Of course…

• …there’s no way to beat the game with such a huge short-term downswing.
• …there’s no way to ride out a cold-streak if ever god damn micro sng represents 10% of your roll.
• …it’s normal that you can lose every coin-flip short-term.
• …it’s normal that your opponent calls all-in with one card to come with any draw (ranging from 2 to 8 outs).
• …it’s normal that they hit each and everyone of these draws on the river.

That being said, of course I’m never ever ever coming back to “Full-Tilt-rape-my-asshole-all-day-every-day”-Poker unless one of two things happen:

1. I get a start-roll that is big enough that a donkey-SnG represents less than 5% of my roll at any given time.
2. A miracle happens.

Until then it’s bye bye and never see you again….FullTilt fuckers…and this time I mean it, mark my words!

So…I decided to make a comeback at FullTiltPoker tonight. I haven’t played there in months as I had the most horrific luck and totally busted out in a rare tilt-flash a few months back. So I decided to reload tonight to join Kat’s rebuy madness. Because the start of the tourney is so late (for me – 3am), I decided to kill some time donking around at the PlayMoney Horse-Tables…and to my surprise, after a few minutes, a red pro sat down. David Bradley, the stud specialists, joined the game and was quite chatty and all. Sure enough the table chatter was starting to fire up and the wait list grew. So I played a while and then gave my seat to another player…

So, then it was time to start the donkarama…and it started out like a charm. Rebuy. Rebuy. Rebuy. Quadruple up. Rebuy. Rebuy. Rebuy. Well, double-rebuys can really be a PITA quite quickly. So in the end I decided no to rebuy anymore after I had already rebought 15 times and my second real hand of the night (JJ) was obv cracked as I couldn’t dodge two overcards…too bad…the first time ever that I didn’t even last through the rebuy period…but honestly I didn’t see much point in dumping more chips and cash…enjoy the random pic dump and I’m outta here…

…okay okay, I’ve never ever been so pissed off. I kept my promise not to play a hand of poker over at stars…I didn’t keep my promise to not play at all though…log on to FullTilt and watch how your bankroll evaporates with beat after beat…unbelievable…the only mystery is why I didn’t log off before losing my whole bankroll on Full Tilt…I should have seen the bs coming…after all I got fucked over in each and every match today…highlight of the day: AQ vs K7…he pushes all-in with no pair no draw after the turn…I call with no pair but the best hand…river 7; even better: last match 30+1.5 NL headsup…my opponent is such a jerk telling me what a fish I am and yadda yadda…I chop him down to under 800…then the usual happens…limp…we see a flop of 654…I hold 64…I bet he pushes…I instacalls…he shows K6o…lol…nice!…turn blank…river 5…counterfeiting my two pair…and busto….ty Full Tilt…thank you online poker in general…you have bend me over and put a whole poker table up my rear-end for the last week…ty very much for all that…what a way to end the year…I’m out…and I’m not sure I’ll EVER play at Full Tilt again (I know that is small-minded as such a bad run can happen, but still, I feel like I’ve been cheated…cheated by luck, by FullTilt, by the bs rng, by everyone….in the end it comes down to this: I GOT UNLUCKY…boohoo….still hurts like hell and if FullTilt was a person I would smack the shit out of him… ;))

I didn’t intend to play poker at all today, but I couldn’t miss Al’s birthday rebuy madness…so why not…let’s just say it ended in utter frustration. Nothing better than to play 2hours of poker, build your stack up up and up…then get burned by two fugly plays. First…Sox pops my SB…I repop him with TT…he pushes…easy call fellows…he shows KQo…errm yeah, nice push there, especially as I didn’t play all that many hands…not many at all, but I guess that doesn’t matter…I think I don’t need to comment any further on this one…either you’re dead with that hand, dominated, or in a flip at best…sure enough I lose the flip, so instead of 30k I’m sitting with 10k….next stop…how to lose with As8s against 2s3s….min-raise preflop…true that’s a ghey play on my part, but I was still a little tilted about the fucking KQo hand. Flop comes A35. I lead out…call…turn is another 3….push comes to shove and although I got the sick feeling that I’m beat, I still call…because I can’t believe that someone would have stuck along with a 3 there all that time, come on I raised UTG and I’ve shown nothing but the best hand in a long time…but as things were, I was right (and wrong)…23 s000000000ted good enough for a call preflop and postflop…gin on the turn and you got my money. Still a fucking donk play IMHO, sorry, I don’t feel like being courteous here….I’m out of here…steamed up…fucking donk hands, keep peeling it off for them in crucial pots…so sick…

Log on to Stars, play NL HE headsup and lose, lose, lose, win, lose. No matter if you put your money in 50/50, 60/40, 80/20…lose lose lose…

Next stop, FullTilt, Friday night blogger rebuy donkament. Play like crap…get lucky twice sucking out back-to-back straights, once with the hammer, which was obv g00t. After that catch no break whatsoever. Push in with Ax vs KX four times, win exactly 0. Push in with KX vs Ax and win exactly 0. Fitting enough that one of the above was my exit after Island rivered a ten on me (JT vs my QJ)…that was basically the end right there…I guess I should have pushed on the flop, but the way I was running tonight one of my opponents would have had the ace, no doubt 😉

