rebuy madness

i havent been blogging for a couple days but here is an update
the last couple days i went on a rebuy mania and played a lot a mtts all flavors and buy ins
had one awfull run in the rebuys i think the worst was the 11us rebuys 45k gtd at stars i couldn get a stack early in the rebuy period no matter what hands i was shoving name it aa,kk,qq,jj, all lose on flop that was pretty sad

but there also positve things to report i placed in a couple mtts very close was the 20k one i came in 23th after losing aa to jj for my mtt life if i win this pot im in position to win the mtt but luck was not on my side so gg me

then i placed also in the 25k 27.50us but in came in 112th after having a straight beat on the river by a flush another gg me

it seems like always on the end i lose important races or when i am 70/30 to win i get suckt out thats who i lose 80% of the time late in mtts or the other 20% consist stupid calls or re steals i make hehe

i also managed to get itm in a couple 35ks and 25k rebuys but nothing big to report about it

i hit the draw tables and there is a couple of new players form europe man this game was juicy played some 1/2pl 2/4pl and did very well i havent had in a long time such a weak table and a lot a bluffing was going on there so i ended up after 894 hands 647us in+ so this was a good session in draw who payed for all my mtts and rebuys i blew the last days so i will go back to my usually plan
go get it in draw and donke it in mtts hahahahaahah just kidding

the next couple days i wll focus on some mayors events over the weekend starting with the sunday warm up and then i just keep registering until i have enough tables up my screen

i am also planing on going in 2 weeks to costa rica for a wps tournament they have there i love costa rica i used to live there for 2 years so i know my way around
and i think its a good chance to get mixed up in the latin american poker world and also the prize money is not bad either and i can imagine the fields are not as tough as they are in vegas so wish me luck in costa rica

monday 24th

today i woke up in the morning just about in time to get in the 20k gtd at stars so i decided to play it and see if il do better then sunday beacuse sunday was a disaster

and things started good i chpped up fast to 10k before 1 break and i was in my comfort zone to play big stack poker which turned out great i was playing a lot a hands and was raising also a lot if i got resistence i folded but this style is very efffective to accumulate chips so i was doing this until somebody would stop me of doing it remember that if teh table lets you abuse it JUST DO IT and dont look behind so i managed to go true 5 breaks and reach the final table but i went tottaly card dead on final table and was seeing only crap hands not even worth to steal

i had 92 twice in a row followed by 93o and next hand 82 i mean this was crazy so we where losing one after the other player thanks god i had accumulated a lot a chips so i could pay some blinds now in my cold streak and the first hand i saw who was worth a play i pushed all in AT 4 handed with 250k left or so and run in to jj so gg me in 4th for almost 1600us that made up for the bad sunday i got yesterday i played the35k on the side but was tired and wanted to go to dinner with my wife so i made some donk plays to bust my stack of 25k re shoved to a open raiser with t6s vs ak and i hit my t so i double up to 50k omg i want to leave go to dinner wtf i get more chips??? lol
so i just killed that mtt shoving any 2 if i get lucky again il stay but i was mental burned out and was starving

so tommorow i might play a couple mtts but will run definttly some draw tables
il keep you updated

MTT SUNDAY

ok yesterday it was like i had a big dark cloud over me all started in the 215us warm up first houer in i get a couple chips then this pot comes up im in lp with kk 2 limpers ahead and one rerasies to 800chips i reraise to 2200 2 limpers fold original raiser calls flop 98k 2 diamonds i check he bets 2500 i reraise him all in and he calls with k4 diamonds and sure enough he hits the flush on teh river so gg me there,i am really wondering whatkind of people call a pf reraise 2200 with k4s he must have sattelite in to that mtt bc omg what a bad play oh well

tehn as i had a bad start teh rest of sunday didn go any better i lost all races practicly in every mtt when i was ahead i lose on river lol that kinda thing all day long so i manage to blow about 14mtts on sunday with no score ohh wait i did score but not in mtts

i played a couple 12us 180 man turbos and i was amazed tos ee how weak the field is and how fast they go after 30 minutes half of the field is gone after one houer 18 left only so youa re in the money so they are pretty fast and people push a lot a marginal hands there so i mangaged to win one for almost 600us and another one icame in 7th and one 13th so out of 8 sngs played i cashed in 3 thats not abd and it was the only positive thing on sunday i expireinced so that made my lost buy ins back from mtts

then i went to playsome draw 2/4 pl but the table where really tight i had one guy there lose aggresive but was foldon to a rerasie he min raised almost every pot which give me an edge of him beacuse he mon riases there a lot a hands so i waited for aa or better and rerasied him every time and he calls anyway so thats good made a little money of him
all over sunday started bad but ended satisfactory not as i wished but hey you cant complain if you win right il post a couple hands


