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.
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 to get called by .. 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.
Monday
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 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.
Ok that was crack in a video. I know I posted it before, but I did it again, simply cause I wanted it.
Tuesday
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.
Today
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:
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.
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 .
EPT 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 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 .. 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.
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.
Online Poker
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..
Guitar Hero
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.
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:
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 .
Football, Finally drive to play poker again.. guitar hero
testasd, Mar 05 2008
Life
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
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~.
Guitar Hero
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 (<3) on Through The Fire and Flames for 25$. Still no matter how much you play the game, there is so much room for improvement. Lets just say it will take a while before I can actually play shit like this....
Poka
I actually managed to repair my Pokertracker database. I haven't been using it for 5 months, not that I care that much about it. But it does help me to play more seriously and play more towards achieving goals. So for some reason it immediately motivated me to play again. I'm actually gonna do something smart. I took a longer break than ever from poker past 2 weeks. I wanna prevent myself from going on lifetilt because of the bet. So that combined with me learning disicpline I'm gonna play 40k hands on 1-2 NL. Then 100k hands on 2-4 NL and then go to 3-6. When I played a while on 3-6 I'll start playing hu again on 3-6. Right now low-variance grinding in a disciplined fashion is important for my game and it's exactly what I need to gain from the bet. I played like 1000 hands on 1-2 NL yesterday, just to test out the waters LOL. I ran pretty well and made an awesome profit of 500$ . Anyways.. sorry there's not gonnna be superswingy heads ups I can talk about.. but hell if I lose everything in poker I might have to start robbing banks.. and go to prison! Even though prison is not as pointless as I thought..........
Tomorrow I'm going to Dortmund to play the EPT. I'm staying the full period there I think, cause I also want to play the sideevents this time. I'm giong by car, which is way faster than anything else going to Dortmund. It's gonna be a 2 hour drive or so and I'm gonna pick up Joris (JazzyFish online) and another friend of his on my way there. Hopefully I can do something good this ept. I feel reborn, not that that's relevant! But at least it's comforting.
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 on , 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 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 en he had , 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.
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...
Online Poker
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.
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!!
Side-bets
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 .
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.
See ya next time. Tomorrow im gonna try and work out and see if I can put myself to actually go again.
2500e Event Today, hardly any poker .. lots of xbox
testasd, Mar 05 2008
I just woke up at 10am without the help of an alarm. This is pretty sick, but that's just he way it's been past couple days. Every day I been going to bed around 11 pm and waking up early like today. I mean it obviously feels great and refreshing, but for some reason I don't feel like playing poker. Every time I start up my pokerstars client and open some tables, I quit within 5 minutes thinking 'Mehhhh fuck it'. Maybe it's just cause I'm resting so much and I'm sure I'll get anxious to play again.
Today it's gonna be a big day anyway, at least for dutch tournament poker. The 2500 euro event is gonna be pretty huge for Dutch standards, cause when I called the casino yesterday they sold 140 tickets already, with a cap of 200. I'm gonna call them in a min to see if i can still get a ticket for today, but I'm sure it's not sold out yet. If it IS sold out then yay me for always being a lazy idiot.
Yesterday I went to see the Golden Compass. I kinda liked it, but it felt like it's one of those fantasy movies, that consists of tons of books, and it's really hard for the movie producers to show the whole tale in the movie. This makes certain events or people kinda random. So I kinda liked it, but I feel it wasn't as good as other movies. I don't know if there is going to be a sequel, if not, I like movies like Pan's Labyrinth or Bridge to Terebithia better, cause they perform better in the limited showing time they have.
Also I been playing xbox a lot as usual. Guitar hero going pretty good now . I have to finish one last song on expert and then beat Lou to complete the game on expert. The song is raining blood of course, I have to learn that damn Mosh 1 Part. With XBOX I'm addicted to getting achievements. It's like crack. For any competetive gamer it's the shit. Smart move by Microsoft. For people that don't know the whole concept. When you finish certain stuff in games or reach certain levels you get achievements. Each achievements is a certain amount of points. All those points of all games add together and give you a gamerscore, which is showed in ur profile online. Praise teh nerds.
Of course besides guitar hero there is always the real guitarz too. Buckethead weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
When I see that I really want to be able to play guitar . But since I live in an appartment building it would be bad manner to play electric guitar. Also it would take years to be able to play a song like this, if I have it in my anyway. Meh.
