feed from raszi blog 2008-09-05T20:13:31+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 raszi http://raszi.liquidpoker.net So here it is then.. the long entry. Like I said earlier in a small post, I have been sick lately and away from home. I went to Vlissingen (place of birth), to visit family and catch up etc. When I came back I was feeling kinda sick, but nothing extreme. Boy was I wrong. On Monday fever hit me full throttle. Sweat was literally dripping from my face and I spent most time in bed, trying to recover. It lasted a couple days but now I’m feeling great again. First things first, I was gonna put in a long entry about a tennis tournament here. One of the more fun days in the past months! I did get to do some stuff while being sick though. I recorded some sick lethal rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKjEangX15w [B]ABN Amro Tennis Tournament[/B] It’s the biggest tournament Holland offers and one of the favorites of the pro’s themselves. I been there a couple times when I was young and innocent, but that’s like 8 years ago. I was really excited about it. Also, this was gonna be Raemon Sluiter’s last professional tennis tournament. People were anticipating this match greatly. Sluiter is the crowds favorite in Holland, which you can clearly tell from watching Davis Cup matches. I watched a ton of them always and I share those feelings. All the more happy I was when Jaco, a friend of Sluiter, invited me to come to the match. I met them in the week before the tournament and so it was very cool to invite me :D. Jaco said there other people coming along, specifically from the world of snooker. They showed up at my apartment around 3 pm, sick life. Half woken up and half dressed I opened the door and at first I thought ‘oh fuck’. Everyone was well-dressed and my apartment was a pile of garbage. Then I thought ‘fuck it’, it’s just the way it is and the only ones I clean up for when they drop by are my grandparents. Luckily, they didn’t mind at all and loved the way my ‘bachelor’s pad’ looked. Little did I know, these two gentlemen were greats from the world of Snooker, and now also Pool. Jan Verhaas, who is basically the best Snooker referee out there. If you see a big match on TV, it’s highly likely he is ref. The other was Tony Drago, long-time top Snooker play and #4 in the world in Pool as we speak. We had some coffee here and then went to play some pool. Was really fun and we had some drinks. Tony Drago had his first drink in 6 years and was hammered pretty fast from drinking a couple Baileys. We played a game of pool and I won with some cheesy 9-ball combination ZOMG! When he wanted to rematch I obviously declined, securing my winning record against a top pool pro by doing so. Ship it. We went to Ahoy in Jaco’s car and had some food in the VIP Village. During dinner I met Richard Kraijceck, which is cool, cause I’ve been a fan of him since I was a little kid. He is basically the first player I watched when I started to follow and figure out tennis. After dinner we got ready to attend the match. Jaco had tickets for Kraijcecks VIP Box, so our seats were sick. We shared the box with Sluiters family, who were of course attending his last performance(s). [B]The Match[/B] He was playing Llodra, a young talented player who was running good lately. It was kinda weird. I just met Raemon but I was really, really nervous. I wanted him to win so bad and sitting there with his family and friends only made that feeling stronger. You get a glimpse of the whole world behind a top athlete and the importance of every performance. The match begun and people feared it would be over soon. Llodra won the first set with 6-1 and was playing like there was no tomorrow. He basically had 1 unforced error the whole first set. He hit everything and I hated him for it. Then the second set the match really started. Sluiter was getting a better rhythm in the match and then one of the most intense moments I ever had in sports was borne. My god, I was literally shaking and my hands were sweaty. The crowd went completely crazy, supporting Sluiter. The whole hall was filled to the top, close to 10,000 attendants. The cool thing about watching a tennis match, is that you can hear a pin drop when points are being played. Then as soon as the point has been played, the hall explodes and you hear 10,000 people screaming their lungs out. The second set went to a tie-break, which was o so fitting. I think I hadn’t been that nervous since Holland and Brasil faced in penalties in 1998 World Championship. (fuck brasil holla) Here is an example of people exploding thinking Sluiter hit an Ace. It's