PokerStars Game #12225318123: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($2/$4) - 2007/09/23 - 14:10:36 (ET)
Table 'Telesto IV' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: microsheen ($138.85 in chips)
Seat 2: nafnai ($240 in chips)
Seat 3: brettc9201 ($148.40 in chips)
Seat 4: bad player82 ($111.75 in chips)
Seat 5: konti 7 ($224 in chips)
Seat 6: onasis16 ($370 in chips)
bad player82: posts small blind $2
konti 7: posts big blind $4
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [7c 7h Tc Ts 2c]
onasis16: raises $8 to $12
microsheen: folds
nafnai: folds
brettc9201: folds
bad player82: folds
konti 7: calls $8
konti 7: discards 3 cards
onasis16: discards 1 card [2c]
Dealt to onasis16 [7c 7h Tc Ts] [Js]
konti 7: checks
onasis16: bets $12
konti 7: calls $12
*** SHOW DOWN ***
onasis16: shows [7c 7h Tc Ts Js] (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
konti 7: mucks hand
onasis16 collected $47.60 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $50 | Rake $2.40
Seat 1: microsheen folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 2: nafnai folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 3: brettc9201 (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 4: bad player82 (small blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 5: konti 7 (big blind) mucked [6c Jd 5c Ks Kc]
Seat 6: onasis16 showed [7c 7h Tc Ts Js] and won ($47.60) with two pair, Tens and Sevens


PokerStars Game #12225375702: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($2/$4) - 2007/09/23 - 14:13:25 (ET)
Table 'Telesto IV' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: microsheen ($111.35 in chips)
Seat 3: brettc9201 ($165 in chips)
Seat 4: bad player82 ($109.75 in chips)
Seat 5: konti 7 ($208.35 in chips)
Seat 6: onasis16 ($398.20 in chips)
onasis16: posts small blind $2
microsheen: posts big blind $4
toyotito: sits out
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [Js Kh 6c Jd 9d]
brettc9201: folds
bad player82: folds
konti 7: folds
onasis16: raises $4 to $8
microsheen: calls $4
onasis16: discards 2 cards [6c 9d]
Dealt to onasis16 [Js Kh Jd] [4h 3h]
microsheen: discards 3 cards
onasis16: bets $4
microsheen: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
onasis16: shows [Js Kh 4h Jd 3h] (a pair of Jacks)
microsheen: mucks hand
onasis16 collected $22.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $24 | Rake $1.15
Seat 1: microsheen (big blind) mucked [5d 8h 8d Kd Qd]
Seat 3: brettc9201 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 4: bad player82 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 5: konti 7 (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: onasis16 (small blind) showed [Js Kh 4h Jd 3h] and won ($22.85) with a pair of Jacks

PokerStars Game #12225348188: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($2/$4) - 2007/09/23 - 14:12:03 (ET)
Table 'Telesto IV' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: microsheen ($143.35 in chips)
Seat 3: brettc9201 ($148.40 in chips)
Seat 4: bad player82 ($101.75 in chips)
Seat 5: konti 7 ($214.35 in chips)
Seat 6: onasis16 ($387.60 in chips)
microsheen: posts small blind $2
brettc9201: posts big blind $4
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [2s Kh Ks Tc 2c]
bad player82: folds
konti 7: folds
onasis16: raises $8 to $12
microsheen: calls $10
brettc9201: folds
microsheen: discards 3 cards
onasis16: discards 1 card [Tc]
Dealt to onasis16 [2s Kh Ks 2c] [Jh]
microsheen: checks
onasis16: bets $12
microsheen: folds
onasis16 collected $26.60 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $28 | Rake $1.40
Seat 1: microsheen (small blind) folded after the Draw
Seat 3: brettc9201 (big blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 4: bad player82 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 5: konti 7 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: onasis16 (button) collected ($26.60)

sunday 23 september

the last couple days i playeda couple mtts with not much of a success i honestly felt i was not playng my A game so i went to do what i do best grind 5cd tables

