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So my girl, zaragyemo, and I went to a home game tournament tonight. $20 buyin, 1 rebuy after u got knocked out or you could add-on at the first break.

First hand I'm in the BB and get AJs, blinds are 25/50 with 3k stacks. 2 limpers and the button raises to $150 (fish). I repop to like $500 (this was questionable but I figured I could outplay him even OOP) and limpers fold, button calls. Flop comes 337 and I cbet about $800 and he calls, but I can see that it's slightly reluctant and he's not acting. Turn hits a 10. I look at him and it's clear that he doesn't want me to bet. I put him on AQ or AK at this point and there's no flush draw out there and I have about a pot sized bet left, so I jam figuring he'll fold. He thinks for a bit and does a "fuck it" type of call and turns over AQ. River bricks and I'm rebuying right away.

I don't mind my play cause he was totally new to me and my read was dead on, I just had no idea he'd go all in with A high on the first hand like that. I wouldn't risk it if there was no rebuy but oh well.

Ran bad for a while after that, raised some limpers with AQ twice and missed the flop and had to fold. Get down to about 5 M and get AK, jam over a raise and take it down pre. About this time zaragyemo busts out after she'd been slowly losing chips all night. She rebuys. 1-2 hands later I get QQ and I jam over about 5 limps with 8 M and it folds and I take it. Then the next hand I get JJ and even though I have about 10 M now, with my image and the fact that any raise other than AI will put me in a spot to Jam the flop, I just Jam again. The guy to my left who had been talking about calling me with 22 since I am so aggro calls, and zaragyemo also calls. When she called I said "FUCK" cause I knew I was crushed. I turn over JJ, the guy to my left turns over KK, and zara turns over AA! Flop and turn brick, river brings a K, and we're both out.

What a night. Off to go party it up.


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I left Vegas last night. Its such a great city. So wonderful in so many ways, but at this time of the year its a bit too hot. It was over 40'C all the time. One of the biggest disapointments also is that I didnt meet any LPers over there. Next year that will happen guaranteed!

I havnt have time to play too much the last days since we have been so busy. We have been to a hypnosis show, went on a helicopter tour over the Grand Canion and went all around Vegas. I loved it!
The only session I played in Bellagio came with a small win, but overall the Vegas trip wasnt too good when it comes to the results. I think I ended down about 1300$. I am very disapointed with that since the games were sooo soft! I want to come back there and just grind live for a couple of weeks! It would be awesome and a nice boost to the roll!

I am going home on tuesday (after some days in Santa Monica, LA) so the trip is almost over. It has been 2 excellent weeks and I must say America is really great in so many ways. I might write something later about the differences if I have time. Its something to do for everyone who hasnt been here!


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I just got my new tv from my poker winnings. I guess my biggest splurge with poker winnings. It's a Samsung LN40B550 40 inch 1080p TV. It kinda sucks cuz my room is so small and my tv is infinitely larger than my computer monitor which is 22". Anyways this thread is useless without pics so here they are!

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Who can give me the best Ongame rakeback deal plz?


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If I aint got aces i aint playin. Bluffing is a myth created by nits to make you paranoid and pay them off!


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Played some HU last night to get to 93 total BI for the month and then figured I would finish up the 10K goal and win my bets i have. Unfortuantlelyly things did not go according to plan and i got stuck a bunch to start. 15 hours later I am writing this blog, havent slept in idk when, cant see anymore, havent eaten in hours excpet a few oatmeal creampies and yogurt. Low point was down 2.5k but managed to get back to only being down -500 a few times but just couldn't get there. Am finally giving up now becasue i can't think straight anymore and am just clicking random buttons. Ran kinda bad but overall played pretty bad, got all in preflop with awful hand (J7ss, 68ss, etc..) about 5 times and lost them all and was just playing like a god damn maniac after awhile. Isoing the fish with atc, cbet, 2 barrel, ALLLL IN! I hate full ring lol, sleep then wake back up!!! Fucking love poker!! At least I made 10k VPP!


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Thanks for checking in!!!! Need to get over the damn hump and get there



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Curious, what should I do differently in a rebuy tournament? It's only 1 Rebuy. Should I play pretty loose before the rebuy period is up and hope to spike and win some sorta huge pot? Then if I get stacked rebuy and play normal?

I'm playing a live tournament at a friend of a friends house tonight for the first time and I've never played a tournament with rebuys before, so no clue how this affects the strategy. halp


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Why does 2.5 buyins feel like freakin' hell to lose for me @ 2/5

rofl ASDF -_-



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Why does 2.5 buyins feel like freakin' hell to lose for me @ 2/5

rofl ASDF -_-



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Hi everyone,

Don't expect any brags or whines, because I would be a zillion buy ins below my EV graph.
I have created this blog, because I am in search of a newswriter for our pokersite.
I won't link the site here, because I don't want this post to be considered as spam.