quiet, he serves, people think he hit an Ace, they explode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH7IlwYdW5A Unfortunately he lost the tie-break. However, to me it didn’t really matter. Of course I would have loved to see him win, but the match was sick ass cool and the crowd loved it and showed their support. They had a cool closing ceremony to thank him for everything he has done for Dutch tennis. After that we hung out a bit and talked about the match. Around midnight Jaco offered to take me home, but not before Drago, Jaco and me went to eat some Chinese. Christ did they love duck :D. Later that week we went to another couple matches at Ahoy. We saw Llodra play again, also Nadal and Davydenko. Most fun that day was playing padel. I was with Jaco and Lisette and they introduced this sick ass action game to me. My goodness, I was dying, but with a smile. It’s an action packed mix between tennis and squash basically. Here is a highlight vid from it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWqH3agMxEA Jaco hit the most impossible ball at the end of the match. Like, fuck, it’s even hard to explain it. He was running to the back of the field following a lob and then with a flick of his wrist sent the ball racing towards our side with his back towards us. Was sick. After the match I went to Vlissingen and came back home sick. [B]Poker[/B] I played some poker when I got home, well some, I ended up doing another 45 hour session. I started out with some tourneys which went well. Finished 3rd in the 50 rebuy on T6 Poker. I had some minor cashes on Pokerstars, but nothing special. Then I played some cash games on Stars, in which I also did good. I played heads up vs Bart Spijker at the end of the session, swing mania. Bart was believed to be one of the weaker high stakes players, when he just made his appearance on pokerstars. That was probably true, but boy did he improve. Playing him now is sick ass, high variance, and not just upswings now. He puts sick amount of pressure and every pot is a big one. Props to him for improving so quickly and it’s fun to see, cause I like the guy a lot. The rest of the week I’ve been lying in bed like I said earlier. On Friday I did put in a lot of hours, which is good, cause I haven’t been playing much. Pokerstars had a double VPP/FPP cause it was leap-day on Feb 28th. Yesterday I played some hu on 2-4 and 3-6 and that went pretty well too. I don’t have any really interesting hands to show from the sessions, sorry. [B]Guitar hero[/B] Since my last blog I have a couple of new achievements and stuff. I 100% FC’d Generation Rock and metal Heavy Lady. On metal Heavy Lady I’m top 100 on the leaderboards in score, yay. Also a new No Doubt song-pack came out and I would recommend it! Sunday Morning is such a fun song to play. Oh, I made a list with my scores on Scorehero.com. I didn’t put every score there yet, but I’ll gradually complete the list, so if you’re interested check it out. I also finished the game on expert finally, fucking Lou. link to my scores page: http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=126345&group=4&game=6&diff=4 It’s a good thing that I 100%’d a couple more songs. I needed the morality boost. More and more I was getting pissed off when I played bad, basically because I hate to suck at something I love doing. One time I was so pissed off when playing Evelyn online, I just walked away and went to bed. From her point of view it was as if I stopped playing, but she had no idea where I was going. I told her the next day I had internet problems cause I was kinda embarrassed. So NOW YOU KNOW, YES I LEFT PISSED OFF. Childish me, but fuck it I don’t care. Tomorrow is my first session with a personal trainer. He trained Sluiter before he quit and he has a lot of experience with some big football teams in Holland. He is probably gonna kill the living shit out of me, but that’s kinda the point. Can’t wait to start and I hope it improves the way I live. Hollaaaaaaaaaaaa. Maybe he can even teach me how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZAfSD1Misw Hope you enjoyed reading it and if you didn't well.. your probably an idiot anyway. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 raszi http://raszi.liquidpoker.net I have no recollection of what I did on thursday. I think I played guitar hero till like 6 am and then passed out. Anyways on with friday. I woke up around 1 pm by alarm, cause I had to pick up my car. I forgot to mention earlier someone busted the right front window of my car. Pretty nice. They left my 350$ Bose headphones, remote controles tv screens in car, everything. I mean if you're gonna fuck my car up, at least steal some shit so it makes sense. Anyways, I'm happy a brainless retarded just wanted to destroy something that night and never thought about making a living while doing just that. I left my car, mainly because of laziness, in a kind of desolated place. I had some trouble with my car alarm and I had to let an engineer look at it. Anyways, they took it to the garage and everything was fixed, so I went to pick it up. Overall Friday was a sucky day, until the evening. I had a homegame in Rotterdam and it was crazy fun. It was pretty small stakes, but it reminded me how fun poker can be. They were inexperienced players but all very intelligent people, absorbing everything they could... and also wanted to do so. That last fact reminded me of the Eye of the tiger. I know it's kinda lame to quote Rocky movies, but it's true. I'm fighting fucking Clubber Lang and I lost the eye of the tiger. I need to get it back and since that game I'm confident I will. The night was fun, I met new people and I got back my fun in poker. There are more ways to making a living, I dunno if I can do it as baller as this guy though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3tsMCrQgo&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ The homegame inspired me so much, I went straight to playing when I came back home. 40 Hour sessions are pretty normal these days, so I had a ton of stamina left. I played a bit on betfair again, which only added to my new motivation, cause a change of software has that kind of effect on me. I played some 2.5$/5$ and I loved playing there again. Software is insanely fast and I like the bet pot buttons :D. I switched over back to pokerstars because there hardly is action at night on euro sites. I started playing 3-6 and I saved some hands this time to put in my blog. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386113 Not to diss on Pillars, I like him a lot and he's a good player, but this hand is important from the session. I haven't been reviewing my play enough lately, so when I started doing so, I discovered something huge. Some lines I take always with the same holdings. For instance, I would hardly ever checkraise bluff the river. That is gonna destroy my game, especially in games with a ton of regulars like 3-6 on ps. So i decided to get funky with it a couple times in hands and this was one example. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386210 Another point of criticism. I play too cautiously in 3-bet pots pre heads up. I noticed I have a lot of trouble vs people who play actively in 3-bet pots heads up. So i decided to go full throttle this session and again balance out my range better, because this is a line i would def take with AQ+ hu. It will make me less predictable in heads up matches and definitely improve the 3-bet part of my hu game. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386152 This is just a random 4-bet preflop pot with Aces. It was the biggest pot of the night, and a perfect spot for me. I had a lot of history with the regulars this session. I went from playing tight slightly passive to really lag in the same session and then slowed down again. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/386238 Ok this pot is just kinda insane. I 4-bet preflop here, since we're deep and he was 3-betting me regularly. I know he is gonna call my flopbet a ton of the time, so i fired a second barrel on the turn. Little did I know I was valuebetting thinly. It results in a 3,5 buy-in pot, with shitty holdings, kind of funny pot. When he snappushed turn and his hand opened on the river I was searching the board what he had, cause I was sure I was beat without improvement. Funny hand, and this one is from the superlag period. [B]Guitar hero[/B] Lets start of with one of the best music video's in history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh1uqa2keFQ&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ I remember crying laughing when my mom saw this video aired for the first time on dutch tv. I don't know a lot of Tenacious D music, but I'm sure i'll find out more. I love their 'The metal' as well. Anyways I got the 350,000$ plus achievement in guitar hero. You have to earn over 350,000$ over different careers. It takes some time, but I got it. Ow I also re-gotten that 500,000 point achievement!!! I did it on the same German song as I did when I played Evelyn online, but this time I got it in single player. So I received it. The other failure from that session was also made fact when I 100% fc'd My Name Is Jonas, but this time in career, so I have the 5 golden stars behind it. Holllaaaaa. Props to Evelyn for also getting the 500k achievement in single player. She is sick good at rhythm songs, so im not surprised. There was another kinda of like rhythm game brought out today. It's called audiosurf and read about it on a starcraft website. It's not so much playing an instrument like guitar hero or rockband, but it's moving a plane on music.. here's a sample vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkw_mQgCZ2E&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ OMG YOU DIDNT EXPECT DID YOU NOW. This is a more normal song though, maybe the hottest song in gaming right now lol? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-z6YK92otg&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ Anyways in GH Im still struggling with raining blood, but Im getting better and better at mosh 1. I really wanna learn it the right way and not luckbox my way through it and finish the song. I can tell im improving a lot at guitar hero, just by playing that bit over and over. [B]Plans for upcoming days[/B] This week the ABN Amro tennis tournament starts. It's been ages since I last watched any of the matches. This week is the last pro-performance of Raemon Sluiter. He has been great for Dutch tennis so I'm definitely gonna check out his match. I hope to be able to watch some others as well, should be mad fun. I'll try to play as much poker as I can this time. I didn't feel like it last couple weeks, but like I said, my fun returned, now give me tigereye and leaderchip in a big tourney and I'll be ready to own you bitches. OHH!!! Before I forget I was gonna do an update on [B]sidebets[/B]: My bet is coming along great. I'll ask Victor (Nazgul18) to contact support and verify I've been keeping to the deal for those that might not be satisfied with my word alone. Sometimes I'm longing to play higher, but I have to keep to it. I also have a new bet with Elky. It's kind of a funny bet, because we both don't work out all that much, but we bet who can bench press more on day 1 of the WSOP Main event. It's about a single push, so who can push the most in that 1 single push. Elky has the bet with a couple people, so I hope he is not too motivated, but he just won 2 million, so I think I have an edge in this one. I doubt I'll work out for it though. Ow and props to Jay Kwik for making his Bellagio bathroom bet. He came out unscathed after a 30 day imprisonment. So cool he won. Ok hope u liked it again.. cya text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 raszi http://raszi.liquidpoker.net [B]Sundays[/B] I woke up somewhere in the afternoon all happy. I had a very simple plan for sunday.. play video games in my bathrobe while eating sandwiches and not picking up my phone. Best time ever yo. I played a lot of Virtua Tennis again. It's a very fun tennis game that Michiel Brummel (Utreg) introduced me to. He kinda rapes me, but I'm getting better and I rediscovered the game. Also I have this new addiction.. achievements. The word says it all, I want to achieve goals in games. XBOX supplemented achievements in every game they put on the market. By doing certain stuff and passing certain milestones you get an achievement worth some points. Every game has 1000 points in it. I'm completely nuts about getting guitar hero achievements. Maybe it's just to tell myself I rock or something, but i think it's the competitive drive in me. Anyways I had some nice lounge day on the couch scratching my belly and then I decided it was time to play poker again. I started playing some sundays (ON SUNDAY LOL THE COINCIDENCE). Playing 2 tables most of the time was quite relaxing. Watching some poker movies with it.. from the big televized cash games in english.. please put me in those.. what the fuck lol. Next day I wanted to do sports, but I woke up kinda late, which is ok. Here is a video of me doing martial arts. Kinda brutal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qjivdHCrXg&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ Anyways the sunday tournaments went alright and I finished 5th in the PLO 75e rebuy on T6 Poker. I play under Buck3thead there btw. Fifth was good for 6000$, so that's nice. Last hand I repotted from the bb with {Jh}{10h}{8d}{7d} to get called by {Ac}{Kd}{Ts}{5h}.. yyaaa nice hand. Was kind of a big pot so I had my question marks, but decisions like this is what god me 5th in the first place, so fuck it. Rest of the evening I had some minor cashes but nothing special. [B]Monday[/B] Monday I went to the casino with friends. Ive been playing a ton of lowstakes poker in the casino. It's kind of fun and it feels like gambling. They have a 60 euro 20-man sng every night. I