Random fugly pic dump…:

The only good when it comes to poker was that my question about chosing the hammer for his “donkey bomber outfit” was asked on anteup episode 119…big shoutout to Scott and Chris, keep up the good work! I’m outta here…

Well, well…made it back just in time from our little drink-fest to join the rebuy madness festivities…no joy though as I couldn’t catch a break…no matter if worst hand or best hand, I managed to lose 99% of them…so…I decided to quit after slightly over half an hour…at least I donated the buyin + 14 rebuys to the donk-community…no three-peat…oh well…cya all next week…

Short random pic dump…

Wheeeeeeeeee….another week, another rebuy donkfest proudly presented by Kat. and another King of Rebuy Donks title for me (third overall). Back-to-back baby! Next stop three-peat 😉

The play is mostly a blur, I just know three things:

1. I didn’t win a single coin-flip during the whole tournament (0/4)…until I won one…in the last hand…99 vs AQ…flop 9….and I’m the champ

2. I sucked out in a major pot during the rebuy period…jackAce s00ted against AK against AK…I flop the nuts (diamond flush)…that hand really catapulted me into the tourney…

3. It’s good to hold the best hand when the money goes in for a HUGE pot. It feels even better when it holds up…(two big hands on the final table were KK vs JJ all-in preflop….and K8 vs KQ…all-in postflop on a K8x board….)

Alrighty…I’m out…time to catch some sleep…enjoy the random pic dump….

King of Rebuy Donks (TM) is my official title for the night. After a brutal session of PLO(8) at Stars, where boat over boat and stuff was the norm, I played Kat‘s rebuy madness tonight, after missing it last week for the first time in ages. After nothing much going on early, I was able to chip up in the middle stages and just when I thought I was golden, I got kicked in the junk. I hold TT on the button and I’ve folded hand after hand after hand. It’s IG’s BB and I pop it, she repops and I insta-push. Now, I see that not all players might pay attention to “small details” at all times, but how can you instacall with 77 there. Now, I usually don’t comment on people’s play like that, but that hand really put me down. Alright, 77, a pair, but even if I was making a move with two face cards or something, you’re probably only on a flip. But oh well, 7 on the flop and I’m down to 4k.

I push a few hands later with KQ and get called by K8…my hand holds up. A few hands later I push again with TT and get called again…Jx…Jack on the flop and I’m ready to pack it up for the night, but no…runner runner straight….wheeeeee. At that point fluxer was the overwhelming chipleader, while the other four (including me) were fighting over the remaining chips. He really put on a clinic on how to play big stack poker. I went on a little rush and knocked out player after player after player and once we were down to headsup I was slightly less than a 4:1 chip-dog. That all changed once the first cooler came down (TP for fluxer….trips for me on a paired board). I gave the chips back a few hands later with the same thing (me TP…trips for fluxer)…then the crucial hand came down…JJ vs KQs…I flop the set and it holds up and I’m 4:1. Way to go…I won it a few hands later and reclaimed my seat a top the donkey rebuy world. Sweet….big shout out to fluxer who really deserved to win and he probably would have if the flip had gone the other way…but that’s the way it goes…let me just do a random pic dump before I finally go to sleep…make sure you scroll a little as the hands are pretty sick…especially the one with a flopped royal flush, got any percentages for that?!

Well, well…did a little PLO8 HU SnG session today and while I finished ahead, it was still a little sick in the middle. In the end I had won 5 out of 9 matches, but I felt like it could have/should have been more like 6 or 7 wins…but I can’t help it if none of my monster-draws come through in such crucial hands. The other two matches I lost were fair and square, although mildly sick as well. AKQ2 double suited vs AKKQ…pretty sick…flop K99…cya…lol…

Then it was time for some donkalicious poker in Kat’s friday night rebuy madness and boy oh boy, it was madness. I’ve never been so card-dead ever. In a rebuy event, this doesn’t really matter early on, but it kind of sucks if you don’t get a hand in ages and you push and push and push and the best hand (your opponent’s hand) holds up every friggin time, how sick is that?!

Played 169 hands and had exactly four pocket pairs: 88 flopped a set against Ace rag and doubled up. 22 on the button had to fold to heavy action before it came around to me. 77 pushed, no caller….and my final hand presto != gold if you’re up against K6 s00ted…gg me…apart from that I had AJ once and AK once (both right after the first break). Besides that, nothing…and even if I had something (like the second nut flush) someone would have the better hand (e.g. nut flush) and don’t even get me started on draws…straight and flush draw with a pair…no g00t…flush draw…obv no g00t…etc etc…all in all a really shitty night (card wise), at least I had a good time at the tables with Acorn, Mookie and the others…cya all next week…when I’ll try to redeem myself and take less than 16 rebuys… 😉

*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…
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