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Led by members of the greatest hockey organization on the face of the planet (the New Jersey Devils), the second greatest hockey organization on the face of the planet (Team USA) defeated our noble northern neighbors today.

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Well I'm sure Nolan is feeling overjoyed right now but I'd like to take a few moments on this blog to recap the game.

1. Miller was excellent. He is easily the best goalie in the NHL right now, and that's nothing new.

2. Brodeur was not very good. His scrambling style, stick flailing, pad stacking bullshit was atrocious to watch. He used to feel unbeatable now I feel nervous watching his poor play. Luongo should start from here in.

3. Canada badly outplayed the Americans and spent most of the game in the Americans end of the rink.

4. The officials were clearly afraid to give the Canadians PP's until the Americans put the game out of reach. How is it possible to out-shoot the opposition 30-15 through 40 minutes, out-chance them 19-6, play the entire game in their end of the rink, and only get one measly PP? My personal feeling is that with the tournament on Canada's home soil the officials are afraid of appearing biased and don't feel comfortable giving Canada PP's. It's looking like home field disadvantage as far as the officials doing their job properly.

5. I estimate based on the above. If the game was called properly Canada would have had 10-12 PP's to the American's 4.

6. It was very clear that the Americans had no answer for the strength and skill of the Canadian players when they keep the game simple and work the puck down low. Absolute dominance by Canada for 60 minutes.

7. The reality is that in a tournament like this it's one game playoffs and anybody can win if they get lucky. The Americans were absolutely dominated for 60 minutes tonight. In a 7 game series Canada would win easily. It's not close. As a Canadian fan my only anger is the play of Brodeur, Pronger, and Neidermayer. Seabrooke should be given more ice with Keith and Neidermayer should be the 7th guy because he's been downright awful on the defensive side of the puck.

8. The Americans are unlikely to make the finals, and if Canada consistently played the way they did tonight they're the favorite to win it all despite the Russians being so deep in skill.

9. Much will be made of the Canadians having to play 4 games in 6 days. The game against Germany should be a walk so the extra game won't be any excuse. It's nothing these guys aren't used too. On top of that with two extra bodies in the lineup and lower average on ice time for just about everybody there will be no excuse about the amount of games.

I think that about sums it up. Anybody else with any thoughts? TLDR ?


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or w/e close to that..

Just busted the 4 mil guaranteed and wanna get my money off of stars before i forget about it

You send first unless ur obv reputable.. As proof that I'm going to actually send feel free to check that i just cashed for that amount in the stars 4 mil ;p


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UGh, so i start some standard grind. hit a rough patch and drop some buyins but no problem. i'll just play through. Good day to order in some indian food so i go right ahead and get some Lamb Dhansak. In the website i plug in pay cash in the amount of 50 euro's. It's actually quite cool that the site shows exactly where your food is and an estimated delivery time and all. Great!
So i grind some more. Just when i started up 2 headsup sit and goes and sharkscoped my villain's to be two of the fishier opponent's i played all day, the delivery arrives earlier then the schedule shows.

Normally a good thing ofcourse. Now its kind of annoying since you cannot stop these headsup turbo's and the door is on another floor. I rush the door with my wallet. The delivery guy doesnt have the right change. "Oh they gave me change for a twenty.." So i am like eh ok and dig through all my pockets and my wallet and actually come up with 2 bills of five and some coins (the bill is 12 euro's). I'm fifty cents short and i order there a lot and last time(same guy)i tipped well too. So i am like yeah is this ok i can get you the rest next time? But he doesn't think so and says i have some of my own money and digs around and then comes to the conclusion he can give me 30 euro's in change and seems to think that is acceptable though taking 50 cents less isnt.

i'm a little annoyed by now as its taking a lot of time and kind of out of options and he's not really making this easy for me. I'm really clueless why he doesnt take 50 cents less when his boss fucked up but ok. so i guess you can take the food back again. At which point he offers me to keep the food and pay through the site using internet banking. I quickly agree to that and finally can get back to the games.

I blinded both down from 1500 to 300 chips and within a minute i have time to eat I guess it would have been cheaper to give him 20 for the 12.50 bill. But maybe that's too much result oriented thinking.




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I thoroughly dominated my tables and maintained a top 100 stack throughout the tourney until this.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/802352

Also lost KK vs AJ to JohnnyBax for around a top 100 stack in the 150K. Everytime I watch/play against someone who is considered to be a great tourny player they run hotter than I ever have in my life. Still 3 more to go, I'm playing good today but not getting the results so far.


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ok, so things are looking up. Probably around 25k ish under ev still but whatever, been that for a while now so I'm basically running okish the last week. Playing decent enough too I think, and for the first time in a while I feel that my NL-game is decent.

Finally got my ass to the gym this morning, did not bet on UFC which was good since I was sure that Nog would win, on my way to a decent poker month, school is going decent I guess. What could I ever complain about?

I guess maybe this one:

Submitted by : DustySwedeDude

***** Hand History for Game 3162252229 ***** (Prima)
$1000.00 USD PL Omaha - Saturday, February 20, 04:38:51 ET 2010
Table Love No War 2 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 3: Hero ( $2555.25 USD )
Seat 4: BareAre_ ( $2014.75 USD )
Seat 5: thormodur ( $1190.50 USD )
thormodur posts small blind [$5.00 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$10.00 USD].