so i went to stars butno higher limits where runnign only fixed limit andim not a big fanof it so i decided to sit at 1/2 and 0.50c/1us pl thosoe low limits are so easy to exploit its almost like going to the atm machine specially late at nightwhen all ueo players wake up and are on work bored they jump on the tables to play for action and thats where i come in i love thoose hobby players they rerasise you pf with jj and call a max bet after draw with the same jj no improvment i just love them the cant fold hehe

so i trullyhave to say that i was a little mad with myself beacuse how poor i played my mtts so i forgat all about it when i sat down with 4 random donkeys and one regular at stars it was a perfect session i made about 600us in less then 2 hoeurs at those levels its a great return

i will post a couple hand so youl see how weak these players are

sunday is mttday i will play the sunday warm up maybe the wcoop event for 530us nlhe depends how my state of mind is for mtts i hope its good big prize pools attract me
so wish me luck tomorrow in my sunday mtt chalange and at night i can be find at the draw tables see you there


PokerStars Game #12210828698: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/09/22 - 18:43:49 (ET)
Table 'Mathilde II' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: onasis16 ($192.80 in chips)
Seat 2: tanita1981 ($203.35 in chips)
Seat 3: corrie19 ($81.85 in chips)
Seat 4: polochips ($216.25 in chips)
Seat 5: marianoboni ($167.30 in chips)
Seat 6: Dinslaken 1 ($161.65 in chips)
tanita1981: posts small blind $1
corrie19: posts big blind $2
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [Ah As 9c 6s Ad]
polochips: raises $2 to $4
marianoboni: folds
Dinslaken 1: folds
onasis16: raises $4 to $8
tanita1981: folds
corrie19: folds
polochips: calls $4
polochips: discards 2 cards
onasis16: discards 1 card [6s]
Dealt to onasis16 [Ah As 9c Ad] [5h]
polochips: bets $6
onasis16: raises $12 to $18
polochips: calls $12
*** SHOW DOWN ***
onasis16: shows [Ah As 9c 5h Ad] (three of a kind, Aces)
polochips: mucks hand
onasis16 collected $52.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $55 | Rake $2.70
Seat 1: onasis16 (button) showed [Ah As 9c 5h Ad] and won ($52.30) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 2: tanita1981 (small blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 3: corrie19 (big blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 4: polochips mucked [Qh Qd Qs 8h Ac]
Seat 5: marianoboni folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Dinslaken 1 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)



PokerStars Game #12210891241: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/09/22 - 18:47:29 (ET)
Table 'Mathilde II' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: onasis16 ($222.10 in chips)
Seat 3: corrie19 ($77.55 in chips)
Seat 4: polochips ($205.35 in chips)
Seat 5: Seb86 ($95 in chips)
Seb86: posts small blind $1
Dinslaken 1: is sitting out
onasis16: posts big blind $2
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [Tc 7c Ts Ad Td]
Dinslaken 1 leaves the table
corrie19: folds
polochips: raises $2 to $4
Seb86: folds
onasis16: raises $4 to $8
polochips: calls $4
onasis16: discards 1 card [Ad]
Dealt to onasis16 [Tc 7c Ts Td] [Jh]
polochips: discards 2 cards
onasis16: bets $8
polochips: raises $8 to $16
onasis16: calls $8
*** SHOW DOWN ***
polochips: shows [Ah As 2d Js Jd] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
onasis16: shows [Tc 7c Ts Jh Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
onasis16 collected $47 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $49 | Rake $2
Seat 1: onasis16 (big blind) showed [Tc 7c Ts Jh Td] and won ($47) with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 3: corrie19 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 4: polochips (button) showed [Ah As 2d Js Jd] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 5: Seb86 (small blind) folded before the Draw


PokerStars Game #12197789739: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/09/22 - 01:17:23 (ET)
Table 'Ivar II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 3: ldblly ($78.40 in chips)
Seat 4: onasis16 ($104.50 in chips)
Seat 5: FizzPower ($15.15 in chips)
Seat 6: tntjake ($27.95 in chips)
CaribbeanKid will be allowed to play after the button
dps57 will be allowed to play after the button
ldblly: posts small blind $0.50
onasis16: posts big blind $1
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [4s 4d 9d Qs Qd]
CaribbeanKid joins the table at seat #1
FizzPower: folds
tntjake: raises $1 to $2
ldblly: folds
onasis16: calls $1
onasis16: discards 1 card [9d]
Dealt to onasis16 [4s 4d Qs Qd] [4h]
tntjake: discards 1 card
onasis16: checks
tntjake: bets $2
onasis16: raises $6 to $8
tntjake: calls $6
*** SHOW DOWN ***
onasis16: shows [4s 4d 4h Qs Qd] (a full house, Fours full of Queens)
tntjake: mucks hand
onasis16 collected $19.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $20.50 | Rake $1
Seat 3: ldblly (small blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 4: onasis16 (big blind) showed [4s 4d 4h Qs Qd] and won ($19.50) with a full house, Fours full of Queens
Seat 5: FizzPower folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: tntjake (button) mucked [3d 9s 3c Ac Ah]


