EPT
Last week I decided not to play the 1000 euro buy-in event at Venlo, Holland. On Friday I decided to play the EPT Warsaw and happy I did, but more about that later. On Saturday I went to Holland Casino Rotterdam with some friends. We occasionally do this. There are 100$ 20-man sng’s there every night, and most of the time I’ll back a few of my friends for it. They don’t play poker regularly, but they watch me play a lot and we play some sng’s for fun at my place, so I think they actually have an edge in these.
We walked around a bit and since it was weekend they had a 5-5 NL game running. I decided to play for a bit. Boy did that kill my evening. Everything was nice and dandy until I lost a couple pots. I lost some preflop allins and postflop allins that put me on raging tilt. It’s been a loooong time since I felt that kind of explosion. Combined with some comments from people here and there and the run of cards I went loco. The low-point of the night was calling allin for 1k with {5c}{4s}, and yes that was preflop. I can’t remember the last time I tilted this hard, it must be over a year ago and I was embarrassed. After a while I packed my shit and left with a 7,000 euro hole in my pocket.
When I came home I wrote some gangsta shit to cool down a bit.
Sunday Tennis and JDK Training
First day of the rest of my life. I played Tennis again. My god, it’s been too long. I used to play for 8 years, and frequently, when I was younger. Always loving it, it’s a shame I didn’t play for 5-6 years. How good it felt. We went to play with Sluiter, Bas and Lisette. Jaco joined along to hang out and laugh at me. The first 3 hits felt a bit weird, but after that it went better than expected. My backhand presented some troubles due to rustiness, but overall I was pretty satisfied. God, do I love playing tennis. I bought rackets from Bas last week and we went to play again last Friday. I hope I can continue to play regularly, but I’m sure I will, cause it’s in my own hands. Even though those hands have tons of blisters on them now :O. Obviously, my body was aching, but in a good way, cause it’s regaining some energy and circulation :D.
After I played tennis Joost de Krijger dropped by. He goes as JDK87 on pokernews and the internetz and CanUCallThis on liquidpoker.net. More and more I’ve been talking to him about poker, and the more we talk, the more I think he has sick potential. On top of his potential I recognize a lot from the way I played in the beginning. Unconventional, complete FPS-syndrome and arrogant without ever having achieved anything. I like it. Most of our strategy talk looks like trash-talk, but with some legit points . Anyways I think he can be sick and I hope I can help him to reach a certain level.
Normally I would always train for money, but with him I don’t care about that and I just wanna help him. Raw talent yo. Every time we play heads up I’m amazed how tough he is, considering the hours he plays (not many) and the stakes he plays now. He is tougher than most 2-4 regulars and he could hold his own in many 3-6 games. That says a lot about a guy playing 0,50$-1$. We had a lot of fun and talked poker a lot and both played. I have one 2x30” Dell setup and a 2x20,1” dell setup, so people that drop by can play very comfortably. Luckily I won a lot back from my casino tilt on 3$-6$ on ps. Sunday is always a fun day to play, cause the games are sick weak. Joost went down a ton but made a nice recovery and won a bit too. Some Jagermeister marked the end of a fun day. Btw Joost, if you read this.. I still think you suck and this would be a more appropriate career for you:
(watch the whole vid it's sick)
She doesn't look geeky anymore. In her next video's she looks a ton better and pretty cute. Or like Evelyn said: 'Daaamn, babygirl hit a salon'. That made me laugh :D.
EPT Poland, Warsaw
I was looking forward to going, also because I felt rested and energetic. Arriving at the airport, I met everyone from the Hotels.nl sponsor team. Michiel Brummelhuijs (utreg), Daan Ruiter (PokerDaan), Joep Durkstra (smokingjoep), Daniel Smidt (Danistar5) and their boss Kees. They were playing some Chinese while waiting for the flight. I joined them and we had a lot of laughs as is customary in the group of Dutch EPT travelers. Arriving at the Hyatt hotel I was pleased to see it was a nice environment AND that the casino was in the hotel. That’s just the best thing ever. You can walk down from your room waking up 15 minutes before the tournament starts.
I played on Day 1b, so I got to hang out a fair bit on day the first night. Day 1 A was railbird time for me. I almost never do it, but someone forgot to put my charger in my laptop bag, #$%#$@%^#$%, which means I had no internet the whole week. That was kinda tilting, cause I wanted to play online and grind, since I’m not playing enough when I’m at home. Luckily Ludovic Lacay busted out on day 1, which is a good thing for poker in general.
Day 1 b was pretty uneventful for me. The table was filled with nits and 2-3 good players. I was playing very patiently and it felt satisfying. I made some minor bluffs, which all worked because of my image. Then I got {Kh}{Kc} and Theo Jorgensson limped in the cut-off at the 75-150 level. I made it 550 on the button and both the blinds and Theo called. Theo is a very dangerous and good player, so he worried me the most. The flop was {3c}{6h}{7h}, mehh. They all check and I bet 1450. The blinds fold and I hoped to take it down there, but Theo called. The turn is the {9h} and he bets out 2700 this time. This is a slamdunk fold. I feel he either is betting a set here so I’m not gonna check behind or he just has a flush already and thinks im checking so he tries to take one more street of value. Whichever, I’m fucked, so I folded and I believe it was a good one.
