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      <title>Uh, omnomnomnom</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I don't really remember my previous post here. Its been months. I do think it was sometime when I ran semi-deep in the UB $200k and made $1100 and thought I was the shit. Continuing since then...

I moved my roll (I think like 6k ish) to Full Tilt. I got scammed for $200 in the process = tilt. So I used trusted 2+2er pmarrsouth and he took care of things for me. 

I started playing NL100 on tilt and dabbling in tournaments. Things started well but ultimately I was losing money. I dropped, dropped, and dropped, as low as $3k at one point I believe. I stopped playing cash games and decided to focus solely on tournaments. I've been running pretty hot in the past week or so.

Last Sunday I took 3rd in MSOP Event #15 for the largest cash of my life, $4.5k. I outlasted over 5200 entrants and played for 8 fatiguing hours but it was completely worth it. 

Yesterday started off poorly with me whiffing my first 7 tournaments or so. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 08 19:43:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Brag or Bad Beat, idk: 25th in UB $200k for $1100</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I tried really hard not to go into the 200k today expecting to do well. But I couldn't help but hope and imagine taking it down for $45k. I envisioned playing solid poker and running as deep as I possibly could. That became a reality today, but sadly I couldn't go all the way, finishing 25th/800+ for $1100.

I understand how twisted it is to complain about this but I think people fail to realize is what I'm complaining about. I'm not upset about winning $1100, lol. I'm upset about not running deeper. Its sickening to me that I had to survive just 24 more players for the first place of $45k. Coupled with the fact that I lost with AK vs AJ all-in pre and had him dead to a gutshot on the river in a massive 100k pot, pardon me for ranting.

Anyways, I feel like I played really well overall, with just one hand that I'm still kicking myself for. But I'll try to live with misplaying one hand out of 300. I think I can deal. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 08 00:27:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Brag: Won UB $2k ($10r, 6-max); won $200k seat</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I woke up yesterday with little memory of getting home and the events of the night. My laptop was on my chest (how it didn't fall off my bed and die, idk) and dead since it was unplugged. Ridiculous. I stood up to use the restroo... whoooooa there thats a hangover. Fuck.

I grabbed a soda since it makes me feel better after a night of drinking and sat down at my computer and did the usual routine: Facebook, Gmail, 2+2, TwoRags, and some friends' blogs. I had planned on playing a marathon like 18-hr day yesterday (kidding, ish) but at that point in the day the thought of 6-tabling made me physically ill.

I knew I wanted to play poker though so I jumped in the first tournament I saw, the UB $2k Gtd $10r 6-max holy hell thats a mouthful. I figured I could deal with one table whilst I remedied myself back to a decent condition.

After 6-tabling for so long, I can't tell you how easy it was just having this one tournament open. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 08 13:03:32 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Thinking of blog titles tilt me, so **** it. Just read. </title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Eesh, after running my bankroll up to a record-high, I've lost nearly a third of it back in a day. I'm not playing to the best of my ability and its aggravating because its like I can't control myself. I'm not making simple laydowns I should be making, I over-complicate things for myself and assume that every 3-bet I face must be people just playing back at me with air. I feel like I've taken my game to a level that I didn't need to take it too. I plan on taking a break for a few days, maybe by playing micro limit games on a different site, and hopefully return to playing solid. I was pretty close to being adequately rolled for 1/2 but after this downswing I'm not planning on moving up anytime soon. There really shouldn't be a reason for a swing this sick. Hopefully I can turn things around relatively soon. 

I played a handful of MTTs yesterday for the first time in a while and whiffed in all of them. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 08 13:37:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>March Results and April Goals</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I was a small winner at MTTs in March, mostly because a week and a half into the month I grew completely bored with tournaments and decided to stop playing them all together. I've played maybe like 4 of them in the past 2 and a half weeks.

So, instead, I started playing cash games. I reread my previous post and remember saying that I wanted to play [b]0[/b] hands of cash games during the month because I just sucked so bad at cash. Ha. Hilarity. 

I just couldn't stay away from them. I kept playing cash games and losing money, over and over and over again until finally... I just decided that I was going to stop playing tournaments and focus on how beating these goddamn cash games.

I've put in hundreds of hours and thousands of hands this month. I've made friends with some NL50 and NL100 regs who are crushing the games, and we talk on AIM nearly every night about poker. I review my sessions in PT everyday. Most importantly, I'm getting results. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 08 14:33:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>February Results and March Goals</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[February is in the books and what a month it was. To review, I deposited $50 on UltimateBet and set a goal of hitting a $500 roll by the end of the month. I 5-tabled NL10 and NL25 for a few days, before switching over to tournaments. 

PokerDB seems to be a tad bit incomplete, but things started going well for me on the 7th when I finished 2nd in the $1 Rebuy $1000 Guaranteed for $180. That Saturday, I took 3rd in the $20 $10000 Guaranteed for $1050, my largest win ever as well as most profitable weekend. The latter didn't last long however, as the following weekend I finished 3rd in the $11 Bounty $4500 Guaranteed, 3rd in the 3rd in the $3 Rebuy $2500 Guaranteed, 4th in the $5 Rebuy $1500 Guaranteed and 2nd in the $25 $6000 Guaranteed. 

I cooled off towards the end of the month, still making it deep and Final Tabling a handful of events, but not winning anything huge in my opinion. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 08 14:44:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Introduction Blog</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (birdsnbees)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone,

I'm a 21 year old student, born and raised in Houston, TX, and attending college in my hometown. I went to the University of Alabama for two and a half years between 2005 and 2007 and had a fantastic time there. 

I began playing online poker for real money in the Spring of 2006. I wasn't the most experienced player, but I was wrecking my home game with friends, had put in a lot of hands at play chip tables, and read a little bit about poker strategy through various websites. I deposited $50 on UltimateBet and looking back realize that I had no true goal. I guess in a way it was more of a test run than anything.

So... I dabbled in cheap $1 SNGs and NL10 tables at first. I learned about multi-tabling and remember I was so excited about it I'd do 9 at a time. I've no idea how I did it, haha, because now I think too much about hands to 9-table. It must've been that I just wasn't thinking back then, haha. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 08 11:04:46 -0500</pubDate>
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