Whats good everyone? It has been a while since I have blogged anything...Well, Its because this month so far has been treating me good for a change! So Its not just cause losing in poker that makes me not blog...I came up with this superstition that I have been losing because I have been blogging...who am I kidding, I have been losing all year so far! I never realized that I am not as profitable at just playing as I thought I was...
Well...Lets recap since my last entry from the week after my AC Marathon. I haven't been dealing Steve's game lately cause he has been focusing on getting his Sunday $2/$5 NL game off the ground...Sucks for me cause I can't really deal that game...honestly, I don't want to deal it as bad I thnk I do...I just don't feel the same way about the game cause its not just Steve's game anymore, He partnered with another Home Game Operator which is now a mix of both crowds. After my game was robbed almost 2 years ago and the small rash of robberies lately, I just don't feel comfortable with a crowd I don't know or play with on a regular basis. Now this is my personal feeling that some of the player base from these games have flowed from some of the recent games or regulars from the recent games that have been robbed...and honestly, I think the ones that set up the robberies are still playing in these games...but thats just me. But Steve says he will start it back up by the end of this month or the first week in June, but gave his players an option to start it back up where the sunday game is or keep it at its current location which I hope he does, cuase if not, I might be out of a dealer job on Thursdays...Not because I don't like the other operator, cause I do, I'd prefer to work for Steve and not both...thats all...
Other than that, the Pink game and the Monday Night $1-$2 NL Game have been very successful lately...I'm happy with the turn outs.
Playing at the donkey coral has been pretty good to me this month as well...I did lost last week cause I made a huge mistake againsts Seth...and I knew better, but I felt very giving last week and shipped my $700 stack to Bartender Pete who got all his money in off a flush draw that got there on the river and I paid off a set of Kings when I flopped top 2 (AK). Eh...Easy mistake that I'm pretty sure will not let that happen again.
But Last Wednesday's game was sick...There's a guy named Gregg...Tripple G is what he likes to be called...clown...Now I know yall have seen these types before...and it really irked me about him...he was the type to sit at the table, and calculate his odds, outs, and all the math guru shit about the game...Yes I know its good poker to be able to do that, but if you do it every hand, out loud, perpetrating to make your game look solid is some clown shit to me....I can see if he was always stackin the table, but thats not the case...he's a fuckin fish if you ask me. More a clown if you ask me, but why don't we welcome him to the table? Because he is a clown...Talks too much...and is just a plain jerk off....and last wednesday, he finally got himself not welcome to any more of our games.
I'm on the button and look down to AA. Everyone limped to me and I made it $17 to go...Gregg and Ahmed call me...Greg is first to act but I can't remember the flop and Greg leads out $25, Ahmed calls, I make it $75, Gregg moves all in, Ahmed makes the call for less and leaves me with a decision...WTF is going on here? A Little over $250 to make Gregg's call...I go in the tank and reveal my Aces to Ahmed...he mentions to me I should fold...which I was 50/50 on, I was close to calling Gregg's all in, but Ahmed made me think 3 times about the call...during this, Greg notices me pull up my cards and asks Ahmed what he said...and goes into this collusion thing...I end up folding and fuckin Greg shows 8 High and Ahmed shows T high to take the fuckin huge pot...Gregg pulls back his money and is trippin about collusion and asked to be cashed out. We tried to explain to him that since there was no more action except to me, I showed my aces...he got angry with Katie and just completely lost his mind. He was kicked out the game afterwards.
Well Pink this weekend and the last game for me till Friday again, takin Monday off for the Holiday...Hopefully makin it up to AC for the day or 2!
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
So This Is What It Feels Like
What a way to build my confidence back up.
Keenan and I ran our Monday game after the trip to Atlantic City...Game went well and strong for the most part of the beginning...after around 1AM, I smelled insta break...Who am I kidding...Hamid coming off a 3K win in AC this weekend after chopping with 1st place chip stack in the Trop Tourney on Sunday...4 way chop leaving him with a little over 3K...Ali....Its Ali, he aint going nowhere...I'm in the gam and I aint going nowhere...Ricky Bobby..hasn't been out in a while, he knows better to leave for various reasons...and then it was JaySr...Said he was supposed to leave at 12am but its almost 6am when he noticed that...so the game went well...and I finally held on to my stack this time around.