Yesterday I saw some NAC - Ajax football. Football has been pissing me off last 2-3 years. The level in Holland is just so insanely pathetic these days. There are some really great and fun players to watch . But it's just not fun to watch anymore. Also national team is just plain boring. Only match I have been watching and enjoyed was Ajax - Az. Me and Remi are going to a match soon, seeing them live is always fun, now matter how wrist-scratching bad the game is. Plus he has never been to one, which is silly . This is what dutch football looks like these days:
Ow a funny fact considering the bet: I have actually been having nightmares lately, dreaming I sat down on a 5-10 NL game.... lol? I'm not kidding. I dream that I've been playing for 40 hours and as usual I am getting a bit confused and I forget about the bet. Next thing I do is sit down to play Guy Laliberte hu on 25-50 and then when i played first hand. People start hopping on the table saying ship it. In my dream I was very confused and scared and then I realize I sinned and lost the bet. I usually wake up panting and thinking ZOMG WTF HAPPENED. I wish this was a story I made up, alas =[.
Ow, I ordered a poker table btw for some small homegame fun. I called up Jorryt (TheCleaner11) en 2 days later I had one dropped off. The table is really nice and if you wanna order something browse http://www.ship-it.nl . Mehh I'm gonna go to Utrecht in an hour or so. If the event is sold out I'm gonna get pretty angry (at myself). I'm sure it'll be fine though.
From now on I'm gonna do my blog in english. I've had some people asking me to, cause they would be interested in reading it, and overal it's not a bad move i think! So hope you enjoy and Rekrul .. bring it on~ . No fear.
The first of january I kinda got owned. I don't really think being on a down from newyear's eve had a lot ot do with it. I'm kinda used to play messed up and when I feel like shit. Nevertheless I lost around 80k and I'm just sick of the way I'm playing. Not skill-wise but more stuff like br-management and time I invest in poker. As a kind of new years resolution thing I made a new prop bet, one that has been floating in my mind for a while now. I just need to get my grind back, since I have done so many risky shit the past half year .. or maybe even the last year.. So it's an interesting challenge.
The bet:
I cannot play higher than 3$-6$ NL Hold 'Em online and I have to play on pokerstars. This because the tracking would be easier. Some people included a mimimum number of hands in their bet against me. So if i play 1 hand higher than 3$-6$ NL online I lose. Live i cannot play higher than 5-5 euro nl, which sucks too, cause I'm gonna be some interesting games during travelling. Bleh. Anyways the bet started for people who already put money on it, so as of couple days ago I cannot play high, but of course action is still open.
So afer a couple days rest I started playing haaardcooore on 3-6 NL. The first session, which was about 25k hands, was insane. I won around 19,600$ which is almost 33 buyins. My biggest winning session ever, buy-in wise at least. The couple days after that were pretty unfortunate, but it's just variance and complaining would be kinda retarded if you look at that 33 buyin session. Another thing I'm trying to change (again, sigh) is my rhytm. When I woke up on friday I felt like shell. Hollow and tired. The past few days I been making an effort to live a bit more healthy and sleep more regularly. These streaks of normal life, usually only last 1 week, but I hope I can manage to keep it up.
I've hardly played poker, cause first I wanna organize stuff around it. I did play a short 2k hands session yesterday which resulted in a 7 buyin win, very nice. Every time I start sleeping in a normal fashion my weariness really comes out, so I have been sleeping a lot and laying on the couch playing XBOX. I bought a couple new games to play. Forza2, Star Wars Lego, Mario Galaxy for the WII. Apart from that I also have been playing a ton of Guitar Hero again. Last week I hardly played since I played so much poker and it annoyed me to see how rusty I was, so i'm trying to get in shape again . IN SHAPE FOR TOY GUITARS, how cool is that.
I saw a sick sick sick sick sick video of a guy who managed to 100%'d Raining Blood on expert. This is one of the hardest songs in guitar hero, especially to perform without making a single mistake. The beginning part is insane so this video is kind of a must see, even for people who don't play the game. It's obvious how impressive it is.
Whooptiedoop.
This year I'm definitely gonna try, and probably succeed, to become supernova elite on Pokerstars. Right now I have about 55k VPP, which is nice, especially considering I only played 4 sessions. They were long ones though. I have about 940,000 fpp now, and I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it. I might go for a porsche or buy-in to some big live events. I'll calculate what's the most +EV, cause I'm making them at an insane rate right now, so a Porsche is pretty doable.
I skipped PCA cause I didn't feel like being in a plane for a total amount of 30 hours to travel to 1 live tourney. Of course there's a lot of people to meet and catch up with, but I'll see them during the 5 diamond. In 2007 I have been travelling 7-8 months out of 12. That's just sick and I enjoy being home right now. There are some EPT's coming up and I will definitely attend those. Dortmund starts 29th of January and then Copenhagen will be somewhere mid-february. First there are some big Dutch tourneys. In Utrecht there will be 2,500 euro buyin tournament on thursday and on saturday a 1,000 euro event. It's kinda neat to see all these new big events in Holland. It really goes to show how much poker is growing.
