Sunday Afternoon Dbl Tourney Day!

Th return of the big game!
6 players again on the table!
all returning from last year YEA!

we played two tourneys at beebzz place
1st NLHE Tourney
2nd a Mixed Omaha High/NLHE tourney

We all agreed to pay the POTY Pot 2.50 in total fo the two tourneys (?) but no one paid... either way points were kept by the host, here they are: enjoy.

TOurney 01! Dave takes it down!
01 Dave (10pts)
02 Andy (8pts)
03 Roy (6pts)
04 Adam (4pts)
05 beebzz
06 Robbert

Tourney 2! Andy makes a great run!
01 Andy (10pts)
02 Robbert (8pts)
03 Roy (6pts)
04 Adam (4pts)
05 beebz (DOH!)
06 Dave

das it kids... you add em up, andy did well! NICE.

Holland Casino Tourney 01 update!
was knocked out at 23:50 wt 20+ dudes left, caugh the last tram then metro was home n emailin pretty quick. NICE. GOIN BACK IN 2 WEEKS! YEA!

beebzz

Holland Casino & Me, Tourney 01

Well! wat a great investment!

Tuesday Nite 50+10 NLHE 80man
Starting Stack: 1000chips
Unlimited Rebuys: 100 chips (50euro)
1 Add-on: 1500 chips (50 euro)
Start: 20:00

3-4 rounds cant remember of CRAAAAAAZY SWINGS, CRAZY ALL-INS AROUDN TEHE WHOLE TABLE, ITS CRAZY THE FIRST HOUR DANG! I was of course ALSo All-in within the first 35mins, went all-in again n hit on the river, now im sittin on 6k in chips, rebuy periods over n watda know, a normal bet come out! WOAH! nowwwwww everyones playin normal, DANG THAT WAS FUCKIN CRAZY! every dealer was yellin out REBUY! ALL-IN! hilarious atmospehere, everyone tryin to chipup bigtime. CRAZY!...

Add-on of course (EVERYONE DID DANG!) now im invested 150euro...
I got 7500 in chips, blinds still super low 50/100, no antes. NICE.
I walked around the room during the break and max. anyone had was 9000 n he was sittin next to me! 79 players to the break.

1st hand After the break, I got KQo middle position, folded around to me, I bet 250 (blinds 50/100) got the blinds callin me, Flop AKJ rainbow, check check Bet 750, call, call! Turn blank 3, check, check, CHECK, River 10! Hit the straight, check check I bet 2750 (pot +/-3000), got no callers. NOW I GOT 9000! WAT!

Now its paitence time. I waited n waited n waited, this one guy kept reraisin me 3x but I didnt pop with medium hands, so no worries, do It when I got a big one n Im puttin ya All-In jongen!

Tables are startin to break down, 3 from my table are gone, now were down to 56players... my table breaks down, I land on a SERIOUS HEAVY BIG STACK TABLE, 2 stacks wit 20k and Im down to about 7k n holding after all the waiting, antes up from 20, 40, now 60, blinds 100/200, got K8o on the button, folded around to me I push 100 chip in bu dont say raise, dealer says CALL, I say no thats a raise, she says SORRY, gotta say it, DOH! I get the BB callin me n I tell him, "YOU KNOW WATS COMIN NEXT RIGHT?" flop comes 3K4 2 diamonds, he bets 1500 n I push All-In focourse, the table was razin me a bit n I was sayin comments go back at em, got everyone riled up but he folded after about aminute, Im back to about 7-8k... table breaks down, n Im back to a nice soft table, NICE,, but the blinds n antes are CREEPIN M FAST! every 20mins BANG BANG BANG, now its 300/600 100ante, im just gettin eaten alive here, leakin, everyone goin all-in, one after another, no position,
decent holdings but no pushes/all-in calls from me, until my last hand, got KTo SB, folded around to BB who goes all-in 8k or so, Ive got 5k, blinds are 500/1000 ante? wateva, I call for all of it, he turns over A4s, no one hit, I got out wit a smile cas I know NOW:

that everyone was either a weak, straight-forward, no finesse, medium range skill/novice players who just wanna hit the final table...

oh yea
4k to start prize pool
ended with 7500 prize ppol
payout goes to the final table 9players, bottom 232euro, top 5k(?) somethin like that...

Will I go again? YES in two weeks. Any takers?
Do I think I could win it all? YES
Could you have played better? YES but only made 2 mistakes. One I didnt call an All-In and One I did (OUT).
But you lost 150 in one nite, why go back? GREAT JUNE VEGAS INVESTMENT
NEXT TIME IM CASHIN NO PROBLEM. SOFT GAME KIDS!

rock aan kids
Much luv n straight flushes
beebz

oh yea, I finished 23rd.

First hand of the Sunday afternoon game!