was fed up with playing after 4 hands and went no looky allin and busted vs some dudes {Ah}{Qh} which was fine. I went to bed.. or at least I thought so.. My god I'm addicted to reading. It seems like nothing in my life can be in normal proportions. Either I don't do it, or I don't do anything else. Same with these books from R A Salvatore. I used to read George RR Martin's (whats up with the cool initials of fantasy writers) Song of Ice and Fire, but I've been waiting a long while for the new book in that series. In the mean time I picked up Salvatore's books, a series called Forgotten Realms. It's fantasy too and it's about Dark Elves mainly (fuck u haters). I just love reading it and I basically can't stop. Last 5 months I've read 22 of these books. That's a lot especially considering I only read before I go to bed. It's basically crack on paper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXzg0D-cKds&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ Ok that was crack in a video. I know I posted it before, but I did it again, simply cause I wanted it. [B]Tuesday[/B] Brummel (still Utreg) dropped by early in the afternoon. He sporadically drops by and plays poker here, plays xbox and we drink a lot. This time was no different and we had tons of fun. He was playing poker on his laptop in the living room and I was playing guitar hero. We bought some alchohol earlier and started drinking early. Maarten also dropped by and we went to the casino. Maarten played a 10 euro sng, which he came second in, yay. Me and brummel started playing 10-20 Limit hu and later people joined. Then we wanted to get a 5-5 NL table started, so we played hu there. We agreed on playing 50% of actual stakes. No real point to play hu as friends when you're drinking so we chopped the stakes in half. I ran like god for the most part. I was getting completely hammered from drinking vodka and other friends of us arrived so we quit and played some roulette. Bad beats rained down upon us. It was chinese newyear and PACKED in the casino so we went to my place. There I played some poker and I won like 2,500$ at 3-6. I went to bed at like 8 am, but again I stayed awake till 1 pm reading those DARNED books. [B]Today[/B] I woke up at 6 pm and I basically done nothing today. Pretty sweet to be honest. I played some guitar hero with Evelyn and then came the tilt. Ok, so I explained the principal of achievements earlier. mehh so you have this achievement in guitar hero, you get it if you score 500,000++ points in 1 song. That is a pretty sick amount and I never gotten it until then. We played this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupvnBkcJeg&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ I like the song a lot, but OF COURSE I GET 510k IN AN ONLINE MATCH. That doesn't get you the achievement, you have to do it in single player. Completely on tilt, but on the other hand happy I made it. We played it again in the next match and now Evelyn scores 519k, also not getting the achievement. Sad times. If you get a song perfect 100% notes hit, it puts 5 golden stars next to it, also a sick thing to do, especially on expert. So the next song we played My name is Jonas, I 100% on expert. It also doesnt give the me the 5 golden stars, again cause it's online battle. Mehh I guess it could be a confidence boost though. I'm gonna head to bed now. Not to sleep.... but to read. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 raszi http://raszi.liquidpoker.net Whhoooops.. I keep saying I'm gonna update it regularly, but I'm lazy. Everytime I think 'oh I'm gonna update my blog.... tomorrow'. Anyways today is tomorrow so here's an update :D. [B]EPT[/B] I came back from EPT Dortmund, where I got knocked out by a German asshole. He isn't necessarily an asshole cause he is german. He is an asshole cause he slowrolled me. there was this situation where I raise preflop with {Kh}{4d} to 1100 in the 200-400 level and he repops me to 3000. At this point I think he is making a move with some semi-legit hand, like 88 or AJ-AT. He was whining a lot about how he was carddead, which lead me to believe he would sooner or later play a hand stronger than it actually was. I shoved for 14k total and my friendly neighbour took a couple minutes to call with {Kd}{Kc} .. that's very nice. Like I said so many times before... slowrolling is not cool. It's not a form of bluffing .. it's not a psychological aspect of poker. Judging from the movie below you could make a point saying he is genuinely thinking about the hand. It certainly feels that way, too bad he was thumping his buddies and highfiving other Germans and sayign shit like 