I can however give some info about the website and job.
The site, for which we search a newswriter, is founded a year ago by 2 Dutch men. They started a Dutch pokerforum website. 5 Months ago I joined them and my job is writing newsarticles, strategy articles, and reviews (books, software etc). This website is in Dutch and is doing relatively well.

Last December my colleagues added an English version of the site. For this site I write reviews and strategy articles too, but we are short of a newswriter.
We have created a site, for which we want supply all the info poker players need in a positive way. So whether you look for bonuses, strategy, book reviews or something else, we want to offer it. This is a big goal, but we are working hard and making progress.
Our English site is still small, but content is growing each week and traffic too.

So we are searching for a newswriter for the English site, who wants to write 3/4 news articles per week. You are free in your choice of subjects, but they have to be poker related of course. You can compare it to what pindarots is doing for this site.
We expect that this job takes around 2 hours a week and we are offering $200 per month (or equivalent in another currency).

We prefer an English or American newswriter, but we consider other applications too. If you have any more question or if you are interested you can send me an PM or send me an email to edonvanasseldonk(at)gmail.com


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Hi everyone,

Don't expect any brags or whines, because I would be a zillion buy ins below my EV graph.
I have created this blog, because I am in search of a newswriter for our pokersite.
I won't link the site here, because I don't want this post to be considered as spam.

I can however give some info about the website and job.
The site, for which we search a newswriter, is founded a year ago by 2 Dutch men. They started a Dutch pokerforum website. 5 Months ago I joined them and my job is writing newsarticles, strategy articles, and reviews (books, software etc). This website is in Dutch and is doing relatively well.

Last December my colleagues added an English version of the site. For this site I write reviews and strategy articles too, but we are short of a newswriter.
We have created a site, for which we want supply all the info poker players need in a positive way. So whether you look for bonuses, strategy, book reviews or something else, we want to offer it. This is a big goal, but we are working hard and making progress.
Our English site is still small, but content is growing each week and traffic too.

So we are searching for a newswriter for the English site, who wants to write 3/4 news articles per week. You are free in your choice of subjects, but they have to be poker related of course. You can compare it to what pindarots is doing for this site.
We expect that this job takes around 2 hours a week and we are offering $200 per month (or equivalent in another currency).
We prefer an English or American newswriter, but we consider other applications too. If you have any more question or if you are interested you can send me an PM or send me an email to edonvanasseldonk(at)gmail.com





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So I asked Pulda and Blizzy if anyone knew about this ICM/M/MTT and stuff and Pulda said he knew it. He printed me some chart about how many bb's I could shove from what position with different stack sizes. That'll own. I think Ket and Zografa from LP is still in, then some decent live pros from Sweden and some other live players. Other then that I think it's mostly randoms.


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not to motivated to play a lot since my last post, i spend most of my time to organize my holidays, road trip by walk for 1 week and 2 weeks in a house who have rent with friends, gonna be 15 in house for 6, which promise a lot of fun =)

i haven't played to much but running good as hell, enough to take 9 BI in less than 2k hands playing 26/20

i'm now off for the week end for partying and will try to play more from thursday to saturday where i'll post an update before taking 3 drunking weeks =)

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I'm just playing my 2nd uber turbo nl omaha tourney on stars. lol this is the best thing that's ever happened since sliced bread. starting stack is 500 and since i've started writing the blinds have increased to 25/50. it's basically flipping and this is the ultimate way to relieve stress. i love it.


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got an 8 month engineering co-op job at
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no office behind the desk bullshit job.
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Help to build a better tomorrow for our kids!

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I ran like ass today and dropped like $800 or so. Then I tilt-withdrew another 1k. I don't need that 1k and I have no idea what to do with it. Suggestions are welcome.



I'm literally running so bad that I'm starting to believe that there is a first deposit rungood. I can't win 80/20s against fish for anything. I hate poker. I hate poker. I was this close to just taking 5k out and going back to nl50.


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after I made yesterday's post I played another session where I lost another 3.2k making the total -7.2k for the day obv that isn't good so on to today

well today started as any other I started off losing 2.5k but managed to come back and decided to quit after I got 2 outtered for 150bbs at the end

I think I'm no longer down for the month not too sure but still a long summer ahead and lots of grinding to be doing

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i knew i should not have played when i was on life tilt.

result was -10BI

good thing i got +3BI in rakeback, but i'm still out a couple of BI...


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