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Cutsss  France. Jun 13 2007 14:09. Posts 1198 | | |
I'm sorry for the lack of updates since my last post, but now I have a green star, I have to update my blog (obv).
As u may remember I ended april in the red, like 30k, I was a bit depressed I must admit, plus I had my exams in may (I'm in 3rd year of lawschool in france)... wasnt really thinking about updating the blog.
I failed my exams, but im confident that I'll pass it in september (2nd
session).
Poker related, May went better than April, I was really playing better and was up 90k after like three weeks. I took another shot at 25/50 and got a little crushed and went on tilt for the remaining days of the month finishing up 60k.
-- BARCELONA --
End of May I went with two friends to Barcelona for the World Heads Up Poker Championship (I live in Toulouse, so Barcelona is like 4 hours away in car from my place).
Sadly the main event was 128 players max and was full, so I had to play the side events, 320 euros PLHE, 2100 euros PLHE. Good practice for vegas since i had never played any live tournament before.
In the 320 PLHE I was short after one hour, trying things but live players like to make hero calls, before the dinner break I doubled up twice (JJ vs 77 and 66 vs AT) and went to eat with a little more than avg.
When I came back I really took control of my table and managed to get the chiplead with 27 players left (top9 paid, about 120 entrants), my friend Balmix was also 1st/2nd in chips depending on the minute.
Then I got that fucking hand when one guy limp MP, I'm late with A6 and raise to 1k using a 1k chip, but I dont announce it and the dealer tell me that im forced to call...
flop A63, limper has 33 and im sure he would have folded to the raise.
I get back to average and the tournament is now a sick crapshoot, blinds are really going up fast and the chipleader is like 16bb, avg being 8bb. I try to steal some and lose some more before racing AKs vs 99 and losing 18th. My buddy Balmix also finished oom, 11th place.
I went on tilt to the cashgames (10/20 uncap) and met some cool guys, like zivziv on ps, a dutch limit player who lives in barcelona, another player who was offering all of us champaign, and an horrible Russian guy who was on tilt and allin every hand (no kidding) with any two... He lost maybe 10k euros in half an hour and decided to leave despite the table trying to offer him champaign and +EV odds on the prop bets.
Later on I lost a close to 7k pot when I squeezed from the sb with AThh flop came 89J one heart, I contbet and got a quick call, turn 4h I shoved and guy called me with 99.
I was close to cash broke after that (had like 4k left plus the tourney buyin to pay). We went back to the hotel and decided to grind the juicy cashgames the next day.
5/10 was awfull, full of decent online pla<x>yers waiting for matches in the heads up tourney, so we went to 5/10 PLO planning to gamble multiple short buyins. I ran twice my 200 buyin into 2k before losing it but cashed out a decent profit (1K).
The next day was the satellite day, I lost 3/4 of my chips level one when there was a raise utg & call utg+1, I squeeze button, got called from a guy from argentina that is horrible. I had AK and flop came AA8 two clubs, I bet and got called, turn 7 club and the guy lead half the pot, I consider calling but I remember him betting hard with made hands in the PLHE so I raise it 4x leaving myself close to nothing, river is a 4th club, check check and he has TT with Tc and take the pot. I won a flip but got card dead and finally pushed with 5.5bb in the button with T4o and got called by the sb who had T8s, he said he had a read, lol.
Saturday I played the 2100 event, 10k starting stack, a french dude bluffed half his stack vs my 2nd flush and I was up to 15k really quick. But I had a sick hand where a guy raise CO, I call BTN with 33 and flop come rags with two spades dude bet and I raise him, he calls, turn x check check, river 3rd spade, he lead 2100, I raise to 6600 and he calls with AA.
Then I raise 68s from the CO, got called by two guy in the blinds, flop came Q68, I bet they both call, turn 3, I bet english dude call, river 4 english check, I decided to bet, he raises allin, I fold and show, he shows Q3 lol...
Final hand I limp KJo utg+1 with 15bb, flop came 346, checked around, turn 6 with 2nd spade, checked to me, I bet, sb calls (french woman) calls, river As making the board 3466A with three spades, she check calls my shove with 34o, I guess she had a read.
Then we spent the rest of the time playing cash or going to club...
-- VEGAS --
Since I'm back I've played quite a lot, took another shot at 25/50 and still not running as expected.
I'm going to vegas the 24th and will stay there (at the Harrahs) till July 18th. I plan on playing the 5KNL sh and the main event. I dont know how I feel for that, I havent played tourneys for the last two months except the ones in barca and I dont know how I'll play there, but I'm a poker pla<x>yer so I'll prolly feel what i have to do at the table.
-- LESSONS --
Plan is to continue grinding before wsop, if possible play some live and some tourneys, really rest and dont play too much to get there fresh...
On a side note I gave my first poker lesson to cariadon, I think he liked, but u can ask him his impressions, so far he booked 5 hours for 1k (I know I should update the price in the Lesson section lol)...
Anyway here it is, I dont know if Ill update before the wsop, but I'll def post from there in the wsop blog...
later guys
nb: the "--title --" is for naz because he cant read 6 lines in a row without risking permanent brain damage.
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inde Germany. Jun 13 2007 14:21. Posts 1298 | | |
Hey, just wondering how many hands you manage to play per month on avg. How many tables do you play, i.e. how many hours do you put in? Your 14k hands session obv is huge. How many hours and how many tables are that?
On a sidenote: Are you doing everything you can for the university or are you skipping classes, not doing homework etc. from time to time? |
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Cutsss France. Jun 13 2007 14:23. Posts 1198 | | |
i play usually 6 tables but can handle 9.
I play about 50k hands a month, dunno hours.
Im lazy and dont do anything for university but still manage to pass the exams |
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Nazgul Netherlands. Jun 13 2007 14:48. Posts 7080 | | | |
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