This week after I'm comfortable with my new sleeping schedule, I'm definitely gonna put in as many hours online as I can. I also have to fix my pokertracker so I can update some stats and graphs on my blog. Comments are welcome as usual and they can still be in dutch too obviously.
As far as youtube humor this edition, I found some Darth Vader stuff on youtube that I saw years ago. Quite hilarious. The second video is from a British comedian, something showed to me by none other than de Dal.
enjoy and pzzz
And this is Eddie Izzard, I got reminded of this cause Ive been playing Star Wars Lego a decent amount.
Hmm, ik heb niet zo heel veel gepost de laatste tijd en dat is vooral omdat ik niet gepokerd heb. Ik had er geen zin in na die downswing en ik heb 2 weken bijna niet gespeeld. In die tijd heb ik vooral veel gedronken en xbox'ed. Veel uit eten geweest en de stad in. Beetje het verdriet wegkopen . Guitar hero blijft leuk en ik heb nu ook Assassin's Creed gekocht. Ik heb net het intro gedaan en het leek me tot nu toe echt suupervet. Die zal ik dus behoorlijk wat spelen en de nieuwe burn out is er ook binnenkort. Btw er hadden al 2 gasten van het forum me toegevoegd, dus lijkt me leuk als de rest die dat wil het ook doet, dan kan ik je rapen met Through The fire and Flames. Mijn gamer-id is RaSZi (joh). Hier trouwens het ziekste Guitar hero filmpje ooit, van dat ventje van 9:
Hier nog een filmpje hoe Guitar Hero niet moet!!
Marathon
Vorige week donderdag begon het feest. Ik had niks op pokerstars staan, maar toch wel erg veel zin om te spelen, dus Victor stuurde me 5,000. Na een tijdje 2-4 en 3-6 NL (vooral heads up) gespeeld te hebben stond ik op 15,000$. Ik stuurde zijn 5,000$ terug ent oen speelde ik door. Op een gegeven moment stond ik op 24,000$ (some rush yo) en het meeste van de winst kwam toen van een 25$-50$ tafel. Op een gegeven moment kwam Bart Spijkers ook nog zitten en we kregen vanaf dat punt veel clashes, zeker omdat hij direct rechts van me zat. Deze clashes resulteerde uiteindelijk in deze pot:
Eigenlijk gebeurt er in deze pot precies wat ik had gehoopt. Bart raised, hij geeft vervolgens actie op mijn reraise. dit is ook verre van de eerste keer dat ik hem reraisede dus zal hij me niet per see op een zwakke hand zetten. De flop flatcall ik om een turn bet uit te lokken, die komt dus ook en helaas hit ie een flush op de river . Deze pot deed vrij veel pijn maar we gaan gewoon door! De 25-50 brak, en waarom ook , dan maar 100$-200$. Ik kon direct links van een zwakke speler gaan zitten dus ik vond het wel ok om een shotje te wagen. De tafel brak echter snel en ik had hier een winst van 300$ lol.
Vanaf daar ging het eigenlijk alleen maar bergafwaarts en na wat coolers, was al het geld weer op en konden we na een uur of 35 spelen weer naar bed.
Afgelopen dinsdag begon ik aan een sessie die uiteindelijk 50 uur zou duren en die ging een heel stuk beter. Ik begon op 2$-4$ heads up en later ook 3$-6$ heads up en veel 6-max. Na een tijdje stond ik redelijk wat winst en ging ik weer naar 25$-50$, waar toen Bart Spijker joinde. Het scenario leek zich te herhalen na deze pot:
Maar uiteindelijk won ik veel handen tegen Bart, waarvan de meeste setups waren in mijn voordeel. Hij speelde leip agressief, maar ik ook dus vandaag dat al die potten zo uit de hand liepen. Hier een paar handen uit die clash:
Dit is een vrij moeilijke call, want hij represent hier echt iets heel zieks. Maar omdat de game zo agressief was en ik dacht dat bart mijn bets en raises ook wel zat was besloot ik toch te callen en had ik het bij het juist eind: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342458
Bart speelde eerder zijn Koningen al superagressief, dus daarom dacht ik dat hij die hier weer had, dat of QQ, en de pot hier gewoon op wilde pakken: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342494
Deze hand is gewoon een superlucky setup. Het resultaat uiteindelijk in een megapot van 25,000$. Heel erg zuur voor Bart en erg veel pech: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342515
Al met al ging het erg goed en zat ik prima in mijn vel. De timing van bluffs en soms toch ineens de nuts laten zien klopte perfect en dan kan je dit soort moves gaan maken: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342412
Ik had eigenlijk geen zin meer om te spelen aangezien ik helemaal kapot was. Dit was inmiddels in mijn 2de sessie, die begon vrijdagmiddag tot zondagochtend :O. Daniel Negreanu kwam zitten op 4 tafels 25$-50$. Dit trok erg veel mensen naar de 5000$ tafels die er normaal niet zitten maar gewoon met hem willen spelen. Gelukkig had ik dit snel door en was ik er op tijd bij en het feest kon beginnen. Dit was een van mijn eerste handen, ook tegen Negreanu:
De tafel zat vol met mensen die graag flopjes speelde, dus ik dacht als ik under the gun hier raise krijg ik 6 callers en daar heb ik niet echt veel zin in, vandaar de limp-raise: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342605 Het is natuurlijk een enorme setup, Azen tegen Koningen, maar ik denk dat hij hem prima had kunnen folden op de turn.
