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Dear Blog,

July isn't just the biggest month in NBA Free Agency history. It's also the most important month in my career as a poker player. I moved my poker "home" to Poker Stars as the PLO games run in more abundance and if you put in enough volume, you're "rakeback" is more than I expect to get at Full Tilt. The problem is, at such a low % of rakeback, there isn't enough hands I can put in during the month of July that I could survive on rakeback alone like I can on FTP which definitely...

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Just touching base, I thought I was out of my rut as my graph had finally shown some momentum up and then today the shit hit the fan and every time I had a set it was outdrawn, my draws didn't get there and my top two was drawing dead to top or middle set. I can only try harder and stay positive and constantly tell myself that tomorrow will be that breakthrough day.

Total Hands: 13,062/50,000
Total Winnings: $-20.95
BB/100: -.25...

Dear Blog,

One thing I can't do as a poker player is control the outcome of the cards. (If I could, I wouldn't be sitting here with a 3k bankroll now would I?)

The point of all this is even though I've played full time as a poker player for two years now, I'm still slumming at the low stakes, allowing obstacles to come up and me to lose focus on putting in the required work for a month or whatever the case is. The point of this post is, after discussing how to get...

Dear Blog,

I told Degen I would start blogging here. Hopefully you won't here too many bad beat whines and stories of how I'm not running good but if you do, grit teeth and bear it b/c eventually I'll get through it and you will too.

Not always so easy to max value out of the nuts but I manage to stack a guy 200BB deep. What's funny to me about the hand is at the end, he calls me a nit for the way I played it.

$0.50/$1.00 Pot Limit Omaha
5 players...