Cool...I guess I can go to Trav's game this week...
Bad thing on Monday was my Truck broke down on the Beltway...Transmission fluid happened to leak out while I was driving and all of a sudden, I can't accelerate...wow...I try to move over lanes and call a tow truck...I look under my car and its leaking like somebody cut a hole in there somewhere...
So I'm not sure if I'm going to Trav's anymore...Kenny calls and asks if I'm going, I say lets go, he complains but is easily pursuaded to make that ride...good move on him...He crushed the table running his stack to $1,300 from his initial $200 buy in...He was mad at me cause I was the only one that he couldn't beat...lol I got a good amount of my stack from him...I played tight the whole night and ran my stack up to jus a little over $600 when Kenny says, cash me out, he gave at least 1 hour notice before leaving and since he is my ride, I get up as well...Travis and Keenan offers me a ride home but I don't think so...I'm leaving...as many times as I come over and ship it even when I have a stack, I'm leaving out here with some profit this time around...I felt bad cause it was gonna break the table and we were taking alot of chips off the table...but I'm tired of losing, I'm tired and im ready to go...
So far so good this month...last month was rough but right now its looking like im due for some wins!
No Game tonight at the Fish Tank so I'm off tonight from dealing..which is a nice break cause I know this weekend is gonna be filled....Pink Game, Deal Pops Game, then Mothers Day on Sunday...Don't forget bout Moms this weekend!!!!!!!!!
Keenan and I ran our Monday game after the trip to Atlantic City...Game went well and strong for the most part of the beginning...after around 1AM, I smelled insta break...Who am I kidding...Hamid coming off a 3K win in AC this weekend after chopping with 1st place chip stack in the Trop Tourney on Sunday...4 way chop leaving him with a little over 3K...Ali....Its Ali, he aint going nowhere...I'm in the gam and I aint going nowhere...Ricky Bobby..hasn't been out in a while, he knows better to leave for various reasons...and then it was JaySr...Said he was supposed to leave at 12am but its almost 6am when he noticed that...so the game went well...and I finally held on to my stack this time around.
Cool...I guess I can go to Trav's game this week...
Bad thing on Monday was my Truck broke down on the Beltway...Transmission fluid happened to leak out while I was driving and all of a sudden, I can't accelerate...wow...I try to move over lanes and call a tow truck...I look under my car and its leaking like somebody cut a hole in there somewhere...
So I'm not sure if I'm going to Trav's anymore...Kenny calls and asks if I'm going, I say lets go, he complains but is easily pursuaded to make that ride...good move on him...He crushed the table running his stack to $1,300 from his initial $200 buy in...He was mad at me cause I was the only one that he couldn't beat...lol I got a good amount of my stack from him...I played tight the whole night and ran my stack up to jus a little over $600 when Kenny says, cash me out, he gave at least 1 hour notice before leaving and since he is my ride, I get up as well...Travis and Keenan offers me a ride home but I don't think so...I'm leaving...as many times as I come over and ship it even when I have a stack, I'm leaving out here with some profit this time around...I felt bad cause it was gonna break the table and we were taking alot of chips off the table...but I'm tired of losing, I'm tired and im ready to go...
So far so good this month...last month was rough but right now its looking like im due for some wins!
No Game tonight at the Fish Tank so I'm off tonight from dealing..which is a nice break cause I know this weekend is gonna be filled....Pink Game, Deal Pops Game, then Mothers Day on Sunday...Don't forget bout Moms this weekend!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Poker Marathon
I should be asleep!!!!!!
I just walked in the door, put my stuff down, and I'm kinda awake after a LONG POKER WEEKEND at the Trop!
Um...I didn't go to Travis' Game last wednesday...I did deal all night at Steve's Fish Tank Thursday, Got home in time to do laundry before picking up Cheyenne from her mother's house and take her to school...mind you she had a half day so I had to wake up afterwards (dealing Steve's game) at 11:45AM to be in time to pick her up and drop her off at her moms place and start getting stuff for the Pink game Friday Night which leaves no nap time...
If you remember, last Monday, we found out Ali has never been to Atlantic City before and planned a weekend up there so we can take Ali up to see what poker is like in the Trop. So we planned right after Pink this past Friday, we would go straight to Atlantic City...and we sure did!