'you see what i did to the Dutch kid.' Kind of sad.. but oh well. OH! And he does that fucking chip push to the line and then stop to get a reaction.. I hate that so much, seriously. Anyways here's the exit movie. It's in Dutch.. but I do say 'fuck' a lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3jU05Z7AmE&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/im-lazy-3-40-hour-sessions-guitars-and-movies.htm Copenhagen is sold out and even though I think I could get in one way or another, none of my friends will be there, which makes travelling all the more unpleasant. I'll just go to San Remo and Monte Carlo. I actually bought in with FPP's for Monte Carlo last week. It was 1.1 million fpp. Since I'm backed I'll just get the 16k from my backers, since they don't care how I pay for my entry as long as I do it. So that's a nice cash bonus. The night after Dortmund I played a long session and lost 40 buyins spread around 1$-2$ 2$-4$ and 3$-6$ NL. So having some bonus is nice. San Remo I'll go to for a couple of reasons. I love Italy. I love Italian Icecream. I want to rape Daut at bowling. I saw he qualified yesterday.. poor soul. Daut of course will brag he is half Italian cause he is from Jersey, but he is americanized to the bone. I wish I was from Jersey or New York, I could use all those cool gangster expression from Sopranos, without looking like a complete idiot. [B]Online Poker[/B] After Dortmund I had that terrible session, in which I lost around 17,000$. That resulted in a few days off as usual. Well it's not 'as usual' but lately it has been the scenario. I keep not playing poker lol. A big part of it is my addiction to guitar hero, but for some reason I cannot get myself to play when I'm rested. When you wake up completely fucked at 8pm there is little else to do than play poker. When you feel godlike (i.e. waking up at 10 am after 10 hours of sleep) there is a ton of stuff you can do. It's kind of fun to be among daywalkers again. Go shopping, see movies, eat etc. all the good stuff :). I just have to find a spot to fit in poker, since I don't wanna build my life around poker anymore, but more the other way around. I played 3 40 hour sessions though.. the first one being the -17k one. The other two were better. Oh btw, I dropped that whole 40k hands thing on 1$-2$ nl. I admit it, I cannot. It tilts me like nothing I've ever seen before. I simply cannot! So I'm gonna do a ton of hands on 2-4, even though I played a lot of 3-6 hu yesterday, so maybe nevermind that too. Yay for discipline. Last two sessions I won about 13k, which is nice. My average bb/100 = 17bb/100 hands spread across 2-4 and 3-6, which is a pretty solid winrate. I liked playing again, especially hu, I just think 6-max is so boring on lower limits. Everyone plays straight forward or all the regulars play the same. I had to add that cause on 3-6 Pokerstars they don't all play straightforward, but they do all play like they're on acid. I'll try to play a little more poker though. It feels weird not too.. poker has always been like crack to me.. [B]Guitar Hero[/B] I think this is the better drug that took a hold of me. This game is just too good. Ow someone got Raining Blood on 100%, for real this time, so I'm not gonna rick roll you. Here's the vid... MAD PROPS DAWG. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vx8hAVwxzo&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/im-lazy-3-40-hour-sessions-guitars-and-movies.htm American punks lol :). To give an indication how much i play: I just got the 100,000,000 million points achievement. On average you get 200k points per song and online matches don't count. They have to be from songs played in career, so that's kind sick. I have been playing a lot online too lately. I heard Evelyn NG played too, so I added her on XBOX Live and we've been playing a lot. She's really good and of course it's always cool if a girl is good at games. I hadn't talked to her in ages so that's fun. Apart from guitar hero we have another passion in common, YOUTUBE!!! She sent me this one, I actually never seen it. So to spread the word: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW8RgmEJs-8 Tonight I'm gonna play some tourneys and play FTOPS too I think. I bought a shitload of new XBOX games and I'm gonna check a couple out today. Gundam, Burnout, Virtua Fighter 5 (Even though I wonder if there is ever gonna be a fighting game as good as Killer Instinct Gold). Some other games as well, so I'm gonna have an oldschool sunday afternoon. The only missing component in the oldschoolness will be mom-made sandwiches, but I guess I can order them :D. I promise to update more often.. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 raszi http://raszi.liquidpoker.net [B]Life[/B] I've pretty much had the most relaxing week I could wish for. After the bad session in the weekend I figured I need some more rest. I slept pretty well every day and mostly focussed on doing fun stuff. Disadvantage being that my house has a pile of garbage inside, but that'll be of later concern. I bought some more HD movies. I think I'm only gonna buy HD from now on, if release them as fast as regular ones that is. If they have delay in release date I'll probably just buy the ones you really wanna see HD. Shit like the Matrix, or Transformers. I don't care too much to see Ben Stiller in HD or not, cause that's not the point of his movies :). Thursday I was pretty much bored when Louk called me and asked me if I wanted to go see a football match in an hour. Yes football, the one sport where you actually hit the ball with your feet..... Anyways, normally I'm an Ajax supporter. I'm open-minded enough to have fun watching other teams play though, even when it means going to a Feyenoord match, Ajax' rivals. I really liked the atmosphere in the stadium. I never went to a Feyenoord match before, even though it's the club from Rotterdam, but it was fun. They won 3-1 against Twente so we saw a ton of goals. We drank some 0% beer during the match (damn you hooligans). After the match me and Louk went to MacDonalds for some after match hamburger delight. Here's a clip to give an impression of the stadium and the players entering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmo1kyIui4&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/football-finally-drive-to-play-poker-again-guitar.htm Around 11.30 PM I was walking home when I talked to Remi who was in city center with a friend drinking. I joined them for a couple of beers before heading home. Friday I did absolutely nothing, except.... WORK OUT! I did it, weeeeeee. I finally put myself to the immense task of packing my bag and walking 50 meters to the gym. I can tell it has been a while for I cannot move a single muscle today. Anyway it felt really good and I'm gonna make an effort to go there on a regular basis. Elky wants to get action on a bench press bet, and maybe I'll give some action just for sake of fun. Yesterday I went to eat Greek food (again) with Maarten and we ended up going to the casino to gambool. Was kinda fun and unexpected. I normally hardly ever gamble, but when we do it's fun and games, nothing serious. We drank a couple beers in the casino and walked around a little bit. We left with 200 e. profit, whaaaaaaaaaaaat~. [B]Guitar Hero[/B] This game might be the biggest reason why I'm not playing poker at all. It's just too sick. I play for at least 4 hours every day now, sometimes (especially when Remi is here) it can easily go to 6-7 hours a day. I actually played my first bet game on guitar hero. I raped PoorUser ( text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 raszi http://raszi.liquidpoker.net Hey, I been blogging for a while now on pokernews.nl and since new year I blog in english too now and I'm gonna crosspost them on lp.. so enjoy i hope.. :) .. [B]Life and Live[/B] As mentioned before I hardly played online poker, so Wednesday we finally had a live tourney again. I didn't go to the PCA (Elky u stupid #$%#$%^, nah but congrats FO REALZ) and I'm happy with that decision. I traveled so much I needed some time off and play some online. Luckily I only did stress increase stuff online so I might as well start travelling again :). At least I don't have time to donk off my bankroll online. I drew Jorryt (TheCleaner11) to my direct left, which is just a nightmare. I think out of all the people playing in the tournament I would like to have him on my left the least. Don't matter that much tough, cause I always enjoy talking to him. I ran into his Kings with my Queens but I could have avoided paying him off on the river, more on that in my next article. I had to make a tough fold with {kh}{9h} on {9s}{3s}{9c} {5c} {Ad}, but it was a good one. Mad folding skills yo. I worked my way back up from 2.5k (10k beginstacks) to 13k. In the meanwhile I got moved to another table and had Joris Jaspers on my left this time (JazzyDonk online). I always feel like he plays kinda similar to Jorryt, so not much improvement. He had a huge stack and was really active. The table gave him too much respect from what I understood from the tabletalk. After a while I called a pf raise by him with {Td}{8h} from the big blind. We are superdeep and he raised 2.5x plus there was a caller I had position on, so small blind.. (GEE REALLY). I