Hero calls $120

River: ($390.00) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, Quiness bets $220.00, Hero calls $220

Final Pot: $830.00
Hero mucks J J
Quiness shows A Q
Quiness wins $827.00
(Rake: $3.00)

this 2nd one is vs Eunjong byun, who has improved his game quite a bit over the last couple of years i think(he used to be called feeling83 before he became a red-pro)i now think he is one of the better mid-stakes mass-multi-tablers.


Full Tilt Poker $600.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
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TKOTPAS (SB): $435.00
showdownaces (BB): $600.00
Eunjong Byun (UTG): $1305.20
porktom (MP): $1561.90
eantonya (CO): $641.00
Hero (BTN): $817.30

Pre Flop: ($9.00) Hero is BTN with K Q
Eunjong Byun raises to $18, 2 folds, Hero calls $18, 2 folds

Flop: ($45.00) 9 2 2 (2 players)
Eunjong Byun bets $30.00, Hero calls $30

Turn: ($105.00) J (2 players)
Eunjong Byun bets $84.00, Hero raises to $228, Eunjong Byun calls $144

River: ($561.00) 3 (2 players)
Eunjong Byun checks, Hero bets $541.30, Eunjong Byun calls $541.30

Final Pot: $1643.60
Eunjong Byun shows 9 9
Hero shows K Q
Eunjong Byun wins $1640.60
(Rake: $3.00)

it was kind of sick that he showed up with the hand i was trying to rep, i think my turn raise is fine to do, it has several merits, firstly i think i very rarely get shoved on by a decent reg when i raise the turn, so that locks up me seeing the river without having to call off an amount i don't want to, but i think my range can look very strong here since i flatted a utg open from and 18/13 guy and called a cbet, so unless i'm just making some elaborate play for the pot or turning some small PP into a bluff, i can rep boats and overpairs. Unfortunately he had me the whole way .

Anyway, i bid you all adieu. Thanks for readin' guys...
-Jude.