Pink lasted till 9AM with the game ending playing POT LIMIT Omaha Hi/Holdem'. Yes the game was sick.
Then we went straight to AC...Ok I cheated and fell asleep on the ride up, but Travis just knew I wasn't going to sleep after we arrived...he was right...Jumped on a $1-$2 NL Table when we arrived and never saw the room except for the time I took a break and a shower sunday morning, my head never touching the bed, and we left AC around 6:30PM Sunday Afternoon.
So I was sat in the high limit area and played some $1-$2 NL when we arrived. Wow, I just knew I was still running bad...I got in the game for $200 bucks. I folded my first hand, and my 2nd hand in I looked down to KK. "Raise! $12 bucks" from mid position. I get 3 callers for the ride and we see a flop. K73r. Sweet, check, I check, and the chick goes all in for $75 bucks or something small like that, "Raise," I say..."$175" before I can stack my chips 5 high, 7 in a row next to each other, I see the dude's cards go to the muck...Heads up...I don't turn my cards over till I see im drawing to 1 out...7 rolls off the turn and she turns her flopped set of 7s over and screams "Yes" I flip my Kings over at that time and say Nice Hand Baby and ship her the pot. "I stand up and say to Keenan 1 table over...Typical 1-outter scenario for me...Its starting already...I sit back down and tip the dealer $2 bucks for a nice hand....MF'er LOL...George's shift starts and I see him and say hello and says he'll see about a 2-way game starting before I can even ask him! We get a $5-$10 game started with a full kill for Omaha H/L...the Game was Omaha H/L and Stud H/L changing games at every dealer change...before switching over to that game, I managed to make an $80 dollar profit from the $1-$2 NL game and take my stack over to the $5-$10 game to play a non-holdem game for a while.
Game runs nicely till we all get hungry and the game got stupid when it was all the locals from our circuit only playing the game, game broke when we all get up to get some food at the cafe' and I leave $80 stuck from my original $200 buy in when we first get there...Mind you I did run my stack to a little over $400 during the course of starting the session and playing the 2 way game till we ate...so the loss felt a little bigger to me after walking to the cage $80 light of my original buy in, $280+ bucks short at the peak of my stack.
Dinner was quite interesting, I wonder if the folks sitting across from out table just knew how much of degenerates we are. They probably over heard our conversation that went something like this. Travis comes up with, all 7 of us will give $10 cash to leave for tip...but $70 bucks was too much for a tip to the waiter, so lets cut that in half...$35 bucks goes to the person that can guess closer to the exact price of our bill without going over. OOOOH Lets play!!!! We get loud and excited and we go around the table guessing what the bill is going to be...I guessed $142 bucks, Eric says, $142.01...well god damn, the waiter comes out with the check...$142.36....Eric freeroll's dinner....all conversations stoped at the table next to ours and I looked up and all they heads are turned to us when we announce what the price was and who won the bet. I thought it was pretty funny.
Head back to the poker room and I get seated at a $1-$2 NL Table over in the Simulcast area...Table broke and I'm $170 profit from my $200 buy in, I pocket my profit when the table breaks and sit at Katie's table starting off with just $200 from when my last table broke...and I pretty much planted my ass here till Sunday Night when we left...only leaving to take a break when I took a shower and got my stuff before it was check out time.
Wow I'm down to my last $65 bucks and played uber-tight till I ran my stack back to a little over $125 and started playing some poker again when my only bet is not a raise-all in on the flop...
Super Drunk Guy is just dropping chips back and forth to the I call every hand down to the river guy...he honest to God saw 98.5% of his hands and running it down to the river and scoop the pot, his stack was huge just like the drunk guy's stack...after being able to get a normal stack, I was able to help those to guys leak there chips into my stack helping me build my stack...after time goes, I end up being 2nd in chips, the game got sick at one point playing like a $2-$5 game, but how often do you not see a $1-$2 NL game play like its supposed too....buy I end up bringing up my stack to over $750 from $65 bucks....I was definately 2nd in chips next to the solid player that was sitting at the table long before I showed up.
But there is 1 hand that I will definately never forget. He was the last person at the table I wanted to get mixed up in a hand with because he was the only person that could felt me if we had to go to blows....While opinions differ from how the hand played out and the actions that should've taken...Let me tell you all about this hand and you can leave what you think....