PokerStars Game #12207622403: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/09/22 - 15:39:47 (ET)
Table 'Russia V' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: polochips ($21.90 in chips)
Seat 2: Milioner007 ($19.45 in chips)
Seat 3: Rocker2812 ($40.30 in chips)
Seat 5: onasis16 ($109.40 in chips)
Seat 6: golferboy1 ($70.85 in chips)
Rocker2812: posts small blind $0.50
onasis16: posts big blind $1
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [Kd 2d Ks Kh Qs]
golferboy1: folds
polochips: folds
Milioner007: raises $2.50 to $3.50
Rocker2812: folds
onasis16: raises $4.50 to $8
Milioner007: calls $4.50
onasis16: discards 1 card [2d]
Dealt to onasis16 [Kd Ks Kh Qs] [Qd]
Milioner007: discards 1 card
onasis16: bets $12
Milioner007: folds
onasis16 collected $15.70 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $16.50 | Rake $0.80
Seat 1: polochips folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Milioner007 (button) folded after the Draw
Seat 3: Rocker2812 (small blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 5: onasis16 (big blind) collected ($15.70)
Seat 6: golferboy1 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)


PokerStars Game #12209774308: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/09/22 - 17:43:00 (ET)
Table 'Russia V' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: onasis16 ($100 in chips)
Seat 2: darlag2 ($48.40 in chips)
Seat 3: hades121 ($10.80 in chips)
Seat 4: marianoboni ($38.90 in chips)
Seat 5: koenjo ($73.55 in chips)
Seat 6: lucas4814 ($60.75 in chips)
marianoboni: posts small blind $0.50
koenjo: posts big blind $1
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [Td Jh Jc 4d 4c]
lucas4814: calls $1
onasis16: raises $2 to $3
darlag2: calls $3
hades121: folds
marianoboni: folds
koenjo: folds
lucas4814: calls $2
lucas4814: discards 3 cards
onasis16: discards 1 card [Td]
Dealt to onasis16 [Jh Jc 4d 4c] [4h]
darlag2: discards 1 card
lucas4814: bets $5
onasis16: raises $20 to $25
darlag2: folds
lucas4814: folds
onasis16 collected $19.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $20.50 | Rake $1
Seat 1: onasis16 collected ($19.50)
Seat 2: darlag2 folded after the Draw
Seat 3: hades121 (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 4: marianoboni (small blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 5: koenjo (big blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 6: lucas4814 folded after the Draw



PokerStars Game #12209789135: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/09/22 - 17:43:53 (ET)
Table 'Russia V' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: onasis16 ($111.50 in chips)
Seat 2: darlag2 ($45.40 in chips)
Seat 3: hades121 ($10.80 in chips)
Seat 4: marianoboni ($38.40 in chips)
Seat 5: koenjo ($72.05 in chips)
Seat 6: lucas4814 ($53.25 in chips)
lucas4814: posts small blind $0.50
onasis16: posts big blind $1
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [9s 7h 8c Kh Tc]
onasis16 said, "dile"
darlag2: raises $1 to $2
hades121: folds
marianoboni: folds
koenjo: folds
lucas4814: calls $1.50
onasis16: calls $1
lucas4814: discards 1 card
onasis16: discards 1 card [Kh]
Dealt to onasis16 [9s 7h 8c Tc] [6s]
darlag2: discards 1 card
lucas4814: bets $5
onasis16 said, "q se necesita para jugar poker\"
onasis16: raises $9 to $14
darlag2: folds
lucas4814: calls $9
*** SHOW DOWN ***
onasis16: shows [9s 7h 8c 6s Tc] (a straight, Six to Ten)
lucas4814: shows [9d 6d 7d Ad Kd] (a flush, Ace high)
lucas4814 collected $32.35 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $34 | Rake $1.65
Seat 1: onasis16 (big blind) showed [9s 7h 8c 6s Tc] and lost with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 2: darlag2 folded after the Draw
Seat 3: hades121 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 4: marianoboni folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 5: koenjo (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: lucas4814 (small blind) showed [9d 6d 7d Ad Kd] and won ($32.35) with a flush, Ace high



