Well, well…I’m not dead, didn’t stop playing either…just not all that motivated to post these days….too much other stuff going on. Another episode of the home game is in the books, we played with 15 players this time. Nice turnout. Busted pretty early. I made some pretty awesome reads early on and had three of my 5 opponents totally in check. Then things started falling apart quick. Lost JJ vs AQ, then A8 vs 66 and finally lost another coinflip to go busto (can’t remember which cards were involved, but I had two overs again). Oh well…at least I finished ITM in the “sidegame” tourney…aka the losers’ table…

Online it’s been the usual grind…up down, junk kick, up up, junk kick, junk kick, junk kick…enjoy the random pic dump from the last few sessions…enjoy…

After playing a few tourneys 2-7 NL Single Draw recently, I can appreciate the feat that Phil Ivey did by winning the 2-7 bracelet even more. Unbelievable that you can actually win such a tourney…where swings can be massive and the next cooler is just around the corner….that being said, I crippled myself once again after 1.5h+ putting it in with a pat 98…my opponent drawing one…of course he draws perfect to a 97….fucking a++…busted myself the next hand. Apart from that tourney I’ve played a little NL Hold’em and some PLO8…but no joy there either…just one of those days…I’m off…

Well, well, I’m back from cologne, so I’ll better post some pics of the last tourneys I played before I left. I played two Double Shootouts trying to qualify for the sunday million (and then unregister to get some dough to fuel a possible WSOP qualification). Didn’t work out that well though, yes, I won my first table in both cases, but I was unable to grab a seat. Disappointing, but at least I finished up a little thanks to the first one I played.

Anyway, I’m outta here following the WSOP at fine outlets like PokerNews and Dr. Pauly (Tao of Poker)…

…what can I say, poker is a cruel bitch and pokerstars can lick my balls. The setup is perfect, I’m playing some damn good poker for over 2 hours in a 2-7 single draw NL MTT. I’m the massive chipleader with 50k+ chips and we’re down to nine players. Up and down for roughly an hour and I’m out in ninth place. What happened? Losing two monsterpots starting with a pat 86 each time and losing both (one to a pat 85, and one against an opponent drawing 1 to a 75 aka the nuts)…well done pokerstars. Obviously the money doesn’t matter to me at all in this tourney (first place 40.43$), I wanted to win so bad…but no…looking back at it I still can’t explain it. Two shorties should have been out a long time ago and I would have entered the final table with 1/3 of the chips. Instead I double up one shortstack and then go ahead and lose the two coolers described above. Fucking a++…

I’m outta here…and as I’ll take a little vacation to cologne with my footie team on friday, I won’t be back until monday anyway…and probably I won’t even play poker until next friday, when the next live home game will take place…maybe I can catch a break there…we’ll see…anyway…enough ranting…I’m tired…and outta here…

…it’s easier for both parties and it’ll save me the anger. But really, I feel cheated and stolen from yet again, don’t get me wrong, I finished the session up a little…but still it feels like someone stole dough from me. Out of the 4 full SnGs I was ITM in two of them, should have won one and finished 2nd at least in the other one…of course I finish second when the might 35s000000ted is enough to cripple me in the one where I have a monster chiplead…and I finish third in the other one…so fucking ugly…I’m outta here…monday is around the corner, so work is calling…poker I won’t miss you…

The break didn’t last that long…surprise…and surprise surprise…I came back with a winning session….it seems that poker, like any other poison, keeps sucking you in…giving you what you want…before finally kicking you in the junk again…oh well…I’ll take the result for the night…played 12 6-max sngs…finished ITM 7 times (4Ws, 3 2nds)…enjoy the random pic dump…I’m off to catch some sleep…

Yup…pretty much that equals disaster…oh well…before my head explodes I had to vent in the chat a little…I wonder when they will finally strip my chat away…oh well…doesn’t matter anyway…I’ll take another break as I can’t take another screwjob, bad run and bs…I’m outta here…

Don’t expect to find any new poker content soon around here. Today was the session that put me over the edge. I got junk kicked so often I don’t even remember all the sick nasty fucking beats I took. All I know is that within the first 30 hands I got beat out of 3 pots for all the marbles getting three outered each and every fucking time (A7 vs K7 on a 7 high board; KQ vs K7 on an ace high board with a king, and QJ vs Q5 on a queen high board). Fucking A pokerstars fucking A. Now that all is said and done I lost about 50% of my roll in the course of this year so far. It’s one of those nice stretches when no matter how ready you are, no matter how good you play, no matter how endlessly stupid your opponents are…in the end they win….and of course the house wins…surprise…fucking brilliant. I won’t participate any longer in this bs…it used to be fun…but now it’s only misery anger and pain…so I quit…let’s see how long I can stay away from the game I love…but for now I would say: it could be a while…

Keep up the good fight…if you’ve got the nerves and balls to get kicked in just them over and over again…it’s been fun…while it lasted…see you all on the other side….Ingoal signing out…

That’s about all I have to say about tonight…oh…that and pokerstars you owe me three hours of my life you fucking dickwads…I’m outta here…

Well…that’s all I have to say…gotta get offline to clean my keyboard…it’s full of puke…good night…