Showdown > bamba84: shows (a pair of Fives)
> pokerhaasje: shows (two pair, Aces and Fives)
> bamba84 leaves the table
> pokerhaasje collected $256.70 from pot
Summary > Total pot $257.20 | Rake $0.50
Board
> Seat 1: bamba84 (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Fives
> Seat 2: pokerhaasje (button) (small blind) showed and won ($256.70) with two pair, Aces and Fives
with radiohead, R.E.M, massive attack, nelly furtado and mika playing
in my frontyard the summer festival season has officially kicked off.
first i'm going to hit Sarajevo and will be going mad with balkan-turbo
if i should believe the lonely planet guide i got.
After that its time for LOWLANDS! www.lowlands.nl , awesome festival.
going to see so much music. it's already totally sold out
(probably 60k+ tickets). going to name a few for you:
editors
the kooks
vive la fete
sex pistols
the hives
n.e.r.d
franz ferdinand
simian
hot chip
deus
blood red shoes
de jeugd van tegenwoordig
to introduce the internationally unknown, this is "de jeugd van
tegenwoordig with their biggest hit.
on to poker. i've been playing some 100nl headsup again. i've played
quite some of it earlier this year and some last year but now i haven't
played for a long period and i'm picking it up. enjoying how big the
upswings are if you run good. though today i hit the first bumps
in the road.
this opponent was really agressive and i think his opening range and
calling ranges pf were good. however he 3bet a massive amount. and he
was extremely agressive post flop with big bets.
he was kind of running me over, because in response i tightened up
a bit and was basically 3 betting him back with some higher cards
and calling his 3bets with those willing to get my stack in with
any medium TP. unfortunately i kept flopping undercards no draw.
when i made a stand with air i got raised everytime so that didnt
work out either.
in this hand i shoved A5 for value and because i didnt want to give
freecards. when he called i thought he had some middle pair.
i was tilting a little shortly after this match. cause of a combination
of him pushing me around with constant raises, me flopping nothing
and getting it in and getting crushed
but he left as soon as he was +2bi to me and i think, the way it
was going i was really +EV. definetely after i figured out what he
was doing and getting some insight in what he was calling down with/
raising with.
next opponent made everything up to me. at first he was running good
and beating me out of more money. then i got some back, and we got
pretty deep stacks. as you can see in this hand, i'm not that comfortable
with HU deep stacked so after some time i asked him to play on a new table.
when we were 3bi deep, i think. he agreed and i got another 2bi off him there.
though when we just started it he was quickly up 1bi.
i do enjoy the challenge of playing deeper, but the swings are pretty big
for my bankroll at the moment and though i'm interested i think its not
wise at the moment.
in the last 2 hands i was contemplating shoving/raising on the turn
if you have any idea how i could've played them better let me know.
sacrificed another profitable friday night to my hedonistic side. went out for drinks in Kriterion (movie theather/bar) where there were festivities around the smoking ban in clubs and bars starting on july the 1st. there were girls going around with free smokes, many people were dressed up and there was a LOT of smoking. i can't believe the vile odor on the clothes i was wearing last night.
There was also supposed to be poker but it turned out to be blackjack. It was blackjack for cigs. 1 point, 1 coffin nail. I run good so i lost a pack. Pretty sure the dealer was misplaying the game though. He splitted even when he hit blackjack :S, didn't bother me though
it was a lot of fun gambling for nothing with a non typical gambling crowd and still being excited because everyone is afraid to run out of smokes and that's annoying.
well.. that's it for smoking in Holland. We'll see how that turns out. Good luck everyone.
typed up a long ass post and then clicked post message while not having put in any title. this happens to me a lot. is it possible to implement some feature so i get my text back when i click back..
Main thing that is occupying me right now is reading a book by Izet Kalkan. I received it from the father of my friend whom i'll be travelling the balkans with. He used to be a journalist and was a member of the war parliament during the war in Sarajevo. you read about it in the papers and see it on the news. But that is not the same thing as reading such a personal account...
it's so fucking impressive. your home is besieged. grenades are shot at the city everyday. there is no food, no water, no gas, no elektricity, no cigarettes.. i can't even imagine how tough this is. it has some similarities to the dutch literature about World War II. i recognize the despair that seeps through the pages, the fight for survival that goes on from hour to hour but that is carried on because there is no other choice and i guess the hope that the end of it all is near.
i will write more about it as i read further. for the dutch boys that are interested in reading about this too. here is a link. i can't find a link for new copies. but if you PM me i can probably contact the author whether they are still available for sale.
So my best friend woke me up at 9:00 today to go into the city on a quest that was a total failure. so we ended up drinking lots of coffee in the café's. lounging outside on the cushions at the terrace. eating readymade sandwiches. reading magazines and papers. it felt good to get up early for a change, fail at something (standard) and still have a very relaxed morning. it was very much what we always do , except it was @$%(&@#%((&2 before lunch.
what poker player gets up before lunch??
so i started playing around 13:00 which is pretty standard. only thing is. i had 2 cups of espresso before starting on the sandwiches and 1 after. this is not cool. i'm so anxious. i know this is not very manly. believe me i can hold my coffee but having them on the empty stomach is apparently a big NONO for me..
..it just makes me want to stack off so bad.. so i only played a couple of hyperaggressive shortsessions. like 15 minutes and decided to work on other stuff. i have a few small projects that i want to get going. a little online shop for socks - will tell more later - and i'm trying to pick up some writing jobs, which is what i'm supposed to be qualified for (i'm doing it not because i ran bad but because i miss some creative outlet). probably what lead to this daily torture of you guys in the first place. so clearly it would be good medicine for me.
still time to put your money on the Netherlands for tomorrow. @partypoker.com or @pinnaclesports.com. fyi Russia has a dutch coach. so you should accept no worse then 11:1
for the leeches among you interested in good music, check out this album:
I got a few very bad coolers and generally things were just NOT going my way. getting my bets raised by nits in an annoying frequency
and by idiots with hands. i probably got bluffed a few times too. in the end i wasn't playing that well anymore. ended up a little down thanks to some big donations (calling my 3bet with 79o in position and shoving the JQx flop over the c-bet and such).
Then a girl i like a lot called me and asked what i was thinking about her essay. So i tried to help out and go over it but it was a fucking difficult subject and she's a little difficult (stubborn) and all of it was giving me a big headache and i guess i was still tilted (and not very patient), cause now she's mad at me. so as we say: i'm running pretty bad today.
to end thing on a better note. i got a t-shirt customized with this print (see below) and hope it get's shipped next week. it was rather expensive to get this done. but i want to check what kind of quality they can print. if it's good work, i'll get more custom designs and do a lot of t-shirts at once.
First off let me apologize. As soon as the dutch are European Champions i will not write about soccer anymore untill the World Championship when we are going to stomp on your country too. i'm just saying.. 3-0 vs world champ, 4-1 vs world cup finalist, 9 substitute players, 2-0 vs rumania. i'm already sorry for you swiss and russian guys. either of you is going to get royally fucked on saturday
On to less important matters. I'm going to be visiting Croatia and Bosnia next month. I haven't been on a real vacation for quite some time - just music festivals - and am really looking forward too it. I picked up the lonely planet guide on the Western Balkans but #%)&@)%&@ there is nothing in there about casino's ??
Anyone got some information about where the soft spots are? I'd rather not play a bunch of mobsters though. I'm not Rekrul.
I'll be in Zagreb, Sarajevo and in Split. maybe, maybe i'll hit up Dubrovnic. As i hear its really beautifull.
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