Later on in the 100-200 level, there was 1 passive weak player and Theo isolating him. I took the pot down it first happened and Theo ‘accused’ me of making a play. The very next hand I get {Jh}{Th} and the same scenario plays out. Fish limps, Theo makes it 800. If I make a move for it here again I think I’m gonna get shoved on by half of his range. I decided to flatcall. Fishy calls too and the flop is {9d}{9h}{Qs}, not too bad. They both check and I bet 2400, near pot. This is basically a committing bet, cause I play 8.8k when we start this hand. Sure enough the weak player folds and Theo checkpushes, indicating a massive hand. The odds are fine though and after the amount I invested I called the allin bet. He had {9c}{7c} and he held up, knocking me out. I wasn’t too disappointed because I finally followed the gameplan I had. I played pretty tight, not taking every weakness I observed as a possibility to bluff. Also, this was one of the first EPT’s where I didn’t wanna fly home the moment I busted. I’m happy I didn’t, cause we had soooo much fun drinking in the lobby every day. I was cracking up all the time and it really inspired me to play more live events. I’m rested and confident and I enjoy spending time at poker tournaments again.
I almost missed my flight back, cause the hotel was hustling Hans Ritburg into paying 1000 euro extra, which was unacceptable of course. Due to Polish carelessness and a double-paid cab-driver, we made it. No matter how fun trips are, god it feels good to be home. And god it feels good to have youtube again.
Weekend
Friday I dropped by Jaco’s place. They were all going on vacation so we hung out there a bit. Saturday I went to Vlissingen to visit my parents and show my dad my Fender. He was completely in love with it and played on it for hours. Was nice to hear for me too cause I cannot play a single note still. Oh, I saw ‘The Bucket List’ in cinemas. Very nice movie, featuring Jack Nickelson and Morgan Freeman. If you have a chance to see it, gogooggo. Sunday I spent some time with my dad playing guitar and him explaining stuff about it. After getting a cup of coffee at my grandma’s place I went back home to play the Sunday’s online.
Tournaments on Pokerstars started an hour early. Nice, I missed the warm-up and the 100 FO starting around same time. Instantly demotivating me. I figured I would be chilling out and doing some blog-stuff. Luckily, Jaco convinced me in playing them, so I did. And how that turned out to be. First the T6-Sunday started, being a 150 euro rebuy. Remi came home when it was going for a wihle and we started drinking beers. By the time it got near the final table, I was completely hammered. That’s a good thing imo, cause I never cashed big in a tourney sober. Makes you think doesn’t it. I finished 3rd out of 1500 people, wooooot. Freerolling and still drinking I continued to play the pokerstars Sunday. From around 400 people left I had 10 bb’s the whole time. I managed to survive and pick my spots. When there were 100 people left I finally got hold of some cards and quadruple up in a couple hands. I was close to being leaderchip now and I hardly ever slowed from there.
At that point I stopped drinking, cause I was getting pretty dizzy. I made a pretty crucial call with {Ah}{Jh} allin for 110k in a 120k pot when I raised from the cut-off and the bb flatcalled. The flop was {Qs}{5d}{4h} and he stop and go’d shoved. I called and he showed me {Kc}{Jd}, wooooot. The rail started to explode from then and I went on to get deeper and deeper. I won some pots near the Final table, but overall my stack was diminishing. I entered the FT being 8 out of 9. I think I had by far the most FT experience of all the people that were there, so I still felt confident. Picking my spots I managed to move up a bit in stack until I won a big coinflip 22 vs AK to double up! LEEEE THANKS FOR THE ONE TIME. When it got down to top 3, no deals were being made, which was fine. One solid player and one weaker player were left besides me, and I moved myself in chipleader position. When I had 32 million vs 27million vs 16 million I went pretty cardead and had to slow down some. Then the uneventful bustout hand occurred. I raised {Ks}{5s} on the button and the solid player and chipleader by then called from the bb. The flop was {10c}{9s}{8s} and he frontbet 3m into a 4m, pot or so. I reraised to 12.8m and he shoved, with me calling obviously. He turned over 88 for a set and it held, busting me out. I don’t feel any regrets about the last hand, I was pretty content with the biggest tournament payday I had in my poker career.
The sickest thing is I played 2 tournaments and came in third in both of them. Both being Sundays of two different sites. It always feels good to come in third out of 7500 people. Hollaaaaaa. I’m not gonna forsake on my side-bet because of this score and I’m gonna do my best to win it. Thanks everyone for the support during the tournaments. I’m gonna chill out a bit this week and then play full throttle online before EPT San Remo and EPT Finals in Monte Carlo start.
OH I bought another guitar btw. Some present cause I did well this weekend. I think it’s important to treat urself after big hits, so you instantly see what you work for. Gibson SG Phantom BK
http://www.feedback.nl/?b=10501SGGT&a=
Next update I’ll talk about Guitar Hero again, since I have some news there too, but I’m completely depleted from this post
Hope you enjoyed, thanks.
