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Still running good… 2007-08-07 20:22:36 …wait, not really. *lol* Post about last weekends live play still pending, it should be an interesting post, but I didn’t get around to writing it as I was too annoyed over the weekend and didn’t have much time so far this week, but it is coming… Tonight I just played a few matches and all was good in razz, but once I opened the first NL HE headsup SnG the usual went down…money in on the turn…opponent has got the whole 5 (+3) outs and river is…oh well… I’m out… ...

The story of the sickness 2007-08-03 22:37:42 *lol* it’s once again well past 5am…so just a quick wrapup…perfect record on Stars today, 2/2…then it was time for the rebuy madness and things started of shitty, then everything went well…until shit hit the fan again….TT vs AQ to lose half my stack…then the good old KK vs AJ s00ted….oh well…the usual….two plus hours of poker fun and the inevitable junk kick…so sick…oh well…I guess KK is going to be my official bustout hand for the donkament from now on… Random pic dump: ...

Donkmaha-tastic 2007-07-28 22:10:29 Well, well…today was the official donkmaha errm Omaha day. Played some headsup matches in PLO both on Stars and Tilt and despite hitting some quads and what not (not getting payed off because the deck is crippled), my opponents managed to felt me each and every time. 4 matches, 4 big Ls. Beautiful. Money goes in on the flop or turn every time and they’re in “very good” shape every single time: 2outs, 4outs, 6outs, 4outs….against my made hands (two pair or better, usually with at least 6 redraw outs)…but oh well…I guess they were praying in front of the donk mahal or something… ...

Jx is the new nuts… 2007-07-27 22:14:12 Really had a good time in tonight’s rebuy donkfest…our table was crazy…all-in all-in all-in…pretty uneventful early on…won the first hand with the worst hand…up to 6k or something….soon enough down to 0…rebuy…0…rebuy…0….rebuy….0…you get the idea. Finally chipped up again…then lost a huge pot….QQ vs 99 vs 88…river 8 gives MiamiDon a set and the other guy a straight….heeehaaaw….so instead of 25k I sit with 5k… After the break, addon. After that pretty uneventful again, sometimes makes you wonder how many times you can get K5o facing a raise and or reraise….quick answer: a lot. Doubled up one final time with KK vs 33….after that mostly card dead again…then finally pushed the tourist into QQ…turned straight over straight…cya in 12th just before the second break….I guess I could have waited a while longer to make ...

Baby steps 2007-07-25 21:23:27 The decision to take a few days off was really good. Tonight I came back to the game and there was no tension or anything at all. I just sat down and played. If I win I win, if I lose I lose. Maybe changing up a little added to that feeling of calmness, too. I didn’t play the “high pressure” formats (six-handed and headsup), I played a 45ppl SnG instead, something that I hadn’t done in a loooong time. It worked out pretty well, too. Never lost my patience, which is pretty hard playing against such a load of loose donks in a turbo format, but I did it. I made the final table and when we were down to four (7ppl ITM), I was the shortest stack. I’m in the BB which is 1.2k at the time and I’ve got 5.8k behind. UTG folds…button raises to 4.8k. SB folds…action is on me…I’ve got a 49o… Thought process: He’s on the button and could have ATC, I’ve probably got two live cards, I’ve got roughly 7k in total, tha ...

Live, online, doesn’t matter 2007-07-22 10:19:04 These days, I can’t catch a break, whether it’s live or online. Played a little live crapshoot (8 minute levels) yesterday. My best hand was 66…won a multi-limped pot preflop. Then it was fold fold fold again until I pick up jackAce…I push from LP with 12BB…BB calls with AQo…flop QTx…turn gives me the nut-flush draw to go along with the gutterball…river blank and I’m gigli. So fugly. Today, I decide to play a little online again and the same shit as usual goes down…runner runner two pair counterfeit and I’m busto in the first match (money went in on the turn…my opponent drawing mighty slim with his monster 8J for top pair jack kicker, river pairs the board). In the next one my opponent loves his connectors (45) which outflop me beautifully…and busto. I’m so sick of this…as I can’t catch a break, I’m going to take one… ...

