Groundhog Day...

Yesterday played the $2K Omaha Hi-Lo: Run 4K up to 12.500 Chips, then cant win a pot after that.

Today played the $5K NLH Shorthanded: Run 10K into 25.000 Chips, then have a 43.000 preflop Coinflip vs Scott Clements. 66 lose AKo. Cant catch a break.

=> Live Poker is rigged !!!

There is just one Ricky Hatton, just one....

Took a couple of days off and went to the boxing fight yesterday with Woody Deck. Amazing atmosphere with tons of Englishmen going wild !!! First class. For some impressions from the fight please click on BUZZER`S BLOG in the blogroll.

Will be back in action in the WSOP today, $1.500 Mixed Hold`e is the name of the game...

Running cold and taking break

June20: $3K FLH ran 6K starting stack into 10.500 chips first 2 levels which gave me the tournament lead. Continued to be near the top for first 6 levels (had 13K tops), then totally ran out of steam and busted late in day 1.

June21: $5K Omaha Hi-Lo, never get much going and bust late in day 1.

Will take June 22+23 off then play the Mixed Hold`em on June 24.

GL, Buzz

Same Same

$5K H2H get a first round bye.

Second round grind out a small lead. Late Level 3, find 99 raise, he RR, I move in. He calls with AK, Turn A. Just cant win a key hand. Sad. Totally ss K4 lose KQ, thats it. Poker is fun.

WSOP Update

Took a couple of days off, then had a couple more flops. $1.500 NLH busted somewhere in midfield. $1.500 Razz made it in decent shape to day2 then got destroyed brutally 3 times. Gotta love poker...

Taking a WSOP break

NLH Shootout yesterday I played well but was disappointed to finish only 3rd on my 10-handed table losing a coinflip 66 vs JTs river straight.

Today played over-agressively in the $5K NLH and soon busted. No excuses there and I will give myself some days off from the WSOP grind.

GL, Buzzer

$5K Limit Hold`em (Day 2)

No cards, no luck, no nothing. Just finished unplaced with about 48 players remaining.

$5K Limit Hold``em (Day1)

Just finished Day1 with 24.400 chips which is slightly above average. Two key hands:

At 300/500 UTG raises, EP 3-bets 1.500, MP calls 1.500, I have 44 on the BU and call for set-value, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls! And that on a tight table. Flop AA4 (2 spades)=> Jackpot baby! All 4 players check to me, I bet 500, all 4 players call! Turn an offsuit 5, all 4 players check to me, I bet 1.000, BB+UTG fold, EP check-raises to 2.000, MP folds, I 3-bet, he 4-bets, I 5-bet which is the cap. River is a blank, he check-calls and I win a monster pot.

Still at 300/500 a tight player raises from EP, SB calls, I call with 44. Flop is Q42 (2 clubs). check, check, raiser conti-bets, SB calls, I check-raise, EP calls, SB calls. Turn the ace of spades. Perfect. SB ch, I bet 1.000, call, call. River an offsuit 5. SB goes to Hollywood then bets, I call, EP folds and the biggest fish ever proudly shows 33. NH WP! If I win that pot I am tournament leader at that stage but hey what can you do.....

Hoping for a good showing tomorrow, re-start is 3pm Vegas time.

$2.500 H.O.R.S.E (Limit)

A quick word regarding yesterdays HORSE event. Never could get much going. I just analyzed where my chips went and I did ok in what are supposed to be my weaker games Stud Hi (-800) and Stud Hi-Lo (+425). Omaha Hi-LO was ok as well (-300). But I ran ice cold in my stronger games Razz (-1.650) and Hold`em (-2.675) and busted in level 11 (30 minutes each).

$5K PLH

Lets start yesterdays report with a quote from the Cardplayer-Coverage:
A few rows down sits Table 36, perhaps one of the toughest tables in the entire room, and there was only one person that I didn’t recognize. It sucks to be that guy sitting at the same table with Isaac Haxton, Nam Le, Vanessa Rousso, Scott Fischman, Kirill Gerasimov, Ryan Daut, Antonio Esfandiari, and Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier .
Of course the "poor" and "unknown" guy was me. No idea why I get no love from Cardplayer they just love to ignore me. Even when I was the early chipleader in the WPT Commerce they would rather comment on the colour of the socks of the guy to my right than even mention my stack. Well good that I have no big ego :-) If anything stuff like that will only motivate me even more.

Anyway, I outplayed those "big names" all day despite being pretty card-dead. In level11 there were 52 of the 398 players left. I was slightly below average and busted in the last hand of the day. I had raised, the SB had flat called. He then bet out the pot on an A63 rainbow flop. I have AQ and we get our chips in, he has AK. Well I didnt see that one coming....

Will be back...

Get Rich or Die tryin`...

Landed safely in Las Vegas and will stay the first month in the Rio hotel before joining Team Betfair in the Wynn for the Main Event.
Checked out the pokerroom and even if you have been here before it still is quite impressive. Having said that the chaos of the first days seems to have settled down and I was able to register without significant problems.
Currently I am watching Game 1 of the NBA finals and will then retire early to be fresh for tomorrows PLH event. Stay tuned...

Viva Las Vegas...

Good news, I got the green light to fly to Vegas tomorrow. While I have not made a final decision, the first events that I have laid my eyes on are:
June8 $5.000 PLH
June9 $2.500 HORSE
June10 $5.000 FLH
June11 $2.500 NLH
June12 $1.500 NLH-Shootout
While I have also looked at events beyond that date it usually does not make sense to plan too far ahead. I will just see how I feel and how things develop. But this years schedule is enticing to say the least...:-)

Meanwhile see you at the tables, Buzzer