flopped {9d}{Jc}{Qh} en he had {Ks}{Tc}, good game lex. I skipped the 1k event, cause I was dead tired and I had a really bad day Wednesday. The cashgames went pretty badly too, but I had a lot of fun with Bart Spijker and Ton (Patek3970) on the table. They are just awesome and I love their humor and the way they taunt me. They always call me bat and vampire cause I'm pale as fuck and play such long sessions. They always make vampire/bat-related jokes which just crack me up. Anyways I stayed at home and decided to play some online poker the evening, but more about that later. Today I went to a Greek restaurant with Remi and Niki and e watched 300 tonight. They didn't see it yet and I just bought the HD dvd, enough reasons to watch it. The screen was spectacular and the movie rocks obviously. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBA0SKmQy8&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ That made EL OH EL. Or as we normal people say in europe, lol. I would say that word so much less if i actually had to spell out the words, like americans do (no offence). El Oh El , Oh Em Gee... [B]Online Poker[/B] Mehhh it was kinda rough on saturday. I started at around 10. I was playing 3$-6$ NL shorthanded. Everything went pretty uneventful, but I had a feeling everything would be alright and I would play until i was up a decent amount. Unfortunately this moment never came. Hence, I quit playing monday morning at 3 am. I lost about 20 buyins, but I feel I played really well. I made some strong folds and calls here there. Example: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/365963 I switched games a lot from 2-4 and 3-6 to hu to fullring to 6-max. That kinda annoyed me. I need to get my discipline back, which is part of the bet and moreover, part of my life the last year. GET THE EYE OF THE TIGER ONCE. I need to pick a game and stick to it and grind it out and set goals. Not goals as in terms of i want to make 50k this month, cause I think those goals are retarded and work against playing ur A-game. Im seriously considering to go back to 1$-2$ NL and just grind out 50k hands. I'll make a boatload of money there anyway and it's good for the discipline. Another advantage is, that I have some room to move up, which will improve the chances of me winning the bet. If I can move up two levels, there is so much troom. And I could do shit like not play HU up until I played 100k hands 3-6. I probably will fail that cause I love playing hu and I feel it's my strongest game. I'll keep u guys posted about what Im gonna do and about any goals. I also need to get my pokertracker back up so I can finally keep track again of raw results and so that I can manage my goals better. I need to make money!! [B]Side-bets[/B] My bet is going pretty well so far and I don't expect to get a lot more action on it. Enough motivation I hope and if I fail i'm just stupid :(. A friend of mine has a very interesting bet in Vegas. Him and Good2Cu were talking at a table in Bellagio about prop bets. One guy said he could live in Bellagio for a month. Not leave the hotel etc. I think that's ridiculously easy cause you have everything at your disposal. I think I could go 3 months in bellagio easily. Fuck, I could probably do it without sleep. Anyways, Jay one upped the guy saying he could stay in a bathroom for 30 days. The rest was like no way obviously and they actually put money on it. Here is a video report cardplayer made about the bet, talking to Jay. He is a stand up guy and one of my favorite people in Vegas. I really hope he makes it and I'm confident he will. Take it down Jay :D. http://www.cardplayer.com/tv/29893 Another small news fact is that our 'friend' (we all think he is an asshole, but we treat him nicely cause he is very sensitive) Rekrul is gonna be playing in the prestigious NBC Heads up event. He got invited because he won a bracelet in the HU tournament at last years WSOP edition. It's really cool and to be honest I think he is a top 5 favorite in that event. Half of the people kinda suck anyway and Dan is pretty experienced live. Good luck ! For those of you who enjoyed the darth vader clips, I found something hilarious. It's a pretty long one but a must see. They implemented voice clips from the original Darth Vader voice (Mr. James Earl Jones) from other movies he played in and dubbed them over scenes from Star Wars. I was almost rolling on the ground so enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk&eurl=http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/blog/ See ya next time. Tomorrow im gonna try and work out and see if I can put myself to actually go again. Ciao.