I have been playing solid, good poker, In the midst of a nice heater...I have definately gained the respect of the table...Now Chip leader of the table has been playing very solid...he was definately one of the best players on the table.
6 of us limp for $2 bucks and when Solid Guy raises to $15 in the SB and he picked up 3 callers with me being 2nd to act. I look down to 6sTs and call the $15 (Yes I know what am I doing calling the raise from the solid guy in the first place...but remember I felt I was still on the heater)
Flop: 7h8h9c
Whoa...I flopped the 2nd nut straight...he leads out $15 into a $57 pot and I stick $65 on top of his $15, folds to the 3rd hitch hiker and its solid guys action...he thinks and re-raises me to $200.....wow, I wasn't expecting that..what do I do...I appologize to the table for the time im taking and I was in the tank a while too....I gave him credit for not raising TJ from the SB, but wasn't 100% sure...I don't think he is making a play with a set....He can only have a big draw...I'm assuming along with actually playing TJ...the only thing is a big heart draw which I raised in the first place so he won't go chasing some flushy hand....I flip over my cards and show my straight just so I can get his reaction and to let the table know I'm not taking my time with some stupid type hand...I wanted them to know I flopped my straight. Not only that, I was thinking of what is going to happen on the turn/river...Do I play back at him and mush my stack? If he has TJ, I'm going to get felted...I'm pretty sure if I just call the $200, im going to have to put my stack in on the turn when he shoves all in which I believe he will HAVE to do...So what do I have to do?
He showed me his hand after the hand....but if you leave in the comments what do you do in that situation, im interested to see what you all do...
I also met Shabbir at the Trop...He is a reader of my Blog, If I got your name wrong, my fault dude, after such a long session, my brain is dead and I honestly can't remember your buddy's name either...But I just wanted to mention that it was cool to actually meet someone from outside our circuit that reads my blog! Oh, I also met "Import" Steve at Travis' game...He is from Indianapolis and he was in town for business and stopped by Travis' game on wednesday! It was really great to meet all of you and look forward to meeting more that actually read this thing!
Well It felt good to have a winning session and go to AC and not come home broke! Gained some of my confidence back and I guess I'll put it to the test on Wednesday...most likely on Monday as well for my $1-$2 NL Game!
Damn I had a good time this weekend!!
I just walked in the door, put my stuff down, and I'm kinda awake after a LONG POKER WEEKEND at the Trop!
Um...I didn't go to Travis' Game last wednesday...I did deal all night at Steve's Fish Tank Thursday, Got home in time to do laundry before picking up Cheyenne from her mother's house and take her to school...mind you she had a half day so I had to wake up afterwards (dealing Steve's game) at 11:45AM to be in time to pick her up and drop her off at her moms place and start getting stuff for the Pink game Friday Night which leaves no nap time...
If you remember, last Monday, we found out Ali has never been to Atlantic City before and planned a weekend up there so we can take Ali up to see what poker is like in the Trop. So we planned right after Pink this past Friday, we would go straight to Atlantic City...and we sure did!
Pink lasted till 9AM with the game ending playing POT LIMIT Omaha Hi/Holdem'. Yes the game was sick.
Then we went straight to AC...Ok I cheated and fell asleep on the ride up, but Travis just knew I wasn't going to sleep after we arrived...he was right...Jumped on a $1-$2 NL Table when we arrived and never saw the room except for the time I took a break and a shower sunday morning, my head never touching the bed, and we left AC around 6:30PM Sunday Afternoon.
So I was sat in the high limit area and played some $1-$2 NL when we arrived. Wow, I just knew I was still running bad...I got in the game for $200 bucks. I folded my first hand, and my 2nd hand in I looked down to KK. "Raise! $12 bucks" from mid position. I get 3 callers for the ride and we see a flop. K73r. Sweet, check, I check, and the chick goes all in for $75 bucks or something small like that, "Raise," I say..."$175" before I can stack my chips 5 high, 7 in a row next to each other, I see the dude's cards go to the muck...Heads up...I don't turn my cards over till I see im drawing to 1 out...7 rolls off the turn and she turns her flopped set of 7s over and screams "Yes" I flip my Kings over at that time and say Nice Hand Baby and ship her the pot. "I stand up and say to Keenan 1 table over...Typical 1-outter scenario for me...Its starting already...I sit back down and tip the dealer $2 bucks for a nice hand....MF'er LOL...George's shift starts and I see him and say hello and says he'll see about a 2-way game starting before I can even ask him! We get a $5-$10 game started with a full kill for Omaha H/L...the Game was Omaha H/L and Stud H/L changing games at every dealer change...before switching over to that game, I managed to make an $80 dollar profit from the $1-$2 NL game and take my stack over to the $5-$10 game to play a non-holdem game for a while.