Rollercoaster Rebuy 2007-07-20 21:46:11 Tonight was a real rollercoaster in the rebuy donkfest and at the headsup tables, well not that much at the headsup tables, it was more or less crash and burn. Rebuy: Start out with 1k…push in first five to six hands…up to 8k…a little while later…0…a little while later…10k….a little while later 3k….and then it’s crash and burn in seventh. Oh well…didn’t have any “premium cards”, dropped two hammers, biggest pair 55, lost 16k pot with KQ to QJ….lost the final hand with QJ vs KQ…fitting…random pic dump, this time no hand dumps, just a random pic dump… Curious sidenotes: Only 10 runners Final table within the first 30 minutes Some players just don’t get the rebuy donkarama blogger donkfest’s first hour, 5% flops seen, are you kidding me? Headsup play: Only played two, the first one was HORSE and my opponent was really lucky early on in Hold’em. I surv ...

Word of the week 2007-07-19 20:10:33 Presented by (pot)limit games united, the word of the week: Ridonkulous - to start out with a clearly inferior starting hand, preferrably board-locked when playing any form of stud, and hitting perfect cards to pull out an unlikely win. That’s what happened for the most part today, people so eager to chase as if there was no tomorrow. Oh well…didn’t bug me too much though as I knew I would eventually catch them…and that’s exactly what happened in 3 out of five matches. Too bad donks, luck can only get you soooo far. Headsup stats of the day: NL: 0/1 PLO8: 1/2 PLO: 1/1 Razz 1/1 ...

Back to the roots 2007-07-18 21:49:36 Decided to stick to my plan today and play only a little at FullTilt. As Hold’em, especially headsup, is treating me so bad these days, I decided to start out with some “old school” stuff, PLO8. That is one of my favourite games and after reading about it in FullTilt’s Strategy Guide again, I felt the urge to play a little. Headsup PLO8 can be brutal, but on the other hand really rewarding, especially if your opponent doesn’t understand the basic concepts (e.g. lock on low with counterfeit protection and a high draw….bet the living jeebus out of the pot; don’t chase, unless you got a lot of outs to make THE NUTS; etc). Won two out of two. Then I jumped over to a little razz and really enjoyed it, until the blinds got huge. Lovely if you start with three to a wheel, got four to the wheel by fourth street and brick up on fifth, sixth and seventh street. Lovely! Oh well… After that one I jumped over to some NL Hold’em action and it w ...

SOOL 2007-07-17 19:32:36 Shit out of luck, that’s how I feel on Stars these days. No matter how good, mediocre or bad I play a hand, I’m going to lose it if it’s a big pot. Now, it’s a given fact that you’re going to lose some matches due to errors, but it seems that I tend to lose the matches in the following order: 1. Getting unlucky. 2. Cooler. 3. Error. It’s really frustrating to say the least. Today’s session had it all again, from the usual coolers (JJ vs KK, 77 vs QQ, AT vs AQ, etc) to the outright bs hands (QQ vs 62o overpair vs bottom pair…bottom pair obv good by the river when he hits his bs “kicker”, 56 vs 45 two pair vs straight draw…..gutter ball obv good). So sick I could puke. Unreal how bad I’ve been running the last few days, it’s not even funny. I had a look at some of the more “entertaining” hands and there’s a small error percentage on my part as far as I can tell - e.g. “slow playing&rdq ...

Heeehaaaw…please call me down with third pair 2007-07-16 18:45:32 So beautiful. I really managed to walk into every god damn donkey there is on Stars. Even third pair was good enough to call me down on straight and flush heavy boards with overcards galore…didn’t matter. At least I managed to lose only some chips to get the valuable information that my opponents wouldn’t fold ANY pair. Good stuff, unless you get so card dead that you miss the flop 17 times in a row. So beautiful. After that I managed to push A9 into AJ, AT into AQ, AQ into AK…all headsup…pretty hawesome. All in all I managed to pull out one W in four matches. After that I jumped over to Full Tilt and played some Razz and NL headsup. Managed to win both although it seemed that I wouldn’t. In the Razz one it was brutal. Start with the best hand, brick out. Start with the best hand, brick out. So I had him down to 300 three times before I was finally able to bust him. So sick. Oh well…at least I did win in the end…still makes me want t ...

