D-Day

Today the Belgian Soccer Cup Final, let's go Standard de Liège...
Hopefully it's going to be a long night :-)

I played a lot of poker the last two weeks, especially on the IPoker-network. I had a great upswing with 30 PTBB over 3K hands, so I really enjoyed it :-)
The last three days, I'm loosing every big hand... pocket Q's are killing me, I'm thinking of folding them preflop ;-)

But okay, this has been a good pokermonth for me. So the next 4 weeks I'll be playing 50NL & 20NL SH on the IPoker-network, before going on a trip to Italy with the kids and wife. Really looking forward to this holiday!

Go Standard...

Night of the deuces...

This weekend I played live poker for the very first time and I really enjoyed it.
I went to the Holland Casino Valkenburg and played a 10$ SNG, the structure really sucked with the blinds climbing each 5 minutes.

Why this structure?
- Only one SNG table available, besides one 2/4 Limit table, a 5/10 Limit table and a 2/4 NL table
- Too many people interested in these SNG's, so they've got to run very fast
- No entry-fees for these SNG

So I rather like to pay a entry-fee instead of playing such crappy blind-structure, I hope that in the near future they'll provide us with some decent structure.

About the outcome of the SNG, I really didn't get any playable hand...until I'm on the BB with 22, blinds 100/200 and stack 800, it's folded to the aggressive SB who raises to 400.
He noticed that I didn't play any hand, so I suppose he raises me with any hand...so I push he calls and shows AQ, My deuces hold and I double up.
Blinds go up 200/400...and I find KK, I push in MP...guy with SAME stack calls with A2 offuit...WTF? Flop brings a 2, river 2 and this SNG is over for me.

I really enjoyed playing Live and I think they'll see me more in Holland Casino.

Online I played pretty bad the last couple of days, making idiot moves etc.so my upswing ended with a 3 buy-in loss... no bad beats at all only very bad playing!!
So I've to pick up my A-game again and try to make as little mistakes as possible :-)

Have a nice week...

Upswing...

Okay finally I left my downswing behind and on this moment I'm crushing the 25NL SH tables with 16PTBB over almost 5K hands. So I'm pretty happy! Okay, I've hit some big hands but I'm also playing nice solid poker. This also resulted in some 5$ SNG wins and ITM finishes of some small buy-in MTT's.

The last few weeks I really feel concentrated, focused and in good shape. A few weeks ago I joined the local Running Club, so we meet 3 times a week. I really think that practicing some sports or another hobby can have an positive effect on your poker game.

So on this moment I'll continue playing these 25NL SH games and on Friday/Saturday's I'll also be playing some 5$ SNG's and 5~10$ MTT's.

Have a nice weekend...