Game runs nicely till we all get hungry and the game got stupid when it was all the locals from our circuit only playing the game, game broke when we all get up to get some food at the cafe' and I leave $80 stuck from my original $200 buy in when we first get there...Mind you I did run my stack to a little over $400 during the course of starting the session and playing the 2 way game till we ate...so the loss felt a little bigger to me after walking to the cage $80 light of my original buy in, $280+ bucks short at the peak of my stack.
Dinner was quite interesting, I wonder if the folks sitting across from out table just knew how much of degenerates we are. They probably over heard our conversation that went something like this. Travis comes up with, all 7 of us will give $10 cash to leave for tip...but $70 bucks was too much for a tip to the waiter, so lets cut that in half...$35 bucks goes to the person that can guess closer to the exact price of our bill without going over. OOOOH Lets play!!!! We get loud and excited and we go around the table guessing what the bill is going to be...I guessed $142 bucks, Eric says, $142.01...well god damn, the waiter comes out with the check...$142.36....Eric freeroll's dinner....all conversations stoped at the table next to ours and I looked up and all they heads are turned to us when we announce what the price was and who won the bet. I thought it was pretty funny.
Head back to the poker room and I get seated at a $1-$2 NL Table over in the Simulcast area...Table broke and I'm $170 profit from my $200 buy in, I pocket my profit when the table breaks and sit at Katie's table starting off with just $200 from when my last table broke...and I pretty much planted my ass here till Sunday Night when we left...only leaving to take a break when I took a shower and got my stuff before it was check out time.
Wow I'm down to my last $65 bucks and played uber-tight till I ran my stack back to a little over $125 and started playing some poker again when my only bet is not a raise-all in on the flop...
Super Drunk Guy is just dropping chips back and forth to the I call every hand down to the river guy...he honest to God saw 98.5% of his hands and running it down to the river and scoop the pot, his stack was huge just like the drunk guy's stack...after being able to get a normal stack, I was able to help those to guys leak there chips into my stack helping me build my stack...after time goes, I end up being 2nd in chips, the game got sick at one point playing like a $2-$5 game, but how often do you not see a $1-$2 NL game play like its supposed too....buy I end up bringing up my stack to over $750 from $65 bucks....I was definately 2nd in chips next to the solid player that was sitting at the table long before I showed up.
But there is 1 hand that I will definately never forget. He was the last person at the table I wanted to get mixed up in a hand with because he was the only person that could felt me if we had to go to blows....While opinions differ from how the hand played out and the actions that should've taken...Let me tell you all about this hand and you can leave what you think....
I have been playing solid, good poker, In the midst of a nice heater...I have definately gained the respect of the table...Now Chip leader of the table has been playing very solid...he was definately one of the best players on the table.
6 of us limp for $2 bucks and when Solid Guy raises to $15 in the SB and he picked up 3 callers with me being 2nd to act. I look down to 6sTs and call the $15 (Yes I know what am I doing calling the raise from the solid guy in the first place...but remember I felt I was still on the heater)
Flop: 7h8h9c
Whoa...I flopped the 2nd nut straight...he leads out $15 into a $57 pot and I stick $65 on top of his $15, folds to the 3rd hitch hiker and its solid guys action...he thinks and re-raises me to $200.....wow, I wasn't expecting that..what do I do...I appologize to the table for the time im taking and I was in the tank a while too....I gave him credit for not raising TJ from the SB, but wasn't 100% sure...I don't think he is making a play with a set....He can only have a big draw...I'm assuming along with actually playing TJ...the only thing is a big heart draw which I raised in the first place so he won't go chasing some flushy hand....I flip over my cards and show my straight just so I can get his reaction and to let the table know I'm not taking my time with some stupid type hand...I wanted them to know I flopped my straight. Not only that, I was thinking of what is going to happen on the turn/river...Do I play back at him and mush my stack? If he has TJ, I'm going to get felted...I'm pretty sure if I just call the $200, im going to have to put my stack in on the turn when he shoves all in which I believe he will HAVE to do...So what do I have to do?