What a shitty sunday 2007-07-15 21:29:18 Boy, what a shitty sunday. First you wake up and the sun is shining, you feel good and it seems that it’s just your average lazy sunday. Then shit hits the fan. After feeling not so well yesterday, my father felt even worse today, developing a higher and higher fever during the day. This afternoon the doctor had to call the ambulance to take him to the hospital. After driving my mom to the hospital and waiting and waiting, we were finally able to see him. After getting some infusions and what not he was feeling a little bit better, no word from the doctor about a diagnosis though…that’ll have to wait until tomorrow I guess…he has to spend the night in hospital. Damn. After that I really didn’t want to play any poker today, but as I didn’t feel like sleeping yet, I decided to play at least one SnG. Why did I even bother. Eliminate some donk and cripple another by pushing KK (vs ace rag x 2) - check. Losing cooler a few hands later - check. Oh well&h ...

Friday the 13th 2007-07-13 19:02:12 Superstitious? Not me…I guess that’s partly to attribute that my father was born on a friday the 13th. But back to poker content. After spending all day setting up the stuff for tomorrow’s football+drinking tournament (you play 2 against 2 and everybody is drinking heavily) I decided to play a little poker. The first six-handed SnG was a blast, wait, not really. Within the first orbit I lose two thirds of my stack with JJ against the mighty Q9o…I pop it to 6BB in the BB…LP decides that this is a good opportunity to call…flop comes 79T…not bad…I bet the pot…he calls…turn is a beautiful 9….I lead out again….he calls. A blank hits the river and I decide to a little defensive bet. He calls…flips over his monster Q9o and drags the pot….nice play sir, especially the call preflop and on the flop…and even nice the flat-calls on the turn and especially the river…no reraise? *lol* you&rs ...

Quick roundup 2007-07-12 20:51:49 I took a little break from my usual headsup routine yesterday. I decided to hit up some of favourite tilting games, namely Razz and PLO8. I pretty much annihilated my opponents in Razz and got some favourable hands and flops in PLO8. One guy killed me in Razz though, it was unreal. I won 80% of the pots, but every time a really big pot came down he got lucky on me. Sometimes you tend to exaggerate in such situation, but no, he won every single big pot starting with a worst hand catching at least peferct-perfect (once even perfect-perfect-perfect) to beat my made hands. Really frustrating, but that’s part of the game and at least I could yell my good ol’ Razz/Stud mantra in the chat: Brick brick brick really makes me sick. Today I mixed play up a little. I played four headsup matches, won two of em. Then I played a six-handed SnG and finished in second. The crucial hand came down still four handed: I was the big stack and there were three smaller stacks (one under 1k, one wi ...

PokerStars WCOOP announced 2007-07-09 21:25:44 PokerStars just announced this year’s World Championship of Online Poker… Sep.14 (15:00) NL Hold’em [6-max] $215 $400,000 Sep.14 (16:30) PL 5-Card Draw $215 $100,000   *** Sep.15 (15:00) PL Omaha [6-max] $215 $200,000 Sep.15 (16:30) 2-7 Triple Draw $215 $100,000 Sep.16 (16:30) NL Hold’em $530 $2,000,000 Sep.17 (15:00) PL Omaha w/Rebuys $320 $400,000 Sep.18 (15:00) Limit Hold’em $215 $100,000 Sep.19 (15:00) Limit Omaha H/L $530 $300,000 Sep.20 (15:00) NL Hold’em w/Rebuys $215 $1,000,000 Sep.21 (15:00) NL Hold’em Match Play $320 $500,000 Sep.21 (16:30) Razz $215 $100,000   *** Sep.22 (15:00) HORSE $215 $200,000   *** Sep.22 (16:30) PL Hold’em $530 $400,000 Sep.23 (16:30) NL Hold’em $1,050 $2,000,000 Sep.24 (15:00) 7 Card Stud $320 $100,000 Sep.25 (15:00) PL Omaha H/L $320 $200,000 Sep.26 (15:00) NL Hold’em [6-max] $320 $400,000   *** Sep.27 (15:00) 7 Card Stud H/L $530 $200,000 Sep.28 (15:00) PL Omaha $530 $300,000 Se ...