PokerStars Game #12215548386: 5 Card Draw Pot Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/09/22 - 23:29:29 (ET)
Table 'Orestes III' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: saddlebum ($155.35 in chips)
Seat 2: onasis16 ($190.80 in chips)
Seat 3: Floppaboat ($127.35 in chips)
Seat 4: MariaLady ($121.60 in chips)
Seat 5: shaunfrye ($85.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Plyzhne ($191.45 in chips)
onasis16: posts small blind $1
Floppaboat: posts big blind $2
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to onasis16 [Kh 6d Qh Ks Kc]
MariaLady: raises $2 to $4
shaunfrye: folds
Plyzhne: folds
saddlebum: folds
onasis16: raises $4 to $8
Floppaboat: folds
MariaLady: calls $4
onasis16: discards 1 card [6d]
Dealt to onasis16 [Kh Qh Ks Kc] [Th]
MariaLady: discards 1 card
Plyzhne is sitting out
onasis16: bets $8
MariaLady: folds
onasis16 collected $17.10 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18 | Rake $0.90
Seat 1: saddlebum (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 2: onasis16 (small blind) collected ($17.10)
Seat 3: Floppaboat (big blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 4: MariaLady folded after the Draw
Seat 5: shaunfrye folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Plyzhne folded before the Draw (didn't bet)

new week new things are coming

ok the last couple of days i didn play very much o layed the 435k rebuy yesterday and made it12th place after a open raise i reshoved with ak for 600k more and my opponent makes the call for 80% of his stack with 22s and sure enough he spikes a 3 on the flop so that was gg me right there i found i played great was riding ashortstack when blinds where 2k/1k i decided to make a move so i openshoved with q4s and get called by ako and i spiked a 4 so i dblt up there got lucky but from there i skyrocket to 700k

today i played 2 mtts only teh 22us noon 20k gtd adn i came in 41th in that had a couple bad beats on teh end i couldn avoid such as qqvstt and he spieks a ten tehn i get in the pot with kk vs 88 lose that too nothing i could do there i played a very aggresive style and was accumulating a lot a chips constantly

the other mtt i played today was teh 27.50 for 25k gtd at stars and i was running hot i amde some really good moves and calls chiped up to 3x avg stack at 1 houer in one hand i had ak in bb cu raised sb calls i reshove all in cu calls qq sb calls kk well one over her and for sure il floped the ace so gg them 2 then il keep chipping up and picking all the dead money in the pot i was going after pots who nobody wants ,and also bulling the table around i was in charge at this table so i chip up to 250k and then i made a hhugh mistake my firstand only one in my opinion and that cost me my mtt today i am really angry about that call i open raised had about 250k in front cu which i have made him to fold a couple time after he open raised i just reraised him strong so he folded a couple times si got 66 in early position blinds are 8k/4k i raise to 26k and hereshoves me all in for another 130k moreand i insta called here what a mistake i should have thought about that hand and folded but insteadi called he has 99s no help on flop and i was down to 93k that messed up mygame playing great poekr and then this stupid call omg oh well i learned out of it tomororw is another day

and the good news i got today i will be joining the team pokerfox.net which is a trainingsite for poker players i will be helping out there all who want to learn to become a good 5 card draw player please join me there i will be the 5 card draw instructor there for 5 card draw pl there i also will put here a banner so you can sign up true this link here and get a discount for your membership i hope you all who reading my blog i will have the pleasure to see you at pokerfox.net

so i am very exited about that opportunity who has been given to me and will try to make a real professional job over there for all my students who need to work on there game see you at poekrfox.net and for all my personal frineds who read this blog
i have to say to you FREE COACHING IS OVER HEHEHEHE