Holecards(Odds)
   
BareAre_ folds
thormodur raises [$15.00 USD]
Hero raises [$50.00 USD]
thormodur calls [$40.00 USD]

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $105.00)

   
thormodur checks
Hero bets [$80.00 USD]
thormodur calls [$80.00 USD]

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $265.00)

   
thormodur checks
Hero bets [$240.00 USD]
thormodur raises [$1000.00 USD]
Hero raises [$1520.00 USD]
thormodur calls [$45.50 USD]

River (Pot : $2,356.00)

   

Showdown
thormodur shows,
Hero doesn't show,
thormodur wins $2368.00 USD from main pot
Hero wins $714.50 USD from main pot

500 stars bucks and 500 FTP bucks required
i send party bucks
i send first
only well knowns



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2000fpp satellite was ownage

now time to make a million


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looking to buy action 10% - 20% pieces. must be trustworthy.


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Im looking to buy action in a couple more players in the Sunday Mill today; roughly 25% worth. PM me your stars SN so I can look you up. Thanks

Philip


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Reasons : I want to play it so bad. But haven't the proper bankroll to play it.
I've been sleeping all day in order to be prepared all night for this tournament !

Cons : No results.
Will probably have to get lady luck with me.

Pros : Would be playing my first biggest stars tournament
Lot of motivation, and a very good experience !

Miscellaneous : My last MTT tournament was a 1$ entry where i placed 24th in 3k participants for only 16$ lol.

PMs me if you're still interested ! (Good to be dreaming eh ?)


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EDIT: 30% sold to bongky

tourney accomplishments so far:

3 deep runs in the 3+r on stars
47th wcoop 320$ 6max for 2,3k
36,32, 18th in the warmup
won 2 20$ 180man tourneys for 1k each and a 36$ for 1,7k
won a 11$ deepstack tourney for 2,9k

PM or write in comments when interested

Tx in advance


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Guess I can't play after all, so I sent back money to everyone. Sorry guys, and thanks for staking me to begin with for this


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got $300 on ftp that i need transferred to my ps. u send first, either all at once or increments (50/100). reputable member. pm me. gomsipjorn on both stars and ftp. thx.


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EDIT: Done, Thx Bore


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Been watching a lot of plo vids on DC, and playing a good bit of 6 max on stars. I'm starting to really get the hang of it and if anyone wants to talk about hands or general PLO theory, PM me!


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F4zi - 20%
Exalted - 15%
AttackYouStack - 10%
Bore - 5%

Thanks guys, going to shoot around for an hour and I'll be ready to take down a few tournaments when I get back. I might make an update post at some point today.


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Not been playing much poker lately. A few weeks ago I decided to cash out all my bankroll and take an extended break from Poker while I sort out my real life priorities. I am getting married on 7th April, and its hella lota work and it has taken my mind of Poker. Also working serious amount of hours with my real life job. I have been out on several tours lately and have hardly been at home, which meant no time for Poker. When I do get back from my honeymoon I am looking to get seriously stuck back into it. Just before I took a break I decided what area of Poker I wanted to really work on and master, as it seemed to suit me. However my summer this year looks fucked up for me though and Poker. Got 18 date tour with Status Quo, a 2 week tour with "the priests" and a few gigs with Snowpatrol mixed in there too, and thats just month of June... Gonna be busy :/

Anyway heading out for some food then coming back later to play the Sunday Million. I used some FPP to win $10, then I played a few Sngs and got some cash, then played a $36 6max sunday million sat and won that and I am now qualified for the big one. Good luck to everyone else


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i'm actually excited for a poker tournament, which is weird. i grinded hard this week (by my standards, which includes a day in which i played a 3 hour session then quit and played monopoly with my friends, and taking the day after that off to hang out with my girlfriend and bartend). i had solid results with a bit of a downswing today, but i have $300 in bonuses from super sit-n-gos which is helpful. 40 and 18-man sit-n-gos are naturally very high variance, but my goal is to reach +$1500 from grinding this week in addition to any money i make in the million. it's worth mentioning that i was finally able to win a $55 super-sng which means i can stop ranting about that.

outside of poker, i've been watching lots of basketball, thanks in part to TNT and ESPN having thursday/friday double-headers. i've also been listening to the new caribou single "odessa" on repeat for most of the night. i've never been particularly blown away by caribou, but this song is really awesome. i've also been listening to wolf parade's first album a lot, as it's nostalgic and fun to grind to. my piece of shit car is leaking power steering fluid or something, so i've been stuck at my apt. for the most part, only making the occasional food/coffee run to my local sheetz. luckily, sheetz has a delicious canned caramel iced coffee that allows me to survive without driving to starbucks. it's almost sad how much of a starbucks fanboy i am, but it's mostly due to friends working there and making my drinks extra delicious and sometimes free.

good luck to everyone tomorrow. i'd reccomend going to church for extra run-good (not!).


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