The title says it all I think.. wow.. been running sooooo bad the last couple of days, and it seems like there's no improvement :( all my aces get cracked and I keep running against oversets or quads with my sets :( this is going to be very tough month on my winrate average lol. Anyways, I thought the rake race was going to be only for one skin, but it seems that the rake race is for the whole iPoker network, and there are some really hardcore crazy guys playing.. so, no way that I'm even going to be in the top 200. That being said, I think I should take a few days off from poker, I need to catch a break I think. I'm sad, because I still need 23K points to make it up to the next VIP level, which is certainly possible if I play a few hours every day until the end of the month, but if I keep running this bad, it's not worth it at all.
Meanwhile I've got this cold/fever that I just seem not to be able to get rid off. I just keep coughing and my throat hurts. I don't know what the problem is, I'm taking medication, but it doesn't seem to help. Some of my friends told me, it might be the toxic air over here.. but I think I should have adapted by now right? But well, I'm only staying here until mid February, after that I'm returning to Europe. Stable internet.. gosh.. it's going to feel so strange not to disconnect lol ;)
One of my friends did pretty well, and cashed in on the Aussies millions (40.000$), so I would like to congratulate him (eventhough he's dissapointed not to make the superbig money), congrats Matt! :)
and here's a one outer that I hit.. sometimes lady luck does shine upon me, I just hope by posting this, she will be with me again ;)
GAME #804200637: Texas Hold'em NL $1.00/$2.00 2008-01-18 10:00:46
Table Melrose
Seat 3: VicenteValencia ($285.52 in chips)
Seat 5: HERO ($199.90 in chips)
Seat 6: jib64 ($135.80 in chips)
DEALER
Seat 8: SnowmanT ($187.87 in chips)
Seat 10: Wendy22 ($110.85 in chips)
SnowmanT: Post SB $1.00
Wendy22: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [C3 H3]
Dealt to SnowmanT [SJ CJ]
VicenteValencia: Raise $7.00
HERO: Call $7.00
jib64: Fold
SnowmanT: Raise $18.00
Wendy22: Fold
VicenteValencia: Call $12.00
HERO: Call $12.00
*** FLOP *** [SK D3 HJ]
SnowmanT: Check
VicenteValencia: Check
HERO: Bet $45.00
SnowmanT: Call $45.00
VicenteValencia: Fold
*** TURN *** [S10]
SnowmanT: Check
HERO: Bet $135.90
SnowmanT: Allin $123.87
*** RIVER *** [S3]
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $405.77
Rake $3.00
HERO: wins $405.77
GP UP!
GP.Dragon
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Fresh Air
Hi guys,
the new year started pretty horrible at the poker tables, I went into a -4000$ downswing on NL400 and gone down another 3000$ at NL600 which made that -7000$ in a few days :( didn't play that bad to be honest, a lot of serious bad beats, 5 in a row on NL400 where I lost with 90% or higher, anyhow, we're almost back to break even now, so I'm happy with that, only thing is that we haven't made any money at all and the month is already 1/3 passed, which is not good :) but there is some good news though, ChiliPoker (iPoker network) is starting a rake race starting on the 14th of January and ending on the 31st of January and they are giving away 100.000$ in total, so I think I'll be grinding a lot to make a top 10 position (at least) on that and give myself a nice bonus for this month. If there are still people interested in playing on iPoker network, feel free to mail SilverRakeBack for a good signup bonus offer!
after the bad beats and downswing I just decided to move out of Bangkok for a few days with my friends, heading to the beach at Pattaya.. well not that much beach to be honest, it's pretty small, but I always love having a coconut at the beach and sitting on my ass :)
We had lots of fun at the beach and ended up in some sleazy hotel surrounded by gay go-go bars.. wtf?! yes! gay go-go bars.. sigh.. Thailand is a pretty crazy country lol. But before I get flamed by gay people, I have nothing against it, it's just there are so many gay people in Thailand, I think it's strange, no other country has that many compacted on one area I think? or maybe I'm wrong :)
anyhow, it's going to be a heavy grinding month, and I don't think I'll do something else besides concentrating on grinding much! no more holidays, time to get serious, so wish me luck :)
GP UP!