18 september 2007

hi all since i came back from barccelona i havent played so much but all i played was just going side ways except 5cd im still raking in there a good profit even with a cold deck so that is +ev

i played the wcoop event nr 5 and it was just insane the first couple hands i managed to get to 5k by picking up perfect spots to resteal or bluff them of the hand when i was sensing weakness so after that the deck turned against me i had 2 pat hands in 4 houers imagine that.
i din was getting even semi bluf hands where i could steel so i was riding a short stack the whole event i blinded down to 800 chips and in the bb i get my 3 pat hand straight and manage to triple up there but blinds where so high that i was in push or fold mode
so i am in mp all folded to me i see AA738 with 4 harts so i originally wanted to play the AA but i open raised to 4x to see if i can take it down right here but i got repoped by the small blind with jj22 there i had to change my strategie and not go for the 2 outs i ratehr draw to 8 or9 for the flush draw and i didn hit it and this was gg me in 208th position
actually i was quiet happy how i played shortstack poker there its not my style normaly i like bigstack poker where i can bully them around and rake in some pots

well next year i will get another chance to that 5cd braclet which i really like to own

in nlhe i am getting killed i had so many 2 outers beating me during the last few days
it was not fun anymore so i decided to take some time off and spend some quality time with my family and focus on 5 cd where i am a long term winner even i f i run cold i make profit there so i went to the draw tables and there where quiet a few atms there at 1/2 pl and i played 305hands in draw with a profit of 280 us which is not bad for 1/2 and that amount size of hands

so my plan this week will be get a br boost again by grinding 5 cd and i will play a few mtts during the week to see if my luck has changed

i will keep you guys updated here of my progress watch out for me at the draw tables
im comming hot

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me and xspades luis miguel captain portugal





katja thater to my left and paul overton to my right

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YESTERDAY I ARRIVED BACK HOME AFTER HAVING A NIGHTMARE ON MY FLIGHT BACK but overall it was an awsome expirience

well starting with the day i left from here i arrived in barcelona with no lugagge and they said they would be delievering it the next day so i checked in to the hotel that pokerstars provided us with and let em said it right here pokerstars knows how to tread they players we where treated all as profesionals 5 star resort top class food, top class gear,so after check in i met mister paul overton assitent manager from pokerstars great guy very profesionally ,and helpfull this guy deserves special credit for the work he has done next person i get to met is mr .lee jones in person also i have to say what a great guy very professionaly and funny too but focused on his buissnes he where on top of things thats why stars is the ebst site this gentleman is the driving force there and made understrand to the company what does it take to be nr 1 in the market MY RESPECTS MR LEE JONES

then il go up to my room to geta little rest before heading to the sohoko restaurant where they had arranged the welcome party but the team captains had to be there one hoeur earlyer for the table draw and seats for the team mates

so teh hotel room is very cool everything you need plasma tv all designer style contemporary equipment i men name it they had it including wireless internet roof pool another pool downstairs ,gym,spa, food was very clasy even if i made it only 2 days to breakfast couldn get my ass up early there and breakfest ended at 11 so gg me

after resting a bit and getting fresht up i decided to go down and explore the resort a bit and i am walking down the hall to get to the elevators and guess who i walke into mr greg raymer himself he was on the same flor as me he looked at me and i was wearing a pokerstars shirt that paul gave me sohe kew i was some kind involved here too but i dind hesitate i presentet myself to mr raymer and said hi i am tony and he answered very politely hi i am greg raymer istony the name you go for and i said yes thatshow my frinds calle me beacuse my real name is more difficult to spell so we ride together in the elevtor and walked over to the restaurant to have the draw
for teh seat positions in the tourney he is a very classy guy and very openminded we talked about poker and strategys for the cup he tlkes poker like a surgeon what poker brain this guy you can tell he is very educated and very knowledgable about many things

so we arrived at the restaurant and it was a very cool place like a lounge and restaurant combined right on the beach there where alot a tv crews .reporters, fotographers , and they ent crazy shooting pictures and recording the draw danielnegreanue showed up and katja thater teh german pro hat a classy lady i had a blast talking to her in german it was very nice i met the rest of all the teams all very friendly and exited to be there

sow e started the draw and i get to seat on heat one table one with greg raymer as my opponent i thouhgt great now you get the opportunity to play a champ at one table without having to buy a 15000 fpp ticket fora vip match with him so that was already positive even if i knew he would be a hard nut to crack i enjoy to play good players i feel i can learn a lot from them

after we finished the drawing thing we had awsome sushi buffett that was just awsome open bar and everybody was drinking adn chating with everybody and having a great time interviews where going on all over the place it was fun real cool expirience daniel was making jokes he is a verry funny guy