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The Poker Shrink, Vol. 52: The Butterfly Effect

From Poker News)
March 23, 2009
Dr. Tim Lavalli
Psychology is, at least in part, about teaching us how to effectively cope when life deals us setbacks. There are many ways to deal with life's little problems. One particularly effective way is perspective. Putting your problem in the proper place in your overall life. Here is one way to gain such perspective.

The butterfly effect serves as a metaphor for life in a chaotic, uncontrollable, unpredictable world. Specifically, it suggests that small events can have very large effects. The commonly used example is of a butterfly flapping its tiny wings over Japan and setting off a wind current that eventually causes a hurricane in America a week later.

The point?

Tiny changes in one place can have huge ramifications later on in another. Here is a concrete poker example. Its late in Day One of a major tournament, you are ready to come over the top of an opening bet with your J-J but the big stack steps in first and moves all in. You toss your jacks in the muck and curse your luck when the big stack shows 9-9 and takes out the other guy with A-K. That was your pot and then you hear that the big stack got that way earlier in the day when he was dealt pocket aces three times and ran down pocket queens or kings to build his stack. He is just lucky but now you have to deal with him sitting on your right reraising pot after pot in front of you.

Its not how he is playing that bugs you, it's the easy way he got his big stack with all those aces. The aces were the butterflies; the hurricane is now sitting at your table. Relax. You know all those short stacks you took out to get your chips? Well, they are the result of the same butterfly effect.

Here is my time-tested bad beat recovery tool, using the random, chaotic language of the butterfly effect. I call it the "688/687" truism. You have just won a 688-player poker tournament, you are getting your picture taken and your first-place prize counted out in Bellagio chips. No need for any psychological support here — congratulations. Now turn the wheel slightly, you are passing the final table and see them giving the prize money to another player, you busted out of that tournament ten hours ago. But you see that tournament only had 687 runners and just one less player meant the difference in winning or losing for every single one of the 687 or 688 players.

The final entrant in any tournament changes the entire event. Cards are dealt differently at his first table with an extra player. Tables breakdown just a bit faster with more players. Players are distributed to the empty seats around the room in a different order. That donkey doesn't give you his chips in the "687" tournament because he is seated at a different table. In the "688" event, you got those chips and they got you past that one bad beat and allowed you to play on and eventually win.

No, I am not saying that it's all random or that luck wins out over skill at the poker table. But I am definitely saying that there are hands being played at other tables that will eventually have a major effect on how you play your cards later in the tournament.

You know we always laugh at the absolute donkey who makes it to the final table as the chip leader, but we forget all the other really bad players who gave us their chips so that we could be at the final table to beat that donkey.

The point?

There are random events that happen away from your table that you cannot control. They actually have as much to do with who wins and who loses as your own play poker. So when you do get hit with the bad beat, the cold deck or the cooler, the best thing you can do for your sanity is to walk away from the table with two thoughts in your head:

First: "Seven-deuce off-suit beats pockets aces 12% of the time."

Second: "There are a lot of butterflies in Japan."

Yes, I am the biggest culprit of suffering this.... my trash talk and frustration at being donked on yet again is something I am working on. Having a total fool make a huge mistake as I intended them too and have them suck out to a 4 outer still tilts me VERY badly.... drives me nuts, but I need to get it under control.

Three handed special Poker.

> Three handed special Poker.
> So it was with gusto i got stuck into the bottle of wine that
> enabled me to unlock my genius (ability to play bad and lose a lot), yes, i finished down perhaps ( For
> sure!!) the biggest loser of the night, but in Stockwin Dollars I am
> so far ahead of dave and robbert its amazing. (1 stockwin dollars =
> - $1,000,000)
>
> there were a few big pots that i wished i was in but my tightness
> meant i was already out. My best was making Dave lay down the
> straight (Robbert still to act, Adam did nothing to make me fold,
> would have called him in a heart beat, still the only player there
> capable of folding). And Robbert's set of Aces against Dave's kings,
> nice lay down btw.. It was nearly the biggest pot of the night( of
> course it was I know how to play). :p
>
> From the picture that was posted you worked out i was stacked twice
> early on, and then again later. And again much later in the lower
> stakes me and Robb played in, headz-up for half an hour. To be fair
> Robbert played well (got lucky)and I was a bit too tight, dave as
> usual just did what he does best: trash talk, and outlay Adam and
> Rob all night cox they are clueless!
>
> lol. In the end Rob was the only winner, with Dave losing some of
> his chips ($7) after some inspired calling by his opposition (Adam
> calling to 2 gutshots on the turn to big rersises coz he is cluess.
> Next time Adam will lose again, just probably more....

Adam (hoping to learn how to play one day)
>
>
>

Poker night begins again!! Adam stacked twice already!

A picture for you Beebs!!! Word

Fwd: Adam the Luckbox

> There was a glitch in the matrix Adam ended up winning some hands
> apparently!

Nice stack before I lost it!!

Poker night begins!!!

Stylized poker night!!!

Poker night vs Muttun lam

looks promising... :)

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Bigbeebz