GP.Dragon
the new year started pretty horrible at the poker tables, I went into a -4000$ downswing on NL400 and gone down another 3000$ at NL600 which made that -7000$ in a few days :( didn't play that bad to be honest, a lot of serious bad beats, 5 in a row on NL400 where I lost with 90% or higher, anyhow, we're almost back to break even now, so I'm happy with that, only thing is that we haven't made any money at all and the month is already 1/3 passed, which is not good :) but there is some good news though, ChiliPoker (iPoker network) is starting a rake race starting on the 14th of January and ending on the 31st of January and they are giving away 100.000$ in total, so I think I'll be grinding a lot to make a top 10 position (at least) on that and give myself a nice bonus for this month. If there are still people interested in playing on iPoker network, feel free to mail SilverRakeBack for a good signup bonus offer!
after the bad beats and downswing I just decided to move out of Bangkok for a few days with my friends, heading to the beach at Pattaya.. well not that much beach to be honest, it's pretty small, but I always love having a coconut at the beach and sitting on my ass :)
We had lots of fun at the beach and ended up in some sleazy hotel surrounded by gay go-go bars.. wtf?! yes! gay go-go bars.. sigh.. Thailand is a pretty crazy country lol. But before I get flamed by gay people, I have nothing against it, it's just there are so many gay people in Thailand, I think it's strange, no other country has that many compacted on one area I think? or maybe I'm wrong :)
anyhow, it's going to be a heavy grinding month, and I don't think I'll do something else besides concentrating on grinding much! no more holidays, time to get serious, so wish me luck :)
GP UP!
GP.Dragon
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Welcome to 2008
hi guys,
today I took a break from all the partying and going out.. gosh been partying a little bit too much (is that possible? yep :p). So I thought, why not start a little session to celebrate the new year, and it started off really bad.. overplayed my TT so badly and ran against KK, so I was down like 800$ but then suddenly I was focused and in the end I ended with 300$ profit or something on 600 hands. I'm happy with it, because I didn't play too well imo but as an excuse I haven't played for over a week so I needed to warm up and get back into my tight modus again :)
Anyways.. I moved up VIP level on iPoker this month, and I'm planning to reach my 100.000 points for the highest VIP level 6 this month, so I'm gonna move off Pokerstars for a month and concentrate my play on iPoker mostly. I've also started datamining NL600 and NL1000 tables on iPoker, just waiting to ship my stars bankroll on iPoker to have enough to multitable on those limits.
Enough poker rant? how was the partying? well.. everything was a big blur, so many things happened (good and bad), but I guess the most important thing is that I had some good times and have learned some important lessons for the near future. What about new year resolutions? well here are my goals for this year:
- try to reach about 100K$ for this year on the poker cash tables
- try to hit something big at a big live tourney
- try to complete my asian marketing project
- live happily in my own way
GP UP!
GP.Dragon
today I took a break from all the partying and going out.. gosh been partying a little bit too much (is that possible? yep :p). So I thought, why not start a little session to celebrate the new year, and it started off really bad.. overplayed my TT so badly and ran against KK, so I was down like 800$ but then suddenly I was focused and in the end I ended with 300$ profit or something on 600 hands. I'm happy with it, because I didn't play too well imo but as an excuse I haven't played for over a week so I needed to warm up and get back into my tight modus again :)
Anyways.. I moved up VIP level on iPoker this month, and I'm planning to reach my 100.000 points for the highest VIP level 6 this month, so I'm gonna move off Pokerstars for a month and concentrate my play on iPoker mostly. I've also started datamining NL600 and NL1000 tables on iPoker, just waiting to ship my stars bankroll on iPoker to have enough to multitable on those limits.
Enough poker rant? how was the partying? well.. everything was a big blur, so many things happened (good and bad), but I guess the most important thing is that I had some good times and have learned some important lessons for the near future. What about new year resolutions? well here are my goals for this year:
- try to reach about 100K$ for this year on the poker cash tables
- try to hit something big at a big live tourney
- try to complete my asian marketing project
- live happily in my own way
GP UP!
GP.Dragon
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