after the welcome party we headed to the casino where they had a freeroll organizedfor 1600 us but i really didn care about that freeroll i wanted to go to bed beacuse i was so exhausted from the trip so i daw my seat card just next with katja thater at the same table and paul the assistent mnager was dealing at the table behind me daniel negreanu was the dealer and he made a comedy show out of that we had such a laugh with him he was constantly making jokes and imitating people so they freeroll i got involved in 3 hands and busted my at to kk with katja i hit my aceon teh flop but she rivered a k on the river so i as ready to go to bed and get some rest for tomorrows event

next day i woke up early about 10 and went to breakfest what a great selecion they had i enjoy it very much then i decided to go to town and hang out a bit and buy some stuff before the 1 heat started soi went to ramblass which is the main street in barcelona shoppign street and all the tourist hanging around cafes and restaurants right and left so i shopped a couple things saw some interesting stuff there
so after that i went back to the resort to get dressed and ready for the event i put up my pokerstars gear and i was on to my way to the casino as soonest i arived there they had mounetd a really nice setup fro teh televised event so a couple reporters came up to me asking me for intervieews and foto sessions and tv interviews so i agreed to everyone of them specially teh german reporters where intereested in me since i was born and raised in germany and speak fluent german

so then we sat down at the table i had raymer in seat 3 and i was in 7 raymer said gl tony i responded ty i need it with you here at my table he smilled as i said i am very impressed with greg raymer he is such a nice guy and very classy i liked to be around him so we started teh agme and i was like i couldn get a hand to play the table was kinda aggresive alot a raises reraises but people where cathcng hands like the rumanien guy jhe had3 pps tt, jj.qq in less then 10 hands and i couldn get higher then 55s utg which i had to fold i picked up ak on the big blind when raymer limped in for 100 in the cutt off i rerasied to 400 he flat called flop came like at9 i thought to myself i cannot give the champ here a free cardhemight hit his small pair or any high card he has on the turn so i fired 700 on that flop raymer stared me down with his funny dino glasess and decided to fold so that pot i took andother one we played together i was in sb and get ak he raised in late position i decided to flat call there with my 2 high cards and it was the right decision flop came 689 he bets strong like he hit the flop maybe tripsor so and i decided not to continue with my ak so imucked it and save chips there for teh rest i was really card dead my friends told me that even the comentators where sayng that ,that i didn have any cards to play at all so i blinded down slowly 2 where eleiminated already so 6 left i get66 under the gun and had 2700 chips left and i thought i need to push here usuing the gap concept maybe i can take thatdown uncontested but ithought wrong mister raymer woke up with ako in the cutt off so he called my all in a nd no help on the flop for eitehrone and my 66s held up so i went to 5400 or so and then again same story card ddead nothing orth to play or even limp in that pot blinding down again ind i have about 3k left hen i pick up 44s in the bb i thought i might can see a flop here but
canadien michael watson also known as sirwatts pushes all in the sb and i really had a tought decision here but i decided at best im in a race situation and at worst im a huge underdog so i decided towait for a better spot and i think itwas a wise decision il explain you why later so next round goes around and il pick up 77 in the bb and cu raises to 2500 i had 2700 left so i decided to make a stand maybe he has 2 high cards and im in a race but luck was not on ouer site the whole tourney so he ahd kk vs my 77 and toamke things worst he hit k on flop so gg me in that heat i felt i played a great game and i was proved right when daniel negreanue came up to me and said I THOUGHT YOU PLAYED A GREAT GAME I WAS WATCHING YOUR WHOLE CARDS YOU WHERE TOTAL CARDDEAD THIS MADE ME FEEL THAT I MADE THE RIGHT PLAY THERE WITH MY 44S and he also posted that coment in his blogi found that really cool i said thank you daniel ,here is the link for teh blog from daniel he made that comment under mexico team i was the first player there
http://kidpoker.intellipoker.com/index.php/2007/09/06/world-cup-action-through-three-heats/

so next heat was very questionable play by one of my team mates i am anxious to see the dvd from the whole worldcup to see the whole cards i felt from the rail he didn make any plays or didn use his position to gain chips but nothing i can do there

