Today was one of these days where there is a sick hand, then another one, then an even sicker one. The difference today though was my reaction to it. Instead of getting angry at “the dealer”, myself or my opponent I just shrugged it off, laughed and continued to play my game – after all I want my opponents to put their money in, all of it, when drawing thin. That being said, I quit small winner today…below some of the finer hands that went down…sometimes it really depends on when the money went in, take the 88 vs AA hand below for example: sure, best in best out, but when all the money went in – on the flop – he was drawing nearly stone dead…but hey…what can you do when you flop gin…put it in, hope for it to hold – this time it didn’t, the next 8-9 times it should 😉

Good luck at the tables…

…it seems that staying away from the game for a little while didn’t change my “luck”…at all. Too bad, but oh well, I guess I’ll still play some on the weekend…enjoy the latest and greatest hand, which made me log off immediately again…it was the first and last match of the day….enjoy…and yes, I owe you at least half a dollar for the pic…

….start with the worst hand and go all-in. 😆

I’m back biotches, even if it’s just for a quick rant. Played the first poker in a week and started off nicely. Won my first two HU SnGs and then it went south….waaaaay south…like below the equator south. I mean, it was just brutal and after a few crushing defeats I was not 100% on my game anymore. I guess I payed off a little too much, but honestly, how can it be that my opponent has got the me crushed post-flop all the time while he’s waaaay behind preflop (examples: would be T8o against my QQ (the first and only time I got action on any big hand) sure enough the flop is ten high, sure enough we get it in…sure enough he has trips when all is said and done, or the good ole turned gutshot straight calling the preflop raise and the big flop bet with the gutterball only, etc etc). In the end I couldn’t take it anymore so I logged off with a bad taste in my mouth.

I guess real poker content, filled with screenshots, will have to wait a few days…I’m off to cologne and then munich on business trips…so it could be a while…until then gl at the tables and remember: the worst-tilter isn’t the cold-deck, it’s your reaction to it…

As you may have noticed my poker adventures were kept to a minimum in recent weeks. Today I climbed back into the saddle and hit the tables hard. The only bad thing was that they hit me back even harder. I’m not going to start an excessive rant here, I’ll just say that I lost every single key hand going in anywhere from 70% to 90% favourite. It was FUGLY and in the end it was only fitting that my opponent hit his three outer, again for all the marbles. So I logged off to write this little mini-post to tell you that I’m still alive and playing poker, although not that regularly anymore, especially not late-night as my new job requires me to get up in the morning 😉

So I’m outta here to watch the Klitschko fight…gl at the tables everyone….

…especially if you’re in the middle of the worst session in ages: priceless. I’m still too irritated to even grasp what just happened to me and I won’t even dive into telling bad beat story after bad beat story as I don’t want to pay all my readers extra dollars adding insult to injury. All in all I stop playing at least four SnGs too late…still should have won some of those, but it was not to be…these days no pair no draw and being dominated is virtual gold…so I’m off to clean out my mouth as I puked in it just now…and I can guarantee you that I won’t be back for a few days…it’s reached the point again where I just can’t take it anymore…it’s one thing that the donks get insanely lucky in consecutive matches against me, but then starting to talk trash? Not my cup of tea…especially not if I’m in the middle of bad beat city where even a 90+% advantage is enough to win a decisive hand….I’m outta here…best of luck to the rest of you…and you’ll see me when I’m back (don’t know when that’ll be…but don’t expect me back this week)…

Just a quick session today as there was a lot of football going on tonight, first a friendly game played at our field (won 2-1), then a friendly game of our national team against belgium (won 2-0). I decided to get a little HORSEy tonight…and I was able to bust one, lose one. Then I jump into a DS to the sunday million and I get kicked in the junk. First this sucker rivers a flush with his KQs against my AKs…then he busts me with QQ. How did that hand go down? He raises preflop. I call with Kx. Why do I call there, because I know that if I hit the flop he will pay me off, easy as that. Flop comes down KJx. Not the joint, but hey. I check. He bets pot….I repop him all-in (he got me covered by a few chips). Instacall. What does he have? QQ. Nicely played sir, thank you for stacking off. Turn Q. Nevermind….I’m outta here…gl at the tables everyone….

If you think of an action-junkie game, what games come to mind? Yeah, anything along the lines of PLO. The real poker crack is PLO8 though. Why? Because it seems that many ppl are addicted to it, but got no clue that it’s harming them. Still they want more and they keep donating and donating in the process of getting their PLO8 fix. Fine by me…I enjoyed the donations tonight. To mix things up I threw in one of the 4 player HU matches and some normal headsup matches. I won all but one. So I’m out with a smile tonight, although there were moments where I would have loved to bitchslap my opponent for making such a stupid play and of course getting rewarded for it. Then again you come to realize that that sort of wrong enforcement learning is what keeps the donks at the tables spewing chips, feeling like the world champ on their occasional win and in the end donating to the community on a regular basis. Alrighty, enough babbling…I’m outta here…gl at the tables everyone…

…when ppl get “lucky” over and over and then think they outplayed you…it was pretty brutal today and I really didn’t like the way some ppl start acting once they sucked out on you in a big pot….obv they defend their play, after all they wouldn’t have made it if they had any sense to begin with. At least I was able to finish the session on a high note cracking aces with T2o…I feel like Doyle Brunson….ahhh….not really….I love the way he played his aces though. Check the BB preflop. I flop the joint and check. He bets half the pot. I call. Turn is a blank..I check…he bets half the pot. I call. River is a king. I push…he insta-calls probably thinking he trapped me perfectly assuming that I have AK, KQ or similar….lol…at least he cried like a baby about the “bad beat”…gotta love that sometimes too. If you raise it preflop I might still call it (depending on the raise) and still get lucky, but at least you can say that you played the hand good. The way it went down, you made the decision to slow-play and it backfired…learn to live with it…I’m outta here…down a little, but not out….gl at the tables everyone…

…but it can be frustrating as well. I played a longer session by current standards, over 4h without a break. Nothing much going on either way, after 1MTT, 1DS and 10 SnGs I’m down 2 bucks…lol…snap. Oh well, at least I got myself into my favourite game again, a Stud H/L MTT…80 runners…almost 2h and I’m busto in 29th. It was a pretty sick run. Within the first 30 minutes I almost doubled up and was the chipleader. I was walking on water and pushing the edges…and it payed off. After that it was cooler town for the next hour. Gotta love it when you’re opponent gotta have perfect cards in the hole and/or catch them on 6th or 7th and does just that. Oh well…I managed to hang in there but couldn’t recover…in the end the antes were eating me alive so I had to push it, didn’t work out…oh well…I’m outta here…gl at the tables everyone….

…still not great though. Today I played a variety of games. Along with my bread and butter NL Hold’em, I played some HORSE as well…and a double shootout to the sunday million. I’m happy to report that I made that final table and busted out in the money…still sucks though as I lost most of my stack to a total donk on a flip (we both were short and he thought it was a good idea to call a third of his stack preflop with 86 s000ted)…I’m also happy to report that I totally busted my opponent in a HORSE headsup match….I’m not happy to report that I didn’t win a single flip today…that’s quite a few days in a row where I can’t win one (and yes I’m counting ;))…had exactly three flips today AhKh vs 88, lost that one, 44 vs 86s, lost that one, 55 vs A7…yeah…lost that one too. Oh well, at least I can log-off on a high winning my last HU match and the horse one…gl at the tables everyone….