He showed me his hand after the hand....but if you leave in the comments what do you do in that situation, im interested to see what you all do...
I also met Shabbir at the Trop...He is a reader of my Blog, If I got your name wrong, my fault dude, after such a long session, my brain is dead and I honestly can't remember your buddy's name either...But I just wanted to mention that it was cool to actually meet someone from outside our circuit that reads my blog! Oh, I also met "Import" Steve at Travis' game...He is from Indianapolis and he was in town for business and stopped by Travis' game on wednesday! It was really great to meet all of you and look forward to meeting more that actually read this thing!
Well It felt good to have a winning session and go to AC and not come home broke! Gained some of my confidence back and I guess I'll put it to the test on Wednesday...most likely on Monday as well for my $1-$2 NL Game!
Damn I had a good time this weekend!!
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
$20 Deep Stack on Stars
It's been a while since I have final tabled a Multi-Table tournament online...maybe about a year or so...But on Poker Stars, I have never final tabled a MTT ever, so this is my first!
I took Cheyenne to school...and usually when I get home from dropping her off...I usually play a SnG or 2 before I go back to sleep...specially I know I will be having a long upcoming night...
So I jumped on Poker Stars and found a Deep Stack Tourney just about to start...so I jump in it for $20+$2...Deep Stack tournies you start with $5000 in chips and blinds are 30 minutes each...Blinds start at 10-20 so its a very slow moving tourney, you can actually play good cause you have alot of chips to splash around...
Merk mentioned to me on Friday its been a while since I have won or placed in a MTT so I decided I was not going to donkt around and play right...
The chips piled up...it was slow but I did it...won alot of small pots, couple big pots when I did play, never going in as an underdog and my hands hold up...Not 1 suck out the whole tourney and I didn't suck out on nobody during the whole thing...suprised I didn't have to take alot of coin flips or mush my stack in there alot during the course of the tourney...
Anyway, I final tabled the tourney after 7.5 hours of play...I'm already late pickin up Cheyenne from school...I wanted 1st place and shit, I could've used that money...it was paying close to 1,100 bucks...not bad for a 20 investment huh?
Well, I got 6th overall for about a 200 take home...My QQ's got sucked out on by J4d when he pushed all in as a short stacked, i re-raised all in to keep it heads up...and he runner-runner flushed me...to tease me a little...the river was a Qd
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1050042
Oh well...Next time I have some time, I'll get into another deepstack tourney.
I took Cheyenne to school...and usually when I get home from dropping her off...I usually play a SnG or 2 before I go back to sleep...specially I know I will be having a long upcoming night...
So I jumped on Poker Stars and found a Deep Stack Tourney just about to start...so I jump in it for $20+$2...Deep Stack tournies you start with $5000 in chips and blinds are 30 minutes each...Blinds start at 10-20 so its a very slow moving tourney, you can actually play good cause you have alot of chips to splash around...
Merk mentioned to me on Friday its been a while since I have won or placed in a MTT so I decided I was not going to donkt around and play right...
The chips piled up...it was slow but I did it...won alot of small pots, couple big pots when I did play, never going in as an underdog and my hands hold up...Not 1 suck out the whole tourney and I didn't suck out on nobody during the whole thing...suprised I didn't have to take alot of coin flips or mush my stack in there alot during the course of the tourney...
Anyway, I final tabled the tourney after 7.5 hours of play...I'm already late pickin up Cheyenne from school...I wanted 1st place and shit, I could've used that money...it was paying close to 1,100 bucks...not bad for a 20 investment huh?
Well, I got 6th overall for about a 200 take home...My QQ's got sucked out on by J4d when he pushed all in as a short stacked, i re-raised all in to keep it heads up...and he runner-runner flushed me...to tease me a little...the river was a Qd
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1050042
Oh well...Next time I have some time, I'll get into another deepstack tourney.
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