next day i woke up late for breakfast so i went to teh por viel to grab some food before going back to the casino to play heat 3
after arriving in the casino we agreed that the celebrity player from today where going to mix things upand not let danny push around the table so she started very well picked up some pots when she reraised aggresive but then she picked up kts uand made a mistake by trowing in a white chip which was 500 and makes a 850 raise daniel in teh bb just calls flop comes 2 spades 348 or so she bets out and daniel reraised here she didn know he had AA so she decided to go all in on a flushdraw there or maybe she could daniel make to ofld his small pair or 2 hihg cards but he called and where surprised tosee that AA where dominating she still ahd 8 outs since daniel was holding the ace of spades so 8 outs and no hit in eithere street and gg us here too
it was disapionting to see luck where everywhere else exept at the mexican team
teh usa team had a lot of it tnetter psuhed 97o utg all in and get called by ak form lp and he hits 9 on river to criple the rumanien then he rerpoes all in with qj and the cristian dragomir made a great call there for 16k repop with kq but luck helped usa again and they spiked j on turn i mean luck was not balanced there in barcelona at all but thats poker i guess

next day i woke up late again and as im walking down the hall i see raymer with a big map of barcelona wondering where the fuck he is o have to go lol i say hey greg wazup man he says hi tony here man trying to figure out how to get to ramblass i answered leave your mape at home man i know the city a bit lets go i need to buy some stuff to he said great lets go and of we went grabed a cab and drove into donwtown

we had some great converstaions and laughs so we went on a shopping trip buying anything we saw what we would like or ouer wifes would like to have we where wondering true stores and markets had a cofee since it was early still and we run in to some other players too from rumania there so we went to buy some souvenirs and it was very funny as i dont buy nothing without negotiating the price greg found it very funny he said tony i lay back and let you handle that i see you are on top ofthings here so i had 3 emplyes running around for me gettinfme tsirts,hat,keychains,cards, typical tourist stuff and i was negotiating a overall price witht he owner of teh stoee he spoke a bit greek so i was cool negociating with him at one point greg raymer had a tshirt fro 20 euros in his hand and i told him hey greg i jsut got him down to 11euros fro your t shirt he laughed and said go tony i could tell form teh very first moment that you have sale abilitys hahahahahah so i still was fighting with the guy in the store to give me more discount and present for me beacuse i have brouhgt hima customer and bougt a lot a stuff myself raymer was just laughing how i was runningthe guy but i couldn get him to that free gift on the end so i stoped i manage to get a t least 35% discount on all things combined so we all where happy idont know about the store owner but me and gregraymer where so thats enough for us

another funny thing what happened since i was on tv and live webcast all or most of my online friends aree now calling me by my real name since i lost anonymity with that broadcoast lol

one of my team mates got drunk first day and fucked up the whole floor vomited all over had to deal with the manager about tha t issue and they charged him the cleaning for the carpet for 200 euros so i hope he lerns out of that it was embarising for the whole team

so teh last heat here going a lot better the freeroll qualifyers had a little more luck picked up some cards and raked in some pots but made a couple of small istakes what cost tehm chips and points but in my opinion they played great in there games i was very proud of them i see alot a potential in thoose 2 youngsters if they focus they will become great players one oftehm finihsed 3th bringing home 2k for teh team and the other one got really unlucky but as i said it was a great expirience

then the finals came up and iw as cheering for everybody i ahd to be neutral and i liked all teams they were great all of them and very friendly and since im a multi culturla guy i like to be around different cultures and talking in different languages with everybody i ahd a blast during the whole event i made a lot a new friends and learned a lot what will be beneficiary to my game in the future

before i left i went to lee jones and paul overton assitent manger of stars and thanked them for everything and congratulate them on the great job they have done and i could tell they where very pleased to hear things like that even if we didn amke it to the finals i think coments and compliments liek that is the driving force for those guy my respects to you all at stars you doing a awsome job keep it up

then i had to fly back next day and the nightmare started my flight got delayed and i missed my connection flight from atlanta to mexico and had to sleep over in a shitty comfort in place wht i got from the airline in atlanta and arrived 4 hoeurs later tomy house as planed what a fuck up from delta airlines but someday i will have my own plane when i win any majot someday lol

aslo i will psot a couple fotos here for you guys i will rest a bit and then start my usuall grind online and getting ready for wcoop also and the draw tables i missed it
so il keep ya updated here
gl all
tony

BARCELONA WPC

today i arrived in barcelona with no laguage the damn airline fuckt it up thank you delta airlines go fuck yourself
we had dinner with greg raymer and daniel negreanue and after we played a frerroll wich i bust early to katja thater she raises the sb to 700 i was short to 1500 down so is hoved ajs she calls kk flop 458 turn A RIVER k THTAS ME GG

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