De volgende hand is wel grappig. Ik hit op de turn mijn straat en hij op de river zijn set. Ik denk dat hij hier weer de turn had kunnen folden, maar na de river is er voor hem geen ontsnappen meer aan: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342709
Uiteindelijk was ik helemaal dood en verrot, maar ik was supertevreden met mijn spel, vooral op de 9 handed tafel en minder op de 6-max tafels, waar ik na verloop van tijd (heel veel tijd) te passief begon te spelen. Geen slechte week, 140,000 fpp's erbij en belangrijker +80,000$ weeeeeeeee.
De rest
Vandaag heb ik alleen de sunday warm-up gespeeld, waar ik overduidelijk te moe voor was want ik speelde de hand waar ik ermee uitvloog als een dweil. Geen poker dus sowieso meer voor mij en ik verwacht eigenlijk dat het er ook niet meer van zal komen tot na nieuwjaar. Morgen ga ik richting Vlissingen, want met kerstnacht is het weer Groove 2 Chill. Als je niks te doen hebt of je wil uit zou ik zeker daarheen gaan. Zoals ik vorige keer al zei, het is gewoon de shit altijd. http://www.groovetochill.nl voor meer info en misschien zie ik je daar.
Eerste kerstdag ga ik met mijn vader, zus en oma uit eten en een beetje relaxen bij mijn pa thuis. Tweede kerstdag organiseren mijn opa en oma van mijn moeders kant een brunch en ga ik daarheen. Donderdag thuis, dan moeten we dingen opnemen voor pn tv en dan 's avonds denk ik een feestje. Ik ben immers vrijdag jarig! Mehhh dan word ik 24, maar ik heb er eigenlijk geen zin in. Dat heb ik nooit in me verjaardag, het is niet dat ik denk dat ik oud word ofzo, maar het is gewoon zuur lol. Dunno of iets bijzonders ga doen, misschien gewoon zuipen ofzo.. ainokea.
Ik denk dat ik de 30ste afreis naar Barcelona, om daar nieuwjaar te vieren. Dat deed ik vorig jaar ook, toen ging ik samen met Brummel (utreg) langs bij Dal en zijn huisgenoten daar. Ik ga dit jaar niet Jan Pieter bij proberen te houden met drinken, want dan heb binnen de periode van 1 nacht scheurbuik =]. Ik ga niet meer naar de PCA op de Bahama's. Ik heb geen zin om in totaal 25 uur te vliegen voor 1 5000$ toernooi. Het kan allemaal wel paradijs zijn, maja uitrusten doe ik er toch niet en ik heb een teringhekel aan reizen . Als het in belgie was had ik hem wel gespeeld, maar ik ga liever gewoon op normale vakantie. Ik moet ook even kijken of die bet nog doorgezet wordt dat ik niet hoger dan 3$-6$ mag spelen.
Salty Shanty's One Shot Tea
Dit verdient onderhand zijn eigen blokje. Credits gaan uit naar Dal, omdat hij de link stuurde met het commentaar 'Dit is jouw humor'. Ik ging dan ook helemaal stuk toen ik het filmpje zag. Het is dus een vent die het filmpje niet vertaalt, het is immers gewoon Indiaas, maar er in ondertitels bij zet wat HIJ denkt dat er gezegd wordt .
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Hij, Buffalex, doet dit vaker met filmpjes en toen ik zocht kwam ik ook deze tegen. Zeker niet zo grappig als de eerste maar wel erg leuk. Ik vind toch dat de Techno-Viking beter danst als ik eerlijk ben. De dansjes in de volgende zijn wel erg grappig though .
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to get called by 
.. 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.
which was fine.
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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 
.. 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.
. 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.
on 
, 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 
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 
, good game lex.
. 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 
